I'd buy one for sure if you could punch a key combination at POST to get a little flashing cursor and then type "GO 64". It would really be a Commodore then.
The other neat thing you can do with a laptop is put a snapshot of the Wikipedia database on it. It's basically "the guide." I used to do this, before I found I could put a snapshot of Wikipedia on my iPod (which really then is "the guide.")
One of the more subtle bonuses of bringing your own computer is the fact that the keyboard is what you're used to. Nothing's more infuriating than the keys being laid out for another language and hitting the wrong one for the 112th time.
Oh, yeah. And "disposable" laptop. I travel with an old P3 Gateway beast that I got for $100US. I don't care much what happens to it. (Although, for a disposable laptop it seems to be remarkably resilient. I was jacked in at an internet cafe in New Zealand - ended up spilling about a liter of water right in the keyboard. Borrowed a screwdriver and a hair-dryer. Other than the keyboard being completely ruined it was running that night. $9 PS2 keyboard and some eBay action when I got home. That wasn't the first time I abused it either . . . . . . )
What do they have to do with this? Get back to rubber-stamping that patent on the two-dimensional pointer array. Go now, before congress yells at you for not rubber-stamping enough!
Do you really think the people who wrote the kernel can't get around all that ZoneAlarm silliness if they want to? They already ignore the hosts file and such for *.microsoft.com.
So the cover y'see. It needs to be black. Uh huh. Yeah. Like, really black. Blacker than the blackest black. TIMES INFINITY. Okay. And inside of the case is the same black. Also the CD, so when you open the black case what's inside? MORE BLACKNESS! Right. Also, make the other side of the CD black too, so you won't even know WHICH SIDE goes down! You can't do that. The music side has to be shiny. Aw man. That sucks.
Thanks to mathematicians we have delightful little books that are filled with canned solutions to problems which are essentially impossible to solve analytically. I say they can be scientists.
But that's all part of the game man! They'll put flashing lights everywhere. Soon people will see flashing lights and assume it can't possibly be a bomb. Why, by March they'll be able to wrap a WW2-style bomb in xmas lights, put it in the middle of Manhattan, and nobody will care!
How many cpu-kilocenturies do you think can be brought to bear on this project? This is modern crypto. It's not gonna brute force.
In reality though, it won't be needed. DRM is, as a concept, ridiculous. If the user can play it they have the key-chain, starting from plaintext, somehow. The obfuscation of this will eventually be sorted out in quite some detail.
What's faster: drawing a grey box purely in software, or drawing a translucent box with curves, blended edges, and ripples using hardware assist? I prefer having my CPU do actual work rather than feeding the GPU textures and figuring out what it needs to blend with what.
(It does this plenty already. But rinning Half Life is work because that's what I told it I wanted.)
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This is why the entire civilized world (rest of?) has done away with the death penalty. If (and when) the criminal justice system fucks up you can't just go "Oops, sorry dude. Ctrl-Z on killing you." Imprisoning them for years by mistake is terrible, but at least you can let them out.
Set the computers on the shuttle and on the ground for like, May. I can't imagine why they would need the actual date as long as they agree on what it is.
And didn't bother to check, I don't know, the whole fucking internet.
Seriously, why would anyone with anything serious to hide be dumb enough to carry it through customs on a laptop when there are all sorts of ways to slip it through the internet with 100% security and anonymity? The whole searching of laptops thing reeks of political grandstanding and fear mongering. In a sane world, proving that my laptop isn't a bomb should be enough of a routine check for the border.
What if I put my tesla coil in a red wagon and wheeled it down hip-20-something street on friday night, asking girls if I could borrow electricity to make toast?
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But not every crack will propagate, therefore not every hole is a rupture.
I'd buy one for sure if you could punch a key combination at POST to get a little flashing cursor and then type "GO 64". It would really be a Commodore then.
Because only weirdos like us and his three-dozen rabid supporters have any idea who he is. Fewer even know what he looks like.
The other neat thing you can do with a laptop is put a snapshot of the Wikipedia database on it. It's basically "the guide." I used to do this, before I found I could put a snapshot of Wikipedia on my iPod (which really then is "the guide.")
One of the more subtle bonuses of bringing your own computer is the fact that the keyboard is what you're used to. Nothing's more infuriating than the keys being laid out for another language and hitting the wrong one for the 112th time.
Oh, yeah. And "disposable" laptop. I travel with an old P3 Gateway beast that I got for $100US. I don't care much what happens to it. (Although, for a disposable laptop it seems to be remarkably resilient. I was jacked in at an internet cafe in New Zealand - ended up spilling about a liter of water right in the keyboard. Borrowed a screwdriver and a hair-dryer. Other than the keyboard being completely ruined it was running that night. $9 PS2 keyboard and some eBay action when I got home. That wasn't the first time I abused it either . . . . . . )
What do they have to do with this? Get back to rubber-stamping that patent on the two-dimensional pointer array. Go now, before congress yells at you for not rubber-stamping enough!
Do you really think the people who wrote the kernel can't get around all that ZoneAlarm silliness if they want to? They already ignore the hosts file and such for *.microsoft.com.
So the cover y'see. It needs to be black.
Uh huh.
Yeah. Like, really black. Blacker than the blackest black. TIMES INFINITY.
Okay.
And inside of the case is the same black. Also the CD, so when you open the black case what's inside? MORE BLACKNESS!
Right.
Also, make the other side of the CD black too, so you won't even know WHICH SIDE goes down!
You can't do that. The music side has to be shiny.
Aw man. That sucks.
Jurisdiction has never seemed to have much influence on where the take-down notices go . . . .
They can enforce take-down notices against anyone in the US. Fixed.
You fuck with the cops they fuck with you back. This is news?
No, it's not right, but it's not gonna change. 90+ percent of police departments in the world would respond at least as forcefully.
Don't question it! TORTURE UNTIL THE END OF TIME! Don't question it! Give us all your money, and also your daughter. Maybe your son too.
Thanks to mathematicians we have delightful little books that are filled with canned solutions to problems which are essentially impossible to solve analytically. I say they can be scientists.
Excuse me. I'm gonna go build an airplane.
But even if they had used the quad laser, there'd be time to evacuate the entire city and put a pile of Jersey-barriers in its way, so no worries.
But that's all part of the game man! They'll put flashing lights everywhere. Soon people will see flashing lights and assume it can't possibly be a bomb. Why, by March they'll be able to wrap a WW2-style bomb in xmas lights, put it in the middle of Manhattan, and nobody will care!
How many cpu-kilocenturies do you think can be brought to bear on this project? This is modern crypto. It's not gonna brute force.
In reality though, it won't be needed. DRM is, as a concept, ridiculous. If the user can play it they have the key-chain, starting from plaintext, somehow. The obfuscation of this will eventually be sorted out in quite some detail.
That's exactly what I thought, although probably not in the same context.
How do we fight this? Use the Christians. (I don't see why cynical good and cynical evil can't both play this game.)
"OMGWTF. It's the mark of the beast! JUST LIKE IN THE ACID TRIP AT THE END OF THE BIBLE. The sky is falling!"
*cough*DMCA criminal prosecution.*cough*
What's faster: drawing a grey box purely in software, or drawing a translucent box with curves, blended edges, and ripples using hardware assist? I prefer having my CPU do actual work rather than feeding the GPU textures and figuring out what it needs to blend with what.
(It does this plenty already. But rinning Half Life is work because that's what I told it I wanted.)
This is why the entire civilized world (rest of?) has done away with the death penalty. If (and when) the criminal justice system fucks up you can't just go "Oops, sorry dude. Ctrl-Z on killing you." Imprisoning them for years by mistake is terrible, but at least you can let them out.
I've done this in northern Illinois before to perfect effect:
-Drain the pipes.
-If you can't drain pressure tanks or hot-water heaters put just enough electric heat on to keep the basement above freezing. (It doesn't take much.)
-Throw a splash of non-toxic "RV" antifreeze in the toilets (bowl and tank) and drains.
-Empty and turn off the refrigerator.
-Remove canned goods.
This takes a few hours to set up, and you can just let it freeze.
Set the computers on the shuttle and on the ground for like, May. I can't imagine why they would need the actual date as long as they agree on what it is.
Logs will be screwey? Try sed.
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Hate to interrupt your private moments, but that appears to be a ring. ;)
And didn't bother to check, I don't know, the whole fucking internet.
Seriously, why would anyone with anything serious to hide be dumb enough to carry it through customs on a laptop when there are all sorts of ways to slip it through the internet with 100% security and anonymity? The whole searching of laptops thing reeks of political grandstanding and fear mongering. In a sane world, proving that my laptop isn't a bomb should be enough of a routine check for the border.
Yes but, can Captain Encryption get me my computer back?
Better yet, can Captain Encryption keep the G-men from stealing it in the first place?
What if I put my tesla coil in a red wagon and wheeled it down hip-20-something street on friday night, asking girls if I could borrow electricity to make toast?
What if I wore a Jack Skellington costume?