With the gaim-encryption plugin, you can use 4096 bit rsa with any of those protocols, not to mention protocols like IRC etc. I highly doubt any browser-based encryption scheme can compare with that.
When we had lan parties at our school, we did it in the cafeteria, and a few people would just bring in some large hubs they had lying around.
You can charge at the door if you are trying to raise money, and you could even rent out games, sell drinks, run tournaments or whatever (a dollar to enter and the winner gets a free 6 pack of bawls).
The problem this is the lack of game options. Unless you have a super lax district, any FPS isnt going to work. Games like warcraft 3 and starcraft are great games to play at lan parties, and who can ever resist the thrill of playing microsoft hearts over the network.
I havn't owned a tv in over 2 years. Ive found that I can download anything that I would want to watch, and in general it is a higher quality, and in many cases I can get the shows before they air on the west coast anyway.
TV really has little to offer those with fast internet, but with the recent troubles (#tvtorrents etc) who knows where things will end up:-/
I personally think it is absurd for tv networks to fight the downloading of their shows. If they offered torrents for download (even with commercials) in a timely manner, it would cost them no bandwidth, and their commercials and shows would reach a larger audience.
with further caffine, I realize that the number will only be 8 or so digits long, and I suppose that would only take 3 or so seconds to say. That makes things a bit simpler, there are quite a few tricks you can do with that, for example the last digit of your 100 digit number will be the same as the last digit of your answer etc.
Im confused as to how you can prove that you did the calculation in 11.8 seconds, wouldn't it take longer than that to write it down? You are looking at a 50 digit number, so at that rate you would need to be writing down 5 numbers per second even if it only took you 1.8 seconds to realize the answer.
On the other hand it would not be superhumanly hard to come up with the first number in 11.8 seconds, and then write down the rest as you calculate it. The same thing applies to saying it outloud.
OpenOffice is great, I use it all the time for my reports or whatever, but it REALLY does need to go more modular. Compilation takes about 16 hours on my laptop, and requires a very old version of gcc. (even the ximianized version)
I am a gentoo ppc user though (no binary packages for me) so it might just all be my fault:-)
Screw the antimatter, just strap the cat and toast to a dynamo. With enough of those units you could power a city, or maybe the toast and cat would cancel eachother out, as in the case of magnets..
I visit my parents for a couple hours a week, and I'm pretty antsy by the end because they have dialup and I have a 5M or so line where I live. Ive been spending about 16 hours a day online though (2 hours eating 6 hours sleep).
You should see when they cut off my connection for a couple days for MPAA violations, I pretty much live in the linux lab (open 24 hours for cs students), or just wander the streets with my laptop hopping from network to network.
"His "Signing Spree" is helping the film industry make more money to make better films."
I dont think the film industry needs more money to make better films. For the past 20 years movies coming out of hollywood have been on a steady slope downwards, about 98% of the good movies that have come out in the past few years have not come from LA. If sharing movies over the internet ends up causing the demise of the over bloated film industry, i say good riddance.
God forbid movies go back to being artistic instead of the two hour long commercials that they are now.
It really is the sensationalism that's the key issue. These people dont get arrested for doing damages or anything like that, its all about the image. There was somewhat of a media frenzy when this first happened, which made cisco look bad. The only way to counter-balance that is to takedown the kid responsible. Arresting some kid in england isn't going to stop future breakins. They prolly get busted into all the time, but when the person you are talking about got 11.3, there wasnt a major story about it, so cisco did not need to waste money to correct the situation.
"Heaven forbid that Cisco actually allow this and join the open source movement...we certainly wouldn't want their stuff to get any better. (*insert sarcasm here*)"
It might interest you to know that cisco is one of the top contributers (of both hardware, and money) to the Open Source Development Labs.
Also even if cisco did release the code for its routers, it's architecture is so specialized that you need quite expensive machinery to even get it compiled, so it wouldn't enjoy the massive development base that linux has.
The book I learned to read with, and many people I know, was The Berenstain Bears and the Spooky Old Tree. Its a really great book about the thrills of exploration, and it's really REALLY fun to read to the lillins (i worked with kids for a few years).
Also kids love the whole Ender's Game series, but you might want to wait until she has a better grasp of english (wait a year or two) before you start into those ones:-)
The building that I live in at Portland State University is a "green rated" building. Besides all the recirculated heat etc, it also uses collected rain water to do things like flush the pottys.
One of the advantages I guess to living in a state with dirt cheap electricity and *way* too much water:-/
gaim-encryption (http://gaim-encryption.sourceforge.net/) is about a jillion times better than gaim-e. It lets me use 4096 bit RSA to talk to all my friends overseas about taking out the capitalist machine.
I for one would be happy to see my tax dollars go towards something I really care about as opposed to killing more brown people or helping ceos out with their yacht payments:-p
"And, given the inevitable but accurate comparisons between lockpicking and system/network hacking, how long before basic possession of network-hacking tools (unsanctioned non-"trusted"/non-DRM computers, etc.) and skills is also inherently illegal, intent be damned?"
I've been wondering how long it's going to be before programs like that become protected under the second ammendment. The general concept is the same, the reason it was put there was so the govt wouldnt be able to monopolize on power, as was the case in many other countries at the time.
"Considering that the dot.bomb came out of the Clinton administration, I really can't blame Bush too much."
The reason bush is to blame is simply all the tax breaks to companies that outsource. (one of many sources) Reversing the policy was one of kerry's main points at his DNC speach.
Ofcourse I was way over paid in my cube dewlling days compared to my friends who were only able to get jobs at target and safeway etc, but I think the actions of the bush campaign have been very hurtful to the industry.
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With the gaim-encryption plugin, you can use 4096 bit rsa with any of those protocols, not to mention protocols like IRC etc. I highly doubt any browser-based encryption scheme can compare with that.
When we had lan parties at our school, we did it in the cafeteria, and a few people would just bring in some large hubs they had lying around.
You can charge at the door if you are trying to raise money, and you could even rent out games, sell drinks, run tournaments or whatever (a dollar to enter and the winner gets a free 6 pack of bawls).
The problem this is the lack of game options. Unless you have a super lax district, any FPS isnt going to work. Games like warcraft 3 and starcraft are great games to play at lan parties, and who can ever resist the thrill of playing microsoft hearts over the network.
I havn't owned a tv in over 2 years. Ive found that I can download anything that I would want to watch, and in general it is a higher quality, and in many cases I can get the shows before they air on the west coast anyway.
:-/
TV really has little to offer those with fast internet, but with the recent troubles (#tvtorrents etc) who knows where things will end up
I personally think it is absurd for tv networks to fight the downloading of their shows. If they offered torrents for download (even with commercials) in a timely manner, it would cost them no bandwidth, and their commercials and shows would reach a larger audience.
with further caffine, I realize that the number will only be 8 or so digits long, and I suppose that would only take 3 or so seconds to say. That makes things a bit simpler, there are quite a few tricks you can do with that, for example the last digit of your 100 digit number will be the same as the last digit of your answer etc.
Im confused as to how you can prove that you did the calculation in 11.8 seconds, wouldn't it take longer than that to write it down? You are looking at a 50 digit number, so at that rate you would need to be writing down 5 numbers per second even if it only took you 1.8 seconds to realize the answer.
On the other hand it would not be superhumanly hard to come up with the first number in 11.8 seconds, and then write down the rest as you calculate it. The same thing applies to saying it outloud.
Did it bug anyone else that the red headed kids name was syndrome?
He didn't change accents... that was the fine British engineered voice box he used as part of the Vader helmet.
Didnt Hawking had similar issues with his speech synthesizer?
I believe that in the US, it is spelled "nukelyur".
OpenOffice is great, I use it all the time for my reports or whatever, but it REALLY does need to go more modular. Compilation takes about 16 hours on my laptop, and requires a very old version of gcc. (even the ximianized version)
:-)
I am a gentoo ppc user though (no binary packages for me) so it might just all be my fault
Michael Moore did a great episode of American Nation about this. He endorsed a convicted felon (drug dealer I think) to run in the 1996 elections.
They used alot of Moore's money to run speeches and advertising campaigns, so from what I remember he actualy got on the ballots of a state or two.
Screw the antimatter, just strap the cat and toast to a dynamo. With enough of those units you could power a city, or maybe the toast and cat would cancel eachother out, as in the case of magnets..
I visit my parents for a couple hours a week, and I'm pretty antsy by the end because they have dialup and I have a 5M or so line where I live. Ive been spending about 16 hours a day online though (2 hours eating 6 hours sleep).
You should see when they cut off my connection for a couple days for MPAA violations, I pretty much live in the linux lab (open 24 hours for cs students), or just wander the streets with my laptop hopping from network to network.
also, you can't run seti@home on a vt100 :-)
"His "Signing Spree" is helping the film industry make more money to make better films."
I dont think the film industry needs more money to make better films. For the past 20 years movies coming out of hollywood have been on a steady slope downwards, about 98% of the good movies that have come out in the past few years have not come from LA. If sharing movies over the internet ends up causing the demise of the over bloated film industry, i say good riddance.
God forbid movies go back to being artistic instead of the two hour long commercials that they are now.
It really is the sensationalism that's the key issue. These people dont get arrested for doing damages or anything like that, its all about the image. There was somewhat of a media frenzy when this first happened, which made cisco look bad. The only way to counter-balance that is to takedown the kid responsible. Arresting some kid in england isn't going to stop future breakins. They prolly get busted into all the time, but when the person you are talking about got 11.3, there wasnt a major story about it, so cisco did not need to waste money to correct the situation.
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Exploitable à distance : Oui
"Heaven forbid that Cisco actually allow this and join the open source movement...we certainly wouldn't want their stuff to get any better. (*insert sarcasm here*)"
It might interest you to know that cisco is one of the top contributers (of both hardware, and money) to the Open Source Development Labs.
Also even if cisco did release the code for its routers, it's architecture is so specialized that you need quite expensive machinery to even get it compiled, so it wouldn't enjoy the massive development base that linux has.
The book I learned to read with, and many people I know, was The Berenstain Bears and the Spooky Old Tree. Its a really great book about the thrills of exploration, and it's really REALLY fun to read to the lillins (i worked with kids for a few years).
:-)
Also kids love the whole Ender's Game series, but you might want to wait until she has a better grasp of english (wait a year or two) before you start into those ones
The building that I live in at Portland State University is a "green rated" building. Besides all the recirculated heat etc, it also uses collected rain water to do things like flush the pottys.
:-/
One of the advantages I guess to living in a state with dirt cheap electricity and *way* too much water
gaim-encryption (http://gaim-encryption.sourceforge.net/) is about a jillion times better than gaim-e. It lets me use 4096 bit RSA to talk to all my friends overseas about taking out the capitalist machine.
I for one would be happy to see my tax dollars go towards something I really care about as opposed to killing more brown people or helping ceos out with their yacht payments :-p
"And, given the inevitable but accurate comparisons between lockpicking and system/network hacking, how long before basic possession of network-hacking tools (unsanctioned non-"trusted"/non-DRM computers, etc.) and skills is also inherently illegal, intent be damned?"
I've been wondering how long it's going to be before programs like that become protected under the second ammendment. The general concept is the same, the reason it was put there was so the govt wouldnt be able to monopolize on power, as was the case in many other countries at the time.
"Considering that the dot.bomb came out of the Clinton administration, I really can't blame Bush too much."
The reason bush is to blame is simply all the tax breaks to companies that outsource. (one of many sources) Reversing the policy was one of kerry's main points at his DNC speach.
Ofcourse I was way over paid in my cube dewlling days compared to my friends who were only able to get jobs at target and safeway etc, but I think the actions of the bush campaign have been very hurtful to the industry.
http://www.zone-h.org/defacements/mirror/id=196381 /
I wonder if spent more time making the banner or kiddie-sploiting the server?
Congrats, opportunity knocked on my door once, but I was in the shower :-/