I use password safe to keep all my passwords. I used to have password overload and ended up using the same password for tons of sites. I eventually came to the decision this was a really dumb idea and shopped around for a solution. Now I just use password safe to generate proper random passwords for all my web sites and accounts. All you have to remember is one master password.
The only problem is that it is not very portable in that if I am not on my own computer I don't have access to the password data base.
I remember when I was an engineering student at Melbourne university part of the contract for being enrolled was that any ideas or anything that you develop whilst a student is the property of the university. It seemed a pretty blanket coverage of your activities and seemed very unfair if what possibly unenforceable. Has anybody seen this sort of thing enforced?
I would love any of these pontificating constitutional lawyer wannabees to try to convince me that if they were allowed to *Re-sell* thier music under a no-drm model they would actually delete the origianl copy from thier hard-drives. Unlikely. All I hear is nonsense moralising backed up by nothing more than a greedy desire to have as much music as possible without paying for it.
Yeah Yeah you say that you would still pay for stuff on ITunes if it were not DRM'd but I doubt it. If you could get that latest Kylie Minouge hot number from your buddy for nix then you would.
When will slashdot cease being a platform for music pirates to whinge.... grrrrr
I was standing in a supermarket checkout line in Cambridge in the UK once and this pretty festy looking homeless dude is in front of me with a 6 pack of Tennents Super Strength lager. Anyway he whips out this busted up debit card, all scratched and bent, obviously stolen or found. The pimply checkout chick just takes the card and incredulously turns to the bum and asks him if he would like any cash out with his purchase. In the UK you don't have to type in a pin to get cash out with purchases at the supermarket you just have to sign and well...... You should have seen the guys eyes light up. It was going to be his lucky day. "50 pounds please"
The cashier then takes the card and swipes it. Unfortunately for the alkie bum the card was too damaged and wouldn't swipe through the machine correctly. If he had been a bit luckier he would have easily made off with 50 quid and a 6 pack of lager. What was really astounding was the robotic attitude of the checkout chick to the obvious scam. She would have happily handed over that 50 quid if the card had swiped.
The number of *homocide* related firearm deaths in 2002 was 11,798. That is still almost four times as many people that were killed in S11 yet still nobody in power has the guts to do anything about it. Thousands of soliders in Iraq are dying over weapons that don't exist yet if the same resolve were shown in solving the domestic terrorism gun proliferation problem you would see results.
If that many Americans were being killed every year by terrorist attacks there would be demands for wars to be waged, countries to be invaded and death to be met out to all responsible. But when the terrorism is in the form of home grown violence idiots point meekly to an obscure clause in the constitution and shrug off the carnage.
They don't like Fair Use? Fine, we don't like copyright. Game on.
I believe the situation historically has been more a case of "They don't like copyright so we don't like fair use. Game on".
The DMCA is a reflex response to rampant copyright infringement. It's akin to kicking a nice fluffy dog which will eventually turn around and bite you. You can bitch about the vicious dog but you kicked it in the first place.
Isn't it obvious that the universe we live in has been created by an intelligent being and that the mechanism that that being chose to develop this universe can be described by the theory of evolution?
Lets break the "obvious"ness down and see where it leads us.
(A) The world is a complex system.
(B) It is "obvious" that complex systems are created by suitably more complex systems.
(C) The world must have been created.
(D) Name the creator as God.
(E) God is a complex system.
(F) It is "obvious" that complex systems are created by suitably more complex systems.
(G) God must have been created.
(H) Name the creator as God2.
(E) God2 is a complex system.
(F) It is "obvious" that complex systems are created by suitably more complex systems.
(G) God2 must have been created.
(H) Name the creator as God3.
Recurse : Stack overflow : core dump
So you have a choice. Believe that life is an un-created phenomen or get stuck in an infinitely recursive philosophical mud puddle.
So belief in God gets you no closer to the truth it just adds layers. Oh and before anybody comes back with the standard mantra that God has always existed and is uncreated... well that is just the offence that creationists level against scientists who posit that the universe sponaneously created life. Belief in a creator gives no comfort and understanding of why and how life came about.
By the way National Geographic recently published a feature article entitled "Was Darwin Wrong". The conclusion was NO however the interesting parts were the simple descriptions of the observations that Darwin made before coming to his obvious conclusions.
One day the zoo-keeper noticed that the orangutan was reading two books-- the Bible and Darwin's Origin of Species.
In surprise, he asked the ape, "Why are you reading both those books"?
"Well," said the orangutan, "I just wanted to know if I was my brother's keeper, or my keeper's brother."
I just created a web site whose terms of service are that if you send an email to the email address listed then you will be charged for spell checking the email at £10 a character. Anybody want to advise on what my chances of collecting are ?
> However, because it's interpreted, if you have ny loops, it's going to be very slow going. There often many tricks to "vectorize" operations you'd normally do iteratively in other languages, but often the only solution is the ol' for-next or while loop.
This is not such an issue any more as The Mathworks have introduced new technology into the interpreter. The interpreter now contains a "Just In Time" JIT compiler that phenomenly increases the speed of looping code.
"The JIT-Accelerator gives you the flexibility to run your code faster without having to perform vectorization.....Today with the JIT-Accelerator, you no longer need to vectorize code to speed up the execution of many applications."
No because it is people that kill, not WMD. WMD(be they biological, nuclear or chemical), automobiles, rockets, baseball bats, hammers, knives, and many other implements/tools can be and are used to kill people. Do we outlaw automobiles, rockets, baseball bats, hammers, knives? No, of course not...
Microsoft is one step ahead of everyone. Here is the patent summary.
"Technique which utilizes a probabilistic classifier to detect "junk" e-mail by automatically updating a training and re-training the classifier based on the updated training set"
12. The right to get to the your destination alive
As typical with US "my rights" crooners there never seems to be any listings of "my responsibilities"
I remember standing in a queue at a United Airlines terminal in london. They were asking all the standard security questions about bag packing and where you were going and why. Standard stuff, no big deal yu just answer yes/no and you are on your way. The guy behind me kicked up a big fuss maintaining that he was an important businessman and they had no right to ask him such questions. Well this guy was probably getting on the same flight as me and I wouldn't have been unhappy at all for him to be taken away behind a security screen and given the latex glove treatment for his attitude.
Well at least the UK Prime Minister was elected with a majority of the population, not installed by a judiciary in the pocket of big business and an election process controlled by the current presidents brother in law.
A guy at school years ago used to get his kicks by getting various computer peripherals to play music. The best was a 5 1/4 " floppy drive playing yankee doodle dandy. I think he just drove the head on the drive back and forwards in time with a sound input file. Dot matrix printers could also pump out a pretty tune.
Unfortunately I know longer know this person and a cursory google search turned up nothing on floppy drive music. If anybody has a program to do the same then please post. I don't recommend running this on your own computer though:)
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Well the original pdf has now been removed.
Or if they take it down or fix it up you can get it off the italian web site.
. pdf
http://www.corriere.it/Media/Documenti/Classified
I use password safe to keep all my passwords. I used to have password overload and ended up using the same password for tons of sites. I eventually came to the decision this was a really dumb idea and shopped around for a solution. Now I just use password safe to generate proper random passwords for all my web sites and accounts. All you have to remember is one master password.
The only problem is that it is not very portable in that if I am not on my own computer I don't have access to the password data base.
I remember when I was an engineering student at Melbourne university part of the contract for being enrolled was that any ideas or anything that you develop whilst a student is the property of the university. It seemed a pretty blanket coverage of your activities and seemed very unfair if what possibly unenforceable. Has anybody seen this sort of thing enforced?
I would love any of these pontificating constitutional lawyer wannabees to try to convince me that if they were allowed to *Re-sell* thier music under a no-drm model they would actually delete the origianl copy from thier hard-drives. Unlikely. All I hear is nonsense moralising backed up by nothing more than a greedy desire to have as much music as possible without paying for it.
Yeah Yeah you say that you would still pay for stuff on ITunes if it were not DRM'd but I doubt it. If you could get that latest Kylie Minouge hot number from your buddy for nix then you would.
When will slashdot cease being a platform for music pirates to whinge.... grrrrr
I was standing in a supermarket checkout line in Cambridge in the UK once and this pretty festy looking homeless dude is in front of me with a 6 pack of Tennents Super Strength lager. Anyway he whips out this busted up debit card, all scratched and bent, obviously stolen or found. The pimply checkout chick just takes the card and incredulously turns to the bum and asks him if he would like any cash out with his purchase. In the UK you don't have to type in a pin to get cash out with purchases at the supermarket you just have to sign and well...... You should have seen the guys eyes light up. It was going to be his lucky day. "50 pounds please"
The cashier then takes the card and swipes it. Unfortunately for the alkie bum the card was too damaged and wouldn't swipe through the machine correctly. If he had been a bit luckier he would have easily made off with 50 quid and a 6 pack of lager. What was really astounding was the robotic attitude of the checkout chick to the obvious scam. She would have happily handed over that 50 quid if the card had swiped.
Video Compression !
Only save the intensity channel and a few bits of markup and you compress the stream quite a bit.
Fair call,
The number of *homocide* related firearm deaths in 2002 was 11,798. That is still almost four times as many people that were killed in S11 yet still nobody in power has the guts to do anything about it. Thousands of soliders in Iraq are dying over weapons that don't exist yet if the same resolve were shown in solving the domestic terrorism gun proliferation problem you would see results.
If that many Americans were being killed every year by terrorist attacks there would be demands for wars to be waged, countries to be invaded and death to be met out to all responsible. But when the terrorism is in the form of home grown violence idiots point meekly to an obscure clause in the constitution and shrug off the carnage.
I believe the situation historically has been more a case of "They don't like copyright so we don't like fair use. Game on".
The DMCA is a reflex response to rampant copyright infringement. It's akin to kicking a nice fluffy dog which will eventually turn around and bite you. You can bitch about the vicious dog but you kicked it in the first place.
Isn't it obvious that the universe we live in has been created by an intelligent being and that the mechanism that that being chose to develop this universe can be described by the theory of evolution?
Lets break the "obvious"ness down and see where it leads us.
- (A) The world is a complex system.
- (B) It is "obvious" that complex systems are created by suitably more complex systems.
- (C) The world must have been created.
- (D) Name the creator as God.
- (E) God is a complex system.
- (F) It is "obvious" that complex systems are created by suitably more complex systems.
- (G) God must have been created.
- (H) Name the creator as God2.
- (E) God2 is a complex system.
- (F) It is "obvious" that complex systems are created by suitably more complex systems.
- (G) God2 must have been created.
- (H) Name the creator as God3.
- Recurse : Stack overflow : core dump
So you have a choice. Believe that life is an un-created phenomen or get stuck in an infinitely recursive philosophical mud puddle. So belief in God gets you no closer to the truth it just adds layers. Oh and before anybody comes back with the standard mantra that God has always existed and is uncreatedBy the way National Geographic recently published a feature article entitled "Was Darwin Wrong". The conclusion was NO however the interesting parts were the simple descriptions of the observations that Darwin made before coming to his obvious conclusions.
One day the zoo-keeper noticed that the orangutan was reading two books-- the Bible and Darwin's Origin of Species. In surprise, he asked the ape, "Why are you reading both those books"? "Well," said the orangutan, "I just wanted to know if I was my brother's keeper, or my keeper's brother."
Beagle Discovers Life On Mars
Beagle Discovers Oil On Mars
Bush anounces "Operation Martian Freedom"
Martians wellcome troops but "alien terrorists" from Neptune skirmish with coalition troops.
President Yaxcbat ( Neptune ) announces "Operation Freedom Earth"
Neptunians arrive at Earth and kick some Dubya butt
Neptunians introduce foolproof ballot punching machines using superior alien technology
Republicans thrown out of the Green House ( As the aliens renamed it )
Earth is happy.
I just created a web site whose terms of service are that if you send an email to the email address listed then you will be charged for spell checking the email at £10 a character. Anybody want to advise on what my chances of collecting are ?
This is not such an issue any more as The Mathworks have introduced new technology into the interpreter. The interpreter now contains a "Just In Time" JIT compiler that phenomenly increases the speed of looping code.
"The JIT-Accelerator gives you the flexibility to run your code faster without having to perform vectorization.....Today with the JIT-Accelerator, you no longer need to vectorize code to speed up the execution of many applications."
No because it is people that kill, not WMD. WMD(be they biological, nuclear or chemical), automobiles, rockets, baseball bats, hammers, knives, and many other implements/tools can be and are used to kill people. Do we outlaw automobiles, rockets, baseball bats, hammers, knives? No, of course not ...
Ring Mouse
head mice
Reflective dot tracking
See my other post
"Technique which utilizes a probabilistic classifier to detect "junk" e-mail by automatically updating a training and re-training the classifier based on the updated training set"
The full details of the patent can be seen here.
Patent Link
I'm surprised you guys don't check at the patent office first before you get all excited about a new idea. Doh!
12. The right to get to the your destination alive
As typical with US "my rights" crooners there never seems to be any listings of "my responsibilities"
I remember standing in a queue at a United Airlines terminal in london. They were asking all the standard security questions about bag packing and where you were going and why. Standard stuff, no big deal yu just answer yes/no and you are on your way. The guy behind me kicked up a big fuss maintaining that he was an important businessman and they had no right to ask him such questions. Well this guy was probably getting on the same flight as me and I wouldn't have been unhappy at all for him to be taken away behind a security screen and given the latex glove treatment for his attitude.
Well at least the UK Prime Minister was elected with a majority of the population, not installed by a judiciary in the pocket of big business and an election process controlled by the current presidents brother in law.
People will have ingenious methods of counteracting this once it has been deployed once or twice!
A guy at school years ago used to get his kicks by getting various computer peripherals to play music. The best was a 5 1/4 " floppy drive playing yankee doodle dandy. I think he just drove the head on the drive back and forwards in time with a sound input file. Dot matrix printers could also pump out a pretty tune.
:)
Unfortunately I know longer know this person and a cursory google search turned up nothing on floppy drive music. If anybody has a program to do the same then please post. I don't recommend running this on your own computer though