AOL has implemented their own encryption that is based on public key: Messages sent between AIM users with security credentials are digitally signed and encrypted and remain encrypted during message transmission. Referred to as "end-to-end encryption," the AIM encryption protocol is based on the S/MIME e-mail cryptographic standard.
The idea here is that if both people have a certificate, they can encrypt all of their information from start to end. The certificates used are the basic PKI that could be generated or obtained from elsewhere. (Like Verisign)
They've added those features recently in their newest client. Amazingly they even provide you with 20 megs worth of space on their e-mail service to store the messages, which is more than I can tell for hotmail or most other mail services. (even paid I think it's 10megs for hotmail)
They are finally waking up that dialup people want features that are useful and not ads.
They are already doing this, but for universities rather than schools. They already have the monopoly on OS, so they have no need to fight for more. It is the developers that they need to appease. So my CS dept. has signed a deal for small sum of money (I think under $3k) that gives them ability to get any copy of Windows, Office and Visual Studio to every PC in the labs and all the students enrolled. So I can go and get myself academic edition of VS.Net and use that instead of learning about gcc and/or Borland.
We also get about monthly visits or lectures sponsored by MS at which they give out more of their software and a bit of hardware. (MS mouse isn't bad) This way they are keeping the future developers very dependant on MS tools, thus ensuring people will buy them once in workplace.
Well, since we are talking about winXP stability, let me post my Question about it:
Once every couple weeks, when I leave the computer alone at home while I'm out at work or overnight, XP manages to destroy the boot sector of the first partition. (I'm not sure what it destroys exactly) Lilo that is installed in MBR stays properly working and I can load into linux (multi-partitioned HD) without problems. However it is impossible to mount my first partition with linux. After selecting a windows choice in Lilo, I get blank screen without the usual XP boot menu.
After help from Svend Olaf Mikkelsen, I was able to restore the boot sector using his program findpart. (big thanks to him) It did not however stop it from happening again. In previous times that it happened, I've re-formatted and re-installed windows, which lasted 3 months 'till the next problem. Restoring the sector only gave me 3-4 weeks before next crash.
Does anyone know what I can do about it? I'm running XP Pro with SP1 installed.
My guess is that it is a "Project Manager" rather tha Price mistake.;)
As far as return of money. Yes, the bank will return your money once they admit that the mistake was in their software rather than yours. Some online banks have a policy of not being responsible for your security problems. That means that if your PC was hacked or your password stolen they are not responsible for the transactions. (I don't know if it'll hold in a court, but that's their official policy) Another problem is that if most of your money was in that account and was stolen, it will take months (I've heard of people who were waiting 3 months for funds returned from stolen ATM/check card) for them to re-imburse the funds. That means months of not having any money to pay for bills.
So yes, there is more risk with online bank than with a normal bank, but not extremely high risk for most people.
I don't know much about the medical proffesion but I do remember units from the time I donated blood. Pretty much 1 unit is the amount one person can donate at a single time. Looking at Google: unit (of blood)
a unit of volume for human blood and various blood components or products. A unit of whole blood is 450 milliliters, which is about 0.9510 U.S. pint. For components of blood, one unit is the amount of that substance that would normally be found in one unit of whole blood. The adult human body contains roughly 12 units of whole blood.
I can answer one of your questions: "Bookmark all as one bookmark" is available in 1.0, but is made more apparent in 1.1 In 1.0, when you bookmark a page that is part of bookmarks, you have to use "File Bookmark" and then check the box to bookmark them all. In 1.1, there's now a separate bookmark all tabs option in bookmark menu.
The only requirement put by the experimentors was to maximize the lift produced by the robot. They did not ask to replicate the flying, otherwise the "cheating" done by standing on wingtips/boxes wouldn't happen as that doesn't replicate flying at all. It does provide temporary lift, and therefore is selected for in the genetic algorithm.
The experiment was trying to see if GA (which replicates evolution in theory) would be sufficient for "evolving" the flying motion as result of need for lift. Having lift would be useful for creatures because it makes higher fruit/food available and makes it possible to get away from low predators. (Flying is just complex lift, so could be evolved later)
hmm,
is it possible in mozilla to make a list of sites that are allowed to popup even when using "no unrequested windows" prefference? One site I often visit will open itself in a new window on load. And the new window is the important one. (It's a school website, don't have a choice of not using it)
If you don't have time to tell me the proper lines, could you point me to where I can read about it?
If you read the article, you would have seened that it is stationed in middle of ocean on a platform. It is very similar to the current position of another launching method. (launching from floating platform in middle of ocean. There were many stories about it, search./) Thus the transportation is already non-issue as it was solved for the conventional launching. As for defence, you have billions of dollars worth of oil going without any escort, I think a satelite can do that as well.
Why would you even need that much defence. If you read their FAQ, they said that destruction of cable will result in minimal damage. And hitting a ship on the way there could be done already as many US satelites are launched from Europe, etc.
So you want to give benefits for cops to pull over more people? Have you thought of repricussions:
*But officer, I wasn't speeding over 10 mph. 3mph speeding doesn't count. (a minimum fine for speeding is like $50 [estimating]) so $25 for each person just barely speeding, sounds VERY lucrative. Don't tell me you've never gone a mile or two over the limit down the hill or something like that.
*Did you know that non-working light is equal to a stop sign, so running one is reckless driving due to running a stop sign. Hmm.. don't cops have access to the light controls? Think about this one yourself.
*Do you always turn on your signals 100 yds for 35mph or faster and 50 yds for under that limit? What about keeping the exact distance in front of you? (2 sec. on normal conditions and then whatever the cop feels like for rain/snow/dark/etc. There are no specific rules, but cop can at discretion call any speed/distance "too dangerous for current conditions )
* Do you have ANYTHING hanging on your mirror? (like your parking pass, air freshener, etc.) ALL of them are illegal, as parking passes should only be displayed when parked.
* Have you ever had to pass on the right a slow driver in the left lane of you? That's illegal in many states, and driving 45 mph in 55/60/65 mph is completely legal.
I can keep going with examples of laws that are commonly broken due to limited knowledge and very little repricussions. (parking passes almost don't block visibility, but are still illegal) I would rather not have the cop benefit from giving a specific ticket because not only could they start charging for very small offenses, but they could add offenses togeter for bigger fine. (You have been speeding by 5 mph, have a parking ticket hanging off the mirror and failed to signal for 100 yds: That'd be $300)
Yes, parents/teens should be educated, but don't give cops incentive for giving tickets. They should do it because of safety/traffic reasons, not because they'd be making bigger profit with more tickets. Otherwise it'd be more cost-effective for them to just go after rich middle-class folks that break small rules than fining that bastard that ran 2 lights, sped by 30 mph but drives 1980 Chevy with almost no paint on it.
Have you ever tried to use apt-get to testing, not even asking to go for the unstable. I had ATI Radeon (not the most supported of cards) working fine without a problem a year ago after I go my machine on the net. I didn't even need to start X until after I was able to upgrade to all of the latest stuff.
The whole point of Debian is that if you want stability, it's rock stable. But if your hardware is too new to have stable drivers, you have to sacrifice some stability and use the "testing" or "unstable" versions.
Here's a way to remove a lot of the components that come with Windows XP: http://www.ntcompatible.com/faq328.shtml (fo r those that don't like links:
Open C:\WINDOWS\inf\sysoc.inf and change msmsgs=msgrocm.dll,OcEntry,msmsgs.inf,hide,7 to msmsgs=msgrocm.dll,OcEntry,msmsgs.inf,7
that file has a long list of components, many of them hidden)
That example is for MSN messenger, but if you remove the option of "hide" from other components on that list, you'd be able to remove them too. That includes the games that come with XP and some other features.
number of spikes to encode information to encode information, which cannot really be charactarised as 'binary'.
Yes, the number of spikes does encode information, such as frequency for some lower frequencies of hearing, or the intensity of color. However, the frequency of firing is a binary information, as it is either a fire, or no fire. There is no such thing as a 1/2 of a firing, which means that there are only 2 states: fire or no fire. This is the definition of a binary system.
I would agree that it's not exactly the computer defintion of binary, but even in computers frequencies do matter. (the best example I can come up would be the framerates on monitors, which I know is a bad example
The neurons send information in one direction at all times. There special tracts of neuron axons (nerves) that each send them in a single direction.
A connection of an electrical device that'd read the input wouldn't paralize the person, as it'd only read the impulse without changing it. (As it's a electro-chemical impulse)
As far as I understand it, the nervous system while based on electrochemical energy circuits, is not a binary system. Each nuron has many possible states, not just on/off. These various neuron states cause different neurotransmitters to be released at synnapses (where they connect) and somehow a super-complex net of this leads to consciousness.
The human nervous system is based completely on a binary system. The neuron can either fire or not fire, and once it fires, it goes all the way and releases whatever the neurotransmitter it is supposed to release. The only non-binary part of the neuron is the decision to fire. The neuron only fires if the input goes across sometype of a threshold. So if you have positive input and negative input, the sum of all the input must be higher than the threshold of firing. Once the threshold is reached, the neuron fires unconditionally.
A single neuron will almost exclusively release a single neurotransmitter. The changes happen if one happens to have a neuromodulator, that is able to go across the sinapse and impact other neurons. That's the only non-binary behavior of the neurons. (Hormones are another part of the non-binary behavior, but that's not neurons.)
The cards might be half as wide as the slot, but they still require sometype of airflow between them to cool them. There is an optimum distance between cards at which the rising convection air from the bottom will produce very nice airflow, but above which the convection is more spotty. Below that space you have even more problems as there is not enough space for convection. Because of the cooling problems with the space between cards, it'd be very hard to put some of the heavy-duty video and sound cards into 1/2 slots. (I agree with the network, those require almost no processing and don't heat up noticebly)
To counteract the problem of convection one could use some type of forced air (fan, etc) but then you need to expand the case to contain that and increase the noise the case creates. It's not that easy if everything isn't designed to be integrated (integrated cards don't stick out or move and therefore can designed for proper cooling)
Well, I don't know many different languages, but from what I know of Russian (which I'm a native speaker of), the spelling is also liter. Thus, it's not only american. On the other hand, Russian uses a cyrilic rather than Latin alphabet, so that may change things.
Spelling litre somehow reminds me of sometype of a French word, rather than an english one. Not sure if that could be a reason.
The US is not the only country in the world. As can be seen on many different websites there are other countries that use it, they are just much less globally noticed than US.
In 1990, there were only three nations that had not converted to metric: Burma, Liberia, and the United States. (source: here)
It is however in US best interest to convert, as many of the other countries require all products to be manufactured to the metric system. If you would go to your local grocery store, you'd notice that some products are already done that way, especially if they have global nature. A good example of that would be the 2 Liter bottle of soda that is sold at the store. As that item is sold both in US and abroad, the manufacturing costs are lower if same measurement system is used. That's why the Liter is used. (to conform to requirements of other countries)
It doesn't go up stairs, but it's only 80 pounds total weight. For most people, that's not too much to lift, especially if you have an elevator in your office.
As for it being massive hunk of metal in cubicle, it's only 19x25", which is about as big as 2 feet of a human. Considering that it can be leaned on something, it would easily fit into the corner of almost any room.
Check out www.segway.com for more information if you want.
Well, I don't know about the market, but it is easily possible to build a system (without monitor, but those rarely age, and don't sell for much used) for under $500 with fairly good specs. About a year ago I've build myself Duron 650 for $300 or so, but that did not include a hard drive. I think a lot of schools could benefit from having some local company provide the cheap used/assembled computers.
The problems starts from the need by the schools to have some type of licensed support or warranty, which would bring the costs up. It might be possible to have the students get certified through the school, and that way provide both the education to students and support personal to the school.
Umm.. if you do the math with conservation of momentum, you'd know that unless the difference in mass is HUGE, they'd both be going in opposite directions with the same momentum. Therefore, railgun would work, it'd just shoot the railgun away from the target, while the projectile towards the target.
Did anyone look at the URL above? Both URL's lead to eggforge.com which has nothing to do with this topic. I think this is a shameless plug rather than informative comment.
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AOL has implemented their own encryption that is based on public key:
Messages sent between AIM users with security credentials are digitally signed and encrypted and remain encrypted during message transmission. Referred to as "end-to-end encryption," the AIM encryption protocol is based on the S/MIME e-mail cryptographic standard.
The idea here is that if both people have a certificate, they can encrypt all of their information from start to end. The certificates used are the basic PKI that could be generated or obtained from elsewhere. (Like Verisign)
They've added those features recently in their newest client. Amazingly they even provide you with 20 megs worth of space on their e-mail service to store the messages, which is more than I can tell for hotmail or most other mail services. (even paid I think it's 10megs for hotmail)
They are finally waking up that dialup people want features that are useful and not ads.
They are already doing this, but for universities rather than schools. They already have the monopoly on OS, so they have no need to fight for more. It is the developers that they need to appease. So my CS dept. has signed a deal for small sum of money (I think under $3k) that gives them ability to get any copy of Windows, Office and Visual Studio to every PC in the labs and all the students enrolled. So I can go and get myself academic edition of VS.Net and use that instead of learning about gcc and/or Borland.
We also get about monthly visits or lectures sponsored by MS at which they give out more of their software and a bit of hardware. (MS mouse isn't bad) This way they are keeping the future developers very dependant on MS tools, thus ensuring people will buy them once in workplace.
Well, since we are talking about winXP stability, let me post my Question about it:
Once every couple weeks, when I leave the computer alone at home while I'm out at work or overnight, XP manages to destroy the boot sector of the
first partition. (I'm not sure what it destroys exactly) Lilo that is installed in MBR stays properly working and I can load into linux (multi-partitioned HD) without problems. However it is impossible to mount my first partition with linux. After selecting a windows choice in Lilo, I get blank screen without the usual XP boot menu.
After help from Svend Olaf Mikkelsen, I was able to restore the boot sector using his program findpart. (big thanks to him) It did not however stop it from happening again. In previous times that it happened, I've re-formatted and re-installed windows, which lasted 3 months 'till the next problem. Restoring the sector only gave me 3-4 weeks before next crash.
Does anyone know what I can do about it? I'm running XP Pro with SP1 installed.
My guess is that it is a "Project Manager" rather tha Price mistake. ;)
As far as return of money. Yes, the bank will return your money once they admit that the mistake was in their software rather than yours. Some online banks have a policy of not being responsible for your security problems. That means that if your PC was hacked or your password stolen they are not responsible for the transactions. (I don't know if it'll hold in a court, but that's their official policy) Another problem is that if most of your money was in that account and was stolen, it will take months (I've heard of people who were waiting 3 months for funds returned from stolen ATM/check card) for them to re-imburse the funds. That means months of not having any money to pay for bills.
So yes, there is more risk with online bank than with a normal bank, but not extremely high risk for most people.
I don't know much about the medical proffesion but I do remember units from the time I donated blood. Pretty much 1 unit is the amount one person can donate at a single time.
Looking at Google:
unit (of blood)
a unit of volume for human blood and various blood components or products. A unit of whole blood is 450 milliliters, which is about 0.9510 U.S. pint. For components of blood, one unit is the amount of that substance that would normally be found in one unit of whole blood. The adult human body contains roughly 12 units of whole blood.
umm.. last time I checked there were some at debian website
I can answer one of your questions:
"Bookmark all as one bookmark" is available in 1.0, but is made more apparent in 1.1
In 1.0, when you bookmark a page that is part of bookmarks, you have to use "File Bookmark" and then check the box to bookmark them all.
In 1.1, there's now a separate bookmark all tabs option in bookmark menu.
Did you read the article?
The only requirement put by the experimentors was to maximize the lift produced by the robot. They did not ask to replicate the flying, otherwise the "cheating" done by standing on wingtips/boxes wouldn't happen as that doesn't replicate flying at all. It does provide temporary lift, and therefore is selected for in the genetic algorithm.
The experiment was trying to see if GA (which replicates evolution in theory) would be sufficient for "evolving" the flying motion as result of need for lift. Having lift would be useful for creatures because it makes higher fruit/food available and makes it possible to get away from low predators. (Flying is just complex lift, so could be evolved later)
hmm,
is it possible in mozilla to make a list of sites that are allowed to popup even when using "no unrequested windows" prefference? One site I often visit will open itself in a new window on load. And the new window is the important one. (It's a school website, don't have a choice of not using it)
If you don't have time to tell me the proper lines, could you point me to where I can read about it?
If you read the article, you would have seened that it is stationed in middle of ocean on a platform. It is very similar to the current position of another launching method. (launching from floating platform in middle of ocean. There were many stories about it, search ./) Thus the transportation is already non-issue as it was solved for the conventional launching. As for defence, you have billions of dollars worth of oil going without any escort, I think a satelite can do that as well.
Why would you even need that much defence. If you read their FAQ, they said that destruction of cable will result in minimal damage. And hitting a ship on the way there could be done already as many US satelites are launched from Europe, etc.
So you want to give benefits for cops to pull over more people? Have you thought of repricussions:
*But officer, I wasn't speeding over 10 mph. 3mph speeding doesn't count. (a minimum fine for speeding is like $50 [estimating]) so $25 for each person just barely speeding, sounds VERY lucrative. Don't tell me you've never gone a mile or two over the limit down the hill or something like that.
*Did you know that non-working light is equal to a stop sign, so running one is reckless driving due to running a stop sign. Hmm.. don't cops have access to the light controls? Think about this one yourself.
*Do you always turn on your signals 100 yds for 35mph or faster and 50 yds for under that limit? What about keeping the exact distance in front of you? (2 sec. on normal conditions and then whatever the cop feels like for rain/snow/dark/etc. There are no specific rules, but cop can at discretion call any speed/distance "too dangerous for current conditions )
* Do you have ANYTHING hanging on your mirror? (like your parking pass, air freshener, etc.) ALL of them are illegal, as parking passes should only be displayed when parked.
* Have you ever had to pass on the right a slow driver in the left lane of you? That's illegal in many states, and driving 45 mph in 55/60/65 mph is completely legal.
I can keep going with examples of laws that are commonly broken due to limited knowledge and very little repricussions. (parking passes almost don't block visibility, but are still illegal) I would rather not have the cop benefit from giving a specific ticket because not only could they start charging for very small offenses, but they could add offenses togeter for bigger fine. (You have been speeding by 5 mph, have a parking ticket hanging off the mirror and failed to signal for 100 yds: That'd be $300)
Yes, parents/teens should be educated, but don't give cops incentive for giving tickets. They should do it because of safety/traffic reasons, not because they'd be making bigger profit with more tickets. Otherwise it'd be more cost-effective for them to just go after rich middle-class folks that break small rules than fining that bastard that ran 2 lights, sped by 30 mph but drives 1980 Chevy with almost no paint on it.
Have you ever tried to use apt-get to testing, not even asking to go for the unstable. I had ATI Radeon (not the most supported of cards) working fine without a problem a year ago after I go my machine on the net. I didn't even need to start X until after I was able to upgrade to all of the latest stuff.
The whole point of Debian is that if you want stability, it's rock stable. But if your hardware is too new to have stable drivers, you have to sacrifice some stability and use the "testing" or "unstable" versions.
Here's a way to remove a lot of the components that come with Windows XP:o r those that don't like links:
http://www.ntcompatible.com/faq328.shtml
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Open C:\WINDOWS\inf\sysoc.inf and change msmsgs=msgrocm.dll,OcEntry,msmsgs.inf,hide,7 to msmsgs=msgrocm.dll,OcEntry,msmsgs.inf,7
that file has a long list of components, many of them hidden)
That example is for MSN messenger, but if you remove the option of "hide" from other components on that list, you'd be able to remove them too. That includes the games that come with XP and some other features.
number of spikes to encode information to encode information, which cannot really be charactarised as 'binary'.
Yes, the number of spikes does encode information, such as frequency for some lower frequencies of hearing, or the intensity of color. However, the frequency of firing is a binary information, as it is either a fire, or no fire. There is no such thing as a 1/2 of a firing, which means that there are only 2 states: fire or no fire. This is the definition of a binary system.
I would agree that it's not exactly the computer defintion of binary, but even in computers frequencies do matter. (the best example I can come up would be the framerates on monitors, which I know is a bad example
The neurons send information in one direction at all times. There special tracts of neuron axons (nerves) that each send them in a single direction.
A connection of an electrical device that'd read the input wouldn't paralize the person, as it'd only read the impulse without changing it. (As it's a electro-chemical impulse)
As far as I understand it, the nervous system while based on electrochemical energy circuits, is not a binary system. Each nuron has many possible states, not just on/off. These various neuron states cause different neurotransmitters to be released at synnapses (where they connect) and somehow a super-complex net of this leads to consciousness.
The human nervous system is based completely on a binary system. The neuron can either fire or not fire, and once it fires, it goes all the way and releases whatever the neurotransmitter it is supposed to release. The only non-binary part of the neuron is the decision to fire. The neuron only fires if the input goes across sometype of a threshold. So if you have positive input and negative input, the sum of all the input must be higher than the threshold of firing. Once the threshold is reached, the neuron fires unconditionally.
A single neuron will almost exclusively release a single neurotransmitter. The changes happen if one happens to have a neuromodulator, that is able to go across the sinapse and impact other neurons. That's the only non-binary behavior of the neurons. (Hormones are another part of the non-binary behavior, but that's not neurons.)
The cards might be half as wide as the slot, but they still require sometype of airflow between them to cool them. There is an optimum distance between cards at which the rising convection air from the bottom will produce very nice airflow, but above which the convection is more spotty. Below that space you have even more problems as there is not enough space for convection.
Because of the cooling problems with the space between cards, it'd be very hard to put some of the heavy-duty video and sound cards into 1/2 slots. (I agree with the network, those require almost no processing and don't heat up noticebly)
To counteract the problem of convection one could use some type of forced air (fan, etc) but then you need to expand the case to contain that and increase the noise the case creates. It's not that easy if everything isn't designed to be integrated (integrated cards don't stick out or move and therefore can designed for proper cooling)
Well, I don't know many different languages, but from what I know of Russian (which I'm a native speaker of), the spelling is also liter. Thus, it's not only american. On the other hand, Russian uses a cyrilic rather than Latin alphabet, so that may change things.
Spelling litre somehow reminds me of sometype of a French word, rather than an english one. Not sure if that could be a reason.
In 1990, there were only three nations that had not converted to metric: Burma, Liberia, and the United States. (source: here)
It is however in US best interest to convert, as many of the other countries require all products to be manufactured to the metric system. If you would go to your local grocery store, you'd notice that some products are already done that way, especially if they have global nature. A good example of that would be the 2 Liter bottle of soda that is sold at the store. As that item is sold both in US and abroad, the manufacturing costs are lower if same measurement system is used. That's why the Liter is used. (to conform to requirements of other countries)
It doesn't go up stairs, but it's only 80 pounds total weight. For most people, that's not too much to lift, especially if you have an elevator in your office.
As for it being massive hunk of metal in cubicle, it's only 19x25", which is about as big as 2 feet of a human. Considering that it can be leaned on something, it would easily fit into the corner of almost any room.
Check out www.segway.com for more information if you want.
Well, I don't know about the market, but it is easily possible to build a system (without monitor, but those rarely age, and don't sell for much used) for under $500 with fairly good specs. About a year ago I've build myself Duron 650 for $300 or so, but that did not include a hard drive. I think a lot of schools could benefit from having some local company provide the cheap used/assembled computers.
The problems starts from the need by the schools to have some type of licensed support or warranty, which would bring the costs up. It might be possible to have the students get certified through the school, and that way provide both the education to students and support personal to the school.
Even the best of filters screw up :(
The parent is another goatse.cx link, moderate accordingly
Umm.. if you do the math with conservation of momentum, you'd know that unless the difference in mass is HUGE, they'd both be going in opposite directions with the same momentum. Therefore, railgun would work, it'd just shoot the railgun away from the target, while the projectile towards the target.
Did anyone look at the URL above? Both URL's lead to eggforge.com which has nothing to do with this topic. I think this is a shameless plug rather than informative comment.
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