why should i be restricted from from putting my ones and zeroes on a magnetic piece of metal somewhere? how are you going to enforce this hippocratic oath? CODE IS SPEECH. whether you like it or not, no two ways about it. The way I look at it, it's like an artist on the canvas, crossed with a mathemetician's equations. If you don't think a program does good, don't code it, it's your perrogative no matter what. But don't restrict others from coding software that they want to code.
My zone involves a 6-pack of Cherry Coke (or Dr. Pepper, or Root Beer) A box of crackers, party mix, goldfish, etc. Xmms open with my playlist (a good trance song really gets me coding). I like my blinds closed with as little glare as possible. And probably my doors closed so that I have fewer distractions. It is also good (though not required) for it to be very late at night. I do like some background light, but just no glare. Non-Flourescent over-head lights really do the trick. It is also a necessity that I've got a good project to work on. I don't get into coding unless I'm genuinely interested in what I am coding. If all the above requirements are met, by the time I am halfway done my second cherry coke and a quarter of the way done my goldfish, I am riveted by what appears on the screen and won't get up until I've either got to pee real bad, or am being yelled at by roommates.
It's called a microdrive... smaller (yes, in both size and capacity), but almost universal, and when plugged into your computer it can function as a hard drive, and you don't need a mac to use one.
What I think people don't realize is that it is usually far easier to obtain the private key to these encrypted files than it is to crack them. While I agree this is quite a big feat, it is still easily imaginable if you ask me.
Take a look at the size of the key in the original e-mail! 46080 bits by my count (no, i didn't actually count, perl did). But if that isn't subtle irony, I don't know what is.
ha-HA!
Why does /. have to concentrate on this film?
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Why does/. have to concentrate on this film? Sure, it was certainly the most popular on/., but it would have been nice if you had said something like "A Beautiful Mind got the awards for best picture and best director." I dare say that A Beautiful Mind is also a film that alot of nerds found good. I mean, the movie is about a mathemetician who wins the nobel prize for pete's sake. And there were loads of other movies that the/. crowd really seemed to like as well.
This will probably get modded down as flamebait or troll, but whatever.
It seems like something like this comes up every few months and seems to be vaporware. What happened to the self-driving cars that are just your old car with a new chip in it that was supposed to correct traffic flow.
Also, how is this going to be cost effective, I.E., what is the benefit to this? I can guarantee that buying and maintaining the robot costs more than getting a driver and paying him $8/hour for 8 hours a day. Will this be a novelty item or just something useful?
I would seriously doubt that "MIT had a little talk with microsoft" as you put it, seeing as the new ($200+ million) Gates Computer Science building is in the final stages of construction.
Looks like an interesting read to me. But it seems like it is logical for sun to do this. They're still trying with their fledgling solaris, I'm sure this kind of bashing goes on at every company.
AT&T has a similar service for their "easy reach 800" customers, you can speak your 5 digit combination, or opt to speak to a representative, all without the keypad. Pretty basic, but it's been around for at least 4 or 5 years.
I would like to see some advanced security books. There have been so many out that say almost the same thing (see Hack Attacks Revealed and Hack Proofing Your Network, etc. etc.). I would like to see some focusing on more advanced computer security topics. Like books just on setting up secure firewalls and penetration testing them. Books on the security of WAP or something like that. Books that focus on the security of different implementation of only one layer of the 7 layer OSI model. A book on database security would be very nice.
I have a riovolt. It's really great, the skip protection is amazing, you can switch it from 40 seconds to 100 seconds (only with MP3s) but 100 secs take up more power. It's got a great interface, supports folders, etc. And you can use CD-RWs. Which is a really great feature, because if you format it for packet writing you can dynamically take songs off and on as you like. It's also got upgradeable firmware. (Which is a great feature). My only problem with it is that sometimes MP3 CDs are really slow to load. It can be between 10 and 20 seconds after you press play for the you to hear music. Perhaps this is fixed in the latest firmware version, but I haven't upgraded in a while.
I saw this movie on friday night. I had two major problems with it.
1) No character development - you never really established a connection with one character or another, part of the reason this was a problem was that there were too many characters it seemed, and to me they all looked pretty much the same, because they all have the standard military buzz cut.
2) Too much action - I like action movies, I really do, but there was just too much action and not enough plot in this movie. Going along with the whole character thing, you never really knew which characters were doing what where. I came out of the movie rather confused.
The movie seemed to have had a very good message, but all that got lost in the scores of characters and events going on.
My favorite window manager combination had always been Gnome/Enlightenment. That is, of course, until nautilus came into the picture and messed everything up. Now it's horribly slow, slow to load programs, doesn't match up well with enlightenment (unless of course you set Enlightenment's background to Nautilus', and don't care about seeing icons in your translucent terminals) I just want to know if this is any faster and if it resolves some of those issues. (P.S. I've since been using windowmaker, which i'm pretty happy with until E18)
I have Comcast@Home, and I've been uploading at a "staggering" 80KB/sec (yeah, 640kbps). I'm on their new network too. Maybe this applies to customers still on the old excite network, because comcast doesn't want to pay for all that extra band on someone else's network. Just wait 'til you're on their new network, then we'll see.
I can run MS Office in Wine, I've got KOffice and StarOffice, not to mention all the other spreadsheet apps out there. This doesn't seem like a big/. news story to me.
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why should i be restricted from from putting my ones and zeroes on a magnetic piece of metal somewhere? how are you going to enforce this hippocratic oath? CODE IS SPEECH. whether you like it or not, no two ways about it. The way I look at it, it's like an artist on the canvas, crossed with a mathemetician's equations. If you don't think a program does good, don't code it, it's your perrogative no matter what. But don't restrict others from coding software that they want to code.
My zone involves a 6-pack of Cherry Coke (or Dr. Pepper, or Root Beer) A box of crackers, party mix, goldfish, etc. Xmms open with my playlist (a good trance song really gets me coding). I like my blinds closed with as little glare as possible. And probably my doors closed so that I have fewer distractions. It is also good (though not required) for it to be very late at night. I do like some background light, but just no glare. Non-Flourescent over-head lights really do the trick. It is also a necessity that I've got a good project to work on. I don't get into coding unless I'm genuinely interested in what I am coding. If all the above requirements are met, by the time I am halfway done my second cherry coke and a quarter of the way done my goldfish, I am riveted by what appears on the screen and won't get up until I've either got to pee real bad, or am being yelled at by roommates.
I don't see why someone wouldn't have already claimed that lucas didn't write ESB. I'm pretty skeptical of the article as a whole.
It's called a microdrive... smaller (yes, in both size and capacity), but almost universal, and when plugged into your computer it can function as a hard drive, and you don't need a mac to use one.
What I think people don't realize is that it is usually far easier to obtain the private key to these encrypted files than it is to crack them. While I agree this is quite a big feat, it is still easily imaginable if you ask me.
Take a look at the size of the key in the original e-mail! 46080 bits by my count (no, i didn't actually count, perl did). But if that isn't subtle irony, I don't know what is.
ha-HA!
Why does /. have to concentrate on this film? Sure, it was certainly the most popular on /., but it would have been nice if you had said something like "A Beautiful Mind got the awards for best picture and best director." I dare say that A Beautiful Mind is also a film that alot of nerds found good. I mean, the movie is about a mathemetician who wins the nobel prize for pete's sake. And there were loads of other movies that the /. crowd really seemed to like as well.
This will probably get modded down as flamebait or troll, but whatever.
*Sees .NET banner on slashdot* /. just went critical. /. is already dead.
*becomes angry*
*angrier*
Thinks
Realizes
*sighs*
Ain't nothing better than all the powers of the universe right on your tabletop.
Is this just some sick and twisted attempt to perform a legal DDoS on some poor, unsuspecting, bulgarian quartz company? For shame.
In other news, this sucks, BUT I can't see it being used very often as most foreigners are just as ignorant to our trademark laws as we are to theirs.
It seems like something like this comes up every few months and seems to be vaporware. What happened to the self-driving cars that are just your old car with a new chip in it that was supposed to correct traffic flow.
Also, how is this going to be cost effective, I.E., what is the benefit to this? I can guarantee that buying and maintaining the robot costs more than getting a driver and paying him $8/hour for 8 hours a day. Will this be a novelty item or just something useful?
I would seriously doubt that "MIT had a little talk with microsoft" as you put it, seeing as the new ($200+ million) Gates Computer Science building is in the final stages of construction.
Looks like an interesting read to me. But it seems like it is logical for sun to do this. They're still trying with their fledgling solaris, I'm sure this kind of bashing goes on at every company.
All the porn and perl a man could ever want. Plus, I know that futurama will be alive for many many years after fox has cancelled it.
I can finally justify getting a GBA... now, the question is, is it too late? Is something bigger/better coming in the next few months?
AT&T has a similar service for their "easy reach 800" customers, you can speak your 5 digit combination, or opt to speak to a representative, all without the keypad. Pretty basic, but it's been around for at least 4 or 5 years.
I would like to see some advanced security books. There have been so many out that say almost the same thing (see Hack Attacks Revealed and Hack Proofing Your Network, etc. etc.). I would like to see some focusing on more advanced computer security topics. Like books just on setting up secure firewalls and penetration testing them. Books on the security of WAP or something like that. Books that focus on the security of different implementation of only one layer of the 7 layer OSI model. A book on database security would be very nice.
I have a riovolt. It's really great, the skip protection is amazing, you can switch it from 40 seconds to 100 seconds (only with MP3s) but 100 secs take up more power. It's got a great interface, supports folders, etc. And you can use CD-RWs. Which is a really great feature, because if you format it for packet writing you can dynamically take songs off and on as you like. It's also got upgradeable firmware. (Which is a great feature). My only problem with it is that sometimes MP3 CDs are really slow to load. It can be between 10 and 20 seconds after you press play for the you to hear music. Perhaps this is fixed in the latest firmware version, but I haven't upgraded in a while.
Mod this and parent down - offtopic.
I saw this movie on friday night. I had two major problems with it.
1) No character development - you never really established a connection with one character or another, part of the reason this was a problem was that there were too many characters it seemed, and to me they all looked pretty much the same, because they all have the standard military buzz cut.
2) Too much action - I like action movies, I really do, but there was just too much action and not enough plot in this movie. Going along with the whole character thing, you never really knew which characters were doing what where. I came out of the movie rather confused.
The movie seemed to have had a very good message, but all that got lost in the scores of characters and events going on.
My favorite window manager combination had always been Gnome/Enlightenment. That is, of course, until nautilus came into the picture and messed everything up. Now it's horribly slow, slow to load programs, doesn't match up well with enlightenment (unless of course you set Enlightenment's background to Nautilus', and don't care about seeing icons in your translucent terminals) I just want to know if this is any faster and if it resolves some of those issues. (P.S. I've since been using windowmaker, which i'm pretty happy with until E18)
I have Comcast@Home, and I've been uploading at a "staggering" 80KB/sec (yeah, 640kbps). I'm on their new network too. Maybe this applies to customers still on the old excite network, because comcast doesn't want to pay for all that extra band on someone else's network. Just wait 'til you're on their new network, then we'll see.
I haven't heard very good things about C#, but this is a huge accomplishment none the less. Hats off to Miguel.
I have absolutely nothing to comment on this story.
I can run MS Office in Wine, I've got KOffice and StarOffice, not to mention all the other spreadsheet apps out there. This doesn't seem like a big /. news story to me.
You know what marathon I want to see? A Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Marathon. Now that's what I'm talking about.