This is the most fucked up shit I've seen on Slashdot in my 2 years of reading it.
The/. editors have missed the entire point of this thread.
JUST BECAUSE YOU CAN MOD US DOWN DOESN'T MEAN THAT YOU CAN SILENCE US.
There are sever problems with the moderation system. There are no IDEAL solutions, but we are trying to help you out here by pointing out the problems and possible solutions.
I'm posting with a +1 bonus, and not anonymously. Mod me down for being offtopic, flaming, or whatever. But get a fucking clue.
It would probably be much easier than building your own device. If the flags ever change, you'd be stuck with the hardware.
Since the signal is (or would be) digital, all you'd have to do is capture it, run it through a program which strips the flags and watch the output. New flags come out? No problem. Just upgrade your program.
In the triple pack they put on sale a few months ago. The third DVD contained a shitload of extras, including badly rendered sequences, misplaced artifacts, etc.
And while on the subject of contrived bloopers, I'm really not pleased with the "release the movie now, release the bloopers in 4 weeks" strategy that certain studios have adapted. Like I'm gonna sit through Monsters twice. It's cute, but in the end it's just another buddy picture. Like Lethal Weapon or Rush Hour.
I watched Babe 2: Pig In The City last night. The City is a wonderful collection of all famous landmarks - Eiffel Tower, GOlden Gate Bridge, Sydney Opera House, etc. Of course, the Twin Towers were there.
I don't see a reason why they should be removed from current films, either. It seems to be some sort of denial, as if the Towers never existed and nothing bad happened to the people who were in them. The footage of the Towers may bring back some bad memories, but there are other things to concentrate on in the movie than which buildings appear in the landscape.
I have a couple of questions, though - what if the chaff introduced by a third party contains (as unlikely as it may be) a MAC that could be authenticated as wheat? Would it cause an error in the reassembly of message? And would the error be continous or located at a specific part of a message?
Kind of offtopic, but the book tells us a lot more.
A war will not be fought by everyone. Each system will have a bunch of people who will go against whatever the government decides and side with the enemy. They will become subversives, terrorist in their own country, for whatever cause.
So even if we enforce backdoors in encryption, cameras in every place and any other massive surveilance in the name of safety, there will always be a fraction of the population screaming about their liberties being violated.
This is not a bad thing in the grand scheme of things, but to the government (or any other body trying to "assure" safety) these people would be enemies. They'd have to be eliminated, either through brainwashing, incarceration or death.
I don't think anyone would want to live in such a society.
I did some ripoffs of the the famous photo of Picasso in which he seems to be painting with a torch and standing still. Exact same method (I used a flashlight to paint, though).
You leave the shutter on bulb, wave the flashlight around, stop and stand still, and someone deploys the flash. It sure amazed the kids at school when I showed them.
A typical scalp hair is about 4/1000 of an inch. A standard machine shop tolerance is 1/1000. And there is a big difference between 0.999 and 1.000 when you're trying to fit an exact 1.000 bushing into a hole. One will give you a press fit, and the other a slide fit. 4 thousands of an inch is often not even an acceptable tolerance.
But since Joe Average has never been seen a vernier caliper in his life, he's got no clue how thick a piece of paper or a human hair is. All he knows is that it's thin and that if something's 100,000 times thinner, it's VERY thin.
Then again, I have trouble imagining anything smaller than 1/10,000th of an inch. There are just some things that are very hard to visualize.
Non-embryonic stem cell production has been unveiled a few days ago. Not only is it not patented, it also puts to rest many moral issues associated with stem cells of embryonic origin.
So why would anyone keep using embryonic stem cells?
And if you're a really dedicated worker, pick up a suspended sleeping bag (just like the ones astronauts use) to cut down on your commute from work. Make sure it's waterproof, so it can double as a curtain for a collapsable shower. And remove the fan off your CPU to turn it into an instant heating element (excellent for boiling water).
Oh, and a bunch of people suggested getting a fridge and filling it with beer. You could suspend it from the ceiling on a retractable steel cable.
seems to work fine for me. perhaps you should install the patch. Or maybe you were just joking and everything's fine:
---START PASTE---
WELCOME NTK READERS!
If you are reading this page, then you are probably curious...
This page is actually a script that will connect to your machine and try to shut it down. Since you are seeing this you probably aren't a Code Red infected box.
This will only work if you are infected with the "code red" virus which isn't really a virus but is a part of the Microsoft Internet
Information Server (IIS).
If you were a Code Red infected IIS then the command just sent to port 80 was to stop iis and to reboot your machine. If you aren't infected,
then you have nothing to worry about, otherwise.. you should really use a secure webserver don't you think?.. one that doesn't let people in a
gaping back door to do stuff like this...)
This is how you can protect yourself and others, if you run perl, and a competent web server:
Patent lawyers often have two degrees - one in law, and one in the field that they're working in.
A friend of mine finished his biochemistry degree and is now studying law. This will not only open up more doors for him, but make him a slightly more competent lawyer if he chooses that career path.
Pedophiles do not make for a funny subject, neither does the ignorance of elected officials when it comes to technology, or any other topic, for that matter. Sure, we all get a chuckle from hearing how dumb people can be, but these elected officials are there to make laws, and if they're clueless about certain facts, we end up with stuff like the DMCA.
I live in Canada and have only seen one application for solar cells here - they're used by one of the cities to power lights that let drivers know about school zones. These lights are also hooked up to a normal power line, so the solar cell system has a backup, or vice versa.
My question is this: Will all the research put into more efficient energy conversion trickle down to Joe Sixpack one of these days, or will it be reserved for satellites or applications which are not mission critical?
The kids will have to be brainwashed to respect the law in every aspect of their lives. The new cirriculum will include electroshock therapy as an integrated part of gym class.
The students will then be evaluated and placed in classes that bore them most. The teachers will be skilled at mass hypnosis, and instead of teaching usefull stuff like fractions and the capitol of Portugal, they'll expose kids to the evils of pirating software.
I think I'll send my children to school in England.
But will sharing music online have the same consequences? Will you get X years of jailtime for every stateline the music crosses? Will owning over 20 mp3s be constituted as intent to distribute?
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And no, this is not offtopic. Read the links before you moderate.
Bart
The /. editors have missed the entire point of this thread.
JUST BECAUSE YOU CAN MOD US DOWN DOESN'T MEAN THAT YOU CAN SILENCE US.
There are sever problems with the moderation system. There are no IDEAL solutions, but we are trying to help you out here by pointing out the problems and possible solutions.
I'm posting with a +1 bonus, and not anonymously. Mod me down for being offtopic, flaming, or whatever. But get a fucking clue.
Bart
It would probably be much easier than building your own device. If the flags ever change, you'd be stuck with the hardware.
Since the signal is (or would be) digital, all you'd have to do is capture it, run it through a program which strips the flags and watch the output. New flags come out? No problem. Just upgrade your program.
Make sure to get the soundtrack with hidden track 0 where the boys hum the Star Wars theme a capella (sp).
Seriously, I hope the Clone Edit (please let there be one) has Bye Bye Bye playing as they get killed.
In the triple pack they put on sale a few months ago. The third DVD contained a shitload of extras, including badly rendered sequences, misplaced artifacts, etc.
And while on the subject of contrived bloopers, I'm really not pleased with the "release the movie now, release the bloopers in 4 weeks" strategy that certain studios have adapted. Like I'm gonna sit through Monsters twice. It's cute, but in the end it's just another buddy picture. Like Lethal Weapon or Rush Hour.
He forgot a couple of things: the kernel and libs.
Zipslack would probaby be best for this base system. Or a stripped-dopy (minimal install) of Slack or Deb.
I sure hope they changed the filter by now.
OFFTOPIC
You can turn off those stories in your Homepage settings by selecting the "Bug" box in the "Exclude Stories from the Homepage" section.
Please stop whining.
/OFFTOPIC
I watched Babe 2: Pig In The City last night. The City is a wonderful collection of all famous landmarks - Eiffel Tower, GOlden Gate Bridge, Sydney Opera House, etc. Of course, the Twin Towers were there.
I don't see a reason why they should be removed from current films, either. It seems to be some sort of denial, as if the Towers never existed and nothing bad happened to the people who were in them. The footage of the Towers may bring back some bad memories, but there are other things to concentrate on in the movie than which buildings appear in the landscape.
Worst episode ever. Rest assured I was on the internet within minutes registering my disgust throughout the world.
--CBG
Oh quit complaining.
They're just making sure you get your news twice as not to miss any of it.
I agree. It's a very neat idea.
I have a couple of questions, though - what if the chaff introduced by a third party contains (as unlikely as it may be) a MAC that could be authenticated as wheat? Would it cause an error in the reassembly of message? And would the error be continous or located at a specific part of a message?
Kind of offtopic, but the book tells us a lot more.
A war will not be fought by everyone. Each system will have a bunch of people who will go against whatever the government decides and side with the enemy. They will become subversives, terrorist in their own country, for whatever cause.
So even if we enforce backdoors in encryption, cameras in every place and any other massive surveilance in the name of safety, there will always be a fraction of the population screaming about their liberties being violated.
This is not a bad thing in the grand scheme of things, but to the government (or any other body trying to "assure" safety) these people would be enemies. They'd have to be eliminated, either through brainwashing, incarceration or death.
I don't think anyone would want to live in such a society.
bart
I did some ripoffs of the the famous photo of Picasso in which he seems to be painting with a torch and standing still. Exact same method (I used a flashlight to paint, though).
You leave the shutter on bulb, wave the flashlight around, stop and stand still, and someone deploys the flash. It sure amazed the kids at school when I showed them.
bart
A hair is not REALLY thin.
A typical scalp hair is about 4/1000 of an inch. A standard machine shop tolerance is 1/1000. And there is a big difference between 0.999 and 1.000 when you're trying to fit an exact 1.000 bushing into a hole. One will give you a press fit, and the other a slide fit. 4 thousands of an inch is often not even an acceptable tolerance.
But since Joe Average has never been seen a vernier caliper in his life, he's got no clue how thick a piece of paper or a human hair is. All he knows is that it's thin and that if something's 100,000 times thinner, it's VERY thin.
Then again, I have trouble imagining anything smaller than 1/10,000th of an inch. There are just some things that are very hard to visualize.
bart
So why would anyone keep using embryonic stem cells?
And if you're a really dedicated worker, pick up a suspended sleeping bag (just like the ones astronauts use) to cut down on your commute from work. Make sure it's waterproof, so it can double as a curtain for a collapsable shower. And remove the fan off your CPU to turn it into an instant heating element (excellent for boiling water).
Oh, and a bunch of people suggested getting a fridge and filling it with beer. You could suspend it from the ceiling on a retractable steel cable.
I hope this helps.
WELCOME NTK READERS!
If you are reading this page, then you are probably curious...
This page is actually a script that will connect to your machine and try to shut it down. Since you are seeing this you probably aren't a Code Red infected box.
This will only work if you are infected with the "code red" virus which isn't really a virus but is a part of the Microsoft Internet Information Server (IIS).
If you were a Code Red infected IIS then the command just sent to port 80 was to stop iis and to reboot your machine. If you aren't infected, then you have nothing to worry about, otherwise.. you should really use a secure webserver don't you think?.. one that doesn't let people in a gaping back door to do stuff like this...)
This is how you can protect yourself and others, if you run perl, and a competent web server:
- Download this script.
- Rename it default.ida and place it in the DocumentRoot of your
server
- Make sure the
.ida extension is handled as a perl CGI
script.
If you can't figure out any of the above instructions then find someone who can.For historical purposes here's the old SSI version.
---END PASTE---Patent lawyers often have two degrees - one in law, and one in the field that they're working in.
A friend of mine finished his biochemistry degree and is now studying law. This will not only open up more doors for him, but make him a slightly more competent lawyer if he chooses that career path.
Pedophiles do not make for a funny subject, neither does the ignorance of elected officials when it comes to technology, or any other topic, for that matter. Sure, we all get a chuckle from hearing how dumb people can be, but these elected officials are there to make laws, and if they're clueless about certain facts, we end up with stuff like the DMCA.
I'm off to put my troll-mod suit on.
I live in Canada and have only seen one application for solar cells here - they're used by one of the cities to power lights that let drivers know about school zones. These lights are also hooked up to a normal power line, so the solar cell system has a backup, or vice versa.
My question is this: Will all the research put into more efficient energy conversion trickle down to Joe Sixpack one of these days, or will it be reserved for satellites or applications which are not mission critical?
The kids will have to be brainwashed to respect the law in every aspect of their lives. The new cirriculum will include electroshock therapy as an integrated part of gym class.
The students will then be evaluated and placed in classes that bore them most. The teachers will be skilled at mass hypnosis, and instead of teaching usefull stuff like fractions and the capitol of Portugal, they'll expose kids to the evils of pirating software.
I think I'll send my children to school in England.
I thought it was some clever word-play on Homeboy/Gameboy.
I think I'm giving Slashdot editors too much credit, though.
But will sharing music online have the same consequences? Will you get X years of jailtime for every stateline the music crosses? Will owning over 20 mp3s be constituted as intent to distribute?
I hope not.
If anything's an indicator that BSD isn't dying, check the number of BSD articles posted today on /.
Then again, they could be hitting a niche market.
(awaiting troll moderation)