One thing I've always wondered about script kiddies: who writes their tools for them, and why? What does the actual black hat get out of the deal? It's not like script kiddies pay for things.
Is it for fame? Signal-to-noise manipulation? Are the little fuckers getting "0wn3d" by backdoors in their "1337 h4x0r t00lz"?
As a graduate assistant in engineering it really is either coffee or cigarettes. They can't seem to decide whether coffee is mostly harmless or slightly helpful, but nobody's gonna argue that cigarettes aren't bad for you.
It's fairly easy to test whether a hypothysis is true. Finding the right hypothysis is the tricky bit. Science doesn't have the answer yet, but it knows quite well that the old testament doesn't either.
You might even say that creationism, or perhaps religion itself, is a bit like a virus.
Idiots believe it, spread it to other idiots and to their own stupid children. Faced with a hostile environment (ie science proving it's bunk) it adapts to a form better able to survive.
You're half right. It will be auctioned off, but the public won't make any money on it. It will doubtlessly be sold for pennies on the dollar as a nice kickback to the big telcos who bought congress its crack.
MPlayer is, of course, illegal in several countries (at least if you're playing encrypted DVDs, which anything with shit to be skipped will be.)
Still, I'm hardly deterred by that. I'd like to see them try to sue someone for playing a disc that they personally own. I after all know the Kryptonite of any standard corporate lawyer-ninja squad: the jury trial. You'll be hard pressed to find a jury that will award against Joe Q. Public to a multi-billion dollar corporation for doing something that seems reasonable.
Of course, that does nothing to shield the MPlayer dev team, who are (mostly) safe at the moment only because they live outside of US jurisdiction.
Because Vorbis and FLAC were deliberatley designed to avoid the patents used in similar technologies. Since nothing's come up yet on the subject I suspect they got it right.
Same here. I'm not even sure I have a (working) standalone CD player. The deck in my car has been broken for a year (ipod + itrip = who cares?) I guess I still have the old portable CD player someplace, but I haven't used that since 2002 . . . .
When I buy a CD it's completely for the content. It literally spins once while the designated computer rips it and encodes it to flac. After that it goes in a drawer and is forgotten about. The flac copy becomes the master copy for whatever I do from then on.
If only I had some mod points to shield this "troll" from all the fundies pissed about their precious little psychosis being attacked . . . . . .
On topic, I've always found that the best way to explain atheism is to break down the word: atheism is literally the lack of theology.
I, as an atheist believe nothing. This is very different from believing in nothing (which is the definition they like to use when calling us damned infidels.) To believe there is NO God is as arrogant and baseless as believing that there is one.
I believe his source was the comments the White House press secretary made on the subject. I for one believe it. The White House would never lie to us. Never. Not even a little.
Okay, maybe a little. There was that whole Iraq war thing, and the CIA leak, and the torture of POWs, and the environmental regulations, and the medicare reforms, and the tax cuts . . . .
But that's irrelivant! Bush is Jesus Jr! USA! USA! USA! USA!
Couldn't somebody pull out the leaked Win2K code and take a look? If the relevant bits are in that collection it would be clear enough what's going on.
(I don't do security-related coding and don't have the code anyway. Don't sue me.)
Exactly. It should be possible to throw together inexpensive voting machines, with paper record, using comodity hardware with no design work.
They can run some sort of Linux (or, perhaps better, the wonderfully paranoid OpenBSD) as the underlying OS. Maybe throw together the voting software in Python (easy to read, less chance of overruns). Give the thing a nice web interface and bam!
Then wait 36 hours for Diebold to buy through a law baning open source in voting machines.;)
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One thing I've always wondered about script kiddies: who writes their tools for them, and why? What does the actual black hat get out of the deal? It's not like script kiddies pay for things.
Is it for fame? Signal-to-noise manipulation? Are the little fuckers getting "0wn3d" by backdoors in their "1337 h4x0r t00lz"?
Or is it something else entirely?
Insane? Brilliant?
Maybe they're just confused and trying to cover for a botched launch.
As a graduate assistant in engineering it really is either coffee or cigarettes. They can't seem to decide whether coffee is mostly harmless or slightly helpful, but nobody's gonna argue that cigarettes aren't bad for you.
I'll take the lesser evil/not-evil.
That's what microdroids are for.
But that sounds an awful lot like marketing speak. Until I see otherwise I'm throwing this in with the "iPod Killers."
And I thought the Intel compiler ignoring features of AMD chips when it knows full well how to use them was brazen . . . . . . .
Doubtful, but I would think that they could face confiscation by the crew and cops on the ground for it if anyone wanted to get serious.
It's fairly easy to test whether a hypothysis is true. Finding the right hypothysis is the tricky bit. Science doesn't have the answer yet, but it knows quite well that the old testament doesn't either.
I'm not sure how you define "true" religion, but I see it like this:
Science looks for the truth. Religion makes the truth up and then deludes itself into thinking that the "truth" always was.
You might even say that creationism, or perhaps religion itself, is a bit like a virus.
Idiots believe it, spread it to other idiots and to their own stupid children. Faced with a hostile environment (ie science proving it's bunk) it adapts to a form better able to survive.
(I'm joking, but only half . . . . . . )
You're half right. It will be auctioned off, but the public won't make any money on it. It will doubtlessly be sold for pennies on the dollar as a nice kickback to the big telcos who bought congress its crack.
MPlayer is, of course, illegal in several countries (at least if you're playing encrypted DVDs, which anything with shit to be skipped will be.)
Still, I'm hardly deterred by that. I'd like to see them try to sue someone for playing a disc that they personally own. I after all know the Kryptonite of any standard corporate lawyer-ninja squad: the jury trial. You'll be hard pressed to find a jury that will award against Joe Q. Public to a multi-billion dollar corporation for doing something that seems reasonable.
Of course, that does nothing to shield the MPlayer dev team, who are (mostly) safe at the moment only because they live outside of US jurisdiction.
Because Vorbis and FLAC were deliberatley designed to avoid the patents used in similar technologies. Since nothing's come up yet on the subject I suspect they got it right.
Same here. I'm not even sure I have a (working) standalone CD player. The deck in my car has been broken for a year (ipod + itrip = who cares?) I guess I still have the old portable CD player someplace, but I haven't used that since 2002 . . . .
When I buy a CD it's completely for the content. It literally spins once while the designated computer rips it and encodes it to flac. After that it goes in a drawer and is forgotten about. The flac copy becomes the master copy for whatever I do from then on.
If only I had some mod points to shield this "troll" from all the fundies pissed about their precious little psychosis being attacked . . . . . .
On topic, I've always found that the best way to explain atheism is to break down the word: atheism is literally the lack of theology.
I, as an atheist believe nothing. This is very different from believing in nothing (which is the definition they like to use when calling us damned infidels.) To believe there is NO God is as arrogant and baseless as believing that there is one.
Actually, you probably are. This is Slashdot. We know little of these "girls" and "clubs" of which you speak.
In postmodern Washington prostitute whores you!
So Slashdot links directly to BoingBoing now? There's something spectacularly lame about that . . . . . . .
I believe his source was the comments the White House press secretary made on the subject. I for one believe it. The White House would never lie to us. Never. Not even a little.
Okay, maybe a little. There was that whole Iraq war thing, and the CIA leak, and the torture of POWs, and the environmental regulations, and the medicare reforms, and the tax cuts . . . .
But that's irrelivant! Bush is Jesus Jr! USA! USA! USA! USA!
Couldn't somebody pull out the leaked Win2K code and take a look? If the relevant bits are in that collection it would be clear enough what's going on.
(I don't do security-related coding and don't have the code anyway. Don't sue me.)
I guess I would not blame the ISPs since so much bandwidth is used on P2P.
They shouldn't have sold me unlimited transfers for my $34.99 if they weren't willing to risk me taking them up on it.
Exactly. It should be possible to throw together inexpensive voting machines, with paper record, using comodity hardware with no design work.
;)
They can run some sort of Linux (or, perhaps better, the wonderfully paranoid OpenBSD) as the underlying OS. Maybe throw together the voting software in Python (easy to read, less chance of overruns). Give the thing a nice web interface and bam!
Then wait 36 hours for Diebold to buy through a law baning open source in voting machines.
Get used to it. It's the human condition.
Sh! Those words are forbidden!
It got modded as funny! Now that's ironic . . . . . . . .