I do. With real world breaking and entering, you don't need to bring down a mission-critical server to reimage the driver for to ensure security. You just change the locks.
I don't know about intel-branded solar panels. They'd work well and all, but they'd probably cost a lot. I don't see much of a need for OCing solar panels, so I think I'd prefer AMD panels...
Yea, the guys who host the local open source user group in the office (they do computer consultancy stuff) had a server in the training room that they were load testing last meeting. It was for some massive international business, and it had to be able to handle 40,000 jabber connections at once. Pretty cool stuff.
Last month at the local open source group's installfest, I was talking to one of the compsci teachers from a university. He had recently attended some sort of college fair or something, and someone (MIT?) had set up a nifty display using RFID chips.
You see, they had disguised an rfid reader as a tablet, and embedded rfid things into little plastic discs. On the discs were images representing english, math, etc. Someone tosses a chip on the reader, and a load of information is displayed on the screen about that course. Nifty, nifty...
Next think you know, Mr. Calleeforneeya will want to put a tax on air. And to properly measure the amount of air you intake, chips will be implanted in every citizen. As a side effect, the feds know where you are at all times.
Problem is, I don't think any one man has the ownership of all the kernel code, so it can't be released under another license. If they could somehow track down every man who contributed code and get them to agree to releasing their IP under a new license, it would be a different story. But the kernel developers aren't magic pixies, I'm afraid.
Try everquest. You *need* a couple of the expansion packs if you expect to play. Like Plains of Power. I played without it for a few months, and the handicap I had was *incredible*. Everyone would say 'k, meet you at so and so in a minute' and run to the local book to get there really fast. I had to take about an hour to run across the bloody continent to get there. Talk about assrape.
You see, they have this little thing called 'Terms and Conditions' that hostings firms reserve the right to give you the boot at their discretion in...
As long as your kid is old enough to understand your instructions, it might be a good idea to take them to the range once or twice to fire your gun with you. Not only will they learn how to handle a gun in the event that they need to, they won't be as curious and start playing with it. We nerds should know damn well 'don't touch that button!' just makes people want to touch it more than they wanted before.
# Packaging
in short, their cvs server was being choked, and it was costing them lots of money. I don't think it was a bad descision.
So because the CVS server was being choked they didn't want debian distributing a PRECOMPILED cedega packages, from DEBIAN servers? How does that work? Debian distributing a cedega devel package would cause/less/ load on the CVS server.
Kids need to grown a damn spine. OOOOH, someone is calling them names. Big fucking deal. What, are you going to suffer 'mental trama' because some insecure lardass called you a bitch?
I mean, for christssake, I heard about teachers correcting papers in purple because red is to scary just this morning.
Nyet, just the day it was 'announced'. Linus decided that he was going to turn his terminal emulator into an OS more around July 3, as that is when he requested the posix standard on comp.os.minix.
My point being, why bother, they are going to do an official one soon...
So opensource purists/debian users can have one for their linux box. (I'm implying anyone who reverse engineers it will make it opensource.) And it can't be too hard to reverse-engineer...
PC games will never go away, but if the market keeps shrinking due to the increasing ease of piracy... then the number and quality of games will almost certainly decrease.
I see the piracy of games being the lesser threat to the game industry. Sure, it's an issue, but they should be more afraid of people waking up and realizing that they're getting crapped on by game companies.
People won't be so computer-illiterate in about ten years when computers will be as common as any other appliance, and people know how to maintain their common appliances. (IE: Don't shove a fork in a toaster, proper oven cleaning protocol, etc), and they won't really like bullshit drivers installing themselves without much notice (People don't read EULAs.).
Another though: What if the anti-virus companies decide that this is bullshit and we find that Norton Anti-Virus starts complaining about this crap. The game companies will sure as hell think twice before they restict people's computer useage without telling them.
How do you punish someone for engaging in computer crime, and deter those that consider comiting similar crimes?
We really should consider the death penelty for releasing viruses/worms like this. I bet if the US government (I live in the US, so I'll use them as an example) passed some bill allowing the dealth penelty for this this, then started taking it more seriously and put some effort into rounding people who release viruses...Well, I'm sure there would be a bit of a decrease in new viruses.
18 to 36 months for doing nothing significant. Does anyone else think this is lunacy?
Nothing significant? Ok, here's something significant that his worm caused for you. It infected every computer in my school's computer room, and since the school has no real IT people, we missed computer class for over a month. The school had to pay for the tech to come in and clean each and every box. Sure, it was the schools fault for not having any anti-virus software. But still, he denied me and my schoolmates a month of 'computer education'.
Today, in a shocking turn of events, a black ops team from the Mozilla foundation stormed Microsoft Corprate Headquartes in Redmond and took a number of high-profile hostages. The team had one demand: dump all IE code and use the firefox code instead.
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I do. With real world breaking and entering, you don't need to bring down a mission-critical server to reimage the driver for to ensure security. You just change the locks.
I don't know about intel-branded solar panels. They'd work well and all, but they'd probably cost a lot. I don't see much of a need for OCing solar panels, so I think I'd prefer AMD panels...
=P
Yea, the guys who host the local open source user group in the office (they do computer consultancy stuff) had a server in the training room that they were load testing last meeting. It was for some massive international business, and it had to be able to handle 40,000 jabber connections at once. Pretty cool stuff.
Last month at the local open source group's installfest, I was talking to one of the compsci teachers from a university. He had recently attended some sort of college fair or something, and someone (MIT?) had set up a nifty display using RFID chips.
You see, they had disguised an rfid reader as a tablet, and embedded rfid things into little plastic discs. On the discs were images representing english, math, etc. Someone tosses a chip on the reader, and a load of information is displayed on the screen about that course. Nifty, nifty...
Next think you know, Mr. Calleeforneeya will want to put a tax on air. And to properly measure the amount of air you intake, chips will be implanted in every citizen. As a side effect, the feds know where you are at all times.
I support the Caleeforneyan AIR TAX!
Problem is, I don't think any one man has the ownership of all the kernel code, so it can't be released under another license. If they could somehow track down every man who contributed code and get them to agree to releasing their IP under a new license, it would be a different story. But the kernel developers aren't magic pixies, I'm afraid.
Yea, I'm all for having cops strangle twenty women in order to catch a murderer!
So, since when have the FBI been allowed to commit cybercrimes? Isn't this just like spraypainting someone's house on halloween?
But it isn't a problem when playboy uses (nude) nintendo characters?
Try everquest. You *need* a couple of the expansion packs if you expect to play. Like Plains of Power. I played without it for a few months, and the handicap I had was *incredible*. Everyone would say 'k, meet you at so and so in a minute' and run to the local book to get there really fast. I had to take about an hour to run across the bloody continent to get there. Talk about assrape.
Ah, but can you make it look X-TREME and/or TOTALLY HIP?
You see, they have this little thing called 'Terms and Conditions' that hostings firms reserve the right to give you the boot at their discretion in...
Wrong. Linux 0.1 was torvalds-only code. And as far as I know, there has never been any minix code in linux, ever.
I'm not a her, you insensetive clod!
As long as your kid is old enough to understand your instructions, it might be a good idea to take them to the range once or twice to fire your gun with you. Not only will they learn how to handle a gun in the event that they need to, they won't be as curious and start playing with it. We nerds should know damn well 'don't touch that button!' just makes people want to touch it more than they wanted before.
So because the CVS server was being choked they didn't want debian distributing a PRECOMPILED cedega packages, from DEBIAN servers? How does that work? Debian distributing a cedega devel package would cause /less/ load on the CVS server.
That has also been answered quite well.
Yes yes yes! Yes! Sing it, brotha!
Kids need to grown a damn spine. OOOOH, someone is calling them names. Big fucking deal. What, are you going to suffer 'mental trama' because some insecure lardass called you a bitch?
I mean, for christssake, I heard about teachers correcting papers in purple because red is to scary just this morning.
Spines, please! SPINES!
Nyet, just the day it was 'announced'. Linus decided that he was going to turn his terminal emulator into an OS more around July 3, as that is when he requested the posix standard on comp.os.minix.
According to Linus' book, Linux 0.01 was released on Sept. 17, 1991. (Second to last line, Page 87, Just for Fun). So today isn't the birthday. :(
So opensource purists/debian users can have one for their linux box. (I'm implying anyone who reverse engineers it will make it opensource.) And it can't be too hard to reverse-engineer...
Your permission is asked. Did you ever read one of those long, boring, confusing EULAs? The ones you agree to before most software will install?
I see the piracy of games being the lesser threat to the game industry. Sure, it's an issue, but they should be more afraid of people waking up and realizing that they're getting crapped on by game companies.
People won't be so computer-illiterate in about ten years when computers will be as common as any other appliance, and people know how to maintain their common appliances. (IE: Don't shove a fork in a toaster, proper oven cleaning protocol, etc), and they won't really like bullshit drivers installing themselves without much notice (People don't read EULAs.).
Another though: What if the anti-virus companies decide that this is bullshit and we find that Norton Anti-Virus starts complaining about this crap. The game companies will sure as hell think twice before they restict people's computer useage without telling them.
We really should consider the death penelty for releasing viruses/worms like this. I bet if the US government (I live in the US, so I'll use them as an example) passed some bill allowing the dealth penelty for this this, then started taking it more seriously and put some effort into rounding people who release viruses...Well, I'm sure there would be a bit of a decrease in new viruses.
Nothing significant? Ok, here's something significant that his worm caused for you. It infected every computer in my school's computer room, and since the school has no real IT people, we missed computer class for over a month. The school had to pay for the tech to come in and clean each and every box. Sure, it was the schools fault for not having any anti-virus software. But still, he denied me and my schoolmates a month of 'computer education'.
Today, in a shocking turn of events, a black ops team from the Mozilla foundation stormed Microsoft Corprate Headquartes in Redmond and took a number of high-profile hostages. The team had one demand: dump all IE code and use the firefox code instead.
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