It's not like they're using vanilla GeForce cards or anything.... still high-end stuff.
Now just add one of those web-controlled guns...
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Are you telling me that weather patterns changed substantially due to a small shift in temperature? One that's been going on for years (according to environmentalists, of course... those damn 20th century industrialists have been killing the earth for 100's of years!).
And it just happened this year?
Read up on El Nino and La Nina. Relate to Atlantic Ocean. Think. Lather, rinse, repeat. ----------------------------------------- -----------------------
Everybody's got something to hide except for me and my monkey...
Frankly, they might be right, in the long term, more heat means more water evaporation from the oceans, which means more snow in places like antarctica and the arctic, where temperature could rise 30 degrees in the winter and not get above freezing. Increased snowfall leads to increased glaciation, i.e. ice age. The problem is, this may take a thousand years to happen, or only 100, we just dont know. In the meantime, all the other stuff will happen, rising sea levels, floods, increased hurricanes, etc. Wait, you mean that there's gonna be increased glaciation? I thought the polar icecaps melted! This is so confusing!
Another thing... weather patterns don't necessarily change due to small rises / falls in temperature. As you say later on, "blizzard probably would have happened anyways". Yeah, because the highs and lows were all right there. Who cares if the high is a bit higher and the low is a bit lower? Severity changes, that's it.
Yes, the NY times did exagerate. It should have said "Blame Global Warming for the SEVERITY of the blizzard" The blizzard probably would have happened anyways, but the point is that GW makes weather events worse, because energy is pumped into the system. Are you saying it was more severe because of the extra energy from the Sun?! Increased temperature?
Weather is caused by change. Convection currents and all that shnaz (you know you love my terminology). Increased severity of a storm / more precipitation comes not from more heat / solar energy but from the increased dissolved water content in the air. More condenses, more changes temperature, MORE CHANGE MORE WEATHER!
Yay.
Of course, global warming may be true, but who ever said it had anything to do with my neighbor's SUV? It'd be nice if they'd get a different car, though... they all look the same.
Is it scaremongering if its the truth? Is it the truth? Yes? No? What's that you say? "MAYBE"?! Oh no no no, good sir. If you don't KNOW the truth, don't draw conclusions. Otherwise, you're the scaremonger! ------------------------------------ ----------------------------
Everybody's got something to hide except for me and my monkey...
Regardless of the new features, I know of a large percentage of modellers / animators (we'll just call them artists from now, m'kay?) that still use 1.80 far more than 2.x. Why? It's tried and true, and most artists I know have been using Blender since well before 2.x came out. Any features needed from 2.x can be used simply by loading a pre-2.x.blend file into a 2.x version. Remember, guys, the blend format is purely and simply backwards compatible and forwards compatible and probably rotationally compatible, knowing those crazy Dutch developers.
Read the book. Carsten rocks. ------------------------------------------ ----------------------
Everybody's got something to hide except for me and my monkey...
The Blender Book is about modelling and non-interactive content. At the current stage, for a beginner, using 2.x would just be foolish. Most modelling/animation work done in Blender right now is being done in 1.80, simply because it's a whole lot more reliable and more supported platform-wise.
Eventually, the tools in 2.x will outweigh the few problems it has and more people will make the switch. As of now, however, The Blender Book is perfectly applicable to the current modelling version;). --------------------------------------------- -------------------
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No. Perhaps many still forget this, but one of the biggest reasons people still have faith in the space program is the spinoff technological innovation. The article clearly stated that Lockheed Martin has learned some lessons: one being that single-stage-to-orbit vehicles are not currently viable. Dream all you want, but I think a major necessity in a project's success is viability! Seriously, though, the project looks to me like running water for an hour to get warmer water. So you get warmer water. You also get a hell of a lot of water down the drain.
While I'm off topic, can we dispense with the liberal bickering? I'm really sorry that Nader didn't sweep the nation, but perhaps Slashdot could run a story every day going something like this?:
Posted by CmdrTaco on 02:19 PM March 1st, 2001
from the socialism-works!-really! dept.
An anonymous coward submitted this story: President Bush announced sometime in the recent past that he would put into action a tax cut that some people like and some people dislike but are generally divided about along party lines.Well, being liberal, I'm going to say something opinionated but slightly witty here.
While you're at it, a poll would work:
I like money
I dislike money
I dislike having money, but if everyone else had the same amount of money it'd be like money didn't exist at all, right? What? You mean this isn't a perfect world?
I dislike CowboyNeal having money ------------------------------------------- ---------------------
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Linux is way better than IRIX, unless you're actually using IRIX for something.
Then you begin to see distinction.
Not only is IRIX a ton more stable, but my trusty little Indigo2 here runs Blender 5x faster than my PC and allows me to get 2x more stuff done. Anyone that thinks they'll sell me on a Linux PC is smoking something. The fact is, you can put together a $200 Indy that will blow away $400 homebuilt machines (and it's got SCSI, Video-in, IndyCam, stereo output, complete analog and digital sound I/O, ISDN, AUI+10BT ether). Plus, it weighs 6lb and is only 2 1/2" x 13" x 16" =).
Certainly, though, these are graphics professionals' machines. And I hope they stay that way, otherwise SGI may start make them suck like PCs =P. The Octane and Octane2 are certainly out of the pricerange for anyone using mere 3dsmax;) but for anyone using Maya or Softimage, or some of those wonderful IFX tools (ifx.com), they can't be beat. ------------------------------------------------ ---------------- Everybody's got something to hide except for me and my monkey...
Is there really any reason why a group like our Slashdot couldn't start up their own auction site to the extent of EBay? Wouldn't this be a logical solution that could:
A. Make money (always important)
B. Allow freedom to sell what we legally have a right to sell
C. Give us an auction site superior to all else
D. Send a nice message to EBay, MS, etc, not to mention the media... besides, whoever were to set it up could use whatever open software and standard hardware they wished and set a great example for the world of auction sites.
Would this really be so difficult? I'm really just waiting for SOMEONE to do it.
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Now, I could take that as a personal jab against me, however, I'd rather set the record straight. If there's a difference in your mind between someone doing the best work that they have the capacity of doing, be it testing, support, or webdesign and someone that makes packages and actually builds the distribution, you may need to reconsider. The person Matt is speaking of that has never used Stampede has been an integral part of the community, always there to help out or just cheer you up. She may have never made packages, but without her it would have never been the same.
I'm greatly saddened that many don't understand this breakup. I'm also mad that Matt decided to write off the people that left as insignificant. Nobody on that list was insignificant, otherwise they would have never considered themselves a part of the community.
Dan Knoepfle -DeadMonkey-
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Someone on Linux.com commented that a large part of the list consisted of mostly end users and supporters, saying that few are actually developers, the rest "are users or some how affiliated with the organization though personal relationships." To really understand what happened, you have to understand a bit about the community.
"Former supporter" is probably the best way to describe the people on the list, but it may be misleading. Many of these individuals were so integral in helping others needing problems, providing input during meetings, and just overall being there. By signing the letter, they've shown that they might not be there in the future. Now, having chatted with all of these people at sometime in the past, I must say that it is quite a loss to the Stampede community. Now, I can't comment on what's been happening lately, as I have been trying to stay out of the loop to let the situation sort itself out. I didn't resign because of Matt, I resigned because the Stampede community slowly became less positive of a community to be in. I sincerely hope that Stampede will survive and grow stronger through this and that my fellow developers can find a new home in which to thrive. All I know is that with all the friends I've made and the experiences I've had, without Stampede my life would be very different. I still use Stampede.89 on all my Linux boxen, and I see no reason you shouldn't too.
Dan Knoepfle -DeadMonkey- ------------------------------------ ---------------------------- Everybody's got something to hide except for me and my monkey... www.stampede.org
I don't know if you guys know about Stampede, but it certainly has seen more progress than I'd ever though possible over this year. Stampede is a distribution built completely from scratch to provide an optimized distribution for not only Intel (with pgcc), but also the Alpha platform. Stampede has progressed rapidly such that a new development version of.90 is out every few weeks. I'm biased, but what the hell! I vote for Stampede!
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Blender. This program simply blows me away, and it's interface is simply the most addictive thing since caffeine. You can get it at www.blender.nl, it works for IRIX, Linux, and Windows (most definitely not in my order of favorites =) ) and although it is not opensource, it's free! Now, time to describe the GUI!
Everything you'd ever wish for is customizable. You can set different window placement configurations and save them either in the current file (everything setting-wise is saved in the files, along with a default in your home directory [or wherever]) or set as the default. So you can have frame (they aren't windows, everything in Blender is flattened to prevent anything from being covered up when working) placements for using the sequencer, modelling, texturing, setting IPOs, and more, and set up configurations mixing different frames into one. You can have, say, a modelling / scene frame next to the IPO frame for watching object animation in two ways. You can have the hierarchy frame along with a separate frame for the Material Buttons, plus the normal buttons frame at the bottom. You can even have multiple modelling/scene windows for viewing your scene from another perspective.
Onto the actual widgets and all! Many things are in pulldown menus, which contain a whole good list of names of objects, etc while still taking up very little area. There are also menus (special weird one, it either pops down from a button or just appears when you press space), toggle buttons, and a special kind of input widget (Dunno its name, but it's cool!). It is like a slider, but without a handle, and you can enter text directly into it or drag it one way or the other, or click on one side or the other to move it slowly. All in all, the widgets just rock. And the entire interface was custom made from the ground up, entirely using OpenGL (PORTABLE).
I don't know what to say about keyboard shortcuts... they blow my mind (ooh yeah)! There's a shortcut for nearly everything, and after using Blender for just a little while you get hooked. You'll start trying to use b to borderselect in gimp, F1 to load, F2 to save. G moves stuff, RIGHT? Resizing doesn't work with s? ACK! Then you'll go back to the comfort of Blender and bask in the GUI.
The file load / save frames (more like whole window or something, they cover up the workspace but that's about it) are very customizable and and you can choose to have the directories displayed however and when choosing textures and the sort, thumbnails show exactly what is what. It's grrrrrrrrrrreat!
Well, I guess that's the end of my talk on Blender. I believe wholeheartedly that it has one of the best GUIs ever and deserves this award. If you haven't, please check it out, it's probably the best 3D suite (and does nonlinear sequencing, but no sound) for Linux available. Also, keep watching it, as when 2.0 comes around it will amaze everyone (even I, and I've heard most of the features already!) =)
Ack! I forgot! The new C-key features include Python scripting, and Blender now has an interface to allow Python to use OpenGL commands. This allows scripters to make custom GUIs for their scripts and even in-script object viewers! It's awesome! You can use the Blender widgets (like the cool slider-thingy) within the scripts to allow, say, a script that generates a gear with a certain number of user-inputted teeth. I think this script is already a reality!
Well, I've ranted on enough about my favorite program ever! Please check it out, and possibly check out my website (hopefully it will work, CI|Host is still having some problems) at http://www.cybercoment.com/deadmonkey/ for more info and some of my work.
Thanks! DeadMonkey
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(Subtitle: Kinda like getting hit in the groin with a baseball bat from behind) By focusing on the electronic warfare concept frequently brought up these days, China shows one of the USA's main weaknesses: we are slow. There recently was an article in Newsweek about military reaction time and the difficulties of deploying the army. It also showed figures that the total weight of an army division has rose over the last ten year to a frightening amount (Some of the article can be found here, although the graphic in which the figures were is not on this link). This has always been a difficulty for armies and such problems have allowed terrorism and guerilla tactics to become quite successful against a conventional army. This worked for the Colonists in the Revolutionary War, it worked for the Boers in the Anglo-Boer War, it worked countleass times. Again and again, the supposed underdog was successful because it forced the enemy to keep on its toes until they slipped and fell over. This concept of electronic warfare (the media's fabled "electronic battlefield") draws from the same idea. By simply disrupting the enemy they can cause massive damage and draw attention away from a conventional attack.
Not to mention China gets in the news as a superpower looking for the future, the government can all lobby for an anti-electronic warfare study, and I can sit at home and code code code...
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Don't think they'll let you in, they'd probably find some clause about you not being the authors or something... Anyway, can you really afford the bribes? =)
On the topic, I find the Etexts QUITE useful... suggested bookmark #1. --------------------------------------------- ------------------- Everybody's got something to hide except for me and my monkey... www.stampede.org
Best piece I've seen in a while. ------------------------------------------ ---------------------- Everybody's got something to hide except for me and my monkey... www.stampede.org
BAH! Content free may be fun for you guys but not for me! Perhaps some real discussion of issues? A nice idea is perhaps share your opinions here instead of in the news... less flames =)
Yes, but SETI searches infinite radio waves for messages... therefore, SETI has little chance of succeeding unless there's an alien civilization trying to contact us. If there is... it's only a matter of time. If there isn't... then your computer is churning away at empty space. The draw of RC5 is that we know it can be cracked and we want to show the US Government that better encryption is needed.
Yes, it's kinda sad isn't it? The article was good but useless here. The Slashdot title distinctly says "News for Nerds. Stuff that matters." The audience here at Slashdot probably already has read multiple articles about the difference between hackers and crackers. Sadly, this may be wrong as some of the comments above show no comprehension...
Slashdot Mirror
Yeah, really ironic considering the deal between SGI and NVIDIA.
u gust/nvidia.html
http://www.sgi.com/newsroom/press_releases/1999/a
It's not like they're using vanilla GeForce cards or anything.... still high-end stuff.
I'm sure you guys all remember the security bots and the moral dilemnas... well, why not make this bot totally Quake? Nailguns are cheap and lightweight... ;)- ------------------
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Are you telling me that weather patterns changed substantially due to a small shift in temperature? One that's been going on for years (according to environmentalists, of course... those damn 20th century industrialists have been killing the earth for 100's of years!).
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And it just happened this year?
Read up on El Nino and La Nina. Relate to Atlantic Ocean. Think. Lather, rinse, repeat.
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Frankly, they might be right, in the long term, more heat means more water evaporation from the oceans, which means more snow in places like antarctica and the arctic, where temperature could rise 30 degrees in the winter and not get above freezing. Increased snowfall leads to increased glaciation, i.e. ice age. The problem is, this may take a thousand years to happen, or only 100, we just dont know. In the meantime, all the other stuff will happen, rising sea levels, floods, increased hurricanes, etc.
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Wait, you mean that there's gonna be increased glaciation? I thought the polar icecaps melted! This is so confusing!
Another thing... weather patterns don't necessarily change due to small rises / falls in temperature. As you say later on, "blizzard probably would have happened anyways". Yeah, because the highs and lows were all right there. Who cares if the high is a bit higher and the low is a bit lower? Severity changes, that's it.
Yes, the NY times did exagerate. It should have said "Blame Global Warming for the SEVERITY of the blizzard" The blizzard probably would have happened anyways, but the point is that GW makes weather events worse, because energy is pumped into the system.
Are you saying it was more severe because of the extra energy from the Sun?! Increased temperature?
Weather is caused by change. Convection currents and all that shnaz (you know you love my terminology). Increased severity of a storm / more precipitation comes not from more heat / solar energy but from the increased dissolved water content in the air. More condenses, more changes temperature, MORE CHANGE MORE WEATHER!
Yay.
Of course, global warming may be true, but who ever said it had anything to do with my neighbor's SUV? It'd be nice if they'd get a different car, though... they all look the same.
Is it scaremongering if its the truth?
Is it the truth? Yes? No? What's that you say? "MAYBE"?! Oh no no no, good sir. If you don't KNOW the truth, don't draw conclusions. Otherwise, you're the scaremonger!
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Everybody's got something to hide except for me and my monkey...
Regardless of the new features, I know of a large percentage of modellers / animators (we'll just call them artists from now, m'kay?) that still use 1.80 far more than 2.x. Why? It's tried and true, and most artists I know have been using Blender since well before 2.x came out. Any features needed from 2.x can be used simply by loading a pre-2.x .blend file into a 2.x version. Remember, guys, the blend format is purely and simply backwards compatible and forwards compatible and probably rotationally compatible, knowing those crazy Dutch developers.
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Read the book. Carsten rocks.
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Everybody's got something to hide except for me and my monkey...
The Blender Book is about modelling and non-interactive content. At the current stage, for a beginner, using 2.x would just be foolish. Most modelling/animation work done in Blender right now is being done in 1.80, simply because it's a whole lot more reliable and more supported platform-wise.
;).- -------------------
Eventually, the tools in 2.x will outweigh the few problems it has and more people will make the switch. As of now, however, The Blender Book is perfectly applicable to the current modelling version
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While I'm off topic, can we dispense with the liberal bickering? I'm really sorry that Nader didn't sweep the nation, but perhaps Slashdot could run a story every day going something like this?:
Posted by CmdrTaco on 02:19 PM March 1st, 2001
from the socialism-works!-really! dept.
An anonymous coward submitted this story: President Bush announced sometime in the recent past that he would put into action a tax cut that some people like and some people dislike but are generally divided about along party lines.Well, being liberal, I'm going to say something opinionated but slightly witty here.
While you're at it, a poll would work:- ---------------------
I like money
I dislike money
I dislike having money, but if everyone else had the same amount of money it'd be like money didn't exist at all, right? What? You mean this isn't a perfect world?
I dislike CowboyNeal having money
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Everybody's got something to hide except for me and my monkey...
Then you begin to see distinction.
Not only is IRIX a ton more stable, but my trusty little Indigo2 here runs Blender 5x faster than my PC and allows me to get 2x more stuff done. Anyone that thinks they'll sell me on a Linux PC is smoking something. The fact is, you can put together a $200 Indy that will blow away $400 homebuilt machines (and it's got SCSI, Video-in, IndyCam, stereo output, complete analog and digital sound I/O, ISDN, AUI+10BT ether). Plus, it weighs 6lb and is only 2 1/2" x 13" x 16" =).
Certainly, though, these are graphics professionals' machines. And I hope they stay that way, otherwise SGI may start make them suck like PCs =P. The Octane and Octane2 are certainly out of the pricerange for anyone using mere 3dsmax ;) but for anyone using Maya or Softimage, or some of those wonderful IFX tools (ifx.com), they can't be beat. - ----------------
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A. Make money (always important)
B. Allow freedom to sell what we legally have a right to sell
C. Give us an auction site superior to all else
D. Send a nice message to EBay, MS, etc, not to mention the media... besides, whoever were to set it up could use whatever open software and standard hardware they wished and set a great example for the world of auction sites.
Would this really be so difficult? I'm really just waiting for SOMEONE to do it.
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I'm greatly saddened that many don't understand this breakup. I'm also mad that Matt decided to write off the people that left as insignificant. Nobody on that list was insignificant, otherwise they would have never considered themselves a part of the community.
Dan Knoepfle
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-DeadMonkey-
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www.stampede.org
"Former supporter" is probably the best way to describe the people on the list, but it may be misleading. Many of these individuals were so integral in helping others needing problems, providing input during meetings, and just overall being there. By signing the letter, they've shown that they might not be there in the future. Now, having chatted with all of these people at sometime in the past, I must say that it is quite a loss to the Stampede community. Now, I can't comment on what's been happening lately, as I have been trying to stay out of the loop to let the situation sort itself out. I didn't resign because of Matt, I resigned because the Stampede community slowly became less positive of a community to be in. I sincerely hope that Stampede will survive and grow stronger through this and that my fellow developers can find a new home in which to thrive. All I know is that with all the friends I've made and the experiences I've had, without Stampede my life would be very different. I still use Stampede .89 on all my Linux boxen, and I see no reason you shouldn't too.
Dan Knoepfle- ----------------------------
-DeadMonkey-
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Everybody's got something to hide except for me and my monkey...
www.stampede.org
I don't know if you guys know about Stampede, but it certainly has seen more progress than I'd ever though possible over this year. Stampede is a distribution built completely from scratch to provide an optimized distribution for not only Intel (with pgcc), but also the Alpha platform. Stampede has progressed rapidly such that a new development version of .90 is out every few weeks.
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I'm biased, but what the hell! I vote for Stampede!
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Everybody's got something to hide except for me and my monkey...
www.stampede.org
Blender. This program simply blows me away, and it's interface is simply the most addictive thing since caffeine. You can get it at www.blender.nl, it works for IRIX, Linux, and Windows (most definitely not in my order of favorites =) ) and although it is not opensource, it's free! Now, time to describe the GUI!
Everything you'd ever wish for is customizable. You can set different window placement configurations and save them either in the current file (everything setting-wise is saved in the files, along with a default in your home directory [or wherever]) or set as the default. So you can have frame (they aren't windows, everything in Blender is flattened to prevent anything from being covered up when working) placements for using the sequencer, modelling, texturing, setting IPOs, and more, and set up configurations mixing different frames into one. You can have, say, a modelling / scene frame next to the IPO frame for watching object animation in two ways. You can have the hierarchy frame along with a separate frame for the Material Buttons, plus the normal buttons frame at the bottom. You can even have multiple modelling/scene windows for viewing your scene from another perspective.
Onto the actual widgets and all! Many things are in pulldown menus, which contain a whole good list of names of objects, etc while still taking up very little area. There are also menus (special weird one, it either pops down from a button or just appears when you press space), toggle buttons, and a special kind of input widget (Dunno its name, but it's cool!). It is like a slider, but without a handle, and you can enter text directly into it or drag it one way or the other, or click on one side or the other to move it slowly. All in all, the widgets just rock. And the entire interface was custom made from the ground up, entirely using OpenGL (PORTABLE).
I don't know what to say about keyboard shortcuts... they blow my mind (ooh yeah)! There's a shortcut for nearly everything, and after using Blender for just a little while you get hooked. You'll start trying to use b to borderselect in gimp, F1 to load, F2 to save. G moves stuff, RIGHT? Resizing doesn't work with s? ACK! Then you'll go back to the comfort of Blender and bask in the GUI.
The file load / save frames (more like whole window or something, they cover up the workspace but that's about it) are very customizable and and you can choose to have the directories displayed however and when choosing textures and the sort, thumbnails show exactly what is what. It's grrrrrrrrrrreat!
Well, I guess that's the end of my talk on Blender. I believe wholeheartedly that it has one of the best GUIs ever and deserves this award. If you haven't, please check it out, it's probably the best 3D suite (and does nonlinear sequencing, but no sound) for Linux available. Also, keep watching it, as when 2.0 comes around it will amaze everyone (even I, and I've heard most of the features already!) =)
Ack! I forgot! The new C-key features include Python scripting, and Blender now has an interface to allow Python to use OpenGL commands. This allows scripters to make custom GUIs for their scripts and even in-script object viewers! It's awesome! You can use the Blender widgets (like the cool slider-thingy) within the scripts to allow, say, a script that generates a gear with a certain number of user-inputted teeth. I think this script is already a reality!
Well, I've ranted on enough about my favorite program ever! Please check it out, and possibly check out my website (hopefully it will work, CI|Host is still having some problems) at http://www.cybercoment.com/deadmonkey/ for more info and some of my work.
Thanks!
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DeadMonkey
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Everybody's got something to hide except for me and my monkey...
www.stampede.org
(Subtitle: Kinda like getting hit in the groin with a baseball bat from behind)
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By focusing on the electronic warfare concept frequently brought up these days, China shows one of the USA's main weaknesses: we are slow. There recently was an article in Newsweek about military reaction time and the difficulties of deploying the army. It also showed figures that the total weight of an army division has rose over the last ten year to a frightening amount (Some of the article can be found here, although the graphic in which the figures were is not on this link). This has always been a difficulty for armies and such problems have allowed terrorism and guerilla tactics to become quite successful against a conventional army. This worked for the Colonists in the Revolutionary War, it worked for the Boers in the Anglo-Boer War, it worked countleass times. Again and again, the supposed underdog was successful because it forced the enemy to keep on its toes until they slipped and fell over. This concept of electronic warfare (the media's fabled "electronic battlefield") draws from the same idea. By simply disrupting the enemy they can cause massive damage and draw attention away from a conventional attack.
Not to mention China gets in the news as a superpower looking for the future, the government can all lobby for an anti-electronic warfare study, and I can sit at home and code code code...
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www.stampede.org
Don't think they'll let you in, they'd probably find some clause about you not being the authors or something... Anyway, can you really afford the bribes? =)
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On the topic, I find the Etexts QUITE useful... suggested bookmark #1.
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Everybody's got something to hide except for me and my monkey...
www.stampede.org
Best piece I've seen in a while.- ----------------------
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Everybody's got something to hide except for me and my monkey...
www.stampede.org
BAH! Content free may be fun for you guys but not for me! Perhaps some real discussion of issues? A nice idea is perhaps share your opinions here instead of in the news... less flames =)
Yes, but SETI searches infinite radio waves for messages... therefore, SETI has little chance of succeeding unless there's an alien civilization trying to contact us. If there is... it's only a matter of time. If there isn't... then your computer is churning away at empty space. The draw of RC5 is that we know it can be cracked and we want to show the US Government that better encryption is needed.
Yes, it's kinda sad isn't it? The article was good but useless here. The Slashdot title distinctly says "News for Nerds. Stuff that matters." The audience here at Slashdot probably already has read multiple articles about the difference between hackers and crackers. Sadly, this may be wrong as some of the comments above show no comprehension...
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