Does that mean geeks will be more popular with the ladies? Many of us are skilled at fixing things in general in addition to operating a computer. I've known football players who would surprise me if they knew how to tie their own shoes.
So, the ladies will want us (geeks) around, but we still won't be getting laid (because they don't need us for that anymore). At least we'll have some eye candy. See. It doesn't sound so bad now.
Maybe the speed at which TCP was written is the problem. If they re-wrote it, I hope they did a slow re-write, because we will need the patches.
Really, I think the problem is that the flaw affected/some routers/ whose implementation of the TCP stack was flawed. That is what I gathered, anyway. If this is so, they just need to find non-flawed software.
A friend of mine once got an e-mail from a company that was hired (presumably by the MPAA) to search P2P networks for copyrighted material and send a cease and desist e-mail.
Basically, my friend had downloaded one of those 2 hour trailer loops thinking it was a movie, then forgot to delete it after he realized it was not the movie. The company sent him and e-mail, having looked at the title and not the content. He wrote them a pretty mean e-mail back.
So, how does the software identify copyrighted music on P2P? Presumably it could do an MD5 hash against a master, but that would vary if, say, some time was cut off the end. They couldn't possibly account for all possible variations on a file. They could check ID5 information that is provided through the P2P metadata, but that can be wrong frequently. Finally, they can check the file name. But what if I took a liking to misnaming some of my own music?
Without downloading the song and making an aural comparison (there is technology available that could discern, as AT&T Wireless is apparently using it, as was reported on/. previously), there is just no way to be sure. Downloading each track would suck up a ton of bandwidth. And other methods might show false positives (Not that the **AA care about the truth, otherwise they wouldn't be on this anti-P2P kick). If my college cut me from the network that I paid to use on a false positive, I'd be seriously pissed.
Of course, all kinds of jokes come to mind. Did they outsource it? Blah Blah Blah.
But, really, if they are able to make this work, perhaps some of the outsourcing the US is making to Inida can be justified with their ability to, at least, beat us on the e-voting front.
That is still a big if. It's funny we are worried about fraud on our e-voting machines. They are worried about fights. Maybe if we started having fist fights at the booths all our e-voting woes will dematerialize.
The 1.25 GHz eMac is a steal at 749$ with your college discount. Mine is serving me well, and it is a 1 GHz. If you hate the all-in-one design, there is some good news. While you won't get extra PCI slots, the eMac does have 4 channels of IDE (instead of two), can do display mirroring out-of-the-box (dual display with a little software hack). With a little work / modding, you could get past the all-in-one ness and have a pretty nice desktop.
If all-in-one is okay, then you should have no other complaints. The price is right for all the apps / great OS / great hardware. Besides, it's easier to move around than a monitor + box. That is important if you move from room to room every couple of semesters.
their attacks have turned a lot of attention to the possible Achilles' heel...
With Windows, when someone points out a possible Achilles' heel, people exploit it (with viruses, etc). Is it good to point out potential problems? Yes if 1) They can be fixed or 2) They aren't problems. It will make the beast stronger. However, if the issue, in this case code contribution, which is THE blood of OSS, is actually a problem and can't be fixed, then this whole OSS thing might take a deathblow. If that is the case, I'd rather people not focus on it.
In the end we have to trust people that submit code. Short of checking it against a database of known code (which doesn't help if they stole code from a proprietary source), there isn't too much we can do.
While I tend to agree with "there is no such thing as bad press," if the press kills OSS or Linux (which, in this case, I bet it won't), I'd rather SCO not have started anything. And if other people start to try to exploit OSS because of the possible Achilles' heel (with law suits, bills passed to limit OSS), we'll end up with tons of irritating front page posts on slashdot. We might even have to have a sub-catagory for the it so we can have user filters.
For my mom, I just showed her once. I was at uni when she got the Mac, so I couldn't help her all the time. I put the apps she used in the Dock and said "Click Mail if you want to look at your e-mail, etc." Then I left. If she had a problem, she'd call and I'd help her work around it. If I couldn't, she'd wait until I the weekend when I'd be back. Basically, she learned the same way I learned. Play with it and ask questions if you get stuck. Most people will remember better if they HAVE to do it assuming they don't just throw their hands up or punch in the monitor.
It's been my experience that the last sentence you wrote means the person is never going to learn what you are trying to teach them. Why remember when you can just look on that battered, coffee stained, 2 year old sheet of paper that tells you how to do it?
I think Albert Einstein said something similar.
In real life, the teach-a-man-to-fish aphorism is practicle and less painful in the long run.
75 is a little bit late, IMO. My dad is 60, and I'm not even going to bother. I made my mom get a Mac. She's 50. She actually wants to know how to use a computer. I think at some point in life, some/most people just don't care to learn new (read: life changing) things.
Arguably, some people NEVER care about learning new things. Wow this hole I dug myself into is dark.
I talked about this with a friend, though not Blu-Ray. I think we figured it using a 300 DPI printer with 8.5 X 11 sheets of paper. A dot of black ink would be a 1. No dot would be a 0. It turns out that the capacity is pretty low. I'd post the math, but I'm pretty sure I'd mess it up somewhere.
I think we decided it would get interesting if full color was used and different colors meant different binary combos.
Anyway, good on them if the discs can be made for cheaper than current DVDs.
I think Microsoft's reasoning was "---" stood for "dow", which was still, somehow, theirs.
I guess in that case, bleeping out cusswords or saying f--k is the same as just saying / writing them. The FCC should take note of the case to further censor the public.
As far as Lindows Inc., they apparently are going to keep the company name. With M$'s reasoning, I'm surprised they aren't trying to convince people that Lindows really means Microsoft and they should change their name to nothing, since all names really mean Microsoft. I'm getting images of that scene in Being John Malkovich...
At risk of getting my chops busted, here is my input:
It is a flat CRT, not a regular CRT. I'm staring at mine now, and to the left of it is a standard CRT I got from Gateway. It's running dual display (not mirroring). Compared to my old Gateway CRT, the eMac FLAT CRT is incredible.
My graphic design professor said flat CRTs are better for design work than LCD or regular CRTs. Having worked with all three, I can attest to that.
As far as the "too bad it isn't just a box," I guess that is personal opinion. I don't need the extra PCI slots, since everything I interface with is USB / firewire. The monitor is great, and the only thing I'd ever want to upgrade is the internal HDD (difficult) and RAM (easy). But I look at it this way: My eMac is roughly the same dimensions as just the older Apple CRTs for PowerMacs, and I don't have to find a place to store the box. But, hey, to each his own.
I recently had the task of setting up a printer to work with Quark Xpress. They offer no free support. My employer paid the support cost, and I was put on the phone with a man with a thick Indian accent. It was so bad that I had to ask him to repeat himself at least once every time he spoke. I guess my argument is that people hired to interface with other people should be able to communicate well. It was such a pain in the ass to translate his accent that I decided I would avoid purchasing Quark or recomending Quark (ignoring that some alternatives may be better products). I've heard that Dell computers heard similar complaints to the ones I am making, and brought their tech support back.
I guess my question is: Is it worth the savings to piss your customers off, esp. when they are paying top dollar for good tech support on a per-call basis? On another front, Have these companies had good results overcoming the language barriar (that, according to a programmer friend of mine, ends up causing more problems for a project, resulting in more time cleaning up the mess that misunderstanding brings than executing the project)?
Then a radioactive actress falls from the ceiling, kills the doctors, and bites her. Suddenly, we absolve her of her former shortcomings, and appreciate her as both an actress and a hottie.
1) Not only that, I think programmers should share. We are, after all, computer scientists. What if every other scientist locked up all of their secrets and just said, "Yeah the Earth moves around the Sun. I won't tell you why or how I know, though."
2) In the beginning, people shared code to do common things (e.g. sorting algorithems). I wonder if they mean "Do you keep a copy of your sorting algorithems to use in other programs?" or "Do you keep a copy of your accounting software to recompile at your next job?"
3) I agree w/ the parent. It's just plain stupid to re-write some things when you have a perfectly good solution already written. Besides, if you write it over enough times, you'll remember how to write it... then you are ALWAYS carrying around code from job to job. You can't not take it.
It's convenient that the first instance of e-mail "bugging" resulting in action is against a terrorist. Right now, for the most part, the Average American (tm) is totally commited to giving up freedom for security (which conjures up the quote about said person deserving neither). Basically, since it stopped a terrorist, it completely validated this breach of privacy. I'm pretty sure that new initiatives like Carnivore will be openly embraced by said Average American (tm). The damage the terrorists have done is far beyond the deaths of Americans.
Tricksy hobbitses tries to takes away our privacies! Must protect the precious...
As soon as Gentoo gets an ebuild, I might revive my desktop cum Linux server back to a desktop to give it a shot.
While they tout all kinds of new features that OS X users would be interested in via XonX, they certainly don't mention what those features would be. I guess I'll have to go check the changelog. Damn.
I find it much easier to fix a Linux install when it fails over time than a Windows install... Oh, wait. I've never had s Linux install fail over time.
KDE / GNOME have always, IMO, been as easy to use as Windows. It was the configuring of the system that was a problem. Seeing as many people install a system (well, it comes installed... whatever), and never even change the screen size (probably no one here, but my mom, for example does this), the configurablity is only an issue in the initial install. It's getting to the point with some of the new autodetection that a complete file system can be copied to a partitioned harddrive (which is also done by the installer) in under 30 minutes with no other questions asked and ran without any problems. This is the first step to ease of use. The second would be a Mac style program management and some very basic hardware configuration tools (for those of us who like to resize our screens). After that, the general public would be set. The rest can be hidden in its normal place.
This MUST be old news. From the looks of the shwank pad, it must be the 70s. This is where pot will get you. Making giant subwoofers. Oh wait... pot will get you sleeping on the couch or laughing about things that aren't funny.
I see individuals on techtv quite frequently that claim to build robots. No I don't mean robot wars (a.k.a. attack of the killer radio controlled car).
I can't think of any big companies making them. In the US, it seems to be an underground geek/research scene. However, I'm pretty certain the US Army, et al, are actively working on robots for military purposes. That means it will probably one day end up with a consumer applications.
This just isn't impressive. At least not any more than a robot that puts a car together. It's just assigning a task and pressing play. Could it figure out what to do if the music was off because someone messed up or would it just keep right on until it finished? That might be a little more impressive because it'd have to recognize a series of notes and timing.
Leave it up to the Japanese to have the robots dancing. Bubble gum culture at it's finest.
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Does that mean geeks will be more popular with the ladies? Many of us are skilled at fixing things in general in addition to operating a computer. I've known football players who would surprise me if they knew how to tie their own shoes.
;)
So, the ladies will want us (geeks) around, but we still won't be getting laid (because they don't need us for that anymore). At least we'll have some eye candy. See. It doesn't sound so bad now.
Maybe the speed at which TCP was written is the problem. If they re-wrote it, I hope they did a slow re-write, because we will need the patches.
/some routers/ whose implementation of the TCP stack was flawed. That is what I gathered, anyway. If this is so, they just need to find non-flawed software.
Really, I think the problem is that the flaw affected
As a web designer, taking advantage of this could get me off work faster than a snow storm. I don't know if I'm afraid or enthused. ;)
A friend of mine once got an e-mail from a company that was hired (presumably by the MPAA) to search P2P networks for copyrighted material and send a cease and desist e-mail.
/. previously), there is just no way to be sure. Downloading each track would suck up a ton of bandwidth. And other methods might show false positives (Not that the **AA care about the truth, otherwise they wouldn't be on this anti-P2P kick). If my college cut me from the network that I paid to use on a false positive, I'd be seriously pissed.
Basically, my friend had downloaded one of those 2 hour trailer loops thinking it was a movie, then forgot to delete it after he realized it was not the movie. The company sent him and e-mail, having looked at the title and not the content. He wrote them a pretty mean e-mail back.
So, how does the software identify copyrighted music on P2P? Presumably it could do an MD5 hash against a master, but that would vary if, say, some time was cut off the end. They couldn't possibly account for all possible variations on a file. They could check ID5 information that is provided through the P2P metadata, but that can be wrong frequently. Finally, they can check the file name. But what if I took a liking to misnaming some of my own music?
Without downloading the song and making an aural comparison (there is technology available that could discern, as AT&T Wireless is apparently using it, as was reported on
Of course, all kinds of jokes come to mind. Did they outsource it? Blah Blah Blah.
But, really, if they are able to make this work, perhaps some of the outsourcing the US is making to Inida can be justified with their ability to, at least, beat us on the e-voting front.
That is still a big if. It's funny we are worried about fraud on our e-voting machines. They are worried about fights. Maybe if we started having fist fights at the booths all our e-voting woes will dematerialize.
The 1.25 GHz eMac is a steal at 749$ with your college discount. Mine is serving me well, and it is a 1 GHz. If you hate the all-in-one design, there is some good news. While you won't get extra PCI slots, the eMac does have 4 channels of IDE (instead of two), can do display mirroring out-of-the-box (dual display with a little software hack). With a little work / modding, you could get past the all-in-one ness and have a pretty nice desktop.
If all-in-one is okay, then you should have no other complaints. The price is right for all the apps / great OS / great hardware. Besides, it's easier to move around than a monitor + box. That is important if you move from room to room every couple of semesters.
their attacks have turned a lot of attention to the possible Achilles' heel...
With Windows, when someone points out a possible Achilles' heel, people exploit it (with viruses, etc). Is it good to point out potential problems? Yes if 1) They can be fixed or 2) They aren't problems. It will make the beast stronger. However, if the issue, in this case code contribution, which is THE blood of OSS, is actually a problem and can't be fixed, then this whole OSS thing might take a deathblow. If that is the case, I'd rather people not focus on it.
In the end we have to trust people that submit code. Short of checking it against a database of known code (which doesn't help if they stole code from a proprietary source), there isn't too much we can do.
While I tend to agree with "there is no such thing as bad press," if the press kills OSS or Linux (which, in this case, I bet it won't), I'd rather SCO not have started anything. And if other people start to try to exploit OSS because of the possible Achilles' heel (with law suits, bills passed to limit OSS), we'll end up with tons of irritating front page posts on slashdot. We might even have to have a sub-catagory for the it so we can have user filters.
For my mom, I just showed her once. I was at uni when she got the Mac, so I couldn't help her all the time. I put the apps she used in the Dock and said "Click Mail if you want to look at your e-mail, etc." Then I left. If she had a problem, she'd call and I'd help her work around it. If I couldn't, she'd wait until I the weekend when I'd be back. Basically, she learned the same way I learned. Play with it and ask questions if you get stuck. Most people will remember better if they HAVE to do it assuming they don't just throw their hands up or punch in the monitor.
It's been my experience that the last sentence you wrote means the person is never going to learn what you are trying to teach them. Why remember when you can just look on that battered, coffee stained, 2 year old sheet of paper that tells you how to do it?
I think Albert Einstein said something similar.
In real life, the teach-a-man-to-fish aphorism is practicle and less painful in the long run.
75 is a little bit late, IMO. My dad is 60, and I'm not even going to bother. I made my mom get a Mac. She's 50. She actually wants to know how to use a computer. I think at some point in life, some/most people just don't care to learn new (read: life changing) things.
Arguably, some people NEVER care about learning new things. Wow this hole I dug myself into is dark.
I talked about this with a friend, though not Blu-Ray. I think we figured it using a 300 DPI printer with 8.5 X 11 sheets of paper. A dot of black ink would be a 1. No dot would be a 0. It turns out that the capacity is pretty low. I'd post the math, but I'm pretty sure I'd mess it up somewhere.
I think we decided it would get interesting if full color was used and different colors meant different binary combos.
Anyway, good on them if the discs can be made for cheaper than current DVDs.
And Vannevar Bush really did invent hyperlinking way before British Telecom with the writing / publication of "As We May Think" circa 1945.
I think Berners-Lee would be the daddy of the web. Bush would be the grand daddy.
I think Microsoft's reasoning was "---" stood for "dow", which was still, somehow, theirs.
I guess in that case, bleeping out cusswords or saying f--k is the same as just saying / writing them. The FCC should take note of the case to further censor the public.
As far as Lindows Inc., they apparently are going to keep the company name. With M$'s reasoning, I'm surprised they aren't trying to convince people that Lindows really means Microsoft and they should change their name to nothing, since all names really mean Microsoft. I'm getting images of that scene in Being John Malkovich...
At risk of getting my chops busted, here is my input:
It is a flat CRT, not a regular CRT. I'm staring at mine now, and to the left of it is a standard CRT I got from Gateway. It's running dual display (not mirroring). Compared to my old Gateway CRT, the eMac FLAT CRT is incredible.
My graphic design professor said flat CRTs are better for design work than LCD or regular CRTs. Having worked with all three, I can attest to that.
As far as the "too bad it isn't just a box," I guess that is personal opinion. I don't need the extra PCI slots, since everything I interface with is USB / firewire. The monitor is great, and the only thing I'd ever want to upgrade is the internal HDD (difficult) and RAM (easy). But I look at it this way: My eMac is roughly the same dimensions as just the older Apple CRTs for PowerMacs, and I don't have to find a place to store the box. But, hey, to each his own.
I recently had the task of setting up a printer to work with Quark Xpress. They offer no free support. My employer paid the support cost, and I was put on the phone with a man with a thick Indian accent. It was so bad that I had to ask him to repeat himself at least once every time he spoke. I guess my argument is that people hired to interface with other people should be able to communicate well. It was such a pain in the ass to translate his accent that I decided I would avoid purchasing Quark or recomending Quark (ignoring that some alternatives may be better products). I've heard that Dell computers heard similar complaints to the ones I am making, and brought their tech support back.
I guess my question is: Is it worth the savings to piss your customers off, esp. when they are paying top dollar for good tech support on a per-call basis? On another front, Have these companies had good results overcoming the language barriar (that, according to a programmer friend of mine, ends up causing more problems for a project, resulting in more time cleaning up the mess that misunderstanding brings than executing the project)?
Then a radioactive actress falls from the ceiling, kills the doctors, and bites her. Suddenly, we absolve her of her former shortcomings, and appreciate her as both an actress and a hottie.
1) Not only that, I think programmers should share. We are, after all, computer scientists. What if every other scientist locked up all of their secrets and just said, "Yeah the Earth moves around the Sun. I won't tell you why or how I know, though."
2) In the beginning, people shared code to do common things (e.g. sorting algorithems). I wonder if they mean "Do you keep a copy of your sorting algorithems to use in other programs?" or "Do you keep a copy of your accounting software to recompile at your next job?"
3) I agree w/ the parent. It's just plain stupid to re-write some things when you have a perfectly good solution already written. Besides, if you write it over enough times, you'll remember how to write it... then you are ALWAYS carrying around code from job to job. You can't not take it.
What about driftnet?! Who are YOU to point fingers if you don't even mention driftnet?
;)
They'll be back. LinDOS... damn! They just can win.
It's convenient that the first instance of e-mail "bugging" resulting in action is against a terrorist. Right now, for the most part, the Average American (tm) is totally commited to giving up freedom for security (which conjures up the quote about said person deserving neither). Basically, since it stopped a terrorist, it completely validated this breach of privacy. I'm pretty sure that new initiatives like Carnivore will be openly embraced by said Average American (tm). The damage the terrorists have done is far beyond the deaths of Americans.
Tricksy hobbitses tries to takes away our privacies! Must protect the precious...
As soon as Gentoo gets an ebuild, I might revive my desktop cum Linux server back to a desktop to give it a shot.
While they tout all kinds of new features that OS X users would be interested in via XonX, they certainly don't mention what those features would be. I guess I'll have to go check the changelog. Damn.
I find it much easier to fix a Linux install when it fails over time than a Windows install... Oh, wait. I've never had s Linux install fail over time.
KDE / GNOME have always, IMO, been as easy to use as Windows. It was the configuring of the system that was a problem. Seeing as many people install a system (well, it comes installed... whatever), and never even change the screen size (probably no one here, but my mom, for example does this), the configurablity is only an issue in the initial install. It's getting to the point with some of the new autodetection that a complete file system can be copied to a partitioned harddrive (which is also done by the installer) in under 30 minutes with no other questions asked and ran without any problems. This is the first step to ease of use. The second would be a Mac style program management and some very basic hardware configuration tools (for those of us who like to resize our screens). After that, the general public would be set. The rest can be hidden in its normal place.
This MUST be old news. From the looks of the shwank pad, it must be the 70s. This is where pot will get you. Making giant subwoofers. Oh wait... pot will get you sleeping on the couch or laughing about things that aren't funny.
Nevermind.
I see individuals on techtv quite frequently that claim to build robots. No I don't mean robot wars (a.k.a. attack of the killer radio controlled car).
I can't think of any big companies making them. In the US, it seems to be an underground geek/research scene. However, I'm pretty certain the US Army, et al, are actively working on robots for military purposes. That means it will probably one day end up with a consumer applications.
This just isn't impressive. At least not any more than a robot that puts a car together. It's just assigning a task and pressing play. Could it figure out what to do if the music was off because someone messed up or would it just keep right on until it finished? That might be a little more impressive because it'd have to recognize a series of notes and timing.
Leave it up to the Japanese to have the robots dancing. Bubble gum culture at it's finest.