For a start. But it would take every ISP in the country, doing this overnight, to shut that route down.
After that, you need "undercover" agents buying the compromised lists that spammers use, and start blackholing those entire subnets. After you buy about ONE MILLION compromised machines, you're likely to see some kind of pattern.
What if George Washington had been captured and executed by the British? Was the Revolution de-centralized enough to survive his loss? Is America's democracy de-centralized enough to survive the poor quality of Diebolds voting machines?
Stuff like this will benefit change, not only in America, but in China and Iran, as well. In those countries, the kids in the universities might be apprehended and clubbed to death by the Moral Police, at any given minute. But with sufficient security and de-centralization, they can still communicate with the outside world. Enough to possibly, one day, bring decent living conditions to the culture of power which uses and discards people as you would a tool.
This is a good thing. Good changes have never come easy, or with a consensus.
I'm still waiting for Palladium. I think that will be one of the best changes, for the good of all Humanity.
It's one of the things that come up when I talk to college students and they ask, "Is IT a good career?" It's a wonderful career for someone in the United States coming out of college.
Absolutely.
I myself am surprised at the things companies get away with, hiring college kids straight out of their diploma. The kind of stuff that the Teamsters would send The Boys down to...discuss the issue with management.
What EA, Microsoft, and Walmart need are a couple good Jimmy Hoffa's in there.
Hitachi bought IBM, and they're making good drives again. But Sony has been putting out stuff like ATRAC3 (or whatever the acronym is).
At least they've got Blu-Ray working for them. As long as they don't blow the marketing of it (read: faulty optical drives and Windows-only firmware update executables), they'll likely pull out of this hole. And as soon as they do, I'm telling you, they need to outright buy Toyota. Tear out a check, throw away the carbon copy, and tell Toyota to think of the biggest number they can and then add 10%.
What will have to happen is that people will not PAY for the electricity, they will be allotted an amount based on their projected "need"; above which, the price per kilowatt-hour will be outrageous. This will provide the incentive to design/choose energy efficent houses (like what you'd build in Wisconsin). This will provide incentive to conserve electricity.
We need to do the same thing with fresh water, but I guess you could build a couple desalination plants on the coast, and LA would be just fine in the summer.
to be worked out before NASA is allowed back into space. I know all of these guys choose to take the risks; no one is drafted into the American space program. And I have no doubt there are competent engineers working for NASA.
I find it most likely it's the people with Business Administration degrees, and not the Mechanical Engineers, where the problem needs to be addressed.
Swap out the CEO. There's thousands more just like him, so pick a better breed.
Honestly, if you still have a Windows box hooked to the net, whether it's behind ten firewalls and under 3 different antivirui, you deserve whatever kind of horrific disease you get.
Windows needs Palladium. Not tomorrow or the day afterwards. Today.
Simply for it's increased storage. 25 GB (Blu-Ray) vs. 15 GB (HD-DVD). The disparity is far too great, and people buy DVD's by the truck load simply for the larger storage space.
HD-DVD might win out for players. But I'm betting Blu-Ray dominates the personal computer market.
Diebold is the worst. Walmart could do a better job, designing secure voting machines and the network to connect them. Dell could do a better job.
Christ, Darryl Mcbride could do a better job. If he ever stops smoking that crack and ditches some lawyers, he could probably make that company into a halfway profitable enterprise.
What really chaps my ass are the things which ARE NOT being broadcast into my home. You don't hear about the media conglomerate bills going through congress, limiting national viewership to under 44%, because it would hinder Time-Warner's profit margin. You don't hear about all the Mexicans crossing the border, because it would offend the "Latino" population. You don't hear about anything "good" that's being done in Iraq, because it's not as popular as the more sensational news.
Instead of all the women being raped in Darfur, I'm supposed to be concerned about explaining breasts and mammary glands to my 4 year old. Instead of hearing about the Columbian FARC and the cartels, using "mules" (sometimes, tragically unsucessfully) to move cocaine across the border, I'm supposed to be worried about a naked woman jumping into the arms of a football player. I'm supposed to be offended that Howard Stern coaxes New York women into the studio, to willingly strip bare and be oogled and groped.
I've had more trouble explaining the brainwashed Muslims and the entire hierarchy of aggression and blood-letting over the past 1300 years, than I have sexuality in ANY form. Sexuality, in my house, is a topic discussed over dinner. Shooting women in the back of the head, in a soccer arena at "halftime", is something that DOES NOT make the dinner table.
Wow. Talk about misplaced priorities. The problem with the mainstream media is they do not report anything which isn't popular. Years ago, when people struggled to put print-blocks together and used inked hand-rollers to make 1000 copies, it had a specific purpose. To bring about change. To make people aware of all kinds of issues, however popular or un-popular they might be. It wasn't about the bottom line of the company, it was about the social benefit of decent laws and regulations governing daily life.
And there's been plenty of bad games. That's what happens when you do a half-assed job.
There are some books which just should not be movies, just like there are some games which simply should not have ever been movies.
I only know this: If there's one single bastard in this world that SHOULD be directing Metroid (and not Mission Impossible 2), it's John Woo. Shoot fast; shoot hard; double tapp.
I think Asia (China, to be specific) will start with Intel. And AMD machines.
They will eventually design, manufacture, and use processors of their own design. Standby when they do, because Intel (and AMD) will feel the competition. I also look for them to make mandatory "background distribute computing" programs on all their computers. Everyone will yell 1984/Orwell/New-Speak and everything else, but they will require people to harness the power of their computers.
They are already talking about building an assload of nuclear reactors to power everything. The only thing I'm wondering about is their transmission infrastructure. Crikey, they've got a LOT of power lines to figure out; that's a big country.
but could y'all come up with some other books than just "1984" and "A Brave New World", once in a while.
Christ. I will pay you to to reference the monitors in "Ender's Game". Or the poison snoopers in "Dune". Or the Chief of Naval Operations in "Rogue Warrior". Even the alien guy in L. Ron Hubbard's sci-fi would be a step up. Just anything other than 1984. Not forever. Not forever. Just a week. Maybe a tenday.
Anything is better than nothing at this point.
Please visit your local Barnes and Noble's or public library. Read a Harry Potter book or something.
But up until now, this Steam issue has kept me from picking it up. I understand that a fully working crack now exists, and you don't have to expose your Windows machine to the internet every time you go to play the game.
At this point, I am completely prepared to run down to CompUSA and pickup the retail version. I never really played Halflife 1, and I would like to give Halflife: Source a try.
But this is a market driven economy. So if I go pay full price for the game right now, I am supporting Steam; and I am supporting Valve's future use of Steam. Which means I have to wait for future cracks to be developed and tested before I can buy the games.
However, there is this one final little piece that makes the entire issue moot. Palladium is coming, and with it, all the encryption and DRM. Which will mean I won't have to worry about waiting for the cracks to come out anymore.
I guess I'll go buy the game tonight...
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For a start. But it would take every ISP in the country, doing this overnight, to shut that route down.
After that, you need "undercover" agents buying the compromised lists that spammers use, and start blackholing those entire subnets. After you buy about ONE MILLION compromised machines, you're likely to see some kind of pattern.
The problem just isn't great enough yet.
It provides the proper de-centralizing stimulus.
What if George Washington had been captured and executed by the British? Was the Revolution de-centralized enough to survive his loss? Is America's democracy de-centralized enough to survive the poor quality of Diebolds voting machines?
Stuff like this will benefit change, not only in America, but in China and Iran, as well. In those countries, the kids in the universities might be apprehended and clubbed to death by the Moral Police, at any given minute. But with sufficient security and de-centralization, they can still communicate with the outside world. Enough to possibly, one day, bring decent living conditions to the culture of power which uses and discards people as you would a tool.
This is a good thing. Good changes have never come easy, or with a consensus.
I'm still waiting for Palladium. I think that will be one of the best changes, for the good of all Humanity.
It's one of the things that come up when I talk to college students and they ask, "Is IT a good career?" It's a wonderful career for someone in the United States coming out of college.
Absolutely.
I myself am surprised at the things companies get away with, hiring college kids straight out of their diploma. The kind of stuff that the Teamsters would send The Boys down to...discuss the issue with management.
What EA, Microsoft, and Walmart need are a couple good Jimmy Hoffa's in there.
Sony needs to buy Toyota.
Hitachi bought IBM, and they're making good drives again. But Sony has been putting out stuff like ATRAC3 (or whatever the acronym is).
At least they've got Blu-Ray working for them. As long as they don't blow the marketing of it (read: faulty optical drives and Windows-only firmware update executables), they'll likely pull out of this hole. And as soon as they do, I'm telling you, they need to outright buy Toyota. Tear out a check, throw away the carbon copy, and tell Toyota to think of the biggest number they can and then add 10%.
Sony still makes really good monitors. And their TV's a right decent. They also make pretty good headphones.
That's...that's about it these days. Sony should by Toyota; Toyota still pulls some really good engineering feats these days.
that makes the MPAA and RIAA wet themselves.
WH00T!
I think you are absolutely correct.
What will have to happen is that people will not PAY for the electricity, they will be allotted an amount based on their projected "need"; above which, the price per kilowatt-hour will be outrageous. This will provide the incentive to design/choose energy efficent houses (like what you'd build in Wisconsin). This will provide incentive to conserve electricity.
We need to do the same thing with fresh water, but I guess you could build a couple desalination plants on the coast, and LA would be just fine in the summer.
to be worked out before NASA is allowed back into space. I know all of these guys choose to take the risks; no one is drafted into the American space program. And I have no doubt there are competent engineers working for NASA.
I find it most likely it's the people with Business Administration degrees, and not the Mechanical Engineers, where the problem needs to be addressed.
Swap out the CEO. There's thousands more just like him, so pick a better breed.
Honestly, if you still have a Windows box hooked to the net, whether it's behind ten firewalls and under 3 different antivirui, you deserve whatever kind of horrific disease you get.
Windows needs Palladium. Not tomorrow or the day afterwards. Today.
Right now.
Simply for it's increased storage. 25 GB (Blu-Ray) vs. 15 GB (HD-DVD). The disparity is far too great, and people buy DVD's by the truck load simply for the larger storage space.
HD-DVD might win out for players. But I'm betting Blu-Ray dominates the personal computer market.
Which is larger?
With Java and Javascript (as well as cookies), disabled. I use Firefox if I need the increased functionality, for specific websites (like Slashdot).
So this is another vulnerability that is shot down, solely by my attitude toward security.
And that article should read June of 2005.
Diebold is the worst. Walmart could do a better job, designing secure voting machines and the network to connect them. Dell could do a better job.
Christ, Darryl Mcbride could do a better job. If he ever stops smoking that crack and ditches some lawyers, he could probably make that company into a halfway profitable enterprise.
Santa Cruz Orignization for Rigged Elections
What really chaps my ass are the things which ARE NOT being broadcast into my home. You don't hear about the media conglomerate bills going through congress, limiting national viewership to under 44%, because it would hinder Time-Warner's profit margin. You don't hear about all the Mexicans crossing the border, because it would offend the "Latino" population. You don't hear about anything "good" that's being done in Iraq, because it's not as popular as the more sensational news.
Instead of all the women being raped in Darfur, I'm supposed to be concerned about explaining breasts and mammary glands to my 4 year old. Instead of hearing about the Columbian FARC and the cartels, using "mules" (sometimes, tragically unsucessfully) to move cocaine across the border, I'm supposed to be worried about a naked woman jumping into the arms of a football player. I'm supposed to be offended that Howard Stern coaxes New York women into the studio, to willingly strip bare and be oogled and groped.
I've had more trouble explaining the brainwashed Muslims and the entire hierarchy of aggression and blood-letting over the past 1300 years, than I have sexuality in ANY form. Sexuality, in my house, is a topic discussed over dinner. Shooting women in the back of the head, in a soccer arena at "halftime", is something that DOES NOT make the dinner table.
Wow. Talk about misplaced priorities. The problem with the mainstream media is they do not report anything which isn't popular. Years ago, when people struggled to put print-blocks together and used inked hand-rollers to make 1000 copies, it had a specific purpose. To bring about change. To make people aware of all kinds of issues, however popular or un-popular they might be. It wasn't about the bottom line of the company, it was about the social benefit of decent laws and regulations governing daily life.
This entire country needs an enema.
And there's been plenty of bad games. That's what happens when you do a half-assed job.
There are some books which just should not be movies, just like there are some games which simply should not have ever been movies.
I only know this:
If there's one single bastard in this world that SHOULD be directing Metroid (and not Mission Impossible 2), it's John Woo. Shoot fast; shoot hard; double tapp.
With an internal controller and a USB port. Neat. I guess you can hook it up to a wireless storage AP if that's your thing.
The ARAID 2000 goes for $370. 400 GB hard disks for for $355 on pricewatch. Buy a mobile rack and shove 3.2 TB in there for half the price.
Probably triple the performance as well...
Meanwhile staff were forced to communicate by fax because the e-mail system broke down.
That is most harsh, indeed. You'd think some guy could grab his laptop, shove a copy of Fedora and sendmail on there, and get back to work.
C'est la vie.
I think Asia (China, to be specific) will start with Intel. And AMD machines.
They will eventually design, manufacture, and use processors of their own design. Standby when they do, because Intel (and AMD) will feel the competition. I also look for them to make mandatory "background distribute computing" programs on all their computers. Everyone will yell 1984/Orwell/New-Speak and everything else, but they will require people to harness the power of their computers.
They are already talking about building an assload of nuclear reactors to power everything. The only thing I'm wondering about is their transmission infrastructure. Crikey, they've got a LOT of power lines to figure out; that's a big country.
Next they'll find exploits in WineX. And VMware.
There is a pattern. Don't bother looking for it until you have the motivation to go looking for it.
but could y'all come up with some other books than just "1984" and "A Brave New World", once in a while. Christ. I will pay you to to reference the monitors in "Ender's Game". Or the poison snoopers in "Dune". Or the Chief of Naval Operations in "Rogue Warrior". Even the alien guy in L. Ron Hubbard's sci-fi would be a step up. Just anything other than 1984. Not forever. Not forever. Just a week. Maybe a tenday. Anything is better than nothing at this point. Please visit your local Barnes and Noble's or public library. Read a Harry Potter book or something.
But up until now, this Steam issue has kept me from picking it up. I understand that a fully working crack now exists, and you don't have to expose your Windows machine to the internet every time you go to play the game. At this point, I am completely prepared to run down to CompUSA and pickup the retail version. I never really played Halflife 1, and I would like to give Halflife: Source a try. But this is a market driven economy. So if I go pay full price for the game right now, I am supporting Steam; and I am supporting Valve's future use of Steam. Which means I have to wait for future cracks to be developed and tested before I can buy the games. However, there is this one final little piece that makes the entire issue moot. Palladium is coming, and with it, all the encryption and DRM. Which will mean I won't have to worry about waiting for the cracks to come out anymore. I guess I'll go buy the game tonight...