Hackers are people who try to make computers do innovative new things. Bill Gates is a hacker (Manages to slow your computer down as fast as Moore's Law speeds it up...). Ok... Eh, bad example:). Crackers are malicious people who want to cause electronic anarchy and chaos. Now there is no denying that some of the hackers the university wants to train may go over to the dark side, but most of them will stay on the light side.
A different analogy: Hiring a cracker is like putting a serial bomber on the SWAT bomb squad. Hiring a hacker is like hiring someone with a natural gift for diffusing bombs.
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Ah, finally, a reason for everyone to have a Tandy model 100: cheap autodialer!
Once again, further proof that Congress is the opposite of Progress. On a more serious note:
"The concerns of the thousands of Americans whose livelihoods depend on intellectual property protection are not being fully debated or addressed,"
Uh-Huh. Seeing as Wexler wants to give the RIAA the right to hack your computer maliciously, I'd say the rights of the millions of Americans whose livelihood depends on having a functional computer are not being fully addressed. But they don't offer money, do they?
At any rate, it's obvious that they've been bought by the **AA. What else is new?
Quoteth:
"This won't happen without Intel and AMD deciding both on the processor chip and the system design they'll build these things in..." Try and force hardware DRM on me. Go ahead and try. I will not buy any new hardware unless it is certified DRM-FREE.
Whether or not it *can* be disabled, you can bet your @$$ that it *will* be enabled by default. And most users will be either be unable to turn it off or too apathetic to turn it off. As soon as one person posts a document for others that uses DRM, everyone else will be forced to use it and they will *Suprise* have to let their wallets be raped by MicroSoft (Heehee... Micro... Soft...) to buy the latest version of Office that can decrypt the document, which happens only to run on the latest version of Windoze. Before long, everyone is using DRM and everyone else is under enormous pressure to bend over and take it.
Suddenly, the world will be hit by DRM-enabled documents from clueless and uncaring users, and those who DO care about their freedom will be forced into using it or not viewing DRM-documents, and those who give it the finger and develop an OSS alternative to remove the DRM will be sued under everyone's favorite law, the DMCA!
Gee, sounds sort of like an abusive monopoly...
To all my school sysadmins: "The following 5 lines of innocent HTML code will crash Internet Explorer:" That would really be priceless. "So, still want to use Windows? I've got Knoppix and Mandrake CD's if you want to try."
Personally, I prefer something between manual voting and E-voting.
I don't want manual voting for obvious reasons. See 2000 presidential election for more information. I don't want everyone voting over the internet because you'd probably have every malicious cracker around trying to cause havoc.
I think we should have computers for voting in the polling places, and then the results are put on a CD-R and sent to the county for counting. Then send those results to the State government and finally to DC.
The way I see it, it's the best of both worlds: You vote simply and promptly in the voting place, increasing turnout. However, you network is NOT connected to the internet so you cannot be hacked. Counting the data on the CD-Rs would be a piece of cake: Start the tallying program, and then pop in CDs as prompted. Of course, all these CD-Rs would be sent overnight mail ASAP.
You'll have the result in about 4 days, 1 day to count/take to county hall, 1 day to sent to state/count, and 2 days at most to send to DC/count.
You send voters a name/number they can use to login. If I had anything to say about it, the computers used would be dumb terminals locked into a command line program, like this:
Send a list of votor choices to the screen, such as: Press 1 to vote for George W. Bush (Republican) for president
Press 2 to vote for Al Gore (Democrat) for president
The server is constantly polling 20+ serial ports for numbers, and rejects any characters except for those specified. When you're done, your choices are put into a file with contents like this: Voter # _____: 1 6 2 5 6 19 5
And shipped off for counting.
Nothing fancy, no cute Gee-Euu-Ayiee. Just simple and fast. Maybe you'd be allowed to dial into a computer or TELNET to one, but I doubt it. And you would be using a completely locked down server, probably Unix or Linux with serial port cards and a small, simple server program to poll all the ports.
I thought is was some jackass hired by the **AA to harass those *horrible* P2P users.
If it's spammers, then we need blacklists. If there are only a few of 'em, it ought to work. Besides, what are they getting by putting up trash results? It's not like anyone would download them.
Now we need to try running a fuel cell of the BingoFuel reactor.
After all, internal combustion engines of this size are, what, about 20% efficient? Maybe 30? Now funnel the gas into a fuel cell stack that's around 80% efficient when using pure H2, and around 50% on this kind of stuff. You can power stuff off it!
The SR-71 was capable of mach 3+ while skirting with the edge of the atmosphere. The Concorde is not the only craft capable of sustaining mach 2.2+ for some time.
Interesting side topic; The SR-71 got so hot at full speed that to account for thermal expansion it leaked like a sieve on the ground.
At any rate, we have military and civilian aircraft that can easily break supersonic speed, so the drive system isn't an insurmountable issue. We just need to take something like the Concorde and update the design. Main points: More seats, less noise.
My school uses Bess too. I really would like to try and find some way around that nosy crap. Interestingly, it seems to not block FTP sites (???). Seems wierd... They censor as much of the internet as they can, but allow me to download an 80 megabyte Tribes 2 demo from ftp.sierra.com, repeatedly... Ok...
I look at bess like this: Those bastards can't possibly keep up with the Internet. As soon as the ban one mirror, another shows up. Do a google search,; eventually, you've got to come across at least ONE link they didn't get yet. Works for games and Flash movies...
And I also saw/. banned once. I came back the next day and it was unbanned:) At any rate, I think Bess deserves a resounding slashdotting. Start your F5 keys and PING commands!
Beware of he who seeks to control your access to information, for he sees himself your master.
The trend. My first printer was an old Dot-Matrix. Screeched like a banshee, didn't do color (At the time, color printers cost several hundred dollars) and was a bit slow. It never ran out of ink in the time I used it, and never stopped working.
Ok, so my dad went out and grabbed a Canon BJ 230. I still have it, because it will process B-size paper. Unfortunately, the carts suck.
After that, we've gone through Epson Styluses 440 (ink heads clogged), 600 (only worked half the time), 760 (have to print every week, or heads clog), and 880 (Ok, but the heads still tend to clog up). Ok, this isn't going well. So he went out and got... An Epson C62! Starting to get some wierd colors off that one.
Now I recently went out to the swap meet and picked up a Panasonic KX-P2023 for $4. It still works flawlessly. Sure, it's a tad on the slow side and I can't do higher than 360*180. But that's all most people would ever need. Plus, I can print ASCII from my 21-year old Tandy Model 100. The only problem is that I keep getting an STDIN as a print job (???)
I currently lean in favor of laserjet and DMP printers, for some reason.
I'm afraid not. There is no antimatter on earth for obvious reasons. To create antimatter, you could therefore have to create it which means putting in more energy than you will get out. The main use of antimatter would be in situations requiring the highest possible energy density, e.g. interstellar travel.
It doesn't matter how efficient an antimatter reactor is, you're expending more energy to make the antimatter. However, hydrogen is everywhere.
Guess what buddy - You should have known that being a Spammer would get thousands of anti-spam activists PO'd at you. You sould have known that your info would be found eventually. So you should have known not to spam from home. But you weren't thinking, were you?
You just wanted to try and make money at the expense of everyone you spammed. No Sympathy!
Will it be until we are gouged for $100 every time we want to go see a movie? Of course, prices MUST be that high because of RAMPANT piracy that eats away at the profits of Micro$oft.
But this time they'll have a reason for charging that much: because off all the complaints regarding BSOD, lockups, crashes and and all the other crap that comes with Micro$oft products.
Question though: What resolution are they going to play the movies at? 4096 X 3072 X 24-bit color equals scanning 200 megabytes per frame.
Maybe not. I'm sure oil companies would like a stable source of oil. And they might even make a profit off it.
Remember, depolymerization can break down almost anything carbon-based. All that sludge in the bottom of the cracking column? Used wood, plastic, paper? AOL cds? Manure? Dump it in, let the oil flow.
Probably the coolest thing is scalability: A small unit can fit on a flatbed truck. Just put all your paper/food/non-metal into a separate can and it's turned into oil. I can imagine it now: "Do your part to end the oil crisis: Uncle Sam wants your crap!"
The only problem I forsee is our continued reliance on carbon fuels.
The only radioactive kind of carbon is C-14, which has a half life of ~5760 years and is only a tiny minority of all carbon. Coal has been buried under ground for hundreds of millions of years, so all radiocarbon will have long decayed away.
Basically, hydrogen has such a low density that it drifts to form a fog from about 1000 to several thousand miles above earth, where it gets carried off by the solar wind.
I read that nature is already doing something like that, as per Gaia theory. It's in the Feb. 2003 issue of Discover magazine, P 17. To paraphrase:
The sun's brightness has increased ~30% since it's birth because of the helium ash piling up. On early earth, there was a larger amount of CO2 in the atmosphere to keep us at a reasonable surface temperature.
As the sun gets brighter, the energy influx increases and so more carbon dioxide is taken out of the atmosphere to maintain a steady temperature.
In about a billion years, almost all CO2 will have been removed from the atmosphere. From there, the continuing increase in energy will cause our oceans to evaporate and then boil. The water will go up into the stratosphere, where high energy radiation will break it into hydrogen and oxygen. The hydrogen will escape and earth as we know it will be sterilized. Sounds lovely, doesn't it?
Seeing as the sun will remain stable for another 4 billion years though, I suppose we could use some sort of scheme to (very) gradually slingshot earth farther out into the solar system. For a while we'd probably park 60 degrees ahead of Mars, then commit suicide by trying to fly through the asteroid belt:)
With regards to the comment that current video standards will be conveniently sent or streamed over future connections, you're right if we stay with a few hundred lines. But how long before we upgrade our transmission systems to double the resolution and therefore quadruple the data?
What I think I'm trying to say is, name a time where you could conveniently transfer what was at that time a large file. For example, when I on a 56K modem, I waited 13 hours to download the huge 42-meg demo for Outpost 2. On my cable modem which CNet measures at ~2Mbps I'll wait 45 minutes for a large 700 megabyte AVI or MPEG, assuming no interruptions. By the time the internet connections are on part with 100 megabit ethernet, making a 700MB download go by in about 1 minute, I'll be waiting 6 hours to download a 1-hour holomovie at 640*640*640*24 or a 1 hour cinema-quality 2-D movie (~280GB each, compressed 10X).
As a side comment, the 8.6Gbps connections looks like just ten gigabit cards in parallel, with a 14% loss. So, it is *possible* to run gigabit ethernet around the world at this moment. But by the time anyone's willing to front the cost, the new files will take 10G and 100G ethernet for convenience.
While I agree that internet/network speeds will continually grow, I think we sort of need storage 1 step ahead to fuel the drive for faster connections to send it all. After all, what would have been the point of gigabit ethernet when we all had 500 meg hard drives?
I see two things...
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First, they said it uses 10 parallel data streams. So any given stream is only running ~860Mbps. Could this be a resurgence of parallel commucations? For example, 10 cheap 100Mbps LAN transcievers integrated into 1 card for Gigabit Ethernet speed? Would there be any cost advantages of cramming large numbers of cheap devices onto a card VS a single fast but expensive device? Sort of like Billion-Dollar-Probes vs the smaller/faster/cheaper thing at NASA.
And I figure that by the time this becomes mainstream, the amount of data needing to be transferred will also have increased by 1 or 2 orders of magnitude, and you'll still be stuck waiting hours for the latest HoloVideo downloads. Just like you wait hours to download Attack of the Clones over DSL and Cable, and like you once waited hours to download that 5 meg shareware program over your 56K modem.
Seems like the amount of data being stored is always 1 step ahead of the amount that can be conveniently transferred... We need a war on program bloat.
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Hacker != Cracker
:). Crackers are malicious people who want to cause electronic anarchy and chaos. Now there is no denying that some of the hackers the university wants to train may go over to the dark side, but most of them will stay on the light side.
Hackers are people who try to make computers do innovative new things. Bill Gates is a hacker (Manages to slow your computer down as fast as Moore's Law speeds it up...). Ok... Eh, bad example
A different analogy: Hiring a cracker is like putting a serial bomber on the SWAT bomb squad. Hiring a hacker is like hiring someone with a natural gift for diffusing bombs.
Ah, finally, a reason for everyone to have a Tandy model 100: cheap autodialer!
Once again, further proof that Congress is the opposite of Progress. On a more serious note:
"The concerns of the thousands of Americans whose livelihoods depend on intellectual property protection are not being fully debated or addressed,"
Uh-Huh. Seeing as Wexler wants to give the RIAA the right to hack your computer maliciously, I'd say the rights of the millions of Americans whose livelihood depends on having a functional computer are not being fully addressed. But they don't offer money, do they?
At any rate, it's obvious that they've been bought by the **AA. What else is new?
Ok, but what day? Preferably something that will be particularly disruptive - Sometime the week before Christmas?
"All your base are belong to us..."
Quoteth: "This won't happen without Intel and AMD deciding both on the processor chip and the system design they'll build these things in..." Try and force hardware DRM on me. Go ahead and try. I will not buy any new hardware unless it is certified DRM-FREE.
Whether or not it *can* be disabled, you can bet your @$$ that it *will* be enabled by default. And most users will be either be unable to turn it off or too apathetic to turn it off. As soon as one person posts a document for others that uses DRM, everyone else will be forced to use it and they will *Suprise* have to let their wallets be raped by MicroSoft (Heehee... Micro... Soft...) to buy the latest version of Office that can decrypt the document, which happens only to run on the latest version of Windoze. Before long, everyone is using DRM and everyone else is under enormous pressure to bend over and take it.
Suddenly, the world will be hit by DRM-enabled documents from clueless and uncaring users, and those who DO care about their freedom will be forced into using it or not viewing DRM-documents, and those who give it the finger and develop an OSS alternative to remove the DRM will be sued under everyone's favorite law, the DMCA! Gee, sounds sort of like an abusive monopoly...
To all my school sysadmins: "The following 5 lines of innocent HTML code will crash Internet Explorer:" That would really be priceless. "So, still want to use Windows? I've got Knoppix and Mandrake CD's if you want to try."
"We don't care; Kiss our collective asses"
I can't wait for someone to come up with a hack or script to do this any time they get a message from them.
Better yet, do so running Freenet and say "Actually I am anonymous, morons."
Personally, I prefer something between manual voting and E-voting.
I don't want manual voting for obvious reasons. See 2000 presidential election for more information. I don't want everyone voting over the internet because you'd probably have every malicious cracker around trying to cause havoc.
I think we should have computers for voting in the polling places, and then the results are put on a CD-R and sent to the county for counting. Then send those results to the State government and finally to DC.
The way I see it, it's the best of both worlds: You vote simply and promptly in the voting place, increasing turnout. However, you network is NOT connected to the internet so you cannot be hacked. Counting the data on the CD-Rs would be a piece of cake: Start the tallying program, and then pop in CDs as prompted. Of course, all these CD-Rs would be sent overnight mail ASAP.
You'll have the result in about 4 days, 1 day to count/take to county hall, 1 day to sent to state/count, and 2 days at most to send to DC/count.
You send voters a name/number they can use to login. If I had anything to say about it, the computers used would be dumb terminals locked into a command line program, like this: Send a list of votor choices to the screen, such as:
Press 1 to vote for George W. Bush (Republican) for president
Press 2 to vote for Al Gore (Democrat) for president
The server is constantly polling 20+ serial ports for numbers, and rejects any characters except for those specified. When you're done, your choices are put into a file with contents like this:
Voter # _____: 1 6 2 5 6 19 5
And shipped off for counting.
Nothing fancy, no cute Gee-Euu-Ayiee. Just simple and fast. Maybe you'd be allowed to dial into a computer or TELNET to one, but I doubt it. And you would be using a completely locked down server, probably Unix or Linux with serial port cards and a small, simple server program to poll all the ports.
Just my two bits and a byte.
I thought is was some jackass hired by the **AA to harass those *horrible* P2P users.
If it's spammers, then we need blacklists. If there are only a few of 'em, it ought to work. Besides, what are they getting by putting up trash results? It's not like anyone would download them.
Or maybe they were hired by the RIAA.
Now we need to try running a fuel cell of the BingoFuel reactor.
After all, internal combustion engines of this size are, what, about 20% efficient? Maybe 30? Now funnel the gas into a fuel cell stack that's around 80% efficient when using pure H2, and around 50% on this kind of stuff. You can power stuff off it!
The SR-71 was capable of mach 3+ while skirting with the edge of the atmosphere. The Concorde is not the only craft capable of sustaining mach 2.2+ for some time.
Interesting side topic; The SR-71 got so hot at full speed that to account for thermal expansion it leaked like a sieve on the ground.
At any rate, we have military and civilian aircraft that can easily break supersonic speed, so the drive system isn't an insurmountable issue. We just need to take something like the Concorde and update the design. Main points: More seats, less noise.
My school uses Bess too. I really would like to try and find some way around that nosy crap. Interestingly, it seems to not block FTP sites (???). Seems wierd... They censor as much of the internet as they can, but allow me to download an 80 megabyte Tribes 2 demo from ftp.sierra.com, repeatedly... Ok...
/. banned once. I came back the next day and it was unbanned :) At any rate, I think Bess deserves a resounding slashdotting. Start your F5 keys and PING commands!
I look at bess like this: Those bastards can't possibly keep up with the Internet. As soon as the ban one mirror, another shows up. Do a google search,; eventually, you've got to come across at least ONE link they didn't get yet. Works for games and Flash movies...
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Beware of he who seeks to control your access to information, for he sees himself your master.
The trend. My first printer was an old Dot-Matrix. Screeched like a banshee, didn't do color (At the time, color printers cost several hundred dollars) and was a bit slow. It never ran out of ink in the time I used it, and never stopped working.
Ok, so my dad went out and grabbed a Canon BJ 230. I still have it, because it will process B-size paper. Unfortunately, the carts suck.
After that, we've gone through Epson Styluses 440 (ink heads clogged), 600 (only worked half the time), 760 (have to print every week, or heads clog), and 880 (Ok, but the heads still tend to clog up). Ok, this isn't going well. So he went out and got... An Epson C62! Starting to get some wierd colors off that one.
Now I recently went out to the swap meet and picked up a Panasonic KX-P2023 for $4. It still works flawlessly. Sure, it's a tad on the slow side and I can't do higher than 360*180. But that's all most people would ever need. Plus, I can print ASCII from my 21-year old Tandy Model 100. The only problem is that I keep getting an STDIN as a print job (???)
I currently lean in favor of laserjet and DMP printers, for some reason.
I'm afraid not. There is no antimatter on earth for obvious reasons. To create antimatter, you could therefore have to create it which means putting in more energy than you will get out. The main use of antimatter would be in situations requiring the highest possible energy density, e.g. interstellar travel.
It doesn't matter how efficient an antimatter reactor is, you're expending more energy to make the antimatter. However, hydrogen is everywhere.
Guess what buddy - You should have known that being a Spammer would get thousands of anti-spam activists PO'd at you. You sould have known that your info would be found eventually. So you should have known not to spam from home. But you weren't thinking, were you?
You just wanted to try and make money at the expense of everyone you spammed. No Sympathy!
Will it be until we are gouged for $100 every time we want to go see a movie? Of course, prices MUST be that high because of RAMPANT piracy that eats away at the profits of Micro$oft.
But this time they'll have a reason for charging that much: because off all the complaints regarding BSOD, lockups, crashes and and all the other crap that comes with Micro$oft products.
Question though: What resolution are they going to play the movies at? 4096 X 3072 X 24-bit color equals scanning 200 megabytes per frame.
Maybe not. I'm sure oil companies would like a stable source of oil. And they might even make a profit off it.
Remember, depolymerization can break down almost anything carbon-based. All that sludge in the bottom of the cracking column? Used wood, plastic, paper? AOL cds? Manure? Dump it in, let the oil flow.
Probably the coolest thing is scalability: A small unit can fit on a flatbed truck. Just put all your paper/food/non-metal into a separate can and it's turned into oil. I can imagine it now: "Do your part to end the oil crisis: Uncle Sam wants your crap!"
The only problem I forsee is our continued reliance on carbon fuels.
A little nitpick regarding the coal-radiation:
The only radioactive kind of carbon is C-14, which has a half life of ~5760 years and is only a tiny minority of all carbon. Coal has been buried under ground for hundreds of millions of years, so all radiocarbon will have long decayed away.
Basically, hydrogen has such a low density that it drifts to form a fog from about 1000 to several thousand miles above earth, where it gets carried off by the solar wind.
I read that nature is already doing something like that, as per Gaia theory. It's in the Feb. 2003 issue of Discover magazine, P 17. To paraphrase:
:)
The sun's brightness has increased ~30% since it's birth because of the helium ash piling up. On early earth, there was a larger amount of CO2 in the atmosphere to keep us at a reasonable surface temperature.
As the sun gets brighter, the energy influx increases and so more carbon dioxide is taken out of the atmosphere to maintain a steady temperature.
In about a billion years, almost all CO2 will have been removed from the atmosphere. From there, the continuing increase in energy will cause our oceans to evaporate and then boil. The water will go up into the stratosphere, where high energy radiation will break it into hydrogen and oxygen. The hydrogen will escape and earth as we know it will be sterilized. Sounds lovely, doesn't it?
Seeing as the sun will remain stable for another 4 billion years though, I suppose we could use some sort of scheme to (very) gradually slingshot earth farther out into the solar system. For a while we'd probably park 60 degrees ahead of Mars, then commit suicide by trying to fly through the asteroid belt
With regards to the comment that current video standards will be conveniently sent or streamed over future connections, you're right if we stay with a few hundred lines. But how long before we upgrade our transmission systems to double the resolution and therefore quadruple the data?
What I think I'm trying to say is, name a time where you could conveniently transfer what was at that time a large file. For example, when I on a 56K modem, I waited 13 hours to download the huge 42-meg demo for Outpost 2. On my cable modem which CNet measures at ~2Mbps I'll wait 45 minutes for a large 700 megabyte AVI or MPEG, assuming no interruptions. By the time the internet connections are on part with 100 megabit ethernet, making a 700MB download go by in about 1 minute, I'll be waiting 6 hours to download a 1-hour holomovie at 640*640*640*24 or a 1 hour cinema-quality 2-D movie (~280GB each, compressed 10X).
As a side comment, the 8.6Gbps connections looks like just ten gigabit cards in parallel, with a 14% loss. So, it is *possible* to run gigabit ethernet around the world at this moment. But by the time anyone's willing to front the cost, the new files will take 10G and 100G ethernet for convenience.
While I agree that internet/network speeds will continually grow, I think we sort of need storage 1 step ahead to fuel the drive for faster connections to send it all. After all, what would have been the point of gigabit ethernet when we all had 500 meg hard drives?
First, they said it uses 10 parallel data streams. So any given stream is only running ~860Mbps. Could this be a resurgence of parallel commucations? For example, 10 cheap 100Mbps LAN transcievers integrated into 1 card for Gigabit Ethernet speed? Would there be any cost advantages of cramming large numbers of cheap devices onto a card VS a single fast but expensive device? Sort of like Billion-Dollar-Probes vs the smaller/faster/cheaper thing at NASA.
And I figure that by the time this becomes mainstream, the amount of data needing to be transferred will also have increased by 1 or 2 orders of magnitude, and you'll still be stuck waiting hours for the latest HoloVideo downloads. Just like you wait hours to download Attack of the Clones over DSL and Cable, and like you once waited hours to download that 5 meg shareware program over your 56K modem.
Seems like the amount of data being stored is always 1 step ahead of the amount that can be conveniently transferred... We need a war on program bloat.
The spam problem would go away if we could teach the 100th of a percent of morons who buy into it to NOT buy into it.
Send out messages to everyone in your address book with instructions on anti-spam procedures and a request to forward it.
Now, how do you explain what to do to someone who mistakes their CD drive for a cup holder? Or am I dreaming again?