Simplify your life - go old-school and run actual Ethernet. They already have holes in their apartments for those roof-mounted satellite antennas anyway. No more wasting time with wireless setup, eliminating all WiFi security risks. Heck, plug them into a Linux box that's a p90 with 64MB RAM and n+1 dirt-cheap tulips (where n = your number of clients), don't share their connections, use htb for smart bandwidth throttling, and so on, and so forth. You can probably add a monitoring port that mirrors all packets for analisys on a fast machine.
Has anyone duplicated this after reading? Just wondering. Instead of praising / dissing the article, it would be nice if someone actually used the information. Maybe provide some new information for those that are interested, like testing new games (Zelda?).
Granted this is not a very useful mod today, but who cares? If it doesn't do it for you, move along, nothing here to see. For those of us that do dig it, it's a great lil' holiday read.
> Any reason why I have to reboot after installing a friggin Paint program? This is an app and has nothing to do with the core of the OS. There should be no rebooting for something like this!!
Eco-friendly my ass, you're using energy (=burning fossil fuel=pollution) to rotate your damn apartment, instead of walking your lazy ass from one window to another. This must be Brazil's understanding of eco-friendliness.
> Update: 12/22 03:34 GMT by T: ZephyrXero links to this news.com article that says Google is now squashing requests generated by the worm.
Is anybody actually shocked by this? I thought "wait, Google can simply filter that out" before reading the "update" part. A potential problem arises when a "worm" requires Google to filter out legitimate queries - it will become a form of censorship in the name of being a do-gooder. And you know how that ends up (if you've been involved in the firght against SPAM, for example).
> When you hear shit like "the terrorists hate our freedom," think of Bhopal. Around 3k people died on 9/11. In Bhopal, the lasting death toll is somewhere around 15,000. I wonder if Anderson would have been allowed to settle if 15,000 Americans had died.
Wait a second - you actually believe what they force feed the American people? This is an unfair government, and there has always been a double-standard. The Americans that voted Bush fully support this (not that Kerry would've done anything different as far as American imperial doctrine, but at least his voters can envision a better, or "more humane" to use today's fake terms that don't mean anything, future).
All people are created equal, as long as they are rich white Americans. This is a perfect example of who these people are, they didn't give two shits about human life, none whatsoever, zero, zip, zilch - trading human life for dollars. Much like we trade animal life (cattle, etc.), but with our own species. We should be proud - I know God is!
This, my friends, is why the rest of the world can't stand us. We are unfair, we will shoot you in the back if it serves our purposes, we will kill you, we will destroy your country (not just Iraq - think Nicaragua, East Timor, list is long), sometimes commit genocide. We are the greatest military force in the history of mankind with the collective responsibility of a 10 year old. And as a people, we're so ignorant that dirt knows more about what's going on than the average American. But hey, the average American knows who won American Idol, or what Britney Spears' diet is. Go figure!
You can do that with 4x400GB Maxtors, which are not larger than four 3.5" hard drives;) SO what's the big deal here? And you don't have to spend $2900 to do so (although, to hook them all up and leave some space for some CD drives, etc., you may want to get a couple of dedicated PCI EIDE/SATA controllers). Not a big deal, no innovation here, move along.
> This guy is making the assumption that people want to download shows in the first place
Me, I'm going the other way because it just occurred to me I'm paying £XX/month for:
[snip very, very good reasons]
Well, you are living proof that all is not lost, that there is still independent thought out there. Shocking (to me)! Unfortunately, you, like I used to, do not understand the world around you. People do want to download shows, people do want to watch this garbage, people do want to be led by the hand, people do want to be patronized, people in general are very weak and easy to control and these fuckers have the best formulas and a monopoly on your free time (the little free time you are still allowed to have, as they make you work much longer hours for less pay these days - at least in the good ol' US of A, and I suspect it's much the same in your country, our top partner in crime). And the bad news? There is nothing you can do, absolutely nothing; your only option, really, is to live your life as an outsider - but at least you have the piece of mind that you're a decent person. There is no point in even attempting to change anything, you will waste your time=life.
> Gartner reports that phishing scams cost banks and credit-card companies $10.2 billion.
Really? I don't believe it, pardon the flock me. If it really cost them so much, something would be done about it. Like, hunt them down? This is BS, I don't believe it's costing them that much. Not that phishing (what a stupid term!) is any good, but don't lie to us - that's what phishers do! Of course, this is probably some figure thrown in by some "reporter" that just added together all the numbers he/she could find on CC fraud and the like. Booooo.
As someone who's contemplating doing this very thing myself, I'd like to propose a possible solution (or plan) and pose a new question:
What I would (er, am doing) is forming a limited-liability corporation that will not hold me personally liable in case of legal problems. In case the software produced by the company is found to infringe patents, and hostile action is taken against the company (not mere cease-and-desist), you shut it down, sad day, for sure, but you live to fight another day.
Now my own dilemma is this: it looks like my product provides unique functionality. So unique, in fact, that - you guessed it - it's patentable. But from what I hear it takes tens of thousands of $ to patent something. For some of you a few tens of thousands of $ does not a large sum represent, but for me it does. Some bad luck along the way is involved, too, but regardless, this is my situation. No way can I afford to pay 30-40 large for a patent. Even if I had that kind of money, which I don't, unless I had 10 times that much available, I wouldn't spend it all on a patent for something that is not guaranteed to make me a single cent. So, what are the options I can explore? If I put the product out there w/o a patent, and it does turn out to be a killer app, it will be copied by someone with 10^3 times more resources than me and my product will be killed.
It's pretty hard for us little guys, especially since the monkey in charge is only concerned with the rights of corporations.
>For example, if you're searching from within Windows Explorer you will search on your PC, in IE on the web and in Outlook the toolbar searches within Outlook.
>> Gasoline explosions in non-controlled circumstances are incredibly difficult to occur. Hydrogen explosions are not, by any stretch. That's the only thing that matters.
> What about propane?
Alright, so I'd say we've pretty much come to the conclusion that things that we burn are pretty darn dangerous. Maybe we should stop burning stuff? If not, let's stop bitching about how dangerous they are. People die every day. Do a large scale study of death-by-explosion/fire from [hydrogen|propane|your_choice_to_replace_gasoline] vs. pollution-from-galsoline's impact on our lives/future, like the possibility of melting the polar ice caps, the increased chance of getting lung cancer, skin cancer, cancer, cancer, cancer, and so on. Weigh them and choose one that improves things by orders of magnitude. Or choose two. Choose three!
Oh, wait. You'll have to get past those grubby Texas oilmen that heavily lobby congress first. Good luck!
This was said to be the most important election of our lives. Does anybody still feel that way, considering the outcome?
Let's think with a clear head here. Most Americans, the ones that voted for Kerry included, have no idea what's going on in the world. You can try to figure out why that is (media is f-d up, people being taught to lead selfish materialistic lives from the day they are born, etc.), but that's irrelevant to this discussion. The popular vote was for Bush, and that's who won. So, at least in this election, you could say that the will of the majority was expressed. I am not concerned with why more than half of the people who voted did so for Bush. They did, and he won.
Change is not as simple as having P. Diddy start a campaign. Real change is very hard. Near impossible. You have to educate people, in such a way that they seek out information. You do not teach people what they should think. You teach them to think, and show them what methods are available for gathering information. What they think afterwards is up to them. This is not even close to being a reality in the USA. Most people are simply concerned with their well-being and materialistic things - I want an iPod, I want a bigger truck, I want this, I want that. I want. It is very easy to control such people, because they are short-sighted and distracted. And Kerry would not have made any difference whatsoever in this respect. The imperialistic foreign policy America puts forth would have been relatively the same, albeit probably with a much less arrogant and aggressive façade.
The rest of the world pretty much lives in ignorance too, much like the people of the US. As long as you don't add insult to injury, like Bush likes to do, they have their own local problems to focus on. Granted, their problems are a bit different from yours and mine - we're worried about what Apple will legally allow you to download to your iPod, while some of them are worried about where their next meal will come from. In the end, none of it matters, although you do need food for basic life support.
Killing people, however, is unacceptable. And probably the biggest tragedy of all this is that most of the people who voted for Bush don't realize what they support because of the distorted view of the war. Make no mistake, Kerry was no great leader - far from it. But a) my personal opinion is that he is at least barely more intelligent than Bush and, more importantly, b) I think a few more lives would have been spared around the globe were he president.
Please note that lives are lives, and it is morally wrong to make a distinction between innocent foreigners and innocent Americans when it comes to dieing. Yet this is accepted as common practice in this country.
>And what makes this a better protocol? Its vast history of being a solid, reliable protocol with its massive amount of industrial testing? Oh wait thats TCP.
You'll never know if you never try it
>Frankly, new stacks that look better than old ones are a dime a dozen. Until you test them in the real world you will never know and why bother changing TCP when it does a damn fine job right now?
But by that logic everything new = bad, and there will never be any progress. I'm one that likes to give things a chance before making a judgement. All I'm saying is that you should not discount it just because it's new. Or that it's not the right color. Or it doesn't look the same. Don't be afraid of change and things that are different.
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Simplify your life - go old-school and run actual Ethernet. They already have holes in their apartments for those roof-mounted satellite antennas anyway. No more wasting time with wireless setup, eliminating all WiFi security risks. Heck, plug them into a Linux box that's a p90 with 64MB RAM and n+1 dirt-cheap tulips (where n = your number of clients), don't share their connections, use htb for smart bandwidth throttling, and so on, and so forth. You can probably add a monitoring port that mirrors all packets for analisys on a fast machine.
> Ok, sure I use cash, but what do you tell cashiers who ask for your home phone number or even street address?
Give me your home phone number and street address.
Has anyone duplicated this after reading? Just wondering. Instead of praising / dissing the article, it would be nice if someone actually used the information. Maybe provide some new information for those that are interested, like testing new games (Zelda?).
Granted this is not a very useful mod today, but who cares? If it doesn't do it for you, move along, nothing here to see. For those of us that do dig it, it's a great lil' holiday read.
> Any reason why I have to reboot after installing a friggin Paint program? This is an app and has nothing to do with the core of the OS. There should be no rebooting for something like this!!
You must be new to Windows.
Eco-friendly my ass, you're using energy (=burning fossil fuel=pollution) to rotate your damn apartment, instead of walking your lazy ass from one window to another. This must be Brazil's understanding of eco-friendliness.
Perfect application: toilet paper for those "eco" latrines.
> Update: 12/22 03:34 GMT by T: ZephyrXero links to this news.com article that says Google is now squashing requests generated by the worm.
Is anybody actually shocked by this? I thought "wait, Google can simply filter that out" before reading the "update" part. A potential problem arises when a "worm" requires Google to filter out legitimate queries - it will become a form of censorship in the name of being a do-gooder. And you know how that ends up (if you've been involved in the firght against SPAM, for example).
> TV over your home phone line. TV on your cell phone.
/dev/null?
How about TV to
> What I don't get is why Sony doesn't get more press on Slashdot, except for their robots and PS2.
Because the only thing worse than Sony is, you guessed it - Apple!
Anybody else think Lenovo is a step down, as far as names go anyway, from Legend?
> When you hear shit like "the terrorists hate our freedom," think of Bhopal. Around 3k people died on 9/11. In Bhopal, the lasting death toll is somewhere around 15,000. I wonder if Anderson would have been allowed to settle if 15,000 Americans had died.
:)
Wait a second - you actually believe what they force feed the American people? This is an unfair government, and there has always been a double-standard. The Americans that voted Bush fully support this (not that Kerry would've done anything different as far as American imperial doctrine, but at least his voters can envision a better, or "more humane" to use today's fake terms that don't mean anything, future).
All people are created equal, as long as they are rich white Americans. This is a perfect example of who these people are, they didn't give two shits about human life, none whatsoever, zero, zip, zilch - trading human life for dollars. Much like we trade animal life (cattle, etc.), but with our own species. We should be proud - I know God is!
This, my friends, is why the rest of the world can't stand us. We are unfair, we will shoot you in the back if it serves our purposes, we will kill you, we will destroy your country (not just Iraq - think Nicaragua, East Timor, list is long), sometimes commit genocide. We are the greatest military force in the history of mankind with the collective responsibility of a 10 year old. And as a people, we're so ignorant that dirt knows more about what's going on than the average American. But hey, the average American knows who won American Idol, or what Britney Spears' diet is. Go figure!
Alright, alright - I'll go have my coffee now..
> The creator emphasizes that the system cannot recognize voices or words
Only the gunshot, m'am.
I wonder how these will stand up against my Terminators from Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War
;)
You can do that with 4x400GB Maxtors, which are not larger than four 3.5" hard drives ;) SO what's the big deal here? And you don't have to spend $2900 to do so (although, to hook them all up and leave some space for some CD drives, etc., you may want to get a couple of dedicated PCI EIDE/SATA controllers). Not a big deal, no innovation here, move along.
> Bug on list since: List inception: 1 Dec 2004
Isn't it still november?
I bet the author, the almighty "Tog," thinks his work is futuristic. Bah!
> Update: 11/25 22:42 GMT by T: Sunny Dubey writes "Terminator 3 was *not* directed by James Cameron. It was directed by Jonathan Mostow."
...and that's why it sucked !
> This guy is making the assumption that people want to download shows in the first place
Me, I'm going the other way because it just occurred to me I'm paying £XX/month for:
[snip very, very good reasons]
Well, you are living proof that all is not lost, that there is still independent thought out there. Shocking (to me)! Unfortunately, you, like I used to, do not understand the world around you. People do want to download shows, people do want to watch this garbage, people do want to be led by the hand, people do want to be patronized, people in general are very weak and easy to control and these fuckers have the best formulas and a monopoly on your free time (the little free time you are still allowed to have, as they make you work much longer hours for less pay these days - at least in the good ol' US of A, and I suspect it's much the same in your country, our top partner in crime). And the bad news? There is nothing you can do, absolutely nothing; your only option, really, is to live your life as an outsider - but at least you have the piece of mind that you're a decent person. There is no point in even attempting to change anything, you will waste your time=life.
> Gartner reports that phishing scams cost banks and credit-card companies $10.2 billion.
Really? I don't believe it, pardon the flock me. If it really cost them so much, something would be done about it. Like, hunt them down? This is BS, I don't believe it's costing them that much. Not that phishing (what a stupid term!) is any good, but don't lie to us - that's what phishers do! Of course, this is probably some figure thrown in by some "reporter" that just added together all the numbers he/she could find on CC fraud and the like. Booooo.
> The editor resigned from the ODP in 2002.
Yeah, I would too!!! Ouch!
As someone who's contemplating doing this very thing myself, I'd like to propose a possible solution (or plan) and pose a new question:
What I would (er, am doing) is forming a limited-liability corporation that will not hold me personally liable in case of legal problems. In case the software produced by the company is found to infringe patents, and hostile action is taken against the company (not mere cease-and-desist), you shut it down, sad day, for sure, but you live to fight another day.
Now my own dilemma is this: it looks like my product provides unique functionality. So unique, in fact, that - you guessed it - it's patentable. But from what I hear it takes tens of thousands of $ to patent something. For some of you a few tens of thousands of $ does not a large sum represent, but for me it does. Some bad luck along the way is involved, too, but regardless, this is my situation. No way can I afford to pay 30-40 large for a patent. Even if I had that kind of money, which I don't, unless I had 10 times that much available, I wouldn't spend it all on a patent for something that is not guaranteed to make me a single cent. So, what are the options I can explore? If I put the product out there w/o a patent, and it does turn out to be a killer app, it will be copied by someone with 10^3 times more resources than me and my product will be killed.
It's pretty hard for us little guys, especially since the monkey in charge is only concerned with the rights of corporations.
>For example, if you're searching from within Windows Explorer you will search on your PC, in IE on the web and in Outlook the toolbar searches within Outlook.
Who here uses IE?
>> Gasoline explosions in non-controlled circumstances are incredibly difficult to occur. Hydrogen explosions are not, by any stretch. That's the only thing that matters.
] vs. pollution-from-galsoline's impact on our lives/future, like the possibility of melting the polar ice caps, the increased chance of getting lung cancer, skin cancer, cancer, cancer, cancer, and so on. Weigh them and choose one that improves things by orders of magnitude. Or choose two. Choose three!
> What about propane?
Alright, so I'd say we've pretty much come to the conclusion that things that we burn are pretty darn dangerous. Maybe we should stop burning stuff? If not, let's stop bitching about how dangerous they are. People die every day. Do a large scale study of death-by-explosion/fire from [hydrogen|propane|your_choice_to_replace_gasoline
Oh, wait. You'll have to get past those grubby Texas oilmen that heavily lobby congress first. Good luck!
This was said to be the most important election of our lives. Does anybody still feel that way, considering the outcome?
Let's think with a clear head here. Most Americans, the ones that voted for Kerry included, have no idea what's going on in the world. You can try to figure out why that is (media is f-d up, people being taught to lead selfish materialistic lives from the day they are born, etc.), but that's irrelevant to this discussion. The popular vote was for Bush, and that's who won. So, at least in this election, you could say that the will of the majority was expressed. I am not concerned with why more than half of the people who voted did so for Bush. They did, and he won.
Change is not as simple as having P. Diddy start a campaign. Real change is very hard. Near impossible. You have to educate people, in such a way that they seek out information. You do not teach people what they should think. You teach them to think, and show them what methods are available for gathering information. What they think afterwards is up to them. This is not even close to being a reality in the USA. Most people are simply concerned with their well-being and materialistic things - I want an iPod, I want a bigger truck, I want this, I want that. I want. It is very easy to control such people, because they are short-sighted and distracted. And Kerry would not have made any difference whatsoever in this respect. The imperialistic foreign policy America puts forth would have been relatively the same, albeit probably with a much less arrogant and aggressive façade.
The rest of the world pretty much lives in ignorance too, much like the people of the US. As long as you don't add insult to injury, like Bush likes to do, they have their own local problems to focus on. Granted, their problems are a bit different from yours and mine - we're worried about what Apple will legally allow you to download to your iPod, while some of them are worried about where their next meal will come from. In the end, none of it matters, although you do need food for basic life support.
Killing people, however, is unacceptable. And probably the biggest tragedy of all this is that most of the people who voted for Bush don't realize what they support because of the distorted view of the war. Make no mistake, Kerry was no great leader - far from it. But a) my personal opinion is that he is at least barely more intelligent than Bush and, more importantly, b) I think a few more lives would have been spared around the globe were he president.
Please note that lives are lives, and it is morally wrong to make a distinction between innocent foreigners and innocent Americans when it comes to dieing. Yet this is accepted as common practice in this country.
> evolutionm.net and nasioc.com
Ricers of the world, unite!
>And what makes this a better protocol? Its vast history of being a solid, reliable protocol with its massive amount of industrial testing? Oh wait thats TCP.
You'll never know if you never try it
>Frankly, new stacks that look better than old ones are a dime a dozen. Until you test them in the real world you will never know and why bother changing TCP when it does a damn fine job right now?
But by that logic everything new = bad, and there will never be any progress. I'm one that likes to give things a chance before making a judgement. All I'm saying is that you should not discount it just because it's new. Or that it's not the right color. Or it doesn't look the same. Don't be afraid of change and things that are different.