Overpowered ain't possible when you can plug into an outlet. When you need to be stretching out a battery that weighs about an ounce for a couple of days, and preferably more, it's a different story.
> I would certainly hope that a cookie wouldn't
> contain that information. Usually a cookie just
> has an identifying number, and all information
> is stored server side. I can't imagine anyone
> doing otherwise
Of course not, at least not by the US (The
Confederates may have declared war on the Union,
though, I don't know). A declaration of war is a
statement of hostilities between two sovereign
nations. The Union did not regard the CSA as a
sovereign nation: that was the point of the war.
To declare war on the CSA would have been to
recognize it as an independent country, which
was the very thing the US was fighting to deny.
The US did not regard itself as in a state of
war with another country. It was engaged in
suppressing rebellion within its *own* country.
Bullshit. All these two-bit sites (the ones
that aren't already broken links) talk about
how it's the law, but none of them seem to
be able to come up with the law in question.
The US Code is a public document, gentlemen;
if it's the law, point us to the section, please.
The ACM forum cited by a Slashdot article named
in another post talked about how it was "common
knowledge" in the copier community, but couldn't
manage to come up with the actual *names* of
anybody claiming this, or any relevant primary
sources (frankly, I would've expected better of
the ACM). Until I see something better than
this, I'm not impressed.
> Why are they guarded, even though they are
> worthless? Because they happen to have George
> W.'s face printed on them, and as such, they
> register as US $1.00 bills when read by bill
> readers...
Took me a couple of seconds to figure out exactly
what you meant--at first I thought you were saying
they had George W. Bush's face on them, which made
no sense.
In any case, it sounds totally bogus. Why not
simply incinerate the stuff? Urban legend.
> Of course, I've never washed a pair of pants
> with hundreds of dollars (or Euros, or what-
> have-you) in them. I try to keep a better track
> on my high value bills.
I think he had in mind someone doing it on
purpose in order to destroy the chip.
Give a whole new meaning to the phrase
"money laundering", doesn't it?:-)
> the Black Company (forget the author of this
> series).
Glen Cook. Also check out his Garrett series:
(Sweet Silver Blues, Cold Copper Tears, et. al.).
Noir meets fantasy, complete with Sam Spade with
a sword (well, a weighted stick, usually. City
Guard tends to take violent exception to civilians
with long bladed weapons). Great stuff.
I can imagine. Running AIX binaries compiled for
a version beyond what you're running almost
never works. Program hits a major library
incompatibility, falls down, goes boom. And, as
mentioned elsewhere, an IBM patch for 4.2 is
very unlikely; they stopped supporting 4.2 a
long time ago.
Which one? I think there's been about half-
a-dozen. I'm partial to SPI's old _War of
the Ring_, m'self. The Tim Kirk illustrations
are nice and the mapboard is yummy.
> Let's compare:
>
> for (i = 0; i array_size; i++)
> free(array[i]);
> free(array);
>
> and now let's look at:
>
>// get rid of the array
> for (i = 0; i array_size; i++)
> free(array[i]);
> free(array);
>
> Has your life *really* been so harmed? Is this
> *really* so terrible?
Well, yes. Because instead of a comment that
states the blindingly obvious, we *could* have
had:
// search is done, so get rid of array
for (i = 0; i array_size; i++)
free(array[i]);
free(array);
> Venture capital in the UK has always been more
> risk averse that in the US
Venture captial *everywhere* has always been more
risk averse than that in the US. If I had to
pick the US's one biggest advantage over the
rest of the world, that'd probably be it.
> Shipstones?
>
> The lager? What are you talking about?
No, not the British beer. "Shipstones" were
an uber-battery in some of Heinlein's
SF stories. The poster was saying that you're
not going to find the kind of battery life
the article was asking after outside of science
fiction (which is true).
> Lossless and lossy compression are terms that
> describe whether or not, in the compression of
> a file, all original data can be recovered when
> the file is uncompressed
You can't recover all the original data; you can't
reconstruct the source file. It is lossy.
I disagree; compilation is *very* lossy. Unless
you compiled it for debugging, all the non-
external symbol names go away. And however you
compile it, all the comments go away period.
Simple proof. I give you a stripped compiled
binary. Query: can you exactly reproduce
the source code that compiled to this binary?
Answer: Of course you can't. Information has
been lost.
> The next day they called back. More mysterious
> email. It turned out what really bothered them
> was that the sender was an employee who had
> died some months ago. Getting the messages was
> very disturbing to the staff and was there any
> way to purge them?
I dunno about you, but if it asked me to join
the Wired, I'd be outta there.
Slashdot Mirror
> Perhaps she uses a non-point-and-click mail reader?
If a mouse burns her hands, how could a computer keyboard fail to burn her fingertips?
Chris Mattern
Well, because Forth to understand, like Yoda you must speak, that is.
Chris Mattern
Overpowered ain't possible when you can plug into an outlet. When you need to be stretching out a battery that weighs about an ounce for a couple of days, and preferably more, it's a different story.
Chris Mattern
> I would certainly hope that a cookie wouldn't
> contain that information. Usually a cookie just
> has an identifying number, and all information
> is stored server side. I can't imagine anyone
> doing otherwise
You don't have to imagine in it. You can just go here . Or here . Or here, or here, or here, or here...
Chris Mattern
You like it when she wears them. You wouldn't like it if I wore them. Trust me.
Chris Mattern
Zerg rush, eh? OK, I get Terran. I eat Zergling
six-pool rushes for breakfast.
Chris Mattern
> The Civil War wasn't declared?
Of course not, at least not by the US (The
Confederates may have declared war on the Union,
though, I don't know). A declaration of war is a
statement of hostilities between two sovereign
nations. The Union did not regard the CSA as a
sovereign nation: that was the point of the war.
To declare war on the CSA would have been to
recognize it as an independent country, which
was the very thing the US was fighting to deny.
The US did not regard itself as in a state of
war with another country. It was engaged in
suppressing rebellion within its *own* country.
Chris Mattern
Bullshit. All these two-bit sites (the ones
that aren't already broken links) talk about
how it's the law, but none of them seem to
be able to come up with the law in question.
The US Code is a public document, gentlemen;
if it's the law, point us to the section, please.
The ACM forum cited by a Slashdot article named
in another post talked about how it was "common
knowledge" in the copier community, but couldn't
manage to come up with the actual *names* of
anybody claiming this, or any relevant primary
sources (frankly, I would've expected better of
the ACM). Until I see something better than
this, I'm not impressed.
Chris Mattern
Lisa 2 didn't have a 1.44MB floppy, it had a
400K 3.5" floppy. But you could get it with a
10MB hard disk, which they probably have.
Chris Mattern
> Why are they guarded, even though they are
> worthless? Because they happen to have George
> W.'s face printed on them, and as such, they
> register as US $1.00 bills when read by bill
> readers...
Took me a couple of seconds to figure out exactly
what you meant--at first I thought you were saying
they had George W. Bush's face on them, which made
no sense.
In any case, it sounds totally bogus. Why not
simply incinerate the stuff? Urban legend.
Chris Mattern
> Of course, I've never washed a pair of pants
:-)
> with hundreds of dollars (or Euros, or what-
> have-you) in them. I try to keep a better track
> on my high value bills.
I think he had in mind someone doing it on
purpose in order to destroy the chip.
Give a whole new meaning to the phrase
"money laundering", doesn't it?
Chris Mattern
> the Black Company (forget the author of this
> series).
Glen Cook. Also check out his Garrett series:
(Sweet Silver Blues, Cold Copper Tears, et. al.).
Noir meets fantasy, complete with Sam Spade with
a sword (well, a weighted stick, usually. City
Guard tends to take violent exception to civilians
with long bladed weapons). Great stuff.
Chris Mattern
I can imagine. Running AIX binaries compiled for
a version beyond what you're running almost
never works. Program hits a major library
incompatibility, falls down, goes boom. And, as
mentioned elsewhere, an IBM patch for 4.2 is
very unlikely; they stopped supporting 4.2 a
long time ago.
Chris Mattern
> Why has the Hobbit been ignored for so long,
> whilst they are making LOTR for the second
> time?
Ignored? Rankin-Bass did the Hobbit back in
1977. A travesty, granted, but no worse than
Bakshi's LotR.
Chris Mattern
> I've seen the board game,
Which one? I think there's been about half-
a-dozen. I'm partial to SPI's old _War of
the Ring_, m'self. The Tim Kirk illustrations
are nice and the mapboard is yummy.
Chris Mattern
> Are the leaders of this country and the
> officials at the indian bureaus white men? You
> bet your lilly ass they are.
Leaders of this country I'll give you. The BIA?
Head of the BIA is a Chickasaw. A good proportion
of the officials at the BIA are Native Americans.
Chris Mattern
> Let's compare: // get rid of the array
>
> for (i = 0; i array_size; i++)
> free(array[i]);
> free(array);
>
> and now let's look at:
>
>
> for (i = 0; i array_size; i++)
> free(array[i]);
> free(array);
>
> Has your life *really* been so harmed? Is this
> *really* so terrible?
Well, yes. Because instead of a comment that
states the blindingly obvious, we *could* have
had:
// search is done, so get rid of array
for (i = 0; i array_size; i++)
free(array[i]);
free(array);
stating *why* we're getting rid of the array.
Chris Mattern
> The law is a code that isolates justice from
> public participation.
Damn straight, because a less polite term for
"justice with public participation" is
"lynch mob".
Chris Mattern
> "The moon's got a lot of silicon and oxygen,"
> Hey, news flash: its common name is "sand." We
> have a lot of it down on Earth too.
The difference is that the moon's silicon and
oxygen isn't at the bottom of earth's gravity
well.
Chris Mattern
> Venture capital in the UK has always been more
> risk averse that in the US
Venture captial *everywhere* has always been more
risk averse than that in the US. If I had to
pick the US's one biggest advantage over the
rest of the world, that'd probably be it.
Chris Mattern
> Shipstones?
>
> The lager? What are you talking about?
No, not the British beer. "Shipstones" were
an uber-battery in some of Heinlein's
SF stories. The poster was saying that you're
not going to find the kind of battery life
the article was asking after outside of science
fiction (which is true).
Chris Mattern
> Oh great Oracle, who is most wise, your humble
> supplicant begs Thy wisdom: how do I eat
> speghetti without a fork?
You have to upgrade to 8i.
Chris Mattern
From whatis.com:
> Lossless and lossy compression are terms that
> describe whether or not, in the compression of
> a file, all original data can be recovered when
> the file is uncompressed
You can't recover all the original data; you can't
reconstruct the source file. It is lossy.
Chris Mattern
> I disagree, number one it's not lossy at all,
I disagree; compilation is *very* lossy. Unless
you compiled it for debugging, all the non-
external symbol names go away. And however you
compile it, all the comments go away period.
Simple proof. I give you a stripped compiled
binary. Query: can you exactly reproduce
the source code that compiled to this binary?
Answer: Of course you can't. Information has
been lost.
Chris Mattern
> The next day they called back. More mysterious
> email. It turned out what really bothered them
> was that the sender was an employee who had
> died some months ago. Getting the messages was
> very disturbing to the staff and was there any
> way to purge them?
I dunno about you, but if it asked me to join
the Wired, I'd be outta there.
Chris Mattern