The government classified anything that could perform a megaflop as a supercomputer. With the AltiVec engine, the G4 was capable of a megaflop, and thus classified a supercomputer. Apple just took advantage of an aging definition of what a supercomputer is and made the ads.
Stopping the IRC service, in effect, is doing exactly what they shouldn't do. Look at most western countries response to terrorism (which is exactly what the DOS attacs are). When faced with terrorism, never negotiate with terrorists becuase they might get the idea that they can influence your actions. The script kiddies might think it cool that they can shut down parts of IRC. Then the attacks become something to brag about. Thus leading to more attacks. I think the people who run the IRC servers that are being temp. shut down are bent over a barrell. IRC doens't enjoy media popularity that other parts of the internet enjoy. As a result they have to resort to drastic measures to get people's attention, even then that attention is likely only to come from the slashdot crowd. The admins need to do something and it will take something drastic to get everyone's attention. At the same time, how do you do something drastic without having to shut yourself down. Tough question, the answers may be even tougher.
No cigar, no lady on his arm, just a guy made of dots and lines. - TMBG
I think we can all agree that voice recognition is still in the somewhat early stage, meaning that you may have to adapt your voice to get the thing to work correctly. We could also probably agree that handwriting recognition isn't perfect, you have to adapt your handwriting to get the thing to work correctly. Similar eh? -------- ...hit my head on the wall of the jail where the two of us live today. - TMBG
The _coolest_ text based BBS already exists. There are quite a few Amateur Radio (read ham) sats in orbit right now. 9600 baud, but that's fine for text. All you need is a $200 radio, a TNC (kind of a radio modem), a cheap computer (even a dump terminal will work), and a directional antenna. All this can be very small, I've seen it done with a palm pilot, and a hand-held radio. All this is a little more than a phone, but most amsats (amatuer radio sats) are a lot higher so they require more power than a handheld phone. But this means the footprint is incredible, think half the world at a time. Most modern hand help ham radios put out about 5 watts and mobile radios for cars put out about 50 watts on 144 mHz.
The amsats are really not secure, but you should be concerned with sending anything out over wireless. Yes, even digital wireless.
You can, if you want to, talk on these amsats, cool to chat with someone on the other side of the world.
For more info check out the Amateur Radio Relay League for info about becoming a ham and AMSAT for info on pass times and frequencies.
If you really want to talk. There are guys who bounce morse code off the moon. Talk about distance.
Congrats, young man. Nobody may want to hear it, but you are probably _lots_ smarter than most of the slashdotteri here. Keep up the good work, post a story when you win the Nobel someday.
Just another example of how a large company would rather sue than fix a product and risk havning their name tarnished....no longer must I sweep for you for I am not your broom. - TMBG
I think there are several points to remember when speaking of 3rd world nations. First, some nations, such as Afghanistan, have nothing coming close to human rights, at least if you consider women humans, I do. However, TV is illegal in Afghanistan, so mabye it isn't the best example. Second, Even some of the countries that do have human rights sometimes have very 'odd' cultural views. For instance, in parts of Africa, a 'cure' for aids is to have sex with a virgin girl. No wonder a fifth of Africa is dying from Aids, or will in the next 10 years. Third. I wonder if the developed worlds energies would be better spent on improving basic infrastructure instead of internet infrastructure. Who care if there is an ISP available to you if you don't healthy drinking water, or if your nations ruler is a maniac? OTOH, mabye bringing internet to these parts of the world can inform the rest of the world to the plight of living in these areas _or_ help some of the inhabitants of third world contiries learn how to better influence thier own governments for social change.
Remember the old arcade game Track & Field. To be really good, you had to lick your fingers to press the run (left and right alternating) buttons really fast. Kind of nasty to think about what was on those buttons after a while.
Slashdot Mirror
250 users - 200 devices on network - 1 manager and 3 support people. We all work the phones and go into the building.
that crash windows link didn't crash mine
I palindrome I - TMBG
Download the client from www.ichoose.com and find the best price.
My $.02 worth.
... the professor had the balls to try.
You know why American beer is like having sex in a canoe? Its fu*king close to water. HA!
hmmmmmmmm, beer - Homer Simpson
The government classified anything that could perform a megaflop as a supercomputer. With the AltiVec engine, the G4 was capable of a megaflop, and thus classified a supercomputer. Apple just took advantage of an aging definition of what a supercomputer is and made the ads.
Stopping the IRC service, in effect, is doing exactly what they shouldn't do. Look at most western countries response to terrorism (which is exactly what the DOS attacs are). When faced with terrorism, never negotiate with terrorists becuase they might get the idea that they can influence your actions. The script kiddies might think it cool that they can shut down parts of IRC. Then the attacks become something to brag about. Thus leading to more attacks.
I think the people who run the IRC servers that are being temp. shut down are bent over a barrell. IRC doens't enjoy media popularity that other parts of the internet enjoy. As a result they have to resort to drastic measures to get people's attention, even then that attention is likely only to come from the slashdot crowd. The admins need to do something and it will take something drastic to get everyone's attention. At the same time, how do you do something drastic without having to shut yourself down. Tough question, the answers may be even tougher.
No cigar, no lady on his arm, just a guy made of dots and lines. - TMBG
I think we can all agree that voice recognition is still in the somewhat early stage, meaning that you may have to adapt your voice to get the thing to work correctly. We could also probably agree that handwriting recognition isn't perfect, you have to adapt your handwriting to get the thing to work correctly. Similar eh?
...hit my head on the wall of the jail where the two of us live today. - TMBG
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The amsats are really not secure, but you should be concerned with sending anything out over wireless. Yes, even digital wireless.
You can, if you want to, talk on these amsats, cool to chat with someone on the other side of the world.
For more info check out the Amateur Radio Relay League for info about becoming a ham and AMSAT for info on pass times and frequencies.
If you really want to talk. There are guys who bounce morse code off the moon. Talk about distance.
KC5Z?? - to remain anonymous
the most obvious ending of all time was Titanic.
OT best palindrome i have ever seen. I palindrome I - TMBG
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In the jungle...the lion sleeps tonight. - TMBG
Should be the 3rd monolith. 1st was on earth (remember the monkeys). The 2nd was buried on the moon.
The 3rd was _orbiting_ around Jupiter. Gonna need those probes to look around instead of down :)
No cigar, no lady on his arm. Just a guy made of dots and lines. - TMBG
Just another example of how a large company would rather sue than fix a product and risk havning their name tarnished. ...no longer must I sweep for you for I am not your broom. - TMBG
I think there are several points to remember when speaking of 3rd world nations. First, some nations, such as Afghanistan, have nothing coming close to human rights, at least if you consider women humans, I do. However, TV is illegal in Afghanistan, so mabye it isn't the best example. Second, Even some of the countries that do have human rights sometimes have very 'odd' cultural views. For instance, in parts of Africa, a 'cure' for aids is to have sex with a virgin girl. No wonder a fifth of Africa is dying from Aids, or will in the next 10 years. Third. I wonder if the developed worlds energies would be better spent on improving basic infrastructure instead of internet infrastructure. Who care if there is an ISP available to you if you don't healthy drinking water, or if your nations ruler is a maniac? OTOH, mabye bringing internet to these parts of the world can inform the rest of the world to the plight of living in these areas _or_ help some of the inhabitants of third world contiries learn how to better influence thier own governments for social change.
Remember the old arcade game Track & Field. To be really good, you had to lick your fingers to press the run (left and right alternating) buttons really fast. Kind of nasty to think about what was on those buttons after a while.
How well do online privacy prgrams like the one at http://www.freedom.net protect a surfer from being tracked to their real name?
You gotta remember the whole thing... All these worlds are yours except Europa. Use them together Use them in peace Attempt no landing there.