So you have a society that: 1. sells movies all over the place before they even hit the theaters, 2. sells pirated software from major companies all over the place, 3. hacks basically anything and everything just for fun, 4. probably has a nationwide pringles-can wifi darknet, and you think you can "disable" wifi on a phone there? Yeah, good luck with that. When you're done with that, maybe you can hold back the ocean with a broom.
Hiding security holes doesn't mean they aren't there. Everyone knows that a bank has a fairly obvious security hole - most people would rather hand the money over vs. getting shot, so bank robbers tend to burst in guns blazing and then make off with tons of cash. Since that's public knowledge, it's easier to defend against such tactics. Hiding that would make both the bank and its customers more susceptible to gun-toting robber attacks, since they would be unprepared for the unknown.
Last I checked, GPS satnav's were still pointing people off cliffs, to invisible roads, and not particularly around construction, whereas a cheap local city map can get you around all that. Secondly, Google maps still doesn't show the right roads in my newish (3-4 year old) subdivision, and despite the subdivision being in a big-ish city (not way out in nowhere) in a nest of existing roads, GMaps still can't find my street by name. Thus, when people want to know how to get to my house, I do what has worked for centuries - I draw a simple little map. GPS doesn't make people dumb, dumb people rely on the easiest possible general solutions to anything, regardless of any flaws to those solutions. Now we're getting a good view of the sheer number of dumb people... scary, huh?
From the images they have of the document, it gives "its all Greek to me" a whole new meaning, and it prompts important questions, spiritally meaningful questions, like: What year did we invent the spacebar anyhow?
Fixing it is easy, just compare it to winning Megaman 2 without cheating. That game is so hard, there is no way to win just on getting items alone. It will take you multiple tries, and there is not a video game expert in the world that could sit down cold and beat even the last "level" of that game without having to try at least twice.
Button-mashing won't do it, knowing the timing of things won't do it, you still can easily slip and miss a jump, select the wrong weapon, or any number of other things, and then bam, dead.
However, if you actually beat the thing, you really feel like you did something that not everyone can do just by dumb luck or gold farming or whatever gameplay your choice of modern games has.
Isn't a p2p cloud via the Internet the obvious solution to open-source's ability to compete with a proprietary cloud in some million square foot warehouse? After all, that warehouse is big and impressive, but the Internet is MUCH bigger and has all sorts of redundancies and local hubs, providing a local granularity to the p2p cloud that a few large warehouses can never match.
The vast majority of porn distribution on the Internet behaves by the "unspoken rules" about what's ok and what's not ok to show. Long story short, you can't show a porn that implies one or more participants may not have given consent, i.e. it can't be a shot of sex with either party tied up. If you see something like this, watch the camera work and you'll notice that they don't actually show sex and bondage at the same time. If they do... that's what gets busted. So besides real bestiality, incest, or anything that could be characterized as nonconsensual, pretty much anything else goes.
It's the area around the topographical mapping equipment building. if they point the equipment at itself, it creates a paradox and the universe implodes.
Just for some reference, an Intel Core 2 Quad can throw down about 50 gflops, but it runs on 95-130 Watts of power. To even come close to this 50GFLOPW number, you'd be designing your own HPC chips for sure.
Could a meteor, going some-odd thousand miles per hour, collide with an airplane while airborne? Sure, in the way that a bullet could collide with another much faster bullet when fired from two different guns in two different directions. You could aim them and fire in such a way as to "make" them hit, but the odds are way less than 1 in 20 that this would ever happen. Maybe the odds are 1 in 20 that a meteor would cross through a path taken by a plane, but to hit the plane? Yeah right.
Furthermore, given the littany of reasons most planes crash are highly attributable to user error, I think the chances that this plane crashed because of a direct hit from a meteor are essentially zero.
This has nothing to do with the main reasons that people like me cannot use tiny keyboards. 0. When I press down, my finger pad overlaps way more than one key. therefore, I am prone to make mistakes. 1. I can't see through my finger to the keyboard if my finger covers 2 or more keys, therefore I am prone to make some more mistakes. 2. No, I don't need to see the keys, but I at least need to be able to feel their delineations in lieu of that, and since the thing has no tactile measurable quality like a real keyboard, I am prone to make yet more mistakes.
I can work a blackberry keyboard a little because at least i can feel the difference in the keys vs. spaces. Without some physical delineation or press-from-behind type capacity, I don't think any tiny touchscreen keyboard will be any more for me usable than any other one.
Not only has that horse bolted from the stable already, but it is now married with 10-year old kids. Trying to stop it now will work about as well as prohibition did back in the 20's, which was ill-founded for the same reason: EVERYONE was already doing the thing you're wanting to make illegal!
Most of those games were built when space was a luxury on a chip, and processing power was a luxury on the console. To make a decent game, it just had to have kick ass gameplay. Also, the games were just as expensive as now, so with inflation they were even more... to get people to buy a game, it had to be even more incredible to play. Finally, The gaming market was much smaller, so the appeal of games had to be better to keep people engaged in getting new games. Today's video game market is completely different -- space and processing power are commodities, and so games just occupy an insane amount of both in an attempt to capture someone's attention long enough to get them to make the purchase. The game doesn't have to be any good, because the mfg will come out with another "new" game in 2 weeks since they cost almost nothing to make now.
Games then were incredible AND games now are not as incredible. 2D games bring tiny hand-drawn cartoons to life. 3D games rely largely on computer-generated stuff. Like tubes vs. solid state, there will always be fans of either, but you can't argue with the effectiveness of the original product. Jet planes are awesome, but not as awesome relative to their environment as the first planes were. It's that simple.
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So you have a society that:
1. sells movies all over the place before they even hit the theaters,
2. sells pirated software from major companies all over the place,
3. hacks basically anything and everything just for fun,
4. probably has a nationwide pringles-can wifi darknet,
and you think you can "disable" wifi on a phone there? Yeah, good luck with that. When you're done with that, maybe you can hold back the ocean with a broom.
Hey baby, you're so hot, you make my sperm go supersonic! giggidy.
Aw come on, it's friday and you post this story? How could I not DP! (giggidy)
Hey baby, you make me produce faster sperm! giggidy.
Everyone shhhh! Stop posting these stories, or else we're gonna have to host TPB and its ilk in outer space or something.
Hiding security holes doesn't mean they aren't there. Everyone knows that a bank has a fairly obvious security hole - most people would rather hand the money over vs. getting shot, so bank robbers tend to burst in guns blazing and then make off with tons of cash. Since that's public knowledge, it's easier to defend against such tactics. Hiding that would make both the bank and its customers more susceptible to gun-toting robber attacks, since they would be unprepared for the unknown.
I got a TRS-80 working but try to find the BIG floppies for it, and you're headed to eBay and similar places quite a bit.
Earlier today, local knowledge and maps were going the way of the dodo. By the end of today, we should have hover-cars and warp drive!
Last I checked, GPS satnav's were still pointing people off cliffs, to invisible roads, and not particularly around construction, whereas a cheap local city map can get you around all that. Secondly, Google maps still doesn't show the right roads in my newish (3-4 year old) subdivision, and despite the subdivision being in a big-ish city (not way out in nowhere) in a nest of existing roads, GMaps still can't find my street by name. Thus, when people want to know how to get to my house, I do what has worked for centuries - I draw a simple little map. GPS doesn't make people dumb, dumb people rely on the easiest possible general solutions to anything, regardless of any flaws to those solutions. Now we're getting a good view of the sheer number of dumb people... scary, huh?
From the images they have of the document, it gives "its all Greek to me" a whole new meaning, and it prompts important questions, spiritally meaningful questions, like: What year did we invent the spacebar anyhow?
Fixing it is easy, just compare it to winning Megaman 2 without cheating. That game is so hard, there is no way to win just on getting items alone. It will take you multiple tries, and there is not a video game expert in the world that could sit down cold and beat even the last "level" of that game without having to try at least twice.
Button-mashing won't do it, knowing the timing of things won't do it, you still can easily slip and miss a jump, select the wrong weapon, or any number of other things, and then bam, dead.
However, if you actually beat the thing, you really feel like you did something that not everyone can do just by dumb luck or gold farming or whatever gameplay your choice of modern games has.
As with all inventions, this will lead to ungodly adult game uses.
He's indirectly asking us to learn from his example. Build a free empire, then sell it at its peak, before anyone realizes that it's unsustainable.
Based on what the markets have been up to, I'd say this code has been out there and has been actively exploited for at least 18 months.
Isn't a p2p cloud via the Internet the obvious solution to open-source's ability to compete with a proprietary cloud in some million square foot warehouse? After all, that warehouse is big and impressive, but the Internet is MUCH bigger and has all sorts of redundancies and local hubs, providing a local granularity to the p2p cloud that a few large warehouses can never match.
The vast majority of porn distribution on the Internet behaves by the "unspoken rules" about what's ok and what's not ok to show. Long story short, you can't show a porn that implies one or more participants may not have given consent, i.e. it can't be a shot of sex with either party tied up. If you see something like this, watch the camera work and you'll notice that they don't actually show sex and bondage at the same time. If they do... that's what gets busted. So besides real bestiality, incest, or anything that could be characterized as nonconsensual, pretty much anything else goes.
Because if it can, I'm sure virtual handjobs from your favorite porn star are just minutes away.
Anything that's a million square feet is not going to be much of a secret.
"What's this building that I'm driving past for 5 minutes on the freeway?"
"Oh, that's just a, uh... big empty warehouse building."
This is all just a distraction from the "real secret", a 2 million square foot datacenter that they're building in lake Superior's salt mines.
It's the area around the topographical mapping equipment building. if they point the equipment at itself, it creates a paradox and the universe implodes.
What a waste of money. You can download TPB from bittorrent or any p2p share for free!
Just for some reference, an Intel Core 2 Quad can throw down about 50 gflops, but it runs on 95-130 Watts of power. To even come close to this 50GFLOPW number, you'd be designing your own HPC chips for sure.
http://www.pctechguide.com/26quadCore.htm
Could a meteor, going some-odd thousand miles per hour, collide with an airplane while airborne? Sure, in the way that a bullet could collide with another much faster bullet when fired from two different guns in two different directions. You could aim them and fire in such a way as to "make" them hit, but the odds are way less than 1 in 20 that this would ever happen. Maybe the odds are 1 in 20 that a meteor would cross through a path taken by a plane, but to hit the plane? Yeah right.
Furthermore, given the littany of reasons most planes crash are highly attributable to user error, I think the chances that this plane crashed because of a direct hit from a meteor are essentially zero.
This has nothing to do with the main reasons that people like me cannot use tiny keyboards.
0. When I press down, my finger pad overlaps way more than one key. therefore, I am prone to make mistakes.
1. I can't see through my finger to the keyboard if my finger covers 2 or more keys, therefore I am prone to make some more mistakes.
2. No, I don't need to see the keys, but I at least need to be able to feel their delineations in lieu of that, and since the thing has no tactile measurable quality like a real keyboard, I am prone to make yet more mistakes.
I can work a blackberry keyboard a little because at least i can feel the difference in the keys vs. spaces. Without some physical delineation or press-from-behind type capacity, I don't think any tiny touchscreen keyboard will be any more for me usable than any other one.
Or, it fails after a million years. How would anyone know?
Not only has that horse bolted from the stable already, but it is now married with 10-year old kids. Trying to stop it now will work about as well as prohibition did back in the 20's, which was ill-founded for the same reason: EVERYONE was already doing the thing you're wanting to make illegal!
Most of those games were built when space was a luxury on a chip, and processing power was a luxury on the console. To make a decent game, it just had to have kick ass gameplay. Also, the games were just as expensive as now, so with inflation they were even more... to get people to buy a game, it had to be even more incredible to play. Finally, The gaming market was much smaller, so the appeal of games had to be better to keep people engaged in getting new games. Today's video game market is completely different -- space and processing power are commodities, and so games just occupy an insane amount of both in an attempt to capture someone's attention long enough to get them to make the purchase. The game doesn't have to be any good, because the mfg will come out with another "new" game in 2 weeks since they cost almost nothing to make now.
Games then were incredible AND games now are not as incredible. 2D games bring tiny hand-drawn cartoons to life. 3D games rely largely on computer-generated stuff. Like tubes vs. solid state, there will always be fans of either, but you can't argue with the effectiveness of the original product. Jet planes are awesome, but not as awesome relative to their environment as the first planes were. It's that simple.