And our IPs (we don't use NAT) are linked to a specific MAC address (we register the MAC addresses, which is a PAIN).
It's stuff like this that made me into a hacker in college. Lemme tell you kids a story...
In college I spent a good amount of time on the mainframe. A Vax. Learned about *nix a bit, did my C programming classes, did my time there. It went well. Then I found out this thing was on something called the Internet. No, really! It was connected to a bunch of other computers all around the world!
So I got heavy into that. Mostly for downloading Amiga games, I must admit.
But then I discovered something called MUD. Multi-user dungeon. The great-great-grandfather of WoW. And played that a lot. But the sysadmins got grouchy and closed my account. "The mainframe is not for gaming." After a while and a few promises, I got my account back. But you know what? That really pissed me off! I'm paying to be a student there. It's *my* money. I have to pay a general course fee that goes to paper, lab supplies...and the internet. And they're telling me how I can use my portion? Sorry, that doesn't fly with me. That's when I got into hacking.
Because we live in a world where you can do more time for hacking than running over a dozen people at a farmer's market, I'm not going to say too much more. But I will tell you this - two things happened.
I got good at hacking.
I got to play my MUD anytime I wanted.
Eventually, figuring out the system became more interesting and I gave up the silly game.
And what you've got going here. Same thing. I'll give you a pointer on how to proceed. I'm not suggesting you actually do anything, just read the following. How to change your mac address. I'll leave it up to you to figure out what you could do with that info.
Have fun, be safe, and remember that knowledge is the key to the universe and all that. =)
That's a lot of oomph actually. I know we're all used to our 3ghz desktops, but think about how nice 700mhz(equiv) actually is. I've got a refurbished eMachines 650 in my basement. It plays divx video with no problems.
You could use one of these as a portable entertainment center easy. Or how about a router? The thing is designed for minimum power draw. Use one in your basement as a router that works the way you want it to work.
A sub $200 x86 with that kind of horsepower and power specs has hundreds of uses.
I know we love a good MS bash here, but c'mon - a Core 2 Duo E6700. With two gigs of ram.
And it has a sluggish interface.
There really is no honestly viable excuse.
Here's a mips count on the T5600. It's claiming 22305 Mips. (The T5600 is a good comparison point according to pricewatch, they're within maybe twenty bucks of each other - couldn't find a mips report on the E7600. Close enough for my point though. And yes, I know the Mips count from Dhrystone isn't exact either. But it's good enough for a ballpark discussion.)
Ok, so that's 22,305,000,000 instructions per second. Let's say we have a 1024x768 screen. That's 786432 pixels. Let's say we're refreshing 60 times per second. That's a total of 47185920 pixels to give a good user experience. And that's if you're drawing them with the cpu, manually. And let's say it takes two commands to move a pixel. Fetch from memory, and put to memory. That means you'll need 94371840 instructions to update the screen per second to do it. Please note that this is a worst case scenario - you're drawing everything by hand. Your graphics card isn't a GeForce 8800, it's a VGA card from the early 80's.
So looking at the instruction count, that's only 47185920/22305000000*100% =.42% of the total cpu's processing ability.
What the fuck could possibly be taking so much attention from the processor that it can't spare a measly half of a percent to refresh the damn screen?
Honestly, the cpu power we have these days is nothing short of staggering. We shouldn't have these kinds of problems at all, ever.
This is just a way to milk a little more money from the stock. Issue a rumor of a buyer and people start buying the stock. That will in turn bump up the price of the stock.
This is just more of the same from Darl and the gang. More fraud. I just hope someone with some legal clout eventually sees this for what it is. I'd love for the SEC to come down on these crooks like a ton of bricks.
Surprisingly, it is not in a bottle of Jager, it's in the rostral anterior cingulate and amygdala.
So, what exactly is it in the bottle of Jager that makes your rostral anterior cingulate and amygdala think you can get a date with Gisele?
Put another way, getting drunk can make you optimistic - it would be interesting to study the effects of alcohol on that region of the brain. If that portion of the brain could be stimulated in some other way it could lead to a powerful new series of drugs to battle depression. Or improve combat effectiveness. Or maybe even get you that date with Gisele.
Well, you got me there chief. Nature doesn't have any true right triangles. And without the right triangle you've got no trigonometry, so that's gotta go too. That also takes geometry pretty much out of the picture too, since there are no straight lines in nature either.
Now that you've got me thinking about it, calculus is based on infinitely small approximations. And we know the material universe is made of atoms, which are discrete. So calculus has to go too, since there is a limit on how small you can go. That also rules out some important irrational numbers, such as pi and e. So there goes pretty much all of engineering as well.
So my advice to you would be to go ahead and live your life without any of the benefits of trig, geometry, calculus, and engineering since they don't represent anything that exists exactly in nature. Enjoy your cave.
Me, I'll be in my house with the non-perfect 90 degree walls, electricity, light, heat, computer and internet connection.
That all depends on your definition of accomplishment, now doesn't it.
Yes it does, but that runs both ways.
A scientific proof is something that gets to contribute to society forever. Your examples only help for a lifetime. Look around the room you're in and see how many examples of Pythagoras' theorem you can find.
Dead and buried 2500 years, and he's still contributing to our society. Even makes Mother Theresa look a little weak, IMO.
IMHO, that's the reason why games today for the most part suck.
Games these days are multimillion dollar affairs. And that's even before the movie is released. There is so much money at stake that no sane person would ever risk making a game without a market study and focus groups. Large projects demand it.
And that's the problem - innovation gets lost in that process. Put another way, innovation isn't safe.
Back In The Day(tm), it was just a couple of guys sitting around thinking up wacky ideas. Sometimes they stuck, and sometimes they didn't. If it failed, who cares? It's just a half a dozen guys that are already on the payroll. But if it worked, you could get innovation - and that made the difference. That's why guys my age sit around playing MAME and not giving a crap about Madden 07. How different could is possibly be from Madden 06?
Nolan is a product of the Golden Age. That's why he's disappointed with today's games. Innovation was the thing back then. A half a dozen mad mavericks could easily turn the world upside down with a really great idea.
Sadly, not possible today. That's why despite all the beautifully rendered cut scenes, bazillions of vertexes per second and obscene piles of money thrown at new titles these days the games are just simply missing that magic spark. And just plain fall flat for guys from our time.
1) Usenet != usenet.com, which is merely a host. The RIAA is not attacking a protocol. They are suing a company that hosts a lot of NNTP traffic, some of which may be infringing on copyright.
2) It's fscking hilarious that the DCMA may wind up being used against the RIAA. Kudos to Ars for thinking up that one.
3) If the DCMA doesn't help, maybe the supreme court ruling stating that an ISP is not responsible for user generated content will. Details here. (Note: The article isn't about copyright, it's about libel. But if an ISP is legally the same thing as a telephone carrier, then by extension they are not responsible for copyright content. Much in the same way you can't sue AT&T for copyright violation if a person transmits a copyrighted work through their system via modem.)
The thing to do when you were a kid riding the Demon Drop was to put pennies on your knees. During the initial acceleration you'll fall faster than gravity and the pennies will lift off of your knees. Then - during free fall they'll hover in front of your chest as you fall. It's a brief moment of weightlessness.
Why do you still allow him to submit articles? Every time he posts one the SlashCrowd does nothing but jump in the thread and bash the guy for using/. for personal gain. People have even made scripts to block the guy from their/. experience. He even has his own tag: OhNoItsRoland.
Sure it is. Read a link from the article - racketeering.
A quote:
Typically, this usage is based on the example of the "protection racket" and indicates that the speaker believes that the business is making money by selling a solution to a problem that it created (or that it intentionally allows to continue to exist), specifically so that continuous purchases of the solution are always needed. Example: in a protection racket, a representative from the racket informs a storeowner that a fee of X dollars will be required every month for protection money, though the "protection" that is provided comes in the form of the racket itself not causing damage to the store or its employees.
Threatening people with lawsuits and then offering them a chance to pay to avoid "what might happen to you" - is racketeering. It's also extortion:
Extortion or outwresting is a criminal offense, which occurs when a person either obtains money, property or services from another through coercion or intimidation or threatens one with physical or reputational harm unless they are paid money or property.
The RICO act seeks to prevent people from using these tactics to make money. And threatening people with lawsuits and offering them a chance to pay protection money rather than go to court (and have to pay even more for a lawyer to properly defend themselves) is a protection racket.
"This is what can happen if you don't settle," RIAA attorney Richard Gabriel told reporters outside the courthouse.
Notice how they throw in an impassioned plea to roll over and take it? This court case is nothing about justice - it's an extension to their protection racket. (quote from here)
When, oh when, will somebody step in and nail these guys with a RICO suit?
Michael Robertson chronicles how at least one record label wanted him to embed credit card numbers of buyers into songs.
Credit gift cards are excellent to use if you're buying stuff online and don't want the vendor to have any personal info. Good for sites like mp3sparks. Or if you're buying modchips. Or any online transaction where you don't want the buyer to know anything about you, or have any access to your accounts.
Basically, heavy-ish metals, in particular zinc and magnesium when they burn make zinc oxide and magnesium oxide and give you temporary flu like symptoms. People working in foundries would get a blast of it first thing Monday morning, get "the flu" Monday night, and then be desensitized to it all week long. Over the weekend they'd lose their sensitivity, and get the flu again next Monday.
SCO (originally, anyways) was in the business of selling UNIX systems - which is a niche market. And that niche is pretty well defined. People like us/.ers fill that niche. Ideally, we're the people The Suits ask whenever they say "we need a solution to this problem."
By attacking Linux, they offended pretty much their entire target market. Nobody here would recommend SCO for anything, and last I checked our user ID numbers were over a million.
That is some seriously monstrous bad PR to try to get over.
Of course, all this assumes that Darl actually wanted to run a software company in the first place. Maybe he doesn't care about SCO at all, and just makes these noises in the press because that's his job. It's equally likely that he's a paid assassin out to tarnish the reputation of open source, or even better yet put an end to open source in the business sector. See the Halloween X document for clarification. Link 1.Link 2.
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And our IPs (we don't use NAT) are linked to a specific MAC address (we register the MAC addresses, which is a PAIN).
It's stuff like this that made me into a hacker in college. Lemme tell you kids a story...
In college I spent a good amount of time on the mainframe. A Vax. Learned about *nix a bit, did my C programming classes, did my time there. It went well. Then I found out this thing was on something called the Internet. No, really! It was connected to a bunch of other computers all around the world!
So I got heavy into that. Mostly for downloading Amiga games, I must admit.
But then I discovered something called MUD. Multi-user dungeon. The great-great-grandfather of WoW. And played that a lot. But the sysadmins got grouchy and closed my account. "The mainframe is not for gaming." After a while and a few promises, I got my account back. But you know what? That really pissed me off! I'm paying to be a student there. It's *my* money. I have to pay a general course fee that goes to paper, lab supplies...and the internet. And they're telling me how I can use my portion? Sorry, that doesn't fly with me. That's when I got into hacking.
Because we live in a world where you can do more time for hacking than running over a dozen people at a farmer's market, I'm not going to say too much more. But I will tell you this - two things happened.
And what you've got going here. Same thing. I'll give you a pointer on how to proceed. I'm not suggesting you actually do anything, just read the following. How to change your mac address. I'll leave it up to you to figure out what you could do with that info.
Have fun, be safe, and remember that knowledge is the key to the universe and all that. =)
It's MESS you're thinking of, not MAME.
You know you're corrupt when the government of Nigeria steps in to block your shady deal.
It's got a nice processor, the Geode LX-700.
That's a lot of oomph actually. I know we're all used to our 3ghz desktops, but think about how nice 700mhz(equiv) actually is. I've got a refurbished eMachines 650 in my basement. It plays divx video with no problems.
You could use one of these as a portable entertainment center easy. Or how about a router? The thing is designed for minimum power draw. Use one in your basement as a router that works the way you want it to work.
A sub $200 x86 with that kind of horsepower and power specs has hundreds of uses.
Urgent! Do NOT GO into the module made by the United States.
That's really as long as the title actually needed to be.
In a Free Speech Zone.
Which, BTW I consider one of the most tragic things to happen to America in the last 100 years. The First Amendment is already dead.
I know we love a good MS bash here, but c'mon - a Core 2 Duo E6700. With two gigs of ram.
And it has a sluggish interface.
There really is no honestly viable excuse.
Here's a mips count on the T5600. It's claiming 22305 Mips. (The T5600 is a good comparison point according to pricewatch, they're within maybe twenty bucks of each other - couldn't find a mips report on the E7600. Close enough for my point though. And yes, I know the Mips count from Dhrystone isn't exact either. But it's good enough for a ballpark discussion.)
Ok, so that's 22,305,000,000 instructions per second. Let's say we have a 1024x768 screen. That's 786432 pixels. Let's say we're refreshing 60 times per second. That's a total of 47185920 pixels to give a good user experience. And that's if you're drawing them with the cpu, manually. And let's say it takes two commands to move a pixel. Fetch from memory, and put to memory. That means you'll need 94371840 instructions to update the screen per second to do it. Please note that this is a worst case scenario - you're drawing everything by hand. Your graphics card isn't a GeForce 8800, it's a VGA card from the early 80's.
So looking at the instruction count, that's only 47185920/22305000000*100% = .42% of the total cpu's processing ability.
What the fuck could possibly be taking so much attention from the processor that it can't spare a measly half of a percent to refresh the damn screen?
Honestly, the cpu power we have these days is nothing short of staggering. We shouldn't have these kinds of problems at all, ever.
This is just a way to milk a little more money from the stock. Issue a rumor of a buyer and people start buying the stock. That will in turn bump up the price of the stock.
And it's working - look at the current price of SCOX. And look at the activity, too. Also a telling point.
This is just more of the same from Darl and the gang. More fraud. I just hope someone with some legal clout eventually sees this for what it is. I'd love for the SEC to come down on these crooks like a ton of bricks.
Surprisingly, it is not in a bottle of Jager, it's in the rostral anterior cingulate and amygdala.
So, what exactly is it in the bottle of Jager that makes your rostral anterior cingulate and amygdala think you can get a date with Gisele?
Put another way, getting drunk can make you optimistic - it would be interesting to study the effects of alcohol on that region of the brain. If that portion of the brain could be stimulated in some other way it could lead to a powerful new series of drugs to battle depression. Or improve combat effectiveness. Or maybe even get you that date with Gisele.
Well, you got me there chief. Nature doesn't have any true right triangles. And without the right triangle you've got no trigonometry, so that's gotta go too. That also takes geometry pretty much out of the picture too, since there are no straight lines in nature either.
Now that you've got me thinking about it, calculus is based on infinitely small approximations. And we know the material universe is made of atoms, which are discrete. So calculus has to go too, since there is a limit on how small you can go. That also rules out some important irrational numbers, such as pi and e. So there goes pretty much all of engineering as well.
So my advice to you would be to go ahead and live your life without any of the benefits of trig, geometry, calculus, and engineering since they don't represent anything that exists exactly in nature. Enjoy your cave.
Me, I'll be in my house with the non-perfect 90 degree walls, electricity, light, heat, computer and internet connection.
That all depends on your definition of accomplishment, now doesn't it.
Yes it does, but that runs both ways.
A scientific proof is something that gets to contribute to society forever. Your examples only help for a lifetime. Look around the room you're in and see how many examples of Pythagoras' theorem you can find.
Dead and buried 2500 years, and he's still contributing to our society. Even makes Mother Theresa look a little weak, IMO.
IMHO, that's the reason why games today for the most part suck.
Games these days are multimillion dollar affairs. And that's even before the movie is released. There is so much money at stake that no sane person would ever risk making a game without a market study and focus groups. Large projects demand it.
And that's the problem - innovation gets lost in that process. Put another way, innovation isn't safe.
Back In The Day(tm), it was just a couple of guys sitting around thinking up wacky ideas. Sometimes they stuck, and sometimes they didn't. If it failed, who cares? It's just a half a dozen guys that are already on the payroll. But if it worked, you could get innovation - and that made the difference. That's why guys my age sit around playing MAME and not giving a crap about Madden 07. How different could is possibly be from Madden 06?
Nolan is a product of the Golden Age. That's why he's disappointed with today's games. Innovation was the thing back then. A half a dozen mad mavericks could easily turn the world upside down with a really great idea.
Sadly, not possible today. That's why despite all the beautifully rendered cut scenes, bazillions of vertexes per second and obscene piles of money thrown at new titles these days the games are just simply missing that magic spark. And just plain fall flat for guys from our time.
1) Usenet != usenet.com, which is merely a host. The RIAA is not attacking a protocol. They are suing a company that hosts a lot of NNTP traffic, some of which may be infringing on copyright.
2) It's fscking hilarious that the DCMA may wind up being used against the RIAA. Kudos to Ars for thinking up that one.
3) If the DCMA doesn't help, maybe the supreme court ruling stating that an ISP is not responsible for user generated content will. Details here. (Note: The article isn't about copyright, it's about libel. But if an ISP is legally the same thing as a telephone carrier, then by extension they are not responsible for copyright content. Much in the same way you can't sue AT&T for copyright violation if a person transmits a copyrighted work through their system via modem.)
Because. That's how huge soulless companies feed.
Acquisitions.
Avoid poetry, coastal cities, and the Catskill mountains. Seriously.
The thing to do when you were a kid riding the Demon Drop was to put pennies on your knees. During the initial acceleration you'll fall faster than gravity and the pennies will lift off of your knees. Then - during free fall they'll hover in front of your chest as you fall. It's a brief moment of weightlessness.
Why do you still allow him to submit articles? Every time he posts one the SlashCrowd does nothing but jump in the thread and bash the guy for using /. for personal gain. People have even made scripts to block the guy from their /. experience. He even has his own tag: OhNoItsRoland.
The people have spoken, and yet he's still here.
Sure it is. Read a link from the article - racketeering.
A quote:
Typically, this usage is based on the example of the "protection racket" and indicates that the speaker believes that the business is making money by selling a solution to a problem that it created (or that it intentionally allows to continue to exist), specifically so that continuous purchases of the solution are always needed. Example: in a protection racket, a representative from the racket informs a storeowner that a fee of X dollars will be required every month for protection money, though the "protection" that is provided comes in the form of the racket itself not causing damage to the store or its employees.
Threatening people with lawsuits and then offering them a chance to pay to avoid "what might happen to you" - is racketeering. It's also extortion:
Extortion or outwresting is a criminal offense, which occurs when a person either obtains money, property or services from another through coercion or intimidation or threatens one with physical or reputational harm unless they are paid money or property.
The RICO act seeks to prevent people from using these tactics to make money. And threatening people with lawsuits and offering them a chance to pay protection money rather than go to court (and have to pay even more for a lawyer to properly defend themselves) is a protection racket.
It's really that simple.
"This is what can happen if you don't settle," RIAA attorney Richard Gabriel told reporters outside the courthouse.
Notice how they throw in an impassioned plea to roll over and take it? This court case is nothing about justice - it's an extension to their protection racket. (quote from here)
When, oh when, will somebody step in and nail these guys with a RICO suit?
Michael Robertson chronicles how at least one record label wanted him to embed credit card numbers of buyers into songs.
Credit gift cards are excellent to use if you're buying stuff online and don't want the vendor to have any personal info. Good for sites like mp3sparks. Or if you're buying modchips. Or any online transaction where you don't want the buyer to know anything about you, or have any access to your accounts.
Or so I hear.
Since most of those captured photons will eventually be converted back into photons, via low pressure neon tubes.
The number of predictions about the end of Moore's law will double every two years.
Also called foundry fever or Monday morning shakes. Wikipedia article here.
Basically, heavy-ish metals, in particular zinc and magnesium when they burn make zinc oxide and magnesium oxide and give you temporary flu like symptoms. People working in foundries would get a blast of it first thing Monday morning, get "the flu" Monday night, and then be desensitized to it all week long. Over the weekend they'd lose their sensitivity, and get the flu again next Monday.
In high enough doses though - it can kill. A fairly well-known blacksmith, Paw-Paw Williams, died from complications from metal fume fever.
SCO (originally, anyways) was in the business of selling UNIX systems - which is a niche market. And that niche is pretty well defined. People like us /.ers fill that niche. Ideally, we're the people The Suits ask whenever they say "we need a solution to this problem."
By attacking Linux, they offended pretty much their entire target market. Nobody here would recommend SCO for anything, and last I checked our user ID numbers were over a million.
That is some seriously monstrous bad PR to try to get over.
Of course, all this assumes that Darl actually wanted to run a software company in the first place. Maybe he doesn't care about SCO at all, and just makes these noises in the press because that's his job. It's equally likely that he's a paid assassin out to tarnish the reputation of open source, or even better yet put an end to open source in the business sector. See the Halloween X document for clarification. Link 1. Link 2.