It's not so much the ability of the computer as the programmers that designed the programs (or the scientists who design the algorythims)
A big fancy computer is also only as good as the data it can receive. Plugging in variables might require we have a doppler radar station every 500 miles or something in order to track everything, so rough estimates are made. which makes for errors. which makes this an *experiment* and not the solution to all our meteorological problems
I know they don't have radars in the ocean, so there's like 2/3 of the earth we're not tracking with the best stuff we have.
Oh wait. This essay about how metric sucks is really about how metric lacks names for things in convenient sizes. In the rulebooks.
But language allows us to use the old imperial names for our old convenient sizes. I know running around school buming change for a "pint" is much more convenient than saying "5683 milliliters".
Try doing anything complicated with the old measurements. You need to remember fairly complicated names and values for each measurement to do math with them.
Take a look at the tables on http://convert.french-property.co.uk/ who knew a cubic foot of water was 1728in3, which would weigh..... um. you get the picture.
1 milliliter of water weighs 1 gram. a liter weighs a kilogram. a cubic meter weighs a tonne. or 1000 kilograms. or 1,000,000 grams. easy.
We can go and buy pints at the store, and they sell bottles of 0.57l bottles. We call them pints, and that's just fine.
Umm.. i think it's totally sony's fault for allowing cheating to be possible. Like diablo 2 and everquest where all the charicter information is handled by the servers and not the users.
Allowing the user to have control over the charicter data is a huge mistake and attacking a peice of hardware because it took the fun from the game is misdirected.
Yeah really! We're not safe from eachother. There is no permanent solution to things like this. People have been killing eachother ever since we first appeared on the planet.
People also haven't taken into consideration that it's possible americans themselves could have done something like this. No evidence one way or another! What are you going to do if it was completely internal? Some anti-capitalist group decides to take out the World Trade towers...
There's already a program for windows that does this... it's called... um. Gator something. DAMN! I'm so dumb... i forgot what it was called. In any case, it fills out forms according to whatever identity you want to use. Very useful!
Hahaha
Excerpt from diceware.com:
"Some Tips
For maximum security make sure you are alone and close the curtains. Write on a hard surface - not on a pad of paper. After you memorize your passphrase, burn your notes, pulverize the ashes and flush them down the toilet. "
Woah buddy. Do you really think that just because someone doesn't live in your country the don't deserve rights?
So if i, in canada, start to distribute such information as dimitri, the US has the same right to do to me as they did to him? What you're saying is it's ok to strip someone of their rights because they commited a crime outside of your country.
America: The land of the free. Become us, then you will have rights when we nail your ass to the wall.
This isn't the same at all.
What if someone told you they knew how to find out coke's secret formula by somehow disecting a can of coke? They didn't actually do it, they just told you how, do they deserve to got to jail?
I think information like this would be valueable to coke as well. If they knew their cola can be hacked, they would find a way to prevent it. Laws like this simply supress the information, but the possibility still lies there.
Ouch man, have you ever been wrongly arrested for a crime? Have you spent time in jail when you really didn't commit a crime?
Do you really know how going to jail affects the rest of your life? laws like this put the smartest people of our society in jail because they understand the information they distribute.
What if what you've done isn't a crime at all?
I assume you read slashdot regularly. Once somebody on slashdot posted code from once of microsofts products. You viewing such material, even unwillingly, was illegal in this standpoint.
Turn yourself in and do the time, sucker.
Indeed...
I don't see how getting linux to support.NET will damage (if this is your intentions) microsoft in any way. It's just another way for us to use their products.
However, i'm impressed with many of microsofts products and i beleive this would be a very useful to the linux platform. If i could run office, explorer and other MS products (i wonder if they're gonna release monster truck madness...:P) on my linux machine i know i would use linux alot more than i do (i just use it for my webservers)
Ok, so we know these phones ar big. But, everyone and their dog has a laptop these days, and iridium is looking for a way to keep itself "afloat" so to speak. What if they make satelite phone modems that attach to your laptop? I mean, cellular phones don't always work overseas and in planes, where internet access is wanted for not only entertainment on flights, but for people doing work on their spare time that require connectivity at home. As i see it, they went into the wrong market. Strike a deal with some laptop companies, have them ship with your modems and internet plans, and you've got it made.
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It's not so much the ability of the computer as the programmers that designed the programs (or the scientists who design the algorythims)
A big fancy computer is also only as good as the data it can receive. Plugging in variables might require we have a doppler radar station every 500 miles or something in order to track everything, so rough estimates are made. which makes for errors. which makes this an *experiment* and not the solution to all our meteorological problems
I know they don't have radars in the ocean, so there's like 2/3 of the earth we're not tracking with the best stuff we have.
So, maybe not so easy to test?
Wouldn't this whole thing how an isp gave an incorrect IP, or Kazaa gave a wrong ip, give precedent for just putting away all these cases anyway?
If you prove that an IP given by either of these sources isn't reliable, than it's not uniquely identifying.
Oh wait. This essay about how metric sucks is really about how metric lacks names for things in convenient sizes. In the rulebooks.
But language allows us to use the old imperial names for our old convenient sizes. I know running around school buming change for a "pint" is much more convenient than saying "5683 milliliters".
Try doing anything complicated with the old measurements. You need to remember fairly complicated names and values for each measurement to do math with them.
Take a look at the tables on http://convert.french-property.co.uk/ who knew a cubic foot of water was 1728in3, which would weigh..... um. you get the picture.
1 milliliter of water weighs 1 gram. a liter weighs a kilogram. a cubic meter weighs a tonne. or 1000 kilograms. or 1,000,000 grams. easy.
We can go and buy pints at the store, and they sell bottles of 0.57l bottles. We call them pints, and that's just fine.
Umm.. i think it's totally sony's fault for allowing cheating to be possible. Like diablo 2 and everquest where all the charicter information is handled by the servers and not the users.
Allowing the user to have control over the charicter data is a huge mistake and attacking a peice of hardware because it took the fun from the game is misdirected.
Yeah really! We're not safe from eachother. There is no permanent solution to things like this. People have been killing eachother ever since we first appeared on the planet.
People also haven't taken into consideration that it's possible americans themselves could have done something like this. No evidence one way or another! What are you going to do if it was completely internal? Some anti-capitalist group decides to take out the World Trade towers...
There's already a program for windows that does this... it's called... um. Gator something. DAMN! I'm so dumb... i forgot what it was called. In any case, it fills out forms according to whatever identity you want to use. Very useful!
Umm, any computer at all is vulnerable. Remove the harddrive and plug it into another.
My birthday is September 18th.
Why is this dangerous?
Hahaha Excerpt from diceware.com: "Some Tips For maximum security make sure you are alone and close the curtains. Write on a hard surface - not on a pad of paper. After you memorize your passphrase, burn your notes, pulverize the ashes and flush them down the toilet. "
Woah buddy. Do you really think that just because someone doesn't live in your country the don't deserve rights? So if i, in canada, start to distribute such information as dimitri, the US has the same right to do to me as they did to him? What you're saying is it's ok to strip someone of their rights because they commited a crime outside of your country. America: The land of the free. Become us, then you will have rights when we nail your ass to the wall.
This isn't the same at all. What if someone told you they knew how to find out coke's secret formula by somehow disecting a can of coke? They didn't actually do it, they just told you how, do they deserve to got to jail? I think information like this would be valueable to coke as well. If they knew their cola can be hacked, they would find a way to prevent it. Laws like this simply supress the information, but the possibility still lies there.
Ouch man, have you ever been wrongly arrested for a crime? Have you spent time in jail when you really didn't commit a crime? Do you really know how going to jail affects the rest of your life? laws like this put the smartest people of our society in jail because they understand the information they distribute.
What if what you've done isn't a crime at all? I assume you read slashdot regularly. Once somebody on slashdot posted code from once of microsofts products. You viewing such material, even unwillingly, was illegal in this standpoint. Turn yourself in and do the time, sucker.
They could have done a bit of research and found out her name.
Indeed... I don't see how getting linux to support .NET will damage (if this is your intentions) microsoft in any way. It's just another way for us to use their products.
However, i'm impressed with many of microsofts products and i beleive this would be a very useful to the linux platform. If i could run office, explorer and other MS products (i wonder if they're gonna release monster truck madness... :P) on my linux machine i know i would use linux alot more than i do (i just use it for my webservers)
Ok, so we know these phones ar big. But, everyone and their dog has a laptop these days, and iridium is looking for a way to keep itself "afloat" so to speak. What if they make satelite phone modems that attach to your laptop? I mean, cellular phones don't always work overseas and in planes, where internet access is wanted for not only entertainment on flights, but for people doing work on their spare time that require connectivity at home. As i see it, they went into the wrong market. Strike a deal with some laptop companies, have them ship with your modems and internet plans, and you've got it made.