Last time, (Odd Day) a bunch of friends and I got together, (obviously bringing our systems to commune as well) and had a GeekFest(tm, c, and R). We had Dew, Dorritos, and pretzels. Had The Matrix and stayed up all night geekin' around, playing games.
At least, that's what I think we did. It's what I had planned to do, and I am not sure all that happened on that night - but it may have happened in the next couple days.
Who cares about New Years.:) Things like Odd Day and Even Day have much more rarety than even a melennial party opportunity.
That's why it's a good idea to turn java/java script off, and only turn it on for specific reasons. That, and those nasty little popup windows that are on places like xoom.
Is slashdot vulnerable? I wonder if Rob and the guys have taken precautions beforehand. I have been somewhat aware of such potential, and how easy it would be to inflict damage in such a manner. I tend to browse with java/javascript and imbeded scraps off on sites that I don't trust. (Recently, this would include the weblogs of slashdot, due to the increase of inflamatory individuals).
You download an RPM/elf bin file from the net, install, and start to run. A nice friendly seggie occurs.
You try to run it again. This time you get the message "Unable to find MSVB60.dll. Please click here to update your files." You press OK, and you encouter your system shutting down. (oh my) You boot up again, and to your horror, encounter MS Linux 2000.
Seriously, though, I'd not trust a thing on my linux box that came from Redmond. They're too hostile about the entire thing, and who knows how security conscious they were about making the media player. They might even code a backdoor into it, who knows. Now, if I could untar the download and compile it myself...
I see it as a move to try and take over the online media market. Fortunately, I think linux users know enough about what they're doing to not fall for it. Blast, we need those codecs, though.
Just because it's a reapplication of a good idea doesn't mean it's not innovative. Windows is merely a reapplication of products from other locations: Mac, UNIX, Warp OS2, et al...
And the Internet is truely inovative. PHP is not a reapplication of something that already existed. Nor is HTML (or rather, the initial markup languages that HTML sprang from)
Most of the things that he mentioned are truely inovative - the idea may not be, but the code is. The unreal engine wasn't/isn't innovative if you look at it from the perspective you're looking at. In reality, though, the unreal engine hasbeen completely origonal and innovative at the code level - way ahead of it's time (when it was written). Nobody had ever done it before that well. The idea of a first person shooter was already there, brought from Quake/doom/wolf.
From your perspective, windows wouldn't be innovative either, in any manner. The idea of a computer in every home was initially from Steve Jobs of Apple. Initial technologies mocked and mimicked other OSes. My goodness, even "Active Directories," which is being highly acclaimed as soemthing new, smells remotely like something that I'm fairly familiar with in UNIX right now - which has been around the block a couple times, I believe.
So far, we have things like PGP signatures online, which is all fine and dandy - Good Things. It tells us that the person who sent it truely is, well, the person who sent it.
In the real world, handwritting does the same essential thing.
Now, if we were to combine the two in some manner, we would, IMO, have a viable way to perform all types of transactions online. It would be a visual signature - for the technically un-inclined - and a digital PGP type code for those who need to check for the accuracy of the signature. I imagine there could be a plugin type application for validifying them asthere is with PGP. The PGP-like ID would be possibly placed within the image in HEX, or some oher method. Maybe a digital 'watermark'.
The linux development kernel is entirely different. Nobody with both balls intact (figuratively speaking) would ever recommend that a development kernel be used as a server. It's widely discouraged that anyone use a devel kernel for anything but bug testing, reporting, and severe geeking (or, rather, getting a sneak-peak at what is to come).
I find it ironic how you said "development linux kernel." Key word, "development." This thing wouldn't (more than likely) happen to linux due to extensive testing by many. MS doesn't do this with windows. Win2k had only 15 security programmers checking the entire code base! 15, for crying out loud! that's a lot of code for 150 coders to security check in such a short period of time!
Quite simply put, Microsoft screwed up. The product hasn't even been commercially available yet, and there are already two security holes, one that is fairly serious. The thing is, if this WERE the beta version of win2k, it would be tolerated or even acceptable. Maybe praised even, since the bugs would be found before final release. But no, thse bugs are in the commercial release. For the price that MS is charging, it shouldn't be defective out of the box and require repair immidiately. That's not good for the customer, and it certainly isn't good for product reliability.
If this type of thing were to happen in Linux on an even numbered kernel, (they're all essentially developmental since they're always 'active' or open, right?) MS would have a hay day of FUD and there would be a great moral decline in the lands. Microsoft will probably get away with it, since they will try and hush it up.
*sigh* Little guys always get stepped on. But that's life. People should be a lot more angry about bugs like this than they are. I mean, two weeks is a LONG time to wait for a bug patch! Linux patches are out of the bag in less than a day, sometimes within an hour of the bug's discovery. I'm not aware of a single serious/semi-serious MS bug that has been patched in less than a week.
This was not intended as a MS-bash, although it may come across as one. Microsoft has one a lot of
Not a problem. I'm breezing through my highschool physics class without doing so much as my homework. Copy homework from the back, take the test, pass the test, pass the class. Don't you just -love- public education?:)
They can patent my DNA when they pry it from my cold, dead hands.
Isn't this a dirivative from a 70's movie about the Russians flying into the midwest and taking over the center of America? the origonal (I think it was the original) was a bumper sticker that said, "They can have my gun when they pry it from my cold, dead hands." Just wondering if there's a parallel.
I've heard said that SETI@home has recycled their data clusters several times because they ran out of space to search. Or something along those lines. Not sure where I read that - probably on/. but I couldn't find any references to it.
I recall reading a biography written about you a while back; however, I don't recall what the title was, but it was published in the early to mid-80's. It may have been something like "The Making of Woz."
Throughout the book, little bits and pieces of your personality were described. I found this incredibly entertaining, because your high school years sound very similar to what my high school life is like. (I'm a Senior this year.) Everything from your pranks to your apathy about unimportant things, to your zeal for geeky things is me. I was greatly encouraged by your early-life story. Question: Also in this book, I recall that it said you've always liked to have the hardware of a system exposed for viewing, somewhat similar to an art display. I recall that you were obstinate when Apple started putting cases on your computers. Are you still of this opinion, that hardware is better viewed for this reason? Do you think that your preferance may have somehow survived and made it's way into the design for the iMac?
Wow! And I thought _I_ had a good Christmas!:)~ Man, getting rid of those annoying Santa people would be great. But ya still have to feel sorry for the guy. He was one of the only few that wasn't doing it for the money. Boy, that would have been humiliating.
It's on/. because it's funny. "News for Nerds", right? This is a nerdy thing, in a way. Nerds/geeks like to laugh as much as the next guy. Who said anything about it having to be technology-related? Is there a/. RFC taht I've not read?!:)
Of course, to every technology, there's both a good and bad side. Yeah, save kids, but think of 3rd world countries. They'd possibly implant "criminals" with these chips, and the 'criminals' would never be able to escape. I'm thinking 1984 here.
I just returned from watching the movie Face-off starring Cage and Travolta at a friend's house. I find this fairly fitting for this article.
For those of you who haven't seen this acting masterpiece - you should. Both the lead actors preform to their utmost, acting off of each other better than I've seen either act independantly. But besides that, the movie demonstrates some biogenic nanotech. (If you don't want to know what happens, skip to next paragraph.) The characters played by Trivolta and Cage have their faces (skin, etc) removed and put on the other. One is a cop, and is having it done to protect LA. The other is a criminal, and planted a bomb in LA. The plot thickens.
Basically, the cop gets fairly screwed over due to this technology. His family gets the blunt end of the stick, and he gets to spend some high quality time in a high security prision, amongst other things. The whole ordeal backfires into the face of the Good Guy (tm).
My point is, there is extreme danger behind any proposed good technology. I'd love to see nanotech and nanotech related technology used for medacine - or for anything, really.
Think about it! Say upi were tp get a small chip installed in your eye. Say you have 80/20, astigmatism, and a binocularity problem. (me). This chip, in combination with laser surgery in your retina, could allow you to not only see better than you would with perfect vision, but you could also have supernatural visual abilities, so to speak. You may not even need the laser surgery. Just a chip. A small chip about the size of a dime (that's kinda large, actually) planted in your face, maybe in your nasal cavity or somewhere that it would be easily maintained. (comparatively). In a couple years, it could have IR and even night vision - for the right price. The ability to zoom in on anything would be an obvious feature. Imagine being able to see for miles with the acuity of looking at your own hands.
Add in a little additional processing power and programming, and you'd be able to possibly view things as an entire object, increasing your visual perseption tenfold. No longer would you have to focus on a single object. Your peripheral vision could have just as much acuity as what you're looking directly at. Items at different distances would not be "out of focus" because they are not what you are looking at directly.
Yeah, there's evil out there - more and more each day. But there's also countless Good that can be done. The people with not-so-honest intents will get ahold of the technology eventually - most likely through the labs of a country like China or that of the lovely Saddam. We might as well get this technology into the hands of Those Who Do Good ASAP so that we can get as much good done before evil takes a chance. Besides, nanotech is fun.
Crap. I just typed a lot for 2am Saturday. Woohoo!
How do we -know- that much of chromosone 22 is useless? It could serve, and probably does serve, some purpose that we merely haven't discovered yet - probably something more complex that we've known of to this point. It was once widely excepted that the spleen had no practical purpose, but it's fairly well acknoledged nowadays that the spleen is vital for good health. (Although you can function without it, you have better health with it.)
Not to make a generalizion (OK. Shoot me. I am.) but geeks generally don't have good enough dexterity to not trip over their own shoes, let alone juggle. There are exceptions though. I only trip on myself before my dew.:)
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From what I recall, he deserved it. I think there may be a story about it on CmdrTaco's site...
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Last time, (Odd Day) a bunch of friends and I got together, (obviously bringing our systems to commune as well) and had a GeekFest(tm, c, and R). We had Dew, Dorritos, and pretzels. Had The Matrix and stayed up all night geekin' around, playing games.
At least, that's what I think we did. It's what I had planned to do, and I am not sure all that happened on that night - but it may have happened in the next couple days.
Who cares about New Years. :) Things like Odd Day and Even Day have much more rarety than even a melennial party opportunity.
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You download an RPM/elf bin file from the net, install, and start to run. A nice friendly seggie occurs.
You try to run it again. This time you get the message "Unable to find MSVB60.dll. Please click here to update your files." You press OK, and you encouter your system shutting down. (oh my) You boot up again, and to your horror, encounter MS Linux 2000.
Seriously, though, I'd not trust a thing on my linux box that came from Redmond. They're too hostile about the entire thing, and who knows how security conscious they were about making the media player. They might even code a backdoor into it, who knows. Now, if I could untar the download and compile it myself...
I see it as a move to try and take over the online media market. Fortunately, I think linux users know enough about what they're doing to not fall for it. Blast, we need those codecs, though.
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And the Internet is truely inovative. PHP is not a reapplication of something that already existed. Nor is HTML (or rather, the initial markup languages that HTML sprang from)
Most of the things that he mentioned are truely inovative - the idea may not be, but the code is. The unreal engine wasn't/isn't innovative if you look at it from the perspective you're looking at. In reality, though, the unreal engine hasbeen completely origonal and innovative at the code level - way ahead of it's time (when it was written). Nobody had ever done it before that well. The idea of a first person shooter was already there, brought from Quake/doom/wolf.
From your perspective, windows wouldn't be innovative either, in any manner. The idea of a computer in every home was initially from Steve Jobs of Apple. Initial technologies mocked and mimicked other OSes. My goodness, even "Active Directories," which is being highly acclaimed as soemthing new, smells remotely like something that I'm fairly familiar with in UNIX right now - which has been around the block a couple times, I believe.
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In the real world, handwritting does the same essential thing.
Now, if we were to combine the two in some manner, we would, IMO, have a viable way to perform all types of transactions online. It would be a visual signature - for the technically un-inclined - and a digital PGP type code for those who need to check for the accuracy of the signature. I imagine there could be a plugin type application for validifying them asthere is with PGP. The PGP-like ID would be possibly placed within the image in HEX, or some oher method. Maybe a digital 'watermark'.
We shall see, hmmmm?
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I find it ironic how you said "development linux kernel." Key word, "development." This thing wouldn't (more than likely) happen to linux due to extensive testing by many. MS doesn't do this with windows. Win2k had only 15 security programmers checking the entire code base! 15, for crying out loud! that's a lot of code for 150 coders to security check in such a short period of time!
Quite simply put, Microsoft screwed up. The product hasn't even been commercially available yet, and there are already two security holes, one that is fairly serious. The thing is, if this WERE the beta version of win2k, it would be tolerated or even acceptable. Maybe praised even, since the bugs would be found before final release. But no, thse bugs are in the commercial release. For the price that MS is charging, it shouldn't be defective out of the box and require repair immidiately. That's not good for the customer, and it certainly isn't good for product reliability.
If this type of thing were to happen in Linux on an even numbered kernel, (they're all essentially developmental since they're always 'active' or open, right?) MS would have a hay day of FUD and there would be a great moral decline in the lands. Microsoft will probably get away with it, since they will try and hush it up.
*sigh* Little guys always get stepped on. But that's life. People should be a lot more angry about bugs like this than they are. I mean, two weeks is a LONG time to wait for a bug patch! Linux patches are out of the bag in less than a day, sometimes within an hour of the bug's discovery. I'm not aware of a single serious/semi-serious MS bug that has been patched in less than a week.
This was not intended as a MS-bash, although it may come across as one. Microsoft has one a lot of
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BTW, I like your sig.
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Isn't this a dirivative from a 70's movie about the Russians flying into the midwest and taking over the center of America? the origonal (I think it was the original) was a bumper sticker that said, "They can have my gun when they pry it from my cold, dead hands." Just wondering if there's a parallel.
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Throughout the book, little bits and pieces of your personality were described. I found this incredibly entertaining, because your high school years sound very similar to what my high school life is like. (I'm a Senior this year.) Everything from your pranks to your apathy about unimportant things, to your zeal for geeky things is me. I was greatly encouraged by your early-life story. Question: Also in this book, I recall that it said you've always liked to have the hardware of a system exposed for viewing, somewhat similar to an art display. I recall that you were obstinate when Apple started putting cases on your computers. Are you still of this opinion, that hardware is better viewed for this reason? Do you think that your preferance may have somehow survived and made it's way into the design for the iMac?
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On the upside, private, er, collectors can now have their own... whatever you want to call it.
If that can be called an upside.
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umm.... he must really be a good actor then. This certainly is going out of his RL status...
Matt Damon, an...an... outsider?
I'm sure he faces a lot of rejection in life. I mean, no girls or anything. Poor guy. *end sarcasm*
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Fairly peculiar that just about that many people are deemed as "mormal" or not needing psychological management.
I recon They will knock on my door any moment now.
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For those of you who haven't seen this acting masterpiece - you should. Both the lead actors preform to their utmost, acting off of each other better than I've seen either act independantly. But besides that, the movie demonstrates some biogenic nanotech. (If you don't want to know what happens, skip to next paragraph.) The characters played by Trivolta and Cage have their faces (skin, etc) removed and put on the other. One is a cop, and is having it done to protect LA. The other is a criminal, and planted a bomb in LA. The plot thickens.
Basically, the cop gets fairly screwed over due to this technology. His family gets the blunt end of the stick, and he gets to spend some high quality time in a high security prision, amongst other things. The whole ordeal backfires into the face of the Good Guy (tm).
My point is, there is extreme danger behind any proposed good technology. I'd love to see nanotech and nanotech related technology used for medacine - or for anything, really.
Think about it! Say upi were tp get a small chip installed in your eye. Say you have 80/20, astigmatism, and a binocularity problem. (me). This chip, in combination with laser surgery in your retina, could allow you to not only see better than you would with perfect vision, but you could also have supernatural visual abilities, so to speak. You may not even need the laser surgery. Just a chip. A small chip about the size of a dime (that's kinda large, actually) planted in your face, maybe in your nasal cavity or somewhere that it would be easily maintained. (comparatively). In a couple years, it could have IR and even night vision - for the right price. The ability to zoom in on anything would be an obvious feature. Imagine being able to see for miles with the acuity of looking at your own hands.
Add in a little additional processing power and programming, and you'd be able to possibly view things as an entire object, increasing your visual perseption tenfold. No longer would you have to focus on a single object. Your peripheral vision could have just as much acuity as what you're looking directly at. Items at different distances would not be "out of focus" because they are not what you are looking at directly.
Yeah, there's evil out there - more and more each day. But there's also countless Good that can be done. The people with not-so-honest intents will get ahold of the technology eventually - most likely through the labs of a country like China or that of the lovely Saddam. We might as well get this technology into the hands of Those Who Do Good ASAP so that we can get as much good done before evil takes a chance. Besides, nanotech is fun.
Crap. I just typed a lot for 2am Saturday. Woohoo!
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