On the first case: I damn hope you be out of date. I remember my CS prof going on how you can't write directly to memory ever since the first versions of Windows came out and that Linux gives you a 'oh, no you didn't' error when you try it.
To the second point: I've seen people quote stuff like Blaster getting to every other host that was vulnerable around in about 10 minutes. Tell the sucker to lay low for a couple of days. It's about long enough to have people going 'wtf' but not long enough for them to be able to do anything about it or it's payload.
Much like real terrorism, it's not about getting them all but getting enough of them.
I'm actually shocked that that has yet to have happened yet.
Fine, realistically you can't do that - no sane design would allow you to flash the BIOS outside of the BIOS utility, but it could fill your harddrive with zeros or physically damage *something*.
If we are to fall back on the days before trojans became profitable and virus writing was limited to leet hax0rs, what better way to achieve notoriety than to practically eliminate most of the computers in the world?
That's the kind of stuff that sticks with people for years.
I'm willing to bet there's more content realsed on a daily than someone could enjoy in a solid month. Several movies a day, dozens of records and books - and your local newspapers, zines, university literatures.
What makes news for you? Xbox delayed in the uk? A little boy in India who is said to have gone without food for a few months? The debate between two politicians in portugal?
There's almost an endless of crap to write about, mang!
Wikipedia's best strength IS it's openess and the fact that anyone can write in it aout anything. That we've achieved a fairly useful pool of articles on just about anything, just from random people writing about random things, is incredible! It's like a victory of democracy and human ability over cynicism and apathy.
It's okay, the'yll adjust the fuel cell to produce DC 53V, which no other devices use other than Sony devices, then, if you want to use non Sony devices with it, they'll sell you an adaptor twice the size of the fuel cell that converts it back to a useful voltage, but in the meanwhile making sure that each device you plug in can only use 100 watts before the adapter refuses to give power it any more.
You first make something simple that works, and then you can add features to it (preferably in a modular way, so that people who don't want the features can choose not to have them). What they did was first add all the features, and then try to make it simple. That doesn't work. I was saying this in the early days, and I'm still saying it now.
Ah yes. Do you program at all? From my limited experience, it's almost IMPOSSIBLE for that NOT to happen somewhere down the line in your project. Upon which you have to spend a lot of time fixing your current code base. The mozilla project inherited this massive, broken project that had been rewritten from scratch recently and that almost no one else would be touching (Netscape). Nothing is more frustrating than reading someone else's code when you could be writing your own.
All things considered, Firefox is probably the single most popular piece of open source software today - which is absolutely incredible. And I think you might be doing something odd for it to be the slowest, most memory hungry and crashy browser: it's main feature is the fact that it sucks less than IE. It has so, in my mind, ever since version 0.5, which is when I began to use it as my main browser:P.
It's a general view of the world that I see in the bussiness-y kids on my campus, which has been depressing me greatly: they seem to hold the economy to be an animal completely uninhibited by any physical conception of reality.
I can only provide anecdotal evidence of this, of course.
It's friday night and Jake sits comfortably on the couch. He's asking me about this philosophy course we both take and I give him the run down of the test he'll be taking on Monday.
It turns out his major is Finance, so I ask him how's that going for him - my mind filling with 'finance math sucks' jokes. He tells me it's great, that they're being taught how it all works and the like and how not to lose at the stock market. According to him, only suckers lose at the stock market, and they're being shown all of the things you're not supposed to do. The way he sees it, in fact, when he graduates he'll be the kind of people who make companies money.
This startles me, because here I was under the impression that somewhere down the line you have to exchange *something* for money, preferably for more money than it cost you in the first place. I tell him that he's not making sense. Don't most companies, in fact, make money by providing services or products?
He tells me no, not at all. All you really need is the ability to make smart investments and that's where he'll come in. He goes on some rant on how everyone has some starting capital they can invest before I throw at him 'but wait, that can't be how it works'.
Molly, who was drunkenly sitting on top of him, gives me a dirty, 'get lost' look and interrupts me, saying 'Guys, it's Friday night, I don't think it's the right time or place to have this conversation'.
Jake doesn't drink. He spent most of the party with a coke.
At this point Joe stumbles across and sits next to us.
Joe is a bussiness management major. Two weeks ago, in the subway, he tells me with a sparkle in his eye of how crazily succesful Google's IPO was and that the future was in the energy companies, because you always need that. He tells me his plan of things to come in the next few years as he graduates (two internships already rolled out).
Taking a page out of Paul Graham, I tell him that somewhere between third and fourth year or between graduation and a real job/graduate school I want to have a hand at a start up of some sort. He loses his interest in me when I tell him all I really want to do is something cool, and possibly internet related.
I'm not bothered by Jake so much as by Adam (also majoring in Finance), who sits next to him in our mutual philosophy class. Despite sounding like a useless slob every time he opens his mouth in class, he's the smartest person Jake knows.
While he might be drunk in most of his lectures, he's got a monster GPA.
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On the first case: I damn hope you be out of date. I remember my CS prof going on how you can't write directly to memory ever since the first versions of Windows came out and that Linux gives you a 'oh, no you didn't' error when you try it.
To the second point: I've seen people quote stuff like Blaster getting to every other host that was vulnerable around in about 10 minutes. Tell the sucker to lay low for a couple of days. It's about long enough to have people going 'wtf' but not long enough for them to be able to do anything about it or it's payload.
Much like real terrorism, it's not about getting them all but getting enough of them.
I'm actually shocked that that has yet to have happened yet.
Fine, realistically you can't do that - no sane design would allow you to flash the BIOS outside of the BIOS utility, but it could fill your harddrive with zeros or physically damage *something*.
If we are to fall back on the days before trojans became profitable and virus writing was limited to leet hax0rs, what better way to achieve notoriety than to practically eliminate most of the computers in the world?
That's the kind of stuff that sticks with people for years.
eh, not quite.
I'm willing to bet there's more content realsed on a daily than someone could enjoy in a solid month. Several movies a day, dozens of records and books - and your local newspapers, zines, university literatures.
What makes news for you? Xbox delayed in the uk? A little boy in India who is said to have gone without food for a few months? The debate between two politicians in portugal?
There's almost an endless of crap to write about, mang!
Wikipedia's best strength IS it's openess and the fact that anyone can write in it aout anything. That we've achieved a fairly useful pool of articles on just about anything, just from random people writing about random things, is incredible! It's like a victory of democracy and human ability over cynicism and apathy.
Long live wikipedia!
It's okay, the'yll adjust the fuel cell to produce DC 53V, which no other devices use other than Sony devices, then, if you want to use non Sony devices with it, they'll sell you an adaptor twice the size of the fuel cell that converts it back to a useful voltage, but in the meanwhile making sure that each device you plug in can only use 100 watts before the adapter refuses to give power it any more.
/me kicks his Sony NetMD player
Why tux racer? Let's play thermonuclear war!
You first make something simple that works, and then you can add features to it (preferably in a modular way, so that people who don't want the features can choose not to have them). What they did was first add all the features, and then try to make it simple. That doesn't work. I was saying this in the early days, and I'm still saying it now.
:P.
Ah yes. Do you program at all? From my limited experience, it's almost IMPOSSIBLE for that NOT to happen somewhere down the line in your project. Upon which you have to spend a lot of time fixing your current code base. The mozilla project inherited this massive, broken project that had been rewritten from scratch recently and that almost no one else would be touching (Netscape). Nothing is more frustrating than reading someone else's code when you could be writing your own.
All things considered, Firefox is probably the single most popular piece of open source software today - which is absolutely incredible. And I think you might be doing something odd for it to be the slowest, most memory hungry and crashy browser: it's main feature is the fact that it sucks less than IE. It has so, in my mind, ever since version 0.5, which is when I began to use it as my main browser
I can only provide anecdotal evidence of this, of course.
It's friday night and Jake sits comfortably on the couch. He's asking me about this philosophy course we both take and I give him the run down of the test he'll be taking on Monday.
It turns out his major is Finance, so I ask him how's that going for him - my mind filling with 'finance math sucks' jokes. He tells me it's great, that they're being taught how it all works and the like and how not to lose at the stock market. According to him, only suckers lose at the stock market, and they're being shown all of the things you're not supposed to do. The way he sees it, in fact, when he graduates he'll be the kind of people who make companies money.
This startles me, because here I was under the impression that somewhere down the line you have to exchange *something* for money, preferably for more money than it cost you in the first place. I tell him that he's not making sense. Don't most companies, in fact, make money by providing services or products?
He tells me no, not at all. All you really need is the ability to make smart investments and that's where he'll come in. He goes on some rant on how everyone has some starting capital they can invest before I throw at him 'but wait, that can't be how it works'.
Molly, who was drunkenly sitting on top of him, gives me a dirty, 'get lost' look and interrupts me, saying 'Guys, it's Friday night, I don't think it's the right time or place to have this conversation'.
Jake doesn't drink. He spent most of the party with a coke.
At this point Joe stumbles across and sits next to us.
Joe is a bussiness management major. Two weeks ago, in the subway, he tells me with a sparkle in his eye of how crazily succesful Google's IPO was and that the future was in the energy companies, because you always need that. He tells me his plan of things to come in the next few years as he graduates (two internships already rolled out).
Taking a page out of Paul Graham, I tell him that somewhere between third and fourth year or between graduation and a real job/graduate school I want to have a hand at a start up of some sort. He loses his interest in me when I tell him all I really want to do is something cool, and possibly internet related.
I'm not bothered by Jake so much as by Adam (also majoring in Finance), who sits next to him in our mutual philosophy class. Despite sounding like a useless slob every time he opens his mouth in class, he's the smartest person Jake knows.
While he might be drunk in most of his lectures, he's got a monster GPA.