Yes - but this move just means they're getting paranoid - it's ineffective anyway. Either someone wants to reassure the general public that they'd doing something (however ineffectual) or Versign wants some press coverage on a slow news day.
Did you read the bit that said it's a hybrid? At the moment 50mpg is the best you're going to get when the manufacturers are just making better and better petrol engines/ cars (or hybrids) and the alternatives are either not cost efficient or practical.
Oh what a shame.:) And there was me looking forward to another long running battle. Who knows maybe I'll get another +1 bonus in the future. As nobody can tell what number their karma is at now - I don't know how soon that may be. As to why I've returned - well I'm a little bored that's all. Slashdot isn't what it used to be anyway - the reason I was being such an obnoxious karmawhore as you call it was to get people to go to my website in the sig line. The +1 bonus made it more likely that they'd see my comments and the link put up my Google page ranking. These days I don't need slashdot for that anymore as I get plenty of visitors anyway. Also - most of the stories recently I haven't felt like commenting on. However I still read/. without following the links to the articles they're about - sheer laziness I suppose on my part.
Nope - just didn't post for a while - to give the impression to people like you that I'd gone for good. Gives you a chance to start your anti-56ker campaign again eh?
Not everyone is intelligent (or curious enough) to know about it. There are also people looking at slashdot without accounts - or who aren't logged in. So what you're saying doesn't apply to everybody - although you're right about the person posting the comment - they must have an account and be able to change their preferences.
How about Mission Impossible style melting CDs? When the CDs been played once the whole device fuses - making the CD unreadable. Or have I just been watching too much TV?;o)
Management (which controls the pursestrings for things like this) is often not very PC literate. Businesses are so dependent on Windows software that the only hope Red Hat has of making inroads into this market is to market their OS as a dual boot system with Windows. I am pro-Linux - I'm just being realistic (before I get accused of being pro-M$). On a final note all the training employees have had is for Windows or programs that run under Windows - there are going to have to be a lot of expert Linux users teaching these people how to use Linux if businesses are going to change completely over to it.
Great - if they can't even make their own workers efficent, what hope do they have when it comes to spectra? Then again even if they do make it more efficient, if people are using it less efficiently (by browsing/. all day) it'd negate the efficiency savings.
It's running Microsoft-IIS/4.0 on NT4/Windows 98 - so what do you expect?
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It wasn't so much the matches & the endless replays and highlights that were so bad - it was the fact that every single programme, paper, (and a lot of websites) & companies that have nothing to do with sport decided to link themselves to the World Cup in sometimes very tenuous ways. As to watching it - I was asleep during the final which shows you how much I was interested in it. I thought most true geeks were against sport anyway as it was the one thing in school that the other kids would get to laugh at them and crow about how much better they are - maybe that was just my experience.
and things can get back to normal. For someone who's not interested in football - the last few weeks of having it right, left & centre (especially here in England) has been annoying to say the least.
On a more serious note though - the security agencies are notorious for not wanting politicians and the public to know what they're up to. In the U.K. an M.P. requested his file from MI5 under the Data Protection Act - he still hasn't got it yet. Really they prefer to just be a law unto themselves.
as governments try to exert control and businesses look to maximize profits. Since when have governments not been trying to exert control and businesses not looking to maximise profits? This difference between upload/ download speed only comes into play when you go to anything above a 56k modem. For most internet users won't even know there's a difference in speed between the two as they hardly ever upload things.
You mean the big sharp blade that slowly moves down? The one where the evil genius says something along the lines of "I have you now - and in five minutes time the rope will burn through releasing the swinging blade which will cut you in half. I'd love to stay and watch - but unfortunately me and my henchmen have to go and watch the football!:o)"
"and don't listen to anyone who states their opinion as though it's some kind of fact." - the best summing up of Jon Katz I've heard in a long time!:o)
"I know people who use their car to drive less than one block..." - ever pointed out to them it probably takes less time (and money) to walk one block than drive it?
I speak as someone who has read the story Minority Report and seen the trailer but not seen the film. From what I saw of the trailer they'd changed the story a lot to make it more dramatic (and from previous comments probably padded it out a little to make it a longer film). From what I remember of the story it was an average sci-fi story but not one I'd make into a film.
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Yes - but this move just means they're getting paranoid - it's ineffective anyway. Either someone wants to reassure the general public that they'd doing something (however ineffectual) or Versign wants some press coverage on a slow news day.
Yet another place you can get whois data on .gov domains - Network Tools.
Don't say that too loudly - the *terrorists* might hear you! ;o)
Er seeing as the White House is in hundred's of films I hardly think it's location is a secret!
Did you read the bit that said it's a hybrid? At the moment 50mpg is the best you're going to get when the manufacturers are just making better and better petrol engines/ cars (or hybrids) and the alternatives are either not cost efficient or practical.
Oh what a shame. :) And there was me looking forward to another long running battle. Who knows maybe I'll get another +1 bonus in the future. As nobody can tell what number their karma is at now - I don't know how soon that may be. As to why I've returned - well I'm a little bored that's all. Slashdot isn't what it used to be anyway - the reason I was being such an obnoxious karmawhore as you call it was to get people to go to my website in the sig line. The +1 bonus made it more likely that they'd see my comments and the link put up my Google page ranking. These days I don't need slashdot for that anymore as I get plenty of visitors anyway. Also - most of the stories recently I haven't felt like commenting on. However I still read /. without following the links to the articles they're about - sheer laziness I suppose on my part.
Nope - just didn't post for a while - to give the impression to people like you that I'd gone for good. Gives you a chance to start your anti-56ker campaign again eh?
Not everyone is intelligent (or curious enough) to know about it. There are also people looking at slashdot without accounts - or who aren't logged in. So what you're saying doesn't apply to everybody - although you're right about the person posting the comment - they must have an account and be able to change their preferences.
How about Mission Impossible style melting CDs? When the CDs been played once the whole device fuses - making the CD unreadable. Or have I just been watching too much TV? ;o)
Management (which controls the pursestrings for things like this) is often not very PC literate. Businesses are so dependent on Windows software that the only hope Red Hat has of making inroads into this market is to market their OS as a dual boot system with Windows. I am pro-Linux - I'm just being realistic (before I get accused of being pro-M$). On a final note all the training employees have had is for Windows or programs that run under Windows - there are going to have to be a lot of expert Linux users teaching these people how to use Linux if businesses are going to change completely over to it.
Great - if they can't even make their own workers efficent, what hope do they have when it comes to spectra? Then again even if they do make it more efficient, if people are using it less efficiently (by browsing /. all day) it'd negate the efficiency savings.
Thank God for the film at 11 - it'll give me a chance to clear my headache.
This is the first section:
Table of Contents:
0. Abstract
1. Introduction
1.1 TCP Sequence generation and PRNGs
1.2 Spoofing Sets
2. Phase Space Analysis, Attractors and ISN Guessing
2.1 Introduction to Phase Space Analysis
2.2 Using Attractors for Spoofing Set Construction
2.3 Real-Life Attack Algorithms
3. Review of Operating Systems
3.1 Linux
3.2 Windows
3.3 Cisco IOS
3.4 AIX
3.5 FreeBSD and NetBSD
3.6 OpenBSD
3.7 HP/UX
3.8 Solaris
3.9 BSDI
3.10 IRIX
3.11 MacOS
3.12 Multiple Network Devices
3.13 Other PRNG issues
4. Risk Analysis
5. Conclusions
6. References
7. Credits
Appendix A: Phase Space Images of Known Generating Functions
Hopefully now only people who want to read it will click on the link!
It's running Microsoft-IIS/4.0 on NT4/Windows 98 - so what do you expect?
It wasn't so much the matches & the endless replays and highlights that were so bad - it was the fact that every single programme, paper, (and a lot of websites) & companies that have nothing to do with sport decided to link themselves to the World Cup in sometimes very tenuous ways. As to watching it - I was asleep during the final which shows you how much I was interested in it. I thought most true geeks were against sport anyway as it was the one thing in school that the other kids would get to laugh at them and crow about how much better they are - maybe that was just my experience.
and things can get back to normal. For someone who's not interested in football - the last few weeks of having it right, left & centre (especially here in England) has been annoying to say the least.
And continuing the trend in bad jokes about this story:
It just sounds like a lot of pie in the sky to me.
On a more serious note though - the security agencies are notorious for not wanting politicians and the public to know what they're up to. In the U.K. an M.P. requested his file from MI5 under the Data Protection Act - he still hasn't got it yet. Really they prefer to just be a law unto themselves.
as governments try to exert control and businesses look to maximize profits.
Since when have governments not been trying to exert control and businesses not looking to maximise profits? This difference between upload/ download speed only comes into play when you go to anything above a 56k modem. For most internet users won't even know there's a difference in speed between the two as they hardly ever upload things.
You mean the big sharp blade that slowly moves down? The one where the evil genius says something along the lines of "I have you now - and in five minutes time the rope will burn through releasing the swinging blade which will cut you in half. I'd love to stay and watch - but unfortunately me and my henchmen have to go and watch the football! :o)"
Nobody seems to have mentioned their "in association with evil amazon.com" button! Clearly these are evil villains with a sense of humour!
"and don't listen to anyone who states their opinion as though it's some kind of fact." - the best summing up of Jon Katz I've heard in a long time! :o)
As the link isn't clickable - for those too lazy to copy and paste it I'm posting a clickable link here.
"I know people who use their car to drive less than one block..." - ever pointed out to them it probably takes less time (and money) to walk one block than drive it?
I speak as someone who has read the story Minority Report and seen the trailer but not seen the film. From what I saw of the trailer they'd changed the story a lot to make it more dramatic (and from previous comments probably padded it out a little to make it a longer film). From what I remember of the story it was an average sci-fi story but not one I'd make into a film.