Diamonds are crystalline carbon; to turn a human body into a diamond, you'd have to get rid of all the other elements present in the ashes (calcium, sodium, iron etc.) otherwise any crystal that might be obtained is likely to be more glass than diamond.
The other point worth mentioning is that human bodies contain a large amount of water. A lot of the carbon left in the ash is from the wooden coffin, not grandma...
The current version of SE Linux appears quite up to date (2.4.18-based) - has official development stopped now? An official statement from NSA on the status of the project would be useful.
If work has stopped, or there are serious legal issues over the existing codebase, it sounds like a good reason for a code fork - take the known good GPL code and run with it and stay clear of any "patented" bits.
Interesting to see that the open source community is less than a year behind the most powerful software company in the world in supporting it. Does that make us the second most powerful now?
No, it makes us a year behind. That isn't necessarily bad given the limited number of USB 2.0 to support, but it does show where it rates in the Linux priorities. (As a comparison, consider that Linux supported Itanium very early on - and I've yet to see one in the wild...)
Why waste your time getting linux to run on a Microsuck product? Why waste time dealing with closed hardware?
Because it's there?:-) Less flippantly, one of Linux's strong points is the ability to put otherwise wasted hardware to good use. I think that pretty much sums up the X-Box - why cripple a perfectly good PC to use as a game console when there are otherpurpose-built alternatives?
Remember The Goodies motto: "Anything, Anywhere, Anytime."
If something goes wrong, the buck will be passed--it was the other guy's component, or you screwed up when you put it together.
Finding a single, preferably local, supplier to supply most or all of the components should avoid the buck passing. Google Groups is a great way to find first-hand experience with different components.
There is at least one anxiety-inducing step in putting together one's own system, namely installing the heat sink and fan on the CPU.
The advantage of doing it yourself is that you can take as long as you like, and you should; I spent a full day putting mine together, because I wanted to do it once. The heatsink was still a bit scary, but I'd done a test run with a computer at work so knew what to expect.
I actually read the manuals (for once;-) before I did anything, so I knew what went where and what order to do things in. I bought a case that had plenty of room so I could install the CPU, heatsink and RAM before putting the motherboard in the case (no !%^$#@ reinforcing bars or drive bays to get in the way, and no alarming flexing attaching the heatsink clip.)
You're right - putting together yourself is very rewarding, so if you know which is the working end of a screwdriver, it's definitely worth considering.
You forgot beer. There is a definite "sweet spot" for beer consumption when playing pub pool (9 ball), at least for your average hack. After "a beer" (say, 375ml of 4.7% strength) there is a distinct improvement in accuracy as the muscle relaxant effect kicks in, and/or you stop thinking in terms of photons and mirrors (useless given the distinct lean of some pub tables.) I drink Guiness, so a bit of Irish luck isn't out of the question, either.;-) However, somewhere during the second pint things definitely go downhill...
By "RAID", think "mirroring" (i.e. RAID 1). Disks are cheap these days, so buying two drives (plus spares!) for each unit of storage isn't really a problem. Unless you're unlucky and have both sides of the mirror fail together, mirroring is reliable protection; I've heard too many horror stories about RAID 5 arrays to trust important data to them.
Huh? A complaint about Iridium's pollution of radio frequencies is moderated "3, Insightful" but a complaint about Iridium's light pollution gets "-1, Offtopic"? Fair go!
For a few (million) bucks we can try to turn it back on and get more info.
I'd rather they spend that money on resurrecting the Pluto/Keiper Express, or at least getting on with a cheaper replacement before Pluto moves out of it favourable position. (Or give me the money, and I'll tell you NEAR's status: it's still sitting on Eros.:-)
I think you're reading too much into "fly". The communications between the ground and aircraft are likely to be minimal, with a "pilot" only keeping an eye on the aircraft's progress and sending an update to the program loaded on the ground if it proves necessary. The "pilot" certainly couldn't "fly several planes at once" if it were just a glorified RC plane.
Jamming relies on their being a signal to jam, and I'm sure this was factored into the design.
I doubt the EU as a body would ever spy, but their individual countries are certainly at it. The French in particular (one of the loudest complainers of "Echelon") have a nice little satellite network keeping an eye on the rest of the world, and probably their EU partners. Where are the screams of protest about this? The whole hoo-har about "Echelon" is simply an attempt to embarass the US and gain concessions - welcome to diplomacy...
Agreed. My previous employer had a policy where you had to change your password every 30 days, and it remembered the last 10 (20?) passwords so you couldn't reuse them, *and* wouldn't let you use a similar password to the last one. (I don't know how the latter worked, but I was told that it didn't keep the plain text passwords.)
The bottom line was it was near impossible to choose a password that satisfied it, so most people chose two passwords that they alternated between and applied a simple fudge to make them different. Dumb.
In my current job, I apply the "if it ain't broke, don't fix it" rule. I run John the Ripper regularly - any passwords that it cracked get expired; if they are particularly weak, the account is locked (and the user can have a chat to the helpdesk.) People soon learn that choosing weak passwords is inconvenient, and most will choose a reasonably strong password sooner or later.
That about sums up Australia - deadly poisonous snakes, spiders, jellyfish etc. (Unfortunately, not deadly enough to rid us of "The Crocodile Hunter"...)
"If a ReplayTV customer can simply type 'The X-Files' or 'James Bond' and have every episode of 'The X-Files' and every James Bond film recorded in perfect digital form and organized, compiled and stored on the hard drive of his or her ReplayTV 4000 device, it will cause substantial harm to the market for prerecorded DVD, videocassette and other copies of those episodes and films," the lawsuit states.
Is this is the real reason why VCRs are notoriously difficult to program (for non-techies)?
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Riggall? A rather unfortunate name for someone involved in electronic voting...
Apparently due to global warming, Santa drowned a few years back - just don't tell the kids...
Diamonds are crystalline carbon; to turn a human body into a diamond, you'd have to get rid of all the other elements present in the ashes (calcium, sodium, iron etc.) otherwise any crystal that might be obtained is likely to be more glass than diamond.
The other point worth mentioning is that human bodies contain a large amount of water. A lot of the carbon left in the ash is from the wooden coffin, not grandma...
As far as people not knowing about it, that is a problem we're trying to solve.
Time to break out the chalk, dude!
The current version of SE Linux appears quite up to date (2.4.18-based) - has official development stopped now? An official statement from NSA on the status of the project would be useful.
If work has stopped, or there are serious legal issues over the existing codebase, it sounds like a good reason for a code fork - take the known good GPL code and run with it and stay clear of any "patented" bits.
Interesting to see that the open source community is less than a year behind the most powerful software company in the world in supporting it. Does that make us the second most powerful now?
No, it makes us a year behind. That isn't necessarily bad given the limited number of USB 2.0 to support, but it does show where it rates in the Linux priorities. (As a comparison, consider that Linux supported Itanium very early on - and I've yet to see one in the wild...)
So is microsoft saying they are trying to kill puppies?
If it's that damn Clippy-replacement puppy in the Windows XP search utility, I'm all for it...
Mate (pronounced "Maaaaaate"), that should be _Australian_ [Latin: australis, from auster, austr-, south.]
My only question is Why?
:-)
Why waste your time getting linux to run on a Microsuck product?
Why waste time dealing with closed hardware?
Because it's there?
Less flippantly, one of Linux's strong points is the ability to put otherwise wasted hardware to good use. I think that pretty much sums up the X-Box - why cripple a perfectly good PC to use as a game console when there are other purpose-built alternatives?
Remember The Goodies motto: "Anything, Anywhere, Anytime."
If something goes wrong, the buck will be passed--it was the other guy's component, or you screwed up when you put it together.
;-) before I did anything, so I knew what went where and what order to do things in. I bought a case that had plenty of room so I could install the CPU, heatsink and RAM before putting the motherboard in the case (no !%^$#@ reinforcing bars or drive bays to get in the way, and no alarming flexing attaching the heatsink clip.)
Finding a single, preferably local, supplier to supply most or all of the components should avoid the buck passing. Google Groups is a great way to find first-hand experience with different components.
There is at least one anxiety-inducing step in putting together one's own system, namely installing the heat sink and fan on the CPU.
The advantage of doing it yourself is that you can take as long as you like, and you should; I spent a full day putting mine together, because I wanted to do it once. The heatsink was still a bit scary, but I'd done a test run with a computer at work so knew what to expect.
I actually read the manuals (for once
You're right - putting together yourself is very rewarding, so if you know which is the working end of a screwdriver, it's definitely worth considering.
Whoa - I hope that isn't nylon carpet!
You forgot beer. There is a definite "sweet spot" for beer consumption when playing pub pool (9 ball), at least for your average hack. After "a beer" (say, 375ml of 4.7% strength) there is a distinct improvement in accuracy as the muscle relaxant effect kicks in, and/or you stop thinking in terms of photons and mirrors (useless given the distinct lean of some pub tables.) I drink Guiness, so a bit of Irish luck isn't out of the question, either. ;-) However, somewhere during the second pint things definitely go downhill...
... centralised storage can be RAID protected ...
By "RAID", think "mirroring" (i.e. RAID 1). Disks are cheap these days, so buying two drives (plus spares!) for each unit of storage isn't really a problem. Unless you're unlucky and have both sides of the mirror fail together, mirroring is reliable protection; I've heard too many horror stories about RAID 5 arrays to trust important data to them.
Hook the jets up to the subwoofer channel?
Huh? A complaint about Iridium's pollution of radio frequencies is moderated "3, Insightful" but a complaint about Iridium's light pollution gets "-1, Offtopic"? Fair go!
For a few (million) bucks we can try to turn it back on and get more info.
:-)
I'd rather they spend that money on resurrecting the Pluto/Keiper Express, or at least getting on with a cheaper replacement before Pluto moves out of it favourable position. (Or give me the money, and I'll tell you NEAR's status: it's still sitting on Eros.
Why not create a DeCSS stencil and give it to the IBM sidewalk artists?
I think you're reading too much into "fly". The communications between the ground and aircraft are likely to be minimal, with a "pilot" only keeping an eye on the aircraft's progress and sending an update to the program loaded on the ground if it proves necessary. The "pilot" certainly couldn't "fly several planes at once" if it were just a glorified RC plane.
Jamming relies on their being a signal to jam, and I'm sure this was factored into the design.
I would love to have the EU spying on the US.
I doubt the EU as a body would ever spy, but their individual countries are certainly at it. The French in particular (one of the loudest complainers of "Echelon") have a nice little satellite network keeping an eye on the rest of the world, and probably their EU partners. Where are the screams of protest about this? The whole hoo-har about "Echelon" is simply an attempt to embarass the US and gain concessions - welcome to diplomacy...
Agreed. My previous employer had a policy where you had to change your password every 30 days, and it remembered the last 10 (20?) passwords so you couldn't reuse them, *and* wouldn't let you use a similar password to the last one. (I don't know how the latter worked, but I was told that it didn't keep the plain text passwords.) The bottom line was it was near impossible to choose a password that satisfied it, so most people chose two passwords that they alternated between and applied a simple fudge to make them different. Dumb.
In my current job, I apply the "if it ain't broke, don't fix it" rule. I run John the Ripper regularly - any passwords that it cracked get expired; if they are particularly weak, the account is locked (and the user can have a chat to the helpdesk.) People soon learn that choosing weak passwords is inconvenient, and most will choose a reasonably strong password sooner or later.
CRT Eavesdropping: Optical Tempest by michael with 219 comments on 10:57 10 March 2002
Pick your poison.
That about sums up Australia - deadly poisonous snakes, spiders, jellyfish etc. (Unfortunately, not deadly enough to rid us of "The Crocodile Hunter"...)
Isn't this story about 28 days premature?
Perhaps they need a month to iron out the bugs?
That's right -- the only way to connect to a Peek-A-Booty network is word-of-mouth, which is horribly ineffective.
Don't worry, now they can send you the list of nodes on a self-shredding e-mail.
Is this is the real reason why VCRs are notoriously difficult to program (for non-techies)?