He wasn't the guy that actually figured out the whistle thing. He asserts that some of his blind friends that were into phreaking with him showed him that if you glued 2 of the holes closed that the whistle emits a perfect 2600 hertz. The whistle trick was discovered after the invention of the blue box.
John Draper is a very intelligent individual. I remember when he was starting his company up, we used to chat about security protocols and the like. Also a point of interest is that he did a lot of toying with radio as well. Also Easy Writer was written in FORTH... it takes a real hacker to program in FORTH. C is a toy by comparison (in some respects). Anyway, Kudos to the cap'n for being featured on slashdot in a good way.
A possibility is the Hamilton Engine
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A possiblity could be that this guy has managed to build a hamilton engine. From what the article hints toward, IT could be a better energy source.
Hamilton's engine was supposedly shown to him by aliens. While I don't support this idea I do believe that this machine would work. It basically works on magnetic repulsion and harnassing that to rotation energy along a special angular line. While the idea is sheer genious I don't believe it is other worldly. I think Hamelton felt it necessary to use some other source to make his idea more credible since he is not a scientist.
Anyhow, maybe IT is a usable form of Hamiltonian mechanics. Check out "The granite man and the butterfly" (book) for more detalis on this stuff. Also look around for the Hamilton engine and the isotopic line of motion. It is fun stuff to play with and contrary to most articles it does fit into todays physics... just think it out.
For instance, I've just finished a multi thread system where I used a ramdisk to do message communications. It was very simple to program and wasn't as demanding on the kernel for interprocess/thread communications. The ramdisk is also a great way for a program to store data in case of a crash. Since there's very little overhead for transferring data into and out of the RAM disk it was a wonderful solution for this.
I hope to write more software utilizing the ram disk in the future because it was so easy to achieve advanced communications between processes. I wasn't confined to signals or using someone's clunky library. (I write high performance programs so anything out of the libc I typically try to avoid because I can make a library tailored to my needs that is much faster than the general case libraries are, but I digress)
As for the scailability of the things, yes RAM disks can scale as long as you have the RAM for it. That is, in kernels 2.2 and up I believe. Anyways you have to use a scailable filesystem like riser to make it go.
Did you not get one of your books published? Closed as the NSA? Really now that is the strangest thing about publishers I've heard. I guess the Disney mafia (see previous stories) didn't want this story published, now did they?
I don't really think they are quite that closed. They do after all publish their books and they don't sue you for letting other people read them and used bookstores are legal. (Unless it's those new textbooks, but I don't think those will take.)
All in all, publishers of paper books are the only ones that haven't gone all anal about sharing of information. But then I'm not Katz, my world isn't one where big companies are only out to destroy us...
When these raids were happening the main fear of hackers was from people who thought we would start a war or something like that. But the defense department said that wasn't possible (and to some extent this was true) and at the same time ordered that many of us be rounded up.
Of course true hackers don't do blatently illegal things so they had to find some excuse to raid people's homes and businesses. This is EXACTLY like what happene before my lifetime in response to phreaks. This case is really different though. These people just made a RPG module that gives fantastic ways of hacking (or rather cracking) things that simply did not exist. (and by and large still do not) This was a direct attack on freedom of speech. If the Madison knew what the bill that he drafted would do to our society, the first ammedment to the constitution would have never happened.
The problem now remains. The authoritative evil people want us to conform to THEIR agenda and if we differ, well the seceret service has to come and stop us.
Ah, the faint smell of hering on Tux's breath and the smell of sweat and tears when you click on the part about the developers.
And we could have the distinct smell of a processor that is running a superior operating system!
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Actually its more fare reaching than the net.
This was the darkest day for humanity.
But are we suprised? No. Free speech is inherently a bad idea because it usually only insites anger. Regulated speech is bad because people are angry for not being able to epress there ideas. No speech is bad because nothing gets done. Having our thoughts neatly packaged by people smart enough to become millionaires at our expense so that we can be ruled by them is kind of convenient. At least we won't have to bother with our own opinions now. Ahhhh, Fascism.
The Unibomber(tm) patent 12451223 used a patented process of terrorism which involved long cabin retreats.
If you run off to a cabin then he can sue you for violation of that patent. Also, if you use wood then I can sue you as I hold the patent on fibrous building materials, and countersuits are a bad idea. I patented frivolous law suits. hehe
well I have to pay my fees to hemos who owns resperation (I did that a bit today) so I'll stop my rantings.
Remember, money controls the government. I'm sure that eventually it will be illegal to register a domain if you don't own the trademark to each of the letters in it. Oh well.
I'm sure that some slashdot readers could give some legal advice to the guys over at etoy.com. And if you are a corporate lawyer, shame on you. You should not defend the monsters.
Well it looks like those of us who already made it out of the system with the ability to program without having to go to jail for our individuality will have better job security. If they cut off the bright people when they begin to become smart then we won't have to worry about a young hacker coming to steal our jobs for cheaper because there won't be any. They will all be in jail.
Of course once we die so does our field, but why worry? We'll be dead!
(Actually I know how much this sux so don't flame me please... just being practical if not cynical)
I for one want to help develop this!
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This could become a real virtual office type deal. Notes on the walls, netscape on the desk in front of you etc. In it's advanced form it WILL be cool. This could work really well with one of my current projects and that is an LCD based VR goggle for linux. Imagine if you could immerse yourself in your virtual coding enviornment with that virtual flatland computer in front of you.
WE COULD ALL BE SITTING IN OUR CUSTOM CASTLES WITH THE ABILITY TO SUMMON WHATEVER WE WANT. we would be like class 9 mages in AD&D while coding... uber cool.
Because this coincides with one of my pipe dreams/projects and would make a real 3d viewer usable, when they release the code to this I will be pouring hours of work into this one! Anyone care to join me?
I am a CS student at Middle TN State University and our campus's main hp-ux box (big box, server is definitely a more appropriate name...) is frank. I don't know where the name came from, but we all talk about frank with love and hate. We pitty him when it's time for hundreds of us to test sorts on millions of items. When the AI assignments start going we worry about him becoming self aware. Wouldn't bother us if his name was hpux.mtsu.edu or something like that.
We also have your linux boxes named after coders an mathematicians we torvalds (of course;) ) pascal turing lebowitz etc.
The point is that it really eases the stress of coding and such if you feel like the computer you are using has certain human characteristics.
Ok frank, work with me, I often say. Wouldn't change it for anything!
I love nifty little real world hacks! Like the trick with change machines that made us all carry around notched bills and how you can clip the black and yellow wires on a pay phone and get some quarters. This means I'll be carrying around a canister of liquid nitrogen in addition to my notched and taped bills and my wire cutters! uber cool!
(Not that I would ever do any of these things... a note to your friendly law enforcers *grin*)
yeah... Let's think about this I have always found this a little strange.
If a copy of windows costs 186.00 and about 100,000,000 copies are sold then you have $18,600,000,000.00 in sales. If we look at the fact the Microsoft really only markets about 20 products a year and that they only have 4 widespread products we see that the company probably only grosses about 100 billion a year. They have thousands of employees to pay and if Bill got even just 5 billion they would not be able to cover all their expenses. So most of his fortune is in MS stock.... hmm, no wonder he wants to cover himself!
This is interesting. I wonder if you could point me to some resources that support this theory reliably. If so this could justify following the Jolly Roger Cookbook as a guide to life.
I agree that the once democratic/republic system has usurped the power of the people, but conspiracy at this level seems unlikely, but I could just be misled. Kind of like in 1984, no one rejected Oceania's "party" because they did not know better. They weren't allowed to. The fact for us is that the past is allowed to exist. In fact the government has been releasing things that makes itself seem MORE corrupt. I think what's bothering you is no one seems to want to stop it before it escalates to the point that you are talking about.
Why can't you just retreat to your interests and leave us to ours. So we like linux, so we like to develope it. If LINUX didn't have shortcommings we wouldn't need to develope it. I wouldn't have it any other way. I guess the trouble that you have is that you can't understand what it is we're about.
I don't see why you have to judge us. Why? Why not just let us be? How have we wronged you? Don't like us, just don't listen!
Oh, and this is my second time posting this one... if you can repeat so can I.
For all/.'ers I don't think that we should kill this guys net connections or even ban him, it's entertaining. We should be able to exploit those of less knowledge for our own pleasure.:)
Why can't you just retreat to your interests and leave us to ours. So we like linux, so we like to develope it. If LINUX didn't have shortcommings we wouldn't need to develope it. I wouldn't have it any other way. I guess the trouble that you have is that you can't understand what it is we're about.
I don't see why you have to judge us. Why? Why not just let us be? How have we wronged you? Don't like us, just don't listen!
I use xhippo and I have it set up to generate a playlist of all my midi and MP3 files and then plays them in random order. This ranges from Classical music, Heavy metal, and even monty python soundtracks!
You can get xhippo from any gnu mirror. Of course I use timidity for the best of midi sound...
Music is the stuff my code is made of. When my librarians (ala Neal Stephenson/Snow Crash Librarians) start to work everyone will be very thankful to xhippo... Mwahahaha!
Well, I have noticed this trend in slashdot. I have really enjoyed this site for some time now even though I just kind of sit in the back and read the posts and replies. It is distrubing me. I have seen more so called nerd sites and bbs's go lamo when they start getting a wide following. (just think of l0pht, the quality of their content is on a rapid decline. I couldn't even find some of my favorite textz there... oh well)
At any rate I don't think we should let this happen to slashdot. Don't let it go the way of nerdworld. We are already being massmarketed and exploited to death with the advent of the cool T-shirts and stuff. Oh well, maybe I am just over reacting.
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Actually, Heathens are well read. That's what separates us from the common pagan. :-) Apparently you never bougth a dictionary.
He wasn't the guy that actually figured out the whistle thing. He asserts that some of his blind friends that were into phreaking with him showed him that if you glued 2 of the holes closed that the whistle emits a perfect 2600 hertz. The whistle trick was discovered after the invention of the blue box.
John Draper is a very intelligent individual. I remember when he was starting his company up, we used to chat about security protocols and the like. Also a point of interest is that he did a lot of toying with radio as well. Also Easy Writer was written in FORTH... it takes a real hacker to program in FORTH. C is a toy by comparison (in some respects). Anyway, Kudos to the cap'n for being featured on slashdot in a good way.
A possiblity could be that this guy has managed to build a hamilton engine. From what the article hints toward, IT could be a better energy source.
Hamilton's engine was supposedly shown to him by aliens. While I don't support this idea I do believe that this machine would work. It basically works on magnetic repulsion and harnassing that to rotation energy along a special angular line. While the idea is sheer genious I don't believe it is other worldly. I think Hamelton felt it necessary to use some other source to make his idea more credible since he is not a scientist.
Anyhow, maybe IT is a usable form of Hamiltonian mechanics. Check out "The granite man and the butterfly" (book) for more detalis on this stuff. Also look around for the Hamilton engine and the isotopic line of motion. It is fun stuff to play with and contrary to most articles it does fit into todays physics... just think it out.
-Bob
The uses of RAM disks abound!
For instance, I've just finished a multi thread system where I used a ramdisk to do message communications. It was very simple to program and wasn't as demanding on the kernel for interprocess/thread communications. The ramdisk is also a great way for a program to store data in case of a crash. Since there's very little overhead for transferring data into and out of the RAM disk it was a wonderful solution for this.
I hope to write more software utilizing the ram disk in the future because it was so easy to achieve advanced communications between processes. I wasn't confined to signals or using someone's clunky library. (I write high performance programs so anything out of the libc I typically try to avoid because I can make a library tailored to my needs that is much faster than the general case libraries are, but I digress)
As for the scailability of the things, yes RAM disks can scale as long as you have the RAM for it. That is, in kernels 2.2 and up I believe. Anyways you have to use a scailable filesystem like riser to make it go.
Did you not get one of your books published? Closed as the NSA? Really now that is the strangest thing about publishers I've heard. I guess the Disney mafia (see previous stories) didn't want this story published, now did they?
I don't really think they are quite that closed. They do after all publish their books and they don't sue you for letting other people read them and used bookstores are legal. (Unless it's those new textbooks, but I don't think those will take.)
All in all, publishers of paper books are the only ones that haven't gone all anal about sharing of information. But then I'm not Katz, my world isn't one where big companies are only out to destroy us...
Hmmm, did you run this through the dialectizer?
It's a pretty neat thing to play with. Looks like he either set it to redneck or to idiot!
Happy playing!
Can't quite get to this site, anyone know this work or a mirror or something to get to it? I really really want to read this!
When these raids were happening the main fear of hackers was from people who thought we would start a war or something like that. But the defense department said that wasn't possible (and to some extent this was true) and at the same time ordered that many of us be rounded up.
Of course true hackers don't do blatently illegal things so they had to find some excuse to raid people's homes and businesses. This is EXACTLY like what happene before my lifetime in response to phreaks. This case is really different though. These people just made a RPG module that gives fantastic ways of hacking (or rather cracking) things that simply did not exist. (and by and large still do not) This was a direct attack on freedom of speech. If the Madison knew what the bill that he drafted would do to our society, the first ammedment to the constitution would have never happened.
The problem now remains. The authoritative evil people want us to conform to THEIR agenda and if we differ, well the seceret service has to come and stop us.
Ok, end ranting now
Ah, the faint smell of hering on Tux's breath and the smell of sweat and tears when you click on the part about the developers.
And we could have the distinct smell of a processor that is running a superior operating system!
Actually its more fare reaching than the net.
This was the darkest day for humanity.
But are we suprised? No. Free speech is inherently a bad idea because it usually only insites anger. Regulated speech is bad because people are angry for not being able to epress there ideas. No speech is bad because nothing gets done. Having our thoughts neatly packaged by people smart enough to become millionaires at our expense so that we can be ruled by them is kind of convenient. At least we won't have to bother with our own opinions now. Ahhhh, Fascism.
The Unibomber(tm) patent 12451223 used a patented process of terrorism which involved long cabin retreats.
If you run off to a cabin then he can sue you for violation of that patent.
Also, if you use wood then I can sue you as I hold the patent on fibrous building materials,
and countersuits are a bad idea. I patented frivolous law suits.
hehe
well I have to pay my fees to hemos who owns resperation (I did that a bit today) so I'll stop my rantings.
Remember, money controls the government. I'm sure that eventually it will be illegal to register a domain if you don't own the trademark to each of the letters in it. Oh well.
I'm sure that some slashdot readers could give some legal advice to the guys over at etoy.com. And if you are a corporate lawyer, shame on you. You should not defend the monsters.
Well it looks like those of us who already made it out of the system with the ability to program without having to go to jail for our individuality will have better job security. If they cut off the bright people when they begin to become smart then we won't have to worry about a young hacker coming to steal our jobs for cheaper because there won't be any. They will all be in jail.
Of course once we die so does our field, but why worry? We'll be dead!
(Actually I know how much this sux so don't flame me please... just being practical if not cynical)
This could become a real virtual office type deal. Notes on the walls, netscape on the desk in front of you etc. In it's advanced form it WILL be cool. This could work really well with one of my current projects and that is an LCD based VR goggle for linux. Imagine if you could immerse yourself in your virtual coding enviornment with that virtual flatland computer in front of you.
WE COULD ALL BE SITTING IN OUR CUSTOM CASTLES WITH THE ABILITY TO SUMMON WHATEVER WE WANT. we would be like class 9 mages in AD&D while coding... uber cool.
Because this coincides with one of my pipe dreams/projects and would make a real 3d viewer usable, when they release the code to this I will be pouring hours of work into this one! Anyone care to join me?
I am a CS student at Middle TN State University and our campus's main hp-ux box (big box, server is definitely a more appropriate name...) is frank. I don't know where the name came from, but we all talk about frank with love and hate. We pitty him when it's time for hundreds of us to test sorts on millions of items. When the AI assignments start going we worry about him becoming self aware. Wouldn't bother us if his name was hpux.mtsu.edu or something like that.
;) )
We also have your linux boxes named after coders an mathematicians
we torvalds (of course
pascal
turing
lebowitz
etc.
The point is that it really eases the stress of coding and such if you feel like the computer you are using has certain human characteristics.
Ok frank, work with me, I often say. Wouldn't change it for anything!
I love nifty little real world hacks! Like the trick with change machines that made us all carry around notched bills and how you can clip the black and yellow wires on a pay phone and get some quarters. This means I'll be carrying around a canister of liquid nitrogen in addition to my notched and taped bills and my wire cutters! uber cool!
(Not that I would ever do any of these things... a note to your friendly law enforcers *grin*)
Happy Birthday from a penguin! Thanks for all the great code!
yeah... Let's think about this I have always found this a little strange.
If a copy of windows costs 186.00 and about 100,000,000 copies are sold then you have $18,600,000,000.00 in sales. If we look at the fact the Microsoft really only markets about 20 products a year and that they only have 4 widespread products we see that the company probably only grosses about 100 billion a year. They have thousands of employees to pay and if Bill got even just 5 billion they would not be able to cover all their expenses. So most of his fortune is in MS stock.... hmm, no wonder he wants to cover himself!
This is interesting. I wonder if you could point me to some resources that support this theory reliably. If so this could justify following the Jolly Roger Cookbook as a guide to life.
I agree that the once democratic/republic system has usurped the power of the people, but conspiracy at this level seems unlikely, but I could just be misled. Kind of like in 1984, no one rejected Oceania's "party" because they did not know better. They weren't allowed to. The fact for us is that the past is allowed to exist. In fact the government has been releasing things that makes itself seem MORE corrupt. I think what's bothering you is no one seems to want to stop it before it escalates to the point that you are talking about.
Why can't you just retreat to your interests and leave us to ours. So we like linux, so we like to develope it. If LINUX didn't have
/.'ers I don't think that we should kill this guys net connections or even ban him, it's entertaining. We should be able to exploit those of less knowledge for our own pleasure. :)
shortcommings we wouldn't need to develope it. I wouldn't have it any other way. I guess the trouble that you have is that you can't
understand what it is we're about.
I don't see why you have to judge us. Why? Why not just let us be? How have we wronged you? Don't like us, just don't listen!
Oh, and this is my second time posting this one... if you can repeat so can I.
For all
Why can't you just retreat to your interests and leave us to ours. So we like linux, so we like to develope it. If LINUX didn't have shortcommings we wouldn't need to develope it. I wouldn't have it any other way. I guess the trouble that you have is that you can't understand what it is we're about.
I don't see why you have to judge us. Why? Why not just let us be? How have we wronged you? Don't like us, just don't listen!
I use xhippo and I have it set up to generate a playlist of all my midi and MP3 files and then plays them in random order. This ranges from Classical music, Heavy metal, and even monty python soundtracks!
You can get xhippo from any gnu mirror. Of course I use timidity for the best of midi sound...
Music is the stuff my code is made of. When my librarians (ala Neal Stephenson/Snow Crash Librarians) start to work everyone will be very thankful to xhippo... Mwahahaha!
Oh man! I haven't laughed so hard in a long time! Thanks... humans can be so funny at times, but corporations are funnier!
-Bob the furry eyed penguine
Well, I have noticed this trend in slashdot. I have really enjoyed this site for some time now even though I just kind of sit in the back and read the posts and replies. It is distrubing me. I have seen more so called nerd sites and bbs's go lamo when they start getting a wide following. (just think of l0pht, the quality of their content is on a rapid decline. I couldn't even find some of my favorite textz there... oh well)
At any rate I don't think we should let this happen to slashdot. Don't let it go the way of nerdworld. We are already being massmarketed and exploited to death with the advent of the cool T-shirts and stuff. Oh well, maybe I am just over reacting.
-Bob, the furry eyed penguin.