Wow, come think of it I have always been saying that it is safe to view images!! What kind of dumb programming mistakes would the geniuses at microsoft NOT make?
OMG, hope the new NX-bit thing in SP2 is effective in stopping this kind of thing.
But apparently even the NX implementation is having troubles, seems like on some systems it will cause random BSODs.
"I just stopped reading right there. What does this have to do with news for nerds?"
It is something for physics nerds!
We start out by defining coordinate spaces and deciding that we're interested in Newtonian/Galilean rather than Einsteinian physics for the moment, since our subjects travel slowly enough and relativity makes things nastier. We start with a particle that has two vectors -- position and velocity. Turn this into two ensembles of rigid body particles exerting force upon each other. From this we build up the laws of motion, arriving at the total energy H of the system, and the 'gene of motion,' the Lagrangian: the difference between the kinetic and potential energy. 'Gene of motion' is a pretty bold claim, so we are shown how every mechanical quantity of the system may be derived from the Lagrangian. From there it's on to the 'action' principle, which is basically the integral of the Lagrangian...
If you know where to sign up for spam mails, please help me pop this address in:
bait@infosynaptics.com (not, it is not my enemy's mailbox, it is one of mine)
I've decided that with modern day spam the best way to combat them is to always stay one step ahead, bayesian filters! statistics! spam word corpus! the works! all these will slowly wipe your inbox against the scum!
(shameless plug) Anyway I'm using popfile, a opensource spam filter, it is really excellent except it starts off pretty dumb.
so here it is for those of you who don't know. From Wiki.
--- In American politics, the term astroturfing is used perjoratively to describe formal public relations projects which deliberately give the impression of spontaneous and populist reactions.
The term is a play on "grassroots" efforts, which are truly spontaneous undertakings. AstroTurf refers to the bright green artificial grass used in some indoor sports stadiums.
A "grassroots" action or campaign is one that is started spontaneously and is largely sustained by private persons, not politicians, corporations or public relations firms. A "grassroots" campaign is perceived to come from the popular feelings of some mass of people and to not be a creation of the powerful.
"Astroturfing", by contrast, is a campaign crafted by politicians or other professionals but carefully designed to appear that it is the result of popular feeling rather than manipulation. The astroturfing campaign attempts to gain legitimacy by appearing to spring forth spontaneously from "the people". If the campaign is well executed, the planners hope that the public at large will believe that "all those independent viewpoints could not have been faked."
Examples of these kinds of practices can be found throughout history, though there is a perception that use of astroturfing is increasing in reaction to the declining credibility of politicians and corporations.
Years ago a company called IPC released a product called "PCBuddy" that does the same. I can't find any more links for this unfortunately, the company has since sort of become irrelevant and google is so clogged up with links to some Windows IPC shares.
Does make me wonder if this new company is trying to patent it though.
That being said... this could be amusing. "Sure, I stole your software, but that gave you no right to erase my home directory!" "What gave you the right to steal my software? I guess since you didn't need the right to do that, I didn't need the right either." "Err... uh..."
At which point I will say "FINE!" throws $1000 on the floor, "THERE IS YOUR PAYMENT FOR THE DAMNED SOFTWARE! NOW BRING BACK MY worth $100,000,000!"
Well, it is your property, you are entitled to say how much it is worth.. =)
"Firemen and police (usually) announce themselves before entering. And perhaps a few dead policemen who didn't would be a good wake-up call about no-knock warrants."
Unfortunately if they see that you have a gun, you would be the one in the spotlight and eating all those bullets.
Ever watch hollywood movies? When the bad guy is surrounded and he wants a glorious suicide.. he produces a gun.
He doesn't have to aim it at anyone, just the mere appearance would do!
" You are not entitled to make your FOO harm some one else because it was stolen"
Erm, why not? It is my Foo.. and it is not sold, it is stolen.
It is like this: "because the foo is stolen without paying, there is no warranty for the foo, to the extent permitted by applicable law. except when otherwise stated in writing the foo owners and/or other parties provide the foo "as is" without warranty of any kind, either expressed or implied, including, but not limited to, the implied warranties of merchantability and fitness for a particular purpose. the entire risk as to the quality and performance of the foo is with you. should the foo prove defective, you assume the cost of all necessary servicing, repair or correction."
So you are like saying it is the military's fault if they stole a nuke and the nuke blows up.
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"What the hell is goatse?"
For those who doesn't know..
It is really as bad as hell itself!
http://goat.cx/hello.jpg
Wow, come think of it I have always been saying that it is safe to view images!! What kind of dumb programming mistakes would the geniuses at microsoft NOT make?
OMG, hope the new NX-bit thing in SP2 is effective in stopping this kind of thing.
But apparently even the NX implementation is having troubles, seems like on some systems it will cause random BSODs.
So i guess the best solution is to use Linux
2005 is the year of linux on the desktop!!!
Well... one of my lexar CF cards died... and i paid almost $300 for it.
:(
Makes me wonder if there is a warranty or anything for it, and the best thing is, most of its lifetime is spent sitting in my drawer!
I think they supposedly have 'lifetime' warranty, but does make me wonder how easy it is to claim
Who cares, this message is typed in ROT-17576
Strong huh? =)
Bestcrypt http://www.jetico.com/ encrypts swap files too, so all you can get with your grepping is just @(#*)$#)$*)#*(#*^0
would be jetico's bestcrypt.
http://www.jetico.com/
supports twofish and blowfish too and even GOST too, all the way up to 446bit of keylength.
a must have for any paranoid nut
If only we can make it do frequency hopping.. then it'd be damned fast and secure right?
Military grade wireless modem!
"I just stopped reading right there. What does this have to do with news for nerds?"
It is something for physics nerds!
We start out by defining coordinate spaces and deciding that we're interested in Newtonian/Galilean rather than Einsteinian physics for the moment, since our subjects travel slowly enough and relativity makes things nastier. We start with a particle that has two vectors -- position and velocity. Turn this into two ensembles of rigid body particles exerting force upon each other. From this we build up the laws of motion, arriving at the total energy H of the system, and the 'gene of motion,' the Lagrangian: the difference between the kinetic and potential energy. 'Gene of motion' is a pretty bold claim, so we are shown how every mechanical quantity of the system may be derived from the Lagrangian. From there it's on to the 'action' principle, which is basically the integral of the Lagrangian...
" If everyone bought one of these and ran them in peer-to-peer mode, we could all dump our ISPs!"
Well, it may be slow, but it is 100% purely unregulated citizen owned 'internet'.
The corps can't do jack about it!
Bah, for a short while I misread the headline as "SCO... executed.."
"telegrams are sent electrically, not electronically."
Erm? What's the diff? It is still signals going down a wire right?
"Let them sit on a wet metal bench to operate their laptops, with no internet access :)"
Don't forget the tinfoil, in case they have GPRS
"Where'd you pull that mhz metric out of your ass? The actual 2200+ runs at 1667MHz."
You forgot that 1Ghz is really 1024Mhz..
So 1.53*1024=... oh wait..
If you know where to sign up for spam mails, please help me pop this address in:
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(not, it is not my enemy's mailbox, it is one of mine)
I've decided that with modern day spam the best way to combat them is to always stay one step ahead, bayesian filters! statistics! spam word corpus! the works! all these will slowly wipe your inbox against the scum!
(shameless plug)
Anyway I'm using popfile, a opensource spam filter, it is really excellent except it starts off pretty dumb.
Hence, please give me more spam!
so here it is for those of you who don't know. From Wiki.
---
In American politics, the term astroturfing is used perjoratively to describe formal public relations projects which deliberately give the impression of spontaneous and populist reactions.
The term is a play on "grassroots" efforts, which are truly spontaneous undertakings. AstroTurf refers to the bright green artificial grass used in some indoor sports stadiums.
A "grassroots" action or campaign is one that is started spontaneously and is largely sustained by private persons, not politicians, corporations or public relations firms. A "grassroots" campaign is perceived to come from the popular feelings of some mass of people and to not be a creation of the powerful.
"Astroturfing", by contrast, is a campaign crafted by politicians or other professionals but carefully designed to appear that it is the result of popular feeling rather than manipulation. The astroturfing campaign attempts to gain legitimacy by appearing to spring forth spontaneously from "the people". If the campaign is well executed, the planners hope that the public at large will believe that "all those independent viewpoints could not have been faked."
Examples of these kinds of practices can be found throughout history, though there is a perception that use of astroturfing is increasing in reaction to the declining credibility of politicians and corporations.
"And it ROCKS."
We have those in the Uni, and each time I log in and fire up Poseidon everyone slows to a crawl.
Stupid POS by Sun =)
This is such an old idea..
Years ago a company called IPC released a product called "PCBuddy" that does the same. I can't find any more links for this unfortunately, the company has since sort of become irrelevant and google is so clogged up with links to some Windows IPC shares.
Does make me wonder if this new company is trying to patent it though.
That being said... this could be amusing. "Sure, I stole your software, but that gave you no right to erase my home directory!" "What gave you the right to steal my software? I guess since you didn't need the right to do that, I didn't need the right either." "Err... uh..."
At which point I will say "FINE!" throws $1000 on the floor, "THERE IS YOUR PAYMENT FOR THE DAMNED SOFTWARE! NOW BRING BACK MY worth $100,000,000!"
Well, it is your property, you are entitled to say how much it is worth.. =)
"Firemen and police (usually) announce themselves before entering. And perhaps a few dead policemen who didn't would be a good wake-up call about no-knock warrants."
Unfortunately if they see that you have a gun, you would be the one in the spotlight and eating all those bullets.
Ever watch hollywood movies? When the bad guy is surrounded and he wants a glorious suicide.. he produces a gun.
He doesn't have to aim it at anyone, just the mere appearance would do!
" Their families can, and will."
and what if they got no families anymore..
Seriously, if you are talking about that much money in a lawsuit, why not just hire some thugs to take the hold lot of bottom feeders out?
I think it's "Caramaggedon"
The virus it carried was CIH.
" You are not entitled to make your FOO harm some one else because it was stolen"
Erm, why not? It is my Foo.. and it is not sold, it is stolen.
It is like this: "because the foo is stolen without paying, there is no warranty for the foo, to the extent permitted by applicable law. except when otherwise stated in writing the foo owners and/or other parties provide the foo "as is" without warranty of any kind, either expressed or implied, including, but not limited to, the implied warranties of merchantability and fitness for a particular purpose. the entire risk as to the quality and performance of the foo is with you. should the foo prove defective, you assume the cost of all necessary servicing, repair or correction."
So you are like saying it is the military's fault if they stole a nuke and the nuke blows up.
..'to serve man'
http://members.cox.net/kaiotea/serveman.htm
Cattle Bruisers are going to fire their Camato Yannons!
Say, if everybody just roll out the cable to their nearest 4 neighbours, wouldn't the grid be constructed by a cooperative effort?
:(
I don't know how it'd work though, does seem a bit too idealistic