Possibly but not far off base. The picture was taken by a photographer with a telephoto lense. He was taking pictures of a large area where movement is occurring. I doubt that he would be using a shutter speed as slow as 1/30. I would not take pictures at that distance with less than 1/250 as it would reveal photographer tremors (though he could be using a tripod, but then he would go for 1/125)
Yes because the decisions will be made by tech savvy politicians who can not be bought. They will graciously accept the Linux lobbyists offer of "going dutch" for happy meals and discussing the open source security model over the offers of fat campaign coiffers etc...
The same thing everyone of the experts who felt disparaged by the 9/11/ commission want. To prove they are indeed experts and that because of 9/11 they are smarter than everyone else and should be taken (read that paid) seriously for their trivial understanding of the problem.
If our weakness is that we are to dependant on the internet, fix that fact first. Most govt agencies have no plan for if the internet was seriously down. So, they have put all their eggs in a basket that they don't control. The solution could be one of two things A) control the basket...can't work. B) Learn what systems need to be redundant without the internet and how to accomplish it. Difficult but more plausible.
I would like to see what they get in a regular user's hands.
When you say "regular users" I hope you aren't refering to my regular users, because let me tell you what YOU would get:
user "Phil, I can't open pdfs with this"
you "That's not what it's for, and yes I will help you open your e-mail on your PC....sigh"
Driving someone out of business is not a denial of service? Having multiple people work at driving them out of business is not a distributed denial of service? Guess why your' comment is not modded insightful:-)
You clearly haven't read the relevant articles. The screensaver downloads the target list from Lycos. Lycos gets the target list from various automated black-lists and then reviews the list by hand to ensure that the sites really are selling spamvertised products.
Yes, I have actually. You really think lycos, the undisputed king of software internationally (LOL) is going to make software that the users can't fiddle with. Take MS autoupdate. XP users will no longer get viruses since they can autoupdate relevant patches right....How many people are still infected and unpatched? Also, my point is that this ddos is ADDING to the net traffic, wether it is only done to spammers or not the routers between the spammers and I are also the routers between lkml.org and I. I do not want them saturated by "well meaning" buffoons. This was nothing but an attempt to get Lycos back on the radar.
Attack those spammers! Someone needs to stand up to them!
Spam is a huge amount of traffic on the net, that is my problem with it. Turning clueless lycos users into antispambots will not DECREASE the traffic on the net but increase it. Also, if joe blow user gets a screen saver that DDOSs a.b.c.d and said spammer goes out of business resulting in cox cable giving my grandma a cable modem at a.b.c.d do you really think J Blow user is going to know to get his screensaver updated or are a large chunk of them going to run the initial screensaver as long as they ran Win 98 unpatched (forever)
First off, what the hell is intellectual property property? Is that like PIN number? Secondly, IP doesn't have a cost? No cost to develop? No cost in man hours? No cost to protect?
No, the pin for your ATM is a genuine thing, it is like the key to your house. The software you develop has a development cost. The license that you sell may or may not have had one. Developers no longer sell their developed product. So I spend 5 million dollars developing my widget and no matter how many people pay me 200$ a shot I still am THE SOLE owner of my widget. That is intellectual property. That is the concept that is without cost, not the product.
So it's not a trick, it's not about converting pirates, and it's not a PR move.
You are right as is the parent post. MS is going after pirates and this is their way of doing it. I assure you though this has been a long time in the making as everything at MS has to pass the market peoples approval. Here is what I mean.
months ago:
"We have a tool that will find pirates and we will sue them even 12 year old girls... My friends at the music place did that." Marketings answer: "Good idea, that should DEFINITELY increase our share of the Linux market....BAD CODER go back to your cave."
Finally: "We could offer the users amnesty and a free licensed copy" Marketing answer: " This is good, it appears as a good will gesture locks in customers and provides us names for future checking but we smell like roses. Has it been a rough month...you can eat now...good coder."
Don't those things cost hundreds of dollars a piece?
Sigh.... IP property doesn't have a cost and they are not giving you anything so it should be free. But what I wanna know is do they include the source like that other free OS?
How can a czar (of all things) enforce our laws in another country? Other than certain areas where our law is recognized, we would be SOL! I can jsut see it.
Look at what we did to arrest Saddam Hussein... and he only had a couple of fake paintings. Well that and a few huminitarian crisises (isn't that what the UN has renamed genocide to).
Seriously, it is about time the world focuses on horrible things like IP theft our resources are being very well squandered.
Can any one recommend a book that discusses more about how C works behind the scenes like the Javascipt book does?
Kernighan and Ritchies (sp? C book is good, though the K & R style is considered obsolete. Also, a lot of assembler books will devote a chapter to C which if you actually go through the book prior to the chapter will guartee you at least partial enlightenment.
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Bizarrely, the flash was used. See my "My solution" comment.
:-)
That is weird, at that distance the flash would be nowhere near as illuminating as your comment. Thanks for the correction
Am I off base here?
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Possibly but not far off base. The picture was taken by a photographer with a telephoto lense. He was taking pictures of a large area where movement is occurring. I doubt that he would be using a shutter speed as slow as 1/30. I would not take pictures at that distance with less than 1/250 as it would reveal photographer tremors (though he could be using a tripod, but then he would go for 1
Death ray.
Great point, I thought that was even being worked on recently.
And pretty much put AOL out of business.
Yes because the decisions will be made by tech savvy politicians who can not be bought. They will graciously accept the Linux lobbyists offer of "going dutch" for happy meals and discussing the open source security model over the offers of fat campaign coiffers etc...
What exactly does he want?
The same thing everyone of the experts who felt disparaged by the 9/11/ commission want. To prove they are indeed experts and that because of 9/11 they are smarter than everyone else and should be taken (read that paid) seriously for their trivial understanding of the problem.
If our weakness is that we are to dependant on the internet, fix that fact first. Most govt agencies have no plan for if the internet was seriously down. So, they have put all their eggs in a basket that they don't control. The solution could be one of two things A) control the basket...can't work. B) Learn what systems need to be redundant without the internet and how to accomplish it. Difficult but more plausible.
I'd really like to see a feature where authors can designate their posts as offtopic.
/. I have seen which would truly a better place make this.
That is the first suggested improvement to
marketing fudge-factor -- if you know what you measured and what they claimed, you should be able to say how truthful they are.
Eww....nice metric. May well be the most important.
I would like to see what they get in a regular user's hands.
When you say "regular users" I hope you aren't refering to my regular users, because let me tell you what YOU would get:
user "Phil, I can't open pdfs with this"
you "That's not what it's for, and yes I will help you open your e-mail on your PC....sigh"
Pictures. I like hot chicks standing next to big servers. Big servers in action shots are good too.
I wish you many mod points..insightful, funny and +1 IRONICAL
Driving someone out of business is not a denial of service? Having multiple people work at driving them out of business is not a distributed denial of service? Guess why your' comment is not modded insightful :-)
You clearly haven't read the relevant articles. The screensaver downloads the target list from Lycos. Lycos gets the target list from various automated black-lists and then reviews the list by hand to ensure that the sites really are selling spamvertised products.
Yes, I have actually. You really think lycos, the undisputed king of software internationally (LOL) is going to make software that the users can't fiddle with. Take MS autoupdate. XP users will no longer get viruses since they can autoupdate relevant patches right....How many people are still infected and unpatched? Also, my point is that this ddos is ADDING to the net traffic, wether it is only done to spammers or not the routers between the spammers and I are also the routers between lkml.org and I. I do not want them saturated by "well meaning" buffoons. This was nothing but an attempt to get Lycos back on the radar.
Attack those spammers! Someone needs to stand up to them!
Spam is a huge amount of traffic on the net, that is my problem with it. Turning clueless lycos users into antispambots will not DECREASE the traffic on the net but increase it. Also, if joe blow user gets a screen saver that DDOSs a.b.c.d and said spammer goes out of business resulting in cox cable giving my grandma a cable modem at a.b.c.d do you really think J Blow user is going to know to get his screensaver updated or are a large chunk of them going to run the initial screensaver as long as they ran Win 98 unpatched (forever)
In Soviet Russ...er America, Bluetooth learns You
First off, what the hell is intellectual property property? Is that like PIN number? Secondly, IP doesn't have a cost? No cost to develop? No cost in man hours? No cost to protect?
No, the pin for your ATM is a genuine thing, it is like the key to your house. The software you develop has a development cost. The license that you sell may or may not have had one. Developers no longer sell their developed product. So I spend 5 million dollars developing my widget and no matter how many people pay me 200$ a shot I still am THE SOLE owner of my widget. That is intellectual property. That is the concept that is without cost, not the product.
So it's not a trick, it's not about converting pirates, and it's not a PR move.
You are right as is the parent post. MS is going after pirates and this is their way of doing it. I assure you though this has been a long time in the making as everything at MS has to pass the market peoples approval. Here is what I mean.
months ago:
"We have a tool that will find pirates and we will sue them even 12 year old girls... My friends at the music place did that." Marketings answer: "Good idea, that should DEFINITELY increase our share of the Linux market....BAD CODER go back to your cave."
Finally: "We could offer the users amnesty and a free licensed copy" Marketing answer: " This is good, it appears as a good will gesture locks in customers and provides us names for future checking but we smell like roses. Has it been a rough month...you can eat now...good coder."
Microsoft has much better PR (and marketing) people than the RIAA et al.
You don't think that suing a twelve year old girl might help Microsoft in the long run?
Don't those things cost hundreds of dollars a piece?
Sigh.... IP property doesn't have a cost and they are not giving you anything so it should be free. But what I wanna know is do they include the source like that other free OS?
Thats my life plan and they stole it from us. I'm going to sue. Who do I speak to?
If you wrote the plan down, you could speak to Niplac, that would be copyright abuse.
How can a czar (of all things) enforce our laws in another country? Other than certain areas where our law is recognized, we would be SOL! I can jsut see it.
Look at what we did to arrest Saddam Hussein... and he only had a couple of fake paintings. Well that and a few huminitarian crisises (isn't that what the UN has renamed genocide to).
Seriously, it is about time the world focuses on horrible things like IP theft our resources are being very well squandered.
combined to firm... NIPLAC
I hope the nipple police have really cool uniforms like the name suggests and really big.....Oops, did I say that out loud.
The war on terra is going well. Just the otherday efforts were renewed to drill in the Alaskan refuge. Terra will yield.
Can any one recommend a book that discusses more about how C works behind the scenes like the Javascipt book does?
Kernighan and Ritchies (sp? C book is good, though the K & R style is considered obsolete. Also, a lot of assembler books will devote a chapter to C which if you actually go through the book prior to the chapter will guartee you at least partial enlightenment.
Those are barely "Computer Books" Those are more acuratly
I missed the second half of your post. Theres a lot going on here with all the... ooh shiny