If these complaints really were a problem, give people options. Other people here have been saying they'll settle for nothing less than 44k PCM. That's great, but I don't have the bandwidth to download 44k PCM's. Give people options - CD quality PCM, mp3 and ogg of varying rates/quality, possibly with price varying according to quality/file size. No doubt there will still be some saying - I want obscure format X - but the vast majority should be served.
Yes, I'm just not quite seeing it (it's on the tip of my brain).
If the GPS coordinates are used to generate the key, symmetric or asymmetric, why is this any harder to crack than a regular asymmetric or symmetric encryption? And if either of the keys is based on the GPS coordinates than surely that makes it easier?
Ok, I know nothing about how GPS works, but presumably somewhere along the line you get some kind of set of integers that you can interpret into your global position. So if you knew the intended destination for the message, how hard would it be to write an algorithm that would take those coordinates and give you the key to decode the message? Hmm, now I actually write this out loud, it's starting to read a lot like "April Fool!"
"Add a soupçon(?) of artificial intelligence and the suit could save its wearer if he is wounded. "You could send a command to take this guy home," says Stephen Jacobsen, CEO of Sarcos."
Then so could the enemy, I would guess...
And if the soupçon AI is as well done as some of the RTS's we see, then the soldier will get home that much quicker by taking the shortcut through the enemy base.
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We already "pay" for the site by submitting content!
Oh, our mistake, we'll just send that content to the bandwidth providers and I'm sure they'll accept it in place of payment.
As will the landlords and grocery stores used by those who maintain slashdot.
Using Slack *forces* you to know how the system works. It's just you, a text editor, and the config files.
If you want to take this to the extreme, go with linux from scratch (www.linuxfromscratch.org).
I twiddled with RedHat and Mandrake for a month and the learning process was very slow, and for some reason the rpm system made me apprehensive of installing things from source.
Then I found linux from scratch which takes you through compiling you're whole system. The lerning curve was pretty huge, but not necissarily difficult, becuase the nature of the process just helps you to absorb how the system works.
Once you have your basic system there's heaps of hints on the site for most of the major software you'd want to install.
Six months later I now have my router, and two other computers running that way and I wouldn't have it any other way.
The only disadvantage is that there's no package management. I've heard that other people with this setup have installed rpm on the machine, but I don't know how successful they'be been in getting rpm's to work on the system.
I find that if I can switch between tasks (provided it doesn't require huge swapping) I work better because I can keep interested and not get bored of one particular task that just goes on and on. If I have a couple of little jobs that I can quickly complete and feel satisfied about completing them, I feel better because I'm not just working on the mammoth project that's going to take 3 months.
Also I find that in life in general I schedule my time a lot better when I'm busy, out of necessity. Last year, when I was doing uni full time, two jobs, and three amateur theatre productions in one semester, I wasted very little of my time because I couldn't afford to.
As I'm an Aussie I'm glad to see us finally making our first move into the space arena
Actually it's not. As far as I know Australia was potentially a big competitor in the space race before anyone got into space. But like so many Australian projects, our bone head government didn't see a future in it and pulled the plug.
At least you had a space program that achieved something. We (Austalia) were leading the way in the very, very early stages of space exploration, but before we got any where (as with so many Australian R&D projects) our bone head government cut the funding because they didn't see a future in it.
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If these complaints really were a problem, give people options. Other people here have been saying they'll settle for nothing less than 44k PCM. That's great, but I don't have the bandwidth to download 44k PCM's.
Give people options - CD quality PCM, mp3 and ogg of varying rates/quality, possibly with price varying according to quality/file size.
No doubt there will still be some saying - I want obscure format X - but the vast majority should be served.
Ok, how about asymmetric keys? No?
Yes, I'm just not quite seeing it (it's on the tip of my brain).
If the GPS coordinates are used to generate the key, symmetric or asymmetric, why is this any harder to crack than a regular asymmetric or symmetric encryption? And if either of the keys is based on the GPS coordinates than surely that makes it easier?
Ok, I know nothing about how GPS works, but presumably somewhere along the line you get some kind of set of integers that you can interpret into your global position. So if you knew the intended destination for the message, how hard would it be to write an algorithm that would take those coordinates and give you the key to decode the message?
Hmm, now I actually write this out loud, it's starting to read a lot like "April Fool!"
"Add a soupçon(?) of artificial intelligence and the suit could save its wearer if he is wounded. "You could send a command to take this guy home," says Stephen Jacobsen, CEO of Sarcos."
Then so could the enemy, I would guess...
And if the soupçon AI is as well done as some of the RTS's we see, then the soldier will get home that much quicker by taking the shortcut through the enemy base.
We already "pay" for the site by submitting content!
Oh, our mistake, we'll just send that content to the bandwidth providers and I'm sure they'll accept it in place of payment.
As will the landlords and grocery stores used by those who maintain slashdot.
Using Slack *forces* you to know how the system works. It's just you, a text editor, and the config files.
If you want to take this to the extreme, go with linux from scratch (www.linuxfromscratch.org).
I twiddled with RedHat and Mandrake for a month and the learning process was very slow, and for some reason the rpm system made me apprehensive of installing things from source.
Then I found linux from scratch which takes you through compiling you're whole system. The lerning curve was pretty huge, but not necissarily difficult, becuase the nature of the process just helps you to absorb how the system works.
Once you have your basic system there's heaps of hints on the site for most of the major software you'd want to install.
Six months later I now have my router, and two other computers running that way and I wouldn't have it any other way.
The only disadvantage is that there's no package management. I've heard that other people with this setup have installed rpm on the machine, but I don't know how successful they'be been in getting rpm's to work on the system.
I find that if I can switch between tasks (provided it doesn't require huge swapping) I work better because I can keep interested and not get bored of one particular task that just goes on and on. If I have a couple of little jobs that I can quickly complete and feel satisfied about completing them, I feel better because I'm not just working on the mammoth project that's going to take 3 months. Also I find that in life in general I schedule my time a lot better when I'm busy, out of necessity. Last year, when I was doing uni full time, two jobs, and three amateur theatre productions in one semester, I wasted very little of my time because I couldn't afford to.
As I'm an Aussie I'm glad to see us finally making our first move into the space arena
Actually it's not. As far as I know Australia was potentially a big competitor in the space race before anyone got into space. But like so many Australian projects, our bone head government didn't see a future in it and pulled the plug.
At least you had a space program that achieved something. We (Austalia) were leading the way in the very, very early stages of space exploration, but before we got any where (as with so many Australian R&D projects) our bone head government cut the funding because they didn't see a future in it.