Actually, this sounds more like a phony-funds scam. Basically you're written a bad/false cheque, which may not catch up to you until your car is already gone. It's been mentioned here before, wherein somebody sells a laptop, cashes the money-order/cheque and it seems to pass... the item goes out, and then the bank calls saying the MO turned out to be a clever fake.
Umm, my guess would be they're going to go with some form of Lithium-ion battery that holds a decent charge, perhaps a type of NiMh. How many high-end devices do you know nowadays that take standard nicad batteries?
Emergency-like lights inside of cars. After all you see those all over th.... wait, you don't.
Radar detectors don't tend to interfere with emergency activities of the authorities (a traffic ticket is not an emergency), these do. They could also endanger lives if they break the existing system. Some things are banned for a reason, it's just too bad the politicians can't sort the real legit ones from the financial pocket-lining ones.
Yup, but some take less. I've even seen some where a little over 128 was the limit (and they're not that old), so I'd expect older machines possibly limited to less than that...
a) Memory is not quite so cheap in bulk. Say if you have several workstations you want to install on
b) Hardware can limit RAM, and some people do still use old hardware, or crappy mobo's with limited RAM capabilities (I've seen P2/P3's that are 512MB limited)
I think that DvD's are becoming popular enough that perhaps big distros will be available on the larger media format as well. If I had to choose from >2 CD's or a DVD for a slightly higher price, I'd go for DVD.
Oh, and "core system" vs "extra software" went out the window when the GUI came around in popularity and people started biatching "how come software X isn't here, bah!"
I'd say that if you were a previous RedHat user, Fedora's multiple CD's shouldn't bother you, and you can always stick with Debian (my pref) or whatever you otherwise use.
ATM's, Gas Pumps, Grocery Store line-ups... everywhere where something electronic is used to make a calculation, a receipt is issued. Why not voting?
This is actually a big question, I mean, which would you rather have confirmed, that you were charged the proper sale price of your $0.99/lb head of lettuce, or that the person who is supposedly in charge of deciding the fate of your country/state/district was the one whom you (the voters) voted for?
How had would it be to print the receipt in duplicate, and have people drop a copy in a ballot box?
If it works for your local 7-11, you'd think that it wouldn't be a hard thing to print out a receipt for these machines...
When the first "electronic voting" machines went in, I think that they should have accompanied a paper-vote, or perhaps put out a paper receipt indicating the vote that could be stuffed in a ballot box. This way, you could use the physical (paper) votes to compare to the accuracy/loss in the electronic ones.
The good thing is, in the suckiness of the final episode, perhaps they'll let the matrix phenom die for a few years before bringing out a surprise finale to the unanswered questions
I mean, T2 was quite far after Terminator, and definately awesome. T3 sucked, but it did set it up for a movie covering the resistance in the post-nuke future
Maybe those of this generation can pick up where Matrix left off, and produce a kick-ass sequel in the future. Judging by some of the fan-eps of various sci-fi out currently, we may even have the technology to have fan-sequels on-par with many current movies in the next 2-5years
Seriously, if we look at some of the high-end professionals in many IT industries, how many were not hackers in their early roots. I think that what we really have is a confusion between hacker and script-kiddies. Linux is friendly to the former, but not really the latter.
And students? Why not pick up linux if you're a student. Yes, no shiat it saves money over picking up a legit copy of XP Pro, and yes, you can learn/do a lot more with it in many scenarios.
Really, you could pretty much draw a correlation between higher functionality and hackers in general, except that many people think hacker=virus=blackhat nowadays.
Wouldn't even Bill G have been considered something of a hacker back in the day? Granted with MS he's more like Darth Vader nowadays, but he could have had promise at one point.
People see the victims of hack-attacks as victims, and often themselves as victims (as many of us are, due to decreased usability of the internet).
I'd say it looks more like MS is out to protect their assets, which is really exactly what's happening. It's a case of "oh sh*t our insecure OS is being hacked up the wazoo, we need to do something." Do you really think that a bounty is going to make people less pissed at Bill when the next windows hack takes them offline again?
Jack the ripper and a few others ring a bell. Even with the high-profile of the killings.
But I think that in this case, the poster was confusing history with television. After all, it doesn't often make a good flic unless either the villian is caught, we can empathize with the villian (and thus applaud his/her escape), or - in fewer cases - we can martyr the hero (or have him die a heroic death).
He lost (aka got caught), therefore he is a terrorist. If the local gov't had been overthrown (or in this case, I suppose much of them just blown up) without major damage to other innocents, history may have been hailing him as a hero or at least a martyr - especially in consideration of the terrible acts perpetrated by the gov't at the time.
A 250,000 virus that sets people on a witchhunt against virus writers... could be a small price to pay for the deterrent value it will create.
It's one thing to write a virus that goes big, and then brag to your friends about it etc etc. It's another when you have to worry that if it becomes big and somebody who knows you did it will turn you over for cash.
As much as I like my friends, I don't respect virus writers at all, and if one write an internet-crippling virus I'd be in the middle as to whether to turn them in *without* a reward. How about you?
Online art is a buzzing phenomenon. I'm sure that Album Art will find its place when the realization kicks in that online music sales are to stay.
I think the big issues might be around a program to print the labels though. There are tons of Mp3 players but one format, how about a label-format that scales properly to most printers?
Not to mention the advantages of being able to appropriate temporarily disabled enemy technology.
If you're being run over by groups of tanks, best to destroy them. If you've got a few enemy tanks that are too dangerous to approach, HERF them, and perhaps you might be able to commadeer them in the future.
Just a thought, though perhaps I've been playing too many military games online.
Are these much different from the HERF gun previously described on slashdot?
The main difference I see is ina HERF gun is a focused blast (like narrowband), whilst an EMP bomb will likely be area damage (ultrawideband).
A cool thing, and perhaps a balance to the technology wars (what good is a tank/fighter when one guy with a laser 10km away can down it?), but can't we already assembly things like these in a our basements (if not, somebody please point out the different, other than power)
Geek Vs Mundanes. This sounds somewhat either like a Xanth novel or Harry Potty (muggles).
As per MSN search though, I hardly think we're going to see anything to compare to google.ca/linux on an MS search site, which is one of the reasons I'd prefer to see Microsoft's hands far away from that prize.
Your search for "Linux kernel" yielded the following results:
* Is Linux the devil's tools?
* Blackhat hackers using linux.
* Moving from linux to Microsoft Server 2009
Laugh, but how far from the truth would it actually be if MS dominated the search market. After all, your average Joe sixpack wouldn't care all that much.
If the english version is delayed... there's almost certainly going to be some fansubs around the net beforehand. If you're feeling impatient, you could always grab a copy of the japanese DVD (to be legit) and then download a fansub so you can understand the movie better.
We had a server which had quite a nifty uptime, but was locked without responding (no video, network connection, etc) and required a hard reboot in order to come online. Normally I wouldn't believe this "Solar Flares affecting computers" stuff, but there's not really any other obvious reason for it (ran fine after a reboot and FSCK)
I've often heard about certain soft drinks containing addictive and even illegal substances in the past, so I wouldn't be surprised if soembody takes advantage of this:
http://www.snopes.com/cokelore/cocaine.asp
But on the other hand, could nicotine-tomatoes, like the patch, become a viable substitute for those trying to quit smoking?
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Dost you have a URL for the main site? All I come up with on freshmeat is a logging project sa-exim-stats (related)
Actually, this sounds more like a phony-funds scam. Basically you're written a bad/false cheque, which may not catch up to you until your car is already gone. It's been mentioned here before, wherein somebody sells a laptop, cashes the money-order/cheque and it seems to pass... the item goes out, and then the bank calls saying the MO turned out to be a clever fake.
Umm, my guess would be they're going to go with some form of Lithium-ion battery that holds a decent charge, perhaps a type of NiMh. How many high-end devices do you know nowadays that take standard nicad batteries?
Lots of guys put trashcans over their dishes at night so dispatch won't bother them while they're sleeping
So basically, in the future I might not need my tinfoil hat, but my car will?
Emergency-like lights inside of cars. After all you see those all over th.... wait, you don't.
Radar detectors don't tend to interfere with emergency activities of the authorities (a traffic ticket is not an emergency), these do. They could also endanger lives if they break the existing system. Some things are banned for a reason, it's just too bad the politicians can't sort the real legit ones from the financial pocket-lining ones.
Yup, but some take less. I've even seen some where a little over 128 was the limit (and they're not that old), so I'd expect older machines possibly limited to less than that...
a) Memory is not quite so cheap in bulk. Say if you have several workstations you want to install on
b) Hardware can limit RAM, and some people do still use old hardware, or crappy mobo's with limited RAM capabilities (I've seen P2/P3's that are 512MB limited)
I think that DvD's are becoming popular enough that perhaps big distros will be available on the larger media format as well. If I had to choose from >2 CD's or a DVD for a slightly higher price, I'd go for DVD.
Oh, and "core system" vs "extra software" went out the window when the GUI came around in popularity and people started biatching "how come software X isn't here, bah!"
I'd say that if you were a previous RedHat user, Fedora's multiple CD's shouldn't bother you, and you can always stick with Debian (my pref) or whatever you otherwise use.
ATM's, Gas Pumps, Grocery Store line-ups... everywhere where something electronic is used to make a calculation, a receipt is issued. Why not voting?
This is actually a big question, I mean, which would you rather have confirmed, that you were charged the proper sale price of your $0.99/lb head of lettuce, or that the person who is supposedly in charge of deciding the fate of your country/state/district was the one whom you (the voters) voted for?
How had would it be to print the receipt in duplicate, and have people drop a copy in a ballot box?
If it works for your local 7-11, you'd think that it wouldn't be a hard thing to print out a receipt for these machines...
The 3502 people who voted for "Elvis," even though he wasn't on the options screen.
Faster and Secure my ass... I wouldn't be surprised to see something like this happen.
When the first "electronic voting" machines went in, I think that they should have accompanied a paper-vote, or perhaps put out a paper receipt indicating the vote that could be stuffed in a ballot box. This way, you could use the physical (paper) votes to compare to the accuracy/loss in the electronic ones.
The good thing is, in the suckiness of the final episode, perhaps they'll let the matrix phenom die for a few years before bringing out a surprise finale to the unanswered questions
I mean, T2 was quite far after Terminator, and definately awesome. T3 sucked, but it did set it up for a movie covering the resistance in the post-nuke future
Maybe those of this generation can pick up where Matrix left off, and produce a kick-ass sequel in the future. Judging by some of the fan-eps of various sci-fi out currently, we may even have the technology to have fan-sequels on-par with many current movies in the next 2-5years
Seriously, if we look at some of the high-end professionals in many IT industries, how many were not hackers in their early roots. I think that what we really have is a confusion between hacker and script-kiddies. Linux is friendly to the former, but not really the latter.
And students? Why not pick up linux if you're a student. Yes, no shiat it saves money over picking up a legit copy of XP Pro, and yes, you can learn/do a lot more with it in many scenarios.
Really, you could pretty much draw a correlation between higher functionality and hackers in general, except that many people think hacker=virus=blackhat nowadays.
Wouldn't even Bill G have been considered something of a hacker back in the day? Granted with MS he's more like Darth Vader nowadays, but he could have had promise at one point.
People see the victims of hack-attacks as victims, and often themselves as victims (as many of us are, due to decreased usability of the internet).
I'd say it looks more like MS is out to protect their assets, which is really exactly what's happening. It's a case of "oh sh*t our insecure OS is being hacked up the wazoo, we need to do something." Do you really think that a bounty is going to make people less pissed at Bill when the next windows hack takes them offline again?
Jack the ripper and a few others ring a bell. Even with the high-profile of the killings.
But I think that in this case, the poster was confusing history with television. After all, it doesn't often make a good flic unless either the villian is caught, we can empathize with the villian (and thus applaud his/her escape), or - in fewer cases - we can martyr the hero (or have him die a heroic death).
He lost (aka got caught), therefore he is a terrorist. If the local gov't had been overthrown (or in this case, I suppose much of them just blown up) without major damage to other innocents, history may have been hailing him as a hero or at least a martyr - especially in consideration of the terrible acts perpetrated by the gov't at the time.
A 250,000 virus that sets people on a witchhunt against virus writers... could be a small price to pay for the deterrent value it will create.
It's one thing to write a virus that goes big, and then brag to your friends about it etc etc. It's another when you have to worry that if it becomes big and somebody who knows you did it will turn you over for cash.
As much as I like my friends, I don't respect virus writers at all, and if one write an internet-crippling virus I'd be in the middle as to whether to turn them in *without* a reward. How about you?
Online art is a buzzing phenomenon. I'm sure that Album Art will find its place when the realization kicks in that online music sales are to stay.
I think the big issues might be around a program to print the labels though. There are tons of Mp3 players but one format, how about a label-format that scales properly to most printers?
It's an anti-virus virus, but still a virus in itself. Perhaps there are dangers of transmitting it to others and having a mutation?
Not to mention the advantages of being able to appropriate temporarily disabled enemy technology.
If you're being run over by groups of tanks, best to destroy them. If you've got a few enemy tanks that are too dangerous to approach, HERF them, and perhaps you might be able to commadeer them in the future.
Just a thought, though perhaps I've been playing too many military games online.
Are these much different from the HERF gun previously described on slashdot?
The main difference I see is ina HERF gun is a focused blast (like narrowband), whilst an EMP bomb will likely be area damage (ultrawideband).
A cool thing, and perhaps a balance to the technology wars (what good is a tank/fighter when one guy with a laser 10km away can down it?), but can't we already assembly things like these in a our basements (if not, somebody please point out the different, other than power)
Geek Vs Mundanes. This sounds somewhat either like a Xanth novel or Harry Potty (muggles).
As per MSN search though, I hardly think we're going to see anything to compare to google.ca/linux on an MS search site, which is one of the reasons I'd prefer to see Microsoft's hands far away from that prize.
Your search for "Linux kernel" yielded the following results:
* Is Linux the devil's tools?
* Blackhat hackers using linux.
* Moving from linux to Microsoft Server 2009
Laugh, but how far from the truth would it actually be if MS dominated the search market. After all, your average Joe sixpack wouldn't care all that much.
If the english version is delayed... there's almost certainly going to be some fansubs around the net beforehand. If you're feeling impatient, you could always grab a copy of the japanese DVD (to be legit) and then download a fansub so you can understand the movie better.
We had a server which had quite a nifty uptime, but was locked without responding (no video, network connection, etc) and required a hard reboot in order to come online. Normally I wouldn't believe this "Solar Flares affecting computers" stuff, but there's not really any other obvious reason for it (ran fine after a reboot and FSCK)
I've often heard about certain soft drinks containing addictive and even illegal substances in the past, so I wouldn't be surprised if soembody takes advantage of this: http://www.snopes.com/cokelore/cocaine.asp But on the other hand, could nicotine-tomatoes, like the patch, become a viable substitute for those trying to quit smoking?