yup, I agree. I live under a flight path in san diego.. 2 miles outside of downtown, and 8 miles from the airport. Every 15 mins or so, abotu every 5th airplane, they are either low enough, or a specific type of airplane broadcasting signals strong enough to interfer with my wireless network. It only take 20-45 secs to re-establish the connection.. but you must agree this is not acceptable for some routines online, and obviously does not happen with hard wire.
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not unless you have lots of secrets you need to encrypt into visual images. and then, anyone else who see's more reds or greens or whatever, could read it. but you would encrypt it by placing a bunch of colored dots, mixed red and green, maybe throw some black in there.. and put the dominant color for you into the shapes of letters, making words.. but not connecting them. Anyone with 'regular vision' will just see a mess of colored dots everywhere.. where-as you will see the patterns which make up the words, encrypting what info you'd like to keep secret. from the normal people.
hmm.. there ya go.. fun extraction of knowledge, but rather useless.
oh, and if anyone wants to test out whether they have this skill.. simply go outside during a clear day, look up at the sky while on your back.. focus on a field of blue sky.. and switch closing eyes.. paying close attention to the colors. if you have this genetic or learned trait, you will notice.. trust me.:)
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nope. he means he can change his brains focus between the two eyes. camera 1, camera 2. i can do the same thing, and i also have one near sighted eye. interestingly enough, i also see differnt hues of colors between the two eyes, so when i pick a different eye to focus on, i get slightly redder purples, or greener blues, etc. strange how cones and rods work.
"Human and Duck DNA in one strain of the Flu virus doesn't sound very efficient to me."
unless you want to figure out how to kill off all life evolving on earth.. then its a pretty good start, two different species on the same planet, one strike. how many weapons did we have until recently that could take out multiple coordinated targets?
wish i could change the channel and get the airplanes flying overhead to stop knocking my wi-fi network offline.. sheesh.. who decided to move directly under the flight path, anyhow?? oh. yeah. me.
It's already pretty garunteeed that if there's a problem, the Intelligence community will make an excuse, or just plain bully Microsoft or Aol into cooperating with an investigation about the use of their systems for evil doings. The already have prior rulings.. so, not much need to work hard at making aim / msn 'tappable.'
I suspect that one day networks will have authenticated licenses for software code in order to run at all across the network.. and I suspect these routines will be open to work-arounds. And logically, this would mean blackmarket programming. So start making a rogue program for encrypted communications that adapts like the best virus and emulates p2p networks.. and you'll own a large market in the future. Get to work, and call me!
Nope. Not true. They manage to get funding because they can show advertising company A that they have plenty of their potential clientel signed up on their system; something you told them by signing up and either filling in options, OR not filling in options. All information is worth something in an age of.. gasp information. It's pure currency.. and can be converted to the real stuff simply by a marketing drone. Not to mention, just the number of people registered with real emails will be a very interesting fact to anyone willing to buy that email list off them. And not, not necessarily for spam. Cross reference, anyone? People are doing amazing things with data mining, and the tendency with corps is to push the limits of legality.. to know the law, and work around it until someone calls foul. So, go ahead, sign up. Not me. I wait for someone else to post a login, a copy of the article, or I read other sources and come to my own conclusion. I'm not going to work for some short sighted companies opinion. One they most likely handed the reporter, anyhow.
Wait a second. Microsoft is willingly employing open source market software? (looks at calendar).. hmm.. it's not early april. It's either armageddon, or old dogs can be taught new tricks!
redundancy; something slashdot knows a LOT about. They should come to us to get the low down on how to report each event multiple times as if it were the firs.. wha? Equipment? Oh.. nebermind.. *mumbles walking away*
'For those of you unfamiliar with DirectX 9, all those things make a recipe for some very tasty eye candy. With 96 bits per pixel of floating-point precision, DeltaChrome should be able to pull off some killer effects like high-dynamic-range lighting.'
sweet. realistic on the fly lighting that convinces.. advertising can now blend in the background scenery, objects spinning and *wow*ing will seem more realistic to our brains.. fine, dandy..
but will someone use that idea in reverse, code up a program that dynamically darkens the likes of Britney Spears, Monster.com, Penis Enlargement and/or goatse refrences on the fly? That would really help my computing experience in a useful way.
oh.. and highlight natalie portman when she's on screen..
thanks,
sincerely,
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it's great, improved layout.. three models to pick
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but..
'graphics will use a x16 PCI Express implementation that offers 8GB/s of bandwidth. '
there's more pot available in the midwest than there used to be.. given enough creative madness and todays mind altering coctail availability at universities, one would probably invent all manner of things, like time machines, super beer bongs, beer cooler mugs with wifi.. and so on, and so on..
How many of us are suprised by this? Just run a search for new albums that haven't even been released yet, and bam, all of the songs will almost always be there. I don't think the companies want allll the songs to be there, as teasers, before release date. Movies, software, even hardware gets leaked. What to do, what to do.. oh i know.. more legislation, and invest in stupid monitoring and/or crippling systems. Err.. wait.. we tried that already.
Those red slatted glasses (that came in a McDonalds happy meal) were just the thing I needed to further ostrisize myself from my schoolmates in Oklahoma, as if running something called a Pirate BBS and actually reading the BTTF books (which all sucked except part III) didn't do that well enough already. Now kids can be singled out from the next car on public transports for mugging, thanks to Billy and his newly co-produced 3D minesweeper.
"if you brute force with all combinations, one will give the plaintext...so in a sense you have cracked the code."
Yeah, it cracks me up that a larger portion of sd will reply with statistical assumptions based on textual logic, when finding useful information in collected in encrypted streams (disected by best guesses with 'fun in bruting') is more like looking for a rainbow in an Irish field, rather than looking for genetic sequences in a massive punnett square. It seems even smart people have a problem removing their obvservation from strict learned logic. oh well. Let's hope an increased reading rate (that which our children are now recieving, partly in thanks to new pda/cellies) will bring abstract notions into vogue once more.
Our language is full of rules that are overly simplified, which makes it much much easier to recognize a pattern for an observing human once one falls into or nearly into place. Math, thankfully, is not a new subject.. the tricks are plentiful. Too bad most people aren't patient enough to sit and watch outputs for long periods of time, anymore.
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yup, I agree. I live under a flight path in san diego.. 2 miles outside of downtown, and 8 miles from the airport. Every 15 mins or so, abotu every 5th airplane, they are either low enough, or a specific type of airplane broadcasting signals strong enough to interfer with my wireless network. It only take 20-45 secs to re-establish the connection.. but you must agree this is not acceptable for some routines online, and obviously does not happen with hard wire.
pm
not unless you have lots of secrets you need to encrypt into visual images. and then, anyone else who see's more reds or greens or whatever, could read it. but you would encrypt it by placing a bunch of colored dots, mixed red and green, maybe throw some black in there.. and put the dominant color for you into the shapes of letters, making words.. but not connecting them. Anyone with 'regular vision' will just see a mess of colored dots everywhere.. where-as you will see the patterns which make up the words, encrypting what info you'd like to keep secret. from the normal people.
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hmm.. there ya go.. fun extraction of knowledge, but rather useless.
oh, and if anyone wants to test out whether they have this skill.. simply go outside during a clear day, look up at the sky while on your back.. focus on a field of blue sky.. and switch closing eyes.. paying close attention to the colors. if you have this genetic or learned trait, you will notice.. trust me.
pm
nope. he means he can change his brains focus between the two eyes. camera 1, camera 2. i can do the same thing, and i also have one near sighted eye. interestingly enough, i also see differnt hues of colors between the two eyes, so when i pick a different eye to focus on, i get slightly redder purples, or greener blues, etc. strange how cones and rods work.
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oh come on, moderators! thats funny.. the hitchhikers guide.. to the entire friggin galaxy! doesn't anyone on slashdot read anymore?!
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"Human and Duck DNA in one strain of the Flu virus doesn't sound very efficient to me."
unless you want to figure out how to kill off all life evolving on earth.. then its a pretty good start, two different species on the same planet, one strike. how many weapons did we have until recently that could take out multiple coordinated targets?
pm
wish i could change the channel and get the airplanes flying overhead to stop knocking my wi-fi network offline.. sheesh.. who decided to move directly under the flight path, anyhow?? oh. yeah. me.
pm
It's already pretty garunteeed that if there's a problem, the Intelligence community will make an excuse, or just plain bully Microsoft or Aol into cooperating with an investigation about the use of their systems for evil doings. The already have prior rulings.. so, not much need to work hard at making aim / msn 'tappable.'
pm
I suspect that one day networks will have authenticated licenses for software code in order to run at all across the network.. and I suspect these routines will be open to work-arounds. And logically, this would mean blackmarket programming. So start making a rogue program for encrypted communications that adapts like the best virus and emulates p2p networks.. and you'll own a large market in the future. Get to work, and call me!
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well at least _someone_ is interested in sniffing your packets.
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Nope. Not true. They manage to get funding because they can show advertising company A that they have plenty of their potential clientel signed up on their system; something you told them by signing up and either filling in options, OR not filling in options. All information is worth something in an age of.. gasp information. It's pure currency.. and can be converted to the real stuff simply by a marketing drone. Not to mention, just the number of people registered with real emails will be a very interesting fact to anyone willing to buy that email list off them. And not, not necessarily for spam. Cross reference, anyone? People are doing amazing things with data mining, and the tendency with corps is to push the limits of legality.. to know the law, and work around it until someone calls foul. So, go ahead, sign up. Not me. I wait for someone else to post a login, a copy of the article, or I read other sources and come to my own conclusion. I'm not going to work for some short sighted companies opinion. One they most likely handed the reporter, anyhow.
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Wait a second. Microsoft is willingly employing open source market software? (looks at calendar).. hmm.. it's not early april. It's either armageddon, or old dogs can be taught new tricks!
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.. umm, do they come with a routine to retrieve beer from the fridge?
God, i hope so.
actually, it's already illegal to run to Canada. The US and the kanoooooks have had agreements in place for a few years now. Good stuff, huh?
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i guess that would make Einstein's math a real sport.
redundancy; something slashdot knows a LOT about. They should come to us to get the low down on how to report each event multiple times as if it were the firs.. wha? Equipment? Oh.. nebermind.. *mumbles walking away*
They could just use Slashdot's Mod numbering system and a public revue site for that.. MS wouldn't stand a chance.
'For those of you unfamiliar with DirectX 9, all those things make a recipe for some very tasty eye candy. With 96 bits per pixel of floating-point precision, DeltaChrome should be able to pull off some killer effects like high-dynamic-range lighting.'
sweet. realistic on the fly lighting that convinces.. advertising can now blend in the background scenery, objects spinning and *wow*ing will seem more realistic to our brains.. fine, dandy..
but will someone use that idea in reverse, code up a program that dynamically darkens the likes of Britney Spears, Monster.com, Penis Enlargement and/or goatse refrences on the fly? That would really help my computing experience in a useful way.
oh.. and highlight natalie portman when she's on screen..
thanks,
sincerely,
pm
but..
'graphics will use a x16 PCI Express implementation that offers 8GB/s of bandwidth. '
will it be able to handle doom 3?
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there's more pot available in the midwest than there used to be.. given enough creative madness and todays mind altering coctail availability at universities, one would probably invent all manner of things, like time machines, super beer bongs, beer cooler mugs with wifi.. and so on, and so on..
pm
How many of us are suprised by this? Just run a search for new albums that haven't even been released yet, and bam, all of the songs will almost always be there. I don't think the companies want allll the songs to be there, as teasers, before release date. Movies, software, even hardware gets leaked. What to do, what to do.. oh i know.. more legislation, and invest in stupid monitoring and/or crippling systems. Err.. wait.. we tried that already.
pm
I prefer spooning with my software..
forking, you gotta stay the night, and feel awkward that morning at breakfast..
pm
Those red slatted glasses (that came in a McDonalds happy meal) were just the thing I needed to further ostrisize myself from my schoolmates in Oklahoma, as if running something called a Pirate BBS and actually reading the BTTF books (which all sucked except part III) didn't do that well enough already. Now kids can be singled out from the next car on public transports for mugging, thanks to Billy and his newly co-produced 3D minesweeper.
I for one welcome my 3D natalie portman.
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"Holy Crap, I read this 5 times and I cannot do yet outside what you try to say. Do you really speak like that?"
Only when you are logged in.
FYI: Brute forcing is fun.
"if you brute force with all combinations, one will give the plaintext...so in a sense you have cracked the code."
Yeah, it cracks me up that a larger portion of sd will reply with statistical assumptions based on textual logic, when finding useful information in collected in encrypted streams (disected by best guesses with 'fun in bruting') is more like looking for a rainbow in an Irish field, rather than looking for genetic sequences in a massive punnett square. It seems even smart people have a problem removing their obvservation from strict learned logic. oh well. Let's hope an increased reading rate (that which our children are now recieving, partly in thanks to new pda/cellies) will bring abstract notions into vogue once more.
Our language is full of rules that are overly simplified, which makes it much much easier to recognize a pattern for an observing human once one falls into or nearly into place. Math, thankfully, is not a new subject.. the tricks are plentiful. Too bad most people aren't patient enough to sit and watch outputs for long periods of time, anymore.
oh well, once again..
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why exactly is that funny, again?
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