MP3 by itself is not a container format. It is a raw data stream designed for handling realtime audio processing. It sounds like this is more like a "hacked" MP3 with special invalid frames tacked on to the end with difference data, similar to the way ID3v2 tags and album art are embedded.
If you absolutely must have a smart toaster and don't have the time to get it audited and clear you can bite the bullet and install embedded Windows. Then the Thetans will be inconvenienced by the constant blue screens.
In PC land most modern BIOSes are designed to be modular and the tools to manpulate them are readily available for free. They usually have enough left over space in flash for a malicious extension to be added. A malicious extension doesn't have to be a complete exploit. It just has to provide the hooks for a compromised OS to call into and execute a small bit of code that would otherwise be impossible to execute.
I wouldn't be surprised if Macs had similar BIOS vulnerabilities. They're potentially even more vulnerable since, because of the Apple monoculture, all Intel Macs likely have similar BIOS code and a single exploit could easily attack the entire population. This is a growing threat with Apple's increasing market share. The days when nobody bothered to write viruses for Macs are long gone.
It's very difficult to sever your association with a group once you have incorporated your affiliation as part of your personal identity. At some point it becomes easier to ignore your personal doubts and go with the flow than to make a leap of non-faith. It helps when the institutions have carefully crafted their rhetoric to frame doubt or anything else that may cause you to stray in terms of the devil tempting you to sin.
It's interesting. Do they realize on their death bed, they were actually raging assholes to their fellow man and are afraid of the wrath of their god on the other side?
*thinks*
Maybe I shoulda' hedged my bet and put two fishies on the car.
Many older ATMs used to run OS/2 and were rock solid dependable. It also helps that IBM was a key player in developing the crypto hardware in those machines and they had the expertise to ensure everything was locked down and tamperproof.
What Diebold has now? I wouldn't be surprised if they were using VB and the Jet DB for critical functions.
From their website it looks like they are selling the same product at three different price points with the only differentiator being the included software features. A cross-platform solution that allows one to bypass this scheme may induce their lawyers to shit the proverbial brick and send out a reflexive C&D order to combat such a nuisance.
It gets better. In the UK you have to register as a martial artist. If you are involved in an assault and it is found you used "matial arts moves" to defend yourself you can face stiff penalties if you aren't registered.
There are third-party applications (Embird and Drawings) that can import vector art and export to many proprietary stitch formats.
Corel used to own Drawings and had a free plugin for CorelDraw that lets you get a preview bitmap of stitches derived from a vector drawing. I don't know if it is available for the latest verson though.
NULL has always been implementation defined. The whole reason why the macro was put into ANSI C was to move people away from the practice of casting a 0 into a pointer as was done with K&R C. While rare today, there have been commercial computers that didn't use 0 for the null address. The comp.lang.c FAQ lists some of them.
Stroustrup's unwillingness to implement a null keyword is the biggest single flaw in C++. It's pretty silly to pepper your code with magic 0's when the compiler could very well be changing them to something else if the target platform uses a different convention for nulls. It completely flies in the face of the type safety mechanism in C++ to have this sort of automatic conversion of a literal integer into something else that is decidedly *not* an integer.
Considering all the cruft that has been bolted onto C++, it's really annoying that B.S. couldn't see the wisdom of having a "null" keyword (or "_Null" a la C99 "_Bool").
Usually, the "official" termination date occurs at the end of the severance period. Most companies retain the "right" to recall you from your enforced sabbatical during that period.
The reason why booby trapping one's property is prohibited is because it puts EMTs, police, and firefighters at risk if they ever had to break into a house to save the sick SOB that would think of such a stupid thing to do in the first place.
Because the profit margins on accessory power supplies are huge. By constantly reinventing the wheel the phone manufacturers ensure constant demand for these products. In recent years, however, this proprietary game has become somewhat of a losing battle for them now that there dozens of Chinese companies putting out off brand supplies with compatible connectors.
Never mind the people with a low level of literacy who could benefit from a speaking machine that highlights words to help correlate the sound with the written image. Or those people learning a foreign language with a different writing system than their own native language. The capitalist pig dogs must make a buck any which way they can.
As a leftie with a right mouse preference, I've recently had to switch over to left handed mouse because of a shoulder problem on the right. I've done it enough in the past that it is pretty easy to switch now. I don't swap the buttons though. That still seems weird and is too inconvenient for switching back and forth.
Curiously, although basic mousing feels ok in my left, I find it hard to coordinate chording mouse clicks with meta keys on the right hand. I sometimes end up clicking the button before pressing the key. Another curiosity is that I exclusively use my left hand when operating eraser mice on laptops, but trackpads feel okay with the right.
Nowadays it's hard to find a non-right-biased, symmetrical mouse (at least a good one). So that naturally sends lefties down the path of right handed mousing with little options for switching. I have a stash of IBM optical scrollpoints from a few years back to let me stay flexible.
What GP meant is that stations are currently using temporary UHF transmitters that are almost universally transmitting at lower than post-switch power levels (to conserve on electricity bills among other reasons). Those high-VHF stations that will continue to broadcast on VHF post-switch will be transmitting at lower power than their current analog signal but higher than their current temporary UHF transmitter. Because there is no way for someone to evaluate their antenna performance before the switch this is all a bit of a crap shoot for those people who don't know if they'll be able to receive the digital VHF stations post-switch.
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MP3 by itself is not a container format. It is a raw data stream designed for handling realtime audio processing. It sounds like this is more like a "hacked" MP3 with special invalid frames tacked on to the end with difference data, similar to the way ID3v2 tags and album art are embedded.
If you absolutely must have a smart toaster and don't have the time to get it audited and clear you can bite the bullet and install embedded Windows. Then the Thetans will be inconvenienced by the constant blue screens.
In PC land most modern BIOSes are designed to be modular and the tools to manpulate them are readily available for free. They usually have enough left over space in flash for a malicious extension to be added. A malicious extension doesn't have to be a complete exploit. It just has to provide the hooks for a compromised OS to call into and execute a small bit of code that would otherwise be impossible to execute.
I wouldn't be surprised if Macs had similar BIOS vulnerabilities. They're potentially even more vulnerable since, because of the Apple monoculture, all Intel Macs likely have similar BIOS code and a single exploit could easily attack the entire population. This is a growing threat with Apple's increasing market share. The days when nobody bothered to write viruses for Macs are long gone.
It's very difficult to sever your association with a group once you have incorporated your affiliation as part of your personal identity. At some point it becomes easier to ignore your personal doubts and go with the flow than to make a leap of non-faith. It helps when the institutions have carefully crafted their rhetoric to frame doubt or anything else that may cause you to stray in terms of the devil tempting you to sin.
It's interesting. Do they realize on their death bed, they were actually raging assholes to their fellow man and are afraid of the wrath of their god on the other side?
*thinks*
Maybe I shoulda' hedged my bet and put two fishies on the car.
So you're saying Bigfoot also has a reality distortion field? I think we have found a good replacement for Jobs.
Many older ATMs used to run OS/2 and were rock solid dependable. It also helps that IBM was a key player in developing the crypto hardware in those machines and they had the expertise to ensure everything was locked down and tamperproof.
What Diebold has now? I wouldn't be surprised if they were using VB and the Jet DB for critical functions.
From their website it looks like they are selling the same product at three different price points with the only differentiator being the included software features. A cross-platform solution that allows one to bypass this scheme may induce their lawyers to shit the proverbial brick and send out a reflexive C&D order to combat such a nuisance.
No mere physical constant can rival the perfection that is e.
But then only RMS would think his penis was bigger.
It gets better. In the UK you have to register as a martial artist. If you are involved in an assault and it is found you used "matial arts moves" to defend yourself you can face stiff penalties if you aren't registered.
There are third-party applications (Embird and Drawings) that can import vector art and export to many proprietary stitch formats.
Corel used to own Drawings and had a free plugin for CorelDraw that lets you get a preview bitmap of stitches derived from a vector drawing. I don't know if it is available for the latest verson though.
NULL has always been implementation defined. The whole reason why the macro was put into ANSI C was to move people away from the practice of casting a 0 into a pointer as was done with K&R C. While rare today, there have been commercial computers that didn't use 0 for the null address. The comp.lang.c FAQ lists some of them.
Stroustrup's unwillingness to implement a null keyword is the biggest single flaw in C++. It's pretty silly to pepper your code with magic 0's when the compiler could very well be changing them to something else if the target platform uses a different convention for nulls. It completely flies in the face of the type safety mechanism in C++ to have this sort of automatic conversion of a literal integer into something else that is decidedly *not* an integer.
Considering all the cruft that has been bolted onto C++, it's really annoying that B.S. couldn't see the wisdom of having a "null" keyword (or "_Null" a la C99 "_Bool").
Volume production will outstrip the world Tellurium supply in the near future so this isn't going to be a cost effective technology for long.
Usually, the "official" termination date occurs at the end of the severance period. Most companies retain the "right" to recall you from your enforced sabbatical during that period.
The reason why booby trapping one's property is prohibited is because it puts EMTs, police, and firefighters at risk if they ever had to break into a house to save the sick SOB that would think of such a stupid thing to do in the first place.
Then why don't they do it without legislation?
Because the profit margins on accessory power supplies are huge. By constantly reinventing the wheel the phone manufacturers ensure constant demand for these products. In recent years, however, this proprietary game has become somewhat of a losing battle for them now that there dozens of Chinese companies putting out off brand supplies with compatible connectors.
The telecommunications service has already been taxed by the state. Do you claim to support double taxation?
Just download the sources, compile it and install it with GNU Stow. Problem solved. You could also wait for a .deb to show up on backports.org.
Hopefully your glibc is washing the dishes in the emacs kitchen sink.
It's not a derivative work. It's an alternate presentation format just like a Braille display.
Never mind the people with a low level of literacy who could benefit from a speaking machine that highlights words to help correlate the sound with the written image. Or those people learning a foreign language with a different writing system than their own native language. The capitalist pig dogs must make a buck any which way they can.
That would be the Cyrix MediaGX circa 1997.
As a leftie with a right mouse preference, I've recently had to switch over to left handed mouse because of a shoulder problem on the right. I've done it enough in the past that it is pretty easy to switch now. I don't swap the buttons though. That still seems weird and is too inconvenient for switching back and forth.
Curiously, although basic mousing feels ok in my left, I find it hard to coordinate chording mouse clicks with meta keys on the right hand. I sometimes end up clicking the button before pressing the key. Another curiosity is that I exclusively use my left hand when operating eraser mice on laptops, but trackpads feel okay with the right.
Nowadays it's hard to find a non-right-biased, symmetrical mouse (at least a good one). So that naturally sends lefties down the path of right handed mousing with little options for switching. I have a stash of IBM optical scrollpoints from a few years back to let me stay flexible.
What GP meant is that stations are currently using temporary UHF transmitters that are almost universally transmitting at lower than post-switch power levels (to conserve on electricity bills among other reasons). Those high-VHF stations that will continue to broadcast on VHF post-switch will be transmitting at lower power than their current analog signal but higher than their current temporary UHF transmitter. Because there is no way for someone to evaluate their antenna performance before the switch this is all a bit of a crap shoot for those people who don't know if they'll be able to receive the digital VHF stations post-switch.