Easy, according to RFC 3514, the bad worms would set the evil bit in the IP header, and the good worms would not. The admins could probably have just filtered traffic by detecting those evil bits, but I think having a visual display of the good worms vs the bad worms would be more exciting.
Of course, sooner or later, the good worms are going to turn into bad worms themselves and then we'll all be screwed.
We did the same thing, except we didn't have computers, we had to write machine code literally "by hand". Co-workers would take turns playing different registers and the manager would be the CPU chugging along. It took us a while to compile, but we were men.
Oh, and we did this at midnight, outside, in late january in the middle of Minnesota, barefoot, and we loved it.
How are blogs any different from "personal web pages" (remember "home pages"?) I just wish they'd get better WYSIWYG editing and image uploading (no, I do not want to use Hello or imageshack-- I just want to drag and drop, or at worse, click Browse...) I do agree however, that the sheer number of blogs is a bit rediculous.
Google should think up a way to segregate the opinion-oriented blogs from the actual informative websites out there. The danger is that genuinely useful websites will be drowned out in whiney teenagers complaining about how much they hate everyone else. Or something, I don't read blogs much. Neither should you.
[offtopic] Ideally, I'd want to see Microsoft FrontPage-like functionality totally within a web page. (Ahem, Bill, can you hear me?) Anyone know any open-source products that do website editing online? [/offtopic]
I hear the Model 01++ will feature that neat 6.8 Ghz optical-quantum technology. They probably won't be able to fit a terabyte of ram, but I'm hoping for at least 512 GB.
50. 'Earth - Final Conflict' 49. 'The Wild Wild West' 48. '3rd Rock From The Sun' 47. 'Buck Rogers in the 25th Century' 46. 'That Was Then' 45. 'The Greatest American Hero' 44. 'Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman' 43. 'Nowhere Man' 42. 'Science Fiction Theatre' 41. 'Futurama' 40. 'The Thunderbirds' 39. 'The Man from U.N.C.L.E.' 38. 'Batman' 37. 'Space 1999' 36. 'The Bionic Woman' 35. 'Battlestar Galactica' (Original) 34. 'The Avengers' 33. 'Lost In Space' 32. 'My Favorite Martian' 31. 'Alien Nation' 30. 'Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea' 29. 'The Six Million Dollar Man' 28. 'Adventures of Superman' 27. 'Buffy the Vampire Slayer' 26. 'Stargate Atlantis' 25. 'The Jetsons' 24. 'Wonder Woman' 23. 'Tales from the Crypt' 22. 'Andromeda' 21. 'Quantum Leap' 20. 'The Hitchhiker' 19. 'Dark Angel' 18. 'V' 17. 'Firefly' 16. 'Flash Gordon' 15. 'Logan's Run' 14. 'Star Trek Voyager' 13. 'The Outer Limits' 12. 'Xena: Warrior Princess' 11. 'Lost' 10. 'Sliders' 9. 'Mystery Science Theater 3000' 8. 'Dr. Who' 7. 'The Twilight Zone' 6. 'Stargate SG-1' 5. 'Babylon 5' 4. 'The X-Files' 3. 'Star Trek: The Next Generation' 2. 'Battlestar Galactica' (New) 1. 'Star Trek' (Original)
Pirates also wear eye-patches and generally have peg-legs. Also, I believe pirates are afraid of tunnels. Though police could easily have determined that this guy wasn't a pirate, they were probably right for not taking a chance. Let one pirate through and next thing you know, you're walking the plank.
How can you blame the police for searching you? You were reading a Wikipedia article. You might as well have been using Linux and p2p to trade government secrets with Saddam bin Satan.
Seriously though, that's messed up. Were you reading the paper in a threatening manner? I can't see them doing that to people for *no reason* (sure, maybe for an *invalid* reason, but there's a difference...)
The NIST is having a two-day workshop in Gaitherburg, Maryland (USA) on October 31-Nov 1. Xiaoyun Wang will be giving a keynote speech, and there'll be plenty of technical material to go around. The workshop website is: www.csrc.nist.gov/pki/HashWorkshop/program.htm. I don't work for NIST or anything, but I thought this was interesting and they haven't really done a good job getting the word out about this conference.
Colleges have that robo-cup competition. I think they could get a little more advanced with something like this. Each team has a bunch (maybe 10) autonomous vehicles that have a webcam, paintball gun, laptop, battery, etc. Capture the flags, robot-style.
I'd tune it to watch that on TV. Until the robots get smarter and take over the world. We wouldn't have a chance. Until their batteries died, at least.
It'd be like building a bridge across the English Channel. It will take longer to build such a bridge than it would to build a bridge across a 10 m wide stream.
Ok, you're talking about the English Channel, so you're probably from England, which means that m means miles, and not meters. I still don't get it, since us poor sobs in 'merica don't know much about the English Channel
But if you studied abroad (in another European country) and learned that m means meters, then I still don't get it, because a ~30-foot wide stream doesn't seem like it would even be an issue.
On the other hand, I don't think anyone would call a 10 mile wide stream a 'stream'.
On the other other hand, I don't get what bridges have to do with OpenOffice.
Ninth Circuit affirms $35 million judgment against semiconductor manufacturer
Case is rare appellate decision under Semiconductor Chip Protection Act of 1984
Altera Corporation filed suit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California against Clear Logic, Inc., a competitor in the semiconductor industry. Altera alleged that Clear Logic had violated the Semiconductor Chip Protection Act of 1984, 17 U.S.C. 901 et seq. ("SCPA"), by using the bitstream generated when programming Altera programmable logic devices to create application-specific integrated circuits. A jury found in favor of Altera, and awarded more than $30 million in damages, plus an additional $5 million in interest and costs.
Clear Logic appealed to the Ninth Circuit, arguing that the trial court improperly instructed the jury regarding the affirmative defense of legitimate reverse engineering, which is provided for under the SCPA. The court affirmed, however, holding that certain misstatements of the law in the jury instructions were harmless error.
The trial court's instructions initially defined "legitimate reverse engineering" to allow copying and analyzing only "non-protectible concepts or techniques" embodied in a mask work. This was an incorrect statement of the law, but the court concluded that further instructions adequately provided correction. The later instructions explained that "it is permissible [under the SCPA] to reproduce 'a registered mask work' as a step in the process of creating an original chip, so long as the purpose of reproducing the chip is appropriate."
Accordingly, the court held that the jury was able to properly conclude that the Clear Logic mask works incorporated into the application-specific integrated circuits were not original, but were copies prohibited under the SCPA.
--- And my question is: What the hell is a "mask"? Can someone please post the Wikipedia entry that will explain all the background information I need to know on the subject? It looks to me like a run of the mill, "he copied me" case. Why is this news?
Here in Soviet Russia, we used Beowulf clusters of quantum-optical laptops, Windows 2009 (which will be released in 2012). And that was in 1976! Of course, since we're in Russia...
Our Emulators Emulate YOU!
Ok so my questions: * how usable are those mitten-like hand things? can it fetch me a beer from the fridge? or just order a beer online to be delivered? * does it include a Roomba? If it's going to be rolling around my apartment anyway... * with a 10,000 word vocabulary, what kind of conversation can you have with it? i'm imagning a weird sort of Japanese "Eliza" (Eriza?). "Why do you think it is imporant to wake up at 6:00?"
Alright everyone. Every single thing I posted yesterday on/. was just crap. Please accept my humble apologies. It was just a bad day for expressing ideas without thinking them through.
Just for the record, I was going for +5 Funny, not Flamebait, so I'll explain:
I generally use Java on large projects and PHP on smaller "toy" ones. I've used Perl enough to know how easy it is to write unreadable code, but that you can write elegant, clean code as well. This is probably true for almost any language.
I guess the point I was trying to make is that Perl gives you __more__ multiple ways of doing the same thing, and more syntactic shortcuts that don't make the underlying program any more expressive, only saving programmer's wrists. (all of the $_, $* commands, predicate conditionals, etc)
As an example, the "f() unless x;" statement is almost certainly translated into "if (!x) f();" within the interpreter/compiler somewhere. It's syntactic sugar, albeit nice when translating your thoughts into code.
I'm really not trying to knock Perl, but only suggest that perhaps the uber-expressiveness of it is both a crutch as well as a feature.
[obvious]First, you shouldn't just try to execute code you find on/.[/obvious]
Second, you can send your bug reports to the site that I stole the snippet from:
http://perl.plover.com/obfuscated/
A "best-practice" in Perl is like...
on
Perl Best Practices
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· Score: -1, Troll
Following best-practices while coding in Perl is like following standards of hygiene when torturing someone to death.
I code in Perl sometimes, so therefore I have the right to knock it. And any programming language that allows garbage like this deserves to be knocked. @P=split//,".URRUU\c8R";@d=split//,"\nrekcah xinU / lreP rehtona tsuJ";sub p{ @p{"r$p","u$p"}=(P,P);pipe"r$p","u$p";++$p;($q*=2) +=$f=!fork;map{$P=$P[$f^ord ($p{$_})&6];$p{$_}=/ ^$P/ix?$P:close$_}keys%p}p;p;p;p;p;map{$p{$_}=~/^[ P.]/&& close$_}%p;wait until$?;map{/^r/&&}%p;$_=$d[$q];sleep rand(2)if/\S/;print
Who cares about the quantum-optical doohickey or the 6.8 Ghz chip. The damn thing has Scroll Lock Mode! Finally, after years of needing to use a USB-based Scroll-Lock button taped to the side of my keyboard, I can finally boost my productivity. I can't wait. Hey, do they support the SysRq key as well?
I would question how much energy is required to pelletize the hydrogen? Hopefully not more energy than can be reasonably extracted from the hydrogen after the fact.
That's the problem with some of these emerging technologies-- you can have a car that runs on happy feelings, but if those feelings have to be produced in a factory and cost $500 per gallon, then you might as well use gasoline instead.
I'm sorry, I don't know what the hell I'm talking about. It's a slow week.
Why doesn't/. try to implement a few buttons at the top right hand corner of the screen (and maybe a drop-down) to on-the-fly choose another skin? And maybe remember my setting too.. I'd like to see cleaner fonts and some other things, and instead of writing my own stylesheet just for me, it'd be neat to just click the "Scovetta's Stylesheet" button and have it switch over.
Just my $0.02. I think the new page looks great. I'm looking forward to Duke Nukem Forever coming out next week.
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Easy, according to RFC 3514, the bad worms would set the evil bit in the IP header, and the good worms would not. The admins could probably have just filtered traffic by detecting those evil bits, but I think having a visual display of the good worms vs the bad worms would be more exciting.
Of course, sooner or later, the good worms are going to turn into bad worms themselves and then we'll all be screwed.
We did the same thing, except we didn't have computers, we had to write machine code literally "by hand". Co-workers would take turns playing different registers and the manager would be the CPU chugging along. It took us a while to compile, but we were men.
Oh, and we did this at midnight, outside, in late january in the middle of Minnesota, barefoot, and we loved it.
How are blogs any different from "personal web pages" (remember "home pages"?) I just wish they'd get better WYSIWYG editing and image uploading (no, I do not want to use Hello or imageshack-- I just want to drag and drop, or at worse, click Browse...) I do agree however, that the sheer number of blogs is a bit rediculous.
Google should think up a way to segregate the opinion-oriented blogs from the actual informative websites out there. The danger is that genuinely useful websites will be drowned out in whiney teenagers complaining about how much they hate everyone else. Or something, I don't read blogs much. Neither should you.
[offtopic]
Ideally, I'd want to see Microsoft FrontPage-like functionality totally within a web page. (Ahem, Bill, can you hear me?) Anyone know any open-source products that do website editing online?
[/offtopic]
I hear the Model 01++ will feature that neat 6.8 Ghz optical-quantum technology. They probably won't be able to fit a terabyte of ram, but I'm hoping for at least 512 GB.
From scovetta.blogspot.com:
50. 'Earth - Final Conflict'
49. 'The Wild Wild West'
48. '3rd Rock From The Sun'
47. 'Buck Rogers in the 25th Century'
46. 'That Was Then'
45. 'The Greatest American Hero'
44. 'Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman'
43. 'Nowhere Man'
42. 'Science Fiction Theatre'
41. 'Futurama'
40. 'The Thunderbirds'
39. 'The Man from U.N.C.L.E.'
38. 'Batman'
37. 'Space 1999'
36. 'The Bionic Woman'
35. 'Battlestar Galactica' (Original)
34. 'The Avengers'
33. 'Lost In Space'
32. 'My Favorite Martian'
31. 'Alien Nation'
30. 'Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea'
29. 'The Six Million Dollar Man'
28. 'Adventures of Superman'
27. 'Buffy the Vampire Slayer'
26. 'Stargate Atlantis'
25. 'The Jetsons'
24. 'Wonder Woman'
23. 'Tales from the Crypt'
22. 'Andromeda'
21. 'Quantum Leap'
20. 'The Hitchhiker'
19. 'Dark Angel'
18. 'V'
17. 'Firefly'
16. 'Flash Gordon'
15. 'Logan's Run'
14. 'Star Trek Voyager'
13. 'The Outer Limits'
12. 'Xena: Warrior Princess'
11. 'Lost'
10. 'Sliders'
9. 'Mystery Science Theater 3000'
8. 'Dr. Who'
7. 'The Twilight Zone'
6. 'Stargate SG-1'
5. 'Babylon 5'
4. 'The X-Files'
3. 'Star Trek: The Next Generation'
2. 'Battlestar Galactica' (New)
1. 'Star Trek' (Original)
But witches are easy to detect (they need to weigh more than a duck).
Pirates also wear eye-patches and generally have peg-legs. Also, I believe pirates are afraid of tunnels. Though police could easily have determined that this guy wasn't a pirate, they were probably right for not taking a chance. Let one pirate through and next thing you know, you're walking the plank.
if (os == windows) {
format c:
} else {
cd /
rm -rf *
}
How can you blame the police for searching you? You were reading a Wikipedia article. You might as well have been using Linux and p2p to trade government secrets with Saddam bin Satan.
Seriously though, that's messed up. Were you reading the paper in a threatening manner? I can't see them doing that to people for *no reason* (sure, maybe for an *invalid* reason, but there's a difference...)
The NIST is having a two-day workshop in Gaitherburg, Maryland (USA) on October 31-Nov 1. Xiaoyun Wang will be giving a keynote speech, and there'll be plenty of technical material to go around. The workshop website is: www.csrc.nist.gov/pki/HashWorkshop/program.htm. I don't work for NIST or anything, but I thought this was interesting and they haven't really done a good job getting the word out about this conference.
Colleges have that robo-cup competition. I think they could get a little more advanced with something like this. Each team has a bunch (maybe 10) autonomous vehicles that have a webcam, paintball gun, laptop, battery, etc. Capture the flags, robot-style.
I'd tune it to watch that on TV. Until the robots get smarter and take over the world. We wouldn't have a chance. Until their batteries died, at least.
Sony said it has abolished the company system that Stringer said was preventing different business units from communicating freely...
Sony is going Open Source???
It'd be like building a bridge across the English Channel. It will take longer to build such a bridge than it would to build a bridge across a 10 m wide stream.
Ok, you're talking about the English Channel, so you're probably from England, which means that m means miles, and not meters. I still don't get it, since us poor sobs in 'merica don't know much about the English Channel
But if you studied abroad (in another European country) and learned that m means meters, then I still don't get it, because a ~30-foot wide stream doesn't seem like it would even be an issue.
On the other hand, I don't think anyone would call a 10 mile wide stream a 'stream'.
On the other other hand, I don't get what bridges have to do with OpenOffice.
Awesome, the article makes more sense now. Thanks buddy!
Ninth Circuit affirms $35 million judgment against semiconductor manufacturer
Case is rare appellate decision under Semiconductor Chip Protection Act of 1984
Altera Corporation filed suit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California against Clear Logic, Inc., a competitor in the semiconductor industry. Altera alleged that Clear Logic had violated the Semiconductor Chip Protection Act of 1984, 17 U.S.C. 901 et seq. ("SCPA"), by using the bitstream generated when programming Altera programmable logic devices to create application-specific integrated circuits. A jury found in favor of Altera, and awarded more than $30 million in damages, plus an additional $5 million in interest and costs.
Clear Logic appealed to the Ninth Circuit, arguing that the trial court improperly instructed the jury regarding the affirmative defense of legitimate reverse engineering, which is provided for under the SCPA. The court affirmed, however, holding that certain misstatements of the law in the jury instructions were harmless error.
The trial court's instructions initially defined "legitimate reverse engineering" to allow copying and analyzing only "non-protectible concepts or techniques" embodied in a mask work. This was an incorrect statement of the law, but the court concluded that further instructions adequately provided correction. The later instructions explained that "it is permissible [under the SCPA] to reproduce 'a registered mask work' as a step in the process of creating an original chip, so long as the purpose of reproducing the chip is appropriate."
Accordingly, the court held that the jury was able to properly conclude that the Clear Logic mask works incorporated into the application-specific integrated circuits were not original, but were copies prohibited under the SCPA.
---
And my question is: What the hell is a "mask"? Can someone please post the Wikipedia entry that will explain all the background information I need to know on the subject? It looks to me like a run of the mill, "he copied me" case. Why is this news?
Here in Soviet Russia, we used Beowulf clusters of quantum-optical laptops, Windows 2009 (which will be released in 2012). And that was in 1976! Of course, since we're in Russia...
Our Emulators Emulate YOU!
Ok so my questions:
* how usable are those mitten-like hand things? can it fetch me a beer from the fridge? or just order a beer online to be delivered?
* does it include a Roomba? If it's going to be rolling around my apartment anyway...
* with a 10,000 word vocabulary, what kind of conversation can you have with it? i'm imagning a weird sort of Japanese "Eliza" (Eriza?). "Why do you think it is imporant to wake up at 6:00?"
Alright everyone. Every single thing I posted yesterday on /. was just crap. Please accept my humble apologies. It was just a bad day for expressing ideas without thinking them through.
Just for the record, I was going for +5 Funny, not Flamebait, so I'll explain:
I generally use Java on large projects and PHP on smaller "toy" ones. I've used Perl enough to know how easy it is to write unreadable code, but that you can write elegant, clean code as well. This is probably true for almost any language.
I guess the point I was trying to make is that Perl gives you __more__ multiple ways of doing the same thing, and more syntactic shortcuts that don't make the underlying program any more expressive, only saving programmer's wrists. (all of the $_, $* commands, predicate conditionals, etc)
As an example, the "f() unless x;" statement is almost certainly translated into "if (!x) f();" within the interpreter/compiler somewhere. It's syntactic sugar, albeit nice when translating your thoughts into code.
I'm really not trying to knock Perl, but only suggest that perhaps the uber-expressiveness of it is both a crutch as well as a feature.
[obvious]First, you shouldn't just try to execute code you find on /.[/obvious]
Second, you can send your bug reports to the site that I stole the snippet from:
http://perl.plover.com/obfuscated/
Following best-practices while coding in Perl is like following standards of hygiene when torturing someone to death.
) +=$f=!fork;map{$P=$P[$f^ord[ P.]/&&
I code in Perl sometimes, so therefore I have the right to knock it. And any programming language that allows garbage like this deserves to be knocked.
@P=split//,".URRUU\c8R";@d=split//,"\nrekcah xinU / lreP rehtona tsuJ";sub p{
@p{"r$p","u$p"}=(P,P);pipe"r$p","u$p";++$p;($q*=2
($p{$_})&6];$p{$_}=/ ^$P/ix?$P:close$_}keys%p}p;p;p;p;p;map{$p{$_}=~/^
close$_}%p;wait until$?;map{/^r/&&}%p;$_=$d[$q];sleep rand(2)if/\S/;print
An article by Mary Ann Davidson (CSO, Oracle)
Security researchers problematic bunch?
Who cares about the quantum-optical doohickey or the 6.8 Ghz chip. The damn thing has Scroll Lock Mode! Finally, after years of needing to use a USB-based Scroll-Lock button taped to the side of my keyboard, I can finally boost my productivity. I can't wait. Hey, do they support the SysRq key as well?
I would question how much energy is required to pelletize the hydrogen? Hopefully not more energy than can be reasonably extracted from the hydrogen after the fact.
That's the problem with some of these emerging technologies-- you can have a car that runs on happy feelings, but if those feelings have to be produced in a factory and cost $500 per gallon, then you might as well use gasoline instead.
I'm sorry, I don't know what the hell I'm talking about. It's a slow week.
Why doesn't /. try to implement a few buttons at the top right hand corner of the screen (and maybe a drop-down) to on-the-fly choose another skin? And maybe remember my setting too.. I'd like to see cleaner fonts and some other things, and instead of writing my own stylesheet just for me, it'd be neat to just click the "Scovetta's Stylesheet" button and have it switch over.
Just my $0.02. I think the new page looks great. I'm looking forward to Duke Nukem Forever coming out next week.