The government is bounded to doing one single thing at a time. They have, if they are skilled at it, the ability to multi-task like no other because they command a large army of civil servants.
When analysing a revolution there is rarely one single thing that determines the success or failure of overthrowing the seated power. A (current) government therefore has the interest in controlling the flow of information in the broadest sense of the word. If Muburak and his cohorts have paid attention to the role of internet in the flow of information to a new generation(with new predominantly people under 30 years), they will make damn sure that they restrict access to unfavourable information, in this case the french dial-in ISP. In fact, if I was an employee of the digital division of the government of Mubarak(and loyal), I would immediatly place a phonecall to the person who has the ability to monitor/block this address.
This factor might be one of them that determines whether this revolution will become like the one in Tunesia or the one in Iran.
"The system can optionally inform the user by email that their attempt has been blocked, but without identifying the keyword in question, maintaining the security of the system."
Until the user decides to compare his blocked page with blocked pages from other letters or does a binary search for the forbidden word. Glad they thought this through.
Because the binary code is palindromic I think it is a symbol more than a message. In heraldry, symmetry can be an style in your weapon and looking at the weapon itself, it is vertically symmetric. Including a message in binary code in your motto could be an idea but since the weapon already has a motto (namely "Comtemplare Meloria") it can be seen as sort of an achievement and could indicate knowlegde(or degrees) in the area of computer science.
I am not fully sure what to think about this weapon since it is certainly a non-standard one but my best guess is that people are looking for to much into the binary code as a message.
You know what really happens when you throw a frog in a cauldron with boiling water? Its muscles contract and it will be unable to get out in time and boil alive.
However, if you gradually heat the water the frog will notice that the water has become an undesirable temperature and will get out before it boils.
I agree with your theory but your analogy is dead wrong.
Like making Discovery Channel an interesting channel to watch again. I am not interested in (*City) Ink or in a cake-baking italian. No more seasons of crab/lobster/nessie fishing. I want the interesting stuff back again, learning things I wouldn't have learned otherwise. I will tolerate endless Rex Hunt reruns if this would be the case.
But no, mister hostage taker has some sort of higher goal here. Typical.
While at first this may seems to be a strange notion, it is actually quite a logical thing. Since the dawn of nationalism(and thus conscripted armies) it has been known that wounded(especially heavily maimed) soldiers negatively affect morale much more than a dead soldier.
The reason is pretty much clear: A dead soldier is a hero and an inspiration for revenge, a wounded soldier is a person who can tell you about the horrors of war and about the things that are waiting for his brothers if they are sent to the front.
In order to prevent armies from disabling soldiers instead of killing them for the reasons listed above, a large number of countries expressly forbid weapons that non-leathally maim enemies(like blinding lasers) so that people would not become to much anti-war(in the war that a nation is fighting) and also anti-war in general(which inhibits a conscipting nation in the ability to wage war).
Furthermore, it's Her Majesty, not her royal highness. It's like calling Barack Obama Speaker of the House of Representatives, it simply makes no sense.
"Can anyone here name a computer manufacturer with a 97% failure rate of a computer line and then try to cover it up and continue to sell them?"
Shuttle with the K48 series. The power supply is way too small(100W) to support (almost any) hardware decently. It usually ends with the components using 95-97W and when the power supply degrades it is overstressed and burns out. It costed us a lot of money, mostly from shipping costs.
"This is kind of like saying "I flip a coin. What is the chance it lands heads facing up?"
And you say "50%."
And I say, "Incorrect. There is a very small chance it will land balanced perfectly on it's side, so both the chance of heads and the chance of tails is under 50%." "
You never specified anything about the coin. If you would say it was a fair coin, I would indeed say that the chance of head coming up is 0,5.
In any other case you ask me a question without giving any information. The coin might well be 1cm thick, which increases the chance to land on its side by several orders of magnitude. It can also be a coin with two heads, making it (near) 1 chance of heads facing up(then again, is this a theoretical coin or a real one).
Furthermore, the chance of a (real) coin landing on one side more than the other is 1 due to the inequalities in a real coin.
Read the GP's comment. He is not saying that it will be 'better' next year, he is clearly stating that it will be 'butter'. I cannot understand that you didn't bread that correctly.
Isn't x264 (heavily) patent encumbered? And does that mean that the makers(or distributers?) have to pay a licensing fee? I know that it makes me weary to roll this out in a setting other than my home computing enviroment.
I currently volunteer at a student based non-profit shop that mostly sells computers and computer parts. 21 years ago, we started as a shop selling pretty nothing but old 5.25" floppies and we made tons of money doing it. We even had a rivalry with another non-profit shop who could sell the things at the lowest price so we had volunteers doing 400km drives just to get floppies at a lower price than the competition.
At the moment, parts are crazy-ass cheap and webshops drive down the margin to nearly zero. Making money was a lot easier back then and PCs costed small fortunes $2000 was normal.
Nowadays, we still have some tangible memories left: some old 5.25" floppies and a copy of MS-DOS 4.0 still in the original box.
We also have an unsold copy of Windows Vista. We decided to add that one to the collection too.
While the first statement is true, the second is most certainly false. Bipeds actually have a more efficient way of walking(and running) which allows us to run greater distances than quadrupeds.
In fact, some tribes in Africa use this advantage in their huntings methods. They simply run after a prey(I believe they favour fleeing prey to fighting prey) and chase them until the prey tires and then they strike when it is exhausted.
Well, in WWII it was not uncommon to use German POWs as an expendable force to remove mines from heavily mined areas. The Germans are pretty much the only nation in the world who had the right system to map minefields and that came in handy. And yes, a lot of Germans lost their lives during the process.
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Goatse troll. Mod down. Now excuse me while I throw up.....
The government is bounded to doing one single thing at a time. They have, if they are skilled at it, the ability to multi-task like no other because they command a large army of civil servants.
When analysing a revolution there is rarely one single thing that determines the success or failure of overthrowing the seated power. A (current) government therefore has the interest in controlling the flow of information in the broadest sense of the word. If Muburak and his cohorts have paid attention to the role of internet in the flow of information to a new generation(with new predominantly people under 30 years), they will make damn sure that they restrict access to unfavourable information, in this case the french dial-in ISP. In fact, if I was an employee of the digital division of the government of Mubarak(and loyal), I would immediatly place a phonecall to the person who has the ability to monitor/block this address.
This factor might be one of them that determines whether this revolution will become like the one in Tunesia or the one in Iran.
"It's a sig. Way to be a prick.
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Sent from my CR-48
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Then stop sending pricks from your CR-48!
"The system can optionally inform the user by email that their attempt has been blocked, but without identifying the keyword in question, maintaining the security of the system."
Until the user decides to compare his blocked page with blocked pages from other letters or does a binary search for the forbidden word. Glad they thought this through.
Posting shows you cared enough
Dickwad
Because the binary code is palindromic I think it is a symbol more than a message. In heraldry, symmetry can be an style in your weapon and looking at the weapon itself, it is vertically symmetric. Including a message in binary code in your motto could be an idea but since the weapon already has a motto (namely "Comtemplare Meloria") it can be seen as sort of an achievement and could indicate knowlegde(or degrees) in the area of computer science.
I am not fully sure what to think about this weapon since it is certainly a non-standard one but my best guess is that people are looking for to much into the binary code as a message.
You know what really happens when you throw a frog in a cauldron with boiling water? Its muscles contract and it will be unable to get out in time and boil alive.
However, if you gradually heat the water the frog will notice that the water has become an undesirable temperature and will get out before it boils.
I agree with your theory but your analogy is dead wrong.
Like making Discovery Channel an interesting channel to watch again. I am not interested in (*City) Ink or in a cake-baking italian. No more seasons of crab/lobster/nessie fishing. I want the interesting stuff back again, learning things I wouldn't have learned otherwise. I will tolerate endless Rex Hunt reruns if this would be the case.
But no, mister hostage taker has some sort of higher goal here. Typical.
I didn't know that Dell owned a naval fleet.
While at first this may seems to be a strange notion, it is actually quite a logical thing. Since the dawn of nationalism(and thus conscripted armies) it has been known that wounded(especially heavily maimed) soldiers negatively affect morale much more than a dead soldier.
The reason is pretty much clear: A dead soldier is a hero and an inspiration for revenge, a wounded soldier is a person who can tell you about the horrors of war and about the things that are waiting for his brothers if they are sent to the front.
In order to prevent armies from disabling soldiers instead of killing them for the reasons listed above, a large number of countries expressly forbid weapons that non-leathally maim enemies(like blinding lasers) so that people would not become to much anti-war(in the war that a nation is fighting) and also anti-war in general(which inhibits a conscipting nation in the ability to wage war).
Furthermore, it's Her Majesty, not her royal highness. It's like calling Barack Obama Speaker of the House of Representatives, it simply makes no sense.
"Can anyone here name a computer manufacturer with a 97% failure rate of a computer line and then try to cover it up and continue to sell them?"
Shuttle with the K48 series. The power supply is way too small(100W) to support (almost any) hardware decently. It usually ends with the components using 95-97W and when the power supply degrades it is overstressed and burns out. It costed us a lot of money, mostly from shipping costs.
Our failure rate: 70-80%
"This is kind of like saying "I flip a coin. What is the chance it lands heads facing up?"
And you say "50%."
And I say, "Incorrect. There is a very small chance it will land balanced perfectly on it's side, so both the chance of heads and the chance of tails is under 50%."
"
You never specified anything about the coin. If you would say it was a fair coin, I would indeed say that the chance of head coming up is 0,5.
In any other case you ask me a question without giving any information. The coin might well be 1cm thick, which increases the chance to land on its side by several orders of magnitude. It can also be a coin with two heads, making it (near) 1 chance of heads facing up(then again, is this a theoretical coin or a real one).
Furthermore, the chance of a (real) coin landing on one side more than the other is 1 due to the inequalities in a real coin.
Citation Please
And no falsehoods about the Betamax vs. VHS war, the porn industry played no role in that.
You are just jealous because you were stuck with the C64 while all the cool kids had a C65
Unfortunately, in the case of 2 girls the full potential is reached at the first cup
Read the GP's comment. He is not saying that it will be 'better' next year, he is clearly stating that it will be 'butter'. I cannot understand that you didn't bread that correctly.
Isn't x264 (heavily) patent encumbered? And does that mean that the makers(or distributers?) have to pay a licensing fee? I know that it makes me weary to roll this out in a setting other than my home computing enviroment.
Anyone to easy my mind/confirm my suspicions?
I currently volunteer at a student based non-profit shop that mostly sells computers and computer parts. 21 years ago, we started as a shop selling pretty nothing but old 5.25" floppies and we made tons of money doing it. We even had a rivalry with another non-profit shop who could sell the things at the lowest price so we had volunteers doing 400km drives just to get floppies at a lower price than the competition.
At the moment, parts are crazy-ass cheap and webshops drive down the margin to nearly zero. Making money was a lot easier back then and PCs costed small fortunes $2000 was normal.
Nowadays, we still have some tangible memories left: some old 5.25" floppies and a copy of MS-DOS 4.0 still in the original box.
We also have an unsold copy of Windows Vista. We decided to add that one to the collection too.
"As far as I'm concerned real capitalist make money within the system NOT change the system so they can keep making money."
And as far as I'm concerned, real Scotsmen don't put sugar in their porridge.
it's the only way to be sure
"Bipeds are much slower, tire much easier,"
While the first statement is true, the second is most certainly false. Bipeds actually have a more efficient way of walking(and running) which allows us to run greater distances than quadrupeds.
In fact, some tribes in Africa use this advantage in their huntings methods. They simply run after a prey(I believe they favour fleeing prey to fighting prey) and chase them until the prey tires and then they strike when it is exhausted.
This meager Wikipedia article has some information about this fenomenon: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persistence_hunting
I am a geek and I still bite the heads off chickens you insensitive clod!
The joke is on you. I work in a shop that basically sells HDMI cable for less then 1 EUR per meter, goldplated.
If you factor out the greed, prices can go down by a large amount.
Well, in WWII it was not uncommon to use German POWs as an expendable force to remove mines from heavily mined areas. The Germans are pretty much the only nation in the world who had the right system to map minefields and that came in handy. And yes, a lot of Germans lost their lives during the process.