Even worse. I live in a dorm, and regularly play around on the network. There are probably 900 computers with shared resources in a 90.xxx - 100.xxx block here on campus. About 600 of those have read-only unprotected resources, to share with the general public. You can't imagine how many Nimda emails I've seen in those directories. College students love screensavers. This one's going to be a booger.
Anyone know if this one attacks Tiny Personal Firewall? That's my standard installation when I set people up in the dorms.
I'm not even on the IT staff - just a student with a reputation for knowing how to fix computers. People knock on my door at 4:00 AM to fix their printer. Lord help me with this one.
I wrote an app that did the same work about 6 months ago. It started out as an app to set any window to permenantly be on top, and shifted to being a translucency editor for Win2K, too. It even has this nifty little pulse thing that will make a window move between 2 transparencies in a set interval, giving a "glowing" feel.
I submitted it to download.com, but of course, they rejected it. I need to see if I can find a copy somewhere, after 2 hard drive reformats without backing up. Think I'd learn my lesson.
And why exactly is this news? Any Slashdotter could have done the same in 20 minutes.
"But with a flexible battery, smart-card makers could soon include a tiny display screen on the card itself that would allow users easy access to that account data."
Yeah, but just think about how tiny the keyboard would be!
Also, imagine the lawsuits from the headaches it would give people. The general population isn't accustomed to reading its bank statement at a 2pt font.
For the humor impaired, yes, the above is meant as a joke.
Nothing new. Just another way for government to steal personal privacies. Anyone NOT see this one coming?
This is just an extention of the government's basic idea in relation to technology: give no one any privacies, anonyminity, or rights, and we can catch all the bad guys. The only problem is, the cure's worse than the disease. How much are we willing to compromise until there's a severe backlash?
It's really not that bad. I actually really like it, the whole community aspect of the situation. Of course, I live one one of the liveliest floors in the hall. There are engineering floors (Which I was supposed to be on and somehow didn't end up there, thankfully) that are as quiet and boring as dirt. Well, most of the time, anyway. I'm sure they get their share of inebriated 3:00 AM people:).
Don't let me scare you away from the dorms - they're really great, if you like people. If you like quiet and solitude, though, they're NOT the place for you.
No need to switch to water cooling. I leave my computer on 24/7, and me and my roommate are so used to the sound (slight as it is) that it doesn't even bother us. Come to think of it, it'd bother us if it wasn't noisy.
Also, why exactly are you worried about your computer causing too much noise in a college dorm? It's not exactly the library with "quiet please" signs posted everywhere. If there's anyone like me (bass player with a 200 watt amp) or my neighbor (huge sound system with a monstrous subwoofer) in your dorm, your computer is the LEAST of your noise concerns. If the noise bothers you that much, better to look into a) industrial-grade earplugs, or b) apartments.
Uh, sorry, what? Is anyone out there still *not* using PNG?
In my job as a web scripter, we can't use PNG, as policy dictates that we be compatible with as many browsers as possible. Netscape 4.x isn't compatible without a plugin, so it's a no go. That browser has caused more grief than all the others combines.
On the flip side, we can't use GD to generate GIFs, as there's no GIF support, so all we're left with are JPEGs with calculated backgrounds. No transparencies.
If you're gonna ship UPS, maybe you should consider shipping a NeXT Cube. Those babies are just nearly indestructable. Their only recourse will be to incinerate it!
Maybe you COULD write "indestructable" on this one!
How many of those using p2p are under legal voting age? Yeah, the biggest users are probably the college crowd, but I suspect a substantial number of them are the junior high and high school crowd. My brother, who is in 8th grade, has a collection of several thousand MP3s, and it'll be 4 years till he can vote. The correlation is bound to be flawed.
I saw The One on Friday night, and I thought it was a really neat concept, just poorly executed. Did the numbers on all the gauges really need to be in that wierd pseudo-Kanji font?
The funny thing is, I have that particular font on my computer (It's called Far East, I believe). These days, quite often, I'll watch a commercial, or a show, or a movie, or something like that and see something written in a font that was downloaded off of one of those free font sites with 6 bazillion popup windows, and recognize it.
Kinda destroys the 'coolness' factor. And makes it easier for me to duplicate it;)
The biggest potential users of this would have been the Slashdot types, and we're known for being fierce advocates of open-source and free (as in beer) software. The kind of "Why pay for something when you can write it yourself?" mentality is what helped kill it.
The people that are most concerned about encryption are those least willing to pay for it.
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I totally agree. A good deal of my life was spent equipping me with the tools to form opinions. My dad isn't preaching this to me - he wrote it and sent it to me for me to mull over and form my own opinions on it. It just so happens I quite agree with this particular position.
My dad doesn't advocate violence. He would never actually punch a demonstrator - he simply wrote this to get a point across. His weapons are words.
Preaching violence IS wrong. Perhaps it was somewhat misinterpreted. The point is not to say "punch demonstrators" but to explain why force is sometimes necessary.
The gender thing...it's a fricking analogy, intended to get the point across. I don't condone such violence, and would certainly never attack someone else without being attacked first. It's meant to prove a point. Gender's irrelevant.
You say govt is violence. Lack of government is anarchy. See how much violence you get there. Just the lesser of two evils.
We pointed to the gun at are side. It didn't work, so now we've pulled it out and the Taliban's staring down the barral. If you just keep pointing at the gun, they're not gonna care. You have to prove you're serious.
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Even worse. I live in a dorm, and regularly play around on the network. There are probably 900 computers with shared resources in a 90.xxx - 100.xxx block here on campus. About 600 of those have read-only unprotected resources, to share with the general public. You can't imagine how many Nimda emails I've seen in those directories. College students love screensavers. This one's going to be a booger.
Anyone know if this one attacks Tiny Personal Firewall? That's my standard installation when I set people up in the dorms.
I'm not even on the IT staff - just a student with a reputation for knowing how to fix computers. People knock on my door at 4:00 AM to fix their printer. Lord help me with this one.
Yeah, just wait till Segway/KillKillKill.FlashROM comes out.
Recognize when a user wants to stop and accelerate them to 90 MPH.
We'll have assassins running around with ROM flashers. Yeesh.
I wrote an app that did the same work about 6 months ago. It started out as an app to set any window to permenantly be on top, and shifted to being a translucency editor for Win2K, too. It even has this nifty little pulse thing that will make a window move between 2 transparencies in a set interval, giving a "glowing" feel.
I submitted it to download.com, but of course, they rejected it. I need to see if I can find a copy somewhere, after 2 hard drive reformats without backing up. Think I'd learn my lesson.
And why exactly is this news? Any Slashdotter could have done the same in 20 minutes.
On the other hand, maybe that's NOT such a great idea.
Give us the card number, and we'll be happy to slashdot it for you. :)
Yeah, but just think about how tiny the keyboard would be!
Also, imagine the lawsuits from the headaches it would give people. The general population isn't accustomed to reading its bank statement at a 2pt font.
For the humor impaired, yes, the above is meant as a joke.
This is just an extention of the government's basic idea in relation to technology: give no one any privacies, anonyminity, or rights, and we can catch all the bad guys. The only problem is, the cure's worse than the disease. How much are we willing to compromise until there's a severe backlash?
It's really not that bad. I actually really like it, the whole community aspect of the situation. Of course, I live one one of the liveliest floors in the hall. There are engineering floors (Which I was supposed to be on and somehow didn't end up there, thankfully) that are as quiet and boring as dirt. Well, most of the time, anyway. I'm sure they get their share of inebriated 3:00 AM people :).
Don't let me scare you away from the dorms - they're really great, if you like people. If you like quiet and solitude, though, they're NOT the place for you.
Also, why exactly are you worried about your computer causing too much noise in a college dorm? It's not exactly the library with "quiet please" signs posted everywhere. If there's anyone like me (bass player with a 200 watt amp) or my neighbor (huge sound system with a monstrous subwoofer) in your dorm, your computer is the LEAST of your noise concerns. If the noise bothers you that much, better to look into a) industrial-grade earplugs, or b) apartments.
In my job as a web scripter, we can't use PNG, as policy dictates that we be compatible with as many browsers as possible. Netscape 4.x isn't compatible without a plugin, so it's a no go. That browser has caused more grief than all the others combines.
On the flip side, we can't use GD to generate GIFs, as there's no GIF support, so all we're left with are JPEGs with calculated backgrounds. No transparencies.
Or you could just eliminate the human aspect of the network.
Imagine, once we develop A.I.
"I'm sorry, Dave. You are theweakestlink! Goodbye!"
Maybe you COULD write "indestructable" on this one!
...and here I am thinking that we're all talking about Grand Theft Auto 3...
How many of those using p2p are under legal voting age? Yeah, the biggest users are probably the college crowd, but I suspect a substantial number of them are the junior high and high school crowd. My brother, who is in 8th grade, has a collection of several thousand MP3s, and it'll be 4 years till he can vote. The correlation is bound to be flawed.
The funny thing is, I have that particular font on my computer (It's called Far East, I believe). These days, quite often, I'll watch a commercial, or a show, or a movie, or something like that and see something written in a font that was downloaded off of one of those free font sites with 6 bazillion popup windows, and recognize it.
Kinda destroys the 'coolness' factor. And makes it easier for me to duplicate it ;)
Sheesh.
Well, we all know how bug-free Internet Expl...<This program has caused an illegal operation in module kernel.dll and will now be terminated>
On a side note, he probably married his car because they're non-emotional and don't get PMS. No longer.
As if we don't have enough emotional stuff to deal with...now a car?
The biggest potential users of this would have been the Slashdot types, and we're known for being fierce advocates of open-source and free (as in beer) software. The kind of "Why pay for something when you can write it yourself?" mentality is what helped kill it.
The people that are most concerned about encryption are those least willing to pay for it.
I've got your Big Bird right here.
If they were a government much like ours, yeah, I could see where you'd be right. But they're not. Different cultures, different governments.
My dad doesn't advocate violence. He would never actually punch a demonstrator - he simply wrote this to get a point across. His weapons are words.
Preaching violence IS wrong. Perhaps it was somewhat misinterpreted. The point is not to say "punch demonstrators" but to explain why force is sometimes necessary.
Sorry.
You say govt is violence. Lack of government is anarchy. See how much violence you get there. Just the lesser of two evils.
We pointed to the gun at are side. It didn't work, so now we've pulled it out and the Taliban's staring down the barral. If you just keep pointing at the gun, they're not gonna care. You have to prove you're serious.