Awesome. I consider America's Army to be one of the best things my government has funded within recent history.
Yes! Immagine all that money being used on education, safety of healthcare instead of being used as some military recruitment/propaganda toy. WHAT A WASTE THAT WOULD BE!
Note: Not a troll, nor a flame. Might be hard to see the difference in this case but I'm actually serious, heh.
Well, not really, but we can already guess at what their first patch of games will be:
Super Mario $CONSOLE_NAME
Super Mario Cart $CONSOLE_NAME
Super Mario Party $CONSOLE_NAME
Super Smash Bros $CONSOLE_NAME
Yoshi's Island: $CONSOLE_NAME
Donkey Kong $CONSOLE_NAME
Diddy Kong $CONSOLE_NAME
Donkey Kong's Island $CONSOLE_NAME
Diddy Kong's Island $CONSOLE_NAME
Kirby $CONSOLE_NAME
Pokemon $PRECIOUS_METAL $CONSOLE_NAME
Pokemon $OTHER_PRECIOUS_METAL $CONSOLE_NAME
Pokemon $YET_ANOTHER_PRECIOUS_METAL $CONSOLE_NAME
Come on Nintendo, surprise me and make the flagship games of your next console ORIGINAL and nnot aimed at 8 year olds... GC has excellent games while still a kiddy image... Shame.
Seriously, why USB? Why do I have to use an external connector and external device for something that I'd much rather have inside? Why not a 3,5"/' (damned imperial system) bay slot as a reader? And if it comes with internal processor and all, why not use it as a removable network drive? Users stuff their creditcard into the reader, machine reads stored username and key, compares it with domain server, grants user access to his or her network files while having 5gb for other programs...
Okay, let's take all 2nd year ICT classes at my college. For various reasons I won't explain the nasty details and difference between the dutch and the US education system, so please don't go ballistic over any grades and/or level of progress we use. It isn't my idea anyways, let's just assume the average age of a 2nd year ICT class is 18, for comparisons. To get back at the subject, we have about 140 students (2nd year ICT only) of which about five are female. Two off them never show up for some mysterious reason, but my best guess is that the either don't exist or have left already. So about 3,6% (notice the comma, thank you) of all 2nd year ICT students are female. I don't know about other years or other colleges, but my best guess is that 1st, 3rd and 4th year ICT classes have the same percentages and that this is applicable to other ICT colleges as well.
Then again, one of the three remaining girls is in my class. Blonde, blue eyes, single, nice butt and actually quite smart. (I'd give further comments, however, I'm not secist, I'm going to show her this after I posted it and Slashchick might throw a hissy fit again if I do so, so I won't.) She's capable of coding in C++ (a bit, we're still only students after all) and is quite good with networking as well. And she's snuggly, too!:) If there is a God, I'm sure he prefers quality over quantity!
I played a MUD. The administrators were about as corrupt as an average politician and it was all being led by an unemployed welfare-supported hippie who wouldn't even recognize a "Bad Thing"(tm) if it hit him in the face at mach 2. Most of the players we're afraid to say anything and the few who did only droned out the words "I agree!" or something similiar to whatever ons of said administrators cried out in a fit of utter stupidity. That, and the basic idea of "You're not paying, so if you don't like it, go to hell." aren't very appealing to me. IF I would even want to play an online RPG every again, I'd either play one that's not massively multiplayer or one that is administrated by decent, unbiased folks.
Hemos & I have been playing The Sims Online- Come visit the Slashdot Charisma Sweatshop on the absolute west edge of the Mt Fuji City and say hi. I got my real nick for once too! I love MMORPGs and 'There' looks like another wrinkle on taking Sims type games online. It'll be interesting to see how it plays out.
I thought this would be a fitting UF comic, considering how Slashdot is supposed to be pro-freedom/anti-corporatism. Have fun SimPeddling your SimAss to EA for SimDollars. Go to the SimMac and have a SimHeartattack or buy a SimPentium4 with SimHyperthreading!
Screw retinal scans, rectal scans all the way! No more looking into a silly camera, just pray you're the first one at the office today and shove a probe up your ass for a tremendously painful rectal scan which lasts five minutes! I'm not even going to mention other body orrifices...
Get in touch with MS for the rate limit on ammounts of pings that can be sent. Get them to code into their OS some sort of rate limit for icmp-echo-reply packets, like you described. Also, make ISPs far, FAR more aggresive when dealing with this. Is a computer sending out code red/nimda attacks? Disconnect it, write letter to the owner and disconnect them permanently after a few times. Same thing for ping flooding. If it happens often, (testing network strain over the internet shouldn't happen often) engage the same procedure as with code red/nimda infected computers.
But Debian is aimed at people who know what they are doing while Mandrake is aimed at clueless people who think Linux is some sort of Egyptian drink. Going to install Mandrake 9.0 on my dad's PC, he got kind of interested in Linux after I managed to get some junky Olivetti server and after I gave him one Knoppix CD. I tried it out on my second PC here, using default install and it worked perfectly, even finding my network printer. I like it as a desktop distro.
Let's say the Microsoft Watch is a big success. Go ahead and laugh. They've got the bucks to seed these sorts of things into the marketplace for years. Eventually something will stick. If not the Watch then the MS Clock or the MS Hairdryer or the MS Refrigerator, or something.
Now that would actually rock! MS, while delivering shitty software, provides EXCELLENT hardware, such as their optical mice which actually rock perfectly under both Win32 and Linux. Besides, who else wouldn't want a Microsoft Vibrator, ("When do you want to orgasm today?") a Microsoft Macintosh, (16 million colour, 1600x1200 full screen AA kernel dumps!) Microsoft VGA cards, Microsoft Assault Rifles ("Are you sure you want to fire this weapon? Really?") and of course Microsoft Soy Beans!
Interesting suggestion though, add a couple of file and game servers on it, get some decent neighbohrs and you can have your own cheap and bloody fast LAN for some heavy duty trading and file swapping. Every puts down 100 bucks for equipment and a bunch of computers to act as servers... Sounds nice and definetely cheaper and more reliable then wireless, because radio transmissions are always susceptable to atmospheric distortions and shitty security. I don't think anyone is stupid enough to tap into my power mains just to sniff my packets.
All I got is some old 286 thats completely de-assembled.... Any takers? Willing to trade for a Amiga 500||2000... Also willing to give my own mother away for said Amiga
I'm sorry, what version of Windows have you 'yet to see' ship with encryption?
The affordable one. According to Microsoft itself, the cheapest version os Windows 2k Server (5 licenses) is 999 bucks and Windows XP Professional would be $299 or $199 if you upgrade from Windows XP Home edition. Though the VPN might be far more useful then simple terminal service encryption, but I honestly don't know because I barely understand what VPNs are. (much to my embarresment...) And no, the 10 cent versions of Windows on shiny CDs labeled "Nashua - 700mb multispeed" do not count as a viable alternative.:)
1. Provided Microsoft uses a proper public key infrastructure, brute-forcing this thing could potentially take forever
Hello, earth calling Salimma, do you copy? We're talking about Microsoft here. Either the public key is crackable within a few weeks or months or someone ought to leak this out to the media so MS shareholders can question MS why the products they use themselves are so secure, in contrary to the products they sell, because I have yet to see a Windows shipped with SSH 2 or similiar encryption based remote terminal capabilities. Let alone with an encryption which uses a 2048 bits key.
Do we really want Linux to be mainstream? Imagine Bonzi Buddy for Linux, the first email with attachments starting with #!/bin/sh, etcetera.. Do we really want that?
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Yes! Immagine all that money being used on education, safety of healthcare instead of being used as some military recruitment/propaganda toy. WHAT A WASTE THAT WOULD BE!
Note: Not a troll, nor a flame. Might be hard to see the difference in this case but I'm actually serious, heh.
Aha, so all that is happening is some creative guy playing Pong using (the) TCP?
Well, not really, but we can already guess at what their first patch of games will be:
Come on Nintendo, surprise me and make the flagship games of your next console ORIGINAL and nnot aimed at 8 year olds... GC has excellent games while still a kiddy image... Shame.
Seriously, why USB? Why do I have to use an external connector and external device for something that I'd much rather have inside? Why not a 3,5"/' (damned imperial system) bay slot as a reader? And if it comes with internal processor and all, why not use it as a removable network drive? Users stuff their creditcard into the reader, machine reads stored username and key, compares it with domain server, grants user access to his or her network files while having 5gb for other programs...
Like this posting on Slashdot would actually help to keep them free of trolls... Do you guys have no shame?
So when do we finally get the first Roomba/Segway crossover or the Type R|oomba?
Of course they reproduce asexually, who has ever seen two bananas humping eachother?
MCX462+T? DFI AD77? KT400? S230? NXP-101?! FX-1!?! ISB!?!? NNNGGGHHHH!!!! TECHINICAL BUZZWORDS!!! %$#^$%!!! *toot*
Connection reset by nice men in white coats.
Not quite what I mean though... :P
PS, be manly (or girly... Hey, it's 2003!) and don't use AC :)
Okay, let's take all 2nd year ICT classes at my college. For various reasons I won't explain the nasty details and difference between the dutch and the US education system, so please don't go ballistic over any grades and/or level of progress we use. It isn't my idea anyways, let's just assume the average age of a 2nd year ICT class is 18, for comparisons. To get back at the subject, we have about 140 students (2nd year ICT only) of which about five are female. Two off them never show up for some mysterious reason, but my best guess is that the either don't exist or have left already. So about 3,6% (notice the comma, thank you) of all 2nd year ICT students are female. I don't know about other years or other colleges, but my best guess is that 1st, 3rd and 4th year ICT classes have the same percentages and that this is applicable to other ICT colleges as well.
Then again, one of the three remaining girls is in my class. Blonde, blue eyes, single, nice butt and actually quite smart. (I'd give further comments, however, I'm not secist, I'm going to show her this after I posted it and Slashchick might throw a hissy fit again if I do so, so I won't.) She's capable of coding in C++ (a bit, we're still only students after all) and is quite good with networking as well. And she's snuggly, too! :) If there is a God, I'm sure he prefers quality over quantity!
I played a MUD. The administrators were about as corrupt as an average politician and it was all being led by an unemployed welfare-supported hippie who wouldn't even recognize a "Bad Thing"(tm) if it hit him in the face at mach 2. Most of the players we're afraid to say anything and the few who did only droned out the words "I agree!" or something similiar to whatever ons of said administrators cried out in a fit of utter stupidity. That, and the basic idea of "You're not paying, so if you don't like it, go to hell." aren't very appealing to me. IF I would even want to play an online RPG every again, I'd either play one that's not massively multiplayer or one that is administrated by decent, unbiased folks.
I thought this would be a fitting UF comic, considering how Slashdot is supposed to be pro-freedom/anti-corporatism. Have fun SimPeddling your SimAss to EA for SimDollars. Go to the SimMac and have a SimHeartattack or buy a SimPentium4 with SimHyperthreading!
Screw retinal scans, rectal scans all the way! No more looking into a silly camera, just pray you're the first one at the office today and shove a probe up your ass for a tremendously painful rectal scan which lasts five minutes! I'm not even going to mention other body orrifices...
Get in touch with MS for the rate limit on ammounts of pings that can be sent. Get them to code into their OS some sort of rate limit for icmp-echo-reply packets, like you described. Also, make ISPs far, FAR more aggresive when dealing with this. Is a computer sending out code red/nimda attacks? Disconnect it, write letter to the owner and disconnect them permanently after a few times. Same thing for ping flooding. If it happens often, (testing network strain over the internet shouldn't happen often) engage the same procedure as with code red/nimda infected computers.
But Debian is aimed at people who know what they are doing while Mandrake is aimed at clueless people who think Linux is some sort of Egyptian drink. Going to install Mandrake 9.0 on my dad's PC, he got kind of interested in Linux after I managed to get some junky Olivetti server and after I gave him one Knoppix CD. I tried it out on my second PC here, using default install and it worked perfectly, even finding my network printer. I like it as a desktop distro.
It will be called "Microsoft Windows ($current_year + 1)" so that it won't LOOK terribly out of date for the next two years.
Hence I don't need a computer to cough up a way for me to walk that will eventually waste my time. I already do it every damned day.
Now that would actually rock! MS, while delivering shitty software, provides EXCELLENT hardware, such as their optical mice which actually rock perfectly under both Win32 and Linux. Besides, who else wouldn't want a Microsoft Vibrator, ("When do you want to orgasm today?") a Microsoft Macintosh, (16 million colour, 1600x1200 full screen AA kernel dumps!) Microsoft VGA cards, Microsoft Assault Rifles ("Are you sure you want to fire this weapon? Really?") and of course Microsoft Soy Beans!
Interesting suggestion though, add a couple of file and game servers on it, get some decent neighbohrs and you can have your own cheap and bloody fast LAN for some heavy duty trading and file swapping. Every puts down 100 bucks for equipment and a bunch of computers to act as servers... Sounds nice and definetely cheaper and more reliable then wireless, because radio transmissions are always susceptable to atmospheric distortions and shitty security. I don't think anyone is stupid enough to tap into my power mains just to sniff my packets.
All I got is some old 286 thats completely de-assembled.... Any takers? Willing to trade for a Amiga 500||2000... Also willing to give my own mother away for said Amiga
The affordable one. According to Microsoft itself, the cheapest version os Windows 2k Server (5 licenses) is 999 bucks and Windows XP Professional would be $299 or $199 if you upgrade from Windows XP Home edition. Though the VPN might be far more useful then simple terminal service encryption, but I honestly don't know because I barely understand what VPNs are. (much to my embarresment...) And no, the 10 cent versions of Windows on shiny CDs labeled "Nashua - 700mb multispeed" do not count as a viable alternative. :)
Hello, earth calling Salimma, do you copy? We're talking about Microsoft here. Either the public key is crackable within a few weeks or months or someone ought to leak this out to the media so MS shareholders can question MS why the products they use themselves are so secure, in contrary to the products they sell, because I have yet to see a Windows shipped with SSH 2 or similiar encryption based remote terminal capabilities. Let alone with an encryption which uses a 2048 bits key.
New hobby for those of you with too much money and spare time! Segway modding! New mods include:
Do we really want Linux to be mainstream? Imagine Bonzi Buddy for Linux, the first email with attachments starting with #!/bin/sh, etcetera.. Do we really want that?
Aha, Star Trek spoof! For some reason I expected you people to come up with this instead, because that's one helluva funny spoof on Star Trek :)