I've always assumed anything I've posted, including E-mail or said is public knowledge.
Way back when... The usenet group knew or took for granted that every message went through NSA, at the time is was no big deal just be a backbone and filter for words or phrases. The practice was referred to as the eight words, while I forget them, one or more of the eight words were sure to get your post sidelined and read.
As for back doors these have been in place for a long time, Microsoft's Firewall will allow trusted parties to slip right through. There was a time these were talked about in the open.
ToS and privacy policies tell you what information is being collected and what it's used for, Angry birds has one line that says any amount of your data will "go overseas".
The game appropriately named "Jewel link!" one of many free games put out by Ezjoy Network has no ToS or privacy policy and requires every permission Android has. Ezjoy Network can make a copy of your entire system if they want as they've promised nothing, which you accepted when installed. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ezjoynetwork.jewelslink&feature=search_result
Google isn't all the Innocent, recently Google Play restricted any program that interferes with the data capture of another program, blocking programs like Adaway, or any number of programs that blocked sites (a HOSTS file) or change permissions.
Linux Mint default installation is to disable the HOSTS file. Why would a system do that?
Apparently you know nothing of a HOSTS file, I do suggest you check it out. In the mean time I'm not sure about my use of Mint. I've enabled the HOSTS file; of all the security I can install on a computer system I feel a HOSTS file being the most important. So fairly secure on mint at the moment but need to check out what linux Mint defines as online security (Norton, Mcafee...?).
One more time (Three ways - I tell you)
forums.linuxmint.com
Posted at 3:19pm on Thursday, February 28, 2013. Editing the Linux "hosts" file
What is a hosts file? The hosts file in any operating system is the file that we can edit in order to personally tell the computer how to handle certain Internet addresses. If one wants to block a certain website on their computer, they can edit the hosts file. All operating systems have a hosts file (Win, Mac, Linux). But getting there is half the battle. In Linux, it is quite easy to edit it.
1. Open a terminal.
2. Change to superuser by typing: sudo su (Enter password when prompted)
3. Then edit the hosts file by typing: nano/etc/hosts (hit enter)
4. To block a website, you can note 127.0.0.1 or simply 0.0.0.0 with a space after and then somesite.com
5. Save the hosts file by typing: CTRL + X, then hit y and then press enter. Done! http://ranito.site90.net/index.php/Main_Page#Editing_the_Linux_.22hosts.22_file
All pages go through their browser for reformatting to your device's screen dimensions and compression.
So you don't download the Mini but the Mobile version
Opera Mobile is a complete web browser installed on your mobile phone — all the code rendering and JavaScript interaction happens on your mobile. This is in contrast to Opera Mini, where the rendering happens on the server and a compressed version is then sent to the handset.
Opera is my Browser of choice and the best ever I feel, at least up to version 12.14, (desktop) I also don't do anything of importance with my cell phone or tablet, but for a different reason. It's possible those could easily be lost or stolen.
Reading the replies some mentioned flash, Flash for Windows defaults to Webcam on, so thought I'd check my Flash for Mint as I wasn't sure if I had set the settings. Mint is my start in Linux and used infrequently.
Things led to preferences, Network Proxy pref's showing that 127.0.0.1 as being ignored, hit the help button and get a standard Mint manual of which "network proxy" isn't found. http://i39.tinypic.com/2z5uf80.jpg
No help, I see if it means what I think it means and put "127.0.0.1. slashdot.org" in my HOSTS file, saved, rebooted then logged into slashdot.org http://i41.tinypic.com/2s99gr8.jpg
Crap the only thing being blocked are sites placed into my router. I've been wide open the entire time while thinking some 19400+ sites I have blocked in my HOSTS file, haven't been.
No, I don't trust Mint anymore after today, I've no clue what other surprises are "built in".
hints that they regarded meteorites highly as they began to develop their religion.
The Black Stone; Although it has often been described as a meteorite, this hypothesis is now uncertain.
The Black Stone is the eastern cornerstone of the Kaaba, the ancient stone building toward which Muslims pray, in the center of the Grand Mosque in Mecca, Saudi Arabia. It is revered by Muslims as an Islamic relic which, according to Muslim tradition, dates back to the time of Adam and Eve. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Stone
Give users the option to use your terrible Metro interface or have a standard Start menu. What's so hard about that?
Because now the XboxOne will have a start menu and it will look out of place there. it's just a make em feel good act as within Metro apps (off the main screen) the start button is gone.
Taught myself Basic programing, typing in programs listed in the magazine 80 Micro http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/8Micro Then when the programs wouldn't run, going back and debugging them taught me a lot. I had also taught myself Assembly language and was going strong in that direction.
When I bought my first Amiga, (500), first thing I did was start to write programs in Basic, but none ever ran right; in fact I had to quit as it was making me mad enough to toss the Amiga 500 through a wall.
The Amiga put a screeching halt to my programing; while I speak of the Amiga God machine it really screwed me in that respect. I haven't really programed since. I tried AREXX but never went far with it.
Apparently Amiga's Basic program never did work right and pulled from later upgrades.
I wish that were true, but they dropped presto for Webkit and this is the first build of the abomination. Instead of fully featured browser in a neat multilanguage package of about 15 mb, we now have an useless Chrome shell without side bar, M2, RSS client, Bookmarks, keyboard and mouse shortcuts and well.. without anything resembling Opera.
Haven't tried it yet but I fear the loss of my short-cuts, one built in is/. taking you to slashdot.org; I have many more that I've used for ages.
Hopefully this upgrade will allow Opera to play well with all of the sites now, I'm just used to getting "you need a modern browser to continue". I use Opera as my main browser but have a secondary FireFox for the pages Oprea won't open or when I want to play Battlefield 3, which is daily
Somewhere around version around 3.62 or so is when I started using Opera. That browser on a floppy was one sweet deal, taking all my bookmarks with me as I visited was just handy.
I've been collecting my bookmarks since that time as well, nothing else imports them, some have tried but but it doesn't work out for me. I'm sure this newest update will let me keep them and hopefully creating a new bookmark folder won't take very many tries now; actually creating one was mostly a matter of luck for me.
Opera has always had the latest and greatest features, I hope it isn't "improved" to where I don't care for it as that would just suck.
The above sound rambling? Probably because I am afraid of what's become of Opera.
I heard it a different way, The Nissan CEO was asking it's development teams to come up with a small car to take on the U.S. market and they needed it fast, one team member said we can have one ready in two weeks, the CEO said "Datsun!"
When Vista was released I tried Vista.com and it was a very established data business, totally unrelated to Microsoft. MS walked all over this domain name, I thought ah these poor people. I checked on the site from time to time, the business model changed over the years to one of working with computer hardware.
Never once did they have a redirect to Microsoft due those coming to the wrong site which impressed me as them never letting MS change their operation - yet vista.com does redirects to vistaprint.com now.
This XboxOne is MS's fault for not checking first before committing, get over it MS you failed again.
Source: I work in this project. These are very biased news and in fact they are wrong. The first submarine (S80) will be fixed by making it a bit longer and adding some floating aids.
"We'll be adding wings with pontoons at each end" he sighs with disgust as he storms off thinking morons didn't they think we'd have planned for this?
I love this "story" it's a top of the heap WTF, destined to become an "I told you so" link to www.snopes.com
If you haven't seen it, here's a PDF of what one will look like, inside and out. (linked from the above article) http://preview.tinyurl.com/qda7omq (1,125 KB) of course it's shown cruising proudly on top of the water.
I read that entire article and I honestly have no idea what the point was...(snip)..nothing...
Thank you for that, thought it might be a waste of time.
I didn't get past reading "Being one of the first cyborgs in the world" then a quick scan of the text scrolling down; figured it wasn't going to be that great of an article and heck I got what I needed from the submitter (right, wrong, or almost {grin}).
The thing about interpretations of quantum mechanics, is in the end, they don't make any predictive difference. They might make things fit together better in your head, or act as a muse when looking at the math, but in some sense they don't change the experiment. It is just a layer of abstraction on top of the math that works.
Thank you for that as I did see it as their interpretation of the experiment giving them the results they were looking for.
While I see the large lines just fine and lots of quantum physics principles I'm unaware of; entanglement being passed on to another unrelated event seems a retraction is but a verifying experiment away.
As mentioned it's been glued or a metal substructure. At 23 tons it's no easy piece to move; displaying it will always be an effort and great expense. I see it being very easy to break (not being involved in it's construction) as it has a large unsupported extension.
I give it a week before other scientists call bullshit.
I see it as something they wanted to prove and did to themselves and anybody else who wants to believe their results or just their word.
Entanglement is related to particles from the same event. 1&2 are entangled as are 3&4. 1&4 were considered entangled by their use of "projective measurement" on 2&3
So they have their interpretation, I have mine (didn't happen), and we're all happy.
About me: A two years of chemistry ex-student who does a lot of reading on quantum physics. Yet nobody to talk on the subject, so more reading. Not trying to solicit anybody just saying nobody I know, knows much on the subject to bounce thoughts off of.
I'd speculate that humans used pikes as soon as they found 'em and threw 'em if it suited the situation.. it's not exactly rocket science.
My thoughts as well, FTA "By throwing a spear, instead of thrusting it," I would think after the prey moved out of thrusting range to toss or throw would be the next step (impulse).
There's talk of removing a few Dams and with them the cheap power.
The Washington state Indians have a treaty to fish salmon they way they used to (with nets) that they then sale to make a living. The salmon are in decline which is blamed in part to the Dams. All of the Dams have fish ladders that help the Salmon migrate but they are asking for the lower (last) four Snake river Dams to be removed. http://www.americanrivers.org/initiatives/dams/projects/snake-dam-removal-economics.html
It's much more than just the Indians, but they seem to be the loudest.
From the link: "Before the dams are removed, there must be a plan in place to:...Replace the dams' energy in an affordable and carbon neutral manner..."
I don't see how that can be accomplished unless wind power can be considered carbon neutral.
I find this a bit worrying. When Comet Shoemaker-Levy hit Jupiter it was estimated to be a once in a century or more event, but since then marks left behind by at least two and possibly three other strikes have been seen
I still use Google as my primary search engine, Gmail as my e-mail provider, and Google Maps when I want to figure out how to go somewhere I haven't been before. Nothing they've done since then has provided any reason to switch from whatever solution I'm currently using. And I really don't think I'm alone in this.
Nope not alone; I use Google as my primary search engine, Gmail as my e-mail provider, Google Maps and Google Earth.
Hotmail used to be my web based e-mailer yet I can't access it for some reason. My HotMail account is active and I still use it, as I had forwarded my Hotmail to Gmail. Hotmail charged for POP'ing my e-mail, Gmail lets me do it for free, so I never have to open a browser.
Checking to see if anything had changed I tried hotmail again, and got in, first time in years! This reply has actually been a very beneficial for me, now to weed out the junk that's collected.
The worst part is that zip actually increased the size of the programs by a few bytes. It was counterproductive here, although it did help shrink that relatively gigantic disk image.
I thought no way, I had to see for myself. The zipped file crescent-1bir-src.zip is 8K, the three file files the zip contains add up to 25K so 1/3 it's original size. Your thinking of graphics files.
If a file is already compressed (ie: graphics, zip) they can't get any smaller, another compression program will only increase it's size. Source code is text only and very compressible; all of your modem compression schemes to increase speeds are based on text only.
The JSTOR files Aaron Swartz uploaded were 36 Gigs, uncompressed it was huge > 100 gig, as they were mostly in the text format.
There are graphic formats that aren't compressed like.BMP files that will zip down to almost half it's size. You find graphics compressed with zip, arc, zoo what have you are to create a single file (while increasing it's size). To use a compression scheme on the hard drive you store your pr0n collection on, now that is counterproductive.
Slashdot Mirror
to get to the bottom line: "help more women and girls get into programming"
I've always assumed anything I've posted, including E-mail or said is public knowledge.
Way back when... The usenet group knew or took for granted that every message
went through NSA, at the time is was no big deal just be a backbone and filter for words
or phrases. The practice was referred to as the eight words, while I forget them, one or more of the
eight words were sure to get your post sidelined and read.
As for back doors these have been in place for a long time, Microsoft's Firewall will
allow trusted parties to slip right through. There was a time these were talked about
in the open.
ToS and privacy policies tell you what information is being collected and what it's used
for, Angry birds has one line that says any amount of your data will "go overseas".
The game appropriately named "Jewel link!" one of many free games put out by Ezjoy Network
has no ToS or privacy policy and requires every permission Android has. Ezjoy Network can make
a copy of your entire system if they want as they've promised nothing, which you accepted when installed.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ezjoynetwork.jewelslink&feature=search_result
paste m.ezjoygame.com into google and watch what happens. "You get a Google Instant is unavailable. Press Enter to search"
message but you can learn more here: https://support.google.com/websearch/answer/186645?form=bb&hl=en
Google isn't all the Innocent, recently Google Play restricted any program that interferes with
the data capture of another program, blocking programs like Adaway, or any number of programs
that blocked sites (a HOSTS file) or change permissions.
Why so surprised?
The hardest part is finding the ROMS which work with the MAME version that you use.
The newsgroup alt.binaries.emulators.mame is a good source, any missing ROM(S) just post a request; you'll get em.
Turn off/down your sound before going to http://mameinfo.mameworld.info/ for the latest stats on the newest version.
Go figure I got a Filter error: Lameness filter encountered - so will start cutting, no caps, no cussing, no clue.
Fraid you both aren't coming across as being all that bright.
You can do this two ways
Google: using hosts file Linux mint
or watch a video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VUQZGuJ8jLM
Linux Mint default installation is to disable the HOSTS file. Why would a system do that?
Apparently you know nothing of a HOSTS file, I do suggest you check it out. In
the mean time I'm not sure about my use of Mint. I've enabled the HOSTS file; of
all the security I can install on a computer system I feel a HOSTS file being
the most important. So fairly secure on mint at the moment but need to check out
what linux Mint defines as online security (Norton, Mcafee...?).
One more time (Three ways - I tell you)
forums.linuxmint.com
Posted at 3:19pm on Thursday, February 28, 2013.
Editing the Linux "hosts" file
What is a hosts file? The hosts file in any operating system is the file that we can edit in order to personally tell the computer how to handle certain Internet addresses. If one wants to block a certain website on their computer, they can edit the hosts file. All operating systems have a hosts file (Win, Mac, Linux). But getting there is half the battle. In Linux, it is quite easy to edit it.
1. Open a terminal. /etc/hosts (hit enter)
2. Change to superuser by typing: sudo su (Enter password when prompted)
3. Then edit the hosts file by typing: nano
4. To block a website, you can note 127.0.0.1 or simply 0.0.0.0 with a space after and then somesite.com
5. Save the hosts file by typing: CTRL + X, then hit y and then press enter. Done!
http://ranito.site90.net/index.php/Main_Page#Editing_the_Linux_.22hosts.22_file
All pages go through their browser for reformatting to your device's screen dimensions and compression.
So you don't download the Mini but the Mobile version
Opera Mobile is a complete web browser installed on your mobile phone — all the code rendering and JavaScript
interaction happens on your mobile. This is in contrast to Opera Mini, where the rendering happens on the server
and a compressed version is then sent to the handset.
http://dev.opera.com/articles/view/opera-mobile-10-beta-developers-introduction/
Opera is my Browser of choice and the best ever I feel, at least up to version 12.14, (desktop)
I also don't do anything of importance with my cell phone or tablet, but for a different reason. It's possible those could easily be lost or stolen.
Reading the replies some mentioned flash, Flash for Windows defaults to Webcam on, so thought I'd
check my Flash for Mint as I wasn't sure if I had set the settings. Mint is my start in Linux and used infrequently.
Things led to preferences, Network Proxy pref's showing that 127.0.0.1 as being ignored, hit the help button
and get a standard Mint manual of which "network proxy" isn't found.
http://i39.tinypic.com/2z5uf80.jpg
No help, I see if it means what I think it means and put "127.0.0.1. slashdot.org" in my HOSTS file,
saved, rebooted then logged into slashdot.org
http://i41.tinypic.com/2s99gr8.jpg
Crap the only thing being blocked are sites placed into my router. I've been wide open the entire time while thinking
some 19400+ sites I have blocked in my HOSTS file, haven't been.
No, I don't trust Mint anymore after today, I've no clue what other surprises are "built in".
The direct quote
hints that they regarded meteorites highly as they began to develop their religion.
The Black Stone; Although it has often been described as a meteorite, this hypothesis is now uncertain.
The Black Stone is the eastern cornerstone of the Kaaba, the ancient stone building toward which Muslims pray, in the center of the Grand Mosque in Mecca,
Saudi Arabia. It is revered by Muslims as an Islamic relic which, according to Muslim tradition, dates back to the time of Adam and Eve.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Stone
"We also added the ability to take pictures with the built-in camera right from the Lock screen without having to log in."
This is a XboxOne feature, the video and microphone will always be on so it can greet you when you walk into a room or able
to take voice commands. The privacy issues should be obvious for a company like Microsoft.
http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2013-05-24/news/ct-met-kass-0524-20130524_1_drone-attacks-xbox-one-jeff-henshaw
Give users the option to use your terrible Metro interface or have a standard Start menu. What's so hard about that?
Because now the XboxOne will have a start menu and it will look out of place there.
it's just a make em feel good act as within Metro apps (off the main screen) the start button is gone.
Taught myself Basic programing, typing in programs listed in the magazine 80 Micro http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/8Micro
Then when the programs wouldn't run, going back and debugging them taught me a lot. I had also taught myself
Assembly language and was going strong in that direction.
When I bought my first Amiga, (500), first thing I did was start to write programs in Basic, but none
ever ran right; in fact I had to quit as it was making me mad enough to toss the Amiga 500 through a wall.
The Amiga put a screeching halt to my programing; while I speak of the Amiga God machine it really screwed me in that respect.
I haven't really programed since. I tried AREXX but never went far with it.
Apparently Amiga's Basic program never did work right and pulled from later upgrades.
I wish that were true, but they dropped presto for Webkit and this is the first build of the abomination. Instead of fully featured browser in a neat multilanguage package of about 15 mb, we now have an useless Chrome shell without side bar, M2, RSS client, Bookmarks, keyboard and mouse shortcuts and well.. without anything resembling Opera.
Haven't tried it yet but I fear the loss of my short-cuts, one built in is /. taking you to slashdot.org;
I have many more that I've used for ages.
Hopefully this upgrade will allow Opera to play well with all of the sites now, I'm just used to
getting "you need a modern browser to continue". I use Opera as my main browser but have
a secondary FireFox for the pages Oprea won't open or when I want to play Battlefield 3,
which is daily
Somewhere around version around 3.62 or so is when I started using Opera. That browser on a floppy
was one sweet deal, taking all my bookmarks with me as I visited was just handy.
I've been collecting my bookmarks since that time as well, nothing else imports them,
some have tried but but it doesn't work out for me. I'm sure this newest update will
let me keep them and hopefully creating a new bookmark folder won't take very many tries now;
actually creating one was mostly a matter of luck for me.
Opera has always had the latest and greatest features, I hope it isn't "improved" to where
I don't care for it as that would just suck.
The above sound rambling? Probably because I am afraid of what's become of Opera.
I heard it a different way, The Nissan CEO was asking it's development teams to come up with a small car to take on
the U.S. market and they needed it fast, one team member said we can have one ready in two weeks, the CEO said "Datsun!"
kinda partial to that version...
When Vista was released I tried Vista.com and it was a very established data business, totally unrelated
to Microsoft. MS walked all over this domain name, I thought ah these poor people. I checked on the site
from time to time, the business model changed over the years to one of working with computer hardware.
Never once did they have a redirect to Microsoft due those coming to the wrong site which impressed me
as them never letting MS change their operation - yet vista.com does redirects to vistaprint.com now.
This XboxOne is MS's fault for not checking first before committing, get over it MS you failed again.
Source: I work in this project.
These are very biased news and in fact they are wrong.
The first submarine (S80) will be fixed by making it a bit longer and adding some floating aids.
"We'll be adding wings with pontoons at each end" he sighs with disgust as he storms off thinking morons didn't they think we'd have planned for this?
"Among the S-80's celebrated advancement is a diesel-electric propulsion engine that, ironically,
promises to be 20% lighter than comparable systems while delivering 50% more power."
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/05/24/spain-submarine-s-81-isaac-peral-cant-float_n_3328683.html
I love this "story" it's a top of the heap WTF, destined to become an "I told you so" link to www.snopes.com
If you haven't seen it, here's a PDF of what one will look like, inside and out. (linked from the above article)
http://preview.tinyurl.com/qda7omq (1,125 KB) of course it's shown cruising proudly on top of the water.
I read that entire article and I honestly have no idea what the point was...(snip)..nothing...
Thank you for that, thought it might be a waste of time.
I didn't get past reading "Being one of the first cyborgs in the world" then a quick scan of the text scrolling down;
figured it wasn't going to be that great of an article and heck I got what I needed from the submitter (right, wrong, or almost {grin}).
The thing about interpretations of quantum mechanics, is in the end, they don't make any predictive difference. They might make things fit together better in your head, or act as a muse when looking at the math, but in some sense they don't change the experiment. It is just a layer of abstraction on top of the math that works.
Thank you for that as I did see it as their interpretation of the experiment giving them the results they were looking for.
While I see the large lines just fine and lots of quantum physics principles I'm unaware of; entanglement being passed on to
another unrelated event seems a retraction is but a verifying experiment away.
As mentioned it's been glued or a metal substructure. At 23 tons it's no easy piece
to move; displaying it will always be an effort and great expense. I see it being
very easy to break (not being involved in it's construction) as it has a large
unsupported extension.
Not wishing to offend those who enjoyed building it I'm sure, but what's to become of it.
Only place it could go would be to a Lego museum and LO I find there's one in the planning
http://www.salon.com/2013/03/24/danish_architecture_firm_tapped_to_design_worlds_first_lego_museum_partner/
I give it a week before other scientists call bullshit.
I see it as something they wanted to prove and did to themselves and anybody else who wants to believe their results or just their word.
Entanglement is related to particles from the same event. 1&2 are entangled as are 3&4.
1&4 were considered entangled by their use of "projective measurement" on 2&3
"projective measurement" = Although quantum mechanics has held up to rigorous and thorough experimental testing,
many of these experiments are open to different interpretations
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interpretation_of_quantum_mechanics
linked from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/POVM defining "projective measurement" (first paragraph).
So they have their interpretation, I have mine (didn't happen), and we're all happy.
About me: A two years of chemistry ex-student who does a lot of reading on quantum physics. Yet nobody to talk on the subject, so more reading.
Not trying to solicit anybody just saying nobody I know, knows much on the subject to bounce thoughts off of.
I'd speculate that humans used pikes as soon as they found 'em and threw 'em if it suited the situation.. it's not exactly rocket science.
My thoughts as well, FTA "By throwing a spear, instead of thrusting it,"
I would think after the prey moved out of thrusting range to toss or throw would be the next step (impulse).
There's talk of removing a few Dams and with them the cheap power.
The Washington state Indians have a treaty to fish salmon they way they used to (with nets)
that they then sale to make a living. The salmon are in decline which is blamed in part to the Dams. All of
the Dams have fish ladders that help the Salmon migrate but they are asking for the lower (last) four Snake river Dams to be removed.
http://www.americanrivers.org/initiatives/dams/projects/snake-dam-removal-economics.html
It's much more than just the Indians, but they seem to be the loudest.
From the link: ...Replace the dams' energy in an affordable and carbon neutral manner..."
"Before the dams are removed, there must be a plan in place to:
I don't see how that can be accomplished unless wind power can be considered carbon neutral.
I find this a bit worrying. When Comet Shoemaker-Levy hit Jupiter it was estimated to be a once in a century or more event, but since then marks left behind by at least two and possibly three other strikes have been seen
.
Sad that Galileo's antenna didn't open. Headed towards Jupiter it was in a position to film the comet pieces as they hit
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galileo_(spacecraft)#Main_antenna_failure
Now that would of been very cool to of seen.
I wonder if estimates for the amount of material drifting around the solar system aren't considerably off
.
Think we've been seeing this from Russian dash cams. But those who gave us the numbers also claim Jupiter's gravity
protects Earth to a great extent.
I still use Google as my primary search engine, Gmail as my e-mail provider, and Google Maps when I want to figure out how to go somewhere I haven't been before. Nothing they've done since then has provided any reason to switch from whatever solution I'm currently using. And I really don't think I'm alone in this.
Nope not alone; I use Google as my primary search engine, Gmail as my e-mail provider, Google Maps and Google Earth.
Hotmail used to be my web based e-mailer yet I can't access it for some reason. My HotMail account is active and I
still use it, as I had forwarded my Hotmail to Gmail. Hotmail charged for POP'ing my e-mail, Gmail lets me do it for free,
so I never have to open a browser.
Checking to see if anything had changed I tried hotmail again, and got in, first time in years!
This reply has actually been a very beneficial for me, now to weed out the junk that's collected.
The worst part is that zip actually increased the size of the programs by a few bytes. It was counterproductive here, although it did help shrink that relatively gigantic disk image.
I thought no way, I had to see for myself. The zipped file crescent-1bir-src.zip is 8K, the three file files
the zip contains add up to 25K so 1/3 it's original size. Your thinking of graphics files.
If a file is already compressed (ie: graphics, zip) they can't get any smaller, another compression program
will only increase it's size. Source code is text only and very compressible; all of your modem compression
schemes to increase speeds are based on text only.
The JSTOR files Aaron Swartz uploaded were 36 Gigs, uncompressed it was huge > 100 gig, as they were mostly in the text format.
There are graphic formats that aren't compressed like .BMP files that will zip down to almost half it's size.
You find graphics compressed with zip, arc, zoo what have you are to create a single file (while increasing it's size).
To use a compression scheme on the hard drive you store your pr0n collection on, now that is counterproductive.
And can read genes.
"How to spot a murderer's brain"
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2013/may/12/how-to-spot-a-murderers-brain
Yep, just scan everybody's brain, then jail those who fit the pattern, or are the carrier of one particular set of genes.
Crime prevention at it's best.