I know the USA has at least as many stupid computer users as the rest of the world - what happens when an all-USA botnet starts attacking our own infrastructure?
I have an old PC with a nice graphics card sitting next to my 42" Samsung LCDTV. I use a bittorrent RSS aggregator to automagically download all my favorite TV shows and movies onto my main box in the other room, and I use my laptop with Synergy (sp?) as a remote control.
You can't just sit in your castle and pretend the rest of the world doesn't exist. Eventually you will become the highest value target, and the world will come up with a better battering ram. I'm not saying I agree with what the USA is doing right now, but think of this simple analogy: if your children get stung by a different scorpion every few months, are you going to sit there and kill them one at a time, or are you going to find the nest and burn it? The only difference here is that the scorpions like to hide in the midst of civilians, which presents major difficulties, but that's a topic for another post. We have to do something, just not necessarily what we're doing right now.
Actually, they use an LCD-based polarizer and only one projector. It lowers the perceived frame rate, but it's cheaper and easier than trying to line images from two projectors up perfectly.
There are several software engineering courses at my college (Georgia Tech). The class gets broken up into groups of say, 5 people, and we have to come up with all the documentation (planning, requirements, design, testing) at the same level of detail as a real-life project. We then have to juggle keeping up with documentation and getting the code done before the deliverable date. It's quite educational - I'm not sure why nobody else has posted about this...
There are quite a few hobby robotics clubs - I learned a lot of what I know from the Atlanta Hobby Robot Club. They're scattered all over the USA, and I've heard rumors of clubs in other countries. We had an entry in our yearly competition from sweden, and several other multi-national entries that weren't able to make the trip. Search on google for a club in your area, and you'll be surprised how many people are interested in this field.
200 years in the grand scheme of things is not very long. So far, most of the responses I've seen focus on education, environmentalism, or the like. However, I think the best way for us to survive short-term is to spread out, whether this means colonizing the solar system, the oceans, or near-earth orbit.
We're slashdot. Joe Public isn't going to use GMail and Thunderbird and know how to set up filters like this... So, even if all of us set this up and get less spam that way, the spammers will still get money from Joe. This means they won't stop spamming, and we'll still keep getting the backlash, like higher ISP costs, server maintenance, and bandwidth bottlenecks due to the huge volume of spam traffic.
The solution is to make voting insanely easy to do for everyone... Perhaps pressing a button on their cellphone, or clicking a button on the news story talking about the law.
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"overfilled twinkie" comes to mind...
I would wish for... a Band-Aid for all the paper cuts.
Meh, wasn't redundant when I posted it.
I know the USA has at least as many stupid computer users as the rest of the world - what happens when an all-USA botnet starts attacking our own infrastructure?
Oi, I was merely making a joke. No need to crucify me!
Where would we be without lockless radix-free readsides? I don't even know what that means, and I'm a CS major!
that is all.
If only Microsoft had put a camera on the Zune... 1. Distribute device that allows squirting 2. Hide camera 3. ...
4. Profit!!!
I have an old PC with a nice graphics card sitting next to my 42" Samsung LCDTV. I use a bittorrent RSS aggregator to automagically download all my favorite TV shows and movies onto my main box in the other room, and I use my laptop with Synergy (sp?) as a remote control.
You can't just sit in your castle and pretend the rest of the world doesn't exist. Eventually you will become the highest value target, and the world will come up with a better battering ram. I'm not saying I agree with what the USA is doing right now, but think of this simple analogy: if your children get stung by a different scorpion every few months, are you going to sit there and kill them one at a time, or are you going to find the nest and burn it? The only difference here is that the scorpions like to hide in the midst of civilians, which presents major difficulties, but that's a topic for another post. We have to do something, just not necessarily what we're doing right now.
Actually, they use an LCD-based polarizer and only one projector. It lowers the perceived frame rate, but it's cheaper and easier than trying to line images from two projectors up perfectly.
There are several software engineering courses at my college (Georgia Tech). The class gets broken up into groups of say, 5 people, and we have to come up with all the documentation (planning, requirements, design, testing) at the same level of detail as a real-life project. We then have to juggle keeping up with documentation and getting the code done before the deliverable date. It's quite educational - I'm not sure why nobody else has posted about this...
You *do* realize they're on power lines, right?
Good grief! When are people going to learn how to spell "whether" without referencing meteorological patterns...
Because gayness spans racial boundaries :P
There are quite a few hobby robotics clubs - I learned a lot of what I know from the Atlanta Hobby Robot Club. They're scattered all over the USA, and I've heard rumors of clubs in other countries. We had an entry in our yearly competition from sweden, and several other multi-national entries that weren't able to make the trip. Search on google for a club in your area, and you'll be surprised how many people are interested in this field.
Get these mo'fing lasers off my mo'fing chip!!!
Is he running Ethereal? *snicker*
My condolences for your untimely death... I'm sure it was a beautiful funeral?
From the previous story, it's legal to record video, not audio. (with the usual "consent" exceptions, blah blah blah)
When I first saw this, I thought it was about a 6-million-dollar transexual... "we can rebuild him, we have the technology"
200 years in the grand scheme of things is not very long. So far, most of the responses I've seen focus on education, environmentalism, or the like. However, I think the best way for us to survive short-term is to spread out, whether this means colonizing the solar system, the oceans, or near-earth orbit.
There are already freeware programs out there that will monitor a webcam, and sound an alarm/start recording when they detect movement.
We're slashdot. Joe Public isn't going to use GMail and Thunderbird and know how to set up filters like this... So, even if all of us set this up and get less spam that way, the spammers will still get money from Joe. This means they won't stop spamming, and we'll still keep getting the backlash, like higher ISP costs, server maintenance, and bandwidth bottlenecks due to the huge volume of spam traffic.
The solution is to make voting insanely easy to do for everyone... Perhaps pressing a button on their cellphone, or clicking a button on the news story talking about the law.