I'm Sorry. This is the ugliest, most inelegant hack I have ever seen. Not only is the work shoddy, this guy did not even learn how a regular keyboard operates and signals the PC.
The information is all over the internet. What's more, a small 16F84 PIC could easily have been programmed to perform all the logic he needed to implement, even bit-banging the data serially to the PC.
I do think the idea was pretty outrageous and demanded an implementation for play's sake. My hat is off to him in this regard. But really, do try a little basic engineering and decent construction techniques before unleashing what could have been a mobey hack to this forum.
No. The Military does enlist people, who are not citizens, lot's of them. One of the selling points for military service is getting "fast-tracked" toward naturalization. Where I work, yes I'm in the Marines (check out my profile), there are Hispanics and Filipinos in the midst of their fast track.
That really brings back long-dormant memories! That was standard in all my cheesy BASIC programs. I first found it in a magazine. How exactly did that work? I heard that it prevented the machine from constantly checking to see if a game cartridge had been inserted.
I had a whopping 32K RAM and "Extended, COLOR BASIC", woo hoo!
Sorry about that. I have not read all the authors you have read. It is a wonder I can manage to use utensils at the dinner table or even prefer indoor plumbing. Yep, you really showed me who the deep-thinking intellectuals are around here....
I guess I had better give up one of my favorite pursuits, since it is not cool anymore. Thank you! I almost deviated from your set plan, detailing the proper image and tastes a geek ought to subscribe to.
I have not joined the club per se. But I did shell oout $79 for a boxed set for ver 8.1. I had already downloaded the distribution from their site, but was so impressed, I thought they deserved the money.
I have used an ancient Slackware distro and an older RedHat one, as well. I must say the Mandrake distro is the only install that went right the first time without me having to fix a broken install by hand.
Finally, for our evangelical efforts, we really need a simple distro like this to make Linux more widely appealing. So you ubergeeks out there, please cut them a bit of slack. They are doing great things for our collective culture; they help to expand our members a bit.
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Beef stew? We used to call them "beef spew"! Pretty accurate description, too.
He may have been referring to the cold weather rations. Those come in white plastic and are actually two MRE's banded together.
To survive and function in arctic conditions one has to eat a phenonomal amount of calories. In fact, Marines who train in Bridgeport for cold weather training lose weight even though they are eating these special MRE's. I have heard the figure of 5K calories thrown around. This includes eating three of these fat pills per day, however.
I'm still in the Corps and eat MRE's several times a year. I am a bit mystified about the claim that they have not developed egg product meals. In fact, one of the old menus was omlette with ham. It was pretty good too, especially if doused liberally with gobs of Tabasco(TM).
The pork patties are all gone. I remeber being stuck with those meals whenever I was the last in line. Hardly anyone was willing to "take one for the team" by voluntarily choosing it. It sucked unless you were willing to actually take the time to cook the thing. However, who has time to play Julia Childs during a field op?
I have to admit the third generation of MRE's aren't too bad. They have great selections and even cater to vegetarians now. Still as far as the egg subject, been there, done that. Why is everyone convinced this is new territory?
Who said anything about killing or having an emotional whiplash? I maintain that the cool wait and see attitude is dangerous. We've been doing that for some time. Look where we have ended up.
No, action was proper in this case. More than warranted, in fact. But, since you consider the prevention of further mayhem on our nation a whiplash response, I'll have to assume your definition of humor is equally flawed.
By the way, thanks again for putting words in my mouth. I respect life as much as anyone. Especially the lives of about 3000 souls buried in rubble where the WTC was.
I've seen about enough of this kind of lame pseudo-philosophic drivel! What in Christ's name are we to do after receiving such a horrendous attack? A CALMER APPRAOCH? Get a grip and look at some historical perspective. This is about as bad as it ever gets as far as an affront to our sovreignty and safety. Not even Pearl Harbor compares to this event.
Do me a favor. Turn off your computer and go stand in the corner for 10 minutes. I usually do not post in anger, but you caused me to blow more than a few gaskets. It is amazing how the world appears through the eyes of an wanna-be-geo-political-analyst.
Enlisted people are morons and the Officers are the intelligent ones. Is that right? Being young also disqualifies someone from being competent, as well? Your comments display an inability to differentiate cause and effect. Way to jump on the bandwagon and blabber complete nonsense.
Did the article explain the encryption technique or the methods used to break it? No. Why are you reinforcing a statement from an equally clueless poster?
The fact is, no one is as clever as they feel they are. This could happen to any of us, no matter the pains taken to cover our tracks. Espionage is wrong. I have no problem with this guy going to prison. I am, however, concerned about the loss of anonymity when a person decides to wander the internet. Rather than preach to the world about this criminal's alleged incompetence, we should focus on the process and rules which allowed the Government to monitor him. Which Agency is monitoring Slashdot right now? I'm sure this post probably put me in their book.......
I don't suppose in your rush to post that you actually read the post. The Gentlemen in question and myself, as well, have no option for broadband. If they sold it in my area, I would buy it.
Hell, I live in a pretty nice area, too. You would think with all the wealthy Lexus drivers in San Clemente, CA PacBell would decide there is money to be made here. As it is now, my home connection is never better than 28.8. I do all of my surfing at work.
I'm sorry. I don't understand what you mean. Sure, there are quite a few green programmers. Are they inferior because they have not learned to take the great intellectual leaps a seasoned coder does on a daily basis? Experience starts somewhere, even if you have to take a class.
As far as languages being too easy, hey, I'm all for it! Tools should not be complicated in order to exclude non-experts. The more a language stays out of my way and lets me concentrate on the problem or algorithm at hand, the better. I believe languages still have a way to go. They definitely have not passed a point at which they are too easy. Show me the language, I'll contrive a hideous example of bad code. I'll can also strive to code beauty, itself, independent of the simplicity of the language.
It would probably shock you to know I prefer Perl and Python to C anyday. And before you label me as ignorant and unwashed, yes, I do understand assembly and C. In fact I code for microcontroller projects as a hobby.
Please, quit idolizing the new "Tecnically-Savvy" generation. It's killing me. This is the same sort of common-knowledge-myth which makes employers thing that people over 30 do not understand technology, never mind they may have been coding for 15 years.
Yes, most teenagers know their way around a computer enough to operate a web browser, listen to MP3's, and play a first person shooter. I also know the overwhelming majority could not write a program or simple script. No, that would involve a bit of time, motivation, and curiosity. Most teenagers are too busy fighting hormones and following popular culture to do anything intellectual. Okay, a generalization, but a largely accurate one.
There are very bright 15-year-olds. There are many more dullards who come across malicious scripts and fancy themselves Hollywood-style hackers. This crowd, especially Katz, out to know this. Stop perpetuating the insane myth.
I would love to corner one of these self-professed 15-year-old wizards and ask them about various data structures, logic, or compiler theory. I can picture the blank stare I would receive. I'll bet, however, he could tell me the URL for a good warez site.
Still, he has the edge at the next job interview. You see he is under 25 and sports a goatee(sp?). The human resource manager conducting the interview has seen the movies and documentaries. He knows the magic today's youth possesses.....
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I'm Sorry. This is the ugliest, most inelegant hack I have ever seen. Not only is the work shoddy, this guy did not even learn how a regular keyboard operates and signals the PC.
The information is all over the internet. What's more, a small 16F84 PIC could easily have been programmed to perform all the logic he needed to implement, even bit-banging the data serially to the PC.
I do think the idea was pretty outrageous and demanded an implementation for play's sake. My hat is off to him in this regard. But really, do try a little basic engineering and decent construction techniques before unleashing what could have been a mobey hack to this forum.
No. The Military does enlist people, who are not citizens, lot's of them. One of the selling points for military service is getting "fast-tracked" toward naturalization. Where I work, yes I'm in the Marines (check out my profile), there are Hispanics and Filipinos in the midst of their fast track.
Oh Christ!
That really brings back long-dormant memories! That was standard in all my cheesy BASIC programs. I first found it in a magazine. How exactly did that work? I heard that it prevented the machine from constantly checking to see if a game cartridge had been inserted.
I had a whopping 32K RAM and "Extended, COLOR BASIC", woo hoo!
Oops,
Sorry about that. I have not read all the authors you have read. It is a wonder I can manage to use utensils at the dinner table or even prefer indoor plumbing. Yep, you really showed me who the deep-thinking intellectuals are around here....
Golly,
I guess I had better give up one of my favorite pursuits, since it is not cool anymore. Thank you! I almost deviated from your set plan, detailing the proper image and tastes a geek ought to subscribe to.
Gee, this guy is really with it....
I have not joined the club per se. But I did shell oout $79 for a boxed set for ver 8.1. I had already downloaded the distribution from their site, but was so impressed, I thought they deserved the money.
I have used an ancient Slackware distro and an older RedHat one, as well. I must say the Mandrake distro is the only install that went right the first time without me having to fix a broken install by hand.
Finally, for our evangelical efforts, we really need a simple distro like this to make Linux more widely appealing. So you ubergeeks out there, please cut them a bit of slack. They are doing great things for our collective culture; they help to expand our members a bit.
Beef stew? We used to call them "beef spew"! Pretty accurate description, too.
He may have been referring to the cold weather rations. Those come in white plastic and are actually two MRE's banded together.
To survive and function in arctic conditions one has to eat a phenonomal amount of calories. In fact, Marines who train in Bridgeport for cold weather training lose weight even though they are eating these special MRE's. I have heard the figure of 5K calories thrown around. This includes eating three of these fat pills per day, however.
I'm still in the Corps and eat MRE's several times a year. I am a bit mystified about the claim that they have not developed egg product meals. In fact, one of the old menus was omlette with ham. It was pretty good too, especially if doused liberally with gobs of Tabasco(TM).
The pork patties are all gone. I remeber being stuck with those meals whenever I was the last in line. Hardly anyone was willing to "take one for the team" by voluntarily choosing it. It sucked unless you were willing to actually take the time to cook the thing. However, who has time to play Julia Childs during a field op?
I have to admit the third generation of MRE's aren't too bad. They have great selections and even cater to vegetarians now. Still as far as the egg subject, been there, done that. Why is everyone convinced this is new territory?
Who said anything about killing or having an emotional whiplash? I maintain that the cool wait and see attitude is dangerous. We've been doing that for some time. Look where we have ended up.
No, action was proper in this case. More than warranted, in fact. But, since you consider the prevention of further mayhem on our nation a whiplash response, I'll have to assume your definition of humor is equally flawed.
By the way, thanks again for putting words in my mouth. I respect life as much as anyone. Especially the lives of about 3000 souls buried in rubble where the WTC was.
Okay,
I've seen about enough of this kind of lame pseudo-philosophic drivel! What in Christ's name are we to do after receiving such a horrendous attack? A CALMER APPRAOCH? Get a grip and look at some historical perspective. This is about as bad as it ever gets as far as an affront to our sovreignty and safety. Not even Pearl Harbor compares to this event.
Do me a favor. Turn off your computer and go stand in the corner for 10 minutes. I usually do not post in anger, but you caused me to blow more than a few gaskets. It is amazing how the world appears through the eyes of an wanna-be-geo-political-analyst.
Oh, I see..
Enlisted people are morons and the Officers are the intelligent ones. Is that right? Being young also disqualifies someone from being competent, as well? Your comments display an inability to differentiate cause and effect. Way to jump on the bandwagon and blabber complete nonsense.
Did the article explain the encryption technique or the methods used to break it? No. Why are you reinforcing a statement from an equally clueless poster?
The fact is, no one is as clever as they feel they are. This could happen to any of us, no matter the pains taken to cover our tracks. Espionage is wrong. I have no problem with this guy going to prison. I am, however, concerned about the loss of anonymity when a person decides to wander the internet. Rather than preach to the world about this criminal's alleged incompetence, we should focus on the process and rules which allowed the Government to monitor him. Which Agency is monitoring Slashdot right now? I'm sure this post probably put me in their book.......
I don't suppose in your rush to post that you actually read the post. The Gentlemen in question and myself, as well, have no option for broadband. If they sold it in my area, I would buy it.
Hell, I live in a pretty nice area, too. You would think with all the wealthy Lexus drivers in San Clemente, CA PacBell would decide there is money to be made here. As it is now, my home connection is never better than 28.8. I do all of my surfing at work.
I'm sorry. I don't understand what you mean. Sure, there are quite a few green programmers. Are they inferior because they have not learned to take the great intellectual leaps a seasoned coder does on a daily basis? Experience starts somewhere, even if you have to take a class.
As far as languages being too easy, hey, I'm all for it! Tools should not be complicated in order to exclude non-experts. The more a language stays out of my way and lets me concentrate on the problem or algorithm at hand, the better. I believe languages still have a way to go. They definitely have not passed a point at which they are too easy. Show me the language, I'll contrive a hideous example of bad code. I'll can also strive to code beauty, itself, independent of the simplicity of the language.
It would probably shock you to know I prefer Perl and Python to C anyday. And before you label me as ignorant and unwashed, yes, I do understand assembly and C. In fact I code for microcontroller projects as a hobby.
Please, quit idolizing the new "Tecnically-Savvy" generation. It's killing me. This is the same sort of common-knowledge-myth which makes employers thing that people over 30 do not understand technology, never mind they may have been coding for 15 years.
Yes, most teenagers know their way around a computer enough to operate a web browser, listen to MP3's, and play a first person shooter. I also know the overwhelming majority could not write a program or simple script. No, that would involve a bit of time, motivation, and curiosity. Most teenagers are too busy fighting hormones and following popular culture to do anything intellectual. Okay, a generalization, but a largely accurate one.
There are very bright 15-year-olds. There are many more dullards who come across malicious scripts and fancy themselves Hollywood-style hackers. This crowd, especially Katz, out to know this. Stop perpetuating the insane myth.
I would love to corner one of these self-professed 15-year-old wizards and ask them about various data structures, logic, or compiler theory. I can picture the blank stare I would receive. I'll bet, however, he could tell me the URL for a good warez site.
Still, he has the edge at the next job interview. You see he is under 25 and sports a goatee(sp?). The human resource manager conducting the interview has seen the movies and documentaries. He knows the magic today's youth possesses.....
Wanna Bet?
Not only can a lot of us do that and breadboard it, but we can write the Boolean expressions, as well.
You have to remember, you're hangin with a bright crowd.