digital cell phone towers in the US already use encryption...on their control channels.
it's called CMEA (cellular message encryption algrithm)
http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~daw/papers/cmea-cryp to 97-www/paper10.html
"Note that CMEA is not used to protect voice communications. Instead, it is intended to protect sensitive control data, such as the digits dialed by the cellphone user."
the only thing i hate more than black-on-purple is red-on-black...
blech...
forget the "power tips" and tricks, just tell me..
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how the hell to keep duplicate email addresses from appearing in the OS X Address Book when importing updates to existing.vcf files...???
that is to say:
if you clear your address book of all individuals and groups, and then import several brand new groups in.vcf format, it will populate the "All" listing of the address book with duplicate entries (assuming you have several address groups with the same people in them - after all, that's the reason for "grouping", right?)
now - here's the fun part!
without deleting anything, go ahead and reimport the groups.
you will further replicate the individual entries in "All".
so, import Democrats.vcf 10 times into the address book, and you wind up with 10 instances of each Democrat in the "All" listing.
Well whoever the little girl is, her narrative is DAMN annoying!
"My work here is almost done, and I'm not going to let anything stand in my
way!"
Spielberg's disdain of the military couldn't be more evident. He had to
make the "ROTC fag", who was really interesting for about 70 minutes or so,
just another thug in a uniform (who's willing to kill innocent yet
slutty-like women in order to get his way)
The alien CGI could've been better (although the opening World War II
airplane scenes were pretty cool)
She might not've been the prettiest girl, but the Colonel's daughter did
have dark hair, and I'm sure glasses are only a step away! Besides, she's
the evil ROTC fag's sun and the moon.
The B-17 bomber pilot, the last member of his squadron still alive, was
captured with his crew by aliens who started torturing them. The aliens had
left a machine gun in the operating room. Using his secret power of
adrenaline, the bomber pilot (who had also been gutshot by.50 cal German
machine guns, don't forget) overpowered the aliens and grabbed the machine
gun, mowing the aliens down. In flashback, he couldn't remember what really
happened and thought they had been Nazis, not aliens. Unless, of course,
they were Nazi aliens.
Having a lot of the episode in Texas follows historical fact. Carswell AFB
was in Fort Worth and was closed in the early 1990s; before transferring to
Air Force control, it was Fort Worth Army Airfield (Ft. Worth AAF). Fort
Worth AAF was the regional headquarters for the Army Air Force at that time.
Roswell Army Air Force base would have been part of the Fort Worth District.
There was in reality a debriefing over the "Roswell Incident" at Fort Worth.
The same concept applies today; Fort Sam Houston is the headquarters of the
Southwest Installation Management agency, of which Fort Hood is now part of.
Also, Fort Hood and most of Texas and New Mexico are within the Fort Worth
District of the Army Corps of Engineers (The Galveston District of the Corps
makes up the Gulf Coast, Valley, and Houston).
Also, since Lubbock isn't too terribly far from Roswell (from Roswell head
east on US 380 to Brownfield, TX, then head north on US 62 to Lubbock, about
the same distance as from San Antonio to Corpus) it's possible that one of
the aliens ended up in Lubbock.
Finally, Fort Bliss was/is a pretty big base, it straddles Texas and New
Mexico (Fort Stewart also straddles Kentucky and Tennessee), it's close to
Roswell, and would've had a much larger hospital than the Roswell base.
"Episode 2: Attack of the Greys" is tonight, with a repeat of last nights'
debacle/episode/pilot/promising show that rapidly turned into a piece of
crap before, I think at 6.
PS my last thoughts are these, besides, "I waited 12 months for this?"
1. THEY CANCELLED FARSCAPE TO FINANCE THIS debacle/episode/pilot/promising
show that rapidly turned into a piece of crap?!!
2. THEY CANCELLED FARSCAPE TO MAKE WAY FOR "TREMORS: THE SERIES?!?!? AT
LEAST "SHE LIKES HER SHORTS SHORT!" Gawd.
3. OH WAIT! THEY CANCELLED FARSCAPE TO MAKE WAY FOR "THE DREAM TEAM!!!!"
Notice that SciFi starts their new logo with "IF" that fades into Sci Fi?
Well, WHAT "IF" THEY'D FORGOTTEN THE AFOREMENTIONED ABORTIONS OF SCIENCE
FICTION AND RENEWED FARSCAPE ANOTHER TWO YEARS??!?!?!?!?!?!?!?
one afternoon, while pushing the limits of an Apple II+, me and my cousin managed to get the system to display "Call Kernel xxx-xxxx"
at the wise age of 13, we decided to pick up the phone and call the "number" (hey, call kernel - why not, maybe he could help us!)
to further weird things out, there was some funky "government-sounding" answering queue on the number we called, so we hung up quickly and watched the doors and windows for the next hour...
> When you make a cell phone call, the first thing that happens is that your cell phone needs to contact a transponder. Your cell phone has a max transmit power of five watts, three watts is actually the norm.
cell phones operate at a MAXIMUM of 500 milliwatts.
5 Watts, huh?
that'd give you about, oh, 2 hours of constant runtime on a LiION battery.
due to my foolishness, i'm in a simlar situation (but mine is man-made - i underwent a controversial eye surgery in the late 1980's and messed up my vision pretty bad)
i have found the website http://www.surgicaleyes.org to be a good (although somewhat scary) source of info for all sorts of visually-impaired folks - ranging from surgically-induced blindness to keratoconus to corneal transplants.
check out the site - and the bulletin board - and dig around for some links on keratoconus sites and PK (corneal transplant) information.
there is a consensus that keratoconus can be put-off with a good pair of Rigid Gas-Permeable Contacts for quite some time.
also keep in mind you will bump into information about up-and-coming treatments for keratoconus - things like Keraform (an enzyme being developed to re-shape the myopic cornea) and other strange stuff.
anyhow, check it out (and dig around on their message board for strings like 'keratoconus' as well)
good luck!
(and by the way, i'm using RGP contacts to help read a 21" monitor set to about 1280x1024 - so don't rule out the well-fitted contact lens solution!)
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hey, me too!
i work for the Texas State Government as a sysadmin for a medical research imaging center.
here i am 6 years later, earning 1x my starting wage..er, wait.
nevermind.
i am typing this on a Dell Latitude C500 that i took the HDD out of and bought a new battery for.
.9 right off the stick.
r sO therItems&userid=dell_financial_services&include=0 &since=-1&sort=3&rows=50
running KNoppix-STD off a 64Meg USB stick, with Firefox
also, the battery runs for about 4 hours without having to provide current to spin the drive platters...
check them out on ebay; you will be able to pay for your purchase with a credit card on a Dell site:
http://cgi6.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewSelle
i went out and got blade-corrected eyes and a 50 inch tv!
after such a botched surgery, it was all i could comfortably watch!
and i'm STILL a network admin! YAY!
yow - this is pretty much what is being reported on http://sprintusers.com in the forums...
i'm currently in the portability queue between Nextel and Sprint - i hope it takes less than 5 days...
now that i'm experiencing the real-world delay of number portability, i think i'm just going for a new number next time i switch.
digital cell phone towers in the US already use encryption...on their control channels.
p to 97-www/paper10.html
it's called CMEA (cellular message encryption algrithm)
http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~daw/papers/cmea-cry
"Note that CMEA is not used to protect voice communications. Instead, it is intended to protect sensitive control data, such as the digits dialed by the cellphone user."
coincidence?
or perhaps someone in my subnet finally figured out how to mirror torrentse.cx?
>Oh, and this purple shit hurts my eyes.
hmmm...
you sound like you had RK...
RKSA
the only thing i hate more than black-on-purple is red-on-black...
blech...
how the hell to keep duplicate email addresses from appearing in the OS X Address Book when importing updates to existing .vcf files...???
.vcf format, it will populate the "All" listing of the address book with duplicate entries (assuming you have several address groups with the same people in them - after all, that's the reason for "grouping", right?)
that is to say:
if you clear your address book of all individuals and groups, and then import several brand new groups in
now - here's the fun part!
without deleting anything, go ahead and reimport the groups.
you will further replicate the individual entries in "All".
so, import Democrats.vcf 10 times into the address book, and you wind up with 10 instances of each Democrat in the "All" listing.
any "power tips" or tricks for this one?
(me interviewing CS student wanting a summer job in 1999)
-ME- "So, what programming languages do you like? C? Java?"
-STUDENT- "Oh, I like C... and C++"
-ME- "Oh yeah?"
-STUDENT- "yeah...and I'll be taking C+ next semester!"
what ever happened to those miles and miles of "ice highway" that Iceman used you glide on in "Spiderman and His Amazing Friends"???
did it melt or what?
must have been one friggin' big mess...
oh man, this is weird...
my own moniker is in there original list as a candidate:
http://end.at/phoenixnames
"Muddy Mudskipper"
Mozuki?
seeing as how it's a "smaller version" of Mozilla...
Well whoever the little girl is, her narrative is DAMN annoying!
.50 cal German
machine guns, don't forget) overpowered the aliens and grabbed the machine
gun, mowing the aliens down. In flashback, he couldn't remember what really
happened and thought they had been Nazis, not aliens. Unless, of course,
they were Nazi aliens.
"My work here is almost done, and I'm not going to let anything stand in my way!"
Spielberg's disdain of the military couldn't be more evident. He had to make the "ROTC fag", who was really interesting for about 70 minutes or so, just another thug in a uniform (who's willing to kill innocent yet slutty-like women in order to get his way)
The alien CGI could've been better (although the opening World War II airplane scenes were pretty cool)
She might not've been the prettiest girl, but the Colonel's daughter did have dark hair, and I'm sure glasses are only a step away! Besides, she's the evil ROTC fag's sun and the moon.
The B-17 bomber pilot, the last member of his squadron still alive, was captured with his crew by aliens who started torturing them. The aliens had left a machine gun in the operating room. Using his secret power of adrenaline, the bomber pilot (who had also been gutshot by
Having a lot of the episode in Texas follows historical fact. Carswell AFB was in Fort Worth and was closed in the early 1990s; before transferring to Air Force control, it was Fort Worth Army Airfield (Ft. Worth AAF). Fort Worth AAF was the regional headquarters for the Army Air Force at that time. Roswell Army Air Force base would have been part of the Fort Worth District. There was in reality a debriefing over the "Roswell Incident" at Fort Worth.
The same concept applies today; Fort Sam Houston is the headquarters of the Southwest Installation Management agency, of which Fort Hood is now part of. Also, Fort Hood and most of Texas and New Mexico are within the Fort Worth District of the Army Corps of Engineers (The Galveston District of the Corps makes up the Gulf Coast, Valley, and Houston).
Also, since Lubbock isn't too terribly far from Roswell (from Roswell head east on US 380 to Brownfield, TX, then head north on US 62 to Lubbock, about the same distance as from San Antonio to Corpus) it's possible that one of the aliens ended up in Lubbock.
Finally, Fort Bliss was/is a pretty big base, it straddles Texas and New Mexico (Fort Stewart also straddles Kentucky and Tennessee), it's close to Roswell, and would've had a much larger hospital than the Roswell base.
"Episode 2: Attack of the Greys" is tonight, with a repeat of last nights' debacle/episode/pilot/promising show that rapidly turned into a piece of crap before, I think at 6.
PS my last thoughts are these, besides, "I waited 12 months for this?"
1. THEY CANCELLED FARSCAPE TO FINANCE THIS debacle/episode/pilot/promising show that rapidly turned into a piece of crap?!!
2. THEY CANCELLED FARSCAPE TO MAKE WAY FOR "TREMORS: THE SERIES?!?!? AT LEAST "SHE LIKES HER SHORTS SHORT!" Gawd.
3. OH WAIT! THEY CANCELLED FARSCAPE TO MAKE WAY FOR "THE DREAM TEAM!!!!"
Notice that SciFi starts their new logo with "IF" that fades into Sci Fi? Well, WHAT "IF" THEY'D FORGOTTEN THE AFOREMENTIONED ABORTIONS OF SCIENCE FICTION AND RENEWED FARSCAPE ANOTHER TWO YEARS??!?!?!?!?!?!?!?
one afternoon, while pushing the limits of an Apple II+, me and my cousin managed to get the system to display "Call Kernel xxx-xxxx"
at the wise age of 13, we decided to pick up the phone and call the "number" (hey, call kernel - why not, maybe he could help us!)
to further weird things out, there was some funky "government-sounding" answering queue on the number we called, so we hung up quickly and watched the doors and windows for the next hour...
before you jump into eye surgery, visit the ones on "the other side" who fell through the cracks:
http://www.surgicaleyes.org
Osama Sim Laden
> When you make a cell phone call, the first thing that happens is that your cell phone needs to contact a transponder. Your cell phone has a max transmit power of five watts, three watts is actually the norm.
cell phones operate at a MAXIMUM of 500 milliwatts. 5 Watts, huh? that'd give you about, oh, 2 hours of constant runtime on a LiION battery.
due to my foolishness, i'm in a simlar situation (but mine is man-made - i underwent a controversial eye surgery in the late 1980's and messed up my vision pretty bad)
i have found the website http://www.surgicaleyes.org to be a good (although somewhat scary) source of info for all sorts of visually-impaired folks - ranging from surgically-induced blindness to keratoconus to corneal transplants.
check out the site - and the bulletin board - and dig around for some links on keratoconus sites and PK (corneal transplant) information.
there is a consensus that keratoconus can be put-off with a good pair of Rigid Gas-Permeable Contacts for quite some time.
also keep in mind you will bump into information about up-and-coming treatments for keratoconus - things like Keraform (an enzyme being developed to re-shape the myopic cornea) and other strange stuff.
anyhow, check it out (and dig around on their message board for strings like 'keratoconus' as well)
good luck!
(and by the way, i'm using RGP contacts to help read a 21" monitor set to about 1280x1024 - so don't rule out the well-fitted contact lens solution!)