Actually a little before the Wright Brother's famous flight, in the same year, Konstantin Tsiolkovsky published The Exploration of Cosmic Space by Means of Reaction Devices. It was the first serious proposal to explore space, offering a somewhat practical method of doing so.
He went on to design things like multi-stage boosters and life support systems. It's incredible to think that there were people seriously thinking about exploring space when powered flight wasn't even possible yet.
Interesting that he provides NTLM hashes. Every possible 8 character or less NTLM password can be cracked in under 6 hours, or a few seconds if you have rainbow tables.
He cites the inclusion of personal info as the reason for not releasing the unhashed list. Shame it can't be cleaned up somehow.
When you start to look around he amount of PI leakage is incredible. Search torrent sites for *.url or *.lnk or thumbs.db files, for example, and you find thousands. The often contain the user's username, which 9 times out of 10 is firstname.lastname.
I've been getting them with a very old password included in the email as "proof" that they got in. For people who re-use passwords a lot it must be quite convincing.
A friend asked about them, and I pointed out that he didn't have a webcam and that if they had hacked it they would have included an actual photo as proof.
Yep, trust is the issue. I'd love to have a built in clock/calendar and calculator, but I'm not sure I'd trust anyone to make one for me.
Then again implants are going to become more and more common, e.g. pacemakers and other kinds of regulators to deal with specific conditions. Given the choice I'd probably accept one, rather than live (or die) without. I'd prefer if they could disable the wifi function though.
Actually, I'l humour you. Let's put your claim to the test. Show me a post where I defend that violence. Should be easy since you claim I do it on "virtually everything you post on."
That's also why China is creating so many patents. They see how they get abused and figure the best way to fight back is just patent everything and play the litigation game. Doubtless there is some equivalent of the East Texas court in China that finds US companies in infringement every time.
It would make it difficult for you to buy services from other states, bugger up interstate commerce. You would find companies saying "sorry, we don't ship to / provide services to your state".
I understand why he doesn't offer links, but I'd much prefer to have a local copy of this to work with. Aside from anything else I've got some old archives I can't remember the password for, do a dictionary would be helpful.
The idea that some woowoo from lalaland gets to decide what people should or should not do is not compatible with the legislation of a society that should by now have overcome ancient superstition.
Are you talking about the people who like Sharia or the far right who like racial purity? I'm more concerned with the latter at the moment.
Yeah... The web site says something about VPN issues, I guess because some of them try to block certain traffic to prevent "leaks". Might give it a go, test it out in a VM. Thanks.
The first gen stuff wasn't all that good though. When they came out with the flexible tablets in 2018, pre-bent at the factory to save you the bother, that's when the tech really got good.
What would the basis of lawsuits against solar and wind be?
With wind there are sometimes safety concerns, and planning issues because some people consider them unsightly... But nothing compared to a nuclear plant. Offshore wind has even less to worry about.
With solar there is generally little anyone can do, at least around here, because beyond maybe a change of use for the land they don't have much ground for objection. Sometimes there are wildlife concerns if the plan is to add a lot of shade to a field or something, but if it's crop conversion that doesn't really work.
Modern farming is unsustainable only when profit is the main motive. If sustainability is the main motive it's fine. We can fix the economic system simply by legislating that sustainability must be the priority and imposing penalties for not doing it.
It has to, otherwise those patents can't be part of the 5G standard. The deal is that if patents are going to be part of the standard they must be licences under reasonable and non-discriminatory (RAND) terms.
Except that there will be endless lawsuits stopping it getting built due to the risk, and if you somehow overcame those and there was an accident it would wipe out the entire company and anyone or anything else that could be held remotely liable.
This doesn't seem to be confirmed. The source seems to be an interview with Bezos where he makes that claim, but looking at various teardowns of the hardware there is no obvious physical switch.
In fact, it seems unlikely because the Echo uses an array of microphones, not just one, pointed in different directions. The switch might power down the amplifier perhaps, but no-one seems to have any evidence supporting that.
There is really no need for that. We have basically got population growth under control, with the fertility rate being around static (2.2) in most places. Yes, even third world countries.
The population is still growing because people are living longer. But it's levelling off, and at a level which is sustainable with modern farming methods and renewable energy.
In the longer term, past 2100, the population will probably fall as the fertility rate continues to decline
I'm told that Mutually Assured Destruction is good for peace. In that case, shouldn't the US have simply given the Chinese their space tech? Just to keep everyone even, and dissuade anyone from launching.
Seriously though, China got most of it's early space technology from Russia by simply buying it. Then they put vast resources into building their own talent and technology up too. Basically the same as the US after WW2, starting out with Nazi tech and expertise and then developing their own off the back of it.
Any developer still using flash apparently hasn't noticed that Chrome, the most popular browser, stopped displaying it years ago. And it never worked on iOS at all.
Flash has been dead for a long time outside of artist communities using it for animations.
There are some stand alone apps that let you play flash videos. I forget the name now because it's so long since I've used one, but I found one that was designed for flash games and it works pretty well.
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Actually a little before the Wright Brother's famous flight, in the same year, Konstantin Tsiolkovsky published The Exploration of Cosmic Space by Means of Reaction Devices. It was the first serious proposal to explore space, offering a somewhat practical method of doing so.
He went on to design things like multi-stage boosters and life support systems. It's incredible to think that there were people seriously thinking about exploring space when powered flight wasn't even possible yet.
Interesting that he provides NTLM hashes. Every possible 8 character or less NTLM password can be cracked in under 6 hours, or a few seconds if you have rainbow tables.
He cites the inclusion of personal info as the reason for not releasing the unhashed list. Shame it can't be cleaned up somehow.
When you start to look around he amount of PI leakage is incredible. Search torrent sites for *.url or *.lnk or thumbs.db files, for example, and you find thousands. The often contain the user's username, which 9 times out of 10 is firstname.lastname.
I've been getting them with a very old password included in the email as "proof" that they got in. For people who re-use passwords a lot it must be quite convincing.
A friend asked about them, and I pointed out that he didn't have a webcam and that if they had hacked it they would have included an actual photo as proof.
Yep, trust is the issue. I'd love to have a built in clock/calendar and calculator, but I'm not sure I'd trust anyone to make one for me.
Then again implants are going to become more and more common, e.g. pacemakers and other kinds of regulators to deal with specific conditions. Given the choice I'd probably accept one, rather than live (or die) without. I'd prefer if they could disable the wifi function though.
Guilt by imaginary association, huh?
Actually, I'l humour you. Let's put your claim to the test. Show me a post where I defend that violence. Should be easy since you claim I do it on "virtually everything you post on."
That's also why China is creating so many patents. They see how they get abused and figure the best way to fight back is just patent everything and play the litigation game. Doubtless there is some equivalent of the East Texas court in China that finds US companies in infringement every time.
It would make it difficult for you to buy services from other states, bugger up interstate commerce. You would find companies saying "sorry, we don't ship to / provide services to your state".
I understand why he doesn't offer links, but I'd much prefer to have a local copy of this to work with. Aside from anything else I've got some old archives I can't remember the password for, do a dictionary would be helpful.
The idea that some woowoo from lalaland gets to decide what people should or should not do is not compatible with the legislation of a society that should by now have overcome ancient superstition.
Are you talking about the people who like Sharia or the far right who like racial purity? I'm more concerned with the latter at the moment.
Yeah... The web site says something about VPN issues, I guess because some of them try to block certain traffic to prevent "leaks". Might give it a go, test it out in a VM. Thanks.
Frivolous lawsuits seems like a flaw in your legal system. Shouldn't they be quickly thrown out and costs awarded?
The first gen stuff wasn't all that good though. When they came out with the flexible tablets in 2018, pre-bent at the factory to save you the bother, that's when the tech really got good.
There is a narrow window where a small but significant number of idiots will pay silly prices to have the first flexible phone.
What would the basis of lawsuits against solar and wind be?
With wind there are sometimes safety concerns, and planning issues because some people consider them unsightly... But nothing compared to a nuclear plant. Offshore wind has even less to worry about.
With solar there is generally little anyone can do, at least around here, because beyond maybe a change of use for the land they don't have much ground for objection. Sometimes there are wildlife concerns if the plan is to add a lot of shade to a field or something, but if it's crop conversion that doesn't really work.
Until the self-cleaning function breaks down.
Modern farming is unsustainable only when profit is the main motive. If sustainability is the main motive it's fine. We can fix the economic system simply by legislating that sustainability must be the priority and imposing penalties for not doing it.
It has to, otherwise those patents can't be part of the 5G standard. The deal is that if patents are going to be part of the standard they must be licences under reasonable and non-discriminatory (RAND) terms.
Except that there will be endless lawsuits stopping it getting built due to the risk, and if you somehow overcame those and there was an accident it would wipe out the entire company and anyone or anything else that could be held remotely liable.
Including your phone?
If you don't trust Alexa to not listen all the time, you surely can't trust your phone to not do the same.
This doesn't seem to be confirmed. The source seems to be an interview with Bezos where he makes that claim, but looking at various teardowns of the hardware there is no obvious physical switch.
In fact, it seems unlikely because the Echo uses an array of microphones, not just one, pointed in different directions. The switch might power down the amplifier perhaps, but no-one seems to have any evidence supporting that.
Remove 2 billion people from the planet.
There is really no need for that. We have basically got population growth under control, with the fertility rate being around static (2.2) in most places. Yes, even third world countries.
The population is still growing because people are living longer. But it's levelling off, and at a level which is sustainable with modern farming methods and renewable energy.
In the longer term, past 2100, the population will probably fall as the fertility rate continues to decline
I'm told that Mutually Assured Destruction is good for peace. In that case, shouldn't the US have simply given the Chinese their space tech? Just to keep everyone even, and dissuade anyone from launching.
Seriously though, China got most of it's early space technology from Russia by simply buying it. Then they put vast resources into building their own talent and technology up too. Basically the same as the US after WW2, starting out with Nazi tech and expertise and then developing their own off the back of it.
Explanation: https://www.theguardian.com/po...
The two videos of the conversation in question, sorry I don't have time codes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Any developer still using flash apparently hasn't noticed that Chrome, the most popular browser, stopped displaying it years ago. And it never worked on iOS at all.
Flash has been dead for a long time outside of artist communities using it for animations.
There are some stand alone apps that let you play flash videos. I forget the name now because it's so long since I've used one, but I found one that was designed for flash games and it works pretty well.