I actually get more done at home. My home office is nicer much nicer, my chair more comfortable, and my monitor bigger. I can crank up the tunes without bothering anyone. People don't stop by my desk to just chat or otherwise harrass me. I don't have to leave for lunch, and I don't waste an hour in traffic. And the florescent lights at work give me a headache, I can work near a window at home with real actual sunlight coming in.
Most of the people in my company are remote anyway, so being in the office offers no benefit over being at home.
Though, I have noticed that some people really have a hard time getting things done from home. Especially if they have a wife or girlfriend that is there too, or kids. Most people realize though that if they abuse it, it's going to go away, and that would suck.
Anyone ever seen that record player that uses a 3 beam laser to read your vinyl? Wouldn't it just be easier to map the surface of the record with something like this rather than taking a photo?
A rash of chicken rapings has surfaced in NYC. Local authorities are baffled at the clues left behind, which consist of website addresses to popular NYC landmarks. Coincidentally, a chicken is raped at these landmarks only hours later.
Officer Barbrady read a statement to the shocked city, "D D Deeee Deeear... umm, Nothing to see here, move along."
At this point it is unclear who the chickenfucker is and when he'll strike again.
Everyone bitches about shelling out money for an upgrade every year. If you don't like it, don't upgrade. The difference between MS and Apple updates is Apple updates actually have new features. MS's are bugfixes, that's why they are free. Older versions of Apple's OS are still supported. If you want the new features, you would have to pay for them, just like the upgrade from win2k to XP to 2003.
In any case, if you want to save yourself the money, just do what I do and buy a new machine everytime they come out with an OS upgrade. It's just like getting $130 off the price of the machine because it comes with the new OS, and then sell your old box on ebay. As long as you do it every year, you lose almost nothing.
Bombs carry their own oxidizer. In the case of gunpowder, it's potassium nitrate. Other types of explosives use other things, including potassium chlorate, potassium permangenate, etc. There is not enough oxygen in the air to make something combustable explode on it's own, it will just burn.
Even the old school fuses you see in cartoons going to dynamite have their own oxygen source (usually a string doped with gunpowder). This is why they will burn underwater, or even in an atmosphere without water.
The problem with the rovers carrying explosives, is that the explosives would need to be buried for them to have an effect. Just dropping a stick of dynamite on the surface would cause very little disruption.
When I was like 16, I worked at a gas station. There used to be this guy that came in with a silver van that said Kaboom! on the side. Turns out, he ran a demolitions company. He'd always sit and chat with us about his destructive creations. It almost seemed like he liked his job a little too much. Nevertheless, he was always interesting to BS with.
All of my spam comes from them too, and the only place I've posted my address is in my PGP key which was uploaded to MIT's keyserver. I have 2 addresses associated with my key, and both started receiving spam at the same time, and neither one got any spam before. It started about 2 days after I uploaded it.
Fucking bastards are pulling addresses from the keyservers. Personally, I'd be scared to be a spammer. If you're sending to millions of people a day, you're bound to find one that has a screw loose and might decide to take revenge upon you. Spammers are the most hated people on the net, and that can't be good for ones personal safety.
The latest CAR magazine (a british mag) has an article on a new chrysler car which has 958bhp.
In any case, I could not find a link to the this car anywhere, but pick up the mag if you get a chance. Oh, and it's less than half the price of the Bugatti.
Cisco certs do not have prereqs. They state on their site that they do, but that's a bunch of BS. You can go straight to the CCIE if you want. I know because I have.
What would the point of this game be? To evade the romans, change history, and never allow the religion to come about? Which would probably go against their beliefs.
Or to find the romans, taunt them, let them beat you, and then die? Which, on the other hand, is usually the opposite point of playing a game.
My doctor scheduled me for an EMG because I had numbness in my arm. I didn't really know what it was. So you can imagine the horror on my face when the nurse is pulling out these 4 inch long needles. I asked her, "what the hell are those for?" And she's like "Oh. The doctor didn't explain? You aren't going to like this."
So the first part of the test, they put electrodes up by my elbow, and then stuck these little thumb tack size needles with wires into that tendon that you can see if you put your palm face down and lift your thumb. They then proceeded to send jolts of electricity directly through the nerves. Then they flipped my arm over and stuck the needles into my wrist and did it some more. Needless to say, it was not fun, but it was the best part.
The second part of the exam involved taking these 4 inch long needles, and sticking them all the way into my bicep, tricep, and the top and bottom of my forearm. They did them one at a time, and once it was all the way in, they had me flex and measured the electrical activity. The tricep and bicep did not hurt that badly, but the pain in the forearm was almost unbearable, the needle hurt going in, sitting there, and being pulled back out. Remember, no local anethetic.
In any case, they were checking for muscle and nerve damage, and there was none. Turns out I had pinched nerves in my neck that were causing it. But that visit to the doc definitely sucked.
I also got a new bed/mattress on the recommendation of my chiropractor as well.
This could be the sole source of most of your results. I had an expensive Serta matress and after 2 years, my back would hurt so bad in the morning I could hardly walk. One morning, I crawled over to my computer and ordered a bed from Abed. Best thing I ever did. Back pain was completely gone after a week, and two years later it hasn't returned.
But, someone else mentioned that neck problems can cause pain in your wrists. Unknown to me, I ruptured 2 discs in my neck. One was pushing on the nerves to my left arm and causing it to go numb, and the other was pushing on my spinal cord and causing chest pain. Doctors really freak out when you say you have chest pain and a numb left arm.
My S4 is on its fourth transmission. Thankfully the previous 3 were covered by warranty because they cost $6800 each. That's $20400 worth of transmissions. Ouch.
FYI, they were all broken by the previous owner, who was a bit hard on them I think.:)
My friend had a candle sitting on the table at his house a few years ago that had a sticker on the bottom which read, and I shit you not, "To extinguish, blow out."
Of course my money is on none of the above. Consumers aren't stupid enough to buy into this DRM crapola. The Apple crowd was the perfect audience for iPod, they are generally artistic types (i.e. not overly rational) with tons of disposbale income and used to being abused in the wallet by Apple. I don't see the WinMX crowd lining up to buy crippled tracks.
So you're saying that windows users are smarter than the mac people? I beg to differ. Think about it for a second... most windows users are just regular people that need a machine for checking email or whatever, a hand-me-down PC for grandma, and corporate users like accountants that know absolutely shit about the internet.
On the other hand, Mac users, which probably much more artistic, are generally more knowledgable about what's going on with the internet and technology. I'm not saying mac users are really smarter, but I think they are overall more plugged in to what's going on. Especially with the advent of OS X, Unix geeks like myself are switching in droves to OS X.
So anyway, your statement that the WinMX crowd won't line up to buy crippled tracks is likely flat out wrong. Ask a 12 year old kid if she'd rather buy the latest NSync album with or without DRM, and first she'll laugh because N-sync was so yesterday, and then she'll laugh because she doesn't have a clue what DRM is. If DRM gave you herpes, Windows users would still buy it.
I'm pretty sure that most of their money comes from licensing the RealServer. It's expensive. I needed to purchase a 100 client license at a previous job, and at the time it was around $30k. And, I think we were getting a discount too.
BTW, RealServer sucks. The Windows version was unusable, and the Linux version needed a restart every couple of weeks or so. I put that in cron, and that fixed it, sorta.:)
In any case, their license for the server is expensive. They had the benefit of being one of the first companies to provide a streaming video solution, but now that everyone else offers something better, and doesn't have nearly as shady business practices, they are SOL.
Does this spell the end of the field of cryptography?
What does this mean? Is this asking if it spells the end of traditional crypto?
I thought the way these quantum devices worked was to simply use quantum crypto to do a key exchange, and then it used that key for AES or whatever, rolling the key frequently. If this is the case, I would think it's far from the end of traditional crypto.
When apple releases software for me to play my purchased iTunes songs on my linux box at work, then I will stop using Playfair. Until then, I will have to continue using it if I want to play the stuff on my linux box.
Think about it, almost all of the DMCA violations that have happened recently are the result of companies not making a DRM solution for the particular platform that people want to use their media on, so someone cracks it.
As others have stated, playfair probably won't contribute much, if any to piracy at all. You have to have the key for the music you are de-drm'ing, which means you've purchased it. If someone releases it on the net, big deal, it's already out there in higher quality mp3 and vorbis formats. If I wanted to spend the time searching for the music to get it for free, I would. But it's more worth my time to pay 99 cents for each track I'm looking for. I avoid getting tracked down by RIAA and sued, and I know that I'm getting a reasonable copy of it.
I read something awhile back that described several of Tesla's inventions.
One of them involved a device that was able to pull and electric charge out of the air somehow for free electricity, though it didn't produce that much, it could still be useful in remote areas.
The other invention involved a power plant, and basically a step-up transformer to get millions of volts. This was then piped directly into the ground via a thick metal pole driven deeply into the ground. The other part of this was a device, possibly on the other side of the planet that would tap into the ground, pick up this high voltage, low current energy, and step it down into usable power.
There was more explanation of it in the article, and apparently there are patents on both of these devices, but they do not provide enough information on how to build your own to play around with.
The article had mentioned that the government was scared of his inventions, because some of them could potentially cause free or unregulated power to the people, and if that happened, the govt would lose control of it and also lose out on major tax money.
Whether it's true or not, Tesla still had some pretty interesting inventions.
Yeah, well I was one of the people ridiculing them for it. Then I played with one and now I have one. Yeah, it's less than 1/4 the capacity of the one for $50 more, but it's actually not in the way at the gym and fits in my pocket better. Well worth the money for the convenience.
Now if only they would come out with wireless sharing on it so I could browse other people's libraries at the gym, that would be sweet.
Recently, I was looking for a new stove for my kitchen remodel. Over the course of 2 weeks, I found 2 DCS 36" ranges. Typically around $5000. Both sellers had several hundred positive feedback. But their previous items were nothing like the stoves, little trinkets and crap. So I figured the accounts were hijacked.
I emailed the sellers, and both of them offered to end the auction early and sell me the item for $3k, and include free shipping. This thing weighs 700 pounds, and one of them said UPS would ship it and hold it until they get the Western Union money transfer. I looked at the headers in the emails, and every one of them came from somewhere different. A portscan of the originating machine revealed that it was an open proxy, and they were using this to use yahoo mail and hotmail.
Needless to say, I didn't send them any money. One of them wanted to use a specific escrow service. I looked at the domain info, and it had been registered only 4 days before. And they only took western union. Shady as hell.
This is why I propose someone start a site called thugs4hire.com. If you get ripped off, you can send someone over from a network of thugs to beat the living crap out of the scammer.
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I actually get more done at home. My home office is nicer much nicer, my chair more comfortable, and my monitor bigger. I can crank up the tunes without bothering anyone. People don't stop by my desk to just chat or otherwise harrass me. I don't have to leave for lunch, and I don't waste an hour in traffic. And the florescent lights at work give me a headache, I can work near a window at home with real actual sunlight coming in.
Most of the people in my company are remote anyway, so being in the office offers no benefit over being at home.
Though, I have noticed that some people really have a hard time getting things done from home. Especially if they have a wife or girlfriend that is there too, or kids. Most people realize though that if they abuse it, it's going to go away, and that would suck.
Anyone ever seen that record player that uses a 3 beam laser to read your vinyl? Wouldn't it just be easier to map the surface of the record with something like this rather than taking a photo?
A rash of chicken rapings has surfaced in NYC. Local authorities are baffled at the clues left behind, which consist of website addresses to popular NYC landmarks. Coincidentally, a chicken is raped at these landmarks only hours later.
Officer Barbrady read a statement to the shocked city, "D D Deeee Deeear... umm, Nothing to see here, move along."
At this point it is unclear who the chickenfucker is and when he'll strike again.
Everyone bitches about shelling out money for an upgrade every year. If you don't like it, don't upgrade. The difference between MS and Apple updates is Apple updates actually have new features. MS's are bugfixes, that's why they are free. Older versions of Apple's OS are still supported. If you want the new features, you would have to pay for them, just like the upgrade from win2k to XP to 2003.
In any case, if you want to save yourself the money, just do what I do and buy a new machine everytime they come out with an OS upgrade. It's just like getting $130 off the price of the machine because it comes with the new OS, and then sell your old box on ebay. As long as you do it every year, you lose almost nothing.
or even in an atmosphere without water
I meant to say "or even in an atmosphere without oxygen".
Oops.
. Non nuclear bombs require oxygen to explode
Bombs carry their own oxidizer. In the case of gunpowder, it's potassium nitrate. Other types of explosives use other things, including potassium chlorate, potassium permangenate, etc. There is not enough oxygen in the air to make something combustable explode on it's own, it will just burn.
Even the old school fuses you see in cartoons going to dynamite have their own oxygen source (usually a string doped with gunpowder). This is why they will burn underwater, or even in an atmosphere without water.
The problem with the rovers carrying explosives, is that the explosives would need to be buried for them to have an effect. Just dropping a stick of dynamite on the surface would cause very little disruption.
When I was like 16, I worked at a gas station. There used to be this guy that came in with a silver van that said Kaboom! on the side. Turns out, he ran a demolitions company. He'd always sit and chat with us about his destructive creations. It almost seemed like he liked his job a little too much. Nevertheless, he was always interesting to BS with.
Yeah, I can't see any reason to waste a perfectly good WRX engine like that either. :)
All of my spam comes from them too, and the only place I've posted my address is in my PGP key which was uploaded to MIT's keyserver. I have 2 addresses associated with my key, and both started receiving spam at the same time, and neither one got any spam before. It started about 2 days after I uploaded it.
Fucking bastards are pulling addresses from the keyservers. Personally, I'd be scared to be a spammer. If you're sending to millions of people a day, you're bound to find one that has a screw loose and might decide to take revenge upon you. Spammers are the most hated people on the net, and that can't be good for ones personal safety.
This might explain why all of the late night NOC guys always have sticky hands. But what would make their palms hairy? hmmm...
The latest CAR magazine (a british mag) has an article on a new chrysler car which has 958bhp.
In any case, I could not find a link to the this car anywhere, but pick up the mag if you get a chance. Oh, and it's less than half the price of the Bugatti.
Cisco certs do not have prereqs. They state on their site that they do, but that's a bunch of BS. You can go straight to the CCIE if you want. I know because I have.
What would the point of this game be? To evade the romans, change history, and never allow the religion to come about? Which would probably go against their beliefs.
Or to find the romans, taunt them, let them beat you, and then die? Which, on the other hand, is usually the opposite point of playing a game.
I'm unsure what the point of this game would be.
This is almost fast enough to be an effective medium for burritos. Mmmm... Chipotle.
EMGs hurt like hell
My doctor scheduled me for an EMG because I had numbness in my arm. I didn't really know what it was. So you can imagine the horror on my face when the nurse is pulling out these 4 inch long needles. I asked her, "what the hell are those for?" And she's like "Oh. The doctor didn't explain? You aren't going to like this."
So the first part of the test, they put electrodes up by my elbow, and then stuck these little thumb tack size needles with wires into that tendon that you can see if you put your palm face down and lift your thumb. They then proceeded to send jolts of electricity directly through the nerves. Then they flipped my arm over and stuck the needles into my wrist and did it some more. Needless to say, it was not fun, but it was the best part.
The second part of the exam involved taking these 4 inch long needles, and sticking them all the way into my bicep, tricep, and the top and bottom of my forearm. They did them one at a time, and once it was all the way in, they had me flex and measured the electrical activity. The tricep and bicep did not hurt that badly, but the pain in the forearm was almost unbearable, the needle hurt going in, sitting there, and being pulled back out. Remember, no local anethetic.
In any case, they were checking for muscle and nerve damage, and there was none. Turns out I had pinched nerves in my neck that were causing it. But that visit to the doc definitely sucked.
I also got a new bed/mattress on the recommendation of my chiropractor as well.
This could be the sole source of most of your results. I had an expensive Serta matress and after 2 years, my back would hurt so bad in the morning I could hardly walk. One morning, I crawled over to my computer and ordered a bed from Abed. Best thing I ever did. Back pain was completely gone after a week, and two years later it hasn't returned.
But, someone else mentioned that neck problems can cause pain in your wrists. Unknown to me, I ruptured 2 discs in my neck. One was pushing on the nerves to my left arm and causing it to go numb, and the other was pushing on my spinal cord and causing chest pain. Doctors really freak out when you say you have chest pain and a numb left arm.
My S4 is on its fourth transmission. Thankfully the previous 3 were covered by warranty because they cost $6800 each. That's $20400 worth of transmissions. Ouch.
:)
FYI, they were all broken by the previous owner, who was a bit hard on them I think.
My friend had a candle sitting on the table at his house a few years ago that had a sticker on the bottom which read, and I shit you not, "To extinguish, blow out."
Of course my money is on none of the above. Consumers aren't stupid enough to buy into this DRM crapola. The Apple crowd was the perfect audience for iPod, they are generally artistic types (i.e. not overly rational) with tons of disposbale income and used to being abused in the wallet by Apple. I don't see the WinMX crowd lining up to buy crippled tracks.
So you're saying that windows users are smarter than the mac people? I beg to differ. Think about it for a second... most windows users are just regular people that need a machine for checking email or whatever, a hand-me-down PC for grandma, and corporate users like accountants that know absolutely shit about the internet.
On the other hand, Mac users, which probably much more artistic, are generally more knowledgable about what's going on with the internet and technology. I'm not saying mac users are really smarter, but I think they are overall more plugged in to what's going on. Especially with the advent of OS X, Unix geeks like myself are switching in droves to OS X.
So anyway, your statement that the WinMX crowd won't line up to buy crippled tracks is likely flat out wrong. Ask a 12 year old kid if she'd rather buy the latest NSync album with or without DRM, and first she'll laugh because N-sync was so yesterday, and then she'll laugh because she doesn't have a clue what DRM is. If DRM gave you herpes, Windows users would still buy it.
I'm pretty sure that most of their money comes from licensing the RealServer. It's expensive. I needed to purchase a 100 client license at a previous job, and at the time it was around $30k. And, I think we were getting a discount too.
:)
BTW, RealServer sucks. The Windows version was unusable, and the Linux version needed a restart every couple of weeks or so. I put that in cron, and that fixed it, sorta.
In any case, their license for the server is expensive. They had the benefit of being one of the first companies to provide a streaming video solution, but now that everyone else offers something better, and doesn't have nearly as shady business practices, they are SOL.
Does this spell the end of the field of cryptography?
What does this mean? Is this asking if it spells the end of traditional crypto?
I thought the way these quantum devices worked was to simply use quantum crypto to do a key exchange, and then it used that key for AES or whatever, rolling the key frequently. If this is the case, I would think it's far from the end of traditional crypto.
When apple releases software for me to play my purchased iTunes songs on my linux box at work, then I will stop using Playfair. Until then, I will have to continue using it if I want to play the stuff on my linux box.
Think about it, almost all of the DMCA violations that have happened recently are the result of companies not making a DRM solution for the particular platform that people want to use their media on, so someone cracks it.
As others have stated, playfair probably won't contribute much, if any to piracy at all. You have to have the key for the music you are de-drm'ing, which means you've purchased it. If someone releases it on the net, big deal, it's already out there in higher quality mp3 and vorbis formats. If I wanted to spend the time searching for the music to get it for free, I would. But it's more worth my time to pay 99 cents for each track I'm looking for. I avoid getting tracked down by RIAA and sued, and I know that I'm getting a reasonable copy of it.
I read something awhile back that described several of Tesla's inventions.
One of them involved a device that was able to pull and electric charge out of the air somehow for free electricity, though it didn't produce that much, it could still be useful in remote areas.
The other invention involved a power plant, and basically a step-up transformer to get millions of volts. This was then piped directly into the ground via a thick metal pole driven deeply into the ground. The other part of this was a device, possibly on the other side of the planet that would tap into the ground, pick up this high voltage, low current energy, and step it down into usable power.
There was more explanation of it in the article, and apparently there are patents on both of these devices, but they do not provide enough information on how to build your own to play around with.
The article had mentioned that the government was scared of his inventions, because some of them could potentially cause free or unregulated power to the people, and if that happened, the govt would lose control of it and also lose out on major tax money.
Whether it's true or not, Tesla still had some pretty interesting inventions.
Yeah, well I was one of the people ridiculing them for it. Then I played with one and now I have one. Yeah, it's less than 1/4 the capacity of the one for $50 more, but it's actually not in the way at the gym and fits in my pocket better. Well worth the money for the convenience.
Now if only they would come out with wireless sharing on it so I could browse other people's libraries at the gym, that would be sweet.
Recently, I was looking for a new stove for my kitchen remodel. Over the course of 2 weeks, I found 2 DCS 36" ranges. Typically around $5000. Both sellers had several hundred positive feedback. But their previous items were nothing like the stoves, little trinkets and crap. So I figured the accounts were hijacked.
I emailed the sellers, and both of them offered to end the auction early and sell me the item for $3k, and include free shipping. This thing weighs 700 pounds, and one of them said UPS would ship it and hold it until they get the Western Union money transfer. I looked at the headers in the emails, and every one of them came from somewhere different. A portscan of the originating machine revealed that it was an open proxy, and they were using this to use yahoo mail and hotmail.
Needless to say, I didn't send them any money. One of them wanted to use a specific escrow service. I looked at the domain info, and it had been registered only 4 days before. And they only took western union. Shady as hell.
This is why I propose someone start a site called thugs4hire.com. If you get ripped off, you can send someone over from a network of thugs to beat the living crap out of the scammer.
Heh, try having a ball of cat fur wrapped in the fan. I was wacking that thing all the time.
Poor kitty.