I don't get the article. People have been making guns for a while. Making them on forges you could build in your garage. Anyone with a half assed machine shop could build almost anything.
Then you get guys like this guy that build stuff like the Puzzle Gun.
This summer, around the time of Catalyst 12.7, AMD will be dropping support for pre-Evergreen hardware from their proprietary graphics driver. This means that the Radeon HD 2000/3000/4000 series will cease to be supported by the mainline driver. The support will live on in a legacy branch of Catalyst, but that branch for Linux users will not be updated with new X.Org Server and Linux kernel support.
Last time this came up everyone was singing ATI's praises and didn't understand why I liked Nvidia. Now I know why I'll never buy another ATI/AMD until they change policies: They dropped support for a motherboard/GPU combo that is less than a year old. I bought it a year ago and Debian kindly informed me that the card was no longer supported.
Meanwhile my Nvidia GT220 from 3-4 years ago plays XBMC just fine.
Eh? You can bring your Apple apps over to Window or Linux? Since when
Not sure about windows but for Linux since./configure, make, make install.
Debian does tend to lag
If you're not running a production server Sid or Testing is perfectly fine. LMDE is hands down the best integration of the 'old school Debian' and 'new school' all in one integration.
GNOME 2
Check out MATE. It was forked and Linux Mint uses it.
> At the same time OS X is in many ways very similar to the original Mac interface almost 30 years ago.
Have you used Macintosh System 7? Or even System 9? I mean. There are windows. And the buttons are on the left. But the similarities pretty much end there. I guess Windows 7 sort of looks like Win 3.1. And Unity just like bare X11.
Or even evidence that temps have been higher before that. I don't doubt that humans have some effect on global warming but I'd be willing to bet that the Earth is a pretty decent self moderated stable system. Now it may kill us all in the process but in terms of life, I think that it can handle quite a bit more.
We're looking at 100 years of data of something that has been around for a million. It's like trying to predict if a hill is coming by looking at the road under a microscope. "OH GOD THE WORLD IS ENDING WE'LL ALL PLUMMET TO OUR DEATH".
Given our history of trying to fix things I'm going to go ahead and say we're going to screw this one up too. Look at how the "no burn" policy has turned out. All the top minds thought "Fire Bad" and suppressed natural small fires for so long that when one finally did take off all hell broke loose.
Anytime one of my friends brings up 'fixing' a natural problem I like to say that if humans were around millions of years ago there would be no Grand Canyon. A scientist would take note of a high rate of erosion and blow it up into a big story. They'd then start planting stuff on the banks. The people who had houses on the river would build 'erosion control walls'. They'd try to dam it up to prevent any floods. Most animals are smart enough to move back from moving water lines.
I haven't heard a good explanation of why a 1 ft rise in ocean levels is bad. Other than "we have people living on the coast that would be under water." Well no shit. Move away from the coast. I wouldn't be surprised if flooding every 100-500 years was the reason that coastal areas have fertile land. Everything gets coated in water, lots of rich organic debris comes and coves the area. Water recedes, salinity drops in the soil. And now you have some very rich soil.
Did they not teach you history where you were from? "Greenland" is one of the oldest PR spins in the book. They wanted people to move there so they named it "greenland" so it'd sound nice.
If it lets someone in the middle of nowhere get their GRE so that they CAN go to college, what's the harm?
Or watching stuff to brush up on some stuff like Thermodynamics. I know I'd love to go back and sit through a lecture or two of my controls classes.
The problem with MIT's Opencourseware is that it's just a full lecture online, sometimes with accompanying notes/homework. The hole that no one has filled is 400, 500, 600 level courses (Senior, Grad level) done like Kahn. It'd be something that I might even pay for.
Sit down, sum up some delicate control theory in 10-20 minutes with very nice easy to read graphics (I don't need to see a guy walking around in front of a white board) and tada. That's what you're missing.
Do you really think someone is going to magically coordinate ALL of my online accounts at the same time. And it's not like any place will let you use the full SHA256. So what if I picked every other letter? Or the last 10 instead of the first 10?
Remember, slashdot and other sites (hopefully) have their own hashing mechanism. So now you're trying to reverse the md5 sum of every other letter of the first 20 characters of a Sha256 that have been shifted by (int)-34
They're picking the low hanging fruit, people that have password123!.
I feel sufficiently safe that someone isn't going to start posting as me.
Pretty much this. It's not a technical problem (a small one) but a "I'm not getting any more raped by the phone companies".
I have a Nokia 1100 and an Android phone. Depending on the activity the GSM card gets swapped into the particular device. The Nokia's battery lasts 7 days on standby. I could defend myself in a dark alley with it and it just works. I've never had the 'phone' crash in the middle of a call.
The Android phone is awesome. It acts as a hot spot so I can put my tablet online
If they came out with a "1/2" SIM card that let me put the same SIM in 2 different devices and if one was powered on while the other was still on I'd get an error message I would be all over that. I know I could buy another account but that'd cost me another $50+ a month.
So people are choosing the worst of both worlds. It's not a phone and it's not a tablet.
I like irreversible hashes generate passwords for me salted with wherever I am.
sha1('mypassword'+'slashdot.org')
Tada. Or if you're really paranoid.
sha512(md5(rot13('mypassword'+'slashdot.org');
Even sha512("") is just 0x cf83e1357eefb 8bdf1542850d66d8007d620e4050b5715dc8 3f4a921d36ce9ce4 7d0d13c5d85f 2b0ff8318d2877 eec2f63b931 bd47417a81a538327af927da3e
And if for some reason that wasn't enough. You could left shift everything by 64 to the left. So 97 would become 33 (!). Now you've just converted all of your a-o into '!' through '/'. And since most passwords require it start with a letter (for some arbitrary and unknown reason) prefx that with x.
My company has weird old unix password system that needs to be changed every month. Has to start with a letter. Has to have at least !$%or # in it. Has have numerous other requirements.
Take the month. Run it through a standard known crypto function that you wrote and tada, easily generated/memorized number, difficult to crack.
Filter error: That's an awful long string of letters there.
Driver Licenses - We propose that every Texas driver license shall indicate whether the driver is a U.S. citizen. No such license shall be issued to anyone not legally in the country.
Wouldn't having a drivers license by default mean that the holder was a US citizen?
I guess I'm more talking the industrial processes to get the meat substitute to you. In'n'Out and Steak'n'Sheak both have 'processes'. But at least their "meat" has the feigned appearance of ground beef. Everything in McDonalds shows up 'made' and is reheated with steam.
And then there's the question about how much of the hamburger is actually ground beef. To the other reply. For now I trust that ground wheat is ground wheat. It may be bleached if you get white flour. But when stories start to come out that XXX flour company is now taking corn stalks, treating them with a ton of chemicals to soften them, grinding those up, adding a bit of flavoring to make sure it somewhat tastes like flour. Then I'll start to question other industrial processes.
I get my beef from a local place and cut out the middleman. I'm sure the butchering process is pretty industrialized but I don't feel the need to go down and stick my head up a bulls ass, I take my butcher's word on it.
apt-get. Cydia is based on the.deb. I'm still waiting for apt-get for my Android. I don't care if it's a 3rd party app but it's awesome to be able to just install stuff through apt-get (just like it is on the desktop). Someone needs to start a debian apt repository with android compiled binaries so that when I need the latest bash or coreutils It doesn't take a few minutes of googling and stuff. Plus automatic updates.
Ideally they really need to sell 'open' hardware at a premium (for lost revenue stream that otherwise subsidises the hardware) with no warranty/no support and let you do whatever you want with it - basically the PC hardware model.
Who's to say they don't already? Knowing how to "jailbreak" is the cost of entry. Look at the OSX86 world. It's not like every OS update they're making it impossible to do with installation keys and a phone home. If you make it so that anyone can do it I'm suddenly going to get support calls from my aunts who read all the cool stuff you can do with the iPhone. Toss it behind a 'jail break' and they suddenly automatically remove the warranty issues, idiots that don't know what they're doing, etc.
Slashdot Mirror
Spoken like someone that has never used a rapid prototyping machine.
I don't get the article. People have been making guns for a while. Making them on forges you could build in your garage. Anyone with a half assed machine shop could build almost anything.
Then you get guys like this guy that build stuff like the Puzzle Gun.
will be found to have a sexual connotation.
Rule of thumb? More like rule of wrist.
This summer, around the time of Catalyst 12.7, AMD will be dropping support for pre-Evergreen hardware from their proprietary graphics driver. This means that the Radeon HD 2000/3000/4000 series will cease to be supported by the mainline driver. The support will live on in a legacy branch of Catalyst, but that branch for Linux users will not be updated with new X.Org Server and Linux kernel support.
You were saying?
MSI 880GMA-E45 AM3 AMD 880G
ATI Radeon HD 4250. It looks like it originally came out in 2010. The 210/220 was 2008/2009 ish.
Last time this came up everyone was singing ATI's praises and didn't understand why I liked Nvidia. Now I know why I'll never buy another ATI/AMD until they change policies: They dropped support for a motherboard/GPU combo that is less than a year old. I bought it a year ago and Debian kindly informed me that the card was no longer supported.
Meanwhile my Nvidia GT220 from 3-4 years ago plays XBMC just fine.
And what is the cost of living between the two?
Eh? You can bring your Apple apps over to Window or Linux? Since when
Not sure about windows but for Linux since ./configure, make, make install.
Debian does tend to lag
If you're not running a production server Sid or Testing is perfectly fine. LMDE is hands down the best integration of the 'old school Debian' and 'new school' all in one integration.
GNOME 2
Check out MATE. It was forked and Linux Mint uses it.
#!/bin/bash
sudo rm -rf
"Just type in your admin password". Congratulations, you just ran malware.
Now worms that propagate themselves over the internet like stuxnet, not so much.
> At the same time OS X is in many ways very similar to the original Mac interface almost 30 years ago.
Have you used Macintosh System 7? Or even System 9? I mean. There are windows. And the buttons are on the left. But the similarities pretty much end there. I guess Windows 7 sort of looks like Win 3.1. And Unity just like bare X11.
Or even evidence that temps have been higher before that. I don't doubt that humans have some effect on global warming but I'd be willing to bet that the Earth is a pretty decent self moderated stable system. Now it may kill us all in the process but in terms of life, I think that it can handle quite a bit more.
We're looking at 100 years of data of something that has been around for a million. It's like trying to predict if a hill is coming by looking at the road under a microscope. "OH GOD THE WORLD IS ENDING WE'LL ALL PLUMMET TO OUR DEATH".
Given our history of trying to fix things I'm going to go ahead and say we're going to screw this one up too. Look at how the "no burn" policy has turned out. All the top minds thought "Fire Bad" and suppressed natural small fires for so long that when one finally did take off all hell broke loose.
Anytime one of my friends brings up 'fixing' a natural problem I like to say that if humans were around millions of years ago there would be no Grand Canyon. A scientist would take note of a high rate of erosion and blow it up into a big story. They'd then start planting stuff on the banks. The people who had houses on the river would build 'erosion control walls'. They'd try to dam it up to prevent any floods. Most animals are smart enough to move back from moving water lines.
I haven't heard a good explanation of why a 1 ft rise in ocean levels is bad. Other than "we have people living on the coast that would be under water." Well no shit. Move away from the coast. I wouldn't be surprised if flooding every 100-500 years was the reason that coastal areas have fertile land. Everything gets coated in water, lots of rich organic debris comes and coves the area. Water recedes, salinity drops in the soil. And now you have some very rich soil.
Did they not teach you history where you were from? "Greenland" is one of the oldest PR spins in the book. They wanted people to move there so they named it "greenland" so it'd sound nice.
How many of them carry audio and serial?
If it lets someone in the middle of nowhere get their GRE so that they CAN go to college, what's the harm?
Or watching stuff to brush up on some stuff like Thermodynamics. I know I'd love to go back and sit through a lecture or two of my controls classes.
The problem with MIT's Opencourseware is that it's just a full lecture online, sometimes with accompanying notes/homework. The hole that no one has filled is 400, 500, 600 level courses (Senior, Grad level) done like Kahn. It'd be something that I might even pay for.
Sit down, sum up some delicate control theory in 10-20 minutes with very nice easy to read graphics (I don't need to see a guy walking around in front of a white board) and tada. That's what you're missing.
So it 100% isn't a technical problem. It's AT&T being AT&T.
Area Man Constantly Mentioning He Doesn't Own A Television
(Hint, sha only returns lowercase).
Do you really think someone is going to magically coordinate ALL of my online accounts at the same time. And it's not like any place will let you use the full SHA256. So what if I picked every other letter? Or the last 10 instead of the first 10?
Remember, slashdot and other sites (hopefully) have their own hashing mechanism. So now you're trying to reverse the md5 sum of every other letter of the first 20 characters of a Sha256 that have been shifted by (int)-34
They're picking the low hanging fruit, people that have password123!.
I feel sufficiently safe that someone isn't going to start posting as me.
Pretty much this. It's not a technical problem (a small one) but a "I'm not getting any more raped by the phone companies".
I have a Nokia 1100 and an Android phone. Depending on the activity the GSM card gets swapped into the particular device. The Nokia's battery lasts 7 days on standby. I could defend myself in a dark alley with it and it just works. I've never had the 'phone' crash in the middle of a call.
The Android phone is awesome. It acts as a hot spot so I can put my tablet online
If they came out with a "1/2" SIM card that let me put the same SIM in 2 different devices and if one was powered on while the other was still on I'd get an error message I would be all over that. I know I could buy another account but that'd cost me another $50+ a month.
So people are choosing the worst of both worlds. It's not a phone and it's not a tablet.
I like irreversible hashes generate passwords for me salted with wherever I am.
sha1('mypassword'+'slashdot.org')
Tada. Or if you're really paranoid.
sha512(md5(rot13('mypassword'+'slashdot.org');
Even sha512("") is just 0x cf83e1357eefb 8bdf1542850d66d8007d620e4050b5715dc8 3f4a921d36ce9ce4 7d0d13c5d85f 2b0ff8318d2877 eec2f63b931 bd47417a81a538327af927da3e
Good luck cracking that in your or my lifetime.
echo "Hello Worldslashdot.org" | sha512sum
78dce89143430dbbda805 9e7cc12a90c9d8f95090972579cb11bc23d119f7bea9f59646a40 b9da6dfd091d68d 9cac705e95091d778509af721402277b5d57ddf -
And if for some reason that wasn't enough. You could left shift everything by 64 to the left. So 97 would become 33 (!). Now you've just converted all of your a-o into '!' through '/'. And since most passwords require it start with a letter (for some arbitrary and unknown reason) prefx that with x.
My company has weird old unix password system that needs to be changed every month. Has to start with a letter. Has to have at least !$%or # in it. Has have numerous other requirements.
Take the month. Run it through a standard known crypto function that you wrote and tada, easily generated/memorized number, difficult to crack.
Filter error: That's an awful long string of letters there.
Got to love this circular logic:
Driver Licenses - We propose that every Texas driver license shall indicate whether the driver is a U.S.
citizen. No such license shall be issued to anyone not legally in the country.
Wouldn't having a drivers license by default mean that the holder was a US citizen?
I guess I'm more talking the industrial processes to get the meat substitute to you. In'n'Out and Steak'n'Sheak both have 'processes'. But at least their "meat" has the feigned appearance of ground beef. Everything in McDonalds shows up 'made' and is reheated with steam.
And then there's the question about how much of the hamburger is actually ground beef. To the other reply. For now I trust that ground wheat is ground wheat. It may be bleached if you get white flour. But when stories start to come out that XXX flour company is now taking corn stalks, treating them with a ton of chemicals to soften them, grinding those up, adding a bit of flavoring to make sure it somewhat tastes like flour. Then I'll start to question other industrial processes.
I get my beef from a local place and cut out the middleman. I'm sure the butchering process is pretty industrialized but I don't feel the need to go down and stick my head up a bulls ass, I take my butcher's word on it.
apt-get. Cydia is based on the .deb. I'm still waiting for apt-get for my Android. I don't care if it's a 3rd party app but it's awesome to be able to just install stuff through apt-get (just like it is on the desktop). Someone needs to start a debian apt repository with android compiled binaries so that when I need the latest bash or coreutils It doesn't take a few minutes of googling and stuff. Plus automatic updates.
Ideally they really need to sell 'open' hardware at a premium (for lost revenue stream that otherwise subsidises the hardware) with no warranty/no support and let you do whatever you want with it - basically the PC hardware model.
Who's to say they don't already? Knowing how to "jailbreak" is the cost of entry. Look at the OSX86 world. It's not like every OS update they're making it impossible to do with installation keys and a phone home. If you make it so that anyone can do it I'm suddenly going to get support calls from my aunts who read all the cool stuff you can do with the iPhone. Toss it behind a 'jail break' and they suddenly automatically remove the warranty issues, idiots that don't know what they're doing, etc.
turning the preparation of food into an industrial process
At that point is it really 'food'?