"Master of Ceremonies", usually abbreviated as "MC" as in "Your MC (or emmcee) for the evening....."
It's also a small jibe at old school rappers. The use of "MC" in your rap name, common in the early to mid 80s, became instantly uncool with the huge commercial success of MC Hammer. Even he dropped "MC" before his second album. It's now far more fashionable to use apostrophes (lil' jon), hyphens, or glorious misspellings (Ludacris) of a common word as a rap name.
You gotta love a genre that has a hard time taking itself seriously.
use the ctrl + and ctrl - shortcuts to increase the text size, then reduce it back to normal. This will re-render the page properly. Why this works, I have no idea.
The analogy was often made in 2000/2001 of the Detroit auto industry and the development of the US national highway system. The same thing happened with scores (or maybe it was hundreds?) of companies popping up with the word "motors" in their name during the period. And now there are 3; the big 3 left in Detroit.
That analogy doesn't fit very well. By the time the US highway system was taking shape, most of the little car companies had long since died or were bought out by the big three. The age of "hundreds" of different car companies was dying out by the mid 1920's, and the market crash in 1929 sealed the fate of the vast majority of the little guys.
The advent, well, the big push, of the highway sytems that took place in the 1950s had an auto industry that was much closer to what the dot com's are today. You had a very few survivors that were making money, essentially the big three mirroring dot coms like Amazon, ebay, etc. (dot coms that have a "real" revenue stream), and a whole lot of walking wounded companies that were just waiting around to die or be bought out.
Car companies like Packard, De Soto, Studebaker, or Kaiser-Frasier at that point represented what we see in the straggler dot coms (eharmony anyone?) now. They were either keeping their heads above water, or were pissing away money on their way out of business.
I'm this close to selling my AC adapter on ebay. I may have used it twice since I picked up my iPod, and once was for putting the initial charge on it. Between my car charger and USB charging, I just don't have a need for it.
To get a decent picture of "stars", you need an exposure that runs between 10 and 15 seconds. Any longer and the stars start "trailing" (the rotation of the earth / moon / extrasolar planet turns the tiny points into streaks.) Any shorter and you don't really end up with stars, just really really faint specks that are indistinguishable from grain in the film.
You also need to use a tripod, and having a cable release shutter helps, since the vibrations from holding the camera and opening the shutter can ruin the picture.
For reference, a standard 35mm (or digital) point and shoot camera will do an exposure of around 1/60th to 1/250th of a second depending on lighting conditions by default. Around 1/15th - 1/8th of a second is the longest exposure you can take with a hand-held (or in this case body mounted, since the camera pack was attached to the front of the Apollo astronauts space suits) camera, lest you end up with a blurry picture.
There's some truth to the idea of a hidden message in comic strips.
During the 50's and 60's the air force used a particular comic strip ("smokey stover" i think. http://www.toonopedia.com/smokey.htm, also the origin of "foo" and "foo fighter") to train recon. photo interpreters. The artist would hide his wife's name somewhere in every strip, and the new recruits would have to find it.
I should have been a little more clear on that. Steg detect would decide that an image may have had something embedded using one of the programs that it looked for.
But, using stegbreak, you could only do a dictionary attack against the image even though you had an idea of what what used to embed the file.
I tinkered with this for a while. Start up gnucleus, do a search for *.jpg, and grab a bunch of files to scan. Not surprisingly, many of the images were porn (it's for research purposes, I swear!)
The biggest problems were 1. most (actually, all) of the images that came back as good candidates for having embedded images came back as false positives and 2. lack of a brute-force steg break utility.
number 2 is probably a result of poor searching on my part, but I honestly couldn't find a recent, (and free) tool that would do a brute force crack on embedded images. At the time (a few months back) I was using stegbreak and stegdetect.
So, is there anything better? anyone else have any luck?
Employees have even started using different headphones to be a bit more stealthy about it.
Could be, or maybe they just don't want to get mugged. White iPod headphone do a great job of saying "I've got an expensive, easy to steal piece of electronics on me."
Also, iPod headphones suck. after half an hour my ears started hurting with the old ones.
The defendant was already on probation. He was busted in 2000 for cracking passwords on arbornet.org. He was 17 at the time, and one of the terms of his probation was to stay off the internet.
joepa's just like Internet Explorer. Bloated, outdated, unresponsive, he's having a negative affect on the whole department, and he's next to impossible to get rid of.
Survivors not compenstated: wrong. There was a settlement, but the *Indian* court system has had it tied up for years. IIRC the settlement was in the 400 million dollar range, and it did a good job of bankrupting UC.
Dow Chemical is somehow responsable: Wrong. Dow chemical bought what was left of Union carbide in the late 80's / early 90's, long after the disaster settlements had been made. Holding Dow responsable for Bhopal would be like an AMX owner suing DiamlerChrysler 20 years after getting a settlement out of AMX.
Union Carbide ran an evil nasty horrible pit of dispair of a factory. Right. Sorta. The plant fell in line with many Indian safety standards, which at the time were no where near what our standards are. Of course inspections and safety take a back seat to giving people a job in developing countries. This is nothing new.
Bhopal was a horrifying disaster, but the impression I'm getting is that India is becoming a truly western society. The scummy lawyers are shooting out of the woodwork to go after the deepest pockets. UC's former chairman stil works for Dow, but once the courts on both sides get their heads out of their asses, he'll end up facing charges in India, it's just a matter of time
I spend some of my free time here http://www.yankeeairmuseum.org/ doing whatever IT-ish things happen to be happening. Since their original hanger just burned down (they saved the flyable collection thankfully), they've got a very clean slate to start with. On day you're pulling cable, the next day you're installing OpenOffice. Fun stuff.
(BTW: send cash. or aircraft parts. or anything. Anyone on slashdot got a spare tailwheel for a B-17G?)
The images show the Mars-facing side of the moon, taken from a distance of less than 200 kilometres with a resolution of about seven metres per pixel during orbit 756.
Slashdot Mirror
They didn't have to crack it. The login failed banner read "You're not getting in here 'til you type swordfish in the password box"
Not exactly uber-l337 hax0rs.
As an old fogey, you should recognize "MC"
"Master of Ceremonies", usually abbreviated as "MC" as in "Your MC (or emmcee) for the evening....."
It's also a small jibe at old school rappers. The use of "MC" in your rap name, common in the early to mid 80s, became instantly uncool with the huge commercial success of MC Hammer. Even he dropped "MC" before his second album. It's now far more fashionable to use apostrophes (lil' jon), hyphens, or glorious misspellings (Ludacris) of a common word as a rap name.
You gotta love a genre that has a hard time taking itself seriously.
use the ctrl + and ctrl - shortcuts to increase the text size, then reduce it back to normal. This will re-render the page properly. Why this works, I have no idea.
The analogy was often made in 2000/2001 of the Detroit auto industry and the development of the US national highway system. The same thing happened with scores (or maybe it was hundreds?) of companies popping up with the word "motors" in their name during the period. And now there are 3; the big 3 left in Detroit.
That analogy doesn't fit very well. By the time the US highway system was taking shape, most of the little car companies had long since died or were bought out by the big three. The age of "hundreds" of different car companies was dying out by the mid 1920's, and the market crash in 1929 sealed the fate of the vast majority of the little guys.
The advent, well, the big push, of the highway sytems that took place in the 1950s had an auto industry that was much closer to what the dot com's are today. You had a very few survivors that were making money, essentially the big three mirroring dot coms like Amazon, ebay, etc. (dot coms that have a "real" revenue stream), and a whole lot of walking wounded companies that were just waiting around to die or be bought out.
Car companies like Packard, De Soto, Studebaker, or Kaiser-Frasier at that point represented what we see in the straggler dot coms (eharmony anyone?) now. They were either keeping their heads above water, or were pissing away money on their way out of business.
I'm this close to selling my AC adapter on ebay. I may have used it twice since I picked up my iPod, and once was for putting the initial charge on it. Between my car charger and USB charging, I just don't have a need for it.
nono, you mean *more* of a mess out of it.
Homeland security: Government at its finest.
To get a decent picture of "stars", you need an exposure that runs between 10 and 15 seconds. Any longer and the stars start "trailing" (the rotation of the earth / moon / extrasolar planet turns the tiny points into streaks.) Any shorter and you don't really end up with stars, just really really faint specks that are indistinguishable from grain in the film.
You also need to use a tripod, and having a cable release shutter helps, since the vibrations from holding the camera and opening the shutter can ruin the picture.
For reference, a standard 35mm (or digital) point and shoot camera will do an exposure of around 1/60th to 1/250th of a second depending on lighting conditions by default. Around 1/15th - 1/8th of a second is the longest exposure you can take with a hand-held (or in this case body mounted, since the camera pack was attached to the front of the Apollo astronauts space suits) camera, lest you end up with a blurry picture.
Define Irony:
Ringo Starr had a hit song called "It don't come easy"
thank you. I tried to google it, but couldn't come up with the right search terms to get a hit.
There's some truth to the idea of a hidden message in comic strips.
During the 50's and 60's the air force used a particular comic strip ("smokey stover" i think. http://www.toonopedia.com/smokey.htm, also the origin of "foo" and "foo fighter") to train recon. photo interpreters. The artist would hide his wife's name somewhere in every strip, and the new recruits would have to find it.
I should have been a little more clear on that. Steg detect would decide that an image may have had something embedded using one of the programs that it looked for.
But, using stegbreak, you could only do a dictionary attack against the image even though you had an idea of what what used to embed the file.
I tinkered with this for a while. Start up gnucleus, do a search for *.jpg, and grab a bunch of files to scan. Not surprisingly, many of the images were porn (it's for research purposes, I swear!)
The biggest problems were 1. most (actually, all) of the images that came back as good candidates for having embedded images came back as false positives and 2. lack of a brute-force steg break utility.
number 2 is probably a result of poor searching on my part, but I honestly couldn't find a recent, (and free) tool that would do a brute force crack on embedded images. At the time (a few months back) I was using stegbreak and stegdetect.
So, is there anything better? anyone else have any luck?
Employees have even started using different headphones to be a bit more stealthy about it.
Could be, or maybe they just don't want to get mugged. White iPod headphone do a great job of saying "I've got an expensive, easy to steal piece of electronics on me."
Also, iPod headphones suck. after half an hour my ears started hurting with the old ones.
you get that thing i sent ya?
~Potomus
Major Payne was the son of a legendary, yet low ranking sailor, maybe you've heard of him.......
Seaman Covered?
Moe: "It can flash fry a buffalo in 30 seconds"
Homer: "30 seconds? awwww, but I want it now!"
HackerDetected and Iwillsniffyourpackets are a couple I've seen.
The defendant was already on probation. He was busted in 2000 for cracking passwords on arbornet.org. He was 17 at the time, and one of the terms of his probation was to stay off the internet.
n ews-11/1103213452260230.xml
http://www.mlive.com/news/aanews/index.ssf?/base/
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Boo hoo. He voilated the terms of his cake-walk probabtion. Have fun in prison.
joepa's just like Internet Explorer. Bloated, outdated, unresponsive, he's having a negative affect on the whole department, and he's next to impossible to get rid of.
Survivors not compenstated: wrong. There was a settlement, but the *Indian* court system has had it tied up for years. IIRC the settlement was in the 400 million dollar range, and it did a good job of bankrupting UC.
Dow Chemical is somehow responsable: Wrong. Dow chemical bought what was left of Union carbide in the late 80's / early 90's, long after the disaster settlements had been made. Holding Dow responsable for Bhopal would be like an AMX owner suing DiamlerChrysler 20 years after getting a settlement out of AMX.
Union Carbide ran an evil nasty horrible pit of dispair of a factory. Right. Sorta. The plant fell in line with many Indian safety standards, which at the time were no where near what our standards are. Of course inspections and safety take a back seat to giving people a job in developing countries. This is nothing new.
Bhopal was a horrifying disaster, but the impression I'm getting is that India is becoming a truly western society. The scummy lawyers are shooting out of the woodwork to go after the deepest pockets. UC's former chairman stil works for Dow, but once the courts on both sides get their heads out of their asses, he'll end up facing charges in India, it's just a matter of time
It tried, but once it got close to you it simpled turned away from your head and kept saying "Brains!"
I spend some of my free time here http://www.yankeeairmuseum.org/ doing whatever IT-ish things happen to be happening. Since their original hanger just burned down (they saved the flyable collection thankfully), they've got a very clean slate to start with. On day you're pulling cable, the next day you're installing OpenOffice. Fun stuff.
(BTW: send cash. or aircraft parts. or anything. Anyone on slashdot got a spare tailwheel for a B-17G?)
That is the sort of nonsense up with which I shall not put!
"one book, slashdot threads involing the phrases '12 inch' and 'vacuum', it's my bag baby!"
The images show the Mars-facing side of the moon, taken from a distance of less than 200 kilometres with a resolution of about seven metres per pixel during orbit 756.
that sentence should explain everything to you.