Oil's biggest advantage is the billions of tons lying around, the oil in your car took millions of years to become oil, but we don't have millions of years to fill the next tank so we have to make the energy ourselves instead of just collecting, we have to be energy farmers not hunters.
Nuclear is probably by far the safest and most versatile type of power that you can put anywhere, but here in Iceland we have lots and lots of energy from hydro and geothermal plants, if only we could transport energy we could sell it.
I guess they'll figure out how to pack alot of power into small hydrogen fuel cells soon and then hopefully oil will be less used for energy and the cleaner solutions will be more viable.
but if he had from the beginning taken the joke better he could have maybe earned some money and even some respect from his peers.
The guy has talent enough to make millions of people want to watch him over and over, maybe what people enjoyed about the video is the honesty it expresses, someone opening himself completely to the camera.
When the kids started showing the video on projectors, "fear my jedi powers" said with a smile is the correct response, not "screw you guys I'm going home".
I'm not sure about Sasser in particular but I honestly feel the intent to harm is not so clear. If no worm had ever been written, today, anyone with basic knowledge of security issues could take over any MS machine in the world. Software developers are completely to blame because there is not a law in the world that can stop people from exploiting obvious flaws they may come across.
The only thing we can do is make better software and give credit to the people who publish flaws and worm writers who push sys admins to patch.
A worm by it self helps security, especially if it comes with a slightly malicous payload so the admins will at least notice it.
The huge companies who lose billions of dollars to 13 year olds who spent 20 minutes writing a "worm" have only themselves to blame for settling with the state of affairs in the IT industry.
Probably the biggest problem in IT is that people who know what they are talking about are ignored while those who know how to market themselves succeed without needing to know anything at all about computers.
The virus situation is much more like if.. every house in the world has a "Microsoft Super security system (tm)" installed so you shouldn't be able to get through the front door without a key. then a guy discovers he can get into his house without a key so he makes a robot who opens other houses, closes the door then has sex with the TV to make another robot who goes into another house to fuck a TV.
I think this is perfectly acceptable since no one would know you don't need a key to get into Microsoft houses if the robot hadn't started his rampage of hot television on robot sex!
"Today we know that UFO's often hide in what we call Lenticular Clouds, which are cloud formations that seem to be produced to conceal the ships from the visible eye spectrum. Real lenticular clouds move with the rest of the clouds. Whereas the UFO clouds do not - often sitting 5 hours in one place."
Yep, people pulling crap out of their asses and hurling them at innocent slashdot readers!
so it's pronounced Zeus
then why isn't it called Zeus instead of completely messing up all marketing in non english speaking countries with a word that doesn't mean anything, that comes with a manual on how to read it?
If it is possible I would love to be able to somehow choose which parts of the OS have RT priority.
So I could for example choose to only give the parallel port or specific applications RT priority and control servo motors on my desktop, make a crude oscilloscope or Real Time Halflife:)
does anyone know if this is possible?
traffic still hasn't returned to normal, but most of the filesharing is still happening:)
the biggest DC++ server in Iceland is now serving 266TB with 3200 users
but it's not small independant developers that are hurting, atleast in this case, the entire 11 terabytes were mostly movies, music and tv material not being broadcasted in Iceland!!
as for software piracy, most people I know learned how to use Photoshop or 3d studio or whatever using pirated copies, but when something commercial is being made it's almost never made with pirated copies.
People claiming that this is not a victimless crime have not said anything to make me think otherwise, but whatever views I have now I am always willing to change if new information is shared with me.
So please SHARE:)
Anonymous Coward: "So in your mind the well being of your fellow countrymen and women depends on the free and unfettered distribution of warez, music and movies?"
Answer: Well being = not being thrown in jail for two years for a victimless crime.
The companies that are claiming losses are companies distributing music and movies but since the internet these information distributors are completeley useless and should be putten out of their misery as soon as possible and if sharing copyrighted material is losing them money, GREAT! Then I can feel good about dl'ing my daily dose of warez knowing that Im helping bringing down a complete waste of resources such as SMAIS and MPAA and RIAA and all those fucking abbreviations.
PS. I would also like to mention that in Iceland we have 5 local TV channels and most of the stuff I download is something I couldn't even see here if I wanted to pay normal price for it.
DC++ hubs were started in Iceland because we usually have to pay extra for foreign downloads so people started sharing stuff between them for free. When they raided the 12 guys (and seized 11 terabytes of data) all the dc servers were shut down and immediatly MRTG graphs clearly showed about a 50-60% traffic between domestic connections. We have long heen proud to say that we have very high percentage of net users here, about 95% (number pulled out of ass) of the country has the internet and DC isn't the only way Icelanders share copyrighted stuff. In fact most people just get cd's from friends who download from DC or someother p2p sharing app.
So in our case most of the population is rampantly breaking copyright laws all the time and suddenly because of complaints from SMAIS 12 random guys are arrested and two of them held for 24 hours. 2 years in prison is the maximum punishment for a crime like this while murder is maximum 16 years and if anyone is convicted for a copyright violation in Iceland we are going to have to put the entire nation behind bars.
I'm personally disgusted that our government is even thinking about putting profits of american companies above the well being of the people it is supposed to serve.
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Everybody is talking about how safe nuclear power is and I agree, but I would think that the plants are very good targets for "terrorists"
If you blow up one of these power plants won't that kill a lot of people?
I call it the Arbitrary Multiplexing Triband Intraocular X-Clipboard Buffer
It's a bit of hack using keylaunch and xclip
paste following into ~/.keylaunchrc
key=**.Z:echo `xclip -out` >/tmp/.clip1
key=.**Z:xclip -in/tmp/.clip1
key=**.X:echo `xclip -out` >/tmp/.clip2
key=.**X:xclip -in/tmp/.clip2
key=**.C:echo `xclip -out` >/tmp/.clip3
key=.**C:xclip -in/tmp/.clip3
key=..*Z:`xclip -out`
I expect everyones deep gratitude for this amazing piece of technology and keep in mind it is intended for non-commercial use only!
Not only does my inbox fill up everyday with spam, usually it's spam for stuff I couldn't even buy if I wanted to, in the rare cases where there is actually some real product to buy, I have to be in the US to do so.
I think I'm right saying that there is a US law against DoS attacks, so why isn't this being stopped? Anonymous computer programs from all over the world blasting my inbox constantly with random junk making it more difficult to read the legitimate data certainly looks like denial of service to me.
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Oil's biggest advantage is the billions of tons lying around,
the oil in your car took millions of years to become oil, but we don't have millions of years to fill the next tank so we have to make the energy ourselves instead of just collecting, we have to be energy farmers not hunters.
Nuclear is probably by far the safest and most versatile type of power that you can put anywhere, but here in Iceland we have lots and lots of energy from hydro and geothermal plants, if only we could transport energy we could sell it.
I guess they'll figure out how to pack alot of power into small hydrogen fuel cells soon and then hopefully oil will be less used for energy and the cleaner solutions will be more viable.
but if he had from the beginning taken the joke better he could have maybe earned some money and even some respect from his peers.
The guy has talent enough to make millions of people want to watch him over and over, maybe what people enjoyed about the video is the honesty it expresses, someone opening himself completely to the camera.
When the kids started showing the video on projectors, "fear my jedi powers" said with a smile is the correct response, not "screw you guys I'm going home".
Doesn't this affect heat release and tolerance?
Real time
I'm not sure about Sasser in particular but I honestly feel the intent to harm is not so clear.
If no worm had ever been written, today, anyone with basic knowledge of security issues could take over any MS machine in the world.
Software developers are completely to blame because there is not a law in the world that can stop people from exploiting obvious flaws they may come across.
The only thing we can do is make better software and give credit to the people who publish flaws and worm writers who push sys admins to patch.
A worm by it self helps security, especially if it comes with a slightly malicous payload so the admins will at least notice it.
The huge companies who lose billions of dollars to 13 year olds who spent 20 minutes writing a "worm" have only themselves to blame for settling with the state of affairs in the IT industry.
Probably the biggest problem in IT is that people who know what they are talking about are ignored while those who know how to market themselves succeed without needing to know anything at all about computers.
The virus situation is much more like if..
every house in the world has a "Microsoft Super security system (tm)" installed so you shouldn't be able to get through the front door without a key.
then a guy discovers he can get into his house without a key so he makes a robot who opens other houses, closes the door then has sex with the TV to make another robot who goes into another house to fuck a TV.
I think this is perfectly acceptable since no one would know you don't need a key to get into Microsoft houses if the robot hadn't started his rampage of hot television on robot sex!
Quote from http://www.crystalinks.com/hopi1.html
"Today we know that UFO's often hide in what we call Lenticular Clouds, which are cloud formations that seem to be produced to conceal the ships from the visible eye spectrum. Real lenticular clouds move with the rest of the clouds. Whereas the UFO clouds do not - often sitting 5 hours in one place."
Yep, people pulling crap out of their asses and hurling them at innocent slashdot readers!
One spyware infested crazy windows zombie machine botnet to rule them all!
Microsoft will continue to make unsecure software but this time with a way for the botnet controllers to actually do something with the botnets.
so it's pronounced Zeus then why isn't it called Zeus instead of completely messing up all marketing in non english speaking countries with a word that doesn't mean anything, that comes with a manual on how to read it?
If it is possible I would love to be able to somehow choose which parts of the OS have RT priority. So I could for example choose to only give the parallel port or specific applications RT priority and control servo motors on my desktop, make a crude oscilloscope or Real Time Halflife :)
does anyone know if this is possible?
According to official Icelandic numbers 54% of Icelanders have broadband/ADSL
we can finally hook people up so they explode if they try to leave their country.
traffic still hasn't returned to normal, but most of the filesharing is still happening :)
the biggest DC++ server in Iceland is now serving 266TB with 3200 users
but it's not small independant developers that are hurting, atleast in this case, the entire 11 terabytes were mostly movies, music and tv material not being broadcasted in Iceland!! as for software piracy, most people I know learned how to use Photoshop or 3d studio or whatever using pirated copies, but when something commercial is being made it's almost never made with pirated copies. People claiming that this is not a victimless crime have not said anything to make me think otherwise, but whatever views I have now I am always willing to change if new information is shared with me. So please SHARE :)
Anonymous Coward:
"So in your mind the well being of your fellow countrymen and women depends on the free and unfettered distribution of warez, music and movies?"
Answer:
Well being = not being thrown in jail for two years for a victimless crime.
The companies that are claiming losses are companies distributing music and movies but since the internet these information distributors are completeley useless and should be putten out of their misery as soon as possible and if sharing copyrighted material is losing them money, GREAT!
Then I can feel good about dl'ing my daily dose of warez knowing that Im helping bringing down a complete waste of resources such as SMAIS and MPAA and RIAA and all those fucking abbreviations.
PS. I would also like to mention that in Iceland we have 5 local TV channels and most of the stuff I download is something I couldn't even see here if I wanted to pay normal price for it.
DC++ hubs were started in Iceland because we usually have to pay extra for foreign downloads so people started sharing stuff between them for free.
When they raided the 12 guys (and seized 11 terabytes of data) all the dc servers were shut down and immediatly MRTG graphs clearly showed about a 50-60% traffic between domestic connections.
We have long heen proud to say that we have very high percentage of net users here, about 95% (number pulled out of ass) of the country has the internet and DC isn't the only way Icelanders share copyrighted stuff.
In fact most people just get cd's from friends who download from DC or someother p2p sharing app.
So in our case most of the population is rampantly breaking copyright laws all the time and suddenly because of complaints from SMAIS 12 random guys are arrested and two of them held for 24 hours.
2 years in prison is the maximum punishment for a crime like this while murder is maximum 16 years and if anyone is convicted for a copyright violation in Iceland we are going to have to put the entire nation behind bars.
I'm personally disgusted that our government is even thinking about putting profits of american companies above the well being of the people it is supposed to serve.
Everybody is talking about how safe nuclear power is and I agree, but I would think that the plants are very good targets for "terrorists"
If you blow up one of these power plants won't that kill a lot of people?
it means meat@haggis.is
I call it the Arbitrary Multiplexing Triband Intraocular X-Clipboard Buffer It's a bit of hack using keylaunch and xclip paste following into ~/.keylaunchrc key=**.Z:echo `xclip -out` > /tmp/.clip1
key=.**Z:xclip -in /tmp/.clip1
key=**.X:echo `xclip -out` > /tmp/.clip2
key=.**X:xclip -in /tmp/.clip2
key=**.C:echo `xclip -out` > /tmp/.clip3
key=.**C:xclip -in /tmp/.clip3
key=..*Z:`xclip -out`
I expect everyones deep gratitude for this amazing piece of technology and keep in mind it is intended for non-commercial use only!
The Coffee Howto has information on how to control stuff with your parallel port.
I found it very useful.
organgic chemistry!? It's one of my favorite subjects!
And the best I have found so far is Festival with Mbrola voices (although not perfect they are far superior than the Festival voices)
For voice control stuff I found a little program called cvoicecontrol to be quite nice.
The NES case would be cool if they would dump the keyboard and use the original controllers (linux-parallel port)
Where the battle is taking place there won't be any good guys so all the robots need to be programmed to do is "kill everything!"
I for one welcome our robot masters!
This conversation makes complete sense to me tanks to babelfish:
The devil is in my trousers! Watch, watches! I cannot. I do not have my magnifying glass.
You are a small amused man. But I do not demand that my penis is the devil, only that one the devil is in my trousers.
Good. It is right. But obvious there is enough field in its trousers
Not only does my inbox fill up everyday with spam, usually it's spam for stuff I couldn't even buy if I wanted to, in the rare cases where there is actually some real product to buy, I have to be in the US to do so.
I think I'm right saying that there is a US law against DoS attacks, so why isn't this being stopped?
Anonymous computer programs from all over the world blasting my inbox constantly with random junk making it more difficult to read the legitimate data certainly looks like denial of service to me.