I tend to agree. Besides, that bit about "and then shamefully stick their head in the sand and ignore the consequences" is a crock. If they had any shame, they wouldn't have ripped off the actual authors in the first place.
In the process of replacing the USA, china will go thru all the same step.
All you America-bashers out there should listen to this particular A.C. Ask yourself this question: will the world be a better place when America is dead and gone and the Chinese government is running the show?
I know a lot of you hate us, but be very, very careful what you wish for. Not that it matters: all empires, whether they be military or strictly economic (like ours) eventually disappear. If you're such an empire, if you're lucky you just fade away... if you're not, your successor destroys you or occupies you. Whatever, I'm just annoyed that it's likely to happen in my lifetime. I was kinda hoping that I'd be dead and gone before we go the way of the Dodo bird, but due to the three most basic human emotions exhibited by our government and corporate leaders (e.g., greed, greed, and, well, greed, with a healthy helping of shortsightedness, treason and general stupidity) the process is happening far more quickly than I'd prefer.
Do I blame China for what's happening to us? Nope. I blame us, because we're too goddamned STUPID to protect what our ancestors built for us, to protect our own interestes. We set up a free candy store, and the Chinese (and everyone else who wanted a free kickstart into the 21st century) just came in and took whatever they wanted, and when that wasn't enough, we gave them everything else. Now, most of us don't actually like that very much, but since we've elected an entire generation of fools and sellouts, we're kinda screwed now. Our Native American friends made much the same mistake. Huh, I guess history does repeat itself after all.
Whatever the worm wants to do, it must eventually do a DNS lookup.
Not necessarily. At would have to do is have a list of the static IP addresses of its control servers, and if that list changes it could be remotely updated anyway. DNS is not a requirement: as you note it is actually a point of failure.
As a G1 owner myself, I was going to reply to the AC but you filled in the gaps nicely.
I had to laugh when the dipstick made the claim that the G1's Linux core is a "poorly coded base OS." Bad tactical move on Slashdot, any way you slice it. Granted, the iPhone's use of BSD Unix was also a solid choice (and in both cases leverages the originating company's design preferences and experience.) But to call the Linux kernel "poorly coded"? Pretty well shot himself in the foot right there, credibility-wise.
What's hysterical to me is how vehement iPhoner's get in their attacks on the G1. Okay, so there's another phone with a touchscreen and some technical superiority over the iPhone on the market. Why the venom? I mean, this presumption that the so-called Googlephone was some attempt at an "iPhone killer" just shows how flawed their analysis of the situation really is.
Put it this way: Android was never meant to be a threat to the iPhone, because the iPhone is no threat to Google. Matter of fact, the iPhone supports Google's services nicely, so it wouldn't be in Google's interests to even try and kill it off. No, I'd say the real reason that Google chose to invest in Android and form the Android Alliance is because they wish to head off Windows Mobile. Microsoft wants a bigger slice of Google's pie, and Google felt the need to take a proactive step to prevent that.
It worked, so far as I'm concerned. I didn't want an iPhone (I dislike Apple about as much as I detest Microsoft, and for many of the same reasons) and was holding off buying a smartphone until something better, something more open, came along. It finally did, and I'm real happy with it. Personally, I find the thought of a fully functional Internet-aware Linux box in the palm of my hand kinda cool.
The fact that I don't have to kowtow to a hardware manufacturer with an agenda when it comes to the apps I can choose was also very appealing. This idea that Apple has promoted that only applications certified by Apple should run on hardware the users have purchased outright is ridiculous. I also don't like the way they manage their developers. Google was easy: $25 to sign up, and the Dev SDK was free.
Besides, having received the recent Cupcake OTA update, I can see that Google and HTC intend to make something way cool out of Android. I think I'll stick with it for a while, see where it ends up.
I couldn't agree more. Damn black people trying to eat in the same restaurant as me... the nerve!
{sigh} I know you're trying to be funny, but my fiancee happens to be African-American (immigrated from West Africa) and I'm your typical white male. Trying to label me a bigot isn't a good idea. But, if you have an ounce of awareness in you, you'd grasp that America is in trouble, economically if in no other way, and we have no-one to blame but ourselves. I grew up in an era where we were the major industrial nation on the planet, bar none, where technical and scientific skills were respected, where by and large people treated each other with a little more respect (although I grant you that racial issues have improved in many respects since that time.)
Tell you what, if you don't believe that America is becoming a nation of assholes, just take the same expressway I take to work every day. It'll change your opinion fast.
When did we as a society get our collective sense of entitlement?
It started sometime back in the mid-sixties, and it's been all downhill ever since.
now there is a proper, well-trained republican knee-jerk non-response
No, I made an observation, having been around in the sixties, and having watched our society make some pretty stupid moves since then. YOU made a proper liberal-democrat thoughtless response, by immediately associating me with a group you find comtemptible without knowing a thing about me.
Watch it. You make yourself look stupid when you do that, and it's a great way to make unnecessary enemies.
Which is why I did not upgrade my original iphone when the 3G came out ( I mean really it was less than a year old) and now will be enjoying my new subsidized 3GS
Except AT&T advertises phones exactly the same way and everyone in the US knows how cell phone pricing works...
Yes, but anyone who ever buys an Apple product is somehow... special. Everyone knows that. Heck, I had an Apple ][ Standard way back in 1978 or thereabouts. And you know what? I still feel special.
Bunch of crybabies.
No, its a bunch of rabid apple fanboys who want to piss away more money to apple, but can't stand the idea of paying AT&T a little extra cash for the contract they willingly accepted.
I'd be upset too, if I didn't know that apple released new products yearly with their masterplan of planned obsolescence.
Yes, I agree. That was precisely my point. I meant screwed as in "aw, damn, this new model is like, way cooler than my old piece of junk". I didn't mean to imply that the vendor or cell phone company were in any way to blame for my impatience.
If you had an Original Motorola RAZR and you wanted a new one, you had to pay full price.
I fail to see the issue here.
I think that's primarily because there isn't one. An issue, I mean. Besides, these people are dealing with a. SBC (yes, yes, I know it's still called "AT&T" but we all know what it really is and b. Apple Computer. Neither of those two companies has ever been particularly trustworthy with regards to their customers.
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I tend to agree. Besides, that bit about "and then shamefully stick their head in the sand and ignore the consequences" is a crock. If they had any shame, they wouldn't have ripped off the actual authors in the first place.
how does one 'lump' pornography? - no wait, on second thought....
You don't. What the GP is saying, I believe, is that civilization has to get over the hump of worrying so much about it.
In the process of replacing the USA, china will go thru all the same step.
All you America-bashers out there should listen to this particular A.C. Ask yourself this question: will the world be a better place when America is dead and gone and the Chinese government is running the show?
... if you're not, your successor destroys you or occupies you. Whatever, I'm just annoyed that it's likely to happen in my lifetime. I was kinda hoping that I'd be dead and gone before we go the way of the Dodo bird, but due to the three most basic human emotions exhibited by our government and corporate leaders (e.g., greed, greed, and, well, greed, with a healthy helping of shortsightedness, treason and general stupidity) the process is happening far more quickly than I'd prefer.
I know a lot of you hate us, but be very, very careful what you wish for. Not that it matters: all empires, whether they be military or strictly economic (like ours) eventually disappear. If you're such an empire, if you're lucky you just fade away
Do I blame China for what's happening to us? Nope. I blame us, because we're too goddamned STUPID to protect what our ancestors built for us, to protect our own interestes. We set up a free candy store, and the Chinese (and everyone else who wanted a free kickstart into the 21st century) just came in and took whatever they wanted, and when that wasn't enough, we gave them everything else. Now, most of us don't actually like that very much, but since we've elected an entire generation of fools and sellouts, we're kinda screwed now. Our Native American friends made much the same mistake. Huh, I guess history does repeat itself after all.
It certainly does not affect anyone I know and deal with.
Prove it.
I've got it... It's people!
Actually, most trojans and similar malware get in to people's computers because of a mouse driver problem.
Ahem.
Whatever the worm wants to do, it must eventually do a DNS lookup.
Not necessarily. At would have to do is have a list of the static IP addresses of its control servers, and if that list changes it could be remotely updated anyway. DNS is not a requirement: as you note it is actually a point of failure.
I'm not exactly unemployed-rather self-employed.
A fine distinction at best.
You might want to rethink your order of magnitude there.. your hard disk probably has like 16 million ish times more capacity.
That's why I said "memory" not "storage". The WD in my desktop machine here has 16 Mb. of on-board cache.
As a G1 owner myself, I was going to reply to the AC but you filled in the gaps nicely.
I had to laugh when the dipstick made the claim that the G1's Linux core is a "poorly coded base OS." Bad tactical move on Slashdot, any way you slice it. Granted, the iPhone's use of BSD Unix was also a solid choice (and in both cases leverages the originating company's design preferences and experience.) But to call the Linux kernel "poorly coded"? Pretty well shot himself in the foot right there, credibility-wise.
What's hysterical to me is how vehement iPhoner's get in their attacks on the G1. Okay, so there's another phone with a touchscreen and some technical superiority over the iPhone on the market. Why the venom? I mean, this presumption that the so-called Googlephone was some attempt at an "iPhone killer" just shows how flawed their analysis of the situation really is.
Put it this way: Android was never meant to be a threat to the iPhone, because the iPhone is no threat to Google. Matter of fact, the iPhone supports Google's services nicely, so it wouldn't be in Google's interests to even try and kill it off. No, I'd say the real reason that Google chose to invest in Android and form the Android Alliance is because they wish to head off Windows Mobile. Microsoft wants a bigger slice of Google's pie, and Google felt the need to take a proactive step to prevent that.
It worked, so far as I'm concerned. I didn't want an iPhone (I dislike Apple about as much as I detest Microsoft, and for many of the same reasons) and was holding off buying a smartphone until something better, something more open, came along. It finally did, and I'm real happy with it. Personally, I find the thought of a fully functional Internet-aware Linux box in the palm of my hand kinda cool.
The fact that I don't have to kowtow to a hardware manufacturer with an agenda when it comes to the apps I can choose was also very appealing. This idea that Apple has promoted that only applications certified by Apple should run on hardware the users have purchased outright is ridiculous. I also don't like the way they manage their developers. Google was easy: $25 to sign up, and the Dev SDK was free.
Besides, having received the recent Cupcake OTA update, I can see that Google and HTC intend to make something way cool out of Android. I think I'll stick with it for a while, see where it ends up.
I'm terrified of the day I realize I'm counting memory in gigs the same way I count in megs (64 128 256 512 1024 range).
For me (and many others, I'm sure), that day is here. My Performa 400 had 4 megs of RAM. My Macbook Pro has 4 gigs of RAM...
Ha ... my Apple ][ Standard came with 16 kilobytes of RAM. My hard disk has a thousand times more memory.
OK. I absolutely hate to be "one of those guys", but come on! The plural of "sheep" is "sheep".
Oh yeah? And I suppose you think the plural of "fish" is "fish".
Hey Mods ... it was a JOKE. Don't you read past the first line?
"Don't make me call Chuck Norris you green blooded cowards!"
Yep. That would do it.
I couldn't agree more. Damn black people trying to eat in the same restaurant as me... the nerve!
{sigh} I know you're trying to be funny, but my fiancee happens to be African-American (immigrated from West Africa) and I'm your typical white male. Trying to label me a bigot isn't a good idea. But, if you have an ounce of awareness in you, you'd grasp that America is in trouble, economically if in no other way, and we have no-one to blame but ourselves. I grew up in an era where we were the major industrial nation on the planet, bar none, where technical and scientific skills were respected, where by and large people treated each other with a little more respect (although I grant you that racial issues have improved in many respects since that time.)
Tell you what, if you don't believe that America is becoming a nation of assholes, just take the same expressway I take to work every day. It'll change your opinion fast.
When did we as a society get our collective sense of entitlement?
It started sometime back in the mid-sixties, and it's been all downhill ever since.
now there is a proper, well-trained republican knee-jerk non-response
No, I made an observation, having been around in the sixties, and having watched our society make some pretty stupid moves since then. YOU made a proper liberal-democrat thoughtless response, by immediately associating me with a group you find comtemptible without knowing a thing about me.
Watch it. You make yourself look stupid when you do that, and it's a great way to make unnecessary enemies.
What a sickening sense of entitlement.
Welcome to the World of Apple. Me, after I sold my Apple //e a quarter century ago I haven't looked back.
Which is why I did not upgrade my original iphone when the 3G came out ( I mean really it was less than a year old) and now will be enjoying my new subsidized 3GS
Well ... patience is a virtue, you know.
Except AT&T advertises phones exactly the same way and everyone in the US knows how cell phone pricing works...
Yes, but anyone who ever buys an Apple product is somehow ... special. Everyone knows that. Heck, I had an Apple ][ Standard way back in 1978 or thereabouts. And you know what? I still feel special.
What are things you shove up your ass?
My guess? Extra batteries.
You know you will pay it.. You'll bitch the entire time.. BUT you will still give them money.
Business 101 ... whatever the market will bear.
In fact, this is a call to arms - let's launch a lethargic campaign to create a new era of de-energized campaigns!
Too late ... Washington already beat you to it.
I don't understand why a current owner would be angry. I can save $200 now. Why not just feel happy for me instead?
Mainly because iPhone owners have been known to eat their young.
Bunch of crybabies. No, its a bunch of rabid apple fanboys who want to piss away more money to apple, but can't stand the idea of paying AT&T a little extra cash for the contract they willingly accepted. I'd be upset too, if I didn't know that apple released new products yearly with their masterplan of planned obsolescence.
No argument from me.
But it's not being screwed.
Yes, I agree. That was precisely my point. I meant screwed as in "aw, damn, this new model is like, way cooler than my old piece of junk". I didn't mean to imply that the vendor or cell phone company were in any way to blame for my impatience.
If you had an Original Motorola RAZR and you wanted a new one, you had to pay full price.
I fail to see the issue here.
I think that's primarily because there isn't one. An issue, I mean. Besides, these people are dealing with a. SBC (yes, yes, I know it's still called "AT&T" but we all know what it really is and b. Apple Computer. Neither of those two companies has ever been particularly trustworthy with regards to their customers.