Is encrypting something multiple times more secure? Say if I run something through PGP twice with different keys, wouldn't that be pretty much bulletproof?
I'd be able to recite the the ascii on any given frame from memory.
'Yup, Luke whining "But I wanted to go into town and get the ASCII power converteeeerrrrrssss!!! *simper*" would be 30 '*' 23 '_' 12 # 34 '.' 19 '(' and ')' 7 'v' 4 ',' 2 'oo'. Tough one, that scene.'
On a more serious note, if you have the mind of a 14 year old, you'll most likely snicker when Luke tries out the lightsaber for the first time. hehehe
Easy. Just say "Mt. Fuji is in Wisconsin," until people start believing it.
It's how WMDs got in Iraq, the Patriot Act was written for 'patriots', the RIAA lost billions of dollars to piracy, and how Microsoft became the most secure OS ever.
We could then keep track of which nightly dumps your prefs, which won't display PNG images, which can't export your bookmarks, which has a memory leak, which crashes whenever you move your mouse, which won't display Google, which won't let you post to K5, and which one has dupe-blocking and auto spell-checking for Slashdot.
I think we could have something here, especially with the last feature...
no time to type, but where are the open source voting programs?
I'd feel a lot better about electronic voting if someone could download the code and review it, to make sure some programmer didn't get and 'extra' bonus that election cycle.
I realize there's no money in it, but w/ all the/.ers talking about how the current systems are rife with opportunities to tamper, I would thinks that *someone would be working on it, if not for their own amusement, for the good of free democracy.
Unless of course all you coders are to busy playing America's Army...
Your computer can say no to drugs too!
10 INPUT A$;IF A$="Do you want some smack, ludes, coke, weed, acid, X, cough syrup, morphine, cocaine, oxycodone (Percodan®), methylphenidate (Ritalin®), and dextroamphetamine (Dexedrine®), heroin, marijuana, LSD, PCP, cocaine, acetaminophen with codeine (Tylenol® No.3), paregoric, hydrocodone with acetaminophen (Vicodin®), diazepam (Valium®), alprazolam (Xanax®), propoxyphene (Darvon®), and pentazocine (Talwin®)?" THEN PRINT "NO!"
20 PRINT "GOOD WORK, KIDS! REMEMBER, DRUGS ONLY *DRAG YOU DOWN*! HAHA! HAHA!"
On one hand you say "a felon is a felon" then you say they can't use their crimes as a basis for seeking employment. It is common knowledge that law enforcement often uses ex-cons as 'consultants'. They are the ones who know how the mind of criminal works.(assuming they aren't burned out crackheads) Who better to know the ins and outs of system cracking/crackers than someone who does it maliciously? It's not like someone out of school spends their time looking for new exploits. (or do they?)
So what is prison for? To make a profit for the private companies that have taken over the worlds largest (and growing) prison population? If it doesn't reform you, why are we letting people out at all?
Do people get to live nomal lives after coming out of prison? No. They get 20 bucks or whatever they came in with, and kicked out, and given no time to adjust to society.
I'd say that if you can't trust an ex-con who served his time, either he didn't get a long enough sentence, the prison system needs reform, or you've been watching too much Magnum P.I.
(I did very much enjoy posting that last one by the way....;)
It was his ability to convince another person that he was authorized to recieve sensitive information, and when he didn't get it from one person he moved on to the next. A very charismatic, persistent con man.
What if Kevin is doing that to us right now?! We must keep him away from Dale Carnigie books at ALL COSTS! He'll be unstoppable!!
they have more fun at it. I'd rather have a ex-evil hacker testing my security than some goody-too shoes. The evil ones will go that extra mile - they have something to prove, that they can bust into anything.
The good ones will just pound sand and say, "They didn't teach me that in 'Hacker School'".
Added benefit: If you hire all the evil hackers, they'll be so busy hacking other evil hackers that they won't have time to steal your credit card database. Besides, we all know that hackers don't break into computers. They spend their time copying Apple II games.
in no way should anyone with a record of, say, working at a company known for flagrant privacy violation, ever in a million years have a job at the Dept. of Homeland Security as...hmmm, how about Privacy Czar.
Just like no one who went AWOL should be Commander in Chief, and the head of a giant energy corporation who mismangaged and defrauded it out of zillions of dollars should serve on a energy 'task force' behind closed doors, and a convicted monopolist should be able to expand their business to the very department of Justice that looked the other way.
Oh.
I guess what I meant to say is Christopher Painter must be a dumbfuck.
Thank you! I'll be here all week!(or at least until the Privacy Czar's Storm Troopers come to put a transmitter in my ass...)
is here. Basically, its a translator for Doom3, to allow 'server hopping' with the abillity to jump into other games on other platforms. The conversion happens on the fly, with preconfigured level information downloaded from the host or level server.
In other words, this would allow your Doom 3 marine to join games of Unreal, RTCW, Quake 1-3, Half-Life, Sin and many others planned. Your marine would take on the appearance of an Unreal character, for instance; weapons and power-ups would be emulated, allowing you to 'join' a server of Doom2 and see the same level as any other player. All level creation is done in real time and error checked by looking at other players positions on the map.
Pretty cool stuff, but I don't know if he can pull it off - besides, would the Unreal guys let someone emulate levels? Maybe since it's emulated on the fly, rather than copies of the files it's not a problem...
Could D3 be made to run on two or more boxes - a beowulf cluster, if you will (I know I'll take a hit for even mentioning that)?
If this is going to require me to buy new hardware, I'm out for now. However, if I could use *all* my machines to process it, I'm in. Wouldn't it be like running a dedicated server, except single player?
I have a feeling that D3 on my current hardware would be like playing myst on a 286. Screensavory!
I believe this is a great idea, but we need to insure that artists get nothing.
What better way to ensure that we have an endless supply of quality angst-filled music than to deprive musicians of any livelyhood, and force them to live in rat-infested heroin dens?
Really, any across the board licence will only be diverted by the RIAA. Who will distribute the $$$? The RIAA is already poisoning P2P, so why not a little more to ensure that their newest 'hot artist' gets top $$$ (and pays the RIAA again for the 'privelege')?
It seems like another layer of distraction from the question of why the RIAA gets to hold copyrights in the first place, why copyrights are able to be bought/sold, and the original use/idea of copyright, which was to give creators a LIMITED time to profit off their work.
Solve those problems, revert copyright back to sane limits, and hell, I'll write a folk song about how you saved Music from the Mouse. (Ok, probably not.)
I just nabbed the last nightliesinstaller that someone was so kind to make. It (20030411) seems to work so far, except you can't drag links to the bookmark toolbar from the location bar.
And to further prove I'm a retread, here is the page for whiny bitch windows users like me to install a choice of nightlies.
I love Phoenix,(since I'm still running some old win nightly), but when can I install on cluser's (clueless users) computers?
I run phoenix on all my x86 machines, and Chimera on my mac, but damnit!
The.5 release is incompatable with the new nightlies themes and extentions. The buttons don't work right, and the bookmark toolbar dies on every install. I believe the nightly I have has a mem leak, as it will get up to 60 megs, and I'll have to end the process.
I can't spread the joy of Firebird until I *know* its going to work on their PCs. Wacky rendering is ok, but stabillity and working features are a must.
And dear god, where is the installer that lets you choose the nightly you want, until.6 comes out?
Whew. Sorry baby.
I only yell 'cause I love ya, baby. You know that. Now go make me a Turkey pot pie!!
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Is encrypting something multiple times more secure? Say if I run something through PGP twice with different keys, wouldn't that be pretty much bulletproof?
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Frankly, I'm shocked and dismayed. Won't someone think of the children?
'Yup, Luke whining "But I wanted to go into town and get the ASCII power converteeeerrrrrssss!!! *simper*" would be
30 '*'
23 '_'
12 #
34 '.'
19 '(' and ')'
7 'v'
4 ','
2 'oo'.
Tough one, that scene.'
On a more serious note, if you have the mind of a 14 year old, you'll most likely snicker when Luke tries out the lightsaber for the first time.
hehehe
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"Geez, it says here that the next 24,000 lines of code are wholly dedicated to picking one's nose!"
I'm sure that they would find that politicians are the result of millions of unreturned GOSUB commands.
"Cleedus, dis 'ere boy 'ere on SassDot says we caint hack us no DVD player!!"
"We'n sho 'im a ding 'er do 'bout hackin'. Pa! Get yer ax, an' duh TV-taper -- we's gonna hack us a TVD taper!"
It's how WMDs got in Iraq, the Patriot Act was written for 'patriots', the RIAA lost billions of dollars to piracy, and how Microsoft became the most secure OS ever.
We could then keep track of which nightly dumps your prefs, which won't display PNG images, which can't export your bookmarks, which has a memory leak, which crashes whenever you move your mouse, which won't display Google, which won't let you post to K5, and which one has dupe-blocking and auto spell-checking for Slashdot.
I think we could have something here, especially with the last feature...
if only we could apply those lessons learned to /. , perhaps we wouldn't spend so much time reading the results of /. emulating /. of the past week.
I'd feel a lot better about electronic voting if someone could download the code and review it, to make sure some programmer didn't get and 'extra' bonus that election cycle.
I realize there's no money in it, but w/ all the /.ers talking about how the current systems are rife with opportunities to tamper, I would thinks that *someone would be working on it, if not for their own amusement, for the good of free democracy.
Unless of course all you coders are to busy playing America's Army...
Your computer can say no to drugs too! 10 INPUT A$;IF A$="Do you want some smack, ludes, coke, weed, acid, X, cough syrup, morphine, cocaine, oxycodone (Percodan®), methylphenidate (Ritalin®), and dextroamphetamine (Dexedrine®), heroin, marijuana, LSD, PCP, cocaine, acetaminophen with codeine (Tylenol® No.3), paregoric, hydrocodone with acetaminophen (Vicodin®), diazepam (Valium®), alprazolam (Xanax®), propoxyphene (Darvon®), and pentazocine (Talwin®)?" THEN PRINT "NO!"
20 PRINT "GOOD WORK, KIDS! REMEMBER, DRUGS ONLY *DRAG YOU DOWN*! HAHA! HAHA!"
30 END : REM BUY A GODDAMN TANDY!
Now that's Cost Savings!
So what is prison for? To make a profit for the private companies that have taken over the worlds largest (and growing) prison population? If it doesn't reform you, why are we letting people out at all?
Do people get to live nomal lives after coming out of prison? No. They get 20 bucks or whatever they came in with, and kicked out, and given no time to adjust to society.
I'd say that if you can't trust an ex-con who served his time, either he didn't get a long enough sentence, the prison system needs reform, or you've been watching too much Magnum P.I.
(I did very much enjoy posting that last one by the way....;)
does it matter if she has a mustache?
What if Kevin is doing that to us right now?! We must keep him away from Dale Carnigie books at ALL COSTS! He'll be unstoppable!!
The good ones will just pound sand and say, "They didn't teach me that in 'Hacker School'".
Added benefit: If you hire all the evil hackers, they'll be so busy hacking other evil hackers that they won't have time to steal your credit card database. Besides, we all know that hackers don't break into computers. They spend their time copying Apple II games.
What!? And miss out on that one-on-one attention?
Let it be known across the lands that this man has said loudly what we all have feared! Hacking is like having sex with kids! Beware! Begone!
Just like no one who went AWOL should be Commander in Chief, and the head of a giant energy corporation who mismangaged and defrauded it out of zillions of dollars should serve on a energy 'task force' behind closed doors, and a convicted monopolist should be able to expand their business to the very department of Justice that looked the other way.
Oh.
I guess what I meant to say is Christopher Painter must be a dumbfuck.
Thank you! I'll be here all week!(or at least until the Privacy Czar's Storm Troopers come to put a transmitter in my ass...)
We don't know what's going on in there... (cue spooky music)
In other words, this would allow your Doom 3 marine to join games of Unreal, RTCW, Quake 1-3, Half-Life, Sin and many others planned. Your marine would take on the appearance of an Unreal character, for instance; weapons and power-ups would be emulated, allowing you to 'join' a server of Doom2 and see the same level as any other player. All level creation is done in real time and error checked by looking at other players positions on the map.
Pretty cool stuff, but I don't know if he can pull it off - besides, would the Unreal guys let someone emulate levels? Maybe since it's emulated on the fly, rather than copies of the files it's not a problem...
If this is going to require me to buy new hardware, I'm out for now. However, if I could use *all* my machines to process it, I'm in. Wouldn't it be like running a dedicated server, except single player?
I have a feeling that D3 on my current hardware would be like playing myst on a 286. Screensavory!
(In unison) "He requires channel CXXVII. He changes the channel."
Yes...for 1700 dollars, I could hire a kid to act as my remote, *and* get me a beer.
Beat that Philips!
What better way to ensure that we have an endless supply of quality angst-filled music than to deprive musicians of any livelyhood, and force them to live in rat-infested heroin dens?
Really, any across the board licence will only be diverted by the RIAA. Who will distribute the $$$? The RIAA is already poisoning P2P, so why not a little more to ensure that their newest 'hot artist' gets top $$$ (and pays the RIAA again for the 'privelege')?
It seems like another layer of distraction from the question of why the RIAA gets to hold copyrights in the first place, why copyrights are able to be bought/sold, and the original use/idea of copyright, which was to give creators a LIMITED time to profit off their work.
Solve those problems, revert copyright back to sane limits, and hell, I'll write a folk song about how you saved Music from the Mouse. (Ok, probably not.)
And to further prove I'm a retread, here is the page for whiny bitch windows users like me to install a choice of nightlies.
I'll go stand in the corner.
I run phoenix on all my x86 machines, and Chimera on my mac, but damnit!
The .5 release is incompatable with the new nightlies themes and extentions. The buttons don't work right, and the bookmark toolbar dies on every install. I believe the nightly I have has a mem leak, as it will get up to 60 megs, and I'll have to end the process.
I can't spread the joy of Firebird until I *know* its going to work on their PCs. Wacky rendering is ok, but stabillity and working features are a must.
And dear god, where is the installer that lets you choose the nightly you want, until .6 comes out?
Whew. Sorry baby.
I only yell 'cause I love ya, baby. You know that. Now go make me a Turkey pot pie!!