If the contestants can really hide malicious code, then will the judges get code that does something innocent, something concealed to win the prize, and something else to mess up the judge's files a bit?
If they can do something really malicious with innocent-looking C code, they might want to gain a bit more than beer in the course of revealing how they did it...
Seeing as how vfat doesn't actually crash the kernel at all, this looks like total bullshit, unless they've fixed the 2GB file size limit or something. But even then, how is this better than EXT3 or ReiserFS? The only real Linux use for FAT is Windows compatibility, and this isn't going to be able to be very different from FAT32 at all if it's going to work with Windows.
My point is that it is also possible to have a non Matrix like simulation, in which your brain is actually simulated too. In that situation, there would be no way to tell what was happening and no way out, as you would have no existence outside of the simulation.
Trouble is, in The Matrix, Neo's brain (and, for that matter, a functional body) are physically outside the simulation.
It's also possible to have a simulation that's good enough to simulate matter behaving as a brain, in which case any life being simulated has no existence at all outside of the simulation. It's not impossible for that life to be intelligent, conscious, or self aware, and there would be no way for them to tell they were in a simulation, other than by saying that things looked like someone designed them.
I wonder if any of the theories that constants like the speed of light or the cosmological constant are changing are correct, and if so if whoever coded that kludge got in trouble...
But it is a lousy simulation! Doesn't quantum uncertainty look like a kludge? Doesn't the strong force look like it's been played with to make things work nicely?
I've been to Australia (NSW/Queensland border) a few times in the last few years as I have relatives there, and I second the claim that the weather is now extremely weird there, including lack of rain in the wet areas (Australia has rainforest as well as desert). Not good for a country that depends partly on agriculture. IIRC there was a farmer being interviewed on ABC news who commented that his three year old son had never seen rain.
No one is claiming that sea levels have already risen masively; rather it is claimed that they will rise significantly (several meters, possibly flooding areas like Manhattan) if the Antarctic ice cap melts, which is obvious.
More important is the temperature anomaly (which is global and indisputable), the effects it is causing, such as El Nino and the slowing of the Gulf Stream (not to mention the increasingly weird weather here in Britain), and the likely effects if it continues, such as total distruption of the Gulf stream causing ice caps to form across most of Europe.
I have been using Konqueror a bit more that usual recently because it loads quicker that Firefox, and I still find myself switching to Fx for pages that render wrong
Now I'm not a sad fantasist who thinks people actually RTFA, but you could read the/. summery. It's available for Linux, Mac and Windows (in other words anything, given someone who wants to port it), and it runs on a modified Quake 1 engine (the screenshots make it look very heavily modified; it looks more like UT2004 than Quake 1).
Slashdot Mirror
"Oh no! We're being Slashdotted!
Oh, nevermind, that was just the bootup..."
I wonder if you can run distcc on a single machine...
RTFA. The idea is to hide the malicious functions so that the source code looks innocent.
If the contestants can really hide malicious code, then will the judges get code that does something innocent, something concealed to win the prize, and something else to mess up the judge's files a bit?
If they can do something really malicious with innocent-looking C code, they might want to gain a bit more than beer in the course of revealing how they did it...
Seeing as how vfat doesn't actually crash the kernel at all, this looks like total bullshit, unless they've fixed the 2GB file size limit or something. But even then, how is this better than EXT3 or ReiserFS? The only real Linux use for FAT is Windows compatibility, and this isn't going to be able to be very different from FAT32 at all if it's going to work with Windows.
That's what I said...
My point is that it is also possible to have a non Matrix like simulation, in which your brain is actually simulated too. In that situation, there would be no way to tell what was happening and no way out, as you would have no existence outside of the simulation.
Trouble is, in The Matrix, Neo's brain (and, for that matter, a functional body) are physically outside the simulation.
It's also possible to have a simulation that's good enough to simulate matter behaving as a brain, in which case any life being simulated has no existence at all outside of the simulation. It's not impossible for that life to be intelligent, conscious, or self aware, and there would be no way for them to tell they were in a simulation, other than by saying that things looked like someone designed them.
I wonder if any of the theories that constants like the speed of light or the cosmological constant are changing are correct, and if so if whoever coded that kludge got in trouble...
But it is a lousy simulation! Doesn't quantum uncertainty look like a kludge? Doesn't the strong force look like it's been played with to make things work nicely?
(No I am not a creationist)
No, his abilities as a Windows 98 admin are 1337.
Is this so that they can release their paid-for version and still fullfill their obligations under the GPL at less cost?
/. doesn't need to check everything, but when the site specifically says it's running on a 3MHz box at home...
Seriously though, wasn't Afghanistan one of the members of the "Coalition" this time around, even though the only army it had was American?
Lets ban CDs. They have legitimate purposes, but you can use them to pirate stuff to.
Oh yeah, and can we stop that "Internet" thing too?
I've been to Australia (NSW/Queensland border) a few times in the last few years as I have relatives there, and I second the claim that the weather is now extremely weird there, including lack of rain in the wet areas (Australia has rainforest as well as desert).
Not good for a country that depends partly on agriculture. IIRC there was a farmer being interviewed on ABC news who commented that his three year old son had never seen rain.
Of course, the country that benefits the most from the Gulf Stream is Britain. You need us to lend legitimacy to wars.
No one is claiming that sea levels have already risen masively; rather it is claimed that they will rise significantly (several meters, possibly flooding areas like Manhattan) if the Antarctic ice cap melts, which is obvious.
More important is the temperature anomaly (which is global and indisputable), the effects it is causing, such as El Nino and the slowing of the Gulf Stream (not to mention the increasingly weird weather here in Britain), and the likely effects if it continues, such as total distruption of the Gulf stream causing ice caps to form across most of Europe.
I have been using Konqueror a bit more that usual recently because it loads quicker that Firefox, and I still find myself switching to Fx for pages that render wrong
In Korea, only old servers are used for email...
Now I'm not a sad fantasist who thinks people actually RTFA, but you could read the /. summery. It's available for Linux, Mac and Windows (in other words anything, given someone who wants to port it), and it runs on a modified Quake 1 engine (the screenshots make it look very heavily modified; it looks more like UT2004 than Quake 1).
C'mon, it's not even slowing down yet!
Does this mean they're dying?
For the benefit of people without Macs, how does it differ?
(And why are all Mac screenshots of anything scaled down from the original resolution so we can't tell without asking you?)
For the record, Deer Park is not the next minor point release (1.05 is guess), but the line that will be officially released as Firefox 1.1