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I don't think a policy change is going to help something like this. We would have to change.
Perhaps not. I have an idea that might help. What if we drop 350 megatons of nuclear weapons on their pathetic little countries? Then they'd all be dead, and we wouldn't have to worry about their misguided belief systems. And we'd have lots of material for new Ikea glassware.
Just a thought.
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Now I'm sure public opinion will swing even more strongly against any Arab viewpoints, making any peace unlikely.
What are you talking about? Once we nuke the fucking towelheads into nonexistence, there won't be any more camel jockeys to get in Israel's way. How could Israel not be at peace with itself and a glass parking lot?
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This is true, but we should still nuke both the oil sheiks, the monarchies, and the rest of the dune coons. Not because they are all responsible - just think of it as self defense. Like cutting out a tumor.
Do not blame all Middle Easterners. But, make sure to nuke them anyway. Not because it is their fault - think of it as self defense. Like cutting out a tumor.
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Today, having calmed down a little, I have been thinking about feasible ways to prevent such acts of terrorism.
Me too. I was thinking that instead of nuking them into the Stone Age, we could nuke them with neutron bombs, killing only all the people in the middle east, specifically the Afghans, Iraq, Palestinians, and every other nation that danced in joy in the streets as our sisters and wives flew 110 stories to the ground while being immolated.
Then after we had killed all of them, we could take their stuff.
Jon, whatever you think of yourself as a writer, and however much bile people may spill here for or against you, please, do not belittle what has happened today. This was not an Internet e-attack, nor was it a biblical apocalypse. It was a cowardly hijacking, done the same way it has been done for 20 some years.
Please, Please, retract this article, and save the flame warriors the trouble of taking you apart. We don't need this today.
Has anyone else been speculating about how many people it would take to accomplish this? Most of the flights were headed to the same destination (LAX) but came from different departure points. They were well synchronized. With a count of appx. 5 planes, assuming you can smuggle a plastic gun on board, a minimum 2 man team could take over the plane, one as a pilot and the second covering the passengers with a weapon.
By my count that's at least 10 totally crazy, organized fuckers.
E-mail, arguably the most successful of all computer applications, has grown so rapidly that it' threatens to veer out-of-control for many people.
Huh? Can you give us one example of Email veering out of control and hitting someone? Or even just veering out of control? How, exactly, would that work?
Designed as a simple communications tool
A simple communications tool? Jon wouldn't have taken offense, he wasn't like that, but he should have.
it's now used for dozens of tasks, from personal archiving to community-building and marketing.
And spam and commercial harassment. Don't forget to list the most frequent uses first.
E-mail is sparking, perhaps even overwhelming, the revolutionary new model of instantaneous communications.
E-mail is overwhelming Aol Instant Messenger?
This is the first time in human history disparate people in diverse places can communicate with one another instantaneously.
...using letters, instead of the crude voice signals they had to use eighy years ago.
I take it back, this article just veered out of control. It ran me over.
These days, Linux is hardly "just an OS." By 1997, Free Software
Foundation was calling it the most widely distributed operating
system in the United States. And Linux's reach is global; the
foundation claims that it appears in 1,700 computers worldwide, in
seventeen languages and fifty-one countries. The publisher of The
Linux Future says that every day "Linux is currently run by more
than 150 million users."
Linuxization has just begun. With Linux hardcovers in the
million-seller range, plenty more are on the horizon; in early 1997,
Entertainment Weekly magazine reported that "HarperBusiness will
publish four more hardcover books in the next five years, and Andrews
& McMeel hopes to roll out calendars and softcover collections of
systems for the next seven." Meanwhile, across the planet, Linux
cartoons are appearing on calendars, coffee mugs, cards, clothes and
scads of other products.
Perhaps most significantly in the long run, Linux has become a
mass-marketed attitude a public way of coping. While we encounter
the tightening vise of corporatization. The Linux phenomenon is part
of a process making people more accustomed to a stance of ironic
passivity.
To say that the proliferation of Linux lacks social importance or
impact is to claim that mass culture doesn't matter much -- that it
doesn't affect how we perceive or act on our perceptions -- that it
doesn't influence how we talk and think and live. In fact, how we use
words is a marker and pointer for our outlooks. As George Orwell
observed, everyday language "becomes ugly and inaccurate because our
thoughts are foolish, but the slovenliness of our language makes it
easier for us to have foolish thoughts."
Certainly no advertising exec can afford to underrate the consequences
of words, images and marketed attitudes. The ad industry deals in hard
numbers and empirical results. Billions of dollars get spent every
season in the USA on the well-tested assumption that what keeps
flashing before our eyes and ears has major effects on what we
buy. And buy into.
Mega-marketing requires, more than ever, a capital-intensive blitz. To
saturate the grassroots, mass-mediated "popular culture" needs a nod
from a big-money suite somewhere. In the nationwide amphitheater,
would-be creators are to remain in their seats unless summoned to the
stage bysomeone with appreciable monetary clout. The audience does not
create. The audience consumes.
As Thomas Frank puts it: "No longer can any serious executive regard
TV, movies, magazines, and radio as simple 'entertainment,' as
frivolous leisure-time fun: writing, music, and art are no longer
conceivable as free expressions arising from the daily experience of a
people. These are the economic dynamos of the new age, the
economically crucial tools by which the public is informed of the
latest offerings, enchanted by packaged bliss, instructed in the
arcane pleasures of the new, taught to be good citizens, and brought
warmly into the consuming fold."
Now Microsoft word will take even more time to roll out Clippy.
Slow Office
But because 64-bit Windows has to emulate the 32-bit version to run 32-bit apps, the apps' performance will be slower on a 64-bit machine than on a Pentium III PC of comparable clock speed (Itanium launched at 733 and 800 MHz). And according to analyst Chris LeTocq of Guernsey Research, most engineers will not want to slow down their workstations with 32-bit apps.
To read Slashdot, only the lack of intellectual fervor is standing between you and the nirvana of Linux. The fact that you need a million work arounds and training sessions to get it to function on the desktop is always downplayed. Mention this and you're a "luser who uses Windoze". Which is a mature, intelligent way to settle an argument among adults. Raise an objection: get flamed.
Did this guy cut & paste this from trolltalk? Wrong headline: tech journalists are a bunch of ripoff artists. That's our material!
"Below, we present an implementation of a parasitic computer using the checksum function.
In order for this to occur, one needs to design a special message that coerces a target server into
performing the desired computation."
What I can't find is any proof that computing this specially designed message is less computationally intensive than actually running the TCP checksum yourself. What is the actual scaling factor achieved? You must still design one of these special messages for every iteration of the NP complete problem you're trying to solve...
Anyway, other than the TCP checksum, are there any other protocols out there that do something more computationally intense to the data before returning it?
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Here's what I sent the ACLU via their feedback page. I'll let you know if they reply.
I am curious, what is the position of the ACLU on the plight of Dmitri Sklyarov, the Russian programmer currently in federal prison for a speech crime? Specifically, is the ACLU against prosecuting programmers for comitting speech crimes, and is the ACLU committed to overturning the DMCA?
You can learn more at:
http://www.freesklyarov.com/
Bent on taking over the billion dollar Desktop OS Market from industry giant and public pariah Microsoft Corporation (MSFT), the Linux movement celebrated it's 10th year of anti-corporate warfare and paradigm-shifting muscle by getting these guys to cook some burgers.
"For instance, do people really want a unique address for a refrigerator -- allowing hackers to spy on individual eating habits -- or order you a truckload of milk?"
Do not fear, Consumer/Citizen #238o47234-9. We have taken care of the threat of the evil hackers. We have applied Purchase::Courts in order to prosecute, convict & incarcerate Evil Hacker Units for crimes we think they'll commit in the future, preventing them from ever happening. We call this "time-shifted law enforcement".
Do not fear, Consumer Units. We will prevent Technology::IPV6 from being used to order too much Commodity::Milk.
Everything has been rendered extraordinarily safe.
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The formula:
- We'll announce that we're doing something, but only introduce it on a low cost basis into a small target market.
- We'll watch the reaction.
- If it's bad, we'll denounce ourselves and retract our low cost trial balloon.
- If it works, we'll exploit the hell out of it.
This formula has been applied with both results to:
- SmartTags
- Windows Activation
- Borders Face Recognition
- Skylarov
- Implementation as a "Trade Secret" (ms & kerberos)
... and on & on.
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I don't think a policy change is going to help something like this. We would have to change.
Perhaps not. I have an idea that might help. What if we drop 350 megatons of nuclear weapons on their pathetic little countries? Then they'd all be dead, and we wouldn't have to worry about their misguided belief systems. And we'd have lots of material for new Ikea glassware.
Just a thought.
Now I'm sure public opinion will swing even more strongly against any Arab viewpoints, making any peace unlikely.
What are you talking about? Once we nuke the fucking towelheads into nonexistence, there won't be any more camel jockeys to get in Israel's way. How could Israel not be at peace with itself and a glass parking lot?
This is true, but we should still nuke both the oil sheiks, the monarchies, and the rest of the dune coons. Not because they are all responsible - just think of it as self defense. Like cutting out a tumor.
Do not blame all Middle Easterners. But, make sure to nuke them anyway. Not because it is their fault - think of it as self defense. Like cutting out a tumor.
Agreed. Nuke the fuckers till they glow.
Today, having calmed down a little, I have been thinking about feasible ways to prevent such acts of terrorism.
Me too. I was thinking that instead of nuking them into the Stone Age, we could nuke them with neutron bombs, killing only all the people in the middle east, specifically the Afghans, Iraq, Palestinians, and every other nation that danced in joy in the streets as our sisters and wives flew 110 stories to the ground while being immolated.
Then after we had killed all of them, we could take their stuff.
"Techno-Armageddon"???
Jon, whatever you think of yourself as a writer, and however much bile people may spill here for or against you, please, do not belittle what has happened today. This was not an Internet e-attack, nor was it a biblical apocalypse. It was a cowardly hijacking, done the same way it has been done for 20 some years.
Please, Please, retract this article, and save the flame warriors the trouble of taking you apart. We don't need this today.
Has anyone else been speculating about how many people it would take to accomplish this? Most of the flights were headed to the same destination (LAX) but came from different departure points. They were well synchronized. With a count of appx. 5 planes, assuming you can smuggle a plastic gun on board, a minimum 2 man team could take over the plane, one as a pilot and the second covering the passengers with a weapon.
By my count that's at least 10 totally crazy, organized fuckers.
Do those numbers seem about right?
Sounds like a great way to bust those pot smokers. Gotta keep up the war on potheads. Er, drugs.
E-mail, arguably the most successful of all computer applications, has grown so rapidly that it' threatens to veer out-of-control for many people.
Huh? Can you give us one example of Email veering out of control and hitting someone? Or even just veering out of control? How, exactly, would that work?
Designed as a simple communications tool
A simple communications tool? Jon wouldn't have taken offense, he wasn't like that, but he should have.
it's now used for dozens of tasks, from personal archiving to community-building and marketing.
And spam and commercial harassment. Don't forget to list the most frequent uses first.
E-mail is sparking, perhaps even overwhelming, the revolutionary new model of instantaneous communications.
E-mail is overwhelming Aol Instant Messenger?
This is the first time in human history disparate people in diverse places can communicate with one another instantaneously.
...using letters, instead of the crude voice signals they had to use eighy years ago.
I take it back, this article just veered out of control. It ran me over.
A PDA made out of butter? What a greasy marketing trick.
These days, Linux is hardly "just an OS." By 1997, Free Software
Foundation was calling it the most widely distributed operating
system in the United States. And Linux's reach is global; the
foundation claims that it appears in 1,700 computers worldwide, in
seventeen languages and fifty-one countries. The publisher of The
Linux Future says that every day "Linux is currently run by more
than 150 million users."
Linuxization has just begun. With Linux hardcovers in the
million-seller range, plenty more are on the horizon; in early 1997,
Entertainment Weekly magazine reported that "HarperBusiness will
publish four more hardcover books in the next five years, and Andrews
& McMeel hopes to roll out calendars and softcover collections of
systems for the next seven." Meanwhile, across the planet, Linux
cartoons are appearing on calendars, coffee mugs, cards, clothes and
scads of other products.
Perhaps most significantly in the long run, Linux has become a
mass-marketed attitude a public way of coping. While we encounter
the tightening vise of corporatization. The Linux phenomenon is part
of a process making people more accustomed to a stance of ironic
passivity.
To say that the proliferation of Linux lacks social importance or
impact is to claim that mass culture doesn't matter much -- that it
doesn't affect how we perceive or act on our perceptions -- that it
doesn't influence how we talk and think and live. In fact, how we use
words is a marker and pointer for our outlooks. As George Orwell
observed, everyday language "becomes ugly and inaccurate because our
thoughts are foolish, but the slovenliness of our language makes it
easier for us to have foolish thoughts."
Certainly no advertising exec can afford to underrate the consequences
of words, images and marketed attitudes. The ad industry deals in hard
numbers and empirical results. Billions of dollars get spent every
season in the USA on the well-tested assumption that what keeps
flashing before our eyes and ears has major effects on what we
buy. And buy into.
Mega-marketing requires, more than ever, a capital-intensive blitz. To
saturate the grassroots, mass-mediated "popular culture" needs a nod
from a big-money suite somewhere. In the nationwide amphitheater,
would-be creators are to remain in their seats unless summoned to the
stage bysomeone with appreciable monetary clout. The audience does not
create. The audience consumes.
As Thomas Frank puts it: "No longer can any serious executive regard
TV, movies, magazines, and radio as simple 'entertainment,' as
frivolous leisure-time fun: writing, music, and art are no longer
conceivable as free expressions arising from the daily experience of a
people. These are the economic dynamos of the new age, the
economically crucial tools by which the public is informed of the
latest offerings, enchanted by packaged bliss, instructed in the
arcane pleasures of the new, taught to be good citizens, and brought
warmly into the consuming fold."
Did I misunderstand what I just read?
Son, welcome to Slashdot.
First of all, you're offtopic. And I admire you for posting logged in.
Second of all, my sig does not point to anything but my user bio. Please check your facts.
michael: How can we shut down all trans-atlantic Internet traffic in time for operation Theta?
timothy: We'd need to link to something international...
jamie: Hey! I found a web site in Germany with lots of pictures, and Linux! And FREE BEER!
michael: hit it!
350 terabytes of slashdot effect later...
Now Microsoft word will take even more time to roll out Clippy.
Slow Office
But because 64-bit Windows has to emulate the 32-bit version to run 32-bit apps, the apps' performance will be slower on a 64-bit machine than on a Pentium III PC of comparable clock speed (Itanium launched at 733 and 800 MHz). And according to analyst Chris LeTocq of Guernsey Research, most engineers will not want to slow down their workstations with 32-bit apps.
From the PCWorld article.
Now that's innovation!
To read Slashdot, only the lack of intellectual fervor is standing between you and the nirvana of Linux. The fact that you need a million work arounds and training sessions to get it to function on the desktop is always downplayed. Mention this and you're a "luser who uses Windoze". Which is a mature, intelligent way to settle an argument among adults. Raise an objection: get flamed.
Did this guy cut & paste this from trolltalk? Wrong headline: tech journalists are a bunch of ripoff artists. That's our material!
Seriously though, I think he meant to say:
"raise an objection: get moderated as Flamebait"
...but hardly anything but a proof of concept.
"Below, we present an implementation of a parasitic computer using the checksum function.
In order for this to occur, one needs to design a special message that coerces a target server into
performing the desired computation."
What I can't find is any proof that computing this specially designed message is less computationally intensive than actually running the TCP checksum yourself. What is the actual scaling factor achieved? You must still design one of these special messages for every iteration of the NP complete problem you're trying to solve...
Anyway, other than the TCP checksum, are there any other protocols out there that do something more computationally intense to the data before returning it?
Shouldn't that be GNU/Gnome/Linux?
Might want to update that.
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Here's what I sent the ACLU via their feedback page. I'll let you know if they reply.
I am curious, what is the position of the ACLU on the plight of Dmitri Sklyarov, the Russian programmer currently in federal prison for a speech crime? Specifically, is the ACLU against prosecuting programmers for comitting speech crimes, and is the ACLU committed to overturning the DMCA?
You can learn more at:
http://www.freesklyarov.com/
A response would be greatly appreciated.
Bent on taking over the billion dollar Desktop OS Market from industry giant and public pariah Microsoft Corporation (MSFT), the Linux movement celebrated it's 10th year of anti-corporate warfare and paradigm-shifting muscle by getting these guys to cook some burgers.
Step 2: World Domination!
In other news, something important happened.
"For instance, do people really want a unique address for a refrigerator -- allowing hackers to spy on individual eating habits -- or order you a truckload of milk?"
Do not fear, Consumer/Citizen #238o47234-9. We have taken care of the threat of the evil hackers. We have applied Purchase::Courts in order to prosecute, convict & incarcerate Evil Hacker Units for crimes we think they'll commit in the future, preventing them from ever happening. We call this "time-shifted law enforcement".
Do not fear, Consumer Units. We will prevent Technology::IPV6 from being used to order too much Commodity::Milk.
Everything has been rendered extraordinarily safe.
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Another example of "Trial balloon management".
... and on & on.
The formula:
- We'll announce that we're doing something, but only introduce it on a low cost basis into a small target market.
- We'll watch the reaction.
- If it's bad, we'll denounce ourselves and retract our low cost trial balloon.
- If it works, we'll exploit the hell out of it.
This formula has been applied with both results to:
- SmartTags
- Windows Activation
- Borders Face Recognition
- Skylarov
- Implementation as a "Trade Secret" (ms & kerberos)
Other examples?