So I have Windows Media Player here and can view the clips. I read some requests above this post that asked for summaries, so here are mine.
Crazy Trunk: The guy's Windows CE embedded device causes the brake lights (right side) on the trunk to flash at odd intervals. The device is in the rear passenger's right side.
Spitn' Key: The guy inserts his key into the car, lets go, and it falls out for no reason about three seconds later.
Phone Dead: The driver's car phone suddenly stops working about 5 seconds after the Windows CE device is powered on.
Transmission: This is scary. His car goes from 4th down to 1st gear (auto transmission car) and he nearly gets rear-ended by the SUV behind him
There are plenty of Web server machines that rarely crash, if ever. Many of these sites rely on the work on only one machine, just like Aces Hardware. If they have more than one Web machine, they split each up for each category (e.g. Google has a machine each for their "catalogs", "search", and "images" utilities)
Java OS - True object orientation meets platform-independent code. Boot once, run it on anything. However, it takes 10 seconds alone to start each application's virtual machine. Early benchmarks indicate cold program starts of the Mozilla browser approaching the 60 minute mark on a dual Pentium system. Future benchmarks are planned and will be measured using a sun dial.
Plot: In the year 2003, the technologically-starved masses depend upon the United States government-manufactured item Microsoft Windows to exist and manage their day to day activities. But in the midst of an investigation, a hacker uncovers the chilling source of the product...
Microsoft Basic is Microsoft Windows! *louder* Microsoft Basic is Microsoft Windows! *shouting at top of lungs* Microsoft Basic is Microsoft Windows!
As evident by the development of current Internet technologies such as TCP and IP by the Department of Defense-backed Advanced Research Projects Association (ARPA), we can only achieve a standard if one company or organization is behind both the medium and the protocol.
Do you feel that the Intel-backed TCPA and the Microsoft-owned Palladium technologies both have better chances of succeeding since they're one-man operations? If not, what alternatives do you suggest?
I actually e-mailed Richard Stallman a couple years ago when I realized a great way to spread the GNU message.
My question was whether disguising pro-GNU songs (such as these) as Billboard Top 40 hits and sharing them on Peer 2 Peer networks was a "right" thing to do.
He suggested that I not do it, but did thank me for a good laugh.
"In the past year, we've seen a lot of attempts by companies to make a profit by selling mixed open and closed source software. Lindows and CrossOver spring to mind. How do you, both personally and as a representative of the EFF, react to this trend? Is it beneficial to the Free Software Movement in the short and long term?"
---- By tps12, one of the best Slashdot members of all time
Encouraging terror (and yes, our government does classify nearly all computer crime as terrorism) at events like Topgun Hacker Contests and Phreaking Conventions is just about the worst possible thing one could do right now.
It's hard enough for most of us to find stable jobs these days (even low-profile technology related careers at places like Staples and Office Max), and I load up Slashdot to find a bunch of geeks bragging about how quickly they can exploit a BIND/DNS hole or infiltrate remote machines through poor Telnet or PINE emailer security.
Work on your resume, take another college class, get an MCSE or Novell certification, but please stay away from Black Hat conventions that encourage computer crime. You do not want to be the next United States felon on the run.
(Oh, and by the way, we don't use commas in the pseudo-department section of each Slashdot article. It just looks plain stupid. Talk to Rob, your boss, and I'm sure he'll agree with me.)
Now, onto my original point. The DMCA is a law, and as faithful American citizens, it's our duty to obide by it and cherish it, as all laws must be cherished. Laws prevent lawlessness, which in turn prevents a nice society in which folks live nicely, which, finally, prevents a happy life.
... to spending dozens of hours and thousands of dollars combining Open Source DVD players, CD players, and MP3 players are the following:
1) Print a few more copies of your resume out and send them to companies. You've been out of work long enough and any minute the bill collectors are going to throw you and your family in jail.
2) Plant a tree. Picket outside fur factories and SUV dealerships. Teach a neighborhood child how to play the piano. Read to your kid. Make love to your wife.
3) Abandon all the worrying about conforming your life to the absurd paradigns and social revolutions inspired by lunatics like Richard M. Stallman, who was pink-slipped by the MIT Media Lab after years of little to no productive work.
Advice: Stick with a real OO language
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I urge you all to stick with Smalltalk and not some bastardization of object-oriented paradigms such as Java or C++.
Java is slow, as annoying to program as Microsoft's C# language, and just plain impractical.
C++ is a bastardized object-oriented programming language that's basically the octupus known as C with a bunch of "legs" such as OO, platform compatibility, etc. tacked onto the language.
The homepage for Smalltalk is located at this address. I urge you to read more about it before wasting any more of your precious work hours trying make Java actually work for you and your company.
I'm the senior Information Technology (IT) chairman for the state of Maryland's public schools from grades K through 12.
We plan on harnessing these new fabrications from the AMD chip maker and using them in all Web, file, and multimedia servers, as well as in every desktop on every desk in every school in Maryland.
Kudos to AMD for keeping up with the Intels and the Microsofts.
We could save all the grant funding cash being spent on this project quite simply if we only just limited Google's crawler resources.
Small sites like Kuro5hin.org get millions of hits every month from search engine page finders, such as the GoogleBot. This uses up an incredible amount of resources and slows the Internet down tremendously. What good is indexing billions of pages if your own software crashes each of their Webservers?
I propose increasing browsing speed by severely limiting the use of search engine crawlers. Perhaps only between 2:00am-5:00am every morning (EST) would we allow them. Otherwise, we'll continue to be stuck with a Kuro5hin.org site that is barely ever available due to its tremendous Google/PageRank/Link-to rank.
Oh, and Google's bot doesn't even obey robots.txt files even though it says it does. Try it out for yourself and you'll see what I mean.
I see an HP icon, an AOL icon, and a Linux penguin, and lots of positive minded talk.
It's not 1999 anymore, people. HP is a has-been, AOL is slowly finishing off their downspiral into the toilet of the ISP world, and "Linux" is as taboo for a businessman to say as "fire" is in a movie theater.
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So I have Windows Media Player here and can view the clips. I read some requests above this post that asked for summaries, so here are mine.
Crazy Trunk: The guy's Windows CE embedded device causes the brake lights (right side) on the trunk to flash at odd intervals. The device is in the rear passenger's right side.
Spitn' Key: The guy inserts his key into the car, lets go, and it falls out for no reason about three seconds later.
Phone Dead: The driver's car phone suddenly stops working about 5 seconds after the Windows CE device is powered on.
Transmission: This is scary. His car goes from 4th down to 1st gear (auto transmission car) and he nearly gets rear-ended by the SUV behind him
Is sharing a journal of all your daily thoughts and emotions the best strategy to employ in order to win a court case as a lawyer?
Why pay eight bucks when you can J.O. at home for free?
Just curious if I'm missing some new technique or something...
The latest Physics News Update mentions that skyscrapers could actually help wireless communication.
I never would have imagined that a tall, slender, permanent, cellphone tower-like structure could serve as a cellphone tower.
There are plenty of Web server machines that rarely crash, if ever. Many of these sites rely on the work on only one machine, just like Aces Hardware. If they have more than one Web machine, they split each up for each category (e.g. Google has a machine each for their "catalogs", "search", and "images" utilities)
Academic: MIT.edu, Stanford.edu, Maryland.edu
Business: Amazon.com, CDNow.com, Slashdot.com, Google.com
Pleasure: TheHun.net, Playboy.com, Napster.com
Java OS - True object orientation meets platform-independent code. Boot once, run it on anything. However, it takes 10 seconds alone to start each application's virtual machine. Early benchmarks indicate cold program starts of the Mozilla browser approaching the 60 minute mark on a dual Pentium system. Future benchmarks are planned and will be measured using a sun dial.
Plot: In the year 2003, the technologically-starved masses depend upon the United States government-manufactured item Microsoft Windows to exist and manage their day to day activities. But in the midst of an investigation, a hacker uncovers the chilling source of the product...
Microsoft Basic is Microsoft Windows!
*louder*
Microsoft Basic is Microsoft Windows!
*shouting at top of lungs*
Microsoft Basic is Microsoft Windows!
Brian,
As evident by the development of current Internet technologies such as TCP and IP by the Department of Defense-backed Advanced Research Projects Association (ARPA), we can only achieve a standard if one company or organization is behind both the medium and the protocol.
Do you feel that the Intel-backed TCPA and the Microsoft-owned Palladium technologies both have better chances of succeeding since they're one-man operations? If not, what alternatives do you suggest?
I actually e-mailed Richard Stallman a couple years ago when I realized a great way to spread the GNU message.
My question was whether disguising pro-GNU songs (such as these) as Billboard Top 40 hits and sharing them on Peer 2 Peer networks was a "right" thing to do.
He suggested that I not do it, but did thank me for a good laugh.
Just found the perfect product.
It's USB 2.0, even!
I, for one, would like to take advantage of USB's much faster bus speed to overtake these rickety old serial and parallel hard disks.
Any other takers?
"In the past year, we've seen a lot of attempts by companies to make a profit by selling mixed open and closed source software. Lindows and CrossOver spring to mind. How do you, both personally and as a representative of the EFF, react to this trend? Is it beneficial to the Free Software Movement in the short and long term?"
---- By tps12, one of the best Slashdot members of all time
I have set up us the Google cache of every page. Just keep clicking 'next' to view each page of their site in various languages.
g nuwin.epfl.ch/en/&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&safe =off&start=10&sa=N
http://www.google.com/search?q=link:codwwioy63YC:
Wow, an operating system that sucks worse than Linux; now we've seen everything.
Encouraging terror (and yes, our government does classify nearly all computer crime as terrorism) at events like Topgun Hacker Contests and Phreaking Conventions is just about the worst possible thing one could do right now.
It's hard enough for most of us to find stable jobs these days (even low-profile technology related careers at places like Staples and Office Max), and I load up Slashdot to find a bunch of geeks bragging about how quickly they can exploit a BIND/DNS hole or infiltrate remote machines through poor Telnet or PINE emailer security.
Work on your resume, take another college class, get an MCSE or Novell certification, but please stay away from Black Hat conventions that encourage computer crime. You do not want to be the next United States felon on the run.
1. Amount Cornell University Library pays for subscription to "Journal of Applied Polymer Science": $12,495.00
2. Amount charged to University Libraries for subscription to "Journal of Economic Studies": $13.40/page
3. Number of people who find the $13.40 per page ironic: 3 out of 4
4. Number of Project Gutenberg Etexts converted by voluteers: 3,551
5. Current "Cost" per Etext based on 3,481 texts: $2.87 per text
6. Number of Scientists worldwide boycotting Corporate Science Journals beginning September 2001: 26,000
7. Number of college and research institutions "Declaring Independence" by publishing themselves: 200
8. Number of days DMCA arrestee Dmitry Sklyarov spent in jail: 13
9. Number of jails he spent them in: 4
10. Amount charged to taxpayers for those 13 days: $4,000
11. Window of time Microsoft and the American Association of Publishers (AAP) can engage in
their cooperative Internet surveillance program: 24x7x365
12. Number of AAP members who apparently support the Internet surveillance program: 250
13. Number of "companies" which control the DVD Copy Control Association (DVD CCA): 4
14. Number of Executive Directors who appear to control the DVD Copy Control Association: 1
15. Amount one company charges for eBook encryption security: $3,000
16. Number of letters one must rotate the alphabet to decrypt that book: 13 (ROT-13)
17. Amount recovered in recent "software raid" conducted by BSA.org against Minneapolis Company: $260,000
18. Number of disgruntled employees who may report you to the BSA resulting in a "software raid.": 1
19. Number of Irish software companies currently being sued by BSA.org: 7
20. Companies BSA represents in those cases: Adobe, Autodesk, Macromedia, Microsoft and Symantec
21. Number of cities included in July 2001 BSA "Truce" Campaign: 5
22. Number of states which experienced Raids conducted by FBI on July 24 commended by BSA: 9
23. Number of proported jobs lost from software piracy in study conducted by BSA.org: 109,000
24. Amount an eBook customer may be fined for a backup not permited by the Publisher: $250,000
25. Amount of time that customer might spend in jail: 5 years
26. Number of restrictions placed on "Alice in Wonderland" (public domain) eBook: 5
27. Maximum penalty for reading "Alice in Wonderland" aloud (possible DMCA violation): 5 years jail
28. Maximum penalty for having a "pirate" copy of "Planet of the Apes": 10 years jail/$2M fine
29. Average sentence for commiting Rape: 5 years
30. Yet another Slashdot editor Hell-bent on a crusade against laws that don't have anything to do with them -- Priceless
(Oh, and by the way, we don't use commas in the pseudo-department section of each Slashdot article. It just looks plain stupid. Talk to Rob, your boss, and I'm sure he'll agree with me.)
Now, onto my original point. The DMCA is a law, and as faithful American citizens, it's our duty to obide by it and cherish it, as all laws must be cherished. Laws prevent lawlessness, which in turn prevents a nice society in which folks live nicely, which, finally, prevents a happy life.
... to spending dozens of hours and thousands of dollars combining Open Source DVD players, CD players, and MP3 players are the following:
1) Print a few more copies of your resume out and send them to companies. You've been out of work long enough and any minute the bill collectors are going to throw you and your family in jail.
2) Plant a tree. Picket outside fur factories and SUV dealerships. Teach a neighborhood child how to play the piano. Read to your kid. Make love to your wife.
3) Abandon all the worrying about conforming your life to the absurd paradigns and social revolutions inspired by lunatics like Richard M. Stallman, who was pink-slipped by the MIT Media Lab after years of little to no productive work.
but what ever happened to OLEDs & flexible LCDs?
OLED developments
Flexible LCD manufacturing/selling information
... I think I'd rather have a CDL than an LCD.
I urge you all to stick with Smalltalk and not some bastardization of object-oriented paradigms such as Java or C++.
Java is slow, as annoying to program as Microsoft's C# language, and just plain impractical.
C++ is a bastardized object-oriented programming language that's basically the octupus known as C with a bunch of "legs" such as OO, platform compatibility, etc. tacked onto the language.
The homepage for Smalltalk is located at this address. I urge you to read more about it before wasting any more of your precious work hours trying make Java actually work for you and your company.
Cheers.
I'm the senior Information Technology (IT) chairman for the state of Maryland's public schools from grades K through 12.
We plan on harnessing these new fabrications from the AMD chip maker and using them in all Web, file, and multimedia servers, as well as in every desktop on every desk in every school in Maryland.
Kudos to AMD for keeping up with the Intels and the Microsofts.
We could save all the grant funding cash being spent on this project quite simply if we only just limited Google's crawler resources.
Small sites like Kuro5hin.org get millions of hits every month from search engine page finders, such as the GoogleBot. This uses up an incredible amount of resources and slows the Internet down tremendously. What good is indexing billions of pages if your own software crashes each of their Webservers?
I propose increasing browsing speed by severely limiting the use of search engine crawlers. Perhaps only between 2:00am-5:00am every morning (EST) would we allow them. Otherwise, we'll continue to be stuck with a Kuro5hin.org site that is barely ever available due to its tremendous Google/PageRank/Link-to rank.
Oh, and Google's bot doesn't even obey robots.txt files even though it says it does. Try it out for yourself and you'll see what I mean.
I see an HP icon, an AOL icon, and a Linux penguin, and lots of positive minded talk.
It's not 1999 anymore, people. HP is a has-been, AOL is slowly finishing off their downspiral into the toilet of the ISP world, and "Linux" is as taboo for a businessman to say as "fire" is in a movie theater.
Even if an IT manager were to suggest to his company that they purchase HP or other UNIX-type servers, it wouldn't happen.
The only significant computer purchases made these days by businesses and consumers alike contain the words "Dell", "Intel", and "Microsoft".