The system has room for each of 6 billion people to have almost 2 million numbers. Not a problem.
Not all 16-digit numbers are valid -- actually, far from it. The LUHN-10algorithm makes sure a CC number supplied by the client is valid before submitting it for authorization. All credit (and debit/ATM) card numbers must fit that algorithm.
Therefore, there aren't nearly as many numbers available as you might think.
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Re:The stuff they won't show is FUNNY!
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you can show somebody getting blown away, but not getting blown. I know which one I'd rather somebody do to me.
Okay! Would you like it in the heart or in the head?
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What timing! [SPOLER WARNING]
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I saw 15 Minutes just last night.
There were a few things I felt needed a little polishing -- for example, when Eddie instantly linked the slashes on the wall in the hotel bathroom with the broken-tipped knife. Things like that would probably take time to figure out, and there were several occurances of that sort of thing.
I disagreed with Eddie's fate, but it was a refreshing change from the good-guys-never-die (coughBondcough) theme so prevalent in Hollywood these days.
Also, the fact that the fire marshal (his name escapes me at the moment) didn't wuss out at the end was very satisfying indeed. The guy probably would have rotted in jail anyway as a result of Oleg's tape, but it was nice to see a little an-eye-for-an-eye.
If you haven't seen it, I recommend it heartily. Overall, I enjoyed it -- warts and all.
If you leave your copy of a vinyl record on the radiator and melt it, you don't get a free pass to copy someone else's CD, "since you already own the information." You're just fucked, and you have to buy a new copy. Tough shit.
Let's compare apples to apples, shall we?
If it were a CD that I left lying on my dashboard in direct sunlight in Arizona in August, and it's a puddle of polycarbonate when I get back to the car, you're damned right I'll ask a friend for a copy of their original, and that I'll have no compunction about doing so.
The series summary posted on TrekToday said the officer in question is to nearly wet herself every time the ship jumps to warp. However, if the timeline is where I think it'll be, warp wouldn't have been discovered by that point in time!
Ensign Hoshi Sato: Comm Officer. Japanese. Mid to late 20s. Striking and intelligent, Hoshi has a feisty spirit that often tests the patience of the crew. She's in charge of communications on Enterprise, but she also serves as ship's Translator. An expert in exo-linguistics, she learned to manipulate her vocal chords to emit a range of alien sounds no human has ever produced. She has a natural affinity for picking up languages. Hoshi doesn't like the idea of being trapped in a "tin can" hurtling at impossible speeds. Every time the ship jumps to warp she grips her console and closes her eyes. She's a "white knuckle" space farer.
Is it just me, or isn't this new series supposed to take place before the warp drive was invented by Zephram Cochran (à la First Contact)?
Swiss regional committee that Federation OF the Phonographic Industry ( IFPI) is international with a letter, which equals after German right of a warning, on a joke in the Web pleases. On the assumption, on a Website MP3-Dateien were offered to Matthias Leisi a letter, which requested it to remove the files for the Download, had been sent IFPI Switzerland to the operator. Additionally it should platzieren the note " This Site is closed by IFPI Switzerland... " on the pages. A punishment of 500 Swiss Franconias is additional to pay - plus 200 Franconias for the determination.
However the editors do not seem to have given oneself much trouble with the " determination " particularly. Otherwise it would have surely noticed to them that it concerned with the alleged music pieces not around genuine MP3-Files, but text files, which contained only the word " * aetsch * ".
The International Telecommunication Union has put out a press release on the new ITU-T V.92 standard. This should breathe new life into the modem industry and POTS-based telecommunications in general. It's worth a read to get up to speed on what V.92 brings to the table.
Don't just go out and grab 2.4.2. Odds are you don't even need it. It's merely another stable release that spreads what Linux can run on.
You haven't read the fscking Changelog have you?! 2.4.2 fixes a serious IDE multimode write bug. If anyone has even somewhat-modern IDE hard drives in their system, it is certainly worth their while to get it.
I think SCSI-only boxen can wait, though -- but Linux was (and still is, to a degree) all about Unix on low-cost x86 hardware, so methinks there be plenty of IDE-based Linux systems around...
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if you know what cum laude means...
Noisy orgasm?
(Sorry.)
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Here is CBC's take on the movie.
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The system has room for each of 6 billion people to have almost 2 million numbers. Not a problem.
Not all 16-digit numbers are valid -- actually, far from it. The LUHN-10 algorithm makes sure a CC number supplied by the client is valid before submitting it for authorization. All credit (and debit/ATM) card numbers must fit that algorithm.
Therefore, there aren't nearly as many numbers available as you might think.
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you can show somebody getting blown away, but not getting blown. I know which one I'd rather somebody do to me.
Okay! Would you like it in the heart or in the head?
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I saw 15 Minutes just last night.
There were a few things I felt needed a little polishing -- for example, when Eddie instantly linked the slashes on the wall in the hotel bathroom with the broken-tipped knife. Things like that would probably take time to figure out, and there were several occurances of that sort of thing.
I disagreed with Eddie's fate, but it was a refreshing change from the good-guys-never-die (coughBondcough) theme so prevalent in Hollywood these days.
Also, the fact that the fire marshal (his name escapes me at the moment) didn't wuss out at the end was very satisfying indeed. The guy probably would have rotted in jail anyway as a result of Oleg's tape, but it was nice to see a little an-eye-for-an-eye.
If you haven't seen it, I recommend it heartily. Overall, I enjoyed it -- warts and all.
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steaming at high speed through the North Atlantic in an early April night almost thirty years prior to the invention of radar.
Radar wouldn't reflect off an iceberg, would it? It might absorb it somewhat, but I can't see how something nonmetallic would reflect microwaves...
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The NYT article likens the robot to a cross between a dachshund and a Hoover. Fitting, no?
Out of sheer morbid curiosity, I fed "dachshund" to Babelfish, asking for German to English translation, and got:
dogdog dog
Fitting, no?
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You know what I would LOVE to see incorporated in every PDA? An automatic phone dialer.
Excellent idea!
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If you leave your copy of a vinyl record on the radiator and melt it, you don't get a free pass to copy someone else's CD, "since you already own the information." You're just fucked, and you have to buy a new copy. Tough shit.
Let's compare apples to apples, shall we?
If it were a CD that I left lying on my dashboard in direct sunlight in Arizona in August, and it's a puddle of polycarbonate when I get back to the car, you're damned right I'll ask a friend for a copy of their original, and that I'll have no compunction about doing so.
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Brilliant! Excellent summary of the comedy of errors we're saddled with. Moderators, mod that up please!
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The series summary posted on TrekToday said the officer in question is to nearly wet herself every time the ship jumps to warp. However, if the timeline is where I think it'll be, warp wouldn't have been discovered by that point in time!
That was my point...
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- Ensign Hoshi Sato: Comm Officer. Japanese. Mid to late 20s. Striking and intelligent, Hoshi has a feisty spirit that often tests the patience of the crew. She's in charge of communications on Enterprise, but she also serves as ship's Translator. An expert in exo-linguistics, she learned to manipulate her vocal chords to emit a range of alien sounds no human has ever produced. She has a natural affinity for picking up languages. Hoshi doesn't like the idea of being trapped in a "tin can" hurtling at impossible speeds. Every time the ship jumps to warp she grips her console and closes her eyes. She's a "white knuckle" space farer.
Is it just me, or isn't this new series supposed to take place before the warp drive was invented by Zephram Cochran (à la First Contact)?--
But if they did, I'd have to buy a jornada.
Just because it would then be running Linux? Whatever happened to wanting/buying the best tool for the job?
This reminds me of an old saying:
If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.
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Stupid question answered:
You have been trolled. You have lost. Have a nice day.
I wuv you, Google.
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YHBT. YHL. HAND.
I've seen this all over as a congratulatory message to successful trolls. I only have one (stupid) question:
What the fsck does it mean?!
Thanks!
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The Heise article was mangled thusly:
MP3-Abmahnpanne with Swiss music federation
Swiss regional committee that Federation OF the Phonographic Industry ( IFPI) is international with a letter, which equals after German right of a warning, on a joke in the Web pleases. On the assumption, on a Website MP3-Dateien were offered to Matthias Leisi a letter, which requested it to remove the files for the Download, had been sent IFPI Switzerland to the operator. Additionally it should platzieren the note " This Site is closed by IFPI Switzerland... " on the pages. A punishment of 500 Swiss Franconias is additional to pay - plus 200 Franconias for the determination.
However the editors do not seem to have given oneself much trouble with the " determination " particularly. Otherwise it would have surely noticed to them that it concerned with the alleged music pieces not around genuine MP3-Files, but text files, which contained only the word " * aetsch * ".
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I have met 19 year old women that do NOT understand how conception occurs.
You're kidding, right? Or exaggerating, perhaps?
How the fsck can someone be 19 and not know that, even without sex ed?!
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The International Telecommunication Union has put out a press release on the new ITU-T V.92 standard. This should breathe new life into the modem industry and POTS-based telecommunications in general. It's worth a read to get up to speed on what V.92 brings to the table.
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Taiwan is a country
It was nice knowing you. The Chinese secret police are surely already on their way from Beijing to Tianenmen your ass.
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RIAA has paid enough to enough SC justices that they take the decision for granted. (Not likely: SC isn't that bribeable.)
Take a look at this. You won't be whistling the same tune by the time you're done.
It makes me retch. I had the utmost respect for them (hell, I'm not even American), but that's all but gone now.
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What do you run your copy of Linux on, a mainframe?
Yes, he runs it on his S/390.
*sigh*
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from the pocket-pool dept.
I think the physics for that particular variant of the game can be found here.
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Holy fsckme! I'm crying from laughing so hard. Mod parent up please... that's priceless!
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Don't just go out and grab 2.4.2. Odds are you don't even need it. It's merely another stable release that spreads what Linux can run on.
You haven't read the fscking Changelog have you?! 2.4.2 fixes a serious IDE multimode write bug. If anyone has even somewhat-modern IDE hard drives in their system, it is certainly worth their while to get it.
I think SCSI-only boxen can wait, though -- but Linux was (and still is, to a degree) all about Unix on low-cost x86 hardware, so methinks there be plenty of IDE-based Linux systems around...
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From the changelog:
-pre2:
- Russell King: fix serious IDE multimode write bug!
If you have IDE hard drives, I recommend you pop 2.4.2 into place purdy quick. Write bug == bad.
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