This is something that I tried discussing with some teachers in highschool, but I wasn't quite able to explain my question in a way that made sence to them. Can you point me to someplace that will give me more information on why this "arrow must reach 1/2 way before it can go all the way" thing? It is something that has interested me for many years that I never quite got an answer to.
neither does windows, you just need to have it installed. Netscape works fine in Windows. You can also change the program associated with html files from IE to netscape if you like.
Remote Desktop is just microsoft's terminal services, the client runs in 2000 also. I also heard about an client that allows you to connect to terminal services while in linux.
"But why did they choose the PlayStation? Why not Sega's Saturn?
it probably had something to do with the Sega's reputation for dropping support for thier systems every time something shiny and new came along. They didn't want to be left out in the cold when they Saturn died (and everyone knew it was going to, admit it).
I'm guessing if you have a valid license for (doesn't have to actually be installed) one of those version of windows, then you would be ok. most computers come with one bundled in. (yes i know it's not free, but if you paid for it you have a license)
Unfortunatly the school I worked for at the time was haning onto all the old Apple IIe cassette tape drives. Just one example of how much crap was in thier inventory that wasn't getting tossed.
"Charities, schools, and third world countries would love to receive computers"
Before the current job I have now I used to work for a school district. I can tell you that we absolutely hated receiving donated computers from people. We ended up with rooms fill of 8088s and 386 with no hard drives. 99% of all computers we received that way were totally worthless, and just given to the school so that the owner could receive a tax break. This was last year too, I believe the best computer we got the whole year was a 233mhz Pentium. We spent more time, and money trying to get old donated computers working again, or just trying to find SOME use for them. Public Schools (at least where I'm at) are not allowed to just give the computers away to students who need them. They must be used by the school, or sold at auction. We couldn't even just throw them out because of the state's insane school inventory tracking system.
"I've noticed that both Gnome and KDE, while trying to differentiate themselves from Windows, begin to look more and more like it at every release. For example, both have a button at the bottom of the screen analogous to the M$ Start button, and many of their desktop icons are certainly similar to those found in Windows. "
There are only so many ways to represent a hard drive or a folder.
Just count the number of requests coming from a single IP address, if those number get above specific number then add then to the bad list. It's not a perfect solution but it would cut down the number of people bypassing their security measures. If it only stops 50% of the people using proxies then that's 50% less people bypassing the system. Sure, it may block a few legitimate people, but hey, we didn't want to do business with everyone anyway:)
"Thats what proxies are for! What happens when people start putting up HTTP proxies in the US and then allowing people from other countries to use it freely?"
Well then the sites just block the proxie. If you know an IP address is a proxie then you jsut don't allow any thing from those adresses, or popup a page telling them that proxie access is not supported.
"The difference here would be that someone could effectively sit in their car like a traffic cop, and watch where the large mass of money is going."
Except they would have to get right up next to them with a scanner to be able to scan the money. Even if it was possable to scan from a distance the shere quantity of bills would make it impossable to get an accurate reading because if signal noise. And even if the money could be scanned from a distance all that would be needed to thwart the system would be to wrap the bags of money in aluminium foil to scramble any kind of signal. Also your idea about sending out a bunch of people could work too, jsut send out decoys with faked coils. As you can see ading these RF coils to money won't make it any easier for the criminals, just easier for the people with ligitimate uses for the information. I'm not saying that the ability to track every single piece of money is a good idea, jsut that it's not a bad one:)
"Because you don't usually walk to the bank with your register deposits and a giant sign overhead pointing at you and saying "MONEY MONEY MONEY."
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Ahhh, but you do! You don't think that criminals know people coming out of stores after they are closed carrying large unmarked bags, or metal lockboxes are heading to the bank with mucho funds? It's easy to tell when business funds are being sent to the bank, just look for the hand-cart stacked with metal lock-boxes.
"Jeez. The screen is fine, folks. You need to learn how to turn on the lights!"
Nope. The screen is terrable. unless you are perfectly positioned under a bright light source you cant see a thing. If you are off center a little bit you get a screen full of glare. I had to buy 3 different versions of a lighting adapter until I found one that actually lit the screen well enough to play, and didn't cause too much glare.
"Deleting a file is not copying, decompiling, reverse engineering, disassembling, modifying or creating derivative works of the Software."
I thinkg Deleteing could be considered modification if you consider the software to be the entire CD, think of the CD as an ISO image, deleting a file would modify the image.
my point was that to a goverment looking to filter out everything they think is bad, anything that doesn't look like legitimate data can be dropped. Encrypted data hidden inside pictures would be something harder to block. I doubt they are worried too much about making sure that connections stay working all the time, as long as the stuff they want blocked is blocked. They way I see it they could just examine every packet and if they happen to see a PGP header then that packet, and all related packets coming through get dropped. They don't really even care about checking to see if it was "bad" data or not.
"i meant that if they can't examine it, they dont know what it is
the impression i get from the article in the nyt is that the filtering system only blocks that which is 'bad'"
Anything that's encrypted must be bad. =) I'm sure if it's something they don't control it will be bad in thier mind.
of course, they can't block any content thats encrypted
What do you mean they can't block any content thats encrypted? They can examine every packet, if it contains anything that the server doesn't understand it gets dropped. It's easy to block encrypted data, as long they know that the data is encrypted.
Strip-mining will be the preferred and obvious method. In fact, casting debris off in any direction as a method of disposal will most certainly occur. The obvious results will be that the appearance of the moon will change. It will not take long for that to happen either
Not only that, but the orbit of the moon would change also.
It has a nonstandard serial port too. I don't know how hard it would be to get an external modem working through that. If you stuck the ethernet adapter, linux, and a serial modem on thing it just minght work.
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This is something that I tried discussing with some teachers in highschool, but I wasn't quite able to explain my question in a way that made sence to them. Can you point me to someplace that will give me more information on why this "arrow must reach 1/2 way before it can go all the way" thing? It is something that has interested me for many years that I never quite got an answer to.
you are right, it's not a troll, it's offtopic.
Ohh, that's easy, you can convert an MP3 into a text file by just changing the extension in windows :)
neither does windows, you just need to have it installed. Netscape works fine in Windows. You can also change the program associated with html files from IE to netscape if you like.
Remote Desktop is just microsoft's terminal services, the client runs in 2000 also. I also heard about an client that allows you to connect to terminal services while in linux.
it probably had something to do with the Sega's reputation for dropping support for thier systems every time something shiny and new came along. They didn't want to be left out in the cold when they Saturn died (and everyone knew it was going to, admit it).
I'm guessing if you have a valid license for (doesn't have to actually be installed) one of those version of windows, then you would be ok. most computers come with one bundled in. (yes i know it's not free, but if you paid for it you have a license)
Unfortunatly the school I worked for at the time was haning onto all the old Apple IIe cassette tape drives. Just one example of how much crap was in thier inventory that wasn't getting tossed.
Just count the number of requests coming from a single IP address, if those number get above specific number then add then to the bad list. It's not a perfect solution but it would cut down the number of people bypassing their security measures. If it only stops 50% of the people using proxies then that's 50% less people bypassing the system. Sure, it may block a few legitimate people, but hey, we didn't want to do business with everyone anyway :)
"I-Cluster".... but how many colors does it come in?
my point was that to a goverment looking to filter out everything they think is bad, anything that doesn't look like legitimate data can be dropped. Encrypted data hidden inside pictures would be something harder to block. I doubt they are worried too much about making sure that connections stay working all the time, as long as the stuff they want blocked is blocked. They way I see it they could just examine every packet and if they happen to see a PGP header then that packet, and all related packets coming through get dropped. They don't really even care about checking to see if it was "bad" data or not.
What do you mean they can't block any content thats encrypted? They can examine every packet, if it contains anything that the server doesn't understand it gets dropped. It's easy to block encrypted data, as long they know that the data is encrypted.
It has a nonstandard serial port too. I don't know how hard it would be to get an external modem working through that. If you stuck the ethernet adapter, linux, and a serial modem on thing it just minght work.