Yeah, sadly I read it as that too. This _is_ slashdot, and "pron" comes up a lot more than "prion", so it's just your brain's BPU doing it's best to keep your pipeline full:)
This is interesting to know. I've been taking a regular nap (regular during the school year) every day, and I've always been told how bad that is. I feel good, and I'm not missing anything important, so I never saw how it was bad....
Sleep Class Work Sleep Code Repeat
Was my schedule. Good to nap before you code otherwise you're lazy and don't do things properly. (i.e. they NEED cots in Redmond...)
I do drink too much coffee, but I have way too much stuff to do in way too little time, so I always sleep very well at night.
Coffee for me keeps me very alert during the day (good for proving theorems and taking notes in booooring classes), but I don't have any problem sleeping at night. I wish I could sleep fewer hours, though. Oh well:)
Why do all these people in China get idea-protection in the US? Can't they *gasp* get a Chinese patent instead?
Or come work (and pay taxes) over here instead?
(If you're an innovator, I have no idea why you would want to work in China anyway. Sounds like if you come up with something the government doesn't like your family mysteriously disappears one night.)
You're right about this. Patents are a good idea, but leave it to big companies to fuck over whatever meaning they once had. Now I think it would be better for society (and specifically OSS people like me) to just do without them. Too bad for Apple if someone steals their (good) idea for spring loaded folders or the ipod's click wheel.
It's like driving while using a cell phone. A few people can't do it, so now everyone suffers (i.e. a few people died, now it's illegal). M$ can't play nice, so everyone loses their privleges. Sad state of affairs, really.
I have to say that I would probably ruin my monitor and keyboard with coffee spewing from my nose if I read "Today, DNA pioneer Francis Crick went tits up."
Even on slashdot. But if it was CNN I would probably pass out (or board the rofl-copter, as my friend says).
Maybe someone from your subnet was dicking around? Happened to me, but I got it back... and renewed my subscription so I could yell at them if it happened again ("As a paid subscriber...").
This is a case of the Apple zealots^W fanboys coming out. If this were M$, and an independent developer, say, got Linux to run on the xbox, and M$ didn't like it, we would all be cheering on the independent developer. Why shouldn't Real be allowed to do this? Why can only Linux people we like reverse engineer things?
Look, Real is 100% in the right here. Apple fucked them, and they're doing things their own way now. Apple is pissed, because... I don't know. Now they can't lock you into iTMS? Now you'll have two music stores to fill up your iPod with?
I don't really see the problem. Apple screwed up, and they shouldn't whine about it like babies. They've had the most popular music player for years, why wouldn't someone else want to capatilize on that? Wake up, Apple.
Heh, that's what's great about stuff that's not yours. If it breaks, it fucks someone else. Even if you pulled a 60kV arc between that CPU and the mobo you wouldn't have cared. That's a good feeling:)
> Don't try this at home it might kill you and will if your stupid enough.
I just measured my resistance from my hand to ground as about 1 megaohm (2 if i'm in my chair, infinity if i'm jumping...). By ohm's law, 240V / 1 megaohm = 0.24mA
0.24mA won't kill you.
Now if you jab the electrodes into your heart you might get 1.2A over your heart, and that will kill it. But the stabbing killed you first.
According to http://hypertextbook.com/facts/2000/JackHsu.shtml, you need 15mA to lose muscle control. Assuming the resistance between my hands is about 600Kohms (which it is), I would need 9000 volts to achieve this.
If I'm only touching one wire (I'm grounded, and the wire I'm touching isn't), then I need 15kV. So it's pretty hard to hurt yourself with DC.
AC is different due to the body's power factor (I guess), and you need a bit less current to lose muscle control, but more to kill (I _think_).
Anyway people die because they play with more than 15kV. Tesla coils are at least 60kV. 15kV makes X-rays, though. Fun stuff...
1) Walk past product that you want to pay for. 2) Walk to item that you want to take home:) 3) *zap* the embedded RFID tag just got zapped (13.56MHz isn't microwave, is it?) 4) Program a new RFID tag with the item in step 1 5) Insert that new RFID tag into the item's packaging 6) "Buy" item 2
Slashdot Mirror
Yeah, sadly I read it as that too. This _is_ slashdot, and "pron" comes up a lot more than "prion", so it's just your brain's BPU doing it's best to keep your pipeline full :)
> Ok kidding.
No, really?
This is interesting to know. I've been taking a regular nap (regular during the school year) every day, and I've always been told how bad that is. I feel good, and I'm not missing anything important, so I never saw how it was bad....
Sleep
Class
Work
Sleep
Code
Repeat
Was my schedule. Good to nap before you code otherwise you're lazy and don't do things properly. (i.e. they NEED cots in Redmond...)
I do drink too much coffee, but I have way too much stuff to do in way too little time, so I always sleep very well at night.
:)
Coffee for me keeps me very alert during the day (good for proving theorems and taking notes in booooring classes), but I don't have any problem sleeping at night. I wish I could sleep fewer hours, though. Oh well
Why do all these people in China get idea-protection in the US? Can't they *gasp* get a Chinese patent instead?
Or come work (and pay taxes) over here instead?
(If you're an innovator, I have no idea why you would want to work in China anyway. Sounds like if you come up with something the government doesn't like your family mysteriously disappears one night.)
> Patents are a joke, and they need reform.
You're right about this. Patents are a good idea, but leave it to big companies to fuck over whatever meaning they once had. Now I think it would be better for society (and specifically OSS people like me) to just do without them. Too bad for Apple if someone steals their (good) idea for spring loaded folders or the ipod's click wheel.
It's like driving while using a cell phone. A few people can't do it, so now everyone suffers (i.e. a few people died, now it's illegal). M$ can't play nice, so everyone loses their privleges. Sad state of affairs, really.
Yeah, Nautilus has a "sort by date" option. Works for regular files too...
X_X
I have to say that I would probably ruin my monitor and keyboard with coffee spewing from my nose if I read "Today, DNA pioneer Francis Crick went tits up."
Even on slashdot. But if it was CNN I would probably pass out (or board the rofl-copter, as my friend says).
What's interesting is that "SCO are a bunch of *" yields more results than "SCO is a bunch of *". Has everyone stopped using American English!?!?
Here's an amuzing example: * is my favorite word
:)
Then again "is my favorite word" works too, so this isn't the best example. But it's still funny
You mean something like a Wikipedia article about Slashdot?
Didya email them?
Maybe someone from your subnet was dicking around? Happened to me, but I got it back... and renewed my subscription so I could yell at them if it happened again ("As a paid subscriber...").
This is a case of the Apple zealots^W fanboys coming out. If this were M$, and an independent developer, say, got Linux to run on the xbox, and M$ didn't like it, we would all be cheering on the independent developer. Why shouldn't Real be allowed to do this? Why can only Linux people we like reverse engineer things?
Look, Real is 100% in the right here. Apple fucked them, and they're doing things their own way now. Apple is pissed, because... I don't know. Now they can't lock you into iTMS? Now you'll have two music stores to fill up your iPod with?
I don't really see the problem. Apple screwed up, and they shouldn't whine about it like babies. They've had the most popular music player for years, why wouldn't someone else want to capatilize on that? Wake up, Apple.
Uh Andy, what about... "Ying" or whatever Dan named his laptop?
Calling it she is one thing, naming it after a girl that rejected you is just... odd.
The girl knows about it, too (and stays very very far away from her namesake laptop's owner as a result).
I was just about to post this story... about... my friend.... yes... friend...
:)
Just for reference, the iMac (and NIC that got 120VAC) still works to this day. I'm typing on it right now.
That attempt for destruction just didn't go right. Didn't break the managed switch that we "didn't" plug it into, either
Well Linux has a lot of workarounds for bad hardware (f00f bug, etc.)
Oh thanks. I just pulled the caps out of an old PSU. Now I'm going to have to goruin them on mains power... :D
Heh, that's what's great about stuff that's not yours. If it breaks, it fucks someone else. Even if you pulled a 60kV arc between that CPU and the mobo you wouldn't have cared. That's a good feeling :)
> Don't try this at home it might kill you and will if your stupid enough.
, you need 15mA to lose muscle control. Assuming the resistance between my hands is about 600Kohms (which it is), I would need 9000 volts to achieve this.
I just measured my resistance from my hand to ground as about 1 megaohm (2 if i'm in my chair, infinity if i'm jumping...). By ohm's law, 240V / 1 megaohm = 0.24mA
0.24mA won't kill you.
Now if you jab the electrodes into your heart you might get 1.2A over your heart, and that will kill it. But the stabbing killed you first.
According to http://hypertextbook.com/facts/2000/JackHsu.shtml
If I'm only touching one wire (I'm grounded, and the wire I'm touching isn't), then I need 15kV. So it's pretty hard to hurt yourself with DC.
AC is different due to the body's power factor (I guess), and you need a bit less current to lose muscle control, but more to kill (I _think_).
Anyway people die because they play with more than 15kV. Tesla coils are at least 60kV. 15kV makes X-rays, though. Fun stuff...
Now this makes sense.
:)
:)
1) Walk past product that you want to pay for.
2) Walk to item that you want to take home
3) *zap* the embedded RFID tag just got zapped (13.56MHz isn't microwave, is it?)
4) Program a new RFID tag with the item in step 1
5) Insert that new RFID tag into the item's packaging
6) "Buy" item 2
I like this. So easy and so fun
I love "smart" cards. The old replay attack never fails...
:)
1) Dump the card's image to a file.
2) Buy stuff.
3) Reflash the card.
4) Profit!!
No ???? step, either. Good stuff. You'd think that someone would design around this, but it is yet to happen
I liked his replies when he was uncovered... "I never posted anything saying I died."
:)
That's pretty hard to do when you're dead, Sal.
"Hi I'm dead! Give me^H^H my wife some money. I really am dead!"
I love people. They're so amuzing
And chromium. That's what I use to test OpenAL when I'm hacking on it...
Crackdown my ass. I bet that nobody in power really cares. Or can really do anything. Nobody owns the internet (too fucking bad for them, isn't it).
Besides, if you intend to share this stuff, you should be using Freenet anyway. No encryption key = no data.
It's not? Touche, Rupert...