1) The sand is so abrasive that any material you expose to it will be sandblasted while in contact with it.
2) I'd imagine it's all one or the other, or one on one side and the other on the other.
One thing we found the robots would be very good for though, is building solar cells. Every material you need to build them is available on the moon's surface, or just below it ( 50 feet).
We had a design for a autonomous robot that would just go around and construct giant arrays of solar cells to provide energy.
These robots better have some clever way of getting rid of the magnetically charged, extreamly abrasive lunar dust.
I had to design a lunar robot for a NASA contest, and that was the biggest obsticle. We just came up with some miracle "demagnatizing spray" that would blow off the dust.
I'd like to see how they pull this off without made up technologies.
...A guy on the pulltheplug irc network ran a tutorial on writing exploits for exploits.
Basically, they'd run a process that looks like a vulnerable server, and when someone comes along and takes the bait, they end up rooted.
Expect H2O to do the same as they did with steinburg: Spend hundreds of hours cracking the protection, then use the cracked software to make a thank you letter, thanking the company for making such great protection, and for providing the challenge.
If you remember the heady days of the first incarnation of Napster chances are you downloaded a song and later discarded the foul bit of pop. Chances are also pretty strong that you downloaded a song and ended up buying the compact disc from your local music store. For me the discarded song was Come on Eileen by Dexy's Midnight Runners. I am sure the music industry chalks that up to a lost CD sale, but honestly, there was no way I was ever going to buy any music by Dexy and his intrepid band of late night dashers. On the other and when I downloaded Devil's Haircut by Beck I went out and actually purchased the entire CD.
The above is a simplification of how piracy can actually move product. Chances are very good that without the illicit download one less copy of Odelay would have been sold. So, for no great investment on his part, Beck sold one more album that he normally would have thanks to being pirated. Software companies have understood this concept for quite some time. They will grudgingly put up with piracy if it sells more copies in the long or if it prevents a competitor from gaining a foothold. Say, for example, someone company produces a legitimate competitor to Adobe Photoshop. The new product feature all of the pixel manipulating goodness of Photoshop but retails for half the price. In basic economic theory the new product would soon displace Photoshop as the image editor of choice. In reality that is not necessarily the case. If Adobe Photoshop gets passed around on P2P sites there is no incentive for theft happy users to try the new competitor, both are stolen and to the end user stolen=free. Years later the one pirate removes the eye patch and becomes burdened with kids and full employment. Suddenly spending hours on the internet looking for registration codes and illegal copies no longer holds the same appeal, it has become easier and safer just to purchase a legitimate copy.
Which brings us to the question of Apple computer and piracy. You, as a reader of fine Apple oriented commentary, are no doubt aware of the recent announcement that Apple is switching to Intel. This has some interesting ramifications, one of the foremost is that you will now, in all probability, be able download a copy of OS X on a P2P site and run it on any plain vanilla Wintel box by employing some sort of hack. To many Apple fans this is a nightmare scenario. "Why" they wonder "would anyone ever buy another Mac if they can run OS X on a Wintel box?"
Before considering why people might still buy Macs even if they could hack a Wintel to do the job let us consider the benefits of OS X piracy. For years interested parties have heard people complain: "Macs are too expensive." At this moment most people are thinking about only of the retail price. This is a mistake, the cost of Macs to a fence sitting switcher encompasses much more than the price tag. To get in the world of Mac you have to be willing to take a massive leap of faith. You must be convinced that a Mac will serve all your computing needs admirably and you probably have to accept that as a truth without extensively using a Macintosh. It is also wise to remember that for most computer users it is an "either/or" decision, not many have the resources necessary to grab a Windows for safety and a Mac just to decide if it a suitable OS. Faced with a decision like that it is not hard to understand why people, time and time again, choose the OS with the greatest amount of familiarity. With rampant piracy suddenly this is not an issue. People can play with OS X on their Wintel box and make an informed decision when they make their next computer purchase. It is not hard to imagine that actually being able to use OS X for a significant period of time might result in more switchers than Apple's ads ever dreamed of producing.
Here one suspects Apple will face a careful balancing act. If hacking a PC to run OS X is trivially easy then sales will certainly suffer. If OS X is uncracka
Compile the following untested code twice, once with the name md5collision, and again with some other name.
Check the hashes, and check the output.
This is the same as the above postscript example.
#include <stdio.h>
int main(int argc, char *argv) {
if (argv[0] != "md5collision") { printf("This was a dumb, forced, collision that would never happen in real live.\n"); } else { printf("This is a legitimate file, with the same hash as that other file I compiled.\n"); } exit(0); }
Slashdot Mirror
"In a bid to be friendly with Open Source, SCO..." Just stop reading there.
Here is the IBM Union website, if anyone is interested.
What's to stop the government from arresting people who are trying to get around their censorship?
1) The sand is so abrasive that any material you expose to it will be sandblasted while in contact with it. 2) I'd imagine it's all one or the other, or one on one side and the other on the other.
One thing we found the robots would be very good for though, is building solar cells. Every material you need to build them is available on the moon's surface, or just below it ( 50 feet). We had a design for a autonomous robot that would just go around and construct giant arrays of solar cells to provide energy.
These robots better have some clever way of getting rid of the magnetically charged, extreamly abrasive lunar dust. I had to design a lunar robot for a NASA contest, and that was the biggest obsticle. We just came up with some miracle "demagnatizing spray" that would blow off the dust. I'd like to see how they pull this off without made up technologies.
Someone already did this, but solved a bigger problem than broken software.
...A guy on the pulltheplug irc network ran a tutorial on writing exploits for exploits. Basically, they'd run a process that looks like a vulnerable server, and when someone comes along and takes the bait, they end up rooted.
Expect H2O to do the same as they did with steinburg: Spend hundreds of hours cracking the protection, then use the cracked software to make a thank you letter, thanking the company for making such great protection, and for providing the challenge.
I'd expect to see The Screen Savers switch to this format, instead of a podcast.
Apple computer: Is Piracy the Pathway to Profits?
by Chris Seibold
Jun 13, 2005
If you remember the heady days of the first incarnation of Napster chances are you downloaded a song and later discarded the foul bit of pop. Chances are also pretty strong that you downloaded a song and ended up buying the compact disc from your local music store. For me the discarded song was Come on Eileen by Dexy's Midnight Runners. I am sure the music industry chalks that up to a lost CD sale, but honestly, there was no way I was ever going to buy any music by Dexy and his intrepid band of late night dashers. On the other and when I downloaded Devil's Haircut by Beck I went out and actually purchased the entire CD. The above is a simplification of how piracy can actually move product. Chances are very good that without the illicit download one less copy of Odelay would have been sold. So, for no great investment on his part, Beck sold one more album that he normally would have thanks to being pirated. Software companies have understood this concept for quite some time. They will grudgingly put up with piracy if it sells more copies in the long or if it prevents a competitor from gaining a foothold. Say, for example, someone company produces a legitimate competitor to Adobe Photoshop. The new product feature all of the pixel manipulating goodness of Photoshop but retails for half the price. In basic economic theory the new product would soon displace Photoshop as the image editor of choice. In reality that is not necessarily the case. If Adobe Photoshop gets passed around on P2P sites there is no incentive for theft happy users to try the new competitor, both are stolen and to the end user stolen=free. Years later the one pirate removes the eye patch and becomes burdened with kids and full employment. Suddenly spending hours on the internet looking for registration codes and illegal copies no longer holds the same appeal, it has become easier and safer just to purchase a legitimate copy. Which brings us to the question of Apple computer and piracy. You, as a reader of fine Apple oriented commentary, are no doubt aware of the recent announcement that Apple is switching to Intel. This has some interesting ramifications, one of the foremost is that you will now, in all probability, be able download a copy of OS X on a P2P site and run it on any plain vanilla Wintel box by employing some sort of hack. To many Apple fans this is a nightmare scenario. "Why" they wonder "would anyone ever buy another Mac if they can run OS X on a Wintel box?" Before considering why people might still buy Macs even if they could hack a Wintel to do the job let us consider the benefits of OS X piracy. For years interested parties have heard people complain: "Macs are too expensive." At this moment most people are thinking about only of the retail price. This is a mistake, the cost of Macs to a fence sitting switcher encompasses much more than the price tag. To get in the world of Mac you have to be willing to take a massive leap of faith. You must be convinced that a Mac will serve all your computing needs admirably and you probably have to accept that as a truth without extensively using a Macintosh. It is also wise to remember that for most computer users it is an "either/or" decision, not many have the resources necessary to grab a Windows for safety and a Mac just to decide if it a suitable OS. Faced with a decision like that it is not hard to understand why people, time and time again, choose the OS with the greatest amount of familiarity. With rampant piracy suddenly this is not an issue. People can play with OS X on their Wintel box and make an informed decision when they make their next computer purchase. It is not hard to imagine that actually being able to use OS X for a significant period of time might result in more switchers than Apple's ads ever dreamed of producing. Here one suspects Apple will face a careful balancing act. If hacking a PC to run OS X is trivially easy then sales will certainly suffer. If OS X is uncracka
Apple Pirates You!
Hey! It said untested for a reason! ;P
I for one, bow down to our new fat beer-guzzling yellow overlords.
How big would the paper resovior have to be to sustain printing for longer than three minutes?
Yes, We all know that's the case.
We can still turn of reduced privelaged mode though, right?
I've got one of those thinkpads, and the thing started smoking in the middle of my tribes game. Now i know why.
Finaly someone has the common sense to ditch m$. It's about damn time if you ask me.