Hiding pr0n (or anything) is the killer app for excellent encryption, not for a WEP-accessed drive array.::obligatory plug:: OS X lets you create read/write/mountable disk image files that are encrypted with AES-128. Very cool stuff to play with.
Just don't put its password in your keychain, or those feds will get a chuckle as they double-click the image file and it unlocks with your autologin.;)
I don't know what it is about the Myth series that hooked me. Perhaps it was the way the dwarf said "Buuuurrrrnnn!!" as he lobbed a molotov dessert to a pack of life-force-challenged, body parts flying... and other battlefield physics. Maybe it was the tension inherent in one of your archers dying... for the rest of the level. Maybe it was the enhancement that allowed really good characters that stayed alive and kicked ass, to appear in the next level (with their improved skill) and even allowed you to name them.
All in all, it was definitely a polished, atmospheric game, with interesting constraints and levels. Not an FPS, and not an RTS.
One thing's for sure - if you never tried the multiplayer or the level packs which basically redesigned most of the game (fighting Lego characters? World War II armaments?), you missed out on at least half of the fun!
I lusted after Newtons. Then the PalmPilot came out.
I realized I couldn't fit a brick in my pocket.
So I got a PalmPilot Personal. Then a V.
Just last week I upgraded to a Tungsten. It kicks butt.
That said, I'd still like to have a used Newton to play with... I'm sure half the appeal is the community aspect (which is also part of the reason why I like Macs still...)
But I can't go partying in NYC with a friggin Newton in my pocket!
I thought the article was decent, but pretty oversimplified in certain cases, and it could have been shorter.
I think there's actually a lot going on here that ends up with junior high making many people's lives miserable (as it did mine), some of which may be related:
There is the ability to find other people to bond with as a bulwark against group pickings-on. (I didn't get into a real social group until about 11th grade.)
There is the speed of biological development (I was a super-late bloomer, that didn't help. Helps now when some people my age are starting to bald, though...;) )
There is the feeling of confidence, which can be perceived by others as a lack of weakness, that comes from a sense of control and accomplishment and perspective (my domineering mom wiped any sense of control, and an unchallenging school robbed me of much accomplishment)
There is the way you perceive yourself (I was extraordinarily self-conscious and had low self-worth, and that lack of ego-robustness left me easy prey)
There is a raw interest in competition that varies from person to person and can spill over into social situations (I had a low interest in sports, neither did my parents urge me into sports. I've read studies that kids who did sports tended to be reasonably successful.)
There are some deep-seated differences in how different people react to intimidating situations that can't be easily changed
If we accept the fact that every kid is born with a different set of abilities and interests and that some suffer from over-specialization, as it were, then we could almost say that the stories of bullying are the result of friction between the gents who over-specialized in aggressively taking what they want (sacrificing some more general skills), and the gents who over-specialized in an area that would end up taking them far into a particular field (similarly sacrificing some more general-purpose social knowledge). This theory would explain how some people can be somewhat popular without having to pick on people- they might just be generalists.
The perceived downward trend in being picked-on as you get older, I believe, has more to do with the fact that you eventually gravitate to people more like you (who ostensibly don't like to pick on people). I know of plenty of adults who continue to rag on other adults beyond high school. Antisocial, really, but it's out there... and they similarly gravitate to each other, and teach their kids in their ways...
And lastly, there is the fact that a given class containing many different kinds of people and aptitudes, never have to all work towards a common goal. Time and again, psychological studies have shown that antagonism can be erased simply by teaming unlikely people up together and forcing them to recognize each others' gifts, drawn out by the pursuit of a common goal (and a common grade, in this case). Interestingly, I think this is exactly what happens "out in the real world," except that the common goal is to further the company in a competitive market.
There may not be killing, but maybe there's nothing stopping you from asking someone to look at this great mineral you discovered and then::whoops!:: watching them fall into a mine hole =)
But seriously. I don't like games with enforced altruism. There SHOULD be some risk of great loss (i.e. death) in these games. I want a game that demonstrates the kinds of ideas presented in this book, The Evolution of Cooperation, which shows that cooperation can evolve even in a society that starts out completely selfish. (quite an amazing book, IMHO...)
Seems only natural, for this kind of software in this situation, for people who already have a copy of this, to P2P it out to the world through your choice of servent;)
Reminds me of an old episode of Sliders where they were in an alternate universe that never had the Declaration of Independence, and they created a copy of it and unleashed it into numerous newsgroups in that world's Internet...;)
I recently went to the site of some neat (bizarre?) screensavers for OS X called LOOPS, and noticed that they are now using PayPal to charge a very small fee ($1.50) to be able to download the very large savers. I think this is a reasonable system. I have been a PayPal fan for awhile, though...
load webpage. control-F. find: "scale" 0 Results Found
Not promising... if you pound on this thing, will it start taking forever?
I think a good metainformation system is desperately needed, though. I was thinking an XML structure with agreed-upon tags at the head of every file that the OS would intercept before it passed the file along to consumer applications.
My earliest memory is pointing at the fridge when i was hungry. I spoke real late... this was at about 3 years old I guess.
I *feel* like I remember being washed in the kitchen sink when i was a baby, looking out the front door, but I don't consider that memory reliable, even though my mom confirmed that yes, I was washed there sometimes.
But dude... I remember the first day of KINDERGARTEN like it was yesterday! But maybe that's just because it was a parochial catholic school and the whole ordeal of waking up at 6am to the sound of 1010 WINS AM and getting into uniform and taking my The Black Hole-themed lunchbox onto the freezing-cold school bus, was a shocking pain in my ass...
Clandestinely aim and jam any person's cell call from within 50 feet.
Disclaimer: Cellphone Zapper is not recommended for use near metal objects or pregnant women. Cellphone Zapper may get extremely hot during use. Cellphone Zapper, Inc. will not be liable for injuries resulting from altercations inspired by the use of Cellphone Zapper. Do not aim Cellphone Zapper at small pets; dangerous explosions could result. Use of 2 cellphone zappers within the same 50 foot radius may result in massive injury or death due to harmonic resonance effects.
notable excerpt: "A 64x drive using CLV would have to rotate the disc with 33,920 rpm when reading an inner track, exposing the hub of the disk to a tangential force of some 45 N/mm2. A point on the periphery of the disc will be moving with 213 metres per second, slightly more than half the speed of sound. Can the disc take that?
The answer is no. A powerful no.
At about 52x, i.e. 27,500 rpm, most manufacturer's CDs blew up in a rain of plastic particles, leaving their marks on the premises. The result was a pile of shimmering plastic chips."
I read a paper on this but can't for the life of me find it online right now. The basic idea is this: Tweak SMTP/POP to cause emails to be stored by the sender instead of by the recipient, and only sent when the recipient (who has received some sort of byte-tiny notification that there is an email waiting for them) requests to read the email. This would eliminate spamming problems because 1) they'd have to host all their spam and 2) the spam wouldn't clog Internet bandwidth unless viewing it was requested.
1) My email address is pretty long and hard to guess by brute force. 2) Every time I get a spam email, I block the entire domain. (In order for this option to appear, you have to have only one email checked off when you click Block.) 3) I rarely enter this email address anywhere online. (For that I have a Yahoo account.;) )
Result- I hardly ever get spam. Really!
I bought one recently, the quality is OK
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Review: EyeTV
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· Score: 4, Interesting
...but I have tended to avoid TV recently, so my standards are not that high =)
It's neat as a PVR. Not the greatest quality, but good enough for me. The 1.5 second delay from live is too bad- I wanted to use it for gaming, too. But that delay is the cost of being able to pause live TV, instant replay your live TV, etc...
Tip- Register for my.yahoo.com, configure the TV listings, then just manually set programs if you don't have or want to use IE.
There is no technical reason why EyeTV *needs* IE. All Titan/IE does is download a file with a certain protocol that EyeTV is listed as a helper for.
My conclusion is it's worth the 150 bucks I spent on it. (Now if only Formac, or someone else, would EVER deliver OS X drivers for my dead ProTV card...!)
"Our peak rate of 270,147,024 kkeys/sec is equivalent to 32,504 800MHz Apple PowerBook G4 laptops or 45,998 2GHz AMD Athlon XP machines or (to use some rc5-56 numbers) nearly a half million Pentium Pro 200s."
With some simple math, I think that pretty much answers your question =) At least as far as raw power on tap. How that translates at the top level to user experience is a different story (of course).
>Heh, Aliens that can travel much faster than the speed of light, can instantly accelerate, and can stay hidden for a century, but they can't stay 'cloaked' at night, or in areas where there is not adaqute equipment to get a good record of them.
If these things were piloted by an extraterrestrial intelligence, I think there's a high probability that they might be trying to be noticed, but not in a way that would be too jarring to the public. More like a slow creep of mindshare over time, which eventually will lead to public contact. Which is what I think is happening now.;)
Yes, it must definitely be the case that any and all taking the circumstantial evidence that we are being visited by *something* seriously (as well as all witnesses who can't explain what they have experienced) is a "wacko". It is exactly your kind of attitude that is going to make it more difficult for the public to accept this if it ever does turn out to be true. And since ruling it out completely is not logical (lack of hard evidence for something does not mean it does not exist), I suggest that your conclusion-jumping is just as bad as some of those websites you criticize.
I worked on the flightline for the USAF, and if two "standardized pallets" fit side-by-side on a KC-10 (think: heavily modded DC-10 cargo refueler), then I doubt a 747 (larger than a DC-10) would present much trouble.
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Great point.
For plausible deniability, toss the image file on a publicly read-write-accessible share.
Of course, this puts your image file at risk, too...
Hiding pr0n (or anything) is the killer app for excellent encryption, not for a WEP-accessed drive array. ::obligatory plug:: OS X lets you create read/write/mountable disk image files that are encrypted with AES-128. Very cool stuff to play with.
;)
Just don't put its password in your keychain, or those feds will get a chuckle as they double-click the image file and it unlocks with your autologin.
awesome username. wish I had thought of that. ;) love da hot foodz
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Or, you can get the book here for 15.50.
It was intended more as skript-kiddie sarcasm than genuine 1337-ness;)
I don't know what it is about the Myth series that hooked me. Perhaps it was the way the dwarf said "Buuuurrrrnnn!!" as he lobbed a molotov dessert to a pack of life-force-challenged, body parts flying... and other battlefield physics. Maybe it was the tension inherent in one of your archers dying... for the rest of the level. Maybe it was the enhancement that allowed really good characters that stayed alive and kicked ass, to appear in the next level (with their improved skill) and even allowed you to name them.
All in all, it was definitely a polished, atmospheric game, with interesting constraints and levels. Not an FPS, and not an RTS.
One thing's for sure - if you never tried the multiplayer or the level packs which basically redesigned most of the game (fighting Lego characters? World War II armaments?), you missed out on at least half of the fun!
I lusted after Newtons.
Then the PalmPilot came out.
I realized I couldn't fit a brick in my pocket.
So I got a PalmPilot Personal. Then a V.
Just last week I upgraded to a Tungsten. It kicks butt.
That said, I'd still like to have a used Newton to play with... I'm sure half the appeal is the community aspect (which is also part of the reason why I like Macs still...)
But I can't go partying in NYC with a friggin Newton in my pocket!
I think there's actually a lot going on here that ends up with junior high making many people's lives miserable (as it did mine), some of which may be related:
Just my thoughts...
There may not be killing, but maybe there's nothing stopping you from asking someone to look at this great mineral you discovered and then ::whoops!:: watching them fall into a mine hole =)
But seriously. I don't like games with enforced altruism. There SHOULD be some risk of great loss (i.e. death) in these games. I want a game that demonstrates the kinds of ideas presented in this book, The Evolution of Cooperation, which shows that cooperation can evolve even in a society that starts out completely selfish. (quite an amazing book, IMHO...)
Seems only natural, for this kind of software in this situation, for people who already have a copy of this, to P2P it out to the world through your choice of servent ;)
;)
Reminds me of an old episode of Sliders where they were in an alternate universe that never had the Declaration of Independence, and they created a copy of it and unleashed it into numerous newsgroups in that world's Internet...
I recently went to the site of some neat (bizarre?) screensavers for OS X called LOOPS, and noticed that they are now using PayPal to charge a very small fee ($1.50) to be able to download the very large savers. I think this is a reasonable system. I have been a PayPal fan for awhile, though...
load webpage. control-F. find: "scale"
0 Results Found
Not promising... if you pound on this thing, will it start taking forever?
I think a good metainformation system is desperately needed, though. I was thinking an XML structure with agreed-upon tags at the head of every file that the OS would intercept before it passed the file along to consumer applications.
My earliest memory is pointing at the fridge when i was hungry. I spoke real late... this was at about 3 years old I guess.
I *feel* like I remember being washed in the kitchen sink when i was a baby, looking out the front door, but I don't consider that memory reliable, even though my mom confirmed that yes, I was washed there sometimes.
But dude... I remember the first day of KINDERGARTEN like it was yesterday! But maybe that's just because it was a parochial catholic school and the whole ordeal of waking up at 6am to the sound of 1010 WINS AM and getting into uniform and taking my The Black Hole-themed lunchbox onto the freezing-cold school bus, was a shocking pain in my ass...
The Cellphone Zapper
Clandestinely aim and jam any person's cell call from within 50 feet.
Disclaimer: Cellphone Zapper is not recommended for use near metal objects or pregnant women. Cellphone Zapper may get extremely hot during use. Cellphone Zapper, Inc. will not be liable for injuries resulting from altercations inspired by the use of Cellphone Zapper. Do not aim Cellphone Zapper at small pets; dangerous explosions could result. Use of 2 cellphone zappers within the same 50 foot radius may result in massive injury or death due to harmonic resonance effects.
http://wuarchive.wustl.edu/users/tom/mirrors/cdexp lode/
notable excerpt:
"A 64x drive using CLV would have to rotate the disc with 33,920 rpm when reading an inner track, exposing the hub of the disk to a tangential force of some 45 N/mm2. A point on the periphery of the disc will be moving with 213 metres per second, slightly more than half the speed of sound. Can the disc take that?
The answer is no. A powerful no.
At about 52x, i.e. 27,500 rpm, most manufacturer's CDs blew up in a rain of plastic particles, leaving their marks on the premises. The result was a pile of shimmering plastic chips."
I read a paper on this but can't for the life of me find it online right now. The basic idea is this: Tweak SMTP/POP to cause emails to be stored by the sender instead of by the recipient, and only sent when the recipient (who has received some sort of byte-tiny notification that there is an email waiting for them) requests to read the email.
This would eliminate spamming problems because 1) they'd have to host all their spam and 2) the spam wouldn't clog Internet bandwidth unless viewing it was requested.
Alan Murray Ralsky
AKA Allen M Ralsky
DOB 29-MAY-45
SSN 358-36-7717
New home purchased 9/2002
Sale record:
Buyer: ALAN MURRAY RALSKY
Buyer Mailing Address: 6747 MINNOW POND DR, WEST BLOOMFIELD, MI 48322
Seller: BING CONSTRUCTION CO
1) My email address is pretty long and hard to guess by brute force. ;) )
2) Every time I get a spam email, I block the entire domain. (In order for this option to appear, you have to have only one email checked off when you click Block.)
3) I rarely enter this email address anywhere online. (For that I have a Yahoo account.
Result- I hardly ever get spam. Really!
...but I have tended to avoid TV recently, so my standards are not that high =)
It's neat as a PVR. Not the greatest quality, but good enough for me. The 1.5 second delay from live is too bad- I wanted to use it for gaming, too. But that delay is the cost of being able to pause live TV, instant replay your live TV, etc...
Tip- Register for my.yahoo.com, configure the TV listings, then just manually set programs if you don't have or want to use IE.
There is no technical reason why EyeTV *needs* IE. All Titan/IE does is download a file with a certain protocol that EyeTV is listed as a helper for.
My conclusion is it's worth the 150 bucks I spent on it. (Now if only Formac, or someone else, would EVER deliver OS X drivers for my dead ProTV card...!)
Figure out whether it's a computer giving you a boring handjob, or a genuine boring person.
This from the recent RC5 crack press release:
"Our peak rate of 270,147,024 kkeys/sec is equivalent to 32,504 800MHz Apple PowerBook G4 laptops or 45,998 2GHz AMD Athlon XP machines or (to use some rc5-56 numbers) nearly a half million Pentium Pro 200s."
With some simple math, I think that pretty much answers your question =) At least as far as raw power on tap. How that translates at the top level to user experience is a different story (of course).
Me, I love it...
>suppose you've made an Earth-shattering discovery that, when revealed, will cause massive social upheaval
Duh. Government knows we're being visited by other intelligent life and doesn't know how to break the ego-shattering news to us. =)
(But really. If such news WERE true, how WOULD it be "safely" revealed to everyone at once??)
>Heh, Aliens that can travel much faster than the speed of light, can instantly accelerate, and can stay hidden for a century, but they can't stay 'cloaked' at night, or in areas where there is not adaqute equipment to get a good record of them.
;)
If these things were piloted by an extraterrestrial intelligence, I think there's a high probability that they might be trying to be noticed, but not in a way that would be too jarring to the public. More like a slow creep of mindshare over time, which eventually will lead to public contact. Which is what I think is happening now.
Yes, it must definitely be the case that any and all taking the circumstantial evidence that we are being visited by *something* seriously (as well as all witnesses who can't explain what they have experienced) is a "wacko". It is exactly your kind of attitude that is going to make it more difficult for the public to accept this if it ever does turn out to be true. And since ruling it out completely is not logical (lack of hard evidence for something does not mean it does not exist), I suggest that your conclusion-jumping is just as bad as some of those websites you criticize.
I worked on the flightline for the USAF, and if two "standardized pallets" fit side-by-side on a KC-10 (think: heavily modded DC-10 cargo refueler), then I doubt a 747 (larger than a DC-10) would present much trouble.