thanks to an ActiveX vulnerability you have spyware (an NT admin infected a server that way)
Persuade him to use Mozilla (or Firefox). No ActiveX support (by default), so no vulnerabilities because of it either. You can get ActiveX support if you really need it, but only if you know what you're doing.
The point I'm trying to make is: when one side wants something badly enough (for instance thinking it is worth dying for!) they will go out there and attack, even at overwhelming odds. As long as there are enough poor souls waiting in line to do this, [...]
My view: You cannot win fighting a determined (hell-bent!) militia/guerrilla force as long as there are people left who still want to fight. In certain conflict, their number will even increase when the losses they suffer increase. So in the end, all wars are ultimately wars between minds...
Especially if what you are defending is the fuel for the robots.
1. Machines become sentient, fight for independence and build Zero-One. 2. Humans deprive the machines of their source of energy by darkening the sky. 3. Machines enslave humans as their power source. 4. ??? 5. Zion is saved!! [repeat steps 3-5, N times]
In other words, unless some guy like (the ultimate) Neo comes around and ends this madness once and for good, I think this is indeed the scenario for a perfect war, i.e. as long as the basic premise for a war: they have something I want and are defending it, I want it badly enough for me to attack them, a war can be extended indefinitely both in time and complexity, as long as both sides somehow (are made to) forget why it is pointless to perpetuate it.
Then consider the possibilities for hacking the robots, either on the battlefield or with secret back doors installed in advance... Madness. Sheer madness.
Secret backdoors? Software development possibly outsourced to [insert your favourite "trustworthy" country here]?
/me adds the two together and trembles with horror...
(quote from the FA): Developer Charles R. Martin and Canadian earth scientist Darren Griffith met through this column, and are in the initial stages of building an Open Tsunami Alerting System (OTAS). Although work has just started, they've established a few basic principles: OTAS will be very lightweight; will use openly available geophysical or seismic data sources; will be highly distributed and decentralized; and will be built to run on very low-powered commodity hardware. They currently foresee using Python and Java, but aren't religious about it. Anyone who wants to help out is welcome and their OTAS blog can be found in this week's links.
Lightweight --- Java? (Unless they want to run it on tourists' mobile phones, perhaps...) Low-powered commodity hardware --- Python? (well... mapbe, see above)
What I mean to say is: we're talking Sri Lanka, Aceh and lots of places like that which (for some time to come) will worry more (besides providing 220 Volt AC (or whatever their mains voltage is over there) and internet connectivity) about providing basic needs to their inhabitants) AT ALL!
Why go for behemoths like Java and Python when you can use a couple of "hacked" WRT54GS's or other embedded systems like that, running SOAP servers and clients, maybe even infrasound detectors, then build a network and control warning systems. They could even be run from solar power and batteries (consuming only about 15 Watts a piece with well-trimmed power circuitry).
Mind you, we should be talking about about the alerting system, not the part that does the data gathering / risk assessment. All you need is to control some powerful sirens/horns/flares/whatever to get peoples' attention. Anyone who lives there and survived the last one will know what they mean (and so will anyone who has not spent the last few weeks in a cave). Heck, they could even tape some sensors to an elephant and detect when it starts scrambling to get to higher ground! Even that would work better than the warning system they had (i.e. none at all).
Sorry for this rant, but throwing way too much tech at a simple but extremely important task just pisses me off...
The main problem with this economic theory is the fact that basic resources (for example oil, ore, arable land, intellectual property, nice weather, and especially people) are localized in specific parts of the world.
Since all trades are at some point the consequence of trades involving the shifting of basic resources around, there will always be disadvantaged traders, simply because, by being localized, the sum of all their available basic resources will be less valuable than those of others.
How is someone living in the desert or someplace else that has very poor soil going to benefit from free trade if all he can offer is, say, 100% sunshine guarantee or 100% hunger edema guarantee?
In short: unless people are free to move to whichever place suits their economic interests best, there will always be economically disadvantaged people.
With a little more thought, the same argument can be stated for entire economies (mainly involving their dealing with the other resources) as well, simply because being localized (within a specific geographical boundary) entitles them to different but inequal valued total sums of resources.
Congratulations to parent poster! Of all the posts rated 'Insightful' on Slashdot, this post must be among thost containing the highest number of expletives ever.
Don't take me wrong - I, for one, welcome our inportant-societal-matters-discussing Slashdot posters, so: keep up the posting, but please tune down the expletives. I'm sure you'll be quite able to make your point without most of them.
Vinyl has great frequency response, yet it has been replaced. Hah! Tell that to the DJs still spinning it at hundreds of raves, d&b parties, etc. every weekend. They'll just laugh you straight off the dancefloor. To them vinyl just gives more "control" while beat-mixing and scratching. Of course you can try to replace it with fancy input gear and such, or even use "digital vinyl" like this (no, I'm not affiliated with them, blah, blah) to control your set, but why shouldn't they just use the real stuff?
(sorry for late reply) It was not the tracker, but the server hosting the.torrent files that finally slammed the brakes ("Bandwidth limit exceeded"). Considering that.torrent files are tiny, the number of page hits must have been huge.
The unlawful use or threatened use of force or violence by a person or an organized group against people or property with the intention of intimidating or coercing societies or governments, often for ideological or political reasons.
How is what the **AA are doing (hacking into music downloaders' computers and installing malware to further their cause against piracy) any different? If this is the way they think they must do business, lets give 'em h*ll!
If anything is a dead giveaway, this is it! Next they might even put a "Print" button next to it (and haggle over licensing with Amazon for 1-Click Barcode Printing)
Nice example, but alas, now your torrent links (on downhillbattle.org) seem to have finally succumbed to the bandwidth demon... seems nothing can beat the Slashdot Effect:-)
Just have all the clients connect to some (well-connected) IRC server, join a channel like #torrents and ctcp a tracker list off some resident channel bot, then have them become bots themselves. Tracker lists can be per category, keeping the traffic down.
(Of course this must have been done before, but... never mind)
How small? Would, say, 128kB, 256kB be small enough? These are quite regular p2p chunk sizes. Now if only someone could start up an (open-source, of course) automated review/critique/derived art/whatever blurb-per-chunk generator, we could all be within the fair-use portion of the law.
Putting red dots on the screen to psychologically interrupt a movie experience is ridiculous. [snip]
<playingthedevilsadvocate>There is a solution to this: have some powerful infra-red lights installed in the theater, then while the movie plays, flash away like mad.
Since many (most?) CCDs are sensitive to IR and many (most) human eyes are not, this will bother only the cammers (maybe even ruining their rip altogether).<playingthedevilsadvocate>
(There may be a countermeasure, but I'm only gonna tell ya if ya send me lot's o' money, say fifty grand worth of gold bullion...)
Swarming in eMule? Ha! Compared to BitTorrent it looks more like an army of ants crossing the Kalahari Desert. Also think about responsiveness when you're waiting in a queue at #<your telephone number minus the area code> and you are worried whether your download will start before your retirement age... </sarcasm>
It seems to me that this discussion is getting nowhere.
Unless we all realize (pretty soon!) that, as long as we're stuck on this little planet, with finite natural resources and an increasing population, the maximum attainable wealth per capita is also finite, even decreasing. Redistributing (potential) wealth, as well as controlling population growth, are the only ways to help those who have less and to insure a reasonable standard of living for the foreseeable future. Also, referring to a previous post, wealth redistribution is quite logical given the argument that raising the common level of wealth might allow more individuals with the capacity (intellectual or otherwise) to tackle major problems like AIDS, increasing production costs for natural resources and increasing pollution to actually do so, simply by being alive and able to, at the time of need. (cf. kids with a science talent born to a poor family, not able to afford good education.)
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thanks to an ActiveX vulnerability you have spyware (an NT admin infected a server that way)
Persuade him to use Mozilla (or Firefox). No ActiveX support (by default), so no vulnerabilities because of it either. You can get ActiveX support if you really need it, but only if you know what you're doing.
Nah, it says:
"Nothing to see here, move along..."
The point I'm trying to make is: when one side wants something badly enough (for instance thinking it is worth dying for!) they will go out there and attack, even at overwhelming odds. As long as there are enough poor souls waiting in line to do this, [...]
My view: You cannot win fighting a determined (hell-bent!) militia/guerrilla force as long as there are people left who still want to fight.
In certain conflict, their number will even increase when the losses they suffer increase.
So in the end, all wars are ultimately wars between minds...
Especially if what you are defending is the fuel for the robots.
1. Machines become sentient, fight for independence and build Zero-One.
2. Humans deprive the machines of their source of energy by darkening the sky.
3. Machines enslave humans as their power source.
4. ???
5. Zion is saved!!
[repeat steps 3-5, N times]
In other words, unless some guy like (the ultimate) Neo comes around and ends this madness once and for good, I think this is indeed the scenario for a perfect war, i.e. as long as the basic premise for a war: they have something I want and are defending it, I want it badly enough for me to attack them, a war can be extended indefinitely both in time and complexity, as long as both sides somehow (are made to) forget why it is pointless to perpetuate it.
Secret backdoors? Software development possibly outsourced to [insert your favourite "trustworthy" country here]?
I want it to run on water
Amen!
Over here...
(Note: You need to use the "wbxr" and "rot13" plugins to view this!)
Well, just do a rain check. If it is pouring, rejoice, dance away!
You can't buy SVR4 bumper stickers.
Well, not in one piece maybe, but go to any Rice-Boy aftersales joint and get those stickers:
- S for 'Sport'
- V-Tec (naturally)
- R for the -R version
- 4 (well, just install 4(!) fart-cannons for good measure.)
(quote from the FA): Developer Charles R. Martin and Canadian earth scientist Darren Griffith met through this column, and are in the initial stages of building an Open Tsunami Alerting System (OTAS). Although work has just started, they've established a few basic principles: OTAS will be very lightweight; will use openly available geophysical or seismic data sources; will be highly distributed and decentralized; and will be built to run on very low-powered commodity hardware. They currently foresee using Python and Java, but aren't religious about it. Anyone who wants to help out is welcome and their OTAS blog can be found in this week's links.
Lightweight --- Java? (Unless they want to run it on tourists' mobile phones, perhaps...)
Low-powered commodity hardware --- Python? (well... mapbe, see above)
What I mean to say is: we're talking Sri Lanka, Aceh and lots of places like that which (for some time to come) will worry more (besides providing 220 Volt AC (or whatever their mains voltage is over there) and internet connectivity) about providing basic needs to their inhabitants) AT ALL!
Why go for behemoths like Java and Python when you can use a couple of "hacked" WRT54GS's or other embedded systems like that, running SOAP servers and clients, maybe even infrasound detectors, then build a network and control warning systems. They could even be run from solar power and batteries (consuming only about 15 Watts a piece with well-trimmed power circuitry).
Mind you, we should be talking about about the alerting system, not the part that does the data gathering / risk assessment. All you need is to control some powerful sirens/horns/flares/whatever to get peoples' attention. Anyone who lives there and survived the last one will know what they mean (and so will anyone who has not spent the last few weeks in a cave).
Heck, they could even tape some sensors to an elephant and detect when it starts scrambling to get to higher ground! Even that would work better than the warning system they had (i.e. none at all).
Sorry for this rant, but throwing way too much tech at a simple but extremely important task just pisses me off...
Better watch out!
--This tip was brought to you by: a (small) angel whispering in my ear...
Well, if the reaction product were Pina Colada, I would buy you some and we'd have a good time! :-)
The main problem with this economic theory is the fact that basic resources (for example oil, ore, arable land, intellectual property, nice weather, and especially people) are localized in specific parts of the world.
Since all trades are at some point the consequence of trades involving the shifting of basic resources around, there will always be disadvantaged traders, simply because, by being localized, the sum of all their available basic resources will be less valuable than those of others.
How is someone living in the desert or someplace else that has very poor soil going to benefit from free trade if all he can offer is, say, 100% sunshine guarantee or 100% hunger edema guarantee?
In short: unless people are free to move to whichever place suits their economic interests best, there will always be economically disadvantaged people.
With a little more thought, the same argument can be stated for entire economies (mainly involving their dealing with the other resources) as well, simply because being localized (within a specific geographical boundary) entitles them to different but inequal valued total sums of resources.
Congratulations to parent poster!
Of all the posts rated 'Insightful' on Slashdot, this post must be among thost containing the highest number of expletives ever.
Don't take me wrong - I, for one, welcome our inportant-societal-matters-discussing Slashdot posters, so: keep up the posting, but please tune down the expletives. I'm sure you'll be quite able to make your point without most of them.
Vinyl has great frequency response, yet it has been replaced.
Hah! Tell that to the DJs still spinning it at hundreds of raves, d&b parties, etc. every weekend. They'll just laugh you straight off the dancefloor. To them vinyl just gives more "control" while beat-mixing and scratching.
Of course you can try to replace it with fancy input gear and such, or even use "digital vinyl" like this (no, I'm not affiliated with them, blah, blah) to control your set, but why shouldn't they just use the real stuff?
(sorry for late reply) .torrent files that finally slammed the brakes ("Bandwidth limit exceeded"). Considering that .torrent files are tiny, the number of page hits must have been huge.
It was not the tracker, but the server hosting the
n.
The unlawful use or threatened use of force or violence by a person or an organized group against people or property with the intention of intimidating or coercing societies or governments, often for ideological or political reasons.
How is what the **AA are doing (hacking into music downloaders' computers and installing malware to further their cause against piracy) any different?
If this is the way they think they must do business, lets give 'em h*ll!
*ROAR*
If anything is a dead giveaway, this is it!
Next they might even put a "Print" button next to it (and haggle over licensing with Amazon for 1-Click Barcode Printing)
Nice example, but alas, now your torrent links (on downhillbattle.org) seem to have finally succumbed to the bandwidth demon... seems nothing can beat the Slashdot Effect :-)
... IRC ...
Eureka!
Just have all the clients connect to some (well-connected) IRC server, join a channel like #torrents and ctcp a tracker list off some resident channel bot, then have them become bots themselves. Tracker lists can be per category, keeping the traffic down.
(Of course this must have been done before, but... never mind)
How small? Would, say, 128kB, 256kB be small enough? These are quite regular p2p chunk sizes.
Now if only someone could start up an (open-source, of course) automated review/critique/derived art/whatever blurb-per-chunk generator, we could all be within the fair-use portion of the law.
Putting red dots on the screen to psychologically interrupt a movie experience is ridiculous. [snip]
<playingthedevilsadvocate>There is a solution to this: have some powerful infra-red lights installed in the theater, then while the movie plays, flash away like mad.
Since many (most?) CCDs are sensitive to IR and many (most) human eyes are not, this will bother only the cammers (maybe even ruining their rip altogether).<playingthedevilsadvocate>
(There may be a countermeasure, but I'm only gonna tell ya if ya send me lot's o' money, say fifty grand worth of gold bullion...)
In our own universe, suprnova is just a star going kabloom. (well, according to someone who ignores the letter 'e', that is.)
Sorry, could not resist.
As long as there are {stars,p2p networks} that are big enough, there will be sup(e)?rnova{e,s}.
Swarming in eMule? Ha! Compared to BitTorrent it looks more like an army of ants crossing the Kalahari Desert.
Also think about responsiveness when you're waiting in a queue at #<your telephone number minus the area code> and you are worried whether your download will start before your retirement age...
</sarcasm>
It seems to me that this discussion is getting nowhere.
Unless we all realize (pretty soon!) that, as long as we're stuck on this little planet, with finite natural resources and an increasing population, the maximum attainable wealth per capita is also finite, even decreasing. Redistributing (potential) wealth, as well as controlling population growth, are the only ways to help those who have less and to insure a reasonable standard of living for the foreseeable future.
Also, referring to a previous post, wealth redistribution is quite logical given the argument that raising the common level of wealth might allow more individuals with the capacity (intellectual or otherwise) to tackle major problems like AIDS, increasing production costs for natural resources and increasing pollution to actually do so, simply by being alive and able to, at the time of need. (cf. kids with a science talent born to a poor family, not able to afford good education.)