I can tell you this system has no value. Baltimore's tourism is on the decline, simply because there is no reason to come here.
The Baltimore Inner Harbor is a tuorist attraction. I suspect this has more to do with making people feel safe than it does preventing crime.
The inner harbor for those tho don't know is a safe place of stadiums, shops, resrataunts, and hotels, and a few night clubs along the cove that Baltimore is nestled in. It is very open, you can see clear to the other side, lest a ship be blocking your view. It streches from the science center (next to the stadiums) to Bars & Noble, the Hard Rock Cafe and EPSNZone. Then you cross President Street, and get into Little Italy which leads to Canton (safe) and Fells Point (not as safe, but safe enough for drunken bar hopping). These 3 places are the 3 safest in the entire city.
I live 15 minutes from the IH, but I have a coworker that lives there, next to ESPN zone. It is a very trendy place being built up for the 20-30 something crowd.
Ther must be tens of thousands of people a day that walk through there. On the summer weekends it is packed. I have no idea how the hell they'd catch anyone even if they got them on tape. I can make it out of the city and into the county in about 10 minutes, at which point it is only 30 more minutes to PA.
So now you have 2 desktops, KDE and GNOME and run apps of both. So you have to have all the libraries for both loaded. So you get two libraries that do the same thing in memory.
We need to see more 1-desktop distros. Move choice from the user or application to distro, where the user will select the distro. That is where choice belongs.
This though creates a big problem. Now you have to write apps for KDE or GNOME, and you limit your customer base. Unless you use.Net or Java.
Clearly choice is hurting the consumer here, not helping one bit. I think the GNOME people should realize that C++ is the language of GUIs, and take the KDE plunge.
The alternative is to do one of the following: 1) Create a core C library that both KDE/Qt and GNOME use. This will only cause redundant binding to be in memory. or 2) Create GNOME apps only in C++, and link through to KDE/Qt or 3) drop GNOME
These are the only acceptible solutions to commercial (and non commercial) developers. Actually these three methods are each wins, and improve the situation for everyone.
With a 57 deg gradient, I have to think that a pad that size should be able to reclaim some energy, a la peltier effect. With todays tech, it might not be much, maybe enough to extend battery live a minute - but it is a start.
I firmly believe that devices of the future will attempt to reclaim whatever energy they can, which would go a long way. I forsee our kids looking back and thinking how wasteful we were, we would just let heat go off into the atmosphere without converting some of it back to usable energy.
Well she could be following me... But what girls wouldn't want to be asked for their #? And the other issue is how do I get it? Have her tap it out in morse code on ther headlights? lol. No, that last one is just for fucking with their heads. Hey, it never hurts to make someone feel good about themselves, to feel desired. Not everyone is lucky enough to have that.
That's exactly my point. I want only a few phrases, I think a BASIC stamp will work:
"You seem to like my rear end. Want a piece of it?" "Your turn signal is STILL on" "You are being recorded" "Left lane for passing" "Speed limit is 55" "Speed limit is 65" "Get off the phone and pay attention" "You're cute, what's your #?:)"
Well, see my follow-up reply about it becoming available for Win32. The problem with Moz is there is no GUI designer, so that's a lot of manual typing to get a form.
I for one in this day and age, think that computers should serve us, not the other way around. XML is ok, as long as you don't need to write in it. is more for computers than humans.
I don't program for the sake of programming, I program to get something done. KJSEmbed allows me to do that with a minimum of fuss, and soon in a cross-platform manner.
I can't belive that people don;t see NetZero's business mode being applied. Free internet with ads, or pay and you don't get ads, it's that simple. Since most WiFis are NATs, you can inject a add into a connection here and there, either by connection hijacking or by proxy.
Another solution is a sign-on page that moves you from a goes-no where vlan to an internet accessible vlan, and back again after a certain time. The sign-on page has he ad. So they know you will see it, and they can even put the login information into the ad, so you have to see it.
Javascript is standard, you're going to have to learn that no matter if you use Mozilla, KDE, or IE.
QtDesigner is trivially easy. A VB programmer can be making dialogs in 0.1 minutes. The one thing they will need to het the hand of is layouts - because Dev Studio doesn't have them, you have to do the coordinate math yourself on the resize() WM_SIZE handler. So the time spent learing layout is actualyl time saved from friting code rempating controls.
Yes, the K* and Q* classes are a learnign curve. However as a former MFC guru, I really like them more. The interface is cleaner, and portable. I forgot to mention that there is a kjsemebd win32 version coming out of Qt-Only stuff (Q*). So as long as you stick the the non-KDE stuff your stuff will run on Mac, KDE or Win32.
I never had to learn DCOM, (did you mean DCOP) and it is reivially easy. There is an application that will tell you what DCOP interfaces are exposed by an app, by inspecting the app.
I use this host file to just kill all network access to known add hosts:
http://accs-net.com/hosts/
It makes the add server resolve back to you, so unless you are running a web server you get connection refused, and if you are running a web server, a 404. I like this because it doesn't waste my bandwidth as much (not tha tit ia lot to start with...)
It's not called Konqueror, it's called KJSEmbed, and is shipped with kde3.2. One of the components is kjscmd, which gives general javascripting to KDE. This means that you can access K* and Q* classes and write programs in javascript. It also supports DCOP so it is an easy RAD (rapid application development) and integration tool.
Couple this with Factory.loadui(uifile) call, where you can load a QtDesigner.ui file (a XML dialog) created at design time and you have one fast RAD tool.
// create variables that map to the widgets var dlg=Factory.loadui("square.ui"); var okButton = dlg.child("buttonOk"); var calcButton = dlg.child("buttonCalc"); var xValLineEdit = dlg.child("xVal");
Since Farnsworth said at the horse track when his horse lost in a photo finish: "No fair! you changed the outcome by measuring it."
It was that day that I knew that Futurama was for me, since I figure the vast majority of casual viewers watching it would not have a clue. The fact that they thew a quantum computing reference out there that would be above 99% of the viewers told me this show was different, and it was for me. It takes balls to do jokes that the majority of people won't get. And that earns my respect... That and the numerous Rush references...
We can't even fix it now, but imagine is everyone lived forever. In 70 years we went from 3 people putting in for every person taking out. We are now less than 1.1: 1, with baby boomers coming of retirement age it'll drop big and quickly. We are going to be fubar now. Well, I won't, but I'll be missing a nice chunk of money that is rightfully mine. I'm already looking at being 70 before I retire, and in the computer industry, that's not good.
Fine then, I just have to get a boat and find an employer along the bay!;-)
I was under the impresstion tha tthe ultralight aircraft catagory (250lbs) was un regulated..?
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Check out Konq-E. (Konquereor Embedded) It is stripped down Konq that runs against Qt and some stub KDE classes. Works really well! It renders web pages better than Moz, and for the performce/space/features it can't be beat, except for a few co mmercial offerings.. Oh yeah, did i mention full JAVASCRIPT? And it is based off of Konquerer 3.2!
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I have to drive 30 miles to work on some of the most congested roads. Without traffic, it takes 30 minuts, on a day with a avgerage-substantial amount of traffic it takes 1:45.
This has me seriously looking into helicopters. You can get them about about $20,000, but the licensing and all will cost another 50k.
There are some 1-person ultra small helicopters that you don't need a license for, these are ~50k, but don't need a license. The smaller ones have much smaller rotors, and I could land them in the parking lot at work. I'd still have to fill up the same amount and on the same scedule though. So no gas savings, but I get 2-3 hours of my day back.
I thought you go camping to get away from all the technology and husle and bustle of modern life. I mean, that's the only logical conclusion unless lack of climate control, mosquitos, spiders, bears and scorpions are considered "worth-while" to experience first-hand.
Maybe you mean RVing?
I'd look at a simple WiFi router and some HAM radio equiment to do it on the cheap. Remember, Linux kernels can do that kind of thing;-) I dunno if you can find a HAM ISP though.
This is crazy. You're talking about millions of gallons of water. Do you know how much it'll take to pollute that? Maryland wastr treatment plants are known to be dumping 8x the legal limit of fecal bacteria, and they have yet to have anythign happen to them.
Poinsoning the nations drinking supply can only be effectively done in an area close to a user. Maybe a city block or street at most. Anything else would take HUGE amounts and would definately be suspicious.
If you really want to protect the country from terrorism, get us off a centralized power grid. And get off petrol. The day american homes supply the businesses with power, (with the power company securly locked int he middle to manage it) will th the day that we'll be safe. Unless you can't telecommute. Which is when you should be driving an electric vehicle. Hell your house will prooduce your own fuel for the car. It's "free" energy.
Water can be purified from almost any kind of contaminant. Energy can only be made (currently) at dams, reactors and windmills. (Solar is not big in the US, and nat-gas fuel cells still need a central line to the fuel company)
KDE is not to be left out. 3.2 saw the introduction of KJSEmbed. This is a little different from the others, but here you go: You get:
kjscmd - a shebang script interpreter
KJSEmbed - a library to link with apps to add scripting functionality.
Both share the following:
Javscript 1.2 (or is it.3?)
XML UI screens
Qt's Signals-slots
Additionally, they have a qt-only port which is new, and they will be coming out with a win32 version. This means that you can now right x-platform javascript applications that use Qt. Essentially what mozilla is, but a la Qt.
Also it is important to noet that KJSEmbed serves the function of making parts of your program scriptible, with seamlessness. C++ and Javascript can act on the same objects, and call functions no mattter who (JS or C++) defines them.
Also, a XUL interpreter is not far off, I am told.
It's a feaking miracle that these people wipe their own ass, not to mention a hard drive.
Curiosity will kill the cat. Who can't resist seeing what's on there. ID Theft freaks would have a feild day! Maybe something of value to your competition? It's a treasure trove of intelectual property.
The easiest thing to do is to boot it up. Bingo. if they plugged into net or wifi or dialup you can get SOME information. Dialup is hard to do, since most things don't get a phone line. But someone intrested in pulling info off would go wifi or network. Plus there's the whole dialing delay.
Another reason to boot it up is to see how you used it, like what is installed. Desktop icons are key to understanding your user.
The flaw with these phone-home and set-a-flag on-a-website approaches so far website is big: they may get to the internet before you, pillage and then wipe. By the time you set your flag, they've already presented all the evidence they'd give you - and you weren't listening! All you have is an IP address. Which may or may not be enough. So it comes about that you always have to assume your laptop is stolen. Have it phone home all the time. Anyone know how to hook the interrupt of the machine coming out of suspend?
Of course, the smart crooks ones out there will just take the HD out and plus it into a 3.5" adapter and mount it on thier desktop computer. This way, you never have to run a single program (even unknowingly!) from the laptop. Mounting it r/o with minimal (read) permissions is a good idea.
The smart victims ones out there will add some bait. Maybe a sticker with a filename called "passwords.txt" in there, put some porn sites. Look at spam for idea on what bait to use. Maybe a "MyViagra" subscription/reorder numner. But change your browser via HOSTS file to take fake.site.com and associate it with www.yourtrackeingservice.com. You did remember to make a shortcut on the desktop, right? This shortcut runs a program that generates the a base64 encoded report string and then submits your info, then invokes a browser to submit it like: fake.site.com/members.php?member=yourmembername w ith a fake page to be displayed. You also set it to run at start up (and coming out of hybernate)(though after a few seconds to get an IP) but you set '-q' which doesn't start the browser.
If you want to get your laptop back, you have to make it usable for them, and give them reason to run your laptop as you left it. Putting up barriers to that (boot passords, encypted filesystems) just means they'll give up sooner and they won't give you trail to follow. And you'll loose your data sooner. You best bet is they like it and keep using it, so the trail grows and you can dicern a pattern of activity.
Of course doing this in the bios is even better, but this is a start.
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Getting the model down, and down right is 90% of the effort. After that hackers like me who fix bugs in other people's code will take it from there.
I contribute dozens of lines a code a day to several projects, but I start very few of my own. Those get contributions from others too...
But there is a lot to having just a working model, even if it is limted. Charting the path is hard, branching out from it is easy.
I can tell you this system has no value. Baltimore's tourism is on the decline, simply because there is no reason to come here.
The Baltimore Inner Harbor is a tuorist attraction. I suspect this has more to do with making people feel safe than it does preventing crime.
The inner harbor for those tho don't know is a safe place of stadiums, shops, resrataunts, and hotels, and a few night clubs along the cove that Baltimore is nestled in. It is very open, you can see clear to the other side, lest a ship be blocking your view. It streches from the science center (next to the stadiums) to Bars & Noble, the Hard Rock Cafe and EPSNZone. Then you cross President Street, and get into Little Italy which leads to Canton (safe) and Fells Point (not as safe, but safe enough for drunken bar hopping). These 3 places are the 3 safest in the entire city.
I live 15 minutes from the IH, but I have a coworker that lives there, next to ESPN zone. It is a very trendy place being built up for the 20-30 something crowd.
Ther must be tens of thousands of people a day that walk through there. On the summer weekends it is packed. I have no idea how the hell they'd catch anyone even if they got them on tape. I can make it out of the city and into the county in about 10 minutes, at which point it is only 30 more minutes to PA.
http://biz.yahoo.com/fool/040610/1086881820_2.html
A very entertaining read.
So now you have 2 desktops, KDE and GNOME and run apps of both. So you have to have all the libraries for both loaded. So you get two libraries that do the same thing in memory.
.Net or Java.
We need to see more 1-desktop distros. Move choice from the user or application to distro, where the user will select the distro. That is where choice belongs.
This though creates a big problem. Now you have to write apps for KDE or GNOME, and you limit your customer base. Unless you use
Clearly choice is hurting the consumer here, not helping one bit. I think the GNOME people should realize that C++ is the language of GUIs, and take the KDE plunge.
The alternative is to do one of the following:
1) Create a core C library that both KDE/Qt and GNOME use. This will only cause redundant binding to be in memory.
or 2) Create GNOME apps only in C++, and link through to KDE/Qt
or 3) drop GNOME
These are the only acceptible solutions to commercial (and non commercial) developers. Actually these three methods are each wins, and improve the situation for everyone.
The heat doesn't go anywhere. It is prevented from traveling out from the laptop. In effect, it bounces back and heats the laptop more.
Look at aerogel (or airogel?) and you can see a blow torch not melting crayons through a small (clear!) insulating barrier.
With a 57 deg gradient, I have to think that a pad that size should be able to reclaim some energy, a la peltier effect. With todays tech, it might not be much, maybe enough to extend battery live a minute - but it is a start.
I firmly believe that devices of the future will attempt to reclaim whatever energy they can, which would go a long way. I forsee our kids looking back and thinking how wasteful we were, we would just let heat go off into the atmosphere without converting some of it back to usable energy.
Hehe yeah. Shhhhhhhh.
Well she could be following me... But what girls wouldn't want to be asked for their #? And the other issue is how do I get it? Have her tap it out in morse code on ther headlights? lol. No, that last one is just for fucking with their heads. Hey, it never hurts to make someone feel good about themselves, to feel desired. Not everyone is lucky enough to have that.
That's exactly my point.
:)"
I want only a few phrases, I think a BASIC stamp will work:
"You seem to like my rear end. Want a piece of it?"
"Your turn signal is STILL on"
"You are being recorded"
"Left lane for passing"
"Speed limit is 55"
"Speed limit is 65"
"Get off the phone and pay attention"
"You're cute, what's your #?
Sams club[.com] has the Beta Bright (24L x 2.1H) for $158 Item# 078029
Or the big one for $528... anyone else have prices?
I've been looking to mount one in my car so I can berate the dumb ass drivers behind me.
Well, see my follow-up reply about it becoming available for Win32. The problem with Moz is there is no GUI designer, so that's a lot of manual typing to get a form.
I for one in this day and age, think that computers should serve us, not the other way around. XML is ok, as long as you don't need to write in it. is more for computers than humans.
I don't program for the sake of programming, I program to get something done. KJSEmbed allows me to do that with a minimum of fuss, and soon in a cross-platform manner.
I can't belive that people don;t see NetZero's business mode being applied. Free internet with ads, or pay and you don't get ads, it's that simple. Since most WiFis are NATs, you can inject a add into a connection here and there, either by connection hijacking or by proxy.
Another solution is a sign-on page that moves you from a goes-no where vlan to an internet accessible vlan, and back again after a certain time. The sign-on page has he ad. So they know you will see it, and they can even put the login information into the ad, so you have to see it.
Javascript is standard, you're going to have to learn that no matter if you use Mozilla, KDE, or IE.
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QtDesigner is trivially easy. A VB programmer can be making dialogs in 0.1 minutes. The one thing they will need to het the hand of is layouts - because Dev Studio doesn't have them, you have to do the coordinate math yourself on the resize() WM_SIZE handler. So the time spent learing layout is actualyl time saved from friting code rempating controls.
Yes, the K* and Q* classes are a learnign curve. However as a former MFC guru, I really like them more. The interface is cleaner, and portable. I forgot to mention that there is a kjsemebd win32 version coming out of Qt-Only stuff (Q*). So as long as you stick the the non-KDE stuff your stuff will run on Mac, KDE or Win32.
I never had to learn DCOM, (did you mean DCOP) and it is reivially easy. There is an application that will tell you what DCOP interfaces are exposed by an app, by inspecting the app.
http://xmelegance.org/kjsembed/
http://www.sourcextreme.com/presentations/KJSEmbe
So overall, it is time well spent. (IMHO)
Enjoy.
I use this host file to just kill all network access to known add hosts:
http://accs-net.com/hosts/
It makes the add server resolve back to you, so unless you are running a web server you get connection refused, and if you are running a web server, a 404.
I like this because it doesn't waste my bandwidth as much (not tha tit ia lot to start with...)
Couple this with Factory.loadui(uifile) call, where you can load a QtDesigner .ui file (a XML dialog) created at design time and you have one fast RAD tool.
You can of course make dialogs on the fly too:And there you have it. I spent 10 minutes typing this email and write 2 (albeiet simple) scripts.Since Farnsworth said at the horse track when his horse lost in a photo finish:
"No fair! you changed the outcome by measuring it."
It was that day that I knew that Futurama was for me, since I figure the vast majority of casual viewers watching it would not have a clue. The fact that they thew a quantum computing reference out there that would be above 99% of the viewers told me this show was different, and it was for me. It takes balls to do jokes that the majority of people won't get. And that earns my respect...
That and the numerous Rush references...
We can't even fix it now, but imagine is everyone lived forever. In 70 years we went from 3 people putting in for every person taking out. We are now less than 1.1: 1, with baby boomers coming of retirement age it'll drop big and quickly. We are going to be fubar now. Well, I won't, but I'll be missing a nice chunk of money that is rightfully mine. I'm already looking at being 70 before I retire, and in the computer industry, that's not good.
Fine then, I just have to get a boat and find an employer along the bay! ;-)
I was under the impresstion tha tthe ultralight aircraft catagory (250lbs) was un regulated..?
Check out Konq-E. (Konquereor Embedded) It is stripped down Konq that runs against Qt and some stub KDE classes. Works really well! It renders web pages better than Moz, and for the performce/space/features it can't be beat, except for a few co mmercial offerings.. Oh yeah, did i mention full JAVASCRIPT? And it is based off of Konquerer 3.2!
I have to drive 30 miles to work on some of the most congested roads. Without traffic, it takes 30 minuts, on a day with a avgerage-substantial amount of traffic it takes 1:45.
This has me seriously looking into helicopters. You can get them about about $20,000, but the licensing and all will cost another 50k.
There are some 1-person ultra small helicopters that you don't need a license for, these are ~50k, but don't need a license. The smaller ones have much smaller rotors, and I could land them in the parking lot at work. I'd still have to fill up the same amount and on the same scedule though. So no gas savings, but I get 2-3 hours of my day back.
Right, but all they need to find some cool guy to route packets for them through whatever connection he has.
I thought you go camping to get away from all the technology and husle and bustle of modern life. I mean, that's the only logical conclusion unless lack of climate control, mosquitos, spiders, bears and scorpions are considered "worth-while" to experience first-hand.
;-) I dunno if you can find a HAM ISP though.
Maybe you mean RVing?
I'd look at a simple WiFi router and some HAM radio equiment to do it on the cheap. Remember, Linux kernels can do that kind of thing
This is crazy. You're talking about millions of gallons of water. Do you know how much it'll take to pollute that? Maryland wastr treatment plants are known to be dumping 8x the legal limit of fecal bacteria, and they have yet to have anythign happen to them.
Poinsoning the nations drinking supply can only be effectively done in an area close to a user. Maybe a city block or street at most. Anything else would take HUGE amounts and would definately be suspicious.
If you really want to protect the country from terrorism, get us off a centralized power grid. And get off petrol. The day american homes supply the businesses with power, (with the power company securly locked int he middle to manage it) will th the day that we'll be safe. Unless you can't telecommute. Which is when you should be driving an electric vehicle. Hell your house will prooduce your own fuel for the car. It's "free" energy.
Water can be purified from almost any kind of contaminant. Energy can only be made (currently) at dams, reactors and windmills. (Solar is not big in the US, and nat-gas fuel cells still need a central line to the fuel company)
You get:
Both share the following:
Additionally, they have a qt-only port which is new, and they will be coming out with a win32 version. This means that you can now right x-platform javascript applications that use Qt. Essentially what mozilla is, but a la Qt.
Also it is important to noet that KJSEmbed serves the function of making parts of your program scriptible, with seamlessness. C++ and Javascript can act on the same objects, and call functions no mattter who (JS or C++) defines them.
Also, a XUL interpreter is not far off, I am told.
It's a feaking miracle that these people wipe their own ass, not to mention a hard drive.
w ith a fake page to be displayed.
Curiosity will kill the cat. Who can't resist seeing what's on there. ID Theft freaks would have a feild day! Maybe something of value to your competition? It's a treasure trove of intelectual property.
The easiest thing to do is to boot it up. Bingo. if they plugged into net or wifi or dialup you can get SOME information. Dialup is hard to do, since most things don't get a phone line. But someone intrested in pulling info off would go wifi or network. Plus there's the whole dialing delay.
Another reason to boot it up is to see how you used it, like what is installed. Desktop icons are key to understanding your user.
The flaw with these phone-home and set-a-flag on-a-website approaches so far website is big: they may get to the internet before you, pillage and then wipe. By the time you set your flag, they've already presented all the evidence they'd give you - and you weren't listening! All you have is an IP address. Which may or may not be enough.
So it comes about that you always have to assume your laptop is stolen. Have it phone home all the time. Anyone know how to hook the interrupt of the machine coming out of suspend?
Of course, the smart crooks ones out there will just take the HD out and plus it into a 3.5" adapter and mount it on thier desktop computer. This way, you never have to run a single program (even unknowingly!) from the laptop. Mounting it r/o with minimal (read) permissions is a good idea.
The smart victims ones out there will add some bait. Maybe a sticker with a filename called "passwords.txt" in there, put some porn sites. Look at spam for idea on what bait to use. Maybe a "MyViagra" subscription/reorder numner. But change your browser via HOSTS file to take fake.site.com and associate it with www.yourtrackeingservice.com.
You did remember to make a shortcut on the desktop, right? This shortcut runs a program that generates the a base64 encoded report string and then submits your info, then invokes a browser to submit it like: fake.site.com/members.php?member=yourmembername
You also set it to run at start up (and coming out of hybernate)(though after a few seconds to get an IP) but you set '-q' which doesn't start the browser.
If you want to get your laptop back, you have to make it usable for them, and give them reason to run your laptop as you left it. Putting up barriers to that (boot passords, encypted filesystems) just means they'll give up sooner and they won't give you trail to follow. And you'll loose your data sooner. You best bet is they like it and keep using it, so the trail grows and you can dicern a pattern of activity.
Of course doing this in the bios is even better, but this is a start.
Reasons why you don't make $90k.
1) If you don't understand a simple sort...
2) Lines 60-80 are not even needed AT ALL.