Solitaire has a much better plot than minesweeper, is less violent and enhances you illectual capacity. It runs on more platforms than minesweeper, there are even forms of solitaire which run without an computer or any electric power !
Why should we even consider playing minesweeper ?
It's obviously much worse.
...to buy such a book at all ?
The information in there would be outdated in a couple of months, and the new version would be aviable in some years.
You can get decent security information on the net why even brother to buy a book ?
(Ha, you can even get the tools to test your security on the net...just ask some script kiddie)
but without "compatibility" to standard of the beast, don't call it's name, "DirectX", we won't see much games ported.
Loki hadn't great business success and most major game companies will refrain from porting to linux as long this needs expensive porting. The profit margins aren't that big in the gaming industry.
The linux desktop community is not big enough to justify larger investments.
Well nothing new there.
Linux is more complicated for newbies than XP, but linux is just more powerful than XP. I don't see people transforming an XP box into an firewall/web server/etc. instandly. A chainsaw is more powerful than a fork, but also more dangerous.
And they noted that there are some standard apps not aviable for linux, well anyone doesn't know this ?
But WindRiver is a company.
Microsoft has already crushed several market leaders by creating dumping prices and/or using their sheer economic power to make up for any losses in the start phase.
This strategy won't work per definition on free software, so open source is the major threat for them.
to have decent international treaties which regulate such incidents.
I think the only problem that we don't have such things is that states like Iran or China etc. would try to use them to silence any opposition located in different countries or even to silence negative press.
Note that this isn't unlikely, I remember the case of an Iranian author (?) who was arrested in Iran because he attended an converence in Berlin which a not viewed positive by the Iranian goverment. And btw the converence in Berlin was organized by one of the ruling parties in Germany, the Greens.
So you can't count on these guys to "play fair".
The other question would be of course if any rulings could be enforced at all. International treaties are one thing, but enforcement often fails. That e.g. the treaties for returning abducted children after a divorce. The rules are pretty clear but the involved countries usually try to keep the children (cases from US, Germany, France well known).
> OpenMail is the *only* e-mail platform out
there, besides Exchange that will support a whole slew of Microsoft Outlook features
Does this mean that there is a unix mail platform out there which supports all kind of email virii ?
I think at least the script kiddies will love this.
And there are some people out there who claim that big companies don't do enough for our children !
...makes no sense.
Look, these guys will fail anyways.
IBM seemed to be indestructible at the beginning of the 80 and now they are just one major player among others
Computer industry moves, and does it fast. Sooner or later MS will fail to keep up and that'll be the end of their monopoly.
There are arleady signs these days that this will happen.
Look at their anti open source campain. By ranting against linux and the GPL they made just free advertisments for *BSD.
And what is the major treat for windows ?
A hobbiest style, buggy OS like linux (just see the umount bug) or a stable, professional system like *BSD.
These days 65.34 percent of the high performance, professional applications in the unix section use already *BSD, and this is growing these days.
The overall linux score on the net is higher, but that's mainly due to the large percentage of hobbiest/badly administrated web servers. And even these numbers are changing just look at netcraft.
Anyone who has some slight knowledge in CS know the problems of the classical complexity classes and their implications to AI.
AI has failed. None of it's promises has been fulfilled. The modern "achivements" come mainly from the fact that most AI researchers have lowered their standards so that they can provide at least some results.
So this technological rant is utter nonsense. Today's computer concepts are very unlikely to meet every the conditions of having "intelligence". The only thing that might work are new conpects like quantum computing or the replication of working, intelligent biological systems. However it's not known these days if the quantum approach scales up well which is crucial for attacking AI problems. And which all more complicated biological systems we have only a little clue how they work.
So the technological singularity is science on crack.
BTW: It's an interesting question if out intelligence is the possible upper limit for intelligent behavior of a physical system. Perhaps we are after all really the crown of the evolution.
Many old stuff is very valuable these days.
Just look at old wines. People are paying $$$ for something that was bottled 120 years ago.
Or take paintings. An old Van Gogh is worth several million dollars, but my fresh painted pictures don't get sold even if they cost 10 cents.
Of course the old things must be well build and have had some class in it's time. Look there at mummies. The mummy of Rames is really priceless because he was a big powerful pharao, but nobody cares about the mummies of egyptian tax clerks. The same goes for dinosaurs, the stoned bones of a T-Rex are worth much bucks, but small old stoned sea shells aren't worth anything. this is obviously because the Rex is much bigger and did more damage and grandstand in it's time
The same really goes for the B52s. As a formidable conventional weapon for mass destruction in their time, they are still used by the pentagon for nostalgic reasons as remembrance to the times were still everything could be bombed to dust without consequences.
A pile of duct tape junk might seem ridiculus, but it worked. The MIR had the double lifetime it was designed for. And I must remind you that the US hadn't build a decent space station, a technology which will be crucial for interplanetary travel. And why the cooperation for the Russians on the Alpha space station ? Because the US has no cheap supply spaceship (shuttles are too expensive) and they have no technology for building decent space stations.
I the context of the Russian ship the pile of duct tape would work like this:
Hey, sonar shows a huge pile of duct tape approaching !
Hmmm, doesn't seem dangerous, just the ole russian crap...
Hey something goes off there !
What ?
Oh, seems like a ultrasonic miss...KABOOM
It's good when technology has a nice wrapping, but the most important thing about technology is that is works. Which is in fact the case for many russian things.
In some years open software will take over and their monopoly will be gone forever just like IBM.
And these guys don't see this really comeing, therefore they are doomed.
You'll now say that MS attacked linux and the GPL several times already. But will this help them ?
The main share of professional
open source OSs is the *BSD series. Linux has a high market share but this is mainly hobbiest stuff and webservers set up by admins with "I dropped out from CS, because all this theory suckz really". The high level, high performance share is *BSD. And MS stated that the BSD licence is "good" therefore making advertisments for their main competitor.
So I think in the long term MS is doomed and all this anti-trust/breakdown stuff is obsolete and a waste of taxpayers money.
Of course a non US-citizen is slightly amused who easily you waste your economic power.
Again a successful strike against the habit of the US to extend their legislation to other countries.
This must be stopped because if the US do this China and Iran will do it, too. And women might be arrested on tourist trips in the middle east for having a homepage which shows pictures of them to other men or even show them without their head covered with a sack.
From the legal point there is no difference between the laws in Iran/China and the US, if US laws hold on all the internet, then China's/Iran's does it, too.
Hobbiest programming languages like perl or basic are of course not suitable for professional purposes.
For this reason many computer scientist like very lowly of perl, basic or even lisp. But I think this is not right. Such easy to learn languages serve very well to make children interested in computers. This has many good effects.
Many of these children become addicted to computers and become in later life computer scientists or electrical engineers.
You have to read a lot when using a computer, so programming languages fight illiteracy.
The best example for this are the slashdot editors who improve their spelling by programming in perl.
It keeps the children off the street and keeps them from smoking crack or raid candy stores.
It make people buying computers and help the ruined computer industry.
So donate please all money ! This is all very good.
People confuse often all different types of unix operating systems with linux or *BSD.
If there is now this huge hole in Solaris/AIX many people will think there is a security hole in Linux or even OpenBSD.
Especially mainframe firms confuse these operating system, even IBM ported accidentially Linux to their big severs, because they though it's some kind of new unix brand.
So this security hole might help microsoft very much to install their operating systems everywhere because they say: Hey look at this hole at linux !!! which is a lie but people won't know the difference, really.
So this might be very bad.
I wonder if some script kiddies are behind this hole, this is always the same: You look, and, hey, there is a script kiddie behind the security hole ! (The famous script kiddie surprise.)
Gourmix 2003 / Linux (Red Hat?) / 40 gig HD / TMS 7463
FORT alpha / MS XP / 10 gig / R45N / enternet 100 (Intel chip ?)
Canberra XF / MS XP / 30 gig / LTFT 100x78
Zodiac Brightline / Red Hat linux / 20 gig / RTD 6A53
Fukanjika / WIN 2000 / 25 gig / FTFT 536AF
I use the Fuka, but some people say the batteries of the FORT hold out longer (never tested it, though).
All mainly Taiwan/Chinese/Korean stuff and a little hard to get.
You have some trouble installing linux on the Windooze ones because they use very non standard graphics cards. Unless you like the good ole text mode, I won't recommend them.
For further information a recommend the transmeta user groups, there are some around, but a little hard to find, too.
Last warning, only the FORT has some enternet stuff, so you might run into more expenses.
With a file server full of ripped MP3z or ripped DVDs or ripped pr0n or warez I wouldn't use any backup system for an emergency.
I would rather recommend a working data destruction system for the inevitable emergency.
This is much more difficult then you think because law enforcement authorities know about IBAS/Ontrack labs and use them.
The other way for security is not storing illegal data. I think this is the safest.
A large portion of most representatives of the democratic goverments in the western world come from a legal/govermental burocratic background (laywers etc.)
So I sometimes wonder if all the laws these people create are really needed. It seems that many constructions are really of academic nature. These days it seems that the internet will be drowned by overregulation. Why can't we get around with more "common sense" laws instead of trying to create thing which really cover everything ?
It seems to me that the main reason for this is that too many laywers etc. are in the goverments. A mathematican would never ever create such a heap of laws. He would just create some simple, understandable rules from which everything could be easily derived. I very often wonder if there are the wrong people in the goverment. Perhaps should we just use the proposal of Douglas Adams (of course we'll keep the telephone disinfectioners).
These days children become more and more addicted to computers games.
Recent studies have already shown a rapid decline of their logic and lingual abilities.
The slashdot editors should be aware that a large part of their community consists of children at an age below 16.
Children at this age are not capable to defend themselves from the lure of the computer gaming commercials. They need the help of grown-ups not to fall for computer games and become addicted. Probably most underaged slashdot readers are already overstrained with processing all the information they found on the internet.
When they are exposed to computer game propagandizing sites they'll have no chance against the psychological tricks used there and fall for computer gaming addiction at once.
Personally I think posting such stories here is totally irresponsible of the slashdot editors.
Therefore I beg you to stop it.
It's for the future of the generations to come.
Why they need computers connected to the internet at the olympic games ?
They need of course some data storage facilities for the information about the sportsmen, events, scores etc. But I don't see why these computers must be connected to the internet. The 100 meter runners will be very unlikely to surf on the net while stetting up the newest world record.
And personally i doubt that people who do so much sport can use computers without being helped.
We all know that strong physical action reduces the amount of oxygen in the brain killing thousand of nervous cells like alcohol.
They claim that they want to present the scores on the net, but this is just the useless usual internet hype. Which person who uses the internet is interested in sports ? Nobody, really. You might now say that there is AOL these days but you can't access the whole internet with AOL so this is no point.
This is a very good example how the goverments money is wasted all over I think next they'll raise our taxes and make us pay. These sports dudes don't need an expensive internet access and i wouldn't be surprised if these admin guys are the brothers-in-law of some sports burocrats in Washington, Alabama.
BTW: I weigh 200 lbs, does anyone know how to loose some weight ?
They are building standard for centralized identification.
At the first sight this might be not like MS passport, but the key point is the same: all your data is stored with one company for identification.
But is this the right direction altogether ?
Wouldn't it much better but create distributed authentification systems. These systems could provide decent (and working) anonymisation, because some parts wouldn't have enough information to compromise your anonymity.
They would be more reliable due to being to centralized and they could be really used even for local identification.
Would it be clever and useful to retrive always data from microsoft just for local print jobs etc.
Yes, of course, you don't need today passport/derivatives for local identification, and yes in can be done in the old way. But all passport like systems won't even have the possibility to handle such things.
They are not scaleable to fine grained levels.
Only big stuff, credit card alike.
And so they'll fail because I think someone will create and distribute approach which is better and only the wind of the desert will howl at the ruins of passport and liberty.
(And when noone does it, I'll do it and all written in assembler which won't work just to punish you lazy goats.)
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It runs on more platforms than minesweeper, there are even forms of solitaire which run without an computer or any electric power !
Why should we even consider playing minesweeper ?
It's obviously much worse.
...to buy such a book at all ?
The information in there would be outdated in a couple of months, and the new version would be aviable in some years.
You can get decent security information on the net why even brother to buy a book ?
(Ha, you can even get the tools to test your security on the net...just ask some script kiddie)
but without "compatibility" to standard of the beast, don't call it's name, "DirectX", we won't see much games ported.
Loki hadn't great business success and most major game companies will refrain from porting to linux as long this needs expensive porting. The profit margins aren't that big in the gaming industry. The linux desktop community is not big enough to justify larger investments.
Linux is more complicated for newbies than XP, but linux is just more powerful than XP. I don't see people transforming an XP box into an firewall/web server/etc. instandly. A chainsaw is more powerful than a fork, but also more dangerous.
And they noted that there are some standard apps not aviable for linux, well anyone doesn't know this ?
So no need for bitching about them.
Microsoft has already crushed several market leaders by creating dumping prices and/or using their sheer economic power to make up for any losses in the start phase.
This strategy won't work per definition on free software, so open source is the major threat for them.
You don't have to use C to confuse people.
I think the only problem that we don't have such things is that states like Iran or China etc. would try to use them to silence any opposition located in different countries or even to silence negative press.
Note that this isn't unlikely, I remember the case of an Iranian author (?) who was arrested in Iran because he attended an converence in Berlin which a not viewed positive by the Iranian goverment. And btw the converence in Berlin was organized by one of the ruling parties in Germany, the Greens. So you can't count on these guys to "play fair".
The other question would be of course if any rulings could be enforced at all. International treaties are one thing, but enforcement often fails. That e.g. the treaties for returning abducted children after a divorce. The rules are pretty clear but the involved countries usually try to keep the children (cases from US, Germany, France well known).
...hits the moon.
Please don't reply something very intelligent like "that's more unlikely, 'cos the moon is smaller than earth".
You must have been very bad boys that you get something like this on christmas.
No shiny little music for you !
At least my ancestors were right when they decided to remain at home, everything turns to shit sooner or later.
Does this mean that there is a unix mail platform out there which supports all kind of email virii ?
I think at least the script kiddies will love this.
And there are some people out there who claim that big companies don't do enough for our children !
Look, these guys will fail anyways.
IBM seemed to be indestructible at the beginning of the 80 and now they are just one major player among others
Computer industry moves, and does it fast. Sooner or later MS will fail to keep up and that'll be the end of their monopoly.
There are arleady signs these days that this will happen.
Look at their anti open source campain. By ranting against linux and the GPL they made just free advertisments for *BSD.
And what is the major treat for windows ?
A hobbiest style, buggy OS like linux (just see the umount bug) or a stable, professional system like *BSD.
These days 65.34 percent of the high performance, professional applications in the unix section use already *BSD, and this is growing these days.
The overall linux score on the net is higher, but that's mainly due to the large percentage of hobbiest/badly administrated web servers. And even these numbers are changing just look at netcraft.
AI has failed. None of it's promises has been fulfilled. The modern "achivements" come mainly from the fact that most AI researchers have lowered their standards so that they can provide at least some results.
So this technological rant is utter nonsense. Today's computer concepts are very unlikely to meet every the conditions of having "intelligence". The only thing that might work are new conpects like quantum computing or the replication of working, intelligent biological systems. However it's not known these days if the quantum approach scales up well which is crucial for attacking AI problems. And which all more complicated biological systems we have only a little clue how they work.
So the technological singularity is science on crack.
BTW: It's an interesting question if out intelligence is the possible upper limit for intelligent behavior of a physical system. Perhaps we are after all really the crown of the evolution.
Just look at old wines. People are paying $$$ for something that was bottled 120 years ago.
Or take paintings. An old Van Gogh is worth several million dollars, but my fresh painted pictures don't get sold even if they cost 10 cents.
Of course the old things must be well build and have had some class in it's time. Look there at mummies. The mummy of Rames is really priceless because he was a big powerful pharao, but nobody cares about the mummies of egyptian tax clerks. The same goes for dinosaurs, the stoned bones of a T-Rex are worth much bucks, but small old stoned sea shells aren't worth anything. this is obviously because the Rex is much bigger and did more damage and grandstand in it's time
The same really goes for the B52s. As a formidable conventional weapon for mass destruction in their time, they are still used by the pentagon for nostalgic reasons as remembrance to the times were still everything could be bombed to dust without consequences.
I the context of the Russian ship the pile of duct tape would work like this:
Hey, sonar shows a huge pile of duct tape approaching !
Hmmm, doesn't seem dangerous, just the ole russian crap...
Hey something goes off there !
What ?
Oh, seems like a ultrasonic miss...KABOOM
It's good when technology has a nice wrapping, but the most important thing about technology is that is works. Which is in fact the case for many russian things.
And these guys don't see this really comeing, therefore they are doomed.
You'll now say that MS attacked linux and the GPL several times already. But will this help them ?
The main share of professional open source OSs is the *BSD series. Linux has a high market share but this is mainly hobbiest stuff and webservers set up by admins with "I dropped out from CS, because all this theory suckz really". The high level, high performance share is *BSD. And MS stated that the BSD licence is "good" therefore making advertisments for their main competitor.
So I think in the long term MS is doomed and all this anti-trust/breakdown stuff is obsolete and a waste of taxpayers money.
Of course a non US-citizen is slightly amused who easily you waste your economic power.
Again a successful strike against the habit of the US to extend their legislation to other countries.
This must be stopped because if the US do this China and Iran will do it, too. And women might be arrested on tourist trips in the middle east for having a homepage which shows pictures of them to other men or even show them without their head covered with a sack.
From the legal point there is no difference between the laws in Iran/China and the US, if US laws hold on all the internet, then China's/Iran's does it, too.
For this reason many computer scientist like very lowly of perl, basic or even lisp. But I think this is not right. Such easy to learn languages serve very well to make children interested in computers. This has many good effects.
- Many of these children become addicted to computers and become in later life computer scientists or electrical engineers.
- You have to read a lot when using a computer, so programming languages fight illiteracy.
The best example for this are the slashdot editors who improve their spelling by programming in perl.
- It keeps the children off the street and keeps them from smoking crack or raid candy stores.
- It make people buying computers and help the ruined computer industry.
So donate please all money ! This is all very good.If there is now this huge hole in Solaris/AIX many people will think there is a security hole in Linux or even OpenBSD.
Especially mainframe firms confuse these operating system, even IBM ported accidentially Linux to their big severs, because they though it's some kind of new unix brand.
So this security hole might help microsoft very much to install their operating systems everywhere because they say: Hey look at this hole at linux !!! which is a lie but people won't know the difference, really.
So this might be very bad.
I wonder if some script kiddies are behind this hole, this is always the same: You look, and, hey, there is a script kiddie behind the security hole ! (The famous script kiddie surprise.)
- Gourmix 2003 / Linux (Red Hat?) / 40 gig HD / TMS 7463
- FORT alpha / MS XP / 10 gig / R45N / enternet 100 (Intel chip ?)
- Canberra XF / MS XP / 30 gig / LTFT 100x78
- Zodiac Brightline / Red Hat linux / 20 gig / RTD 6A53
- Fukanjika / WIN 2000 / 25 gig / FTFT 536AF
I use the Fuka, but some people say the batteries of the FORT hold out longer (never tested it, though).All mainly Taiwan/Chinese/Korean stuff and a little hard to get.
You have some trouble installing linux on the Windooze ones because they use very non standard graphics cards. Unless you like the good ole text mode, I won't recommend them.
For further information a recommend the transmeta user groups, there are some around, but a little hard to find, too.
Last warning, only the FORT has some enternet stuff, so you might run into more expenses.
I would rather recommend a working data destruction system for the inevitable emergency.
This is much more difficult then you think because law enforcement authorities know about IBAS/Ontrack labs and use them.
The other way for security is not storing illegal data. I think this is the safest.
So I sometimes wonder if all the laws these people create are really needed. It seems that many constructions are really of academic nature. These days it seems that the internet will be drowned by overregulation. Why can't we get around with more "common sense" laws instead of trying to create thing which really cover everything ?
It seems to me that the main reason for this is that too many laywers etc. are in the goverments. A mathematican would never ever create such a heap of laws. He would just create some simple, understandable rules from which everything could be easily derived. I very often wonder if there are the wrong people in the goverment. Perhaps should we just use the proposal of Douglas Adams (of course we'll keep the telephone disinfectioners).
For further information please check out this.
Sorry, don't know the exact reference.
Recent studies have already shown a rapid decline of their logic and lingual abilities.
The slashdot editors should be aware that a large part of their community consists of children at an age below 16.
Children at this age are not capable to defend themselves from the lure of the computer gaming commercials.
They need the help of grown-ups not to fall for computer games and become addicted. Probably most underaged slashdot readers are already overstrained with processing all the information they found on the internet.
When they are exposed to computer game propagandizing sites they'll have no chance against the psychological tricks used there and fall for computer gaming addiction at once.
Personally I think posting such stories here is totally irresponsible of the slashdot editors.
Therefore I beg you to stop it.
It's for the future of the generations to come.
Why they need computers connected to the internet at the olympic games ?
They need of course some data storage facilities for the information about the sportsmen, events, scores etc. But I don't see why these computers must be connected to the internet. The 100 meter runners will be very unlikely to surf on the net while stetting up the newest world record.
And personally i doubt that people who do so much sport can use computers without being helped.
We all know that strong physical action reduces the amount of oxygen in the brain killing thousand of nervous cells like alcohol.
They claim that they want to present the scores on the net, but this is just the useless usual internet hype. Which person who uses the internet is interested in sports ? Nobody, really. You might now say that there is AOL these days but you can't access the whole internet with AOL so this is no point.
This is a very good example how the goverments money is wasted all over I think next they'll raise our taxes and make us pay. These sports dudes don't need an expensive internet access and i wouldn't be surprised if these admin guys are the brothers-in-law of some sports burocrats in Washington, Alabama.
BTW: I weigh 200 lbs, does anyone know how to loose some weight ?
They are building standard for centralized identification.
At the first sight this might be not like MS passport, but the key point is the same: all your data is stored with one company for identification.
But is this the right direction altogether ?
Wouldn't it much better but create distributed authentification systems. These systems could provide decent (and working) anonymisation, because some parts wouldn't have enough information to compromise your anonymity.
They would be more reliable due to being to centralized and they could be really used even for local identification.
Would it be clever and useful to retrive always data from microsoft just for local print jobs etc.
Yes, of course, you don't need today passport/derivatives for local identification, and yes in can be done in the old way. But all passport like systems won't even have the possibility to handle such things.
They are not scaleable to fine grained levels.
Only big stuff, credit card alike.
And so they'll fail because I think someone will create and distribute approach which is better and only the wind of the desert will howl at the ruins of passport and liberty.
(And when noone does it, I'll do it and all written in assembler which won't work just to punish you lazy goats.)