You don't say... I was given to understand that a British billion was an American trillion (10^12), and that an American billion (10^9) was called "thousand million". It was even a puzzler on that source of all knowledge, Car Talk. (Specifically... Q: Why are there no British billionaires?) It's all so confusing... anyway, we now clearly see that Stephen Hawking had very good reason to avoid using terms bigger than "million", even when it meant saying things like "thousand million million million million..."
Anyway, I still think it makes more sense to say billion = 10^12 = (10^6)^2 = million^2, trillion = million^3, and so on.
1) If you do the math, 3 million faxes by $500, that comes to ~1470 days of faxing, or about four years, to get to $2.2 trillion. To get to $2.2 billion, it would only take about 30-odd hours...
2) They could both be right, if linuxwrangler is British (sorry, too lazy to check), since on the west side of the pond a trillion is a million million, while on the east side, that number is called a 'billion' (which in my head makes more sense anyway)...
3) Either way, it's a helluva lot of money to be fined, and would [ probably | hopefully ] kill off the company involved...
You forget one of the favorite pastimes of trekkies: explaining away inconsistencies! I'll have a go at this one...
And my personal favorite, The Royale from Star Trek:TNG, where Picard goes off for 2 minutes on how Fermat's Last Theorem goes unsolved. Yes, Star Trek could be in a universe where Fermat's Last Theorem is unsolved, but then in Star Trek DS9, Dax was commenting on how she created another proof for it.
Fermat's theorem has been "proved" many times. Thus far, all but one of the (serious) "proofs" have been disproved. Perhaps the current reigning champion will fall as well. And maybe Dax simply "proved" it again, in a manner that will still need to pass peer review & all that rot.
Ok, ok, so ST is probably going to remain a self-inconsistent universe no matter how hard some of us try. IT'S A FREAKIN' TV SHOW!!!! Laugh along, and tune in next week...
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Your point has been made.
Bob has already said that.
His was better though.
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Yes you are correct Endings are the bane of my Existence, I find.
I thought at least that Something was not quite right there But couldn't think what
The subjunctive mood Now I notice in that end And I bow my head
I am now vanquished Parent post is well spoken Please mod parent up.
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Also this: forget not
that this lovely article
omits to quote them.
Digitwise addition, a technique well-known to first-grader starting out on the path of adding multi-digit numbers, before they master the art of remembering the 'carry' digit every time...
PS: flames about why we are supporting the XBox (a design of the Evil
Empire) will be summarily ignored. I can only point you to it's HDTV, NTSC,
PAL, and possibly VGA outputs, it's dvd/cd drive, and it's $199 USD price
tag.
Actually, yes. It is generally recognized (sorry, IANAL, and I have no links to back this up) that if you see evidence (or probable cause) that could easily be destroyed or put beyond retrieval (eg, the "home" in question is a trailer that could be driven away at a moment's notice) you can search without a warrant. You'd just damn well better be right.
The existence of a whitelist (e-mail addresses that are "trusted" to send nonspam) makes things very easy. Right now you can buy CDs with zillions of addresses. If the whitelist lives, then the next generation of that CD will have pairs: your address, and the address of someone you've probably mailed (say, an address that appears on the same page as yours). Voila!
As for multipart/alternative... right now anything I get that has a content-type other than text/plain goes to a special folder, where it usually gets deleted without even being opened... fortunately most of my friends use proper mailers that send text/plain:-)
our good and trusted friends the government already have carnivore in place, and can use it to get anything that they might have expected to find on the hard drive.
Carnivore is a program that they install an an ISP to grab e-mail that looks suspicious. It cannot, afaik, be used to grab info off of a computer, unless you can be talked into e-mailing that information somewhere. Pray enlighten us on how they would use Carnivore to get information from a computer...
The NPR story made claims that the government could somehow link information between a user's sessions. The reference was to someone who looked up information about atomic energy and then came back later and looked up something about the Koran. Unless they have logs of who used the terminal and when, how can they make such a link?
It's been a while since I did this, but at some libraries I believe it's necessary to "unlock" a computer by somehow presenting your library card or some similar token, and so they could in fact know who was at which terminal. They might also look for things like what signin you used when you were checking your webmail &c.
The settlement also includes pre-paid calling cards, which are being donated to charities...
Wasn't/Isn't MS "donating" (or trying to donate) zillions of copies of its bloatware to schools as part of some settlement, in place of some of the monetary cost? Same idea, these probably cost a lot less than face value, but they count toward the nice fat grand total... though at least Lucent & ATT don't get quite the lock-in benefits that MS was going for, since it's rather easier to change your pre-paid calling card vendor than your OS...
1) Create a PDF or something of your discovery. Encrypt it and e-mail it to Saddam Hussein, along with something like "here is the info you asked for" in the message. Use a big enough key that the NSA will be able to crack it in the time frame you want. (Just make sure S.H. doesn't have the key, unless you really want him to have the discovery first...)
2) Publish something in a big newspaper (NYTimes, Post, or something) that gives whatever warning you feel is necessary and an MD5 sum of your file. That way, if someone else rudely hits upon your discovery in the meantime, you can produce your PDF or whatever, show that the MD5 is right, and rightfully claim your glory.
recompile my kernal? I'm clueless about the 1000's of fsck -sbin -y like commands etc.
Believe it or not, there are user-friendly Linuces out there! There are dark rumours floating about that some distros don't need you to do anything with the command line at all. Just pick the appropriate sysadmin function off the menu... I'm afraid I can't comment on them, since I'm a cmdline freak, but they're out there...
since then you don't have to access a webserver that's across the pond.
Hate to burst your bubble, but www.theregus.com and www.theregister.co.uk both resolve to the same IP address, 213.40.196.64. Check here and here. Reg US was created to provide a marginally more US-centric view of the news... or, at least, less UK-centric, fewer stories about British Telecom, that sort of thing. They're still on the same server, though they're working on moving theregus across the pond Real Soon Now (TM)...
Larry Wall (I think... this is in the intro to the llama book...) once said something to the effect that Perl, to the trained eye, looked like line noise with a purpose and a direction in life.... so now it can sound like it too?
Aye indeed, that would be a better way to do it. And a better way for the RIAA to do it would be to offer high-quality downloads for some cost. And a better way for Microsoft to do it would be to open its source, adopt a better pricing scheme and upgrade model. And...
Just because I can offer some sort of info on Why doesn't mean that I approve. Certainly it doesn't mean that I'm "coddling"...
...most gov't agencies don't like it when someone who's not a Trained Professional Media Handler talks to the media while mentioning their standing as a gov't employee, Just In Case they say something that three years down the road is proved false or, worse yet, embarrassing. A better way to do it would be to have employees watch their tongues, but blanket policies are the way gov't orgs work, alas...
... did Kubrick get permission from Strauss to use his music in 2001? After all, he didn't stop at using them for intermediate filler, he left them in for the final print... I foresee a lawsuit from his estate in the offing...
Seriously, though, at some point songs like this should be considered enough of the "public consciousness" to be de facto public domain...
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Anyway, I still think it makes more sense to say billion = 10^12 = (10^6)^2 = million^2, trillion = million^3, and so on.
2) They could both be right, if linuxwrangler is British (sorry, too lazy to check), since on the west side of the pond a trillion is a million million, while on the east side, that number is called a 'billion' (which in my head makes more sense anyway)...
3) Either way, it's a helluva lot of money to be fined, and would [ probably | hopefully ] kill off the company involved...
Ok, ok, so ST is probably going to remain a self-inconsistent universe no matter how hard some of us try. IT'S A FREAKIN' TV SHOW!!!! Laugh along, and tune in next week...
Your point has been made. Bob has already said that. His was better though.
Yes you are correct
Endings are the bane of my
Existence, I find.
I thought at least that
Something was not quite right there
But couldn't think what
The subjunctive mood
Now I notice in that end
And I bow my head
I am now vanquished
Parent post is well spoken
Please mod parent up.
haiku lines have been unearthed
(thanks to i0lanthe)
Each line has a head
X-Habeas-SWE-n: where
n is 1, 2, 3
I can only guess
That "SWE" is sounded out "swee"
And "(tm)" sounds not.
Article unclear
But I think all mail comes through
Then the choice is yours
Apply a custom
Filter that looks for the right
X-Haiku: header
Or ignore that bit
And go on just like before,
Ignoring their help.
If the former is
your choice, then when spam fakes through
you tell Habeas
And then they will see
that you do have at least one
point in your long post:
"This is SPAM" indeed---
Hell will be a skating rink
'ere the sender's found.
But you must admit
the humor: a haiku has
an EULA
To avoid being
thrown out with the bathwater
I face this challenge:
convince my mailer
to insert in my headers
the requisite lines...
Also this: forget not
that this lovely article
omits to quote them.
I am now afraid
that collateral damage
is my future state.
Seventeen by five
soon number my syllables.
Time to hit submit.
Displaying limited brains
May be quoted thus:
Habeas in fact
means "let us have" and no more
and not "evidence"
They are thinking of
"writ of habeas corpus"
"Let's have the body"
Nitpick mode now off
Let those who frequent this board
Now resume to speak.
Digitwise addition, a technique well-known to first-grader starting out on the path of adding multi-digit numbers, before they master the art of remembering the 'carry' digit every time...
2) From a message on LKML:
3) And finally, from a reply: Draw your own conclusions.As for multipart/alternative... right now anything I get that has a content-type other than text/plain goes to a special folder, where it usually gets deleted without even being opened... fortunately most of my friends use proper mailers that send text/plain :-)
2) Publish something in a big newspaper (NYTimes, Post, or something) that gives whatever warning you feel is necessary and an MD5 sum of your file. That way, if someone else rudely hits upon your discovery in the meantime, you can produce your PDF or whatever, show that the MD5 is right, and rightfully claim your glory.
Larry Wall (I think... this is in the intro to the llama book...) once said something to the effect that Perl, to the trained eye, looked like line noise with a purpose and a direction in life.... so now it can sound like it too?
Just because I can offer some sort of info on Why doesn't mean that I approve. Certainly it doesn't mean that I'm "coddling"...
(Speaking as a former gov't employee...)
*sigh* I really don't know why I bother trying to make jokes on this board....
Seriously, though, at some point songs like this should be considered enough of the "public consciousness" to be de facto public domain...