Switzerland has a low gun mortality rate even though most people own firearms. However, these people are trained to use them in their compulsory military service. However, in the US, it doesn't take much more than money to own and operate a firearm. I don't like gun control, even mandatory waiting periods, but I think people should have to pass something like a proficiency test to own/operate a firearm. We do the same for cars, so why not guns?
One thing that hanheld forgot to mention (glossing over the N-gage and cellphones), is that if written in J2ME according to the m-gaming portability specs, handheld developers should be able to port a single game to as many different products as they want as long as they don't tie themselves down to an API, like Qualcomm's BREW. While this still isn't as significant a market as GBA is, you can take a moment to consider that this means that a J2ME game can have a viable presence on cell-phones, the N-gage, Palm/PDA, the PC (under VM or not), and can even be presented as a fully featured demo on the companies home site for perusal before purchase. While this may not be enough to shrug off the dominance of Nintendo wholly, it should suggest that this alternate handheld market is more open to small developers, fan developers, etc. Try writing a J2ME game and then porting it to GBA... see what I mean? Additionally, many of these cell companies are so hungry for apps that they will actually go out of their way to encourage companies to write for them. Try finding a "Developers" section on the Nintendo site!
As Skeptic publisher Michael Shermer says, "The proof is in the hydrino pudding. The question is, when are you going to have desktop hydrino pudding?"
"Desktop"? No, imagine a Beowulf cluster of >THUNK
Thank god he didn't advise a laptop version. I only fill my lap with pudding for *special* occasions.
Well, it's possible to serve off of a handheld PDA/Palm and a Commodore 64. All it would really take would be some free server software a la Apache/PHP/Perl and some free time.
One would imagine that the sound vibrations could actually cause soldered connections to "rattle" loose if subjected to sonic waves. Especially if something caused those waves to become the harmonic peak of the board (Imagine the old cassette tape commercial with the opera singer shattering a wine glass with her voice... it's actually possible). So, it might be possible, but it could be dangerous over a length of time.
Although I think it would be really cool if someone designed a virus that caused your miniature acoustic cooling system to blow your mobo to fragments. That would be sweet!
Sure, why not? Especially in an enterprise solution, where the PGP Corporation can personalize the software for each customer.
Open source != Open source, though?
While a lot of OSSes are going to get their panties in a bunch, note that it is still possible to study the code and write new code based on the *concepts* that you learned about encryption. I don't know how to write encryption, but if I were to learn, I'd love to study robust professional code for free.
Charities have become rather parasitic entities. I worked in a Muscular Dystrophy Association call center... for a day. I was summarily released because I didn't get enough donations. Charitable work.
I'm not the only one who's been exposed to this kind of charitable dirty business... look here, please
I was thinking about making a fps called Godmode/PK. Basically, it would be the biggest, ugliest cheat zone in the world. I'd even open-source the code and let everyone behind the Magic Curtain to write whatever hacks and bots they wanted. The idea would be that the hackers would ultimately get bored with the hacking and might actually try besting their opponents with "skill" and "coordination." But then again, I know people who write scripts to play MUDs for them, because all they want is the biggest, most powerful character in the whole darn MUD . So, I've realized there are always going to be dirty cheaters out there who just can't seem to get their jollies beating each other fairly.
My online game of choice? Classic Mac's Tank Bolo. I wonder if anyone has made any cheat proggies for that, yet.
I've also spent most of my career working as a janitor, a factory worker (Chain mail gloves, anyone?), carpenter, or a food service worker. I don't care whether an office programming job is isolated or anything like that. I just want one because I love to program. It's a job that I can do. I'm not a mechanic, and I'm a pretty lousy carpenter, but I'm a half-way decent programmer.
Sign me up for the white collar nightmare.
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I'm not suggesting that it would be a GOOD thing to do. I'm simply pointing out that no matter how big and bad MS thinks its Palladium initiative is, someone will make a big joke out of it by punching big holes in it.
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Oh, stop, otherwise GNU will be in just as much trouble for abusing the English language.
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I would be willing to bet USD or yen or whatever that SOMEONE is able to get Linux hacked-together and running on Palladium hardware.
I disable popups because they are incredibly obnoxious and sometimes attempting to close them results in my computer hanging.
However, I routinely click-through on my favorite sites' banner ads just to give them a little extra bank.
There are other ways to advertise or generate revenue than "pop-ups" and "pop-unders". I consider them to be obnoxious misuses of advertising. Especially considering the rather large amount of space on the web-page itself that could be used, why does the advertiser feel the need to create a new window?
Also, I click on banner ads and ads placed about the page. I NEVER click on a pop-up ad, because the advertiser has already offended me by using this mode of advertising.
Exactly what is my motivation to control my appliances when I'm away from home? Most of them would be either pointless or unsafe.
I can really only think of two appropriate applications: A washer/dryer combo with automated robot arm (Which could probably run itself, considering I've already given it a robot arm), and a Net-accessible iron for obsessive-compulsives (Y'see, they can just turn it off from their wi-fi device. However, they'll probably have to push the off button exactly 42 times, or something terrible will happen).
I mean, really, I don't want to start hearing about people who's refrigerators were hacked by evil defrost exploits.
I use Win98SE, MacOS 8.1, and RedHat Linux 7.2 on different machines. I have a PPC 7100, a sweet, little 733 mhz P3 (The winbox), and a SPARC 10 and an ACER running the Linux. I also have a C64 and a VIC-20.
I'm trying to have a network containing all possible OSes so I can use any software I want to whenever I want to without using VMs. I still need a new Mac to run OSX, and I need a better box to run a more customized version of Linux, but this I WILL get!!!
Btw: I bought my Winbox from a friend who bought it from a friend, so I never actually paid for any Microsoftware.
I don't trust the expedience with which the law was passed, nor do I trust its conveniently broad sweep.
No mention was made of any actual damages or improprieties, nor was it made mention why they didn't disclose about the attacks for two weeks after they were aware of them.
So, my conclusion is that if I were wanting to pass another security bill, I would fake an attack on myself and then go bawling to the legislators. They've been waiting, bill in hand, for me to take my cue and play my part. Curtain close. Next act, Orwell-capades!
most terrifying thing about that article for me was not only that Hollywood is turning it into a craptastic movie, but also demonstrating the horrifying simplifications of logic that are foisted on the "common man" all the time. E.g., they bore a hole into the earth and use a nuke to "halt the reversal"!!! If Wim Wenders was directing it, they'd just live in their stupid caves and realize that, maybe, the reversal is something that has to happen.
Yeah, and for their next trick, NASA will spend 80 kajillion dollars on a book that proves the hoax book was not a hoax, but it'll be cancelled... etc.
By the way, I wonder how much money was wasted before the project was blown?
Quote: They have a limited number of staff and the staff must split their time among many different working areas. They must be generalists and do not have time to specialize. Plus there is some turnover, especially among the better skilled staff.
This is why the lifetime cost would be so high. If you have high turnover with your coders and make everyone segment their work like this instead of concentrating on the project, well, anything but a prepackaged solution is going to cost more than if everyone's time was properly managed and you were able to keep crucial staff.
I know some coders who could knock out search engines better than most of the dotgov searches I've used. And the thing is, it probably wouldn't take them very long, even if they started from scratch, AS LONG AS THEY WERE ABLE TO WORK ON THE PROJECT UNTIL FINISHED.
So, you know, your question really doesn't have anything to do with open source.
I don't know if this is proof of evil, but I know I'm jealous I didn't think of this first. They must have gotten their business plan from the U.S. arms dealers.
Well, see, to provide quality topical updates every few hours, the founders just let the "constituency" that is the slashdot readership self-moderate. If someone is full of @#$%, then they will get moderated. It's a cybernetic feedback system, and trust me, it works a lot better than other feature/news sites like cnn. Plus, it has the added bonus of having lower overhead.
Also, who says adverts are bad? Slashdot doesn't seem to have any pop-ups, and the adverts are actually in context, so what's the problem?
Anyway, go ahead and start your dotslash blog, and I hope it goes well. More power to you.
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Switzerland has a low gun mortality rate even though most people own firearms. However, these people are trained to use them in their compulsory military service. However, in the US, it doesn't take much more than money to own and operate a firearm. I don't like gun control, even mandatory waiting periods, but I think people should have to pass something like a proficiency test to own/operate a firearm. We do the same for cars, so why not guns?
One thing that hanheld forgot to mention (glossing over the N-gage and cellphones), is that if written in J2ME according to the m-gaming portability specs, handheld developers should be able to port a single game to as many different products as they want as long as they don't tie themselves down to an API, like Qualcomm's BREW. While this still isn't as significant a market as GBA is, you can take a moment to consider that this means that a J2ME game can have a viable presence on cell-phones, the N-gage, Palm/PDA, the PC (under VM or not), and can even be presented as a fully featured demo on the companies home site for perusal before purchase. While this may not be enough to shrug off the dominance of Nintendo wholly, it should suggest that this alternate handheld market is more open to small developers, fan developers, etc. Try writing a J2ME game and then porting it to GBA... see what I mean? Additionally, many of these cell companies are so hungry for apps that they will actually go out of their way to encourage companies to write for them. Try finding a "Developers" section on the Nintendo site!
As Skeptic publisher Michael Shermer says, "The proof is in the hydrino pudding. The question is, when are you going to have desktop hydrino pudding?"
"Desktop"? No, imagine a Beowulf cluster of >THUNK
Thank god he didn't advise a laptop version. I only fill my lap with pudding for *special* occasions.
Well, it's possible to serve off of a handheld PDA/Palm and a Commodore 64. All it would really take would be some free server software a la Apache/PHP/Perl and some free time.
The scary bit of coincidence is that the graph looks like, well, the Hellmouth, kinda.
One would imagine that the sound vibrations could actually cause soldered connections to "rattle" loose if subjected to sonic waves. Especially if something caused those waves to become the harmonic peak of the board (Imagine the old cassette tape commercial with the opera singer shattering a wine glass with her voice... it's actually possible). So, it might be possible, but it could be dangerous over a length of time.
Although I think it would be really cool if someone designed a virus that caused your miniature acoustic cooling system to blow your mobo to fragments. That would be sweet!
Sure, why not? Especially in an enterprise solution, where the PGP Corporation can personalize the software for each customer.
Open source != Open source, though?
While a lot of OSSes are going to get their panties in a bunch, note that it is still possible to study the code and write new code based on the *concepts* that you learned about encryption. I don't know how to write encryption, but if I were to learn, I'd love to study robust professional code for free.
Charities have become rather parasitic entities. I worked in a Muscular Dystrophy Association call center... for a day. I was summarily released because I didn't get enough donations. Charitable work.
I'm not the only one who's been exposed to this kind of charitable dirty business... look here, please
I was thinking about making a fps called Godmode/PK. Basically, it would be the biggest, ugliest cheat zone in the world. I'd even open-source the code and let everyone behind the Magic Curtain to write whatever hacks and bots they wanted. The idea would be that the hackers would ultimately get bored with the hacking and might actually try besting their opponents with "skill" and "coordination." But then again, I know people who write scripts to play MUDs for them, because all they want is the biggest, most powerful character in the whole darn MUD . So, I've realized there are always going to be dirty cheaters out there who just can't seem to get their jollies beating each other fairly.
My online game of choice? Classic Mac's Tank Bolo. I wonder if anyone has made any cheat proggies for that, yet.
I've also spent most of my career working as a janitor, a factory worker (Chain mail gloves, anyone?), carpenter, or a food service worker. I don't care whether an office programming job is isolated or anything like that. I just want one because I love to program. It's a job that I can do. I'm not a mechanic, and I'm a pretty lousy carpenter, but I'm a half-way decent programmer.
Sign me up for the white collar nightmare.
I'm not suggesting that it would be a GOOD thing to do. I'm simply pointing out that no matter how big and bad MS thinks its Palladium initiative is, someone will make a big joke out of it by punching big holes in it.
Oh, stop, otherwise GNU will be in just as much trouble for abusing the English language.
I would be willing to bet USD or yen or whatever that SOMEONE is able to get Linux hacked-together and running on Palladium hardware.
Xbox modders, get your belt-sanders ready!
I disable popups because they are incredibly obnoxious and sometimes attempting to close them results in my computer hanging.
However, I routinely click-through on my favorite sites' banner ads just to give them a little extra bank.
There are other ways to advertise or generate revenue than "pop-ups" and "pop-unders". I consider them to be obnoxious misuses of advertising. Especially considering the rather large amount of space on the web-page itself that could be used, why does the advertiser feel the need to create a new window?
Also, I click on banner ads and ads placed about the page. I NEVER click on a pop-up ad, because the advertiser has already offended me by using this mode of advertising.
Exactly what is my motivation to control my appliances when I'm away from home? Most of them would be either pointless or unsafe. I can really only think of two appropriate applications: A washer/dryer combo with automated robot arm (Which could probably run itself, considering I've already given it a robot arm), and a Net-accessible iron for obsessive-compulsives (Y'see, they can just turn it off from their wi-fi device. However, they'll probably have to push the off button exactly 42 times, or something terrible will happen). I mean, really, I don't want to start hearing about people who's refrigerators were hacked by evil defrost exploits.
Oh, he should have saved all that jelly stuff and used it to decode the secret name of god. Maybe the Hassids got to him first.
I use Win98SE, MacOS 8.1, and RedHat Linux 7.2 on different machines. I have a PPC 7100, a sweet, little 733 mhz P3 (The winbox), and a SPARC 10 and an ACER running the Linux. I also have a C64 and a VIC-20.
I'm trying to have a network containing all possible OSes so I can use any software I want to whenever I want to without using VMs. I still need a new Mac to run OSX, and I need a better box to run a more customized version of Linux, but this I WILL get!!! Btw: I bought my Winbox from a friend who bought it from a friend, so I never actually paid for any Microsoftware.
I don't trust the expedience with which the law was passed, nor do I trust its conveniently broad sweep. No mention was made of any actual damages or improprieties, nor was it made mention why they didn't disclose about the attacks for two weeks after they were aware of them. So, my conclusion is that if I were wanting to pass another security bill, I would fake an attack on myself and then go bawling to the legislators. They've been waiting, bill in hand, for me to take my cue and play my part. Curtain close. Next act, Orwell-capades!
most terrifying thing about that article for me was not only that Hollywood is turning it into a craptastic movie, but also demonstrating the horrifying simplifications of logic that are foisted on the "common man" all the time. E.g., they bore a hole into the earth and use a nuke to "halt the reversal"!!! If Wim Wenders was directing it, they'd just live in their stupid caves and realize that, maybe, the reversal is something that has to happen.
I know that. It is a joked based on a careful mangling of a cliche. And, BTW
wouldn't be convinced there was a moon landing if you actually sent them to the moon.
Yeah, and for their next trick, NASA will spend 80 kajillion dollars on a book that proves the hoax book was not a hoax, but it'll be cancelled... etc. By the way, I wonder how much money was wasted before the project was blown?
Quote: They have a limited number of staff and the staff must split their time among many different working areas. They must be generalists and do not have time to specialize. Plus there is some turnover, especially among the better skilled staff. This is why the lifetime cost would be so high. If you have high turnover with your coders and make everyone segment their work like this instead of concentrating on the project, well, anything but a prepackaged solution is going to cost more than if everyone's time was properly managed and you were able to keep crucial staff. I know some coders who could knock out search engines better than most of the dotgov searches I've used. And the thing is, it probably wouldn't take them very long, even if they started from scratch, AS LONG AS THEY WERE ABLE TO WORK ON THE PROJECT UNTIL FINISHED. So, you know, your question really doesn't have anything to do with open source.
I don't know if this is proof of evil, but I know I'm jealous I didn't think of this first. They must have gotten their business plan from the U.S. arms dealers.
Well, see, to provide quality topical updates every few hours, the founders just let the "constituency" that is the slashdot readership self-moderate. If someone is full of @#$%, then they will get moderated. It's a cybernetic feedback system, and trust me, it works a lot better than other feature/news sites like cnn. Plus, it has the added bonus of having lower overhead. Also, who says adverts are bad? Slashdot doesn't seem to have any pop-ups, and the adverts are actually in context, so what's the problem? Anyway, go ahead and start your dotslash blog, and I hope it goes well. More power to you.