When you hit water with it, it will agitate the molecules and things get hot and cooked
You seem agitated and cooked enough without microwaves.
The difference is in power and concentration : a microwave oven is minimum 700W, concentrated on a lump of water, whereas an 802.11b is 100mW radiated in all directions. You'd need hundreds of wifi cards doing denial-of-services around a cage to even start incommodating the hamster inside.
I'd be happy if my microwave just didn't whine and rattle because they didn't balance that turning thing
Think positive, this noise is actually a useful feature : when your oven becomes quiet, you know it's high time you cleaned the inside, because globules of sticky food are stuck in the rollers.
They found that they could focus the microwaves into a single frequency
Why not go all the way and make the frequency and phase of the microwave oven's magnetron adjustable, add some kind of microcontroller to drive it, and a small cpu to implement the 802.11b stack. Then, from your laptop, run this script:
WIFI_IF=eth0 DATE=`date +%s` while [ ! $TIMEOUT ];do
DATE_PREV=$DATE
tcpdump -i $WIFI_IF -c 1
DATE=`date +%s`
let TDIFF=DATE-DATE_PREV
if [ $TDIFF -gt 5 ];then
TIMEOUT=1
fi done echo "Coffee is hot!"
Given Microsoft's track record of implementing security through secrecy, you can bet that either...
1) They're not doing at all what's in the white paper, and therefore you should not use/implement security, or try to break Microsoft's based on what's in it (read: the document is useless)
2) They've described the 25% least important security measures they've taken, leaving out the juicy bits, in which case the document is also useless.
The Edmonton Sun warns that 'War Driving... is becoming more and more common among perverts trying to avoid online detection'.
Well, this guy did avoid online detection : he was caught with road detection, driving the wrong way half-naked. It's not like the owner of the unprotected wifi AP called the cops, he was just acting odd on the road.
There's more, but are the analysts finally catching on?
I reckon it's more interesting to investigate which analysts may have a personal interest recommending SCO stock, which ones may have taken their marbles out of the game (and therefore can recommend against SCO without hurting themselves), and which ones may have received / still receive monetary gifts from SCO or Canopy.
If you followed advices from Credit Suisse First Boston analysts right before the dot-com collapse, you know the above isn't paranoia : analysts can almost never be trusted, because they almost always defend their own interest, or those of their employers, before the interests of the people they give advices to.
How does the licensing work with this? If it's GPL, isn't it being linked (albeit in a kind of weird runtime way) with proprietary code?
It works the same way as when you make proprietary programs that link to GPL libraries, i.e. it's not legally totally clear that you can, but so far it's an accepted view that dynamically linking isn't quite the same as statically linking GPL code in yours.
At least that's how I understand the GPL/non-GPL dynamic library linking debate that's been going on for years.
Good news : I can get that %^*@$# network card going now.
Bad news : Nobody will bother to write Linux drivers soon enough, they'll all say "why bother, we'll just make a Windows driver and tell people to use the wrapper.
Net results:
- This makes card vendors inclined to think only the Windows platform is truly important
- This allows Microsoft to have the option of one day changing, subtly messing up or adding undocumented calls to their API, slowly leaving Linux people in the cold as all card vendors transition.
- I would think native drivers are faster / more efficient / more full featured than drivers running under emulation. That might not be the case though, but more often than not, running alien binaries in any OS isn't known to be as fast as the real McCoy.
Right. But apart from paranoia, SCO also seem to suffer from Multiple Personalities Disorder (once they were a Linux vendor, now they hate the GPL), therefore they'll be fine because they outnumbers their ennemies 2 to 1.
The UserLinux initiative is an excellent chance for us to penetrate into the mainstream desktop market and start making software houses recognize and implement for linux - because their target audience can finally use the system.
The UserLinux initiative is an excellent way of adding yet another linux distribution on top of the 3 or 4 major ones that already exist and the 150+ that nobody cares about, confusing newcomers (users and industry alike) and diluting the cohesion of the Linux "standard" (as if there was ever one) even further.
Bruce Perens would have had been much more inspired by proposing to work on alternative GUI packages to replace X and/or Gnome/kde/afterstep/whatever, and enhance Debian, instead of ignoring years of work and testing, and (yes!) reinventing the wheel.
UserLinux as a standalone distro is stupid and counterproductive : they just won't ever have the bandwidth to do it all.
UserLinux as a User-focused set of alternate Debian packages that sit on top of the standard Debian distro, with the option of forking Debian+UserLinux off as a separate distro project later on, is good.
Yet Another Linux Distro... But I suppose more choice is good.
My list has two overwhelming requirements for the Linux desktop. First it has to be easy to use. It should pass the "Grandma test"
Choose the the grandma well, or fit her Sonotone with a hidden HF receiver so you can discreetly tell her what to do.
So, the customers involved in UserLinux will be paying for the engineering of creating a Free Software system, rather than for boxes, "seats", or user licenses.
Oh okay, I didn't realize it was a YALD that was also doomed to fail even before seeing the light of day. Nevermind...
[Moderators: this is not a flamebait. Think about it, how many such schemes have ever worked ?]
With SCO in Lindon attracting tons of DoSes and continuous Slashdotting and getting millions of megs of subpoenaed documents in Word format, I bet they're putting a strain on the entire state's innurnet infrastructure.
Did you see that burn mark by the I-15 on Point of the Mountain? that's the fiber optic running underground to Canopy...
I wanted to play because I was humilated at getting beat by the chessmaster on Nintendo.
Good thing you latched on the chess game cartridge, otherwise you'd have grown a moustache, started wearing red overalls and sporting a strong Italien accent, and become a plumber...
Kasparov created a positional advantage on the queen side with a very strong pawn structure to which Fritz didn't have an answer.
Well, what can poor Fritz, a cold emotionless computer, do when a handsome russian stallion of a man puts his pawn on the queen's side? Of course he didn't have an answer...
Hold on their young one. Any 17 year old can do 0-140 rpm but as the joints get older, you need to keep the rpms higher and the impact lower. 90rpm would be about right for all times.
I never said you should ride at 5rpm or 120rpm all the time, I said human legs can provide torque or speed with (almost) equal efficiency even when you force them to pedal way outside their "preferred" cadence.
Of course, when you're not accelerating or climbing something steep, you use the gears to find that comfortable cadence and stay there, but when you do accelerate or climb, your legs can soak up a speed or torque difference an ICE engine couldn't cope with.
When you lose your rear derailleur in a DH race, your chances of making the podium are slim. Believe me, it happens a LOT, and it gets expensive and very annoying.
All the good downhillers I know in my neck of the wood have short-tail road derailleurs that don't hang down as much, a big bash-plate around the derailleur and chainstay, and anti-derailling/chainslap/chainsuck rollers on top and bottom of the chainwheel. None of them seem to lose derailleurs a lot...
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When you hit water with it, it will agitate the molecules and things get hot and cooked
You seem agitated and cooked enough without microwaves.
The difference is in power and concentration : a microwave oven is minimum 700W, concentrated on a lump of water, whereas an 802.11b is 100mW radiated in all directions. You'd need hundreds of wifi cards doing denial-of-services around a cage to even start incommodating the hamster inside.
I'd be happy if my microwave just didn't whine and rattle because they didn't balance that turning thing
Think positive, this noise is actually a useful feature : when your oven becomes quiet, you know it's high time you cleaned the inside, because globules of sticky food are stuck in the rollers.
They found that they could focus the microwaves into a single frequency
...
Why not go all the way and make the frequency and phase of the microwave oven's magnetron adjustable, add some kind of microcontroller to drive it, and a small cpu to implement the 802.11b stack. Then, from your laptop, run this script:
WIFI_IF=eth0
DATE=`date +%s`
while [ ! $TIMEOUT ];do
DATE_PREV=$DATE
tcpdump -i $WIFI_IF -c 1
DATE=`date +%s`
let TDIFF=DATE-DATE_PREV
if [ $TDIFF -gt 5 ];then
TIMEOUT=1
fi
done
echo "Coffee is hot!"
Ah, the marvels of technology
Given Microsoft's track record of implementing security through secrecy, you can bet that either ...
1) They're not doing at all what's in the white paper, and therefore you should not use/implement security, or try to break Microsoft's based on what's in it (read: the document is useless)
2) They've described the 25% least important security measures they've taken, leaving out the juicy bits, in which case the document is also useless.
For any question related to DeCSS or QTFairUse, you can reach Jon at jon.johansen@sealandgov.com
...
Here's a photo of his new place of residence incidentally
What's 11 pm local Toronto time ? is that like 0.25 am local US time ?
You Sir are a genius : you manage to tack on a completely unrelated story a lame Mac/PC flamebait. Bravo ...
Yeah, and posting on Slashdot could easily been seen as interacting suspiciously with kids. I'd drive off if I were you ...
The Edmonton Sun warns that 'War Driving ... is becoming more and more common among perverts trying to avoid online detection'.
Well, this guy did avoid online detection : he was caught with road detection, driving the wrong way half-naked. It's not like the owner of the unprotected wifi AP called the cops, he was just acting odd on the road.
There's more, but are the analysts finally catching on?
I reckon it's more interesting to investigate which analysts may have a personal interest recommending SCO stock, which ones may have taken their marbles out of the game (and therefore can recommend against SCO without hurting themselves), and which ones may have received / still receive monetary gifts from SCO or Canopy.
If you followed advices from Credit Suisse First Boston analysts right before the dot-com collapse, you know the above isn't paranoia : analysts can almost never be trusted, because they almost always defend their own interest, or those of their employers, before the interests of the people they give advices to.
The book is just short of 1,000 pages including the index, tables of contents etc. It's composed of 22 chapters and 6 appendices.
Subjects ranging from SQL CE, Embedded Visual Basic or XML, basically all the things that you want to embed only if the bed is very large.
In short, the book is the image of what it purports to describe : big and heavy.
How does the licensing work with this? If it's GPL, isn't it being linked (albeit in a kind of weird runtime way) with proprietary code?
It works the same way as when you make proprietary programs that link to GPL libraries, i.e. it's not legally totally clear that you can, but so far it's an accepted view that dynamically linking isn't quite the same as statically linking GPL code in yours.
At least that's how I understand the GPL/non-GPL dynamic library linking debate that's been going on for years.
Good news : I can get that %^*@$# network card going now.
:
Bad news : Nobody will bother to write Linux drivers soon enough, they'll all say "why bother, we'll just make a Windows driver and tell people to use the wrapper.
Net results
- This makes card vendors inclined to think only the Windows platform is truly important
- This allows Microsoft to have the option of one day changing, subtly messing up or adding undocumented calls to their API, slowly leaving Linux people in the cold as all card vendors transition.
- I would think native drivers are faster / more efficient / more full featured than drivers running under emulation. That might not be the case though, but more often than not, running alien binaries in any OS isn't known to be as fast as the real McCoy.
and says "all the big guys" are out to get SCO.
Right. But apart from paranoia, SCO also seem to suffer from Multiple Personalities Disorder (once they were a Linux vendor, now they hate the GPL), therefore they'll be fine because they outnumbers their ennemies 2 to 1.
The UserLinux initiative is an excellent chance for us to penetrate into the mainstream desktop market and start making software houses recognize and implement for linux - because their target audience can finally use the system.
The UserLinux initiative is an excellent way of adding yet another linux distribution on top of the 3 or 4 major ones that already exist and the 150+ that nobody cares about, confusing newcomers (users and industry alike) and diluting the cohesion of the Linux "standard" (as if there was ever one) even further.
Bruce Perens would have had been much more inspired by proposing to work on alternative GUI packages to replace X and/or Gnome/kde/afterstep/whatever, and enhance Debian, instead of ignoring years of work and testing, and (yes!) reinventing the wheel.
UserLinux as a standalone distro is stupid and counterproductive : they just won't ever have the bandwidth to do it all.
UserLinux as a User-focused set of alternate Debian packages that sit on top of the standard Debian distro, with the option of forking Debian+UserLinux off as a separate distro project later on, is good.
rejected (17) accepted (0)
Is there a psycological term related to getting your stories rejected on slashdot?
More importantly, perhaps, just perhaps, there's a correlation between poor grammar and never having your stories accepted ?
Yet Another Linux Distro ... But I suppose more choice is good.
...
My list has two overwhelming requirements for the Linux desktop. First it has to be easy to use. It should pass the "Grandma test"
Choose the the grandma well, or fit her Sonotone with a hidden HF receiver so you can discreetly tell her what to do.
So, the customers involved in UserLinux will be paying for the engineering of creating a Free Software system, rather than for boxes, "seats", or user licenses.
Oh okay, I didn't realize it was a YALD that was also doomed to fail even before seeing the light of day. Nevermind
[Moderators: this is not a flamebait. Think about it, how many such schemes have ever worked ?]
Isn't the internet illegal there?
Not since Novell started supporting IPv4. Thank goodness for that, they'd all be on one giant IPX network over there otherwise.
Note to self: avoid shitty LDS references.
With SCO in Lindon attracting tons of DoSes and continuous Slashdotting and getting millions of megs of subpoenaed documents in Word format, I bet they're putting a strain on the entire state's innurnet infrastructure.
...
Did you see that burn mark by the I-15 on Point of the Mountain? that's the fiber optic running underground to Canopy
I wanted to play because I was humilated at getting beat by the chessmaster on Nintendo.
...
Good thing you latched on the chess game cartridge, otherwise you'd have grown a moustache, started wearing red overalls and sporting a strong Italien accent, and become a plumber
given a finite amount of time the human brain can figure out how to solve any problem.
...
Okay, I give you 10 seconds to demonstrate the Fermat theorem : 1..2..3
Imho computers are 100 years too early to even compete with the human brain
[/me checks the date]
No, I knew I was right, it is 2003.
Kasparov created a positional advantage on the queen side with a very strong pawn structure to which Fritz didn't have an answer.
...
Well, what can poor Fritz, a cold emotionless computer, do when a handsome russian stallion of a man puts his pawn on the queen's side? Of course he didn't have an answer
Hold on their young one. Any 17 year old can do 0-140 rpm but as the joints get older, you need to keep the rpms higher and the impact lower. 90rpm would be about right for all times.
I never said you should ride at 5rpm or 120rpm all the time, I said human legs can provide torque or speed with (almost) equal efficiency even when you force them to pedal way outside their "preferred" cadence.
Of course, when you're not accelerating or climbing something steep, you use the gears to find that comfortable cadence and stay there, but when you do accelerate or climb, your legs can soak up a speed or torque difference an ICE engine couldn't cope with.
When you lose your rear derailleur in a DH race, your chances of making the podium are slim. Believe me, it happens a LOT, and it gets expensive and very annoying.
...
All the good downhillers I know in my neck of the wood have short-tail road derailleurs that don't hang down as much, a big bash-plate around the derailleur and chainstay, and anti-derailling/chainslap/chainsuck rollers on top and bottom of the chainwheel. None of them seem to lose derailleurs a lot