In 2015, half of Tokyo will be under water, our cities will dive into the ground in a state of emergency, and gigantic robots will fight the minions of god to prevent us all from going to hell. We'll be way past 2gb lines!
In 2015, ten years time, this might not be such a great speed? Although it's quite fast now, and will probably still be reasonably useful in the future, it might be about as popular as dialup is in my city (not very). Who knows what zany download speeds will be the norm in the future, across electrical wires or otherwise.
My office has two computers and a laptop going at all times, as well as on the other side of the room there are several more computers constantly running. At home, I have two computers that are on 24/7 as well. I have trouble sleeping during power outages. On the other hand, I just bought a miniature refridgerator for my room, and THAT is something that I'd like quietly. Like farmers don't notice the smell of horsecrap, nerds usually don't notice their computer noise. To actually stay on topic, one thing that I've found useful for me to silence (or muffle) a noisy computer is to toss a towel over it. It's not pretty, but it works!
Grandpa and Herman from the Munsters did this YEARS ago. It wasn't very stable, however, and ended up ruining Lily and Marilyn's hair salon business by shocking all of their customers hair. All you need are a couple of big steel balls, a handcrank thing, and late cousin Wolverine's inheritance money. And for god's sake, don't stand in the middle of it!
I'd love to run this off of an old harddriveless laptop I've got.. but the CD-ROM can't be booted to. Anyone know how I can get this Live CD to boot from a floppy that will then let me boot from the CD?
All I'm saying is that NASA is weak. It pretends not to be, but it is. He was just a kid, and he was probably just playing around. None of us really know the full details here, so only assumptions can be made. I'm not talking about rewarding him, but it is definitely something that has happened before, companies actually going as far as hiring hackers to exploit their weaknesses. The punishment in place is strict. Where I come from, they wouldn't even try a 17 year old for that kind of bologna. True, it is NASA and a government institution.. but shouldn't places like this simply be more secure? In my opinion, it could have been a lot worse for them.
This seems a little harsh to me, this computer science student not only has to spend 6 months in prison, but has limited use of computers for the next three years. This really stunts his growth professionally, but also puts a very black mark on his record when being considered by future employers. NASA should be ashamed of themselves for not discovering these holes themselves, as it is a strong likelihood that this 17 year old high school student didn't -really- know what he was doing (storing movies on NASA's servers? what?). And if he really did know what he was doing, it seems to me NASA probably should have hired the boy to hack them constantly and reveal more security holes that should be mended. Instead of ruining the kid's future. Just my two cents.
Maybe this is just APoD's game of NotPron (deathball.net/notpron/). We're supposed to take the image and raise the contrast or look at it under the moonlight or something so we can reveal a hidden message that leads to the next mystery. 0.0001% of the population make it to Level 2.
Okay "djdavetrouble", but in my experience, science and religion don't usually get along too well. So forgive me for thinking that a science institute founded by Christians might try to tell us that computers are bad for kids to serve their own best interests.
My cable provider offers a 5mbps connection, and while the upload seems ultimately capped at 40kb/s, download, which for others on my ISP seems to be around 200kb/s, I have at times reaches as high as 550kb/s, consistently through large downloads. This has happened ever since my cable provider switched my modem with a much older looking one. Oh well!
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Lawsuits at first, but like the copyrighted music swapping industry, it's never going to be stamped out. The music industry is already learning that they must embrace mp3s or die, and someday the television industry is going to have to wake up and smell the coffee as well. Between TiVo, the internet, and broadband internet, how can television advertising stand a chance? True that the percentage of people actually watching televion must be huge compared to the number of people watching TV shows off the internet.. but as the technology becomes more easily adapted and readily available, there are going to be a lot less people viewing television commercials.
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In 2015, half of Tokyo will be under water, our cities will dive into the ground in a state of emergency, and gigantic robots will fight the minions of god to prevent us all from going to hell. We'll be way past 2gb lines!
In 2015, ten years time, this might not be such a great speed? Although it's quite fast now, and will probably still be reasonably useful in the future, it might be about as popular as dialup is in my city (not very). Who knows what zany download speeds will be the norm in the future, across electrical wires or otherwise.
My office has two computers and a laptop going at all times, as well as on the other side of the room there are several more computers constantly running. At home, I have two computers that are on 24/7 as well. I have trouble sleeping during power outages. On the other hand, I just bought a miniature refridgerator for my room, and THAT is something that I'd like quietly. Like farmers don't notice the smell of horsecrap, nerds usually don't notice their computer noise. To actually stay on topic, one thing that I've found useful for me to silence (or muffle) a noisy computer is to toss a towel over it. It's not pretty, but it works!
I should apply for that programming job at haliburton.com.
Where do you live?
And it seems to me, September 1999 was almost 6 years ago.
Oops, wrong spot.
whom.
Grandpa and Herman from the Munsters did this YEARS ago. It wasn't very stable, however, and ended up ruining Lily and Marilyn's hair salon business by shocking all of their customers hair. All you need are a couple of big steel balls, a handcrank thing, and late cousin Wolverine's inheritance money. And for god's sake, don't stand in the middle of it!
...just throw a towel over it.
I'd love to run this off of an old harddriveless laptop I've got.. but the CD-ROM can't be booted to. Anyone know how I can get this Live CD to boot from a floppy that will then let me boot from the CD?
All I'm saying is that NASA is weak. It pretends not to be, but it is. He was just a kid, and he was probably just playing around. None of us really know the full details here, so only assumptions can be made. I'm not talking about rewarding him, but it is definitely something that has happened before, companies actually going as far as hiring hackers to exploit their weaknesses. The punishment in place is strict. Where I come from, they wouldn't even try a 17 year old for that kind of bologna. True, it is NASA and a government institution.. but shouldn't places like this simply be more secure? In my opinion, it could have been a lot worse for them.
This seems a little harsh to me, this computer science student not only has to spend 6 months in prison, but has limited use of computers for the next three years. This really stunts his growth professionally, but also puts a very black mark on his record when being considered by future employers. NASA should be ashamed of themselves for not discovering these holes themselves, as it is a strong likelihood that this 17 year old high school student didn't -really- know what he was doing (storing movies on NASA's servers? what?). And if he really did know what he was doing, it seems to me NASA probably should have hired the boy to hack them constantly and reveal more security holes that should be mended. Instead of ruining the kid's future. Just my two cents.
Maybe this is just APoD's game of NotPron (deathball.net/notpron/). We're supposed to take the image and raise the contrast or look at it under the moonlight or something so we can reveal a hidden message that leads to the next mystery. 0.0001% of the population make it to Level 2.
Okay "djdavetrouble", but in my experience, science and religion don't usually get along too well. So forgive me for thinking that a science institute founded by Christians might try to tell us that computers are bad for kids to serve their own best interests.
I'm sorry, but the Christian Science Monitor? Are you kidding me?
I, for one, welcome our new talking robot overlords. Viva la revolution!
My cable provider offers a 5mbps connection, and while the upload seems ultimately capped at 40kb/s, download, which for others on my ISP seems to be around 200kb/s, I have at times reaches as high as 550kb/s, consistently through large downloads. This has happened ever since my cable provider switched my modem with a much older looking one. Oh well!
Lawsuits at first, but like the copyrighted music swapping industry, it's never going to be stamped out. The music industry is already learning that they must embrace mp3s or die, and someday the television industry is going to have to wake up and smell the coffee as well. Between TiVo, the internet, and broadband internet, how can television advertising stand a chance? True that the percentage of people actually watching televion must be huge compared to the number of people watching TV shows off the internet.. but as the technology becomes more easily adapted and readily available, there are going to be a lot less people viewing television commercials.
It's true. I don't even make the effort to watch shows at their designated times anymore. I'll go and download the latest episode of CSI in about 15 minutes and watch it with much higher quality video and sound, and no commercial breaks. How will the industry adapt?