So, the mad overclocker buys a tube of Dow #111 and a bottle of Darko. Spends a little time with a popsicle stick and a film canister and viola! Carbon black heat sink compound.
If you're already hacking your hardware for faster clock speeds, what's to keep you from rolling your own heatsink compound?
I mean aside from the fact that your wife will kill you when she sees black fingerprints all over every surface in the house.
Are overclockers "audiophiles", buying anodized billet aircraft aluminum volume knobs? Or are you folks hobbyists, shopping mainly in Nuts & Volts?
This situation is a consequence of living an open society that information which "should not" be available is available.
This has nothing to do with google and cracking.
Exactly the same situation was demonstrated in the '70's by Princeton student "John Artistole Phillips", better known as "The A-Bomb Kid". For him, it was the telephone, university and public libraries, and fission weapons instead of google and cracking.
Oh, give me a locus where the gravitons focus
Where the three-body problem is solved,
Where the microwaves play down at three degrees K,
And the cold virus never evolved.
(chorus)
We eat algea pie, our vacuum is high,
Our ball bearings are perfectly round.
Our horizon is curved, our warheads are MIRVed,
And a kilogram weighs half a pound.
(chorus)
If we run out of space for our burgeoning race
No more Lebensraum left for the Mensch
When we're ready to start, we can take Mars apart,
If we just find a big enough wrench.
(chorus)
I'm sick of this place, it's just McDonald's in space,
And living up here is a bore.
Tell the shiggies, "Don't cry," they can kiss me goodbye
'Cause I'm moving next week to L4!
(chorus)
CHORUS: Home, home on LaGrange,
Where the space debris always collects,
We possess, so it seems, two of Man's greatest dreams:
Solar power and zero-gee sex.
Right now, the site tells us "Hey, we've got a copy of a famous book. See, we took pictures. And we have a website, too. Sorry you can't actually study the text from where you sit. Guess the technology just isn't there yet."
Having worked in several (unnamed automotive manufacturer) plants as an engineer, I have had the opportunity to watch these jobs disappear before my eyes.
The fact is that automation in general does "take away" jobs from humans. Specifically robots (by definition) do the jobs that were once done by hunams.
The new jobs that appear are fewer, more highly skilled, and better paid. They consist mainly of servicing the machines.
Example: For several months prior to changeover, all the electricians worked with the plc people to learn how to program and troubleshoot the plcs (controllers). They worked with the robot people to learn how to "teach" and maintain the robots. After the startup, the plc folks and robot folks left and the electricians continued with their new skills.
The old jobs that remain for humans are those that are not suitable for robots: Loading inconsistently made parts, making decisions (rejecting defects), and performing non-repeatable tasks. As machine "flexibility" (I hate to use the word "machine intelligence") increases, the jobs remaining for humans will continue to change.
Example: Deciding whether to load a sunroof or a regular roof. I tried to create logic that would predict which kind of body was going to come the line and which sort of roof was shortest on the roof stack. I never figured it out. I left the logic in, but placed a selector on the screen. One position said "smart operator"; the other position said "smart machine". The selector stayed in "smart operator" and we never had a problem.
Jobs will be lost. New jobs will be created. People who are out of work will find something else to do. Those individuals who lost their jobs will lose their standard of living, for at least a while. And they will tell their children to learn different skills.
Will this make the world better or worse? I can't say. Up here in Northeast Ohio, you can go ask the Amish people; they have a different opinion than most of the rest of us. That path is available to those who wish to take it.
At the end of the day, this is nothing new. Technological and social change (something that continues for thousands of years is probably not a "revolution") will continue as it has since before the first person strapped a flint knife to a stick and threw it at a deer. When their brothers and sisters could jump up and kill a deer from a distance, the stealthy and quick-running individuals who had been bringing home the meat had less of an advantage and lost social status. Some of them probably even starved.
Scooter is a little kid who wants ten bucks. He's bothering everybody in the family, and nobody's giving up the money. Here's a list of little Scooter's manipulations to date. See if you can predict what he does next!
Can I borrow ten bucks?
General Nuisance: "Let's threaten to sue the world, and maybe we'll get bought" (If I scream loud enough, Mom or Dad will just give me ten bucks to get me to shut the hell up.)
Impotent attempt at Intimidation: "You'd better quit using Linux right now!" (Gimme the ten bucks, dammit!)
Appeal to authority: "I'll sue you if you don't quit using Linux" (I'll tell mommy you're being a hog if you don't share!)
Appeal to justice: "That code was developed here. Linux wouldn't exist without SCO." (You stole ten bucks from me last week. Give it back, ya big bully!). Note that Scooter's a little twerp who's way more likely to steal from someone else, than get stolen from.
Harrassing your Target: "Dear Linux User...you're using our code." (Can I borrow ten bucks? How 'bout now? How 'bout now?)
Appeal to pity: "How can you leave our company and all its employees without jobs?" (If you don't lend me ten bucks, I can't go see "Finding Nemo").
Bargaining: "Just buy this cheap license. I know it's worthless, but it'll get us to leave you alone." (Just give me five bucks and I'll quit bothering you)
Earning the ten bucks: "SCO begins developing a useful project (Maybe a financial program that interoperates with Quicken) & puts it up on sourceforge for us to all share & enjoy. Then they ask for donations to keep them afloat." (OK, Sis. I did all your chores for the week. Can I have the ten bucks now?)
Oops--that last one was how everyone else got their ten bucks. Scooter's looking for an easier way.
I have kids and I am speaking as a dad... people should be accountable to others in that society
You are primarily responsible for the safety of your own children. Face it--it's an adult world out there. Your job is to protect your children from those things for which you believe they are not prepared.
The rest of us are not responsible for creating a whiffle-society where your children can run around unsupervised and not be hurt.
The conclusion of your argument is untenable. You're going to have a hard time convincing anybody that that the goal of free email providers is to actively... seek to protect the identities of people that advance an inconceivably horrible agenda.
If you have your way, privacy per se would be a crime. When your children grow up, what kind of world will you have them live in? To illustrate your position in your own inflamitory tone: "Sir: Please exit the building with your hands in plain view. Your curtains are blocking the Federal Children's Monitoring Service from seeing into your house. We now suspect you are harboring a paedophile in your basement. We are sending in a squad to search the premises."
My local Wal-Mart sells a crosscut shredder that eats 5 sheets at a time, staples and all for $20.00.
When the bank sends the new credit card every couple years, that thing will munch up the old one, too.
It's a really over-engineered piece of equipment. Weighs about 5 pounds, does one thing, and does it well. I know it's just a stupid fscking paper shredder, but I just love well-made tools, no matter how mundane they are.
All IP traffic within the US must be monitored and logged.
All computers using IP resources in the US must be trust(ed,worthy).
All software running on trust(ed,worthy) systems must be verified and signed by DHS-approved auditing body.
Due to the enormous expense of this undertaking, a surcharge will be applied to every CPU, HDD, and piece of software used on trusted machines. DHS-approved auditing bodies will use the proceeds to monitor and manage all computer systems within the US.
Circumvention or non-compliance shall be a felony, punishable by not less than five years in prison and $10,000 fine for each violation.
Opening an excel sheet from work using the released version of Oo.o, it would take ~30 minutes, and then the merged cells were not correctly parsed. I had to select the entire sheet and manually remove merged cells in order to see the contents at all.
Opening the same sheet with Oo.o 1.1beta1 & 2, tood a few seconds (didn't time it), and the cells were parsed correctly.
But, my adobe type1 fonts are now missing from the selection pulldown!
Oh, please. You people just want us to live in a whiffle-society, don't you?
When I was a kid, I knew that nothing my parents put in my hands could hurt me. Basically, I could play with whatever toys they gave me and not worry about it. It was their responsibility.
Then I discovered if you pointed a 4 1/4" newtonian reflector at the sun you had a reasonable facsimile of a short range death-ray.
Did I go burning holes in everything I could get my hands on? Actually, yes. But it was at that point that I realized it was MY responsibility to watch out for myself.
Because I wanted the right to do this sort of nifty stuff! I didn't want to be "protected" by my parents, so I saw to it that I protected myself.
Later conversations with Mom went something like this:
Me: "Mom, me and Sean are going out to the back porch and make a batch of formic acid. Don't open the porch door until I tell you it's OK."
Mom: "Do you know the hazards?"
Me: "Yes, ma'am."
Mom: "Are you taking the right safety measures?"
Me: "Yes, we are."
Mom: "OK, be careful and lunch is in about an hour."
BTW, if you ever make this stuff, you need an air compressor, about fifty feet of hose and a mask over your eyes and nose. Splash goggles are NOT enough!!
Holy cr@p, that was nasty stuff, though. Just about the ideal nonlethal chemical weapon. At the end of the day, we had 250ml of concentrated liquid agony. We drew designs on the ground and watched the ants follow them, then neutralized the whole batch. The point was to make the stuff and prove it was what we thought it was. The ants following the trails, our measurements of the boiling point, and the process we used to decompose the acid proved that. It was just too nasty to keep around.
And no, I will not give you a recipe. It's very easy to make, and if you can't look up the synthesis, you shouldn't be doing it.
No, I do a lot of industrial controls. Sometimes plant engineers see more blinkenleitzen as more better. Usually, the Electrician or Maintenance Mechanic knows better.
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So, the mad overclocker buys a tube of Dow #111 and a bottle of Darko. Spends a little time with a popsicle stick and a film canister and viola! Carbon black heat sink compound.
If you're already hacking your hardware for faster clock speeds, what's to keep you from rolling your own heatsink compound?
I mean aside from the fact that your wife will kill you when she sees black fingerprints all over every surface in the house.
Are overclockers "audiophiles", buying anodized billet aircraft aluminum volume knobs? Or are you folks hobbyists, shopping mainly in Nuts & Volts?
It works. That's all that matters, right?
I just find the economics hard to believe.
If you're right, though, I predict a lot of hobbyist webpages with the theme "Lookee what I built out of this little chip".
But, we'll find out soon enough.
And you can bet that if you don't, you get charged plenty.
And you can be that if I'm wrong (and I certainly hope I am) that I'll be buying one just to take it apart!
This situation is a consequence of living an open society that information which "should not" be available is available.
This has nothing to do with google and cracking.
Exactly the same situation was demonstrated in the '70's by Princeton student "John Artistole Phillips", better known as "The A-Bomb Kid". For him, it was the telephone, university and public libraries, and fission weapons instead of google and cracking.
Again, news it ain't.
We have a situation here, folks. Something must be done!
Well, what do you expect from "new scientist"?
I =/= 1337 h4x0r!
More (pertinent)lyrics
--Home on Lagrange (The L5 Song)
(c) 1978 by William S. Higgins and Barry D. Gehm
Right now, the site tells us "Hey, we've got a copy of a famous book. See, we took pictures. And we have a website, too. Sorry you can't actually study the text from where you sit. Guess the technology just isn't there yet."
The fact is that automation in general does "take away" jobs from humans. Specifically robots (by definition) do the jobs that were once done by hunams.
The new jobs that appear are fewer, more highly skilled, and better paid. They consist mainly of servicing the machines.
Example: For several months prior to changeover, all the electricians worked with the plc people to learn how to program and troubleshoot the plcs (controllers). They worked with the robot people to learn how to "teach" and maintain the robots. After the startup, the plc folks and robot folks left and the electricians continued with their new skills.
The old jobs that remain for humans are those that are not suitable for robots: Loading inconsistently made parts, making decisions (rejecting defects), and performing non-repeatable tasks. As machine "flexibility" (I hate to use the word "machine intelligence") increases, the jobs remaining for humans will continue to change.
Example: Deciding whether to load a sunroof or a regular roof. I tried to create logic that would predict which kind of body was going to come the line and which sort of roof was shortest on the roof stack. I never figured it out. I left the logic in, but placed a selector on the screen. One position said "smart operator"; the other position said "smart machine". The selector stayed in "smart operator" and we never had a problem.
Jobs will be lost. New jobs will be created. People who are out of work will find something else to do. Those individuals who lost their jobs will lose their standard of living, for at least a while. And they will tell their children to learn different skills.
Will this make the world better or worse? I can't say. Up here in Northeast Ohio, you can go ask the Amish people; they have a different opinion than most of the rest of us. That path is available to those who wish to take it.
At the end of the day, this is nothing new. Technological and social change (something that continues for thousands of years is probably not a "revolution") will continue as it has since before the first person strapped a flint knife to a stick and threw it at a deer. When their brothers and sisters could jump up and kill a deer from a distance, the stealthy and quick-running individuals who had been bringing home the meat had less of an advantage and lost social status. Some of them probably even starved.
But human society persists.
Many hands make light work...
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The Perpindecular Port!
Can I borrow ten bucks?
General Nuisance: "Let's threaten to sue the world, and maybe we'll get bought" (If I scream loud enough, Mom or Dad will just give me ten bucks to get me to shut the hell up.)
Impotent attempt at Intimidation: "You'd better quit using Linux right now!" (Gimme the ten bucks, dammit!)
Appeal to authority: "I'll sue you if you don't quit using Linux" (I'll tell mommy you're being a hog if you don't share!)
Appeal to justice: "That code was developed here. Linux wouldn't exist without SCO." (You stole ten bucks from me last week. Give it back, ya big bully!). Note that Scooter's a little twerp who's way more likely to steal from someone else, than get stolen from.
Harrassing your Target: "Dear Linux User...you're using our code." (Can I borrow ten bucks? How 'bout now? How 'bout now?)
Appeal to pity: "How can you leave our company and all its employees without jobs?" (If you don't lend me ten bucks, I can't go see "Finding Nemo").
Bargaining: "Just buy this cheap license. I know it's worthless, but it'll get us to leave you alone." (Just give me five bucks and I'll quit bothering you)
Earning the ten bucks: "SCO begins developing a useful project (Maybe a financial program that interoperates with Quicken) & puts it up on sourceforge for us to all share & enjoy. Then they ask for donations to keep them afloat." (OK, Sis. I did all your chores for the week. Can I have the ten bucks now?)
Oops--that last one was how everyone else got their ten bucks. Scooter's looking for an easier way.
You are primarily responsible for the safety of your own children. Face it--it's an adult world out there. Your job is to protect your children from those things for which you believe they are not prepared.
The rest of us are not responsible for creating a whiffle-society where your children can run around unsupervised and not be hurt.
The conclusion of your argument is untenable. You're going to have a hard time convincing anybody that that the goal of free email providers is to actively
If you have your way, privacy per se would be a crime. When your children grow up, what kind of world will you have them live in? To illustrate your position in your own inflamitory tone: "Sir: Please exit the building with your hands in plain view. Your curtains are blocking the Federal Children's Monitoring Service from seeing into your house. We now suspect you are harboring a paedophile in your basement. We are sending in a squad to search the premises."
Won't you please think of the children?
So they have a marketing department? We have a cult. Oops, did I say that out loud? Sorry.
FWIW, there is no MS software on my desktop at home, and I'm proud of that. My wife runs win2k on her laptop because that's what she likes. BFD.
MS bashing (I guess you'd use cygwin to run bash under a MS OS) sure is fun, though!
We had grinders that would eat nylon sprues like candy--reducing everything to pieces less than 1/8" in any dimension.
At a trade show, I saw ones that would gobble up a molded love-seat (think resin lawn furniture) in under 10 seconds. MUNCH!
They'll never fine Capone.
My local Wal-Mart sells a crosscut shredder that eats 5 sheets at a time, staples and all for $20.00.
When the bank sends the new credit card every couple years, that thing will munch up the old one, too.
It's a really over-engineered piece of equipment. Weighs about 5 pounds, does one thing, and does it well. I know it's just a stupid fscking paper shredder, but I just love well-made tools, no matter how mundane they are.
Fellowes makes it.
All IP traffic within the US must be monitored and logged.
All computers using IP resources in the US must be trust(ed,worthy).
All software running on trust(ed,worthy) systems must be verified and signed by DHS-approved auditing body.
Due to the enormous expense of this undertaking, a surcharge will be applied to every CPU, HDD, and piece of software used on trusted machines. DHS-approved auditing bodies will use the proceeds to monitor and manage all computer systems within the US.
Circumvention or non-compliance shall be a felony, punishable by not less than five years in prison and $10,000 fine for each violation.
Excuse me, my head hurts now.
Opening the same sheet with Oo.o 1.1beta1 & 2, tood a few seconds (didn't time it), and the cells were parsed correctly.
But, my adobe type1 fonts are now missing from the selection pulldown!
Oh, please. You people just want us to live in a whiffle-society, don't you?
When I was a kid, I knew that nothing my parents put in my hands could hurt me. Basically, I could play with whatever toys they gave me and not worry about it. It was their responsibility.
Then I discovered if you pointed a 4 1/4" newtonian reflector at the sun you had a reasonable facsimile of a short range death-ray.
Did I go burning holes in everything I could get my hands on? Actually, yes. But it was at that point that I realized it was MY responsibility to watch out for myself.
Because I wanted the right to do this sort of nifty stuff! I didn't want to be "protected" by my parents, so I saw to it that I protected myself.
Later conversations with Mom went something like this:
Me: "Mom, me and Sean are going out to the back porch and make a batch of formic acid. Don't open the porch door until I tell you it's OK."
Mom: "Do you know the hazards?"
Me: "Yes, ma'am."
Mom: "Are you taking the right safety measures?"
Me: "Yes, we are."
Mom: "OK, be careful and lunch is in about an hour."
BTW, if you ever make this stuff, you need an air compressor, about fifty feet of hose and a mask over your eyes and nose. Splash goggles are NOT enough!!
Holy cr@p, that was nasty stuff, though. Just about the ideal nonlethal chemical weapon. At the end of the day, we had 250ml of concentrated liquid agony. We drew designs on the ground and watched the ants follow them, then neutralized the whole batch. The point was to make the stuff and prove it was what we thought it was. The ants following the trails, our measurements of the boiling point, and the process we used to decompose the acid proved that. It was just too nasty to keep around.
And no, I will not give you a recipe. It's very easy to make, and if you can't look up the synthesis, you shouldn't be doing it.
When I got married, I found I had better things to do than work!
To bash in Microsoft OS, use .bat files.
Or Cygwin--but then, you're just emulating.
No, I do a lot of industrial controls. Sometimes plant engineers see more blinkenleitzen as more better. Usually, the Electrician or Maintenance Mechanic knows better.