People are writing 4k intros for linux, there are even some tools for doing just that. Also check this out, a Linux program just 45 bytes long, shorter then the ELF executable header:P.
Although, mainly gaming focused (not built from the demoscene like in eu) and not quite as huge. My quick googling turned up this obvious site which lists mainly events in the US and Canada.
RISC and CISC aren't technologies, they're design ideologies. And like political ideologies, they have been strayed from in the interests of practicality. Intel/AMD chips all use RISC-ish designs with instruction translation stages. And the PPC architecture has some very complex instructions (alti-vec?)
The reason risc is more common nowadays is because it's easier to design and write optimizing compilers for. Software issues, not hardware ones.
Or, you could write a crack, and release it sans source. That way, it's protected by the DMCA. You can market it as a "sound quality enhancer" or some such.
Would it kill you to actualy read the DMCA before opening your mouth?
But if you already have control of the users machine, what the hell would the point be of hijacking windows update? remember, the whole point of the operation? to get control of the users machine?
...since the possession of the tools to violate a copyright has been criminalized, we have yet another case of circular legal "logic." The only tool necessary to violate this particular copyright is the very operating system that the copyrighted software (the updater/full-installer) installs (or an earlier version of same).
Huh? 'tools to violate copyright' have not been criminalized, tools to violate copyright controll mechanisms have been criminalized. Since OSX dosn't have any extra protection, that part of the DMCA dosn't cover it.
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Can judges be impeached? Can they have their positions revoked? I'm pretty sure the Supreme Court Justices are appointed for life but what about the lower levels
Most judges are apointed for like as in the supreme court (although they can get promoted, etc). Some state and county judges are elected though, but not many. Also some states let you give 'no confedence' votes for certan judges. All judges can be impeached, but it's just as hard as getting the president impeached.
While its true that slashdot gets a lot more traffic, it gets porportionaly way, way, more spam/crap. There are actualy less 'zeroed' comments on k5 then there are front page stories (most of the time), and those are almost always simply over-the-line insults and stuff. There is none of the 'penis-bird' type bullshit that slashdot seems to get at all
We keep seeing cryptographic copy control attempted and broken. DVD-CSS, SMDI, the high bandwidth crypto stuff mentioned on slashdot recently.
Do you think it's at all possible to create a true playback control system? Perhaps using public key crypto and un-hackable hardware? Or do you believe that it is truly mathematically impossible to do
Actualy, the way k5 works is that after uses have gotten a certan amount of 'mojo' which is a 'temproaly weighted' average of the ratings done to them, they become 'trusted users', and they can vote posts to zero. If a post is at zero, then only other trusted users can see it. It actualy works extreemly well, because only people who are smart (or at least can write well) can remove things from view. k5 dosn't (or didn't) have any of the crapflood style problems of slashdot when it was running.
Um, there are only four billion possible IP address, even if from each IP people voted on a thousand pages a month, you'd only have 1k*URLlength*4billion, or about 1 terabyte or so. Considering a mole is like 6.0*10^18(iirc) you'd have trillions times less bits then you would have atoms in a cup of water.
When I'm not pimping for autopr0n.com my regular account on slashdot is in the 20,000s! and my k5 account is in the 140s! I'm better then both of you! Bow down to my overwhelming l33tn3s! Hell, I'm not l337, I'm l336! It's a lower number, get it? Oh yeh.
Anyway, I find it humorous that two people who's UID's are probably different by probably a month or two arguing over non-newbie ness.
Maybe the reason k5 died is because of clueless wonks like you poisoned it with your inane, OT drivel.
K5 died because, well, one of CPUs like fell out of the socket or somethen when some morons were moving the server.
Kuro5hin has been down for a few days, and will probably continue to be down for a few more for the reasons I'll reveal here. First off, we've had some colo problems. VHosting is great, but VHosting can't control it when the people who actually have the rack/cage space decide to move (without telling anyone) a hundred or so of their customer's servers to another facility.
Anyway, slashdot's moderation system is pretty lame, kuro5hin's just works better.
they wont put the resources into that large and complex of a system
Are you sure? Remember these guys are sitting on a cache of almost the entire web right now. I think if google wanted to do this right they would have the resources they needed.
Well, given slashdot's rather... uh... interesting interface given comments that have been modded down I can only assume that you're responding to the post about Gator software, and not some other post I can't see.
In which case, you'd be wrong. Gator is basically a combination Spyware/local add server that replaces advertising on the 'net with it's own. And it runs locally on people's PCs. Millions of PCs. And those PCs aren't all on the same network.
Right now Google is funded by VCs looking for a quick buck on the IPO bandwagon (eventually). They'll probably wait until the 'dot-bomb' hysteria dies down. But the plan was always to IPO.
I wonder if it would be possible for individuals more interested in having a good search engine rather then reams of profit to buy a large enough chunk of the company in order to keep the company the same way it is now?
That said, I'm sure google's people have thought this out a lot more then slashdot's On Crack(TM) moderation system (maybe something more like kuro5hin's, with averaged rather then additive scoring).
On the other hand, you're always going to have a problem with majority tastes, which would class N'Sync as better then Radiohead...
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I thought it was a photo of a city at night. That's how nuts this LAN party is!
1.25k of useless blather, 79bytes of point. (btw, I don't know of any browsers that don't let you open multiple windows)
Well, gee, if you can't even show a picture of it, I don't think I want to be there!
I think you have that backwards, man.
People are writing 4k intros for linux, there are even some tools for doing just that. Also check this out, a Linux program just 45 bytes long, shorter then the ELF executable header :P.
Although, mainly gaming focused (not built from the demoscene like in eu) and not quite as huge. My quick googling turned up this obvious site which lists mainly events in the US and Canada.
(clickable link, for the lazy) pictures of the setup of the site very cool
Well, you can't really stick two CPUs in one CPU socket. From the pictures it looks like the chips are on cards that can be swapped out.
RISC and CISC aren't technologies, they're design ideologies. And like political ideologies, they have been strayed from in the interests of practicality. Intel/AMD chips all use RISC-ish designs with instruction translation stages. And the PPC architecture has some very complex instructions (alti-vec?)
The reason risc is more common nowadays is because it's easier to design and write optimizing compilers for. Software issues, not hardware ones.
Or, you could write a crack, and release it sans source. That way, it's protected by the DMCA. You can market it as a "sound quality enhancer" or some such.
Would it kill you to actualy read the DMCA before opening your mouth?
But if you already have control of the users machine, what the hell would the point be of hijacking windows update? remember, the whole point of the operation? to get control of the users machine?
Don't you mean IR?
It should be a snap to take over windows on one of the automatic updates, without the user ever being the wiser.
Actually, it would be impossible, as the FBI would need Microsoft's private signing key.
Besides, you'd need to have a lot more people 'in' on it, M$, the ISP, etc. OTOH, ML already tunnels through various security holes if they're there.
...since the possession of the tools to violate a copyright has been criminalized, we have yet another case of circular legal "logic." The only tool necessary to violate this particular copyright is the very operating system that the copyrighted software (the updater/full-installer) installs (or an earlier version of same).
Huh? 'tools to violate copyright' have not been criminalized, tools to violate copyright controll mechanisms have been criminalized. Since OSX dosn't have any extra protection, that part of the DMCA dosn't cover it.
Can judges be impeached? Can they have their positions revoked? I'm pretty sure the Supreme Court Justices are appointed for life but what about the lower levels
Most judges are apointed for like as in the supreme court (although they can get promoted, etc). Some state and county judges are elected though, but not many. Also some states let you give 'no confedence' votes for certan judges. All judges can be impeached, but it's just as hard as getting the president impeached.
if youd've read one sentance further, you'd have gotten to the part where he said he was going to get a law degree.
YES. Absolutely. Their mission isn't to defend people, its to protect Electronic Freedom
That isn't the case at all. EEF was created to help defend people as well as change the law.
The RIAA has said spesificaly that they would not sue him. He was suing them for threating to sue him.
While its true that slashdot gets a lot more traffic, it gets porportionaly way, way, more spam/crap. There are actualy less 'zeroed' comments on k5 then there are front page stories (most of the time), and those are almost always simply over-the-line insults and stuff. There is none of the 'penis-bird' type bullshit that slashdot seems to get at all
We keep seeing cryptographic copy control attempted and broken. DVD-CSS, SMDI, the high bandwidth crypto stuff mentioned on slashdot recently.
Do you think it's at all possible to create a true playback control system? Perhaps using public key crypto and un-hackable hardware? Or do you believe that it is truly mathematically impossible to do
Actualy, the way k5 works is that after uses have gotten a certan amount of 'mojo' which is a 'temproaly weighted' average of the ratings done to them, they become 'trusted users', and they can vote posts to zero. If a post is at zero, then only other trusted users can see it. It actualy works extreemly well, because only people who are smart (or at least can write well) can remove things from view. k5 dosn't (or didn't) have any of the crapflood style problems of slashdot when it was running.
Um, there are only four billion possible IP address, even if from each IP people voted on a thousand pages a month, you'd only have 1k*URLlength*4billion, or about 1 terabyte or so. Considering a mole is like 6.0*10^18(iirc) you'd have trillions times less bits then you would have atoms in a cup of water.
When I'm not pimping for autopr0n.com my regular account on slashdot is in the 20,000s! and my k5 account is in the 140s! I'm better then both of you! Bow down to my overwhelming l33tn3s! Hell, I'm not l337, I'm l336! It's a lower number, get it? Oh yeh.
Anyway, I find it humorous that two people who's UID's are probably different by probably a month or two arguing over non-newbie ness.
Maybe the reason k5 died is because of clueless wonks like you poisoned it with your inane, OT drivel.
K5 died because, well, one of CPUs like fell out of the socket or somethen when some morons were moving the server.
Kuro5hin has been down for a few days, and will probably continue to be down for a few more for the reasons I'll reveal here. First off, we've had some colo problems. VHosting is great, but VHosting can't control it when the people who actually have the rack/cage space decide to move (without telling anyone) a hundred or so of their customer's servers to another facility.
Anyway, slashdot's moderation system is pretty lame, kuro5hin's just works better.
they wont put the resources into that large and complex of a system
Are you sure? Remember these guys are sitting on a cache of almost the entire web right now. I think if google wanted to do this right they would have the resources they needed.
Well, given slashdot's rather... uh... interesting interface given comments that have been modded down I can only assume that you're responding to the post about Gator software, and not some other post I can't see.
In which case, you'd be wrong. Gator is basically a combination Spyware/local add server that replaces advertising on the 'net with it's own. And it runs locally on people's PCs. Millions of PCs. And those PCs aren't all on the same network.
Right now Google is funded by VCs looking for a quick buck on the IPO bandwagon (eventually). They'll probably wait until the 'dot-bomb' hysteria dies down. But the plan was always to IPO.
I wonder if it would be possible for individuals more interested in having a good search engine rather then reams of profit to buy a large enough chunk of the company in order to keep the company the same way it is now?
That said, I'm sure google's people have thought this out a lot more then slashdot's On Crack(TM) moderation system (maybe something more like kuro5hin's, with averaged rather then additive scoring).
On the other hand, you're always going to have a problem with majority tastes, which would class N'Sync as better then Radiohead...