Any word on hydrogen storage? How dangerous is it?
I worked 2 blocks away from one of their offices in Burnaby, and always wondered how they were storing the hydrogen in those test buses that circled the industrial complex......
First of all, Linux/FreeBSD/GPL software is so prevelant in todays society that this bill will be entirely inneffective. The amount of money spent to enforce it will seriously compromise its legitimacy.
secondly, if this bill *does* pass, technology that is affected will not only go over the border to Europe and Canada, but law enforcement officials in the USA will have to deal with it much the same way as Canadian officials deal with marijuana. No prosecution for possession. The cost to prosecute will be enormous. They will try to make examples of ppl trying to distribute it, but since most distribution will be done outside of the US, the bill will be as impotent as a 3 Mile Island employee........
It would be easy to say that "Open source provides faster fixes!", but that is not true. Alot of the *NIX worms were designed to exploit closed source *NIX systems (Solaris, VAX, etc).
The difference is in the technical competency of the systems administrators. A UNIX administrator is far more capable of detecting and fixing a compromise, whereas an NT administrator, for the most part, is far less literate when it comes to dealing with a security compromise.
Please note that this is a generalization, and holds true due to the fact that administering a UNIX server requires a higher level of competence than an NT server.
The vote stems from a conflict that has been simmering since this spring. At issue is whether it is legal and ethical for officials in Washington to check to see if any of the judiciary's 30,000 employees, among them nearly 900 active judges and hundreds of semiretired ones, use their computers for pornography, streaming video or music.
So I guess the judges are forbidden to actually see the capabilities of the internet, but merely listen to half baked descriptions and accusations from the various special interest groups?
My Grandmother had a saying "Believe none of what you hear, half of what you read, and all of what you see". This filtering bullshit will SERIOUSLY impede the judges ability to make an INFORMED decision.
First, the RIAA used "us" (I am using that term loosely, as I am not a programmer) to crack SDMI, and will use the work done by "us" to come up with a more secure encryption scheme.
Second, they *were* successful in delaying the release of the SDMI crack long enough where it is no longer relevant.
The only "good thing"(tm) that really happened was we were able to embarrass the RIAA a bit. Mind you, they are embarrassing themselves on a constant basis, and laughing all the way to the bank.
I hope they model it after q2 and not q3.
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Contrary to many a naysayer who says that 'Quake 1/2/3 is dead', people keep playing, and our q2 game servers are actually enjoying a bit of a resurgance (sp). Why? Because it is still one hell of alot of fun to play. Nothing, and I mean NOTHING can compare to the q2 physics. It had an excellent combination of good graphics, excellent multiplayer code, and physics that allowed to game to be fast paced, but not too fast paced where it seemed too unreal (no pun intended). Counterstrike, one of the most popular multiplayers games at this time, is based on the q2 engine (heavily modified by Valve), so this says something about the enduring appeal of q2, and its associated engine.
Q3 was cute, and had excellent eye candy, but I found it to be entirely unplayable. I did not enjoy the levels (even thou they were beautiful), nor did I enjoy how my character handled. It was too 'soft and squishy' for my tastes. It was obvious that ID wrote it not to sell it as a game itself, but to sell the engine to mod builders.
I can only hope that ID learns from its previous games, and can somehow capture the strong points of all their titles.
Imagine, a game that has the fear factor of Doom, the physics of Q2, and the eye candy of Q3. I can hope, can't I?
Firmware encryption broken in a week. Why am I not suprised?
Any chance of the 802.11 manufacturers implementing different encryption schemes, such as blowfish? Give the consumers a choice, and it will not only lessen these embarrassing hacks, but will also make it ALOT more difficult for anyone to crack a properly secured wireless network..... Please note I said "properly secured".
The problem is not the legitimate protestors, but the small minority who insist that extreme acts of violence and vandalism are required to get their message across.
what the enforcement officers need are not non lethal weapons, but more precise weapons (letheal or non lethal) to be used to incapacitate the ones inciting or engaging in violence. Take this violent minority out, and the protests will be more or less peaceful.
As it is, this violent minority has all but negated any positive benefits of these protests.
These people are absolute geniuses when it comes to programming, but lets face it. No matter how good these programmers are, if they work against the corporation that is paying them, their genius is *useless* when compared to a good/mediocre programmer who has the capacity to communicate and document his/her work.
For his part, Gilmore believes spammers have a right to peddle their messages, and mail server operators have a right to forward mail if they want to. For Gilmore, spam blocking should occur at the recipient level, not at the level of self-appointed upstream censors.
Mails server operators have the right to do whatever the hell they want with THEIR wmail server. Sorry, but its my mail server, and I have every right to protect it from spammers flooding my pipe.
We are not censors. we are not targetting specific users. We are targetting MIS-CONFIGURED email servers.
Get your head out of your ass Gilmore.
I'm disgusted that the EFF, or a senior member of the EFF, would openly support one of the cancers of the internet.
I have suffered with Rogers shoddy service for the last year and a half. when I tried getting technical support, I would always get the explanation "we are upgrading our mail and dhcp server, and we apologize for the inconvenience". Uhm, I've got a static IP, never use their mail server, and my problem was due to packet loss.
I remember one of their newsletters, and there was a "letter to the editor" joke in the back. They described an Apple ][ with 256K of RAM, color display, and it fits in a lunchbox. I distinctly remember thinking to myself "That'll NEVER happen! 256K! HAHAHAHAHAHA".
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Technology is getting to the point where something generated via CGI cannot be distinguished from real.
While they may have dismissed making Virtual child porn illegal in the past, I shudder to think what could happen if they dismiss it again.
Welcome to the 21st century, where what is "real", along with privacy, is an abstract concept that is no longer valid in todays world.
Any word on hydrogen storage? How dangerous is it?
I worked 2 blocks away from one of their offices in Burnaby, and always wondered how they were storing the hydrogen in those test buses that circled the industrial complex......
First of all, Linux/FreeBSD/GPL software is so prevelant in todays society that this bill will be entirely inneffective. The amount of money spent to enforce it will seriously compromise its legitimacy.
secondly, if this bill *does* pass, technology that is affected will not only go over the border to Europe and Canada, but law enforcement officials in the USA will have to deal with it much the same way as Canadian officials deal with marijuana. No prosecution for possession. The cost to prosecute will be enormous. They will try to make examples of ppl trying to distribute it, but since most distribution will be done outside of the US, the bill will be as impotent as a 3 Mile Island employee........
Just a few rambling thoughts.....
It would be easy to say that "Open source provides faster fixes!", but that is not true. Alot of the *NIX worms were designed to exploit closed source *NIX systems (Solaris, VAX, etc).
The difference is in the technical competency of the systems administrators. A UNIX administrator is far more capable of detecting and fixing a compromise, whereas an NT administrator, for the most part, is far less literate when it comes to dealing with a security compromise.
Please note that this is a generalization, and holds true due to the fact that administering a UNIX server requires a higher level of competence than an NT server.
was worms Armageddon.
The vote stems from a conflict that has been simmering since this spring. At issue is whether it is legal and ethical for officials in Washington to check to see if any of the judiciary's 30,000 employees, among them nearly 900 active judges and hundreds of semiretired ones, use their computers for pornography, streaming video or music.
So I guess the judges are forbidden to actually see the capabilities of the internet, but merely listen to half baked descriptions and accusations from the various special interest groups?
My Grandmother had a saying "Believe none of what you hear, half of what you read, and all of what you see". This filtering bullshit will SERIOUSLY impede the judges ability to make an INFORMED decision.
First, the RIAA used "us" (I am using that term loosely, as I am not a programmer) to crack SDMI, and will use the work done by "us" to come up with a more secure encryption scheme.
Second, they *were* successful in delaying the release of the SDMI crack long enough where it is no longer relevant.
The only "good thing"(tm) that really happened was we were able to embarrass the RIAA a bit. Mind you, they are embarrassing themselves on a constant basis, and laughing all the way to the bank.
This is not a victory. Far from it.....
of a 16bit computer that should never have gone past 16bit.
The anniversary of endless problems due to backward compatibility. Of stack faults and buffer overruns.
The anniversary of failed standards.
*Sigh*
The anniversary of the PC. Cheers!
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Mod this baby up
ROFL
Contrary to many a naysayer who says that 'Quake 1/2/3 is dead', people keep playing, and our q2 game servers are actually enjoying a bit of a resurgance (sp). Why? Because it is still one hell of alot of fun to play. Nothing, and I mean NOTHING can compare to the q2 physics. It had an excellent combination of good graphics, excellent multiplayer code, and physics that allowed to game to be fast paced, but not too fast paced where it seemed too unreal (no pun intended). Counterstrike, one of the most popular multiplayers games at this time, is based on the q2 engine (heavily modified by Valve), so this says something about the enduring appeal of q2, and its associated engine.
Q3 was cute, and had excellent eye candy, but I found it to be entirely unplayable. I did not enjoy the levels (even thou they were beautiful), nor did I enjoy how my character handled. It was too 'soft and squishy' for my tastes. It was obvious that ID wrote it not to sell it as a game itself, but to sell the engine to mod builders.
I can only hope that ID learns from its previous games, and can somehow capture the strong points of all their titles.
Imagine, a game that has the fear factor of Doom, the physics of Q2, and the eye candy of Q3. I can hope, can't I?
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Is this assembler? I'm so confused.
Firmware encryption broken in a week. Why am I not suprised?
Any chance of the 802.11 manufacturers implementing different encryption schemes, such as blowfish? Give the consumers a choice, and it will not only lessen these embarrassing hacks, but will also make it ALOT more difficult for anyone to crack a properly secured wireless network..... Please note I said "properly secured".
Is an SBC with NTSC outputs, plus Audio and Ethernet. It would make it alot easier to start up or maintain a homebrew TiVo project.....
The problem is not the legitimate protestors, but the small minority who insist that extreme acts of violence and vandalism are required to get their message across.
what the enforcement officers need are not non lethal weapons, but more precise weapons (letheal or non lethal) to be used to incapacitate the ones inciting or engaging in violence. Take this violent minority out, and the protests will be more or less peaceful.
As it is, this violent minority has all but negated any positive benefits of these protests.
Don't kill the virus writers. Kill the people responsible for writing "productivity" software that can be easily exploited by the virus writers......
Yes, NVidia is diversifying, but will they spread themselves too thin in the process?
The real money is in the chipset, so it is expected that EVERYONE will be collectively tackling Intels monopoly on chipsets.....
They cannot compete with NVidia, so what do they do? They target the mobo builders, the corporate market, and the entry level builders.
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Sounds like a good plan to me.
It was a weak attempt.
As long as you have Gnutella, Usenet News, or MP3 forums to facilitate trading of MP3s.
One does not need a business license to start, or fight, or win an economic revolution......
who will be the first to make the obligatory "phallic" comment?
These people are absolute geniuses when it comes to programming, but lets face it. No matter how good these programmers are, if they work against the corporation that is paying them, their genius is *useless* when compared to a good/mediocre programmer who has the capacity to communicate and document his/her work.
Flame on!
For his part, Gilmore believes spammers have a right to peddle their messages, and mail server operators have a right to forward mail if they want to. For Gilmore, spam blocking should occur at the recipient level, not at the level of self-appointed upstream censors.
Mails server operators have the right to do whatever the hell they want with THEIR wmail server. Sorry, but its my mail server, and I have every right to protect it from spammers flooding my pipe.
We are not censors. we are not targetting specific users. We are targetting MIS-CONFIGURED email servers.
Get your head out of your ass Gilmore.
I'm disgusted that the EFF, or a senior member of the EFF, would openly support one of the cancers of the internet.
And when our qualified personel arrived, we discovered that she wasn't actuually as qualified as we had hoped. Then she quit
I see you are checking your employees references just as much as you are checking the submission hyperlinks.....
Sorry, I had to take that stab. :)
I have suffered with Rogers shoddy service for the last year and a half. when I tried getting technical support, I would always get the explanation "we are upgrading our mail and dhcp server, and we apologize for the inconvenience". Uhm, I've got a static IP, never use their mail server, and my problem was due to packet loss.
*sigh*
What a bunch of weenies.....
How could anyone forget?
I remember one of their newsletters, and there was a "letter to the editor" joke in the back. They described an Apple ][ with 256K of RAM, color display, and it fits in a lunchbox. I distinctly remember thinking to myself "That'll NEVER happen! 256K! HAHAHAHAHAHA".