300DPI is a magic number for another reason, other than readability, it's the resolution that almost all print-ready images are at (as in ready for a printing press, not your inkjet). Therefore you can work with printable stuff at true size and display 100% of the data without scaling.
Those things are things you should have already been doing. No sensitive email should ever be sent in plain text, nor should any personal information be given out over insecure phone lines.
I'm against vague government mandates, probably more than most people are, but after seeing how even the most basic security is routienely ignored by users, managers, and administrators alike, fuck em. They have no business with my personal medical data if they can't even use good information security practices.
We have a huge bad stack of Deer and L&C power supplies.. I used to take them home to salvage the fans if the fans were still working, but I got sick of it. Those things are terrible. We didn't really didn't make a consious choice to get Deer, we were buying computers from the local computer shop, who was apparently ripping us off insanely.
you also need programmers with a good experience in the field (something that I'd believe is quite rare in the 2D prepress industry, regardless of the huge userbase
It is pretty rare, even in big companies that are supposed to be in touch with the industry. It's like pulling teeth to get someone on the phone that knows anything technical.
Open source and Linux gets the graphic geeks of the apple community on the open source train...
I don't know why you were modded down...
Anyway, what gets me is that Linux and open source are getting all these 3D tools, but we don't even have the 2D tools necessary to operate a prepress environment based on Linux yet.
So we have Gimp and Killustrator (or whatever they changed the name to after the lawsuit)... Gimp can't work in CYMK colorspace... I havn't tried Killustrator, but I doubt it comes close to the similar Adobe product.
We have nothing that does what Quark does... we have a barely maintained OPI daemon, no open source trapping software that I am aware of... etc.
The 2D prepress industry is probably many times larger than 3D... Why don't we have better software?
What is this effect? "Post about 'Go' in a chess thread for +5 syndrome?" It's funny that this exact same message, more or less, has made +5 in the last 4 or 5 chess stories.
I was under the impression that an early report of the case that was posted here on Slashdot was given from the notes of someone sitting in the non-press area.
And that was only 2/3rds of what the state asked for in costs. They also asked for $20,000 in fines.
Washington's law does not make all spam illegal. Only e-mails that use a deceptive subject line, misrepresent the e-mail's origin or use someone else's domain name without permission are prohibited.
This is interesting. Virginia's law is similar, it's an extension of the fraud laws, not of the computer crime laws. I think that is a good way to attack the issue without running into first amendment issues.
Hmm, let's see, world government with unprecedented powers or wasting a couple minutes a day deleting email out of my box.
Hard choice.
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Triangulation only needs to know the angle to the signal from two seperated points that are a known distance from each other. You know, like a triangle.
PHP has a pretty bad one. If you try to do a passthrough or fopen of a file that is loaded over http, and the file is 404 or permission denied you get something like:
Error on line 65: fopen("http://my-url/","r") - Success
The developers have some contrived argument about why this isn't a bug, but it sure is confusing the first time you see it. Maybe they are trying to make a philosophical statment, that success is an error?
I thought microwave ovens and the like work because the microwaves are the same frequency range as the rotational bands in water
Well, sorta, but there is nothing magical about 2.4Ghz. It's not the "frequency that water resonates at", as I've even seen printed in semi-credible places.
This message on the wireless list sums it up pretty well, although it doesn't exist anymore, google cache has it.
The bottom line is that lower frequencies penetrate better in general, 2.4Ghz is just a pretty good compromise between penetration and reflection/absorbtion.
Of course things are different when you aren't inside a metal box like a microwave oven. In the oven, all reflected energy is going to eventually absorb into the object in the oven, or reflect back into the magnetotron. In free space, reflected waves are just going to fly off into space.
In free space, objects that are about the right size to resonate at a frequency don't reflect much of the energy, they absorb most of the energy, but most of it stays near the surface, this is called the skin effect. High voltages are induced on the surface of the object that is resonating, causing resistive heating. This skin effect is also what is responsible for sparks when you have small metal objects in the microwave. Larger objects like spoons and forks are actually less likely to arc than things like metal twist-ties, the twist-ties are closer to resonant, and also have tiny ends which concentrate the voltage. (blunt objects are less likely to arc, arcing happens when the volts/surface area reach a critical value)
The FCC has done lots of research on exposure to EM fields, and has come up with SAR (specific absorption rate) in humans, for many frequencies. It mostly boils down to this, your entire body most readily absorbs VHF energy around 400 Mhz, your head gets it worst around 900Mhz, and your eyes absorb the most in the microwave ranges. This is compounded by the fact that your corneas don't have much way to dissipate heat, and are pretty sensitive organs.
Anyway, the original poster is right, don't play around with this stuff unless you understand it. Although, more likely to kill you taking a microwave oven apart is the 1000 volts at several amps that the power supply puts out. Nasty stuff. Much more dangerous than taking apart something like a monitor.
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300DPI is a magic number for another reason, other than readability, it's the resolution that almost all print-ready images are at (as in ready for a printing press, not your inkjet). Therefore you can work with printable stuff at true size and display 100% of the data without scaling.
Security's a bitch, get over it.
Those things are things you should have already been doing. No sensitive email should ever be sent in plain text, nor should any personal information be given out over insecure phone lines.
I'm against vague government mandates, probably more than most people are, but after seeing how even the most basic security is routienely ignored by users, managers, and administrators alike, fuck em. They have no business with my personal medical data if they can't even use good information security practices.
X10 was actually a reputable home automation company... I guess they got a new marketing department or something.
We have a huge bad stack of Deer and L&C power supplies.. I used to take them home to salvage the fans if the fans were still working, but I got sick of it. Those things are terrible. We didn't really didn't make a consious choice to get Deer, we were buying computers from the local computer shop, who was apparently ripping us off insanely.
After all most of the brain is not used anyway.
I'm so sick of hearing that. It's 100% false. Every part of your brain is important in some way.
Why don't you test the theory by sticking a gun in your mouth and firing.
It's called a stun gun.
What I really hate is the amount of consumers' money
This isn't the government we are talking about here. The consumer spent their money. How the RIAA spends that money is their business.
I definately don't want to pay a tax that goes to support a dying industry.
Then don't buy anything that supports them.
Lack of fatty-acids imparing the development of brain tissue or something.
Judging by the average intelligence of the vegans I have met, I'd say you are definitely on to something.
So this explains the rise in use of Apple computers.
Oh you said autistic.
you also need programmers with a good experience in the field (something that I'd believe is quite rare in the 2D prepress industry, regardless of the huge userbase
It is pretty rare, even in big companies that are supposed to be in touch with the industry. It's like pulling teeth to get someone on the phone that knows anything technical.
Open source and Linux gets the graphic geeks of the apple community on the open source train...
I don't know why you were modded down...
Anyway, what gets me is that Linux and open source are getting all these 3D tools, but we don't even have the 2D tools necessary to operate a prepress environment based on Linux yet.
So we have Gimp and Killustrator (or whatever they changed the name to after the lawsuit)... Gimp can't work in CYMK colorspace... I havn't tried Killustrator, but I doubt it comes close to the similar Adobe product.
We have nothing that does what Quark does... we have a barely maintained OPI daemon, no open source trapping software that I am aware of... etc.
The 2D prepress industry is probably many times larger than 3D... Why don't we have better software?
What is this effect? "Post about 'Go' in a chess thread for +5 syndrome?" It's funny that this exact same message, more or less, has made +5 in the last 4 or 5 chess stories.
I was under the impression that an early report of the case that was posted here on Slashdot was given from the notes of someone sitting in the non-press area.
I hope some of the spam went to Bill Gates... His net worth has been hurting lately, after all.
Didn't you know? Bill Gates sends tons of spam. It's how he recruits beta testers for Windows.
Which adds a nice cool $96,197.74 on to it.
And that was only 2/3rds of what the state asked for in costs. They also asked for $20,000 in fines.
Washington's law does not make all spam illegal. Only e-mails that use a deceptive subject line, misrepresent the e-mail's origin or use someone else's domain name without permission are prohibited.
This is interesting. Virginia's law is similar, it's an extension of the fraud laws, not of the computer crime laws. I think that is a good way to attack the issue without running into first amendment issues.
Hmm, let's see, world government with unprecedented powers or wasting a couple minutes a day deleting email out of my box.
Hard choice.
Triangulation only needs to know the angle to the signal from two seperated points that are a known distance from each other. You know, like a triangle.
strings nmap | grep fuck
Your argument to -b is fucked up. Use the normal url style: user:pass@server:port or just use server and use default anon login
PHP has a pretty bad one. If you try to do a passthrough or fopen of a file that is loaded over http, and the file is 404 or permission denied you get something like:
Error on line 65: fopen("http://my-url/","r") - Success
The developers have some contrived argument about why this isn't a bug, but it sure is confusing the first time you see it. Maybe they are trying to make a philosophical statment, that success is an error?
you can't take notes from the public gallery from what I've read.
You are either wrong, or this is completely unenforced.
All I found were pages agreeing with me, or pages where people used the terms interchangeably.
I'm aware of the technical difference, but that's not how people use the terms.
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a large rainforest
Call it what it is, a jungle. Rainforest is politically correct newspeak.
"we take people's rights away and pretend we give them more"
Did you hear, they increased the chocolate ration.
Boucher did the right thing, yet again.
Who cares what party he claims to be part of. I love that guy.
I thought microwave ovens and the like work because the microwaves are the same frequency range as the rotational bands in water
Well, sorta, but there is nothing magical about 2.4Ghz. It's not the "frequency that water resonates at", as I've even seen printed in semi-credible places.
google cache of message
This message on the wireless list sums it up pretty well, although it doesn't exist anymore, google cache has it.
The bottom line is that lower frequencies penetrate better in general, 2.4Ghz is just a pretty good compromise between penetration and reflection/absorbtion.
Of course things are different when you aren't inside a metal box like a microwave oven. In the oven, all reflected energy is going to eventually absorb into the object in the oven, or reflect back into the magnetotron. In free space, reflected waves are just going to fly off into space.
In free space, objects that are about the right size to resonate at a frequency don't reflect much of the energy, they absorb most of the energy, but most of it stays near the surface, this is called the skin effect. High voltages are induced on the surface of the object that is resonating, causing resistive heating. This skin effect is also what is responsible for sparks when you have small metal objects in the microwave. Larger objects like spoons and forks are actually less likely to arc than things like metal twist-ties, the twist-ties are closer to resonant, and also have tiny ends which concentrate the voltage. (blunt objects are less likely to arc, arcing happens when the volts/surface area reach a critical value)
The FCC has done lots of research on exposure to EM fields, and has come up with SAR (specific absorption rate) in humans, for many frequencies. It mostly boils down to this, your entire body most readily absorbs VHF energy around 400 Mhz, your head gets it worst around 900Mhz, and your eyes absorb the most in the microwave ranges. This is compounded by the fact that your corneas don't have much way to dissipate heat, and are pretty sensitive organs.
Anyway, the original poster is right, don't play around with this stuff unless you understand it. Although, more likely to kill you taking a microwave oven apart is the 1000 volts at several amps that the power supply puts out. Nasty stuff. Much more dangerous than taking apart something like a monitor.