This is one thing I never understood. You always see pictures of greenspeak, but is it actually done? If it is, how? The circuit breakers? Is there some sort of a system already existing for controlling all the lights from one location? Or does this require just a lot of time and/or people?
I'm actually a CMU student, but I have spent a fair amount of time doing roof and tunnel hacking at MIT. MIT makes it easy. For instance, at CMU all the locks are slide proof, making it much harder to get through locked doors, you have to pick the lock. At MIT 80% of the doors can be opened with a credit card.
But the exploring kicks ass... gaining access to the roof of the green building (MIT's tallest building) is definantly a feat of good thinking more than of brute force such as lock picking. I think that publically posting the method would be against the hackers code, (I'm not sure) so I won't go into it.
CMU buildings are boring compared to MIT's as well. Now I've managed to get into the attick and onto the roof of just about every building at CMU, (except wean, the crowned jewel) but never have I come across things like these shafts that exist in MIT. Just a huge empty shaft, that goes who knows how deep. If only I had had a rope...
I did go and read it, and I have the same opinion.
I see the benefits of it, having all that information accessible, however, it is still unable to offer what human interaction offers, not only in discussions, but also in lab environments.
So whilw it will be good for some things, and many courses will probably be fine, assuming they professor isn't just taped as the article says, but it avalible for feedback and such (a bit overwhelming with 100million students) it will still be at a disadvantage over those "ivy league" schools that have exceptional facilities for students to learn hands on. Coming from MIT of all places he should know research is a very important part of a modern science/engineering education.
Any Ivy league education? I havn't read the article, but from that alone I have a problem. Now, lets just say a good education, because who cares about whether or not its actually Ivy, and IMHO, the coolest schools are not.
Now, as I'm sure a huge chunk of slashdot readers are college students, or at least were, you all know that there is WAY more to school that what you could get off a web page. In perticular, the people around you. I have learned more from them then I have from classes, just about.
And what about research? You can't really conduct research that requires any sort of lab online.
I think this idea is missing the point of school, you're learning life skills as well as job skills.
I have an athlon 750 with the asus k7m motherboard. Overclocking is as easy as going to bios and selecting what I want the FSB set at. I havn't messed with the multiplier (its a jumper) but by changing the bus I can get it pretty high, not sure exactly how high, but well over 800mhz. I was running it over clocked for a while, but got paranoid that it was causing problems. Maybe, may have been flukes.
The document that was formerally called the MIT Guide to LockPicking exists at this mirror among others.
Also, according to this Milwaukee County Sheriff, whom my friend helped out by picking a padlock for him, possessing lockpicks is illegal, without a locksmiths license. Although, he was just letting us know, not arresting or fining us since we did help him.:)
Well, a friend of bought an old sun, and its haddrive was bad. All he had to do was call them, give them the original sun part number, and they sent him a replacement. Apparently they will replace any failed hardware that they have made. I thought that was pretty sweet.
What about gnome-midnight commander? I believe that is included as part of the default gnome set of apps, if you install the default that is...
Anyways, it does a lot of things well, it is a graphical file manager. Its just as good the windows file manager, of course there is all that security involved that isn't an issue in windows.
If you're interested. http://www.gnome.org/mc/
Also, since the screeshot section is a bit lacking, but there is a shot of it in the my desktop shot.
I am perticular about keyboards, but not the shape so much, just the touch. My favorite keyboard is my old focus 5001, I find focus keyboards are often quick clicky and nice. I also like those big old metal ibm keybords, those will last for ever, and you can't get any louder than that.
I have in the back of my mind, that one day all the politicians will just "get" this and that all these problems will be no more. Am I being too hopeful? It seems to me its just about education on the issues, and understanding the mindset of people like us.
They changed the pictures, I preferred the old ones. I figured they did it cause the old ones were B&W, and its free to use color on the web.
There are articles missing from the archives online, I wish they'd put the old articles on. I like "Ask Sir Mix-A-Lot" or the point couter-point "My people were slaves on our own land" some Native American vs. "Packers Rule!" local packerbacker.
Also, the article on the Death-lotto was a piece, GM's neckbelt recall, the funny monkey testing, the acronym association article (where every acronym was obscene)...
I remember, at the beginning of last year, a freshmen at cmu, I mentioned something about the onion and this guy (from boston) was like "the onion rocks." I was completly surprised that he had even heard of it. Being from Milwaukee myself, they have been avalible on every street corner for free for years. I knew it was madtown based, and I heard they were also distributed in denver, or some place in colorado anyways, but I had no idea there was such a big national following.
My mom sends me hardcopies every so often, I do prefer them, I want to keep my stack (about 3ft high) growing.
I could sort of believe this to be true with windows. With everyone and their parents, grandparents, etc, on the internet, this might have use. Get windows to allow agents to connect to your machine and spy on you. That is very far fetched, it would be easy to do, and havn't there been stinks in the past about certain programs sending off info without asking first? Same sort of thing.
However, I find this story to be unbelievable because it supposedly started as early as dos. Most dos computers were not hooked up to the internet. The internet was still Darpa net during most of dos's years wasn't it? Anyways, the point is how would the NSA have been able to spy anyways? They would have to physically be at the comptuer, and well.... dos is not at all secure, anyone could "spy" on someone if they were sitting at the suspects dos box.
I have to third it, and really I hate aol. I would NEVER use it as my primary isp, but I got stuck in that snow storm like two weeks back that hit the east coast, I was driving from Boston to Pittsburgh, and all of the sudden we just couldn't go on, and I had a comp sci program due that night. But we got stuck in Wilkes-Barre, PA, at an econo lodge, and AOL saved my ass.
Hell yeah, I am a big asus fan myself... I was actually considering getting a PIII a few months ago instead of an athlon, since the motherboards seems few and far between. But actually I just ordered a athlon 750 with a k7m a few hours ago. This thing is going to KICK ASS.
I wish this were true... Getting zephyr to work was not trivial... There are old andrew zephyr binaries avalible, which work, but you need to compile kerberos yourself. It would be WAY easier if andrew switched from kerberos v4 to v5. although I believe the CS department is using v5... its a mess.
No, I didn't mean you can't speak up, obviously you can do that all you want, in accordance with what I said earlier. I meant two things by that, the first was that I don't want you (in the general sense) trying to take away peoples rights, such as the right to an abortion, the right to have the same rights as everyone else (wrt same sex marriages). The second was just personal, that when people hassle me about this stuff, its agitating. You can talk all you want, but I'm not promising that I'm going to listen to the same stuff over and over again.
And I'm not being hypocritical about rights, the religious right is the group trying to take away liberties, or in some cases fail to grant them in the first place.
This dos had lots of hack value, the crappy part was doing it. The biggest difference between the hacker and the cracker is just intent, if whoever came up with this attack simply published something on this exploit, rather than causing yahoo and yahoo's userbase all these problems, it would be much more respectable.
1) I remember when I first realized religion is BS. Sunday school (jewish) back in 1st or 2nd grade, talking about creation. I asked the teacher where the dinosaurs fit it (since the torah completly ignores them) and she couldn't answer me. I knew dinosaurs existed, I had seen the bones in the museum. Thats when I lost my faith.
2) I don't study antheism, but I have done a lot of reading on religion, gotten into a lot of arguements, and done a lot of thinking on the matter. I always thought it was so obvious, going back to acient greece or rome where their religion was used to explain things like the setting on the sun. It was just a way of answing unanswered questions. Those cultures faded, new cultured developed, with new religions, for the exact same purpose (maybe there was a control element too). However, that culture still exists, basically, and we answered a hell of a lot of the questions the bible tried to answer. And guess what, its really fucking off.
3) I don't know that there is or isn't a god, I think that it is very unlikely, and I think that if there is a god, it is even more unlikely that it is a god as described in the bible, or in any religious doctrine.
4) My parents are jewish, very, very relaxed... they knew they couldn't force religion on me, since I started refusing to go to sunday school in like 3rd grade, because I thought it was stupid. I did get a bar mitzvah though, memorize some shit, get a party, get a bunch of presents... I'd recommend it to anyone.
I would go out on a limb to say that I think most atheists have thought about this stuff... its easier to fall back on religion than atheism, religion is setup so you're not supposed to think about it too much.
I would love freedom from religion, but I'm not pushing for it, since it goes against my ideals. You can practice your religion, but keep it the hell away from me. The hypocracy in religion (esp. christinaity) is sickening... We all can probably think of a million examples of it.
I am also quite left wing ( I don't know about extream) and I think that people ought to be able to do pretty much anything they want, as long as it doesn't violate other peoples rights. So be religious if you want to be, I'm not going to commend you for it, I think it's for the weak. But don't push anti-abortion shit on me, don't push prayer in school on me, don't push lame-ass propaganda on me, don't fail to recognize same-sex marriages, etc, etc...
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This is one thing I never understood. You always see pictures of greenspeak, but is it actually done? If it is, how? The circuit breakers? Is there some sort of a system already existing for controlling all the lights from one location? Or does this require just a lot of time and/or people?
I'm actually a CMU student, but I have spent a fair amount of time doing roof and tunnel hacking at MIT. MIT makes it easy. For instance, at CMU all the locks are slide proof, making it much harder to get through locked doors, you have to pick the lock. At MIT 80% of the doors can be opened with a credit card.
But the exploring kicks ass... gaining access to the roof of the green building (MIT's tallest building) is definantly a feat of good thinking more than of brute force such as lock picking. I think that publically posting the method would be against the hackers code, (I'm not sure) so I won't go into it.
CMU buildings are boring compared to MIT's as well. Now I've managed to get into the attick and onto the roof of just about every building at CMU, (except wean, the crowned jewel) but never have I come across things like these shafts that exist in MIT. Just a huge empty shaft, that goes who knows how deep. If only I had had a rope...
Well, I was considering stopping by, but I guess I'm still not grown-up enough. Sucks.
Is it currently illegal to sell blank DVD's, completely blank DVD's? I would think that it couldn't be, anyone know?
I did go and read it, and I have the same opinion.
I see the benefits of it, having all that information accessible, however, it is still unable to offer what human interaction offers, not only in discussions, but also in lab environments.
So whilw it will be good for some things, and many courses will probably be fine, assuming they professor isn't just taped as the article says, but it avalible for feedback and such (a bit overwhelming with 100million students) it will still be at a disadvantage over those "ivy league" schools that have exceptional facilities for students to learn hands on. Coming from MIT of all places he should know research is a very important part of a modern science/engineering education.
Any Ivy league education? I havn't read the article, but from that alone I have a problem. Now, lets just say a good education, because who cares about whether or not its actually Ivy, and IMHO, the coolest schools are not.
Now, as I'm sure a huge chunk of slashdot readers are college students, or at least were, you all know that there is WAY more to school that what you could get off a web page. In perticular, the people around you. I have learned more from them then I have from classes, just about.
And what about research? You can't really conduct research that requires any sort of lab online.
I think this idea is missing the point of school, you're learning life skills as well as job skills.
I have an athlon 750 with the asus k7m motherboard. Overclocking is as easy as going to bios and selecting what I want the FSB set at. I havn't messed with the multiplier (its a jumper) but by changing the bus I can get it pretty high, not sure exactly how high, but well over 800mhz. I was running it over clocked for a while, but got paranoid that it was causing problems. Maybe, may have been flukes.
The document that was formerally called the MIT Guide to LockPicking exists at this mirror among others.
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Also, according to this Milwaukee County Sheriff, whom my friend helped out by picking a padlock for him, possessing lockpicks is illegal, without a locksmiths license. Although, he was just letting us know, not arresting or fining us since we did help him.
Well, a friend of bought an old sun, and its haddrive was bad. All he had to do was call them, give them the original sun part number, and they sent him a replacement. Apparently they will replace any failed hardware that they have made. I thought that was pretty sweet.
This link is the screenshot.
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But there are others, if you feel like browsing.
What about gnome-midnight commander? I believe that is included as part of the default gnome set of apps, if you install the default that is...
Anyways, it does a lot of things well, it is a graphical file manager. Its just as good the windows file manager, of course there is all that security involved that isn't an issue in windows.
If you're interested.
http://www.gnome.org/mc/
Also, since the screeshot section is a bit lacking, but there is a shot of it in the my desktop shot.
I am perticular about keyboards, but not the shape so much, just the touch. My favorite keyboard is my old focus 5001, I find focus keyboards are often quick clicky and nice. I also like those big old metal ibm keybords, those will last for ever, and you can't get any louder than that.
I have in the back of my mind, that one day all the politicians will just "get" this and that all these problems will be no more. Am I being too hopeful? It seems to me its just about education on the issues, and understanding the mindset of people like us.
it sounds sick... and ramen smells. I like candy much better.
They changed the pictures, I preferred the old ones. I figured they did it cause the old ones were B&W, and its free to use color on the web.
There are articles missing from the archives online, I wish they'd put the old articles on. I like "Ask Sir Mix-A-Lot" or the point couter-point "My people were slaves on our own land" some Native American vs. "Packers Rule!" local packerbacker.
Also, the article on the Death-lotto was a piece, GM's neckbelt recall, the funny monkey testing, the acronym association article (where every acronym was obscene)...
I remember, at the beginning of last year, a freshmen at cmu, I mentioned something about the onion and this guy (from boston) was like "the onion rocks." I was completly surprised that he had even heard of it. Being from Milwaukee myself, they have been avalible on every street corner for free for years. I knew it was madtown based, and I heard they were also distributed in denver, or some place in colorado anyways, but I had no idea there was such a big national following.
My mom sends me hardcopies every so often, I do prefer them, I want to keep my stack (about 3ft high) growing.
I could sort of believe this to be true with windows. With everyone and their parents, grandparents, etc, on the internet, this might have use. Get windows to allow agents to connect to your machine and spy on you. That is very far fetched, it would be easy to do, and havn't there been stinks in the past about certain programs sending off info without asking first? Same sort of thing.
However, I find this story to be unbelievable because it supposedly started as early as dos. Most dos computers were not hooked up to the internet. The internet was still Darpa net during most of dos's years wasn't it? Anyways, the point is how would the NSA have been able to spy anyways? They would have to physically be at the comptuer, and well.... dos is not at all secure, anyone could "spy" on someone if they were sitting at the suspects dos box.
I have to third it, and really I hate aol. I would NEVER use it as my primary isp, but I got stuck in that snow storm like two weeks back that hit the east coast, I was driving from Boston to Pittsburgh, and all of the sudden we just couldn't go on, and I had a comp sci program due that night. But we got stuck in Wilkes-Barre, PA, at an econo lodge, and AOL saved my ass.
oh yeah, breasts... I thought it was a cartoon face till I read your comment. I see it now :)
Hell yeah, I am a big asus fan myself... I was actually considering getting a PIII a few months ago instead of an athlon, since the motherboards seems few and far between. But actually I just ordered a athlon 750 with a k7m a few hours ago. This thing is going to KICK ASS.
I wish this were true... Getting zephyr to work was not trivial... There are old andrew zephyr binaries avalible, which work, but you need to compile kerberos yourself. It would be WAY easier if andrew switched from kerberos v4 to v5. although I believe the CS department is using v5... its a mess.
No, I didn't mean you can't speak up, obviously you can do that all you want, in accordance with what I said earlier. I meant two things by that, the first was that I don't want you (in the general sense) trying to take away peoples rights, such as the right to an abortion, the right to have the same rights as everyone else (wrt same sex marriages). The second was just personal, that when people hassle me about this stuff, its agitating. You can talk all you want, but I'm not promising that I'm going to listen to the same stuff over and over again.
And I'm not being hypocritical about rights, the religious right is the group trying to take away liberties, or in some cases fail to grant them in the first place.
This dos had lots of hack value, the crappy part was doing it. The biggest difference between the hacker and the cracker is just intent, if whoever came up with this attack simply published something on this exploit, rather than causing yahoo and yahoo's userbase all these problems, it would be much more respectable.
1) I remember when I first realized religion is BS. Sunday school (jewish) back in 1st or 2nd grade, talking about creation. I asked the teacher where the dinosaurs fit it (since the torah completly ignores them) and she couldn't answer me. I knew dinosaurs existed, I had seen the bones in the museum. Thats when I lost my faith.
2) I don't study antheism, but I have done a lot of reading on religion, gotten into a lot of arguements, and done a lot of thinking on the matter. I always thought it was so obvious, going back to acient greece or rome where their religion was used to explain things like the setting on the sun. It was just a way of answing unanswered questions. Those cultures faded, new cultured developed, with new religions, for the exact same purpose (maybe there was a control element too). However, that culture still exists, basically, and we answered a hell of a lot of the questions the bible tried to answer. And guess what, its really fucking off.
3) I don't know that there is or isn't a god, I think that it is very unlikely, and I think that if there is a god, it is even more unlikely that it is a god as described in the bible, or in any religious doctrine.
4) My parents are jewish, very, very relaxed... they knew they couldn't force religion on me, since I started refusing to go to sunday school in like 3rd grade, because I thought it was stupid. I did get a bar mitzvah though, memorize some shit, get a party, get a bunch of presents... I'd recommend it to anyone.
I would go out on a limb to say that I think most atheists have thought about this stuff... its easier to fall back on religion than atheism, religion is setup so you're not supposed to think about it too much.
I would love freedom from religion, but I'm not pushing for it, since it goes against my ideals. You can practice your religion, but keep it the hell away from me. The hypocracy in religion (esp. christinaity) is sickening... We all can probably think of a million examples of it.
I am also quite left wing ( I don't know about extream) and I think that people ought to be able to do pretty much anything they want, as long as it doesn't violate other peoples rights. So be religious if you want to be, I'm not going to commend you for it, I think it's for the weak. But don't push anti-abortion shit on me, don't push prayer in school on me, don't push lame-ass propaganda on me, don't fail to recognize same-sex marriages, etc, etc...
Thats what pisses me off about religion.