rushing to put a crash-prone beta-version of some administration software on their system.
Sometimes I wonder if there is no thing like "code red" on linux systems because there is no need for such things.
Usually, women have less qualification for their job then their husband.
Perhaps you should choose the path any secretary etc. would take if they get a highly skilled academic husband:
Staying at home and raise the kids.
Of course, if you wife has an artsy-fartsy profession where she won't make any money ever in her life, this advice wouldn't be very helpful.
I suppose that is is also the reason why most female art profs at universities aren't married.
if all this "low-budget-space-exploration" the NASA does these days is the wrong direction.
With the old expensive programs you got huge bills but you got huge results, too.
The cheap stuff on the other hand tends to fail and doesn't has much scientific content.
Space exploration is not about driving cute robots on mars - actual scientific results are wanted. No matter if the public "loves" them or not.
Perhaps NASA is bound to degenerate to a pseudo-science space-entertaiment agency. If Disney sponsors one of their flights, then we will know it for sure.
John just forgot to mention it'll be scalable past four players
Why should this be better than servers ?
P2P will least introduce a scale of lag, and it will probably even cause bandwidth issues (remember that the peers might be connected with lines
It seems that they are in fact fucking up a good game just to be on the P2P bandwagon.
I'm rather surprised that Carmack didn't notice that a system like Quake is not an easily distributable computing problem.
Some people say that with money and fame the brain melts.
While it might sound sensible at a first glance to build bigger and bigger telescopes on earth, it is in fact incredible stupid.
Modern telescopes should be located on satellites in earth orbit or even on the moon. The troubles with atmosphere and earth's magnetic field fuck up with any observations, no matter at which wavelength. What these guys do might sound technologically advanced, but it is in fact 19th century science.
Modern astronomy calls for the methods and technology applicable in the 21th century which mainly includes space-based observation.
These fools didn't look even on the facts: the incredible success on the hubble space telescope.
(Well, there were some troubles with a lens in the beginning, but this is a typical NASA fault: replying too much flawed technology just because it comes from the US, instead of choosing superior European engineering).
These guys install wireless access everywhere.
At first sight this seems to be very nice, but it fill all places with electromagnetic waves and stuff. But the consequences for environment and health of human being are still not clear.
This might be like nucelar power - at first everybody thinks that it's good and fun and games, but then are mutations everywhere and nobody wants all these nuclear powered cars anymore.
that they can openly sell a device which only purpose is to create illegal copies of music.
Won't the RIAA attack them with legal killer drones ?
Well there is some "free" music out there, but this stuff is mainly free because noone would be so foolish to buy it.
This is NOT a good thing.
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LinuXbox Boots
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· Score: 1, Interesting
By adding new features to the XBox via modchips you are in fact helping MS to make more profit and to push competitors like Sony etc out of the market.
Why were the other operating system features of the XBox blocked ?
Because MS is under attack of the justice departments and anti-monopoly investigators, being accused of building up monopolies with illegal measures.
If MS tried to push Sony etc out of the market with a cheap, versatile, all purpose gaming computer they would be sacked.
But they can't be blamed for building a normal console. That's fair business. And if h4x0rz turn it into a real computer, they can't be blamed, really ? They threatened some legal action but this is just to make the scam really complete.
And, in fact, they didn't sue the real XBox hacker at MIT. (? Caltech, look up yourself at/.) Oh, we don't want to sue little cute grad students. Hahaha. Nobody is so foolish to believe this.
that this Microsoft booth will put the whole OSS community into serious trouble.
We all know these ultra zealots like RMS et al.
These people have only a little self-control if they are writing about closed source systems.
What will such people do if they see a MS booth at the Linux world ?
If they get mad and storm it and chase the poor MS employees around, it will be very easy for the MS PR department to portrait all OSS supporters as raving half-terrorists. This might result in Bush creating laws for prohibiting OSS at the US
(at least at universities and colleges).
So they MS booth might provide much harm for OS systems. There is even the possibility that MS especially planned such events.
The NASA has much troubles with funding cuts.
But they want take humans to Mars in some years,
which is very expensive. So they want to create a decent hype for this project to make acquiring money much easier. An important tool is to create intresting but ominous scientific claims which a only be verified by going to Mars. There is still to problem with the "robots only" league, but I expect further onimous arguments in this direction.
But on the other hand, what's useful for science can't be wrong, right ? At least it's not such a brainless waste of money like the dotcom hype.
Terrorists will love that.
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Spy Fly
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· Score: 4, Insightful
Imagine a spy fly with a injection system which infects people with serious deseases like Hepatitis A/B/C or AIDS. Goodbye, Mr. President/Chancellor/King/Gran Genernalissimo. On the other hand the Mossad can use this system to take out these mad bombing bastards. (The CIA would as usual too lame to kill these retards.)
If they won't gonna use the patents, why have they filed for them in first place ? Competitors aren't an argument because the publishing of the sources of SELinux according to the GPL would count as prior art. Did they want to troll RMS and Anal Cox or what else ? Or is this statement just a scam ?
At the very high sound levels in clubs a human ear cannot distinguish any longer between the high frequency pitchs which would be affected be low quality encoding. Additionally the standard audience of a club is usually exposed to high sound levels over longer periods therefore having a reduced ability of hearing these high frequencies. BTW: This also affects the DJs, you can check this by making a spectrum analysis of the standard techno/club stuff on MTV. You'll notice extremely repetitive/monotone patterns in the high frequency bands. This is were the club saying: "I'm addicted to bass" comes from.
http://porting.openoffice.org/mac/roadmap.html They seem to build a native C++ interface for the windowing system of OSX. CNET probably confused this with the Java of OpenOffice support.
It's very unlikely that someone tries to build a GUI via Java. People are not that stupid.
As far as I understood the article is that
some dude got a research grant and the guy at the DoD thinks that he might get results eventually. This is nothing very expectional. People in research always get some grants and think that they'll get some results in some time. But often they get only one result: Is doesn't work. Or it does the same as the old stuff but more expensive.
If often wonder if anyone has tried to get a grant for "the development of a disc-shaped flying object" yet.
These comm. distro troubles are not surprising.
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Turbolinux Not Dead Yet
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· Score: 3, Interesting
While competition is a good thing, too much competition in a small market will kill some of the competitors. I wonder how many commercial distros will be left in some years. RedHat, Suse, Debian of course, but others ? Well, you'll have a steady flow of small/niche distros appearing and going bankcrupt soon after.
But I doubt we'll see any other big wonks.
The networked aspect will be important too, but not how it's colored in this article. Your games will ineveitably run graphics processing on your local machine, with non-realtime and background tasks offloaded to others on the network. However, distributed simulation of gaming environments will only really make sense when players become the content producers and the worlds expand procedurally to simulate whatever ideas of interest their imaginations have conjured.
I suspect Sony has something very different in mind. Sony is aiming to become/team up with a big ISPs like AOL etc. PS3 users get cheap/free internet access, but Sony will have access to the computing resources of their boxen.
And the grid will enable them to sell this power to customers. It's no secret that all console companies aim for the internet these days - mainly the reason for the X-Box attack by MS. But the average console owner is a kiddy with no money to pay expensive ISP fees. So they must set up for a system which produces profit, but enables Sony to provide cheap access for the kiddies.
would be the correct title of the article. The idea of using gravitational forces of
other bodies in the solar system is neither new nor wasn't used yet. Modern computational power allows to drag in
the forces of several bodies, making better result possible, but that's hardly surprising. And the "chaos theory" probably means that they just considered the stability of their trajectories.
This is hardly very exciting. The problems of unstable trajectories should be known to any maths undergrad.
So it just boils down to the mad buzzword attack on the holy quest for more govermental funding.
I suppose they don't want the inner workings the box disclosed
because they fear that the competitors
steal their design. But if they had a patent on this stuff
they could agree to the disclosure
without problems. You see a good example would patent would
come in handy and everybody would profit. But they seem to be always at the wrong places.
Everybody knows that these "h4x0r gr0up5" are
just a bunch of attention whores with no clue
at the important topics. Some people will now say: "ohn, p0rn has found
the 3xpl017 for the buffer overflow at IIS 576.37376SGHAF 54678" But sorry sonny, this is no skill. In fact any kiddie with a debugger can create an buffer overflow exploit. If you analyze the "h4x0r" tool these groups publish, you'll soon notice that they are basically based at extremely low technological levels, usually stuff like brute-force password crackers (around since the 70ies) like l0phtcrack and bo-exploits etc. Any CS undergrad with decent programming skills could do these things. It's no surprise that the most famous "h4x0rs" got their fame from with breack-ins done by social engineering or at boxen with extremely low security. For being a real security expert you need extremely broad scientific knowledge and not just a long list of memorized UNIX commands. And these dudes don't have this knowledge at all, e.g. I would be surprised if one of them knows the Riemannian Zeta function at all.
There is a good sign for a bad security company: if they start to hire h4x0r5, then they have no clue at all. And of course we don't need to discuss the issue of "security companies" founded by h4x0r5 at all.
Personally I not surprised of these claims that they sold out each other to the FEDs. These guys are a bunch of no clue wannabe experts with a pathological hang for gaining attention. Such people do such things.
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rushing to put a crash-prone beta-version of some administration software on their system.
Sometimes I wonder if there is no thing like "code red" on linux systems because there is no need for such things.
Usually, women have less qualification for their job then their husband.
Perhaps you should choose the path any secretary etc. would take if they get a highly skilled academic husband:
Staying at home and raise the kids.
Of course, if you wife has an artsy-fartsy profession where she won't make any money ever in her life, this advice wouldn't be very helpful.
I suppose that is is also the reason why most female art profs at universities aren't married.
I think that means that the Havard Law School has a filter which blocks goatse.
Unfortunately there is no censoring in the US.
if all this "low-budget-space-exploration" the NASA does these days is the wrong direction.
With the old expensive programs you got huge bills but you got huge results, too.
The cheap stuff on the other hand tends to fail and doesn't has much scientific content.
Space exploration is not about driving cute robots on mars - actual scientific results are wanted. No matter if the public "loves" them or not.
Perhaps NASA is bound to degenerate to a pseudo-science space-entertaiment agency. If Disney sponsors one of their flights, then we will know it for sure.
Why should this be better than servers ?
P2P will least introduce a scale of lag, and it will probably even cause bandwidth issues (remember that the peers might be connected with lines It seems that they are in fact fucking up a good game just to be on the P2P bandwagon.
I'm rather surprised that Carmack didn't notice that a system like Quake is not an easily distributable computing problem.
Some people say that with money and fame the brain melts.
While it might sound sensible at a first glance to build bigger and bigger telescopes on earth, it is in fact incredible stupid.
Modern telescopes should be located on satellites in earth orbit or even on the moon. The troubles with atmosphere and earth's magnetic field fuck up with any observations, no matter at which wavelength. What these guys do might sound technologically advanced, but it is in fact 19th century science.
Modern astronomy calls for the methods and technology applicable in the 21th century which mainly includes space-based observation.
These fools didn't look even on the facts: the incredible success on the hubble space telescope. (Well, there were some troubles with a lens in the beginning, but this is a typical NASA fault: replying too much flawed technology just because it comes from the US, instead of choosing superior European engineering).
WLAN eletromagnetic waves & cheap plane electronics => loose control at 1500 ft
The earth is not flat but warflyers are.
You can look at it, you like it, you wish you have it, but you never really get it.
These guys install wireless access everywhere.
At first sight this seems to be very nice, but it fill all places with electromagnetic waves and stuff. But the consequences for environment and health of human being are still not clear.
This might be like nucelar power - at first everybody thinks that it's good and fun and games, but then are mutations everywhere and nobody wants all these nuclear powered cars anymore.
that they can openly sell a device which only purpose is to create illegal copies of music.
Won't the RIAA attack them with legal killer drones ?
Well there is some "free" music out there, but this stuff is mainly free because noone would be so foolish to buy it.
By adding new features to the XBox via modchips you are in fact helping MS to make more profit and to push competitors like Sony etc out of the market. /.)
Why were the other operating system features of the XBox blocked ?
Because MS is under attack of the justice departments and anti-monopoly investigators, being accused of building up monopolies with illegal measures.
If MS tried to push Sony etc out of the market with a cheap, versatile, all purpose gaming computer they would be sacked.
But they can't be blamed for building a normal console. That's fair business. And if h4x0rz turn it into a real computer, they can't be blamed, really ? They threatened some legal action but this is just to make the scam really complete. And, in fact, they didn't sue the real XBox hacker at MIT. (? Caltech, look up yourself at
Oh, we don't want to sue little cute grad students. Hahaha. Nobody is so foolish to believe this.
that this Microsoft booth will put the whole OSS community into serious trouble.
We all know these ultra zealots like RMS et al. These people have only a little self-control if they are writing about closed source systems.
What will such people do if they see a MS booth at the Linux world ?
If they get mad and storm it and chase the poor MS employees around, it will be very easy for the MS PR department to portrait all OSS supporters as raving half-terrorists. This might result in Bush creating laws for prohibiting OSS at the US (at least at universities and colleges).
So they MS booth might provide much harm for OS systems. There is even the possibility that MS especially planned such events.
They were lucky. Otherwise it would be intervehicle accidents and high speed metal warping at 65 mph.
An important tool is to create intresting but ominous scientific claims which a only be verified by going to Mars.
There is still to problem with the "robots only" league, but I expect further onimous arguments in this direction.
But on the other hand, what's useful for science can't be wrong, right ? At least it's not such a brainless waste of money like the dotcom hype.
Imagine a spy fly with a injection system which infects people with serious deseases like Hepatitis A/B/C or AIDS.
Goodbye, Mr. President/Chancellor/King/Gran Genernalissimo.
On the other hand the Mossad can use this system to take out these mad bombing bastards. (The CIA would as usual too lame to kill these retards.)
Yet another fool who confuses correlation with causality.
If they won't gonna use the patents, why have they filed for them in first place ?
Competitors aren't an argument because the publishing of the sources of SELinux according to the GPL would count as prior art.
Did they want to troll RMS and Anal Cox or what else ?
Or is this statement just a scam ?
At the very high sound levels in clubs a human ear cannot distinguish any longer between the high frequency pitchs which would be affected be low quality encoding.
Additionally the standard audience of a club is usually exposed to high sound levels over longer periods therefore having a reduced ability of hearing these high frequencies.
BTW: This also affects the DJs, you can check this by making a spectrum analysis of the standard techno/club stuff on MTV. You'll notice extremely repetitive/monotone patterns in the high frequency bands. This is were the club saying: "I'm addicted to bass" comes from.
They seem to build a native C++ interface for the windowing system of OSX.
CNET probably confused this with the Java of OpenOffice support.
It's very unlikely that someone tries to build a GUI via Java. People are not that stupid.
This is nothing very expectional.
People in research always get some grants and think that they'll get some results in some time.
But often they get only one result: Is doesn't work. Or it does the same as the old stuff but more expensive.
If often wonder if anyone has tried to get a grant for "the development of a disc-shaped flying object" yet.
While competition is a good thing, too much competition in a small market will kill some of the competitors.
I wonder how many commercial distros will be left in some years. RedHat, Suse, Debian of course, but others ?
Well, you'll have a steady flow of small/niche distros appearing and going bankcrupt soon after. But I doubt we'll see any other big wonks.
I suspect Sony has something very different in mind. Sony is aiming to become/team up with a big ISPs like AOL etc. PS3 users get cheap/free internet access, but Sony will have access to the computing resources of their boxen. And the grid will enable them to sell this power to customers.
It's no secret that all console companies aim for the internet these days - mainly the reason for the X-Box attack by MS. But the average console owner is a kiddy with no money to pay expensive ISP fees. So they must set up for a system which produces profit, but enables Sony to provide cheap access for the kiddies.
The idea of using gravitational forces of other bodies in the solar system is neither new nor wasn't used yet.
Modern computational power allows to drag in the forces of several bodies, making better result possible, but that's hardly surprising.
And the "chaos theory" probably means that they just considered the stability of their trajectories. This is hardly very exciting. The problems of unstable trajectories should be known to any maths undergrad.
So it just boils down to the mad buzzword attack on the holy quest for more govermental funding.
I suppose they don't want the inner workings the box disclosed because they fear that the competitors steal their design.
But if they had a patent on this stuff they could agree to the disclosure without problems.
You see a good example would patent would come in handy and everybody would profit.
But they seem to be always at the wrong places.
Some people will now say: "ohn, p0rn has found the 3xpl017 for the buffer overflow at IIS 576.37376SGHAF 54678"
But sorry sonny, this is no skill.
In fact any kiddie with a debugger can create an buffer overflow exploit. If you analyze the "h4x0r" tool these groups publish, you'll soon notice that they are basically based at extremely low technological levels, usually stuff like brute-force password crackers (around since the 70ies) like l0phtcrack and bo-exploits etc.
Any CS undergrad with decent programming skills could do these things.
It's no surprise that the most famous "h4x0rs" got their fame from with breack-ins done by social engineering or at boxen with extremely low security.
For being a real security expert you need extremely broad scientific knowledge and not just a long list of memorized UNIX commands. And these dudes don't have this knowledge at all, e.g. I would be surprised if one of them knows the Riemannian Zeta function at all.
There is a good sign for a bad security company: if they start to hire h4x0r5, then they have no clue at all. And of course we don't need to discuss the issue of "security companies" founded by h4x0r5 at all.
Personally I not surprised of these claims that they sold out each other to the FEDs. These guys are a bunch of no clue wannabe experts with a pathological hang for gaining attention. Such people do such things.