Yes, a bit of nostalgy: deep in behind iron curtain, we had quite a fun with smuggled sinclair spectrum: building external power source, making composite video monitor out of soviet tv and bypassing a spectrum's vf modulator, connecting a teletype keyboard matrix, replacing rom with an eprom correcting all bugs at the same time and speeding up tape loader up to turbo, and finally: connecting a big, noisy, uppercase-only mainframe wheel console printer to print all those long disassemby listings and hex dumps we needed for hacking and cracking.
he took them home as part of a disaster recovery plan
In my country in the middle of Europe, that itself would be a crime. No one could possess any personal data (including making copies of personal documents) the law does not say explicitly he can. 8 years in prison.
Just a timely experience for this article: Last week I bought a DVB-T receiver. I noticed it is still very hot when put on standby, so I measured it, with the funny result of having the same identical consumption in power on state as in standby: 16W. That's price for total digitalisation: the CPU must be on to process a command or timer.
Solution? I sacrificed factory guarantee and I am currently in process of device modification. However, I mourn the electronics consumer droids without knowledge of circuitry and without soldering skills, not to mention I will never buy any AverMedia product in the future.
A patch for Microsoft product that provides arithmetically less number of holes than it patches. So, a very long set of MSQP is incrementally converging to partial correctness.
It is ancient philosphical, not current engineering problem.
Consider the universe (brahma) consists of three fundamental substances (gunas) in dynamic balance: energy (rajas), information (sattva) and entropy (tamas). Can you remove one of them (information in case of DRM) from any system without seriously disturbing the system structure?
It is higly predictable what results can be achieved by limiting sattvic principle from human culture...
I have Maxtor 120MB drive 15 years old, still spinning 24/7/365 somewhere in the router box. It was a fido node+bbs in its days, so it really spins for 24/7/365/15.
Franklin Roosevelt's words of November 4, 1938, are worth recalling: "If American democracy ceases to move forward as a living force, seeking day and night by peaceful means to better the lot of our citizens, fascism will grow in strength in our land." Freedom and liberation are an unending task.
Frankly, I think the student *should* not only be permitted to read Mao's book, but it should be encouraged, and the DHS should fuck off. Only by understanding where we are coming from, and the sort of horrors for which Mao is responsible -- and doing this can centrally include reading Mao's views that helped catalyze the policies leading to them -- will we be able to avoid such brutal ideologies like communism and totalitarianism.
I am afraid you are not quite understanding what exactly is going on in the United States at the moment: american leaders are not interested at all in commoners understanding what totalitarianism is, because that could significantly slow down their effort to establish the persistent model of it. Softly said, vague understanding of the term gives them much more manoeuvring space for media propaganda, said in full truth all old and foreign totalitarian ideology must be denied to population, otherwise somebody could discover the very striking similarities to so called "War on Terror". Actually, today's U.S. propaganda is modelled after what Stalin's NKVD produced in 30'ies, just the marxist terminology is replaced with christian fundamentalist one. And Mao is not so far from it. The case described in article is not a standalone one, it's just a methodical part of the project.
What if someone created a screensaver that continually accessed thousands of websites, IP addresses. Basically create as much junk data as possible to pollute their logs.
No, it is not. Example: When a visitor come, she decides to climb the coat down to pockets, pick significant item such as keys ring and put it in some other room under the carpet or in random drawer. Then, she enjoys watching humans seeking the item from the top position. That's game of unknown quests for humans. If you win, you are allowed to stroke her. But it can take hours until you recognize the game is on and more hours to win it.
Cat laziness is higly selective: she never walks over the keyboard when computer is powered off.
So I repeat, a mouse with a human brain would have no chance against her.
I picked KDE for personal developer workstation long ago, at times when it was not so robust and stable as it is today, because of experience with long term big software projects. I recognized better design in inrastructure and architecture, so I predicted KDE as a huge project will be better managable in the future, when stability will come. This future is now.
So, the big difference is not how it looks, dear slashdotters, but how it works inside.
Of course, it does not prevent me to use Fluxbox on weaker platforms or individual Gtk apps, pocketly smallest of my machines runs GPE. And people without insight of software arcana may have other criteria for desktop, they even perform silly actions I never do to my computers, such as listening music and watching movies.
This is like calling a binoculars, radars, or sonars weapons. They are tools used for detection and has no real defense or offense capability, besides aiding in defense efforts.
If you think simple common 60 years old tech radar has no offense ability, you should try to stick your head directly before some. I bet you will be thinking such a nonsense no more.
My laptop is 166 MMX with 48MB RAM, of which 16 MB is partially broken. I run gentoo on it, as well as I do on my pretty fast and fat desktop and servers.
I Have been programming for the past 5 years. I have rarely opened the case up to see what is inside.
I have been programming for the past 30 years. I always opened the case up to see what is inside, even with mainframes. You are missing the beauty of technology solution and emotional feeling of touching the real hardware. How could you tune your software up to maximum out of possible without knowing your chips?
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Yes, a bit of nostalgy: deep in behind iron curtain, we had quite a fun with smuggled sinclair spectrum: building external power source, making composite video monitor out of soviet tv and bypassing a spectrum's vf modulator, connecting a teletype keyboard matrix, replacing rom with an eprom correcting all bugs at the same time and speeding up tape loader up to turbo, and finally: connecting a big, noisy, uppercase-only mainframe wheel console printer to print all those long disassemby listings and hex dumps we needed for hacking and cracking.
Malaria in NORTH america?? ...?!
Yes, Malaria. Maybe NORTH americans will finally understand what the word "global" in global warming does mean. Maybe not.
...to periodically check everyone with political position. Please begin with president then continue with senators. And do not miss state secretaries.
Two British men have been found guilty of illegally sharing music via a P2P network.
Perhaps they should consider to seek political asylum in France.
he took them home as part of a disaster recovery plan
In my country in the middle of Europe, that itself would be a crime. No one could possess any personal data (including making copies of personal documents) the law does not say explicitly he can. 8 years in prison.
Just a timely experience for this article: Last week I bought a DVB-T receiver. I noticed it is still very hot when put on standby, so I measured it, with the funny result of having the same identical consumption in power on state as in standby: 16W. That's price for total digitalisation: the CPU must be on to process a command or timer.
Solution? I sacrificed factory guarantee and I am currently in process of device modification. However, I mourn the electronics consumer droids without knowledge of circuitry and without soldering skills, not to mention I will never buy any AverMedia product in the future.
MSQP, Microsoft quality patch, n.:
A patch for Microsoft product that provides arithmetically less number of holes than it patches. So, a very long set of MSQP is incrementally converging to partial correctness.
It is ancient philosphical, not current engineering problem.
Consider the universe (brahma) consists of three fundamental substances (gunas) in dynamic balance: energy (rajas), information (sattva) and entropy (tamas). Can you remove one of them (information in case of DRM) from any system without seriously disturbing the system structure?
It is higly predictable what results can be achieved by limiting sattvic principle from human culture...
1. The system helps promote peace
2. Disputes are handled constructively
3. Rules make life easier for all
That sounds just like imperial propaganda from Warhammer 40000.
Forest tribes are addicted to technology just like americans. They cannot live without bows, arrows, and fire tools.
I have Maxtor 120MB drive 15 years old, still spinning 24/7/365 somewhere in the router box. It was a fido node+bbs in its days, so it really spins for 24/7/365/15.
Franklin Roosevelt's words of November 4, 1938, are worth recalling: "If American democracy ceases to move forward as a living force, seeking day and night by peaceful means to better the lot of our citizens, fascism will grow in strength in our land." Freedom and liberation are an unending task.
Umberto Eco (c) 1995
Frankly, I think the student *should* not only be permitted to read Mao's book, but it should be encouraged, and the DHS should fuck off. Only by understanding where we are coming from, and the sort of horrors for which Mao is responsible -- and doing this can centrally include reading Mao's views that helped catalyze the policies leading to them -- will we be able to avoid such brutal ideologies like communism and totalitarianism.
I am afraid you are not quite understanding what exactly is going on in the United States at the moment: american leaders are not interested at all in commoners understanding what totalitarianism is, because that could significantly slow down their effort to establish the persistent model of it. Softly said, vague understanding of the term gives them much more manoeuvring space for media propaganda, said in full truth all old and foreign totalitarian ideology must be denied to population, otherwise somebody could discover the very striking similarities to so called "War on Terror". Actually, today's U.S. propaganda is modelled after what Stalin's NKVD produced in 30'ies, just the marxist terminology is replaced with christian fundamentalist one. And Mao is not so far from it. The case described in article is not a standalone one, it's just a methodical part of the project.
What if someone created a screensaver that continually accessed thousands of websites, IP addresses. Basically create as much junk data as possible to pollute their logs.
g le+Search --output-file=/dev/null
Real geeks do not run screenasvers.
wget --background --spider --mirror --limitrate=2k http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=sex&btnG=Goo
No, it is not. Example: When a visitor come, she decides to climb the coat down to pockets, pick significant item such as keys ring and put it in some other room under the carpet or in random drawer. Then, she enjoys watching humans seeking the item from the top position. That's game of unknown quests for humans. If you win, you are allowed to stroke her. But it can take hours until you recognize the game is on and more hours to win it.
Cat laziness is higly selective: she never walks over the keyboard when computer is powered off.
So I repeat, a mouse with a human brain would have no chance against her.
I picked KDE for personal developer workstation long ago, at times when it was not so robust and stable as it is today, because of experience with long term big software projects. I recognized better design in inrastructure and architecture, so I predicted KDE as a huge project will be better managable in the future, when stability will come. This future is now.
So, the big difference is not how it looks, dear slashdotters, but how it works inside.
Of course, it does not prevent me to use Fluxbox on weaker platforms or individual Gtk apps, pocketly smallest of my machines runs GPE. And people without insight of software arcana may have other criteria for desktop, they even perform silly actions I never do to my computers, such as listening music and watching movies.
Even with full humain brain, these mice would be no match for my cat Katerina. Humans are not. I wish I could build an AI model of her.
Expect text message persistancy as an added value service next year, charged per minute of retency.
This is like calling a binoculars, radars, or sonars weapons. They are tools used for detection and has no real defense or offense capability, besides aiding in defense efforts.
If you think simple common 60 years old tech radar has no offense ability, you should try to stick your head directly before some. I bet you will be thinking such a nonsense no more.
Make them more of a "dumb terminal", no floppy, no CD writer, no accessible USB
Without wireless, ethernet and serial you could obtain even more dumb terminal.
by experimenting on his children
I didn't considered *that* when I decided I shall have no children...
From now on, tell me I am couch potato again and I will sue you for racism...
Pentium 266 MMX laptop with 64MB of RAM.
My laptop is 166 MMX with 48MB RAM, of which 16 MB is partially broken. I run gentoo on it, as well as I do on my pretty fast and fat desktop and servers.
I Have been programming for the past 5 years. I have rarely opened the case up to see what is inside.
I have been programming for the past 30 years. I always opened the case up to see what is inside, even with mainframes. You are missing the beauty of technology solution and emotional feeling of touching the real hardware. How could you tune your software up to maximum out of possible without knowing your chips?
It only needs to send a Sony CD as a present to your senator.