You didn't mention which country you are from, but I had no trouble identifying it from your list of its sins. Interesting. I hope by "give up" you mean lowered expectations. As long as you live there, it is still your moral duty to vote - using write-ins if needed. And I mean real write-ins for a qualified candidate, not "Mickey Mouse". In the unlikely event that enough people do that, and we aren't still using E-voting machines controlled by a corporation run by ex-cons, there could still be some positive changes.
I would cheer them on if only Verizon was going to get stiffed. But if they got away with that, likely only the honest creditors would get stiffed, and Verizon would get most of the leavings.
Do they still qualify as Overlords if I can squish them under my foot like their cockroach cousins? You can squish *lots* of them, but not all of their teeming millions before they eat you alive.
Maybe its old fashioned parenting, but buying your child a camera, then sticking masking tape over the lens may not be the best way to encourage their photographic ability! I guess it may help their ability to write USB drivers though... the choice is yours. Yes, she was rather disappointed that I couldn't get good pictures out of it. The raw pixels needed a smoothing filter and color balancing. She is still at the "losing things" stage, so a $150 camera is out.
What about soaking a kitty in gasoline, lighting it on fire, and then letting it free in a field of daisies. Now there are some real flames(literally). It's been done. Only with 300 foxes, torches, and fields of grain. Judges 15
We had a system in our office in 1985 that distributed records for each table to N processors via a hash function, where N could be a large as you liked. Queries were sent to all nodes and run in parallel, and the results combined (since SQL is set based, this works perfectly). Queries on any size database could be made arbitrarily fast by adding more nodes. The only bottle neck was the band width to the control processor and any order by clauses, which was proportional to the result set size, not the database size.
Mine went bad yesterday. It still connects to the computer, but the image is a solid color. So what happens when the cheap camera goes bad and sends a solid color to your hardware RNG? Good point. On CPU would be much more reliable if you REALLY need the security. But sometimes the bobby pin approach is more fun. (When I was growing up, the cotter pin on a wheel broke on a cross country trip. My Dad was panicking because he was out. My Mom put in a bobby pin from her makeup kit. My Dad said it wasn't the right kind of metal and would break. It lasted as long as we had the car.)
Even white noise isn't secure -- someone else could listen at the same location and pickup the same "random" signal. If they can listen to the USB bus, they already have enough physical access to own you. You would make the device node accessible to root only, of course.
Buy one of those $25 toy digital cameras. Keep the lens cap on, or put black tape over the lens. Connect to USB port. Add script to snap a "picture" every few minutes to prng. (Is there a way for userland to feed entropy to kernel based/dev/random?) With no light, digital cameras return thermal noise - which looks like "snow" on an analog TV. I've done this with a toy camera I bought for my daughter. The camera feeds raw pixels to the linux driver, and the post processing done by the Windows software was never implemented in Linux, making it useless as a camera (plus it has 256M ram, but no flash memory). But it works great for this application. I haven't done a mathematical analysis of exactly how much entropy is in the signal. I'll leave that for the stat geeks.
I got the idea from a project that used a webcam snapping pictures of a Lava Lamp® as a hardware RNG.
This is only true for bottom tier discount service. Most reputable ISPs have higher grade plans that allow doing anything you want with the bandwidth - including sharing it. For instance, I currently use Cox cable budget plan, which in fact prohibits sharing, public servers, etc. However, for another $25 / mo (last I checked 2 years ago), I can get the "home business" plan with a static IP, no ports blocked, no monthly usage limits (except those implicit in the cable modem instantaneous bandwidth cap and the fact that the cable is shared with neighbors), and consequently no prohibitions against sharing or running public servers.
Laptops in our home use openvpn on top of wireless. But I run WPA also and restrict internet access from the WAP, because I don't want the RIAA to blame me for some bozo in the street downloading Britney crapola. If I didn't have to worry about the MAFIAA, and had a public service I wanted to run to help justify the ISP plan upgrade, I would gladly run my WAP unsecured. Judging from the earlier story about MAFIAA treatment of universities with unsecured access, this seems unlikely to happen.
Nobody in congress is serving the interests of the people.
Quite true, and it's annoying that the media do not address this side of things. They either talk about Republicans or Democrats but never the issue that neither really serve the peoples interests. That's because the fourth branch of US government is a one party system. (Although the internet has a chance of changing that if it doesn't get locked down soon.)
And by the way, what the %$^# was M$ thinking when they left a backdoor to encrypted data in their OS. And perhaps, more importantly...
Why? Would you ever store passwords and important data again with M$ technology, knowing M$ can read this data anytime they want to? I don't think there was a backdoor. As I understand it, his malware waited until the user entered their master password to use paypal, and then logged the data unencrypted at that time. Same principle as a key logger, but less noise. Your point stands, however, that due to the closed source nature of Windows, M$ is *always* in the position to do any logging of anything they want. Yeah, such stuff could be hidden in open source, and nobody has time to examine every line of open source code. But *in principle* it can be verified, and with millions of knowledgeable users examining small samples of code, chances are non-negligible of catching stuff.
I am a composer and pianist, and one of my favorite ways to start a new composition is to have a friend pick 3 notes at random. As soon as I start playing those 3 notes, my brain fills in the rest of the music suggested by them. In college, I had a friend who composed lyrics the same way. At parties, someone would pick 3 notes at random, and someone else would pick 3 words. Then I would start playing, and she would sing the lyrics - and it would be pretty good. Almost magical even to me as a participant.
Beginning of human history != beginning of earth/physical universe. Tracing generations is a reasonable way to get back to Adam and Eve (neglecting generation skipping common in geneologies). You won't even get that much argument from secular paleontonogists. Modern humans are not that old. What I want to see on slashdot is a flame fest over Noah's flood. Now *there* is a story in conflict with modern geology (unless you go for the local flood thing - despite the text taking pains to make it clear otherwise). Age of the earth? All it says is "in the beginning"... everything else is reading into it.
Maybe we have a different definition of "universe". I'm talking about the matter and energy system we live in and investigate via science. Maybe *some* angels are native to it, but the ones described in Revelation, Isaiah, Paul's vision, etc, are clearly not in the universe we live in. Heaven is not another planet. I can see defining "universe" as "everything ever created or existing". And that would be a quite literal definition - but utterly useless for discussion. Kind of like the term "Intellectual Property".
While your premise is true, you missed the point that our time is part of the creation - or in computer terms it is simulation time. Simulation time is neither longer nor shorter than time in the host machine/universe. You can run the simulation/virtual machine fast or slow or backward or forward, or restore to a checkpoint. "But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day..." (2Peter 3:8,10).
The young earth theory isn't even classic Christianity, having become popular in the US in the 18th century. The church fathers had a variety of theories, and literally counting the years was a 17th century invention. Augustine noted that time as we know it is itself part of this creation, and therefore the 6 days in Genesis 1 could not refer to time in this universe. He speculated that the 6 days were a 6 day "seminar" where the new creation was was presented and explained to the angels.
... and make sure you don't look too hard at existing patents (it's triple damages if you knowingly infringe a patent.. since its damned near impossible not to infringe a software patent with any sizable code it's far better if you're ignorant of which ones.. and yes a lawyer was the first one who advised us about that). And that, right there, is operational proof that software patents are having the opposite effect to their declared purpose. If software patents were beneficial, developers would start a large project with a patent search to save reinventing the wheel - as an oil refinery engineer would do, for example.
(others usually tell you to re-install and update a clean system, before considering helping you). My favorite was trying to install SCO 286 Xenix on brand new ESDI disks. The
install software when into an infinite loop on encountering the first bad
sector. No problem, we had the premium support.
Me: We're trying to install Xenix on ESDI, and it goes into a loop at the
first bad sector.
Support: First I'll need you to install a fresh copy of Xenix.
Me: But that's what were trying to do!
Support: Look, I can't help you unless if you're not willing to follow my
instructions.
Me: (Loses it and yells insults into the phone... )
We went back to ST506 for the moment, ditched SCO, and signed up as
a Motorola var to sell 68k unix systems...
TFA talks about flywheels "needing a heavy and complicated transmission". That was flywheels 20 years ago. Todays ultra flywheels are magnetically suspended in a vacuum, rotate at ultra high rpms (since stored energy increases with the square of rotation speed), and use the same magnets to spin up and down, storing and releasing electricity. The resulting energy density is better than either batteries or ultra-capacitors. The drawback to ultra-flywheels is that so far they work well for something the size of a bus (and are being used for that purpose), but haven't been built small enough yet for a car, much less a laptop. They also don't like to be rotated in 3 dimensions. One promising application of ultra-flywheels is storing electricity for power companies, and releasing it during peak demand.
The change was dramatic. From hating Jews and Blacks are the Source of All Evil, he became instrumental in racial reconciliation. Of course, a lot of credit goes to the black folk giving him a chance - kinda scary at first, like when Ananias was asked to go help Saul, who had just been putting Christians to death.
On the evilness scale, what google did in China was like a.0005 compared to the things other US companies do. Yet we somehow turn a blind eye to them and get up in arms about Google?
Their "We are not Evil" slogan challenges us to judge them by a higher standard. This is a good thing. Yes, they will fall short. Falling short of a high standard is better than falling short of a low down dirty standar But judging Google by the higher standard they have set for themselves is essential to keeping them accountable, and thereby helps them get closer to that high standard.
Maintaining high ethical standards in the midst of non-stop difficult and tricky multi-billion dollar decisions is *very* hard. IMO, this is why so many more television preachers end up corrupt compared to radio, print, or pulpit.
So if his god's the reason why he doesn't bomb, what happens if he loses faith?
Good question. Check the context, but I think Peter the Apostle addresses this:
2 Peter 2:20 "For if, after they have escaped the defilements of the world by the knowledge of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled in them and are overcome, the last state has become worse for them than the first."
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You didn't mention which country you are from, but I had no trouble identifying it from your list of its sins. Interesting. I hope by "give up" you mean lowered expectations. As long as you live there, it is still your moral duty to vote - using write-ins if needed. And I mean real write-ins for a qualified candidate, not "Mickey Mouse". In the unlikely event that enough people do that, and we aren't still using E-voting machines controlled by a corporation run by ex-cons, there could still be some positive changes.
I would cheer them on if only Verizon was going to get stiffed. But if they got away with that, likely only the honest creditors would get stiffed, and Verizon would get most of the leavings.
We had a system in our office in 1985 that distributed records for each table to N processors via a hash function, where N could be a large as you liked. Queries were sent to all nodes and run in parallel, and the results combined (since SQL is set based, this works perfectly). Queries on any size database could be made arbitrarily fast by adding more nodes. The only bottle neck was the band width to the control processor and any order by clauses, which was proportional to the result set size, not the database size.
Mine went bad yesterday. It still connects to the computer, but the image is a solid color. So what happens when the cheap camera goes bad and sends a solid color to your hardware RNG?
Good point. On CPU would be much more reliable if you REALLY need the security. But sometimes the bobby pin approach is more fun. (When I was growing up, the cotter pin on a wheel broke on a cross country trip. My Dad was panicking because he was out. My Mom put in a bobby pin from her makeup kit. My Dad said it wasn't the right kind of metal and would break. It lasted as long as we had the car.) Even white noise isn't secure -- someone else could listen at the same location and pickup the same "random" signal. If they can listen to the USB bus, they already have enough physical access to own you. You would make the device node accessible to root only, of course.
I gave up on Windows as a lost cause after Win98. I was talking about easily adding a hardware RNG to Linux/BSD/Mac.
I got the idea from a project that used a webcam snapping pictures of a Lava Lamp® as a hardware RNG.
Laptops in our home use openvpn on top of wireless. But I run WPA also and restrict internet access from the WAP, because I don't want the RIAA to blame me for some bozo in the street downloading Britney crapola. If I didn't have to worry about the MAFIAA, and had a public service I wanted to run to help justify the ISP plan upgrade, I would gladly run my WAP unsecured. Judging from the earlier story about MAFIAA treatment of universities with unsecured access, this seems unlikely to happen.
Quite true, and it's annoying that the media do not address this side of things. They either talk about Republicans or Democrats but never the issue that neither really serve the peoples interests. That's because the fourth branch of US government is a one party system. (Although the internet has a chance of changing that if it doesn't get locked down soon.)
Why? Would you ever store passwords and important data again with M$ technology, knowing M$ can read this data anytime they want to? I don't think there was a backdoor. As I understand it, his malware waited until the user entered their master password to use paypal, and then logged the data unencrypted at that time. Same principle as a key logger, but less noise. Your point stands, however, that due to the closed source nature of Windows, M$ is *always* in the position to do any logging of anything they want. Yeah, such stuff could be hidden in open source, and nobody has time to examine every line of open source code. But *in principle* it can be verified, and with millions of knowledgeable users examining small samples of code, chances are non-negligible of catching stuff.
I am a composer and pianist, and one of my favorite ways to start a new composition is to have a friend pick 3 notes at random. As soon as I start playing those 3 notes, my brain fills in the rest of the music suggested by them. In college, I had a friend who composed lyrics the same way. At parties, someone would pick 3 notes at random, and someone else would pick 3 words. Then I would start playing, and she would sing the lyrics - and it would be pretty good. Almost magical even to me as a participant.
Beginning of human history != beginning of earth/physical universe. Tracing generations is a reasonable way to get back to Adam and Eve (neglecting generation skipping common in geneologies). You won't even get that much argument from secular paleontonogists. Modern humans are not that old. What I want to see on slashdot is a flame fest over Noah's flood. Now *there* is a story in conflict with modern geology (unless you go for the local flood thing - despite the text taking pains to make it clear otherwise). Age of the earth? All it says is "in the beginning"... everything else is reading into it.
Maybe we have a different definition of "universe". I'm talking about the matter and energy system we live in and investigate via science. Maybe *some* angels are native to it, but the ones described in Revelation, Isaiah, Paul's vision, etc, are clearly not in the universe we live in. Heaven is not another planet. I can see defining "universe" as "everything ever created or existing". And that would be a quite literal definition - but utterly useless for discussion. Kind of like the term "Intellectual Property".
None. Angels are not from this universe.
While your premise is true, you missed the point that our time is part of the creation - or in computer terms it is simulation time. Simulation time is neither longer nor shorter than time in the host machine/universe. You can run the simulation/virtual machine fast or slow or backward or forward, or restore to a checkpoint. "But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day..." (2Peter 3:8,10).
The young earth theory isn't even classic Christianity, having become popular in the US in the 18th century. The church fathers had a variety of theories, and literally counting the years was a 17th century invention. Augustine noted that time as we know it is itself part of this creation, and therefore the 6 days in Genesis 1 could not refer to time in this universe. He speculated that the 6 days were a 6 day "seminar" where the new creation was was presented and explained to the angels.
... and make sure you don't look too hard at existing patents (it's triple damages if you knowingly infringe a patent.. since its damned near impossible not to infringe a software patent with any sizable code it's far better if you're ignorant of which ones.. and yes a lawyer was the first one who advised us about that).And that, right there, is operational proof that software patents are having the opposite effect to their declared purpose. If software patents were beneficial, developers would start a large project with a patent search to save reinventing the wheel - as an oil refinery engineer would do, for example.
Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flywheel_energy_storage
Example of current utility flywheel manufacturer:
http://www.beaconpower.com/products/EnergyStorageSystems/SmartEnergyMatrix.htm
High end computer UPS systems utilitize a mechanical bearing flywheel in addition to batteries.
Here are three home power flywheel companies:
http://www.motionnet.com/cgi-bin/search.exe?a=cat&no=2229
Me: We're trying to install Xenix on ESDI, and it goes into a loop at the first bad sector.
Support: First I'll need you to install a fresh copy of Xenix.
Me: But that's what were trying to do!
Support: Look, I can't help you unless if you're not willing to follow my instructions.
Me: (Loses it and yells insults into the phone ... )
We went back to ST506 for the moment, ditched SCO, and signed up as a Motorola var to sell 68k unix systems...
TFA talks about flywheels "needing a heavy and complicated transmission". That was flywheels 20 years ago. Todays ultra flywheels are magnetically suspended in a vacuum, rotate at ultra high rpms (since stored energy increases with the square of rotation speed), and use the same magnets to spin up and down, storing and releasing electricity. The resulting energy density is better than either batteries or ultra-capacitors. The drawback to ultra-flywheels is that so far they work well for something the size of a bus (and are being used for that purpose), but haven't been built small enough yet for a car, much less a laptop. They also don't like to be rotated in 3 dimensions. One promising application of ultra-flywheels is storing electricity for power companies, and releasing it during peak demand.
The change was dramatic. From hating Jews and Blacks are the Source of All Evil, he became instrumental in racial reconciliation. Of course, a lot of credit goes to the black folk giving him a chance - kinda scary at first, like when Ananias was asked to go help Saul, who had just been putting Christians to death.
Their "We are not Evil" slogan challenges us to judge them by a higher standard. This is a good thing. Yes, they will fall short. Falling short of a high standard is better than falling short of a low down dirty standar But judging Google by the higher standard they have set for themselves is essential to keeping them accountable, and thereby helps them get closer to that high standard.
Maintaining high ethical standards in the midst of non-stop difficult and tricky multi-billion dollar decisions is *very* hard. IMO, this is why so many more television preachers end up corrupt compared to radio, print, or pulpit.
So if his god's the reason why he doesn't bomb, what happens if he loses faith?
Good question. Check the context, but I think Peter the Apostle addresses this:2 Peter 2:20 "For if, after they have escaped the defilements of the world by the knowledge of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled in them and are overcome, the last state has become worse for them than the first."