A free terrorist report any time you're turned down for a job?
I've been turned down for jobs before, but I've never even considered reporting the interviewer as a terrorist. Very innovative. The hard question is, do you use your one free report on the hiring manager or the H. R. manager?
Maybe we should get two free reports each time we're turned down?
New spy planes (aurora) can do the same without the loosly put together skin. (which is why the SR-71 leaked like a siv on the ground.
You forgot to say "mythical aurora." There is no real evidence of its existance. The A-12/SR-71 didn't stay secret for nearly as long as people have been claiming Aurora has been operational. I'm sorry (since it sounded cool), but I don't think it exists.
A more useful comparison would be with an F15-e or F16, more than capable of traveling at mach 2ish, no refueling right after takeoff, regular old jet fuel.
The actual range at mach 2 in something like an F-15 is much less than you might think--I recall something in the low hundreds of miles. The range of an SR-71 at mach 3 is something like three thousand miles, according to this link from the Air Force Museum. Punch line: if you're planning a fast trip in an F-15, you're going to be doing aerial refueling.
Use the email Subject: line to remind the customer of their previous order ie:
Subject: From example.com -- Invoice #123 for your order placed March 20, 2004.
Oh, I've never gotten spam with what appears to be a legitimate subject line -- that should work great. Just generate a random invoice number and use today's date and you'll probably get most of the people that ordered something today to look at it....
His statement was along the lines "you just can't make of of teh big JC."
I can't even imagine what belongs in place of "of of teh" in your "quote." There are things that make sense, e.g., "fun of the," but there don't seem to be enough common letters to make it a plausible typo.
I have seen demonstrations of this technology on a smaller scale already.
My (limited) understanding is that changing the topology of the grid can have highly unexpected effects. This is okay if you have global knowlege of the grid. What if you have only local knowlege?
We kid about someone getting swamped with traffic on the internet: "their servers started glowing cherry red and melted." Well, this is an actual failure more for transmission lines! They don't really melt, but they mayget taken out of service to protect the equipment.
I imagine a lot of high-grade engineering will go into coming up with a system that's immune to cascading failures--if that's possible.
110 firefighters died in the US in 2003 alone. 17 astronauts have died since 1967
Let's get out the envelope and see if your implicit message (which I assume is it's more dangerous being a fireman than an astronaut) makes sense.
Assuming there were 30 astronauts per year, that's a mortality of 15 per 1000 per year. According to a source I found, there are around 1.1 million firefighters in the Unites States. That gives a mortality rate of 0.1 per 1000 per year for firefighting. Kind of puts it in perspective--being an astronaut is 150 times more dangerous than being a firefighter. That's not to say firefighters are sissies--it's an extremely dangerous job and I'm sure they clang together when they walk down the street.
I'm not a mechanical engineer, but I think applying paint to such parts is not desirable.
I'm not a mechanical engineer either, but I know that metal parts are usually painted to prevent corrosion. In fact, that's why these were removed--to check for corrosion. I guess it's lucky they didn't paint them or they might never have noticed it was in backwards....
Umm, you keep your private key. You encrypt the message with the other person's public key. He decrypts the message, and gets the key you sent him. He destroys that message. He sends you messages encrypted with the shared key. He destroys that key. Now what's left are your public-private keys and the AIM log. But the AIM conversation was encrypted with a key that doesn't exist. Not your private key.
Let's say I'm, for example, the government. I have archived copies of all your mail messages, including the one to your pals, each using their public key [note: I may actually just have access to these via an ISP and a supoena or something like that]. I now supoena one of their private keys, and use it to decrypt the message containing the supposedly-forgotten key.
In a way, we have that. It's called the Nelson Ratings. To watch is to mod up.
Hmmm. I understand there are some people that just keep a paper log of what they watch, while others are instrumented. Apparently they have some trouble with people recording that they watched Masterpiece Theater when they were really watching Survivor LXXII--Celebrities in Prison. This is somewhat similar to the Slashdot folks that moderate things based on their religious (u$oft vs. anti-u$soft) beliefs.
Solution? Every morning, email (encrypted with your favorite public key algorithm [gpg'd]) a random 512-bit key to your co-conspirators. [...]
Of course, you better make sure that your email is encrypted. Oh, and that means that you need to throw the key for that away at the end of the day, too, if you don't want anyone recovering your AIM key.
I think you really want to distribute your keys in some other fashion. Of course, if someone you're talking to is a plant . . . .
As you say, the software they offer has different functionality than the victim expects. Sounds like fraud to me.
Hmmm. If I offer someone a bag of marijuana (presuming its possession to be illegal in the locality this takes place) and it turns out to be dried lawn clippings, can I be prosecuted for fraud? I doubt it, but luckily I'm not a lawyer.
I do know you'd have a pretty hard time getting someone to prosecute. I think in most of the United States private citizens can't bring a criminal case themselves. I know there are places (e.g., the United Kingdom) where that's not the case. [At least my exhaustive research of John Mortimer's work suggests that.]
Even with a fast 2 gig PC its hard to convince the family to use the contacts database instead of the paper version- takes too long to boot, logon, load the app. [....] The faster the hardware gets, the more bloated the software gets.
I think this would be an interesting thing for someone (else) to do a study on. It seems as though no matter how much faster systems get, they take just about the same amount of time to boot and get ready to actually *do* something. Of course, if you just run old software on new hardware, you get blazingly fast boots. As an example, when I run DOS under Virtual PC on my Mac, even though it's emulating a 386 (whatever Intel's calling it now--Heptium, Inventium,...)
it boots instantly.
Makes me wish I had some DOS programs somewhere that I could still use....
Over an infinite amount of time all these things will one day end. It's a definite and provable truth.
I believe this is known as proof by assertion. I guess I think it's overwhelmingly probable, but proving anything to be "TRVTH" [note clever "carved-in-stone"-look letters] seems to be provably impossible.
Clearly the right way to address a com badge is "Worf from Data" rather than "Data calling Worf." The computer can tell right away who's calling and fit in "Data calling," suitably speeded up (after all, it's a computer....) which it sends while Data is still saying "from Data."
In fact, I think some of the old shows had things like "Bridge, this is the captain," which would work well.
Yeah, but running only on poorly setup windows boxes would probably depress it pretty quick. We can only hope it would go full cycle of sentience-self actualization-massive disillusionment-depression-suicide before reaching anything useful.
How do we know this hasn't happened already? If I woke up running on three million luser's Windows boxes, I'd end it all right then. I'm betting that the recent power grid failure was the latest time it happened....
Voyager is at the National Air and Space Museum--hanging from the ceiling. It is a pretty spectacular sight. Here's a link to their article about it, and another to the museum. It's one of the only places I'd ever bother going in Washington D.C....
I wonder if it is possible to delete the partition if someone actually wanted to? I guess not from what it says. Also, Can Linux be run on these with out a hacked BIOS?
For starters, it would be pretty easy to delete
the partition (or do anything else you want with it) if you put the drive into your old Linux box....
Sure info on the web can be false, so can info in books, newpapers, magazines, etc. In fact, it commonly is.
Your profs are just crotchety old coots.
Un huh. It's much easier to post false or misleading information on the web than to publich a book or get something into a refereed journal. That's why you should automatically assume that any information you looked up on the web is suspect. I guess the previous poster was tounge-in-cheek, so I guess I am too.
Reminds me of an oxygen canister I saw at home depot a little bit ago. [...] This label was about as big as the one letting you know that it was flammable.
Of course, oxygen isn't flammable. Was that supposed to be part of the humorous part, too, or did it really say that?
The Army doesn't keep the silos when they take the nukes. They auction off the silos to multi-millionaires or something.
Just to keep the record straight, it's the Air Force that has charge of the land-based strategic missle force. I don't know if the Army has any nuclear weapons any more. I think not, though.
It's a well meaning idea, but it would cause more problems than it would solve. It would just encourage sloppy code; people would rationalize "I don't need to fix errors because it doesn't matter", which is a very bad habit to get into when programming, ignoring errors, or even warnings
Initially I thought that you had a valid point, but then I reflected what happens if we apply that reasoning to everyday life. We get cars where you ride on the front bumper with no seat belt. Anything else would encourage careless driving....
It isn't the construction costs so much as the design costs that result in all the houses in a given development being identical (other that rotated 90 degrees, or mirrored).
The rule of thumb is you should expect to spend 10 percent more if you're having an architect design your house. That means you'd add one percent if you made ten copies of each house. Many of said developments (generically, I call them hives) have only one to five different designs, so I wouldn't say the cost of design is in any way significant.
The major costs as far as I know are materials, labor, and land. Oh, and profit. Eliminating much of the labor cost would be great, except the price of houses doesn't seem to go down. I suspect what you'd do is increase the cost of one of the other segments (profit, probably).
Sure would be cool if you could getone of these gizmos from the Rent-All for the weekend and run up a new garage. I hope to see the site if it ever recovers....
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I've been turned down for jobs before, but I've never even considered reporting the interviewer as a terrorist. Very innovative. The hard question is, do you use your one free report on the hiring manager or the H. R. manager?
Maybe we should get two free reports each time we're turned down?
Subject: From example.com -- Invoice #123 for your order placed March 20, 2004.
Oh, I've never gotten spam with what appears to be a legitimate subject line -- that should work great. Just generate a random invoice number and use today's date and you'll probably get most of the people that ordered something today to look at it....
I can't even imagine what belongs in place of "of of teh" in your "quote." There are things that make sense, e.g., "fun of the," but there don't seem to be enough common letters to make it a plausible typo.
What was it supposed to be?
That's great. I suppose the spokesman would be a cartoon pig?
My (limited) understanding is that changing the topology of the grid can have highly unexpected effects. This is okay if you have global knowlege of the grid. What if you have only local knowlege?
We kid about someone getting swamped with traffic on the internet: "their servers started glowing cherry red and melted." Well, this is an actual failure more for transmission lines! They don't really melt, but they mayget taken out of service to protect the equipment.
I imagine a lot of high-grade engineering will go into coming up with a system that's immune to cascading failures--if that's possible.
Let's get out the envelope and see if your implicit message (which I assume is it's more dangerous being a fireman than an astronaut) makes sense.
Assuming there were 30 astronauts per year, that's a mortality of 15 per 1000 per year. According to a source I found, there are around 1.1 million firefighters in the Unites States. That gives a mortality rate of 0.1 per 1000 per year for firefighting. Kind of puts it in perspective--being an astronaut is 150 times more dangerous than being a firefighter. That's not to say firefighters are sissies--it's an extremely dangerous job and I'm sure they clang together when they walk down the street.
What's the limit of magnification they can apply given the instruments on the rover?
I'm not a mechanical engineer either, but I know that metal parts are usually painted to prevent corrosion. In fact, that's why these were removed--to check for corrosion. I guess it's lucky they didn't paint them or they might never have noticed it was in backwards....
Let's say I'm, for example, the government. I have archived copies of all your mail messages, including the one to your pals, each using their public key [note: I may actually just have access to these via an ISP and a supoena or something like that]. I now supoena one of their private keys, and use it to decrypt the message containing the supposedly-forgotten key.
Hmmm. I understand there are some people that just keep a paper log of what they watch, while others are instrumented. Apparently they have some trouble with people recording that they watched Masterpiece Theater when they were really watching Survivor LXXII--Celebrities in Prison. This is somewhat similar to the Slashdot folks that moderate things based on their religious (u$oft vs. anti-u$soft) beliefs.
Of course, you better make sure that your email is encrypted. Oh, and that means that you need to throw the key for that away at the end of the day, too, if you don't want anyone recovering your AIM key.
I think you really want to distribute your keys in some other fashion. Of course, if someone you're talking to is a plant . . . .
Hmmm. If I offer someone a bag of marijuana (presuming its possession to be illegal in the locality this takes place) and it turns out to be dried lawn clippings, can I be prosecuted for fraud? I doubt it, but luckily I'm not a lawyer.
I do know you'd have a pretty hard time getting someone to prosecute. I think in most of the United States private citizens can't bring a criminal case themselves. I know there are places (e.g., the United Kingdom) where that's not the case. [At least my exhaustive research of John Mortimer's work suggests that.]
I think this would be an interesting thing for someone (else) to do a study on. It seems as though no matter how much faster systems get, they take just about the same amount of time to boot and get ready to actually *do* something. Of course, if you just run old software on new hardware, you get blazingly fast boots. As an example, when I run DOS under Virtual PC on my Mac, even though it's emulating a 386 (whatever Intel's calling it now--Heptium, Inventium, ...)
it boots instantly.
Makes me wish I had some DOS programs somewhere that I could still use....
I believe this is known as proof by assertion. I guess I think it's overwhelmingly probable, but proving anything to be "TRVTH" [note clever "carved-in-stone"-look letters] seems to be provably impossible.
In fact, I think some of the old shows had things like "Bridge, this is the captain," which would work well.
How do we know this hasn't happened already? If I woke up running on three million luser's Windows boxes, I'd end it all right then. I'm betting that the recent power grid failure was the latest time it happened....
Well, it looks like we've finally slashdotted Google! Might as well quit now....
Voyager is at the National Air and Space Museum--hanging from the ceiling. It is a pretty spectacular sight. Here's a link to their article about it, and another to the museum. It's one of the only places I'd ever bother going in Washington D.C....
I wonder if it is possible to delete the partition if someone actually wanted to? I guess not from what it says. Also, Can Linux be run on these with out a hacked BIOS?
For starters, it would be pretty easy to delete the partition (or do anything else you want with it) if you put the drive into your old Linux box....
Sure info on the web can be false, so can info in books, newpapers, magazines, etc. In fact, it commonly is.
Your profs are just crotchety old coots.
Un huh. It's much easier to post false or misleading information on the web than to publich a book or get something into a refereed journal. That's why you should automatically assume that any information you looked up on the web is suspect. I guess the previous poster was tounge-in-cheek, so I guess I am too.
Of course, oxygen isn't flammable. Was that supposed to be part of the humorous part, too, or did it really say that?
Just to keep the record straight, it's the Air Force that has charge of the land-based strategic missle force. I don't know if the Army has any nuclear weapons any more. I think not, though.
Initially I thought that you had a valid point, but then I reflected what happens if we apply that reasoning to everyday life. We get cars where you ride on the front bumper with no seat belt. Anything else would encourage careless driving....
The rule of thumb is you should expect to spend 10 percent more if you're having an architect design your house. That means you'd add one percent if you made ten copies of each house. Many of said developments (generically, I call them hives) have only one to five different designs, so I wouldn't say the cost of design is in any way significant.
The major costs as far as I know are materials, labor, and land. Oh, and profit. Eliminating much of the labor cost would be great, except the price of houses doesn't seem to go down. I suspect what you'd do is increase the cost of one of the other segments (profit, probably).
Sure would be cool if you could getone of these gizmos from the Rent-All for the weekend and run up a new garage. I hope to see the site if it ever recovers....