You can directly lookup whois information at the internic's lookup page, or use the unix whois command or a Windows utility like Cyberkit to discover whether or not a domain has been registered without leaking your interest to someone who might try to grab it first.
I bet lots of people never heard the news about Radiohead's free album before finding it listed on their favorite w4r3z site and yoinking it. People find metaproviders they like, content aggregators, and stick with them. In this case many have pirate sources as their aggregators.
Give it time. As more and more artists let loose their songs, you'll see sites specializing in providing news and links to those resources, and people will add these new metaproviders to their visit-often list.
How much RAM is in your video card? 64 megabytes? 128? If it's an older machine, probably much less than that. Assuming you have less than a gigabyte of main RAM in your system it's probably much more worthwhile to drop a few dollars on expanding that and running whatever RAM disk you need in there.
It's really only cryptosystems with public/private key combinations which are subject to quantum analysis. "What two numbers multiplied make up this number?" This is the sort of question best posed to a quantum computer. Trying to do redundancy analysis on a high-grade key, even with a quantum computer backing you up, isn't going to work very well.
It isn't necessary for a phone to implement a full-featured CSS parser, the display can't handle such rich content anyway. Have you ever hit a CSS-designed web page where for some reason or other it couldn't load the style sheet? The result is a pretty plain text page, which would be easily legible on a phone. Some basic formatting would prettify it a bit.
The more of these cheap laptops they can put in the hands of American teens, the more those teens will contribute to the available code base. By effectively pricing them so high, forcing donations like that, they're limiting the usefulness of the platform.
A satellite constellation is much closer to the Earth (2000 miles) than geostationary (23,000 miles), so you don't need a dish antenna to contact one. Unfortunately the only one with any promise, Iridium, was overengineered and overpriced and isn't available.
I guess that means everyone boarding a plane will have yellow hands. I suspect they'll use up the plane's water reservoir trying to wash the crap off, too.
I can sympathize with Mr. Barr; I remember when Linux natively ran on a 386SX with 16MB of RAM, and ran *well*. X? We don' need no steenkin' X! I think that, even if you stripped the current kernel to the bare bones, you'd have trouble running it in 16MB, it's been "spoiled" by too much cheap memory.
I think the analog vs. digital argument is a bit off-target. The point isn't the type of signal, it's the quality. I've heard people complain about artifacting in their TV shows because cablecasters are using low bitrates or are cutting the S/N ratio too close. I'd much rather have a good analog signal to encode than a crappy digital signal even I could tap it directly.
Put a GPS receiver in each phone, then send location statistics with each call. The company will rapidly discover the optimum positions to place central nodes, reducing the need for phone-based relaying except in fringe areas.
That and have lots of fun data to send to the NSA...
I've been waiting to see ethanol-fueled microturbines in the mass market for a while now, and have so far been disappointed. They're a bit big for phones but ought to work in laptops and would IMO be spectacular for power tools. They pose their own dangers, though; what happens when a fuel cell ruptures and the turbine turns into a flamethrower?
Ever heard the saying "people are promoted to the level of their own incompetence"? Unless you're comfortable with a management job I would strongly recommend you *NOT* take it. You're right in doing some research and self-education before accepting the job, but while you study up keep asking yourself "do I REALLY want to do this?"
I bet people are trying exploits against Skype (and other popular servers and services) all the time. If someone tries something funny, and the system crashes a few seconds afterwards, they may assume they were the cause.
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Aren't those the older-style iPod nanos with the small screens? I bet AMD got a hell of a deal on them.
nslookup finds IP addresses, not domain name registration.
You can directly lookup whois information at the internic's lookup page, or use the unix whois command or a Windows utility like Cyberkit to discover whether or not a domain has been registered without leaking your interest to someone who might try to grab it first.
I bet lots of people never heard the news about Radiohead's free album before finding it listed on their favorite w4r3z site and yoinking it. People find metaproviders they like, content aggregators, and stick with them. In this case many have pirate sources as their aggregators.
Give it time. As more and more artists let loose their songs, you'll see sites specializing in providing news and links to those resources, and people will add these new metaproviders to their visit-often list.
They're confiscating a brazilian routers? That's a lot.
[runs away]
I don't know how long TPB can hang on to that domain name (remember peta.org?) but it should be fun watching the fireworks.
...the Mac Mini?
:-P
At half the price, I'm already sold.
Welllll... What's better? A big RAM disk in an uncached portion of main memory, or a small RAM disk on a video card - also uncached?
How much RAM is in your video card? 64 megabytes? 128? If it's an older machine, probably much less than that. Assuming you have less than a gigabyte of main RAM in your system it's probably much more worthwhile to drop a few dollars on expanding that and running whatever RAM disk you need in there.
It's really only cryptosystems with public/private key combinations which are subject to quantum analysis. "What two numbers multiplied make up this number?" This is the sort of question best posed to a quantum computer. Trying to do redundancy analysis on a high-grade key, even with a quantum computer backing you up, isn't going to work very well.
So use the quantum cryptography to exchange a large classic private key.
"citation needed"
It isn't necessary for a phone to implement a full-featured CSS parser, the display can't handle such rich content anyway. Have you ever hit a CSS-designed web page where for some reason or other it couldn't load the style sheet? The result is a pretty plain text page, which would be easily legible on a phone. Some basic formatting would prettify it a bit.
The more of these cheap laptops they can put in the hands of American teens, the more those teens will contribute to the available code base. By effectively pricing them so high, forcing donations like that, they're limiting the usefulness of the platform.
A satellite constellation is much closer to the Earth (2000 miles) than geostationary (23,000 miles), so you don't need a dish antenna to contact one. Unfortunately the only one with any promise, Iridium, was overengineered and overpriced and isn't available.
I guess that means everyone boarding a plane will have yellow hands. I suspect they'll use up the plane's water reservoir trying to wash the crap off, too.
I can sympathize with Mr. Barr; I remember when Linux natively ran on a 386SX with 16MB of RAM, and ran *well*. X? We don' need no steenkin' X! I think that, even if you stripped the current kernel to the bare bones, you'd have trouble running it in 16MB, it's been "spoiled" by too much cheap memory.
I think the analog vs. digital argument is a bit off-target. The point isn't the type of signal, it's the quality. I've heard people complain about artifacting in their TV shows because cablecasters are using low bitrates or are cutting the S/N ratio too close. I'd much rather have a good analog signal to encode than a crappy digital signal even I could tap it directly.
Would DDR3 be worthwhile in a system with two quad-processors installed? I'm sure that'd load down the bus pretty heavily...
Put a GPS receiver in each phone, then send location statistics with each call. The company will rapidly discover the optimum positions to place central nodes, reducing the need for phone-based relaying except in fringe areas.
That and have lots of fun data to send to the NSA...
I've been waiting to see ethanol-fueled microturbines in the mass market for a while now, and have so far been disappointed. They're a bit big for phones but ought to work in laptops and would IMO be spectacular for power tools. They pose their own dangers, though; what happens when a fuel cell ruptures and the turbine turns into a flamethrower?
Has anyone else noticed that this occurred on the anniversary of Irwin's death?
Wouldn't using a router to connect to the internet bypass the bug?
Ever heard the saying "people are promoted to the level of their own incompetence"? Unless you're comfortable with a management job I would strongly recommend you *NOT* take it. You're right in doing some research and self-education before accepting the job, but while you study up keep asking yourself "do I REALLY want to do this?"
I bet people are trying exploits against Skype (and other popular servers and services) all the time. If someone tries something funny, and the system crashes a few seconds afterwards, they may assume they were the cause.