...and then, like, half the plot twists were gone. And I was like, hunh? It was a really good movie. And then I had to watch it again but I knew the ending so it wasn't as good.
20,000 lightsabre-wielding census-takers is nothing to sneeze at.
I think you mean census respondents... census-takers are the people who come to your door asking you to fill out the census form. If one of those folks whipped out a lightsaber on me I think I'd try to do an extra-good job of filling in the little bubbles...
Tryint to get people to subscribe to Slashdot and making them read embarrassing dupes is an old trick. These attacks exploit the lazy properties of the editors as well as their unprofessionalism. All the pieces (that) are required for this attack to work. There's a real danger in this ploy, one that few people have likely thought about: "A scenario could be imagined where a story could be posted to Slashdot, and then the same story could be posted again a couple weeks later, to wreak havoc on the Internet for political reasons, or even worse, to serve as a diversion for a terrorist act, such as the posting of a goatse link."
From the article: Let his be a lesson to you SUV owners out there, don't ever attach a giant water rocket to your Ford Expedition!
Nuts to that. I'd love to see all the Ford Expedition drivers in my town strap big freaking rockets to their gas-guzzling monster trucks and launch themselves and their screaming brats straight to Mars.
Plus, I bet the mist from the water rocket exhaust would make a purty rainbow. Everybody wins!
I imagine their thought process went something like this:
"Robots are cool. Wireless networking is cool. Linux is cool. So logically, wireless Linux robots would be the coolest thing ever!!!"
The only downside I can forsee is that imagining a Beowulf cluster of those might lead to a Matrix-esque apocalypse for us outmoded carbon units, which would be less cool.
We once had a customer at the electronics design place I work for ask for a product with a size that was physically too small to contain the battery that they wanted to use. When informed of this, they asked, "well, couldn't you put the battery somewhere else and send power through Bluetooth?" Needless to say, we all laughed.
But really, now that I think of it, I should have told them that it would have worked if they'd implemented RFC 3251 over 802.11!;)
Aside from the obvious fact that banning spam in country X does little to stop spam coming out of country Y - i.e. Australians will still be getting Turkish porno spam - the precedent set by this worries me. We've already seen the far-reaching effects of the DMCA; depending on how it's worded, I coud forsee a blanket anti-spam law having a similar "scorched earth" outcome. The last thing I want is for some sleazy corporation suing to stop me from doing some perfectly legal and peaceful activity they don't like, on the grounds that they can weasel it into fitting a too-loose description in a piece of wrong-headed legislation designed to prevent something totally else.
It seems like a better idea would be to apply technology instead of legislation to the problem -clamp down on Hotmail users who send a zillion emails a day, and lock down open mail relays - but IANAL.
I think it's kind of funny they're calling it 802.11n.
They might as well just give up and start saying "Oh, you don't want 802.11[n] anymore - you should throw away all your hardware and get 802.11[n+1] instead, since it'll be so much better! No, really!"
If a Pringles can is able to extend the range of 802.11 wireless LAN to several km, then a similar application of tubular snack food waveguide technology to this new standard ought to solve the question of "are we alone in the universe" once and for all!
Presumably not, or else it wouldn't be a very good random number generator.
What I'm interested in is whether or not there is any way for crosstalk from the zillions of other high-speed signals elsewhere on the chip to have any real influence, however slight, on the operation of the random number generator... if so, I wonder how long before the hax0rs will be trying to 0wn my RNG by writing fiendishly clever patterns out onto the address bus.
Not fun reading? Is this perhaps the first time that you've ever been informed that Linux is, for the average user, hard to install and configure as well as lacking in number and quality of applications?
Not trying to flame here, just somewhat peeved at the tone of the comment, which seems to be whining because *gasp* somebody doesn't LOVE LINUX!!!1!
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I understand that their backup plan is to use a few thousand miles of molten Cat5...
I think you mean census respondents... census-takers are the people who come to your door asking you to fill out the census form. If one of those folks whipped out a lightsaber on me I think I'd try to do an extra-good job of filling in the little bubbles...
I'm sure when they find out the name of the guy responsible for the hoax, his job will be flushed...
Tryint to get people to subscribe to Slashdot and making them read embarrassing dupes is an old trick. These attacks exploit the lazy properties of the editors as well as their unprofessionalism. All the pieces (that) are required for this attack to work. There's a real danger in this ploy, one that few people have likely thought about: "A scenario could be imagined where a story could be posted to Slashdot, and then the same story could be posted again a couple weeks later, to wreak havoc on the Internet for political reasons, or even worse, to serve as a diversion for a terrorist act, such as the posting of a goatse link."
1. Wire rural community for net access
2. ???
3. Non-profit!
I attended the nanotechnology conference also, and I'll report on what I saw just as soon as I can wash off this gray goo...
Nuts to that. I'd love to see all the Ford Expedition drivers in my town strap big freaking rockets to their gas-guzzling monster trucks and launch themselves and their screaming brats straight to Mars.
Plus, I bet the mist from the water rocket exhaust would make a purty rainbow. Everybody wins!
Yeah, really - and if they're not programmed with the Three Laws Of Robotics, they might rat you out to your ISP for running a NAT gateway...
"Robots are cool. Wireless networking is cool. Linux is cool. So logically, wireless Linux robots would be the coolest thing ever!!!"
The only downside I can forsee is that imagining a Beowulf cluster of those might lead to a Matrix-esque apocalypse for us outmoded carbon units, which would be less cool.
Because then they'd have to pick space shuttles off of the sidewalk every time it rained.
I thought that the war for all the bases wasn't scheduled to start until A.D. 2101...
But really, now that I think of it, I should have told them that it would have worked if they'd implemented RFC 3251 over 802.11! ;)
Didn't Michael Moore make a movie about the rights of GM humans?
It seems like a better idea would be to apply technology instead of legislation to the problem -clamp down on Hotmail users who send a zillion emails a day, and lock down open mail relays - but IANAL.
No no no, this is completely different! It replaces the fragile, expensive MiniDisc recorder with a... PDA... oh wait...
They might as well just give up and start saying "Oh, you don't want 802.11[n] anymore - you should throw away all your hardware and get 802.11[n+1] instead, since it'll be so much better! No, really!"
If a Pringles can is able to extend the range of 802.11 wireless LAN to several km, then a similar application of tubular snack food waveguide technology to this new standard ought to solve the question of "are we alone in the universe" once and for all!
What I'm interested in is whether or not there is any way for crosstalk from the zillions of other high-speed signals elsewhere on the chip to have any real influence, however slight, on the operation of the random number generator... if so, I wonder how long before the hax0rs will be trying to 0wn my RNG by writing fiendishly clever patterns out onto the address bus.
Maybe the student in question could pay the $97 billion using those great credit cards they're always handing out on college campuses!
It turns out that geeks who still live with their moms are way ahead of you on this one.
Yes, they make a telescope, and it transfers power from the moons that slip to the moons that grip!
Not fun reading? Is this perhaps the first time that you've ever been informed that Linux is, for the average user, hard to install and configure as well as lacking in number and quality of applications?
Not trying to flame here, just somewhat peeved at the tone of the comment, which seems to be whining because *gasp* somebody doesn't LOVE LINUX!!!1!
And to think, all this time I thought that was how Hollywood executives mate...
No thanks, I'll just have a slice of Cheeseulator.