It'd also be helpful if you'd benchmark your codec's playback CPU load versus DivX and the other popular formats. While nowadays PCs can handle some heavy demands, lightweight decoders would still be desirable, especially for embedded applications, etc.
It would be overly inefficient to build facilities like that on the moon and then beam the power all the way to Earth. Not only would one have to contend with the lunar atmosphere, which while rarer than Earth's is much thicker, but the distance involved would limit the amount of power that could be transmitted.
It would be much better to build solar power satellites and launch them from Earth. The satellites would require less material than similar facilities on the moon, and though some of them might be manufactured from lunar material, the infrastructure necessary would be enormous. The distance would less than 1/10th as great, meaning at least 100X higher efficiency.
I refuse to use Paypal, and there is more than one company who's lost my business by routing their billing through Paypal.
I knew there was a big potential problem when I saw their business model, and resolved never to use it; then, when it got popular, I tentatively began to order a product from one website. When Paypal asked for all sorts of personal info, I aborted.
The chip in the key is required to trigger the anti-theft system, but the key itself isn't needed. You could cut the metal tongue off the key, rendering it useless for actually turning the starter, while the chip would still work.
You would, of course, be essentially disabling that part of the anti-theft system, but thieves now have ways around it anyway. If the key profile is identical to pre-chipped versions, it would also mean you could run your car with a non-chipped key, which is a lot easier to fit on your keychain.
Absolutely. Einstein's theories superseded Newtonian physics, though Newton's system works just fine for most things here on Earth. It's only when one approaches the speed of light that you find the discrepancies pointed at by Relativity -- and discover how matter and energy interrelate.
Einstein's work may also not adequately describe the universe in some instances; it cannot satisfactorially explain how the universe came into being. A new theory that can do so can hopefully be found -- and if it is, it will very likely teach us new things, things that may affect our every day life, just like Einstein has.
Infrastructure is nice. Infrastructure is good. Having the right equipment, irrigation and transportation would certainly be welcome.
But information is the next best thing. You may not have a tractor, but knowing how to plow a field without causing soil erosion is important. You can't build an effective grain silo without having the plans for one; but if you know how they're laid out, you might cobble one together.
I suppose you could photocopy a bunch of plans and hand them out, but the net allows neighboring villages to share their experiences and figure out what works in that area and what won't, and to make arrangements to buy equipment and materials on the cheap when it becomes available.
Of course the net is no panacea, but it's of more help than you might think.
> but this would be considered a Cracking school,
> not a Hacking school.
Sounds more to me like it's going to be a skr1p7-k1dd13 sk001. Do you really think the implications, and exploitation, of buffer overflows and IP spoofing can be tought in a short course? I suppose they could have a list of prerequisites...
More likely they're teaching things like how to get an IP from a domain name and how to get and use the latest skr1p7z.
Yes, I know this is off-topic, but I'd really like to know... I'm going off on a tangent from the new cards' support of LCD monitors.
Well, from what I've seen, it's not WORTH having high-end cards support LCD monitors -- because so far as I know, having a fast refresh rate on those monitors isn't worthwhile. The Viewsonic LCD I tried left nice ghost images and trails from bright objects.
But perhaps Viewsonic doesn't use top-performing LCD displays... Would anyone care to recommend an LCD monitor that's worth playing games on?
A rogue domain operator, TLDUSA, is busy spamming offers to sell/buy.USA domains for $59 per year. These are NOT.US domains, and whether or not someone will be able to contact those domain servers is problematic.
Somewhere back in my parents' house is an original IBM PC Technical Reference manual. I bought it for $65 back when I was in junior high school and $65 was an enormous sum of money to me. The book contained the full schematics of the IBM and specifications on talking to its hardware.
In the back of the book was a full assembler listing of the IBM's boot ROM. (The ROM BASIC was sadly not provided.) I spent lots of time parsing through the code looking at how various devices were initialized and handled.
While Compaq may have used a lot of resources making a cleanroom version of the x86 boot ROM, the original was right there, for anyone with a few dollars to see. Microsoft hadn't the slightest thing to do with it.
So long as your domain isn't past its expiration date, NSI can do nothing to prevent you from transferring it out of their control. Just go to another registrar and follow their procedure to move a domain to their aegis.
I use Gandi.net, myself (not Ghandi.net; that's a squatter, and costs a lot more). Gandi charges 12 EU (about $10 US) to transfer the domain, and tacks on an additional year of registration. Check them out.
If you don't want your unfinished writings to be exploited after your death (or you're just ashamed to have anyone see them), store 'em in an encrypted volume on your hard drive.
Just be sure to use a Government Approved backdoored cryptosystem, so the goons don't break your door down looking for terrorists.:-P
IMO you should run separate functions on separate ports. I don't think this increases or decreases security much, but it greatly improves scalability.
I could, for instance, run my setup on a single box; and then, when traffic went up and the service got popular, replace the box with a Linux firewall to an intranet. The functions could then be divided among several machines on that intranet, and having the firewall box route different ports to their dedicated machines would be a trivial task.
Hell, you could even have redundant machines for critical operations, and if a failure occurred you need only change the routing on the firewall box to get things back up.
I've had Roadrunner access via Time Warner cable for over two years now, and despite various problems, un less they triple the rates I'll never unsubscribe. And so far as I know, the net number of broadband users is still going up on an exponential curve. But I can understand the reasons for the earlier statistics...
The exact determination is that "more people than ever are leaving broadband". Not that the ranks are shrinking, but that a greater number of people are terminating accounts. Obviously, as you increase your customer base, if the same percentage of people unhook every month due to dissatisfaction or because they can't afford it any more, then of course the gross number will increase.
What makes you think the police, Federal or otherwise, don't already try and listen in on lawyer-client communications? I'm sure they get all sorts of hints and tidbits. They can't use the recordings in court, of course; all they have to do is make up a new train of investigation that (re)leads them to the evidence.
The only difference now is that they no longer have to go to the trouble.
</paranoia>
The legal theory behind this law is that the encryption around a file is equivalent to a safe holding a document. If the authorities have a warrant to search the contents of that safe (or the contents of that location, for that matter), they will ask you for the key.
The difference is, of course, that if you don't give them the key, they can cut open a safe. With data under a high level of encryption, they can go spit. So instead, a judge issues an order requiring you to disclose your password, and if you refuse, you're held in contempt and jailed indefinitely. Never mind the conflict with the 5th Amendment; they want to search your (virtual) personal papers, and you aren't allowed to stop them.
(As an aside: The FBI wanted passwords to files they got from Kevin Mitnick's hard drive, the last time they caught him. Mitnick refused to provide them... But on Mitnick's release, the judge ruled that Mitnick couldn't have his files back, since he couldn't prove they didn't contain pirated information. I'd call it a violation of 4th Amendment rights.)
As to whether such a law would hold up in court, for that we'll just have to wait.
I strongly recommend you use Google to find any sites on the net referring to that domain. Most likely, many of them are outdated URLS, and that is what this pr0n site is depending on for traffic. Get those links cut, and cut the traffic, and they'll be less likely to hang onto the address.
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It'd also be helpful if you'd benchmark your codec's playback CPU load versus DivX and the other popular formats. While nowadays PCs can handle some heavy demands, lightweight decoders would still be desirable, especially for embedded applications, etc.
A boon to traveling salesmen everywhere!
:-)~
http://www.asi.org/adb/06/09/04/1999/08/news-19990 814.html
It's not very much, but it exists, and it would probably sap a significant amount of the microwaves destined for Earth.
It would be overly inefficient to build facilities like that on the moon and then beam the power all the way to Earth. Not only would one have to contend with the lunar atmosphere, which while rarer than Earth's is much thicker, but the distance involved would limit the amount of power that could be transmitted.
It would be much better to build solar power satellites and launch them from Earth. The satellites would require less material than similar facilities on the moon, and though some of them might be manufactured from lunar material, the infrastructure necessary would be enormous. The distance would less than 1/10th as great, meaning at least 100X higher efficiency.
Sure... If you'll stop routinely moderating me down, then posting anonymously.
I refuse to use Paypal, and there is more than one company who's lost my business by routing their billing through Paypal.
I knew there was a big potential problem when I saw their business model, and resolved never to use it; then, when it got popular, I tentatively began to order a product from one website. When Paypal asked for all sorts of personal info, I aborted.
The chip in the key is required to trigger the anti-theft system, but the key itself isn't needed. You could cut the metal tongue off the key, rendering it useless for actually turning the starter, while the chip would still work.
You would, of course, be essentially disabling that part of the anti-theft system, but thieves now have ways around it anyway. If the key profile is identical to pre-chipped versions, it would also mean you could run your car with a non-chipped key, which is a lot easier to fit on your keychain.
Absolutely. Einstein's theories superseded Newtonian physics, though Newton's system works just fine for most things here on Earth. It's only when one approaches the speed of light that you find the discrepancies pointed at by Relativity -- and discover how matter and energy interrelate.
Einstein's work may also not adequately describe the universe in some instances; it cannot satisfactorially explain how the universe came into being. A new theory that can do so can hopefully be found -- and if it is, it will very likely teach us new things, things that may affect our every day life, just like Einstein has.
Infrastructure is nice. Infrastructure is good. Having the right equipment, irrigation and transportation would certainly be welcome.
But information is the next best thing. You may not have a tractor, but knowing how to plow a field without causing soil erosion is important. You can't build an effective grain silo without having the plans for one; but if you know how they're laid out, you might cobble one together.
I suppose you could photocopy a bunch of plans and hand them out, but the net allows neighboring villages to share their experiences and figure out what works in that area and what won't, and to make arrangements to buy equipment and materials on the cheap when it becomes available.
Of course the net is no panacea, but it's of more help than you might think.
> but this would be considered a Cracking school,
> not a Hacking school.
Sounds more to me like it's going to be a skr1p7-k1dd13 sk001. Do you really think the implications, and exploitation, of buffer overflows and IP spoofing can be tought in a short course? I suppose they could have a list of prerequisites...
More likely they're teaching things like how to get an IP from a domain name and how to get and use the latest skr1p7z.
is C.
It's also my favorite language, period. I'm not talking about C++ either. Plain old C is as lightweight as you can get.
Yes, I know this is off-topic, but I'd really like to know... I'm going off on a tangent from the new cards' support of LCD monitors.
Well, from what I've seen, it's not WORTH having high-end cards support LCD monitors -- because so far as I know, having a fast refresh rate on those monitors isn't worthwhile. The Viewsonic LCD I tried left nice ghost images and trails from bright objects.
But perhaps Viewsonic doesn't use top-performing LCD displays... Would anyone care to recommend an LCD monitor that's worth playing games on?
A rogue domain operator, TLDUSA, is busy spamming offers to sell/buy .USA domains for $59 per year. These are NOT .US domains, and whether or not someone will be able to contact those domain servers is problematic.
Well, nearly open.
Somewhere back in my parents' house is an original IBM PC Technical Reference manual. I bought it for $65 back when I was in junior high school and $65 was an enormous sum of money to me. The book contained the full schematics of the IBM and specifications on talking to its hardware.
In the back of the book was a full assembler listing of the IBM's boot ROM. (The ROM BASIC was sadly not provided.) I spent lots of time parsing through the code looking at how various devices were initialized and handled.
While Compaq may have used a lot of resources making a cleanroom version of the x86 boot ROM, the original was right there, for anyone with a few dollars to see. Microsoft hadn't the slightest thing to do with it.
So long as your domain isn't past its expiration date, NSI can do nothing to prevent you from transferring it out of their control. Just go to another registrar and follow their procedure to move a domain to their aegis.
I use Gandi.net, myself (not Ghandi.net; that's a squatter, and costs a lot more). Gandi charges 12 EU (about $10 US) to transfer the domain, and tacks on an additional year of registration. Check them out.
If you don't want your unfinished writings to be exploited after your death (or you're just ashamed to have anyone see them), store 'em in an encrypted volume on your hard drive.
:-P
Just be sure to use a Government Approved backdoored cryptosystem, so the goons don't break your door down looking for terrorists.
I'm sure those people who play Quake 3 will be VERY unhappy about getting better performance. :-)~
I said that's what *I* would do. Feel free to use your own system. Idiot.
IMO you should run separate functions on separate ports. I don't think this increases or decreases security much, but it greatly improves scalability.
I could, for instance, run my setup on a single box; and then, when traffic went up and the service got popular, replace the box with a Linux firewall to an intranet. The functions could then be divided among several machines on that intranet, and having the firewall box route different ports to their dedicated machines would be a trivial task.
Hell, you could even have redundant machines for critical operations, and if a failure occurred you need only change the routing on the firewall box to get things back up.
I've had Roadrunner access via Time Warner cable for over two years now, and despite various problems, un less they triple the rates I'll never unsubscribe. And so far as I know, the net number of broadband users is still going up on an exponential curve. But I can understand the reasons for the earlier statistics...
The exact determination is that "more people than ever are leaving broadband". Not that the ranks are shrinking, but that a greater number of people are terminating accounts. Obviously, as you increase your customer base, if the same percentage of people unhook every month due to dissatisfaction or because they can't afford it any more, then of course the gross number will increase.
"The only solution to harmful speech is more speech."
-- Thomas Jefferson
What makes you think the police, Federal or otherwise, don't already try and listen in on lawyer-client communications? I'm sure they get all sorts of hints and tidbits. They can't use the recordings in court, of course; all they have to do is make up a new train of investigation that (re)leads them to the evidence.
The only difference now is that they no longer have to go to the trouble.
</paranoia>
The legal theory behind this law is that the encryption around a file is equivalent to a safe holding a document. If the authorities have a warrant to search the contents of that safe (or the contents of that location, for that matter), they will ask you for the key.
The difference is, of course, that if you don't give them the key, they can cut open a safe. With data under a high level of encryption, they can go spit. So instead, a judge issues an order requiring you to disclose your password, and if you refuse, you're held in contempt and jailed indefinitely. Never mind the conflict with the 5th Amendment; they want to search your (virtual) personal papers, and you aren't allowed to stop them.
(As an aside: The FBI wanted passwords to files they got from Kevin Mitnick's hard drive, the last time they caught him. Mitnick refused to provide them... But on Mitnick's release, the judge ruled that Mitnick couldn't have his files back, since he couldn't prove they didn't contain pirated information. I'd call it a violation of 4th Amendment rights.)
As to whether such a law would hold up in court, for that we'll just have to wait.
I strongly recommend you use Google to find any sites on the net referring to that domain. Most likely, many of them are outdated URLS, and that is what this pr0n site is depending on for traffic. Get those links cut, and cut the traffic, and they'll be less likely to hang onto the address.
Does anyone happen to have a copy of the info in question? If so, spread it!