My brother is an idiot most of the time but when his license was suspended he took his tags back to the tag office so he didn't have to play taxes on a car he wasn't driving. Then he took the tags off other cars when he wanted to go out driving (and usually put them back without the owners ever even knowing he borrowed them).
It really doesn't take that much brains to think of that trick.
So if a badguy shoots someone and takes their car how does this system keep the badguy from using the roads?
Or what if they steel the license plate from valid drivers while they sleep?
This sytem is only for keeping track of law abiding (or at least those that attempt to be law abiding on some level) people.
They mentioned turning heat into light...
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So now in a few years might we be able to light our homes with the excess heat from overclocking our PCs? Perhpas drive some cool fiberoptic case mods?
Oh I can't wait for this one to be commercialized, but chances are I'll be too old to be l33t by then. =(
"linking the similarties between Earthquakes and Internet traffic..."
I thought that there was nothing else they could call "like a <insert something to do with technology>", but there they go one-upping me again. So our brains are like computers, our genes are like source code, and our networks are like geology. Perhaps we really are in a matrix? Or perhaps all those similies in school are finally showing their ugly far-reaching effects on society.
We should commission a study, but then, somebody probably already has and I'll read about it on slashdot next week.
You figure it will take 5 people 6 months at an average of $75,000/year each. (3 Exp. Developers, 1 archetect/team lead and 1 tranee/intern/junior developer).
And that's conservative. This is just based on what the people I know (and I know a few) demand to work full-time. If you throw contractors into the mix the average yearly salary can jump well over 100,000/developer.
If anybody bids lower than that for a contract with me on a 6 month contract then I know they are either full of it or they are using developers that will, sooner or later, quit for a better paying job.
Let's say someone gets a patent on a method of doing something in an OS, for instance thread scheduling. I don't know anything about this "someone", their method of schedulting threads or their patent. They get a patent on say... any genetic algorithm for discovering optimal thread schedules.
In the course of trying to make my OS better, I decide to rewrite my thread scheduling to get better performance. Let's pretend that I build a genetic tester to optimize my thread scheduling.
Now I have, through the natural evolution of thought, come accross a logical proof: I can get the best scheduling algorithm from a genetic sequence. Would I be in violation of a patent just for building on my past expierences to formulate a solution to a problem? Can people patent logical conclusions?
I saw this in NY when I went to H2K2. I didn't know it was newsworthy though:).
I told my wife about it 'cause I think it spooked everybody on the train. Something about the way the adds "move" gives you really bad vertigo. You expect everything outside the Path to be dark and moving by at a good pace, instead you look out the window and see gay men and women dancing around red and white bullseyes wearing tight white bellbottoms and goofy smiles. It's like riding a train into the twilight zone.
"It's not feasible to send waste into the sun - take a look through a few astronomy texts and you'll see why."
I have, and all I see is practical problems with energy required for launch. The space elevator would be a good option, if people don't mind a relatively fragile cable carying really bad radioactive stuff up into our atmosphere.
"Basically the problem is that any object we lift from the Earth has energy, and angular momentum. If you want to hit the sun, and not just put it in a very eccentric orbit, you need to remove a lot of energy from the object, and the space elevator wouldn't help - it pulls you out of Earth's gravity well, not out of Earth's orbit. You'd require massive amounts of fuel to get it there."
Why? A space elevator (not this one, it's too small) most certainly can launch things completely out of earth orbit. The trick is, as you stated, angular momentum. Get enough momentum on the object and it will continue to move on out of earth's gravity well. The real problem is just reaching escape velocity, which could be as simple as a boost after the object is out of earth's atmosphere. The energy required to accelerate the launch object to escape velocity once it is out of the atmosphere is relatively small. The moon could also be used to slingshot objects towards the sun.
In addition, the object doesn't need to slow down, and the sun's gravity will be helping all the way. I don't really see a payload of depleted uranium being (relatively) difficult to get to the sun unless you care how fast it gets there. Who cares if it takes 100 years?
"You don't understand. It doesn't matter whether your reply is ecrypted or signed or whatever. What matters is that your reply includes the decrypted C'. Presumably, your adversary will be able to notice and remove a couple of "> "."
This is exactly my point, every '>', changes the hash of the block before encryption. A '>' on every line would make a significant, if not unpredictable difference. Nonetheless it could be, eventually, figured out how many '>' + ' ' are before each line. The attacker would also have to predict any line wrapping.
"2) I think that a signed and encrypted message is just an encypted message with a signature tacked on, so the adversary could just discard the signature and perform the attack."
PGP signatures are not simply tagged onto the end of a message. They are an MD5 hash of the original message which is then encrypted with the private key of the sender (which allows the public key to be used to verify the signature). When the message is recieved, the decrypted (plaintext) of the sent message is then hashed by the recipient (i.e., my) PGP and then I compare the two hash values. Someone wishing to modify the contents of the message must have the ability to sign the message with the "sender's" key. In order to do that, they must have their private key.
If signatures were simply tagged onto the end of a file then they wouldn't matter at all.
Which is my point, you can't trust any content, even encrypted content, unless it is signed. This is a social eneneering hack and has nothing to do with the PGP standard as far as I can tell.
For my own sake, because I may not be reading this right:
If someone manages to get me to send (them? anyone?) a message they already know the contents of encrypted with (my?, the person I'm sending the message to?)'s private key then they can decrypt the message and (read it?, figure out the private key?).
1.) This seems pretty unlikely to work, unelss minor modifications don't bother the attack (like adding a > in front of each line of the previous email)
2.) let's say john.doe@someplace.com sends me a message and it's encrypted and signed. If I accept it and it shows that john.doe@someplace.com's signature is valid (which it must or I will delete it) then how can the attacker know the contents of the email unless they have already managed to get john.doe@someplace.com's private key? If they already have his private key, then they can decrypt any message I send to him anyhow. I don't really see how they could get my private key and at this point, if I can't trust john.doe@someplace.com and I send him an email then my comprimise is an issue of trust rather than a PGP flaw.
Please clue me in if there is anything in this that I have not really understood.
to decide what the disabled need? My wife is disabled, and a fully articulated prothesis with a neurokenetic interface is exactly what she would love to have (as long as it didn't cause pain).
Girls do like guys who are jerks. There are all different reasons for this, and it really depends on the girl herself. To severely overgeneralize, they do it because they are insecure.
As a guy, you should see a woman who continues to date an asshole as a person with some pretty hefty issues they need to deal with internally.
I used to think just like you do about this subject, but then I got through puberty and moved on.
"cocky asshole jerks there are.. like say.. you?" This is an outward sign of your biggest inner problem: testosterone. You aren't really in competition against every other male on the planet. Stop trying so damned hard and women will stop sensing this severe character flaw and actually start paying attention to you.
Take my words and use them to enrich your life, or use them to make you a bitter recluse... it's up to you.
Compared to the EULA which comes with most females, M$'s EULA might as well read "do anything you want, anytime you want, any way you want".
Let's start with the basic rundown. The standard-issue female comes with a EULA which you "sign" without ever getting to read it. Any use whatsoever (even just looking at said female for very long) is considered signing. You are never allowed to read the EULA, but it will be referred to many times. Even should you abandon, leave or loose your female much of the EULA will remain in effect, and any parts of it can be re-enacted at her choosing at any future date. Even when you are given small glimpses into what this EULA might contain, it is usually encrypted and encoded in a format most males find completely confusing.
I would quote some of the more haneous parts of the female EULA, but my female's EULA promises dire concequences should I do so.
Actually, it works better in windows than in Linux on Mozilla, although Mozilla does eventually go down hard in either.
But mozilla is a hell of a lot better than Konqueror at running the JRE. For whatever reason Konq runs the JRE slower than my old 486 runs interpreted VB.
I just helped my dad install the JRE on a new XP desktop and we had to get it from java.sun.com because Microshit isn't distributing the update patch for IE from their servers or Microsoft update anymore. They probably claim it's because of the lawsuit but the realitity is that this will hurt java badly and only make.Net more popular.
I just got done setting up a couple of laptops recently: a Toshiba 2100 CDT and a Dell Inspiron 5000e. I needed my floppy for both, and here's why:
On the Toshiba, only one distro out of the three I tried (plus BSD) would boot from the CD rom. (You go Slackware), the other three that would not were RedHat, Mandrake and Suse. BSD wouldn't boot either.
On top of that, I was forced to move the PCMCIA core from my home desktop to my both of the laptops and rebuild because of the following problems: On all distros on the Toshiba except for Slackware the kernel was enabled with the PCMCIA code but it had the 32 bit CardBus support enabled, which locks up the kernel on 16 bit only CardBus cards. I had to boot the kernel in rescue mode and disable the automatic loading of the PCMCIA module. Once that was disabled I was, of course, without networking. I had one of two options: burn a cd for the 1.2 MB PCMCIA source or copy it to a floppy. A floppy it was.
On the Dell, RedHat was assuming my Dell 1150 card was a PRISM2 card, when in fact it was an Orinoco and would not work with the wvlan_cs drivers. I had to manually force the PCMCIA core to rebuild the orinoco_cs (and hermes and orinoco as well btw).so files. Of course, as long as I had PCMCIA down on the inspiron I also didn't have network access and hense the need for the floppy.
Without the floppy I can almost bet I'll be getting a nullmodem going on my older machines, wasting CDs or doing some other backflips.
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Notice I didn't just say stolen car, I said "shoots someone". iirc there isn't anyone around to report the theft.
and the sig is a tagline, it has nothing to do with actual market value. For being so smart you missed that one pretty neatly.
My brother is an idiot most of the time but when his license was suspended he took his tags back to the tag office so he didn't have to play taxes on a car he wasn't driving. Then he took the tags off other cars when he wanted to go out driving (and usually put them back without the owners ever even knowing he borrowed them).
It really doesn't take that much brains to think of that trick.
So if a badguy shoots someone and takes their car how does this system keep the badguy from using the roads?
Or what if they steel the license plate from valid drivers while they sleep?
This sytem is only for keeping track of law abiding (or at least those that attempt to be law abiding on some level) people.
So now in a few years might we be able to light our homes with the excess heat from overclocking our PCs? Perhpas drive some cool fiberoptic case mods?
Oh I can't wait for this one to be commercialized, but chances are I'll be too old to be l33t by then. =(
"my suspicion is that they are sent to another country to be tortured most likely israel"
fsckin' biggot
and it took me all of like 1 minute to beat it. Was the original game this easy or is this not really a port?
It was intended to be funny.
Take a note:
1) get a girlfriend
2) get laid
3) come back and try again
"linking the similarties between Earthquakes and Internet traffic..."
I thought that there was nothing else they could call "like a <insert something to do with technology>", but there they go one-upping me again. So our brains are like computers, our genes are like source code, and our networks are like geology. Perhaps we really are in a matrix? Or perhaps all those similies in school are finally showing their ugly far-reaching effects on society.
We should commission a study, but then, somebody probably already has and I'll read about it on slashdot next week.
Spec out a decent project:
You figure it will take 5 people 6 months at an average of $75,000/year each. (3 Exp. Developers, 1 archetect/team lead and 1 tranee/intern/junior developer).
((75k/2) * 5) = $187,500 salary
187,500 + ~10% markup for profit = $206,250.
And that's conservative. This is just based on what the people I know (and I know a few) demand to work full-time. If you throw contractors into the mix the average yearly salary can jump well over 100,000/developer.
If anybody bids lower than that for a contract with me on a 6 month contract then I know they are either full of it or they are using developers that will, sooner or later, quit for a better paying job.
Help me to understand this for a second...
Let's say someone gets a patent on a method of doing something in an OS, for instance thread scheduling. I don't know anything about this "someone", their method of schedulting threads or their patent. They get a patent on say... any genetic algorithm for discovering optimal thread schedules.
In the course of trying to make my OS better, I decide to rewrite my thread scheduling to get better performance. Let's pretend that I build a genetic tester to optimize my thread scheduling.
Now I have, through the natural evolution of thought, come accross a logical proof: I can get the best scheduling algorithm from a genetic sequence. Would I be in violation of a patent just for building on my past expierences to formulate a solution to a problem? Can people patent logical conclusions?
I saw this in NY when I went to H2K2. I didn't know it was newsworthy though :).
I told my wife about it 'cause I think it spooked everybody on the train. Something about the way the adds "move" gives you really bad vertigo. You expect everything outside the Path to be dark and moving by at a good pace, instead you look out the window and see gay men and women dancing around red and white bullseyes wearing tight white bellbottoms and goofy smiles. It's like riding a train into the twilight zone.
But, I suppose it will sell a lot of addspace.
"It's not feasible to send waste into the sun - take a look through a few astronomy texts and you'll see why."
I have, and all I see is practical problems with energy required for launch. The space elevator would be a good option, if people don't mind a relatively fragile cable carying really bad radioactive stuff up into our atmosphere.
"Basically the problem is that any object we lift from the Earth has energy, and angular momentum. If you want to hit the sun, and not just put it in a very eccentric orbit, you need to remove a lot of energy from the object, and the space elevator wouldn't help - it pulls you out of Earth's gravity well, not out of Earth's orbit. You'd require massive amounts of fuel to get it there."
Why? A space elevator (not this one, it's too small) most certainly can launch things completely out of earth orbit. The trick is, as you stated, angular momentum. Get enough momentum on the object and it will continue to move on out of earth's gravity well. The real problem is just reaching escape velocity, which could be as simple as a boost after the object is out of earth's atmosphere. The energy required to accelerate the launch object to escape velocity once it is out of the atmosphere is relatively small. The moon could also be used to slingshot objects towards the sun.
In addition, the object doesn't need to slow down, and the sun's gravity will be helping all the way. I don't really see a payload of depleted uranium being (relatively) difficult to get to the sun unless you care how fast it gets there. Who cares if it takes 100 years?
"You don't understand. It doesn't matter whether your reply is ecrypted or signed or whatever. What matters is that your reply includes the decrypted C'. Presumably, your adversary will be able to notice and remove a couple of "> "."
This is exactly my point, every '>', changes the hash of the block before encryption. A '>' on every line would make a significant, if not unpredictable difference. Nonetheless it could be, eventually, figured out how many '>' + ' ' are before each line. The attacker would also have to predict any line wrapping.
"2) I think that a signed and encrypted message is just an encypted message with a signature tacked on, so the adversary could just discard the signature and perform the attack."
PGP signatures are not simply tagged onto the end of a message. They are an MD5 hash of the original message which is then encrypted with the private key of the sender (which allows the public key to be used to verify the signature). When the message is recieved, the decrypted (plaintext) of the sent message is then hashed by the recipient (i.e., my) PGP and then I compare the two hash values. Someone wishing to modify the contents of the message must have the ability to sign the message with the "sender's" key. In order to do that, they must have their private key.
If signatures were simply tagged onto the end of a file then they wouldn't matter at all.
Which is my point, you can't trust any content, even encrypted content, unless it is signed. This is a social eneneering hack and has nothing to do with the PGP standard as far as I can tell.
For my own sake, because I may not be reading this right:
If someone manages to get me to send (them? anyone?) a message they already know the contents of encrypted with (my?, the person I'm sending the message to?)'s private key then they can decrypt the message and (read it?, figure out the private key?).
1.) This seems pretty unlikely to work, unelss minor modifications don't bother the attack (like adding a > in front of each line of the previous email)
2.) let's say john.doe@someplace.com sends me a message and it's encrypted and signed. If I accept it and it shows that john.doe@someplace.com's signature is valid (which it must or I will delete it) then how can the attacker know the contents of the email unless they have already managed to get john.doe@someplace.com's private key? If they already have his private key, then they can decrypt any message I send to him anyhow. I don't really see how they could get my private key and at this point, if I can't trust john.doe@someplace.com and I send him an email then my comprimise is an issue of trust rather than a PGP flaw.
Please clue me in if there is anything in this that I have not really understood.
Thanks for translating it into Newtonian english for me, but the second part of my question still goes unanswered.
Assuming unlimited strength at the elbow how much (in jym-room barbell english) can this arm lift and swing?
Translate this into plain english for those of us who never took physics?
Strength:
* Wrist : 1.5Nm
* Distal : 0.5 Nm (Fingers / Thumb)
* Proximal : 1.0 Nm (Fingers / Thumb)
Are we talking million $ man strength here or more like tinkertoy strength?
to decide what the disabled need? My wife is disabled, and a fully articulated prothesis with a neurokenetic interface is exactly what she would love to have (as long as it didn't cause pain).
Girls do like guys who are jerks. There are all different reasons for this, and it really depends on the girl herself. To severely overgeneralize, they do it because they are insecure.
As a guy, you should see a woman who continues to date an asshole as a person with some pretty hefty issues they need to deal with internally.
I used to think just like you do about this subject, but then I got through puberty and moved on.
"cocky asshole jerks there are.. like say.. you?"
This is an outward sign of your biggest inner problem: testosterone. You aren't really in competition against every other male on the planet. Stop trying so damned hard and women will stop sensing this severe character flaw and actually start paying attention to you.
Take my words and use them to enrich your life, or use them to make you a bitter recluse... it's up to you.
You guys really don't have grilfriends do you?
Compared to the EULA which comes with most females, M$'s EULA might as well read "do anything you want, anytime you want, any way you want".
Let's start with the basic rundown. The standard-issue female comes with a EULA which you "sign" without ever getting to read it. Any use whatsoever (even just looking at said female for very long) is considered signing. You are never allowed to read the EULA, but it will be referred to many times. Even should you abandon, leave or loose your female much of the EULA will remain in effect, and any parts of it can be re-enacted at her choosing at any future date. Even when you are given small glimpses into what this EULA might contain, it is usually encrypted and encoded in a format most males find completely confusing.
I would quote some of the more haneous parts of the female EULA, but my female's EULA promises dire concequences should I do so.
tells us all about the military's secret robots capbable of single-handedly kicking all of Hong Kong's contengent of the Big Bad Red Army.
Actually, it works better in windows than in Linux on Mozilla, although Mozilla does eventually go down hard in either.
But mozilla is a hell of a lot better than Konqueror at running the JRE. For whatever reason Konq runs the JRE slower than my old 486 runs interpreted VB.
Not any more...
.Net more popular.
I just helped my dad install the JRE on a new XP desktop and we had to get it from java.sun.com because Microshit isn't distributing the update patch for IE from their servers or Microsoft update anymore. They probably claim it's because of the lawsuit but the realitity is that this will hurt java badly and only make
1.) Tabbed Browsing
2.) No more popups
3.) Better Security
Reasons to still use IE on occasion:
1.) Poor support for common technologies (like the JRE: it runs but it don't run for long (2-3 hours and it goes down hard)).
2.) Poor support for common but non-standard features (Like layers). Even Qmailadmin doesn't work well with Mozilla.
3.) Idiot web designers that refuse to let you view their page/application unless you have one of their approved browsers (Like Webtrends).
After all of this your kid still has access to a PC and/or isn't more interested in the health and wellbeing of his butt than your pc?
I just got done setting up a couple of laptops recently: a Toshiba 2100 CDT and a Dell Inspiron 5000e. I needed my floppy for both, and here's why:
.so files. Of course, as long as I had PCMCIA down on the inspiron I also didn't have network access and hense the need for the floppy.
On the Toshiba, only one distro out of the three I tried (plus BSD) would boot from the CD rom. (You go Slackware), the other three that would not were RedHat, Mandrake and Suse. BSD wouldn't boot either.
On top of that, I was forced to move the PCMCIA core from my home desktop to my both of the laptops and rebuild because of the following problems: On all distros on the Toshiba except for Slackware the kernel was enabled with the PCMCIA code but it had the 32 bit CardBus support enabled, which locks up the kernel on 16 bit only CardBus cards. I had to boot the kernel in rescue mode and disable the automatic loading of the PCMCIA module. Once that was disabled I was, of course, without networking. I had one of two options: burn a cd for the 1.2 MB PCMCIA source or copy it to a floppy. A floppy it was.
On the Dell, RedHat was assuming my Dell 1150 card was a PRISM2 card, when in fact it was an Orinoco and would not work with the wvlan_cs drivers. I had to manually force the PCMCIA core to rebuild the orinoco_cs (and hermes and orinoco as well btw)
Without the floppy I can almost bet I'll be getting a nullmodem going on my older machines, wasting CDs or doing some other backflips.