Windows and MS are not all that evil. Just a monopoly. And this leads to a lack of effort in attempting to improve their product, no competition you see.
I disagree. Microsoft already has a major competitor that we often overlook: Microsoft. Windows XP is forced to compete with Win98,ME,NT,and 2000... products that many users have bought just in the last few years and are still fairly satisfied with.
So MS is forced to add fancier features, launch a major marketing blitz, and -gasp- even do a little innovating. Doesn't sound like a monopoly to me. (though I will concede that they've got an OEM monopoly)
I do nothing illegal in my life (okay, a little speeding)
That's because you happen to agree with the government's book definition of "illegal"... you're assuming that there are no corrupt politicians or vague laws waiting to be twisted against the common man (like Dmitry). Thomas Jefferson recognized the fallibility of government - if politicians were perfect, we wouldn't have referendum, jury nullification, judicial review, vetos, appointments, recall, and legislative override.
If Hollywood producers were going back through archives and removing the WTC from reruns and old movies, I would be very disturbed. But they're not doing that.
Zoolander is intended to be a satirical comedy. The writers and producers want their audiences laughing...something that's not going to happen if you show them pictures of the WTC ten days after they collapsed. We don't see Jay Leno poking fun at the people who died in those buildings, so I'm not sure why we're up in arms about a comedy that doesn't show the twin towers.
Nobody's forgetting or supressing what happened (just turn on any television station for evidence). An incredible amount of footage has emerged from this disaster, and I imagine that the WTC will be better known and recognized by our children than what our generation associates with Pearl Harbor (which has hardly been forgotten).
I fully expect to see the "City of New York vs. Homer Simpson" (one of my favorite episodes) on my TV screen again -- but not anytime soon, and I'm not chastising FOX for that, either.
What's more, TR has collision avoidance built into the protocol, where Ethernet networks have to be architected in star topologies to avoid collision, because Ethernet responds horribly.
However, TR is horribly inefficient when one machine produces a disproportionate amount of traffic (which is the case for pretty much all corporate networks). Unless each machine in your ring produces a steady stream of packets, the old ALOHA collision model still wins.
As cold and heartless as it might seem I don't place the life of that 13 year old girl any higher than the lives of the other people on the planei>
Perhaps.
But these passengers probably had no idea their plane was on a suicide course... after all, most hijackers land their planes at remote airports in order to negotiate demands. Captives who keep a low profile almost always survive.
I remember reading that it was by this method that the third molecular form of carbon, Buckminsterfullerenes(Buckyballs) was found. (The first 2 are graphite and diamond)
Buckyballs were discovered by a Houston team that fired a high-intensity laser at a graphite sheet, and ran a mass-spec on the resulting carbon dust. They found a big spike at C60 (and C70, I believe). As it later turned out, burning a candle is enough to produce buckyballs... no lightning needed.
I've wondered if we could power some really energy-demaning reactions with lightning... like starting off a cold fusion reaction or something. Of course, getting predictable thunderstorms is another matter.
On that note, you can use mercury to extract solid gold particles from water... just run the water over a bed of liquid mercury, separate the layers, and boil the mercury off. Of course, the mercury fumes will knock out your sanity...but that's another matter;)
Everyone seems to think these bacteria are simply coagulating dissolved gold metal, something you could do by simply by letting water settle.
They're not.
The bacteria are reducing the gold from an ionized salt form (Ag+) to solid gold. That would take a bit more effort (and a ton of water pollution) for a laboratory to accomplish.
Anonyone wanna bet that Farid is the AC who submitted the story? I took a programming class from him a few years ago...he seemed pretty full of himself then, too.
Seriously, how much bandwidth do we lose to simple ACKs, NACKs, and packet headers? How often do networks really drop packets that we couldn't use UDP for web applications?
As for HTML and XML, we could cut ascii data by 20% if we just got rid of useless carriage returns, non-paragraph whitespace, tag quotation marks, HTML comments... just compare the source HTML for Yahoo with CNN.com... BIG difference.
I've actually read several classics from Project Gutenberg on my Sony Clie... it takes a few moments to get used to constant scrolling, but ends up being pretty convenient and surprisingly easy on the eyes.
Maybe Microsoft will have no choice but slim down their office apps, and release them on BSD and Linux to make a buck.
The fact that Gator exists has nothing to do with Microsoft. I could easily produce a trojan utility for Linux that pops up advertisements over Netscape windows...but I'd have to find gullible users willing to download it. And those people almost always use Windows.
If Microsoft were to shift to BSD/Linux, there'd be even more incentive to develop such scams.
While it is true that children can gain access to information at an earlier age, the tilt of this story seems to ignore that anyone at any age can do the same.
Yes and no. Kids simply have more time to sit around and learn to manipulate. And when technology advances as quicky as it does nowadays, that gives them a HUGE advantage. Back when I was in high school, I'd spend every afternoon working on the school's linux boxes and reading tech books. Things changed quite a bit by the time I got out of college... I'm forced to spend most of my time just reading about technology (in an effort to keep up), instead of getting to apply it.
I see that this has degenerated to an elementary school playground pissing match, so I'm out of here.;)
As a general rule, I don't take anonymous posters seriously. Our friend Gamorck doesn't have enough confidence in his words to put his precious karma on the line, and so I won't either.
That said, I've installed W2K on a number of machines, and have had mixed results with the network setup. Upgrades from 95/98 won't give you any network options during setup, leaving you in a real harware jam if the install can't find your network card. DHCP is the default in W2K, but it also doesn't give you a choice for manual IP during setup.
Unbelievable. You'd think Lucasfilm would be honored that the words 'Light Saber' have infultrated so deeply into pop culture
Reminds me of the '77 Denver Broncos, famous for their "Orange Crush" defense. The soft drink became an unofficial mascot for the team, and fans bought a ton of it... people drank more crush at games than beer. That was, until PepsiCo sued the team for trademark defamation. Idiots.
Problem with just releasing the algorithm is that you take down the world's encryption systems in a single blow. That's a pretty mean thing to do.
I'd recommend giving the world a chance to update its mathematics first: apply the algorithm a few times to prove that you've got it, and then let the world know that you have a dead-man-switch in some random location, just waiting to release the algorithm should something happen to you.
Ashcroft (I usually replace that "h" with another "s", but maybe not this time) might prosecute anyway. His motive would be to uphold the almighty DMCA, to protect corporate America's inalienable rights to strife, misery, and the pursuit of avarice.
Why would he want to? To expose how stupid DMCA really is? To tarnish the Justice Dept. by prosecuting a case despite withdrawn charges? You seem to think this guy's evil for no other reason than to be evil.
This isn't like 2600 trial, where a judge is forced to make a decision and prosecuters are loading the dialog with "hacker slacker" scare propaganda. If the Justice Dept. pursues this further, they'll be acting without political pressure...and that's not how our gov't operates.
The real issue is that people are ordering Verizon, and either hosting their own domains (over DSL, with a static IP), or using other email addresses (such as domains they may have forwarding to their Verizon account, or alternate ISP accounts with better email packages/controls) - and Verizon doesn't like that.
If you want to look at this from the "big consumer-oriented corporation" perspective, the bigger issue is liability. Verizon doesn't want to get sued because Joe Schmoe sends a few million spoofed e-mails from their servers, disrupting service to both other Verizon customers and email recipients. That's their rationale - it's lawyers, not executives behind this move. Verizon couldn't care less about a closed-door community - as long as you're paying your bills and their policies don't drive customers away, they're happy.
I can barely get it up on 128 Megs of ram and still be productive. Talk about inflated.
I recently installed it on a Pentium 133 with 48MB of ram (even though that's well below MS's specs). Runs far better than 98 ever did...pretty snappy little machine now. Of course I keep the services down to a bare minimum, proving that the core OS isn't half as inflated as IIS, SQL, Exchange, MTS, etc.
Slashdot Mirror
Or better, Magic Lantern.
It'd be the perfect trojan horse... MS gets leniency from the DOJ in exchange for some...favors.
Windows and MS are not all that evil. Just a monopoly. And this leads to a lack of effort in attempting to improve their product, no competition you see.
I disagree. Microsoft already has a major competitor that we often overlook: Microsoft. Windows XP is forced to compete with Win98,ME,NT,and 2000... products that many users have bought just in the last few years and are still fairly satisfied with.
So MS is forced to add fancier features, launch a major marketing blitz, and -gasp- even do a little innovating. Doesn't sound like a monopoly to me. (though I will concede that they've got an OEM monopoly)
I do nothing illegal in my life (okay, a little speeding)
That's because you happen to agree with the government's book definition of "illegal"... you're assuming that there are no corrupt politicians or vague laws waiting to be twisted against the common man (like Dmitry). Thomas Jefferson recognized the fallibility of government - if politicians were perfect, we wouldn't have referendum, jury nullification, judicial review, vetos, appointments, recall, and legislative override.
You know that people will be wearing this to the strip club. 80 pictures should be enough to get a pic of every girl there. :)
Yeah, and at 176x144 pixels, they'll almost look naked.
If Hollywood producers were going back through archives and removing the WTC from reruns and old movies, I would be very disturbed. But they're not doing that.
Zoolander is intended to be a satirical comedy. The writers and producers want their audiences laughing...something that's not going to happen if you show them pictures of the WTC ten days after they collapsed. We don't see Jay Leno poking fun at the people who died in those buildings, so I'm not sure why we're up in arms about a comedy that doesn't show the twin towers.
Nobody's forgetting or supressing what happened (just turn on any television station for evidence). An incredible amount of footage has emerged from this disaster, and I imagine that the WTC will be better known and recognized by our children than what our generation associates with Pearl Harbor (which has hardly been forgotten).
I fully expect to see the "City of New York vs. Homer Simpson" (one of my favorite episodes) on my TV screen again -- but not anytime soon, and I'm not chastising FOX for that, either.
What's more, TR has collision avoidance built into the protocol, where Ethernet networks have to be architected in star topologies to avoid collision, because Ethernet responds horribly.
However, TR is horribly inefficient when one machine produces a disproportionate amount of traffic (which is the case for pretty much all corporate networks). Unless each machine in your ring produces a steady stream of packets, the old ALOHA collision model still wins.
Are there any other vehicles they should show?
The Duffmobile.
The "cloud" seen in the radar image is not a result of the smoke/dust cloud.
What radar image are you referring to? The spaceimaging shots are all visible light images from the ikonos satellite. That smoke/dust is very real.
As cold and heartless as it might seem I don't place the life of that 13 year old girl any higher than the lives of the other people on the planei>
Perhaps.
But these passengers probably had no idea their plane was on a suicide course... after all, most hijackers land their planes at remote airports in order to negotiate demands. Captives who keep a low profile almost always survive.
I remember reading that it was by this method that the third molecular form of carbon, Buckminsterfullerenes(Buckyballs) was found. (The first 2 are graphite and diamond)
Buckyballs were discovered by a Houston team that fired a high-intensity laser at a graphite sheet, and ran a mass-spec on the resulting carbon dust. They found a big spike at C60 (and C70, I believe). As it later turned out, burning a candle is enough to produce buckyballs... no lightning needed.
I've wondered if we could power some really energy-demaning reactions with lightning... like starting off a cold fusion reaction or something. Of course, getting predictable thunderstorms is another matter.
On that note, you can use mercury to extract solid gold particles from water... just run the water over a bed of liquid mercury, separate the layers, and boil the mercury off. Of course, the mercury fumes will knock out your sanity...but that's another matter ;)
Everyone seems to think these bacteria are simply coagulating dissolved gold metal, something you could do by simply by letting water settle.
They're not.
The bacteria are reducing the gold from an ionized salt form (Ag+) to solid gold. That would take a bit more effort (and a ton of water pollution) for a laboratory to accomplish.
You better have a pretty charged-up battery on your laptop. Otherwise it's like being stuck in a bomb shelter without a can-opener :)
The Air Force was technically the Army Air Corp during WWII... but who's counting :)
The article reminds me a lot of "Surely you're joking, Mr. Feynman!".
Anonyone wanna bet that Farid is the AC who submitted the story? I took a programming class from him a few years ago...he seemed pretty full of himself then, too.
Seriously, how much bandwidth do we lose to simple ACKs, NACKs, and packet headers? How often do networks really drop packets that we couldn't use UDP for web applications?
As for HTML and XML, we could cut ascii data by 20% if we just got rid of useless carriage returns, non-paragraph whitespace, tag quotation marks, HTML comments... just compare the source HTML for Yahoo with CNN.com... BIG difference.
I've actually read several classics from Project Gutenberg on my Sony Clie... it takes a few moments to get used to constant scrolling, but ends up being pretty convenient and surprisingly easy on the eyes.
Maybe Microsoft will have no choice but slim down their office apps, and release them on BSD and Linux to make a buck.
The fact that Gator exists has nothing to do with Microsoft. I could easily produce a trojan utility for Linux that pops up advertisements over Netscape windows...but I'd have to find gullible users willing to download it. And those people almost always use Windows.
If Microsoft were to shift to BSD/Linux, there'd be even more incentive to develop such scams.
While it is true that children can gain access to information at an earlier age, the tilt of this story seems to ignore that anyone at any age can do the same.
Yes and no. Kids simply have more time to sit around and learn to manipulate. And when technology advances as quicky as it does nowadays, that gives them a HUGE advantage. Back when I was in high school, I'd spend every afternoon working on the school's linux boxes and reading tech books. Things changed quite a bit by the time I got out of college... I'm forced to spend most of my time just reading about technology (in an effort to keep up), instead of getting to apply it.
I see that this has degenerated to an elementary school playground pissing match, so I'm out of here. ;)
As a general rule, I don't take anonymous posters seriously. Our friend Gamorck doesn't have enough confidence in his words to put his precious karma on the line, and so I won't either.
That said, I've installed W2K on a number of machines, and have had mixed results with the network setup. Upgrades from 95/98 won't give you any network options during setup, leaving you in a real harware jam if the install can't find your network card. DHCP is the default in W2K, but it also doesn't give you a choice for manual IP during setup.
Unbelievable. You'd think Lucasfilm would be honored that the words 'Light Saber' have infultrated so deeply into pop culture
Reminds me of the '77 Denver Broncos, famous for their "Orange Crush" defense. The soft drink became an unofficial mascot for the team, and fans bought a ton of it... people drank more crush at games than beer. That was, until PepsiCo sued the team for trademark defamation. Idiots.
Problem with just releasing the algorithm is that you take down the world's encryption systems in a single blow. That's a pretty mean thing to do.
I'd recommend giving the world a chance to update its mathematics first: apply the algorithm a few times to prove that you've got it, and then let the world know that you have a dead-man-switch in some random location, just waiting to release the algorithm should something happen to you.
Ashcroft (I usually replace that "h" with another "s", but maybe not this time) might prosecute anyway. His motive would be to uphold the almighty DMCA, to protect corporate America's inalienable rights to strife, misery, and the pursuit of avarice.
Why would he want to? To expose how stupid DMCA really is? To tarnish the Justice Dept. by prosecuting a case despite withdrawn charges? You seem to think this guy's evil for no other reason than to be evil.
This isn't like 2600 trial, where a judge is forced to make a decision and prosecuters are loading the dialog with "hacker slacker" scare propaganda. If the Justice Dept. pursues this further, they'll be acting without political pressure...and that's not how our gov't operates.
The real issue is that people are ordering Verizon, and either hosting their own domains (over DSL, with a static IP), or using other email addresses (such as domains they may have forwarding to their Verizon account, or alternate ISP accounts with better email packages/controls) - and Verizon doesn't like that.
If you want to look at this from the "big consumer-oriented corporation" perspective, the bigger issue is liability. Verizon doesn't want to get sued because Joe Schmoe sends a few million spoofed e-mails from their servers, disrupting service to both other Verizon customers and email recipients. That's their rationale - it's lawyers, not executives behind this move. Verizon couldn't care less about a closed-door community - as long as you're paying your bills and their policies don't drive customers away, they're happy.
I can barely get it up on 128 Megs of ram and still be productive. Talk about inflated.
I recently installed it on a Pentium 133 with 48MB of ram (even though that's well below MS's specs). Runs far better than 98 ever did...pretty snappy little machine now. Of course I keep the services down to a bare minimum, proving that the core OS isn't half as inflated as IIS, SQL, Exchange, MTS, etc.