Unless you are a prisoner, a minor or an incompetent, you have a choice over where you live.
You can't drive? You don't want to drive? Move to the city, where you can walk to the shops to buy your food. Find a job within walking distance.
When you don't know anything about the way people lived just fifty years ago, you don't realise how easy
life generally is for the vast majority of people in Japan, Europe and America these days.
Just fifty years ago it was quite common, where I'm from, for a man to get up at four in the morning, walk six kilometres to get to the factory, work a twelve hour shift, then walk home again. Some would walk eight or ten kilometres from the village to the edge of town, then catch the tram or bus to the factory.
<cue voice of Michael Palin>
A law that cannot be enforced because too many people refuse to observe it is probably a bad law, and should be amended.
Most dashslotters know that you can easily change the MAC address of a computer (PC, Macintosh, Sun...) quite easily. If the "third party software" in question gets round the changes that something like ifconfig can make, well somebody will "reverse engineer" the software and distribute a patch.
The "MAC-based ban" mechanism will fail.
IANAOGP, but I think that the game server needs to be changed, to make it harder to break the rules, rather than trying to punish those who break them.
If you want to stop people from driving their cars too fast in a residential area, what do you do?
Put speed bumps at 50 metre intervals, so people drive slowly?
Have occasional "radar speed trap days"?
Modify the environment sufficiently, and people won't tryto cheat, because the extra effort won't be worth the marginal gain.
The information is not in and of itself dangerous, nor is it immoral. It is neutral and amoral. What matters is the use made of it.
Let say I have one of these analyses done. I 34, healthy, slightly overweight (90kg for 186cm). There is a history of death by coronary disease at around 65 - 75 years of age amongst the male members of my family.
I already know this, and I would not be astounded to learn that my genetic code contains a predisposition for this and other problems.
However, my diet is not the same as that of my grandfather (he would eat a lot of food fried in beef or pork fat, I eat few fried foods and use olive oil). Nor do I work in a factory with mineral-oil splashing around my hands and making a haze in the air for me to breath.
My environment and lifestyle are already so different to that of my ancestors as to potentially negate the risk increased risk that my genes pose.
But, imagine somebody who does not have access to his family medical history (e.g., a child abandoned or given up for adoption at birth). For him, this information could mean the difference between eating fatty foods and death at fifty, or eating less fat and death at 90.
This is not too difficult to understand, but DashSlotters seem to like analogies, so Ie tried to invent one.
It's about knowing your own limitations and possibilities. If you know you can't walk quickly enough, you wait for a bigger gap in the traffic before you start to cross a wide street. If you know you can walk fast, you can take advantage of a smaller gap in the traffic.
I am worried concerned that I might find myself the object of legal persecution because of Spam that is being distributed with my address in the forged headers.
I know this is happening because I regularly receive messages that have been bounced by mailservers. Instead of going back to the genuine sender, these messages go to the address in the forged "From:" header.
I have written, several times, to Earthlink (the originator seems to be an Earthilink dial-up subscriber), as well as to the Federal Trade Commission; so far the silence on their part has been deafening.
Now, while being accused of Spam is not as serious as being accused of creating and propagating malware, I think our two situations are similar.
Now, IANAL, but it seems to me that o clear my name I would have to demonstrate:
that the headers can easily be forged,
that in the case in point, the "From:" header has been forged,
Ergo, the accusation that I was the sender of the spam is not proven...
Beyond this, can all the headers be forged? In particular, can the first-hop "Received" header be trusted? This is the part giving the IP address of the dial-up modem used to send the message, for example:
Received:from qudsmail.com (mmq2.e-muraoka.com [218.45.52.66]) by xxxxx.xxx (8.10.2+Sun/8.10.2) with SMTP id xxxxxxxxxxxx for ; Thu, 16 May 2002 13:29:12 +0200 (MEST)
Beware of the condensation that will form when you take the drive out of the freezer into a warm room... and the time it takes to connect the data and power cables...
It's probably a good idea to get the manufacturer's advice on the operating temperature range, too.
If you really want to try the freezer method, I suggest that you connect the cables to the drive, then put the drive in a plastic bag (the type that you use for freezing leftovers). Make some holes to pass the cables to the outside, and seal the bag around the cables. Put a small bag of silica gel inside the bag, and seal the bag.
If the cables are long enough, you should be able to put the bagged drive inside the freezer, and leave the cables dangling outside.
If the cables are too short, then you could use those blue freezer blocks (sold for cool-bags) to lower the drive temperature, and keep the drive a bit cooler while you're recovering the data.
Or if you want to go the whole hog, use some polystyrene to insulate a cardboard box, put the bagged drive in the box, along with a block of dry ice (cheaper than mineral water).
I generate PDF or PostScript (or raw prn) files from a variety of applications. For a recent birth announcement card, I used Gimp and got very, very good results.
I knew of a chemistry teacher who took a pair of rubber gloves (the kind sold for household chores): he put one on his right hand and filled the other with sausage meat then dipped it into liquid nitrogen. He tucked his left hand up his sleeve and set the meat-filled glove on a wooden board so it looked like he was holding a nail with his left hand. In his right hand, he took a hammer...
He waited, knowing that his pupils would be arriving for a lesson in a few seconds...
The pupils arrived...
"Sit yourselves down while I finish off what I'm doing"...
CRUNCH! he brought the hammer down on the rubber glove, sending meat-filled glove across the bench.
As I experienced in a railway cafeteria in Northern Italy, most tourists, when faced with a native who doesn't speak that debased form of English current in the New World, resort to SPEAKING LOUDLY AND SLOWLY.
It is a well known fact that foreigners are not stupid, they are simply hard of hearing.
I have plans to make one that runs off a 9 volt battery, and should generate somewhere in the region of 20000 volts (OK, at a low current, but also at a high frequency). The plans require a television fly-back transformer.
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Unless you are a prisoner, a minor or an incompetent, you have a choice over where you live.
You can't drive? You don't want to drive? Move to the city, where you can walk to the shops to buy your food. Find a job within walking distance.
When you don't know anything about the way people lived just fifty years ago, you don't realise how easy
life generally is for the vast majority of people in Japan, Europe and America these days.
Just fifty years ago it was quite common, where I'm from, for a man to get up at four in the morning, walk six kilometres to get to the factory, work a twelve hour shift, then walk home again. Some would walk eight or ten kilometres from the village to the edge of town, then catch the tram or bus to the factory. <cue voice of Michael Palin>
A law that cannot be enforced because too many people refuse to observe it is probably a bad law, and should be amended.
Most dashslotters know that you can easily change the MAC address of a computer (PC, Macintosh, Sun ...) quite easily. If the "third party software" in question gets round the changes that something like ifconfig can make, well somebody will "reverse engineer" the software and distribute a patch.
The "MAC-based ban" mechanism will fail.
IANAOGP, but I think that the game server needs to be changed, to make it harder to break the rules, rather than trying to punish those who break them.
If you want to stop people from driving their cars too fast in a residential area, what do you do?
Modify the environment sufficiently, and people won't tryto cheat, because the extra effort won't be worth the marginal gain.
I prefer to
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make tiny hole
move along 1/2 diameter of tiny hole
until BIG HOLE is cut
The information is not in and of itself dangerous, nor is it immoral. It is neutral and amoral. What matters is the use made of it.
Let say I have one of these analyses done. I 34, healthy, slightly overweight (90kg for 186cm). There is a history of death by coronary disease at around 65 - 75 years of age amongst the male members of my family.
I already know this, and I would not be astounded to learn that my genetic code contains a predisposition for this and other problems.
However, my diet is not the same as that of my grandfather (he would eat a lot of food fried in beef or pork fat, I eat few fried foods and use olive oil). Nor do I work in a factory with mineral-oil splashing around my hands and making a haze in the air for me to breath.
My environment and lifestyle are already so different to that of my ancestors as to potentially negate the risk increased risk that my genes pose.
But, imagine somebody who does not have access to his family medical history (e.g., a child abandoned or given up for adoption at birth). For him, this information could mean the difference between eating fatty foods and death at fifty, or eating less fat and death at 90.
This is not too difficult to understand, but DashSlotters seem to like analogies, so Ie tried to invent one.
It's about knowing your own limitations and possibilities. If you know you can't walk quickly enough, you wait for a bigger gap in the traffic before you start to cross a wide street. If you know you can walk fast, you can take advantage of a smaller gap in the traffic.
The intended name was Lulu Tech Circuits , but somebody mis-typed.
Right, but I believe that the Swedish word for oil is öl and the word for beer is øl ... there's a difference.
You should be comparing the swedish word øl with the English word ale, that also, in Old English, meant celebration.
My advice is, stop dreaming about "getting rich for life off one good idea". The only people who'll get rich are the lawyers.
If this algorithm is so great, you could build a carreer on it. Earn the money from doing a worthwhile job.
I am worried concerned that I might find myself the object of legal persecution because of Spam that is being distributed with my address in the forged headers.
I know this is happening because I regularly receive messages that have been bounced by mailservers. Instead of going back to the genuine sender, these messages go to the address in the forged "From:" header.
I have written, several times, to Earthlink (the originator seems to be an Earthilink dial-up subscriber), as well as to the Federal Trade Commission; so far the silence on their part has been deafening.
Now, while being accused of Spam is not as serious as being accused of creating and propagating malware, I think our two situations are similar.
Now, IANAL, but it seems to me that o clear my name I would have to demonstrate:
Ergo, the accusation that I was the sender of the spam is not proven...
Beyond this, can all the headers be forged? In particular, can the first-hop "Received" header be trusted? This is the part giving the IP address of the dial-up modem used to send the message, for example:
And then go on to replace science with something more "reliable"...
L.Ron Hubbard, move over...
The four kings in this holy world are: weighing scales, books, freedom and the liberal party?
I just read the Linux Orbit article. It is so badly written, that it was almost physically painful to get through it....
Needless to say , LinuxOrbit is not in my bookmarks!
I don't think any single person alive today could make a computer "from scratch".
I think you mean "build one from a kit of parts, like building a lego car".
How about making an apple pie from scratch?
Get some apples, and some pastry... Oh, no.. wait a minute... I said from scratch... let's start by making the pastry.
Get some flour, some butter, some sugar, some salt, some water...
Oh, no.. wait a minute... let's start by making the flour.
Get some wheat... Hey, where are my grindstones? OK, let's go out and find some stones.
Right, I've found two really big rocks... I need a hammer and stonecutter's chisel. Damn! I need to start smelting some iron!
And all this is before you try growing an apple tree... but then, where did that come from?
Hey, Freddy, start singing!!!
Fat bottom girls, ewe make the rocking world go round....
Beware of the condensation that will form when you take the drive out of the freezer into a warm room... and the time it takes to connect the data and power cables...
It's probably a good idea to get the manufacturer's advice on the operating temperature range, too.
If you really want to try the freezer method, I suggest that you connect the cables to the drive, then put the drive in a plastic bag (the type that you use for freezing leftovers). Make some holes to pass the cables to the outside, and seal the bag around the cables. Put a small bag of silica gel inside the bag, and seal the bag.
If the cables are long enough, you should be able to put the bagged drive inside the freezer, and leave the cables dangling outside.
If the cables are too short, then you could use those blue freezer blocks (sold for cool-bags) to lower the drive temperature, and keep the drive a bit cooler while you're recovering the data.
Or if you want to go the whole hog, use some polystyrene to insulate a cardboard box, put the bagged drive in the box, along with a block of dry ice (cheaper than mineral water).
I use CUPS for overall printing control.
I generate PDF or PostScript (or raw prn) files from a variety of applications. For a recent birth announcement card, I used Gimp and got very, very good results.
No doubt you could use [La]TeX, too.
Looking at this image made me raise an eyebrow...
Is that the same Aga that makes stoves?
I knew of a chemistry teacher who took a pair of rubber gloves (the kind sold for household chores): he put one on his right hand and filled the other with sausage meat then dipped it into liquid nitrogen. He tucked his left hand up his sleeve and set the meat-filled glove on a wooden board so it looked like he was holding a nail with his left hand. In his right hand, he took a hammer...
He waited, knowing that his pupils would be arriving for a lesson in a few seconds...
The pupils arrived...
"Sit yourselves down while I finish off what I'm doing"...
CRUNCH! he brought the hammer down on the rubber glove, sending meat-filled glove across the bench.
Have you never used Wit and Dry carborundum paper?
For vicarious liability.
As I experienced in a railway cafeteria in Northern Italy, most tourists, when faced with a native who doesn't speak that debased form of English current in the New World, resort to SPEAKING LOUDLY AND SLOWLY.
It is a well known fact that foreigners are not stupid, they are simply hard of hearing.
Cut flowers are not necessarily more ethical than diamonds...
Tons of cut flowers are flown into Europe and North America each day from third world countries which allow such things as:
Many of those sold in Europe are flown in to the Netherlands, then people think they are buying Dutch flowers!
Try a solid state tesla coil.
I have plans to make one that runs off a 9 volt battery, and should generate somewhere in the region of 20000 volts (OK, at a low current, but also at a high frequency). The plans require a television fly-back transformer.
Take a look at this:
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So I should also be able to grind the serial numbers off the chassis and engine of my car, too...
which just gos to prove what a perceptive chelovek lenin was.
You should ask some quantum physycists about this....