if i go out onto a motorway... and throw a bag of nails on to the road, into the path of cars traveling at 80mph, how am i any more liable for the resulting carnage than the millions who run insecure rubber tyres? the responsibility lies with vehicle manufacturers for not fitting tyres with kevlar inserts in the side walls as standard; and with motorists for not fitting them themselves.
what you appear to have done, is made the all too common mistake of assuming that this is news; and that it hasn't been around since before the television was invented.
good point.. we whine about the physics being wrong in films... but when you think about it... almost everything is wrong in films. you watch CSI... old gus just gets his green torch out and shines it on something... "ahh.. blood"... great. and then we have stuff with witches and vampires in... you don't hear people complaining when they turn into a bat.. "but.. but.. what about the laws of thermodynamics? you can't do that..." and then there's the way people talk to each other in films.... who talks like that? the mojarity of people making films only really know about how to make films. and nothing else. any issues or concepts portrayed in films are almost automatically always wrong. never mind, eh? you could always read a book.
"I remember that one virus even encrypted a portion of a systems fixed disk, then unencrypted it for system requests. Trying to remove this virus is diffcult because the system becomes dependant on it for normal operation. Once it's payload is triggered, the virus discontinues decrypting your hard drive contents, leaving the user high and dry."
IIRC, this was the monkey virus. I think it did something along the lines of encrypt part of your file alocation table - and hide in the boot sector. When you booted from the hard drive, the virus was loaded into memory and decrypted your file allocation table - and eveything was seemingly normal. Once in memory it'd slowly corrupt bits of data and copy itself to the boot sector of any disk it saw... If you booted from a clean floppy disk to try and remove the virus or backup data before it got nobbled, you couldn't access the hard drive because the file allocation table was mangled. I think i've still got a copy of it on an infected floppy disk somewhere... i hope it's clearly labled...
"...and, if they can't do it themselves, clean their PCs for free"
That's nice of you.. at the ISP I used to work for, if they thought you had a virus, they'd disable your account. And they wouldn't reactivate it until you managed to convince them you'd got rid of it.
Anybody that asks for a "cup" of anything and expects to get a specific amount, is a fool. if i ask for a cup of something, i expect only to recieve it in a cup. if it really matters that i have 250ml of something, i'll ask for 250ml.
but why should slashdot have to provide them with bandwidth and mess about with.torrent files and getting permission to mirror stuff and all that hassle? why don't the poeple with the stop motion lego anims just use bittorrent to distibute their files in the first place? maybe slashdot could just send them an email to tell them they're going to get lots of visitors and recommend bittorrent as a way of preventing their website catching fire?
yeah... my 5 year old nokia phone... a 5110 had a temperature sensor in it. you just had to have an m2bus/fbus cable thing and something like wintesla to enable netmonitor so you could see it. and nokia phones have had the ability to run java apps for a while now, so adding those other features, like the sound monitor might not be too dificult if all the neccesary hardware is already there... and as an aside... this phone has been thrown at a wall... and kicked down the stairs... and i once walked into a tree while i was holding it and threw it accross the road as my arms flew forwards... and it's not even scratched. i've had my new nokia 6310i for about 8 months and it's falling apart....
A couple of years ago when i used to work on tech support for Packard Bell machines, we started getting people phoning up saying "my computer smells of fish" - most of them also complained that their computer was no longer working. Turned out the capacitors on the power supply were leaking - and for some reason the electrolyte smelled of fish.
I think maybe they just used cod liver oil or something.
On slightly smaller note... those little metal pencil sharpeners are magnesium too. Get a pair of pliers and hold once over a gas hob for 5 mins... just make sure you have somewhere for falling lumps of blazing magnesuim to land or the wife won't be very happy about the mess you made of her shiny new cooker...
1) Some people have already suggested this. You could just stick the md5 sum in the pathname for the file... most (all?) gnutella clients strip the pathname anyway. So you'd be downloading/stuff/WordPerfect8.tar.gz but the servent would send the query hit response with this in it/stuff/edf5c7822381acfb44c094d5161b37da/WordPerfec t8.tar.gz
2) This would follow from 1)... since searches match pathnames too... even if the servents strip them out and don't display them.
3)Since the gnutella protocol uses a subset of http/1.1 to transfer files between servents and also implements the range parameter, you can already do this. Just no clients out there that do it yet... but i suppose if you knew the file index numbers for the same file on two different hosts, you could probably use getright to download from both of them at once. But that would be far too much like hard work.
4)I read somewhere about somebody proposing a few extenisions involving different levels of caching and mirroring of hosts/file lists. Looked like it was going to be a bit of a piss around getting all to work without breaking compatability with everything else, though. Something will have to be done eventually, though... that scalability thing isn't going to fix itself.
5)This would just be a client specific feature... wouldn't require tweaking the protocol after the md5 thing had been put in.
that doesn't seem right... i thought emulators were always a bit of a grey area.... what with all that stuff about UltraHLE being taken down and Bleem! being taken to court and stuff...
i think the point is that you CAN actually copyright what your machine does... and if somebody writes an emulator that copies it then they can sort you out...
as far as i know, half the reason sony went on about their "Emotion Engine" in the PS2 is to prevent another bleem. the thinking being, if you got a processor that does stuff and you've copyrighted it and all that and you own the name and it does stuff and only you know how it works then you've got a better chance in court when the emulation boys bring out a ps2 emulator.
i dunno... i could be talking sh*t... fsck it.
please excuse the appaling spelling, grammar and punctuation; i'm drunk.
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No... gnome will be running on a linux box somewhere, but being DISPLAYED on the x-server on the windows box.
As for the remark that, "I thought that their claim of how easy it was to change the gnome source to get it to work was a sure sign of a hoax until I saw the list of requirements...
An X server..."
what did you expect the requirements to be for an x windows desktop environment?
I agree. I don't think i've read quite so much unqualified bollocks in slashdot posts in quite a long time. Why does everybody assume that as soon as computers reach a certain level of complexity, they will automagically attain awarneness and intelligence?
Everybody should be forced to go away and read The Emporers New Mind; I'm not saying Penrose is definately right that current computational methods will never be able to fully emulate the human brain, but it makes you think.
Anyway... I'm sure I had a point to make, but I dunno what it was. I'm off to bed.
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if i go out onto a motorway... and throw a bag of nails on to the road, into the path of cars traveling at 80mph, how am i any more liable for the resulting carnage than the millions who run insecure rubber tyres?
the responsibility lies with vehicle manufacturers for not fitting tyres with kevlar inserts in the side walls as standard; and with motorists for not fitting them themselves.
what you appear to have done, is made the all too common mistake of assuming that this is news; and that it hasn't been around since before the television was invented.
the "old face" is sam lake's face...
come... admit it... you just watched chris barrie's massive engines on discovery... didn't you?
good point.. we whine about the physics being wrong in films... but when you think about it... almost everything is wrong in films. ... great.
you watch CSI... old gus just gets his green torch out and shines it on something... "ahh.. blood"
and then we have stuff with witches and vampires in... you don't hear people complaining when they turn into a bat.. "but.. but.. what about the laws of thermodynamics? you can't do that..."
and then there's the way people talk to each other in films.... who talks like that?
the mojarity of people making films only really know about how to make films. and nothing else. any issues or concepts portrayed in films are almost automatically always wrong.
never mind, eh? you could always read a book.
"I remember that one virus even encrypted a portion of a systems fixed disk, then unencrypted it for system requests. Trying to remove this virus is diffcult because the system becomes dependant on it for normal operation. Once it's payload is triggered, the virus discontinues decrypting your hard drive contents, leaving the user high and dry."
IIRC, this was the monkey virus. I think it did something along the lines of encrypt part of your file alocation table - and hide in the boot sector. When you booted from the hard drive, the virus was loaded into memory and decrypted your file allocation table - and eveything was seemingly normal.
Once in memory it'd slowly corrupt bits of data and copy itself to the boot sector of any disk it saw...
If you booted from a clean floppy disk to try and remove the virus or backup data before it got nobbled, you couldn't access the hard drive because the file allocation table was mangled.
I think i've still got a copy of it on an infected floppy disk somewhere... i hope it's clearly labled...
"...and, if they can't do it themselves, clean their PCs for free"
That's nice of you.. at the ISP I used to work for, if they thought you had a virus, they'd disable your account. And they wouldn't reactivate it until you managed to convince them you'd got rid of it.
...what can be adequately explained by Microsoft's search engine being shit.
Intel processor speeds:
0 0 .... hmmm....
(something along the lines of)
25
33
50
66
100
133
166
200
233
266
3
333
blah blah blah
600
667
also see other coment somewhere about not using "sex" prefix for 80686
Wonder if it's powered by NT Technology...
Anybody that asks for a "cup" of anything and expects to get a specific amount, is a fool. if i ask for a cup of something, i expect only to recieve it in a cup.
if it really matters that i have 250ml of something, i'll ask for 250ml.
but why should slashdot have to provide them with bandwidth and mess about with .torrent files and getting permission to mirror stuff and all that hassle?
why don't the poeple with the stop motion lego anims just use bittorrent to distibute their files in the first place?
maybe slashdot could just send them an email to tell them they're going to get lots of visitors and recommend bittorrent as a way of preventing their website catching fire?
yeah... my 5 year old nokia phone... a 5110 had a temperature sensor in it. you just had to have an m2bus/fbus cable thing and something like wintesla to enable netmonitor so you could see it.
and nokia phones have had the ability to run java apps for a while now, so adding those other features, like the sound monitor might not be too dificult if all the neccesary hardware is already there...
and as an aside... this phone has been thrown at a wall... and kicked down the stairs... and i once walked into a tree while i was holding it and threw it accross the road as my arms flew forwards... and it's not even scratched. i've had my new nokia 6310i for about 8 months and it's falling apart....
sorry.
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cHris
Have you been slashdotted? And if so, how does it feel?
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cHris
But that said; the contents of a couple of D engines ground up and stuck in a steel pipe capped at both ends makes a fairly big bang.
A couple of years ago when i used to work on tech support for Packard Bell machines, we started getting people phoning up saying "my computer smells of fish" - most of them also complained that their computer was no longer working. Turned out the capacitors on the power supply were leaking - and for some reason the electrolyte smelled of fish.
I think maybe they just used cod liver oil or something.
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cHris
... you're complaining, because people can't start your car without the key?
On slightly smaller note... those little metal pencil sharpeners are magnesium too. Get a pair of pliers and hold once over a gas hob for 5 mins... just make sure you have somewhere for falling lumps of blazing magnesuim to land or the wife won't be very happy about the mess you made of her shiny new cooker...
73 + 17 = umm... 100?
2) This would follow from 1) ... since searches match pathnames too... even if the servents strip them out and don't display them.
3)Since the gnutella protocol uses a subset of http/1.1 to transfer files between servents and also implements the range parameter, you can already do this. Just no clients out there that do it yet... but i suppose if you knew the file index numbers for the same file on two different hosts, you could probably use getright to download from both of them at once. But that would be far too much like hard work.
4)I read somewhere about somebody proposing a few extenisions involving different levels of caching and mirroring of hosts/file lists. Looked like it was going to be a bit of a piss around getting all to work without breaking compatability with everything else, though. Something will have to be done eventually, though... that scalability thing isn't going to fix itself.
5)This would just be a client specific feature... wouldn't require tweaking the protocol after the md5 thing had been put in.
hope i haven't talked too much rubbish here.
that doesn't seem right... i thought emulators were always a bit of a grey area.... what with all that stuff about UltraHLE being taken down and Bleem! being taken to court and stuff... i think the point is that you CAN actually copyright what your machine does... and if somebody writes an emulator that copies it then they can sort you out... as far as i know, half the reason sony went on about their "Emotion Engine" in the PS2 is to prevent another bleem. the thinking being, if you got a processor that does stuff and you've copyrighted it and all that and you own the name and it does stuff and only you know how it works then you've got a better chance in court when the emulation boys bring out a ps2 emulator. i dunno... i could be talking sh*t... fsck it. please excuse the appaling spelling, grammar and punctuation; i'm drunk. -- cHris
As for the remark that, "I thought that their claim of how easy it was to change the gnome source to get it to work was a sure sign of a hoax until I saw the list of requirements...
An X server..."
what did you expect the requirements to be for an x windows desktop environment?
Yes, it all looks very nice, but it's not earth shattering is it?
Imlib2 has been able to do the alpha blending thing for ages, it hasn't been used much outside efm, but it's there. Dunno about antialiased fonts yet though.
Maybe the reason nobody knows about it is because it's not actually that usefull. But i'm sure that's missing the point - it looks nice, and that's what's important. Ace.
I agree. I don't think i've read quite so much unqualified bollocks in slashdot posts in quite a long time. Why does everybody assume that as soon as computers reach a certain level of complexity, they will automagically attain awarneness and intelligence? Everybody should be forced to go away and read The Emporers New Mind; I'm not saying Penrose is definately right that current computational methods will never be able to fully emulate the human brain, but it makes you think. Anyway... I'm sure I had a point to make, but I dunno what it was. I'm off to bed.