it seems obvious to me that jumping on some website hosted in some third-world country and giving them my credit card so I can play poker through some system controlled by the website against God-knows-who just seems like an invitation to get ripped off.
I recently was glad to be kicked out of a team of software developers where the hottest topic of conversation was what poker playing site they were all using in their off hours. These are smart (but unpleasent) people. They should know that the system is in place to rip them off, but they keep going back.
Thanks for posting. I taught myself 6502 machine code when I was 12 years old. My computer came with a photocopied sheet with the instruction set documented on it, one instruction per line.
The instruction set design made sense, and my first program was 16 bytes long. I can't imagine doing that with a Z80.
Makes me wonder about using an array of them in a camera in order to record colour images in terms of their actual spectral content instead of approximating down to red, green and blue.
Hmmm, I wonder if their wavelength demultliplexer could be used as a phase demultliplexer. If so it should be possible to digitize holograms, perhaps even in color.
There is a lot of waffle in the article about listening to people but nobody had presented a simple table showing the requirements for GPLv3 in different drafts. This is the sort of thing you do to design commercial software and I would expect that the same approach would make the GPL more transparent.
If they want to give Torvalds's input a low priority then show that somehow. Otherwise show where his input has gone.
I don't want to take sides in the Linus v RMS thing here, I am just a bit sick of people having to reinvent the argument each and every time.
my new cubicle was positioned directly under a paging system speaker.
Yeah I had that problem until about six months ago. The most anoying thing is that occasionally the receptionist who pages people would key the microphone, inhale prior to speaking, get distracted and forget about saying anything.
There seems to be a low level mute switch in all of us which waits for the other person to speak, after hearing them inhale. Its like those DOS tricks where you initiate a connection and don't complete it.
if he can't hear it himself, he can't tell if it's still functioning.
Only if the poster stops complaining. So if the device has an accident with a pair of wire cutters in the middle of the night one should continue to act outraged for a while.
He could use microphone and amplifier to pick up the signal and a phase locked loop to divide the frequency by two, then feed the lot into a really big speaker. The only hard part is convincing people that the bad noise is really coming from over there.
OTH how about using the stereo effect? If the neighbour on the other side can go along with it bracket his place with speakers and feed the signal in so it appears to be coming from the original location? I like this article. Lots of hacking potential.
Build a similar device to emit noise at a slightly different frequency. The result will be horrible sounds as the two waves interfere. The horrible sounds will seem to come from both your source and the original source. You may get the blame but at least the cops/etc will believe that an issue exists.
There will be litterally millions of people trying to access the webpage on the day.
Lets test it. I propose that all.au slashdotters submit their form at exactly 10:00:00 UTC on the day. Maybe we can melt a server. Its unlikely though. The ABS (of all people) would have forseen this.
Only after the creation of pmount *useful* media mounting is possible
I discovered recently that if you do not have a real local user (ie, authentication was via NIS, and you only access NFS disks) then pmount will not work because it can't work out which user you are. Just posting in case somebody else has a similar problem.
Reminds me of why I like living in Australia - globally speaking we're relatively irrelevant, making us a relatively small target. Hopefully we'll stay relatively irrelevant, lol:p
And if it started getting worse you could move to tassie and get that feeling of irrelevancy back.
We'll just wait and see how this 'police-state' experiment of yours turns out
And then what? The rest of the world was damn lucky that Hitler was an Austrian, not an Irish nutcase.
Imagine if you will a northern Irish Protestant fascist movement spreading across the UK and the British Commonwealth. Given the prevailing opinions of the time Canada, Australia, India and Malaya may well have gone along for the ride.
So thats history, maybe it can't happen, but I don't want to see them try.
Stuff we built 5 thousand years ago is still standing
Practically everything built 5 thousand years ago has since fallen down. Only structures which were massively overengineered (possibly because the people building them didn't know what they were doing) are still standing.
If a typical vehicle is 5 metres long and the distance between vehicles is 10 metres then an object with no dimension will have 1/3 chance of hitting something.
Except that a sheet of concrete which drops in front of your car may be almost as bad as one which lands on you, and if the sheet is (say) 2 metres across it is almost certain to land on something because the lanes will be only 3-3.5 metres wide.
Seriously, why did they need to be so thick and heavy? Or made of concrete for that matter?
Why do I write cgi scripts in ksh? Because its what I know. These guys build things out of concrete. Thats their job. I am sure that they go home on the weekend and construct patios and garden furniture out of the same stuff.
The older we get the more crap we have seen and the less tolerant we are of new crap. Hence the question: why is there so much crap around these days?
Things which I thought were pretty good when I was 20 now look like crap to be 20 years later. Maybe the absolute level of crap today is the same as is was in the past.
I think I'd put the DRM stuff in GPL3 as an optional component
The linux kernel project has the choice of staying with GPL2 or writing their own license. They could even fork GPL2 to make their own new license if they want. So the DRM stuff is optional.
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I recently was glad to be kicked out of a team of software developers where the hottest topic of conversation was what poker playing site they were all using in their off hours. These are smart (but unpleasent) people. They should know that the system is in place to rip them off, but they keep going back.
Maybe they have too much money.
Could a similar mechanism transfer genetic material between human hosts? And could this be one way for those humans to evolve, or at least change?
Thanks for posting. I taught myself 6502 machine code when I was 12 years old. My computer came with a photocopied sheet with the instruction set documented on it, one instruction per line.
The instruction set design made sense, and my first program was 16 bytes long. I can't imagine doing that with a Z80.
And Bender.
is here
Hmmm, I wonder if their wavelength demultliplexer could be used as a phase demultliplexer. If so it should be possible to digitize holograms, perhaps even in color.
The 360 can't yet, and the work required to get it running may run (if measured) into the millions of dollars.
There is a lot of waffle in the article about listening to people but nobody had presented a simple table showing the requirements for GPLv3 in different drafts. This is the sort of thing you do to design commercial software and I would expect that the same approach would make the GPL more transparent.
If they want to give Torvalds's input a low priority then show that somehow. Otherwise show where his input has gone.
I don't want to take sides in the Linus v RMS thing here, I am just a bit sick of people having to reinvent the argument each and every time.
Yeah I had that problem until about six months ago. The most anoying thing is that occasionally the receptionist who pages people would key the microphone, inhale prior to speaking, get distracted and forget about saying anything.
There seems to be a low level mute switch in all of us which waits for the other person to speak, after hearing them inhale. Its like those DOS tricks where you initiate a connection and don't complete it.
Only if the poster stops complaining. So if the device has an accident with a pair of wire cutters in the middle of the night one should continue to act outraged for a while.
He could use microphone and amplifier to pick up the signal and a phase locked loop to divide the frequency by two, then feed the lot into a really big speaker. The only hard part is convincing people that the bad noise is really coming from over there.
OTH how about using the stereo effect? If the neighbour on the other side can go along with it bracket his place with speakers and feed the signal in so it appears to be coming from the original location? I like this article. Lots of hacking potential.
Build a similar device to emit noise at a slightly different frequency. The result will be horrible sounds as the two waves interfere. The horrible sounds will seem to come from both your source and the original source. You may get the blame but at least the cops/etc will believe that an issue exists.
I remember that last time one of the people running the census commented in an interview that they were totally sick of hearing "nude" stories.
Lets test it. I propose that all .au slashdotters submit their form at exactly 10:00:00 UTC on the day. Maybe we can melt a server. Its unlikely though. The ABS (of all people) would have forseen this.
What about the SSL worm from a couple of years back? I had at least one linux server rooted by that at the time.
I discovered recently that if you do not have a real local user (ie, authentication was via NIS, and you only access NFS disks) then pmount will not work because it can't work out which user you are. Just posting in case somebody else has a similar problem.
And if it started getting worse you could move to tassie and get that feeling of irrelevancy back.
And then what? The rest of the world was damn lucky that Hitler was an Austrian, not an Irish nutcase.
Imagine if you will a northern Irish Protestant fascist movement spreading across the UK and the British Commonwealth. Given the prevailing opinions of the time Canada, Australia, India and Malaya may well have gone along for the ride.
So thats history, maybe it can't happen, but I don't want to see them try.
Oh no not Mad Mel! I couldn't stand it and I'm not even jewish.
Practically everything built 5 thousand years ago has since fallen down. Only structures which were massively overengineered (possibly because the people building them didn't know what they were doing) are still standing.
If a typical vehicle is 5 metres long and the distance between vehicles is 10 metres then an object with no dimension will have 1/3 chance of hitting something.
Except that a sheet of concrete which drops in front of your car may be almost as bad as one which lands on you, and if the sheet is (say) 2 metres across it is almost certain to land on something because the lanes will be only 3-3.5 metres wide.
Why do I write cgi scripts in ksh? Because its what I know. These guys build things out of concrete. Thats their job. I am sure that they go home on the weekend and construct patios and garden furniture out of the same stuff.
The older we get the more crap we have seen and the less tolerant we are of new crap. Hence the question: why is there so much crap around these days?
Things which I thought were pretty good when I was 20 now look like crap to be 20 years later. Maybe the absolute level of crap today is the same as is was in the past.
I assumed that it had but then somebody posted an article about it on /. again.
The linux kernel project has the choice of staying with GPL2 or writing their own license. They could even fork GPL2 to make their own new license if they want. So the DRM stuff is optional.