Now don't get me wrong, I love tinkering with the inner workings and do not know of a single electronic device I own (and some I don't) with the "Removing will void your warrenty" stickers still in tact, but there are times where simplicity is really appreciated. Yes, I can connect my pc to my vcr inputs, plug in some ether in my living room and watch any movie from my file server, and it will work, but systems like these and TiVo just work, and allow me to relax in my leisure time.
Just because you can use sed routed through five pipes and a database engine to strip a tv-guide website and schedule a record, other than bragging rights on IRC (what geek hangs out at a water cooler in the open) why would you? I will still use the windoze guideplus that came with my ATI card to get my listings unashamed. I think a lot of geeks need to remember that the easy ways are still ok, as long as they are not relied on as the only ways.
I live in a large city (~ 1 million peons) with a single cable internet provider. They are known for ruthlessly shutting off service to get you to call them and find out how you offended their AUP. While at my old house, and from other friends stories, they usually start calling around 5 GB of traffic per month, where I am now, I did that in a week and have heard nothing. Also, unlike my friends who's dynamically assigned IP's change quite often, I have been running my linux box off the same IP for almost two years now. The only time it changed is when I changed nics.
I won't mention the company (hint: look at the parent post), as I don't wan't to loose my loophole;-) but maybe they don't consider my area a high consumption spot or failed to purchase enough monitoring equipment. The only time I have ever heard from their abuse department is when I reported being the victim of a spam attack, and they shut down MY connection for spamming. Maybe it's just literacy.
Is this really a good thing? We already live in such a sterile and bubblewrapped world that when something contageous comes along, our body's can not cope. Mabey it's time to listen to our kids and start eating more dirt, regain our imune system.
This Service Pack addresses a security whole in which an unauthorized user can feed malformed information into the system and cause a user-level memory leak. This product contains no spy ware or RIAA malware. Really.
We are due for another big leap in computing design. There are only so many.microns left until the transistors are two or three molecules in size. I fail to think this would signify the limit as there has to be another avenue that we have not tried (or has not been shown to the public) otherwise how else am I going to get my tri-corder functioning?
As such a machine does not currently exist, we couldn't use everyday experience to rule it out.
As mentioned in earlier/. articles, it was a widely accepted fact that a human being would go insane from overload if he traveled faster that 35 mph. Just because we can't see how it could be done at this time does not mean it is impossible.
That was the expectation of the lead researcher in the documentary I saw. He suspects the moment they turn it on and it works, he expects to get a message sent back to him from the future. The catch though is the portal exists from the time it is turned on until it is shut down. Talk about a motive for uptime.
A quick google answered my own memory gap. Here is a short article on it. Yeah, bad karma for posting without researching better the first time, but I have an exam tomorrow. Back to the books. Cheers.
As far out as it seems, there are real efforts in making a time machine. I forget what university was doing the research, but it involves using lasers crossing each other at 90 degree intersects to create a column or vortex of light. While this cannot let them travel back in time, it is theorized it will let particles travel through the time that the machine is turned on.
I apologize for the specifics, but am sure the slashdot effect can find the specifics.
My grandparents still use their program manager and win 3.11. Granted, they did upgrade to a nice 17 inch screen, but their first generation pentium and old OS runs all their slot machine games great.
I would like to 'upgrade' them to win 9x, but where would you find all the patches and updates now that windozeupdate no longer has them listed? Does someone have a service pack archived somewhere?
It would be a great precedent case. If they are already charging a tax on the blank media, then I have already paid for the song and can download and burn without guilt and liability. Charge 20 cents on every disc, close down HMV and replace it with a large file server and it is a done deal. As usual, the SIG is looking for a short term scare instead of a long term solution. They either don't realize or don't care about the loophole they open up by playing this way.
If ISP's are going to be fined and taxed for the fraud their services allow, then they should look at charging for the the profit made. Yes, they are already profiting from providing the connection, but just like the electric company, add a surcharge or cost recovery rider and get a portion of iTunes millions for enableing users to get to their site.
And while we are at it, Microsoft can put forth a suit seeing as they provided the web browser most folk (that would pay for music) used to access the site. . . . . Shall I go on?
This has got to stop. I refuse to pay a tariff on a hard drive used in a mail server because of the whining of a special interest group.
Lets say, for arguments sake, they really were attacked. Here is an account of a small company being attacked, and how even being a small fish to their ISP, was able to detect, solve, and prevent further attacks. Admitedly, the attack is a UDP flood, but applying a filter to an upstream router cannot be much less time consuming than applying a patch. With the army that SCO employs, this should have been no more than a day of downtime and quitely filed away.
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Now don't get me wrong, I love tinkering with the inner workings and do not know of a single electronic device I own (and some I don't) with the "Removing will void your warrenty" stickers still in tact, but there are times where simplicity is really appreciated. Yes, I can connect my pc to my vcr inputs, plug in some ether in my living room and watch any movie from my file server, and it will work, but systems like these and TiVo just work, and allow me to relax in my leisure time.
Just because you can use sed routed through five pipes and a database engine to strip a tv-guide website and schedule a record, other than bragging rights on IRC (what geek hangs out at a water cooler in the open) why would you? I will still use the windoze guideplus that came with my ATI card to get my listings unashamed. I think a lot of geeks need to remember that the easy ways are still ok, as long as they are not relied on as the only ways.
I live in a large city (~ 1 million peons) with a single cable internet provider. They are known for ruthlessly shutting off service to get you to call them and find out how you offended their AUP. While at my old house, and from other friends stories, they usually start calling around 5 GB of traffic per month, where I am now, I did that in a week and have heard nothing. Also, unlike my friends who's dynamically assigned IP's change quite often, I have been running my linux box off the same IP for almost two years now. The only time it changed is when I changed nics.
;-) but maybe they don't consider my area a high consumption spot or failed to purchase enough monitoring equipment. The only time I have ever heard from their abuse department is when I reported being the victim of a spam attack, and they shut down MY connection for spamming. Maybe it's just literacy.
I won't mention the company (hint: look at the parent post), as I don't wan't to loose my loophole
Is this really a good thing? We already live in such a sterile and bubblewrapped world that when something contageous comes along, our body's can not cope. Mabey it's time to listen to our kids and start eating more dirt, regain our imune system.
This Service Pack addresses a security whole in which an unauthorized user can feed malformed information into the system and cause a user-level memory leak. This product contains no spy ware or RIAA malware. Really.
It worked for KFC (Kentucky Fried Pigeion)
We are due for another big leap in computing design. There are only so many .microns left until the transistors are two or three molecules in size. I fail to think this would signify the limit as there has to be another avenue that we have not tried (or has not been shown to the public) otherwise how else am I going to get my tri-corder functioning?
As such a machine does not currently exist, we couldn't use everyday experience to rule it out.
/. articles, it was a widely accepted fact that a human being would go insane from overload if he traveled faster that 35 mph. Just because we can't see how it could be done at this time does not mean it is impossible.
As mentioned in earlier
That was the expectation of the lead researcher in the documentary I saw. He suspects the moment they turn it on and it works, he expects to get a message sent back to him from the future. The catch though is the portal exists from the time it is turned on until it is shut down. Talk about a motive for uptime.
A quick google answered my own memory gap. Here is a short article on it. Yeah, bad karma for posting without researching better the first time, but I have an exam tomorrow. Back to the books. Cheers.
As far out as it seems, there are real efforts in making a time machine. I forget what university was doing the research, but it involves using lasers crossing each other at 90 degree intersects to create a column or vortex of light. While this cannot let them travel back in time, it is theorized it will let particles travel through the time that the machine is turned on. I apologize for the specifics, but am sure the slashdot effect can find the specifics.
My grandparents still use their program manager and win 3.11. Granted, they did upgrade to a nice 17 inch screen, but their first generation pentium and old OS runs all their slot machine games great. I would like to 'upgrade' them to win 9x, but where would you find all the patches and updates now that windozeupdate no longer has them listed? Does someone have a service pack archived somewhere?
It would be a great precedent case. If they are already charging a tax on the blank media, then I have already paid for the song and can download and burn without guilt and liability. Charge 20 cents on every disc, close down HMV and replace it with a large file server and it is a done deal. As usual, the SIG is looking for a short term scare instead of a long term solution. They either don't realize or don't care about the loophole they open up by playing this way.
If ISP's are going to be fined and taxed for the fraud their services allow, then they should look at charging for the the profit made. Yes, they are already profiting from providing the connection, but just like the electric company, add a surcharge or cost recovery rider and get a portion of iTunes millions for enableing users to get to their site. And while we are at it, Microsoft can put forth a suit seeing as they provided the web browser most folk (that would pay for music) used to access the site. . . . . Shall I go on? This has got to stop. I refuse to pay a tariff on a hard drive used in a mail server because of the whining of a special interest group.
Lets say, for arguments sake, they really were attacked. Here is an account of a small company being attacked, and how even being a small fish to their ISP, was able to detect, solve, and prevent further attacks. Admitedly, the attack is a UDP flood, but applying a filter to an upstream router cannot be much less time consuming than applying a patch. With the army that SCO employs, this should have been no more than a day of downtime and quitely filed away.