If slash is guarded against these kinds of attacks, maybe they could implement some of the same kind of protection mechanisms, such as not allowing posts from the same IP closer than 60 seconds apart. Maybe slash should describe all the safeguards, so that other non-slash based sites can similarly protect themselves.
Ahh yes... I first learn about multiplayer cheating in a game called Omega-land, which only existed on PLATO - which back then only ran on CDC mainframes. You could build up characters by walking up to another, killing him to get his stuff, and before the victim took a step, he SHIFT-STOPPED out of the game. Upon re-entering, he could do the same to you, doubling everything.
More recently, we played a LOT of quake at our office, so naturally, we whipped up a server mod that made all damage quad if your player name was ABDUL (player named used by a co-worker who received much abuse). Good for many laughs.
"Monopolies cannot come to exist without the assistance of government".
I think, in this case, it relates to absurdly overbearing patent and copyright protection.
Instead of breaking it up into smaller versions of itself that may each continue to act like the parent, why not take away the weapon that allowed them to get into the dominant position?
As punishment for being found guilty of unfair monopolistic business practices, the US government should permanently invalidate all copyrights and patents held by Microsoft.
I think the idea is pure genious. Add new cpu instructions by downloding new code. Runtime optimizations. Intelligent power consumption.
The thing that disturbs me is that we have benefitted as consumers from the competition between intel, AMD and others. If what transmeta has done in fact turns out to be a significantly better design approach, they may never see any real competition.
Intel has to publish it's instruction sets to get people to write software for the CPUs. Nothing legally prevents other companies from designing CPUs that offer the same instructions. Thats why AMD and others are in business.
During the announcement, transmeta indicated that it has been granted (or was it sought?) numerous PATENTS, not just copyrights, on concepts related to software defined instruction sets. If they are upheld, would that not keep any other company from designing a hardware / software combination that does a similar thing from competing with them, even if the hardware and software were designed from scratch?
If someone reverse engineers a crusoe cpu and builds one that is hardware compatible, and transmeta refuses to sell the software component without the accompanying cpu, isn't that like the old apple machines who never licensed the bios so there could never be a (legal) market for clones?
Yes, this post is another thinly veiled rant against intellectual property rights law, as it impedes growth and competition in many industries.
"Monopolies cannot come into existence without the assistance of government." - Ayn Rand
I don't want the government to break up monopolies when they become large and vicous, I want it to stop creating them.
I bought an ultra-quiet power supply from PC Power and Cooling and it was, in fact, totally silent. It's fan is so quiet that sitting in my office I could not hear it running. I could hear the hard disk, but when it spun down (power savings) the box sounded like it was off.
They make very quiet CPU fans as well.
A while ago, I saw some solid state disks packaged just like the regular spinning kind, but built with NVRAM or something like that. Very fast. Very expensive. Very quiet. Now that I think about it, probably very hot as well....
There was a company called Ergo that used to make a system called 'the brick'. It was very small (for those days) and had no fan. The case was one big heatsink and they used a clever device to transfer the heat to the case. It looked like an anti static bag (size of one wall of the enclosure, about 3 mm thick) filled with some sort of heat conducting liquid.
You can replace many 'fan required' situations with an oversized heatsink that has outside the case exposure, as long as it has good contact with the hot component. (don't forget the heat sink compound).
Hmmmm maybe that would be a good oddball case direction, something that looks a bit like a porcupine, lots of external heatsink on the case itself....
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More recently, we played a LOT of quake at our office, so naturally, we whipped up a server mod that made all damage quad if your player name was ABDUL (player named used by a co-worker who received much abuse). Good for many laughs.
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"Monopolies cannot come to exist without the assistance of government".
I think, in this case, it relates to absurdly overbearing patent and copyright protection.
Instead of breaking it up into smaller versions of itself that may each continue to act like the parent, why not take away the weapon that allowed them to get into the dominant position?
As punishment for being found guilty of unfair monopolistic business practices, the US government should permanently invalidate all copyrights and patents held by Microsoft.
The thing that disturbs me is that we have benefitted as consumers from the competition between intel, AMD and others. If what transmeta has done in fact turns out to be a significantly better design approach, they may never see any real competition.
Intel has to publish it's instruction sets to get people to write software for the CPUs. Nothing legally prevents other companies from designing CPUs that offer the same instructions. Thats why AMD and others are in business.
During the announcement, transmeta indicated that it has been granted (or was it sought?) numerous PATENTS, not just copyrights, on concepts related to software defined instruction sets. If they are upheld, would that not keep any other company from designing a hardware / software combination that does a similar thing from competing with them, even if the hardware and software were designed from scratch?
If someone reverse engineers a crusoe cpu and builds one that is hardware compatible, and transmeta refuses to sell the software component without the accompanying cpu, isn't that like the old apple machines who never licensed the bios so there could never be a (legal) market for clones?
Yes, this post is another thinly veiled rant against intellectual property rights law, as it impedes growth and competition in many industries.
"Monopolies cannot come into existence without the assistance of government." - Ayn Rand
I don't want the government to break up monopolies when they become large and vicous, I want it to stop creating them.
They make very quiet CPU fans as well.
A while ago, I saw some solid state disks packaged just like the regular spinning kind, but built with NVRAM or something like that. Very fast. Very expensive. Very quiet. Now that I think about it, probably very hot as well....
There was a company called Ergo that used to make a system called 'the brick'. It was very small (for those days) and had no fan. The case was one big heatsink and they used a clever device to transfer the heat to the case. It looked like an anti static bag (size of one wall of the enclosure, about 3 mm thick) filled with some sort of heat conducting liquid.
You can replace many 'fan required' situations with an oversized heatsink that has outside the case exposure, as long as it has good contact with the hot component. (don't forget the heat sink compound).
Hmmmm maybe that would be a good oddball case direction, something that looks a bit like a porcupine, lots of external heatsink on the case itself....