The Israeli political system is paralized when it comes to peace
somewhat off-tangent regarding the parent post (but not off-tangent regarding the story) -
i am curious about the ramifications for israel for this anti-office stance
MS is not (yet?) a big player in the political lobbying sphere, is it?
their anti-office actions, will it get israel internally declared an "enemy of MS" and thereafter you find that the US starts becoming less and less supportive of israel and one day the historians will start saying "this was the beginning of the end of american support for israel"?
(yes, yes, i worry about black helicopters and men in black cadillacs watching my house)
(b) i have read quite a lot of the posts below, and a big part of the problem is how to you define "new" and "sequel" anyway?
WolfET (amongst other things) is in some part "derived" off the Quake3 game. but it is different enough for me to love it in a way i dont quake3.
would you call Counterstrike a "sequel" of Quake2? but you can trace the geneology through Half-Life to Quake2 (and therefore, as a poster below points out, all the way back to Wolfenstein). plenty of people would say its a different game entirely. is the story submitter asking for something "genuinely new/different"? in which case, after Wolf3D (or did Duke Nukem come before? i can't remember the dates), there is no "non-sequel" First-Person Shooter game.
in which case other than maybe "tranquility" (as mentioned below), there really is not very much to say.
ultimately all "creativity" is done based off some other work before, something truly truly "new" is very rare if at all possible... "standing on the shoulders of giants" as Newton might put it.
if I had mod points i would have modded parent up. the AC who posted re: "far more of the world spell it like that", and the mods who modded down parent - at least the way i see it, the parent was making the point that while the grandparent is telling the euros to fuck off because hey he's so american, he's actually using non-American spelling. which i think is a masterful point to make.
i remember reading about things he had done (e.g. "mitnick attack" (connection hijacking?) where IIRC you take down a genuine host by basically DoS-ing a legitimate machine and then impersonate that machine, made possible because the TCP increment value was predictable and not random)
it definitely took an understanding of the way TCP etc. worked in order to come up with something like that (i guess it was really him who came up with it and not something he learned elsewhere?)
but then, things have evolved in such a manner that these problems/holes/exploits are no longer possible - you can't hijack an SSH shell this way, for example (who nowadays still uses telnet on the open net?), TCP stacks have been rewritten, etc. - how many of the old-line "skillz" are still applicable nowadays?
have the original hackers (i guess i should call them crackers instead) maintained their "lethality" in the face of progress, or is it always a new generation of people who just "understand" the current state of the tech who develop the knowledge/whatever to break into machines of that era, after which at some point they "lose" it and then no longer are able to follow evolution/development?
it's not just "cheap" in this sense. think about it. miserable $200 if your contribution gets into that book? what kind of book advance would you think he got?
$500 for the BEST story that gets in? you have got to be kidding.
how many stories will he be able to include in the book? 10? 20? 30? so for an outlay of, say, $6000 or so he will be able to tack on to the cover a blurb about how the book is chock ful of real, exciting, etc. etc. stories "From the Dark Underside Of The Internet!!!!"
is that worth more or less than $6000 in terms of sales?
you wouldn't happen to have watched the "All about the Mormons" episode of South Park, would you? that's basically the reason the mormon kid says he's happy......
yeah, i've been reading a lot of the posts arguing back and forth about Asimov's three laws etc, but all i keep thinking is:
we can't build systems that don't have bugs, the probability of there being large numbers of robots in deployment to the point where everyone gets used to them, until one day some hitherto completely unexpected situation results in large numbers of berserk robots destroying everything, is almost 100%.....
IIRC, the reason they dont want to open their client code is because that opens the way to cheating. apparently a lot of assholes out there willing to screw up the scientific data in order to falsely claim improved crunch work-hours.
imagine if a genuine alien signal was not found because the bastards who were handed those work units were running "fake" clients that returned false "nothing found" data?
The only way independent labels can compete is with the RIAA's off the service
this can't be right. when you're on a service like that where you can pick and choose tunes, marketing dollars etc ought to be LESS powerful and it becomes a more even playing field for the independent labels? it doesnt take me any longer to click a link to a non-RIAA label song to one that is.
free market at work. somebody sees a business opportunity that red hat doesn't want -- supporting 7.1-9 -- and think they can make money, they step in and do it. they also have the choice NOT to do it for 5.x, etc.
they're different series, and I'll judge them on their own merits
but the point is they went and used the name of the old one. why is that? they want to borrow some of the "goodwill" of the old show. if they really wanted it to be all different they should have chosen a different name
Here's a different scenario: Galileo is introduced with 1/32nd inch accuracy and the world's airlines start using it as the prefered method for landing aircraft while cargo vessels are piloted in by computer using up-to-the-minute echo soundings of esturies and harbours.
Wouldn't Kim Jong Ill just love to be able to wipe out the capitol of South Korea with a precision guided missle?
they can do that already with the artillery they have. that is the point about the north-south detente in korea, the south darent do anything too provocative because the north's border is close enough to their main city to flatten it before any south korean/US troops rush up to clear out the arty.
But we, being the citizens of that nation, are ultimately responsible for its behavior
i think the point the parent was trying to make was that the "citizens" DON'T have the power to be "responsible" for its behavior. the corporations - or, rather, in a Better Time, what a President (was it Eisenhower?) called it at that time, "Military Industrial Complex", are the ones in charge.
fully support civil disobedience with a sledgehammer re: Diebold voting machines
the problem here is that there is not much you CAN do about it either. are you really going to take a sledgehammer to them? you'll end up in jail, catching AIDS from being fucked in the ass by the prison population that the corporations dont give a shit about because they cant afford to buy anything anyway. civil disobedience? in this "political climate"? say hello to Guantanamo. the point is that the parent suggests -- and i agree -- that there is NOTHING any individual can do to really make a diffrence now
Some of what the parent talks about isn't done by the keyboard-lock thing (which I have on my PC right now), which would be nice to have. The solenoid-preventing-"hotplugging" sounds like a very good thing to have. Having a sudden power drop/add after plugging in/out an additional drive across the power rails sounds like a recipe for disaster, which is why i never dared trying "hotplugging" my drive... .
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Smart people realize that money != happiness...
this is what the rich people want us to think so we dont go up to their mansions with pitchforks and flaming torches
i am impressed.....
any chance you can tell us the name of your company?
The Israeli political system is paralized when it comes to peace
somewhat off-tangent regarding the parent post (but not off-tangent regarding the story) -
i am curious about the ramifications for israel for this anti-office stance
MS is not (yet?) a big player in the political lobbying sphere, is it?
their anti-office actions, will it get israel internally declared an "enemy of MS" and thereafter you find that the US starts becoming less and less supportive of israel and one day the historians will start saying "this was the beginning of the end of american support for israel"?
(yes, yes, i worry about black helicopters and men in black cadillacs watching my house)
(a) i absolutely totally love enemy territory
(b) i have read quite a lot of the posts below, and a big part of the problem is how to you define "new" and "sequel" anyway?
WolfET (amongst other things) is in some part "derived" off the Quake3 game. but it is different enough for me to love it in a way i dont quake3.
would you call Counterstrike a "sequel" of Quake2? but you can trace the geneology through Half-Life to Quake2 (and therefore, as a poster below points out, all the way back to Wolfenstein). plenty of people would say its a different game entirely. is the story submitter asking for something "genuinely new/different"? in which case, after Wolf3D (or did Duke Nukem come before? i can't remember the dates), there is no "non-sequel" First-Person Shooter game.
in which case other than maybe "tranquility" (as mentioned below), there really is not very much to say.
ultimately all "creativity" is done based off some other work before, something truly truly "new" is very rare if at all possible... "standing on the shoulders of giants" as Newton might put it.
Dude, stop by my office someday. These are not women that you bother trying to impress
you also better hope these are not women who read slashdot
or have boyfriends who do
if I had mod points i would have modded parent up. the AC who posted re: "far more of the world spell it like that", and the mods who modded down parent - at least the way i see it, the parent was making the point that while the grandparent is telling the euros to fuck off because hey he's so american, he's actually using non-American spelling. which i think is a masterful point to make.
You know.
I *would* play a game like this.
You should develop the concept further and... who knows?
If I owned SCO stock, I'd be dumping it as fast as legally possible
Once this thing goes to pieces, will Darl & Friends be on the receiving end of shareholder lawsuits?
my god its sad that a post like this can only go up to +5
definitely had skills
actually i am a little curious
i remember reading about things he had done (e.g. "mitnick attack" (connection hijacking?) where IIRC you take down a genuine host by basically DoS-ing a legitimate machine and then impersonate that machine, made possible because the TCP increment value was predictable and not random)
it definitely took an understanding of the way TCP etc. worked in order to come up with something like that (i guess it was really him who came up with it and not something he learned elsewhere?)
but then, things have evolved in such a manner that these problems/holes/exploits are no longer possible - you can't hijack an SSH shell this way, for example (who nowadays still uses telnet on the open net?), TCP stacks have been rewritten, etc. - how many of the old-line "skillz" are still applicable nowadays?
have the original hackers (i guess i should call them crackers instead) maintained their "lethality" in the face of progress, or is it always a new generation of people who just "understand" the current state of the tech who develop the knowledge/whatever to break into machines of that era, after which at some point they "lose" it and then no longer are able to follow evolution/development?
once your problem is solved move on
what makes you think the problem is "solved"?
has any OS achieved perfection?
it's not just "cheap" in this sense. think about it. miserable $200 if your contribution gets into that book? what kind of book advance would you think he got?
$500 for the BEST story that gets in? you have got to be kidding.
how many stories will he be able to include in the book? 10? 20? 30? so for an outlay of, say, $6000 or so he will be able to tack on to the cover a blurb about how the book is chock ful of real, exciting, etc. etc. stories "From the Dark Underside Of The Internet!!!!"
is that worth more or less than $6000 in terms of sales?
real tangible benifits to
you wouldn't happen to have watched the "All about the Mormons" episode of South Park, would you? that's basically the reason the mormon kid says he's happy......
yeah, i've been reading a lot of the posts arguing back and forth about Asimov's three laws etc, but all i keep thinking is:
we can't build systems that don't have bugs, the probability of there being large numbers of robots in deployment to the point where everyone gets used to them, until one day some hitherto completely unexpected situation results in large numbers of berserk robots destroying everything, is almost 100%.....
and then all smoke dope and smell flowers
that, sir, is the best plan i've heard in a long while!
onslaught of japanese robots attacking the US
well they have their running & dancing robots, we have our armed segways......
Should they open their client's specs
IIRC, the reason they dont want to open their client code is because that opens the way to cheating. apparently a lot of assholes out there willing to screw up the scientific data in order to falsely claim improved crunch work-hours.
imagine if a genuine alien signal was not found because the bastards who were handed those work units were running "fake" clients that returned false "nothing found" data?
2.4.18 works just fine for me and I see no reason to upgrade
don't all 2.4 versions before .23 have some kind of security problem?
what's your IP address? :)
The only way independent labels can compete is with the RIAA's off the service
this can't be right. when you're on a service like that where you can pick and choose tunes, marketing dollars etc ought to be LESS powerful and it becomes a more even playing field for the independent labels? it doesnt take me any longer to click a link to a non-RIAA label song to one that is.
free market at work. somebody sees a business opportunity that red hat doesn't want -- supporting 7.1-9 -- and think they can make money, they step in and do it. they also have the choice NOT to do it for 5.x, etc.
they're different series, and I'll judge them on their own merits
but the point is they went and used the name of the old one. why is that? they want to borrow some of the "goodwill" of the old show. if they really wanted it to be all different they should have chosen a different name
Here's a different scenario: Galileo is introduced with 1/32nd inch accuracy and the world's airlines start using it as the prefered method for landing aircraft while cargo vessels are piloted in by computer using up-to-the-minute echo soundings of esturies and harbours.
that's a lot of unemployed pilots
Wouldn't Kim Jong Ill just love to be able to wipe out the capitol of South Korea with a precision guided missle?
they can do that already with the artillery they have. that is the point about the north-south detente in korea, the south darent do anything too provocative because the north's border is close enough to their main city to flatten it before any south korean/US troops rush up to clear out the arty.
But we, being the citizens of that nation, are ultimately responsible for its behavior
i think the point the parent was trying to make was that the "citizens" DON'T have the power to be "responsible" for its behavior. the corporations - or, rather, in a Better Time, what a President (was it Eisenhower?) called it at that time, "Military Industrial Complex", are the ones in charge.
fully support civil disobedience with a sledgehammer re: Diebold voting machines
the problem here is that there is not much you CAN do about it either. are you really going to take a sledgehammer to them? you'll end up in jail, catching AIDS from being fucked in the ass by the prison population that the corporations dont give a shit about because they cant afford to buy anything anyway. civil disobedience? in this "political climate"? say hello to Guantanamo. the point is that the parent suggests -- and i agree -- that there is NOTHING any individual can do to really make a diffrence now
Some of what the parent talks about isn't done by the keyboard-lock thing (which I have on my PC right now), which would be nice to have. The solenoid-preventing-"hotplugging" sounds like a very good thing to have. Having a sudden power drop/add after plugging in/out an additional drive across the power rails sounds like a recipe for disaster, which is why i never dared trying "hotplugging" my drive... .