The site isn't really supposed to make money. It's designed (in my opinion, anyways) to be a legal counterpart to all of the other services out there trying to do the same thing. That is, if you're down with the MPAA, then you can put up a site such as this. If you're just some cheap hack trying to launch the same said service from Iran or something, then you'd better believe you're going down. And this site helps to set the precedent for that.
I would use jabber, but there is a total lack of a good client for either unix or windows. Most of the windows clients are either totally crippled, or suffer from a totally crappy user interface. As for linux/unix, I've yet to find a good jabber client there. I guess that gabber would be ok if it didn't have 600 gnome library dependencies. Anyone out there found a good client yet?
Ok, for fucks sake, people. Every time I post a comment on/., someone tries to correct my damn sig. Well I'm gonna let you in on a little hint...it's supposed to be a FUCKING JOKE!;)
I know scheme rather well, but see, if I did:
(define today
(lambda ()
(car (cdr '(your life)))))...that would just be stupid and nerdy. the (car (cdr)) gets the point across to people that know lisp/scheme and is easier to read. Ok, I'm done ranting (for now).
From the website: the sx-64 dissapeared as quickly as it arrived. today they remain a collector's item.
20 years later
given, the sx-64 kicked ass in the 1980's, but my current computer is literally 1600 times faster than this thing! i wouldn't use a 5-year old computer without complaining, let alone a 20 year old computer. computers need to be able to stream DVDs, movies, surf the internet, play 3d games, and store gigabytes worth of mp3's before they can be considered useful nowadays.
I couldn't agree with you more. This guy basically bastardized a collectible antique computer and stripped it of all its value to make it a marginal desktop computer. If he was so concerned about having a "usable computer" for everyday computing tasks, he'd be better off buying a 60$ case and power supply. He'll be sorry in another 25 years when he sees one of these selling for big bucks on "Antiques Roadshow".
I completely agree. I say that people wait until the respective worm comes out for the said vulnerability, then post an article about that, where hundreds of/. comments will mock stupid people for not patching their systems. =)
Well, Microsoft is currently working on their own implementation of Kerberos, Microsoft Kerberos. I've seen about a half-dozen root exploits for MIT kerberos, but none yet for MS kerb. I guess this is really a first for the boys in blue.;]
In all seriousness, Kerberos is basically a really cool idea for a distributed system of authorization. My college uses it (in combination with OpenAFS) for pretty much all campus-wide services. The idea is pretty straight forward: when you authenticate to the network, you don't want to have to type in your password once to get email, again to get into your home directories, again to get into protected webspaces, and so forth. One password should let you into everything. Likewise, you should be able to just change your password once, and have this change propagate to all the appropriate servers that you want to authenticate to.
That being said, here's kerberos in a nutshell. You log on to the network, and authenticate with the main kerberos server. This server grants you a "ticket", which you just pass to the machines you want access to. After so long, your tickets expire and you'll need to re-authenticate. (It would be bad if you left your desk for work, and evil joe cracker stole your ticket during the night and read your email and so forth). There's really a lot more to kerberos then that, but the basic idea is that you authenticate to one machine, then use that machine to authenticate to any other machine on the network. It's a rather nice way of doing things, but it is pretty much overkill for anything less than a network of at least 100 users.
Hrm....I haven't noticed anything about this on Bugtraq or Full-Disclosure, and you'd think that something this big would be all over those lists about two or three days before it got posted here. I'll believe this when I see a proof-of-concept.
The major tobacco companies announced their plans to develop a new type of cigarette smoke safe for smoking on airplanes. The companies stated that the demands of loud, annoying people who disrupt other passengers on planes would probably continue to be a growing market.
Well, if you read the band's webpage, they really only went on ebay to sell CD's for publicity's sake, not for the profit from the music (though I do like the whole DIY idea here).
And so, yeah, ebay blocked them, and now they are on/., and their website has probably gotten more hits today than it has for the entire history of the band. I guess that paid off pretty well.;]
Your use of the word "trustworthy" brings up a very valid point. Like Microsoft (which you seem to be mocking in this comment as well), the RIAA probably could introduce such a plan of action. And you know what? Most people would probably approve of it, in the same way that most people will approve of MS's trustworthy computing initives.
Why? Because people are uninformed, and impressive-sounding jargon generally tends to comfort them from evil-sounding things that they are afraid of. Plus, people are sheep. They are consumers. They'll buy no matter what.
I really love the safari service at oreilly. You can basically check out 5 books for 10$ per month. Pretty nice, because I really love oreilly books, but couldn't afford to buy hard copies of them all. Unfortunately, the bastard company that runs this has a pretty crappy pricing model (automatic billing, and when you cancel your account, it is inactive immediately rather than at the end of the billing period).
Still, I think this is a good compromise, in the same way that if artists sold their cd's online for a reasonabele amount of money, people would be less tempted to pirate their respective work.
"The Free State Project (http://www.freestateproject.com/) calls for 20,000 libertarians and fellow-travelers to move to a single state of the U.S. to create a free society there through the electoral process."
So, I guess the libertarians are fed up with not winning elections. I wonder where the hell they are going to find 20,000 voting libertarians?
I've got a friend of mine that has been an intern at Microsoft for the last two consecutive summers, and will probably be recuruited by them when he graduates from college. I'm no big fan of MS (especially Windows programming, but whatever, he seems to like it), but I am always interested to hear his perspectives on working there. Anyways, I asked him once what he thought of the whole palladium issue, and he said that the best way to tell anything that Microsoft is going to do is simply to see what could earn them the most money. Just follow the trail, and you can pretty much figure out exactly what business strategy they're going to take. As obvious as that is, people tend to classify big market forces such as the RIAA and Microsoft as giant evil entities set on destroying all competition, crushing the human spirit of independence, and so forth. All the RIAA really wants is just to net its investors as much money as possible. Making it harder for webcasters to startup is a two edged sword; this will give the RIAA et al the power to control the future of internet radio, and thus, the type of music that people will be able to readily hear on the internet. It's all about market control, and it seems to me that the RIAA just wants to clear out the battlefield before they get involved in this particular arena.
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You know, the same thing could really be said about all the people that incessantly post comments here on /. hrmmmmmm.
Do Sim children come down with simulated ADHD? ;]
I think this is pretty much a given.
Billboards are banned in your town? Where do you live? I'm ready to rent the moving van!
ps. I do not want you to send me porn. or spam.
What about spam about porn? Or porn with spam in it? Are those acceptable?
...because it helped to generate that atrocious looking dog in the scooby-doo movie. ;)
The site isn't really supposed to make money. It's designed (in my opinion, anyways) to be a legal counterpart to all of the other services out there trying to do the same thing.
That is, if you're down with the MPAA, then you can put up a site such as this. If you're just some cheap hack trying to launch the same said service from Iran or something, then you'd better believe you're going down.
And this site helps to set the precedent for that.
I would use jabber, but there is a total lack of a good client for either unix or windows. Most of the windows clients are either totally crippled, or suffer from a totally crappy user interface. As for linux/unix, I've yet to find a good jabber client there. I guess that gabber would be ok if it didn't have 600 gnome library dependencies. Anyone out there found a good client yet?
Ok, for fucks sake, people. Every time I post a comment on /., someone tries to correct my damn sig. Well I'm gonna let you in on a little hint...it's supposed to be a FUCKING JOKE! ;)
...that would just be stupid and nerdy. the (car (cdr)) gets the point across to people that know lisp/scheme and is easier to read. Ok, I'm done ranting (for now).
I know scheme rather well, but see, if I did:
(define today
(lambda ()
(car (cdr '(your life)))))
From the website:
the sx-64 dissapeared as quickly as it arrived. today they remain a collector's item.
20 years later
given, the sx-64 kicked ass in the 1980's, but my current computer is literally 1600 times faster than this thing! i wouldn't use a 5-year old computer without complaining, let alone a 20 year old computer. computers need to be able to stream DVDs, movies, surf the internet, play 3d games, and store gigabytes worth of mp3's before they can be considered useful nowadays.
I couldn't agree with you more. This guy basically bastardized a collectible antique computer and stripped it of all its value to make it a marginal desktop computer. If he was so concerned about having a "usable computer" for everyday computing tasks, he'd be better off buying a 60$ case and power supply. He'll be sorry in another 25 years when he sees one of these selling for big bucks on "Antiques Roadshow".
[laptop][reimannj][~]$ whois uruklink.net
[Owner of domain name]
osama khalid
27 april street
baghdad, 0000
IQ
Email: ama_72@yahoo.com
Phone: +964 1 5372494
Fax: +964 1 5434731
[laptop][reimannj][~]$ host uruklink.net
[laptop][reimannj][~]$ traceroute uruklink.net
traceroute: unknown host uruklink.net
Anyone else noticing anything weird about this?
I thought penny-arcade really put it best:
6 -18&res=l#
http://www.penny-arcade.com/view.php3?date=1999-0
I completely agree. I say that people wait until the respective worm comes out for the said vulnerability, then post an article about that, where hundreds of /. comments will mock stupid people for not patching their systems. =)
Well, Microsoft is currently working on their own implementation of Kerberos, Microsoft Kerberos. I've seen about a half-dozen root exploits for MIT kerberos, but none yet for MS kerb. I guess this is really a first for the boys in blue. ;]
In all seriousness, Kerberos is basically a really cool idea for a distributed system of authorization. My college uses it (in combination with OpenAFS) for pretty much all campus-wide services. The idea is pretty straight forward: when you authenticate to the network, you don't want to have to type in your password once to get email, again to get into your home directories, again to get into protected webspaces, and so forth. One password should let you into everything. Likewise, you should be able to just change your password once, and have this change propagate to all the appropriate servers that you want to authenticate to.
That being said, here's kerberos in a nutshell. You log on to the network, and authenticate with the main kerberos server. This server grants you a "ticket", which you just pass to the machines you want access to. After so long, your tickets expire and you'll need to re-authenticate. (It would be bad if you left your desk for work, and evil joe cracker stole your ticket during the night and read your email and so forth). There's really a lot more to kerberos then that, but the basic idea is that you authenticate to one machine, then use that machine to authenticate to any other machine on the network. It's a rather nice way of doing things, but it is pretty much overkill for anything less than a network of at least 100 users.
Hrm....I haven't noticed anything about this on Bugtraq or Full-Disclosure, and you'd think that something this big would be all over those lists about two or three days before it got posted here. I'll believe this when I see a proof-of-concept.
The major tobacco companies announced their plans to develop a new type of cigarette smoke safe for smoking on airplanes. The companies stated that the demands of loud, annoying people who disrupt other passengers on planes would probably continue to be a growing market.
Well, if you read the band's webpage, they really only went on ebay to sell CD's for publicity's sake, not for the profit from the music (though I do like the whole DIY idea here).
/., and their website has probably gotten more hits today than it has for the entire history of the band. I guess that paid off pretty well. ;]
And so, yeah, ebay blocked them, and now they are on
Your use of the word "trustworthy" brings up a very valid point. Like Microsoft (which you seem to be mocking in this comment as well), the RIAA probably could introduce such a plan of action. And you know what? Most people would probably approve of it, in the same way that most people will approve of MS's trustworthy computing initives.
Why? Because people are uninformed, and impressive-sounding jargon generally tends to comfort them from evil-sounding things that they are afraid of. Plus, people are sheep. They are consumers. They'll buy no matter what.
Pigs with human genes? Isn't that the republican party?
Is this the same symbian that made that "symbian machine" you always see in pr0n movies these days?
I really love the safari service at oreilly. You can basically check out 5 books for 10$ per month. Pretty nice, because I really love oreilly books, but couldn't afford to buy hard copies of them all. Unfortunately, the bastard company that runs this has a pretty crappy pricing model (automatic billing, and when you cancel your account, it is inactive immediately rather than at the end of the billing period).
Still, I think this is a good compromise, in the same way that if artists sold their cd's online for a reasonabele amount of money, people would be less tempted to pirate their respective work.
"The Free State Project (http://www.freestateproject.com/) calls for 20,000 libertarians and fellow-travelers to move to a single state of the U.S. to create a free society there through the electoral process."
So, I guess the libertarians are fed up with not winning elections. I wonder where the hell they are going to find 20,000 voting libertarians?
Now, when will they start giving out Jaguar's source to all the developers that helped out with Darwin?
I've got a friend of mine that has been an intern at Microsoft for the last two consecutive summers, and will probably be recuruited by them when he graduates from college. I'm no big fan of MS (especially Windows programming, but whatever, he seems to like it), but I am always interested to hear his perspectives on working there.
Anyways, I asked him once what he thought of the whole palladium issue, and he said that the best way to tell anything that Microsoft is going to do is simply to see what could earn them the most money. Just follow the trail, and you can pretty much figure out exactly what business strategy they're going to take.
As obvious as that is, people tend to classify big market forces such as the RIAA and Microsoft as giant evil entities set on destroying all competition, crushing the human spirit of independence, and so forth. All the RIAA really wants is just to net its investors as much money as possible. Making it harder for webcasters to startup is a two edged sword; this will give the RIAA et al the power to control the future of internet radio, and thus, the type of music that people will be able to readily hear on the internet. It's all about market control, and it seems to me that the RIAA just wants to clear out the battlefield before they get involved in this particular arena.
What are you talking about? I don't recall the last time /.'ters were actually in the breeding program.