Not on my web server it's not! And I even get a ton of foreign and 21 year old and under traffic, which is the likely Firefox user and I'm at like 12% Firefox. The rest of my stats are perfectly in line with average for OS and stuff so I know it's a good sampling. If they're calculating this using some really dumb method like downloads of the Firefox installer then obviously their logic is flawed.
yeah, so it's completely random and comes out of nowhere. But a gigantic equation based on an exact millisecond on the computer's clock might as well have come from nowhere too cuz nobody can record or measure that. But the next couple replies actually make sense (almost) about how it prevents eavesdropping. I still don't buy the completely made up, cat in a box, quantum flux until someone "measures it" even though measures it doesn't make sense in the tradition sense and is unproven in the absolute molecular sense but I'll just take their word for it and assume it means it can only be decrypted once or something. In that case I guess a test packet could be sent first and if it arrives unencrypted, someone else decrypted it first and they can stop transmission. But wait, it would have to contain a previously agreed upon message to be able to tell if it was encrypted or not so the man in the middle could fake it. I'm no quantum physicist but there's a way to beat everything.
Anyone care to explain why anyone should use this? So it's 100% random...why cares? So equation and clock based pseudo random based encrptions can technically be predicted cuz they're not 100% random. But nobody ever knows the exact equation AND exact millisecond it was calculated to generate the key so noobdy can predict it. I don't think it's any better. It's just a product they're pushing with some ridiculous statement like "but it's better cuz it's completely random!" and never back it up with any facts about it truly being harder to crack.
if it was it would either get sucked in instantly or fly way the hell far away depending on polarity. I suppose gravity could equalize with magnetism at a certain distance and hold the ring there with opposing poliarity to the star in theory but if I remember correctly, the poles of the magnetar are crazy and move around all over so it would push and pull on it until it either got sucked in or pushed too far away. It must be nuetral.
All you have to do is have a different connotation for the word and it doesn't work. The gays stole rainbows so now if people see a picture of a rainbow, they have a distinctly different reaction to it. Or you could purposely make yourself feel angry or sad or do a complex math problem as you're thinking of the word and it would throw the machine off. To get this to work I'd bet they have to tell you to stay calm and what to think about beforehand, during, and after they try to predict what word you're thinking of or whatever. Gee, they tell you how and what to think and then predict what you're thinking of. AMAZING!
that's a capital KB. Here for the basic package we get 8 megabits down so I'm not sure why I calculated that as 850 KB/sec, it should be 1000 lol. I've seen other Road Runner modems max at 850 on bandwidth tests for some reason. And up I usually get just over 70 KB/sec so it's about a half a megabit up which I think is what they still give us. That or like 768kbps or something weird like that. I'm sure it's not a full megabit.
yeeeeeah or for free, you could just cap the bandwidth your client uses. I cap it at 25KBps up and 400 down out of my approximate 70 up and 850 down (Road Runner) and I play MMORPGs under those conditions just fine.
Thanks, you're right. I got modded offtopic or overrated for posting stuff that people didn't get. But instead of ruining the joke, I just posted that it's a reference to something and it's sposta be funny. Otherwise people would read it and be like "Basketball? Why would they solve it like that? That's a stupid idea. You're stupid!" -- for bonus points, what show are those last 2 lines from.
Obviously Prince is going to challenge him to a game of basketball and the winner gets their way:D btw if you don't know where that's from, trust me, it's funny!
There was suddenly 10x the auto sales and ownerships in China. Everyone's rich from trading their crap with us (well okay selling it to us, not trading) and if we suddenly stop even just the non-essentials that anyone could live without, it would over for them. That's gotta be a third of their market at least. They make almost all of our toys! We can live without toys. Electronics not so much but cut out the multi-billion dollar toy trade and China's toast. And yes, we can anonymously EMP their datacenters. Drive an unmarked semi past, charge it up, and release a blast. They could probably even drive off too if they properly shielded their truck's electrical system. Or just sit there and look like every other stalled vehicle and the driver can ditch. Do you really think they'd have enough evidence to trace it back to us if we were careful? No way! We can't even trace most terrorist attacks correctly here in the US obviously. All they'd know is some random group from their own country or another one just EMP bombed them and they don't know who did it.
That's what they want you to think. But then when it starts taking down satellites with an ion beam then we'll see what it was built for. Aliens I tell you!
When are we going to consider it an act of war and bomb them back to the stone age or at least stop buying their cheap plastic crap (and only buy their useful electronic crap) so their economy goes down the toilet, we can get cheaper oil, and their people sink into poverty and rise up against their opressive government and turn into a democracy? Sounds like a plan to me. We should at least anonymously EMP blast some of their major government datacenters to send them a message.
Recently I bought a 2Gb flash drive that was just like that one except without the back on it. It was seriously about the size of a Cheez It (you know, the cheesey crackers). It was basically a millimeter tall and just had low profile gold contacts and that's it. It was seriously about 50% smaller than this one. The thing seemed so flimsy and small though that I was afraid larger objects in my pocket would crush it and I had heard they're flimsy on newegg. So I used it to even up a barter for a graphics card and now I have a PNY medium sized normal 4Gb drive. This one's a little more armored but still, smallness isn't really an issue. I can hardly find my PNY 1.5" one in my pocket as it is. Plus the tiny flash drive I got was $20 and the PNY was $40 and that was almost a year ago.
Remember, not just a lawsuit! DOS is ILLEGAL and they can sue for damages. So that means a criminal case and a civil lawsuit. I bet they'll lose both. You know just once I'd like to see any presidential candidate comment on news like this and say they're going to put and end to the complete bullshit the RIAA and MPAA are pulling.
Btw in other news, Slashot DDOSes revision3.com apparently.
I have a PSX/N64 controller to USB adapter for my computer so I can plug in PS2 dance mats (or N64 controllers!:D) to my computer and use them in emulators. So naturally I tried playing Starfox with the dance pad. I didn't do so well but got surprisingly good considering how ridiculously hard it was.
hey who says nobody has? Remember the best slashdot story EVER about the australian military being called in to handle an invasion of frogs in part of Australia? (if you don't remember it, seriously go look it up) You don't just send in the military for frogs. Obviously they were clawed war frogs send by terrorists;)
Oh boy, they're giving the world really greasy, dirty screens and cute, useless time wasters! Good thing they're working on that instead of security, useability, or generally making it not suck. I think they're gonna pull an ME and just really quickly throw together a bunch of crap on top of Vista and call it a new OS when they should be redesigning the entire thing. I for one am about 10x faster with a mouse than my fingers and a bunch of tilted, 3D objects lying around in my programs is gonna drive me crazy. I like neatness, not fun looking chaos. I think they're actually determined to turn windows into an idiot's OS for new computer users and 10 year olds and all the serious people will use Linux.
You know how much it would hurt to get hit by a rolled up snowball of electrons though? Anyway, this is totally sweet but I don't get it. If a photon has the energy to move more than one electron significantly, why couldn't they just simply layer or stack them somehow in a nice, flat way instead of having to do it on some fancy crystal where they have to collide and "avalanche" in a certain pattern and all that? If the photons in fact don't have the energy to move 2-3 electrons with the same energy as it can move 1 in a regular solar cell and...well...just read that back out loud, then this would just be like some pointless executive ball clicker effect that can't possibly have a net gain in energy and they're BSing something to get funding. If photons can in fact move more than one electron with the same energy it could impact one with then why couldn't they have stacked several layers of electron holding substance like blankets on top of each other and the impact on the top layer would cause impacts on the electrons below it with the same amount of energy collected? It all sounds a little fishy to me.
I dunno, those "people on the internet" are pretty resourceful lol. I hear they're good at removing and replacing chips on motherboards, or at least on gaming consoles. I think he forgot about those people in their homes that don't want some stupid overlord chip overruling basic tasks on their computer. But at least he knows enough that music and videos can't be controlled no matter how hard the MPAA and RIAA try just because of the basic nature of them. Quite the smart/dumb mix.
Hey come on now. I've seen this one already. Then they can't eat fast enough to keep up with their super metabolism and their nerves kinda take a beating too and then when they're in the middle of a goa'uld ship, their body can't take it anymore and they risk failing the mission. Come on, who can't see that coming? Sci fi shows are here to warn us, people! Like the Jetsons telling us we're all gonna have to live in the sky if the sea level rises and we'll all have dishwashers and vending machines!
That's what this article is lol. I think pretty much forever, Apple's customers will only be rich, showey people who don't know computers very well and douchbags (and some professional media editors for God only knows why cuz Adobe CS3 and Premiere and some Ulead products run on the PC). So unless we all become image obsessed douchebags in the future, I don't think Apple's taking over anything. Linux however is about to kick Microsoft's ass and I'll put money on that one. Get your wikipedia edits about Microsoft going bankrupt written in advance lol.
You know what would be cool is instead of just saying ooh I wonder if it eats plastic too and finding out it does, though that's definitely stll amazing...put some bacteria that are at least close to maybe being able to eat X substance and put it on the surface of that substance and blast them with regular, mild radiation every day until some mutate until a colony mutates and starts eating the rubber/plastic/whatever. I've heard very little about forcing mutations randomly to try and get a given result but it seems like a good idea to me. I mean if this kid had found that the bacteria couldn't eat plastic, I doubt anyone would have given him the funding and stuff to try and alter them so they do. And yes, before anyone posts it, keep the test area damn well sealed too so supergerms don't get out (duh!).
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Not on my web server it's not! And I even get a ton of foreign and 21 year old and under traffic, which is the likely Firefox user and I'm at like 12% Firefox. The rest of my stats are perfectly in line with average for OS and stuff so I know it's a good sampling. If they're calculating this using some really dumb method like downloads of the Firefox installer then obviously their logic is flawed.
yeah, so it's completely random and comes out of nowhere. But a gigantic equation based on an exact millisecond on the computer's clock might as well have come from nowhere too cuz nobody can record or measure that. But the next couple replies actually make sense (almost) about how it prevents eavesdropping. I still don't buy the completely made up, cat in a box, quantum flux until someone "measures it" even though measures it doesn't make sense in the tradition sense and is unproven in the absolute molecular sense but I'll just take their word for it and assume it means it can only be decrypted once or something. In that case I guess a test packet could be sent first and if it arrives unencrypted, someone else decrypted it first and they can stop transmission. But wait, it would have to contain a previously agreed upon message to be able to tell if it was encrypted or not so the man in the middle could fake it. I'm no quantum physicist but there's a way to beat everything.
Anyone care to explain why anyone should use this? So it's 100% random...why cares? So equation and clock based pseudo random based encrptions can technically be predicted cuz they're not 100% random. But nobody ever knows the exact equation AND exact millisecond it was calculated to generate the key so noobdy can predict it. I don't think it's any better. It's just a product they're pushing with some ridiculous statement like "but it's better cuz it's completely random!" and never back it up with any facts about it truly being harder to crack.
if it was it would either get sucked in instantly or fly way the hell far away depending on polarity. I suppose gravity could equalize with magnetism at a certain distance and hold the ring there with opposing poliarity to the star in theory but if I remember correctly, the poles of the magnetar are crazy and move around all over so it would push and pull on it until it either got sucked in or pushed too far away. It must be nuetral.
All you have to do is have a different connotation for the word and it doesn't work. The gays stole rainbows so now if people see a picture of a rainbow, they have a distinctly different reaction to it. Or you could purposely make yourself feel angry or sad or do a complex math problem as you're thinking of the word and it would throw the machine off. To get this to work I'd bet they have to tell you to stay calm and what to think about beforehand, during, and after they try to predict what word you're thinking of or whatever. Gee, they tell you how and what to think and then predict what you're thinking of. AMAZING!
that's a capital KB. Here for the basic package we get 8 megabits down so I'm not sure why I calculated that as 850 KB/sec, it should be 1000 lol. I've seen other Road Runner modems max at 850 on bandwidth tests for some reason. And up I usually get just over 70 KB/sec so it's about a half a megabit up which I think is what they still give us. That or like 768kbps or something weird like that. I'm sure it's not a full megabit.
yeeeeeah or for free, you could just cap the bandwidth your client uses. I cap it at 25KBps up and 400 down out of my approximate 70 up and 850 down (Road Runner) and I play MMORPGs under those conditions just fine.
Thanks, you're right. I got modded offtopic or overrated for posting stuff that people didn't get. But instead of ruining the joke, I just posted that it's a reference to something and it's sposta be funny. Otherwise people would read it and be like "Basketball? Why would they solve it like that? That's a stupid idea. You're stupid!" -- for bonus points, what show are those last 2 lines from.
Obviously Prince is going to challenge him to a game of basketball and the winner gets their way :D btw if you don't know where that's from, trust me, it's funny!
There was suddenly 10x the auto sales and ownerships in China. Everyone's rich from trading their crap with us (well okay selling it to us, not trading) and if we suddenly stop even just the non-essentials that anyone could live without, it would over for them. That's gotta be a third of their market at least. They make almost all of our toys! We can live without toys. Electronics not so much but cut out the multi-billion dollar toy trade and China's toast. And yes, we can anonymously EMP their datacenters. Drive an unmarked semi past, charge it up, and release a blast. They could probably even drive off too if they properly shielded their truck's electrical system. Or just sit there and look like every other stalled vehicle and the driver can ditch. Do you really think they'd have enough evidence to trace it back to us if we were careful? No way! We can't even trace most terrorist attacks correctly here in the US obviously. All they'd know is some random group from their own country or another one just EMP bombed them and they don't know who did it.
That's what they want you to think. But then when it starts taking down satellites with an ion beam then we'll see what it was built for. Aliens I tell you!
When are we going to consider it an act of war and bomb them back to the stone age or at least stop buying their cheap plastic crap (and only buy their useful electronic crap) so their economy goes down the toilet, we can get cheaper oil, and their people sink into poverty and rise up against their opressive government and turn into a democracy? Sounds like a plan to me. We should at least anonymously EMP blast some of their major government datacenters to send them a message.
So? That doesn't make the policy any less stupid.
Pretty simple lawsuit I guess. Fraudulent advertising, huh? I bet they're suing over the phrase "internet access" cuz that's what they're not giving!
Recently I bought a 2Gb flash drive that was just like that one except without the back on it. It was seriously about the size of a Cheez It (you know, the cheesey crackers). It was basically a millimeter tall and just had low profile gold contacts and that's it. It was seriously about 50% smaller than this one. The thing seemed so flimsy and small though that I was afraid larger objects in my pocket would crush it and I had heard they're flimsy on newegg. So I used it to even up a barter for a graphics card and now I have a PNY medium sized normal 4Gb drive. This one's a little more armored but still, smallness isn't really an issue. I can hardly find my PNY 1.5" one in my pocket as it is. Plus the tiny flash drive I got was $20 and the PNY was $40 and that was almost a year ago.
Remember, not just a lawsuit! DOS is ILLEGAL and they can sue for damages. So that means a criminal case and a civil lawsuit. I bet they'll lose both. You know just once I'd like to see any presidential candidate comment on news like this and say they're going to put and end to the complete bullshit the RIAA and MPAA are pulling.
Btw in other news, Slashot DDOSes revision3.com apparently.
I have a PSX/N64 controller to USB adapter for my computer so I can plug in PS2 dance mats (or N64 controllers! :D) to my computer and use them in emulators. So naturally I tried playing Starfox with the dance pad. I didn't do so well but got surprisingly good considering how ridiculously hard it was.
hey who says nobody has? Remember the best slashdot story EVER about the australian military being called in to handle an invasion of frogs in part of Australia? (if you don't remember it, seriously go look it up) You don't just send in the military for frogs. Obviously they were clawed war frogs send by terrorists ;)
Oh boy, they're giving the world really greasy, dirty screens and cute, useless time wasters! Good thing they're working on that instead of security, useability, or generally making it not suck. I think they're gonna pull an ME and just really quickly throw together a bunch of crap on top of Vista and call it a new OS when they should be redesigning the entire thing. I for one am about 10x faster with a mouse than my fingers and a bunch of tilted, 3D objects lying around in my programs is gonna drive me crazy. I like neatness, not fun looking chaos. I think they're actually determined to turn windows into an idiot's OS for new computer users and 10 year olds and all the serious people will use Linux.
You know how much it would hurt to get hit by a rolled up snowball of electrons though? Anyway, this is totally sweet but I don't get it. If a photon has the energy to move more than one electron significantly, why couldn't they just simply layer or stack them somehow in a nice, flat way instead of having to do it on some fancy crystal where they have to collide and "avalanche" in a certain pattern and all that? If the photons in fact don't have the energy to move 2-3 electrons with the same energy as it can move 1 in a regular solar cell and...well...just read that back out loud, then this would just be like some pointless executive ball clicker effect that can't possibly have a net gain in energy and they're BSing something to get funding. If photons can in fact move more than one electron with the same energy it could impact one with then why couldn't they have stacked several layers of electron holding substance like blankets on top of each other and the impact on the top layer would cause impacts on the electrons below it with the same amount of energy collected? It all sounds a little fishy to me.
I dunno, those "people on the internet" are pretty resourceful lol. I hear they're good at removing and replacing chips on motherboards, or at least on gaming consoles. I think he forgot about those people in their homes that don't want some stupid overlord chip overruling basic tasks on their computer. But at least he knows enough that music and videos can't be controlled no matter how hard the MPAA and RIAA try just because of the basic nature of them. Quite the smart/dumb mix.
Hey come on now. I've seen this one already. Then they can't eat fast enough to keep up with their super metabolism and their nerves kinda take a beating too and then when they're in the middle of a goa'uld ship, their body can't take it anymore and they risk failing the mission. Come on, who can't see that coming? Sci fi shows are here to warn us, people! Like the Jetsons telling us we're all gonna have to live in the sky if the sea level rises and we'll all have dishwashers and vending machines!
That's what this article is lol. I think pretty much forever, Apple's customers will only be rich, showey people who don't know computers very well and douchbags (and some professional media editors for God only knows why cuz Adobe CS3 and Premiere and some Ulead products run on the PC). So unless we all become image obsessed douchebags in the future, I don't think Apple's taking over anything. Linux however is about to kick Microsoft's ass and I'll put money on that one. Get your wikipedia edits about Microsoft going bankrupt written in advance lol.
You know what would be cool is instead of just saying ooh I wonder if it eats plastic too and finding out it does, though that's definitely stll amazing...put some bacteria that are at least close to maybe being able to eat X substance and put it on the surface of that substance and blast them with regular, mild radiation every day until some mutate until a colony mutates and starts eating the rubber/plastic/whatever. I've heard very little about forcing mutations randomly to try and get a given result but it seems like a good idea to me. I mean if this kid had found that the bacteria couldn't eat plastic, I doubt anyone would have given him the funding and stuff to try and alter them so they do. And yes, before anyone posts it, keep the test area damn well sealed too so supergerms don't get out (duh!).
you know how much electricity costs up there?! Then again they'd need basically no cooling and just open windows but you still have to run the servers