If you are 81 years old your skin temperature sensors may not be accurate or as sensitive to heat as younger folk
Thus the cup would not seem as hot
my password is picture of star, picture of star...
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My password is ********
At least that is what I see on the screen!
LAN is when you do not cross a road. (OT)
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In the networking class I took in the 80's at IBM they defined a LAN as a network where you did not have to use a common carrier for the physical layer.
If had to cross a road/right of way, you had to use some sort of common carrier (like a phone company) you were then subject to regulations and speed limits:-(
Opps, we just arrested the boyscout leader. He could sue us.
Lets plant something on him.
Yeah, that will do the trick, then we don't get fired.
Ok, lets do it just like last week. Get the porn magazine...
He will plead, so it doesn't make the papers.
Many cops are said to carry a "put down", this is a small untraceable/stollen hand gun to add to the scene of mistake shootings.
The main cleaning agent in coke is phosphoric acid. It is the active ingredient in the rust remover we used to spray on metal roofs before we would paint them when I was in college. If you spray enough rust remover on a rusty spot some of the rust will visibly wash away. (we were painting the roof of temporary buildings built just after WWII.)
Yet, I continue to drink gallons of the stuff.
BTW: Phosphoric acid is also main active ingredient of naval jelly (IIRC).
Famous for her tales of "sky falling", Chicken Little today announced that her team of experts has discovered a new security threat: The BootID DOS Attack.
Users should wear strong headgear and avoid looking up while this attack is occuring. A patch for the hole in the sky that this attack is aiming for is in development.
The hacking community responded that basing security of any planet on blue sky and clouds was fool hardy. "We have been waiting for someone to notice the holes we have been punching in the sky over the last few years", rebutted Foxy Loxy.
does this mean no region code? If it is released together (time-wise) in all regions but still region coded, (and it being something that is planed ahead of time) there is no reason to region code except price control purposes!
I was given 16 2-gig SCSI drives to get rid of. I was planing on donating most of them.
When I got them home I found out that they were differential drives. I have no scsi controller that will talk to them so I am now stuck with them until I can find a way to erase them or let kids take them apart for the magnets. Spending 200+ USD for a controller is not an option.
I will not donate/trash them until they are wiped at least once.
I have also bought used hard disks at our local computer flea market and have found what looks like info from a fortune 100 company still on them! (I could see the name of the company was used in making folder names.) I formatted them at once.
Comes as a mini CD-ROM in the Technic set # 8531
"POHATU"
These are the sets they have started making reciently which look kind of like the old mail tube rabbits (or like the canisters used by some drive up banks)
2600 should be able to register this domain name and General Motors should not be able to do any thing about it.
Ford should not be able to control who links to their site.
All that being said, why does 2600 have to be so stupid in this case.
I like freedom of speech and think that I should be able to say most anything I like. However I don't think people should make harmful speech just to see how far they can go.
Free speech is a good thing, but pick your battles with care.
Ford is also being stupid in that they did not even send a letter to 2600 to ask them to break the link. IIRC
Lets imagine I worked for Microsoft.(running in panic from keyboard....)
whew....
Ok, I'm back from the therapist. feeling somewhat better now..)
I see something I want to use in a software project I am working on and it is something which will be available outside the company. What choices do I have?
If it is commercial software I can aquire it somewhere, either with money, force, or a combination of the two.
If it is under the GPL I can not have it. thus this is BAD in microsoft eyes. I do not care how big a gun you have, you can not steal the rain. You can complain if the farmer next door gets more than you do. Fat lot of good it will do you.
In order to incorporate the open source into my product I am only going to have to clean room rewrite of the code.
You can see that the impact of having something under the GPL can not be any worse that if it did not exist. You are always free to create the same functionality by recoding it from scratch.
If open source software is junk, then it will go away under the "obviously better" MS stuff.
This is just FUD then. Also, MS does not understand that a lot of the reasoning for free software is because we hate them so much.
Yes, I know You can patent functionallity / copywrite look and feel. Does anyone here belive that anything could stand up to the MS leagal armies if they were the defendant? If I had the idea for the next killer ap in my brain, I would consider releasing it only on Linux anyway.
As soon as a Microsoft OS go to non-support, you must upgrade because they can just stop shipping security fixes for it.
Microsoft has three things going for it that keep people locked in:
If signifigant improvements are made which change the look and feel. Human compatiblity problems force excess training expenses. This will eventually be the hardest barrier to Linux desktop adoption. However this also will be MS's downfall because they can not really change.
FUD
Security bugs which must be fixed. The more PC that are connected to the internet the more inportant bug fixes are. If you ignore the bugs, you will eventually fail internal/external audits or be cracked. If this could be ignored, Revenue would dry up quickly and the strangle hold would weeken
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Why don't they sue me? I have a CD-ROM drive that has magnets in it. If a retailer tells me that I have to bring in a computer so they can remove the CD-ROM drive, I think that I will not be able to find that computer;-).
But I belive that retailers are no more responsible here than I am unless they have been specifically notified that CD-ROM maker x has been selling illeagal drives. And they continue to buy/sell bad kits.
They do not want to attack retail customers because the patent laws would get changed!!
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I (and my wife) have been through the fertility treatments/experiments and eventually we adopted. I am all for research and helping other people through this slow agony.
However, I do not see how cloning could fundamentally help anyone conceive and/or carry a child to term. If I am missing something here, please let me know.
Unless they fundamentally change the way cloning is done. Other methods have less risk, less cost, and controversy.
Better methods of obtaining a fetus exist. Maybe this is because I do not think that a child has to have my genes in him/her in order to be valuable.
PS: I remember sitting in room waiting to see a doctor. We noticed that we had been trying for longer than he had been out of med school (diploma on the wall). When he came in, he told us he had looked at the tests and everything was normal and he was sure we would be pregnant within two years.
But they are not law enforcement officers in Russia. If one of the officers who downloaded the data visited Russia, He/she could realistically be arrested there (IANARL: I am not a Russian lawyer)
It is not likely to happen, but legitimate. Thus the joke.
They could even be prosecuted in the US unless they could argue the hot persuit clause or something similar
Most people will not rebuild the kernel when needed. If the install does not boot on their PC (like SUSE 7.1 died on my laptop) They will try to return the CDs to the store.
They do not have another PC around where they can build a new kernel. Or the option of trying RH 6.1 and have it come up the fine the first time.
If you play with enough distros on enough different hardware (and pretend to be a newbie) you will find that some run out of box and others do not on different hardware.
Try installing some distros on machines which only have a 3 ½ drive for example.
I have installed Slackware, Caldrea (yuk), Red Hat, Stampede, Storm, SUSE 6.4(ok), and 7.1(yuk), mandrake, TurboLinux and at least one other. (sorry, brain fry) and all had there good points and bad points. ( I wish I had enough machines to have them all installed at once!)
Competition will force improvements in all the remaining players
If someone could make X config easy/foolproof they would go a long way down the road to getting my recomendation!
That said, I do expect more distros to go down and lots of specialization to occur. Ultimately I hope that every distro which is sold to the general public will run on everything which is listed on the box.(as least to some extent) I also hope that lessons learned at companies like Stormix are not scattered in the wind. (and the software they wrote)
If Linux is to succeed in the desktop home market place, every sold distro must install on every machine, or at least not Kernel panic on first true boot.
Maybe in a couple of years we can survive with only a couple of distros but until then...
Now if I can only get Win98 to work correctly on the same laptop....
Yes, slightly off topic here, but I want to understand how this could work. I use IP masquerade and Linux firewall at home for security.
What is a good source of info on NAT and how it works? What I don't understand and can't seem to find out is how returning packets get to the correct machine. (they are in responce to packets
which to the outside world are all coming from the same IP address) Does each go out on a different port or is some other trick used?
I allow no incoming new packets (i believe) because I have no servers. But understanding is golden. Even a book to read with info about this would be nice
Lets say I wanted to take down a major popular site. Lots of ACKs going to it from everywhere. I crack a machine at a remote site and sniff an ACK packet going to the server. Wipe the logs and cleanup behind myself.
Now I take the ACK packet I sniffed and feed it to about 100? DDoS scripts at cracked machines on the web.
Because the key does not change and because I supply the ACK packet, ALL these incoming packets are valid, and they can come from anywhere.
Unless a cache is maintained and duplicates are tossed, each of these ACKs should establish a valid connection on the server.
I am not familiar with TCP/IP internals (and I would guess this is hardware specific) but I would expect these validated connections to be worse (more persistant) than broken attempts.
Probably something I missed here but I can't see it.
Been a while since I have looked at this stuff so I may be a bit out of date on things. I have a physics degree but it is almost 20 years old and I don't use it. It is also a little late here so this is a bit rough.
When a star is formed, mass comes together and starts hydrogen fusion. As the fuel gets burned up, the light pressure/heat is decreased and it cools and becomes more compact. It can stop at this stage, or go on to burn helium, (which requires more mass and pressure) if the right amount of mass is present, the gravitational pressure will squeeze the atoms into one big mass of neutrons. If even greater, the neutrons will be squeezed down into something and the mass will collaspe to become a black hole.
A black hole is created when the gravitational force is increased to the point that light can not escape from the interior of the object. We don't care about the size of the mass at this point, it is the size of the radius of no escape.
As you get farther from an object its gravitational effect is reduced. based on the mass and assuming the object does not spin, the size is directly related to the amount of mass. This distance is known as the event horizon.
If an object is nearby, it is pulled toward the black hole. If it is going directly toward the BH it will cross the horizon and be effectively lost. except they add to the gravitation of the object as a whole. If it is close but moving at an angle, it is accelerated past the object, torn apart, squeezed in next to other objects, and heated till it emits X-Rays. This loss of energy may be enough to drop it into the BH. If it is far enough away the object falls into a stable orbit.
Black holes generally grow in size. In a pure vaccume they can decay by the capture of 1/2 of virtual partical pairs. This happens at an increasing speed as the BH gets smaller.
I belive that particles falling into a black hole will cross the last bit of the boundry and avoid the general relativity problems by one of two methods. Quantum tunneling, and sitting at the border long enough for the event horizon to grow past them.
we can know very little about the inside of a BH because we can not observe then up close. Because they have been detected we do know that gravity can still exist inside them and the matter can have an effect still. (until they were detected I was betting that they would eliminate themselves as the gravity {space curvature} would not be able to escape)
the size of a black hole can be estimated by three means that I am aware of. 1} stuff rotating around it (dopplar shifts and such). 2} Amount of stuff being taken in (not in this case) 3) rate of change method. *if an object has consistant changes that occur in a short period of time, that time can not be less than the time it takes light to cross the object*. (this is my guess as to the tool being used here)
Despite all this I belive that it is possible to conduct some research into the interior structure of a black hole. {you must be a member of an advanced space traveling civilization of course}. just send two black holes at each other at various angles. momentum should be conserved. do they go through each other if they bump head on? What if they just touch? Send small black holes at a larger one and probe to determine the size of the nucleus just like Rutherford did with atoms. *The atom was unfathomable and unbrakeable until people started doing nasty things to it*
There, that will give them something to fight about for a while;-)
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IANAL
However, I cannot see how donating a naked PC can be illegal.
If a school says it cannot accept your PC because it is illegal, MS is implying you are a criminal and you should seek legal advice!
If you are 81 years old your skin temperature sensors may not be accurate or as sensitive to heat as younger folk
Thus the cup would not seem as hot
My password is ********
At least that is what I see on the screen!
In the networking class I took in the 80's at IBM they defined a LAN as a network where you did not have to use a common carrier for the physical layer.
:-(
If had to cross a road/right of way, you had to use some sort of common carrier (like a phone company) you were then subject to regulations and speed limits
The network then became a WAN.
This is the precise basis of the General Theory of Relativity.
;-)
An man in an elevator (space capsule) can not tell them apart.
you are accelerating in either case. On earth it is just due the the bending of space and time.
The math involved is left as an exercise for the student.
Lets plant something on him.
Yeah, that will do the trick, then we don't get fired.
Ok, lets do it just like last week. Get the porn magazine...
He will plead, so it doesn't make the papers.
Many cops are said to carry a "put down", this is a small untraceable/stollen hand gun to add to the scene of mistake shootings.
Doesn't this mean new license in XP?
Yet, I continue to drink gallons of the stuff.
BTW: Phosphoric acid is also main active ingredient of naval jelly (IIRC).
Famous for her tales of "sky falling", Chicken Little today announced that her team of experts has discovered a new security threat: The BootID DOS Attack.
Users should wear strong headgear and avoid looking up while this attack is occuring. A patch for the hole in the sky that this attack is aiming for is in development.
The hacking community responded that basing security of any planet on blue sky and clouds was fool hardy. "We have been waiting for someone to notice the holes we have been punching in the sky over the last few years", rebutted Foxy Loxy.
Click here for background material!
does this mean no region code? If it is released together (time-wise) in all regions but still region coded, (and it being something that is planed ahead of time) there is no reason to region code except price control purposes!
When I got them home I found out that they were differential drives. I have no scsi controller that will talk to them so I am now stuck with them until I can find a way to erase them or let kids take them apart for the magnets. Spending 200+ USD for a controller is not an option.
I will not donate/trash them until they are wiped at least once.
I have also bought used hard disks at our local computer flea market and have found what looks like info from a fortune 100 company still on them! (I could see the name of the company was used in making folder names.) I formatted them at once.
Comes as a mini CD-ROM in the Technic set # 8531 "POHATU"
These are the sets they have started making reciently which look kind of like the old mail tube rabbits (or like the canisters used by some drive up banks)
Ford should not be able to control who links to their site.
All that being said, why does 2600 have to be so stupid in this case.
I like freedom of speech and think that I should be able to say most anything I like. However I don't think people should make harmful speech just to see how far they can go.
Free speech is a good thing, but pick your battles with care.
Ford is also being stupid in that they did not even send a letter to 2600 to ask them to break the link. IIRC
whew.... Ok, I'm back from the therapist. feeling somewhat better now..)
I see something I want to use in a software project I am working on and it is something which will be available outside the company. What choices do I have?
If it is commercial software I can aquire it somewhere, either with money, force, or a combination of the two.
If it is under the GPL I can not have it. thus this is BAD in microsoft eyes. I do not care how big a gun you have, you can not steal the rain. You can complain if the farmer next door gets more than you do. Fat lot of good it will do you.
In order to incorporate the open source into my product I am only going to have to clean room rewrite of the code.
You can see that the impact of having something under the GPL can not be any worse that if it did not exist. You are always free to create the same functionality by recoding it from scratch. If open source software is junk, then it will go away under the "obviously better" MS stuff.
This is just FUD then. Also, MS does not understand that a lot of the reasoning for free software is because we hate them so much.
Yes, I know You can patent functionallity / copywrite look and feel. Does anyone here belive that anything could stand up to the MS leagal armies if they were the defendant? If I had the idea for the next killer ap in my brain, I would consider releasing it only on Linux anyway.
Make a large pile of explosives on the sidewalk.
Place a large heavily armored box on top of the explosives
Update your last will and testament.
Crawl into the box
Close watertight lid.
Seal tightly (air holes will not be needed!)
Set off explosives.
In this case the sudden stop at the end will not kill you.
Any attempt to leap buildings in a single bound which does not involve continuous propulsion systems should have the same problem.
If you solve this problem let me know
Microsoft has three things going for it that keep people locked in:
If signifigant improvements are made which change the look and feel. Human compatiblity problems force excess training expenses. This will eventually be the hardest barrier to Linux desktop adoption. However this also will be MS's downfall because they can not really change.
FUD
Security bugs which must be fixed. The more PC that are connected to the internet the more inportant bug fixes are. If you ignore the bugs, you will eventually fail internal/external audits or be cracked. If this could be ignored, Revenue would dry up quickly and the strangle hold would weeken
But I belive that retailers are no more responsible here than I am unless they have been specifically notified that CD-ROM maker x has been selling illeagal drives. And they continue to buy/sell bad kits.
They do not want to attack retail customers because the patent laws would get changed!!
However, I do not see how cloning could fundamentally help anyone conceive and/or carry a child to term. If I am missing something here, please let me know.
Unless they fundamentally change the way cloning is done. Other methods have less risk, less cost, and controversy.
Better methods of obtaining a fetus exist. Maybe this is because I do not think that a child has to have my genes in him/her in order to be valuable.
PS: I remember sitting in room waiting to see a doctor. We noticed that we had been trying for longer than he had been out of med school (diploma on the wall). When he came in, he told us he had looked at the tests and everything was normal and he was sure we would be pregnant within two years.
It is not likely to happen, but legitimate. Thus the joke.
They could even be prosecuted in the US unless they could argue the hot persuit clause or something similar
FBI Agents needed for challenging positions at new Siberian Internet company.
Experience with sniffing tools, "reverse hacking" tools, skirting government regulations and using search engines at resume web sites.
Pick up one way tickets at you nearest Russian Embasy.
We are confidant you will stay!
Options are good!
Most people will not rebuild the kernel when needed. If the install does not boot on their PC (like SUSE 7.1 died on my laptop) They will try to return the CDs to the store.
They do not have another PC around where they can build a new kernel. Or the option of trying RH 6.1 and have it come up the fine the first time.
If you play with enough distros on enough different hardware (and pretend to be a newbie) you will find that some run out of box and others do not on different hardware.
Try installing some distros on machines which only have a 3 ½ drive for example.
I have installed Slackware, Caldrea (yuk), Red Hat, Stampede, Storm, SUSE 6.4(ok), and 7.1(yuk), mandrake, TurboLinux and at least one other. (sorry, brain fry) and all had there good points and bad points. ( I wish I had enough machines to have them all installed at once!)
Competition will force improvements in all the remaining players
If someone could make X config easy/foolproof they would go a long way down the road to getting my recomendation!
That said, I do expect more distros to go down and lots of specialization to occur. Ultimately I hope that every distro which is sold to the general public will run on everything which is listed on the box.(as least to some extent) I also hope that lessons learned at companies like Stormix are not scattered in the wind. (and the software they wrote)
If Linux is to succeed in the desktop home market place, every sold distro must install on every machine, or at least not Kernel panic on first true boot.
Maybe in a couple of years we can survive with only a couple of distros but until then...
Now if I can only get Win98 to work correctly on the same laptop....
What is a good source of info on NAT and how it works? What I don't understand and can't seem to find out is how returning packets get to the correct machine. (they are in responce to packets which to the outside world are all coming from the same IP address) Does each go out on a different port or is some other trick used?
I allow no incoming new packets (i believe) because I have no servers. But understanding is golden. Even a book to read with info about this would be nice
Thanks
Now I take the ACK packet I sniffed and feed it to about 100? DDoS scripts at cracked machines on the web.
Because the key does not change and because I supply the ACK packet, ALL these incoming packets are valid, and they can come from anywhere.
Unless a cache is maintained and duplicates are tossed, each of these ACKs should establish a valid connection on the server.
I am not familiar with TCP/IP internals (and I would guess this is hardware specific) but I would expect these validated connections to be worse (more persistant) than broken attempts.
Probably something I missed here but I can't see it.
When a star is formed, mass comes together and starts hydrogen fusion. As the fuel gets burned up, the light pressure/heat is decreased and it cools and becomes more compact. It can stop at this stage, or go on to burn helium, (which requires more mass and pressure) if the right amount of mass is present, the gravitational pressure will squeeze the atoms into one big mass of neutrons. If even greater, the neutrons will be squeezed down into something and the mass will collaspe to become a black hole.
A black hole is created when the gravitational force is increased to the point that light can not escape from the interior of the object. We don't care about the size of the mass at this point, it is the size of the radius of no escape.
As you get farther from an object its gravitational effect is reduced. based on the mass and assuming the object does not spin, the size is directly related to the amount of mass. This distance is known as the event horizon.
If an object is nearby, it is pulled toward the black hole. If it is going directly toward the BH it will cross the horizon and be effectively lost. except they add to the gravitation of the object as a whole. If it is close but moving at an angle, it is accelerated past the object, torn apart, squeezed in next to other objects, and heated till it emits X-Rays. This loss of energy may be enough to drop it into the BH. If it is far enough away the object falls into a stable orbit.
Black holes generally grow in size. In a pure vaccume they can decay by the capture of 1/2 of virtual partical pairs. This happens at an increasing speed as the BH gets smaller.
I belive that particles falling into a black hole will cross the last bit of the boundry and avoid the general relativity problems by one of two methods. Quantum tunneling, and sitting at the border long enough for the event horizon to grow past them.
we can know very little about the inside of a BH because we can not observe then up close. Because they have been detected we do know that gravity can still exist inside them and the matter can have an effect still. (until they were detected I was betting that they would eliminate themselves as the gravity {space curvature} would not be able to escape)
the size of a black hole can be estimated by three means that I am aware of. 1} stuff rotating around it (dopplar shifts and such). 2} Amount of stuff being taken in (not in this case) 3) rate of change method. *if an object has consistant changes that occur in a short period of time, that time can not be less than the time it takes light to cross the object*. (this is my guess as to the tool being used here)
Despite all this I belive that it is possible to conduct some research into the interior structure of a black hole. {you must be a member of an advanced space traveling civilization of course}. just send two black holes at each other at various angles. momentum should be conserved. do they go through each other if they bump head on? What if they just touch? Send small black holes at a larger one and probe to determine the size of the nucleus just like Rutherford did with atoms. *The atom was unfathomable and unbrakeable until people started doing nasty things to it*
There, that will give them something to fight about for a while ;-)
I want a spell checker in slash dot :-(