Yeah the good old days during the Carter administration. Boy having a peanut farmer for a president didn't hurt us one bit did it? Really low interest rates. Crime at an all time low. Don't forget about drug use, or the really low unemployment levels
It's a cost issue with me as well. I find it hard to believe that something could even if it was better actually do so and still be able to grow like linux does. If anything will replace linux it must be open source to allow for open development of applications and elimination of bugs. If it's closed source people will not really feel that it's easy to develop for the platform than developing for windows. Say I write a game for windows I spend maybe 80% of the budged that I had allocated for the project. That leaves about 20% for the linux and other ports. If I wanted to develop for the other platform it would have to be easier to develop on than the windows version was. Therefore something must be streamlined so the use of linux is a good idea.
Law enforcement makes it a matter of pride that they catch "stupid people" commiting crimes. And before that artists and free thinkers were considered morons. It's all about what the intellectual climate is in the place that you live.
Well I don't really believe that. And if you want you actually can develop C++ and Java and almost any other new fashionable language on unix/Linux as well. Ever heard of g++ or the gjc (the gnu java compiler). Personally I think that unix is quite good. And for the disabled nothing beats systems that rely on text based technology and the like. I assume that you think macs are the solution correct? Well if that is the case then are there any good tools for say blind people? The more things change the more they stay the same. Until speech technology and intelligent AI are actually created (basically a problem that innovation and cheap hardware can fix) we will be at a disadvantage.
(crappy display) Just keep trying to access the link I think it took me about 4 tries. However here's the text version of the article: ================================================ [newlogo9.gif (15244 bytes)] Forum. [Image] [Maximum PC Network] ABOUT THIS SITE ArtX: Half-truths and Misrepresentation? Recent: by Jon "Hannibal" Stokes FRONT PAGE Asus K7M motherboard ARS BeOS We all know by now that the graphics industry is a Sun's MAJC ASK ARS! vicious, cutthroat market where companies will do & Intel's anything to get ahead. Tweaked benchmarks, IA-64 BUYER'S GUIDE over-inflated spec sheets, and out-of-control hype are all part of the game, and are things that Promise CPU & CHIPSET consumers have, sadly, come to expect. But what FastTrak66 GUIDE about something truly underhanded, like possible IDE RAID abuse of a public forum and willful DIARY OF misrepresentation of oneself to consumers? In an More NT A GEEK effort to promote a product at all costs, there are Tweaks some things that cross the line between "creating THE FORUM good buzz" and outright disrespect. Microsoft's IntelliEye PRODUCT I recently had an unpleasant experience with a Mice REVIEWS graphics company, an experience which seems to me to be part of a trend of growing overconfidence and Transcend SEARCH ARS underestimation of the consumer's intelligence on TS-ABX3101 the part of the computing industry. My recent motherboard SESSE SEKO'S run-in involved a company so seemingly assured of WANKERDESK the gullibility of the public and the media that Intel vs. they didn't even take rudimentary precautions to AMD TIPS FROM cover their tracks. That company is ArtX. THE CRYPT Athlon Mobo In Ars Technica's Wednesday Comdex write-up, I Shootout TWEAKMEISTER'S recounted my experiences at ArtX's demo booth. I TOME OF LOVE told about my DM battle with top-ranked Quake Transcend champion Kornelia, and I also gave some of my TS-ABX11 WHO WE ARS impressions of the Aladdin 7 3D graphics technology motherboard that ArtX was demonstrating. I didn't review a LINKS product, nor did I run any benchmarks. All I did Infinite was give brief impression of what I saw and what I Loop ADVERTISE ON learned from the people working the booth. Here's ARS TECHNICA what I had to say: The Onion's "Our Dumb Century" [Visit The Chip Merchant] A while back, I reported on ArtX's plans to RISC vs. integrate high-end 3D graphics on a Super7 mobo. CISC (For those of you who don't know, ArtX is providing [Image] the 3D mojo for Nintendo's upcoming Dolphin game Norton console.) Anyway, I came across a booth where ArtX Speed Disk was showing off their technology by holding a 4-way 5.0 for NT Q3 demo deathmatch. Before I talk about the deathmatch, I need to say a word about ArtX's Rites of technology. The systems used were K6-based, with War the ArtX gfx tech integrated on the north bridge. Now, I don't know if it was the large LCD monitors Swiftech or the early drivers, but the Q3 demo looked Peltier absolutely awful. I'm not kidding when I say I Cooler haven't seen graphics that bad since the Atari days. I just couldn't believe my eyes. Q3 on my Apex ATX old Voodoo1 blows away what I saw at the ArtX Full-Tower booth. Not only was the image quality awful, but turning on cg_drawfps revealed that the players Browsin' on were getting FPS scores in the lower 20s. Ouch. I BeOS sincerely hope that it was the monitors' or drivers' fault that Q3 looked so bad, because if it PA-600 case wasn't then Nintendo fans are in for a serious review disappointment. [Note: It has since been brought to my attention that the Aladdin 7 tech is supposedly System different from the Dolphin tech, so things might Building not be so bad after all. Or then again...] Guide Buying it Online As a result of this small blurb, I entered into an Guide email exchange with Rick Calle, Director of Marketing for ArtX. In his emails, he made a Global WIN number of claims in an effort to defend his FEP32 product. His wanting to defend his product is to be expected, and is in fact admirable, since so 3D Market: many companies seem to ignore the enthusiast High Stakes population. What I did not expect was what I've interpreted as the underhanded and duplicitous Cool the BX methods that he chose to use. But before I get to Chipset the deeply disturbing stuff, I'll lay out what some of his more legitimate defenses were, and then I'll Computer tell you what I thought of them. Understand that Architecture the information I'm presenting isn't in chronological order. Abit BP6 Deep C Secrets It's the LCD, stupid ASUS P3B-F In an email sent to me on the morning of 11/18/98, mobo Mr. Calle's first protest was that the LCD monitors that ArtX used weren't optimal for displaying the Athlon product. As I noted in my report, at Comdex, Review everyone was using LCDs--even those demoing video card products. I saw UT and Q3A running on a number of LCDs and none of them looked nearly as/etc: bad as what I saw at ArtX. I said as much to Mr. Calle, in an email response I sent on the 22nd, to OpenForum which he replied: SETI@Ars...once we got on the show floor, we realized the 2010's were slower refresh rate. too late to change Take the and get new ones on sunday nite. We especially saw Poll this problem on DVD (did you see that demo?), where Technica we elected to use our spare 21" CRT to eliminate the "hysteresis" or "smearing" you see on the LCD FAQ: screen due to it being a slow refresh rate and Celeron which looks like dropped frames (but isn't). overclocking This claim intrigued me, so I looked up the specs for NEC's 2010 on the web. NEC lists the monitor's max refresh rate as 75Hz @ 1280x1024. By way of comparison, the Eizo FlexScan L66 that recently won an Editor's Choice award from C|NET sports a maximum refresh rate of...75Hz @ 1280x1024. Both products also have similar horizontal scan rates. While the fact that Q3A was running on an LCD at a resolution other than the LCD's native one most certainly affected its image quality, the fact still remains that the other games I saw at Comdex looked great on LCDs, while Q3A at the ArtX booth looked substantially worse. Nothing can change that, and for certain, no one working the booth made any such claims to me, nor did anyone else reflect on the possibility of the LCDs not faithfully representing the product. Indeed, it was quite the contrary. The booth presenters spoke as if what they were displaying was 100% unleashed Aladdin 7 tech. So, that's what I wrote about. But after his reproach and my subsequent research, I was left with a feeling of suspicion: was this guy making excuses? Framerates and the TNT2 In that same Comdex report, I mentioned that a machine that I looked at had the framerate counter on, and it was getting FPS scores in the low 20s. That machine was Kornelia's, and Mr. Calle claims she was playing not on an Aladdin 7 but on a TNT2. Actually, in his first email (11/18/99), he claimed she was playing on at TNT, check it: If you consider that we had the Quake 3 v1.09 (CHECK your web site....look and see how, even a TnT is getting problems running over 20-25fps in v1.09) AND all these were turned on in the game: - 32-bit rendering - 32-bit textures - high res (MAX) textures - HIGH geometry for smooth curves - trilinear filtering then you would see we get great performance out of this chipset, and it is WAY faster than your old VooDoo. A TNT running Q3A @ 20-25FPS is mostly believable, but when I told him (11/22/99) that any gfx tech maker that's comparing itself to a TNT at this point is not shooting for the "budget PC market" as much as they're shooting for outright obsolescence, he replied (11/22/99) by saying that by "TNT" he meant "TNT2." Well, which is it? In the hour I was there, not a single person uttered the word "TNT." Not one. You're going to tell me that their star on-location was playing, and not even using their tech? Nevertheless, I saw what I saw. One of the major points that folks were trying to sell at the booth is that the Aladdin 7, with on-board T&L, can supposedly compete with more expensive cards on more expensive machines. I told Mr. Calle that I thought that my experienced fleshed out that the difference between what I saw at the booth and what I've seen elsewhere was pretty weak. See, I have a TNT2 that runs Q3A well over 25FPS at High Quality display settings in the thick of 4-way DM. And it looks great. In fact, I understand that the TNT2 is one of the Q3A cards to have. I can't see where a TNT2 on even a K6-3 450 (the machine that Kornelia was supposedly using) would run Q3A substantially slower than on my machine, considering that I've just got a Celeron 466. I mean, not night and days of difference. Furthermore, in my recent Transcend TSABX3101 review I ran Q2 timedemos @ 1024x768 on a TNT2 + Celeron 400 machine and got 37FPS in Crusher and 54FPS in Massive1!! I know that Q2 runs faster than Q3, but Massive1 is a huge DM that stresses the CPU to the max. I'd be very surprised to learn that Q3A is slow to the point that a 50MHz faster CPU in a 4-person DM can see an over 50% reduction in framerate from Q2 @ 1024x768 on Massive1. Maybe a combination of the K6 being weak and Q3A being slower could account for it, but does seem like a stretch. If anyone out there has any actual Q3A timedemo numbers on a K6-3 (or -2) 450 + TNT2 system, I'd be interested to see them. So as you can see, I am skeptical that Kornelia was actually playing on any sort of nVidia card, because the TNT-branded name was not mentioned in the hour or so I was at the booth. There were people there with headsets on exhorting the audience to "experience the detailed textures and dynamic lighting of the Aladdin 7...," but I never heard anything about a TNT-anything. But regardless of whether or not there were any TNT or TNT2 cards in use at that booth, I know for a fact that I was sitting at an Aladdin 7 machine because there was an ArtX rep standing over my shoulder and using my screen to show an on-looking rep from another company exactly what the Aladdin 7 is capable of. In short, I know what I saw, and I thought it looked lame. Once again, I did not run benchmarks, nor did I pretend to review a product. I came I, I sat, I played, I was thoroughly unimpressed. End of story. Too bad this isn't the end of the story for ArtX's Rick Calle. I found out later on on the 22nd that all along he'd been up to more than just trying to "clarify" things for me via email. Next: things get out of control
ABOUT THIS SITE ArtX: Half-truths and Misrepresentation? Recent: by Jon "Hannibal" Stokes FRONT PAGE Asus K7M motherboard ARS BeOS We all know by now that the graphics industry is a Sun's MAJC ASK ARS! vicious, cutthroat market where companies will do & Intel's anything to get ahead. Tweaked benchmarks, IA-64 BUYER'S GUIDE over-inflated spec sheets, and out-of-control hype are all part of the game, and are things that Promise CPU & CHIPSET consumers have, sadly, come to expect. But what FastTrak66 GUIDE about something truly underhanded, like possible IDE RAID abuse of a public forum and willful DIARY OF misrepresentation of oneself to consumers? In an More NT A GEEK effort to promote a product at all costs, there are Tweaks some things that cross the line between "creating THE FORUM good buzz" and outright disrespect. Microsoft's IntelliEye PRODUCT I recently had an unpleasant experience with a Mice REVIEWS graphics company, an experience which seems to me to be part of a trend of growing overconfidence and Transcend SEARCH ARS underestimation of the consumer's intelligence on TS-ABX3101 the part of the computing industry. My recent motherboard SESSE SEKO'S run-in involved a company so seemingly assured of WANKERDESK the gullibility of the public and the media that Intel vs. they didn't even take rudimentary precautions to AMD TIPS FROM cover their tracks. That company is ArtX. THE CRYPT Athlon Mobo In Ars Technica's Wednesday Comdex write-up, I Shootout TWEAKMEISTER'S recounted my experiences at ArtX's demo booth. I TOME OF LOVE told about my DM battle with top-ranked Quake Transcend champion Kornelia, and I also gave some of my TS-ABX11 WHO WE ARS impressions of the Aladdin 7 3D graphics technology motherboard that ArtX was demonstrating. I didn't review a LINKS product, nor did I run any benchmarks. All I did Infinite was give brief impression of what I saw and what I Loop ADVERTISE ON learned from the people working the booth. Here's ARS TECHNICA what I had to say: The Onion's "Our Dumb Century"
[Visit The Chip Merchant] A while back, I reported on ArtX's plans to RISC vs. integrate high-end 3D graphics on a Super7 mobo. CISC (For those of you who don't know, ArtX is providing [Image] the 3D mojo for Nintendo's upcoming Dolphin game Norton console.) Anyway, I came across a booth where ArtX Speed Disk was showing off their technology by holding a 4-way 5.0 for NT Q3 demo deathmatch. Before I talk about the deathmatch, I need to say a word about ArtX's Rites of technology. The systems used were K6-based, with War the ArtX gfx tech integrated on the north bridge. Now, I don't know if it was the large LCD monitors Swiftech or the early drivers, but the Q3 demo looked Peltier absolutely awful. I'm not kidding when I say I Cooler haven't seen graphics that bad since the Atari days. I just couldn't believe my eyes. Q3 on my Apex ATX old Voodoo1 blows away what I saw at the ArtX Full-Tower booth. Not only was the image quality awful, but turning on cg_drawfps revealed that the players Browsin' on were getting FPS scores in the lower 20s. Ouch. I BeOS sincerely hope that it was the monitors' or drivers' fault that Q3 looked so bad, because if it PA-600 case wasn't then Nintendo fans are in for a serious review disappointment. [Note: It has since been brought to my attention that the Aladdin 7 tech is supposedly System different from the Dolphin tech, so things might Building not be so bad after all. Or then again...] Guide
Buying it Online As a result of this small blurb, I entered into an Guide email exchange with Rick Calle, Director of Marketing for ArtX. In his emails, he made a Global WIN number of claims in an effort to defend his FEP32 product. His wanting to defend his product is to be expected, and is in fact admirable, since so 3D Market: many companies seem to ignore the enthusiast High Stakes population. What I did not expect was what I've interpreted as the underhanded and duplicitous Cool the BX methods that he chose to use. But before I get to Chipset the deeply disturbing stuff, I'll lay out what some of his more legitimate defenses were, and then I'll Computer tell you what I thought of them. Understand that Architecture the information I'm presenting isn't in chronological order. Abit BP6
Deep C Secrets It's the LCD, stupid ASUS P3B-F In an email sent to me on the morning of 11/18/98, mobo Mr. Calle's first protest was that the LCD monitors that ArtX used weren't optimal for displaying the Athlon product. As I noted in my report, at Comdex, Review everyone was using LCDs--even those demoing video card products. I saw UT and Q3A running on a number of LCDs and none of them looked nearly as/etc: bad as what I saw at ArtX. I said as much to Mr. Calle, in an email response I sent on the 22nd, to OpenForum which he replied: SETI@Ars ...once we got on the show floor, we realized the 2010's were slower refresh rate. too late to change Take the and get new ones on sunday nite. We especially saw Poll this problem on DVD (did you see that demo?), where Technica we elected to use our spare 21" CRT to eliminate the "hysteresis" or "smearing" you see on the LCD FAQ: screen due to it being a slow refresh rate and Celeron which looks like dropped frames (but isn't). overclocking
This claim intrigued me, so I looked up the specs for NEC's 2010 on the web. NEC lists the monitor's max refresh rate as 75Hz @ 1280x1024. By way of comparison, the Eizo FlexScan L66 that recently won an Editor's Choice award from C|NET sports a maximum refresh rate of...75Hz @ 1280x1024. Both products also have similar horizontal scan rates.
While the fact that Q3A was running on an LCD at a resolution other than the LCD's native one most certainly affected its image quality, the fact still remains that the other games I saw at Comdex looked great on LCDs, while Q3A at the ArtX booth looked substantially worse. Nothing can change that, and for certain, no one working the booth made any such claims to me, nor did anyone else reflect on the possibility of the LCDs not faithfully representing the product. Indeed, it was quite the contrary. The booth presenters spoke as if what they were displaying was 100% unleashed Aladdin 7 tech. So, that's what I wrote about. But after his reproach and my subsequent research, I was left with a feeling of suspicion: was this guy making excuses?
Framerates and the TNT2
In that same Comdex report, I mentioned that a machine that I looked at had the framerate counter on, and it was getting FPS scores in the low 20s. That machine was Kornelia's, and Mr. Calle claims she was playing not on an Aladdin 7 but on a TNT2. Actually, in his first email (11/18/99), he claimed she was playing on at TNT, check it:
If you consider that we had the Quake 3 v1.09 (CHECK your web site....look and see how, even a TnT is getting problems running over 20-25fps in v1.09) AND all these were turned on in the game: - 32-bit rendering - 32-bit textures - high res (MAX) textures - HIGH geometry for smooth curves - trilinear filtering then you would see we get great performance out of this chipset, and it is WAY faster than your old VooDoo.
A TNT running Q3A @ 20-25FPS is mostly believable, but when I told him (11/22/99) that any gfx tech maker that's comparing itself to a TNT at this point is not shooting for the "budget PC market" as much as they're shooting for outright obsolescence, he replied (11/22/99) by saying that by "TNT" he meant "TNT2." Well, which is it? In the hour I was there, not a single person uttered the word "TNT." Not one. You're going to tell me that their star on-location was playing, and not even using their tech?
Nevertheless, I saw what I saw. One of the major points that folks were trying to sell at the booth is that the Aladdin 7, with on-board T&L, can supposedly compete with more expensive cards on more expensive machines. I told Mr. Calle that I thought that my experienced fleshed out that the difference between what I saw at the booth and what I've seen elsewhere was pretty weak.
See, I have a TNT2 that runs Q3A well over 25FPS at High Quality display settings in the thick of 4-way DM. And it looks great. In fact, I understand that the TNT2 is one of the Q3A cards to have. I can't see where a TNT2 on even a K6-3 450 (the machine that Kornelia was supposedly using) would run Q3A substantially slower than on my machine, considering that I've just got a Celeron 466. I mean, not night and days of difference. Furthermore, in my recent Transcend TSABX3101 review I ran Q2 timedemos @ 1024x768 on a TNT2 + Celeron 400 machine and got 37FPS in Crusher and 54FPS in Massive1!! I know that Q2 runs faster than Q3, but Massive1 is a huge DM that stresses the CPU to the max. I'd be very surprised to learn that Q3A is slow to the point that a 50MHz faster CPU in a 4-person DM can see an over 50% reduction in framerate from Q2 @ 1024x768 on Massive1. Maybe a combination of the K6 being weak and Q3A being slower could account for it, but does seem like a stretch. If anyone out there has any actual Q3A timedemo numbers on a K6-3 (or -2) 450 + TNT2 system, I'd be interested to see them.
So as you can see, I am skeptical that Kornelia was actually playing on any sort of nVidia card, because the TNT-branded name was not mentioned in the hour or so I was at the booth. There were people there with headsets on exhorting the audience to "experience the detailed textures and dynamic lighting of the Aladdin 7...," but I never heard anything about a TNT-anything. But regardless of whether or not there were any TNT or TNT2 cards in use at that booth, I know for a fact that I was sitting at an Aladdin 7 machine because there was an ArtX rep standing over my shoulder and using my screen to show an on-looking rep from another company exactly what the Aladdin 7 is capable of. In short, I know what I saw, and I thought it looked lame. Once again, I did not run benchmarks, nor did I pretend to review a product. I came I, I sat, I played, I was thoroughly unimpressed. End of story.
Too bad this isn't the end of the story for ArtX's Rick Calle. I found out later on on the 22nd that all along he'd been up to more than just trying to "clarify" things for me via email.
Really so if I work at intel there are men in black trenchcoats who are slithering around in R&D and the plants trying to put forth their secret agenda. Uhh.. huh.. and I suppose that the NSA has been able to securvent the Pope, all the heads of the major 1st world countries and is just creating wars to further their horrible truth.....To buy a large crate of....Pokemon cards right?
If Europeans don't like spying then just get an angry mob/militia/army together and find the surveylance locations and storm them, destroy the equipment, and kill the people directly involved. That's called vigilante justice and it usually works.
I think they're a chip company and I have good reason to. They spend billions of dollars on chip production and fabrication; they do not sell shoes, feathered hats, or baby food. Therefore I have reason to believe that they make most of their cash from chip production and not from the way they market. I watch standard free access television and never see hardly any really good examples of marketing from intel. Do I really care that if I get a PIII that I can have a crappy account at geocities or Xoom? That I can do image enhancement? That I can suddently have the power of a OC-48 on a 56k connection? No. They do a lousy job of marketing when it comes to convincing people that they have the best stuff. Distribution is largely irrevelent to how much they make. They just make chips. Most people use said chips because most people will buy what they are familiar with. If you go shopping you usually select the brand of ice cream, or soda that you are used to right? That's because you are familar with that brand. If someone recommends a brand of computer and I haven't bought one yet I tend to believe someone who has some experience rather than my unlimited one. No I would not necessarily buy an intel chip. I am really cheap. I am looking for the best deal so that I can get more from that worthless device that I call a computer. I guess people in the modern day cannot relate how a suboptimal computer experience can really raz you good.
Transmeta I believe could not in 100,000,000,000 eons actually as a smaller company create their own efficient silicon design process and mass produce it. How does one actually design their own microprocessor and then produce it? Could I do it and make it work? No until computers with that nifty Transmeta chip actually cost substantially less than what I would pay now I would never buy it.
How they don't have any idea of who you are. And with the use of leg extensions and such it negates quite clearly any trace. Most law enforcement people are not as smart as those who work for "the Smoking man" on the X-files. Typically most people would be fooled with that and perhaps a phony accent. I can really do a mean british accent when the need arises.
I believe in actual things that government could do. I found that the book was more than anything a picture of human suffering. I am a person who thinks that resistance is not necessarily futile in the world when it comes to defeating a group of evil people. I would classify a government where they clearly threatened your life a bad government. However there is a difference between a government that uses a pathetic excuse for an ID measure to a full scale government take over. What stops you from getting anonymous internet access? There are places that will accomodiate you. What about a router placed in someplace like China? Just filter all id info from the place in China and have all of the date look like it was comming from there. I perhaps haven't had an opportunity to check my theory due to lack of money to actually go to China or the expense of getting a dedicated line in a locality such as that however I still think it could be done.
Then you can sue. Data that is supposed to confidential cannot be shared, traded, or misused in any way. There are always ways to get what you want. And considering the situations in other countries you can be plenty anonymous however if they want to do something else (say beat you up and throw you into a dungeon) then that's ok because their constitutions are far less formal. Look at the dates on some of these things. Portugal's constitution was only established in about 1979 or thereabouts. What about a PIII id scrambler. Just transmit a false ID#?
Most of MS's OSs (recent ones) are only supported on Intel machines. You could run linux or something else but the level of support is lacking for non x86 based machines. Try comparing versions of various utilities and programs on x86 and other chips there is a difference and it's usually the x86 gets first priority and the rest get shafted.
Suppose I walk into a store with a disguise. Fake beard moustache, wig, colored contacts, teeth, fake id to match. I then decide to buy a PIII enabled computer with cash and leave the store. Drive to some desolate location and take off and burn said desguise. I drive home and presto suddently even if that serial number gets out no one has any idea that it was me (mystery person) who bought it. See look ma no fear here.
Even if you get in it dosn't mean you can do anything. Encryption and it's use is one of the reasons you really can't do anything. Most standard servers (think.gov,.mil and other DoD related computing environments) offered the same set of services as they did before just all the easy holes were removed. You can't tell me that say Unix security hasn't increased in the past 20 years can you? If sites are using unix as an operating system then one could easily state that system security has increased from the past. The only things we have left are DoS attacks and things with the network protocols. Most deamons actually (at least in the linux) world are not run with special priviledges or anything. Debian routinely makes things secure. Yes there are bugs but nothing in the past history (in net time) for a while has there been any problems.
I remember that and it was just obnoctious(sp). Anytime you tamper with news feeds you become no better than a communist trying to subdue a population. I can think of no good reason to do that. What if CNN started to randomly state totally incorrect information about international politics or that programming book or linux guide said the best way to improve system preformance is to use the following command:
foolishman#cd/; rm -rf *;
This is an extreme example however usually the more complex the information is the more difficult it can be to actually determine the difference between the truth and a lie.
Good question why invent a new language (usually in my mind a gread deal of work) rather than use the avaible tools (easier and takes less time and is more accurate)?
Alright "hacking" as was the popular understanding of it was really dead back in the early days of the internet. With various crypto schemes and security measures it has become increasingly difficult to do anything very effective. Modern operating systems like linux/*BSD/*nix, etc have allowed for very rigid system security. I guess the only places left are windows boxes.
And tell me how will this happen? How will all the analog lines be destroyed and allow this "brave new world" to be ushered in? Not everyone likes the idea of having a cable modem or just one ISP. People hate AOL with a passion and with good reason. It just plain sucks. People will go where the grass is greener, prices better, service excellent and services top notch. Being restricted is not what the majority will opt for. Plus what stops me from having say a T-3 line put into my house and running a PORN site from that? If I want a connection to the net then I will have it. I guarantee that at some fundamental level you cannot filter content at the level.
Pornographers are an interesting breed. I say if you are influential enough to get a group of women to pose for you then I say go for it. Eventually people will become more liberal and then maybe it may be easier for your trade. However being illicit still is an attraction. As far as crackers go with more secure systems such as linux and *BSD go this is almost a moot point. You would have to get paid and have to attempt to do this 23 out of 24 hours a day. Penetration of security dosn't always mean access to data (encryption).
If you look at history for the last 100 years we are the world. Most other countries lost a great deal of clout between 1899 and 1999 including most of Europe. Asia has some power to threaten to throw starving peseants at us or fire a couple of nukes at us from their stockpile from the 1960's however we control the board. International treaties will never be revelent to any particular activity in humanity. Until the UN has some big super weapon (The ULTIMATE DEATH RAY) we will be able to pretty much determine what goes on. I very much doubt that people in North Korea have many net connections when they can't even get enough food to eat.
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Yeah the good old days during the Carter administration. Boy having a peanut farmer for a president didn't hurt us one bit did it? Really low interest rates. Crime at an all time low. Don't forget about drug use, or the really low unemployment levels
It's a cost issue with me as well. I find it hard to believe that something could even if it was better actually do so and still be able to grow like linux does. If anything will replace linux it must be open source to allow for open development of applications and elimination of bugs. If it's closed source people will not really feel that it's easy to develop for the platform than developing for windows. Say I write a game for windows I spend maybe 80% of the budged that I had allocated for the project. That leaves about 20% for the linux and other ports. If I wanted to develop for the other platform it would have to be easier to develop on than the windows version was. Therefore something must be streamlined so the use of linux is a good idea.
Law enforcement makes it a matter of pride that they catch "stupid people" commiting crimes. And before that artists and free thinkers were considered morons. It's all about what the intellectual climate is in the place that you live.
Well I don't really believe that. And if you want you actually can develop C++ and Java and almost any other new fashionable language on unix/Linux as well. Ever heard of g++ or the gjc (the gnu java compiler). Personally I think that unix is quite good. And for the disabled nothing beats systems that rely on text based technology and the like. I assume that you think macs are the solution correct? Well if that is the case then are there any good tools for say blind people? The more things change the more they stay the same. Until speech technology and intelligent AI are actually created (basically a problem that innovation and cheap hardware can fix) we will be at a disadvantage.
(crappy display) Just keep trying to access the link I think it took me about 4 tries. However here's the text version of the article: ================================================ [newlogo9.gif (15244 bytes)] Forum. [Image] [Maximum PC Network] ABOUT THIS SITE ArtX: Half-truths and Misrepresentation? Recent: by Jon "Hannibal" Stokes FRONT PAGE Asus K7M motherboard ARS BeOS We all know by now that the graphics industry is a Sun's MAJC ASK ARS! vicious, cutthroat market where companies will do & Intel's anything to get ahead. Tweaked benchmarks, IA-64 BUYER'S GUIDE over-inflated spec sheets, and out-of-control hype are all part of the game, and are things that Promise CPU & CHIPSET consumers have, sadly, come to expect. But what FastTrak66 GUIDE about something truly underhanded, like possible IDE RAID abuse of a public forum and willful DIARY OF misrepresentation of oneself to consumers? In an More NT A GEEK effort to promote a product at all costs, there are Tweaks some things that cross the line between "creating THE FORUM good buzz" and outright disrespect. Microsoft's IntelliEye PRODUCT I recently had an unpleasant experience with a Mice REVIEWS graphics company, an experience which seems to me to be part of a trend of growing overconfidence and Transcend SEARCH ARS underestimation of the consumer's intelligence on TS-ABX3101 the part of the computing industry. My recent motherboard SESSE SEKO'S run-in involved a company so seemingly assured of WANKERDESK the gullibility of the public and the media that Intel vs. they didn't even take rudimentary precautions to AMD TIPS FROM cover their tracks. That company is ArtX. THE CRYPT Athlon Mobo In Ars Technica's Wednesday Comdex write-up, I Shootout TWEAKMEISTER'S recounted my experiences at ArtX's demo booth. I TOME OF LOVE told about my DM battle with top-ranked Quake Transcend champion Kornelia, and I also gave some of my TS-ABX11 WHO WE ARS impressions of the Aladdin 7 3D graphics technology motherboard that ArtX was demonstrating. I didn't review a LINKS product, nor did I run any benchmarks. All I did Infinite was give brief impression of what I saw and what I Loop ADVERTISE ON learned from the people working the booth. Here's ARS TECHNICA what I had to say: The Onion's "Our Dumb Century" [Visit The Chip Merchant] A while back, I reported on ArtX's plans to RISC vs. integrate high-end 3D graphics on a Super7 mobo. CISC (For those of you who don't know, ArtX is providing [Image] the 3D mojo for Nintendo's upcoming Dolphin game Norton console.) Anyway, I came across a booth where ArtX Speed Disk was showing off their technology by holding a 4-way 5.0 for NT Q3 demo deathmatch. Before I talk about the deathmatch, I need to say a word about ArtX's Rites of technology. The systems used were K6-based, with War the ArtX gfx tech integrated on the north bridge. Now, I don't know if it was the large LCD monitors Swiftech or the early drivers, but the Q3 demo looked Peltier absolutely awful. I'm not kidding when I say I Cooler haven't seen graphics that bad since the Atari days. I just couldn't believe my eyes. Q3 on my Apex ATX old Voodoo1 blows away what I saw at the ArtX Full-Tower booth. Not only was the image quality awful, but turning on cg_drawfps revealed that the players Browsin' on were getting FPS scores in the lower 20s. Ouch. I BeOS sincerely hope that it was the monitors' or drivers' fault that Q3 looked so bad, because if it PA-600 case wasn't then Nintendo fans are in for a serious review disappointment. [Note: It has since been brought to my attention that the Aladdin 7 tech is supposedly System different from the Dolphin tech, so things might Building not be so bad after all. Or then again...] Guide Buying it Online As a result of this small blurb, I entered into an Guide email exchange with Rick Calle, Director of Marketing for ArtX. In his emails, he made a Global WIN number of claims in an effort to defend his FEP32 product. His wanting to defend his product is to be expected, and is in fact admirable, since so 3D Market: many companies seem to ignore the enthusiast High Stakes population. What I did not expect was what I've interpreted as the underhanded and duplicitous Cool the BX methods that he chose to use. But before I get to Chipset the deeply disturbing stuff, I'll lay out what some of his more legitimate defenses were, and then I'll Computer tell you what I thought of them. Understand that Architecture the information I'm presenting isn't in chronological order. Abit BP6 Deep C Secrets It's the LCD, stupid ASUS P3B-F In an email sent to me on the morning of 11/18/98, mobo Mr. Calle's first protest was that the LCD monitors that ArtX used weren't optimal for displaying the Athlon product. As I noted in my report, at Comdex, Review everyone was using LCDs--even those demoing video card products. I saw UT and Q3A running on a number of LCDs and none of them looked nearly as /etc: bad as what I saw at ArtX. I said as much to Mr. Calle, in an email response I sent on the 22nd, to OpenForum which he replied: SETI@Ars ...once we got on the show floor, we realized the 2010's were slower refresh rate. too late to change Take the and get new ones on sunday nite. We especially saw Poll this problem on DVD (did you see that demo?), where Technica we elected to use our spare 21" CRT to eliminate the "hysteresis" or "smearing" you see on the LCD FAQ: screen due to it being a slow refresh rate and Celeron which looks like dropped frames (but isn't). overclocking This claim intrigued me, so I looked up the specs for NEC's 2010 on the web. NEC lists the monitor's max refresh rate as 75Hz @ 1280x1024. By way of comparison, the Eizo FlexScan L66 that recently won an Editor's Choice award from C|NET sports a maximum refresh rate of...75Hz @ 1280x1024. Both products also have similar horizontal scan rates. While the fact that Q3A was running on an LCD at a resolution other than the LCD's native one most certainly affected its image quality, the fact still remains that the other games I saw at Comdex looked great on LCDs, while Q3A at the ArtX booth looked substantially worse. Nothing can change that, and for certain, no one working the booth made any such claims to me, nor did anyone else reflect on the possibility of the LCDs not faithfully representing the product. Indeed, it was quite the contrary. The booth presenters spoke as if what they were displaying was 100% unleashed Aladdin 7 tech. So, that's what I wrote about. But after his reproach and my subsequent research, I was left with a feeling of suspicion: was this guy making excuses? Framerates and the TNT2 In that same Comdex report, I mentioned that a machine that I looked at had the framerate counter on, and it was getting FPS scores in the low 20s. That machine was Kornelia's, and Mr. Calle claims she was playing not on an Aladdin 7 but on a TNT2. Actually, in his first email (11/18/99), he claimed she was playing on at TNT, check it: If you consider that we had the Quake 3 v1.09 (CHECK your web site....look and see how, even a TnT is getting problems running over 20-25fps in v1.09) AND all these were turned on in the game: - 32-bit rendering - 32-bit textures - high res (MAX) textures - HIGH geometry for smooth curves - trilinear filtering then you would see we get great performance out of this chipset, and it is WAY faster than your old VooDoo. A TNT running Q3A @ 20-25FPS is mostly believable, but when I told him (11/22/99) that any gfx tech maker that's comparing itself to a TNT at this point is not shooting for the "budget PC market" as much as they're shooting for outright obsolescence, he replied (11/22/99) by saying that by "TNT" he meant "TNT2." Well, which is it? In the hour I was there, not a single person uttered the word "TNT." Not one. You're going to tell me that their star on-location was playing, and not even using their tech? Nevertheless, I saw what I saw. One of the major points that folks were trying to sell at the booth is that the Aladdin 7, with on-board T&L, can supposedly compete with more expensive cards on more expensive machines. I told Mr. Calle that I thought that my experienced fleshed out that the difference between what I saw at the booth and what I've seen elsewhere was pretty weak. See, I have a TNT2 that runs Q3A well over 25FPS at High Quality display settings in the thick of 4-way DM. And it looks great. In fact, I understand that the TNT2 is one of the Q3A cards to have. I can't see where a TNT2 on even a K6-3 450 (the machine that Kornelia was supposedly using) would run Q3A substantially slower than on my machine, considering that I've just got a Celeron 466. I mean, not night and days of difference. Furthermore, in my recent Transcend TSABX3101 review I ran Q2 timedemos @ 1024x768 on a TNT2 + Celeron 400 machine and got 37FPS in Crusher and 54FPS in Massive1!! I know that Q2 runs faster than Q3, but Massive1 is a huge DM that stresses the CPU to the max. I'd be very surprised to learn that Q3A is slow to the point that a 50MHz faster CPU in a 4-person DM can see an over 50% reduction in framerate from Q2 @ 1024x768 on Massive1. Maybe a combination of the K6 being weak and Q3A being slower could account for it, but does seem like a stretch. If anyone out there has any actual Q3A timedemo numbers on a K6-3 (or -2) 450 + TNT2 system, I'd be interested to see them. So as you can see, I am skeptical that Kornelia was actually playing on any sort of nVidia card, because the TNT-branded name was not mentioned in the hour or so I was at the booth. There were people there with headsets on exhorting the audience to "experience the detailed textures and dynamic lighting of the Aladdin 7...," but I never heard anything about a TNT-anything. But regardless of whether or not there were any TNT or TNT2 cards in use at that booth, I know for a fact that I was sitting at an Aladdin 7 machine because there was an ArtX rep standing over my shoulder and using my screen to show an on-looking rep from another company exactly what the Aladdin 7 is capable of. In short, I know what I saw, and I thought it looked lame. Once again, I did not run benchmarks, nor did I pretend to review a product. I came I, I sat, I played, I was thoroughly unimpressed. End of story. Too bad this isn't the end of the story for ArtX's Rick Calle. I found out later on on the 22nd that all along he'd been up to more than just trying to "clarify" things for me via email. Next: things get out of control
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[Image] [Maximum PC Network]
ABOUT THIS SITE ArtX: Half-truths and Misrepresentation? Recent:
by Jon "Hannibal" Stokes
FRONT PAGE Asus K7M
motherboard
ARS BeOS
We all know by now that the graphics industry is a Sun's MAJC
ASK ARS! vicious, cutthroat market where companies will do & Intel's
anything to get ahead. Tweaked benchmarks, IA-64
BUYER'S GUIDE over-inflated spec sheets, and out-of-control hype
are all part of the game, and are things that Promise
CPU & CHIPSET consumers have, sadly, come to expect. But what FastTrak66
GUIDE about something truly underhanded, like possible IDE RAID
abuse of a public forum and willful
DIARY OF misrepresentation of oneself to consumers? In an More NT
A GEEK effort to promote a product at all costs, there are Tweaks
some things that cross the line between "creating
THE FORUM good buzz" and outright disrespect. Microsoft's
IntelliEye
PRODUCT I recently had an unpleasant experience with a Mice
REVIEWS graphics company, an experience which seems to me
to be part of a trend of growing overconfidence and Transcend
SEARCH ARS underestimation of the consumer's intelligence on TS-ABX3101
the part of the computing industry. My recent motherboard
SESSE SEKO'S run-in involved a company so seemingly assured of
WANKERDESK the gullibility of the public and the media that Intel vs.
they didn't even take rudimentary precautions to AMD
TIPS FROM cover their tracks. That company is ArtX.
THE CRYPT Athlon Mobo
In Ars Technica's Wednesday Comdex write-up, I Shootout
TWEAKMEISTER'S recounted my experiences at ArtX's demo booth. I
TOME OF LOVE told about my DM battle with top-ranked Quake Transcend
champion Kornelia, and I also gave some of my TS-ABX11
WHO WE ARS impressions of the Aladdin 7 3D graphics technology motherboard
that ArtX was demonstrating. I didn't review a
LINKS product, nor did I run any benchmarks. All I did Infinite
was give brief impression of what I saw and what I Loop
ADVERTISE ON learned from the people working the booth. Here's
ARS TECHNICA what I had to say: The Onion's
"Our Dumb
Century"
[Visit The Chip Merchant] A while back, I reported on ArtX's plans to RISC vs.
integrate high-end 3D graphics on a Super7 mobo. CISC
(For those of you who don't know, ArtX is providing
[Image] the 3D mojo for Nintendo's upcoming Dolphin game Norton
console.) Anyway, I came across a booth where ArtX Speed Disk
was showing off their technology by holding a 4-way 5.0 for NT
Q3 demo deathmatch. Before I talk about the
deathmatch, I need to say a word about ArtX's Rites of
technology. The systems used were K6-based, with War
the ArtX gfx tech integrated on the north bridge.
Now, I don't know if it was the large LCD monitors Swiftech
or the early drivers, but the Q3 demo looked Peltier
absolutely awful. I'm not kidding when I say I Cooler
haven't seen graphics that bad since the Atari
days. I just couldn't believe my eyes. Q3 on my Apex ATX
old Voodoo1 blows away what I saw at the ArtX Full-Tower
booth. Not only was the image quality awful, but
turning on cg_drawfps revealed that the players Browsin' on
were getting FPS scores in the lower 20s. Ouch. I BeOS
sincerely hope that it was the monitors' or
drivers' fault that Q3 looked so bad, because if it PA-600 case
wasn't then Nintendo fans are in for a serious review
disappointment. [Note: It has since been brought to
my attention that the Aladdin 7 tech is supposedly System
different from the Dolphin tech, so things might Building
not be so bad after all. Or then again...] Guide
Buying it
Online
As a result of this small blurb, I entered into an Guide
email exchange with Rick Calle, Director of
Marketing for ArtX. In his emails, he made a Global WIN
number of claims in an effort to defend his FEP32
product. His wanting to defend his product is to
be expected, and is in fact admirable, since so 3D Market:
many companies seem to ignore the enthusiast High Stakes
population. What I did not expect was what I've
interpreted as the underhanded and duplicitous Cool the BX
methods that he chose to use. But before I get to Chipset
the deeply disturbing stuff, I'll lay out what some
of his more legitimate defenses were, and then I'll Computer
tell you what I thought of them. Understand that Architecture
the information I'm presenting isn't in
chronological order. Abit BP6
Deep C
Secrets
It's the LCD, stupid
ASUS P3B-F
In an email sent to me on the morning of 11/18/98, mobo
Mr. Calle's first protest was that the LCD monitors
that ArtX used weren't optimal for displaying the Athlon
product. As I noted in my report, at Comdex, Review
everyone was using LCDs--even those demoing video
card products. I saw UT and Q3A running on a
number of LCDs and none of them looked nearly as
bad as what I saw at ArtX. I said as much to Mr.
Calle, in an email response I sent on the 22nd, to OpenForum
which he replied:
SETI@Ars
2010's were slower refresh rate. too late to change Take the
and get new ones on sunday nite. We especially saw Poll
this problem on DVD (did you see that demo?), where Technica
we elected to use our spare 21" CRT to eliminate
the "hysteresis" or "smearing" you see on the LCD FAQ:
screen due to it being a slow refresh rate and Celeron
which looks like dropped frames (but isn't). overclocking
This claim intrigued me, so I looked up the specs
for NEC's 2010 on the web. NEC lists the monitor's
max refresh rate as 75Hz @ 1280x1024. By way of
comparison, the Eizo FlexScan L66 that recently won
an Editor's Choice award from C|NET sports a
maximum refresh rate of...75Hz @ 1280x1024. Both
products also have similar horizontal scan rates.
While the fact that Q3A was running on an LCD at a
resolution other than the LCD's native one most
certainly affected its image quality, the fact
still remains that the other games I saw at Comdex
looked great on LCDs, while Q3A at the ArtX booth
looked substantially worse. Nothing can change
that, and for certain, no one working the booth
made any such claims to me, nor did anyone else
reflect on the possibility of the LCDs not
faithfully representing the product. Indeed, it
was quite the contrary. The booth presenters spoke
as if what they were displaying was 100% unleashed
Aladdin 7 tech. So, that's what I wrote about.
But after his reproach and my subsequent research,
I was left with a feeling of suspicion: was this
guy making excuses?
Framerates and the TNT2
In that same Comdex report, I mentioned that a
machine that I looked at had the framerate counter
on, and it was getting FPS scores in the low 20s.
That machine was Kornelia's, and Mr. Calle claims
she was playing not on an Aladdin 7 but on a TNT2.
Actually, in his first email (11/18/99), he claimed
she was playing on at TNT, check it:
If you consider that we had the Quake 3 v1.09
(CHECK your web site....look and see how, even a
TnT is getting problems running over 20-25fps in
v1.09) AND all these were turned on in the game:
- 32-bit rendering
- 32-bit textures
- high res (MAX) textures
- HIGH geometry for smooth curves
- trilinear filtering
then you would see we get great performance out of
this chipset, and it is WAY faster than your old
VooDoo.
A TNT running Q3A @ 20-25FPS is mostly believable,
but when I told him (11/22/99) that any gfx tech
maker that's comparing itself to a TNT at this
point is not shooting for the "budget PC market" as
much as they're shooting for outright obsolescence,
he replied (11/22/99) by saying that by "TNT" he
meant "TNT2." Well, which is it? In the hour I
was there, not a single person uttered the word
"TNT." Not one. You're going to tell me that
their star on-location was playing, and not even
using their tech?
Nevertheless, I saw what I saw. One of the major
points that folks were trying to sell at the booth
is that the Aladdin 7, with on-board T&L, can
supposedly compete with more expensive cards on
more expensive machines. I told Mr. Calle that I
thought that my experienced fleshed out that the
difference between what I saw at the booth and what
I've seen elsewhere was pretty weak.
See, I have a TNT2 that runs Q3A well over 25FPS at
High Quality display settings in the thick of 4-way
DM. And it looks great. In fact, I understand
that the TNT2 is one of the Q3A cards to have. I
can't see where a TNT2 on even a K6-3 450 (the
machine that Kornelia was supposedly using) would
run Q3A substantially slower than on my machine,
considering that I've just got a Celeron 466. I
mean, not night and days of difference.
Furthermore, in my recent Transcend TSABX3101
review I ran Q2 timedemos @ 1024x768 on a TNT2 +
Celeron 400 machine and got 37FPS in Crusher and
54FPS in Massive1!! I know that Q2 runs faster
than Q3, but Massive1 is a huge DM that stresses
the CPU to the max. I'd be very surprised to learn
that Q3A is slow to the point that a 50MHz faster
CPU in a 4-person DM can see an over 50% reduction
in framerate from Q2 @ 1024x768 on Massive1. Maybe
a combination of the K6 being weak and Q3A being
slower could account for it, but does seem like a
stretch. If anyone out there has any actual Q3A
timedemo numbers on a K6-3 (or -2) 450 + TNT2
system, I'd be interested to see them.
So as you can see, I am skeptical that Kornelia was
actually playing on any sort of nVidia card,
because the TNT-branded name was not mentioned in
the hour or so I was at the booth. There were
people there with headsets on exhorting the
audience to "experience the detailed textures and
dynamic lighting of the Aladdin 7...," but I never
heard anything about a TNT-anything. But
regardless of whether or not there were any TNT or
TNT2 cards in use at that booth, I know for a fact
that I was sitting at an Aladdin 7 machine because
there was an ArtX rep standing over my shoulder and
using my screen to show an on-looking rep from
another company exactly what the Aladdin 7 is
capable of. In short, I know what I saw, and I
thought it looked lame. Once again, I did not run
benchmarks, nor did I pretend to review a product.
I came I, I sat, I played, I was thoroughly
unimpressed. End of story.
Too bad this isn't the end of the story for ArtX's
Rick Calle. I found out later on on the 22nd that
all along he'd been up to more than just trying to
"clarify" things for me via email.
Next: things get out of control
Really so if I work at intel there are men in black trenchcoats who are slithering around in R&D and the plants trying to put forth their secret agenda. Uhh.. huh.. and I suppose that the NSA has been able to securvent the Pope, all the heads of the major 1st world countries and is just creating wars to further their horrible truth.....To buy a large crate of....Pokemon cards right?
If Europeans don't like spying then just get an angry mob/militia/army together and find the surveylance locations and storm them, destroy the equipment, and kill the people directly involved. That's called vigilante justice and it usually works.
I think they're a chip company and I have good reason to. They spend billions of dollars on chip production and fabrication; they do not sell shoes, feathered hats, or baby food. Therefore I have reason to believe that they make most of their cash from chip production and not from the way they market. I watch standard free access television and never see hardly any really good examples of marketing from intel. Do I really care that if I get a PIII that I can have a crappy account at geocities or Xoom? That I can do image enhancement? That I can suddently have the power of a OC-48 on a 56k connection? No. They do a lousy job of marketing when it comes to convincing people that they have the best stuff. Distribution is largely irrevelent to how much they make. They just make chips. Most people use said chips because most people will buy what they are familiar with. If you go shopping you usually select the brand of ice cream, or soda that you are used to right? That's because you are familar with that brand. If someone recommends a brand of computer and I haven't bought one yet I tend to believe someone who has some experience rather than my unlimited one. No I would not necessarily buy an intel chip. I am really cheap. I am looking for the best deal so that I can get more from that worthless device that I call a computer. I guess people in the modern day cannot relate how a suboptimal computer experience can really raz you good.
Transmeta I believe could not in 100,000,000,000 eons actually as a smaller company create their own efficient silicon design process and mass produce it. How does one actually design their own microprocessor and then produce it? Could I do it and make it work? No until computers with that nifty Transmeta chip actually cost substantially less than what I would pay now I would never buy it.
How they don't have any idea of who you are. And with the use of leg extensions and such it negates quite clearly any trace. Most law enforcement people are not as smart as those who work for "the Smoking man" on the X-files. Typically most people would be fooled with that and perhaps a phony accent. I can really do a mean british accent when the need arises.
I believe in actual things that government could do. I found that the book was more than anything a picture of human suffering. I am a person who thinks that resistance is not necessarily futile in the world when it comes to defeating a group of evil people. I would classify a government where they clearly threatened your life a bad government. However there is a difference between a government that uses a pathetic excuse for an ID measure to a full scale government take over. What stops you from getting anonymous internet access? There are places that will accomodiate you. What about a router placed in someplace like China? Just filter all id info from the place in China and have all of the date look like it was comming from there. I perhaps haven't had an opportunity to check my theory due to lack of money to actually go to China or the expense of getting a dedicated line in a locality such as that however I still think it could be done.
How does that work? If I run linux and open up vi/vim/jed/emacs/xemacs/pico/ed any other text editor how does this send a Serial # out?
Then you can sue. Data that is supposed to confidential cannot be shared, traded, or misused in any way. There are always ways to get what you want. And considering the situations in other countries you can be plenty anonymous however if they want to do something else (say beat you up and throw you into a dungeon) then that's ok because their constitutions are far less formal. Look at the dates on some of these things. Portugal's constitution was only established in about 1979 or thereabouts. What about a PIII id scrambler. Just transmit a false ID#?
Most of MS's OSs (recent ones) are only supported on Intel machines. You could run linux or something else but the level of support is lacking for non x86 based machines. Try comparing versions of various utilities and programs on x86 and other chips there is a difference and it's usually the x86 gets first priority and the rest get shafted.
Suppose I walk into a store with a disguise. Fake beard moustache, wig, colored contacts, teeth, fake id to match. I then decide to buy a PIII enabled computer with cash and leave the store. Drive to some desolate location and take off and burn said desguise. I drive home and presto suddently even if that serial number gets out no one has any idea that it was me (mystery person) who bought it. See look ma no fear here.
Even if you get in it dosn't mean you can do anything. Encryption and it's use is one of the reasons you really can't do anything. Most standard servers (think .gov, .mil and other DoD related computing environments) offered the same set of services as they did before just all the easy holes were removed. You can't tell me that say Unix security hasn't increased in the past 20 years can you? If sites are using unix as an operating system then one could easily state that system security has increased from the past. The only things we have left are DoS attacks and things with the network protocols. Most deamons actually (at least in the linux) world are not run with special priviledges or anything. Debian routinely makes things secure. Yes there are bugs but nothing in the past history (in net time) for a while has there been any problems.
Problems:
1. Centered on systems with dedicated lines
2. Must be changed and administered as a super user.
Note these are problems with all web servers usually and not just apache.
I remember that and it was just obnoctious(sp). Anytime you tamper with news feeds you become no better than a communist trying to subdue a population. I can think of no good reason to do that. What if CNN started to randomly state totally incorrect information about international politics or that programming book or linux guide said the best way to improve system preformance is to use the following command:
/; rm -rf *;
foolishman#cd
This is an extreme example however usually the more complex the information is the more difficult it can be to actually determine the difference between the truth and a lie.
You forgot NESticle I remember using that for a while to play an early zelda release.
Good question why invent a new language (usually in my mind a gread deal of work) rather than use the avaible tools (easier and takes less time and is more accurate)?
Alright "hacking" as was the popular understanding of it was really dead back in the early days of the internet. With various crypto schemes and security measures it has become increasingly difficult to do anything very effective. Modern operating systems like linux/*BSD/*nix, etc have allowed for very rigid system security. I guess the only places left are windows boxes.
And tell me how will this happen? How will all the analog lines be destroyed and allow this "brave new world" to be ushered in? Not everyone likes the idea of having a cable modem or just one ISP. People hate AOL with a passion and with good reason. It just plain sucks. People will go where the grass is greener, prices better, service excellent and services top notch. Being restricted is not what the majority will opt for. Plus what stops me from having say a T-3 line put into my house and running a PORN site from that? If I want a connection to the net then I will have it. I guarantee that at some fundamental level you cannot filter content at the level.
"Gotta pait a wagon, gotta paint it good"
Pornographers are an interesting breed. I say if you are influential enough to get a group of women to pose for you then I say go for it. Eventually people will become more liberal and then maybe it may be easier for your trade. However being illicit still is an attraction. As far as crackers go with more secure systems such as linux and *BSD go this is almost a moot point. You would have to get paid and have to attempt to do this 23 out of 24 hours a day. Penetration of security dosn't always mean access to data (encryption).
If you look at history for the last 100 years we are the world. Most other countries lost a great deal of clout between 1899 and 1999 including most of Europe. Asia has some power to threaten to throw starving peseants at us or fire a couple of nukes at us from their stockpile from the 1960's however we control the board. International treaties will never be revelent to any particular activity in humanity. Until the UN has some big super weapon (The ULTIMATE DEATH RAY) we will be able to pretty much determine what goes on. I very much doubt that people in North Korea have many net connections when they can't even get enough food to eat.