I don't know if MS owning VirtualPC is such a bad thing. MS obviously has an interest in stelling their software on Macs, and they're the only ones who have a hope of getting all of the undocumented "features" of Windows right (just look at how much progress the Wine project has made for comparison). The danger here is that VirtualPC will become good enough to run MS software, though not as good as the regular PC version, and then stop, leaving all of those third party application developers out in the cold on the Mac (a market they probably didn't even really consider important in the first place). MS could even subtly break the emulator to prevent most non-MS software from running correctly. Still, selling Windows licenses to Mac users is just too good for MS to pass up.
For worms this might actually work. The weakened worm would use whatever current known patched holes are in a system, infect the host machine, and replace the
"payload" with a simple pop up message telling the user that their machine is vulnerable and they should patch (immunize) before a worm uses their machine maliciously.
I don't think this approach will make you very popular with the internet community however.
NASA will never work on nuclear rockets. The political dangers are staggering, and NASA lives and dies on the whims of congressmen and their idiot special interest groups. They can barely sneak radio-isotope reactors out of the atmosphere as it is, imagine them trying to use a nuclear rocket on Earth.
Ah, thank you. I don't know why I had so much trouble finding it. It's also obvious why these light bulbs aren't used today, they barely put out any light.
Edison's original light bulbs still work after 100 years of normal operation. You can see them if you visit his house.
Sorry, I have to call BS on this until you provide a link to this mysterious long life bulb. I've not had any luck finding anything on the web about it other than the Tungsten bulbs we use today are about the best tradeoff of cost and life that you can get with incandescant bulbs.
The problem with the flourescents on the market right now is size. All of the screw in varieties have big fat bases that interfere with a lot of lamp designs. The 75 watt equivelent and higher bulbs are also longer than traditioanl light bulbs, which causes problems in globe lamps and anything else where the bulb must fit into a small area.
On the other hand, the modern bulbs are really good about lighting up right away, not flickering, and not dying prematurely--hopefully (unlike some of the early screw type flourescents).
One word of advice from me to Slashdot: Don't buy the "Lights of America" brand, they're nothing but trouble.
Now people are saying, "Just show it to us, and we'll fix it." But the cat is out of the bag now. If this case were just about 80 lines of code--first of all, there wouldn't be a lawsuit--people could sit down and try to fix it. That's not what this case is about. They're just going forward with respect to everything.
make perfect sense. That's where I stopped reading the article, this guy obviously has nothing to say.
That was disabled by default. Almost nobody turns it on because almost nobody knows about it. I'm also slightly dubious about the firewall in XP because all of the options for it talk about ICMP, which is not what these worms use to infect your system.
I say consoles will always have the edge, at least for the types of games I enjoy. I havent seen an FPS that adds anything to the original Doom concept besides fancy eye candy.
What about the vastly improved AI routines in some of these newer games? It makes the game play completely differently when the monsters actually know how to duck behind cover, gang up, and even flank you if you're not careful.
There's also the much improved multiplayer aspects, where the players frequently have different jobs (beyond "grunt that shoots everything wearing red") and must exhibit true teamwork to succeed.
Heck, the only major non-eyecandy addition Doom offered was real network play. Granted that's a rather major feature, but it's just another step in the incremental improvements in FPS design.
Besides, have you seen how much stuff you can tweak in console games like Armored Core? Sometimes I just go back to the simplicity of those Palm games, but usually I want something with a bit more.
Teacups don't get fun until you get enough older kids in there to get it spinning so fast that nobody can move their arms to the wheel in the center anymore. As a kid they were always kinda lame, but now they're centripetally delicious.
You know, you'd might want to start updating your resume because SCO excecs have been dumping their stock, which is usually a sign that a company is going down. Its not going to be easy to find another cushy job like that where you can sit in your nice office and astroturf Slashdot.
I think your PS2 is defective. I've never had that much trouble with PSX games. I have had my spindle motor sound like it's dying (it doesn't help that PS2 games seem to jerk the read head around like crazy and spin down and spin up the drive all the time). I'm postiive that my spindle motor is going to die sometime soon on the PS2, but it just keeps on chugging.
In the end the bandwidth should be considerably less than if you let those machines get infected with the regular worm and run the infection code forever. At least this worm has a time limit on it.
People may be mad, but the fact is that their unpatched machines are a menace to everybody else on the internet (much moreso than an unlocked car). It's got to stop somehow, and until Microsoft ships Windows with a built-in enabled automatic firewall on all of these ports that shouldn't (by any rights) be internet visible, then we're going to see a lot of this, just like we have in the past. The other option of course is to have everybody switch to OpenBSD as their desktop OS, but I find this option less likely than the MS default firewall option.
I know people who are pissed if you tell them that their fly is open, but it doesn't mean I shouldn't try.
I can't imagine that there is a lot of effort being directed to finding out who wrote this worm. I'd think you'd be far more popular tracking down the author of the original MSBlast worm instead. Besides, when it gets to a court of law you're probably going to see one seriously divided jury. The whole "Robin Hood" aspect is just too compelling.
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Interestingly enough, Ethernet is now considered so standard that it isn't even worth mentioning in the features list anymore. Those modems are still somewhat optional though. Yes, it comes with Gigabit ethernet, as well as Firewire 400/800, USB2 (High speed), and of course optical digital audio. Naturally it has 802.11g, DVD burning, and all of the other standard Apple features as well.
I think the problem you'll run into is what part of XFree is "essental features" and what part is "useless baggage". You may not think much of network transparancy, but you may be shocked to learn that someone else figures there's no need for native GL support or monitor calibration baggage.
For the record, I would not have bought a PS2 if it didn't support PSX games, because a good chunk of the games I wanted to play (and all of the ones I was _really_ interested in) were PSX games, but I didn't have a PSX. Fortunatly, the backwards compataiblity of the PS2 made my choice easy. Plus, it just gets messy having 6 game consoles hooked up to the TV, when it's much nicer to be able to upgrade a console by swapping it out with a newer one.
Uh, I think there might be a problem making a pedal powered wheelchair... If you're thinking it might have something to do with the owners not having use of their legs you're on the right track.
Although it's kinda lame, you could stick a couple of handcrank generators on the sides of the wheelchair to let the rider keep the batteries charged longer. Does the wheelchair have a remaining running time display or something similar? I didn't see one in the demo, but it seems like a rather important feature (I'd rather not get caught in the middle of a long staircase with no power for instance).
Also remember that the public doesn't see advances in medicine until about a decade later when the FDA is done with it and the drug company is ready to market it. The research also builds on earlier research, so even meager beginnings can lead to spectacular cures in the future.
Darn that scientific method! It makes all of this Marijuana research so damned difficult. Why can't you people just believe what me and my friends say already?!? Will you stop asking for evidence and sound statistical analysis already? It's becoming very bothersome. Geez.
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I don't know if MS owning VirtualPC is such a bad thing. MS obviously has an interest in stelling their software on Macs, and they're the only ones who have a hope of getting all of the undocumented "features" of Windows right (just look at how much progress the Wine project has made for comparison). The danger here is that VirtualPC will become good enough to run MS software, though not as good as the regular PC version, and then stop, leaving all of those third party application developers out in the cold on the Mac (a market they probably didn't even really consider important in the first place). MS could even subtly break the emulator to prevent most non-MS software from running correctly. Still, selling Windows licenses to Mac users is just too good for MS to pass up.
For worms this might actually work. The weakened worm would use whatever current known patched holes are in a system, infect the host machine, and replace the "payload" with a simple pop up message telling the user that their machine is vulnerable and they should patch (immunize) before a worm uses their machine maliciously.
I don't think this approach will make you very popular with the internet community however.
NASA will never work on nuclear rockets. The political dangers are staggering, and NASA lives and dies on the whims of congressmen and their idiot special interest groups. They can barely sneak radio-isotope reactors out of the atmosphere as it is, imagine them trying to use a nuclear rocket on Earth.
Ah, thank you. I don't know why I had so much trouble finding it. It's also obvious why these light bulbs aren't used today, they barely put out any light.
The problem with the flourescents on the market right now is size. All of the screw in varieties have big fat bases that interfere with a lot of lamp designs. The 75 watt equivelent and higher bulbs are also longer than traditioanl light bulbs, which causes problems in globe lamps and anything else where the bulb must fit into a small area.
On the other hand, the modern bulbs are really good about lighting up right away, not flickering, and not dying prematurely--hopefully (unlike some of the early screw type flourescents).
One word of advice from me to Slashdot: Don't buy the "Lights of America" brand, they're nothing but trouble.
There's also the much improved multiplayer aspects, where the players frequently have different jobs (beyond "grunt that shoots everything wearing red") and must exhibit true teamwork to succeed.
Heck, the only major non-eyecandy addition Doom offered was real network play. Granted that's a rather major feature, but it's just another step in the incremental improvements in FPS design.
Besides, have you seen how much stuff you can tweak in console games like Armored Core? Sometimes I just go back to the simplicity of those Palm games, but usually I want something with a bit more.
Teacups don't get fun until you get enough older kids in there to get it spinning so fast that nobody can move their arms to the wheel in the center anymore. As a kid they were always kinda lame, but now they're centripetally delicious.
You can already get Rogue, Larn, and Moria for PalmOS. It doesn't look like Nethack is going to get ported anytime soon though. Bummer.
You know, you'd might want to start updating your resume because SCO excecs have been dumping their stock, which is usually a sign that a company is going down. Its not going to be easy to find another cushy job like that where you can sit in your nice office and astroturf Slashdot.
I think your PS2 is defective. I've never had that much trouble with PSX games. I have had my spindle motor sound like it's dying (it doesn't help that PS2 games seem to jerk the read head around like crazy and spin down and spin up the drive all the time). I'm postiive that my spindle motor is going to die sometime soon on the PS2, but it just keeps on chugging.
In the end the bandwidth should be considerably less than if you let those machines get infected with the regular worm and run the infection code forever. At least this worm has a time limit on it.
People may be mad, but the fact is that their unpatched machines are a menace to everybody else on the internet (much moreso than an unlocked car). It's got to stop somehow, and until Microsoft ships Windows with a built-in enabled automatic firewall on all of these ports that shouldn't (by any rights) be internet visible, then we're going to see a lot of this, just like we have in the past. The other option of course is to have everybody switch to OpenBSD as their desktop OS, but I find this option less likely than the MS default firewall option.
I know people who are pissed if you tell them that their fly is open, but it doesn't mean I shouldn't try.
I can't imagine that there is a lot of effort being directed to finding out who wrote this worm. I'd think you'd be far more popular tracking down the author of the original MSBlast worm instead. Besides, when it gets to a court of law you're probably going to see one seriously divided jury. The whole "Robin Hood" aspect is just too compelling.
Interestingly enough, Ethernet is now considered so standard that it isn't even worth mentioning in the features list anymore. Those modems are still somewhat optional though. Yes, it comes with Gigabit ethernet, as well as Firewire 400/800, USB2 (High speed), and of course optical digital audio. Naturally it has 802.11g, DVD burning, and all of the other standard Apple features as well.
I think the problem you'll run into is what part of XFree is "essental features" and what part is "useless baggage". You may not think much of network transparancy, but you may be shocked to learn that someone else figures there's no need for native GL support or monitor calibration baggage.
I might have thought that...if any of the other letters in there had serifs. How many fonts only put serifs on the lower case "l"s?
Yeah, I mean look how much it hurt the PS2.
For the record, I would not have bought a PS2 if it didn't support PSX games, because a good chunk of the games I wanted to play (and all of the ones I was _really_ interested in) were PSX games, but I didn't have a PSX. Fortunatly, the backwards compataiblity of the PS2 made my choice easy. Plus, it just gets messy having 6 game consoles hooked up to the TV, when it's much nicer to be able to upgrade a console by swapping it out with a newer one.
Uh, I think there might be a problem making a pedal powered wheelchair... If you're thinking it might have something to do with the owners not having use of their legs you're on the right track.
Although it's kinda lame, you could stick a couple of handcrank generators on the sides of the wheelchair to let the rider keep the batteries charged longer. Does the wheelchair have a remaining running time display or something similar? I didn't see one in the demo, but it seems like a rather important feature (I'd rather not get caught in the middle of a long staircase with no power for instance).
As I read it, the headline is still accurate. :)
It's not easy to ship someone something physical anonymously. You at least need their address.
Also remember that the public doesn't see advances in medicine until about a decade later when the FDA is done with it and the drug company is ready to market it. The research also builds on earlier research, so even meager beginnings can lead to spectacular cures in the future.
Darn that scientific method! It makes all of this Marijuana research so damned difficult. Why can't you people just believe what me and my friends say already?!? Will you stop asking for evidence and sound statistical analysis already? It's becoming very bothersome. Geez.