Why on earth do we need more ips then there are mac addresses? isn't that just plain stupid? If every mac address is unique, then why not just roll the hex numbers in your mac addresses over to decimal and call that your ip? We simply can't have more IPs then mac addresses, or am I totally wrong?
I see a lot of use for the cyberknife. Though I think this one is slightly overboard on the number of screwdrivers &c that it has. I could use it often when there are no screw drivers per se around, like today when I was salvaging two old 386s for parts and i had no tools but a single philips head and my current victorinox knife. I tell you I could have used such a knife. But its applications go beyond the computer. I can see use for it with stereos, light switches, wall jacks of various sorts, phones, and other screwy (as it were) equipment. That doesn't mean I'm going to run out and buy one, but I do see a lot more use then you portray.
Why do we all have the assumption that brute force is the only way to crack these large keys. Is it possible that they are not using brute force? And instead have devised some method of quickly determining the key _based on the encrypted data_?
I think it would be a lot of fun if we could scrape together some resources as a community to have "Powered by apache" written on the side of one of the Russian launch modules.:)
My desktop runs qwerty, and my laptop uses dvorak. I'm perfectly comfortable with either keyboard, and I find them to be quite very much equal. But dvorak is significantly more _comfortable_ to type in then qwerty, typos are harder to commit, and words flow through my fingers more easily.
This article is better described as a book, though.
I have a question to throw at everyone - maybe it could even be a/. poll some day: How do you pronounce "dvorak"? ( ) de-vo-rack ( ) de-vor-jak
So the secretive company is just making another x86 chip - without paying Intel lisencing. Does this mean that other x86 cloning companies are paying vaste sums of money to Intel?
So by buying an AMD chip, I'm still putting money in Intel's pockets?
I concur, even if I can't spell. I am very much afraid that making linux as user-friendly and newbie-friendly as possible jeapordises linux. I would worry that if linux had the userbase of windows, that it would degrade to the quality of windows. (No I'm not biased.:).)
I use the CLI (or CLUE if you will) for everything, and only on rare occasions I'll zip into X to start up real audio or some such. (Right now I'm actually on a bona fide vt100 terminal, but anyway).
Methinks the earthquakes during the war may have led more then a few people to worry about new high powered enemy weapons causing earth quakes.:)
Anyway - that's off the nuclear subject.
Though that reminds me that there are several nuclear power plants built nicely in the middle of fault lines. (New Brunswick, California, a few other jurisdictions too).
Seems we need to contact geologists a little more.
It also makes up ~25% of the world's people production.
More countries need to limit their consumptiveness to more or less proportional to their population
But what is it with accidents and natural disasters lately? There was an earthquake ~7.5 on the richter scale in Mexico today which killed three, and that's the umpteenth >7 earthquake in the last 4 weeks.
Why do I suspect this is largely to do with humans and "progress"?
Noone is going to read this because its so old but here goes anyway:)... "he" and "she" are both gender specific. In order to be neutral, the word "they" is the best one to use.
I've installed Win95 a half dozen times, Win98 more then a few times, several MacOS installs, and several linux installs.
The difference is that the linux install only had to be done once on any computer to which it was done.
And linux (debian/2.0 at the time) had _no_ trouble autodetecting and auto-configuring my pcmicia devices (3com 3c589b and UsRobotics something-or-other, the latter of which was both a modem and a network card in one - linux had no trouble handling this). Its no mistake that I use linux now, I'm not a brain-washed anti-microsoft heretic. I used Windows for a while, was frustrated that hacking up the system often resulted in the words "Error in explorer.exe.\Reinstall Windows\[OK]". The hacks were mostly minor and should not have caused that. Windows installs its own idea of what everything should be instead of what things should be. On my system, it was absolutely convinced that, since I had a serial cable client-server link with a 386 at the time of install, that it should never leave. The OS every succeeding time spent well over a minute searching for these "removeable" drives, with the mouse slowly bouncing up the screen and BSODing when the mouse reached the top-right corner. The install for (debian) linux, using the rescue floppy is nearly flawless, fast (I installed linux on my laptop in two hours over network, largely hampered by quake games and other bandwidth eating programmes *ahem* netbios or netbeui *ahem*) , and needn't be redone.
I used to use my mouse with my foot a lot (much to the annoyance of my roomate) as I found it to be much more comfortable to use the mouse without having to move my arms. I have a good keyboard (compaq something or other). Together I have had no wrist problems what so ever, despite friends of mine who spend less then then 10-12 hours a day i spend on the copmuter having CPT.
I can just see little advisory notes on my yogurt containers. "Eat within 48 hours of purchase, or your container risks rotting." Monsanto is the company that makes Bovine Growth Hormone, isn't it? The stuff that caused a big stink but is still in use in the US...hmm. Hopefully they won't make speakers out of this plastic - or monitors. You know how your hardware turns yellow after a long time? Now it will turn in to a pile of soil... Hmm. Oh well. Its all in the name of progress, eh?:)
Galileo didn't invent the telescope, telescopes were already used for watching shipping come in to the city. With telescopes, merchants knew three days in advance that a shipment was arriving and could get their market ready for it. Galileo learned how they were made and built his own and pointed it up.
But aside from that this books sounds quite intriguing. But that reminds me - I'm supposed to be at Science and Society class in a few minutes...we've been discussing Galileo for the last week...:)
Don't worry... lottery is about 5,000,000:1, but being struck by lightning in your life is about 300,000:1 chance. So you'll be struck by lightning 16 times before you win the lottery, but only 3 times before armageddon.:)
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Why on earth do we need more ips then there are mac addresses? isn't that just plain stupid?
If every mac address is unique, then why not just roll the hex numbers in your mac addresses over to decimal and call that your ip? We simply can't have more IPs then mac addresses, or am I totally wrong?
I see a lot of use for the cyberknife. Though I think this one is slightly overboard on the number of screwdrivers &c that it has. I could use it often when there are no screw drivers per se around, like today when I was salvaging two old 386s for parts and i had no tools but a single philips head and my current victorinox knife. I tell you I could have used such a knife.
But its applications go beyond the computer. I can see use for it with stereos, light switches, wall jacks of various sorts, phones, and other screwy (as it were) equipment.
That doesn't mean I'm going to run out and buy one, but I do see a lot more use then you portray.
...or Solaris is un oeuvre (masterpiece). :)
Give it time - you'll catch up. Or you won't.
As someone posted earlier, just use
login: test_user
password: test_user
Someone want to create user slashdot password slashdot?
Why is it that only the good people seem to die?
I think anyone who enjoys electronic gaming or listening to music on the run should stop right now and pay a few minutes of respect.
Why do we all have the assumption that brute force is the only way to crack these large keys. Is it possible that they are not using brute force? And instead have devised some method of quickly determining the key _based on the encrypted data_?
Or is that physically impossible....
If they brain wash everyone out of hackerdom - where will the NSA get its techies from? Seems to me they're shooting themselves in the foot again.
I think it would be a lot of fun if we could scrape together some resources as a community to have :)
"Powered by apache" written on the side of one of the Russian launch modules.
Oh good. :) :) )
:) ... :)
I am saying it right.
(Whatever the majority thinks tends to be considers right.
dVORzhak! keyboards rule...
oh wait...
here's the pronunciation key
(d&-)'vor-"zhäk - write that ten times quickly...
My desktop runs qwerty, and my laptop uses dvorak. I'm perfectly comfortable with either keyboard, and I find them to be quite very much equal. But dvorak is significantly more _comfortable_ to type in then qwerty, typos are harder to commit, and words flow through my fingers more easily.
/. poll some day:
This article is better described as a book, though.
I have a question to throw at everyone - maybe it could even be a
How do you pronounce "dvorak"?
( ) de-vo-rack
( ) de-vor-jak
Think the chips will be able to emulate some of the hardware classics? I'm picturing it...
:)
"Yeah, my computer's cpu can emulate everything from eniac[spelling?] to hal9000."
But best of all I can finally play my chess for CP/M programme that's been sitting on a 5 and a quarter untouched for years.....
(i wish)
Well, its closer to the BSD lisence agreement then the EULA. :)
(read: could be worse)
Though I'm sticking to fully-free linux for the time being.
So the secretive company is just making another x86 chip - without paying Intel lisencing. Does this mean that other x86 cloning companies are paying vaste sums of money to Intel?
So by buying an AMD chip, I'm still putting money in Intel's pockets?
Go figure.
I concur, even if I can't spell. I am very much afraid that making linux as user-friendly and newbie-friendly as possible jeapordises linux. I would worry that if linux had the userbase of windows, that it would degrade to the quality of windows. (No I'm not biased. :) .)
I use the CLI (or CLUE if you will) for everything, and only on rare occasions I'll zip into X to start up real audio or some such. (Right now I'm actually on a bona fide vt100 terminal, but anyway).
Methinks the earthquakes during the war may have led more then a few people to worry about new high powered enemy weapons causing earth quakes. :)
Anyway - that's off the nuclear subject.
Though that reminds me that there are several nuclear power plants built nicely in the middle of fault lines. (New Brunswick, California, a few other jurisdictions too).
Seems we need to contact geologists a little more.
It also makes up ~25% of the world's people production.
More countries need to limit their consumptiveness to more or less proportional to their population
But what is it with accidents and natural disasters lately? There was an earthquake ~7.5 on the richter scale in Mexico today which killed three, and that's the umpteenth >7 earthquake in the last 4 weeks.
Why do I suspect this is largely to do with humans and "progress"?
Someone ought to start setting up an e-socialist or e-barter network for centralised and non-capital based e-trade. :)
Noone is going to read this because its so old but here goes anyway :) ... "he" and "she" are both gender specific. In order to be neutral, the word "they" is the best one to use.
I beg to differ.
I've installed Win95 a half dozen times, Win98 more then a few times, several MacOS installs, and several linux installs.
The difference is that the linux install only had to be done once on any computer to which it was done.
And linux (debian/2.0 at the time) had _no_ trouble autodetecting and auto-configuring my pcmicia devices (3com 3c589b and UsRobotics something-or-other, the latter of which was both a modem and a network card in one - linux had no trouble handling this). Its no mistake that I use linux now, I'm not a brain-washed anti-microsoft heretic. I used Windows for a while, was frustrated that hacking up the system often resulted in the words "Error in explorer.exe.\Reinstall Windows\[OK]". The hacks were mostly minor and should not have caused that.
Windows installs its own idea of what everything should be instead of what things should be. On my system, it was absolutely convinced that, since I had a serial cable client-server link with a 386 at the time of install, that it should never leave. The OS every succeeding time spent well over a minute searching for these "removeable" drives, with the mouse slowly bouncing up the screen and BSODing when the mouse reached the top-right corner.
The install for (debian) linux, using the rescue floppy is nearly flawless, fast (I installed linux on my laptop in two hours over network, largely hampered by quake games and other bandwidth eating programmes *ahem* netbios or netbeui *ahem*) , and needn't be redone.
I used to use my mouse with my foot a lot (much to the annoyance of my roomate) as I found it to be much more comfortable to use the mouse without having to move my arms. I have a good keyboard (compaq something or other). Together I have had no wrist problems what so ever, despite friends of mine who spend less then then 10-12 hours a day i spend on the copmuter having CPT.
I can just see little advisory notes on my yogurt containers. "Eat within 48 hours of purchase, or your container risks rotting." :)
Monsanto is the company that makes Bovine Growth Hormone, isn't it? The stuff that caused a big stink but is still in use in the US...hmm. Hopefully they won't make speakers out of this plastic - or monitors.
You know how your hardware turns yellow after a long time? Now it will turn in to a pile of soil...
Hmm. Oh well. Its all in the name of progress, eh?
(doesn't roblimo _sleep_?)
Hmm...you forgot Matrix...
Galileo didn't invent the telescope, telescopes were already used for watching shipping come in to the city. With telescopes, merchants knew three days in advance that a shipment was arriving and could get their market ready for it. Galileo learned how they were made and built his own and pointed it up.
:)
But aside from that this books sounds quite intriguing. But that reminds me - I'm supposed to be at Science and Society class in a few minutes...we've been discussing Galileo for the last week...
Don't worry ... lottery is about 5,000,000:1, but being struck by lightning in your life is about 300,000:1 chance. :)
So you'll be struck by lightning 16 times before you win the lottery, but only 3 times before armageddon.