Start up companies buy plenty of PCs.
I bet if you asked, "Are you planning on buying a new computer in the next 6 months?" on a Slashdot poll the majority would say yes.
What about schools that need new PCs?
I think that companies that exclusively make PCs (ie. Dell, Compaq, Gateway) may be a little trouble. Lots of buyers buy custom built computers that are made part by part, instead of a nice new Compaq Presario desktop.
Interesting idea though, I think it'll be a little more valid in about 10, 15 years.
BTW, sorry for using "nice" and "Compaq" in the same sentence.
I believe I read a while ago that Napster wasn't open sourced because of security issues with the server code.
I honestly can't decide what's better, open source and exploitable for a while (til its fixed). Or closed source and not exploitable.
Either way... at least it works =)
I wasn't lucky enough to be able to see Shawn speak where I live, Salt Lake City, Utah. But a few friends of mine were. They said he presented himself very professionally, and made a good speech. Everyone listened to him and seemed to respect his ideas.
If you read about what Napster is, it sort of brings the whole thing into perspective. This isn't a giant plot to put the music industry out of business, nor is it going to make Ulrich's kids go hungry.
It's a well designed program for sharing information, specifically music of all kinds.
Good job Shawn
Imagine trying to explain how to "hack" Metrocards by scratching out parts of it, using ascii pictures in some l33t 0d4y t3xt f1l3. heh.
What a nightmare.
Well, here in good old Salt Lake City, Utah, this sort of thing is already happening to a certain extent. Not with arcade games, there's no regulation on that at all.
But a while ago I did a test. I sent my 10 year old sister into a computer game store to buy a copy of Q3. They would not sell it to her. They said it was too violent for someone that young. I had to go in there and buy it.
I'm not sure if it's a law here, but with the conservative attitude this state has it just sort of happens by itself.
I personally don't think it's that big of a deal of parents want their kids kept away from violent, bloody, whatever games. There's plenty of "rated E, for everyone" games out there. Take rollercoaster tycoon, the sims, the ever-classic simpsons arcade game. Non violent, fun, even addicting.
I personally don't want any future children I may have to be playing quake 3 at 10 and 11. And if they insist it's sure as hell gonna be on a linux box =)
I hope I'm not the only person in the USA who is bothered by the status of the government. Not neccisarly their "injustices to Americans" or the widespread corruption that you see on the news, but the fact that we're listening to a bunch of 50, 60 year old people who probably don't know what modem stands for. It's sad that it's going to take another 30 or 40 years before college people today get into the government. Sometimes I wonder if it will even happen in my lifetime.
Will the Net remain a unique and free space, or will it be forced to conform to non-virtual traditions and constraints?
Let's look at this logically. Eventually, someone who is elected to an important position is going to be very pro-freedom-of-information. If we elect someone today who is either against it, or the topic isn't on their priority list, then they are going to let monopoly companies decide what happens to freedom of speech online.
What happens when we elect the person who is very pro-freedom of speech? It's going to be a lot of backtracking, might as well get someone who understands the issue now.
But most important, we can't do shit unless we vote. It's free, it's quick, and it's the easiest way to change the world. Register.
With all of that technology they'd be taking pictures bigger than 100x200 heh.
Oh well, spiffy pics. You know American's are all about colorful plastic things that look high tech, they definetly have their market figured out.
Although the majority of this programs abilities can be performed by simply not breaking things as root, I find that the ability to test a new kernel is quite a nice feature. I haven't used it yet, just read the overview of it, so I could be a little wrong.
It also seems like a project that was long in the making. I can't tell if it is old news.. but regardless it looks established.
At the begining of it Taco said that the goal of the forum was to update the FAQ!
From reading the logs (well skimming through before I goto work) it doesn't seem that goal was met too well.
Most of the questions are either about:
Opinions on things (napster, etc)
Questions about how/. works (logging, etc)
Complaints
Maybe in the future you guys should ask for questions a day early, let them get moderated around a little, and choose ones that would fulfill your goal.
Still though, thanks a lot for doing this, I appreciated it =)
Good point, not everyone has a dual pIII-1000 with 512 megs of pc133 ram.
Where I work its not that rare to see someone connecting at 9600 baud, 14.4, and so on.
Opera is a very nice browser for people who want simplicity and, I think, stability. I personally use Netscape on my main machine(s) but a few low end ones do fine with Opera.
I think its more geared to permenantly getting rid of text that was never that public in the first place. Compared to something millions could read if they wanted to. For example if you have to write down your pin numbers in vi, then after you have it in a safer place permenantly delete it.
I think that no matter what way you look at it it has way too much overhead. We're talking a mass re-code and re-evaluation of very old and established specifications.
Great idea, if it was possible I'd be all for it, but like so many other great ideas it lacks the motivation, and probably the money.
I noticed the other say that Gnome Terminal has an option for "Secure Keyboard." How does this fancy little option play into a more "secure" delete key?
I honestly don't know that much about that the secure-keyboard option even does, I'd assume throw a small crypto on things somewhere in between the I/O of the ps2 port and the terminal.
But you have to think that other countries that are just getting into the space race may not have it nearly as high on the priorities list as the US. If a country is just getting into manned space flight in this age, we are looking at 10-15 years before real tests are done regardless if it's done by the US or, for example, China.
Sounds to me like they are going to be releasing a MMORPG. Sure it may be a generalized statement, but that's what I gather from the article.
They're going to need an entire real-time customer service team (think GM's in everquest) and "live" team that fixes bugs. All sorts of stuff.
I wonder if they are totally prepared for this or are they expecting:
Ok! Servers up! Go at it!
Hah. Within 48 hours they'd be up to their knees in customers wondering "Why can I walk through my neighbors wall" and such.
Well, just a tought.
Don't get me wrong, I _love_ SuSE. I run it only my webserver and my gateway. It's an amazing distribution and I would say a close call with Debian.
But I have a problem with SuSE wanting to port things to a chip that isn't even out yet, when they don't have a SPARC port out =(
I've read for a while now that they are working on it. It's just sort of disappointing I'll have to wait even longer before I can get SuSE on my couple Sparcs that are lying around.
Anyone else agree maybe SuSE should port things to a platform that has been out for years and years before they port to something that isn't even out yet?
Defcon 8 was certainly a good conference this year. It was estimated at about 5500 people. Most of which stayed at the lovely Alexis Park Hotel. I'll try to be somewhat breif on my experiance there. Pros: Informative Lectures, speakers who knew what they were talking about Plenty of neat stuff to buy. Plenty of people that are well known in the "hacking" scene. Fed spotting! Free beer provided by the people at dis.org
From Thursday evening to Sunday morning (when I left) there were constantly people around all 3 pools drinking, talking. People at the LAN (wireless too this year!) to mingle with. It never got boring.
Cons: Speaker room isn't big enough! You had to get a seat and keep it for hours at a time if you even wanted to be able to sit down. Immature people doing random acts of lameness. For example: Cement down the toilet, Super smoke bombs in the pool, DoS over the LAN, and other lame things. Luckily our favorite Hawaiian shirted enforcer Priest was there to take care of some of the kids.
Overall, I had a wonderful time. The Defcon site is usually very quick with bringing tons of information from the con within a couple weeks of it ending, so be sure to check back there.
On a side note, anyone willing to contribute to the "Air condition all of Las Vegas" fund? That place is so damn hot. 114 degrees (F) one day.
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Start up companies buy plenty of PCs.
I bet if you asked, "Are you planning on buying a new computer in the next 6 months?" on a Slashdot poll the majority would say yes.
What about schools that need new PCs?
I think that companies that exclusively make PCs (ie. Dell, Compaq, Gateway) may be a little trouble. Lots of buyers buy custom built computers that are made part by part, instead of a nice new Compaq Presario desktop.
Interesting idea though, I think it'll be a little more valid in about 10, 15 years.
BTW, sorry for using "nice" and "Compaq" in the same sentence.
Unix nerds had an acronym for everything. These NASA guys own us =(
I believe I read a while ago that Napster wasn't open sourced because of security issues with the server code.
I honestly can't decide what's better, open source and exploitable for a while (til its fixed). Or closed source and not exploitable.
Either way... at least it works =)
I wasn't lucky enough to be able to see Shawn speak where I live, Salt Lake City, Utah. But a few friends of mine were. They said he presented himself very professionally, and made a good speech. Everyone listened to him and seemed to respect his ideas.
If you read about what Napster is, it sort of brings the whole thing into perspective. This isn't a giant plot to put the music industry out of business, nor is it going to make Ulrich's kids go hungry.
It's a well designed program for sharing information, specifically music of all kinds.
Good job Shawn
Imagine trying to explain how to "hack" Metrocards by scratching out parts of it, using ascii pictures in some l33t 0d4y t3xt f1l3. heh.
What a nightmare.
hahaha, nice sig =)
Well, here in good old Salt Lake City, Utah, this sort of thing is already happening to a certain extent. Not with arcade games, there's no regulation on that at all.
But a while ago I did a test. I sent my 10 year old sister into a computer game store to buy a copy of Q3. They would not sell it to her. They said it was too violent for someone that young. I had to go in there and buy it.
I'm not sure if it's a law here, but with the conservative attitude this state has it just sort of happens by itself.
I personally don't think it's that big of a deal of parents want their kids kept away from violent, bloody, whatever games. There's plenty of "rated E, for everyone" games out there. Take rollercoaster tycoon, the sims, the ever-classic simpsons arcade game. Non violent, fun, even addicting.
I personally don't want any future children I may have to be playing quake 3 at 10 and 11. And if they insist it's sure as hell gonna be on a linux box =)
I hope I'm not the only person in the USA who is bothered by the status of the government. Not neccisarly their "injustices to Americans" or the widespread corruption that you see on the news, but the fact that we're listening to a bunch of 50, 60 year old people who probably don't know what modem stands for. It's sad that it's going to take another 30 or 40 years before college people today get into the government. Sometimes I wonder if it will even happen in my lifetime.
Will the Net remain a unique and free space, or will it be forced to conform to non-virtual traditions and constraints?
Let's look at this logically. Eventually, someone who is elected to an important position is going to be very pro-freedom-of-information. If we elect someone today who is either against it, or the topic isn't on their priority list, then they are going to let monopoly companies decide what happens to freedom of speech online. What happens when we elect the person who is very pro-freedom of speech? It's going to be a lot of backtracking, might as well get someone who understands the issue now.
But most important, we can't do shit unless we vote. It's free, it's quick, and it's the easiest way to change the world. Register.
With all of that technology they'd be taking pictures bigger than 100x200 heh.
Oh well, spiffy pics. You know American's are all about colorful plastic things that look high tech, they definetly have their market figured out.
Although the majority of this programs abilities can be performed by simply not breaking things as root, I find that the ability to test a new kernel is quite a nice feature. I haven't used it yet, just read the overview of it, so I could be a little wrong.
It also seems like a project that was long in the making. I can't tell if it is old news.. but regardless it looks established.
I don't see too many big problems with that =)
Marcia Kramer: Mrs. Clinton, what do you think congress can do to prevent such computer problems as the "Mellisa" virus?
Mrs. Clinton: Who is Mellisa?
I'll vote for someone who knows ISA from PCI.
At the begining of it Taco said that the goal of the forum was to update the FAQ! /. works (logging, etc)
From reading the logs (well skimming through before I goto work) it doesn't seem that goal was met too well.
Most of the questions are either about:
Opinions on things (napster, etc)
Questions about how
Complaints
Maybe in the future you guys should ask for questions a day early, let them get moderated around a little, and choose ones that would fulfill your goal.
Still though, thanks a lot for doing this, I appreciated it =)
Good point, not everyone has a dual pIII-1000 with 512 megs of pc133 ram.
Where I work its not that rare to see someone connecting at 9600 baud, 14.4, and so on.
Opera is a very nice browser for people who want simplicity and, I think, stability. I personally use Netscape on my main machine(s) but a few low end ones do fine with Opera.
I think its more geared to permenantly getting rid of text that was never that public in the first place. Compared to something millions could read if they wanted to. For example if you have to write down your pin numbers in vi, then after you have it in a safer place permenantly delete it.
I think that no matter what way you look at it it has way too much overhead. We're talking a mass re-code and re-evaluation of very old and established specifications.
Great idea, if it was possible I'd be all for it, but like so many other great ideas it lacks the motivation, and probably the money.
That'd be awesome, especially with Sun keyboards.
Day going bad? Stop.
Day going good? Again.
Alan Cox wanders into the office? Props Props.
I noticed the other say that Gnome Terminal has an option for "Secure Keyboard." How does this fancy little option play into a more "secure" delete key?
I honestly don't know that much about that the secure-keyboard option even does, I'd assume throw a small crypto on things somewhere in between the I/O of the ps2 port and the terminal.
There's always widespread EMP.
So this is my market for that pile of hard vacuum photocells that I've had sitting in the garage since 1952.
But you have to think that other countries that are just getting into the space race may not have it nearly as high on the priorities list as the US. If a country is just getting into manned space flight in this age, we are looking at 10-15 years before real tests are done regardless if it's done by the US or, for example, China.
Sounds to me like they are going to be releasing a MMORPG. Sure it may be a generalized statement, but that's what I gather from the article.
They're going to need an entire real-time customer service team (think GM's in everquest) and "live" team that fixes bugs. All sorts of stuff.
I wonder if they are totally prepared for this or are they expecting:
Ok! Servers up! Go at it!
Hah. Within 48 hours they'd be up to their knees in customers wondering "Why can I walk through my neighbors wall" and such.
Well, just a tought.
Don't get me wrong, I _love_ SuSE. I run it only my webserver and my gateway. It's an amazing distribution and I would say a close call with Debian.
But I have a problem with SuSE wanting to port things to a chip that isn't even out yet, when they don't have a SPARC port out =(
I've read for a while now that they are working on it. It's just sort of disappointing I'll have to wait even longer before I can get SuSE on my couple Sparcs that are lying around.
Anyone else agree maybe SuSE should port things to a platform that has been out for years and years before they port to something that isn't even out yet?
Compaq builds big computers
Big computers build even bigger bombs
Bombs blow up computers
Yes I know I'm lame. -1 Redundant me or something.
Defcon 8 was certainly a good conference this year. It was estimated at about 5500 people. Most of which stayed at the lovely Alexis Park Hotel.
I'll try to be somewhat breif on my experiance there.
Pros:
Informative Lectures, speakers who knew what they were talking about
Plenty of neat stuff to buy.
Plenty of people that are well known in the "hacking" scene.
Fed spotting!
Free beer provided by the people at dis.org
From Thursday evening to Sunday morning (when I left) there were constantly people around all 3 pools drinking, talking. People at the LAN (wireless too this year!) to mingle with. It never got boring.
Cons:
Speaker room isn't big enough! You had to get a seat and keep it for hours at a time if you even wanted to be able to sit down.
Immature people doing random acts of lameness. For example: Cement down the toilet, Super smoke bombs in the pool, DoS over the LAN, and other lame things.
Luckily our favorite Hawaiian shirted enforcer Priest was there to take care of some of the kids.
Overall, I had a wonderful time. The Defcon site is usually very quick with bringing tons of information from the con within a couple weeks of it ending, so be sure to check back there.
On a side note, anyone willing to contribute to the "Air condition all of Las Vegas" fund? That place is so damn hot. 114 degrees (F) one day.
Good conf DT and the Goon crew, keep em coming!