Wait till people can travel in time... into years prior to 1970...with a time machine using a unix...which sets its system clock to the current date...
Agree. Also the story of the Lord of the Rings trilogy is taken from a certain book written by J.R.R. Tolkien which he finished in 1950 and which was split into three parts by the publisher. I fail to see why a big battle in a book that old has to do with the rest of the movies mentioned.
If you read it you will find the battle to be much more gigantic than any movie could ever depict. Argue about the other movies, leave the LotR trilogy out of play.
but that's what i call realism... they even rendered wristwatches for the computer generated orcs. artificial bloopers, a concept of the future indeed!
better have a bunch of powerful hubs/switches, preferrably intelligent ones which can take either cable (patch or crossover) in any port. and have clear rules about the class of network, preferrably class c, and the subnet mask. we eventually ended up running a dhcp server.
furthermore physically and digitally secure all the equipment you provide. there are always some dumbasses trying to sabotage or steal stuff
i think if you let your kids access the internet you should control what they can see... it's just like buying booze or going to a strip club... after you pass the control you may pass but you can look at the advertisement anyway
set up email filters, restrict the websites they can visit... but don't blame those who supply them. a kid may not be able to buy a filthy magazine but it can still look through it until somebody notices. it's not that the spammers offer them free access to their site
i wonder what that guy should have done to prevent music from being shared? would a disclaimer have been enough? then i'd say it's his own fault for sure.
would he have had to deny searching for various audio file formats and possibly even archives? then i'd say poor guy.
well in either way it's not fair of the riaa to take an enormous amount of money from him (i mean $12k? come on) for a thing to which he merely provided the technology, and it wasn't even meant for sharing pirated files.
who's next? the game industry saying "wait a sec, let's sue him for the search engine's ability to find games"? i sure hope not
Well in this case the early bird gets the poisoned worm, making the bird blind and deaf.
In general I would wait about a week until installing a security update for the same reason I'd wait a couple of months before buying a new product. In that time period at least some of the most severe bugs are discovered and fixed.
I think this invention is largely useless, since it is not only circumventable (and thus unreliable) but also misusable.
Here are a number of reasons I'd refuse to ever use such a BIOS:
1. When stealing information do you take the whole box or just the HD(s)?
2. When stealing the whole box do you connect it to the internet when you work on it?
3. You can still exchange the bios chip or the motherboard since it is likely to be marked as being protected.. or simply plug the devices into another box.
4. If not stealing data but rather stealing expensive equipment, the theif will most likely not be the one plugging the box in.
5. The technology is vulnerable to spoofing, altering the database and false alerts.
6. There are more effective ways which may be cheaper or even free.
7. Imagine this in combination with Palladium.
My conclusion: i want an "unprotective bios certificate" with my next motherboard
eventually somebody will hack into their server reporting all bioses as stolen or something similar. that doesn't exactly give one a sense of security, don't you think?
your example with the club is very basic. it can't be remote-controlled, you are the one who applies it and you have the key to unlock it. a harddisk wipe however is undoable.
i'd like to point out that the content is what reall matters, not how it is written. yes it's true that many of the posters here have an english that lacks some serious grammar lessons, but YOU can't change them, especially not with your somehow harsh approach. (you might consider reading this: How to Write a Report Without Getting Lynched)
besides that there are quite a few reader whose primary language (their mother tounge?) is not english and learn much of their english not in school but rather on the internet, namely the irc networks and news portals like slashdot, and from movies. those people are not to be blamed for their bad english and 4 tere stoopid slang Xpressns..blame the people who talked to them that way on the internet, blame the movies industry and most of all, blame their english teachers who don't know anything about slang and therefore can't prevent the ones they are teaching from using them when not in their lessons (my english teacher never talked about slang with us, if he would have talked about it, we might have found out, some expressions we learned from the movies and from the internet were just plain wrong)
anyways, who cares about language on the internet anymore? couldn't you care less?
Slashdot Mirror
yea, i was talking about in-movie bloopers tho.
:)
an orc with a wrist watch, the ring in the fireplace not showing elf writing but windings, smiagol going "shit, i left the gas on"...
> Unix uses a signed 32-bit integer.
> Earliest possible date: Fri Dec 13 14:45:52 CST 1901.
> Latest possible date: Mon Jan 18 21:14:07 CST 2038.
ah ok i see. i assume time machines aren't invented until after 2038 anyway.
Wait till people can travel in time... into years prior to 1970 ...with a time machine using a unix ...which sets its system clock to the current date...
OH MY GOD! RUN!
Agree. Also the story of the Lord of the Rings trilogy is taken from a certain book written by J.R.R. Tolkien which he finished in 1950 and which was split into three parts by the publisher. I fail to see why a big battle in a book that old has to do with the rest of the movies mentioned.
If you read it you will find the battle to be much more gigantic than any movie could ever depict. Argue about the other movies, leave the LotR trilogy out of play.
You got RotK on DVD? -cough-piracy-cough-
but that's what i call realism... they even rendered wristwatches for the computer generated orcs. artificial bloopers, a concept of the future indeed!
that's worth a patent
first place:
/dev/null
> Port Mozilla,Collect $3696
second place:
go directly to
do not pass go
do not collect $3696
Funny, they filled mine with beer coasters, and guess what, i was underage at that time :o
i set the wheel click to open a new tab which is MUCH more comfortable in mozilla than a new window.
;)
set it up in edit -> preferences... -> navigator -> tabbed browsing
especially useful for getting rid of unwanted popups while preserving the original page from being closed
but will the next node have one too?
that is the question
better have a bunch of powerful hubs/switches, preferrably intelligent ones which can take either cable (patch or crossover) in any port. and have clear rules about the class of network, preferrably class c, and the subnet mask. we eventually ended up running a dhcp server.
furthermore physically and digitally secure all the equipment you provide. there are always some dumbasses trying to sabotage or steal stuff
i think if you let your kids access the internet you should control what they can see... it's just like buying booze or going to a strip club... after you pass the control you may pass but you can look at the advertisement anyway
set up email filters, restrict the websites they can visit... but don't blame those who supply them.
a kid may not be able to buy a filthy magazine but it can still look through it until somebody notices. it's not that the spammers offer them free access to their site
and no i am not a spammer
and the worst thing. unless there is a windows IE supporting it no commercial web can use png with alpha... gotta hate it.
watch out dude... that clicking noise probably are your fingers which got used to the original-GBA-cramping :O
..on the other hand it has such a high wannahave factor.
but seriously, the ergonomics sure look awful
why does man always long for things which harm him?
i wonder what that guy should have done to prevent music from being shared? would a disclaimer have been enough?
then i'd say it's his own fault for sure.
would he have had to deny searching for various audio file formats and possibly even archives?
then i'd say poor guy.
well in either way it's not fair of the riaa to take an enormous amount of money from him (i mean $12k? come on) for a thing to which he merely provided the technology, and it wasn't even meant for sharing pirated files.
who's next? the game industry saying "wait a sec, let's sue him for the search engine's ability to find games"? i sure hope not
Well in this case the early bird gets the poisoned worm, making the bird blind and deaf.
In general I would wait about a week until installing a security update for the same reason I'd wait a couple of months before buying a new product. In that time period at least some of the most severe bugs are discovered and fixed.
I think this invention is largely useless, since it is not only circumventable (and thus unreliable) but also misusable.
Here are a number of reasons I'd refuse to ever use such a BIOS:
1. When stealing information do you take the whole box or just the HD(s)?
2. When stealing the whole box do you connect it to the internet when you work on it?
3. You can still exchange the bios chip or the motherboard since it is likely to be marked as being protected.. or simply plug the devices into another box.
4. If not stealing data but rather stealing expensive equipment, the theif will most likely not be the one plugging the box in.
5. The technology is vulnerable to spoofing, altering the database and false alerts.
6. There are more effective ways which may be cheaper or even free.
7. Imagine this in combination with Palladium.
My conclusion:
i want an "unprotective bios certificate" with my next motherboard
Wisely pasted... on first sight...
eventually somebody will hack into their server reporting all bioses as stolen or something similar. that doesn't exactly give one a sense of security, don't you think?
your example with the club is very basic. it can't be remote-controlled, you are the one who applies it and you have the key to unlock it.
a harddisk wipe however is undoable.
i'd like to point out that the content is what reall matters, not how it is written. yes it's true that many of the posters here have an english that lacks some serious grammar lessons, but YOU can't change them, especially not with your somehow harsh approach. (you might consider reading this: How to Write a Report Without Getting Lynched) besides that there are quite a few reader whose primary language (their mother tounge?) is not english and learn much of their english not in school but rather on the internet, namely the irc networks and news portals like slashdot, and from movies. those people are not to be blamed for their bad english and 4 tere stoopid slang Xpressns ..blame the people who talked to them that way on the internet, blame the movies industry and most of all, blame their english teachers who don't know anything about slang and therefore can't prevent the ones they are teaching from using them when not in their lessons (my english teacher never talked about slang with us, if he would have talked about it, we might have found out, some expressions we learned from the movies and from the internet were just plain wrong)
anyways, who cares about language on the internet anymore? couldn't you care less?