Ms. Ireland was an afterthought. My back hurts, and I figured someone sexy to rub it might be nice, so I tacked her on the end. As for the Guinness, I suppose I have finally given in to the US custom of labelling everything remotly beer-like 'beer', instead of the proper form.(stout, ale, bitter, lager, etc.) They (we) have no real class, I suppose.
Back in elementary school (Circa 1983), I was asked to write something along the same lines; In my crude story, one of the class 'bullies' lost control and started shooting people. You know what happened to me? Well, the front page has 'Jim, pay attention to your cursive! 90%' Even with a bodycount of fifty, pipe-bombs and what could be termed a open challenge to authority, no one thought twice about the fact that it was simply a story, nothing more.
Shouldn't we expect our kids to do something like this once in a while, as a challenge to authority? Cease the paranoia!
I wonder what the effect of forcing our kids into a cookie cutter, 'PC or Juvy', thoughtpoliced environment will do to them? Do we really want to walk down that road?
Yes, it strikes me as a wee bit strange, but there are many plausable scenarios that would cause the Australians the speak out.
1. The other Echelon nations have decided to reneg on some portion of the international agreement, so that Australia is not getting her fair share of the information. 2. One of the other Echelon nations is using information gathered against the Australians, either politically or commercially. 3. Australia wants out of the global monitoring business, and wants every one else similarly hobbled. 4. The Australian official talking to the BBC has a personal axe to grind.
Each is plausible, though none may be the truth. Anyone else care to speculate?
I see the responsibility of responding to so-called 'impactful' (What a non-concept!) posts yours and mine, and not that of the moderators./. is a discussion; If the thousands of us haven't offered an alternate take on an 'impactful' post how can you honestly expect that one of the tens of moderators has one to give? (/me slaps himself for answering a 'funny' post in an 'insightful' manner)
Yahoo has a history of legally and morally questionable dealings with their chat rooms. 'Gee, lets promise the user anonymity and then give away all the information we have on them at the slightest threat! And then we'll delete all the posts we get complaints about!' This is just the first time Yahoo has been caught removing a post without a complaint. They did it preemptivly percieving a future complaint from either the DOD or Lockheed/Martin.
Oh, yeah. Start packing up your cookies and posts. Rob and company CAN remove messages, in a way. Simply moderate them to -2, below the possible threshold. I have seen a few posts 'go away' in this manner. (Mostly because of the 'short post' penalty, I am assuming.) Unlike Yahoo's censorship, I don't think this would affect the 'common carrier' argument, since it would take a collabrative effort among moderators, whose actions are not the responsibility of/..
As for keeping our own idiotic ramblings regardless of merit, I can say without hesitation that many of the posts moderated down on/. were intentionally posted to get a rise or otherwise waste the intellectual energies of the rest of the group, and while they shouldn't be auto-removed by the management, the moderators should always have the option of Flamebait'ing them into oblivion. That's what moderators are for; Rewarding meaningful content and beating down the rabble. Why would any of us want to look at 'f1r$7 p0$7! 1 @m 31337!'
We really don't need a holographic display system. There are plently of existing, low cost systems that just play tricks with your eyes. (Shutter goggles, binary TV glasses, red/blue shifted images, etc)
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Unfortunatly, the raised holocube was still showing flat images. (The same system the CAVE based 3Dwm uses) Myself, I always thought it looked a little like a cube of jello. (In the Amiga version)
I have no idea why OS/2. I work for a leasing company, and will not be the fellow actually using it. From the paperwork, it looks like they'll be high-capacity intranet/workgroup servers. The company is simultaneously early-returning the six NT boxen we leased them last year, so draw your own conclusion.
I have used SuSe 6.1 to do minimalist installs of under forty megs. (I couldn't live without the libs for Festival and fortune; nothing like starting the car to fortune) Just because the distro has 3,717 packages doesn't mean that it isnt perfectly functional with fewer than 100.
AOL can be coerced to work under Linux as a plain 'ol PPP link, I believe. I've never actually tried, although I have forced a sister product, Compuserve 2K, to work with little hassle.
I'd say that over the years about a eighth of his ideas have been found completely 'off-his-rocker' crocked, and another quarter flawed but workable. The rest are dead-on correct. His greatest criticism is that he is usually an outsider in the field when he offers a theory, and as such isn't taken seriously too often, correct or not.
I've paid attention to this fellow for almost a decade now, and he never fails to evoke criticism in whatever field he delves into. Unfortunatly for his critics, he usually falls closer to the truth than existing theory. Gold seems to like to poke his nose into whatever the accepted theory is and find the most off-the-wall answer that fits the circumstances, boldly ignoring 'known fact'. He is a combination of the hardest skeptic and Sherlock Holmes, and whatever scientific endevor he pokes his nose into is far better for his presence.
AOL has been doing worse than that. Mass junk-mail addressed to 'postal-patron', not to mention blow-ins in magazines such as Vogue, Elle, and Ladies Home Journal. They're stabbing at air for new business! I suppose you could call this targeted advertising, since AOL does occupy the 'clueless section' of the ISP world.
No. If Microsoft were giving out FREE Win XX CD's with PC Chips mobos, we'd be jumping around, yelling things like 'We've killed the beast!' 'I always knew m$ was worthless!'
OS bigots?!?!? Us?;-) Anyway, the rationale is simple. When you purchase a new PCChips motherboard, you're not going to be paying for the copy of Linux that comes with it. On the other hand, if I walk into and purchase a new computer, I am paying for the pre-installed copy of Windows. If Microsoft were pre-installing FREE copies of WinXX with the computer, or better yet just bundling a free Win CD and not pre-installing, I wouldn't have a problem with it.
Corel is taking a page out of the software marketing manual on this one.. 'Get 'em hooked on the free copy/demo we'll give out with X, and then market them into the full-fledged $279.99 version.' I see this working even better for Corel than with the normal purveyors of braindamaged demo-ware. Why?
1. They're giving out the $279.99 version from the get-go. 2. Unlike MS/AOL/etc who will stick a freebie copy of anything anywhere, this actually targets potential Linux users. 3. All they're looking for is user-loyalty; They're not giving the freebie recipient the hard-sell.
On the other hand, I can see this benefiting the MB manufacturer, because a free copy of Linux adds far more value than Yet Another AOL CD(tm). Two identically featured MBs, similar price, but one comes with a free Linux CD? Which would you buy?
Lemme see, what other pages from the marketing manual can we on the OSS front use?
I have a copy of NT 3.51, running on a 12.2mhz OC'd V-series x86 clone, with 4M of memory and dual 400M IBM full-height MFM/RLL drives. At thirty+ minutes to restart with no services/processes running, I think it could win. Anyone ideas on how to make it slower? (I'm not going to engage in anything like the Exchange kill timout bug. Thats cheap.) Can't strip out any of the HW, I'm already below the minimum req's..
There are probably fifty moderators out there, and whatever they did will be surely noted during the 'Metamoderation' stage. The boys in charge created it that way for a purpose. All you have achieved by whining is my notice and perhaps the vengeance of said same moronic moderator(s).
At some point you have to pick the lesser of the evils. In this case, only a HUGE book merchant is likely to stock such an obscure book, and of the two largest online merchants one has been engaging in shady patent shenanigans this week.
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Ms. Ireland was an afterthought. My back hurts, and I figured someone sexy to rub it might be nice, so I tacked her on the end. As for the Guinness, I suppose I have finally given in to the US custom of labelling everything remotly beer-like 'beer', instead of the proper form.(stout, ale, bitter, lager, etc.) They (we) have no real class, I suppose.
That monitor might be nice, but my Christmas list is still
1. World peace.
2. A bucket of nachos.
3. A sixer of Guinness.
4. A 24*PIII Beowulf to set my beer and nachos on.
5. Kathy Ireland.
Please Santa Hemos?
Back in elementary school (Circa 1983), I was asked to write something along the same lines; In my crude story, one of the class 'bullies' lost control and started shooting people.
You know what happened to me? Well, the front page has 'Jim, pay attention to your cursive! 90%'
Even with a bodycount of fifty, pipe-bombs and what could be termed a open challenge to authority, no one thought twice about the fact that it was simply a story, nothing more.
Shouldn't we expect our kids to do something like this once in a while, as a challenge to authority? Cease the paranoia!
I wonder what the effect of forcing our kids into a cookie cutter, 'PC or Juvy', thoughtpoliced environment will do to them? Do we really want to walk down that road?
In the honourable Ministers defense, the press had been telling us the same thing for weeks!
I'm not sure if I'm comfortable with the idea of the NSA playing puppet with other world powers, especially those under the nuclear umbrella with us.
Yes, it strikes me as a wee bit strange, but there are many plausable scenarios that would cause the Australians the speak out.
1. The other Echelon nations have decided to reneg on some portion of the international agreement, so that Australia is not getting her fair share of the information.
2. One of the other Echelon nations is using information gathered against the Australians, either politically or commercially.
3. Australia wants out of the global monitoring business, and wants every one else similarly hobbled.
4. The Australian official talking to the BBC has a personal axe to grind.
Each is plausible, though none may be the truth. Anyone else care to speculate?
Rock! tonight I shall run apt-get with abandon from all my Deb boxen, and I shall rejoice!
I see the responsibility of responding to so-called 'impactful' (What a non-concept!) posts yours and mine, and not that of the moderators. /. is a discussion; If the thousands of us haven't offered an alternate take on an 'impactful' post how can you honestly expect that one of the tens of moderators has one to give? (/me slaps himself for answering a 'funny' post in an 'insightful' manner)
Yahoo has a history of legally and morally questionable dealings with their chat rooms. 'Gee, lets promise the user anonymity and then give away all the information we have on them at the slightest threat! And then we'll delete all the posts we get complaints about!' This is just the first time Yahoo has been caught removing a post without a complaint. They did it preemptivly percieving a future complaint from either the DOD or Lockheed/Martin.
/. .
/. were intentionally posted to get a rise or otherwise waste the intellectual energies of the rest of the group, and while they shouldn't be auto-removed by the management, the moderators should always have the option of Flamebait'ing them into oblivion. That's what moderators are for; Rewarding meaningful content and beating down the rabble. Why would any of us want to look at 'f1r$7 p0$7! 1 @m 31337!'
Oh, yeah. Start packing up your cookies and posts. Rob and company CAN remove messages, in a way. Simply moderate them to -2, below the possible threshold. I have seen a few posts 'go away' in this manner. (Mostly because of the 'short post' penalty, I am assuming.) Unlike Yahoo's censorship, I don't think this would affect the 'common carrier' argument, since it would take a collabrative effort among moderators, whose actions are not the responsibility of
As for keeping our own idiotic ramblings regardless of merit, I can say without hesitation that many of the posts moderated down on
We really don't need a holographic display system. There are plently of existing, low cost systems that just play tricks with your eyes. (Shutter goggles, binary TV glasses, red/blue shifted images, etc)
Unfortunatly, the raised holocube was still showing flat images. (The same system the CAVE based 3Dwm uses) Myself, I always thought it looked a little like a cube of jello. (In the Amiga version)
I have no idea why OS/2. I work for a leasing company, and will not be the fellow actually using it. From the paperwork, it looks like they'll be high-capacity intranet/workgroup servers. The company is simultaneously early-returning the six NT boxen we leased them last year, so draw your own conclusion.
I just signed a PO for five IBM servers with brand spanking new copies of IBM OS/2 Warp on them from the factory. IBM still supports it!
I have used SuSe 6.1 to do minimalist installs of under forty megs. (I couldn't live without the libs for Festival and fortune; nothing like starting the car to fortune) Just because the distro has 3,717 packages doesn't mean that it isnt perfectly functional with fewer than 100.
AOL can be coerced to work under Linux as a plain 'ol PPP link, I believe. I've never actually tried, although I have forced a sister product, Compuserve 2K, to work with little hassle.
You've forgotten one of the basic rules of software:
All software will become sufficiently advanced so that it may read mail. The only thing that is in question is the development timetable.
Proof? What is the oldest bit of continually maintained application software you've seen? Does it read mail? 'Nuff said.
I'd say that over the years about a eighth of his ideas have been found completely 'off-his-rocker' crocked, and another quarter flawed but workable. The rest are dead-on correct.
His greatest criticism is that he is usually an outsider in the field when he offers a theory, and as such isn't taken seriously too often, correct or not.
I've paid attention to this fellow for almost a decade now, and he never fails to evoke criticism in whatever field he delves into.
Unfortunatly for his critics, he usually falls closer to the truth than existing theory.
Gold seems to like to poke his nose into whatever the accepted theory is and find the most off-the-wall answer that fits the circumstances, boldly ignoring 'known fact'.
He is a combination of the hardest skeptic and Sherlock Holmes, and whatever scientific endevor he pokes his nose into is far better for his presence.
AOL has been doing worse than that. Mass junk-mail addressed to 'postal-patron', not to mention blow-ins in magazines such as Vogue, Elle, and Ladies Home Journal. They're stabbing at air for new business! I suppose you could call this targeted advertising, since AOL does occupy the 'clueless section' of the ISP world.
No. If Microsoft were giving out FREE Win XX CD's with PC Chips mobos, we'd be jumping around, yelling things like
'We've killed the beast!'
'I always knew m$ was worthless!'
'Micro$#!t hit the fan 'cuz they can't compete!'
OS bigots?!?!? Us? ;-)
Anyway, the rationale is simple. When you purchase a new PCChips motherboard, you're not going to be paying for the copy of Linux that comes with it. On the other hand, if I walk into and purchase a new computer, I am paying for the pre-installed copy of Windows. If Microsoft were pre-installing FREE copies of WinXX with the computer, or better yet just bundling a free Win CD and not pre-installing, I wouldn't have a problem with it.
Corel is taking a page out of the software marketing manual on this one.. 'Get 'em hooked on the free copy/demo we'll give out with X, and then market them into the full-fledged $279.99 version.' I see this working even better for Corel than with the normal purveyors of braindamaged demo-ware. Why?
1. They're giving out the $279.99 version from the get-go.
2. Unlike MS/AOL/etc who will stick a freebie copy of anything anywhere, this actually targets potential Linux users.
3. All they're looking for is user-loyalty; They're not giving the freebie recipient the hard-sell.
On the other hand, I can see this benefiting the MB manufacturer, because a free copy of Linux adds far more value than Yet Another AOL CD(tm). Two identically featured MBs, similar price, but one comes with a free Linux CD? Which would you buy?
Lemme see, what other pages from the marketing manual can we on the OSS front use?
Bruce's main site.
Information on Skipjack
Information on impossible-differential cryptanalysis
Information on attacks unknown to the NSA
About the Windows NSAKEY flap
Probable NSA backdoors
Information on the Blowfish algo
Information on the Twofish algo
Speed comparison of known algos
Speed comparison of the AES candidates
Summary of attacks on various algos
Breaking crypto isn't the best way to beat security. Article 1 Article 2
Information on the Solitare algo
Information on the Yarrow algo
Importance of peer-reviewed crypto
Comments on propriatary encryption
Dismissal of cracking contests
You say you can't break it; well, who the hell are you?"
Twofish team's published papers
David Wagner's published papers
So you wanna become a cryptographer?
Information on side-channel attacks
Information on power-analysis attacks
More information on side-channel attacks
Article on Quantum computing
The problems with the public-key infrastructure
The problem with longer keys
l0phtcrack
Biometrics as keys?
I have a copy of NT 3.51, running on a 12.2mhz OC'd V-series x86 clone, with 4M of memory and dual 400M IBM full-height MFM/RLL drives.
At thirty+ minutes to restart with no services/processes running, I think it could win. Anyone ideas on how to make it slower? (I'm not going to engage in anything like the Exchange kill timout bug. Thats cheap.) Can't strip out any of the HW, I'm already below the minimum req's..
There are probably fifty moderators out there, and whatever they did will be surely noted during the 'Metamoderation' stage. The boys in charge created it that way for a purpose. All you have achieved by whining is my notice and perhaps the vengeance of said same moronic moderator(s).
At some point you have to pick the lesser of the evils. In this case, only a HUGE book merchant is likely to stock such an obscure book, and of the two largest online merchants one has been engaging in shady patent shenanigans this week.