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| 2004/12/6 [Politics/Foreign/MiddleEast/Iraq] UID:35180 Activity:high |
12/5 http://fallujahinpictures.com About as graphic as you imagine, and very depressing. \_ Hmm. The pictures are graphic and very disturbing, but the strict focus on mutilated bodies and wounded people seems to slant the 'photo-essay' into a potentially distasteful political message while neglecting to capture any real sense of the iraqis as a people. I mean, if even *one* picture other than blood and gore (in the two weeks of grisly images I scrolled through) had been included, I wouldn't have formed this opinion. \_ What do you want? People in a refugee camp? Someone parallel parking? Or walking their dog? They're addressing the failure of the media of showing NONE of this gore, not the lives of Iraqis.. If they were trying to show that, they would go there with cameras themselves. \_ Well, whatever it is, it isn't journalism. It's kind of a mirror image of foxnews. What I want to see is real reporting on the *overall* situation in Iraq, not just what brave marines fighting(fox) or dead people(this blog) look like. These pictures could have been from any war. \_ Which is a point in itself. They could be from any war, but they're from this one, and you haven't seen them anywhere else. Finding some modicum of real reporting isn't hard. You just have to look outside this country. \_ I think these pictures are counter-productive. The public didn't see stuff like this during WW II. I have a relative in Iraq and he send back a lot of cool pictures of him with Iraqi kids and stuff, but that's not 'news' either because it doesn't fit anyone's agenda. \_ USA Today and Fox have have images like this (US soldier with Iraqui chidren) on a regular basis. It's not news but its great propaganda. I would guess there's a new one of these each week in USA Today, for instance. This does not belittle your relative's experience. The implication such pictures have not been showing up in the mainstream media is simply false, though. \_ I haven't seen very many positive stories. It's not that they don't exist, but that the negative and sensationalist stories are far more common. \_ No pictures like this from WW2? Are you sure that you know what you're talking about? Pictures of Auschwitz and other concentration camps were critical in raising awareness of what the Nazis had done. Just because the pictures don't support the US agenda doesn't mean that they should be censored, as they essentially are in the US media. \_ WW II was all but over by then. I have old newspapers and they were not full of pictures of all the people that died on D-Day, for instance. This 'journalism' really began with Vietnam. \_ How is it journalism to deliberately not report something? Keep in mind that there are huge technological leaps between WWII and Vietnam (satellite communication, etc.) and between Vietnam and now (too many to list). As has been discussed in many other places, Gulf War 2 is probably the most heavily covered war zone ever. And the journalists covering it have technologies at their disposal to increase frequency and detail of stories that previous generations could only dream about. The availability of a technology that increases information means that it is likely to be used, regardless of how much you wring your hands about it. Moralizing will not turn back the clock. Digital cameras and the Internet are a Pandora's box that we cannot close. \_ The media has an obligation to present a story, not to become 'reality television' like showing car chases. The media obviously doesn't show scenes like the beheadings. Heck, they won't even show the inside of a slaughterhouse (for animals). We know certain things happen in war and to focus on those few hideous things is to ignore the big picture. There's a good reason the media doesn't show graphic images and they shouldn't. Let people seek them out if they want them, but not in the mainstream. \_ The only obligation the corporate media has is to generate revenue for their shareholders. That's it. Fuck the corporate media. |
| 2004/12/6 [Computer/SW/OS/OsX] UID:35181 Activity:nil |
12/6 To the guy who was asking about ports 0/1 sending 'blocks' on a Mac,
we tried it with an autogenerated config and didn't see this happen.
See for yourself with `nmap O -P0 -p1-1023 -sV <your IP>` -John |
| 2004/12/6 [Computer/SW/Languages] UID:35182 Activity:high |
12/6 Is there any way to place/enforce DRM on an application written in a
scripting language, short of having it "phone home" to decrypt itself
each time it runs?
\_ Die.
\_ I dislike DRM as much as the next guy, but I'm still curious.
No need to be a knee-jerk jerk.
\_ Depends on what you mean by "enforcing". There is no way
to produce uncrackable DRM without an external control
mechanism or the aid of the hardware. If you just want to
make it harder, you can use those scripting language
to bin programs and then apply an executable encrypter
or successively more complicated schemes, but with enough
work, it's still crackable (and there are some very
enterprising crackers out there).
\_ Yes. Will it be cracked in minutes? Maybe. Hours? Most likely.
Days? Without a doubt. The fundamental problem with all DRM
mechanisms is that, at some point, you give the user the decryption
key. At that moment, you (the DRM vendor/fascist content owner)
lose. This is true regardless of how obfuscated your mechanism for
transmitting the key is. Aside from their hard-on for extracting
(even more) money from consumers by granting themselves new rights
that don't exist under conventional copyright law, one of the
reasons content industry execs bought into DRM was that they were
too technically clueless to recognize that the ``give the user the
key'' flaw that is inherent to all DRM systems. The empirical
evidence of numerous trivially cracked DRM systems (hold down the
shift key, use a black sharpie on the edge of the CD, etc.), and
the 20/20 vision of hindsight has made their obvious `Whoopsie'
clear to them. The DMCA and the continuing legal onslaught is a
crass and sorry attempt to use to law to patch over a gaping
technical hole.
-dans
\_ You sir, are a moron.
\_ Care to expand on that? What are the flaws in his argument?
\_ Use rot26 encryption, anyone who cracks it will be violating
the DMCA and you can ask the feds to put them in jail!
\_ Crap! Merely by reading this sentence I violated the DMCA! |
| 2004/12/6 [Finance/Investment] UID:35183 Activity:moderate |
12/6 From the "They'll never learn" department. Dow 36,000 returns!
http://www.techcentralstation.com/120504A.html
\_ I'm not sure what you're saying. Are you saying that over a 17
year period stock value won't increase?
\_ Hmm, at 8% a year for 15 years it would be about 33,000. So,
what's the problem?
\_ The problem is that this dude thinks the fair value for the
Dow right now is 36,000. |
| 2004/12/6 [Politics/Domestic/California] UID:35184 Activity:nil |
12/6 http://www.bluelemur.com/index.php?p=477 \_ I like this one. Couldn't sound more wingnutty if he tried: http://csua.org/u/a7j (onlinejournal.com) |
| 2004/12/6 [Recreation/Computer/Games] UID:35185 Activity:high |
12/6 Are you too old for a GameBoy?
\_ Yes. The LCD display is too hard to see for my eyes.
\_ No, but too old for a lot of its games. -24
\_ what kind of games (besides Mario bros type of games?)
\_ Advance Wars rules. -tom
\_ Tom, you and I had our differences in the past, but if you
like Advance Wars, check out Nectaris for ps1. Love that
game. -- ilyas
\_ will you give me a PS1 and a TV to use it with? -tom
\_ You can also try nectaris for the PC or the tg16
emulator (although the graphics are suckier... not that
nectaris is about graphics), just to see how it plays.
-- ilyas
\_ tom and ilyas making up! awww ....
\_ No way. Tom has cooties. -- ilyas
\_ and you know that because...
\_ tom and ilyas are actually the same person, and
he is responsible for 99% of all postings to MOTD
\_ So, John, williamc, ausman, and meyers are all
just subroutines? What about The Geordan?
\_ tom + ilyas = TOMILYAS -> MOSTLY A.I.
\_ My LOST AI!
\_ A, SO MILTY!
\_ I LOST YAM! MOIST LAY!
\_ MOLT, I SAY!
\_ Check out Wario. It's much more fun that it sounds. |
| 2004/12/6-7 [Computer/HW/Memory, Computer/HW/CPU] UID:35186 Activity:high |
12/6 I'm at my wit's end with a problem. I'm running WinXP and a lot of
newer 3D games make the machine randomly lock hard. There isn't much
pattern to it, but some games do it and some don't. This problem is
not mentioned under tech support for the games besides the generic
"Update your drivers and DirectX" which I've done. Games which crash
include Railroad Tycoon 3, Rome:Total War and Sid Meier's Pirates, and
in the non-crash group is GTA:Vice City, Doom3, and MS Flight Sim 2004.
I don't know what else to try, is it a hardware failure of some type,
or maybe AGP apperture? This is a GeForceFX5700 on an Athlon XP.
\_ SP2? Running in safe mode works? Maybe bad memory? -John
\_ SP2. Can you use D3D in safe mode? Other apps are stable.
\_ SP2 fucks up a lot of apps and games. There are lists
of known problems at the MS site. I think there's a way
under safe mode to select the drivers you load. Just as
a terribly stupid idea, try setting up a vmware session and
running the game inside that--it might give you some more
clues. -John
\_ The SP2 issues page seems all about firewall issues,
which is not the problem. Safe mode, while a good idea,
prevents DirectX from working.
\_ I had some similar problems after I installed a new video card
in my old computer. Make sure you are not overloading your video
bus. Try turning down the AGP rate from 4X to 2X or even 1X and
then see if it still happens. I tried a bunch of things before
I hit upon this. You can set it in your start-up screen. -ausman
\_ Motherboard supports 2x and 4x. Switching to 2x did not fix it.
\_ Do you have the VIA chipset? I do, and I have the same
symptoms, as documented on <DEAD>viaarena.com<DEAD>. -ax
\_ MB is Abit KG7, with AMD 761 northbridge and VIA 686B south.
\_ What did you do about it? -ausman
\_ I got used to not being able to play the Medal of Honor
series. Most other 3D games work fine. -ax
\_ Could be something overheating.
\_ But Doom3 runs fine for hours.
\_ My younger brother had this exact problem after we added another
Corsair CL2 DIMM to get him to 1 GB. Entered BIOS settings and
turned CAS settings from Auto or CL2 to CL3 - now everything works
fine.
\_ Some games worked and other didn't? -op
\_ I don't think you should put too much concern on the
"some game work and other don't". The game that works
may just be not exercising the CPU enough or something.
I would suggest the following, download "Ultimate BootCD"
and try a burn-in test, if your mahcine locks up, it's BIOS
or hardware problem. If it passes, then maybe a software
problem, reinstall XP from scrach and see if it helps.
If it's a software problem, most likely it'll go away.
\_ Yes.
\_ Can you start to play some games and then they lock up,
or will they lock up your computer on startup?
\_ In my case they will start, then lock randomly in 1-10
minutes. Screen freezes and sound gets stuck in a loop. -op
\_ Now's the time to upgrade to an Athlon 64 3500+ Winchester!
-sl0da l0s3r
\_ Yeah, exact same symptoms as mine. I am pretty sure you
are overloading your graphics subsystem. Have you installed
the latest firmware upgrades on both your graphics card
and your mother board? Could be a sound card problem
too, but it seems unlikely from what you have said.
Any kind of hardware or driver changes lately? -ausman
\_ Same symptoms for me too. -ax
\_ OK, an update for those whove been helping me: I ran memtest86 and
one other memory tester. Both ran for a while reporting no errors
until the system suddenly locked up. I ran the mersenne prime
torture test and had no problems. So something is flakey, but how
can I be sure it's the RAM, not the CPU? My motherboard monitor
reports in-spec temperatures and voltages both at idle and when
running GIMPS.
\_ Can you try a stick from another PC?
\_ I have 2 different sticks in there now, both in use for at
least a year. I'll try selectively pulling one later. For
now I'm wondering about a good CPU-only stress test (like
one that uses only a tiny bit of memory and no mallocs() ).
\_ OK, I tried each stick on its own. One crashes very
fast while the other takes a while. So, either I have 2
bad DDR sticks, or something else is fucked. Suggestions?
\_ It's your motherboard. Abit KG7s are know to be flakey.
Return it and get something not Abit, like a Gigabyte.
Abit + P4 + Via also has problems. I only recommend
Abit if it's the more expensive standard Intel chipset
version. Avoid Via chipset abits, especially if you
are using P4. Also, K series is known to be flakey.
You can try upgrading the BIOS and see if that helps,
but I never got one to work reliable, especially
on high load stuff.
-williamc
\_ I agree with williamc, I think it's
my motherboard as well, but am too lazy
to change it since my disks are raided. -ax
\_ BIOS is current. I'm afraid you might be right.
Can you reccomend a stable MB for an 266FSB Athlon?
\_ I'v been using a GA-7VT600 gigabyte for
some time now with Linux/XP and no problems.
It's got a KT600 and it can support up to 400
FSB. BTW, the reason why your MB is flakey is
because of the chipset combo. It's a via/amd
solution that just doesn't work. Avoid combo
solutions like this. Plus, whatever you do
avoid the KT266 like the plague (older
via chipset). Your solution was due to the
KT266 instability (the A version doesn't help
matters much, just avoid any MB like this)
Via cleaned up its act aver the KT266 debacle
and Via+Athlon is pretty stable now. Via+P4
is the crap, especially the P880 series.
-williamc
\_ Motherboard having hardware issues does not
explain why it would lock up in some games
and not in others. Do you mean "flakey' in
some other fashion?
\_ Yes it does, I've seen this before on Linux
also. 90% of programs ran fine, even a
kernel recompile. But when we began to
load the system up with circuit simulations
the thing would segfault at random. It took
me a week of replacing parts to find out it
was the MB initially. What was interesting
was that stuff started to fail in succession.
First there was the segfault issue, then
all of a sudden kernel recompiles failed, then
the IDE controller went out for no reason.
Chipset problems usually only appear if you
stress the system long enough. That's why it
passes QA and gets put on the shelf. -williamc
\_ Presume that any game can lock the system by
sending a corrupt instruction to the video
driver or AGP controller. Now if there's a
MB/chipset that is randomaly corrupting some
writes to main memory, a game which makes more
writes has more chances to get stung, and send
a corrupted instruction. Just one explanation.
\_ Yeah, but shouldn't that mean that he
should see Doom3 crashes sometimes as well?
Less frequently yes, but none at all?
Something else is happening that we are
not quite understanding here.
\_ RR Tycoon, Pirates, and Rome must have
something different about them than GTA,
Doom, and flightsim. Maybe he should try
underclocking his FSB and see if things
get more stable. Anyway the memtest
indicates the RAM is the problem area.
\_ Memtest doesn't report any problems,
it flat-out locks the system. This
is with 2 different RAM sticks. -op
\_ No, you're wrong. It's the MB, plain
and simple. Just because it appears
as if it's a memtest problem doesn't
mean it's not the MB. Trust me, it's
the MB. I have direct experience
with Abit K series MBs, I've seen
stuff like the IDE controller going
wonky, the serial ATA going wonky,
the video AGP problem going wonky,
etc. The memtest is only one
symptom of basically a chipset
problem. Hardware is complex, it's
not like software where you can
pinpoint stuff to one dll and say
the bug is there. It's the MB, stop
wasting time and just get it replaced.
It costs $50. -williamc
\_ Thanks for your help. What do you
think of this mobo:
http://tinyurl.com/4ul8f
\_ It looks fine, I've never had
an issue with nvidia chipset.
I've had some minor problems
with MSI, though, but that's
on the P4 side. Your athlon
should be fine as long as
you get a good board, MSI
makes decent (but not really
outstanding) boards. The
nvidia I have running an athlon
is an ASUS from last year.
-williamc
\_ Could also be the power
supply?
\_ Hardware monitor reports all
voltages 3-5% over spec. -op
\_ Sounds like a virus. Reformat and start over.
\_ Are you sure? Re-read the thread.
\_ http://forums.eyo.com.au/arc/t-1142.html
Relax your memory timings. Reduce bus speeds. |
| 2004/12/6 [Reference/RealEstate, Reference/History] UID:35187 Activity:kinda low Cat_by:auto Edit_by:auto |
12/6 Awsome site: http://nationalatlas.gov/natlas/natlasstart.asp Statistics on geography and other things \_ Florida IS for old people! Look at age over 65. Look at the Black population, it's interesting. This also confirms that the Bay Area IS a haven for Asians. Also, this confirms that Mormons DO have more children! \_ Stats for crime and population seemed to be grouped by county, so LA skews the visual for California. \_ very cool; thank you --darin \_ wow. the country-wide trends for breast and ovarian cancer are strange. Truly a rich, white woman's cancer. \- isnt breast cancer higher among the nulliparous ... hence the "marin county effect" --psb \_ nice map/atlas, nice demographic/statistic stuff. |
| 2004/12/6 [Reference/History/WW2/Germany] UID:35188 Activity:high 50%like:32222 54%like:32631 |
12/6 Dear German John, I hope you like this:
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/swimsuit/collection
\_ Consider yourself forgiven for all the Heil Cherman Chohn
links you've posted in the past. -John
\_ for that, HEIL JOHN! Har har (sorry couldn't resist)
\_ What did anyone ever see in Cheryl Teigs?
\_ She seems to have the standard look of the late 70's to
early 80's.
\_ She's a very attractive woman. I saw a picture of her taken
recently and she's definitely a MILF. If she looks that good
now then I am sure she looked great then. The thing with the
70s is that styles were ugly and so women like Cheryl Ladd
and such all look 'generic' to us now. It wasn't a glamorous
look like Marilyn Monroe that we can readily identify with,
but what's underneath the hood is still pretty nice. Twiggy,
I don't get.
\_ Models don't exist to be attractive. They exist to sell
clothes. Anorexic looking models emphasize the product more.
\_ It's models with big derrieres who are selling products
now, so it's just changing fashion. I cannot get into
Twiggy no matter how you dress her, though - even as
a flat-chested flapper. Blah.
\_ Same for Audrey Quock. If SI were to pick an Asian, please at
least pick one that has a more attractive face. -- Chinese
\_ Very nice pics if you want to learn glamour photography. But the
quality of women is not to my taste. It depends on what you like.
(I know many of them are supermodels.) |
| 2004/12/6-7 [Consumer/TV] UID:35189 Activity:nil |
12/6 Those that have Dish network, how does their one receiver two
turner thing work? I mean the RG6 cable goes to the receiver,
but how does the receiver hookup to the 2 TV (which may be far
away, and A/V cable doesn't run very far). Are they using regular
antenna cable for TV and ask you to use channel 3? That would suck
for picture quality.
\_ i have 2 rg6 cables (one for each) running from wall cable outlet
to the satellite box outside (they join here) just before it connects
to the satellite dish.
\_ How many TV do you have connected, what's the connection type and
how far is the TV? |
| 2004/12/6 [Computer/SW/Apps/Media, Recreation/Humor] UID:35190 Activity:moderate Cat_by:auto |
12/6 http://users.pandora.be/bonte/forumafbeeldingen/dancemonkeyboy.mpg Why I'm so hyped about MS. \_ Ah, that brings me back. I love that one. Ironically I can't get it to play in Windows Media Player when downloading through IE. *sigh* \_ "Give it up for me!" This guy is the best advertising for open source anywhere. \_ He's about 2 deep fried twinkies away from a heart attack. The remix is even better. |
| 2004/12/6-7 [Computer/SW/OS/FreeBSD] UID:35191 Activity:nil |
12/6 Keeping freebsd up-to-date:
http://www.taosecurity.com/keeping_freebsd_up-to-date.html |
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