Even if the network is switched, one could just use a simple ARP poisoning tool such as ettercap to poison the MAC address table and make the switch go into "hub mode".
Any high quality switch wouldn't do that. It would just shut off th two offending ports and be done with it.
Hehe.
Heard about bogosort?
Use random permutations and check if you have the data sorted.
The many-worlds version of bogosort is the fastest possible sorting algorithm though. Its O(C). For those that don't know, the many-worlds version just does one random permutation, with a new universe being created for each possible outcome of the permutation. You then destroy all the universes were the dataset isn't sorted.
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I've read Manifold Time and Manifold Space, and while interesting, they didn't really engage me. The two books of his that I've read and really enjoyed were The Time Ships, his authorized sequel to H.G. Wells' The Time Machine, and Vacuum Diagrams, a collection of short stories set in the Xeelee Sequence mentioned in the review.
If you're poor, how do you pay the debt?
Answer: You don't. You tell the idiots who accepted somebody else as you that they're shit out of luck getting any money out of you and they'd better start looking for the guy who took them to the cleaners.,/I>
And then you watch as you are declined every single loan, bank account, and credit card you apply for in the next 15 years. Identity theft can make your life hell whether or not you actually have any money to steal.
since carbon 14 decays into gaseous nitrogen 14, the amount of carbon 14 in the wood originally is unknown.
Wrong. For anything younger than 20,000 years old we know the ratio of C12 to C14 from direct measurements of tree rings or lake sediment samples. You just use the amount of C12 currently in the sample to figure out how much C14 was in the sample when it stopped respirating.
Its *not* a uniform event. The production rates of carbon-14 vary over time due to flucuations in cosmic ray output of the Sun. That is the reason that we are currently not at equilibrium (production of carbon-14 equals decay). Of course creationists like to use the fact that we aren't at equilibrium to claim that the earth couldn't be more than 30,000 years old by extrapolating back using the *current* production rates, while convieniently ignoring the fact that rates change. Anyway, we have a method for finding out what the production rates were in the past and using that to correct our dating. That method is to date objects that we know the age of, such as fossilized trees where we can date each ring separately, or core samples from certain lakes where there are periodic sedimentation layers.
Since data sent equals data recieved within a BT swarm, and some people will act as seeders and continue to send more data than they recieved, you will always have people who will simply not have the opportunity to contribute to the swarm, mostly at the tail end.
He's talking about the whole swarm. If you recieved 2GB, that means that someone else sent 2GB. This isn't fucking rocket science.
You are neglecting air resistance. The limiting factor for top speed *is* acceleration, because you have to combat air resistance. The more acceleration you can get out of the tires, the more air you can push out of the way while maintaining speed. The friction of the tire is negligable compared to air resistance which goes up as the cube of the velocity IIRC.
The problem then is that Oklahoma is taxing too much in total. It has nothing to do with the fact that they are collect that tax through an income tax. For the same amount of taxing, income taxes are *far* better than sales taxes or property taxes, as they are the most progressive, which encourages economic growth.
Thank god that most states now have no state tax. Some of the worst states like Oklahoma still live off the fat of their constituents, but Texas does not. Oklahoma is thankfully in the minority when it comes to state income tax. You can live better in Texas with an Oklahoma wage than you can with that same money in OK.
Don't be an idiot. States having income taxes is a very good thing. It means they can have lower sales taxes. Its trading a very regressive tax for a progressive tax. Plus you get to deduct your state income tax from your federal income tax which makes it even more progressive.
The command line was just a demonstration of the vulnerability, not exploit code. All it was supposed to do was segfault. The attached gdb output shows that the 'A's overwrote one of the return addresses on the stack frame. That means it might be possible to jump to an arbitrary memory address and execute code, as root I might add.
You must not be very familiar with the latest filesharing trends. I see people trading DVD-Rs all the time over regular broadband. I'd wager that for every 4 DivX, XviD, or MSMPEG4 videos out there, there is 1 DVD-R, at least on the torrent sites I visit.
Well then you haven't seen very many sci-fi movies. Hell, even Total Recall was better than The Matrix. It asked the same tired old questions that The Matrix did, but framed them far more subtly and elegantly.
If you have even an inkling of concern about the judgement or trustworthiness of someone in that position, you replace them.
And that is exactly the problem. The attitude that employees are expendable at a manager's tiniest whim is abhorrent. Employees are only supposed to be fireable for cause, but of course Microsoft (as well as many other companies) have gotten around that with "temps" who work full time without benefits or protections of being real employees.
What was the last version of OS X you ran on your iMac? The first couple point releases were dogs on older machines, but Jaguar made great strides in that area, and from what I hear, Panther goes even further. However, I think the grandparent was talking about the UI, not the performance. You have to admit, the Jaguar UI is far better than Gnome, KDE, or any other Linux UI.
AFAIK, local PBS stations are entirely supported by viewers. They then use the money viewers give them to purchase programming from other PBS stations or from BBC, etc. To my knowledge, there is not and never has been a national PBS network that receives funding from the federal government.
Well, you don't know very far then. All PBS and NPR stations are supported by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting which gets quite a bit of money from the federal government.
He spent 6 hours espousing the virtue of Open source programming, comparing open source developers to dogs who know their territory, among other things.
To be fair, at least 2 hours of that was the audience arguing with him. I was there too.
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Any high quality switch wouldn't do that. It would just shut off th two offending ports and be done with it.
The many-worlds version of bogosort is the fastest possible sorting algorithm though. Its O(C). For those that don't know, the many-worlds version just does one random permutation, with a new universe being created for each possible outcome of the permutation. You then destroy all the universes were the dataset isn't sorted.
I've read Manifold Time and Manifold Space, and while interesting, they didn't really engage me. The two books of his that I've read and really enjoyed were The Time Ships, his authorized sequel to H.G. Wells' The Time Machine, and Vacuum Diagrams, a collection of short stories set in the Xeelee Sequence mentioned in the review.
How is it that no one has mentioned Cyan Software yet? They are the makers of Myst and that uber-classic, The Manhole.
And then you watch as you are declined every single loan, bank account, and credit card you apply for in the next 15 years. Identity theft can make your life hell whether or not you actually have any money to steal.
Wrong. For anything younger than 20,000 years old we know the ratio of C12 to C14 from direct measurements of tree rings or lake sediment samples. You just use the amount of C12 currently in the sample to figure out how much C14 was in the sample when it stopped respirating.
Its *not* a uniform event. The production rates of carbon-14 vary over time due to flucuations in cosmic ray output of the Sun. That is the reason that we are currently not at equilibrium (production of carbon-14 equals decay). Of course creationists like to use the fact that we aren't at equilibrium to claim that the earth couldn't be more than 30,000 years old by extrapolating back using the *current* production rates, while convieniently ignoring the fact that rates change. Anyway, we have a method for finding out what the production rates were in the past and using that to correct our dating. That method is to date objects that we know the age of, such as fossilized trees where we can date each ring separately, or core samples from certain lakes where there are periodic sedimentation layers.
Since data sent equals data recieved within a BT swarm, and some people will act as seeders and continue to send more data than they recieved, you will always have people who will simply not have the opportunity to contribute to the swarm, mostly at the tail end.
He's talking about the whole swarm. If you recieved 2GB, that means that someone else sent 2GB. This isn't fucking rocket science.
You're an idiot. If you downloaded 2 GB from the BT swarm, then some person or persons must have uploaded that 2 GB to you.
You are neglecting air resistance. The limiting factor for top speed *is* acceleration, because you have to combat air resistance. The more acceleration you can get out of the tires, the more air you can push out of the way while maintaining speed. The friction of the tire is negligable compared to air resistance which goes up as the cube of the velocity IIRC.
The problem then is that Oklahoma is taxing too much in total. It has nothing to do with the fact that they are collect that tax through an income tax. For the same amount of taxing, income taxes are *far* better than sales taxes or property taxes, as they are the most progressive, which encourages economic growth.
Thank god that most states now have no state tax. Some of the worst states like Oklahoma still live off the fat of their constituents, but Texas does not. Oklahoma is thankfully in the minority when it comes to state income tax. You can live better in Texas with an Oklahoma wage than you can with that same money in OK. Don't be an idiot. States having income taxes is a very good thing. It means they can have lower sales taxes. Its trading a very regressive tax for a progressive tax. Plus you get to deduct your state income tax from your federal income tax which makes it even more progressive.
The patents Microsoft holds for FAT only cover their long filename techniques. If you don't use long filenames, you have nothing to worry about.
The command line was just a demonstration of the vulnerability, not exploit code. All it was supposed to do was segfault. The attached gdb output shows that the 'A's overwrote one of the return addresses on the stack frame. That means it might be possible to jump to an arbitrary memory address and execute code, as root I might add.
Well, yeah. If your parents didn't have any kids, then the chances are that you won't either.
You must not be very familiar with the latest filesharing trends. I see people trading DVD-Rs all the time over regular broadband. I'd wager that for every 4 DivX, XviD, or MSMPEG4 videos out there, there is 1 DVD-R, at least on the torrent sites I visit.
Well then you haven't seen very many sci-fi movies. Hell, even Total Recall was better than The Matrix. It asked the same tired old questions that The Matrix did, but framed them far more subtly and elegantly.
And that is exactly the problem. The attitude that employees are expendable at a manager's tiniest whim is abhorrent. Employees are only supposed to be fireable for cause, but of course Microsoft (as well as many other companies) have gotten around that with "temps" who work full time without benefits or protections of being real employees.
Maybe a trademark infringement suit is in order.
What was the last version of OS X you ran on your iMac? The first couple point releases were dogs on older machines, but Jaguar made great strides in that area, and from what I hear, Panther goes even further. However, I think the grandparent was talking about the UI, not the performance. You have to admit, the Jaguar UI is far better than Gnome, KDE, or any other Linux UI.
Well, you don't know very far then. All PBS and NPR stations are supported by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting which gets quite a bit of money from the federal government.
Riight. And that one changed pixel is going to stay there when rippers reencode to SVCD or DivX while changing resolutions and bitrates. Sheesh.
To be fair, at least 2 hours of that was the audience arguing with him. I was there too.
No. The cult following was attracted to the announced gameplay features, and simply to Bungie in general.
I've wrote a couple carts for NES emulators, does that count?