What does "To take on or impart color" or dye have to do with VoIP? I think the proper word should be "Die" or cease living is really what you're after here. I don't mean to be picky, but that made me feel weird when I read it. It had to be corrected... Thank you.
VoIP calls? How can the entire country say that they're going to block VoIP calls? What good can it possibly accomplish? I'm curious why any of you think they may do this? Are they wanting to get a piece of the pie and then allow the calls? This just confuses me. I realize business doesn't want people to have it's products or services for free, but to shut down a phone network to people who say couldn't afford to call their family in Germany so they get Skype and then can use voice to communicate is rediculous to me!
In a voice of Shear PANICIf they abandoned the Registry!?!?!? What would I do with Regedit!? Even More, How would I know that a program had been installed properly if I didn't need to Reboot after the install?!?!?
Everybody on the count of three! Start text messaging microsoft.com as fast as you can! From there we'll move on to Yahoo.com, and maybe even cnn.com for fun!
Why would you want to re-create anything like that!? It killed lots of people before it was stopped and they're recreating it!? Who's next, Terrorists saying, "Shit, we don't need to steal any of the last remaining small pox from the lab! We'll just create our own and unleash it on all infadels!"
Gentlemen, let me applaud your tenacity, know how, and stupidity! May you be the first to suffer death from your new creation as a reminder that you shouldn't try to play God.
Sounds to me an aweful lot like a tape drive. Start at one end and start writting until you're done. I can see the point of wanting to keep all parts of each single file together in one block so that it's not broken up. That way there is no need to defrag, but I thought ext2 and ext3 did that type of thing already. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I was told that ext2/ext3 would keep a file whole at just about every cost pending a really really full drive and absolutley no contiguous room to put it, then it'd break it up. Am I wrong?
I'm also not sure how seek time is going to be affected by this. I'm not an expert on seek times for hard drives or anything, but if the File Allocation Table says it's out at point X and the PC then gives instructions to retrient that file by saying "the file starts at X address" the seek time is the same no matter how the file is sitting on the drive. Correct me if I'm wrong, but lets look at a quick scenario to make sure we're all on the same page. Then if I have fault in my thinking, please tell me. Lets say that a file starts at the farthest point away from the reader head on the drive that it can start and still fit the file there. (The very last section on the drive that the file can fit) In both instances the head would have to move the same distance from it's starting point wouldn't it? I though that seek time was dependant mostly on the hard drive hardware speed itself as the time that it took the head to get to the starting point of the file. If the file is broken up into tiny pieces all over the drive it's going to take longer for the file to be read in completely, but the seek time isn't changed to find the head of the file is it? Maybe I misunderstand "seek time" someone, if I'm way off please enlighten me. I'm always good for an education. Thanks.
I'm wondering if I'll be brave enough to destroy the FC4 distro on my laptop for Gentoo! I think i will! I think I can muster up enough courage to get through an install if I have someone there with me to get it up and running! Oh Happy Day! Gentoo here I come!
Just hook it up while someone is gone or not paying attention and disguise it in a plant or something like that. Imagine their surprise when the plan starts "Babbling" back to them. LOL! I work in a rather stuffy office, this is just what someone would need to liven things up a bit!
Case in point. The.iq (iraq) domain STILL hasnt been handed back to the government of Iraq.
Not be be a Troll or anything here, but should Iraq really be worrying about it's damn.iq Domain? I think that they should work on getting control over the physical part of their contry, lay down the law of the land, and set up the country's new infrastructure before they begin to worry about Cyberspace. Once Iraq has control over it's physical space, and the people know that there are now new laws and a new way to handle problems in the country, (the voice of the people) then is the time to start tackling more non-relavant to daily life things such as the.iq domain. How can a country that isn't able to govern it's land, feed it's people, and in it's governmental infancy supposed to add more on it's plate like the.iq domain? Food for thought.
and so I think control over it and the domain servers should stay in the U.S. of A. Now, it is a World Wide Web, but why should the US have to give up control to the U.N.? That could only have disaserous results. The Internet being a world wide network shouldn't have laws or rules or really a governing body deciding what can and can't take place on it, or who can or can't register a domain or put up a webpage. If the control of the Internet were to be passed to someone like the U.N. I would fear, much like the open source concern of slowing innovation and development by keeping source code private, that rules would be imposed for the "greater good" thus limiting progress and damaging the Internet as we know it. Worse yet, there may be a limitation imposed on the people or businesses that wish to buy and register domains. They may even try to standardize charges for purchasing and registering domains thus injuring businesses that are already in competition for your money keeping prices relatively inexpensive.
The US postal service has long been fighting to put a tax or "stamp" on every single e-mail sent via the Internet to recoup losses involved with instant communication and people not wanting to send letters any more. How can this ever really be accomplished? It really can't, unless there is a governing body that has central control and makes it a law. If this were the case, people would just begin to use another non e-mail means of electronic communication I would imagine. At which point some sort of stamp would be applied to that as well.
Leave the governing of the Internet to the people that create, maintain, and use it.
One of the latest Underhanded Coding Challenges I read about happened to be placing a watermark in a picture. There was also a part that mentioned creating a way for that mark to last through jpeg type compression. The article about the movie pirates mentioned something about Forensic Markings on the screeners enabling more effective tracking of the movie's origins thus giving them the whodunit. I wonder, does anyone know what type of markings are put into those type of videos? Is it like the partially transparent station icon like the ones on TV channels in the corner of the screen, or is it something more intricate. It seems to me that if it was something hidden in the video, say every fourth or fifth frame had a small marker on it somewhere, that there would be a way to smudge that out or remove or disable it by say covering that up with the nudity masking fuzz (I'm not technically savvy to exact video terminology here) as you prepared to copy and pirate it. I'm not really trying to be deviant in anyway, but I'm just curious since it's now vaguely (or maybe specifically) known how they were tracked down using this mark, if the pirates are just going to get wise and learn to cover their tracks more effectively. I'd be interested in a little education on any of this if anyone can shed some light for me and I'm sure other/.ers as well. Thanks in advance.
Windows has problems that make rootkits easier, but it's not because it's closed-source.
The biggest problem with the "closed source" approach is that there is only really one person that can fix the problem. If it were opened up, then there would be many many programmers world wide that could fix the problem.
I think that they should just be equiped with a taser like the air marshall on Adam Sandler's movie "Anger Management". That way if anyone is suspicious, they can just taser them until they land. Shoot first and ask questions later is my motto!
I like the whole idea. In fact, my friends and I have been doing this for years now. We never buy the same game (unless it's needed to play networked games) and just pass it around between each other when we're finished. Always have new games to play and typically at about 1/4 the cost.
Now it has happened and will continue to happen that we all like the game so much that we end up buying our individual copies of the game anyway. I really like this idea though!
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Oh Shit! Did I think that out loud?!?! Man I'm going to look like such an ass! I'll never be able to make another comment and be respected around here agian!
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What does "To take on or impart color" or dye have to do with VoIP? I think the proper word should be "Die" or cease living is really what you're after here. I don't mean to be picky, but that made me feel weird when I read it. It had to be corrected... Thank you.
VoIP calls? How can the entire country say that they're going to block VoIP calls? What good can it possibly accomplish? I'm curious why any of you think they may do this? Are they wanting to get a piece of the pie and then allow the calls? This just confuses me. I realize business doesn't want people to have it's products or services for free, but to shut down a phone network to people who say couldn't afford to call their family in Germany so they get Skype and then can use voice to communicate is rediculous to me!
The NYSE is open from 9:30 am - 4:00 pm Eastern Time. Just an FYI.
Now when can we get the printer to print on this new paper?
I can hear it now... "No, Grandma, you don't need a printer!"Simple answer to your question...
Ego.In a voice of Shear PANIC If they abandoned the Registry!?!?!? What would I do with Regedit!? Even More, How would I know that a program had been installed properly if I didn't need to Reboot after the install?!?!?
Everybody on the count of three! Start text messaging microsoft.com as fast as you can! From there we'll move on to Yahoo.com, and maybe even cnn.com for fun!
Why would you want to re-create anything like that!? It killed lots of people before it was stopped and they're recreating it!? Who's next, Terrorists saying, "Shit, we don't need to steal any of the last remaining small pox from the lab! We'll just create our own and unleash it on all infadels!"
Gentlemen, let me applaud your tenacity, know how, and stupidity! May you be the first to suffer death from your new creation as a reminder that you shouldn't try to play God.
Sounds to me an aweful lot like a tape drive. Start at one end and start writting until you're done. I can see the point of wanting to keep all parts of each single file together in one block so that it's not broken up. That way there is no need to defrag, but I thought ext2 and ext3 did that type of thing already. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I was told that ext2/ext3 would keep a file whole at just about every cost pending a really really full drive and absolutley no contiguous room to put it, then it'd break it up. Am I wrong?
I'm also not sure how seek time is going to be affected by this. I'm not an expert on seek times for hard drives or anything, but if the File Allocation Table says it's out at point X and the PC then gives instructions to retrient that file by saying "the file starts at X address" the seek time is the same no matter how the file is sitting on the drive. Correct me if I'm wrong, but lets look at a quick scenario to make sure we're all on the same page. Then if I have fault in my thinking, please tell me. Lets say that a file starts at the farthest point away from the reader head on the drive that it can start and still fit the file there. (The very last section on the drive that the file can fit) In both instances the head would have to move the same distance from it's starting point wouldn't it? I though that seek time was dependant mostly on the hard drive hardware speed itself as the time that it took the head to get to the starting point of the file. If the file is broken up into tiny pieces all over the drive it's going to take longer for the file to be read in completely, but the seek time isn't changed to find the head of the file is it? Maybe I misunderstand "seek time" someone, if I'm way off please enlighten me. I'm always good for an education. Thanks.
I'm wondering if I'll be brave enough to destroy the FC4 distro on my laptop for Gentoo! I think i will! I think I can muster up enough courage to get through an install if I have someone there with me to get it up and running! Oh Happy Day! Gentoo here I come!
Just hook it up while someone is gone or not paying attention and disguise it in a plant or something like that. Imagine their surprise when the plan starts "Babbling" back to them. LOL! I work in a rather stuffy office, this is just what someone would need to liven things up a bit!
Not be be a Troll or anything here, but should Iraq really be worrying about it's damn .iq Domain? I think that they should work on getting control over the physical part of their contry, lay down the law of the land, and set up the country's new infrastructure before they begin to worry about Cyberspace. Once Iraq has control over it's physical space, and the people know that there are now new laws and a new way to handle problems in the country, (the voice of the people) then is the time to start tackling more non-relavant to daily life things such as the .iq domain. How can a country that isn't able to govern it's land, feed it's people, and in it's governmental infancy supposed to add more on it's plate like the .iq domain? Food for thought.
and so I think control over it and the domain servers should stay in the U.S. of A. Now, it is a World Wide Web, but why should the US have to give up control to the U.N.? That could only have disaserous results. The Internet being a world wide network shouldn't have laws or rules or really a governing body deciding what can and can't take place on it, or who can or can't register a domain or put up a webpage. If the control of the Internet were to be passed to someone like the U.N. I would fear, much like the open source concern of slowing innovation and development by keeping source code private, that rules would be imposed for the "greater good" thus limiting progress and damaging the Internet as we know it. Worse yet, there may be a limitation imposed on the people or businesses that wish to buy and register domains. They may even try to standardize charges for purchasing and registering domains thus injuring businesses that are already in competition for your money keeping prices relatively inexpensive.
The US postal service has long been fighting to put a tax or "stamp" on every single e-mail sent via the Internet to recoup losses involved with instant communication and people not wanting to send letters any more. How can this ever really be accomplished? It really can't, unless there is a governing body that has central control and makes it a law. If this were the case, people would just begin to use another non e-mail means of electronic communication I would imagine. At which point some sort of stamp would be applied to that as well.
Leave the governing of the Internet to the people that create, maintain, and use it.
What are you looking for? Ahhh, you want the scenes where Luke and Leah are "conceived"?
I saw many Jedi Knights dispatched as Episode II ended. It would have been fun to watch the robot trash on a Jedi though.
One of the latest Underhanded Coding Challenges I read about happened to be placing a watermark in a picture. There was also a part that mentioned creating a way for that mark to last through jpeg type compression. The article about the movie pirates mentioned something about Forensic Markings on the screeners enabling more effective tracking of the movie's origins thus giving them the whodunit. I wonder, does anyone know what type of markings are put into those type of videos? Is it like the partially transparent station icon like the ones on TV channels in the corner of the screen, or is it something more intricate. It seems to me that if it was something hidden in the video, say every fourth or fifth frame had a small marker on it somewhere, that there would be a way to smudge that out or remove or disable it by say covering that up with the nudity masking fuzz (I'm not technically savvy to exact video terminology here) as you prepared to copy and pirate it. I'm not really trying to be deviant in anyway, but I'm just curious since it's now vaguely (or maybe specifically) known how they were tracked down using this mark, if the pirates are just going to get wise and learn to cover their tracks more effectively. I'd be interested in a little education on any of this if anyone can shed some light for me and I'm sure other /.ers as well. Thanks in advance.
GecKo"Hay" for animals... to make them fat and ready to eat!
P.E.T.A. People Eat Tasty Animals >:)
P.E.T.A. People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals. >
The biggest problem with the "closed source" approach is that there is only really one person that can fix the problem. If it were opened up, then there would be many many programmers world wide that could fix the problem.
P.E.T.A. is going to have a Hay Day with this! Bastard Extremists!
Aren't the next generation consoles getting to be more and more like a PC?
Bah! Blogging isn't as theraputic to me as posting comments and rants on Slashdot!
I think that they should just be equiped with a taser like the air marshall on Adam Sandler's movie "Anger Management". That way if anyone is suspicious, they can just taser them until they land. Shoot first and ask questions later is my motto!
Yup. Well, four of us decided to trade games/books/movies etc...
I like the whole idea. In fact, my friends and I have been doing this for years now. We never buy the same game (unless it's needed to play networked games) and just pass it around between each other when we're finished. Always have new games to play and typically at about 1/4 the cost.
Now it has happened and will continue to happen that we all like the game so much that we end up buying our individual copies of the game anyway. I really like this idea though!
Oh Shit! Did I think that out loud?!?! Man I'm going to look like such an ass! I'll never be able to make another comment and be respected around here agian!
New slogan: "Cursing, does a body good."