This is not always an option. I have shell accounts on machines all over the place, few of which are running POP. If the admin or anybody else sends me an email, I want it to be forwarded to me.
I realize there are security issues with forwarding, but it's convenient as hell, and it's a perfectly reasonable thing to want to do to email.
You wouldn't want an open network. The whole point is to keep the IP address of the server secret. If it's open, then everyone knows. Unless you do something like TOR hidden services.
The term 'octet' is frequently found in specifications for network protocols, because a lot of network protocols were written way back in the day when some computers had nine bit bytes.
Also, you missed the joke completely and utterly.
Don't I own my own router? Why should I be forced to forward packets that I don't want to forward? Why should I be forced to prioritize or not prioritize if I don't want to?
You should be forced to forward packets you don't want to forward because we're PAYING you to forward them, asshole.
Downloading from an internet cafe sucks, as many torrents take a few days to download. Serious pirates buy hosting in Korea. And Tor is too slow for web browsing, let alone hundred gigabyte torrents.
Frankly, I'm a bit puzzled why they haven't implemented this earlier. Not only are P2P networks like bittorrent scalable as hell, they are resistant to ddos, resistant to errors, and cryptographically secure. Many clients support RSS, so you can have stuff get downloaded automatically. Which beats the hell out of ftp or sftp mirrors.
Sadly, the only linux distro that is working on a P2P package manager (that I'm aware of) is Arch Linux.
In fact, transitions are probably one of the more valuable HCI movements lately, and give users great feedback as to what happened to their data/windows and where they went.
We've had transitions since Windows 95. '95 introduced an annoying animation where the title bar shrunk and zoomed down into the taskbar. Now we have people who want to do the same thing, but with expensive graphics cards. And it's still just as slow.
I mean, the fact is, the cognitive load of operating a window manager is not really that huge. And all those seconds spent drawing transition animations add up. Is the wasted time really worth the slightly increased ease of use?
This is old, old stuff. Law enforcement has been able to use commercial databases for quite some time. And as for the fingerprinting, every California teacher (and 4-H leaders too) gets fingerprinted and checked.
No, you missed the point. His point was that the industry would fundamentally change to a web-based distribution and advertising model. The whole point of touring is advertising anyway. In the world the GP envisions, there would be no need to tour, because we'd all have VR goggles.
Personally, I'm staggered by the amount of flame wars, elitism, and sheer hatred in the open source gaming community. AA has been claiming to be the best OSS FPS evar for quite some time now, which may or may not be justified. Then, there was the time some sauerbraten admins deliberately took down the default listserver, in order to lock out the noobs. There's also the infamous Ogre vs. CrystalSpace wars, as well as some obscure faggotry between two Tron clones. I've also been hearing dark rumors about renegade admins in PlaneShift.
With 30GB discs, I would be able to store several seasons of anime, encoded at DVD quality, on a single disc. Which is a good thing, because it's a pain in the ass to split a series over several discs, and then find which disc you need.
Maybe your putting 6 linux distros on one of these things, instead of 4 DVD's etc..
If it essentially works like a peer-to-peer network couldn't you essentially "poison" the network with a few rouge nodes?
That won't work with most modern p2p programs, and it won't work with botnets either. Modern botnets use GPG signed commands, and can be controlled from any node. The only way to subvert one would be to torture the hacker, and hope he doesn't give you the self-destruct code.
I think that may have been a problem on older flash drives, especially b/c fat32 keeps the fat all in the same place. But newer models have built-in wear leveling. The only thing you'd need to do would be to turn off seek-time optimization, as there's no rotating disk.
A more interesting question would be how these things hold up when used for swap.
The whole series was like that. Like the part where they bring the patchwork girl to life, and they get into an argument about what qualities to put into their ideal servant.
Or the part where some queen of some small country wants to invade Oz. But everyone wants to be a general, except the clockwork man, who has the same sort of attitude as the Terminator. So the Clockwork man becomes a private, and gets the only gun. And so he gets to order all the generals around.
And the whole series was vaguely erotic. I remember being turned on by the books when I was a kid. The only thing I remember clearly was the Ozma/Dorothy ship, but I'm sure there was much more. Sky Island was pretty hot too, IIRC.
You're thinking of it like a classic fairy tale, which brings with it a shitload of preconceptions. Instead, try thinking of it as some random furry pedo vore fanfic you found on the internet. The results will astonish you.
Oh, and while you're still vomiting, check out Tokyo Akazukin for a depraved twist on an old classic.
If you want to win them over, you have present evolution as an emotional alternative that can appeal to them.
It's called "science fiction". You know, like "2001: A Space Odyssey", or Shaw's "Back to Methuselah", or Asimov's "Foundation's Edge". The idea is that there's this mysterious "life force" somewhere out there, that the life force is a "good" thing, and that our destiny is to become a grand, happy beowulf cluster of eggheads exerting our collective will to shape the universe.
It amazes me that we don't yet have anything better than the crude hacks that are ftp and sftp. What we need is an honest-to-god distributed, networked, filesystem.
Why can't I connect two keyboard and two mice and have color code each pair so two users share a desktop?
Why would you want to? I could see it being useful just to give yourself more input devices for gaming or 3D modeling, but what good would two mouse pointers be? Unless you're ambidexterous, of course. Sure, you could have a friend use the computer at the same time, but at that point, why not just set up a second terminal?
Oh, the irony. The utter irony. The one man who speaks truth about moderation, gets modded troll. Fortunately, I score trolls +2.
Getting excellent karma is indeed easy. I spent a whole weekend on slashdot, and now I have excellent karma. It's that simple. All you have to do is post something slightly different from the usual copyright arguments, gun-control arguments, and so on, and you'll get 5s all over the place. Even better: act like you know what you're talking about. I've made up complete bullshit about security, and the mods ate it up.
Of course, someone who is capable of karma whoring in a creative way probably IS marginally more intelligent, but I'm not sure I'd want the system to respect someone like that.
Judging from your post, your UID, and your sig, I could probably make a good guess at your intellectual character. And no, reading some furry thelemite's blog before trolling him doesn't count as philosophy, IMHO. It's weird and interesting, but not really educational.
But I agree that the internet does diversify one's experiences.
Heh. I'd think a poster as "old" as the GP would have realized by now that 90% of all slashdot posts are regurgitated groupthink. And that moderation has little to do with the actual quality. If I want to, I can get a "+5 insightful" whenever I choose, and I don't know jack shit.
No, the only real purpose of moderation is to get rid of goatse trolls, and to make people make themselves sound informative.
My parents have a truly ancient model. It doesn't have a digital display at all, just a knob and an actual bell to let you know when it's done. Actually, the knob broke off many years ago. That's why they keep an equally ancient pair of pliers near the unit.
But it works, dammit.
What's more annoying is the new dryer they got. It beeps to let you know your laundry is done drying. That's nice. But it keeps beeping until you take the laundry out. The damned thing will beep all night. Who the hell needs to know exactly when their laundry is done, anyway?
"A better counter-argument - and one which just occurred to me - would have been that, by the Heisenberg uncertainty principle, nothing can "know" the exact position and vector of a given particle. Which is precisely why it's legitimate to say that the particle doesn't even have a precise position and vector. Which, in turn, means that its precise position and vector can't be a causal determinant of anything. Which then means that if we can identify the position and vector of every particle in question to the physical limits of knowledge, we can then recreate that same information at the far end, and the Heisenberg error won't matter in the slightest."
No, it does matter. By measuring the position or velocity of the particle, you affect the system. What were you planning to measure it with, ESP? See Maxwell's Demon
I keep hearing about this scheme in relation to cryptography. But can't you do a man in the middle by intercepting the suitcase, sticking your own lock on it, sending it back, and so on?
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This is not always an option. I have shell accounts on machines all over the place, few of which are running POP. If the admin or anybody else sends me an email, I want it to be forwarded to me. I realize there are security issues with forwarding, but it's convenient as hell, and it's a perfectly reasonable thing to want to do to email.
You wouldn't want an open network. The whole point is to keep the IP address of the server secret. If it's open, then everyone knows. Unless you do something like TOR hidden services.
The term 'octet' is frequently found in specifications for network protocols, because a lot of network protocols were written way back in the day when some computers had nine bit bytes. Also, you missed the joke completely and utterly.
Downloading from an internet cafe sucks, as many torrents take a few days to download. Serious pirates buy hosting in Korea. And Tor is too slow for web browsing, let alone hundred gigabyte torrents.
Frankly, I'm a bit puzzled why they haven't implemented this earlier. Not only are P2P networks like bittorrent scalable as hell, they are resistant to ddos, resistant to errors, and cryptographically secure. Many clients support RSS, so you can have stuff get downloaded automatically. Which beats the hell out of ftp or sftp mirrors.
Sadly, the only linux distro that is working on a P2P package manager (that I'm aware of) is Arch Linux.
We've had transitions since Windows 95. '95 introduced an annoying animation where the title bar shrunk and zoomed down into the taskbar. Now we have people who want to do the same thing, but with expensive graphics cards. And it's still just as slow.
I mean, the fact is, the cognitive load of operating a window manager is not really that huge. And all those seconds spent drawing transition animations add up. Is the wasted time really worth the slightly increased ease of use?
This is old, old stuff. Law enforcement has been able to use commercial databases for quite some time. And as for the fingerprinting, every California teacher (and 4-H leaders too) gets fingerprinted and checked.
No, you missed the point. His point was that the industry would fundamentally change to a web-based distribution and advertising model. The whole point of touring is advertising anyway. In the world the GP envisions, there would be no need to tour, because we'd all have VR goggles.
Personally, I'm staggered by the amount of flame wars, elitism, and sheer hatred in the open source gaming community. AA has been claiming to be the best OSS FPS evar for quite some time now, which may or may not be justified. Then, there was the time some sauerbraten admins deliberately took down the default listserver, in order to lock out the noobs. There's also the infamous Ogre vs. CrystalSpace wars, as well as some obscure faggotry between two Tron clones. I've also been hearing dark rumors about renegade admins in PlaneShift.
Seriously, when will all this bitterness end?
That won't work with most modern p2p programs, and it won't work with botnets either. Modern botnets use GPG signed commands, and can be controlled from any node. The only way to subvert one would be to torture the hacker, and hope he doesn't give you the self-destruct code.
No, it won't. OpenGL just does graphics. DirectX also does audio and joysticks and shit.
I think that may have been a problem on older flash drives, especially b/c fat32 keeps the fat all in the same place. But newer models have built-in wear leveling. The only thing you'd need to do would be to turn off seek-time optimization, as there's no rotating disk.
A more interesting question would be how these things hold up when used for swap.
The whole series was like that. Like the part where they bring the patchwork girl to life, and they get into an argument about what qualities to put into their ideal servant.
Or the part where some queen of some small country wants to invade Oz. But everyone wants to be a general, except the clockwork man, who has the same sort of attitude as the Terminator. So the Clockwork man becomes a private, and gets the only gun. And so he gets to order all the generals around.
And the whole series was vaguely erotic. I remember being turned on by the books when I was a kid. The only thing I remember clearly was the Ozma/Dorothy ship, but I'm sure there was much more. Sky Island was pretty hot too, IIRC.
You're thinking of it like a classic fairy tale, which brings with it a shitload of preconceptions. Instead, try thinking of it as some random furry pedo vore fanfic you found on the internet. The results will astonish you.
Oh, and while you're still vomiting, check out Tokyo Akazukin for a depraved twist on an old classic.
It's called "science fiction". You know, like "2001: A Space Odyssey", or Shaw's "Back to Methuselah", or Asimov's "Foundation's Edge". The idea is that there's this mysterious "life force" somewhere out there, that the life force is a "good" thing, and that our destiny is to become a grand, happy beowulf cluster of eggheads exerting our collective will to shape the universe.
IMHO it's just as dumb as creationism.
It amazes me that we don't yet have anything better than the crude hacks that are ftp and sftp. What we need is an honest-to-god distributed, networked, filesystem.
Why would you want to? I could see it being useful just to give yourself more input devices for gaming or 3D modeling, but what good would two mouse pointers be? Unless you're ambidexterous, of course. Sure, you could have a friend use the computer at the same time, but at that point, why not just set up a second terminal?
Oh, the irony. The utter irony. The one man who speaks truth about moderation, gets modded troll. Fortunately, I score trolls +2.
Getting excellent karma is indeed easy. I spent a whole weekend on slashdot, and now I have excellent karma. It's that simple. All you have to do is post something slightly different from the usual copyright arguments, gun-control arguments, and so on, and you'll get 5s all over the place. Even better: act like you know what you're talking about. I've made up complete bullshit about security, and the mods ate it up.
Of course, someone who is capable of karma whoring in a creative way probably IS marginally more intelligent, but I'm not sure I'd want the system to respect someone like that.
Judging from your post, your UID, and your sig, I could probably make a good guess at your intellectual character. And no, reading some furry thelemite's blog before trolling him doesn't count as philosophy, IMHO. It's weird and interesting, but not really educational.
But I agree that the internet does diversify one's experiences.
Heh. I'd think a poster as "old" as the GP would have realized by now that 90% of all slashdot posts are regurgitated groupthink. And that moderation has little to do with the actual quality. If I want to, I can get a "+5 insightful" whenever I choose, and I don't know jack shit. No, the only real purpose of moderation is to get rid of goatse trolls, and to make people make themselves sound informative.
My parents have a truly ancient model. It doesn't have a digital display at all, just a knob and an actual bell to let you know when it's done. Actually, the knob broke off many years ago. That's why they keep an equally ancient pair of pliers near the unit.
But it works, dammit.
What's more annoying is the new dryer they got. It beeps to let you know your laundry is done drying. That's nice. But it keeps beeping until you take the laundry out. The damned thing will beep all night. Who the hell needs to know exactly when their laundry is done, anyway?
"A better counter-argument - and one which just occurred to me - would have been that, by the Heisenberg uncertainty principle, nothing can "know" the exact position and vector of a given particle. Which is precisely why it's legitimate to say that the particle doesn't even have a precise position and vector. Which, in turn, means that its precise position and vector can't be a causal determinant of anything. Which then means that if we can identify the position and vector of every particle in question to the physical limits of knowledge, we can then recreate that same information at the far end, and the Heisenberg error won't matter in the slightest."
No, it does matter. By measuring the position or velocity of the particle, you affect the system. What were you planning to measure it with, ESP? See Maxwell's Demon
I keep hearing about this scheme in relation to cryptography. But can't you do a man in the middle by intercepting the suitcase, sticking your own lock on it, sending it back, and so on?