maybe, but someone might be using "brain snort" to sniff the plain text root password. then the guy is at the mercy of terrorists!
really though, rooting someones brain is going a little far. the brain is built to learn and store information. it wont be long until the day arrives where we really can speak binary on a transparent level without physical interaction with a machine.
Could it be possible for humans to build such a technologically advanced machine, I mean bleeding edge quantum light beam crap, in the future, to where a certain percentage of the population could "hack" their way around the "mainframe" WITHOUT the head-gear?
w00t!
my idea! my idea! im gonna patent brain wave hacking right now;P
You are so right. I wish everyone would just let microsoft do whatever they want. Who cares if they eventually patent the way we eat, sleep, think (oh they did that one allready), and breath? We can all just move to the moon, if gates doesnt allready own it by that time. Apathy like yours is what got us here in the first place.
...the most experienced of these political hacks makes good use of smoke and mirrors with the words theyve used. Bush definetly seems to blaitantly IGNORE the fact that these questions are asked to be answered. At least Nader and Kerry seem to have the balls to take some of the questions on. Bush is up to the same old political shit that my parents taught me to watch for and laugh at when I was young. He says A WHOLE LOT OF NOTHING, and thats exactly the future I picture with him in office.
i agree. dropline is great considering its a custom kind of thing just for slack, but i dont use gnome or kde at all. when i do use graphical apps 90% of them come from gnome if they come from one of the window managers. i rarely use ANYTHING from the kde menus.
that is my issue with dropping gnome entirely from distros. these distros are trying to appeal to everyone, so naturally 14 different window managers will be included. thats the great thing about linux, you dont have to use them, you dont have to install them, and there are 1000 other distros out there, most with completely different objectives. im not much for eye candy anyway but i gotta have my dockapps! i dont care where they came from or what theyre called, as long as i can monitor the things i need to monitor in a nifty mini-window without soaking up tons of system resources.
Many people are missing the bigger picture. This is simply another method for a failing law enforcement body to collect easy money from innocent people, and MAYBE catch a bad guy or two. Police state!
The cost of the new law enforcement division vs the cost of a brigade of high school geeks does not hold a candle to the amount of money and hardware they could extort and confiscate with new laws.
You are on your way across town and decide to take a detour through this neighborhood, and you have your laptop on and a couple friends with you. This new kind of cop pulls you over and arrests you, your friends, confiscates your laptop and impounds your vehicle, raids your house and takes all of your computers. No questions asked, guilty until proven innocent, just like a regular bullshit traffic ticket, and you and your friends are posting thousands of dollars in bond.
Yeah, like some volunteer class held at the local PD could hold a candle to this kind of extortion. Where I live cops run around unchecked enough to hang out by the freeway in small gangs in the shade handing out seatbelt tickets while the other side of town is a burning shit hole of crime where cops just_dont_go.
We are better food for the economy because we have stuff to confiscate. Blah blah you see where I'm going with this...
Why don't they take out the parts that infringe on the individuals rights? They just added the loophole for companies like *AHEM*ENRON*AHEM, and HALLIBURTON to slip through. Big fucking step in the right direction I'm sure. Next we should outlaw all investigations into large corporations to begin with.
How bout Streptomononucleosis? They could write a whole rash (haha) of MS books based on pests, plagues, vermin, stds and other microscopic scum. At this level, O'Reilly will never run out of themes which is good, since MS never seems to run out of crap to spew.
However, other supercomputers can do things Blue Gene cannot, such as produce 3-D simulations of nuclear explosions, Hirschfeld said.
Then what fun is it? Let me guess, it can simulate the growth of a 3000 year old Grand Sequoia though...hippy scientists... Fire up the glx mod and lets get fraggin!
We've been watching you very closely and it seems that you won't be getting much for Christmas this year. We had a talk with Santa and he says you are out there filing frivolous patents on "wearable" computers - with evidence of prior art dating back to the 80's falling from the sky, ( Its not? Keep watching, I will personally see to it...).
Anyway, Good fucking luck man. God is gonna be pissed when you try to defend it in court.
IANL, but IMHO, we should all LOL and say RUD12C4DBJ to gates and let him do his thing.
seriously, what if we all went vehemently pro-microsoft and dropped open source like a bad habit, and contributed to his abuse of power?
it seems to me his "empire" would collapse under its own weight and said weight would be redistributed evenly enough to organizations and fragments of his regime so that we can all pick back up where we left off and maybe, finally, we wont have to BITCH ABOUT THIS SHIT ANY MORE, and we can go back to our butterflys and moonbeams and fairy tales of the ensuing perfect world.
--i haven't taken a breath since i was 2 weeks old. should explain ALOT >=]
I agree. Next time I get a traffic ticket I'm going to take all my garbage/beer cans to the courthouse and assign value to it for payment. If they give me any shit I'll just cite the precedence set here. Rediculous.
Researchers using lab techniques can create a weird relationship between pairs of tiny particles. After that, the fate of one particle instantly affects the other; if one particle is made to take on a certain set of properties, the other immediately takes on identical or opposite properties, no matter how far away it is and without any apparent physical connection to the first particle.
Does this not scare the living crap out of anyone but me? This is MAGIC.
i was almost hit by lighting on a couple of occasions climbing telephone poles. Every other pole in residential areas is supposed to have thick guage ground wire bonded to the strand, but in most cases that wire is severed at the pole by residents or the bond is corroded enough to be innefective. We had a man die just a few years ago on the pole because of a lighting strike.
As cable and telephone installers we are required to work in the rain and have to wait for the go ahead to wait it out, regardless of how bad it seems out there. We do not get hazard pay, but we do stick together with our radios.
"Screw Them HaHaa, I ain't getting up there right now..."
Some customers are unreasonable about this, doing things like demanding cable TV during a hail storm. Take it easy on the cable/telephone guy, unless he REALLY deservers a hard time.
Most people on AOL have NO idea what they are missing my friend. I've heard so many new broadband customers ask me how they are going to get on the internet if they don't need to use the phone for it anymore. To them, AOL is all the internet has to offer, and its sad if you ask me. Sheer ignorance, and these guys at Comcast are betting on that. Once they are enticed enough to get away from the ISP for Retards AOL is they will be hooked, and this is a damn good way to bait them.
It may just be that data lines might better be owned publicly, like the roads...
I know of a couple stretches I should own personally for the amount of hell I went through and personal effort/free time I spent getting it done. Read my post about the money!
We have a provider here using "the middle line". On top is 60 hz Coax and on bottom is the 1000 pair trunk cable for the phone company. In the middle we have a hybrid network that is, from what I'm told, truly one of a kind. They power up these RG6 aerials with 90 volts and shoot VoIP out of a telephony/coax port on the side of your house, along with digital TV and broadband. Great idea, and man let me tell you, thier competition is in ALOT of trouble here. Its "all on one bill".
The line should be leased to competitors, but a viable solution in this section of the industry is years away if its even in the making. Its taken this particular company about 6 years to wire up 250 something nodes from scratch. But pound for pound they have more fiber than the "other" company and are all about quality because this market is now healthy enough for people to have not 1, 2, or 3, but half a dozen choices on who to go through for what service, unlike certain aspects of this industry.
You hit the nail on the head there. Ever seen CPE based Satellite internet access? Its so slow you have the option of dialing up to send all your ACKs.
In the old days of that, the dishes were literally cooking objects in thier paths like trees and possums because of the need for a competent upload.
But one thing on here rarely mentioned is where the real quality of service factor comes in: the installation.
Satellite media installers in my area are notorious for having no regard for specification and even less for things like basic hygene. Its all about the pay. You pay my guys enough to do a good job and your'e going to get a first rate install. You lower my bill codes and I'm going to make sure from the ground up you don't have a leg to stand on. They can bring in another contractor if they want but that doesn't mean we aren't one big happy networking family here in this town.
Sorry, I do this for a living and its very early in the morning. NOBODY BETTER BE LATE.
I worked in that industry long enough to know that the costs of converting and mainting broadband capable communications lines are higher than the profits involved on a year to year basis. Sometimes the price of the bandwidth is justified, particularly in areas where the means and measures taken to upgrade exisiting system outwieghs the short term benefits of marketing and information gathering/selling. That IS what its about you know.
What do you think your digital cable box with 1000's of channels does all damn day with that bandwidth? Set up spam from China? Wouldn't suprise me much to be honest.
Dialup sucks ass. It's only used by those who can't get Fiber To The County or so, for the most part. I remember one customer yelling at me years ago because a sales rep said I'd go out there and install a cable modem and internet setup even though he lived some 10 miles from the nearest fiber optic node and didnt even have hard line ran near his zip code. He had a phone though. Imagine the trouble I'd got in for suggesting that he go through a competitor to get dialup.
Thats just a small testament to how lucrative that market is. They need every penny they can get and there is a huge job market for fiber splicers and installers alike. Problems only arise when there is only one company offering broadband in a given location. For years in mine we saw ads like "Time Warner Cable - Your Only Choice" with a big fuckin smile across it on bus stops and billboards.
There are of course the huge issues of how that bandwidth is used. Ideally we wouldn't NEED all that expensive head end multiplexing with GW/hr power consumption if there was not:
spam
media pirating
worm ridden windows boxes
This is where a large part of the cost seems to emanate. The ISP doesn't even really care about how much you DOWNLOAD, its what you UPLOAD, and 2 of the 3 above are good examples of what problems should be dealt with first. I know you gotta upload it to download it guys but usually people who upload aren't real concerned that its going to cut into thier 56k modems QoS capabilities.
It seems here we find the core of many many issues present in today's communications' agendas.
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maybe, but someone might be using "brain snort" to sniff the plain text root password. then the guy is at the mercy of terrorists!
really though, rooting someones brain is going a little far. the brain is built to learn and store information. it wont be long until the day arrives where we really can speak binary on a transparent level without physical interaction with a machine.
who laughs last?
...so was the idea of space travel 100 years ago.
;P
Could it be possible for humans to build such a technologically advanced machine, I mean bleeding edge quantum light beam crap, in the future, to where a certain percentage of the population could "hack" their way around the "mainframe" WITHOUT the head-gear?
w00t!
my idea! my idea! im gonna patent brain wave hacking right now
You are so right. I wish everyone would just let microsoft do whatever they want. Who cares if they eventually patent the way we eat, sleep, think (oh they did that one allready), and breath? We can all just move to the moon, if gates doesnt allready own it by that time. Apathy like yours is what got us here in the first place.
they can only attempt to prevent me from "posting" on their site... >=]
--karma is for the birds.
...the most experienced of these political hacks makes good use of smoke and mirrors with the words theyve used. Bush definetly seems to blaitantly IGNORE the fact that these questions are asked to be answered. At least Nader and Kerry seem to have the balls to take some of the questions on. Bush is up to the same old political shit that my parents taught me to watch for and laugh at when I was young. He says A WHOLE LOT OF NOTHING, and thats exactly the future I picture with him in office.
i agree. dropline is great considering its a custom kind of thing just for slack, but i dont use gnome or kde at all. when i do use graphical apps 90% of them come from gnome if they come from one of the window managers. i rarely use ANYTHING from the kde menus.
that is my issue with dropping gnome entirely from distros. these distros are trying to appeal to everyone, so naturally 14 different window managers will be included. thats the great thing about linux, you dont have to use them, you dont have to install them, and there are 1000 other distros out there, most with completely different objectives. im not much for eye candy anyway but i gotta have my dockapps! i dont care where they came from or what theyre called, as long as i can monitor the things i need to monitor in a nifty mini-window without soaking up tons of system resources.
I didnt RTFA, or any posts, so this is MY IDEA, got it?
Im going to patent the taste of "shit". This means:
1) I am going to sue ALL FAST FOOD RESTAURANTS for patent infringement.
Many people are missing the bigger picture. This is simply another method for a failing law enforcement body to collect easy money from innocent people, and MAYBE catch a bad guy or two. Police state!
The cost of the new law enforcement division vs the cost of a brigade of high school geeks does not hold a candle to the amount of money and hardware they could extort and confiscate with new laws.
Yes but where would the revenue come from?
Take this scenario:
You are on your way across town and decide to take a detour through this neighborhood, and you have your laptop on and a couple friends with you. This new kind of cop pulls you over and arrests you, your friends, confiscates your laptop and impounds your vehicle, raids your house and takes all of your computers. No questions asked, guilty until proven innocent, just like a regular bullshit traffic ticket, and you and your friends are posting thousands of dollars in bond.
Yeah, like some volunteer class held at the local PD could hold a candle to this kind of extortion. Where I live cops run around unchecked enough to hang out by the freeway in small gangs in the shade handing out seatbelt tickets while the other side of town is a burning shit hole of crime where cops just_dont_go.
We are better food for the economy because we have stuff to confiscate. Blah blah you see where I'm going with this...
Why don't they take out the parts that infringe on the individuals rights? They just added the loophole for companies like *AHEM*ENRON*AHEM, and HALLIBURTON to slip through. Big fucking step in the right direction I'm sure. Next we should outlaw all investigations into large corporations to begin with.
How bout Streptomononucleosis? They could write a whole rash (haha) of MS books based on pests, plagues, vermin, stds and other microscopic scum. At this level, O'Reilly will never run out of themes which is good, since MS never seems to run out of crap to spew.
However, other supercomputers can do things Blue Gene cannot, such as produce 3-D simulations of nuclear explosions, Hirschfeld said.
Then what fun is it? Let me guess, it can simulate the growth of a 3000 year old Grand Sequoia though...hippy scientists... Fire up the glx mod and lets get fraggin!
Dear Corporation,
We've been watching you very closely and it seems that you won't be getting much for Christmas this year. We had a talk with Santa and he says you are out there filing frivolous patents on "wearable" computers - with evidence of prior art dating back to the 80's falling from the sky, ( Its not? Keep watching, I will personally see to it...).
Anyway, Good fucking luck man. God is gonna be pissed when you try to defend it in court.
Sincerely,
Jesus H. Christ
quit crying...
IANL, but IMHO, we should all LOL and say RUD12C4DBJ to gates and let him do his thing.
seriously, what if we all went vehemently pro-microsoft and dropped open source like a bad habit, and contributed to his abuse of power?
it seems to me his "empire" would collapse under its own weight and said weight would be redistributed evenly enough to organizations and fragments of his regime so that we can all pick back up where we left off and maybe, finally, we wont have to BITCH ABOUT THIS SHIT ANY MORE, and we can go back to our butterflys and moonbeams and fairy tales of the ensuing perfect world.
--i haven't taken a breath since i was 2 weeks old. should explain ALOT >=]
I agree. Next time I get a traffic ticket I'm going to take all my garbage/beer cans to the courthouse and assign value to it for payment. If they give me any shit I'll just cite the precedence set here. Rediculous.
Researchers using lab techniques can create a weird relationship between pairs of tiny particles. After that, the fate of one particle instantly affects the other; if one particle is made to take on a certain set of properties, the other immediately takes on identical or opposite properties, no matter how far away it is and without any apparent physical connection to the first particle.
Does this not scare the living crap out of anyone but me? This is MAGIC.
what a story... can't WAIT for the movie...
i was almost hit by lighting on a couple of occasions climbing telephone poles. Every other pole in residential areas is supposed to have thick guage ground wire bonded to the strand, but in most cases that wire is severed at the pole by residents or the bond is corroded enough to be innefective. We had a man die just a few years ago on the pole because of a lighting strike.
As cable and telephone installers we are required to work in the rain and have to wait for the go ahead to wait it out, regardless of how bad it seems out there. We do not get hazard pay, but we do stick together with our radios.
"Screw Them HaHaa, I ain't getting up there right now..."
Some customers are unreasonable about this, doing things like demanding cable TV during a hail storm. Take it easy on the cable/telephone guy, unless he REALLY deservers a hard time.
RFID tags are being embedded into RFID tag embedded RFID tags in order to track the use of RFID tags for RFID tags.
'state-of-the-art computers using a Windows NT operating system' OMFGLOLROFLMFAO
sorry... couldn't help it.
I'll give you a free estimate on how much I will charge to wire your office.
Most people on AOL have NO idea what they are missing my friend. I've heard so many new broadband customers ask me how they are going to get on the internet if they don't need to use the phone for it anymore. To them, AOL is all the internet has to offer, and its sad if you ask me. Sheer ignorance, and these guys at Comcast are betting on that. Once they are enticed enough to get away from the ISP for Retards AOL is they will be hooked, and this is a damn good way to bait them.
It may just be that data lines might better be owned publicly, like the roads...
I know of a couple stretches I should own personally for the amount of hell I went through and personal effort/free time I spent getting it done. Read my post about the money!
We have a provider here using "the middle line". On top is 60 hz Coax and on bottom is the 1000 pair trunk cable for the phone company. In the middle we have a hybrid network that is, from what I'm told, truly one of a kind. They power up these RG6 aerials with 90 volts and shoot VoIP out of a telephony/coax port on the side of your house, along with digital TV and broadband. Great idea, and man let me tell you, thier competition is in ALOT of trouble here. Its "all on one bill".
The line should be leased to competitors, but a viable solution in this section of the industry is years away if its even in the making. Its taken this particular company about 6 years to wire up 250 something nodes from scratch. But pound for pound they have more fiber than the "other" company and are all about quality because this market is now healthy enough for people to have not 1, 2, or 3, but half a dozen choices on who to go through for what service, unlike certain aspects of this industry.
You hit the nail on the head there. Ever seen CPE based Satellite internet access? Its so slow you have the option of dialing up to send all your ACKs.
In the old days of that, the dishes were literally cooking objects in thier paths like trees and possums because of the need for a competent upload.
But one thing on here rarely mentioned is where the real quality of service factor comes in: the installation.
Satellite media installers in my area are notorious for having no regard for specification and even less for things like basic hygene. Its all about the pay. You pay my guys enough to do a good job and your'e going to get a first rate install. You lower my bill codes and I'm going to make sure from the ground up you don't have a leg to stand on. They can bring in another contractor if they want but that doesn't mean we aren't one big happy networking family here in this town.
Sorry, I do this for a living and its very early in the morning. NOBODY BETTER BE LATE.
What do you think your digital cable box with 1000's of channels does all damn day with that bandwidth? Set up spam from China? Wouldn't suprise me much to be honest.
Dialup sucks ass. It's only used by those who can't get Fiber To The County or so, for the most part. I remember one customer yelling at me years ago because a sales rep said I'd go out there and install a cable modem and internet setup even though he lived some 10 miles from the nearest fiber optic node and didnt even have hard line ran near his zip code. He had a phone though. Imagine the trouble I'd got in for suggesting that he go through a competitor to get dialup.
Thats just a small testament to how lucrative that market is. They need every penny they can get and there is a huge job market for fiber splicers and installers alike. Problems only arise when there is only one company offering broadband in a given location. For years in mine we saw ads like "Time Warner Cable - Your Only Choice" with a big fuckin smile across it on bus stops and billboards.
There are of course the huge issues of how that bandwidth is used. Ideally we wouldn't NEED all that expensive head end multiplexing with GW/hr power consumption if there was not:
- spam
- media pirating
- worm ridden windows boxes
This is where a large part of the cost seems to emanate. The ISP doesn't even really care about how much you DOWNLOAD, its what you UPLOAD, and 2 of the 3 above are good examples of what problems should be dealt with first. I know you gotta upload it to download it guys but usually people who upload aren't real concerned that its going to cut into thier 56k modems QoS capabilities.It seems here we find the core of many many issues present in today's communications' agendas.