The submitter makes it sound like this is good news. What's so good about rooting for hackers? Maybe it's crackers I'm thinking of. I never know what is a good faith gesture from these guys. If you're going to try and fix a problem with some security thing, why not just point out what the problem is and how to reproduce it? Why go to the bother of making robust cracking software to exploit that particular problem unless you're actually a bad person doing bad things with a computer?
It seems like for PC games there's a huge upgrade race, and every time you buy a brand new game, you're always worried about how well it will run with your year-old hardware. With console games, it's pretty much gauranteed to run well.
Who? Are you talking about Wen-ho Li? The guy from LANL? That guy was railroaded by the Justice and Energy depts. They basically ruined the guy because he [allegedly] mishandled information on obselete data that although officially classified, was known by everyone anyway. And the guy was in prison for a year before his case was dropped. That's right. The charges were dismissed. So obviously he's a pretty big spy if his case is thrown out. Or you could be talking about someone else... at least I hope so...
OK I get it now. Apparently the "free as in beer" means it's free in terms of money, but not in terms of speech. I was told that was a famous quote from some famous software developer. But that made absolutely no sense to me. I appreciate your long-post, multi-paragraph replies... I probably don't deserve them for being so naive. Thanks,
Slightly offtopic perhaps, but what on earth does ogg have to do with beer or free? You say "free (as in beer)", but what is that? What are you trying to say? Or what are you saying that I cannot comprehend?
Btw - I think, but I'm not totally sure (trying to remember from Crystallography class), that X-ray lasers are non-existent. I think the closest thing is produced by a high-energy machine called a synchrotron, which can be like a quarter-mile in diameter. Any physicist would know better than me. Oh well. I tried.
And right after the blue ray disc comes out, someone will come up with an X-ray burner that will store a terabyte or whatever. (Hopefully with a lead enclosure of course). You make a good point, but do you know you won't be saying the same thing when the blue-ray comes out?
A linux shirt? Hmmm. Did you try the local Versace? I heard they're on sale at Barneys, but you better act quick. Just off the runways in New York, Vogue, GQ, etc. are all saying this *is* the hottest new look for the fall. They all thought the return of Twiggy (the world's first supermodel) would be the talk of the Milan fashion show, but instead it was Alan Cox who turned heads when he was led out onto the stage by the lead designer in the house of ThinkGeek. Standing ovations, curtain calls, the whole nine yards.
Good luck finding the shirt!
Andy
Taken perhaps out of context, that could be a crappy generalization that underscores the millions of female athletes who are genuinely intense and hard-core competetive at the sports they play. So be careful who you mutter that around. You might just get pummeled by a 6-foot-3 230lb female water polo player.
I was in the exact same situation two years ago. I bailed out of the math degree though eventually. I only needed three classes, and I could have finished that year that I wanted too.
So my advice is to go and get it if it's not too much of a bother. Otherwise, don't because it's not a really big deal. Computer Scientists are known to have decent math skills... at least calculus, linear algebra, and some probability. Maybe not the wacky stuff like modular forms and meta-math.
One thing it might buy you is leverage for getting into graduate schools. I hear it's getting more and more competetive these days; schools are getting a lot of applications perhaps because of economic factors.
If I had the chance to go back, I would've gotten a second degree. But not math, rather biology, since that's what I've really taken an interest in. Oh well,
The only thing that would make sense here is a device that bluetooth-enables a non-bluetooth device i.e. a USB printer, so that a bluetooth laptop can easily hook up to it no sweat. Don't know of any. I haven't really been looking though either. Such a device would be nice, since there's only a handful of bluetooth printers right now.
Just "freeing-up" USB ports can be accomplished with a USB hub (as probably mentioned already). So unless you need the mentioned functionality described above, then why bother with bluetooth at all?
"Cal" is also what the sports world likes to call UC-Berkeley. Because Berkeley is the oldest UC campus, it tends to still be called "California", and "Cal" is just short for that.
Fast whatever. I think Honda Civics are the most common I've seen made to look ridiculous. Those are family cars. Any time you see one of those with a monster wing on it, just start laughing and think about what happens when a front-wheel-drive car attempts to go fast while at the same time, downward forces from the wing are applied to the rear-end of the vehicle. Essentially, the driver will lose control of the vehicle at high speeds. This isn't usually a problem since those hondas have something like 130hp 4cyl engines that red-line at 3500rpm (totally guessing... probably a slight exaggerration). Anyways, most of the "riced-out" cars you see on the road don't have engine-mods anyway. The first thing to go is usually the muffler. Then maybe a big stupid wing. Then maybe change up the tail/head-lights to hyper-brights. Add some idiotic stickers. Change the "badge" on the car to pretend you have a more expensive model. I hate hate hate hate those cars. In my neighborhood, they're all over the place. They're loud and ugly.
I got a 98 corolla. One of the most boring cars on earth. It's slow and fairly quiet. I don't care. Last time I checked, the speed limit around here is 70mph on the freeway. It doesn't have a problem with that.
Mod me offtopic/flamebait/troll. But I just had to vent. It felt good.
For more than a second I sat bewildered at the thought that the "Australian Open" and "The Source Awards" had anything to do with each other. It must be all the tennis I'm watching lately.
The recently released MATLAB also has problems but instead the other way around. Mathworks says it works on 10.1.4 but not 10.2 yet and says to wait to upgrade to Jaguar until late Sept when a patch is available (depending on how important MATLAB is to you personally versus Jaguar, of course).
Citing security problems with mozilla and netscape 6/7, my bank doesn't allow me to use those browsers on its web site to view my account. I end up using the archaic netscape 4.7, but it also will let me use IE (if I had it). I never tried Konqueror. My credit card bank is the same way. They always say that they have plans to support my browser in the future, but it's been that way for a year so I know it must not be a big priority. [Sigh]. Maybe this latest security thing will wake them up, and perhaps they'll continue development on added browser support. -Andy
Slashdot Mirror
I agree.
The submitter makes it sound like this is good news. What's so good about rooting for hackers? Maybe it's crackers I'm thinking of. I never know what is a good faith gesture from these guys. If you're going to try and fix a problem with some security thing, why not just point out what the problem is and how to reproduce it? Why go to the bother of making robust cracking software to exploit that particular problem unless you're actually a bad person doing bad things with a computer?
Andy
Hopefully just women... but something tells me that if it's called "Mr. Paperbag", that isn't the case.
-Andy
It seems like for PC games there's a huge upgrade race, and every time you buy a brand new game, you're always worried about how well it will run with your year-old hardware. With console games, it's pretty much gauranteed to run well.
Andy
Well your so busy, that you think sleep is a waste... sure. I'll be asleep while you do all that important slashdot reading.
Andy
> that chinese dude
Who? Are you talking about Wen-ho Li? The guy from LANL? That guy was railroaded by the Justice and Energy depts. They basically ruined the guy because he [allegedly] mishandled information on obselete data that although officially classified, was known by everyone anyway. And the guy was in prison for a year before his case was dropped. That's right. The charges were dismissed. So obviously he's a pretty big spy if his case is thrown out. Or you could be talking about someone else... at least I hope so...
Andy
OK I get it now. Apparently the "free as in beer" means it's free in terms of money, but not in terms of speech. I was told that was a famous quote from some famous software developer. But that made absolutely no sense to me. I appreciate your long-post, multi-paragraph replies... I probably don't deserve them for being so naive. Thanks,
Andy
Obviously I'm still an idiot because I still see no connection to beer. This doesn't answer my question at all.
Slightly offtopic perhaps, but what on earth does ogg have to do with beer or free? You say "free (as in beer)", but what is that? What are you trying to say? Or what are you saying that I cannot comprehend?
Andy
-Andy
Femtozilla? OK... Now that one should be reserved for future zillas for sure...
-Andy
Btw - I think, but I'm not totally sure (trying to remember from Crystallography class), that X-ray lasers are non-existent. I think the closest thing is produced by a high-energy machine called a synchrotron, which can be like a quarter-mile in diameter. Any physicist would know better than me. Oh well. I tried.
Andy
And right after the blue ray disc comes out, someone will come up with an X-ray burner that will store a terabyte or whatever. (Hopefully with a lead enclosure of course). You make a good point, but do you know you won't be saying the same thing when the blue-ray comes out?
Andy
A linux shirt? Hmmm. Did you try the local Versace? I heard they're on sale at Barneys, but you better act quick. Just off the runways in New York, Vogue, GQ, etc. are all saying this *is* the hottest new look for the fall. They all thought the return of Twiggy (the world's first supermodel) would be the talk of the Milan fashion show, but instead it was Alan Cox who turned heads when he was led out onto the stage by the lead designer in the house of ThinkGeek. Standing ovations, curtain calls, the whole nine yards. Good luck finding the shirt! Andy
Taken perhaps out of context, that could be a crappy generalization that underscores the millions of female athletes who are genuinely intense and hard-core competetive at the sports they play. So be careful who you mutter that around. You might just get pummeled by a 6-foot-3 230lb female water polo player.
Could you still read it?
I was in the exact same situation two years ago. I bailed out of the math degree though eventually. I only needed three classes, and I could have finished that year that I wanted too.
So my advice is to go and get it if it's not too much of a bother. Otherwise, don't because it's not a really big deal. Computer Scientists are known to have decent math skills... at least calculus, linear algebra, and some probability. Maybe not the wacky stuff like modular forms and meta-math.
One thing it might buy you is leverage for getting into graduate schools. I hear it's getting more and more competetive these days; schools are getting a lot of applications perhaps because of economic factors.
If I had the chance to go back, I would've gotten a second degree. But not math, rather biology, since that's what I've really taken an interest in. Oh well,
Andy
The only thing that would make sense here is a device that bluetooth-enables a non-bluetooth device i.e. a USB printer, so that a bluetooth laptop can easily hook up to it no sweat. Don't know of any. I haven't really been looking though either. Such a device would be nice, since there's only a handful of bluetooth printers right now.
Just "freeing-up" USB ports can be accomplished with a USB hub (as probably mentioned already). So unless you need the mentioned functionality described above, then why bother with bluetooth at all?
Andy
"Cal" is also what the sports world likes to call UC-Berkeley. Because Berkeley is the oldest UC campus, it tends to still be called "California", and "Cal" is just short for that.
Andy
Fast whatever. I think Honda Civics are the most common I've seen made to look ridiculous. Those are family cars. Any time you see one of those with a monster wing on it, just start laughing and think about what happens when a front-wheel-drive car attempts to go fast while at the same time, downward forces from the wing are applied to the rear-end of the vehicle. Essentially, the driver will lose control of the vehicle at high speeds. This isn't usually a problem since those hondas have something like 130hp 4cyl engines that red-line at 3500rpm (totally guessing... probably a slight exaggerration). Anyways, most of the "riced-out" cars you see on the road don't have engine-mods anyway. The first thing to go is usually the muffler. Then maybe a big stupid wing. Then maybe change up the tail/head-lights to hyper-brights. Add some idiotic stickers. Change the "badge" on the car to pretend you have a more expensive model. I hate hate hate hate those cars. In my neighborhood, they're all over the place. They're loud and ugly.
I got a 98 corolla. One of the most boring cars on earth. It's slow and fairly quiet. I don't care. Last time I checked, the speed limit around here is 70mph on the freeway. It doesn't have a problem with that.
Mod me offtopic/flamebait/troll. But I just had to vent. It felt good.
Andy
For more than a second I sat bewildered at the thought that the "Australian Open" and "The Source Awards" had anything to do with each other. It must be all the tennis I'm watching lately.
Andy
I like remotes that only need one hand to operate, and that you don't need to look at to see what you're pressing. I don't know. Might seem crazy.
The recently released MATLAB also has problems but instead the other way around. Mathworks says it works on 10.1.4 but not 10.2 yet and says to wait to upgrade to Jaguar until late Sept when a patch is available (depending on how important MATLAB is to you personally versus Jaguar, of course).
Citing security problems with mozilla and netscape 6/7, my bank doesn't allow me to use those browsers on its web site to view my account. I end up using the archaic netscape 4.7, but it also will let me use IE (if I had it). I never tried Konqueror. My credit card bank is the same way. They always say that they have plans to support my browser in the future, but it's been that way for a year so I know it must not be a big priority. [Sigh]. Maybe this latest security thing will wake them up, and perhaps they'll continue development on added browser support. -Andy
What is it? I've never been able to figure it out. The article mentioned CG, but not I. Thanks, Andy.