Just go into Captain Haddock mode. Try, oh say "You odd-toed ungulates and two-timing tartar twisters, you coelacanths! I have no touch tone phone you vegetarian macrocephalic baboons! You Bashi-Bazouks! tell the dictatorial duck billed diplodocus that employs you that ten thousand terrifying turtles could not keep me as your customer."
The toaster banged on the Amiga custom chips pretty hard, so the "this code only runs on dead hardware" gripe is pretty on target. Oh, and what wasn't banging the custom chips was running on the toaster hardware which were a few xilinx FPGAs if I remember correctly.
Since the signing software runs in the camera itself I think he's talking about taking a picture of the screen. "exact, pixel-by-pixel copy of the image on the screen" it pretty useless since what you want is a copy of rhe raw data dump of the CMOS imaging chip plus the embeded jpeg thumbnail and the exif data. You would also want the small JPEG thumbnail canon makes for the chimp window, with embeded exif data.
Now writing a program to convert a 48 bit per pixel file to to the canon raw format which is essentially a representation of how the value of each sensor site is different from the same color sensor site to its right ( or left , the documentation is unclear which right or left they are referring to - the sensor's or the image's ) Also remember that the sensor and the raw file are arranged in a Bayer mosaic with the pixels recording 12 bits of their assigned color, and that there is an optical low pass filter between the lens and the sensor that you need to emulate. It is possible to do it this way, but a screen capture wouldn't be useful, mainly because the raw information would be too low rez and a 24 bit image would be to low of quality.
I think the writer was addressing the issue of the analogue hole, and I was addressing the issue of the lack of an analogue image good enough to take a picture of
Note to self: run the signing software
*after* altering the image. If the image was alrady signed, display it,
take screenshot, alter the image, and re-run the signing software.
Another note to self, remember to pick up a 3504 x 2336 pixel display ,
oops forgot about moire and aliasing, make that at least a 7008
x 4672 monitor with at least a 8192 to 1 contrast ratio.
You probably want to allow for a little mis-alignment of camera to
screen and a little lens vignetting so make that a 8000 x
5500 screen with a 14000 to one contrast ratio.
That's for the new 1d . You would want to double that pixel count for
the 1ds.
I'm sure there are ways to fake these things but taking
a picture of the screen is not one of them.
That was one of the worst surprises I had when I got an XP machine. XP treats a zip archive like a directory. Even over a network !! Really nasty if you are like me and have say lots of old web sites or source trees in zip files as sort of semi dead storage. Why anyone would want this feature is lost on me. Sort of like having someone clean your apartment by emptying your closets and drawers on the floor in a heap so that it is "Easier to find!"
For what it's worth, this will kill that "feature" in XP.
1. Select Run from the Start menu and enter regsvr32/u %windir%\system32\zipfldr.dll 2. Click OK. 3. Restart the computer.
To un-kill XP's zip support:
1. Select Run from the Start menu and enter regsvr32 %windir%\system32\zipfldr.dll 2. Click OK. 3. Restart the computer.
This originated with someone named "Larry" and forwarded to me, I don't know who "Larry" is.
The price seems cheap to me, A 4gig 1" hard drive costs more at retail
than the whole Ipod does. People with high end digital cameras
are buying the Creative Nomad Muvo2 4gb at $299 just to take
out the hard drive and either tossing the player, or replacing the
4gig drive with a one gig drive.
( Is it just me, or does that not look too much like money ? )
you get a popup with a link to RULESFORUSE.ORG
whois on RULESFORUSE.ORG gets you this
Domain ID:D11574933-LROR Domain Name:RULESFORUSE.ORG Created On:22-Oct-1999 03:28:15 UTC Last Updated On:21-Sep-2003 20:38:12 UTC Expiration Date:22-Oct-2006 03:28:15 UTC Sponsoring Registrar:R63-LROR Status:OK Registrant ID:1386191-NSI Registrant Name:EUROPEAN CENTRAL BANK Registrant Organization:EUROPEAN CENTRAL BANK Registrant Street1:Eurotower Kaiserstrasse 29 Registrant City:FRANKFURT Registrant State/Province:FRANKFURT Registrant Postal Code:160319 Registrant Country:DE Registrant Email:no.valid.email@worldnic.net Admin ID:1386191-NSI Admin Name:EUROPEAN CENTRAL BANK Admin Organization:EUROPEAN CENTRAL BANK Admin Street1:Eurotower Kaiserstrasse 29 Admin City:FRANKFURT Admin State/Province:FRANKFURT Admin Postal Code:160319 Admin Country:DE Admin Email:no.valid.email@worldnic.net Tech ID:1386191-NSI Tech Name:EUROPEAN CENTRAL BANK Tech Organization:EUROPEAN CENTRAL BANK Tech Street1:Eurotower Kaiserstrasse 29 Tech City:FRANKFURT Tech State/Province:FRANKFURT Tech Postal Code:160319 Tech Country:DE Tech Email:no.valid.email@worldnic.net Name Server:AUTH111.NS.UU.NET Name Server:AUTH120.NS.UU.NET
get the fcc id , it's probably on the other side of the card
enter "fcc" and the id in google.
now you know who made the card, and maybe what it's called.
go back to google and enter the name of the card , and something like
"driver"
I'll guess it's a Focus Etherlan II, and that there are drivers for it here
"What advantages would BSD have over Linux in such a project"
Well, if you were deploying a few thousand appliance boxes of some sort, say file and print servers or firewalls or what have you, then you might be able to avoid the "does this expose us to a SCO lawsuit ?" dance with management.
( the thought of dealing with "managment" makes me glad I don't have a job just now )
but maybe you don't like colonial ?
on
Pre-Fab Homes?
·
· Score: 4, Interesting
Also check out Dwell Magazine
and the Dwell
Home which is a showcase project for the magazine and
is prefab.
The Loftcube is
a cool Prefab Penthouse ( delivered by helicopter ! ), but whether you
could get one shipped from Germany is something else.
Cellphone use worse than drunken driving
on
Cell Phone Headsets?
·
· Score: 2, Interesting
A 1997 study by the New England Journal of collisions in
Toronto provides the first such evidence. By comparing the
times of cellular-telephone calls, obtained from billing data,
with the times of collisions, Redelmeier and Tibshirani estimated
that the risk of a collision was between 3.0 and 6.5 times as
high within 10 minutes after a cellular-telephone call began
as when the telephone was not used.
Background Because of a belief that the use of cellular
telephones while driving may cause collisions, several
countries have restricted their use in motor vehicles, and
others are considering such regulations. We used an
epidemiologic method, the case-crossover design, to study
whether using a cellular telephone while driving increases
the risk of a motor vehicle collision.
Methods We studied 699 drivers
who had cellular telephones and who were involved in motor
vehicle collisions resulting in substantial property damage
but no personal injury. Each person's cellular-telephone calls
on the day of the collision and during the previous week were
analyzed through the use of detailed billing records.
Results A total of 26,798
cellular-telephone calls were made during the 14-month
study period. The risk of a collision when using a cellular
telephone was four times higher than the risk when a
cellular telephone was not being used (relative risk, 4.3;
95 percent confidence interval, 3.0 to 6.5). The relative risk
was similar for drivers who differed in personal characteristics such
as age and driving experience; calls close to the time of
the collision were particularly hazardous (relative risk, 4.8
for calls placed within 5 minutes of the collision, as compared with
1.3 for calls placed more than 15 minutes before the collision; P<0.001);
and units that allowed the hands to be free (relative risk,
5.9) offered no safety advantage over hand-held units (relative
risk, 3.9; P not significant). Thirty-nine percent of the
drivers called emergency services after the collision, suggesting
that having a cellular telephone may have had advantages in
the aftermath of an event.
Conclusions The use of cellular
telephones in motor vehicles is associated with a
quadrupling of the risk of a collision during the brief
period of a call. Decisions about regulation of such
telephones, however, need to take into account the benefits of
the technology and the role of individual responsibility.
Also many employers are prohibiting employees from using cell phones on
business related calls while driving because the employer can be held
liable if the employee has an accident.
Just google for Cellphone+drunken+driving and this story comes up a few
times.
PARK CITY, Utah, July 22 (UPI) -- A new study says if you are given a
choice of talking on a cell phone while driving or driving while
intoxicated, you would be safer driving drunk.
And the University of Utah study says it makes no difference whether
the telephone is hand held or is being used hands-free.
Newsday says the study, presented Tuesday at an auto safety conference
in Park City, Utah, was based on the performance of 41 test subjects on
a driving simulator. The subjects "drove" on a multi-lane highway, with
and without hand-held and hands-free cell phones and with and without a
0.08 percent alcohol level
Researchers said they found a 50 percent reduction in the processing of
visual information when people drive and talk on a cellular telephone.
Researchers said, "When drivers were conversing on a cell phone, they
were involved in more rear end collisions... and took 18 percent
longer to return to their initial driving speed than when they were
legally drunk."
well I sent her something nice, and here is a copy of it.
"The problem comes when a program taped on an old VCR can't be replayed on a next-generation VCR. So consumers may experience some compatibility problems between machines as they upgrade."
If this is true, then the political fallout when people discover that they can't transfer their home videos to the "next generation VCR" will be pretty interesting. This is not the same as the obsolescence of eight track tapes which were mostly prerecorded, or home made Betamax tapes which users could copy onto current media.
Any scheme that was truly effective against digital copying and the so called "analog hole" would by necessity disallow any unlicensed content like transfers of old home videos or even making copies of new home videos to distribute to family and friends.
Keep it on-topic, brief, easy to understand, and reasonable if you want to change anybody's mind.
If you get the option to use some sort of standard like SIP for your phone, you can set up your own software call distribution system where some calls ring your phone, some go to voicemail, some get forwarded to your mobile etc.
When I was at cisco, these sorts of services were the "bet the company on it products of the future"
The funny thing is, some of the most interesting implementations of this sort of thing are open source, one of which is vovidia which got bought by cisco , but is still operating as an open source operation. The guy who started has been aquired by cisco twice.
The judges don't have any say in this , just like they don't have any say in any other mandatory sentencing. If you read the links you will see that it is up to the prosecutors.
"If you put a $25 deposit on them, you're going to have every crack-head in the city trying to steal these from people to get the refund. Just what we need, another excuse for the junkies to get violent."
Not if you pay by a check mailed to a street address or a credit to a cell phone account.
It occurs to me that tracking the use of, or tapping calls on a stolen cell phone on account of "probable cause" wouldn't be much of a stretch.
"Given the divisiveness of current sentiments toward the war and the newness of games as a rhetorical medium,
Gee, isn't the relationship between games and war only a few thousand years old? Chess and playing cards originated in India and are both supposed to be modeled on war.
Born 1947, daughter of B.O. Plenty and Gravel Gertie. Marries Junior Tracy 1981. The Sparkle Plenty doll is one of the most popular dolls in the history of licensed cartoon products, and the most popular of all Dick Tracy merchandise.
When I worked at Cisco, I wrote an app they sell that uses Windows Messenger Service to warn of servers having problems. All the uninterruptable power supplies used Windows Messenger Service to send notices that they were switching to or from batteries. The Samba printers used Windows Messenger Service to tell users that their print job had printed or that the paper had jammed. I wrote a couple scripts to send messages to any computer that I happened to be logged into if a particular string showed up in my email.
Using "net send" to send messages to coworkers during conference calls was pretty fun
The UPS and printer messages are pretty mainstream though.
Slashdot Mirror
Just go into Captain Haddock mode.
Try, oh say
"You odd-toed ungulates and two-timing tartar twisters, you coelacanths! I have no touch tone phone you vegetarian macrocephalic baboons! You Bashi-Bazouks! tell the dictatorial duck billed diplodocus that employs you that ten thousand terrifying turtles could not keep me as your customer."
Or something like that.
The toaster banged on the Amiga custom chips pretty hard, so the "this code only runs on dead hardware" gripe is pretty on target. Oh, and what wasn't banging the custom chips was running on the toaster hardware which were a few xilinx FPGAs if I remember correctly.
Try here They were distributed on floppies as well
RKRM_Devices.lha Part 1 of 4 of Amiga ROM Kernel
RKRM_Lib1.lha Part 2 of 4 of Amiga ROM Kernel
RKRM_Lib2.lha Part 3 of 4 of Amiga ROM Kernel Manuals
RKRM_Lib3.lha Part 4 of 4 of Amiga ROM Kernel Manuals
Since the signing software runs in the camera itself I think he's talking about taking a picture of the screen. "exact, pixel-by-pixel copy of the image on the screen" it pretty useless since what you want is a copy of rhe raw data dump of the CMOS imaging chip plus the embeded jpeg thumbnail and the exif data. You would also want the small JPEG thumbnail canon makes for the chimp window, with embeded exif data.
Now writing a program to convert a 48 bit per pixel file to to the canon raw format which is essentially a representation of how the value of each sensor site is different from the same color sensor site to its right ( or left , the documentation is unclear which right or left they are referring to - the sensor's or the image's ) Also remember that the sensor and the raw file are arranged in a Bayer mosaic with the pixels recording 12 bits of their assigned color, and that there is an optical low pass filter between the lens and the sensor that you need to emulate. It is possible to do it this way, but a screen capture wouldn't be useful, mainly because the raw information would be too low rez and a 24 bit image would be to low of quality.
I think the writer was addressing the issue of the analogue hole, and I was addressing the issue of the lack of an analogue image good enough to take a picture of
Another note to self, remember to pick up a 3504 x 2336 pixel display , oops forgot about moire and aliasing, make that at least a 7008 x 4672 monitor with at least a 8192 to 1 contrast ratio. You probably want to allow for a little mis-alignment of camera to screen and a little lens vignetting so make that a 8000 x 5500 screen with a 14000 to one contrast ratio. That's for the new 1d . You would want to double that pixel count for the 1ds. I'm sure there are ways to fake these things but taking a picture of the screen is not one of them.
That was one of the worst surprises I had when I got an XP machine. XP treats a zip archive like a directory. Even over a network !! Really nasty if you are like me and have say lots of old web sites or source trees in zip files as sort of semi dead storage. Why anyone would want this feature is lost on me. Sort of like having someone clean your apartment by emptying your closets and drawers on the floor in a heap so that it is "Easier to find!"
/u %windir%\system32\zipfldr.dll
For what it's worth, this will kill that "feature" in XP.
1. Select Run from the Start menu and enter
regsvr32
2. Click OK.
3. Restart the computer.
To un-kill XP's zip support:
1. Select Run from the Start menu and enter
regsvr32 %windir%\system32\zipfldr.dll
2. Click OK.
3. Restart the computer.
This originated with someone named "Larry" and forwarded to me, I don't know who "Larry" is.
That would be interesting.
Tennessee could push the adoption of IPv6
The price seems cheap to me, A 4gig 1" hard drive costs more at retail than the whole Ipod does. People with high end digital cameras are buying the Creative Nomad Muvo2 4gb at $299 just to take out the hard drive and either tossing the player, or replacing the 4gig drive with a one gig drive.
well,
you might have other problems if you use a tattoo to avoid surveillance
"!! sic heil, gunter !!"
Funny you should mention that...
This seems to be a German , or at least European, thing, not a USA thing.
try
opening this in photoshop
( Is it just me, or does that not look too much like money ? )
you get a popup with a link to RULESFORUSE.ORG
whois on RULESFORUSE.ORG gets you this
Domain ID:D11574933-LROR
Domain Name:RULESFORUSE.ORG
Created On:22-Oct-1999 03:28:15 UTC
Last Updated On:21-Sep-2003 20:38:12 UTC
Expiration Date:22-Oct-2006 03:28:15 UTC
Sponsoring Registrar:R63-LROR
Status:OK
Registrant ID:1386191-NSI
Registrant Name:EUROPEAN CENTRAL BANK
Registrant Organization:EUROPEAN CENTRAL BANK
Registrant Street1:Eurotower Kaiserstrasse 29
Registrant City:FRANKFURT
Registrant State/Province:FRANKFURT
Registrant Postal Code:160319
Registrant Country:DE
Registrant Email:no.valid.email@worldnic.net
Admin ID:1386191-NSI
Admin Name:EUROPEAN CENTRAL BANK
Admin Organization:EUROPEAN CENTRAL BANK
Admin Street1:Eurotower Kaiserstrasse 29
Admin City:FRANKFURT
Admin State/Province:FRANKFURT
Admin Postal Code:160319
Admin Country:DE
Admin Email:no.valid.email@worldnic.net
Tech ID:1386191-NSI
Tech Name:EUROPEAN CENTRAL BANK
Tech Organization:EUROPEAN CENTRAL BANK
Tech Street1:Eurotower Kaiserstrasse 29
Tech City:FRANKFURT
Tech State/Province:FRANKFURT
Tech Postal Code:160319
Tech Country:DE
Tech Email:no.valid.email@worldnic.net
Name Server:AUTH111.NS.UU.NET
Name Server:AUTH120.NS.UU.NET
short answer
longer answer
get the fcc id , it's probably on the other side of the card
enter "fcc" and the id in google.
now you know who made the card, and maybe what it's called.
go back to google and enter the name of the card , and something like "driver"
I'll guess it's a Focus Etherlan II, and that there are drivers for it here
Now I'll go back to solving my own problems
Well, if you were deploying a few thousand appliance boxes of some sort, say file and print servers or firewalls or what have you, then you might be able to avoid the "does this expose us to a SCO lawsuit ?" dance with management.
( the thought of dealing with "managment" makes me glad I don't have a job just now )
If you don't want a colonial, or other "traditional" home you should check out
FabPrefab, a web resource dedicated to tracking developments in the realm of 'modernist prefab dwellings'.
Also check out Dwell Magazine and the Dwell Home which is a showcase project for the magazine and is prefab.
The Loftcube is a cool Prefab Penthouse ( delivered by helicopter ! ), but whether you could get one shipped from Germany is something else.
ABSTRACT
Background Because of a belief that the use of cellular telephones while driving may cause collisions, several countries have restricted their use in motor vehicles, and others are considering such regulations. We used an epidemiologic method, the case-crossover design, to study whether using a cellular telephone while driving increases the risk of a motor vehicle collision.
Methods We studied 699 drivers who had cellular telephones and who were involved in motor vehicle collisions resulting in substantial property damage but no personal injury. Each person's cellular-telephone calls on the day of the collision and during the previous week were analyzed through the use of detailed billing records.
Results A total of 26,798 cellular-telephone calls were made during the 14-month study period. The risk of a collision when using a cellular telephone was four times higher than the risk when a cellular telephone was not being used (relative risk, 4.3; 95 percent confidence interval, 3.0 to 6.5). The relative risk was similar for drivers who differed in personal characteristics such as age and driving experience; calls close to the time of the collision were particularly hazardous (relative risk, 4.8 for calls placed within 5 minutes of the collision, as compared with 1.3 for calls placed more than 15 minutes before the collision; P<0.001); and units that allowed the hands to be free (relative risk, 5.9) offered no safety advantage over hand-held units (relative risk, 3.9; P not significant). Thirty-nine percent of the drivers called emergency services after the collision, suggesting that having a cellular telephone may have had advantages in the aftermath of an event.
Conclusions The use of cellular telephones in motor vehicles is associated with a quadrupling of the risk of a collision during the brief period of a call. Decisions about regulation of such telephones, however, need to take into account the benefits of the technology and the role of individual responsibility.
Also many employers are prohibiting employees from using cell phones on business related calls while driving because the employer can be held liable if the employee has an accident.
Just google for Cellphone+drunken+driving and this story comes up a few times.
PARK CITY, Utah, July 22 (UPI) -- A new study says if you are given a choice of talking on a cell phone while driving or driving while intoxicated, you would be safer driving drunk.
And the University of Utah study says it makes no difference whether the telephone is hand held or is being used hands-free.
Newsday says the study, presented Tuesday at an auto safety conference in Park City, Utah, was based on the performance of 41 test subjects on a driving simulator. The subjects "drove" on a multi-lane highway, with and without hand-held and hands-free cell phones and with and without a 0.08 percent alcohol level
Researchers said they found a 50 percent reduction in the processing of visual information when people drive and talk on a cellular telephone.
Researchers said, "When drivers were conversing on a cell phone, they were involved in more rear end collisions
Keep it on-topic, brief, easy to understand, and reasonable if you want to change anybody's mind.
If you get the option to use some sort of standard like SIP for your
phone, you can set up your own software call distribution system where
some calls ring your phone, some go to voicemail, some get forwarded to
your mobile etc.
When I was at cisco, these sorts of services were the "bet the company
on it products of the future"
The funny thing is, some of the most interesting implementations of
this sort of thing are open source, one of which is vovidia which got bought by cisco
, but is still operating as an open source operation. The guy who
started has been aquired by cisco twice.
The judges don't have any say in this , just like they don't have any say in any other mandatory sentencing. If you read the links you will see that it is up to the prosecutors.
Not if you pay by a check mailed to a street address or a credit to a cell phone account.
It occurs to me that tracking the use of, or tapping calls on a stolen cell phone on account of "probable cause" wouldn't be much of a stretch.
OK here are some examples
Shoplifters may receive sentences up to life in prison under "three strikes and you are out" laws without violating constitutional safeguards against cruel and unusual punishment.
Some cases got appealed
Mr. Andrade stole videos worth $153.54 from two K-marts and wound up with a sentence of 50 years in prison with no possibility of parole.
The ruling may also unleash a wave of appeals from the estimated 350 to 3,500 other California prisoners who received comparable sentences in similar circumstances.
Mr. Chemerinsky says about 350 people whose third strike was a similar petty theft, are serving sentences in California of at least 25 years to life.
But the supreme court didn't think it was cruel or unusual ( I guess cause there are 3500 people in prison it can't be so unusual ? )
Gary Ewing is serving 25 years to life for stealing golf clubs from a Los Angeles country club. In his case, the prosecutor had the option of charging Ewing with a misdemeanor but chose to try the case as a felony. The state supreme court had rejected Ewing's appeal of his sentence. His lawyer said Ewing has AIDS and expects to die soon.
"Given the divisiveness of current sentiments toward the war and the newness of games as a rhetorical medium,
Gee, isn't the relationship between games and war only a few thousand years old? Chess and playing cards originated in India and are both supposed to be modeled on war.
Dick tracy has prior art... umm... or something.
Sparkle Plenty
Born
1947, daughter of B.O. Plenty and Gravel Gertie. Marries Junior Tracy
1981. The Sparkle Plenty doll is one of the most popular dolls in the
history of licensed cartoon products, and the most popular of all Dick
Tracy merchandise.
This confusion dates back to the days of "Loose it or Lose it" when long bows were the new high tech weapon.
When I worked at Cisco, I wrote an app they sell that uses Windows Messenger Service to warn of servers having problems.
All the uninterruptable power supplies used Windows Messenger Service to send notices that they were switching to or from batteries. The Samba printers used Windows Messenger Service to tell users that their print job had printed or that the paper had jammed.
I wrote a couple scripts to send messages to any computer that I happened to be logged into if a particular string showed up in my email.
Using "net send" to send messages to coworkers during conference calls was pretty fun
The UPS and printer messages are pretty mainstream though.
so when I type in
:year" and the other is "ass(opening)
Québécois
I get Qubcois ??
and años comes out as anos.
hmm. one is
A bit usa centric perhaps ?
"rather than face a real-life storm of angry Quebecers."
Sheesh, they are probably angry for being called Quebecers.
Acording to Google...
Searched the web for Quebecois. Results 1 - 100 of about 792,000. Search took 0.32 seconds.
Searched the web for Quebecers. Results 1 - 100 of about 29,500. Search took 0.15 seconds.