Here is a link to the "Art of Assmbler":-) It's really a good read.
If you want to know *why* ASM is good, go to the homepage of the DGen/SDL project, a genesis emulator for Linux. It uses an ASM memcpy function (using either MMX or "native" mode) as well as an ASM 68k and Z80 CPU core. By doing this, it makes the emulator/much/ faster, and a lot more useable. I'm sure other famous emulators (like GeneCyst, etc) use ASM CPU cores at some point, as it's pretty hard to emulate well without. I'm not even going to go into the ASM wizardry John Carmack did for Wolfenstein, Doom, Quake, etc:-) ---
"If I want to perform word processing, guess what. There's vi and emacs."
Are you nuts? The amazing "beeping and not beeping" vi, and "ctrl+alt+right shift+F12+esc+del" emacs... Then pipe the stuff through ispell? For people who can barely remember the shorcut to spell check in Word97, you expect these to work? Corel Wordperfect -- now there is a usefull alternative.
"Ah, the joys of awk." Ah, the screams of end users. GNUmeric, perhaps. I myself prefer to avoid using things like awk by hand. Scripts are more productive with them, true, but... They are components, and most users don't like manually stringing together components.
"GNU/Linux is a tribute to the best and brightest in the world from the best and brightest in the world. If the average user wants GNU/Linux, fine. Let him learn how to use his computer."
It's that kind of elitism which is not welcomed in my Linux community. If an average user wants Linux, show them everything you do during the install (they likely won't see if it again, and it's just a primer to their Linux life really). Once that's done, help them setup the GUI or CLI login of choice. It's very easy to make simple scripts that let them do some trivial admin tasks without needing to know about multiuserness. Want to change hardware conf? A simple setup tool does it.
Something like the Windows Control panel which lets people to admin tasks (once a password is entered, of course), and setups which actually update things like GNOME and KDE menus by default would do a lot towards getting Linux "mainstream" as it were. From there, they're bound to pick up some knowledge. But please, don't patronize them just because they don't know everything you do. True, they may be missguided, but you'll get a lot more of them to come over and learn if you talk to them rather than scream from afar "LEARN, STUPID!" ---
Dude, Slackware 7.0 works out of the box with DHCP.. It's setup during the install routine. Go read/etc/rc.d/rc.inet1 (the startup script for your network interfaces). ---
Conservation of enegery. Why on earth should we waste lots of energy first creating, then throwing away things like this? We're certainly not spending any to clean it up. The landfills present a non-trivial pile of stuff, mixed in various types. It'd take years of concentrated efforts to properly clean them up. ---
Why would his invention be good? It's disposeable. What does that mean? More metric tons in the landfil. North Americans already consume, and thus produce much, much more garbage than other societies (including the European ones). What is this fascination with "use once, dispose many" products?
Look at the twinky wrapper. A piece of cardboard, a shell of plastic, and none of it is recycled. You want to vote? Don't use a piece of throw-away paper with no security (reading without opening envelope? Does no one else see the problem?), use a proper system that uses the voter's fingerprint. Walk up to a public terminal, verify your identity with the fingerprint and/or retinal scan (both technologies are existant today), and then enter your vote. Strong encrypted, your vote is sent to an automated computer which will tabulate the votes quickly and cheaply. And no more garbage.
Wookies doing wookie things for 20 minute straight. Storm troopers not looking scarey, and trying to be funny. Princess Lay-her looking stoned, and bored. Some guy you've never heard of playing Jefferson [Airplane|Starship] music for some other guy, who seems hyponotised by it. Yes, there is wookie porn. The wooden dialog between Han Solo and Chewbacca. Etc.
This is the pain I feel when you rape me with a big, red fire extinguisher.
"Join the collective, they said. Browse the web, they said. I'd rather be Linuxing."
Seriously, it's a true tip of the hat to the Linux crowd that they'd tell people how to "get rid of" the competition. Now that the DOJ has barked at them, they didn't include the usual code that would let the software molest the Linux install:-)
This seems to be a proper sign that they see us as the enemy, not any of the BSDs or BeOS. Despire the Judges findings of fact, too. I'd chalk the "Halloween" documents of last year up to "look at your competiton, Judge" as the timing was just too perfect, but this... ---
They licenced the Quake 1 engine, originally. I read an interview with Romero. He said it was hard on the team when Q2 was released because it was code he wasn't familiar with from his id software work, and so they had to start from scratch again (almost). Eitherway, I think Half-Life is more fun;-) Perhaps we'll see some interesting Quake 1 TFC related work. ---
The reason Generations was pulled, was because they directly copied the levels, textures, and models from Quake 1, as well as the sounds from Quake 1, Doom, and Wolfenstein. These are licenced to GTInteractive, Apogee, and a few others I'm sure I've forgotten.
The engine is John's to give away, but the artwork is not:-( This is also why the two Descents, as well as Doom and Wolfenstein code giveaways were not available with data files.
Luckily, all new models and such created for Generations (like the Doom and Wolfenstein models and level recreations) are relatively safe. ---
Well, jeez. My squid wasn't able to cache it, and it's already getting/.ed for its trouble, methinks. Perhaps a nice "Cache-friendly-Apache-HOWTO" or similar should be sent to them.
Cache now! campaign and the Squid proxy server make my LAN life easier. IJB latches onto Squid quickly & easily, so less spam, more content, and lots of calamari for all! ---
"Hackers (sic), now with their own conventions and magazines,"
Defcon 7.0, and soon 8.0. 2600 and Phrack are both > 5 years old. NOW!? These people think at the speed of a dead elephant. I'm sure they get up each day, do exactly the same thing, go to sleep, and dream exactly the same dreams they've had for the past 20 years.
I mean, I regularly seem to be probed by some script kiddie program that brute force checks phf, convert.bas, some Front Page things, etc. It's annoying, yes. Dangerous? No. If I don't securely lock and check on my building when I leave work, and don't buy a security system, I won't be insured. I wish "website insurance" would come out so adjustors could go, "Windows NT you say. How's 1,000,000 a month for a premiun?" Maybe then we'd finally see some professionalism forced past those PHBs and clueless MCSEs.
"With viruses available for downloading from the Web, extensive computer language knowledge is no longer needed." I remember having to deal with the Stoned Monkey virus in 1994 at a computer lab. It was more because clueless 12 year olds didn't know much about computers. Thankfully, the lab had a good teacher (I was just a TA checking on the machines). Professionalism is, again, a solution. Know your job, and do your job.
On to the second article..
"Their code name is "The L0pht,"" Their group name. Double moron points for showing ddd or some visual debugger at work in the image there.
"They are the elite of hackers, whose notoriety brought them before Congress a year ago." "20/20 says hackers are reeel cool d00ds! I want to be one now!"... Jeez, I can't/wait/ to see what new script kiddies this has spawned.
"That's correct," one L0pht member responded. "It would definitely take a few days for people to figure out what was going on." "On no, the internet is down again..".. A few days to notice that a website is down? PLEASE. If slashdot takes longer than 8 seconds to load, I experience withdrawl symptoms.
"What they do is try to break into programs we're led to believe are secure." "But MS said that this Exchange server was mission critical, even though it doesn't have any relay protection, forces us to use LookOut!, and has many obvious holes!"
"They refer to each other by nicknames. By not revealing their real names, they protect themselves from lawsuits by companies and individuals." They're too young to have lawsuits pressed against them.
"hey say it's to remind us how we've become reliant on computers for more than just communicating;.... Are they legitimizing destructive behavior?" "Look, you rely too much on Oxygen. When I strangle you, you die! Stop relying on Oxygen so much!".. Jeez..
It's clear that both the reporter's poor understanding, and L0pht's annoying boasting, have contributed to bad, bad articles. Seconds to crack a password? Well, if your root password is "rootpwd," I should hope so!:-P ---
"When Samuel Posner opened the Hanukkah gift from his son, the high-tech gizmo seemed like any other pricey new toy. "
It was claimed as a Hanukkah present. Do Jewish people give presents on Hanukkah? (I don't know, I'm a practising atheist;-)) Still, this seems fishy to me.
"and his wife, who is seven months pregnant and confined to bed, "
Why on Earth is a seven month pregnant woman confined to bed? 6 months is when it starts to show, and the women are quite capable of moving under their own power even 9 months pregnant and overdue.
""We said to her, 'Don't open the door,"' recalled Samuel Posner, who stayed on the phone while he and his daughter-in-law tried to figure out what the detectives wanted. "
Why would they be afraid of the police? The fellow's son is a lawyer.
""How the item -- a cutting-edge version of a WebTV box, a device that can make an ordinary television set capable of browsing the World Wide Web"
It is generally agreed, by Microsoft and others, that WebTV is not very usefull. In fact, their market penetration is quite light as cheap Emachines (and other limited functionality computers) flood the market. Microsoft has been trying to bad away, not embrace more fully, WebTV.
That it is it potentially worth a million dollars is also somewhat not believable.
"There, the device was engineered as a prototype with new features that would not be on the market for at least a year, said Detective Ted Cappozziello of the Computer Investigative Unit of the New York City police."
Engineered? Don't you mean designed? Besides, what would reverse engineering of such a device showing? Wow, they're using a faster proccessor than the old one -- didn't see that coming! New "features" not to be on the market for at least a year? That'd be new year 2001 -- I think we'll all be using Athlons on Cable modem connections by then, so why the odd timescale? It stinks.
"A Microsoft spokeswoman, Angela Yearta, said the company was grateful to the police for helping to retrieve the box but had no comment on the investigation."
"Big time" newspapers have printed incorrect things before, this is why there are retractions. Until I see an official press release from MS, and perhaps a nice little statement from the NYPD, I will consider this a wonderful little tale of woe. ---
Do we have any true confirmation, or is this just more word of mouth stuff? I mean, there are a lot of more plausible sounding urban legends on this site.
Let's analyse this: Big corporation X, which many people don't understand, and has been recently confirmed to have been doing evil things, has an employee, who accidently sends package Y, which is worth 1,000,000 dollars. This person, Z, who is a complete innocent just trying to get his fair share from company X is shocked/scared/suprised as company X brings in the [Mafia|Police|Military] to get back its 1,000,000 dollars package. Lesson to be learned: really don't trust those large corporations, because they're all evil and secretly control the government.
" Has the NYPD now been reduced to foot soldiers that serve to correct simple clerical errors on behalf of corporate America? " I don't know. I'd want a signed letter, compelete with a few forms of ID, from this Scott Posner fellow before I'd believe any of this in the slightest. This is an NT security rag^H^H^Hmag... ---
"Most harmful of all is the message that Microsoft's Boys have conveyed to every Weapon with the potential to Shoot in the Saskatchewan industry. Through its conduct toward Netscape, Dell, Compaq, Compaq, and others, Microsoft has demonstrated that it will use its prodigious market power and immense Girls to harm any firm that insists on pursuing initiatives that could intensify competition against one of Microsoft's Super products. Microsoft's past success in hurting such Dogs and stifling innovation deters investment in technologies and Hermaphrodites that exhibit the potential to Fuck Microsoft. The ultimate result is that some innovations that would truly benefit Pigs never occur for the sole reason that they do not Fly with Microsoft's Dave." ---
First, a stop sign at an intersection that also has lights? Please. The poor aim when running after him (not 3 whole metres, and they still can't hit him with a damned pistol). Not to mention the general weirdness.
Plot? What plot? It just seemed to be a bunch of running/shooting.
At least the whole Santa from trunk to garbage bin foul up + tossing stuff into cups was a nice tip of the hat to Short Circuit:-) ---
I'd sue, if I were an Intel engineer.
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The marketting division is serious diluting the brand name "Pentium"
Let's look: "Pentium" -- a decent 5th gen proc.
"Pentium with MMX" -- Should've been Pentium+, it contained important L1 cache enchancements (P166 w/ MMX outperforms plain P200, etc).
"Pentium Pro" -- Why not a new name, like P2? This is a 6th generation code.
"Pentium ][" -- Finally, a proper increase in number. Pretty much the same core, but with cache slower.
"Pentium ]I[" -- Well, there are two kinds of P3. Ones which have KNI, and no other changes. And the P3 which does have KNI, but which also has faster/less L2 cache, and other important tweaks. They rushed the Pentium 3 "name" out the door to get people buying what is essentially the same chip, which not as much as a performance grab as the Pentium w/MMX over the original Pentium. Not to mention serial numbers (oy vey).
Now they have the "Pentium IV".. Does anyone else think it's just wrong to have 5 separate chips based on the same cores when, in the same span in the 1980s, Intel was actually inovating and took us through the 80186 (used on controller boards), the 80286, and the 80386 (with the prototype 486 chips just out the door 10 years ago). It seems that rather than reacting with the inovation they had of the 1980s, they are reacting with the Marketting Dodos who brought us "I was born to web!".
If you'll let me indulge in a little metaphor, Intel is currently roping a nice little noose around its neck, with the word "Marketting" written on it. AMD is currently moving in to kick the chair out from under Intel. Anyone wanna buy some Intel stock? ---
Well, time to do some genetic manipulation.
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Ahh, to clean up the gene pool of invalids.
First thing's first: I need my home neutering kit, and Jon Katz's home address. Anyone have that?
Only users in the USA are affected by the RSAREF situation, which suits both parties poorly, as users get crappy support and RSA wastes uncompensated effort any time they have to fix it
Our good friend, Theo de Radt, said as much. OpenSSH checks the args to the RSAREF package strictly, and so is not vulnerable. SSH1 w/ RSAREF is vulnerable (and there is aparently a working exploit). Any packages that use RSAREF might also have holes (OpenSSL, etc).
Here is a good graphic describing the encryption situation:-) RSAREF, export restrictions, etc, all contribute to it. ---
Since updating as ns.thock.com (the orignal designate didn't work), my friend tried ns1.thock.com for the first IP change... Then the one I talked about (3 weeks) came along. After a long time of batting it back and forth between ns and ns1, my friend (the billing contact) set it to: Name Server: DUKAT.THOCK.COM
Which worked (him being a DS9 fan and all:-)). I'm assuming forcing the record to a new one will work, as their satanic form mail for updating records just does not work. ---
Slashdot Mirror
6. a new hotmail exploit on Bugtraq
;-)
Ooops, I guess I should've not reported that one I did to secure@microsoft.com first, and made sure it was fixed.
I fixed a huge Hotmail bug for Microsoft and all I got was this lousy polo shirt
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Here is a link to the "Art of Assmbler" :-) It's really a good read.
/much/ faster, and a lot more useable. I'm sure other famous emulators (like GeneCyst, etc) use ASM CPU cores at some point, as it's pretty hard to emulate well without. I'm not even going to go into the ASM wizardry John Carmack did for Wolfenstein, Doom, Quake, etc :-)
If you want to know *why* ASM is good, go to the homepage of the DGen/SDL project, a genesis emulator for Linux. It uses an ASM memcpy function (using either MMX or "native" mode) as well as an ASM 68k and Z80 CPU core. By doing this, it makes the emulator
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"If I want to perform word processing, guess what. There's vi and emacs."
Are you nuts? The amazing "beeping and not beeping" vi, and "ctrl+alt+right shift+F12+esc+del" emacs... Then pipe the stuff through ispell? For people who can barely remember the shorcut to spell check in Word97, you expect these to work? Corel Wordperfect -- now there is a usefull alternative.
"Ah, the joys of awk." Ah, the screams of end users. GNUmeric, perhaps. I myself prefer to avoid using things like awk by hand. Scripts are more productive with them, true, but... They are components, and most users don't like manually stringing together components.
"GNU/Linux is a tribute to the best and brightest in the world from the best and brightest in the world. If the average user wants GNU/Linux, fine. Let him learn how to use his computer."
It's that kind of elitism which is not welcomed in my Linux community. If an average user wants Linux, show them everything you do during the install (they likely won't see if it again, and it's just a primer to their Linux life really). Once that's done, help them setup the GUI or CLI login of choice. It's very easy to make simple scripts that let them do some trivial admin tasks without needing to know about multiuserness. Want to change hardware conf? A simple setup tool does it.
Something like the Windows Control panel which lets people to admin tasks (once a password is entered, of course), and setups which actually update things like GNOME and KDE menus by default would do a lot towards getting Linux "mainstream" as it were. From there, they're bound to pick up some knowledge. But please, don't patronize them just because they don't know everything you do. True, they may be missguided, but you'll get a lot more of them to come over and learn if you talk to them rather than scream from afar "LEARN, STUPID!"
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Dude, Slackware 7.0 works out of the box with DHCP.. It's setup during the install routine. Go read /etc/rc.d/rc.inet1 (the startup script for your network interfaces).
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Conservation of enegery. Why on earth should we waste lots of energy first creating, then throwing away things like this? We're certainly not spending any to clean it up. The landfills present a non-trivial pile of stuff, mixed in various types. It'd take years of concentrated efforts to properly clean them up.
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"It's quite amuzing how /. and memepool play off each other like this, reposting each other's content which was originally ripped off from each other."
/. :-)
I blame overworked story posters on memepool and
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Why would his invention be good? It's disposeable. What does that mean? More metric tons in the landfil. North Americans already consume, and thus produce much, much more garbage than other societies (including the European ones). What is this fascination with "use once, dispose many" products?
Look at the twinky wrapper. A piece of cardboard, a shell of plastic, and none of it is recycled. You want to vote? Don't use a piece of throw-away paper with no security (reading without opening envelope? Does no one else see the problem?), use a proper system that uses the voter's fingerprint. Walk up to a public terminal, verify your identity with the fingerprint and/or retinal scan (both technologies are existant today), and then enter your vote. Strong encrypted, your vote is sent to an automated computer which will tabulate the votes quickly and cheaply. And no more garbage.
Want more info? Go to adbusters.
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"Thursday
Dec 23, 1999
When my friend Buz told me about the Star Wars Christmas Special, I thought he was joking."
Looks like the memepool put it up after Slashdot did. They have no entries for December 13th.
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I watched a chunk of it (the real video format).
Wookies doing wookie things for 20 minute straight. Storm troopers not looking scarey, and trying to be funny. Princess Lay-her looking stoned, and bored. Some guy you've never heard of playing Jefferson [Airplane|Starship] music for some other guy, who seems hyponotised by it. Yes, there is wookie porn. The wooden dialog between Han Solo and Chewbacca. Etc.
This is the pain I feel when you rape me with a big, red fire extinguisher.
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Ala The Electric CD Acid test?
"Quality software engineering -- we won the browser war!"
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"Join the collective, they said.
:-)
Browse the web, they said.
I'd rather be Linuxing."
Seriously, it's a true tip of the hat to the Linux crowd that they'd tell people how to "get rid of" the competition. Now that the DOJ has barked at them, they didn't include the usual code that would let the software molest the Linux install
This seems to be a proper sign that they see us as the enemy, not any of the BSDs or BeOS. Despire the Judges findings of fact, too. I'd chalk the "Halloween" documents of last year up to "look at your competiton, Judge" as the timing was just too perfect, but this...
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They licenced the Quake 1 engine, originally. I read an interview with Romero. He said it was hard on the team when Q2 was released because it was code he wasn't familiar with from his id software work, and so they had to start from scratch again (almost). Eitherway, I think Half-Life is more fun ;-) Perhaps we'll see some interesting Quake 1 TFC related work.
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The reason Generations was pulled, was because they directly copied the levels, textures, and models from Quake 1, as well as the sounds from Quake 1, Doom, and Wolfenstein. These are licenced to GTInteractive, Apogee, and a few others I'm sure I've forgotten.
:-( This is also why the two Descents, as well as Doom and Wolfenstein code giveaways were not available with data files.
The engine is John's to give away, but the artwork is not
Luckily, all new models and such created for Generations (like the Doom and Wolfenstein models and level recreations) are relatively safe.
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Ack
.8 > .12
.12, I'd expect it'd be February 13th right now (365*.12).
You failed grade 6 math, didn't ye?
If we were in
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Well, jeez. My squid wasn't able to cache it, and it's already getting /.ed for its trouble, methinks. Perhaps a nice "Cache-friendly-Apache-HOWTO" or similar should be sent to them.
Cache now! campaign and the Squid proxy server make my LAN life easier. IJB latches onto Squid quickly & easily, so less spam, more content, and lots of calamari for all!
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Do you want a miracle or something?
... Jeez, I can't /wait/ to see what new script kiddies this has spawned.
.. A few days to notice that a website is down? PLEASE. If slashdot takes longer than 8 seconds to load, I experience withdrawl symptoms.
.... Are they legitimizing destructive behavior?" .. Jeez..
:-P
"Hackers (sic), now with their own conventions and magazines,"
Defcon 7.0, and soon 8.0. 2600 and Phrack are both > 5 years old. NOW!? These people think at the speed of a dead elephant. I'm sure they get up each day, do exactly the same thing, go to sleep, and dream exactly the same dreams they've had for the past 20 years.
I mean, I regularly seem to be probed by some script kiddie program that brute force checks phf, convert.bas, some Front Page things, etc. It's annoying, yes. Dangerous? No. If I don't securely lock and check on my building when I leave work, and don't buy a security system, I won't be insured. I wish "website insurance" would come out so adjustors could go, "Windows NT you say. How's 1,000,000 a month for a premiun?" Maybe then we'd finally see some professionalism forced past those PHBs and clueless MCSEs.
"With viruses available for downloading from the Web, extensive computer language knowledge is no longer needed." I remember having to deal with the Stoned Monkey virus in 1994 at a computer lab. It was more because clueless 12 year olds didn't know much about computers. Thankfully, the lab had a good teacher (I was just a TA checking on the machines). Professionalism is, again, a solution. Know your job, and do your job.
On to the second article..
"Their code name is "The L0pht,""
Their group name. Double moron points for showing ddd or some visual debugger at work in the image there.
"They are the elite of hackers, whose notoriety brought them before Congress a year ago."
"20/20 says hackers are reeel cool d00ds! I want to be one now!"
"That's correct," one L0pht member responded. "It would definitely take a few days for people to figure out what was going on."
"On no, the internet is down again.."
"What they do is try to break into programs we're led to believe are secure."
"But MS said that this Exchange server was mission critical, even though it doesn't have any relay protection, forces us to use LookOut!, and has many obvious holes!"
"They refer to each other by nicknames. By not revealing their real names, they protect themselves from lawsuits by companies and individuals."
They're too young to have lawsuits pressed against them.
"hey say it's to remind us how we've become reliant on computers for more than just communicating;
"Look, you rely too much on Oxygen. When I strangle you, you die! Stop relying on Oxygen so much!"
It's clear that both the reporter's poor understanding, and L0pht's annoying boasting, have contributed to bad, bad articles. Seconds to crack a password? Well, if your root password is "rootpwd," I should hope so!
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"When Samuel Posner opened the Hanukkah gift from his son, the high-tech gizmo seemed like any other pricey new toy. "
;-)) Still, this seems fishy to me.
It was claimed as a Hanukkah present. Do Jewish people give presents on Hanukkah? (I don't know, I'm a practising atheist
"and his wife, who is seven months pregnant and confined to bed, "
Why on Earth is a seven month pregnant woman confined to bed? 6 months is when it starts to show, and the women are quite capable of moving under their own power even 9 months pregnant and overdue.
""We said to her, 'Don't open the door,"' recalled Samuel Posner, who stayed on the phone while he and his daughter-in-law tried to figure out what the detectives wanted. "
Why would they be afraid of the police? The fellow's son is a lawyer.
""How the item -- a cutting-edge version of a WebTV box, a device that can make an ordinary television set capable of browsing the World Wide Web"
It is generally agreed, by Microsoft and others, that WebTV is not very usefull. In fact, their market penetration is quite light as cheap Emachines (and other limited functionality computers) flood the market. Microsoft has been trying to bad away, not embrace more fully, WebTV.
That it is it potentially worth a million dollars is also somewhat not believable.
"There, the device was engineered as a prototype with new features that would not be on the market for at least a year, said Detective Ted Cappozziello of the Computer Investigative Unit of the New York City police."
Engineered? Don't you mean designed? Besides, what would reverse engineering of such a device showing? Wow, they're using a faster proccessor than the old one -- didn't see that coming! New "features" not to be on the market for at least a year? That'd be new year 2001 -- I think we'll all be using Athlons on Cable modem connections by then, so why the odd timescale? It stinks.
"A Microsoft spokeswoman, Angela Yearta, said the company was grateful to the police for helping to retrieve the box but had no comment on the investigation."
"Big time" newspapers have printed incorrect things before, this is why there are retractions. Until I see an official press release from MS, and perhaps a nice little statement from the NYPD, I will consider this a wonderful little tale of woe.
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Do we have any true confirmation, or is this just more word of mouth stuff? I mean, there are a lot of more plausible sounding urban legends on this site.
Let's analyse this: Big corporation X, which many people don't understand, and has been recently confirmed to have been doing evil things, has an employee, who accidently sends package Y, which is worth 1,000,000 dollars. This person, Z, who is a complete innocent just trying to get his fair share from company X is shocked/scared/suprised as company X brings in the [Mafia|Police|Military] to get back its 1,000,000 dollars package. Lesson to be learned: really don't trust those large corporations, because they're all evil and secretly control the government.
" Has the NYPD now been reduced to foot soldiers that serve to correct simple clerical errors on behalf of corporate America? "
I don't know. I'd want a signed letter, compelete with a few forms of ID, from this Scott Posner fellow before I'd believe any of this in the slightest. This is an NT security rag^H^H^Hmag...
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Very much so :-)
"Most harmful of all is the message that Microsoft's Boys have conveyed to every Weapon with the potential to Shoot in the Saskatchewan industry. Through its conduct toward Netscape, Dell, Compaq, Compaq, and others, Microsoft has demonstrated that it will use its prodigious market power and immense Girls to harm any firm that insists on pursuing initiatives that could intensify competition against one of Microsoft's Super products. Microsoft's past success in hurting such Dogs and stifling innovation deters investment in technologies and Hermaphrodites that exhibit the potential to Fuck Microsoft. The ultimate result is that some innovations that would truly benefit Pigs never occur for the sole reason that they do not Fly with Microsoft's Dave."
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I thought the wrecked cars thing could've just been some local wrecks + smoke machine, considering the way it was displayed :-)
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First, a stop sign at an intersection that also has lights? Please. The poor aim when running after him (not 3 whole metres, and they still can't hit him with a damned pistol). Not to mention the general weirdness.
:-)
Plot? What plot? It just seemed to be a bunch of running/shooting.
At least the whole Santa from trunk to garbage bin foul up + tossing stuff into cups was a nice tip of the hat to Short Circuit
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The marketting division is serious diluting the brand name "Pentium"
Let's look:
"Pentium" -- a decent 5th gen proc.
"Pentium with MMX" -- Should've been Pentium+, it contained important L1 cache enchancements (P166 w/ MMX outperforms plain P200, etc).
"Pentium Pro" -- Why not a new name, like P2? This is a 6th generation code.
"Pentium ][" -- Finally, a proper increase in number. Pretty much the same core, but with cache slower.
"Pentium ]I[" -- Well, there are two kinds of P3. Ones which have KNI, and no other changes. And the P3 which does have KNI, but which also has faster/less L2 cache, and other important tweaks. They rushed the Pentium 3 "name" out the door to get people buying what is essentially the same chip, which not as much as a performance grab as the Pentium w/MMX over the original Pentium. Not to mention serial numbers (oy vey).
Now they have the "Pentium IV".. Does anyone else think it's just wrong to have 5 separate chips based on the same cores when, in the same span in the 1980s, Intel was actually inovating and took us through the 80186 (used on controller boards), the 80286, and the 80386 (with the prototype 486 chips just out the door 10 years ago). It seems that rather than reacting with the inovation they had of the 1980s, they are reacting with the Marketting Dodos who brought us "I was born to web!".
If you'll let me indulge in a little metaphor, Intel is currently roping a nice little noose around its neck, with the word "Marketting" written on it. AMD is currently moving in to kick the chair out from under Intel. Anyone wanna buy some Intel stock?
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Ahh, to clean up the gene pool of invalids.
;-)
First thing's first:
I need my home neutering kit, and Jon Katz's home address. Anyone have that?
(This is, of course, a joke in poor taste
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Only users in the USA are affected by the RSAREF situation, which suits both parties poorly, as users get crappy support and RSA wastes uncompensated effort any time they have to fix it
:-) RSAREF, export restrictions, etc, all contribute to it.
Our good friend, Theo de Radt, said as much. OpenSSH checks the args to the RSAREF package strictly, and so is not vulnerable. SSH1 w/ RSAREF is vulnerable (and there is aparently a working exploit). Any packages that use RSAREF might also have holes (OpenSSL, etc).
Here is a good graphic describing the encryption situation
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Since updating as ns.thock.com (the orignal designate didn't work), my friend tried ns1.thock.com for the first IP change... Then the one I talked about (3 weeks) came along. After a long time of batting it back and forth between ns and ns1, my friend (the billing contact) set it to:
:-)). I'm assuming forcing the record to a new one will work, as their satanic form mail for updating records just does not work.
Name Server: DUKAT.THOCK.COM
Which worked (him being a DS9 fan and all
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