How can you truly decentralize P2P? Don't we still need to hit up a server that has a list of all the people? How can you track the trackers if you don't have a list of who is sharing? The only way I can think is just crude port scanning across subnets...can anyone clarify this for me?
Hey guys, I just submitted this to Ask Slashdot but who knows if it'll be posted.
On a related issue, I'm in college for Computer Engineering, and it deals with software like CS, but it also deals with creating hardware from circuit boards to microprocessors.
To get a job that involves making stuff like that, do you need a degree? Or am I just wasting my time?
Exactly, your average spammer I'm sure does not have the coding skills you need for what damage spam wrecks (though I'm sure a few do).
That was the first thing I thought, that they hired someone to compromise Lycos. However, do you think this could bring further legal trouble possibly to the blacklisted spam sites? Might be a reasonable cause to do some investigation....
This is utterly obscene and ludicrous...even though the archive.org hosts cached internet sites I cannot see how it infringes copyright in a way that is harmful or detrimental to the creator/original owner...its simply an educational site dedicated to the raw true history of the Web. This is ridiculous and IMO it is indirect censorship.
One NVIDIA 6800 GT bottlenecks by most CPU's out today. The GPU has 222 million transistors, more than most CPU's available. In fact I'm not even aware of any CPU that exceeds that (I'm talking about home use processors).
If you get two 6800 GT's working together, well if one GT is bottlenecked from most CPU's (the GPU has to actually wait a little bit more for the CPU to catch up), how can that CPU possibly catch up to two?
I say that we should wait to buy SLI technology until better CPU's come out, or if you have a dual CPU setup, or even until dual core CPU's come out.
Well, that sounds expensive to me, better start saving...
I do not see how you can prevent someone forging an SMTP address. Its pretty easy, and any idiot can do it. Its as easy as just putting in someone elses email address in the Reply To Address field.
Of course then it'll list your true identity or IP in the header, but its not like most people who are just browsing around look at an email and question its validity. They'll see the email address and be like, ooh, I hate that guy now.
The only way we can stop that extremely easy method of identity theft is to change every single mail service to automatically use the same address for the Reply To that's being used as the incoming email address. Ain't going to happen anytime soon...but hey I hope someone defames my name around the internet so I can get a couple grand in damages:). Of course its deserved if it damages your professional reputation, but I got nothing professional about me, so defame away!
Wow, some people need computer counseling
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This last category includes the case of a man who became so mad with his malfunctioning laptop that he threw it in the lavatory and flushed a couple of times.
That has to be my favorite one in the article...I can't believe someone actually tried to flush their laptop down the toilet. That's all I can say. I can't believe, someone actually tried to flush their laptop down the toilet.
On FTP or HTTP downloads I usually hit anywhere from 400-600 kB's. I'm not exactly sure what connection we're on so I shouldn't have guessed like that. I'm assuming that our firewall slows down BitTorrent considerably...however I've always thought of firewalls to block access entirely to something...not slow it down. I emailed the networking company that does the stuff for our University (Minneapolis) and told them if they have any ports blocked in relation to BitTorrent they should un block them.
How are you guys getting 1000kb/s off of BitTorrent? I usually peak at like 9 kb's (I'm on a T1 or T3)...maybe the University I'm at has a firewall in place...but there's not much I can do about that.
Has anyone tried Skype on Linux? Knowing our good friend here has a fetish for spyware (a la Kazaa) does it install adaware/spyware on Linux? Is nothing sacred anymore?
You are probably correct, I can see no harm in IBM accepting people who have little or no college experience but are damn good at Linux hacking and proposing some good new ideas. IBM is just limiting itself there.
Microsoft does not do a "good job" of tying its products together. If they did, they would use open, published standards and interfaces to allow customers to use other components as desired.
This guy is funny, perhaps because he's being honest.
Already downloaded this, and it does not include X-Plane 8 scenery, everything else is X-Plane 8 though I guess. It worked very nicely on my Slackware distro.
How can you assume that they were dressed up as counterstrike terrorists/counter-terrorists? Dressing up as Goblez from Final Fantasy IV is one thing, but a terrorist/counter-terrorist is a common real-life/movies/video games thing, and it can't be narrowed down to just Counterstrike.
True, however those scare tactics pale in comparison to what Bush was proposing, that in the hands of Kerry we could very well get blown to pieces by terrorists, etc. Those kind of scare tactics hit home a lot better with your average joe.
What you listed are scare tactics indeed, but it doesn't inflict the magnitude of fear in your average person as much as saying that we will all die if you make the wrong choice.
This isn't the right situation to even think about implementing open source software. The system is already running on MS software, and it would be financial suicide to switch the whole thing over to an entire new system, due to labor costs, retraining, etc.
As much as I dislike microsoft, if I was making the decision here and I already had a big system based off MS's products, I'd choose to stay with MS.
I actually completely agree with you, and that is what I have been predicting also. Of course anything is up for grabs, but its pretty hard to ignore these facts:
That Bush has the support of the majority of the country is an undeniable fact, therefore he knows he has their trust and confidence.
Republicans now control both the House and Senate. With a Republican President coupled with these, they will have absolute authority, we are a one party system for now.
Because Bush has the undeniable trust of the majority of people, and the ability to really pass whatever legislation he wants, he will in my opinion do things that will overshadow anything negative he has done in the past.
However to be fair if he actually creates something good, well then we all know who was right.
But I think this is the start of the downfall of the unipolarity system in this world. I believe unipolarity can be maintained if that country is being responsible, however when you start expanding and creating an empire in the middle east (2 countries now officially), the collective security of the weaker states can overturn the US.
We have the global North and the global South. The global North are countries like US, countries in Europe, and basically most countries above the hemisphere (Australia is a notable exception, they are included in the Global north), the global south consists of the very poor countries south of the hemisphere. We have countries from both the Global North AND Global South hating us. This is not good, and I think Bush will only further aggravate this problem.
Bush won, ok, fair and square, but this election has caused me to think quite alot.
Alot of organizations were running around registering people to vote. I was one of them, and even though we did it under the name of a non-partisan cause, we all knew that it was for the benefit of the Democrats. Most of us went around to the lowest voter turnout areas, which happened to usually be the more poorer sections of cities. We would register people to vote, and not ask them who they're going to vote for. But in the back of our heads, our thinking was that these people would be voting for the left wing choice...because most of them either were pissed off about the current situation and needed some convincing that their vote makes a difference, or another big reason was that they were a felon at one point in their lives and they had no idea that they can vote if they are off paper. Higher taxes are a pain for middle or upper class, but social services are a great benefit for the lower class, therefore if we made it easy for these people to vote, we thought they would be voting for Kerry.
This election had unprecedent voter turnout, so we succeeded in getting people out to vote! However, Bush beat Kerry better than he beat Gore. He even won the popular vote this time. So it seems that these people we were registering...well most of them chose Bush. The democratic party really needs to rethink their strategy, because that was a huge part of it.
My little theory, and this seems a little crude, is that if one opponent is using fear to win, well I don't think you can fight that with something else. I think you need to use that also, because the top voting issue was probably security. And if an opponent is using hatemongering tactics, you must do that same. You can't be nice and win in politics.
His music really brings back memories of being a little kid, they really hit you at the right spot. For as simple as his music really sounds (due to the capabilities of SNES and such), my nerdiness here must admit that our friend is the Mozart of video game music! Even to make those sounds, would be quite difficult, and the sequence them just right would take alot of work. As much as I hate to see him leave Square, I really can't say I have heard much from him since the early Final Fantasy, but I hope he goes on and makes some great music for some other great games.
So you can download this for free of course, but its a DVD image? meaning those of us without dvd burners (i'm assuming alot of us don't own those) are forced into buying this if we want to try it out?
I am no friend of identity theft, and I'm glad to see this happen.
I find the website hilarious, especially the bottom line:
"RECENT NEWS REPORTS SHOULD INFORM YOU THAT THE SECRET SERVICE IS INVESTIGATING YOUR CRIMINAL ACTIVITY. CONTACT YOUR LOCAL UNITED STATES SECRET SERVICE FIELD OFFICE....BEFORE WE CONTACT YOU!!"
That is a hilarious signature they have left, but this seems so funny that I'm actually surpised that the Secret Service is having this much of a ball on the website, not something I expect, but like to see!
"The reason that TiVo has to auto-delete a PPV movie is because it will be available for sale on DVD later on. "
Saw this whole thing coming...of course some gigantic shows that make alot of money off advertising (NFL), and big movie productions were eventually going to start complaining to TiVo...I knew it wouldn't last!!!
Excuse my Ballmerism noobness here, but how can using Linux possibly be anywhere close to 5-20% more expensive than using Windows? I'm saying that based off a little investigation of mine...and that investigation was that I payed a couple hundred dollars or whatever for Windows, and I downloaded Linux for 0 dollars. 0 couple hundred dollars. Maybe Balmer is using some arcane, alien form of math?
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How can you truly decentralize P2P? Don't we still need to hit up a server that has a list of all the people? How can you track the trackers if you don't have a list of who is sharing? The only way I can think is just crude port scanning across subnets...can anyone clarify this for me?
Hey guys, I just submitted this to Ask Slashdot but who knows if it'll be posted. On a related issue, I'm in college for Computer Engineering, and it deals with software like CS, but it also deals with creating hardware from circuit boards to microprocessors. To get a job that involves making stuff like that, do you need a degree? Or am I just wasting my time?
Exactly, your average spammer I'm sure does not have the coding skills you need for what damage spam wrecks (though I'm sure a few do). That was the first thing I thought, that they hired someone to compromise Lycos. However, do you think this could bring further legal trouble possibly to the blacklisted spam sites? Might be a reasonable cause to do some investigation....
This is utterly obscene and ludicrous...even though the archive.org hosts cached internet sites I cannot see how it infringes copyright in a way that is harmful or detrimental to the creator/original owner...its simply an educational site dedicated to the raw true history of the Web. This is ridiculous and IMO it is indirect censorship.
If you get two 6800 GT's working together, well if one GT is bottlenecked from most CPU's (the GPU has to actually wait a little bit more for the CPU to catch up), how can that CPU possibly catch up to two?
I say that we should wait to buy SLI technology until better CPU's come out, or if you have a dual CPU setup, or even until dual core CPU's come out.
Well, that sounds expensive to me, better start saving...
Of course then it'll list your true identity or IP in the header, but its not like most people who are just browsing around look at an email and question its validity. They'll see the email address and be like, ooh, I hate that guy now. :). Of course its deserved if it damages your professional reputation, but I got nothing professional about me, so defame away!
The only way we can stop that extremely easy method of identity theft is to change every single mail service to automatically use the same address for the Reply To that's being used as the incoming email address. Ain't going to happen anytime soon...but hey I hope someone defames my name around the internet so I can get a couple grand in damages
That has to be my favorite one in the article...I can't believe someone actually tried to flush their laptop down the toilet. That's all I can say. I can't believe, someone actually tried to flush their laptop down the toilet.
On FTP or HTTP downloads I usually hit anywhere from 400-600 kB's. I'm not exactly sure what connection we're on so I shouldn't have guessed like that. I'm assuming that our firewall slows down BitTorrent considerably...however I've always thought of firewalls to block access entirely to something...not slow it down. I emailed the networking company that does the stuff for our University (Minneapolis) and told them if they have any ports blocked in relation to BitTorrent they should un block them.
How are you guys getting 1000kb/s off of BitTorrent? I usually peak at like 9 kb's (I'm on a T1 or T3)...maybe the University I'm at has a firewall in place...but there's not much I can do about that.
Has anyone tried Skype on Linux? Knowing our good friend here has a fetish for spyware (a la Kazaa) does it install adaware/spyware on Linux? Is nothing sacred anymore?
Lol I'm sorry, but how is Picard obviously a vi user? I was thinking more along the lines of vim.
You are probably correct, I can see no harm in IBM accepting people who have little or no college experience but are damn good at Linux hacking and proposing some good new ideas. IBM is just limiting itself there.
This guy is funny, perhaps because he's being honest.
Already downloaded this, and it does not include X-Plane 8 scenery, everything else is X-Plane 8 though I guess. It worked very nicely on my Slackware distro.
How can you assume that they were dressed up as counterstrike terrorists/counter-terrorists? Dressing up as Goblez from Final Fantasy IV is one thing, but a terrorist/counter-terrorist is a common real-life/movies/video games thing, and it can't be narrowed down to just Counterstrike.
What you listed are scare tactics indeed, but it doesn't inflict the magnitude of fear in your average person as much as saying that we will all die if you make the wrong choice.
This isn't the right situation to even think about implementing open source software. The system is already running on MS software, and it would be financial suicide to switch the whole thing over to an entire new system, due to labor costs, retraining, etc. As much as I dislike microsoft, if I was making the decision here and I already had a big system based off MS's products, I'd choose to stay with MS.
That Bush has the support of the majority of the country is an undeniable fact, therefore he knows he has their trust and confidence.
Republicans now control both the House and Senate. With a Republican President coupled with these, they will have absolute authority, we are a one party system for now.
Because Bush has the undeniable trust of the majority of people, and the ability to really pass whatever legislation he wants, he will in my opinion do things that will overshadow anything negative he has done in the past.
However to be fair if he actually creates something good, well then we all know who was right.
But I think this is the start of the downfall of the unipolarity system in this world. I believe unipolarity can be maintained if that country is being responsible, however when you start expanding and creating an empire in the middle east (2 countries now officially), the collective security of the weaker states can overturn the US.
We have the global North and the global South. The global North are countries like US, countries in Europe, and basically most countries above the hemisphere (Australia is a notable exception, they are included in the Global north), the global south consists of the very poor countries south of the hemisphere. We have countries from both the Global North AND Global South hating us. This is not good, and I think Bush will only further aggravate this problem.
Alot of organizations were running around registering people to vote. I was one of them, and even though we did it under the name of a non-partisan cause, we all knew that it was for the benefit of the Democrats. Most of us went around to the lowest voter turnout areas, which happened to usually be the more poorer sections of cities. We would register people to vote, and not ask them who they're going to vote for. But in the back of our heads, our thinking was that these people would be voting for the left wing choice...because most of them either were pissed off about the current situation and needed some convincing that their vote makes a difference, or another big reason was that they were a felon at one point in their lives and they had no idea that they can vote if they are off paper. Higher taxes are a pain for middle or upper class, but social services are a great benefit for the lower class, therefore if we made it easy for these people to vote, we thought they would be voting for Kerry.
This election had unprecedent voter turnout, so we succeeded in getting people out to vote! However, Bush beat Kerry better than he beat Gore. He even won the popular vote this time. So it seems that these people we were registering...well most of them chose Bush. The democratic party really needs to rethink their strategy, because that was a huge part of it.
My little theory, and this seems a little crude, is that if one opponent is using fear to win, well I don't think you can fight that with something else. I think you need to use that also, because the top voting issue was probably security. And if an opponent is using hatemongering tactics, you must do that same. You can't be nice and win in politics.
His music really brings back memories of being a little kid, they really hit you at the right spot. For as simple as his music really sounds (due to the capabilities of SNES and such), my nerdiness here must admit that our friend is the Mozart of video game music! Even to make those sounds, would be quite difficult, and the sequence them just right would take alot of work. As much as I hate to see him leave Square, I really can't say I have heard much from him since the early Final Fantasy, but I hope he goes on and makes some great music for some other great games.
I'm from the Twin Cities area, and I have not heard anything about this, I wonder if I would be in range of it :D
So you can download this for free of course, but its a DVD image? meaning those of us without dvd burners (i'm assuming alot of us don't own those) are forced into buying this if we want to try it out?
I find the website hilarious, especially the bottom line:
"RECENT NEWS REPORTS SHOULD INFORM YOU THAT THE SECRET SERVICE IS INVESTIGATING YOUR CRIMINAL ACTIVITY. CONTACT YOUR LOCAL UNITED STATES SECRET SERVICE FIELD OFFICE....BEFORE WE CONTACT YOU!!"
That is a hilarious signature they have left, but this seems so funny that I'm actually surpised that the Secret Service is having this much of a ball on the website, not something I expect, but like to see!
"The reason that TiVo has to auto-delete a PPV movie is because it will be available for sale on DVD later on. " Saw this whole thing coming...of course some gigantic shows that make alot of money off advertising (NFL), and big movie productions were eventually going to start complaining to TiVo...I knew it wouldn't last!!!
Excuse my Ballmerism noobness here, but how can using Linux possibly be anywhere close to 5-20% more expensive than using Windows? I'm saying that based off a little investigation of mine...and that investigation was that I payed a couple hundred dollars or whatever for Windows, and I downloaded Linux for 0 dollars. 0 couple hundred dollars. Maybe Balmer is using some arcane, alien form of math?