Re:Palms are great for patients, too
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Yeah, and the patient's life support machine in the next room is bouncing him off the walls in rythmn to your pong game, bonkers from the RF radiated by the cellular modem in it.:) Seriously, most Dr's offices and Emergency rooms have "no cell fone" signs. People don't stop and think that their PDA applies...
As an old school cracker, I can only repeat "My Axiom" (for lack of a better name) - "Any system that can be devised, can be defeated." Now how much more money, useless effort, and general mental masturbation will go into "perfecting" a new copy protection system, only to see some 13 year old crack it in 3 hours? Are we going to just see a CD-based type of Everlock/Prolock/etc?
Those worked REALLY well in thier day (HAR!), and just caused end users endless headaches trying to make legitimate backups and keep from botching up their protection schemes, while us crackers would be "unencumbered" from the protections within short order. Histeria repeats itself?!?!
Get used to uttering the phrase "You want fries with that?"
Re:My vacuum tube equipment kept working just fine
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True, but the semiconductor driver chips that switch on and off the column/row currents and that apply the read/write sense currents will be "blowed up real good" by the EMP and the core will be fairly useless. What we need is a ferrite ALU!
Yes, yes. That would be true in your demented scenario, because the US would have never defeated Germany. Then the trains would all be on time for their deliveries to the Death Camps, and there would be no Anti-Semitism because Hitler would have WIPED ALL THE JEWS OUT! What a dumbshit you are. I think there are quite a few million people in the world that are very grateful we *(the good 'ol US)* learned to make war well. Harrumph.
Correct my if i'm wrong, (WHAT AN INVITATION!!!) but isn't Tuesday the approved day for posting trolls? I read this in some trolling FAQ I read somewhere, a rule that is generally ignored, I'm assuming.
IANAD... (Doctor, Dork, whatever...) but I have heard of using HeNe Lasers (red, 632 Nm) for healing skin wounds and removal of various localized uglinesses of the skin. If there's any validity to that method, then IR Lasers might also provide some benefit. As for mutations, sorry. Light is considered a non-ionizing radiation, and as such, doesn't cause the DNA to get resequenced (mutated). Frequencies at or above "ionizing radiation" (X-rays, Gamma rays, etc.) do this to human tissue. Frequencies below just cause tissue to heat up (and possibly causes cell rupture) as it absorbs the energy.
There is a maximum allowed deviation that the FCC allows a standard broadcast signal to achieve. Any wider, and it would clip as it passed through the transmitter (or cable tv sender amps). The source (program) material is attenuated so there is a 6 to 9 dB difference between program and commercial material. So, yes, the scumbags that do this can say "no we don't turn up our commercials" with some honesty - they just turn the program down.
*Sigh* Funny visual - crowd of nerds, moping in public, suddenly, in the distance, one shouts "Hey! Over Here!!", and as a man, the group homes in on the voice, uttering the strange sounds that Popeye used to make in the earliest epsiodes - Hup Hup Hup... and then the group continues moping at the new location. And so on, ad nausem. This is a physical equivalent to what happens when a new article is posted here on slashdot!
Ok, I'll bite. These are the heroes of our times. The Thomas Edisons, Eli Whitneys, Nikola Teslas, and Albert Einsteins of today. They were all hailed in their days, and not just by nerds and contemporaries. In the 1930-1950's there practically wasn't a person who hadn't heard of Einstein and didn't look up to him as a "genuis".
These modern contributors to fundamental parts of our science and technology deserve recognition. We are short on heroes these days anyway. Who would you rather look up to, an intelligent person that actually made some valued contribution to our society, or a whiny, over-paid sports figure that isn't making enough millions so he/she has to go out and sell autographs? Or, maybe you prefer idolizing a dough-headed movie star who can barely form complete sentences?
Pick your heroes wisely.
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Yeah, and the patient's life support machine in the next room is bouncing him off the walls in rythmn to your pong game, bonkers from the RF radiated by the cellular modem in it. :) Seriously, most Dr's offices and Emergency rooms have "no cell fone" signs. People don't stop and think that their PDA applies...
As an old school cracker, I can only repeat "My Axiom" (for lack of a better name) - "Any system that can be devised, can be defeated." Now how much more money, useless effort, and general mental masturbation will go into "perfecting" a new copy protection system, only to see some 13 year old crack it in 3 hours? Are we going to just see a CD-based type of Everlock/Prolock/etc? Those worked REALLY well in thier day (HAR!), and just caused end users endless headaches trying to make legitimate backups and keep from botching up their protection schemes, while us crackers would be "unencumbered" from the protections within short order. Histeria repeats itself?!?!
Get used to uttering the phrase "You want fries with that?"
True, but the semiconductor driver chips that switch on and off the column/row currents and that apply the read/write sense currents will be "blowed up real good" by the EMP and the core will be fairly useless. What we need is a ferrite ALU!
Yes, yes. That would be true in your demented scenario, because the US would have never defeated Germany. Then the trains would all be on time for their deliveries to the Death Camps, and there would be no Anti-Semitism because Hitler would have WIPED ALL THE JEWS OUT! What a dumbshit you are. I think there are quite a few million people in the world that are very grateful we *(the good 'ol US)* learned to make war well. Harrumph.
Correct my if i'm wrong, (WHAT AN INVITATION!!!) but isn't Tuesday the approved day for posting trolls? I read this in some trolling FAQ I read somewhere, a rule that is generally ignored, I'm assuming.
IANAD... (Doctor, Dork, whatever...) but I have heard of using HeNe Lasers (red, 632 Nm) for healing skin wounds and removal of various localized uglinesses of the skin. If there's any validity to that method, then IR Lasers might also provide some benefit. As for mutations, sorry. Light is considered a non-ionizing radiation, and as such, doesn't cause the DNA to get resequenced (mutated). Frequencies at or above "ionizing radiation" (X-rays, Gamma rays, etc.) do this to human tissue. Frequencies below just cause tissue to heat up (and possibly causes cell rupture) as it absorbs the energy.
The "alternative" story is already slashdotted... *Sigh* Poor satirewire...
There is a maximum allowed deviation that the FCC allows a standard broadcast signal to achieve. Any wider, and it would clip as it passed through the transmitter (or cable tv sender amps). The source (program) material is attenuated so there is a 6 to 9 dB difference between program and commercial material. So, yes, the scumbags that do this can say "no we don't turn up our commercials" with some honesty - they just turn the program down.
*Sigh* Funny visual - crowd of nerds, moping in public, suddenly, in the distance, one shouts "Hey! Over Here!!", and as a man, the group homes in on the voice, uttering the strange sounds that Popeye used to make in the earliest epsiodes - Hup Hup Hup... and then the group continues moping at the new location. And so on, ad nausem. This is a physical equivalent to what happens when a new article is posted here on slashdot!
Ok, I'll bite. These are the heroes of our times. The Thomas Edisons, Eli Whitneys, Nikola Teslas, and Albert Einsteins of today. They were all hailed in their days, and not just by nerds and contemporaries. In the 1930-1950's there practically wasn't a person who hadn't heard of Einstein and didn't look up to him as a "genuis". These modern contributors to fundamental parts of our science and technology deserve recognition. We are short on heroes these days anyway. Who would you rather look up to, an intelligent person that actually made some valued contribution to our society, or a whiny, over-paid sports figure that isn't making enough millions so he/she has to go out and sell autographs? Or, maybe you prefer idolizing a dough-headed movie star who can barely form complete sentences? Pick your heroes wisely.