Just to clarify, the camera is mounted on the front license plate, and it has a limited field of view. Between those two, the final image looks far closer to other traffic than the vehicle actually was. I never tailgated anyone, but I did pass on the right because most drivers are inconsiderate to those who wish to go faster.
A common way is to use what's called "Cap Codes" which are those annoying red dots that show up in single frames. They put them in different frames for different distributions so that it can be tracked back to the source. Because they change the scene, they show up even after being filmed with a camera and being compressed. They're trivially easy to remove from a finished AVI, but most pirates are too lazy to do it.
"The jail sentence is the maximum allowed under the law, due to Carmack's prior felony conviction for fraud in a federal case involving fake money orders, McCarthy said."
Hopefully this implies that the government is realizing that most spammers are already criminals, email is just a new venue to commit the fraud.
We stopped by Binyon's a few weeks ago when they were playing the Super Satellites and it was fun to see the famous stars playing right in front of you.
Poker's a fun game, lots of calculation in your head, you can definately have an advantage if you can calculate odds on the spot. I think that's why many geeks are attracted to it. You also tend to make money based directly on your skills (not in single hands, but averaged out over many hours.) I like poker because it's the only game where you're not playing against the house. You play against other people, who may be better or worse than you. When you play against the house, the house *always* has the advantage.
Just for clarity, hemp does not contain THC, the active chemical in pot. If you try to smoke hemp, it's like smoking any other weed you find in your yard. The only gray part is that hemp plants look visually the exact same as pot plants, so you could grow the illegal stuff mixed in with legal stuff and it makes the DEA's job harder:)
Yes, it would. In addition, acquiring a tape or CD of a song you have on 8-track is not legal. You're not buying the right to the song, you're buying the physical media it comes on.
Unfortunately, more people LOSE money than win. Online poker is a non zero-sum game; the casino takes in a rake. It's no different than a game/sport where there is an entry fee, but most other professional sports don't make the players pay for the honor of playing.
I think that the bandwidth tests don't actually measure the raw throughput, they measure the data received. In that case, 8:1 is correct. They could only check the raw rate by intercepting the packet before the TCP handler gets it (or by assuming padding sizes)
*that* is a really interesting idea. While manually saving files to a mailbox is a pain in the ass, doing it directly in the program makes it easy. How about a NFS type system for gmail? GFS?
SS1 is completely reusable, just refill the rockets (liquid fuel) and you're set. The space shuttle uses solid fuel, which is a lot harder to handle/replace. It's also substantially larger and heavier, and it's reentry heat tiles need more maintenance.
My guess is that SS1 could fly twice in one day if they wanted it to.
How about the option to put it in, for example: A ring A necklace An earring, nose ring, etc. A bracelet A watch
All of these seem a lot safer, putting things under the skin can be really really dangerous. How do you go about getting it out if you're done with it? What if someone clones your id? What if it migrates to somewhere else in your body?
It's times like this that I'm glad we have an FDA here in the US.
One time pad's are *not* secure. First of all, the transmission of the pad also has to be secure. Typically this would be done by an armored carrier, and hand delivered to the destination. Even then, you'd have to manually decode it to make sure that the key wasn't compromised in the computer. The second problem is that you can make any message turn into any other message by changing either the decryption pad.
All of the AES finalists are secure, and they don't have a problem with transmitting the pad.
Bruce Schneier covered why quantum cryptography doesn't solve any security/secrecy problems in his December 15, 2003 Crypto-Gram.
"It's like defending yourself against an approaching attacker by putting a huge stake in the ground. It's useless to argue about whether the stake should be fifty feet tall or a hundred feet tall, because the attacker is going to go around it. Even quantum cryptography doesn't "solve" all of cryptography: the keys are exchanged with photons, but a conventional mathematical algorithm takes over for the actual encryption."
The Berlin Wall was built to *protect* the communists from the evil capitalists. If they really want it to be about safety then they should make it optional, but market the hell out of it.
Well, any live streaming needs to have the packets delivered in a timely matter. BitTorrent works because anyone who has the file can deliver any piece of it to anyone else. I think there would be major problems with the stream, unless you had a mandatory 5 minute delay (or something) to allow the packets to be received out of order and still be rebroadcasted.
The feature can also be disabled in Settings. Personally I can't stand having a flashing i pop up when watching TV, but if you like ads then it's a great addition.
One thing I didn't like about the showcase is when I went to it one time it had a cool car commercial. There were several to choose from so I chose the first one. Then I went back to watch #2, but the ad had already moved on to something irrelevant. Oh well.
It's not thermite, it's run of the mill black powder.
And they're idiots. not only was their premise of "destroy your data" poorly thought out (it's a switch sticking out the side of the laptop, with no safety), but it also probably didn't even damage the hard drive platters.
If you spend your time watching this, at least realize that they are TV personalities who in no way represent real hackers/geeks/anyonewithaclue.
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Nothing about tech in there. Slashdot is more of a cultural center than a technical center.
I was lucky enough to have a press pass. We had to get to Barstow at 5:00am (driving up from LA) which was rough. Driving in the dark along the highway leading to the start, we topped a rise and in the valley below portable lights had been strung up creating an oasis of light. As we got closer we could see the satelite uplink trucks, grandstands, police, and military.
After registering and getting our fancy orange safety vests, we went to the starting line and were able to get some great pictures as the bots prepared to start the race. Red Team (from Carnegie Mellon) had the best qualifying time so they were first out of the gates. Their 3 million dollar hummer started off fast and was quickly out of sight. The four helicopters filming from the air were flying dangerously close to each other trying to get a good shot so it was easy to track where the vehicle was.
SciAutonics II was the next bot out of the gate, the also had a good start and proceeded out of view. About this time we heard the good news, Team Red was seven miles down the course. Soon after we got the bad news, Red Team's vehicle had died. The odds on favorite was eliminated by a mechanical failure after only 7 miles.
Several of the rest of the bots failed to get past the first turn, and the rest either withdrew or failed within a few miles. The six wheeled ENSCO lost control, ran up the embankment, and overturned. Of the 100+ teams who built bots, 25 were invited to qualify, 15 of those were allowed to race, and only 7 of those made it more than a mile.
All in all it was an excellent experience. My suggestions for next year (or for the openchallenge, etc) would be to do the race in segments like the WRC does. Divide the 200 mile race into 10 mile segments, teams get points based on their performance for the stage. If you fail a stage you're not eliminated, you just fall in the rankings. Teams are allowed an hour of maintenance between stages to fix any problems they think they can fix. This would make it both a lot more interesting, and a lot more satisfying.
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Just to clarify, the camera is mounted on the front license plate, and it has a limited field of view. Between those two, the final image looks far closer to other traffic than the vehicle actually was. I never tailgated anyone, but I did pass on the right because most drivers are inconsiderate to those who wish to go faster.
A common way is to use what's called "Cap Codes" which are those annoying red dots that show up in single frames. They put them in different frames for different distributions so that it can be tracked back to the source. Because they change the scene, they show up even after being filmed with a camera and being compressed. They're trivially easy to remove from a finished AVI, but most pirates are too lazy to do it.
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I prefer the hands on touch you only get with hired goons.
"The jail sentence is the maximum allowed under the law, due to Carmack's prior felony conviction for fraud in a federal case involving fake money orders, McCarthy said."
Hopefully this implies that the government is realizing that most spammers are already criminals, email is just a new venue to commit the fraud.
We stopped by Binyon's a few weeks ago when they were playing the Super Satellites and it was fun to see the famous stars playing right in front of you.
Poker's a fun game, lots of calculation in your head, you can definately have an advantage if you can calculate odds on the spot. I think that's why many geeks are attracted to it. You also tend to make money based directly on your skills (not in single hands, but averaged out over many hours.) I like poker because it's the only game where you're not playing against the house. You play against other people, who may be better or worse than you. When you play against the house, the house *always* has the advantage.
Just for clarity, hemp does not contain THC, the active chemical in pot. If you try to smoke hemp, it's like smoking any other weed you find in your yard. The only gray part is that hemp plants look visually the exact same as pot plants, so you could grow the illegal stuff mixed in with legal stuff and it makes the DEA's job harder :)
Yes, it would. In addition, acquiring a tape or CD of a song you have on 8-track is not legal. You're not buying the right to the song, you're buying the physical media it comes on.
Unfortunately, more people LOSE money than win. Online poker is a non zero-sum game; the casino takes in a rake. It's no different than a game/sport where there is an entry fee, but most other professional sports don't make the players pay for the honor of playing.
I think that the bandwidth tests don't actually measure the raw throughput, they measure the data received. In that case, 8:1 is correct. They could only check the raw rate by intercepting the packet before the TCP handler gets it (or by assuming padding sizes)
Surfing on lava? SURFING ON LAVA? I guess we're in store for another gripping special effects movie which utterly bores anyone over 8 years old.
Now, if they fired Lucas and made the Zahn books into movies then they could rekindle the franchise, but Lucas would never allow that.
*that* is a really interesting idea. While manually saving files to a mailbox is a pain in the ass, doing it directly in the program makes it easy. How about a NFS type system for gmail? GFS?
Wow, where's the in-flight video? One great thing about Armadillo is that they have a ton of detail online, including lots of pictures and videos.
SS1 is completely reusable, just refill the rockets (liquid fuel) and you're set. The space shuttle uses solid fuel, which is a lot harder to handle/replace. It's also substantially larger and heavier, and it's reentry heat tiles need more maintenance.
My guess is that SS1 could fly twice in one day if they wanted it to.
That was *not* funny. It's so close to reality it's just sad. :)
Seriously though, school should be a place where we teach people, not where we let whatever is trendy rule.
How about the option to put it in, for example:
A ring
A necklace
An earring, nose ring, etc.
A bracelet
A watch
All of these seem a lot safer, putting things under the skin can be really really dangerous. How do you go about getting it out if you're done with it? What if someone clones your id? What if it migrates to somewhere else in your body?
It's times like this that I'm glad we have an FDA here in the US.
I believe the X is for "experimental", as in "x-1" which Chuck Yeager flew in to break the sound barrier.
One time pad's are *not* secure. First of all, the transmission of the pad also has to be secure. Typically this would be done by an armored carrier, and hand delivered to the destination. Even then, you'd have to manually decode it to make sure that the key wasn't compromised in the computer. The second problem is that you can make any message turn into any other message by changing either the decryption pad.
All of the AES finalists are secure, and they don't have a problem with transmitting the pad.
Bruce Schneier covered why quantum cryptography doesn't solve any security/secrecy problems in his December 15, 2003 Crypto-Gram.
"It's like defending yourself against an approaching attacker by putting a huge stake in the ground. It's useless to argue about whether the stake should be fifty feet tall or a hundred feet tall, because the attacker is going to go around it. Even quantum cryptography doesn't "solve" all of cryptography: the keys are exchanged with photons, but a conventional mathematical algorithm takes over for the actual encryption."
ainsible.
The Berlin Wall was built to *protect* the communists from the evil capitalists. If they really want it to be about safety then they should make it optional, but market the hell out of it.
Well, any live streaming needs to have the packets delivered in a timely matter. BitTorrent works because anyone who has the file can deliver any piece of it to anyone else. I think there would be major problems with the stream, unless you had a mandatory 5 minute delay (or something) to allow the packets to be received out of order and still be rebroadcasted.
The feature can also be disabled in Settings. Personally I can't stand having a flashing i pop up when watching TV, but if you like ads then it's a great addition.
One thing I didn't like about the showcase is when I went to it one time it had a cool car commercial. There were several to choose from so I chose the first one. Then I went back to watch #2, but the ad had already moved on to something irrelevant. Oh well.
It's not thermite, it's run of the mill black powder.
And they're idiots. not only was their premise of "destroy your data" poorly thought out (it's a switch sticking out the side of the laptop, with no safety), but it also probably didn't even damage the hard drive platters.
If you spend your time watching this, at least realize that they are TV personalities who in no way represent real hackers/geeks/anyonewithaclue.
News for Nerds. Stuff that matters.
Nothing about tech in there. Slashdot is more of a cultural center than a technical center.
I was lucky enough to have a press pass. We had to get to Barstow at 5:00am (driving up from LA) which was rough. Driving in the dark along the highway leading to the start, we topped a rise and in the valley below portable lights had been strung up creating an oasis of light. As we got closer we could see the satelite uplink trucks, grandstands, police, and military.
After registering and getting our fancy orange safety vests, we went to the starting line and were able to get some great pictures as the bots prepared to start the race. Red Team (from Carnegie Mellon) had the best qualifying time so they were first out of the gates. Their 3 million dollar hummer started off fast and was quickly out of sight. The four helicopters filming from the air were flying dangerously close to each other trying to get a good shot so it was easy to track where the vehicle was.
SciAutonics II was the next bot out of the gate, the also had a good start and proceeded out of view. About this time we heard the good news, Team Red was seven miles down the course. Soon after we got the bad news, Red Team's vehicle had died. The odds on favorite was eliminated by a mechanical failure after only 7 miles.
Several of the rest of the bots failed to get past the first turn, and the rest either withdrew or failed within a few miles. The six wheeled ENSCO lost control, ran up the embankment, and overturned. Of the 100+ teams who built bots, 25 were invited to qualify, 15 of those were allowed to race, and only 7 of those made it more than a mile.
All in all it was an excellent experience. My suggestions for next year (or for the openchallenge, etc) would be to do the race in segments like the WRC does. Divide the 200 mile race into 10 mile segments, teams get points based on their performance for the stage. If you fail a stage you're not eliminated, you just fall in the rankings. Teams are allowed an hour of maintenance between stages to fix any problems they think they can fix. This would make it both a lot more interesting, and a lot more satisfying.