41 MB of SPOKEN WORD INTERVIEWS !!! I've got perfectly listenable copies of the H2G2 radio series, and they run to aprox 11MB per 30 miute show, so this better be good...
each query made to the/. readership search engine is quite expensive in terms of all the employer-funded man-hours it consumes.
But it doesn't cost the OP ANYTHING !!!
OP is being a free rider.
I've sometimes wondered why it's always fighters that are considered for AI replacements
The general fragility of the human body -
Fighter pilots cost literally millions to train, but have a relatively limited survival rate.
The aircraft themselves are better aircraft if you don't have to provide for humans on board (imagine a squadron with the range of a B-2 and the maeuevreability of an Air-to-Air missile).
If I keep an online journal of what I'm seeing everyday and I happen to see Apple employees unloading a new computer model that hasn't been released or even talked about..shouldn't I be able to post what I've seen? You haven't signed an NDA. Therefore you can write. Of course, if you were walking within Apples' premises, there might bethe issue of tresspass or losing your job for blabbing company secrets. But yeah, go ahead, write... With this ruling, the courts are saying no, I can't do this RTFA - the judge wants them to own up about who spilled the beans, because there's reasonable suspicion that whoever spilled the beans has broken a contract (i.e. broken an NDA signed with Apple). Free Speech is protected in the USA. You are not necessarily protected from the consequences of speaking freely.
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go to the page that links to that image... http://www.greaterthings.com/Word-Number/Organizat ions/Echelon/ and you'll see that the author uses the words ecdysis and echidna to tell us why Echelon is so bad. Apparently they come either side of Echelon in his '71 Websters, so they must be related...
My point is that no matter how true your position is, we are more likely to accept it if you use exampels and proofs from someone on our side of reality. In fact, the less credible the source, the less likely we are to accept it at face value.
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Anyone else read that as
Australian (rather than Austrian) Office of the Federal Chancellor, quintessence (an association for the re-establishment of information civil rights) has data mined an extensive mailing list related to the Biometric Consortium, which is part of the NSA. Heise (Google translation) writes...
and then wonder why they needed a Google translation? sling us an oxford or two, and i'll let you have a captain cook. its the good oil, mate, no wuckers. (ps the septics up the big smoke have been lookin for a blue about this since Adam was a boy, and thats no furphy).
I'm more worried about what is going to happen to the guys who wrote those tools http://www.cs.waikato.ac.nz/ml/ I'd be more worried if I w3as the US - thats where the BOFH originally came from.
I have my own special way of punishing users: the loaner. I take their computer away while I "rework it" and give them a temp spare 233 MHz Windows 95 beast. I've never had to fix the same user twice:) Of course, it will run even slower after I feed my 4yrold twins some red cordial and then ask them to take Daddy's POS laptop outside to play with.... Assuming we can find it afterwards.
without RTFA I'd suggest PoMO means Post Modern. In this case "Post Modern" would relate to the amount of deconstruiction required to turn even the best specs into working code.
Hope not because Firefox makes it extremely difficult to upgrade if you want to keep your extensions.
Only one I had problems with was IE View; FF told me it couldn't install it becaue of version conflicts. I went to the homepage , (just on spec..) and tried installing it from there. Despite the fact the link said Install IE View v0.81, my extensions now include ieview 0.82.
of course by now, the project owner (who's name isn't that obvious..) may have the 'official site' updated.
"In the meantime, we have provided customers with prescriptive guidance to help mitigate these issues."
Ummm... I don't think so.... here is a link to the US-CERT Vulnerability Note VU#713878 which (I think) is where this all starts. Go right to the bottom (OK, this is slashdot, so I'll cut-and-paste)
Use a different web browser
There are a number of significant vulnerabilities in technologies relating to the IE domain/zone security model, the DHTML object model, MIME type determination, and ActiveX. It is possible to reduce exposure to these vulnerabilities by using a different web browser, especially when browsing untrusted sites. Such a decision may, however, reduce the functionality of sites that require IE-specific features such as DHTML, VBScript, and ActiveX. Note that using a different web browser will not remove IE from a Windows system, and other programs may invoke IE, the WebBrowser ActiveX control, or the HTML rendering engine (MSHTML).
The way I read that last sentence, CERT say you are not safe unless you get rid of the IE6 functionality.
from http://www.wa.gov.au/perthobs/Venus/venus.html
Transits of Venus across the disk of the Sun are among the rarest of planetary alignments. During the interval from 2000 BCE to CE 4000, a total of 81 transits of Venus occur, that is, one every 74 years on average. However, they almost always occur in pairs (separated by 8 years) and so even a long-lived person may not get to witness a Venus transit in their lifetime. The next transit of Venus will occur in 2012. More than a century will elapse before the next pair of transits in 2117 and 2125, and the two previous transits occurred 1874 and 1882.
It is only during early December and early June that transits of Venus are possible. This is the time when Venus's orbital nodes pass across the Sun. If Venus reaches inferior conjunction (Sun, Venus and Earth aligned) at this time, a transit will occur. Transits show a pattern of recurrence at intervals of 8, 121.5, 8 and 105.5 years. The planet Mercury can also transit the Sun, and it orbits the Sun more quickly than does Venus, so it undergoes transits much more frequently. There are about 13 or 14 transits of Mercury each century. However, the size of Venus is larger (about 3% the Sun's diameter) and is more easily observable, and its proximity to Earth makes the highly desirable effect of parallax more pronounced.
Edmund Halley first realised that transits of Venus could be used to measure the Sun's distance, thereby establishing the absolute scale of the Solar System from Kepler's third law. This is also the first step in determining the size of the Universe. Halley realised that the careful timing of transits could be used to determine the distance of Earth from the Sun. The technique relied on observations made from widely separated sites across the Earth. The effect of parallax on the remote observers would allow them to derive the absolute distance scale of the Solar System. Venus transits were better suited to this goal than were those of Mercury because Venus is closer to Earth and consequently exhibits a larger parallax. Unfortunately, his method proved impractical since contact timings of the desired accuracy are impossible due to the effects of atmospheric seeing and diffraction. Nevertheless, the 1761 and 1769 expeditions to observe the transits of Venus gave astronomers their first sound value for the Sun's distance.
Transits of Venus have a special connection for Australians because it was after observing the 1769 transit in Tahiti that Captain Cook arrived on the East Coast of Australia and claimed it for Britain, thus setting in train its colonisation by Europeans.
In the 18th century, the Pacific Ocean was still virtually uncharted and there were rumours of a large southern continent called Terra Australis Nondum Cognita (the southern land not yet known). French, Dutch and English sailors, had hunted in vain for this mythical land. The British Admiralty wanted to organise a scientific expedition to observe the transit of Venus due in June 1769 and the expedition was also given the secret mission of finding the southern continent.
After observing the transit in Tahiti, Cook sailed on to the North Island of New Zealand and then the South Island. He found that neither island was joined to a large southern continent. He continued towards Tasmania and then northward, arriving at Botany Bay in April 1770.
Radar measurements currently provide very accurate distances to the Sun and planets, so transits are now of less scientific importance. However, these rare and remarkable events remind us of a technique important to the development of modern astronomy.
i bet you they do not know what this card does. therefore, if you offer a chocolate for the card, they will show it to you
A securID displays a 'random' number. It's keyed to a PIN. The 'random' number must match the value generated (by a h/ware device at the other end of the network) for that PIN for that time period.
i.e. my card is currently reading 144800. That does you no good right now, unless I tell you the PIN. Even if you got hold of the PIN, the value 144800 will be no good to you by the time I finish typing, because a new key-pair will be generated.
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FF reported it was 41Mb. Turned out to be 33MB
for 36 minutes of spoken word.
It's just a fucking mp3 download!!!
Not only that, its 41 MB. Thats right.
41 MB of SPOKEN WORD INTERVIEWS !!!
I've got perfectly listenable copies of the H2G2 radio series, and they run to aprox 11MB per 30 miute show, so this better be good...
here's one version , which uses the following:
Portable Thunderbird - available at http://portablethunderbird.mozdev.org/
Portable Firefox - available at http://portablefirefox.mozdev.org/
Portable Sunbird (Calendar) - available at http://portablesunbird.mozdev.org/
off a Live-CD
but you don't wanna know where you have to insert the CD
each query made to the /. readership search engine is quite expensive in terms of all the employer-funded man-hours it consumes.
But it doesn't cost the OP ANYTHING !!! OP is being a free rider.
I've sometimes wondered why it's always fighters that are considered for AI replacements
The general fragility of the human body -
Fighter pilots cost literally millions to train, but have a relatively limited survival rate.
The aircraft themselves are better aircraft if you don't have to provide for humans on board (imagine a squadron with the range of a B-2 and the maeuevreability of an Air-to-Air missile).
My kidfs are half Kiwi, half Aussie - they're well behaved, but in addition can play cricket AND rugby. What do yah think they're worth ?
PS Don't tell anyone about the colour blindness (its hereditary and might drive the price down)
If I keep an online journal of what I'm seeing everyday and I happen to see Apple employees unloading a new computer model that hasn't been released or even talked about..shouldn't I be able to post what I've seen?
You haven't signed an NDA. Therefore you can write. Of course, if you were walking within Apples' premises, there might bethe issue of tresspass or losing your job for blabbing company secrets. But yeah, go ahead, write...
With this ruling, the courts are saying no, I can't do this
RTFA - the judge wants them to own up about who spilled the beans, because there's reasonable suspicion that whoever spilled the beans has broken a contract (i.e. broken an NDA signed with Apple). Free Speech is protected in the USA. You are not necessarily protected from the consequences of speaking freely.
go to the page that links to that image...t ions/Echelon/
http://www.greaterthings.com/Word-Number/Organiza
and you'll see that the author uses the words ecdysis and echidna to tell us why Echelon is so bad. Apparently they come either side of Echelon in his '71 Websters, so they must be related...
My point is that no matter how true your position is, we are more likely to accept it if you use exampels and proofs from someone on our side of reality. In fact, the less credible the source, the less likely we are to accept it at face value.
So who owns all the bases these days ?
Anyone else read that as
...
Australian (rather than Austrian) Office of the Federal Chancellor, quintessence (an association for the re-establishment of information civil rights) has data mined an extensive mailing list related to the Biometric Consortium, which is part of the NSA. Heise (Google translation) writes
and then wonder why they needed a Google translation?
sling us an oxford or two, and i'll let you have a captain cook. its the good oil, mate, no wuckers.
(ps the septics up the big smoke have been lookin for a blue about this since Adam was a boy, and thats no furphy).
I'm more worried about what is going to happen to the guys who wrote those tools http://www.cs.waikato.ac.nz/ml/
I'd be more worried if I w3as the US - thats where the BOFH originally came from.
I have my own special way of punishing users: the loaner. I take their computer away while I "rework it" and give them a temp spare 233 MHz Windows 95 beast. I've never had to fix the same user twice :)
Of course, it will run even slower after I feed my 4yrold twins some red cordial and then ask them to take Daddy's POS laptop outside to play with....
Assuming we can find it afterwards.
AI at work ? I wondered if GWB was the last resort if the search-term failed to reconcile with anything in the database.
So I tried any old crap, Washington DC. No, it didn't come back with GWB's address, but it was still accurate (See A and F).
3rd (at least) time i've seen this OT crap posted - almost exactly same word for word.
There is no Driver issue. It was resolved by applying the (organic and environmentally sound) Tree solution.
SPLITTER !!!
I hope this doesn't imply that it's some kind of mistake to RTFA.
this is \. - it's ALWAYS a mistake to RTFA.
without RTFA I'd suggest PoMO means Post Modern. In this case "Post Modern" would relate to the amount of deconstruiction required to turn even the best specs into working code.
See the wikipedia entry, especially the bit on Deconstruction.
Hope not because Firefox makes it extremely difficult to upgrade if you want to keep your extensions.
Only one I had problems with was IE View; FF told me it couldn't install it becaue of version conflicts.
I went to the homepage , (just on spec..) and tried installing it from there. Despite the fact the link said Install IE View v0.81, my extensions now include ieview 0.82.
of course by now, the project owner (who's name isn't that obvious..) may have the 'official site' updated.
The GSM phones do this over our desk phones
"In the meantime, we have provided customers with prescriptive guidance to help mitigate these issues."
Ummm... I don't think so.... here is a link to the US-CERT Vulnerability Note VU#713878 which (I think) is where this all starts. Go right to the bottom (OK, this is slashdot, so I'll cut-and-paste)
Use a different web browser
There are a number of significant vulnerabilities in technologies relating to the IE domain/zone security model, the DHTML object model, MIME type determination, and ActiveX. It is possible to reduce exposure to these vulnerabilities by using a different web browser, especially when browsing untrusted sites. Such a decision may, however, reduce the functionality of sites that require IE-specific features such as DHTML, VBScript, and ActiveX. Note that using a different web browser will not remove IE from a Windows system, and other programs may invoke IE, the WebBrowser ActiveX control, or the HTML rendering engine (MSHTML).
The way I read that last sentence, CERT say you are not safe unless you get rid of the IE6 functionality.
from http://www.wa.gov.au/perthobs/Venus/venus.html
Transits of Venus across the disk of the Sun are among the rarest of planetary alignments. During the interval from 2000 BCE to CE 4000, a total of 81 transits of Venus occur, that is, one every 74 years on average. However, they almost always occur in pairs (separated by 8 years) and so even a long-lived person may not get to witness a Venus transit in their lifetime. The next transit of Venus will occur in 2012. More than a century will elapse before the next pair of transits in 2117 and 2125, and the two previous transits occurred 1874 and 1882.
It is only during early December and early June that transits of Venus are possible. This is the time when Venus's orbital nodes pass across the Sun. If Venus reaches inferior conjunction (Sun, Venus and Earth aligned) at this time, a transit will occur. Transits show a pattern of recurrence at intervals of 8, 121.5, 8 and 105.5 years. The planet Mercury can also transit the Sun, and it orbits the Sun more quickly than does Venus, so it undergoes transits much more frequently. There are about 13 or 14 transits of Mercury each century. However, the size of Venus is larger (about 3% the Sun's diameter) and is more easily observable, and its proximity to Earth makes the highly desirable effect of parallax more pronounced.
Edmund Halley first realised that transits of Venus could be used to measure the Sun's distance, thereby establishing the absolute scale of the Solar System from Kepler's third law. This is also the first step in determining the size of the Universe. Halley realised that the careful timing of transits could be used to determine the distance of Earth from the Sun. The technique relied on observations made from widely separated sites across the Earth. The effect of parallax on the remote observers would allow them to derive the absolute distance scale of the Solar System. Venus transits were better suited to this goal than were those of Mercury because Venus is closer to Earth and consequently exhibits a larger parallax. Unfortunately, his method proved impractical since contact timings of the desired accuracy are impossible due to the effects of atmospheric seeing and diffraction. Nevertheless, the 1761 and 1769 expeditions to observe the transits of Venus gave astronomers their first sound value for the Sun's distance.
Transits of Venus have a special connection for Australians because it was after observing the 1769 transit in Tahiti that Captain Cook arrived on the East Coast of Australia and claimed it for Britain, thus setting in train its colonisation by Europeans.
In the 18th century, the Pacific Ocean was still virtually uncharted and there were rumours of a large southern continent called Terra Australis Nondum Cognita (the southern land not yet known). French, Dutch and English sailors, had hunted in vain for this mythical land. The British Admiralty wanted to organise a scientific expedition to observe the transit of Venus due in June 1769 and the expedition was also given the secret mission of finding the southern continent.
After observing the transit in Tahiti, Cook sailed on to the North Island of New Zealand and then the South Island. He found that neither island was joined to a large southern continent. He continued towards Tasmania and then northward, arriving at Botany Bay in April 1770.
Radar measurements currently provide very accurate distances to the Sun and planets, so transits are now of less scientific importance. However, these rare and remarkable events remind us of a technique important to the development of modern astronomy.
5th may, 12 Noon pic here
5th may, 11 AM pic here
Current photo 25th May 3 PM
here
i bet you they do not know what this card does. therefore, if you offer a chocolate for the card, they will show it to you
A securID displays a 'random' number. It's keyed to a PIN. The 'random' number must match the value generated (by a h/ware device at the other end of the network) for that PIN for that time period.
i.e. my card is currently reading 144800. That does you no good right now, unless I tell you the PIN. Even if you got hold of the PIN, the value 144800 will be no good to you by the time I finish typing, because a new key-pair will be generated.