problem being the reinstaller disk (if you pay the extra 15$ to include one the Norton-Ghost-or-like-Software they use to recover your files using drive D:\[despite hard drive sources recommend reformatting at least once a year, and I don't mean the corporations making harddrives using 1000-byte kilobytes (SI notation) when it should be 1024-byte kilobytes (SI notation but not SI meaning in the base 10 sense) or shall I say kibibytes (binary unit convention)] would probably restore D:\ (although my Dell didn't do it). I really hate it how they have the nerve to include bloatware on the system, also provide me with no reinstaller disk (I certainly PAID for the OS and there's no No-OS option [but I have to use Windows as the Dell-modified-drivers only work on Windows, and ATI won't provide laptops with one because notebook manufacturer's modify them]), and also provided me, instead of a reinstaller disk, with a Norton Ghost that I have 30 days to use and then I have to uninstall it or pay for it (luckily I don't have to reformat, it CAN merge with C:\). When are people going to realize the only data backup you can rely on is a *separate drive*? My system has never been penetrated and I can disconnect from the internet and run in safe mode and system recovery, but it doesn't matter if my hard drive simply stops running and refuses to reformat or boot or run externally and causes you to lose 6-months of data because it's a MECHANICAL DEVICE (most of the physical problems in electronics result in mechanical failure, such as the reason electronic acclerators (in your car) aren't appreciated - mechanical to electric and then electric to mechanical has some nasty data entropy and retention issues--worse yet, what would happen when we digitize braking systems? How many times has physical failure caused a digital error [think Xbox scratch disk issues even with the slightest tilt or angle due to the cheap manufacturing process not to mention the cheap lasers]) and as long as it's not evidence in a murder trial, won't be sent to the NSA ("we" can see formatted-over data and it doesn't require the hard drive to be running).
also clears out any bloatware on the system, and the warranties don't usually cover software issues (even if it is their fault because they provide the drivers, and the driver is at fault, which is why I never bothered to contact dell about frequent freezes usually accompanied by the last audio file to be played to be repeated but no bluescreen or restart, and at least some of the crashes are overheats [touching the relative location of the graphic card is clearly too hot and accompanied by scent even with fan and thermal sensors posed to cut power], which indicates a non-functioning thermal cut-off switch.)
Critical infrastructure and media infrastructure needs to be owned by the government (I would say "State" but that implies state rights). -Wireless Bands -Runways -Sewer/Water lines -Dams -Roads, Bridges, Highways -Power, cable, phone and other digital transmission lines
The system is corrupt to the core. Ever facet is corrupted. One way to start removing this corruption is to socialize the infrastructure, for example, even if one power company can operate cheaper (power companies have no reason to become more efficient because corrupt/bribed/uneducated/non-caring politicians in towns that only have one person on the ballot and in a aging society that quite frankly doesn't care or understand, because a) they'll be dead soon and don't care about the future and b) they don't understand the consequences it may have, perhaps because they've stopped paying attention to the news or stopped learning, especially in one where you can win the majority of the population through lies, deceit, flattery, and smearing your opponent) so they can just state their expenses to the govenrment to regulate what they can charge, it doesn't matter because while the power system is on a non-interchangable grid ((cable companies aren't so lucky, phone companies even worse off as that requires building cellphone towers (which we *COULD* share, but aren't required to, at least without roaming charges--passed on to the consumer (some phones will refuse to roam and so they don't have to mention it on your plan) -- and also can be censored or throttled at their discretion), provoking the aging population against change)) the power companies that own the line are given 50% of the proceeds on any proceeds stemming from power transmissions on that line. Worse yet the US spends more money on Health insurance with no socialized medicine than most countries with socialized medicine (per capita I believe) because they hirer a single corrupt organization to do the work for them, which charges a unfair price (well beyond normal profit bounds that allow for stockholders, CEOs to get their fill and improvement to the company) to do it for them. In fact, according to some conspiracy theories, we let 911 happen because bush was paid to ignore CIA/intel warnings so haliburton and the oil companies to profit off the war.
But without proper infrastructure--which could simply be transferred to the state--perhaps the political regulation on allowing only one cable company to provide cable and competition factors where licensing isn't an issue, the corrupt organizations would either adapt to fair competition or die (and then proceed to burn in the fiery core of hell for not admitting their sins/not asking for redemption).
77. I swear I saw this on popular media, but it must of died out because google returns nothing within the first 5 pages of various search criteria that should find it.
Once I hit "save" in photoshop and exit I can't undo. Although in a layered image the rasterized text (must be rasterized before we can liquify/blur it) would probably be on a separate layer, but it's generally much more incriminating to replace text and not unblur text and it's probably not layered like that.
"Of course, a better analogy of why that has to be acceptable is that, you can't be held liable if you duck and the guy behind you gets shot. It's not your fault that he was unwilling or unable to duck too."
Difference being (According to insurance companies) that tsunamis are acts of God, of course.
Discoveries in science that relate to abstract concepts usually result in more questions, whereas data encryption and stock market analysis not only have money related in the analysis itself but also perpetuate making more money. So while you spend you're time figuring out 23 toughest math questions I'll be making a digital fortress...not to mention any money gained by that could benefit research (even large corporations spend at least 3% of their R&D funds on average in pure science, and 3% of future market value, n, is a lot larger than current market value (at this point in time) n-delta n*time.
These questions are "hard to solve" not because they would bring about world peace or stabilize global economy or grant large sums of money (other than rewards posted by companies) but because they would either open padora's box or simply raise more questions. While finding the existence of the atom may have led to nuclear energy, there is not any scientific advancements made at the quark level, apart from raising more questions. How much deeper will we go? Each answer is just 2 or three more questions. For each step forward, we take 2 steps back.
To be clear, I don't like what the NSA is doing, I just don't think it is practical to be researching in things like "13 million digit prime numbers"- what practical purpose does that serve?
In order for computer forensics (we can see "formatted over" data) you must format the drive (according to the IT standard I was taught) at least 7 times. I would assume this means also filling the drive with bogus data. Additionally, my computer science professor told him that in his organization they must delete everything 32 times, or more appropriately, in 32 passes- delete, replace with bogus data, delete again, repeat for iCONST_NO_PASSES
Now, that being said, I don't think whoever sold this camera had any intention of destroying the data...be it an intentional release by the MI6 or not.
Ignoring the problem of signal reception, this means I need to pay for each converter box to have the household able to view different channels at once. While I don't get any antenna reception, surely the next step is to fully digitize cable (FCC directors tend to like money I suppose)...that means $9.99/month per box, which gets to be quite expensive.
Compile time issues do not generally compile, and uncompiled programs do not genernally ship.
So unless your syntax error is algorthmic (and not purely syntaxical, like mistyping 5 in the middle of my application every time I HIT THE FREAKING DEBUG BUTTON (F5) -- such as the ALGORTHM of your program being off and causing system shutdowns, et all) or other runtime / execution time error (array index out of bounds, divide by zero, square root of a negative number) then your program won't compile and wont ship.
OKAY, the world is coming to an end, but how are we supposed to avoid using a trademarked name (we can refer to Microsoft as M$ in plain text) when it appears in the URL? (as in microsoft.com?) Do they realize they may very well destroy the internet (as search engines wont exist anymore), setting the world back, technologically, about 30 years?
EA may be hurt by this, how will the purchasers of Spore be affected? From what I've seen anyone involved in a class-action lawsuit that is successful generally receives no more than lunch money.
I remember in one of my computer science classes the professor showed us the Adobe post on a unofficial Photoshop (et all) discussion board, asking them to stop saying "Photoshop" and use "Adobe Photoshop" and also stop using it as a verb. I believe this is because they would lose the trademark (yet Xerox is still Xerox). Though no word phrase is quite as good as "Photoshopped". Enhanced in photoshop sounds like we adjusted the color and contrast in photoshop, but photoshopped seems like we added extra smoke trails to make the news more dramatic or added a similie face to the google maps screenshot. Then again when we say "15 minutes of fame" it is entirely possible that another satellite image was taken, and no photoshop was involved.
Of course simply using simple techniques like adding HTML/BB code inbetween each letter of the web link SHOULD break the blocking algorithm (I've used this method to bypass DeviantART's tendency to corrupt links with various emoticons because they have an equals sign (like =P became an emote when it was telling the server to do something), and also to bypass april fools jokes were random text was inserted and replaced, usually with FISH). Or just use tinyurl. Or use AIM, MSN (speaking of which I still can't add MSN to my contact info on slashdot, so signature remains the same), yahoo, email, phone, or show up at there door...but you might want to wear a tinfoil hat and be weary of laser microphones.
Hell if customers should be informed and able to make competent purchasing decisions... informed and self-interested customers would utterly destroy Comcast's entire business model.
I think not.
Townships rarely allow more than one cable / internet provider. Politicians prevent this from happening (they receive "incentives" from the cable provider currently in control) simply by overstating actual "TV Tax" increases that would happen with a second cable company coming into play...which are usually no more than 10 cents. Where I live there is only one candidate that runs, and let's remember that majority rules, and the majority of people that are registered voters here neither live here or work here (summer homes) and have no reason to have a fast internet or any cable (majority of the population is retired senior citizens). Perhaps it's not so much the "people's fault" that they choose comcast when it's a choice between AOL dialup and comcast's broadband (who's advertised speed changes every week or so, but is still several orders of magnitude higher); but more of the fault of the elected officials. If the majority of the population does not care, it will not change, and the US has an aging population, most of which does not currently care about internet or cable services or has even really heard about it. IT's always a big issue when they try to allow another cable company. The agony of small tax increases another cable company and adding to the already overly-stressed power infrastructure (i.e., wooden telephone poles). Not to mention whoever owns the cables gets 50% of whatever proceeds is made on them...power internet phone or cable, so whoever owns them in the current system has substantially more power.
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problem being the reinstaller disk (if you pay the extra 15$ to include one the Norton-Ghost-or-like-Software they use to recover your files using drive D:\[despite hard drive sources recommend reformatting at least once a year, and I don't mean the corporations making harddrives using 1000-byte kilobytes (SI notation) when it should be 1024-byte kilobytes (SI notation but not SI meaning in the base 10 sense) or shall I say kibibytes (binary unit convention)] would probably restore D:\ (although my Dell didn't do it). I really hate it how they have the nerve to include bloatware on the system, also provide me with no reinstaller disk (I certainly PAID for the OS and there's no No-OS option [but I have to use Windows as the Dell-modified-drivers only work on Windows, and ATI won't provide laptops with one because notebook manufacturer's modify them]), and also provided me, instead of a reinstaller disk, with a Norton Ghost that I have 30 days to use and then I have to uninstall it or pay for it (luckily I don't have to reformat, it CAN merge with C:\). When are people going to realize the only data backup you can rely on is a *separate drive*? My system has never been penetrated and I can disconnect from the internet and run in safe mode and system recovery, but it doesn't matter if my hard drive simply stops running and refuses to reformat or boot or run externally and causes you to lose 6-months of data because it's a MECHANICAL DEVICE (most of the physical problems in electronics result in mechanical failure, such as the reason electronic acclerators (in your car) aren't appreciated - mechanical to electric and then electric to mechanical has some nasty data entropy and retention issues--worse yet, what would happen when we digitize braking systems? How many times has physical failure caused a digital error [think Xbox scratch disk issues even with the slightest tilt or angle due to the cheap manufacturing process not to mention the cheap lasers]) and as long as it's not evidence in a murder trial, won't be sent to the NSA ("we" can see formatted-over data and it doesn't require the hard drive to be running).
also clears out any bloatware on the system, and the warranties don't usually cover software issues (even if it is their fault because they provide the drivers, and the driver is at fault, which is why I never bothered to contact dell about frequent freezes usually accompanied by the last audio file to be played to be repeated but no bluescreen or restart, and at least some of the crashes are overheats [touching the relative location of the graphic card is clearly too hot and accompanied by scent even with fan and thermal sensors posed to cut power], which indicates a non-functioning thermal cut-off switch.)
Critical infrastructure and media infrastructure needs to be owned by the government (I would say "State" but that implies state rights). /Water lines
-Wireless Bands
-Runways
-Sewer
-Dams
-Roads, Bridges, Highways
-Power, cable, phone and other digital transmission lines
The system is corrupt to the core. Ever facet is corrupted. One way to start removing this corruption is to socialize the infrastructure, for example, even if one power company can operate cheaper (power companies have no reason to become more efficient because corrupt/bribed/uneducated/non-caring politicians in towns that only have one person on the ballot and in a aging society that quite frankly doesn't care or understand, because a) they'll be dead soon and don't care about the future and b) they don't understand the consequences it may have, perhaps because they've stopped paying attention to the news or stopped learning, especially in one where you can win the majority of the population through lies, deceit, flattery, and smearing your opponent) so they can just state their expenses to the govenrment to regulate what they can charge, it doesn't matter because while the power system is on a non-interchangable grid ((cable companies aren't so lucky, phone companies even worse off as that requires building cellphone towers (which we *COULD* share, but aren't required to, at least without roaming charges--passed on to the consumer (some phones will refuse to roam and so they don't have to mention it on your plan) -- and also can be censored or throttled at their discretion), provoking the aging population against change)) the power companies that own the line are given 50% of the proceeds on any proceeds stemming from power transmissions on that line. Worse yet the US spends more money on Health insurance with no socialized medicine than most countries with socialized medicine (per capita I believe) because they hirer a single corrupt organization to do the work for them, which charges a unfair price (well beyond normal profit bounds that allow for stockholders, CEOs to get their fill and improvement to the company) to do it for them. In fact, according to some conspiracy theories, we let 911 happen because bush was paid to ignore CIA/intel warnings so haliburton and the oil companies to profit off the war.
But without proper infrastructure--which could simply be transferred to the state--perhaps the political regulation on allowing only one cable company to provide cable and competition factors where licensing isn't an issue, the corrupt organizations would either adapt to fair competition or die (and then proceed to burn in the fiery core of hell for not admitting their sins/not asking for redemption).
Cell phone giants can't convert cents to dollars and/or don't understand the difference.
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77. I swear I saw this on popular media, but it must of died out because google returns nothing within the first 5 pages of various search criteria
that should find it.
You would figure LEGO would already have a system to do this
Once I hit "save" in photoshop and exit I can't undo. Although in a layered image the rasterized text (must be rasterized before we can liquify/blur it) would probably be on a separate layer, but it's generally much more incriminating to replace text and not unblur text and it's probably not layered like that.
"BTW Voice-over-Internet is hardly a demanding application. I don't about your country, but in the U.S. telephones are only 56k wide."
When I talk on the land-line phone, isn't that all analog data? I don't think 56k applies here.
"Of course, a better analogy of why that has to be acceptable is that, you can't be held liable if you duck and the guy behind you gets shot. It's not your fault that he was unwilling or unable to duck too."
Difference being (According to insurance companies) that tsunamis are acts of God, of course.
Sounds like it would be part of elementalist shaman tier 6, but tier sets don't include cloaks...pity.
Discoveries in science that relate to abstract concepts usually result in more questions, whereas data encryption and stock market analysis not only have money related in the analysis itself but also perpetuate making more money. So while you spend you're time figuring out 23 toughest math questions I'll be making a digital fortress...not to mention any money gained by that could benefit research (even large corporations spend at least 3% of their R&D funds on average in pure science, and 3% of future market value, n, is a lot larger than current market value (at this point in time) n-delta n*time.
These questions are "hard to solve" not because they would bring about world peace or stabilize global economy or grant large sums of money (other than rewards posted by companies) but because they would either open padora's box or simply raise more questions. While finding the existence of the atom may have led to nuclear energy, there is not any scientific advancements made at the quark level, apart from raising more questions. How much deeper will we go? Each answer is just 2 or three more questions. For each step forward, we take 2 steps back.
To be clear, I don't like what the NSA is doing, I just don't think it is practical to be researching in things like "13 million digit prime numbers"- what practical purpose does that serve?
Can I ask you if the same method applies to flash memory (i.e., a camera)?
In order for computer forensics (we can see "formatted over" data) you must format the drive (according to the IT standard I was taught) at least 7 times. I would assume this means also filling the drive with bogus data. Additionally, my computer science professor told him that in his organization they must delete everything 32 times, or more appropriately, in 32 passes- delete, replace with bogus data, delete again, repeat for iCONST_NO_PASSES
Now, that being said, I don't think whoever sold this camera had any intention of destroying the data...be it an intentional release by the MI6 or not.
All this talk of blocks...CUBE!!!!!!SPHERE!!!! comeon people can't we be a little more original? this isn't tetris
At least it was legal (in a way) to record them to a cassette or CD...now we have DRM? Is that really progress?
Ignoring the problem of signal reception, this means I need to pay for each converter box to have the household able to view different channels at once. While I don't get any antenna reception, surely the next step is to fully digitize cable (FCC directors tend to like money I suppose)...that means $9.99/month per box, which gets to be quite expensive.
Compile time issues do not generally compile, and uncompiled programs do not genernally ship.
So unless your syntax error is algorthmic (and not purely syntaxical, like mistyping 5 in the middle of my application every time I HIT THE FREAKING DEBUG BUTTON (F5) -- such as the ALGORTHM of your program being off and causing system shutdowns, et all) or other runtime / execution time error (array index out of bounds, divide by zero, square root of a negative number) then your program won't compile and wont ship.
OKAY, the world is coming to an end, but how are we supposed to avoid using a trademarked name (we can refer to Microsoft as M$ in plain text) when it appears in the URL? (as in microsoft.com?) Do they realize they may very well destroy the internet (as search engines wont exist anymore), setting the world back, technologically, about 30 years?
"wait a minute, why do we do these upgrades again?".
because they drop update support for the product?
EA may be hurt by this, how will the purchasers of Spore be affected? From what I've seen anyone involved in a class-action lawsuit that is successful generally receives no more than lunch money.
100% of my phone's camera system takes 100% worthless images.
meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"
(removed the less/greater-than signs as it wasn't displaying)
I remember in one of my computer science classes the professor showed us the Adobe post on a unofficial Photoshop (et all) discussion board, asking them to stop saying "Photoshop" and use "Adobe Photoshop" and also stop using it as a verb. I believe this is because they would lose the trademark (yet Xerox is still Xerox). Though no word phrase is quite as good as "Photoshopped". Enhanced in photoshop sounds like we adjusted the color and contrast in photoshop, but photoshopped seems like we added extra smoke trails to make the news more dramatic or added a similie face to the google maps screenshot. Then again when we say "15 minutes of fame" it is entirely possible that another satellite image was taken, and no photoshop was involved.
4. The null character. ": )\0"...not to mention the pointer to said string?
Of course simply using simple techniques like adding HTML /BB code inbetween each letter of the web link SHOULD break the blocking algorithm (I've used this method to bypass DeviantART's tendency to corrupt links with various emoticons because they have an equals sign (like =P became an emote when it was telling the server to do something), and also to bypass april fools jokes were random text was inserted and replaced, usually with FISH). Or just use tinyurl. Or use AIM, MSN (speaking of which I still can't add MSN to my contact info on slashdot, so signature remains the same), yahoo, email, phone, or show up at there door...but you might want to wear a tinfoil hat and be weary of laser microphones.
Hell if customers should be informed and able to make competent purchasing decisions... informed and self-interested customers would utterly destroy Comcast's entire business model.
I think not. Townships rarely allow more than one cable / internet provider. Politicians prevent this from happening (they receive "incentives" from the cable provider currently in control) simply by overstating actual "TV Tax" increases that would happen with a second cable company coming into play...which are usually no more than 10 cents. Where I live there is only one candidate that runs, and let's remember that majority rules, and the majority of people that are registered voters here neither live here or work here (summer homes) and have no reason to have a fast internet or any cable (majority of the population is retired senior citizens). Perhaps it's not so much the "people's fault" that they choose comcast when it's a choice between AOL dialup and comcast's broadband (who's advertised speed changes every week or so, but is still several orders of magnitude higher); but more of the fault of the elected officials. If the majority of the population does not care, it will not change, and the US has an aging population, most of which does not currently care about internet or cable services or has even really heard about it. IT's always a big issue when they try to allow another cable company. The agony of small tax increases another cable company and adding to the already overly-stressed power infrastructure (i.e., wooden telephone poles). Not to mention whoever owns the cables gets 50% of whatever proceeds is made on them...power internet phone or cable, so whoever owns them in the current system has substantially more power.