Great. I guess this is good to know.
Also, a conservative market helped traditional running sneakers out sell hightops once again. Contemporary loafers from manufacturer Ralph Lauren lost out to the upstart "Urban Skreetware Loafa's" by long time boot maker Timberland. Success is laregly due to Timberland's recent advertising campaign featuring professional basket players and rappers engaged in excessive alchohol consumption, horrendous linguistics, spousal abuse, and the purchasing and wearing of shiny objects that are more commonly found on females.
I wonder which is bigger this year, The Big Mac or The Whopper?
I don't know if I want Microsoft in charge of semantics.
User one types: "I use Linux, how about you?" .....translater..... User two's screen: "I am a communist with viral ideas towards intellectual property"
User one types: "Have you heard about Microsoft's monopoly and their under-handed business tactics?" ....translater.... User two's screen: "Have you heard about how Microsoft's masterful innovation in information technology has made it the industry leader?"
Or if Stallman coded such a utility/library:
User one types: "I want some pizza" .....translater..... User two's screen: "I (as in "self") want (as in "desire") some GNU\Pizza"
"a few buttons on the steering wheel that correspond to standardized jacks"
What I meant was that the buttons on the steering wheel activate your celluar phone that is attached to a jack somewhere in the car (likely on the dashboard). I even gave an analogy: stereo systems with controls on the steering wheel.
Yea, maybe I should have worded it better originally.
How about a few buttons on the steering wheel that correspond to standardized jacks used to interface things like your celluar phone and stereo? The stereo part is already done (in most Acura's for example), now just add celluar compatibility and provide one of those systems that turns you car into a speaker phone and your done.
I would love to read the article, but my employer uses a proxy filter program that filters out sites with the term "proxy avoidance" in it's META tags (or otherwise prominently displayed within the header). If you are going to run a site dedicated to the development of software that allows one to avoid detection systems and firewalls, then how about making the distribution source (the website) not so obvious and vocal about it's intentions.
Pro-spammers like Microsoft have lots of money and motivation. Anti-spam folks always have either one or the other, if any, but almost never both. Every now and again a rogue politician will take up arms against spam, but he or she always faces the 5 or 6 six politicians that either don't care, or are paid not to care by spammers and their interests.
NASA also has a page for it's nanotube developments at Johnson Space Center. The NSF is part of the National Nanotechnology Initiative, and has it's own page as well.
And as far as commercial entities go, don't forget IBM's find back in September of 2002, which was making nanotubes with carbon instead of metal.
"I'm stopping work on my pro-bono goodwill campaign to go make lots of money and get a cool title to put on my business cards. Plus, they give out 17 vacation days a year. Ciao."
Although I prefer Mozilla overall, I keep an install of Netscape around because of it's more efficient use of Java under Linux (for the rare occasions when I really need to access some Java program). I can get Java going decently in Mozilla, but I get tired of having to make fresh symlinks and other small changes each time I overhaul Mozilla.
From the parent: "Bullshit. Didn't we already have a thread on the Xbox, and wasnt the conclusion that the owner of a piece of hardware has a right to make use of it, modify it, or otherwise dispose of it as they see fit?"
I didn't know that us Slashdotter's dictated US law! Hey guys, we should start trying some other laws and legistlation too, maybe make this whole monopoly thing go away! What are we waiting for, let's get started fellow judges!
It's an interesting piece of legistlation, been discussed here on Slashdot in the past a little. Perhaps you should consider reading it?
My parent post was a joke - no, it isn't funny that performing such tasks would land one in a vile butt-slamming federal prison. In fact, though humorous, it is tragic.
"Reveal your trade secrets Gates, or we will set in motion a chain of events that will conclude with our incarcaration in a vile butt-slamming federal prison! We're warning you!"
The use of spectrometers in discovering hydrogen has long been proven valid (the criteria for proof is all there). This is why astronomers are so confident when claiming that "planet-X", which is a couple hundred thousand light years away, has an atmosphere of mostly hydrogen. Spectrometers were used to determine why planets within our own solar system like Neptune (with have blue hues) had outer atmospheres that contained large amounts of methane. Many submissions to accredited astronomy journals wouldn't be taken seriously otherwise.
Yup, we have known that the Martian poles freeze over seasonally. The dispute has been over whether or not the ice was composed of all CO2, largely of CO2 (like the Martian ice we have found elsewhere), or of the hydrogen variety.
I believe that we will find evidence of long dead past life and not presently living organisms in this region of the Martian surface/sub-surface in the near future. Successful life tends to leave behind rather noticable evidence, evidence that we would probably have detected by now.
Then again, if you were to use life on Earth as an example, you could argue that life can always persevere in the presence of water (from thermal vent-driven ecosystems devoid of energy from the sun, to environments that have been trapped under ice near the artic circle for a hundred years).
This isn't directly related (though in many ways it is related on some levels), but I enjoy the fact that MMORPGs demand far less then most modern games when it comes to power. Hence, it is very comfortable to sit back on the couch or relax in the back yard and play a MMORPG on your low-powered $500 used laptop. A round of rousing FPS team killing....errr...., competitive play, forces me back to my desktop in the bedroom.
That said, with the advances in PDA power, It isn't out of the question that online MMORPGs won't be available for the PDA market within the next 4 years. The technology will be there, but I doubt the market will be. Here's for hoping.
I understand the convienence factor of PDAs, but a $499.99 price tag for the type of power and specs that you get with this Zaurus (and similiarly priced PDAs) is still too much. To truly get full functionality out of these PDAs (or at least do everything most people would want to do with them) you still need to purchase extra accessories and expanded memory/storage (considering that even the most expensive PDAs only have 64MB RAM native). In the end $499.99 quickly builds up to about $599.99.
I know that this comparing apples to oranges, but for $600 you can get a righteous laptop off Ebay or locally from a used reseller. This laptop is a full fledged computer with vast amounts more memory, storage, and room for improvement/expansion.
Considering that most people buy a new PDA every two to three years, why not just double your money now and buy a 15.4" Widescreen TFT LCD WXGA (1280 x 800 max. resolution) laptop that comes with an Athlon XP 2200+ CPU, 40GB of storage, 512MB DDR PC2100 RAM, CRDW/DVD drive, all the ports except IEEE 1394, and one of the best mobile graphics chipsets around, the ATI RADEON IGP 320M, for $1,250? It takes Mandrake 9.1 without any problems, and only demands slight tweaking from Red Hat 8.
I would rather have that laptop for four years then burn through two PDAs over the same period of time.
The above was a Slashdot post, not the results of a professional study performed by a seasoned research firm and backed by a meticulous panel of scientists.
I think that you're looking in the wrong place if you are seeking material for a study.
But I guess this all goes without saying - you wildly witty dog you.
I was kind of making a general estimate of the cost of the new systems, training, applications like Star Office, and the replacement of many of their Win2k and/or Windows NT 4.0 servers with Red Hat Enterprise (which is $2,500 a pop with the service contract). I would imagine that the US government would want to purchase Redhat - personal for sosme systems, professional for others - which would be less then half the cost of Windows.
But yea, that total was just off the top of my head (as you can tell).
Imagine, the US government could have used $200,000,000 on new Linux systems, and used the other $200,000,000 in training (which creates jobs) and new Linux jobs. They would have access to the code, alleviated the threat of viruses and worms, and insured that they would save money on concurrent license fees (largely, but not completely).
Pretty sad that our military wastes extreme amounts of money on computer systems that they know they will have to upgrade shortly (more $$$, no jobs), will keep them open to the threat of widespread viruses (more $$$, no new jobs), and contains code that they can not see (no new jobs). This is fucking sad, man.
WEP (Wired Equivalency Protection) uses RC4 encryption which is not very strong. Due to the design of RC4 (it was intended to be used over a synchronous stream), WEP designers had to make the key change with each packet. This means that the keys are quickly reused, and thus a sinffer can eventually - and usually rather quickly in large networks - determine the key loop. The SSID (Service Set ID) is sent over the wire either unencrypted or encrypted using weak algorithims.
WTLS (Wireless Transport Layer Security) was designed poorly as well. It's design limits the effectiveness that a certificate authority like Verisign can have when using WTLS.
I got a subscription to Comics on the Web. It is all Crossgen comics, a pretty good publisher with a lot of good ex-Marvel and DC talent. They have a lot of free comics there with some pretty nifty image and veiwing controls. Check out "The Way of the Rat" - righteous oriental-myth inspired stuff.
Let's assume that you download "Back That Thing Up" by Master P off Kaazaa. However, you do not own nor have you ever owned the album in which this song was originally distributed (I.E. you never purchased it). You just stole something.
This is very simple. A song is something tangible. It may be distributed by it's owners in any number of formats and on any number of different media types. The most common is on a CDROM. In any event, in what format the song is encoded in and on what media it is stored on is irrelevant. A pirate obtains this CDROM and then rips the song off it and encodes it in a different format, such as MP3. He then places this MP3 file onto the internet and allows others to freely obtain it.
This is stealing. The theif has not infringed upon copyrights. He didn't use the beat contained in the song to make his own, nor did he steal the lyrics for a different work of art that he claimed was his. No. He STOLE A SONG.
I honestly don't understand why people have such a hard time grasping this simple idea.
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Great. I guess this is good to know. Also, a conservative market helped traditional running sneakers out sell hightops once again. Contemporary loafers from manufacturer Ralph Lauren lost out to the upstart "Urban Skreetware Loafa's" by long time boot maker Timberland. Success is laregly due to Timberland's recent advertising campaign featuring professional basket players and rappers engaged in excessive alchohol consumption, horrendous linguistics, spousal abuse, and the purchasing and wearing of shiny objects that are more commonly found on females. I wonder which is bigger this year, The Big Mac or The Whopper?
User one types: "I use Linux, how about you?"
.....translater.....
User two's screen: "I am a communist with viral ideas towards intellectual property"
User one types: "Have you heard about Microsoft's monopoly and their under-handed business tactics?"
....translater....
User two's screen: "Have you heard about how Microsoft's masterful innovation in information technology has made it the industry leader?"
Or if Stallman coded such a utility/library:
User one types: "I want some pizza"
.....translater.....
User two's screen: "I (as in "self") want (as in "desire") some GNU\Pizza"
"a few buttons on the steering wheel that correspond to standardized jacks" What I meant was that the buttons on the steering wheel activate your celluar phone that is attached to a jack somewhere in the car (likely on the dashboard). I even gave an analogy: stereo systems with controls on the steering wheel. Yea, maybe I should have worded it better originally.
How about a few buttons on the steering wheel that correspond to standardized jacks used to interface things like your celluar phone and stereo? The stereo part is already done (in most Acura's for example), now just add celluar compatibility and provide one of those systems that turns you car into a speaker phone and your done.
Just a suggestion.
Pro-spammers like Microsoft have lots of money and motivation. Anti-spam folks always have either one or the other, if any, but almost never both. Every now and again a rogue politician will take up arms against spam, but he or she always faces the 5 or 6 six politicians that either don't care, or are paid not to care by spammers and their interests.
And as far as commercial entities go, don't forget IBM's find back in September of 2002, which was making nanotubes with carbon instead of metal.
Oh wait.....
"I'm stopping work on my pro-bono goodwill campaign to go make lots of money and get a cool title to put on my business cards. Plus, they give out 17 vacation days a year. Ciao."
Although I prefer Mozilla overall, I keep an install of Netscape around because of it's more efficient use of Java under Linux (for the rare occasions when I really need to access some Java program). I can get Java going decently in Mozilla, but I get tired of having to make fresh symlinks and other small changes each time I overhaul Mozilla.
I didn't know that us Slashdotter's dictated US law! Hey guys, we should start trying some other laws and legistlation too, maybe make this whole monopoly thing go away! What are we waiting for, let's get started fellow judges!
My parent post was a joke - no, it isn't funny that performing such tasks would land one in a vile butt-slamming federal prison. In fact, though humorous, it is tragic.
"Reveal your trade secrets Gates, or we will set in motion a chain of events that will conclude with our incarcaration in a vile butt-slamming federal prison! We're warning you!"
The use of spectrometers in discovering hydrogen has long been proven valid (the criteria for proof is all there). This is why astronomers are so confident when claiming that "planet-X", which is a couple hundred thousand light years away, has an atmosphere of mostly hydrogen. Spectrometers were used to determine why planets within our own solar system like Neptune (with have blue hues) had outer atmospheres that contained large amounts of methane. Many submissions to accredited astronomy journals wouldn't be taken seriously otherwise.
Yup, we have known that the Martian poles freeze over seasonally. The dispute has been over whether or not the ice was composed of all CO2, largely of CO2 (like the Martian ice we have found elsewhere), or of the hydrogen variety.
Then again, if you were to use life on Earth as an example, you could argue that life can always persevere in the presence of water (from thermal vent-driven ecosystems devoid of energy from the sun, to environments that have been trapped under ice near the artic circle for a hundred years).
Screw that, you can only be cool when wearing a sweet du-rag on a skateboard, ripping it on an N-Gage in front of a Type-R!!! Totally X-treme!!!
That said, with the advances in PDA power, It isn't out of the question that online MMORPGs won't be available for the PDA market within the next 4 years. The technology will be there, but I doubt the market will be. Here's for hoping.
I know that this comparing apples to oranges, but for $600 you can get a righteous laptop off Ebay or locally from a used reseller. This laptop is a full fledged computer with vast amounts more memory, storage, and room for improvement/expansion.
Considering that most people buy a new PDA every two to three years, why not just double your money now and buy a 15.4" Widescreen TFT LCD WXGA (1280 x 800 max. resolution) laptop that comes with an Athlon XP 2200+ CPU, 40GB of storage, 512MB DDR PC2100 RAM, CRDW/DVD drive, all the ports except IEEE 1394, and one of the best mobile graphics chipsets around, the ATI RADEON IGP 320M, for $1,250? It takes Mandrake 9.1 without any problems, and only demands slight tweaking from Red Hat 8.
I would rather have that laptop for four years then burn through two PDAs over the same period of time.
I think that you're looking in the wrong place if you are seeking material for a study.
But I guess this all goes without saying - you wildly witty dog you.
But yea, that total was just off the top of my head (as you can tell).
Pretty sad that our military wastes extreme amounts of money on computer systems that they know they will have to upgrade shortly (more $$$, no jobs), will keep them open to the threat of widespread viruses (more $$$, no new jobs), and contains code that they can not see (no new jobs). This is fucking sad, man.
WEP (Wired Equivalency Protection) uses RC4 encryption which is not very strong. Due to the design of RC4 (it was intended to be used over a synchronous stream), WEP designers had to make the key change with each packet. This means that the keys are quickly reused, and thus a sinffer can eventually - and usually rather quickly in large networks - determine the key loop. The SSID (Service Set ID) is sent over the wire either unencrypted or encrypted using weak algorithims.
WTLS (Wireless Transport Layer Security) was designed poorly as well. It's design limits the effectiveness that a certificate authority like Verisign can have when using WTLS.
Attacks against the WAP WTLS protocol (PDF): Source one, Source two
Security+ primer (lots of basic WEP, WAP, WTLS): Alpha Geek
I got a subscription to Comics on the Web. It is all Crossgen comics, a pretty good publisher with a lot of good ex-Marvel and DC talent. They have a lot of free comics there with some pretty nifty image and veiwing controls. Check out "The Way of the Rat" - righteous oriental-myth inspired stuff.
This is very simple. A song is something tangible. It may be distributed by it's owners in any number of formats and on any number of different media types. The most common is on a CDROM. In any event, in what format the song is encoded in and on what media it is stored on is irrelevant. A pirate obtains this CDROM and then rips the song off it and encodes it in a different format, such as MP3. He then places this MP3 file onto the internet and allows others to freely obtain it.
This is stealing. The theif has not infringed upon copyrights. He didn't use the beat contained in the song to make his own, nor did he steal the lyrics for a different work of art that he claimed was his. No. He STOLE A SONG.
I honestly don't understand why people have such a hard time grasping this simple idea.