"The 912 "MP3" also features fighter jet technology "video glasses"...
Not only that, It runs windows! Never has
unhandled exception at B7C8 E78A CF89 58CB 3EAB 7E71
press ctrl-alt-delete to restart your computer
looked so good as when it's projected in 3D stereo onto a virtual display that's blocking your vision! The Blue Glasses of Death really should have been a feature on the security robot... Much more effective at scaring off crooks than running over their toes repeatedly.
BSD is generally viewed as less friendly to new users (a not entirely incorrect view) and therefore sees a lot less MCSE's looking to pad their resume.
Hmm... So all we need to do is design an operating system that is all but impossible for anyone who lacks an advanced background in computer security to use, and it will be the most secure operating system ever!!
Since when is it required of a science-fiction writer to like technology? I thought sci-fi was more about predicting the effects that new science & tech will have on humanity in the future, good and/or bad.
When it comes to science questions, such as whether or not global warming is happening and whether or not we are contributing to it and whether or not the icecaps are melting into the ocean at an alarming rate, well, the scientists are correct, and the administration is wrong.
Interestingly, I read an article in Fortune not to long ago that says that the Pentagon is studying the possibility that the climate in the Atlantic could suddenly change, causing temperatures in the U.S. and Europe to drop and creating a national security issue as third-world governments collapse and declare wars on each other due turmoil caused by famine. So already, parts of the administration are considering global climate change to be too real to be ignored.
Won't this just inspire more spammers to pursue virus, trojan and spyware-oriented methods of spamming?
...which will encourage friends to educate their friends about opening strange attachments or running an unpatched version of Outlook. If you're getting tons of spam from anonymous proxies running on your friends' computers, you will be more motivated to teach them how to clean up their machines or give them the ultimatum "lose your viruses, or lose your email communication channel with me".
Eventually only non-technical social circles (groups of people without a single techie in their address books) will suffer seriously from viruses and spam.
I'm going on a bit of a tangent here... but here goes...
Long before the days of the South African government, Zulu warriors took a substance that had a very similar effect to the "bloodlust" spell in WarCraft. It would make the warriors literally "see red" and want to kill everything in sight. I saw it on an episode of the PBS show "Secrets of the Dead". They have a web page about it, but it doesn't make any reference to the bloodlust effects of the drug (I believe it is the Bushman Poison Bulb that has these properties). They also talk about some of the other crazy drugs that the warriors would be doped up on during battle.
Thanks to the fact that the NVIDIA drivers use a portable core anyway, they seem to be having no problem keeping up with the kernel.
That's interesting. I'm sure I'm not the first person to come up with this idea, but I wonder how easy it would be to create a compatibility layer between the kernel and the modules that accepts a common binary format for the entire life of a kernel release (or maybe all kernel releases?).
Then you'd only have to port the layer to the newer kernel revision, and all the old binary drivers would work right away.
If it could be done, it would be a cool hack in league with that module that allows you to run windows drivers (most notably the NTFS driver) in the Linux kernel. IIRC, the performance of this arrangement sucked, but I wouldn't expect it would be as much of a problem with an abstraction layer for Linux binaries since the difference between a Windows DLL and a kernel module is much bigger than the difference between a 2.4.16 kernel module and a 2.4.24 kernel module.
As I sit here, getting packages at a mightily slow 8 k/sec via Fedora's Red Hat Network, I wonder why this must be.
Why don't tools like yum, up2date, and apt incorporate BitTorrent concepts to download packages and files?
In the case of up2date, what would RedHat's motivation be to do this? If they used bittorrent to distribute all their RPM's, then fewer people would pay for priority FTP access anymore.
If you happen to have priority access and are still only getting 8KBps, I take all that back.
Given what a microwave does to a light bulb, I'd expect it would be pretty useful in destroying electronics. Note that a burnt-out lightbulb will still glow in a microwave, and for this reason I doubt that simply disconnecting the antenna from the RFID circuit will have any effect since the whole circuit will be getting irradiated. Also, don't forget to have the clothes in a pyrex pan full of water or something- unless you want there to be a burnt hole in the garment where the RFID tag was.
Given that he probably did it for the self-boast rather than space, he should be roasted.
Are you sure? My guess is that it was a trap so he could roast someone else...
RIAA Goon: There! In the supercollider building- that's where the IP address of the machine with the illegal content is...
The goons enter the compound and proceed down a corridor when they reach a thick door with a sign on it.
MPAA Goon: It says "Entering Accelerator Core- Danger: High Velocity Neutrons and Gamma Rays".
RIAA Goon: Who the hell does this kid think he is? He can't fool us! We'll stuff so many lawsuits down his pants that his piss won't hit the floor when he wets his titey-whiteys!
|-|a> sees the goons on the security camera display on his screen, then opens up a terminal and types:
This is actually similar to the kind of tricks that Israeli intelligence would play on Palestinian militants. The militants would buy their weaponry from Israeli gangsters, who most likely would have stolen it from the IDF. So, pretty soon Mossad was posing as criminals and selling booby-trapped bullets to Hamas and Islamic Jihad. The bullets would explode violently when fired, destroying the gun and possibly injuring its owner. It took a while for the guerillas to figure out how to check the bullets to make sure they are real, working ammo. Also, Mossad would occasionally find ways to sell cell phones to their enemies- except the phones would be packed with explosive, so all you had to do was call the phone and start a conversation to make sure the person who you are after is the one holding the phone, then press a special combination of keys- and BOOOM.
However, everyday people look at corporate crooks or corrupt Republicans stealing Democratic memos off the network and think, "Damn! I wish I had gotten away with that!"
Wow, I think that sums up our society pretty well. I bet Joe Six Pack thought the exact same thing when he saw Clinton being grilled by Ken Starr for "illegally" accessing some 27 yr old intern poontang.
Not at all. The technology to strip hydrogen atoms off of common hydrocarbons is really the big missing link in the idea of a hydrogen-based economy because it solves the the big problems:
1. How do we get hydrogen in the first place (without wasting energy)? 2.If our cars are hydrogen-powered, how do we distribute the hydrogen to them without rebuilding our infrastructure? 3. How do we store hydrogen in a way that doesn't take up a lot of space or weigh a lot.
How well the Auburn students' solution can address these problems depends on how small and cheap they can make the equipment that does the hydrocarbon->hydrogen conversion. The "holy grail" is to have a system so small that it will fit onboard a car so we won't have to make any modifications to the current fuel distribution infrastructure. Using the hydrogen from hydrocarbons to directly make electricity will undoubtedly be much more efficient both because it eliminates all the wastefulness inherent in combustion and internal combustion engines, and because electricity can be used much more efficiently than mechanical energy, ie. you don't have to have your motor running continuously, you can use regenerative braking to recover some lost energy. Finally, electrical engines are much cheaper to buy and maintain than internal combustion engines because they don't have to withstand the stress of thousands of explosions per minute that force dozens of parts to move at high speed.
Venus has been mapped better than Earth since the 1994 Magellan mission. Were the NASA scientists just observing the custom of "Ladies First", or is NASA stealthily pushing a subtle feminist agenda?
Maybe if there was a way for an RFID to act as a one-way hash function- the receiver would send out a unique signal, and the tag would somehow transform this probe signal into a response using its own unique method that cannot be deduced by knowing both the probe signal and the response. Perhaps this is what they already do?
Napster showed us that there was a huge demand for pirated music, a demand that the record companies found to be inherently impossible to cater to. If there is a demand for people to share their wireless connections, I think it will be a much easier thing for the ISP's to accomodate. I just got hooked up with DSL from Qwest, and the modem I am renting from them has two wireless PC card slots. How hard would it be to loan free wireless equipment (interior and exterior wireless PC cards, and maybe a card for your computer as well) in exchange for you giving up some of your bandwidth to passersby? I understand that this is similar to what SpeakEasy does. I think what would help immensely to make commercial Wi-Fi networks more usable would be if there was a software standard that would allow the owner of a given hotspot to lease it out to multiple wireless access providers. In the example I described above, Qwest would own the hotspot, so they could lease it out to a whole bunch of providers, multiplying its value and increasing the usability of other wireless providers. The possibilites for variations on this idea are endless- perhaps at really crowded (high value) hotspots, Qwest could provide a free bandwidth upgrade to their customer. Maybe they could lease the AP for more or less depending on whether or not they impose an ATM-style surcharge on the lessee's customers for using it. The bottom line is, I don't think the Wifi access providers will cover enough ground unless they allow some degree of interoperability between their networks.
I plan to set up a nearby Bar camp, which will be about getting drunk. It will be the ultimate getaway when over-everythinged. And no newfangled CO2 tap for me- I'm going to pump that keg the old-fashioned way.
Remember to stock up on Klein bottles now, so you'll have something to drink out of once the kleinstar forms.;-)
Somebody's gotta make a bong outta one of those things...It would be so fitting. Smoke up enough, and you just might be able to imagine its true 4-dimensional form.
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Why? Are you building a D.I.Y. hovercraft?
Here's another, different Google recipe hack.
138 comments and still going.... AngelFire think its kung fu pretty good eh- wait til it fight my brother's browser.
still going...
cmon- we can do better than this!!
Not only that, It runs windows! Never has
unhandled exception at B7C8 E78A CF89 58CB 3EAB 7E71
press ctrl-alt-delete to restart your computer
looked so good as when it's projected in 3D stereo onto a virtual display that's blocking your vision! The Blue Glasses of Death really should have been a feature on the security robot... Much more effective at scaring off crooks than running over their toes repeatedly.
BSD is generally viewed as less friendly to new users (a not entirely incorrect view) and therefore sees a lot less MCSE's looking to pad their resume.
Hmm... So all we need to do is design an operating system that is all but impossible for anyone who lacks an advanced background in computer security to use, and it will be the most secure operating system ever!!
He just doesn't like technology.
Since when is it required of a science-fiction writer to like technology? I thought sci-fi was more about predicting the effects that new science & tech will have on humanity in the future, good and/or bad.
When it comes to science questions, such as whether or not global warming is happening and whether or not we are contributing to it and whether or not the icecaps are melting into the ocean at an alarming rate, well, the scientists are correct, and the administration is wrong.
Interestingly, I read an article in Fortune not to long ago that says that the Pentagon is studying the possibility that the climate in the Atlantic could suddenly change, causing temperatures in the U.S. and Europe to drop and creating a national security issue as third-world governments collapse and declare wars on each other due turmoil caused by famine.
So already, parts of the administration are considering global climate change to be too real to be ignored.
...which will encourage friends to educate their friends about opening strange attachments or running an unpatched version of Outlook. If you're getting tons of spam from anonymous proxies running on your friends' computers, you will be more motivated to teach them how to clean up their machines or give them the ultimatum "lose your viruses, or lose your email communication channel with me".
Eventually only non-technical social circles (groups of people without a single techie in their address books) will suffer seriously from viruses and spam.
Long before the days of the South African government, Zulu warriors took a substance that had a very similar effect to the "bloodlust" spell in WarCraft. It would make the warriors literally "see red" and want to kill everything in sight. I saw it on an episode of the PBS show "Secrets of the Dead". They have a web page about it, but it doesn't make any reference to the bloodlust effects of the drug (I believe it is the Bushman Poison Bulb that has these properties). They also talk about some of the other crazy drugs that the warriors would be doped up on during battle.
That's interesting. I'm sure I'm not the first person to come up with this idea, but I wonder how easy it would be to create a compatibility layer between the kernel and the modules that accepts a common binary format for the entire life of a kernel release (or maybe all kernel releases?).
Then you'd only have to port the layer to the newer kernel revision, and all the old binary drivers would work right away.
If it could be done, it would be a cool hack in league with that module that allows you to run windows drivers (most notably the NTFS driver) in the Linux kernel. IIRC, the performance of this arrangement sucked, but I wouldn't expect it would be as much of a problem with an abstraction layer for Linux binaries since the difference between a Windows DLL and a kernel module is much bigger than the difference between a 2.4.16 kernel module and a 2.4.24 kernel module.
the "xxx" was 420, then it would be the perfect endo-phone number.
As I sit here, getting packages at a mightily slow 8 k/sec via Fedora's Red Hat Network, I wonder why this must be.
Why don't tools like yum, up2date, and apt incorporate BitTorrent concepts to download packages and files?
In the case of up2date, what would RedHat's motivation be to do this? If they used bittorrent to distribute all their RPM's, then fewer people would pay for priority FTP access anymore.
If you happen to have priority access and are still only getting 8KBps, I take all that back.
Given what a microwave does to a light bulb, I'd expect it would be pretty useful in destroying electronics. Note that a burnt-out lightbulb will still glow in a microwave, and for this reason I doubt that simply disconnecting the antenna from the RFID circuit will have any effect since the whole circuit will be getting irradiated. Also, don't forget to have the clothes in a pyrex pan full of water or something- unless you want there to be a burnt hole in the garment where the RFID tag was.
Given that he probably did it for the self-boast rather than space, he should be roasted.
/dev/urandom > /dev/particleaccelerator
Are you sure? My guess is that it was a trap so he could roast someone else...
RIAA Goon: There! In the supercollider building- that's where the IP address of the machine with the illegal content is...
The goons enter the compound and proceed down a corridor when they reach a thick door with a sign on it.
MPAA Goon: It says "Entering Accelerator Core- Danger: High Velocity Neutrons and Gamma Rays".
RIAA Goon: Who the hell does this kid think he is? He can't fool us! We'll stuff so many lawsuits down his pants that his piss won't hit the floor when he wets his titey-whiteys!
|-|a> sees the goons on the security camera display on his screen, then opens up a terminal and types:
root@fermi1.fnal.gov:~ #cat
MPAA Goon: It's got to be around here somewhere...
low rumble, which increases in pitch...
RIAA Goon: What's that sound?
This is actually similar to the kind of tricks that Israeli intelligence would play on Palestinian militants. The militants would buy their weaponry from Israeli gangsters, who most likely would have stolen it from the IDF. So, pretty soon Mossad was posing as criminals and selling booby-trapped bullets to Hamas and Islamic Jihad. The bullets would explode violently when fired, destroying the gun and possibly injuring its owner. It took a while for the guerillas to figure out how to check the bullets to make sure they are real, working ammo.
Also, Mossad would occasionally find ways to sell cell phones to their enemies- except the phones would be packed with explosive, so all you had to do was call the phone and start a conversation to make sure the person who you are after is the one holding the phone, then press a special combination of keys- and BOOOM.
However, everyday people look at corporate crooks or corrupt Republicans stealing Democratic memos off the network and think, "Damn! I wish I had gotten away with that!"
Wow, I think that sums up our society pretty well. I bet Joe Six Pack thought the exact same thing when he saw Clinton being grilled by Ken Starr for "illegally" accessing some 27 yr old intern poontang.
Not at all. The technology to strip hydrogen atoms off of common hydrocarbons is really the big missing link in the idea of a hydrogen-based economy because it solves the the big problems:
1. How do we get hydrogen in the first place (without wasting energy)?
2.If our cars are hydrogen-powered, how do we distribute the hydrogen to them without rebuilding our infrastructure?
3. How do we store hydrogen in a way that doesn't take up a lot of space or weigh a lot.
How well the Auburn students' solution can address these problems depends on how small and cheap they can make the equipment that does the hydrocarbon->hydrogen conversion. The "holy grail" is to have a system so small that it will fit onboard a car so we won't have to make any modifications to the current fuel distribution infrastructure.
Using the hydrogen from hydrocarbons to directly make electricity will undoubtedly be much more efficient both because it eliminates all the wastefulness inherent in combustion and internal combustion engines, and because electricity can be used much more efficiently than mechanical energy, ie. you don't have to have your motor running continuously, you can use regenerative braking to recover some lost energy.
Finally, electrical engines are much cheaper to buy and maintain than internal combustion engines because they don't have to withstand the stress of thousands of explosions per minute that force dozens of parts to move at high speed.
Venus has been mapped better than Earth since the 1994 Magellan mission. Were the NASA scientists just observing the custom of "Ladies First", or is NASA stealthily pushing a subtle feminist agenda?
Robosexuals!
Maybe if there was a way for an RFID to act as a one-way hash function- the receiver would send out a unique signal, and the tag would somehow transform this probe signal into a response using its own unique method that cannot be deduced by knowing both the probe signal and the response. Perhaps this is what they already do?
...despite my best efforts, patience, reading of effing manuals and trying different versions.
If you're using EFF as a curse word, you must have been sent by the *AA!!
We just need a lameness filter for spam that looks for non-sequiturs and other crap like O.,b|f-u.s,c;a,t.e,d W,.o.r.d.s.
Napster showed us that there was a huge demand for pirated music, a demand that the record companies found to be inherently impossible to cater to.
If there is a demand for people to share their wireless connections, I think it will be a much easier thing for the ISP's to accomodate.
I just got hooked up with DSL from Qwest, and the modem I am renting from them has two wireless PC card slots. How hard would it be to loan free wireless equipment (interior and exterior wireless PC cards, and maybe a card for your computer as well) in exchange for you giving up some of your bandwidth to passersby? I understand that this is similar to what SpeakEasy does.
I think what would help immensely to make commercial Wi-Fi networks more usable would be if there was a software standard that would allow the owner of a given hotspot to lease it out to multiple wireless access providers. In the example I described above, Qwest would own the hotspot, so they could lease it out to a whole bunch of providers, multiplying its value and increasing the usability of other wireless providers. The possibilites for variations on this idea are endless- perhaps at really crowded (high value) hotspots, Qwest could provide a free bandwidth upgrade to their customer. Maybe they could lease the AP for more or less depending on whether or not they impose an ATM-style surcharge on the lessee's customers for using it.
The bottom line is, I don't think the Wifi access providers will cover enough ground unless they allow some degree of interoperability between their networks.
I plan to set up a nearby Bar camp, which will be about getting drunk. It will be the ultimate getaway when over-everythinged. And no newfangled CO2 tap for me- I'm going to pump that keg the old-fashioned way.
Remember to stock up on Klein bottles now, so you'll have something to drink out of once the kleinstar forms. ;-)
Somebody's gotta make a bong outta one of those things...It would be so fitting. Smoke up enough, and you just might be able to imagine its true 4-dimensional form.