I've always joked about putting in an Easter egg, and the only time I did, it showed up in a demonstration with management.
There was a lengthy e-mail exchange between the developers, complete with death threats, that ended with "Fine, I'll do it, bit this thread is going in as an Easter egg!" 400-500 lines later (it was a long thread), I had coded it so that it would display the message in a text box if you typed Alt-Shift-Ctrl-V. After testing it, everyone had a great laugh.
The big demo comes, and one of the developers is typing away. The client says, "Type 'Valid' in that field". Sure enough, I had left my brain at home and had used the | character, rather than &, which ORed the control codes. Control-V... or Alt-V... or... SHIFT-V would display the message. So up it pops, complete with death threats. The dev sure back-peddled well, with "Ah, I must have had this in my clipboard and hit paste...", while glaring at me.
"Lava Lite lamps are very good chaotic sources when operated under conditions recommended by the manufacturer. We use the Eleck-trickTM Lava Lite lamp model, in part because it works well in colder conditions found in machine rooms but more importantly, it comes in rad colors!"
and
"Lavarand is a system by which a pseudo-random number generator is seeded by cryptographic hash of the digital output of a photograph of six Lava Lite® lamps."
and
"One afternoon, Bob Mende, a Silicon Graphics, Inc. engineer, was avoiding work by idly playing an SGI virtual basketball game called "Hoops." The game utilizes an O2cam; it superimposes a picture of a basketball court over the image the O2cam sees. Players must wave objects in front of the camera in order to guide a virtual basketball into the basket. On a whim, Mende and fellow number theorist Landon Noll set up some Lava Lite lamps in front of their O2cams such that the Lava Lite lamps played against each other. As the lamps racked up more and more points, the inspiration for building a Lava Lite lamp-powered random number generator was born. Mende and Noll, together with colleague Sanjeev Sisodiya, put together a working prototype that afternoon. "
Does anyone else notice how many people have created something similar from scratch? What about the whole "Non-obviousness" clause? A good patent link is here: http://www.soyouwanna.com/site/syws/patent/patentF ULL.html
Not necessarily for people, but read the freakin article. Corporations that are writing closed applications could theoretically have to open it up if a developer included a few lines of GPL.
Using the SAP Standard Application Sales and Distribution (SD) Benchmark, an industry-standard measure of server performance, a Unisys e-@ction Enterprise Server ES7000 equipped with 32 Intel Pentium III Xeon 32-bit processors supported 18,500 mySAP.com SD Standard Application benchmark users. This result is the third highest result ever recorded on any platform tested with the SAP SD benchmark methodology, regardless of the number of processors per server tested.
Yes, MS has made some mistakes in the past, but they are learning from them and are making a quiet comeback. Nothing comes close to touching thier data mining/warehousing product.
I have a hard problem with products that claim to do administration and that the users need "absolutely no Linux experience".
Seriously. If you want a no-brainer solution, just use (gasp) Microsoft products. They have spent billions making sure that your mom can do this kind of stuff! Lets focus on using the right tool for the job, instead of smushing one product into every conceivable nitch.
Not a troll or a flame, just pointing out the obvious. Otherwise I'd be an AC.:)
Hmm, so everyone is getting all worked up over the police, oh my gosh, preventing theft. These people are giving away copyrighted music! Doesn't everyone here freak out when the GPL is violated? What is the hypocritical difference.
This isn't a flame, but I really don't get what protections people that are sharing KNOWN copyrighted music should have. If anything, I want the RIAA to go after the idiots that are doing this, and leave alone the services. It is a much more dangerous proposition to start censoring companies that are merely service providers (such as My.MP3.com, which was a great freakin idea).
That these circuts currently only work in a 10C temperature range, and that the best model does not transfer to other chips, because it is so specific to the properties of the chip it was designed for.
But helium isn't just going to appear from chemical reactions. And if you read the article, you would see that it's not seeping in from the surrounding air.
Then where does the Helium (under Epilogue) come from?
Go here for a quick rundown of how, true, Fleischmann and Pons were idiots, but that doesn't make the field idiots. I'm discouraged by the amount of FUD that's in the responses to the article today.:(
If you need to protect yourself from people with these kinds of resources, don't do wireless in the first place. Of course, with gizmos like Tempest, you don't stand a chance of keeping stuff secret anyway.
Doesn't everyone here go ape-shit whenever someone violates the GPL? I mean, what's the difference? Why the double standard? Not flaming (I'd be AC otherwise), I really don't get it.
I usually go to www.arstechnica.com for the real news. At any rate, this article discusses the emotion engine and why it is so difficult to code for. It also has a few good links for other background info. Needless to say, it's not just a rumor, Cliff.
According to legal precedence, Napster is NOT supposed to be liable for what users share. The courts are supposed to be going against the violators, not the transport medium.
Of course, some judges like creating new laws, since they feel that is in their power.
Yes. According to that Judge in New York (who just happened to work on the DVD region encoding licenses for the recording industry as a lawyer earlier, but felt that wasn't a conflict of interest), a digital rip of a song from someone else's CD is different than a digital rip of the same song from your CD. Surprise!
Who claims these really low figures but as of yet doesn't know how to overcome things like interplanetary radiation.. or the bone/muscle strength loss the astronauts would surely encounter from at least a 6month journey each way..
Well, I think we know how to deal with the radiation. As for the bone mass, check this out over at space.com. Some nut has figured out how to stimulate bone growth. He's even talked with NASA about it.
Actually, you can use Spy++ (a MS C++ utility that comes for free) to do a system-wide message hook to observe the password as it is typed. Simply throw it into the RunOnce registry.
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that makes your calculations 1/100th of what they should be. The final answer should be about 3 seconds/year in uptime.
Hmmm....
Why don't you?!! I want to see it too.
Actually, this slashdot story, http://slashdot.org/articles/01/03/17/1639250.shtm l, covers a prime number 48565...29443 that results in a zipped-up DeCSS program (explanation here: http://www.utm.edu/research/primes/glossary/Illega l.html
I've always joked about putting in an Easter egg, and the only time I did, it showed up in a demonstration with management.
There was a lengthy e-mail exchange between the developers, complete with death threats, that ended with "Fine, I'll do it, bit this thread is going in as an Easter egg!" 400-500 lines later (it was a long thread), I had coded it so that it would display the message in a text box if you typed Alt-Shift-Ctrl-V. After testing it, everyone had a great laugh.
The big demo comes, and one of the developers is typing away. The client says, "Type 'Valid' in that field". Sure enough, I had left my brain at home and had used the | character, rather than &, which ORed the control codes. Control-V... or Alt-V... or... SHIFT-V would display the message. So up it pops, complete with death threats. The dev sure back-peddled well, with "Ah, I must have had this in my clipboard and hit paste...", while glaring at me.
It is the simple matter uf unchecking a checkbox to encode WMA without the rights management features.
http://lavarand.sgi.com/
"Lava Lite lamps are very good chaotic sources when operated under conditions recommended by the manufacturer. We use the Eleck-trickTM Lava Lite lamp model, in part because it works well in colder conditions found in machine rooms but more importantly, it comes in rad colors!"
and
"Lavarand is a system by which a pseudo-random number generator is seeded by cryptographic hash of the digital output of a photograph of six Lava Lite® lamps."
and
"One afternoon, Bob Mende, a Silicon Graphics, Inc. engineer, was avoiding work by idly playing an SGI virtual basketball game called "Hoops." The game utilizes an O2cam; it superimposes a picture of a basketball court over the image the O2cam sees. Players must wave objects in front of the camera in order to guide a virtual basketball into the basket. On a whim, Mende and fellow number theorist Landon Noll set up some Lava Lite lamps in front of their O2cams such that the Lava Lite lamps played against each other. As the lamps racked up more and more points, the inspiration for building a Lava Lite lamp-powered random number generator was born. Mende and Noll, together with colleague Sanjeev Sisodiya, put together a working prototype that afternoon. "
Does anyone else notice how many people have created something similar from scratch? What about the whole "Non-obviousness" clause? A good patent link is here: http://www.soyouwanna.com/site/syws/patent/patentF ULL.html
Not necessarily for people, but read the freakin article. Corporations that are writing closed applications could theoretically have to open it up if a developer included a few lines of GPL.
This is not considered good for the company!
No, not cut-n-paste!!! Inheritance!
A clip from this story, posted today actually:
Using the SAP Standard Application Sales and Distribution (SD) Benchmark, an industry-standard measure of server performance, a Unisys e-@ction Enterprise Server ES7000 equipped with 32 Intel Pentium III Xeon 32-bit processors supported 18,500 mySAP.com SD Standard Application benchmark users. This result is the third highest result ever recorded on any platform tested with the SAP SD benchmark methodology, regardless of the number of processors per server tested.
Oh, and don't mention the Transaction Processing Performance Councel, by Performance or by price/tpmC (a hint: MS has 10 of the... top ten), or heck, just overall!
Yes, MS has made some mistakes in the past, but they are learning from them and are making a quiet comeback. Nothing comes close to touching thier data mining/warehousing product.
I have a hard problem with products that claim to do administration and that the users need "absolutely no Linux experience".
:)
Seriously. If you want a no-brainer solution, just use (gasp) Microsoft products. They have spent billions making sure that your mom can do this kind of stuff! Lets focus on using the right tool for the job, instead of smushing one product into every conceivable nitch.
Not a troll or a flame, just pointing out the obvious. Otherwise I'd be an AC.
Hmm, so everyone is getting all worked up over the police, oh my gosh, preventing theft. These people are giving away copyrighted music! Doesn't everyone here freak out when the GPL is violated? What is the hypocritical difference.
This isn't a flame, but I really don't get what protections people that are sharing KNOWN copyrighted music should have. If anything, I want the RIAA to go after the idiots that are doing this, and leave alone the services. It is a much more dangerous proposition to start censoring companies that are merely service providers (such as My.MP3.com, which was a great freakin idea).
My IMNSHO.
That these circuts currently only work in a 10C temperature range, and that the best model does not transfer to other chips, because it is so specific to the properties of the chip it was designed for.
But helium isn't just going to appear from chemical reactions. And if you read the article, you would see that it's not seeping in from the surrounding air.
Then where does the Helium (under Epilogue) come from?
:(
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Go here for a quick rundown of how, true, Fleischmann and Pons were idiots, but that doesn't make the field idiots. I'm discouraged by the amount of FUD that's in the responses to the article today.
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http://www.room103.com/archive/q_coldfusion.htm
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/6.11/coldfusio
If you need to protect yourself from people with these kinds of resources, don't do wireless in the first place. Of course, with gizmos like Tempest, you don't stand a chance of keeping stuff secret anyway.
Doesn't everyone here go ape-shit whenever someone violates the GPL? I mean, what's the difference? Why the double standard? Not flaming (I'd be AC otherwise), I really don't get it.
I usually go to www.arstechnica.com for the real news. At any rate, this article discusses the emotion engine and why it is so difficult to code for. It also has a few good links for other background info. Needless to say, it's not just a rumor, Cliff.
:)
Have fun!
Didn't you hear the man?? They want fewer people! Giving out the url on slashdot would really swamp them!
According to legal precedence, Napster is NOT supposed to be liable for what users share. The courts are supposed to be going against the violators, not the transport medium.
Of course, some judges like creating new laws, since they feel that is in their power.
Sigh.
Yes. According to that Judge in New York (who just happened to work on the DVD region encoding licenses for the recording industry as a lawyer earlier, but felt that wasn't a conflict of interest), a digital rip of a song from someone else's CD is different than a digital rip of the same song from your CD. Surprise!
Who claims these really low figures but as of yet doesn't know how to overcome things like interplanetary radiation.. or the bone/muscle strength loss the astronauts would surely encounter from at least a 6month journey each way..
Well, I think we know how to deal with the radiation. As for the bone mass, check this out over at space.com. Some nut has figured out how to stimulate bone growth. He's even talked with NASA about it.
Actually, you can use Spy++ (a MS C++ utility that comes for free) to do a system-wide message hook to observe the password as it is typed. Simply throw it into the RunOnce registry.