If the government starts doing this sorta thing in a war-type situation, then wouldn't that make it pretty much open season on most any system in that country for practically anyone in the other country? I mean, say our gov't starts messing with Chinese systems. Are any actions going to be taken against freelance attackers as well? It seems they wouldn't. While the idea kinda sucks, it might be a good opportunity for all the wannabe(Cr)(H)ackers to practice up, or learn some stuff. btw, while not completely serious, I do think this is an interesting idea.
A good thing???? Yes, just what I want, my cheap, very modular, and easily upgraded system to because an overpriced, very proprietary, stuck with it until I buy a new one because of no real upgradeability system. Forgive me for not agreeing. Yes, desktop computing costs and notebook costs would be more equal. but closer to the notebook side. That is expensive. Let's look at what you've said. smaller: Ok, I don't see the big deal here really, my tower isn't to big, and I *like* room inside to put whatever I want... Be that, 5 pci cards and 4 harddrives, or load it with fans if I desire.... quieter: Once again, the sound is already negligable on most desktop/towers. The small gain is not, in my opinion worth the cost of swapping to laptop-type technology. more power-efficient: For the average home user who runs one system, the power the computer is drawing is not an issue. A business might like this, but I still don't think it is worth it. flat-panel ready: Huh? Ok, I think you may mean one of two things. You could mean the whole system will be in one small, flat panel. In this case this is the exact some poit as "smaller" and I've already addressed it. Or, you may mean flat panel monitors will be supported. Well, this is an absurd notion to think we should change the whole computer architechture for a problem that should be addressed in the video card.
Anyone who wants a very high performance desktop picks and chooses *each* component to get the absolute best in all parts-- soundcard, video card, motherboard, processor, and even the case is scrutinized. If what you suggest were to come to fruition, all of this power is lost. We would be stuck with what dell, gateway, compaq, or whomever threw together in an attempt to get our business. I have never once been impressed with a large company predesigned computer, and I don't want to be forced to have one.
Has no one really considered the implications that no more microsoft would mean? Think of all the businesses depending upon them for tech support etc. Let's face it, Microsoft is so entrenched in, well, everything, that destroying it would likely manage to cause major economic consequences to the whole country. Destroying MS by a court ruling would be a *horrible* action. You are going to leave many, many consumers in a sticky situation. The only way to safely get rid of M$ would be a gradual migration to some other OS, some other office suite, etc.
The Max scores on those tests (SAT and ACT) aren't that tough to attain. I mean, I got a 36 on the ACT, and here I am doing very mediocre in college. Oh well...
Everyone posting messages along these lines is forgetting something. The Athlon is faster than the regular P3, and a coppermine P3 is modified. No, it's not just cooler, the cache speed has been raised to full core speed (like a celeron). Unfortunately, the cache size has been halved (512K to 256K). The faster speed of the cache should more than compensate for the shrinkage though. Why do I think this? Well, celerons perform within 1-2% of P2's in pretty much any real world situation, and they have 1/4 of the cache running at full speed. So to compare the coppermine p3s to the athlons assuming they are the same as the regular p3s is just wrong. I'm not saying which would be faster (I can't say that for sure *yet*, and neither can you). One thing I have seen though are the benchmarks circulating on the web of these chips. They generally show a screenshot of a CPUID program and the chips being tested always report *no* cache at all. I don't think that these chips being benchmarked have the cache enables, and if they don't, well, you can't compare with those either.
"Anyone who has been around more than two years know that modem tech changes practically every six months"
Hmm, how long has it been since standard modem technology changed? What's it been, a year and a half or two years since 56k came out. Regular modem technology has pretty much been the same for quite some time, with no innovations in sight. So if all they want to support is POTS then well, as far as things look now, 56k is a pretty safe choice. Sure, broadband solutions will eventually take over completely, but the claim that momdem technology changes every six months is just no longer true. Maybe there will be some breakthrough in a while, but I have heard of nothing new in the works. 56k is already above (I think) what was supposed to be the theoretical limit that could be squeezed through the somewhat poor quality lines that are our telephone service.
Actually, anyone who knows that they are doing goes through another box to be anonymous anyway. Usual scenario. Person breaks in to a *very* poorly maintained box, cleans log files, leaves a backdoor, etc. Then person uses that box to make themself anonymous for their other attacks.
Notice I won't use the term hacker or cracker. There is a hacker crowd, or programmer crowd. There is also a cracker crowd, or group that defeats copyprotection, uncripples shareware, etc. Now, consider this. The hacker crowd that calls themselves hackers do not appreciate the term when used on what they call "crackers," but I think that it is just as rude of hackers to call them crackers because there is already a group that calls themselves crackers. So the hackers are doing to the crackers what the media does to the hackers when they call the people who break in to systems hackers by calling these same people crackers. There needs to be a whole new term in my opinion. Maybe infiltrators, or something like that.
"Give it up, if you have nothing to hide, then you don't need to be worried, IMHO. "
Ewww, bad, bad, bad way to look at *anything*. I don't even think I need to point out the implications of this line of thinking, but I will anyway. How about, hmm, mandatory backdoors in all encryption. You have nothing to hide in your e-mail, etc, so why should you care? Or maybe let's tag your IP address with say, your social security number. Nothing to hide? Well then, don't worry.
Or we could go for more material things. Oh, well, you are an honest law-abiding person, I suppose the new mandatory weekly house searches will give you no cause for alarm.
Sorry, I realize the house one is a bit overboard, but seriously, this is a dangerous line of thinking. Who was it that said something like "Those who surrender liberty (or freedom, can't remember the quote) for security deserve neither (or is it will soon find themselves with neither?)" anyway, you get the picture.
As I posted when the Mulder story was posted. The X-files was not to continue after next season anyway. It would be hard for them to continue on the show when there is no show to continue on.
Well, as much as I disagree with the groups that are being kept from obtaining the domain names, I have to say that I thoroughly disagree with the current practice of buying domain names that are anti-[insert whatever group is buy the name here]. It's as if organizations are trying to stifle any word that does not agree with the organzation. As wrong as the words may be, it still shouldn't stop them from being said. Well, I should say shouldn't stop them from being "heard." You can still "say" them, but the inability to obtain the dissident DNS entry makes it difficult for anyone to find. To put this on a mild, hypothetical scale, what if say, the GOP bought the domain name of democrats.org, or something similar? I know this can't happen because the domains are already in existance, and "democrat" is different from "republicanssuck" or something like that, but to me, this oversimplification shows the principle behind the current trend of buying the domain names that are anti-"whatever organization." In essence, this is one group sticking a sock in the mouth of another group. Despite whatever group I agree with, I cannot agree with said group silencing its opposition.
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Correct me if I'm wrong, but as a whole, the Russian people have historically been pretty docile. It has been the Russian leadership that is bad, not the Russians themselves.
Well, don't discount hardware (in)stability. Very often, pc motherboards deal with (lots of) ram, especially in lots of slots, quite poorly. What type of motherboard were you using? Try the same eact setup with linux, you'll probably have problems there too.
Interesting... i.e 5 has decided to tell me that that is a site that *i* have chosen not to trust. I don't remember doing so... Anyone else experience this?
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If the government starts doing this sorta thing in a war-type situation, then wouldn't that make it pretty much open season on most any system in that country for practically anyone in the other country? I mean, say our gov't starts messing with Chinese systems. Are any actions going to be taken against freelance attackers as well? It seems they wouldn't. While the idea kinda sucks, it might be a good opportunity for all the wannabe(Cr)(H)ackers to practice up, or learn some stuff. btw, while not completely serious, I do think this is an interesting idea.
A good thing???? Yes, just what I want, my cheap, very modular, and easily upgraded system to because an overpriced, very proprietary, stuck with it until I buy a new one because of no real upgradeability system. Forgive me for not agreeing. Yes, desktop computing costs and notebook costs would be more equal. but closer to the notebook side. That is expensive. Let's look at what you've said.
smaller: Ok, I don't see the big deal here really, my tower isn't to big, and I *like* room inside to put whatever I want... Be that, 5 pci cards and 4 harddrives, or load it with fans if I desire....
quieter: Once again, the sound is already negligable on most desktop/towers. The small gain is not, in my opinion worth the cost of swapping to laptop-type technology.
more power-efficient: For the average home user who runs one system, the power the computer is drawing is not an issue. A business might like this, but I still don't think it is worth it.
flat-panel ready: Huh? Ok, I think you may mean one of two things. You could mean the whole system will be in one small, flat panel. In this case this is the exact some poit as "smaller" and I've already addressed it. Or, you may mean flat panel monitors will be supported. Well, this is an absurd notion to think we should change the whole computer architechture for a problem that should be addressed in the video card.
Anyone who wants a very high performance desktop picks and chooses *each* component to get the absolute best in all parts-- soundcard, video card, motherboard, processor, and even the case is scrutinized. If what you suggest were to come to fruition, all of this power is lost. We would be stuck with what dell, gateway, compaq, or whomever threw together in an attempt to get our business. I have never once been impressed with a large company predesigned computer, and I don't want to be forced to have one.
Has no one really considered the implications that no more microsoft would mean? Think of all the businesses depending upon them for tech support etc. Let's face it, Microsoft is so entrenched in, well, everything, that destroying it would likely manage to cause major economic consequences to the whole country. Destroying MS by a court ruling would be a *horrible* action. You are going to leave many, many consumers in a sticky situation. The only way to safely get rid of M$ would be a gradual migration to some other OS, some other office suite, etc.
Am I the only one who sees the danger here?
You can't assume PCI == WinModem. What about those Actiontec call-waiting modem thingies? Those are PCI, and no, they are not WinModems.
The Max scores on those tests (SAT and ACT) aren't that tough to attain. I mean, I got a 36 on the ACT, and here I am doing very mediocre in college. Oh well...
I stand by my earlier statements. Clock for clock, a celeron and a P2 are undecernable under all but the most intense scrutiny.
Everyone posting messages along these lines is forgetting something. The Athlon is faster than the regular P3, and a coppermine P3 is modified. No, it's not just cooler, the cache speed has been raised to full core speed (like a celeron). Unfortunately, the cache size has been halved (512K to 256K). The faster speed of the cache should more than compensate for the shrinkage though. Why do I think this? Well, celerons perform within 1-2% of P2's in pretty much any real world situation, and they have 1/4 of the cache running at full speed. So to compare the coppermine p3s to the athlons assuming they are the same as the regular p3s is just wrong. I'm not saying which would be faster (I can't say that for sure *yet*, and neither can you). One thing I have seen though are the benchmarks circulating on the web of these chips. They generally show a screenshot of a CPUID program and the chips being tested always report *no* cache at all. I don't think that these chips being benchmarked have the cache enables, and if they don't, well, you can't compare with those either.
"Anyone who has been around more than two years know that modem tech changes practically every six months"
Hmm, how long has it been since standard modem technology changed? What's it been, a year and a half or two years since 56k came out. Regular modem technology has pretty much been the same for quite some time, with no innovations in sight. So if all they want to support is POTS then well, as far as things look now, 56k is a pretty safe choice. Sure, broadband solutions will eventually take over completely, but the claim that momdem technology changes every six months is just no longer true. Maybe there will be some breakthrough in a while, but I have heard of nothing new in the works. 56k is already above (I think) what was supposed to be the theoretical limit that could be squeezed through the somewhat poor quality lines that are our telephone service.
I never said it was a "good name." So what if a group sucks. It still deserves a marginal amount of niceness. Everything does.
Actually, anyone who knows that they are doing goes through another box to be anonymous anyway. Usual scenario. Person breaks in to a *very* poorly maintained box, cleans log files, leaves a backdoor, etc. Then person uses that box to make themself anonymous for their other attacks.
Notice I won't use the term hacker or cracker.
There is a hacker crowd, or programmer crowd.
There is also a cracker crowd, or group that defeats copyprotection, uncripples shareware, etc.
Now, consider this. The hacker crowd that calls themselves hackers do not appreciate the term when used on what they call "crackers," but I think that it is just as rude of hackers to call them crackers because there is already a group that calls themselves crackers. So the hackers are doing to the crackers what the media does to the hackers when they call the people who break in to systems hackers by calling these same people crackers. There needs to be a whole new term in my opinion. Maybe infiltrators, or something like that.
"Give it up, if you have nothing to hide, then you don't need to be worried, IMHO. "
Ewww, bad, bad, bad way to look at *anything*. I don't even think I need to point out the implications of this line of thinking, but I will anyway. How about, hmm, mandatory backdoors in all encryption. You have nothing to hide in your e-mail, etc, so why should you care? Or maybe let's tag your IP address with say, your social security number. Nothing to hide? Well then, don't worry.
Or we could go for more material things. Oh, well, you are an honest law-abiding person, I suppose the new mandatory weekly house searches will give you no cause for alarm.
Sorry, I realize the house one is a bit overboard, but seriously, this is a dangerous line of thinking. Who was it that said something like "Those who surrender liberty (or freedom, can't remember the quote) for security deserve neither (or is it will soon find themselves with neither?)" anyway, you get the picture.
As I posted when the Mulder story was posted. The X-files was not to continue after next season anyway. It would be hard for them to continue on the show when there is no show to continue on.
Well, as much as I disagree with the groups that are being kept from obtaining the domain names, I have to say that I thoroughly disagree with the current practice of buying domain names that are anti-[insert whatever group is buy the name here]. It's as if organizations are trying to stifle any word that does not agree with the organzation. As wrong as the words may be, it still shouldn't stop them from being said. Well, I should say shouldn't stop them from being "heard." You can still "say" them, but the inability to obtain the dissident DNS entry makes it difficult for anyone to find. To put this on a mild, hypothetical scale, what if say, the GOP bought the domain name of democrats.org, or something similar? I know this can't happen because the domains are already in existance, and "democrat" is different from "republicanssuck" or something like that, but to me, this oversimplification shows the principle behind the current trend of buying the domain names that are anti-"whatever organization." In essence, this is one group sticking a sock in the mouth of another group. Despite whatever group I agree with, I cannot agree with said group silencing its opposition.
Can somebody say napalm? No more super marine.
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Correct me if I'm wrong, but as a whole, the Russian people have historically been pretty docile. It has been the Russian leadership that is bad, not the Russians themselves.
Well, don't discount hardware (in)stability. Very often, pc motherboards deal with (lots of) ram, especially in lots of slots, quite poorly.
What type of motherboard were you using?
Try the same eact setup with linux, you'll probably have problems there too.
Interesting... i.e 5 has decided to tell me that that is a site that *i* have chosen not to trust. I don't remember doing so... Anyone else experience this?
This season will be the last season of the X-files anyway... There will be no X-files for him to quit, so this really isn't news.