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Its interesting to see the top results for every letter. As everyone has noticed, Paris Hilton... Tara Reid? Xbox beats playstation? OR perhaps that simply becasue Paris beats Playstation any day, but it doesnt even show up in the first 10 results? Thinks like Firefox bening first, and Internet Explorer 4th, I didn't think ikea was THAT big? Kazaa was a given. Google was second only to games. And Verizon takes the top two, although V has less words. Also with V are a number of Virgin Mobile entries. Cell phones are hot stuff (not like anyone didnt know that)
Okay, so this isnt a definitive outlook on todays culture, but it is a pretty interesting look at internet surfing trends.
Its is dangerous, but entirely possible. I'e modded a couple hard drives myself, putting a plexiglass cover on them. I havnt had a problem yet, but I expect is not too far in the future.
The main issue is that dust does not get between the writing pin and the platters. Most of the time, dust particles are larger than the writing pin. In that case, the push just pushes it out of the way.
But the main reason why hard drives are created in a closed "clean room" enviroment is the sheer quantity that they are made in. If you tried to mod 100,000 hard drives at home, your failure rate would be much more than 50% atleast. These companies need to maintain something around a 10% rate to not lose money (kinda like the recent fiasco of failing hard drives).
So, yep, you right, it is dangerous, which is why you void your warranty if you do so, but not impossible.
As was mentioned before, unemployment only applies if you get fired, or do not leave on your own accord.
Instead of just walking out, and facing almost certain termination, take it a different way. IANAL, but I do not think a company can put you on call 24x7 without compensation. ESPCIALLY if it is not in your job description that you should hav signed when you started (or when it was last updated). Now, as far as the 50-60 hour work weeks, you ARE getting paid overtime for them? If not, I KNOW the law says something about that. But again, IANAL and I dont know if the law says something about the ammount of hour a company and make you work.
But back to the On-call business. You have every right to say "no" to your company if they call you at home. Your personal life is your personal life and they are NOT allowed to ask you why you cannot come into work. You simply have to tell them you are unavailable. Or simply, screen your calls. If the company decides to get stupid and fire you becasue you would not answer their call-ins, you have legal grounds for an unlawful termination suit.
Or, in troll terms... 1. Blow of company call-ins 2. Get fired by company 3. ??? 4. Profit!!!
Now, dont quote me on this... becasue laws vary from state to state, and even city to city... CHECK before you decide to do anything. Doing your homework is the best bet for fighting any tyrannic company.
Okay, maybe I'm just a little anal here, but I can't figure this out. These two two domes are nothing more than just 8 way joysticks, as pointed out above. So, if you have two 8 way joysticks, thats 8 ways for the left * 8 ways for the right = 8^2 = 64. So, you have 64 combinations to type your keys.
But now, if you look at at this image, there are 66 keys to press with two dome movements! Any I missing something here?
This is possible, but remember, each car will still be equiped with the 800Mhz 19.2k Motorola systems. If for some reason, WiFi was jammed, they could just switch back to the old system. I wonder if the WiFi system will be integrated in such a way where this will be an automatic function? Even with 27 stations throughout the city, the gaps between the WiFi signals will be great, and it would be a pain to have to manually switch it on and off when you think you might have a signal.
It is free to take the time to empty my snail mailbox, but spamers can send files to my e-mail that I have to pay to download.
I totally agree with you when it comes to e-mail spam, and costing money. On my dial-up a 500K (a rather large) spam letter would like 1 minute. I used by dial-up about 500 minutes a month. I paid $19.95 for it. That's $.04 there. Multiply that by maybe 100 a month. That's $4.00 in per month that It's costing me to download and delete this stuff.
Now compare that to where I work. I'm divulging(sp) payrates here, but not names, not like you care much anyways. The person who sorts the mail daily makes about $9.00 an hour. It takes her about 20 minutes a day to sort all the mail. About %20 of all the mail is junk mail that goes to me alone! In one working month (about 22 days) it costs about $13.00 for her to sort MY junk mail. Add in the time I spend sorting through and trashing the mail, about a hour a month @ 11.00/hr, and that puts the total to $24.00 a month or myself alone!
Obviously, in our case, snail-mail spam is much worse than e-mail spam as far as costs go. I'm definatly not condoning(sp??) e-mail spam, but snail mail spam is big business also. While I doubt it, maybe a postitive anti-spam decision about e-junk mail could spill over into my regular mail-box... we can always hope!
If you think about it, the DNS servers are a "centralized" systems. With the Root Servers, if I query my DNS server at home, and cannot find www.fubar.com, I query one of the DNS root servers to find which DNS server has the records I need.
Now imagine, what if one of those root servers went down. The other servers have to take the load of the failed server. Now imagine two went down, however unlikely, but that puts loads of extra traffic on the remaing servers. After a while, this will add up. Now, I admit, it is probibly very unlikely, but with enough traffic, even a root server could be/.ed. Or, in a less extreme case, it could take quite a while for my query for www.fubar.com to pass through.
Now don't get me wrong, I despise Microsoft for it's shady practices as much as the next guy, but really, is this one of those "shady" practices? If you think about it, Microsoft has every right to do this.
The XBox is thier creation. They put many hours into the design and building of the machine. Okay, how convenient that it runs on x86 hardware. The rest of the programming is thier own.
I understand that most OSS programmers would likely be willing to let others mess around with thier creations, but look at it from the other point of view.
Microsoft has clearly, from the beginning, shown that they are in in for the money, and not to let others mess around with their products. As much as many of us do not like the idea of that, It is perfectly legal, and valid. Car makers void warranties if you modify them past a certain point. (besides that is could be unsafe) It is becasue they don't want you messing with their products, and spending money with other after-market compaies.
When you hack an XBox, and put linux on it, you are now using the box as a computer. You likely won't be playing XBox games on it anymore. Thus, Microsoft is loosing business becasue you are not buying games. True, they are still making money from the box itself, but they still want more, which i guess is thier perogative(sp).
If you were also in it for the money, and created a very good system, would you want others hacking into it, and possibly loosing business becasue of it. Okay, you are still making money from selling your product, but you want more. That is your choice, and your a FREE (yes, Freedome still exsists in America) to do that.
Microsoft is simply trying to protect thier products, and business. Yes, we have the right to critisize them for it, and maybe we can make a difference, but by saying "this is illegal, MS can't do this, etc.." I dont think we that the right to say THAT.
Now, great, I am all for hacking or moding the XBox, but if something goes wrong, it's your fault, and MS has nothing to do with it. Don't blame them for putting DRM in the box, or anything like that. Blame you for not listening to thier warnings about what could happen if you mod it.
Again, dont get me wrong, I am far from MS's #1 fan, and I dont agree with most of thier practices. They are free to do that. It is one of the great ideals of capitalism. Now, Monopolies are not, but is the XBox really a Monopoly? With the sales of GameCube and PS2 what they are, I would say not. If you really want to have a game system running on x86 hardware that is free for everyone to hack, then be innovative and create one, and sell it.
I'm not trying to Troll here, and this whole thing is probibly redundant from the last ten Articles on/. I just don't see where all the "illegal" and "this aint right" voices are coming from. There goes my Karma....
Why Mirror them. We just took out the company that collects data about who is sharing music or movies online . What fun it is. We did the RIAA once, care to hit this one while you are at it.
Well, We only probe(d) the ports on your computer that you have made public...i.e, port 80.
Maybe it's just me, but I am forsee so many problems with this. With VoIP cell phones, your phone would bascially become another 'computer'-like node on a network. Look at the problems facing computers today.
First, as mentioned a few posts above, it would be simple to add a voice filter to any phone. Download a program into it, and it will manipulate the bits making your voice unrecognizable. While in some cases, this is a plus, with the annonimity of cell phones now, this could be used for all sorts of prank, and malicious phone calls.
Viruses will run rampent(sp)! A simple cell call from one VoIP phone to another could potentially carry a virus embeded into the bits. Answer a phone call, and your phone's screen starts flashing with Devil horns... or an IE logo... Your phone is now dead.
In addition to viruses, 'dialer' type programs could potentially be downloaded to your phone, and used to call other phones to spread. Your think pr0n dialers now are bad, imagine your phone bill coming in only to notice that your have 100 out-of-country calls on it.
These are only a sampling of the problems we could face. DoS phone attacks, worms, everything that attacks a standard computer now could be used against your cell phone, after all, they are all built about bits sent back and forth...
The the relativly small ammounts of graphics that doom used, in comparison with quake, I would venture to say that it would be task that could be undertaken easily. Even if the doom graphics and levels were applied to the quake code, then using this mod, you could get alot of peoples attention.
One thing I would love to do, and would be even easier than doom, would be to recreate Wolfenstien, Spear, and even Commander Keen using a modern (post-quake) 3d engine. Even without all the lighting effects, just being able seen objects from those games in 3D would be something worth paying for, even if only by the old-school gamers.
I am also a SysAdmin for a moderate size library. While I have no issues with the fact that it is a right for someone over the age of 18 to look at adult material, the library is still no place for it. While I firmly believe that filtering is not the answer, rather just another problem. In our lab, we have two main sections. A standard lab with access by anyone over the age of 12, and a computer classroom, which we try to restrict to 18 yrs and old, or 13 yrs and older with a parent. While many adult think that because we restrict the "back room" to 18yrs and older, they have free reign for pr0n surfing. Rather, it was our intent to provide a quiete atmosphere to adults to work in. Still, kids ARE ALLOWED in the classroom.
Now, here's where I'm asking what everyone else feels about this. Becasue we dont stop kids from trying to find mommy and daddy, or we allows kids with parents in there, pr0n, I feel, should be restricted. Becasue that kids can look up, see that material, and tell mom or dad. They, in turn, have the right to press charges against the person looking at the material for exposing it to thier child, but also to the library, for providing the means to view it! And I'm telling you, I dont want to be in the dead middle of one of these battles! While we don't employ any filtering, we inform people that it is inappropriate for a library if there is no child in that room, or we ask them to leave if there is a child in the back room (we do not give them them option in the latter case).
I am so against filting, becasue I was a child not to long ago, and I can'te tell you how many reports I couldn't do becasue of the filtering in my school. Hit and miss it truely is. But I do feel, with all my heart that adult content should be restricted in other ways. Simply by human interaction, asking someone to leave, could help. When people start getting the hit that they will get in the trouble for this, it will stop (although not totally). This makes the librarian's job harder, I admit, but we are supposed to be a provider of helpful information that helps people... not junk that polutes children's minds...
I would like to see other peoples take on this typing of enforcing. Dont kill me for my views. Thx.
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Sony, after the embarasing default of their state-of-the-art copy protection system, have announced a new, more proven, form of theft protection system. According to Sony, a black magic marker will now be run across the bottom of all new CD's in an X fashion. This marking will prevent all CD-Burners to eject the disk in disgust. Macintosh computers have been known to crash when reading these disks, and PC cd-rom drives have exploded due to increased spin rates. There is a warning on the CD which states "Any attempt to play this CD in any device will result in four alien beings sucking your brain out your ears, becasue obviously you don't need it". Music enthusiasts are upset at the fact that these CD's cannot be played in even 100% honast to goodness CD players. Sony refused to comments on this accusation in public, but did tell our reporter that it is a minor side-effect that Sony will look into, Until then, people are encouraged to buy these new CD's and help Sony gain a monopoply, just like Micro$oft.
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Its interesting to see the top results for every letter. As everyone has noticed, Paris Hilton... Tara Reid? Xbox beats playstation? OR perhaps that simply becasue Paris beats Playstation any day, but it doesnt even show up in the first 10 results? Thinks like Firefox bening first, and Internet Explorer 4th, I didn't think ikea was THAT big? Kazaa was a given. Google was second only to games. And Verizon takes the top two, although V has less words. Also with V are a number of Virgin Mobile entries. Cell phones are hot stuff (not like anyone didnt know that)
Okay, so this isnt a definitive outlook on todays culture, but it is a pretty interesting look at internet surfing trends.
Its is dangerous, but entirely possible. I'e modded a couple hard drives myself, putting a plexiglass cover on them. I havnt had a problem yet, but I expect is not too far in the future.
The main issue is that dust does not get between the writing pin and the platters. Most of the time, dust particles are larger than the writing pin. In that case, the push just pushes it out of the way.
But the main reason why hard drives are created in a closed "clean room" enviroment is the sheer quantity that they are made in. If you tried to mod 100,000 hard drives at home, your failure rate would be much more than 50% atleast. These companies need to maintain something around a 10% rate to not lose money (kinda like the recent fiasco of failing hard drives).
So, yep, you right, it is dangerous, which is why you void your warranty if you do so, but not impossible.
As was mentioned before, unemployment only applies if you get fired, or do not leave on your own accord.
Instead of just walking out, and facing almost certain termination, take it a different way. IANAL, but I do not think a company can put you on call 24x7 without compensation. ESPCIALLY if it is not in your job description that you should hav signed when you started (or when it was last updated). Now, as far as the 50-60 hour work weeks, you ARE getting paid overtime for them? If not, I KNOW the law says something about that. But again, IANAL and I dont know if the law says something about the ammount of hour a company and make you work.
But back to the On-call business. You have every right to say "no" to your company if they call you at home. Your personal life is your personal life and they are NOT allowed to ask you why you cannot come into work. You simply have to tell them you are unavailable. Or simply, screen your calls. If the company decides to get stupid and fire you becasue you would not answer their call-ins, you have legal grounds for an unlawful termination suit.
Or, in troll terms...
1. Blow of company call-ins
2. Get fired by company
3. ???
4. Profit!!!
Now, dont quote me on this... becasue laws vary from state to state, and even city to city... CHECK before you decide to do anything. Doing your homework is the best bet for fighting any tyrannic company.
Thanks to those who helped pointout my extreme stupidity. There are two ALT/CTRL keys on each side, with the same positions. Duh...
::Hides in shame::
Okay, maybe I'm just a little anal here, but I can't figure this out. These two two domes are nothing more than just 8 way joysticks, as pointed out above. So, if you have two 8 way joysticks, thats 8 ways for the left * 8 ways for the right = 8^2 = 64. So, you have 64 combinations to type your keys.
But now, if you look at at this image, there are 66 keys to press with two dome movements! Any I missing something here?
This is possible, but remember, each car will still be equiped with the 800Mhz 19.2k Motorola systems. If for some reason, WiFi was jammed, they could just switch back to the old system. I wonder if the WiFi system will be integrated in such a way where this will be an automatic function? Even with 27 stations throughout the city, the gaps between the WiFi signals will be great, and it would be a pain to have to manually switch it on and off when you think you might have a signal.
Whats this I hear? Linux users? Packages? The larger the boxen? Overcompensating?
I totally agree with you when it comes to e-mail spam, and costing money. On my dial-up a 500K (a rather large) spam letter would like 1 minute. I used by dial-up about 500 minutes a month. I paid $19.95 for it. That's $.04 there. Multiply that by maybe 100 a month. That's $4.00 in per month that It's costing me to download and delete this stuff.
Now compare that to where I work. I'm divulging(sp) payrates here, but not names, not like you care much anyways. The person who sorts the mail daily makes about $9.00 an hour. It takes her about 20 minutes a day to sort all the mail. About %20 of all the mail is junk mail that goes to me alone! In one working month (about 22 days) it costs about $13.00 for her to sort MY junk mail. Add in the time I spend sorting through and trashing the mail, about a hour a month @ 11.00/hr, and that puts the total to $24.00 a month or myself alone!
Obviously, in our case, snail-mail spam is much worse than e-mail spam as far as costs go. I'm definatly not condoning(sp??) e-mail spam, but snail mail spam is big business also. While I doubt it, maybe a postitive anti-spam decision about e-junk mail could spill over into my regular mail-box... we can always hope!
Ah scratch that, my mistake, the site is www.wingimp.org. The other site just sells WinGimp CD's. The .ORG site has a GPL-compliant version on it.
With all the dust in my computer.... the vacuum cleaner!
FreeeCiv
OpenOffice
and WinGimp
I would love to hear more from everyone else.
If you think about it, the DNS servers are a "centralized" systems. With the Root Servers, if I query my DNS server at home, and cannot find www.fubar.com, I query one of the DNS root servers to find which DNS server has the records I need.
/.ed. Or, in a less extreme case, it could take quite a while for my query for www.fubar.com to pass through.
Now imagine, what if one of those root servers went down. The other servers have to take the load of the failed server. Now imagine two went down, however unlikely, but that puts loads of extra traffic on the remaing servers. After a while, this will add up. Now, I admit, it is probibly very unlikely, but with enough traffic, even a root server could be
Now don't get me wrong, I despise Microsoft for it's shady practices as much as the next guy, but really, is this one of those "shady" practices? If you think about it, Microsoft has every right to do this.
/. I just don't see where all the "illegal" and "this aint right" voices are coming from. There goes my Karma....
The XBox is thier creation. They put many hours into the design and building of the machine. Okay, how convenient that it runs on x86 hardware. The rest of the programming is thier own.
I understand that most OSS programmers would likely be willing to let others mess around with thier creations, but look at it from the other point of view.
Microsoft has clearly, from the beginning, shown that they are in in for the money, and not to let others mess around with their products. As much as many of us do not like the idea of that, It is perfectly legal, and valid. Car makers void warranties if you modify them past a certain point. (besides that is could be unsafe) It is becasue they don't want you messing with their products, and spending money with other after-market compaies.
When you hack an XBox, and put linux on it, you are now using the box as a computer. You likely won't be playing XBox games on it anymore. Thus, Microsoft is loosing business becasue you are not buying games. True, they are still making money from the box itself, but they still want more, which i guess is thier perogative(sp).
If you were also in it for the money, and created a very good system, would you want others hacking into it, and possibly loosing business becasue of it. Okay, you are still making money from selling your product, but you want more. That is your choice, and your a FREE (yes, Freedome still exsists in America) to do that.
Microsoft is simply trying to protect thier products, and business. Yes, we have the right to critisize them for it, and maybe we can make a difference, but by saying "this is illegal, MS can't do this, etc.." I dont think we that the right to say THAT.
Now, great, I am all for hacking or moding the XBox, but if something goes wrong, it's your fault, and MS has nothing to do with it. Don't blame them for putting DRM in the box, or anything like that. Blame you for not listening to thier warnings about what could happen if you mod it.
Again, dont get me wrong, I am far from MS's #1 fan, and I dont agree with most of thier practices. They are free to do that. It is one of the great ideals of capitalism. Now, Monopolies are not, but is the XBox really a Monopoly? With the sales of GameCube and PS2 what they are, I would say not. If you really want to have a game system running on x86 hardware that is free for everyone to hack, then be innovative and create one, and sell it.
I'm not trying to Troll here, and this whole thing is probibly redundant from the last ten Articles on
Well, We only probe(d) the ports on your computer that you have made public.. .i.e, port 80.
Okay, you can mod me down now.
Maybe it's just me, but I am forsee so many problems with this. With VoIP cell phones, your phone would bascially become another 'computer'-like node on a network. Look at the problems facing computers today.
First, as mentioned a few posts above, it would be simple to add a voice filter to any phone. Download a program into it, and it will manipulate the bits making your voice unrecognizable. While in some cases, this is a plus, with the annonimity of cell phones now, this could be used for all sorts of prank, and malicious phone calls.
Viruses will run rampent(sp)! A simple cell call from one VoIP phone to another could potentially carry a virus embeded into the bits. Answer a phone call, and your phone's screen starts flashing with Devil horns... or an IE logo... Your phone is now dead.
In addition to viruses, 'dialer' type programs could potentially be downloaded to your phone, and used to call other phones to spread. Your think pr0n dialers now are bad, imagine your phone bill coming in only to notice that your have 100 out-of-country calls on it.
These are only a sampling of the problems we could face. DoS phone attacks, worms, everything that attacks a standard computer now could be used against your cell phone, after all, they are all built about bits sent back and forth...
The the relativly small ammounts of graphics that doom used, in comparison with quake, I would venture to say that it would be task that could be undertaken easily. Even if the doom graphics and levels were applied to the quake code, then using this mod, you could get alot of peoples attention.
One thing I would love to do, and would be even easier than doom, would be to recreate Wolfenstien, Spear, and even Commander Keen using a modern (post-quake) 3d engine. Even without all the lighting effects, just being able seen objects from those games in 3D would be something worth paying for, even if only by the old-school gamers.
I am also a SysAdmin for a moderate size library. While I have no issues with the fact that it is a right for someone over the age of 18 to look at adult material, the library is still no place for it. While I firmly believe that filtering is not the answer, rather just another problem. In our lab, we have two main sections. A standard lab with access by anyone over the age of 12, and a computer classroom, which we try to restrict to 18 yrs and old, or 13 yrs and older with a parent. While many adult think that because we restrict the "back room" to 18yrs and older, they have free reign for pr0n surfing. Rather, it was our intent to provide a quiete atmosphere to adults to work in. Still, kids ARE ALLOWED in the classroom.
Now, here's where I'm asking what everyone else feels about this. Becasue we dont stop kids from trying to find mommy and daddy, or we allows kids with parents in there, pr0n, I feel, should be restricted. Becasue that kids can look up, see that material, and tell mom or dad. They, in turn, have the right to press charges against the person looking at the material for exposing it to thier child, but also to the library, for providing the means to view it! And I'm telling you, I dont want to be in the dead middle of one of these battles! While we don't employ any filtering, we inform people that it is inappropriate for a library if there is no child in that room, or we ask them to leave if there is a child in the back room (we do not give them them option in the latter case).
I am so against filting, becasue I was a child not to long ago, and I can'te tell you how many reports I couldn't do becasue of the filtering in my school. Hit and miss it truely is. But I do feel, with all my heart that adult content should be restricted in other ways. Simply by human interaction, asking someone to leave, could help. When people start getting the hit that they will get in the trouble for this, it will stop (although not totally). This makes the librarian's job harder, I admit, but we are supposed to be a provider of helpful information that helps people... not junk that polutes children's minds...
I would like to see other peoples take on this typing of enforcing. Dont kill me for my views. Thx.
Just in time for AOL's umpteen-millionth release, the AOL Super-Shinny-Un-named-Metal Release will succeed Gold, Platinum, and Titanium with a ultra-high connection speed. Now you can StarWars.mid in only 1 hour and 42 minutes! 99.3x10^-4 times faster than with AOL 7.0!
Just released!
Sony, after the embarasing default of their state-of-the-art copy protection system, have announced a new, more proven, form of theft protection system. According to Sony, a black magic marker will now be run across the bottom of all new CD's in an X fashion. This marking will prevent all CD-Burners to eject the disk in disgust. Macintosh computers have been known to crash when reading these disks, and PC cd-rom drives have exploded due to increased spin rates. There is a warning on the CD which states "Any attempt to play this CD in any device will result in four alien beings sucking your brain out your ears, becasue obviously you don't need it". Music enthusiasts are upset at the fact that these CD's cannot be played in even 100% honast to goodness CD players. Sony refused to comments on this accusation in public, but did tell our reporter that it is a minor side-effect that Sony will look into, Until then, people are encouraged to buy these new CD's and help Sony gain a monopoply, just like Micro$oft.