It seems to me that this is kind of like this situation. Burglar breaks into house, He gets bit by a nice big dog that is "protecting" his territory. The owners of the house and dog, are now being sued because the thief was attacked by the dog. The dog in return, because the thief won his case, is now being put down. How fair is this?
I think a better analogy (better to using cars, yeesh!) would be two house owners across the street from each other with catapults, one trying to lob little boxes of cockroaches into the other's open windows (pun not intended, but very valid), the other trying to disable the roach lobber's catapult with, uhhh, cats, yeah.
Neutralizing the damned virus. Its been possible in a large number of cases.
Imagine an anti virus launched after recieving an attack from an IP that exploits the unpatched hole the virus goes through, plugs the hole and disables the virus.
Of course after a year of spamming the net with hack attempts I think the owner of infected systems should be found criminally negligent, but thats another thing.
I think having USB keyboard/mouse eliminates a common no no of plugging keyboards and mice in while the system is on with a port that is not designed for hotplugging.
Conversely I don't have to shut down every time (not horribly common, but enough to bug me) I dis/re-connect my mouse.
I don't need dead ports on my motherboard. Oh, and thats two less specialized ports on the system.
For some places they have. And a few of those places have realized how unreliable *AND* expensive they are versus floppy disks.
Most people just want to move their 1 megabyte text file (a two page.doc;) around, that works.
One person had some sort of music keyboard that required Zip disks, I hope things work out there. Others might need to get graphics moved around, I don't know a Kinkos without a Zip drive.
As far as the whole each family member gets a Zip disk for permanent storage, well thats just so stupid on so many levels.
Point is that we've been moving away from floppy tech for a while, I don't know of much keeping us from using 2.88 meg disks. Its not worth the cost to most of us. Companies don't like making money on anything cheaper than $20.
If computer manufacturers think that they can make more money by phasing out floppies (and reducing build labor) to validate paying for a cheap but expensive looking CD-RW (whose media costs versus a Zip drive are a humorous 143 times cheaper), then why complain?
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$5,000 to cleanup the intrusion??
Someone ping me so I can sue you for $1,000,000 in damages.
You must be new to the scene. It takes alot more than that to clean up pings!
I just got a 50 million grant to research how to find those pings after the fact. Ya see, pings hide themselves deep within a system and then make Windows unstable.
Its national defense really, I could have gotten 65 million, but keyboards only cost so much nowadays...
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You don't have to go in to see the door ajar.
Or is this the case of anyone seen with blood over their hands (even if they were trying to stop the bleeding of someone they found mortally wounded) is automatically guilty of murder and deserves 20 years of of friendly jailhouse relationships?
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You don't have to leap in and rearrange the money to see from the outside that the lock was installed upside-down.
Perfect mathematical functioning is not a practical model for a lifeform in a world that is not static. The fact that Wallace views computers as better than a brain is very telling to me.
I think its a reflection of his own situation.
To get philosophical, what makes any one thing better than another?
Obviously, that which is better than another can be taken in a mathematical sense or a human appreciative sense. Mathematics not being in question that which is better is that which measures up better to the human making the judgement. Not that such judgements are limited to humans.
I can not continue reasoning down a path that doesn't value human intelligence since I myself am human. To deny the value of my humanity would render me useless and so why go down that path?
Because you might find without intelligence you may still have use. Not that I'm going to force you away from what I might consider an intelligence fetish.
BTW: does anyone know exactly what to call things like the promise and Highpoint "Raid" controllers that rely on BIOS hooks and software drivers to do the RAID dirty work? -- "Hardware" doesnt work and "Software" doesnt work -- is there a word for it?!?
I'm glad that the hard drive companies are realizing our need for more hard drive space. I mean sheesh, my Neverwinter Nights install takes up 2 gigs! One day we'll probably have memory sticks that size, strange to think...
WD 200 Gigabyte Caviar drive 200GB ~20MB/s (a guess) Approximately 2.66 hours. 1 drive $400
Also you're in a pretty sad state if all data on the drive is dynamic, unless you're a business in which case a raid arrangement was probably implicit.
What would you all recommend that attendees of the speech do if, for example, the feds come up on stage in the middle of it and attempt to publically arrest him?
Slashdot Mirror
But, your logic is flawed. The virus isn't neutralized. In effect, the proposed idea is to just BSOD the offending originator.
Umm, their logic is flawed. I'm not talking ping of death type stupdity.
Other people are going on about full on system attacks. Why not just walk over to the next cubicle and punch them with that attitude?
It seems to me that this is kind of like this situation. Burglar breaks into house, He gets bit by a nice big dog that is "protecting" his territory. The owners of the house and dog, are now being sued because the thief was attacked by the dog. The dog in return, because the thief won his case, is now being put down. How fair is this?
I think a better analogy (better to using cars, yeesh!) would be two house owners across the street from each other with catapults, one trying to lob little boxes of cockroaches into the other's open windows (pun not intended, but very valid), the other trying to disable the roach lobber's catapult with, uhhh, cats, yeah.
Furthermore, your average grandmother-using-aol-on-her-emachine would have no idea what to do
:-)
Why would grandmother using AOL on an emachine be running IIS?
What's the point of attacking back?
Neutralizing the damned virus. Its been possible in a large number of cases.
Imagine an anti virus launched after recieving an attack from an IP that exploits the unpatched hole the virus goes through, plugs the hole and disables the virus.
Of course after a year of spamming the net with hack attempts I think the owner of infected systems should be found criminally negligent, but thats another thing.
I've been playing with this for a bit, its coolish. It set up a working X environment alot quicker than I think I ever will be able to.
:-\
And now the handful of mirrors are going to be permanently slashdotted...
I think having USB keyboard/mouse eliminates a common no no of plugging keyboards and mice in while the system is on with a port that is not designed for hotplugging.
Conversely I don't have to shut down every time (not horribly common, but enough to bug me) I dis/re-connect my mouse.
I don't need dead ports on my motherboard. Oh, and thats two less specialized ports on the system.
For certain, uhh, "favors", I'll buy a dozen of those phones. :-)
Think Vorbis can do it? :-)
I think the portals have the better end of the stick. Ebay or no ebay, still plenty of porn to get people online.
Die By the DoS It's RIAA against the world now... backed up by a U.S. law... wonder who's goint to "win?"
--- Unable to make contact with SMTP server, please hang up the computer and dial again.
From: Evil RIAA man
To: Misguided friend in Congress
Subject: We're under attack!
Aaaaaagggghhhhhhhh....
How come ZIP disks never caught on?
.doc ;) around, that works.
For some places they have. And a few of those places have realized how unreliable *AND* expensive they are versus floppy disks.
Most people just want to move their 1 megabyte text file (a two page
One person had some sort of music keyboard that required Zip disks, I hope things work out there. Others might need to get graphics moved around, I don't know a Kinkos without a Zip drive.
As far as the whole each family member gets a Zip disk for permanent storage, well thats just so stupid on so many levels.
Point is that we've been moving away from floppy tech for a while, I don't know of much keeping us from using 2.88 meg disks. Its not worth the cost to most of us. Companies don't like making money on anything cheaper than $20.
If computer manufacturers think that they can make more money by phasing out floppies (and reducing build labor) to validate paying for a cheap but expensive looking CD-RW (whose media costs versus a Zip drive are a humorous 143 times cheaper), then why complain?
$5,000 to cleanup the intrusion??
Someone ping me so I can sue you for $1,000,000 in damages.
You must be new to the scene. It takes alot more than that to clean up pings!
I just got a 50 million grant to research how to find those pings after the fact. Ya see, pings hide themselves deep within a system and then make Windows unstable.
Its national defense really, I could have gotten 65 million, but keyboards only cost so much nowadays...
You don't have to go in to see the door ajar.
Or is this the case of anyone seen with blood over their hands (even if they were trying to stop the bleeding of someone they found mortally wounded) is automatically guilty of murder and deserves 20 years of of friendly jailhouse relationships?
You don't have to leap in and rearrange the money to see from the outside that the lock was installed upside-down.
Perfect mathematical functioning is not a practical model for a lifeform in a world that is not static. The fact that Wallace views computers as better than a brain is very telling to me.
I think its a reflection of his own situation.
To get philosophical, what makes any one thing better than another?
Obviously, that which is better than another can be taken in a mathematical sense or a human appreciative sense. Mathematics not being in question that which is better is that which measures up better to the human making the judgement. Not that such judgements are limited to humans.
I can not continue reasoning down a path that doesn't value human intelligence since I myself am human. To deny the value of my humanity would render me useless and so why go down that path?
Because you might find without intelligence you may still have use. Not that I'm going to force you away from what I might consider an intelligence fetish.
BTW: does anyone know exactly what to call things like the promise and Highpoint "Raid" controllers that rely on BIOS hooks and software drivers to do the RAID dirty work? -- "Hardware" doesnt work and "Software" doesnt work -- is there a word for it?!?
Jelloware, sludgeware, pillowy-brick-ware.
I think firmware sounds about right.
Free Lossless Audio Compression.
I'm glad that the hard drive companies are realizing our need for more hard drive space. I mean sheesh, my Neverwinter Nights install takes up 2 gigs! One day we'll probably have memory sticks that size, strange to think...
"One day" is not very far off at all...
You forgot:
WD 200 Gigabyte Caviar drive
200GB ~20MB/s (a guess)
Approximately 2.66 hours.
1 drive $400
Also you're in a pretty sad state if all data on the drive is dynamic, unless you're a business in which case a raid arrangement was probably implicit.
Can we actually turn ogg past mp3 by including a checksum verifier that tags each file and can tell if you have the full version of a file.
If Ogg doesn't already have something of the likes built in it should be pretty trivial to add an MD5 metadata tag for the Vorbis part of the stream.
I think.
So it'd just be a matter of support for it.
What would you all recommend that attendees of the speech do if, for example, the feds come up on stage in the middle of it and attempt to publically arrest him?
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Start chanting DeCSS code.
You don't have to modify data on the drive to deface a website if you're that far into a system that the only resort is a read only drive.
:-)
Pop open a RAM drive point Apache there and put whatever questionable material you want on there.
that's all fine and good, but will it play ps2 and ps1 games?
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No, they're using a grid of GameCube GPUs and adding four cartridge slots.
In this case the firmware part could add support for CD formats, make burning marginally more reliable and so forth.
I really think stories have to tone themselves down nowadays. Too many readers are getting wrong ideas and cranking up the slashdot effect.
Well, I can't say this isn't a subscription service anymore, but really.
From what I read all you can do is rename/upgrade firmware on rebadged Plextor drives. (they don't seem to play the underclocking game much)