There is nothing wrong with the concept of 'good' worms/viruses. The problem comes in implementation, making sure that your so called 'good' worm really is. So while in theory it's a good thing, in practice it's difficult to provide adequate testing to ensure that the 'good' worms really are.
He doesn't apparently do anything illegal(though he doesnt disclose where the list of users came from exactly)
The extent of the damage caused seems to be an email sent to 10,000 of the users of spymac. I fail to see the problem. This isn't a 'hacking for good' or a 'worm to kill another worm'. It's a mass emailing telling people theres a problem. There is also nothing to suggest that someone in a position of power WASN'T contacted prior to the mailing.
So I'll say it again, what did this guy do wrong? Other than send a mass email which is hard to even call spam.
For a bottom end, dirt cheap machine, you can't beat the prices that OEM's buy thier parts for. That $300 PC is something thats a lot more difficult to put together without the big bulk orders.
When you're trying to build a high end machine is when things change. Buying the best parts and putting them together yourself will save you lots of money over any pre-built machine. On a high end machine the markup over retail prices is sickening. On top of that you still don't know wether you're getting good parts or cheap OEM boards built with substandard components.
The only remaining use of the GIF is for animated images, something GD is bad at producing anyways.
Then people always like to say stupid shit like "Well IE has bad support for png". While true,it doesn't stop pngs from doing everything a gif does(minus animation). IE may not support the alpha channel correctly, but it still has the full-on transparency of GIF's.
So who cares? Let gifs fucking die, we don't need them anymore.
The ideal setup is to have several addresses. One for close friends, associates, individuals and people who the address is sent to privately. A second address for mailing lists, and any kind of public posting. And a third address for anything guarenteed to end up in you getting spam. (Website signups for instance)
Then you simply drop it into three different folders. This method combined with a good spam filter can eliminate virtually all spam.
His statement is still correct. We have the nanotubes, we can already make the composite materials needed.
We don't need to discover a new material, or create it from scratch. What we need to do is refine a material we already have in order to reach the required strength. The general consensus is that this can be done, it will just take some more work.
Out of curiousity, Any idea what the G-forces would be at the end of the tether? Would it be enough to support a low gravity environment for future astronauts?
Why bother with ISS once a space elevator is operating?
While it would be very difficult to transfer cargo to things in low earth orbit, it would make it relativly easy to establish a new space station at a geosynch orbit.
It seems that a lot of these drives that end up on ebay aren't from the companies that owned them. They pay a company to dispose of the drives, and that company turns around and sells them on ebay.
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There is nothing wrong with the concept of 'good' worms/viruses. The problem comes in implementation, making sure that your so called 'good' worm really is. So while in theory it's a good thing, in practice it's difficult to provide adequate testing to ensure that the 'good' worms really are.
He doesn't apparently do anything illegal(though he doesnt disclose where the list of users came from exactly)
The extent of the damage caused seems to be an email sent to 10,000 of the users of spymac. I fail to see the problem. This isn't a 'hacking for good' or a 'worm to kill another worm'. It's a mass emailing telling people theres a problem. There is also nothing to suggest that someone in a position of power WASN'T contacted prior to the mailing.
So I'll say it again, what did this guy do wrong? Other than send a mass email which is hard to even call spam.
For a bottom end, dirt cheap machine, you can't beat the prices that OEM's buy thier parts for. That $300 PC is something thats a lot more difficult to put together without the big bulk orders.
When you're trying to build a high end machine is when things change. Buying the best parts and putting them together yourself will save you lots of money over any pre-built machine. On a high end machine the markup over retail prices is sickening. On top of that you still don't know wether you're getting good parts or cheap OEM boards built with substandard components.
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It doesn't support the partial transparency of the png alpha channel. But it does do the full-on full-off transparency gifs are capable of.
Any browser which doesn't support PNG is also not going to deal well with the rest of basicly all websites, or anything else on the modern internet.
IE displays PNG's properly, with transparency, and it's still non-lossy. IE only doesnt properly support the alpha channel of PNG's.
The only remaining use of the GIF is for animated images, something GD is bad at producing anyways.
Then people always like to say stupid shit like "Well IE has bad support for png". While true,it doesn't stop pngs from doing everything a gif does(minus animation). IE may not support the alpha channel correctly, but it still has the full-on transparency of GIF's.
So who cares? Let gifs fucking die, we don't need them anymore.
Bah, landing isn't hard either. It's the hardest part of FLYING the airplane, but all it takes is a bit of practice flying.
The tough part about flying is the rules, regulations, and protocols as well as dealing with emergencies.
So every time a linux distro is discontinued can we claim linux is dying?
Not at all.
The ideal setup is to have several addresses.
One for close friends, associates, individuals and people who the address is sent to privately.
A second address for mailing lists, and any kind of public posting.
And a third address for anything guarenteed to end up in you getting spam. (Website signups for instance)
Then you simply drop it into three different folders. This method combined with a good spam filter can eliminate virtually all spam.
It's for karma whoring!
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He already lost a bet related to the existance of black holes. Now this. No surprise.
He may be a genius, but I wouldn't want to be with him at a casino.
The only configuration 'tool' needed is vim.
Everything else is needless complexity added on top of a relativly simple system.
Are there any services left providing dialup shell accounts? Preferably national ISP's, but a local one would suffice.
register_globals is almost always on, except for small sites with all recently developed code.
And sessions are also very commonly used.
Basicly everyone who uses PHP uses one if not both of these.
Or airsoft.
Forget laser tag, buy a couple of masks and a couple of markers. They can be had online for not too much money.
Press a button, get a food pellet.
Now do it several thousand times for another food pellet.
yay. Fun.
How about online games which offer actual fun, and don't operate on principles similar to a gambling addiction?
His statement is still correct.
We have the material. It needs refinement, but it exists. It doesn't need to be discovered, no does it need to be invented.
It's like comparing a 386 and a 3ghz pentium. The 386 lacks the power, but it's not such a big step to a current 3ghz processor.
His statement is still correct.
We have the nanotubes, we can already make the composite materials needed.
We don't need to discover a new material, or create it from scratch. What we need to do is refine a material we already have in order to reach the required strength. The general consensus is that this can be done, it will just take some more work.
Out of curiousity,
Any idea what the G-forces would be at the end of the tether? Would it be enough to support a low gravity environment for future astronauts?
Why bother with ISS once a space elevator is operating?
While it would be very difficult to transfer cargo to things in low earth orbit, it would make it relativly easy to establish a new space station at a geosynch orbit.
It seems that a lot of these drives that end up on ebay aren't from the companies that owned them. They pay a company to dispose of the drives, and that company turns around and sells them on ebay.
Oh wow, competition.
Bad. Evil. Unamerican.
XM is with the terrorists!
Remind me to change the combonation on my luggage.
Everytime we look closely at an environment suspected to be unable to support life, we invariably find it.