It's all about the hardware acceleration...mmmm, geforce goodness. I'm talking about MilkDrop and Smoke both by Nullsoft. I've never had more fun staring at my screen bleary eyed for hours on end.
It's software for windows, but this shit is crazy, it will physically damage the drive. If you use something like Blowfish Advanced CS to wipe the drive of everything and clear the free space with a 30x write, and then use the Hard Drive Killer, and then maybe open the drive and put the pladders in a blender, it'd be damn near impossible for anybody to get anything.
IANL, but I know that someone from the city or state level government can not sue someone from the federal government. I say this because a little awhile ago the army recruitors (sp?) in my city racked up a lot of money in parking fines, so my city government tryed to sue the army. That was the excuse that the government gave us.
Although, the ALA might be just an independant organization, so I'm not sure. Anyone know more on this then I do and care to comment?
I remember reading about a computer program that when a telemarketer calls, you start up the program and it gives u prompts to tell the telemarketer, then it saves the information to the file, and if the same company ever calls you again it will tell you, and you can press charges. I find this utterly hillarious. Can anyone tell me the name of the program or one like it?
from their own press release: ColorMax acquired a broad patent license covering the human genes for color vision from the Medical College of Wisconsin in Milwaukee. The patent also covers a revolutionary test for color blindness based on a simple analysis of the actual genes that cause the problem.
They patented the genes AND the test for the disease.
On a different topic, wouldn't there be prior art...like God?
The US has been invaded numerous times, mind you not with much sucess, but enemies have been in our territory. Pearl Harbor being the best example, there was also one battle durring World War II fought on an island in Alaska (the name escapes me). There were also German submarine landings in America durring WWII. There was one on Block Island, Rhode Island (where I vacation). If your ever by the mouth of the Connecticut river, you'll see pill boxes meant to repel German U-Boats. This doesnt include all the international terrorist attacks, which could probably be considered a small invasion.
I'm pretty sure that most pacemakers are highly insulated and shielded against radio, electrical, and magnetic interference. Although I just looked around and it said a high level of EMP could disable a pacemaker ( Radio-Frequency Radiation ) I don't know how high of a level the EMP would have to be.
The funny thing is, Limp Bizkit (who i hate btw), did a horrible, horrible remake of the song, and now every trendy teenie bopper jap thinks they wrote the song. ~sigh~
Sorry for my use of caps-lock, but I really hate when people talk about the web and refer to it as the entire internet. With microsoft wanting to network our fucking toasters how could anyone say that the net is dead? Maybe the web is, but the web IMHO was never really that interesting. But the net, it's no where near dead, it's being embedded into everything, and thats the beuty of it, you can embed network capability to anything and then communicate with it anywhere.
The Index is pretty bad... a simple search for "slashdot" turns up 17 sites, none of them slashdot.
A search for "microsoft" turns up lots of pages, but none of them toward the top that i quickly scanned were microsoft's homepage.
Maybe this is because no one's submitted these pages, but, how about a decent spider?
A "good christian mother" drives her car into a lake and kills her children, including an infant. Stupid people do stupid things, this has always been the case.
Middle-aged day-trader shoots up an office center. Again, same as above. Did you know a child shot up his entire school....in the late 1700's. These things have always been happening, human's crack after awhile, it's human nature, not a "moral panic"
Decades of spousal and child abuse in America. Again, always been around, in fact, I would guess it has gotten better in the past few decades.
Blow jobs in the white house by an intern, with a married president. Oh no, an unfaithful president. John Adams had an affair with his slave. It is rumored Washington has several affairs. Rumored that Kennedy slept with Marilyn Monroe. Again, always been happeneing.
So, what's the point? I agree video games are just that, games. But none of these other things are "moral panics" either. And, while we're at it, who's moral's are we talking about. A christian set of morals? A western world set of morals? Moral's differ person to person.
"12/1/00: Better late than never - despite missing their stated deadline for a solution, America Online has managed to put a stop to the theft of Instant Messenger subscriber screen names, according to information received by Inside-AOL.com. We hope that their fix will prove to be a lasting one, and find it greatly satisfying to see that even the largest of companies cannot ignore public pressure indefinitely."
so, AOL is not completly negligent.
Genetic Engineering NOT needed in this case...
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From a New York Times article on August 22 2000:
"In a stunning new result from what has become one of the largest agricultural experiments ever, thousands of rice farmers in China have doubled the yields of their most valuable crop and nearly eliminated its most devastating disease -- without using chemical treatments or spending a single extra penny.
Under the direction of an international team of scientists, farmers in China's Yunnan Province adopted a simple change in their rice paddies. Instead of planting the large stands of a single type of rice, as they typically have done, the farmers planted a mixture of two different rices. With this one change, growers were able to radically restrict the incidence of rice blast -- the most important disease of this most important staple in the world. Within just two years, farmers were able to abandon the chemical fungicides previously widely used to fight the disease. (August 22, 2000)"
Now, I believe that genetic engineering and solve a lot of problems, but I also believe that it should be used sparingly and not when other viable alternatives are found, such as in this case.
BTW, I was alerted to this article from a great newsletter on the consequences of technology at Net Future
If your on the ACLU's action email list (free registration), they alert you to important violations of free speech and other laws and bills, then they provide a link where u can send a free fax (or email) to your representative, senator, president, etc. The last email I received asked us to fax the President and ask him to veto this bill.
DARE has the POTENTIAL to be a great program, but instead, all the information it gives students is government issue propaganda. Most of the information they give you about marijuana, cocaine, LSD, and other substances is grossly inaccurate. Instead of trying to force their opinions about drugs to kids, they should gives kids actual information and let the kids decide for themselves.
Ok, if you want to use Napster to find MP3's that have not been released by the artist, and not sanctioned, then this is probably illegal (and morally wrong, if you feel this way) BUT this does not make Napster itself illegal for the simple reason that you can also use Napster to find plenty of LEGAL MP3's. If an band releases a file on their website specifically saying you can distribute this piece of music as much as you want, and however you want, and then you download it and trade it over Napster, this is perfectly legal.
It is like suing a supermarket because the can of soup you picked up has DeCSS printed on it's label.
So, yes, Napster may be bad for musicians and record labels, but it is perfectly legal.
Someone should release a piece of software with "By clicking I Agree, you agree to send me $500,000" in the EULA. Then try and enforce the EULA in court. Maybe this would show the stupidity of EULA's to the judges (and general population if the case got any publicity).
On a side note, because I'm under 18 and can't legally be held to a contract, can I break all the EULA's I want?
Half-Life IMHO is one of the greatest games made in a long time. It has a better plot than most movies, and the gameplay, graphics, engine, and multiplayer (especially counter-strike) just rock. Plus i've been able to run it on a p-133 with 16 megs of ram and no 3d card, not exactly a beast of a machine.
watch, one day while they're in the middle of the war, instead of actually firing a shell, the sailor is just going to scream "BANG!", and wonder why nothing happened....
Slashdot Mirror
It's all about the hardware acceleration...mmmm, geforce goodness. I'm talking about MilkDrop and Smoke both by Nullsoft. I've never had more fun staring at my screen bleary eyed for hours on end.
A picture can be found here. Pass the bong...
A quick "view source" on Senator Ron Wyden's contact page shows an email of:
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senator_wyden@exchange.senate.gov
try it and find out
(c) 2001 any direct quotes, links, assumptions, thoughts, fantasies, misconstruction of this post is punishable by up to five years in jail down under
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Use the hard drive killer from Hackology
It's software for windows, but this shit is crazy, it will physically damage the drive. If you use something like Blowfish Advanced CS to wipe the drive of everything and clear the free space with a 30x write, and then use the Hard Drive Killer, and then maybe open the drive and put the pladders in a blender, it'd be damn near impossible for anybody to get anything.
IANL, but I know that someone from the city or state level government can not sue someone from the federal government. I say this because a little awhile ago the army recruitors (sp?) in my city racked up a lot of money in parking fines, so my city government tryed to sue the army. That was the excuse that the government gave us.
Although, the ALA might be just an independant organization, so I'm not sure. Anyone know more on this then I do and care to comment?
I remember reading about a computer program that when a telemarketer calls, you start up the program and it gives u prompts to tell the telemarketer, then it saves the information to the file, and if the same company ever calls you again it will tell you, and you can press charges. I find this utterly hillarious. Can anyone tell me the name of the program or one like it?
I think writing about blowing up your school and paradying a police station website is just a bit different.
from their own press release: ColorMax acquired a broad patent license covering the human genes for color vision from the Medical College of Wisconsin in Milwaukee. The patent also covers a revolutionary test for color blindness based on a simple analysis of the actual genes that cause the problem.
They patented the genes AND the test for the disease.
On a different topic, wouldn't there be prior art...like God?
The US has been invaded numerous times, mind you not with much sucess, but enemies have been in our territory. Pearl Harbor being the best example, there was also one battle durring World War II fought on an island in Alaska (the name escapes me). There were also German submarine landings in America durring WWII. There was one on Block Island, Rhode Island (where I vacation). If your ever by the mouth of the Connecticut river, you'll see pill boxes meant to repel German U-Boats. This doesnt include all the international terrorist attacks, which could probably be considered a small invasion.
I'm pretty sure that most pacemakers are highly insulated and shielded against radio, electrical, and magnetic interference. Although I just looked around and it said a high level of EMP could disable a pacemaker ( Radio-Frequency Radiation ) I don't know how high of a level the EMP would have to be.
The funny thing is, Limp Bizkit (who i hate btw), did a horrible, horrible remake of the song, and now every trendy teenie bopper jap thinks they wrote the song. ~sigh~
You miss one crucial point, computer's can be restored, human life and the posetions they own can't.
Sorry for my use of caps-lock, but I really hate when people talk about the web and refer to it as the entire internet. With microsoft wanting to network our fucking toasters how could anyone say that the net is dead? Maybe the web is, but the web IMHO was never really that interesting. But the net, it's no where near dead, it's being embedded into everything, and thats the beuty of it, you can embed network capability to anything and then communicate with it anywhere.
Some spammers also randommly create account names and adds the one's that are real to their lists. But, Verison seems like a sheisty company.
The Index is pretty bad... a simple
search for "slashdot" turns up 17 sites, none of them slashdot.
A search for "microsoft" turns up lots of pages, but none of them toward the top that i quickly scanned were microsoft's homepage.
Maybe this is because no one's submitted these pages, but, how about a decent spider?
A "good christian mother" drives her car into a lake and kills her children, including an infant.
Stupid people do stupid things, this has always been the case.
Middle-aged day-trader shoots up an office center.
Again, same as above. Did you know a child shot up his entire school....in the late 1700's. These things have always been happening, human's crack after awhile, it's human nature, not a "moral panic"
Decades of spousal and child abuse in America.
Again, always been around, in fact, I would guess it has gotten better in the past few decades.
Blow jobs in the white house by an intern, with a married president.
Oh no, an unfaithful president. John Adams had an affair with his slave. It is rumored Washington has several affairs. Rumored that Kennedy slept with Marilyn Monroe. Again, always been happeneing.
So, what's the point? I agree video games are just that, games. But none of these other things are "moral panics" either. And, while we're at it, who's moral's are we talking about. A christian set of morals? A western world set of morals? Moral's differ person to person.
From www.inside-aol.com:
"12/1/00: Better late than never - despite missing their stated deadline for a solution, America Online has managed to put a stop to the theft of Instant Messenger subscriber screen names, according to information received by Inside-AOL.com. We hope that their fix will prove to be a lasting one, and find it greatly satisfying to see that even the largest of companies cannot ignore public pressure indefinitely."
so, AOL is not completly negligent.
From a New York Times article on August 22 2000:
"In a stunning new result from what has become one of the largest agricultural experiments ever, thousands of rice farmers in China have doubled the yields of their most valuable crop and nearly eliminated its most devastating disease -- without using chemical treatments or spending a single extra penny.
Under the direction of an international team of scientists, farmers in China's Yunnan Province adopted a simple change in their rice paddies. Instead of planting the large stands of a single type of rice, as they typically have done, the farmers planted a mixture of two different rices. With this one change, growers were able to radically restrict the incidence of rice blast -- the most important disease of this most important staple in the world. Within just two years, farmers were able to abandon the chemical fungicides previously widely used to fight the disease. (August 22, 2000)"
Now, I believe that genetic engineering and solve a lot of problems, but I also believe that it should be used sparingly and not when other viable alternatives are found, such as in this case.
BTW, I was alerted to this article from a great newsletter on the consequences of technology at Net Future
If your on the ACLU's action email list (free registration), they alert you to important violations of free speech and other laws and bills, then they provide a link where u can send a free fax (or email) to your representative, senator, president, etc. The last email I received asked us to fax the President and ask him to veto this bill.
DARE has the POTENTIAL to be a great program, but instead, all the information it gives students is government issue propaganda. Most of the information they give you about marijuana, cocaine, LSD, and other substances is grossly inaccurate. Instead of trying to force their opinions about drugs to kids, they should gives kids actual information and let the kids decide for themselves.
Ok, if you want to use Napster to find MP3's that have not been released by the artist, and not sanctioned, then this is probably illegal (and morally wrong, if you feel this way) BUT this does not make Napster itself illegal for the simple reason that you can also use Napster to find plenty of LEGAL MP3's. If an band releases a file on their website specifically saying you can distribute this piece of music as much as you want, and however you want, and then you download it and trade it over Napster, this is perfectly legal.
It is like suing a supermarket because the can of soup you picked up has DeCSS printed on it's label.
So, yes, Napster may be bad for musicians and record labels, but it is perfectly legal.
Someone should release a piece of software with "By clicking I Agree, you agree to send me $500,000" in the EULA. Then try and enforce the EULA in court. Maybe this would show the stupidity of EULA's to the judges (and general population if the case got any publicity).
On a side note, because I'm under 18 and can't legally be held to a contract, can I break all the EULA's I want?
Half-Life IMHO is one of the greatest games made in a long time. It has a better plot than most movies, and the gameplay, graphics, engine, and multiplayer (especially counter-strike) just rock. Plus i've been able to run it on a p-133 with 16 megs of ram and no 3d card, not exactly a beast of a machine.
watch, one day while they're in the middle of the war, instead of actually firing a shell, the sailor is just going to scream "BANG!", and wonder why nothing happened....
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