Furthermore, why the hell is my LOGIN USERNAME for the pop3 email server have to have the full email address (ie myaddy@rogers.com)?
It's probably because all of the morons who use the service can't tell the difference between their username and thier email address. It's a concession that the company makes to reduce expensive, repetitive support calls.
The Archos family of hard drive based MP3 players have nothing to do with SDMI or any copy control whatsoever.
They're cheap compared to the flashram devices and they are pretty high quality, I have heard
A good idea, but NI3 is a bit too volatile for that, I think. I had a professor who told us about his college days when he would make up some NI3 and put it on meat while still wet. Then he'd wait for flies to come and blow themselves up.
hehe.
I think the expansion foam is in two chemical parts in the bag. When you pack the item, you crush the bag and the parts mix, creating the foaming reaction. You quickly cram it around the item and then you have a perfectly formed packing material.
The way you suggest is probably too dangerous to the equipment to be viable.
Tom's review said that the Athlon's thermal sensors were only adequate for a fan failure situation--something that would increase temperature on the order of one degree per second. Therefore, if your Athlon fan dies, the processor should protect itself.
Unfortunately, many shellfish become very toxic if they are dead and uncooked. Maryland Blue Crabs are a classic example--they are always cooked live.
I would also argue that your average sadist wouldn't get a whole lot out of it because crabs and lobsters really aren't that bright. The pleasure of sadism comes out of the mental domination of the other party. Generally, an intelligent creature is required. (this is all from a college psycology class years ago)
In reference to the scholar in China--I went to Dickinson College in Carlisle, PA. Our librarian, Yongi Song, is also a Chinese national and he was imprisioned for spying (he does research on the cultural revolution) for about 9 months. Dickinson managed to get enough cash together to pry him out. It is unfortunate that the scholar you reference does not have the support that Song had.
The point is that something can be done by us, and if the Chinese listen, why can't we?
This is exactly the point. Dmitry is not the guy who is going to steal the data. The guy who's going to do the damage is going to stay quiet so he can continue to steal data. Adobe has gone after the white/gray hat here, and is going to force people like this into not reporting flaws and exploits to anyone. When we reach that point, our data are free for the taking.
The post above mine states that consumer reports doesn't publish how-to books on how to tip cars.
I'm not sure of the relevance of this statement--the goal of both of these acts (publishing the report of dangerous cars and the distribution of software that _proves_ that the encryption is crap) is the same. They make it obvious that something's wrong.
Adobe didn't care that its security was shit. If you find a hole in sendmaild, then the guys who write it care. They fix it. Adobe was making a shitload of cash from this, and if nobody knew, they were set. I don't think they would have changed it.
*No*they*can't!* If you COPY the CD's then the COPY can damage your equipment
But, as has also been mentioned in previous articles, many car CD players behave like CD-drives. If a disc is designed to destroy speakers when copied, it will frag your kickin' system.
I think it's really funny that they have to resort to not telling anybody which discs are 'protected'. They know it'll be bypassed within hours when it _is_ discovered...
Airport security is allowed to search your bags and if you don't like it you can leave.
But you _can't_ leave high school. Yes, there are private schools, but how many can affort 10k/year for high school, not to mention the frequent religous bent of private schools?
As for point (4), There are tons of reasons to carry some sort of tool. I carry a Gerber multi-plier everywhere, and it has all kinds of uses that wouldn't otherwise occur to you. I always argue that at a certian point, everything is as dangerous as anything else. Example: the blade on my swiss army knife is about 5cm long. This has approximately the same power to maim as an Onyx pen (this pen is really stiff and has a sharp point). Both can be used to puncture the side of someone's throat, but one is not allowed.
I wrote the esteemed senator as one of his consituents. I hope he reads it...
Holy shit! I thought only Maryland drivers did that kind of stupid shit.
It's not like it doesn't snow here. They should be able to handle it, but they can't.
You've answered your own question--'data' is the plural form of the word 'datum'. Regardless of "who uses that anymore", 'data are' is the correct usage.
I had some anal biochem profs. They beat us with sticks if we wrote it wrong.
Are you sure they didn't just keep their prices the same, and then add "penalty fees" for people who refuse to use their card?
Yes. All they've done is refuse to give the sales to people who haven't given them information. This is great for comsumers because the sales are better, and the store obviously makes money on these schemes...
If you're _really_ paranoid, just fill out the sheet with bogus data, just like a web site.
Not only do the previous posts have merit, but the information submitted to your financial institution is only the balance of the transfer. The bank can only deduce that you have visited the liquor store--they have no way of knowing if you bought everclear or a nice Bordeaux, the latter of which arguably has health benefits.
chill before you post your paranoid rants, guys.
I thought that they switched to "billions and billions served" about 10 years ago...
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The big problem with _ripping_ the songs is shitty CD hardware. Even drives that claim (and even deliver) high data transfer rates can choke on Red Book Audio. For some reason, direct audio copying is slow, so you have to look at that and not just the 'x' speed of the drive.
For example, my 40Plex rips audio at 18-19x at the end of a disc, while many drives that are as fast or faster can't hack 10x audio.
I love my Plextor drive. They're expensive, but Plextor doesn't fuck around with their designs.
I recall that Microsoft's CD player would accept track names and stuff, and remember them the next time you put the CD in the drive. Does anyone know how that worked? I assume that it's pretty similar--the only difference I can think of is that since there are no bandwidth issues they didn't hash the TOC. Would this count as prior art? It certainly predates CDDB.
if/when these fish-whose-genes-are-intellectual-property reach the wild, they will compete for food and mates against the fish-whose-genes-are-not-intellectual-property
er.. yes, they'll compete for food. I would estimate that in the ocean where salmon grow up there is at least one US Grade 'A' Shitload of food for all the salmon you care to grow.
Mates, however, do not matter. Salmon aren't territorial about their women. The females just squirt their eggs (mmm... ikura..) in the sand and males release their sperm. No harems for the fish, here.
There will just be fewer non-corporate fish on the market for the rest of the world to buy.
Oh, no! The world gets cheap salmon! Fuck! What are we ever to do? Seriously, if it becomes a problem, we just stop putting them into the ocean. They're sterile, so there's no pollution of the wild genotype. Relax. I bet you eat those nice, vine-ripened tomatoes at the store. They're GM so that they don't rot.
and who held the mouse backwards
Yeah.. I knew a girl who _absolutely_ refused to handle the mouse the right way. It did not strike her in the least that it would be more convienient to have her fingers on the buttons and the cord out from under her wrist.
I get the 'right click'=='double left click' thing all the time. What the hell are they thinking? We specify for a reason, dammit!
MS will purchase several of the air cannons used to launch frozen poultry at aircraft windows to test for breaking point
The brits tried that once--damn thing punched right through the windscreen and embedded itself into the bulkhead behind the pilot's seat.
It makes slightly more sense to do this with non-frozen birds, since most of the birdstrikes that _I_ can think of don't involve icy wildlife.
Yeah, the pharmcorps can even get the fda to supress information about dangerous side effects of treatments as "proprietary information". This information is not distributed even to researchers who are doing work directly exposes subjects to the possible side effects.
I hate this shit. I'm glad that we can mirror and sidestep the draconian crap. Can the Shrub be made to understand that this is bad, or is he simply too stupid/drunk with lobbyist mony to care?
Shit. It appears that the comment to which I replied has been modded down.. I was commenting on the effect that such an impact would have on the earth's orbit.
We're talking a maximum of 100 megatons, on the high side. That is 1 x 10^8 tons of TNT equivalant, slamming into the earth. The earth weighs about one sextillion tons. That is 1 x 10^21 tons.
100000000
vs.
1000000000000000000000
or 10 trillion times smaller than the earth.
This is similar to what would happen if you (100 kg man) were hit with 5 x 10^14 atoms of carbon, or 1 x 10^-8 grams. Not much, huh?
We (the Russians, specifically) have detonated bombs this big before. Also, there was the K/T event. That was pretty fuckin' big and we haven't been popped out of the solar system...
Hm. I think that the difference is that the Arnold flick was set in real reality, and physics should apply--for him to actually catch up to and grapple with the chute is highly improbable at best.
The Matrix is, however, not set in real reality for the main protagonists. They are capable of bending 'physics'--but they still follow the rules of the environment. They get their asses kicked by the agents, so there's the suspense--not until the very end of the film does the audience (or Neo, for that matter) know that he can control the environment to that degree. The real question is wether or not they will do a good job in the sequels, where we all know what Neo can do. The writers need to come up with a new threat because Neo slaughtering armies of agents is not going to make us plunk down the cash as we did before.
I think that your point is valid, but not applicable to the first movie in this series. We shall see about the sequels.
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Furthermore, why the hell is my LOGIN USERNAME for the pop3 email server have to have the full email address (ie myaddy@rogers.com)?
It's probably because all of the morons who use the service can't tell the difference between their username and thier email address. It's a concession that the company makes to reduce expensive, repetitive support calls.
The Archos family of hard drive based MP3 players have nothing to do with SDMI or any copy control whatsoever.
They're cheap compared to the flashram devices and they are pretty high quality, I have heard
bulk deguasser.
A good idea, but NI3 is a bit too volatile for that, I think. I had a professor who told us about his college days when he would make up some NI3 and put it on meat while still wet. Then he'd wait for flies to come and blow themselves up.
hehe.
I think the expansion foam is in two chemical parts in the bag. When you pack the item, you crush the bag and the parts mix, creating the foaming reaction. You quickly cram it around the item and then you have a perfectly formed packing material.
The way you suggest is probably too dangerous to the equipment to be viable.
Tom's review said that the Athlon's thermal sensors were only adequate for a fan failure situation--something that would increase temperature on the order of one degree per second. Therefore, if your Athlon fan dies, the processor should protect itself.
Unfortunately, many shellfish become very toxic if they are dead and uncooked. Maryland Blue Crabs are a classic example--they are always cooked live.
I would also argue that your average sadist wouldn't get a whole lot out of it because crabs and lobsters really aren't that bright. The pleasure of sadism comes out of the mental domination of the other party. Generally, an intelligent creature is required. (this is all from a college psycology class years ago)
In reference to the scholar in China--I went to Dickinson College in Carlisle, PA. Our librarian, Yongi Song, is also a Chinese national and he was imprisioned for spying (he does research on the cultural revolution) for about 9 months. Dickinson managed to get enough cash together to pry him out. It is unfortunate that the scholar you reference does not have the support that Song had.
The point is that something can be done by us, and if the Chinese listen, why can't we?
This is exactly the point. Dmitry is not the guy who is going to steal the data. The guy who's going to do the damage is going to stay quiet so he can continue to steal data. Adobe has gone after the white/gray hat here, and is going to force people like this into not reporting flaws and exploits to anyone. When we reach that point, our data are free for the taking.
The post above mine states that consumer reports doesn't publish how-to books on how to tip cars. I'm not sure of the relevance of this statement--the goal of both of these acts (publishing the report of dangerous cars and the distribution of software that _proves_ that the encryption is crap) is the same. They make it obvious that something's wrong.
Adobe didn't care that its security was shit. If you find a hole in sendmaild, then the guys who write it care. They fix it. Adobe was making a shitload of cash from this, and if nobody knew, they were set. I don't think they would have changed it.
*No*they*can't!* If you COPY the CD's then the COPY can damage your equipment
But, as has also been mentioned in previous articles, many car CD players behave like CD-drives. If a disc is designed to destroy speakers when copied, it will frag your kickin' system.
I think it's really funny that they have to resort to not telling anybody which discs are 'protected'. They know it'll be bypassed within hours when it _is_ discovered...
Airport security is allowed to search your bags and if you don't like it you can leave.
But you _can't_ leave high school. Yes, there are private schools, but how many can affort 10k/year for high school, not to mention the frequent religous bent of private schools?
As for point (4), There are tons of reasons to carry some sort of tool. I carry a Gerber multi-plier everywhere, and it has all kinds of uses that wouldn't otherwise occur to you. I always argue that at a certian point, everything is as dangerous as anything else. Example: the blade on my swiss army knife is about 5cm long. This has approximately the same power to maim as an Onyx pen (this pen is really stiff and has a sharp point). Both can be used to puncture the side of someone's throat, but one is not allowed.
I wrote the esteemed senator as one of his consituents. I hope he reads it...
Holy shit! I thought only Maryland drivers did that kind of stupid shit.
It's not like it doesn't snow here. They should be able to handle it, but they can't.
You've answered your own question--'data' is the plural form of the word 'datum'. Regardless of "who uses that anymore", 'data are' is the correct usage.
I had some anal biochem profs. They beat us with sticks if we wrote it wrong.
Are you sure they didn't just keep their prices the same, and then add "penalty fees" for people who refuse to use their card?
Yes. All they've done is refuse to give the sales to people who haven't given them information. This is great for comsumers because the sales are better, and the store obviously makes money on these schemes...
If you're _really_ paranoid, just fill out the sheet with bogus data, just like a web site.
Not only do the previous posts have merit, but the information submitted to your financial institution is only the balance of the transfer. The bank can only deduce that you have visited the liquor store--they have no way of knowing if you bought everclear or a nice Bordeaux, the latter of which arguably has health benefits.
chill before you post your paranoid rants, guys.
I thought that they switched to "billions and billions served" about 10 years ago...
The big problem with _ripping_ the songs is shitty CD hardware. Even drives that claim (and even deliver) high data transfer rates can choke on Red Book Audio. For some reason, direct audio copying is slow, so you have to look at that and not just the 'x' speed of the drive.
For example, my 40Plex rips audio at 18-19x at the end of a disc, while many drives that are as fast or faster can't hack 10x audio.
I love my Plextor drive. They're expensive, but Plextor doesn't fuck around with their designs.
I recall that Microsoft's CD player would accept track names and stuff, and remember them the next time you put the CD in the drive. Does anyone know how that worked? I assume that it's pretty similar--the only difference I can think of is that since there are no bandwidth issues they didn't hash the TOC. Would this count as prior art? It certainly predates CDDB.
if/when these fish-whose-genes-are-intellectual-property reach the wild, they will compete for food and mates against the fish-whose-genes-are-not-intellectual-property
er.. yes, they'll compete for food. I would estimate that in the ocean where salmon grow up there is at least one US Grade 'A' Shitload of food for all the salmon you care to grow.
Mates, however, do not matter. Salmon aren't territorial about their women. The females just squirt their eggs (mmm... ikura..) in the sand and males release their sperm. No harems for the fish, here.
There will just be fewer non-corporate fish on the market for the rest of the world to buy.
Oh, no! The world gets cheap salmon! Fuck! What are we ever to do? Seriously, if it becomes a problem, we just stop putting them into the ocean. They're sterile, so there's no pollution of the wild genotype. Relax. I bet you eat those nice, vine-ripened tomatoes at the store. They're GM so that they don't rot.
and who held the mouse backwards
Yeah.. I knew a girl who _absolutely_ refused to handle the mouse the right way. It did not strike her in the least that it would be more convienient to have her fingers on the buttons and the cord out from under her wrist.
I get the 'right click'=='double left click' thing all the time. What the hell are they thinking? We specify for a reason, dammit!
MS will purchase several of the air cannons used to launch frozen poultry at aircraft windows to test for breaking point
The brits tried that once--damn thing punched right through the windscreen and embedded itself into the bulkhead behind the pilot's seat.
It makes slightly more sense to do this with non-frozen birds, since most of the birdstrikes that _I_ can think of don't involve icy wildlife.
Yeah, the pharmcorps can even get the fda to supress information about dangerous side effects of treatments as "proprietary information". This information is not distributed even to researchers who are doing work directly exposes subjects to the possible side effects.
I hate this shit. I'm glad that we can mirror and sidestep the draconian crap. Can the Shrub be made to understand that this is bad, or is he simply too stupid/drunk with lobbyist mony to care?
Shit. It appears that the comment to which I replied has been modded down.. I was commenting on the effect that such an impact would have on the earth's orbit.
We're talking a maximum of 100 megatons, on the high side. That is 1 x 10^8 tons of TNT equivalant, slamming into the earth. The earth weighs about one sextillion tons. That is 1 x 10^21 tons.
100000000
vs.
1000000000000000000000
or 10 trillion times smaller than the earth.
This is similar to what would happen if you (100 kg man) were hit with 5 x 10^14 atoms of carbon, or 1 x 10^-8 grams. Not much, huh?
We (the Russians, specifically) have detonated bombs this big before. Also, there was the K/T event. That was pretty fuckin' big and we haven't been popped out of the solar system...
Hm. I think that the difference is that the Arnold flick was set in real reality, and physics should apply--for him to actually catch up to and grapple with the chute is highly improbable at best.
The Matrix is, however, not set in real reality for the main protagonists. They are capable of bending 'physics'--but they still follow the rules of the environment. They get their asses kicked by the agents, so there's the suspense--not until the very end of the film does the audience (or Neo, for that matter) know that he can control the environment to that degree. The real question is wether or not they will do a good job in the sequels, where we all know what Neo can do. The writers need to come up with a new threat because Neo slaughtering armies of agents is not going to make us plunk down the cash as we did before.
I think that your point is valid, but not applicable to the first movie in this series. We shall see about the sequels.