Didn't Independance Day teach you anything? The US millitary spens $10000 on a hammer and $20000 on a toilet seat so they can pipe the funds into building secret installations that not even the presidents know about.
The American millitary answers to no-one. The debate is pointless since they would use whatever technology they could get there hands on. Oddly enough this sounds similar to the Iraqi millitary. They mentioned zimmerman and pgp and guilt but software is no different from any other technology. Hundereds of years ago, no-one had guns, then someone invented guns, and now all countries have guns (except for us brits who have guns that dont like sand). Software just propogates faster than hardware because of its nature. But then you could argue that its ok to sell other countries software and weapons, if technology is already being made availiable freely. Why is putting instructions to build chemical weapons from household ingreadients on the web different to giving instructions to build gpg from the source? (ok they are very different things, bad example)
Seriously though, music piracy hurts the industry - every year the record companies make less money, and every year they are forced to recoup lost sales buy launching yet-another-crap-boyband. We must stop the proliferation of yet-another-crap-boyband if we want to save our souls from a fate worse than death: listening to yet-another-crap-boyband. Yet-another-crap-boyband extracts money from unsuspecting pre-teenage girls who have not yet discovered kazaa, much like yet-another-crap-girlband extracts money from unsuspecting teenage girls who worship them as their role-models. Im not saying boys are perfect, they are taken in by a similar vice - yet-another-crap-football-video-game and yet-another-crap-console. We must stop this now, buy music and video games before they release something more deadly than Leonardo Di Caprio films on DVD!
Nothing to do with crypto, but im worried. Ive heard of allot of ATM's using systems such as.. Windows. I saw a shut down screen from windows NT4 on a NatWest cash machine too. What happens if i withdraw money and after making the transaction with the bank, the ATM crashes without giving me my money?
I thought the whole idea of the domain name system was that it was supposed to be simple. If you need to register extra addresses to catch typo's or use weird combinations of other country's tld's then the system doesnt work. Also the fact is people like the ".com" tld, its become a fashon label, this also goes against the system. Maybe we need a new way of naming - (obviously one thats open and free)
My problem isnt that Microsoft did it, its that they hype everything they do up as if its the most incredible ground breaking technology ever invented.
Really for a minute i thought i was going to be reading about something that was actually interesting. But no, its just another hyped up nothing. Im sure you could modify jabber to do the same useless things as this. When they talked about "not developing technology first" they wernt kidding.. theres really not much technology involved in allowing someone to send an image by draging it onto an icon, using an existing protocol/library. The music feature is the only slightly interesting thing but it restricts what you can do so its useless to me. Usually me and my friends use the technologically inferior method of typing the name of the song and getting the other person to download it. Or, ampache.org created a simple (100KB) way of sharing playlists, and its platform independent.
For people who cant be bothered to read, or who like watching big things blow-up, theres a brilliant documentry on this: "Trinity and Beyond" is narrated by William Shatner and has interviews with Teller and others, and lots and lots of footage all the way from the first bomb to the biggest hydrogen bomb. Its on DVD or you can find a DivX rip like i did (i was actually going to buy this but the online store i found it in pissed me off so much by telling me it was out of stock after 6 weeks of bullshitting me). Also there are a few other documentries by the same people including one about nuclear accidents:
Yesterday i was in shock when i went to a cash machine (Natwest) and saw a shutdown screen from Windows NT 4, in full green-screen glory. I was forced to use the one next to it knowing that at any moment, the machine could authorise the transaction with the bank and then _CRASH_ before it had counted my money out of the slot! People need to understand that Microsoft is not capable of powering a bus-stop let alone a cash machine. Soon they'll be writting auto-pilot software and then we'll all be screwed.
The countdown system in london is a good idea and i definately agree that it atleast makes waiting for the bus seem quicker. I heard that 802.11 was involved but im not sure.. does anyone know how these things work?
Really what is the point in a system that is effectively the same as money if you loose it, and is probably easier to forge?
Most people have credit or debit cards, you can use them in most places now and if you loose them you can cancel them. You can even use them in machines/pay phones/etc. The advantage of these is that you can buy things over the phone or internet by giving the details. No system is going to allow this and be secure against fraud unless it uses remotely stored money and a serial number for you to quote/cancel.
Living in london i just want to make some things clear that the great media's of the world might have screwed up on. The general mood over here is that:
-We hate George Bush. -We think Blair is not our priminister, but Bushes assistant -We dont want ID cards
ok not everyone agrees but i can tell you that any survey that says 80% of people want ID cards is complete bullshit.
Im guessing that they are talking about worms that exploit microsoft products only. Why are the feds helping microsoft? Why dont they make it more clear that almost all these worms and virii are caused by exploits in microsoft products?
If Boeing's planes had fundamental faults that caused major disasters, how would that be different to this situation?
If microsoft opened up their all their software tonight. Tomorrow morning every windows server would be down, every internet-connected desktop would be down, Infact anything that could be down would be down. Open source software such as linux is probably on a higher level than closed source, so the majority of bugs that could be found in linux already have. For example, if you open fire randomly at a crowd with a machine gun, you'll hit more people in the first few seconds than in the next minute, because after you've taken out the bulk, what your left with is afew scattered people that are harder to pick off - anyone who plays fps's will know what i mean.
Putting ':' in front of a name makes me think that its pretentious and stupid. This called bad marketing. Companies please just use normal words, its not cleaver, original, fun, thought provoking or arty to put random punctuation into titles or stick every single title together to make one word. Cue Cat not CueCat. We live in a world were people can handle 2 words and no-body cares if C cant take spaces in variable names. Its not the end of the world if you do it, it just pisses me off. And probably other people too.
Computer science is lonely, i hate that feeling you get on a friday evening when your stuck in a basement lab debugging on your own. The only difference between boys and girls in CS is that girls realise that its going to be like this _before_ they choose their degree where as us guys dont realise until half way through the second year that actually, human company can be more interesting than assembly language.
Most PVRs are proprietary pieces of crap with too many DRM restrictions, subscription fees, and privacy violations. Build your own. Sooner or later PC manufacturers will catch on and start selling machines designed as media centers.. well they already are. There's going to be tons of free/open projects for PVR software and bare in mind that if you build your own, you could also use it as a DVD, mp3, DivX, and games player. You can add in a cd-r or dvd-r without having to worry about those pesky DRM restrictions on what you can record. You'll instantly become worst enemies with the RIAA, MPAA, tv networks and Microsoft (whos OS your not running). maybe you could throw in WINE or a pirate windows install for all your gaming needs too, and a network card/internet connection and you have the perfect entertainment center.
He mentioned that the Bull and Bush station was rumoured to be a control center incase the thames flooded the underground tunnels.. thanks now i have to live with that thought. If you think about it it makes sense.. all the lines are connected at one point or another so everywhere would flood. Can anyone explain what would actually happen, and how it could be stopped?
In the UK we have the data protection act. you have a legal right to ensure that any personal data kept about you is accurate, secure, and available to you (and only you) to see. I don't know how it works if the data isn't tied to a name though.
Ive seen totally convincing arguments that the landings were faked, then ive also seen totally convincing arguments that they were real. What does this proove? facts can be twisted and people are sheep that will believe anything.
If the telescopes show evidence of landings, then the conspiracy theorists will say that these photos where faked, that the american government fixed it, threatened the telescope owners if they didnt co-oparate, or even sent empty lander bases and flags to the moon more recently with todays technology. Even when humans do return to the moon, the conspiracy theorists will say that all the debris was planted. Im not saying that they're wrong or right. But any evidence can be faked, and if your a big government with lots of technology and money, faking things becomes even easier.
The telescopes cant proove 100% that the moon landings were real. They could even indicate that they wernt real.. but then they cant 100% proove that either. So infact, were never going to solve the argument. Its agnostic.
"Amazing, turn away shoplifters with our amazing system. We simply hold up a sign at anyone that we feel looks like a shoplifter. "You are a shoplifter, you may not enter this shop."
Well i visited their site with opera (no ad blocking) and i was blocked.
"If you believe you received this message by mistake you can find more information here."
Sorry i dont listen to people who tell me to go away... I have absolutely no idea what this company is attempting to do or how they're doing it. So can someone explain to me, because i cant be bothered to read through all their marketing hype.
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Didn't Independance Day teach you anything? The US millitary spens $10000 on a hammer and $20000 on a toilet seat so they can pipe the funds into building secret installations that not even the presidents know about.
The American millitary answers to no-one. The debate is pointless since they would use whatever technology they could get there hands on. Oddly enough this sounds similar to the Iraqi millitary. They mentioned zimmerman and pgp and guilt but software is no different from any other technology. Hundereds of years ago, no-one had guns, then someone invented guns, and now all countries have guns (except for us brits who have guns that dont like sand). Software just propogates faster than hardware because of its nature. But then you could argue that its ok to sell other countries software and weapons, if technology is already being made availiable freely. Why is putting instructions to build chemical weapons from household ingreadients on the web different to giving instructions to build gpg from the source? (ok they are very different things, bad example)
there isnt even a google or archive.org cache. Slashdot should create mirrors to all the sites they link atleast for the first hour
Seriously though, music piracy hurts the industry - every year the record companies make less money, and every year they are forced to recoup lost sales buy launching yet-another-crap-boyband. We must stop the proliferation of yet-another-crap-boyband if we want to save our souls from a fate worse than death: listening to yet-another-crap-boyband. Yet-another-crap-boyband extracts money from unsuspecting pre-teenage girls who have not yet discovered kazaa, much like yet-another-crap-girlband extracts money from unsuspecting teenage girls who worship them as their role-models. Im not saying boys are perfect, they are taken in by a similar vice - yet-another-crap-football-video-game and yet-another-crap-console. We must stop this now, buy music and video games before they release something more deadly than Leonardo Di Caprio films on DVD!
Yes or as we say "Keeping all your eggs in one basket" or the newer "Keeping all your office workers in two towers"
Nothing to do with crypto, but im worried. Ive heard of allot of ATM's using systems such as.. Windows. I saw a shut down screen from windows NT4 on a NatWest cash machine too. What happens if i withdraw money and after making the transaction with the bank, the ATM crashes without giving me my money?
I already came up with a policy to handle this ages ago:
1. Never argue with a version of yourself from a different time period.
2. If someone claiming to be you from the past comes along they are an imposter.
3. Dont listen to anything your future self tells you unless they tell you the password.
I think its important for everyone to have a time-travel policy in place.. always be prepared.
If I could tell my 12yo self anything I would say:
"Here are the results of every lottery draw from now until 2003"
This system should be run over all speech's too. ".Net" "Drag & Drop" "Point & Click" they are full of it.
I thought the whole idea of the domain name system was that it was supposed to be simple. If you need to register extra addresses to catch typo's or use weird combinations of other country's tld's then the system doesnt work. Also the fact is people like the ".com" tld, its become a fashon label, this also goes against the system. Maybe we need a new way of naming - (obviously one thats open and free)
My problem isnt that Microsoft did it, its that they hype everything they do up as if its the most incredible ground breaking technology ever invented.
Really for a minute i thought i was going to be reading about something that was actually interesting. But no, its just another hyped up nothing. Im sure you could modify jabber to do the same useless things as this. When they talked about "not developing technology first" they wernt kidding.. theres really not much technology involved in allowing someone to send an image by draging it onto an icon, using an existing protocol/library. The music feature is the only slightly interesting thing but it restricts what you can do so its useless to me. Usually me and my friends use the technologically inferior method of typing the name of the song and getting the other person to download it. Or, ampache.org created a simple (100KB) way of sharing playlists, and its platform independent.
For people who cant be bothered to read, or who like watching big things blow-up, theres a brilliant documentry on this: "Trinity and Beyond" is narrated by William Shatner and has interviews with Teller and others, and lots and lots of footage all the way from the first bomb to the biggest hydrogen bomb. Its on DVD or you can find a DivX rip like i did (i was actually going to buy this but the online store i found it in pissed me off so much by telling me it was out of stock after 6 weeks of bullshitting me). Also there are a few other documentries by the same people including one about nuclear accidents:
http://www.vce.com/
Yesterday i was in shock when i went to a cash machine (Natwest) and saw a shutdown screen from Windows NT 4, in full green-screen glory. I was forced to use the one next to it knowing that at any moment, the machine could authorise the transaction with the bank and then _CRASH_ before it had counted my money out of the slot! People need to understand that Microsoft is not capable of powering a bus-stop let alone a cash machine. Soon they'll be writting auto-pilot software and then we'll all be screwed.
The countdown system in london is a good idea and i definately agree that it atleast makes waiting for the bus seem quicker. I heard that 802.11 was involved but im not sure.. does anyone know how these things work?
Really what is the point in a system that is effectively the same as money if you loose it, and is probably easier to forge?
Most people have credit or debit cards, you can use them in most places now and if you loose them you can cancel them. You can even use them in machines/pay phones/etc. The advantage of these is that you can buy things over the phone or internet by giving the details. No system is going to allow this and be secure against fraud unless it uses remotely stored money and a serial number for you to quote/cancel.
Living in london i just want to make some things clear that the great media's of the world might have screwed up on. The general mood over here is that:
-We hate George Bush.
-We think Blair is not our priminister, but Bushes assistant
-We dont want ID cards
ok not everyone agrees but i can tell you that any survey that says 80% of people want ID cards is complete bullshit.
Orders of magnitude worse?
Im guessing that they are talking about worms that exploit microsoft products only. Why are the feds helping microsoft? Why dont they make it more clear that almost all these worms and virii are caused by exploits in microsoft products?
If Boeing's planes had fundamental faults that caused major disasters, how would that be different to this situation?
If microsoft opened up their all their software tonight. Tomorrow morning every windows server would be down, every internet-connected desktop would be down, Infact anything that could be down would be down. Open source software such as linux is probably on a higher level than closed source, so the majority of bugs that could be found in linux already have. For example, if you open fire randomly at a crowd with a machine gun, you'll hit more people in the first few seconds than in the next minute, because after you've taken out the bulk, what your left with is afew scattered people that are harder to pick off - anyone who plays fps's will know what i mean.
Putting ':' in front of a name makes me think that its pretentious and stupid. This called bad marketing. Companies please just use normal words, its not cleaver, original, fun, thought provoking or arty to put random punctuation into titles or stick every single title together to make one word. Cue Cat not CueCat. We live in a world were people can handle 2 words and no-body cares if C cant take spaces in variable names. Its not the end of the world if you do it, it just pisses me off. And probably other people too.
Computer science is lonely, i hate that feeling you get on a friday evening when your stuck in a basement lab debugging on your own. The only difference between boys and girls in CS is that girls realise that its going to be like this _before_ they choose their degree where as us guys dont realise until half way through the second year that actually, human company can be more interesting than assembly language.
Most PVRs are proprietary pieces of crap with too many DRM restrictions, subscription fees, and privacy violations. Build your own. Sooner or later PC manufacturers will catch on and start selling machines designed as media centers.. well they already are. There's going to be tons of free/open projects for PVR software and bare in mind that if you build your own, you could also use it as a DVD, mp3, DivX, and games player. You can add in a cd-r or dvd-r without having to worry about those pesky DRM restrictions on what you can record. You'll instantly become worst enemies with the RIAA, MPAA, tv networks and Microsoft (whos OS your not running). maybe you could throw in WINE or a pirate windows install for all your gaming needs too, and a network card /internet connection and you have the perfect entertainment center.
Or.. um.. you could give us the url?
He mentioned that the Bull and Bush station was rumoured to be a control center incase the thames flooded the underground tunnels.. thanks now i have to live with that thought. If you think about it it makes sense.. all the lines are connected at one point or another so everywhere would flood. Can anyone explain what would actually happen, and how it could be stopped?
In the UK we have the data protection act. you have a legal right to ensure that any personal data kept about you is accurate, secure, and available to you (and only you) to see. I don't know how it works if the data isn't tied to a name though.
Ive seen totally convincing arguments that the landings were faked, then ive also seen totally convincing arguments that they were real. What does this proove? facts can be twisted and people are sheep that will believe anything.
If the telescopes show evidence of landings, then the conspiracy theorists will say that these photos where faked, that the american government fixed it, threatened the telescope owners if they didnt co-oparate, or even sent empty lander bases and flags to the moon more recently with todays technology. Even when humans do return to the moon, the conspiracy theorists will say that all the debris was planted. Im not saying that they're wrong or right. But any evidence can be faked, and if your a big government with lots of technology and money, faking things becomes even easier.
The telescopes cant proove 100% that the moon landings were real. They could even indicate that they wernt real.. but then they cant 100% proove that either. So infact, were never going to solve the argument. Its agnostic.
"Amazing, turn away shoplifters with our amazing system. We simply hold up a sign at anyone that we feel looks like a shoplifter. "You are a shoplifter, you may not enter this shop."
Well i visited their site with opera (no ad blocking) and i was blocked.
"If you believe you received this message by mistake you can find more information here."
Sorry i dont listen to people who tell me to go away... I have absolutely no idea what this company is attempting to do or how they're doing it. So can someone explain to me, because i cant be bothered to read through all their marketing hype.