While all that he posted is very true, as how they were going to save money if the local redneck tech people could maintain a Linux network at the schools properly, introducting technology was never the point of bringing PCs to every school.
The whole reason we even have PCs in schools in the US is just the fact that it is outright corporate welfare to computer companies such as Gateway, IBM, Dell, and sometimes Apple, due to shady deals with politicians.
Schools simply don't have the programs for technology education, and even in the high schools there is, at best, only a typing and a Microsoft Word class, and if you are extremely lucky and well funded, a class that will teach Q-Basic.
Most computers in schools just sit around in the science room, and are used only once per semester, and sometimes as entertainment devices for a public school system that's nothing more than a communist daycare center anyways.
However, PC companies, with Microsoft behind each one, get rich off our tax dollars, and hence we have PCs in schools. Putting Linux wouldn't ever fly, as it's purposefully $27,000 a year in corporate welfare to Microsoft.
WINE doesn't run CS, Starcraft, UT, and all the other online games that make third-world cyber cafes profitable.
Though some of the official stuff, as well as the more family-oriented shops may change to Linux, the vast majority of cyber cafes will still be running pirated games under a pirated Windows.
India will continue to pirate as long as Microsoft leads everywhere else, though having the governor officially reject capitalism is a good step for socialism.
Sierra has agressively pursued permanently banning cheaters from WON -- and you know how much success they've had? Almost NONE. Don't believe me? Go here: http://www.cheat-network.net/ and get the 4dv4nc3d GLHack for Counter-Strike -- it can't be detected.
MOD chips are quite difficult to hack -- and even if the games do have it, it will either be fixed by a crack group in the game rip, or the mod chips will be modded further. Any decent Xbox hacker would be in the know, and it will hardly do anything -- it's just more of Microsoft's money down the drain feebly attempting to stop piracy.
My picks? Lindows and SuSe, and quite possibly Slackware. Lindows because it's iillegal, and SuSe and Slackware due to general lack of popularity, corporate backing, and maintenance.
Though they may seem like cheap, obsolete devices made for third worlders, these could open up new opportunities for them -- how many people went from the love of ancient early 1980s computers into lucrative computer careers? Don't laugh at these simple devices -- one man's trash is another man's treasure.
If these PDAs turn more of the Indian population from people to be (yes, sadly) exploited for manual labor into a skilled labor force, it would greatly banish poverty and help build a viable middle class in the third-world country.
Yesterday I attended the ACM "Digital Rights Management" Workshop in Washington DC. There were about 100 attendees, most of them executives, with a few lawyers, computer scientists, and Washington policy types thrown in. Papers from the workshop are available online.
My main impression was that the speakers were more openly accepting about DRM than at past conferences. I don't think this represents any real change in opinion. The real cause, in my view, is that industrial researchers are now starting to say in public what they would only say in private before.
The approval of watermarking was especially strong. One speaker described how it is nearly impossible to defeat essentially all state-of-the-art watermarking methods.
Another speaker's paper says:
Proposals for systems involving mandatory watermark detection in rendering devices try to impact the effectiveness of [file sharing systems].... In addition to severe commercial and social successes, these schemes excel in several technical achievements, which, in the presence of an effective p2p piracy system, could lead to their complete collapse. We conclude that such schemes will doom p2p as we know it.
At subway, you get a sub prepared anyway you like, by the friendly, efficient staff. Choose from mouth-watering veggies, succulent meats and cheeses, and a variety of freshly-baked bread. Why not stop in today and pick up some subs for the whole family to enjoy. I suggest the Italian BMT, piled high with genoa salami, pepperoni, ham, and provolone cheese. Top it with lettuce, tomato, onion, and pickles, add a few spritzes of italian dressing and you've got a meal fit for king.
A real, live nuclear weapon in space would be even more horrible than the probes we've launched.
Just one pound of Plutonium is deadly enough to cause 8 billion cancers -- if those radioactive materials dissipated in the atmosphere, we'd be in a world of shit.
Launching nuclear weapons and even nuclear-powered probes like Cassinni into space is a far greater threat than some random asteroid actually hitting our tiny planet.
As a movie star, even in the male-dominated Sci-Fi genre, is there a huge amount of pressure for you to be insanely good looking?
Has your manager, a producer or executive, or anyone ever tried to convince you to get botox injections, plastic surgery, or liposuction simply for the purpose of appearing on TV?
The average LCD screen is 1024x768x4(bytes)x60hz = 188,743,680 bytes per second of transfer over a wireless connection.
I have no idea what kind of wireless system can transfer data like that, so there would definitely be a loss in picture quality somewhere.
It's a neat idea, but without a real connection, data cannot travel that fast, and there's probably proprietary software behind it that would make it a WXP monitor ONLY, for whatever method it uses.
Who would pay to play online with games that would either:
1) An action/sports game that would lag so bad as to be unplayable. 2) Be a RTS game with too low of a resolution on a TV to be playable (Warcraft III, Empire Earth, etc) 3) Be a FPS played with a GAMEPAD, instead of a keyboard and mouse.
For about $500, comparable to what you'd spend on an Xbox, you can put together a PC that can do far more, plus play online games that are far more fun than anything on the Xbox.
The Xbox is really just a kid's system, as well as a system for those who are not computer literate. Internet functionality on a console system is just a cheap hack, not a viable basis for an industry.
This is some pretty neat stuff: the author details how to find a needle in a haystack for a virus establishing a TCP connection from nothing more than raw dissassembly, and then how to use breakpoints in the WINE program to get gdb to work with it.
Though you can do that with a simple netstat, it opens up ways to find everything else about the trojan, too, without the risk of raping your native environment Windows system.
Too bad most nu-geek slashdotters would rather hear about someone putting a neon rope light inside their computer case.
How ironic that they don't know how bad national IDs are, considering that the Bush administration are conservative Christians!
Here's why national IDs are bad:
Revelations 13:16-18 16 And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads: 17 And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name. 18 Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six.
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Honestly, how would you feel if something you put hours, days, and even weeks of effort, heart, and soul was being played FOR-PROFIT by a pay radio station by someone without your permission?
Whether non-profit p2p and netradio is stealing or not can be debated -- but when someone takes an artist's hard work and plays it over the internet with the sole purpose of making money, it is blatant thievery of intellectual property and disrespect of copyright, which does have a right to exist to spur innovation in an economy that is, was, and shall be capitalist.
Most programmers graduate from state universities with no real-world experience in security, hacking, and so forth and no connections to anything that's going on -- it's simply a pass from the university of a student molded from the dirt-poor standards of a mainstream college system to a corporate programming world of laziness and no liabilities.
However, these people who are no more qualified to write code than a third worlder with no previous formal schooling trained to be an H1B in a cert mill -- yet are paid much more, for no good reason.
If anything, regular programmers who would ever, for example, use PHP's fopen() for a proxy like the article described should be paid like H1Bs and school teachers -- about $35,000 a year, at the most.
However, the ones who really know their shit -- like Mr. Bacarella -- should be the ones making $100,000 a year or more.
Seriously, Congress has passed a lot of anti-American H1-B bills that are KILLING the tech workers of America.
Unless you want to offer yourself out at the same price as an H1-B: $25,000/year, no benefits, 12 hours+ a day, you're going to have a difficult time finding a job.
The only option is to manage them, and in that case, speaking Hindi would be a valuable asset, as many of them lack the English proficiency to take orders properly -- with one screw up by an H1B, and all hell can break loose.
Though they are researching ways to prevent attacks on the network, who says they're going to use it to actually protect them?
The chances are good that the researchers are going to want to keep their funding to their college from their corporate masters, and the knowledge is going to be given to the record companies to be used AGAINST the p2p networks.
Arm's Intelligent Energy Manager solution implements advanced algorithms to optimally balance processor workload and energy consumption, while maximizing system responsiveness to meet end-user performance expectations.
Transmeta's only claim to fame for their chips was using software to reduce power consumption, and it worked -- obviously, the Intelligent Energy Manager is just a ripoff of Transmeta's design. Linus should sue.
I cannot remember where I read this -- I'll post a link if I remember in a reply -- but the new zip format is totally integrated into the internet. You cannot zip an encrypted file without a registered internet connection active, and when it does so, it communicates with a master server and, with encryption, charges you a miniscule fee. It's free for other uses, however, if registered.
However, the new format supposedly uses a gargantuan amount of CPU power and memory to decompress, but can shrink files to much less than a standard zip.
This is why we should support 7zip instead -- better compression, but it's open source.
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While all that he posted is very true, as how they were going to save money if the local redneck tech people could maintain a Linux network at the schools properly, introducting technology was never the point of bringing PCs to every school.
The whole reason we even have PCs in schools in the US is just the fact that it is outright corporate welfare to computer companies such as Gateway, IBM, Dell, and sometimes Apple, due to shady deals with politicians.
Schools simply don't have the programs for technology education, and even in the high schools there is, at best, only a typing and a Microsoft Word class, and if you are extremely lucky and well funded, a class that will teach Q-Basic.
Most computers in schools just sit around in the science room, and are used only once per semester, and sometimes as entertainment devices for a public school system that's nothing more than a communist daycare center anyways.
However, PC companies, with Microsoft behind each one, get rich off our tax dollars, and hence we have PCs in schools. Putting Linux wouldn't ever fly, as it's purposefully $27,000 a year in corporate welfare to Microsoft.
WINE doesn't run CS, Starcraft, UT, and all the other online games that make third-world cyber cafes profitable.
Though some of the official stuff, as well as the more family-oriented shops may change to Linux, the vast majority of cyber cafes will still be running pirated games under a pirated Windows.
India will continue to pirate as long as Microsoft leads everywhere else, though having the governor officially reject capitalism is a good step for socialism.
Sierra has agressively pursued permanently banning cheaters from WON -- and you know how much success they've had? Almost NONE.
Don't believe me? Go here: http://www.cheat-network.net/ and get the 4dv4nc3d GLHack for Counter-Strike -- it can't be detected.
MOD chips are quite difficult to hack -- and even if the games do have it, it will either be fixed by a crack group in the game rip, or the mod chips will be modded further. Any decent Xbox hacker would be in the know, and it will hardly do anything -- it's just more of Microsoft's money down the drain feebly attempting to stop piracy.
At least bet on a Linux distro in a dot-com deadpool.
s earch.php?search=linux
http://www.fuckedcompany.com
There are 17 HOF-fucks already for Linux companies, and with the economy, I expect a lot more:
http://comments.fuckedcompany.com/fc/phparchives/
My picks? Lindows and SuSe, and quite possibly Slackware. Lindows because it's iillegal, and SuSe and Slackware due to general lack of popularity, corporate backing, and maintenance.
Though they may seem like cheap, obsolete devices made for third worlders, these could open up new opportunities for them -- how many people went from the love of ancient early 1980s computers into lucrative computer careers? Don't laugh at these simple devices -- one man's trash is another man's treasure.
If these PDAs turn more of the Indian population from people to be (yes, sadly) exploited for manual labor into a skilled labor force, it would greatly banish poverty and help build a viable middle class in the third-world country.
Linux = kernel
GNU/Linux = operating system
It does not run GNU/Linux -- it runs OSCAR.
Get it right, Ho^Hemos!
According to SGI will unveil its
According to who?
I demand an answer!
Excellent work!
ASCII goatse has returned!!!
Yesterday I attended the ACM "Digital Rights Management" Workshop in Washington DC. There were about 100 attendees, most of them executives, with a few lawyers, computer scientists, and Washington policy types thrown in. Papers from the workshop are available online.
My main impression was that the speakers were more openly accepting about DRM than at past conferences. I don't think this represents any real change in opinion. The real cause, in my view, is that industrial researchers are now starting to say in public what they would only say in private before.
The approval of watermarking was especially strong. One speaker described how it is nearly impossible to defeat essentially all state-of-the-art watermarking methods.
Another speaker's paper says:
Proposals for systems involving mandatory watermark detection in rendering devices try to impact the effectiveness of [file sharing systems].... In addition to severe commercial and social successes, these schemes excel in several technical achievements, which, in the presence of an effective p2p piracy system, could lead to their complete collapse. We conclude that such schemes will doom p2p as we know it.
At subway, you get a sub prepared anyway you like, by the friendly, efficient staff. Choose from mouth-watering veggies, succulent meats and cheeses, and a variety of freshly-baked bread. Why not stop in today and pick up some subs for the whole family to enjoy. I suggest the Italian BMT, piled high with genoa salami, pepperoni, ham, and provolone cheese. Top it with lettuce, tomato, onion, and pickles, add a few spritzes of italian dressing and you've got a meal fit for king.
Subway: eat fresh!
A real, live nuclear weapon in space would be even more horrible than the probes we've launched.
Just one pound of Plutonium is deadly enough to cause 8 billion cancers -- if those radioactive materials dissipated in the atmosphere, we'd be in a world of shit.
Launching nuclear weapons and even nuclear-powered probes like Cassinni into space is a far greater threat than some random asteroid actually hitting our tiny planet.
Be a man: add John Carmack to your foes list.
Doom III, nVidia, and nu-geeks suck. Fuck John Carmack.
MAKE CARMACK YOUR FOE
As a movie star, even in the male-dominated Sci-Fi genre, is there a huge amount of pressure for you to be insanely good looking?
Has your manager, a producer or executive, or anyone ever tried to convince you to get botox injections, plastic surgery, or liposuction simply for the purpose of appearing on TV?
Think of the bandwidth situation:
The average LCD screen is 1024x768x4(bytes)x60hz = 188,743,680 bytes per second of transfer over a wireless connection.
I have no idea what kind of wireless system can transfer data like that, so there would definitely be a loss in picture quality somewhere.
It's a neat idea, but without a real connection, data cannot travel that fast, and there's probably proprietary software behind it that would make it a WXP monitor ONLY, for whatever method it uses.
Who would pay to play online with games that would either:
1) An action/sports game that would lag so bad as to be unplayable.
2) Be a RTS game with too low of a resolution on a TV to be playable (Warcraft III, Empire Earth, etc)
3) Be a FPS played with a GAMEPAD, instead of a keyboard and mouse.
For about $500, comparable to what you'd spend on an Xbox, you can put together a PC that can do far more, plus play online games that are far more fun than anything on the Xbox.
The Xbox is really just a kid's system, as well as a system for those who are not computer literate. Internet functionality on a console system is just a cheap hack, not a viable basis for an industry.
But people should code with an open, standard, portable GUI wrapper instead of writing directly to ANY API.
Case in point: http://www.wxwindows.org. Simply write in the wxwindows wrapper, then simply compile it for something like Pico instead.
However, X is so entrenched that it will take years, if ever, for pico to dethrone it. Until then, just use wrappers to keep the code portable.
This is some pretty neat stuff: the author details how to find a needle in a haystack for a virus establishing a TCP connection from nothing more than raw dissassembly, and then how to use breakpoints in the WINE program to get gdb to work with it.
Though you can do that with a simple netstat, it opens up ways to find everything else about the trojan, too, without the risk of raping your native environment Windows system.
Too bad most nu-geek slashdotters would rather hear about someone putting a neon rope light inside their computer case.
How ironic that they don't know how bad national IDs are, considering that the Bush administration are conservative Christians!
Here's why national IDs are bad:
Revelations 13:16-18
16 And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads:
17 And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.
18 Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six.
I can't believe you actually clicked on this!
I'm taking over for Subject Line Troll in this very late post! (Rock on, SLT)
Oh, and Cliff is a NIGGER, see here.
Honestly, how would you feel if something you put hours, days, and even weeks of effort, heart, and soul was being played FOR-PROFIT by a pay radio station by someone without your permission?
Whether non-profit p2p and netradio is stealing or not can be debated -- but when someone takes an artist's hard work and plays it over the internet with the sole purpose of making money, it is blatant thievery of intellectual property and disrespect of copyright, which does have a right to exist to spur innovation in an economy that is, was, and shall be capitalist.
Most programmers graduate from state universities with no real-world experience in security, hacking, and so forth and no connections to anything that's going on -- it's simply a pass from the university of a student molded from the dirt-poor standards of a mainstream college system to a corporate programming world of laziness and no liabilities.
However, these people who are no more qualified to write code than a third worlder with no previous formal schooling trained to be an H1B in a cert mill -- yet are paid much more, for no good reason.
If anything, regular programmers who would ever, for example, use PHP's fopen() for a proxy like the article described should be paid like H1Bs and school teachers -- about $35,000 a year, at the most.
However, the ones who really know their shit -- like Mr. Bacarella -- should be the ones making $100,000 a year or more.
Seriously, Congress has passed a lot of anti-American H1-B bills that are KILLING the tech workers of America.
Unless you want to offer yourself out at the same price as an H1-B: $25,000/year, no benefits, 12 hours+ a day, you're going to have a difficult time finding a job.
The only option is to manage them, and in that case, speaking Hindi would be a valuable asset, as many of them lack the English proficiency to take orders properly -- with one screw up by an H1B, and all hell can break loose.
Though they are researching ways to prevent attacks on the network, who says they're going to use it to actually protect them?
The chances are good that the researchers are going to want to keep their funding to their college from their corporate masters, and the knowledge is going to be given to the record companies to be used AGAINST the p2p networks.
According to the article:
Arm's Intelligent Energy Manager solution implements advanced algorithms to optimally balance processor workload and energy consumption, while maximizing system responsiveness to meet end-user performance expectations.
Transmeta's only claim to fame for their chips was using software to reduce power consumption, and it worked -- obviously, the Intelligent Energy Manager is just a ripoff of Transmeta's design. Linus should sue.
I cannot remember where I read this -- I'll post a link if I remember in a reply -- but the new zip format is totally integrated into the internet. You cannot zip an encrypted file without a registered internet connection active, and when it does so, it communicates with a master server and, with encryption, charges you a miniscule fee. It's free for other uses, however, if registered.
However, the new format supposedly uses a gargantuan amount of CPU power and memory to decompress, but can shrink files to much less than a standard zip.
This is why we should support 7zip instead -- better compression, but it's open source.