The device uses energy to move up and down through the pressure differences. Any way you could gather power from that movement would be counterproductive
Make sure you get the right kind of wife. One that doesn't think that stuff that is out simply needs to be "put away" (or, more accurately, "go away") and it all gets dumped in a box. Then when you want to find something, there are cupboards full of dozens of boxes of assorted "household crap" to go through.
On the other hand, it does mean you tend to make sure you get in the ahbit of putting your own stuff away.
Ok, the MSNBC one looked a little crazy, but what was there about the SLASHDOT in Wingdings that made it so "startingly appropriate"? A water drop, frowny face, peace sign, thumbs down, flag, and a snowflake? What significance did you find in that message? I'm just curious.
It's an angry website (frowny face) where no concensus can be reached (peace sign, thumbs down) and is always waving the flag (flag) for a product associated with a swimming (water drop) creature that comes from a cold (snowdrop) place [i.e. Linux and Tux] {Although looking, I see you missed out a pointy down finger and rearranged the order which would require a whole other interpretation which I am too lazy to do}
It's a conspiracy I tell ya.
Here's one for you though. If you type "WMD" using the
Wingdings font, you get a crucifix, a bomb and a thumbs-down. Clearly
a message that those who oppose Christianity plan to use violent
methods to eliminate it. Spooky, eh?:)
Had something similar. Got the Tivo to work with my Dish satellite, then found that most of the good stuff was being recorded from over-the-air stations so dumped the satellite (which was mostly being used to channel surf when there was nothing better to watch. When it came down to it, we concluded that the only shows that were really "must see" and only on satellite were "The Daily Show" for me and "Eastenders" for her and that isn't worth $40/month).
Now I am gradually finding that I have caught up with Simpsons, Futurama etc and that I'm not getting hooked on new shows that I didn't really want to watch anyway and the shows I was hooked on gradually go away.
I doubt we'll ever completely get rid of TV in our house but my wife and I talk about the idea more and more often.
If I read that correctly, it can only write ~6MB/s. That might be not enough for people who are using a hard drive to store digital video as it streams in.
Hmm, perhaps just write the stream directly to a partition. Or perhaps a filesystem could be devised which is just a thin layer over such a scheme (perhaps dividing a partition up into a small number of stripes). files could then be cp'd over to a real FS once capture was complete. You'd only be able to store a few files on the FS but how many high-speed-data-streams do you intend capturing at once anyway?
I think Tivo does something akin to this with its MFS.
That brings up the intriguing possibility of a "fractional maximise" button in the titlebar. That could well be useful even if you did not have a widescreen display. Say maximise your editor to 2/3 of the screen and your helpfile to 1/3 (kind-of like docking).
I think maximising tends to produce the wrong layout anyway, the human eye is better at reading narrow columns (that's why newspapers are layed out as they are). That's why you get all sorts of cruft down the side of webpages. So why are all the browser controls at the *top* of the browser window instead of down the side?
This is absolutely true. I almost had a fit when, while living in the U.K., I caught me American wife filling the kettle from the hot tap.
In the U.K., the hot water system is (generally) fed by gravity by a tank either in the roof or on top of the hot water heater. My understanding is that this is to prevent back-siphoning in the event of low pressure. The tanks are typically left open to the elements or at best not particularly well sealed meaning that the water is generally not fit for ingestion.
For those outside the U.S., here in the U.S. the cold supply is fed directly into the hot water heater and from there directly into the hot water supply. There may or may not be an anti-back-siphoning device on the heaters (I don't know).
As an aside, the measly tens-of-feet hot water pressure provided by U.K. systems makes it pertty useless for showers. Hence showers are frequently provided by small electric heaters mounted to the wall just before the shower outlet. This may actually lead to improved efficiency as the main water heater can be turned on in advance only when water is going to be needed.
As another aside, there are still a few places in the U.K. where water is delivered through hollowed out tree logs.
Err, anyway, point is, if you're going to the U.K., get your drinking water from the cold tap.
I assume that several people out there have submitted "honeypot" addresses to this server and are keeping an eye on whether they start receiving spam on these misappropriated addresses. But is anyone keeping a public website documenting such so that the rest of us can be informed if/when it occurs?
No, that's my point. You would predict that a randum number generator would be unpredictable. Therefore, by being predictable, it is being unpredictable.
Toss a coin a hundred times, once in a while it's going to come up all heads.
Completely true. I once worked for a company which was very proud of its "impartial analysis" of its products. It could afford to be. For the most part, its products were way better than the competitors. Then one day, a competitors product was brought in for testing and it beat ours by a large margin. The report was couched in language that downplayed the margin and used technicalities that reduced the margin greatly (The competitors product was superior over a much wider range of circumstances but if you narrowed it to the range as specified, it didn't appear that much better.
Everything you have been able to deduce has been based on the statement that the string is an encypted credit card number. Applying these rules to the string would bring you no closer to determining what the number was other than it was a credit card number which is what was stated in the first place
Heck, you can't even tell if he was lying about it being a credit card number.
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The device uses energy to move up and down through the pressure differences. Any way you could gather power from that movement would be counterproductive
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On the other hand, it does mean you tend to make sure you get in the ahbit of putting your own stuff away.
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What is it with this lameness filter?
Dumb stupid lameness filter.
How many damn characters per line do I need?
I don't get it. Are sharpie pens bad for CDs or something?
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It's an angry website (frowny face) where no concensus can be reached (peace sign, thumbs down) and is always waving the flag (flag) for a product associated with a swimming (water drop) creature that comes from a cold (snowdrop) place [i.e. Linux and Tux] {Although looking, I see you missed out a pointy down finger and rearranged the order which would require a whole other interpretation which I am too lazy to do}
It's a conspiracy I tell ya.
Here's one for you though. If you type "WMD" using the Wingdings font, you get a crucifix, a bomb and a thumbs-down. Clearly a message that those who oppose Christianity plan to use violent methods to eliminate it. Spooky, eh? :)
Rich
Now I am gradually finding that I have caught up with Simpsons, Futurama etc and that I'm not getting hooked on new shows that I didn't really want to watch anyway and the shows I was hooked on gradually go away.
I doubt we'll ever completely get rid of TV in our house but my wife and I talk about the idea more and more often.
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Hmm, perhaps just write the stream directly to a partition. Or perhaps a filesystem could be devised which is just a thin layer over such a scheme (perhaps dividing a partition up into a small number of stripes). files could then be cp'd over to a real FS once capture was complete. You'd only be able to store a few files on the FS but how many high-speed-data-streams do you intend capturing at once anyway?
I think Tivo does something akin to this with its MFS.
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I think maximising tends to produce the wrong layout anyway, the human eye is better at reading narrow columns (that's why newspapers are layed out as they are). That's why you get all sorts of cruft down the side of webpages. So why are all the browser controls at the *top* of the browser window instead of down the side?
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In the U.K., the hot water system is (generally) fed by gravity by a tank either in the roof or on top of the hot water heater. My understanding is that this is to prevent back-siphoning in the event of low pressure. The tanks are typically left open to the elements or at best not particularly well sealed meaning that the water is generally not fit for ingestion.
For those outside the U.S., here in the U.S. the cold supply is fed directly into the hot water heater and from there directly into the hot water supply. There may or may not be an anti-back-siphoning device on the heaters (I don't know).
As an aside, the measly tens-of-feet hot water pressure provided by U.K. systems makes it pertty useless for showers. Hence showers are frequently provided by small electric heaters mounted to the wall just before the shower outlet. This may actually lead to improved efficiency as the main water heater can be turned on in advance only when water is going to be needed.
As another aside, there are still a few places in the U.K. where water is delivered through hollowed out tree logs.
Err, anyway, point is, if you're going to the U.K., get your drinking water from the cold tap.
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Toss a coin a hundred times, once in a while it's going to come up all heads.
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Everything you have been able to deduce has been based on the statement that the string is an encypted credit card number. Applying these rules to the string would bring you no closer to determining what the number was other than it was a credit card number which is what was stated in the first place
Heck, you can't even tell if he was lying about it being a credit card number.
That's the thing about one-time pads.
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