Do you think Nefertiti and Akenaten sat silently next to each other, slowly turning at regular intervals to give each other shifty eyed knowing glances?
And did you see that one priest dude with the leapord skin shawl and the GIGANTANORMOUS AFRO! The Afro was bigger than him! He was the pimpinest ancient egyptian I ever did see.
And I liked that the whole conclusion that they had found nefertiti was based on "If its not Nefertiti, who else could it be?" Gee I dunno, maybe one of the other BAJILLION people who lived in egypt?
Anyways. I cant stay mad at TV. I just wish they'd stick to CGI dinosaurs.
Actually that'd be pretty cool to try it with monkey, dog, alligator skulls. A good way to make your crazy aliens for the next star wars movie.
Consider in summer heat like we're having today (east coast of US), a body dumped in a field would be decomposed/eaten beyond recognition in a matter of hours.
They find 'em often enough to want something like this. Of course, it's big forensic labs that exist at the state level (or for large cities or other notable areas) that use such tools, not your local podunk sherriffs office.
Boo hoo. Someone send me one, please, I feel left out.
And was it just me, or did that article just wander all over the place? I mean one paragraph its talking about SoBig email worm, in the next Blaster and in the next the overall cost of spam, three completely unrelated items, but put together gave the impression that this email worm was stopping trains from running and costing billions?
Sure, and you need to look both ways before proceeding at an intersection, so what? The fact that cars are easy to drive has nothing to do with whether or not someone is a bad driver.
None of the things you listed need to be endlessly complicated. Ie; ZoneAlarm is easy and intuitive once you understand what it does. Contrast with typing iptables rules in by hand (when you need four of them to forward a port).
Nah, why would they need new code support? It'd be pretty easy to integrate, you know which running processes are calling which code.
but it will look really ugly once you have a few 'old' windows xp apps running in there
Such is life. It's not like any linux based desktop looks wonderful once you start throwing old legacy apps up into it, mixing motif and qt and any other of the zillion widget sets.
So what? Cars have become less complicated, more feature rich, and require much less mainanance. I dont have to vulcanize my tires or crank it up or know how any of it works. You dont need to know about gears or clutches if you want to drive an automatic.
And that's all fine with me, I have no great interest in whats "under the hood". I just have somewhere to go.
My point being, not everyone, in fact hardly anyone in the big picture, gives a shit what's behind the UI. They use computers because they need to do something, not because it's fun and enjoyable to them.
That's as shocking to computer nerds as my apathy towards automotive technology is to my gearhead friends.
Interoperability and security have ALWAYS been low on their hit list.
Things change, and all the bad press they've gotten (especially in the last week) wrt security tend to change them quick. You can bet your ass they're getting serious about security, espescially in the enterprise line of software. Much of that code will be shared with "longhorn homer edition" no doubt.
Though frankly, they still dont have a decent competitor for everyday desktop computing, which is a shame.
Whether you like the interface aesthetics or not (big deal, you can switch 'em back, no doubt, just like I do in XP), there are some nifty looking new features I saw before the site just got too slow to keep looking.
I notice in the audio properties box, you could dynamically mix the volume level of any running application - that's friggin cool. Now I can watch a movie or something and not have every IRC notification in the background blare over what I'm watching, I can turn it down.
Oh well, bash away, I'm sure you all hate it for completely non-technical reasons.
Where *are* all the wonderful 'independent' movies and documentaries and such on the Internet these days?
Turns out that bandwidth and storage space costs money. Back then everyone thought the internet would just magically spit money out of every phone and ethernet jack in the world. Every computer nerd would earn 7 figures from the banner ads on their Simpsons fan site. Ahhhh, the good ole' days.
On this weeks episode of Will & Grace, hilarity ensues when Will is caught in bed with his gay lover by Grace's visiting uncle! All starting on must see TV!
It's just that its brainless pulp fiction. No thought required. Just a story about a submarine or dinosaurs or something. Not that it's all that terrible if that's what you feel like reading.
To be somewhat closer to topic, it's like video games. Sometimes I like a more thought-inducing RPG or adventure, with obscure puzzles and whatnot to figure out (I miss the infocom days - puzzles today seem to be "find 4 red magic blocks"), sometimes I like to just blow shit up or punch guys out.
Pray you aren't linked to by a truly massive portal site like msn.com or yahoo, or a large news site like cnn.com or msnbc.
CNN stuck a link to the small company I work for in an article about a year back. A slashdotting might last an hour or two, we were pummelled for weeks.
Dr. Bartle is much more broadly educated than I am
I like books written by people more educated than myself, that way I learn things. If you want to feel intellectually superior, check out the local thrift/used book shop for some old "choose your own adventure"s
I'd tend to blame the humans driving the trains. Theres nothing a virus/worm/hacker can do do make two trains crash into each other. The best they can do is trigger the failsafe that makes the trains stop.
Computer systems onboard airplanes do not... simply turning off jet engines in case of computer failure is not an appealing possibility.
True enough, but shutting off autopilot and forcing the trained crew to fly using the backup analog systems is more appealing. I know hi-tech military stuff is going fly-by-wire, but AFAIK most commercial crafts are mainly analog machines with some digital gizmos to make the job easier. But I'm no pilot.
Many do need to be run as root, or chrooted, since you need direct hardware access to things like data acquisition cards and other factory equipment, basically anything fancier than a serial device that plugs into a COM port. There are other ways to accomplish it, but time is money. Most of this stuff isnt on the net, but embedded stuff with maybe a simple alphanumeric LCD display.
Actually, the most of this kind of stuff are really old 386 era machines still running DOS and interfacing through ISA cards.
Wow, taken to the extreme, the exploitation of their systems could have caused a train collision and injury or death to hundreds of Maryland and Virginia commuters.
Thats why trains have human engineers and brakes. It's why people should use good judgement and observation. If you approach an intersection, and see that the traffic lights in all directions are green, use your head and stop, because something's wrong. Of course this is impossible, theres a mechanical failsafe that will make all lights blink red if that happened - making a 4 way stop, similar mechanical fallbacks are employed in the railroads. This is all besides the point.
Techies tend to overestimate the role of technology in day to day life. MARC was shut down more because the clerks were having a hard time selling tickets, since they cant do simple math in their heads.
It doesnt say in his letter, but I'm assuming the subpeona has nothing to do with authoring xmule, but for his own personal copyright infringement. It doesnt even say who subpeona'd him for what. Maybe RMS subpeonad him for not living up to the spirit of the GPL, point is - noone knows.
Which he admits to, even though he says he hasnt done it in the last "6 months". I've heard of no 6 month statute of limitations.
He violated his ISPs AUP, and they pulled his account. He could have violated a bandwidth cap, been sharing Gigli, been portscanning, whatever.
Sometimes it's nice to have facts before you make a hero out of someone. He might be a complete idiot who deserves what he gets.
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The article doesnt say, but in abscense of photos I'd guess this is just more headwork.
Good thing you didnt report on an unimportant article on New Scientist, you know, like this way to stop cancer.
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The reconstruction scenes were silly!
Do you think Nefertiti and Akenaten sat silently next to each other, slowly turning at regular intervals to give each other shifty eyed knowing glances?
And did you see that one priest dude with the leapord skin shawl and the GIGANTANORMOUS AFRO! The Afro was bigger than him! He was the pimpinest ancient egyptian I ever did see.
And I liked that the whole conclusion that they had found nefertiti was based on "If its not Nefertiti, who else could it be?" Gee I dunno, maybe one of the other BAJILLION people who lived in egypt?
Anyways. I cant stay mad at TV. I just wish they'd stick to CGI dinosaurs.
Actually that'd be pretty cool to try it with monkey, dog, alligator skulls. A good way to make your crazy aliens for the next star wars movie.
Consider in summer heat like we're having today (east coast of US), a body dumped in a field would be decomposed/eaten beyond recognition in a matter of hours.
They find 'em often enough to want something like this. Of course, it's big forensic labs that exist at the state level (or for large cities or other notable areas) that use such tools, not your local podunk sherriffs office.
They've been doing this on every discovery channel special on mummies I've seen for the last year.
Most recently the Nefertiti one that I watched just the other night.
There are lots of cases where the cure is worse than the disease, so to speak, and doctors leave it under observation.
I mean they dont just chuck everyone into kimotherapy or surgery at the first sign of cancer.
I havent got ONE sobig wormmail. Not one.
Boo hoo. Someone send me one, please, I feel left out.
And was it just me, or did that article just wander all over the place? I mean one paragraph its talking about SoBig email worm, in the next Blaster and in the next the overall cost of spam, three completely unrelated items, but put together gave the impression that this email worm was stopping trains from running and costing billions?
Sure, and you need to look both ways before proceeding at an intersection, so what? The fact that cars are easy to drive has nothing to do with whether or not someone is a bad driver.
None of the things you listed need to be endlessly complicated. Ie; ZoneAlarm is easy and intuitive once you understand what it does. Contrast with typing iptables rules in by hand (when you need four of them to forward a port).
Nah, why would they need new code support? It'd be pretty easy to integrate, you know which running processes are calling which code.
but it will look really ugly once you have a few 'old' windows xp apps running in there
Such is life. It's not like any linux based desktop looks wonderful once you start throwing old legacy apps up into it, mixing motif and qt and any other of the zillion widget sets.
Take it up with the manufacturer.
Why the hell is my video card called a radeon? Why is my mouse called "intellimouse"?
So what? Cars have become less complicated, more feature rich, and require much less mainanance. I dont have to vulcanize my tires or crank it up or know how any of it works. You dont need to know about gears or clutches if you want to drive an automatic.
And that's all fine with me, I have no great interest in whats "under the hood". I just have somewhere to go.
My point being, not everyone, in fact hardly anyone in the big picture, gives a shit what's behind the UI. They use computers because they need to do something, not because it's fun and enjoyable to them.
That's as shocking to computer nerds as my apathy towards automotive technology is to my gearhead friends.
Interoperability and security have ALWAYS been low on their hit list.
Things change, and all the bad press they've gotten (especially in the last week) wrt security tend to change them quick. You can bet your ass they're getting serious about security, espescially in the enterprise line of software. Much of that code will be shared with "longhorn homer edition" no doubt.
Though frankly, they still dont have a decent competitor for everyday desktop computing, which is a shame.
Whether you like the interface aesthetics or not (big deal, you can switch 'em back, no doubt, just like I do in XP), there are some nifty looking new features I saw before the site just got too slow to keep looking.
I notice in the audio properties box, you could dynamically mix the volume level of any running application - that's friggin cool. Now I can watch a movie or something and not have every IRC notification in the background blare over what I'm watching, I can turn it down.
Oh well, bash away, I'm sure you all hate it for completely non-technical reasons.
Sure, amateur products are "promoted", only professional ones are "advertised", but that's splitting hairs.
If this showed up in your email or on usenet or another web forum it'd be dismissed as spam instantly.
Not that I'm really complaining. At least it isnt another substanceless SCO update.
Thats a good point.
Maybe people just dont want to watch amateur home movies.
Unless they're porn.
Where *are* all the wonderful 'independent' movies and documentaries and such on the Internet these days?
Turns out that bandwidth and storage space costs money. Back then everyone thought the internet would just magically spit money out of every phone and ethernet jack in the world. Every computer nerd would earn 7 figures from the banner ads on their Simpsons fan site. Ahhhh, the good ole' days.
An ad for some web show?
On this weeks episode of Will & Grace, hilarity ensues when Will is caught in bed with his gay lover by Grace's visiting uncle! All starting on must see TV!
It's just that its brainless pulp fiction. No thought required. Just a story about a submarine or dinosaurs or something. Not that it's all that terrible if that's what you feel like reading.
To be somewhat closer to topic, it's like video games. Sometimes I like a more thought-inducing RPG or adventure, with obscure puzzles and whatnot to figure out (I miss the infocom days - puzzles today seem to be "find 4 red magic blocks"), sometimes I like to just blow shit up or punch guys out.
You think slashdot is bad?
Pray you aren't linked to by a truly massive portal site like msn.com or yahoo, or a large news site like cnn.com or msnbc.
CNN stuck a link to the small company I work for in an article about a year back. A slashdotting might last an hour or two, we were pummelled for weeks.
Dr. Bartle is much more broadly educated than I am
I like books written by people more educated than myself, that way I learn things. If you want to feel intellectually superior, check out the local thrift/used book shop for some old "choose your own adventure"s
Or read anything by Grisham or Clancy.
I'd tend to blame the humans driving the trains. Theres nothing a virus/worm/hacker can do do make two trains crash into each other. The best they can do is trigger the failsafe that makes the trains stop.
But in industrial applications, the power thats needed is direct register access to obscure pieces of hardware.
Computer systems onboard airplanes do not... simply turning off jet engines in case of computer failure is not an appealing possibility.
True enough, but shutting off autopilot and forcing the trained crew to fly using the backup analog systems is more appealing. I know hi-tech military stuff is going fly-by-wire, but AFAIK most commercial crafts are mainly analog machines with some digital gizmos to make the job easier. But I'm no pilot.
Many do need to be run as root, or chrooted, since you need direct hardware access to things like data acquisition cards and other factory equipment, basically anything fancier than a serial device that plugs into a COM port. There are other ways to accomplish it, but time is money. Most of this stuff isnt on the net, but embedded stuff with maybe a simple alphanumeric LCD display.
Actually, the most of this kind of stuff are really old 386 era machines still running DOS and interfacing through ISA cards.
Wow, taken to the extreme, the exploitation of their systems could have caused a train collision and injury or death to hundreds of Maryland and Virginia commuters.
Thats why trains have human engineers and brakes. It's why people should use good judgement and observation. If you approach an intersection, and see that the traffic lights in all directions are green, use your head and stop, because something's wrong. Of course this is impossible, theres a mechanical failsafe that will make all lights blink red if that happened - making a 4 way stop, similar mechanical fallbacks are employed in the railroads. This is all besides the point.
Techies tend to overestimate the role of technology in day to day life. MARC was shut down more because the clerks were having a hard time selling tickets, since they cant do simple math in their heads.
It doesnt say in his letter, but I'm assuming the subpeona has nothing to do with authoring xmule, but for his own personal copyright infringement. It doesnt even say who subpeona'd him for what. Maybe RMS subpeonad him for not living up to the spirit of the GPL, point is - noone knows.
Which he admits to, even though he says he hasnt done it in the last "6 months". I've heard of no 6 month statute of limitations.
He violated his ISPs AUP, and they pulled his account. He could have violated a bandwidth cap, been sharing Gigli, been portscanning, whatever.
Sometimes it's nice to have facts before you make a hero out of someone. He might be a complete idiot who deserves what he gets.
The article doesnt say, but in abscense of photos I'd guess this is just more headwork.
Good thing you didnt report on an unimportant article on New Scientist, you know, like this way to stop cancer.