Million-dollar crack rock, expensive women (whores and otherwise), expensive mansions, etc. etc.
Having practically infinite spending power would fuck with your head, I think. You'd lose all grasp of what value is, and how much a 10 spot is actually worth. You could literally burn money to stay warm with that much cash. Meanwhile, these guy's weekly (maybe daily?) income is probably larger than the annual budget for some small countries.
Absolutely. Harrison Ford is, IMO, what made Star Wars what it was. Episode II was decent, but it still fell as short as a dwarf on a model runway.
One trend I'm noticing in the new trilogy is that Lucas is trying to throw "surprises" into the mix to keep us old fans interested. In Episode I, there was a "virgin birth", in Episode II, we find out that the Empire didn't conquor the Repblic, but the Republic became the Empire through osmosis. The second of these two was an interesting plot twist, because it pitted people against people that -seemed- to be on their side, and vice versa.
The third prequel is bound to have the same kind of thing. Half of me is hoping for some 'Corellian trader' to save the day. This 'trader' would be played by Harrison Ford (why not, they had Jango Fett, didn't they?), and would be none other than Han Solo's father (or maybe Lando's father, who knows - Lando was quite the amiable character, too).
Having Han's father do some heroic deed would set the precident for when Han Solo decides to turn around and help out the rebellion, saving Luke's ass - that little tidbit wasn't clearly explained in Ep IV, and it's what tends to be considered a loose string.
I'm less concerned about ATMs being connected to the network. The problem will likely arise with someone finding a buffer overflow in the interface, or some oddity like that, and then be able to withdrawl money from someone else's account, or to take money from the ATM w/o any authorization.
These people are either technically incompetent, or intentionally damaging you. THere's no reason for what they're doing - there are many more practical ways to go about such monitoring.
When it starts costing you money for their 'mistakes', I think it's then time for either them to compensate you, or for you to sue them (in the cas where they don't return compensation).
I wonder how much information someone (say, a 'terrorist') could divulge from all this posting made by military servicemen. Could it be that all these points made by the 'grunts' of the service, outlining what they see as the good, bad, and ugly aspects of service would be potentially damaging to the US military if placed in the wrong hands?
Could you elaborate more on "get what you want" and "recruiters meeting quota" for me? I've been thinking about going down to the local Navy recruiter, but have been wary of just what you speak. I'm nowhere near LA, but obviously want what's best for myself.
I have a friend in the Navy Reserves taht's an M5 (E5?) and does sysadmin work for EROS. Might that be pull?
They won't be punished, if by 'they', you mean 'the people that work at SCO'. 'They' have already made off with their cash cow, and have decided that SCO can burn while they walk off with the plunders.
Well, it makes sense, when you consider the following facts:
- NVidia makes drivers for linux, and they don't suck - NVidia works hard on making sure their cards support OpenGL, which is the only means through which linux can really have 3D, AND it's the only 3D alternative to DirectX - John Carmack (and the rest of id) develops some of the best games in the industry, and he develops using OGL, as well as for multiple platforms - ATI has traditionally been a very compliant OEM-type company that loves to bundle it's stuff with anything it can to make a buck.... and I'm sure there are some other things in there too, such as NVidia buying out 3dlabs, which made voodoo cards, which resulted in the adoption of Glide - the 3d structure that caused DX to not be adopted during the early stages.
I don't know about you, but most games nowadays suck. Regardless of whether they're marketed or not - simply because most of the games with any sort of significant investment are heavily marketed. Then, on the other hand, companies don't bother marketing at all for games that they didn't put the initial money into designing.
A good example of an industry gone awry is, I think, Freelancer. If any of you have played it, and are familiar with the classic, "Privateer", then I'm sure you see the similarity (that is, blatant ripoff) between the two. If you're only familiar with one or the other, let me summarize: Freelancer is Privateer, but with better graphics, less game design, forethought, creativity, or pretty much anything else that makes for an interesting game.
I played Freelancer for maybe an hour; I was playing a pirated version, but it didn't really matter - I didn't play it long enough to get past the missions that were offered on the 'demo'. Now, before you say, "you just don't like that kind of game" - you're wrong. I never played Privateer when it was new, but saw a friend play it a couple times. I managed to recently get ahold of a copy of it, and put it on an old DOS system to play. Well, let's just say that the last week of my time has been spent playing a game with incredibly chunky graphics, but great gameplay. Freelancer -could- have had good gameplay if it had been finished, and if the designers had taken the time to make it unpainful and tiresome to play. Maybe added a little diversity to the gameplay.
Freelancer was even made by the same people (company, at least) as Privateer. If MS hadn't yanked the game out from production, it could have been great - evidence for thurough planning and an awesome game world (which would have likely supported awesome multiplayer stuff) was all there. Instead of losing money, it could have made money. As it sits, a miriad of goof-ups along the lines of only allowing mouse + keyboard input instead of joystick, etc. input ruined the game.
I use exim for everything, never had a (real) problem. (That is, anything outside me goofing up:P) Not knowing much about how the various MTAs compare, I have to ask: does anyone know how and why EXIM does/does not compare well against postfix/sendmail? Certainly seems viable to me.
I don't see why we still care about this. It's plainly obvious that it's all just an attempt to get the CEO's stocks to fly before they sell them out and bankrupt the company, all just to retire rich to a remote desert island with their own herd of sexy females, and to lay off hundreds of hard working Americans.
- use SSL - turn on 'automatically update' for win update, and do an initial update - use multiple vulnerabilites that would be updateable via microcode, so the virus doesn't go out of date - vulnerability microcode could be pushed to any one of the infected systems in order to update their vulnerability list to 'upgrade' the worm/virus. additionally, be able to have a 'detonate' command/payload pushed to it, so that the computer vandal/criminal could tell all infected hosts to perform a task. - be a P2P worm. Infected systems would mainly infect systems on their own network segment. - only certain (subnet "masters") systems would jump subnets, etc. - the virus could scale dynamically to bandwidth requirements. this could probably be done by the viruses on a given subnet negotiating with each other to determine a given saturation. Additionally, once a host on a subnet is communicated two, the 'subnet master' would be able to tell other infected hosts on the subnet to leave it alone (so there wouldn't be a plethora of logs, etc.) - do host-type IDing before trying to infect. If it's a linux/unix/mac system, then the subnet master would 'sleep' on it, and querry it in a couple days to see if it's a different host type, etc. - test the system for the ability to be infected prior to actual infection attempt - rate of breeding would be determined by the upload ability of the infected host; for example, dialup systems would send out infections once an hour, while 150K cable/DSL users would infect severral times an hour, etc. - possibly hide it's traffic as https or such; I'm not 100% whether that's even possible, though
Now, if you were designing this worm multi-platform, I suspect it would be significantly more difficult. To me, it doesn't seem like most current worms are terribly thuroughly thought out, are simple, or are simply done for the spur of the moment.
I suspect the development of this worm would take a significant amount of time; a concerted effort by several people could probably get it done in a couple months, if they're skilled. A large amount of the work is probably already done in open source projects, they'd just have to pick-and-choose different code snippets. I have no idea how large it would be, either. I'd have to guess, though, that it would probably be at least 200 or 300K, and maybe as much as a meg. I'm not that familiar with windows programming.
I'd personally like to see such a worm implimented, if for no other reason, just proof of concept. Release it, and the same day release the source code - maybe as a 'vulnerability testing tool'? Such a tool would be invalueable to the network admin of a windows network - push updates easily using a worm. (of course, it would be somewhat different than the one described above)
Now, provided that this camera is actually hackable in a reasonable manner...
The nice thing is that the camera won't suck.
By that I mean, it will likely be well made. If you plop down 200$|250$ or so for a good 2MP camera, they're expecting, and hoping, for it to break in a couple years. depending on how much of a shutter bug you are, you could potentially spend the rough equivilent of $5 per 24 shot take if you factor the price of the camera over a year or two, provided you take an average number of photos. (Most people don't go around taking photos daily, they take one or two rolls at special occasions, etc.) They expect the camera to break, and design it so that it has a short life span.
The reuseable digital camera, though, will likely be well designed so that they last a matter of 2, 3, 4, or 5 years, so that they can change the shell after a year, and keep using the camera. Thus, not only would you get a 2 megapixel camera for $10, you could get even better value.
If Male, the individual will most likely want: - How to more efficiently use a search engine (for good, free porn, basically) - how to cheat in games online - maybe some basics that go above-and-beyond what is generally considered the basics: hardware, software, and just generally cool hackish things - games, and lots of them. I'd recommend starting with Enemy Territory, being as it's free. For multiplayer, you can throw UT2k3 and Q3A demos on all the machines, as well, which will provide a due amount of multiplayer goodness.
If the user is Female: - how to make web sites - how to use office - possibly how to sign up for bulletin boards, MMORPG, and things like everything2 - how to properly search (so as to find recipies, designs, purchase things, fan sites, and the like... maybe porn, but doubtful)
If the user is dumb as shit: - porn - email - web - maybe some games
If the user is a teenager: - What do they need teaching for? They already know everything. - Games. and some more games - porn - oh, and porn. - search engines (for porn... and maybe free homework reports, etc)
I found a book on my parents' bookshelf a couple years ago. THe boko was printed in the mid-70'd by end-times "conspiracy nuts"... they went a little bit OTT with this book. I recall something about a massive computer that catalogs everyone in Brussels being mentioned. The cover of the book had a red "666" emblazoned on it, and it talked about oil, big business, and the US gov't taking away constitutional rights.
You haven't been using the right LCDs, then. Check out Samsung's line, they all do something akin to "pixel blending" at the lower resolutions. I was quite impressed at the aliasing displayed when I installed win2k on an office system w/ one such new LCD.
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Million-dollar crack rock, expensive women (whores and otherwise), expensive mansions, etc. etc.
Having practically infinite spending power would fuck with your head, I think. You'd lose all grasp of what value is, and how much a 10 spot is actually worth. You could literally burn money to stay warm with that much cash. Meanwhile, these guy's weekly (maybe daily?) income is probably larger than the annual budget for some small countries.
Absolutely. Harrison Ford is, IMO, what made Star Wars what it was. Episode II was decent, but it still fell as short as a dwarf on a model runway.
One trend I'm noticing in the new trilogy is that Lucas is trying to throw "surprises" into the mix to keep us old fans interested. In Episode I, there was a "virgin birth", in Episode II, we find out that the Empire didn't conquor the Repblic, but the Republic became the Empire through osmosis. The second of these two was an interesting plot twist, because it pitted people against people that -seemed- to be on their side, and vice versa.
The third prequel is bound to have the same kind of thing. Half of me is hoping for some 'Corellian trader' to save the day. This 'trader' would be played by Harrison Ford (why not, they had Jango Fett, didn't they?), and would be none other than Han Solo's father (or maybe Lando's father, who knows - Lando was quite the amiable character, too).
Having Han's father do some heroic deed would set the precident for when Han Solo decides to turn around and help out the rebellion, saving Luke's ass - that little tidbit wasn't clearly explained in Ep IV, and it's what tends to be considered a loose string.
I'm less concerned about ATMs being connected to the network. The problem will likely arise with someone finding a buffer overflow in the interface, or some oddity like that, and then be able to withdrawl money from someone else's account, or to take money from the ATM w/o any authorization.
And I s'pose you pay for all the software you use, right?
By that I mean, "pay the market price for each individual program", not "paid for shareware once because you couldn't find a crack".
Does it still work properly, though? That's what I'm curious about.
This is a nitpick, but...
Copyright violation is not illigial. It is a civil violation and up to the copyright holder to challenge that use in court.
Thus, why people aren't getting arrested, and the RIAA is sueing them. Granted, they're stepping over the line, but fuck 'em, it's their funeral.
FCKGW? What's that?
Mod this guy up. 100% correct. THe profitability is increased further when you consider licensing the engine to other developers.
These people are either technically incompetent, or intentionally damaging you. THere's no reason for what they're doing - there are many more practical ways to go about such monitoring.
When it starts costing you money for their 'mistakes', I think it's then time for either them to compensate you, or for you to sue them (in the cas where they don't return compensation).
I wonder how much information someone (say, a 'terrorist') could divulge from all this posting made by military servicemen. Could it be that all these points made by the 'grunts' of the service, outlining what they see as the good, bad, and ugly aspects of service would be potentially damaging to the US military if placed in the wrong hands?
You say that now, but have you ever cooked with grease before - naked? I didn't think so. THis man speaks from experience! Heed the word, brothah!
Could you elaborate more on "get what you want" and "recruiters meeting quota" for me? I've been thinking about going down to the local Navy recruiter, but have been wary of just what you speak. I'm nowhere near LA, but obviously want what's best for myself.
I have a friend in the Navy Reserves taht's an M5 (E5?) and does sysadmin work for EROS. Might that be pull?
Hey now - let's not get offensive. Nobody said MS did anything new, in this situation, or otherwise. :P
They won't be punished, if by 'they', you mean 'the people that work at SCO'. 'They' have already made off with their cash cow, and have decided that SCO can burn while they walk off with the plunders.
Well, it makes sense, when you consider the following facts:
... and I'm sure there are some other things in there too, such as NVidia buying out 3dlabs, which made voodoo cards, which resulted in the adoption of Glide - the 3d structure that caused DX to not be adopted during the early stages.
- NVidia makes drivers for linux, and they don't suck
- NVidia works hard on making sure their cards support OpenGL, which is the only means through which linux can really have 3D, AND it's the only 3D alternative to DirectX
- John Carmack (and the rest of id) develops some of the best games in the industry, and he develops using OGL, as well as for multiple platforms
- ATI has traditionally been a very compliant OEM-type company that loves to bundle it's stuff with anything it can to make a buck.
I don't know about you, but most games nowadays suck. Regardless of whether they're marketed or not - simply because most of the games with any sort of significant investment are heavily marketed. Then, on the other hand, companies don't bother marketing at all for games that they didn't put the initial money into designing.
A good example of an industry gone awry is, I think, Freelancer. If any of you have played it, and are familiar with the classic, "Privateer", then I'm sure you see the similarity (that is, blatant ripoff) between the two. If you're only familiar with one or the other, let me summarize: Freelancer is Privateer, but with better graphics, less game design, forethought, creativity, or pretty much anything else that makes for an interesting game.
I played Freelancer for maybe an hour; I was playing a pirated version, but it didn't really matter - I didn't play it long enough to get past the missions that were offered on the 'demo'. Now, before you say, "you just don't like that kind of game" - you're wrong. I never played Privateer when it was new, but saw a friend play it a couple times. I managed to recently get ahold of a copy of it, and put it on an old DOS system to play. Well, let's just say that the last week of my time has been spent playing a game with incredibly chunky graphics, but great gameplay. Freelancer -could- have had good gameplay if it had been finished, and if the designers had taken the time to make it unpainful and tiresome to play. Maybe added a little diversity to the gameplay.
Freelancer was even made by the same people (company, at least) as Privateer. If MS hadn't yanked the game out from production, it could have been great - evidence for thurough planning and an awesome game world (which would have likely supported awesome multiplayer stuff) was all there. Instead of losing money, it could have made money. As it sits, a miriad of goof-ups along the lines of only allowing mouse + keyboard input instead of joystick, etc. input ruined the game.
*sigh*
I use exim for everything, never had a (real) problem. (That is, anything outside me goofing up :P) Not knowing much about how the various MTAs compare, I have to ask: does anyone know how and why EXIM does/does not compare well against postfix/sendmail? Certainly seems viable to me.
I don't see why we still care about this. It's plainly obvious that it's all just an attempt to get the CEO's stocks to fly before they sell them out and bankrupt the company, all just to retire rich to a remote desert island with their own herd of sexy females, and to lay off hundreds of hard working Americans.
The ultimate MS worm/virus would:
- use SSL
- turn on 'automatically update' for win update, and do an initial update
- use multiple vulnerabilites that would be updateable via microcode, so the virus doesn't go out of date
- vulnerability microcode could be pushed to any one of the infected systems in order to update their vulnerability list to 'upgrade' the worm/virus. additionally, be able to have a 'detonate' command/payload pushed to it, so that the computer vandal/criminal could tell all infected hosts to perform a task.
- be a P2P worm. Infected systems would mainly infect systems on their own network segment.
- only certain (subnet "masters") systems would jump subnets, etc.
- the virus could scale dynamically to bandwidth requirements. this could probably be done by the viruses on a given subnet negotiating with each other to determine a given saturation. Additionally, once a host on a subnet is communicated two, the 'subnet master' would be able to tell other infected hosts on the subnet to leave it alone (so there wouldn't be a plethora of logs, etc.)
- do host-type IDing before trying to infect. If it's a linux/unix/mac system, then the subnet master would 'sleep' on it, and querry it in a couple days to see if it's a different host type, etc.
- test the system for the ability to be infected prior to actual infection attempt
- rate of breeding would be determined by the upload ability of the infected host; for example, dialup systems would send out infections once an hour, while 150K cable/DSL users would infect severral times an hour, etc.
- possibly hide it's traffic as https or such; I'm not 100% whether that's even possible, though
Now, if you were designing this worm multi-platform, I suspect it would be significantly more difficult. To me, it doesn't seem like most current worms are terribly thuroughly thought out, are simple, or are simply done for the spur of the moment.
I suspect the development of this worm would take a significant amount of time; a concerted effort by several people could probably get it done in a couple months, if they're skilled. A large amount of the work is probably already done in open source projects, they'd just have to pick-and-choose different code snippets. I have no idea how large it would be, either. I'd have to guess, though, that it would probably be at least 200 or 300K, and maybe as much as a meg. I'm not that familiar with windows programming.
I'd personally like to see such a worm implimented, if for no other reason, just proof of concept. Release it, and the same day release the source code - maybe as a 'vulnerability testing tool'? Such a tool would be invalueable to the network admin of a windows network - push updates easily using a worm. (of course, it would be somewhat different than the one described above)
Now, provided that this camera is actually hackable in a reasonable manner...
The nice thing is that the camera won't suck.
By that I mean, it will likely be well made. If you plop down 200$|250$ or so for a good 2MP camera, they're expecting, and hoping, for it to break in a couple years. depending on how much of a shutter bug you are, you could potentially spend the rough equivilent of $5 per 24 shot take if you factor the price of the camera over a year or two, provided you take an average number of photos. (Most people don't go around taking photos daily, they take one or two rolls at special occasions, etc.) They expect the camera to break, and design it so that it has a short life span.
The reuseable digital camera, though, will likely be well designed so that they last a matter of 2, 3, 4, or 5 years, so that they can change the shell after a year, and keep using the camera. Thus, not only would you get a 2 megapixel camera for $10, you could get even better value.
The average user will want the following things:
If Male, the individual will most likely want:
- How to more efficiently use a search engine (for good, free porn, basically)
- how to cheat in games online
- maybe some basics that go above-and-beyond what is generally considered the basics: hardware, software, and just generally cool hackish things
- games, and lots of them. I'd recommend starting with Enemy Territory, being as it's free. For multiplayer, you can throw UT2k3 and Q3A demos on all the machines, as well, which will provide a due amount of multiplayer goodness.
If the user is Female:
- how to make web sites
- how to use office
- possibly how to sign up for bulletin boards, MMORPG, and things like everything2
- how to properly search (so as to find recipies, designs, purchase things, fan sites, and the like... maybe porn, but doubtful)
If the user is dumb as shit:
- porn
- email
- web
- maybe some games
If the user is a teenager:
- What do they need teaching for? They already know everything.
- Games. and some more games
- porn
- oh, and porn.
- search engines (for porn... and maybe free homework reports, etc)
Wow, fool. What a troll.
Capitalism is not democracy.
Democracy is not capitalism.
In a similar respect, an expansionist regime is not democracy, either.
I like Via's scheme...
a) What's in the rig?
b) Oh, C4.
I found a book on my parents' bookshelf a couple years ago. THe boko was printed in the mid-70'd by end-times "conspiracy nuts"... they went a little bit OTT with this book. I recall something about a massive computer that catalogs everyone in Brussels being mentioned. The cover of the book had a red "666" emblazoned on it, and it talked about oil, big business, and the US gov't taking away constitutional rights.
You haven't been using the right LCDs, then. Check out Samsung's line, they all do something akin to "pixel blending" at the lower resolutions. I was quite impressed at the aliasing displayed when I installed win2k on an office system w/ one such new LCD.