They also had one that tested for urine in the air and reported that. The VC would pee on them and the computer (probably the new IBM 360) would report 1.234 times 10 to the 123 VC in the vicinity....
The suits trying to steal the internet (after letting it get away from them ) and our computers know full well the people who actually have a grip on this technology are few and far between.
The sheep-like consumer who they are trying to lock into a TV-like, owned by the few, push technology state and who make up all the numbers, won't care.
Things are going to get worst before they get better, if they get better at all.
I mean no disrespect but I am not joking. I read a paper somewhere on the net where they pointed out how to design a game specifically to hook people by giving them proper amounts of gratification at proper times. They get an endomorphin blast at this time, like a gambler who hits the jackpot. And then, and this is critical, they crave more.
I was so appalled by this I stopped reading the paper, and can't find it again (not that I really tried hard)
But let me tell you, I regard this behavior as genuinely evil and extremely lucrative. What are we going to do?
You can take a cheap pentium, stuff it full of ethernet cards and run OpenBSD on it and it'll do things you can't do with a Cisco router that costs $50,000.
Its well known to speaker salesmen
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that the louder speaker system always sounds better. They move a lot of expensive speakers like that.
In FidoNet elections you sent in your vote with a one-time password.
The election results were sent to all voters with a list of all the passwords who voted for each candidate. You checked to make sure yours was in the right category.
This is still hackable, though, simply by custom generating for each voter a message with their vote in the correct category, but enough other passwords in the cheating candidate to make sure they win.
Whats the way to handle this properly in a world of PKI and the web?
WAY back in the day Ken Thompson was interviewed for Wired and he played music on his computer using a lossy compression called PAC which he had coded in C from Fortran with the original developers. This was WAY before MP3.
Just a short time back, it seems, he claimed it was still way better than MP3.
How come it wasn't in this contest and in fact I cannot find anything more about it anywhere??
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Bayesian analysis can match writers to messages regardless of the email address.
I agree in a more polite manner. I feel the way to make money for /. is to offer tasteful, unobtrusive, Google-like ads for geek stuff.
However, that is just my amateur, uninformed opinion.
They also had one that tested for urine in the air and reported that. The VC would pee on them and the computer (probably the new IBM 360) would report 1.234 times 10 to the 123 VC in the vicinity....
is to xor a power of 2 not so random bits.
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Math and discussion at
http://irresponsiblecybernetics.com/phorum/read
The suits trying to steal the internet (after letting it get away from them ) and our computers know full well the people who actually have a grip on this technology are few and far between.
The sheep-like consumer who they are trying to lock into a TV-like, owned by the few, push technology state and who make up all the numbers, won't care.
Things are going to get worst before they get better, if they get better at all.
There's a Dirk Gently pub in Toronto at 244 Adelaide St. W 416-599-9030 .
Tarzan was a good man and a great ape.
I mean no disrespect but I am not joking. I read a paper somewhere on the net where they pointed out how to design a game specifically to hook people by giving them proper amounts of gratification at proper times. They get an endomorphin blast at this time, like a gambler who hits the jackpot. And then, and this is critical, they crave more.
I was so appalled by this I stopped reading the paper, and can't find it again (not that I really tried hard)
But let me tell you, I regard this behavior as genuinely evil and extremely lucrative. What are we going to do?
MMORPG Games are already carefully designed to hook you with cigarette-like addiction properties.
It's immoral, really.
You can take a cheap pentium, stuff it full of ethernet cards and run OpenBSD on it and it'll do things you can't do with a Cisco router that costs $50,000.
that the louder speaker system always sounds better. They move a lot of expensive speakers like that.
We're moving to high speed wireless and ISPs will go away.
Almost.
who swore they'd never let their IP be put on the new fangled VCR.
On the other hand you can bet your ass there will be DRM out the wazoo on these files. It will be interesting seeing how quickly they can be removed.
I bet the FIRST trick is make it too big to be burned to a CDR.
Unless another Korporate law gets passed, of course...
In FidoNet elections you sent in your vote with a one-time password.
The election results were sent to all voters with a list of all the passwords who voted for each candidate. You checked to make sure yours was in the right category.
This is still hackable, though, simply by custom generating for each voter a message with their vote in the correct category, but enough other passwords in the cheating candidate to make sure they win.
Whats the way to handle this properly in a world of PKI and the web?
That explains why the L337 P4rt'/ swept the last elections....
I'm already updated on this one before I read about it on /.
There's Kevin Stumpf's place in Waterloo
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I recommend South of the Border at the north/south Carolina border on the I 95.
Rocket City in there is especially amazing.
Titusville Florida is where I caught a shuttle launch from. IF they ever restart the shuttle it will be worth the trip.
DO NOT MISS VEGAS!
Have fun!
I've been told Python does everything Java does and better.
Whats to believe?
There is no way MS would do anything at all in a non grasping manner.
There has to be a hook.
WAY back in the day Ken Thompson was interviewed for Wired and he played music on his computer using a lossy compression called PAC which he had coded in C from Fortran with the original developers. This was WAY before MP3.
Just a short time back, it seems, he claimed it was still way better than MP3.
How come it wasn't in this contest and in fact I cannot find anything more about it anywhere??
I liked their web site very much. It reminds me of Google.com, another no frills site some people around here may have heard of.
I also very much like lawyer-free way the deal is explained. Even *I* understood it and I'm dumb at that sort of thing.
Also their terribly good taste in OS's didn't hurt either.....
of audio.
Let's hope they do a better job of artistic managment then CP did.....
This is a great message, however, if you're actually getting laid you have no business on /. , so I'd like to respectfully ask you to leave.