absolutely. Another statistic: Everyday 15,000 children under the age of 5 die from malnutrition. Surely some perspective is required but all we get is scaremongering.
In fact, just about every non computer-literate person i know uses their email like an FTP.
Ain't that the truth. I can't tell you how many times I've set up networking for small/medium businesses that doesn't get used. Go back a week later and it's all email attachments and 'we've got a USB memory stick'. Networking is often too hard for most people I think.
Got to go, need to email a CD to someone now . . .
Or, if anything, they want your to believe they are incompetent.
Exactly. This surely must be the reason for this leak. It's such a great system because if you mention it like you have, you'll be drowned out with 'tinfoil' accusations.
Of course, what they really want for Iraq (possibly this was Plan B after 'shock'n'awe') is civil war as it breaks the national opposition to building of US bases and re-appropriation of oil reserves. I've seen this plan been cynically adhered to for nearly three years. It is 'sold' to the public as incompetence, and guess what, they've done it again.
Me and my friend still have the occasional Asteroids tournaments. He generally wins with around 60,000 pts but it's very good fun. If you run it under Mame you can simulate the flicker, blur, and intensity of the original vector hardware very well. Turn the screen brightness right up and you get a very similar effect to the original with trails and burning phosphor 'bullets'. Cranking up the sound on big speakers helps as well.
I am a longtime Apple customer. In fact, I have an original Apple II (not II+) still in my basement (and it still works!). I am also an IT Manager for one of the labs at MIT.
It would have surprised me if he wasn't a Slashdotter, not that he was.
Mate, if a company I worked for made me a millionaire or a billionaire I'd love it too. I find it amusing these people have all that money but still have to suffer Windows at home.
As a side note, my Uncle squirted 'Milk and Alcohol' all over me and it wasn't a pretty sight.
Sorry I missed your reply. Of course, the real problem (crime!) was setting CD at 44.1kHz. The artefacts from the filters spread down the spectrum from 22050Hz and unbalance the transparency of the high end considerably. There isn't much meaningful high end on vinyl but it doesn't have the brickwall treatment which is, I think, what people dislike about digital. IMHO, the bit rate question (16 or 24) is an order of magnitude less significant.
The really big news though, is that so does Billy G! But he likes it to keep it real quiet. Balmer tried it but didn't understand it and went back to Workbench 3.9.
Now that high end audio interfaces can sample at 192kHz, 24-bit I doubt that pulling the analog out of storage will reveal anything new in the future. What you're saying certainly was true but won't be forever.
I'm an audio programmer/engineer and we now have these in our main room:
Yes mostly. This country (the UK) is a horrible place a lot of the time. Just about everyone I know has dreams of leaving. Our culture is turning to sh!te in front of our eyes and it is no longer the excellent place that I grew up in. Most people share this opinion if you bring the subject up.
Yes, well said. I've followed Gary's case closely (unlike most people that seem to be commenting here) and know what he actually did. Which was, as we know, very little and nothing to damage national security. He was chasing the 'free energy' dream and secrets of Area51 as some kind of personal project. He was naive (I would have used a chain of proxies ahem) but the security was minimal and invited attacks. He claims he saw other people up to the same thing while he was there but for some reason he seems to carry the can for everything.
He doesn't appear that bright - just a very standard computer guy with some Windows admin skills. The punishment here will not fit the crime and a man's life will be wasted because of this. It's insane and I feel very sorry for him. If they cared so much about the contents of these computers why did they not secure them?
And, as you say quite rightly, punishment should not be purely vindictive there must be an element of rehabilitation as well.
No, I know but conversely if you left your door open would you be surprised to find you were burgled one day? Would you expect much sympathy if that happened? I don't like that he is portrayed as a criminal threat when all did was log into machines that were left wide open on the internet using bog standard Windows admin techniques which most people here could do without thinking. He shouldn't have done it but a simple password would have kept him out. He was only looking for wacky Area51 stuff because he appears to be interested in free energy. That I think is misguided but he should not face the rest of his life in jail on foreign soil. That is wrong and typical of the ridiculous justice that is handed out to 'hackerz'.
If *they* were serious about security they wouldn't have left default admin settings on hundreds of machines. Gary talks of seeing many people from round the world doing the same thing he was as the security was so bad. He only had a 56k modem, hardly the connection of choice for an uber-hacker.
I think you're completely right. They're running the economy like a stolen credit card. They aren't seeing a future where America matters. I believed this for 3 years and I think it gets easier to see over time. I think the middle class will be cut out though the working class will survive - someone has to clean the toilets. Mostly this can be explained by peak oil phenomena and what happens when we have less.
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absolutely. Another statistic: Everyday 15,000 children under the age of 5 die from malnutrition. Surely some perspective is required but all we get is scaremongering.
What's next, a pointing device that you can slide around and click things with?
Yes, they're working on that. It's going to be called the 'rat'.
In fact, just about every non computer-literate person i know uses their email like an FTP.
Ain't that the truth. I can't tell you how many times I've set up networking for small/medium businesses that doesn't get used. Go back a week later and it's all email attachments and 'we've got a USB memory stick'. Networking is often too hard for most people I think.
Got to go, need to email a CD to someone now . . .
Not disagreeing with you, but I doubt Plato mentioned oligarchs.
but I do trust CBS well enough to have their facts in line
Lol, you betcha. Bless your naivety.
Or, if anything, they want your to believe they are incompetent.
Exactly. This surely must be the reason for this leak. It's such a great system because if you mention it like you have, you'll be drowned out with 'tinfoil' accusations.
Of course, what they really want for Iraq (possibly this was Plan B after 'shock'n'awe') is civil war as it breaks the national opposition to building of US bases and re-appropriation of oil reserves. I've seen this plan been cynically adhered to for nearly three years. It is 'sold' to the public as incompetence, and guess what, they've done it again.
Me and my friend still have the occasional Asteroids tournaments. He generally wins with around 60,000 pts but it's very good fun. If you run it under Mame you can simulate the flicker, blur, and intensity of the original vector hardware very well. Turn the screen brightness right up and you get a very similar effect to the original with trails and burning phosphor 'bullets'. Cranking up the sound on big speakers helps as well.
I am a longtime Apple customer. In fact,
I have an original Apple II (not II+) still in my basement (and it still
works!). I am also an IT Manager for one of the labs at MIT.
It would have surprised me if he wasn't a Slashdotter, not that he was.
CEO of Virgin Atlantic (charles bronson?? or was he an actor, God I have bad memory for names)
Classic!
We haven't reach world peak petroleum production yet.
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You sure about that? I think we're there just about now.
http://biz.yahoo.com/seekingalpha/070502/34218_id
really well put, I completely agree
;->
you can be my scriptwriter if you like
Mate, if a company I worked for made me a millionaire or a billionaire I'd love it too. I find it amusing these people have all that money but still have to suffer Windows at home.
As a side note, my Uncle squirted 'Milk and Alcohol' all over me and it wasn't a pretty sight.
Mod this up 'nostalgic'?
Error 3s and the like are 'classic' Mac codes that pre-date OSX. So that comment is getting to be about 6 years old. Don't see why it's insightful.
I am willing to be corrected, however.
Bend over then, young man.
Sorry I missed your reply. Of course, the real problem (crime!) was setting CD at 44.1kHz. The artefacts from the filters spread down the spectrum from 22050Hz and unbalance the transparency of the high end considerably. There isn't much meaningful high end on vinyl but it doesn't have the brickwall treatment which is, I think, what people dislike about digital. IMHO, the bit rate question (16 or 24) is an order of magnitude less significant.
The really big news though, is that so does Billy G! But he likes it to keep it real quiet. Balmer tried it but didn't understand it and went back to Workbench 3.9.
Now that high end audio interfaces can sample at 192kHz, 24-bit I doubt that pulling the analog out of storage will reveal anything new in the future. What you're saying certainly was true but won't be forever.
I'm an audio programmer/engineer and we now have these in our main room:
http://www.motu.com/products/pciaudio/HD192/
They can match any analog 2" 30ips I've heard.
Anyone want to take a bet they leave the default security settings on so you can hack in using the admin/password combo?
Works for my neighbor!
Yes mostly. This country (the UK) is a horrible place a lot of the time. Just about everyone I know has dreams of leaving. Our culture is turning to sh!te in front of our eyes and it is no longer the excellent place that I grew up in. Most people share this opinion if you bring the subject up.
No, you must be wrong there. Didn't it run on water and get 200mpg? That's why the car is expensive - no fuel bills.
Yeah, and did you see what happened to the Vic20 as well. Kiss-of-death, the guy.
Yes, well said. I've followed Gary's case closely (unlike most people that seem to be commenting here) and know what he actually did. Which was, as we know, very little and nothing to damage national security. He was chasing the 'free energy' dream and secrets of Area51 as some kind of personal project. He was naive (I would have used a chain of proxies ahem) but the security was minimal and invited attacks. He claims he saw other people up to the same thing while he was there but for some reason he seems to carry the can for everything.
He doesn't appear that bright - just a very standard computer guy with some Windows admin skills. The punishment here will not fit the crime and a man's life will be wasted because of this. It's insane and I feel very sorry for him. If they cared so much about the contents of these computers why did they not secure them?
And, as you say quite rightly, punishment should not be purely vindictive there must be an element of rehabilitation as well.
No, I know but conversely if you left your door open would you be surprised to find you were burgled one day? Would you expect much sympathy if that happened? I don't like that he is portrayed as a criminal threat when all did was log into machines that were left wide open on the internet using bog standard Windows admin techniques which most people here could do without thinking. He shouldn't have done it but a simple password would have kept him out. He was only looking for wacky Area51 stuff because he appears to be interested in free energy. That I think is misguided but he should not face the rest of his life in jail on foreign soil. That is wrong and typical of the ridiculous justice that is handed out to 'hackerz'.
If *they* were serious about security they wouldn't have left default admin settings on hundreds of machines. Gary talks of seeing many people from round the world doing the same thing he was as the security was so bad. He only had a 56k modem, hardly the connection of choice for an uber-hacker.
This case I believe is a disgrace.
I think you're completely right. They're running the economy like a stolen credit card. They aren't seeing a future where America matters. I believed this for 3 years and I think it gets easier to see over time. I think the middle class will be cut out though the working class will survive - someone has to clean the toilets. Mostly this can be explained by peak oil phenomena and what happens when we have less.