Insightful insinuation that you are all just trying to ride my Karma train. Invitation to have sexual intercourse with yourself. Outrageous complaints and self righteous bullshit.
Insignificant self righteous followup to include the comments I forgot about. Not mentioning that if I hadn't been a douche and used the preview button, this wouldn't be a followup. Idiotic closing insult.
Random complaining about April Fools. Mentioning that somehow my pathetic Slashbot life is above April Fools. Pretending that this somehow really inconviences me. Random ranting about the quality of Slashdot having degenerated. Not noting that I still seem to be here despite the supposed quality drop. More ranting, possibly about the current article. Protesting the personal problems this story has caused me. Indicating through my lack of a sense of humor that I must be from Finland. More random complaints, followed by a lack of the irony that I am so pathetic to take this joke personally.
---- -Signiture as unamusing as the current slashdot story.
There is a stark difference between hysterical and tired of the same old anti-American bull shit. I suggest you go and learn the difference. But I will agree, thankfully stupidity is not contagious. Otherwise your mere presence here would doom Slashdot.
For goodness sake, just shut up! I'm sick and tired of this crap. America is both part of a name for two continents (North America and South America), and the short form of a country's name.
People in the Republic of South Africa call their country simply "South Africa" even though "South Africa" is part of a continent, not a country.
Limey's call their country the "United Kingdom" even though it is really the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
In short, get over your self. America is a VERY common short form for the "United States of America".
FYI, if I were to be as damn anal as you, I'd point out that "United States" is just as bad, as there are many Unions of states in this world.
Minnesota, Wisconsin and Michigan voted blue as well. The count for Iowa was suspended and never finished, so we don't truly know how they voted. Ohio was rigged by Diebold... other than Indiana, we're all united.
(As a note, Bush has one of the lowest approval ratings in Ohio)
The immediate effects of global warming include the destruction of NYC, LA, and New Jersey... the secondary effects include Illinois getting beach front property...
Ok, why again is this a bad thing?
(for the morons, my tongue is firmly in my cheek, but yes, the East Coast sucks)
In the long run all of this trouble is a good thing. Sony is galvanizing people against DRM. In the future companies may find people simply don't buy any products with DRM because they are afraid there will be security holes. All in all this is probably a good thing for consumers in the long run as it will keep DRM off of CD's.
I worry about this movie. With luck, it will be good just as the TV series was, but I keep on coming back to Joss Whedon.
Lets face it, I know a lot of Slashdotters worship the ground he walks on and think is the next best thing since sliced bread. In reality he has done a lot of shallow shows with crappy pseudo-witty dialogue (which in reality is just childish and moronic), lame plots, and shoddy writing. Firefly is his shining gem of achievement.
Even Firefly had it's moments of idiocy though where you just kind of frowned and said "Boy that didn't work at all, what the heck was he thinking?" that made it obvious Joss Whedon had been involved. Most of the best episodes were written by people other than Joss.
So when it boils down to it, I'm hopeful but afraid he'll sink it with a crappy movie, and pull to many "Josses" during the show. There are already some evident in the trailer. I just hope the movie overcomes this weakness.
JOOC, from someone who is working on a PhD in CS and always on the look out for an interesting new place, what is working for the University like in Mauritius?
None of the existing exploits utilize a system designed to be tweaked from remote. These new "additions" by Intel are intended to purposefully let someone from the outside manipulate your computer remotely with an extreme amount of control. Just think what kind of exploits this will lead to.
Their reluctance to talk about specifics on the technology is what worries me. What if their DRM mistakenly identifies something on my hard disk as copyright material and prevents me from using my own very legal data? We can't be sure it won't thanks to jolly old intel.
This ATM and IDE control scares me the most though. Giving some random Joe the ability to manipulate my computer at a level BELOW the operating system!?!? HOO BOY! I can't wait to see how long it will take to patch the security flaws in there, in the mean time the script-kiddies now have a truly cross platform way to 0wn boxes.
When will people learn, you can't make something 100% secure, and security through obscurity is a bad idea? Lets just hope the guys in the white hats can reverse engineer this crap first and figure out a way to save the millions of innocent and ignorant customers who will end up with one of these chips in their box.
Austrailian GDP: $579 billion, all of which cannot be brought to bear on this without destroying the country utterly. In fact only a VERY small portion could be bankrolled for this.
HP Yearly Revenue: $79.9 billion Dell Yearly Revenue: $49.2 billion Microsoft Yearly Revenue: $36.8 billion Intel Yearly Revenue: $34.2 billion Apple Yearly Revenue: $8.28 billion
Around $208.4 billion with a lot in reserves, no roads to build, no wellfare to payout, no military to support... Austrailia will loose the money game.
Actually... no it isn't.
Austrailian GDP: $579 billion, all of which cannot be brought to bear on this without destroying the country utterly. In fact only a VERY small portion could be bankrolled for this.
HP Yearly Revenue: $79.9 billion
Dell Yearly Revenue: $49.2 billion
Microsoft Yearly Revenue: $36.8 billion
Intel Yearly Revenue: $34.2 billion
Apple Yearly Revenue: $8.28 billion
Around $208.4 billion with a lot in reserves, no roads to build, no wellfare to payout, no military to support... Austrailia will loose the money game.
I see you are posting to slashdot now George Lucas... as if "s_wardman" fooled us. It's obvious:
s_wardman -> swardman -> sword man -> sabre man ->
light sabre man -> jedi
Next you'll be telling us that Han Shot First...
More along the lines of:
GIMP::Photoshop
New Military Technology::Tired old civilian technology
Photoshop is ok, but GIMP is better. Have you ever even used it? The interface is a bit rough around the edges, less so these days than the past, but it has an enourmous amount of power behind it.
There is a big thing you are missing here. In a lot of markets Linux is making small inroads in the form of a the dual boot systems. At my place of employment everyone who doesn't use Linux straight out dual boots. They haven't switched over completely yet but for the purposes of compatibility they dual boot and spend some of their time using Linux.
Often this turns into a lot of their time. The fact is that when using Linux I can read any document you give me, and mount/use any drive on the network, I have full compatibility. Windows hasn't got this important feature because they are being deliberatly obtuse and not interoperating. The guy down the hall starts to feel outmoded when me with my Linux machine and Betty with her Mac can interoperate together completely and can both interoperate with him, but his machine can't do the same.
MS simply has to change this practice. They also have to get serious about supporting more applications. A lot of the publishing work we do is in TeX because TeX is pretty much the defacto standard of professional publishing. MS has rudimentary at best support, whereas Linux and Mac make it easy as pie.
There is a serious growing threat here, and as has been shown numerous times the idea that it costs more to switch platforms is false. It costs nothing more to dual boot, and often the cost of switching is zero or less, especially in an environment that has been dual booting for a while.
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Insightful insinuation that you are all just trying to ride my Karma train. Invitation to have sexual intercourse with yourself. Outrageous complaints and self righteous bullshit.
Insignificant self righteous followup to include the comments I forgot about. Not mentioning that if I hadn't been a douche and used the preview button, this wouldn't be a followup. Idiotic closing insult.
Random complaining about April Fools. Mentioning that somehow my pathetic Slashbot life is above April Fools. Pretending that this somehow really inconviences me. Random ranting about the quality of Slashdot having degenerated. Not noting that I still seem to be here despite the supposed quality drop. More ranting, possibly about the current article. Protesting the personal problems this story has caused me. Indicating through my lack of a sense of humor that I must be from Finland. More random complaints, followed by a lack of the irony that I am so pathetic to take this joke personally.
----
-Signiture as unamusing as the current slashdot story.
There is a stark difference between hysterical and tired of the same old anti-American bull shit. I suggest you go and learn the difference. But I will agree, thankfully stupidity is not contagious. Otherwise your mere presence here would doom Slashdot.
For goodness sake, just shut up! I'm sick and tired of this crap. America is both part of a name for two continents (North America and South America), and the short form of a country's name.
People in the Republic of South Africa call their country simply "South Africa" even though "South Africa" is part of a continent, not a country.
Limey's call their country the "United Kingdom" even though it is really the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
In short, get over your self. America is a VERY common short form for the "United States of America".
FYI, if I were to be as damn anal as you, I'd point out that "United States" is just as bad, as there are many Unions of states in this world.
You seem to miss the point of Intelligent Design, it is "guided evolution", ala Spore.
Minnesota, Wisconsin and Michigan voted blue as well. The count for Iowa was suspended and never finished, so we don't truly know how they voted. Ohio was rigged by Diebold... other than Indiana, we're all united. (As a note, Bush has one of the lowest approval ratings in Ohio)
You're aware that Illinois, Michigan, Minnesota and Wisconsin are in the Midwest, right?
What planet do you live on? Check it out dude (2004 election results)
Republicans have a lot of costal support too. The midwest is a very strong democratic support area.
The immediate effects of global warming include the destruction of NYC, LA, and New Jersey... the secondary effects include Illinois getting beach front property... Ok, why again is this a bad thing? (for the morons, my tongue is firmly in my cheek, but yes, the East Coast sucks)
How is this news? We all know NASA and vaporware are synonmous these days.
In the long run all of this trouble is a good thing. Sony is galvanizing people against DRM. In the future companies may find people simply don't buy any products with DRM because they are afraid there will be security holes. All in all this is probably a good thing for consumers in the long run as it will keep DRM off of CD's.
You do realize of course that the first cars we developed in Germany, which drives on the right and correct side of the rode.
The British were the ones to do it differently "just because".
Did it have a lot of the crappy Alan Tudyk moments like the Piolet "Serenity" did? (aka the Dinosaur scene)
I worry about this movie. With luck, it will be good just as the TV series was, but I keep on coming back to Joss Whedon.
Lets face it, I know a lot of Slashdotters worship the ground he walks on and think is the next best thing since sliced bread. In reality he has done a lot of shallow shows with crappy pseudo-witty dialogue (which in reality is just childish and moronic), lame plots, and shoddy writing. Firefly is his shining gem of achievement.
Even Firefly had it's moments of idiocy though where you just kind of frowned and said "Boy that didn't work at all, what the heck was he thinking?" that made it obvious Joss Whedon had been involved. Most of the best episodes were written by people other than Joss.
So when it boils down to it, I'm hopeful but afraid he'll sink it with a crappy movie, and pull to many "Josses" during the show. There are already some evident in the trailer. I just hope the movie overcomes this weakness.
JOOC, from someone who is working on a PhD in CS and always on the look out for an interesting new place, what is working for the University like in Mauritius?
None of the existing exploits utilize a system designed to be tweaked from remote. These new "additions" by Intel are intended to purposefully let someone from the outside manipulate your computer remotely with an extreme amount of control. Just think what kind of exploits this will lead to.
Their reluctance to talk about specifics on the technology is what worries me. What if their DRM mistakenly identifies something on my hard disk as copyright material and prevents me from using my own very legal data? We can't be sure it won't thanks to jolly old intel.
This ATM and IDE control scares me the most though. Giving some random Joe the ability to manipulate my computer at a level BELOW the operating system!?!? HOO BOY! I can't wait to see how long it will take to patch the security flaws in there, in the mean time the script-kiddies now have a truly cross platform way to 0wn boxes.
When will people learn, you can't make something 100% secure, and security through obscurity is a bad idea? Lets just hope the guys in the white hats can reverse engineer this crap first and figure out a way to save the millions of innocent and ignorant customers who will end up with one of these chips in their box.
Actually... no it isn't.
Austrailian GDP: $579 billion, all of which cannot be brought to bear on this without destroying the country utterly. In fact only a VERY small portion could be bankrolled for this.
HP Yearly Revenue: $79.9 billion
Dell Yearly Revenue: $49.2 billion
Microsoft Yearly Revenue: $36.8 billion
Intel Yearly Revenue: $34.2 billion
Apple Yearly Revenue: $8.28 billion
Around $208.4 billion with a lot in reserves, no roads to build, no wellfare to payout, no military to support... Austrailia will loose the money game.
Actually... no it isn't. Austrailian GDP: $579 billion, all of which cannot be brought to bear on this without destroying the country utterly. In fact only a VERY small portion could be bankrolled for this. HP Yearly Revenue: $79.9 billion Dell Yearly Revenue: $49.2 billion Microsoft Yearly Revenue: $36.8 billion Intel Yearly Revenue: $34.2 billion Apple Yearly Revenue: $8.28 billion Around $208.4 billion with a lot in reserves, no roads to build, no wellfare to payout, no military to support... Austrailia will loose the money game.
Additionally you run into the Texas problem here. Texas has this law. As a result people often kill bills on purpose by using useless riders.
I see you are posting to slashdot now George Lucas... as if "s_wardman" fooled us. It's obvious: s_wardman -> swardman -> sword man -> sabre man -> light sabre man -> jedi Next you'll be telling us that Han Shot First...
While the AMD 64 X2 Dualcore is impressive, I am still waiting for the AMD 69 XXX Hardcore myself.
Sorry, it just had to be said.
More along the lines of: GIMP::Photoshop New Military Technology::Tired old civilian technology Photoshop is ok, but GIMP is better. Have you ever even used it? The interface is a bit rough around the edges, less so these days than the past, but it has an enourmous amount of power behind it.
There is a big thing you are missing here. In a lot of markets Linux is making small inroads in the form of a the dual boot systems. At my place of employment everyone who doesn't use Linux straight out dual boots. They haven't switched over completely yet but for the purposes of compatibility they dual boot and spend some of their time using Linux.
Often this turns into a lot of their time. The fact is that when using Linux I can read any document you give me, and mount/use any drive on the network, I have full compatibility. Windows hasn't got this important feature because they are being deliberatly obtuse and not interoperating. The guy down the hall starts to feel outmoded when me with my Linux machine and Betty with her Mac can interoperate together completely and can both interoperate with him, but his machine can't do the same.
MS simply has to change this practice. They also have to get serious about supporting more applications. A lot of the publishing work we do is in TeX because TeX is pretty much the defacto standard of professional publishing. MS has rudimentary at best support, whereas Linux and Mac make it easy as pie.
There is a serious growing threat here, and as has been shown numerous times the idea that it costs more to switch platforms is false. It costs nothing more to dual boot, and often the cost of switching is zero or less, especially in an environment that has been dual booting for a while.