Actually, it will probably be more like SPAM is today: "You gave permission to one of our 3rd party affiliates to receive this great offer (blah blah blah)".
Will a permission clause really make that big of a difference?
That isn't true - if you don't have phone service there is no dial tone at all. It is possible that if you phone service is cut off for non-payment the dial tone and ability to call 911 may remain, but if you cancel your land line there is definitely no ability to call anywhere, not even 911.
This may not be true in all areas, but I know it is true in some cases. For instance, I just bought a house. The previous owner disconnected their service, and I never signed up for my own service. Still, if you plug a phone into the wall, you'll get a dial tone. If you try to dial out, you'll get that bi-tonal error dealie. Mind you, I didn't actually try dialing 911 as "just testing" probably wouldn't qualify as a plausible excuse.:-)
In order to hook Vonage VoIP into my regular phone lines, I had to physically disconnect the external lines from Verizon, in order to ensure that there was no voltage running through the phone lines in the house.
I am being serious here mod me down if neccesary, BUT WHAT IN GODS NAME is the use of this.
Hold on Im getting mugged/raped/murdered OH but first let me log on to my computer to dial 911 WTF ?
VoIP is more-or-less a regular telephone, with the service part coming over your Internet connection, as opposed to your old copper wire phone lines.
The phones plug into their router, but otherwise acts like any other telephone does. You don't actually need a computer to use the phone, all you need is a live Internet connection.
i'm not a big fan of regulation, but requiring access to emergency services seems like a pretty reasonable request. the tone of this story seems to indicate that the government mandating that people are able to call for emergency service is somehow a bad thing. it's in the "your rights online" section, but i don't see where my rights are being trampled.
Are the mandates for VoIP somehow different from regular land-line service? Given a home that had phone service, but is now "disconnected"... you can still plug a phone into any jack and you should get a dial tone. As I understand it, this is 911-only service, so you can at least access the emergency services if you need them.
Problem is, it takes even more skill to find a decently set-up and clean Addams Family pinball machine these days than it does to play it. In other words, finding a good pinball joing is damn near impossible.
Plug: I have an Addams Family pinball machine on location at Barbella Piercing in Fountain Valley, CA... and I do my best to keep it in good working order.
If you are in the area, you are more than welcome to come check it out. If you can take down my friend Brian's 735M high score, then all the better (I'm saying this because I know it will piss him off:-)).
Regarding the destruction of an egg cell, a woman's body does this every month, and a woman starts off with over 100,000 eggs, of which obviously almost all are destroyed at some point.
Are you sure about that number? 100,000 eggs means 100,000 months (roughly), or about 8333 years!!
I'm no doctor... but that number doesn't make a whole lot of sense to me.
Time-Warner cable modem. I hope you don't download use more than 15 GB of uploads + downloads per month, or you'll hit the cap and get a nastygram demanding that you upgrade to the $80-90/month service (with its 40 GB cap).
I'm sure this varies from area to area. I *know* I download more than 15gb per month, and have been doing so for at least a year. Time Warner (Socal RR) has never raised an eyebrow at my (excessive) usage of their (unlimited) service.
I was really annoyed by having that situation myself. That's why I love now having a TiVo so much. I can watch TV when I want to, not when a show is on, so I never have to even think of planning my life around TV.
Yes and no, it depends on your level (and type) of social interaction. Friends of mine used to get reasonably annoyed (and vice versa) when a show would come on and we'd be all ready to discuss it the next day... only to find out the other had taped it, and not watched it yet. Sometimes it'd take a few days to "catch up", but by then sometimes the material isn't as fresh for the other person.
Of course, if this means THAT much to you, then yeah, you should probably get out more... but even on a pure hobby level, there are definate reasons for watching the shows when they come on (or at least, before the next day if possible).
um, if your bruted password gens the same hash, why wouldn't the original (and unknown) password unlock it as well?
You are assuming the original and generated passwords are 100% equivalent... I'm not sure that they are. If the original and generated password can both unlock the file... does that guarantee that locking the file with the generated password will allow it to be unlocked with the original?
So, if such passwords can easily be bypassed anyway - what does this really change?
Part of the point of the article is that you can unlock the document, make modifications, and then re-lock it using the original password... thereby allowing your changes to go unnoticed.
If your hack program only returns gobbledy-gook type passwords, how do you go about re-locking the document in such a way that your changes are undetected?
So let me get this straight, the virus infects a computer, and then infects other computers. Does the virus actually do anything?
I would guess that this is the trial run, to validate the theory behind a virus spreading in this manner. Once they know it works, the next one will have a payload.
"Many of these outsorcers (sic) have fairly long term commitments and can raise their prices and renogatiate at will..." Not so, at least with my company. We offloaded some of our mundane programming tasks to an Indian firm, and the wages are fixed for 10 years, with only a cost of living increase, and limited merit increases. Otherwise, our company would not have signed the long-term contract.
And if that company in India decides to break the contract? What's your recourse? Fire them and lose whatever they are working on?
You might also be able to go with someone else, but they will probably want wages that are comparable to what the first company is now demanding.
In the US against a US company, you can take them to court, sue for damages, etc, etc. What can you accomplish against a company in India?
If the article you reference is correct, plasma TV's have a horribly short lifespan. Well under 3 years of run-time before they lose HALF of their brightness?
Perhaps this is by design? Planned obsolecense (sp?) is nothing new. Even if they didn't "design" it in, it will help fuel their market if people have to buy new TVs every few years.
Everyone's telling me the projection sets will likely be discontinued by this time next year, so buying one of them is investing in a dying technology.
I hope not... I just bought a 73" Mitsubishi rear-projection TV. I ended up buying the 2003 model, because it was $1200 cheaper than the 2004 model, and I don't really need the HDTV tuner right now anyway. It comes with the hookups, so I'll add one when they are affordable, and there's something in the HDTV format worth watching.:-)
I also just checked their website, and the 2004 line now includes an 82" rear-projection model. If I had known about it before I made my purchase, I might have considered it... though I shudder to wonder what the sticker price would have been. It's probably at least double what I paid ($3299).
Anyway, it sounds like Mitsubishi, at least, is still pushing forward on this technology. My TV is gorgeous, and I really couldn't be happier with the purchase. I did consider an LCD projector (room's not really dark enough) as well as the plasma displays. I found that the plasmas were twice as expensive, for half the screen size. I am not hurting for space, so being able to hang it on the wall wasn't really an issue. I sure hope the lifespan of my rear-projection unit is longer than three years, though...
Yes it is... but it's still an analog source, and capturing at 720x480 definately makes a difference over capturing at SVCD (480x480) or VCD (352x240) resolutions... which come out looking either fairly pixelated (SVCD) to horribly pixelated (VCD).
In general (regardless of the source) you want to do your analog-digital conversion at the higher sampling rate/resolution, rather than multiply your final result at the digital level. NTSC has 525 scanlines to fill (though only about 480 are visible), so if you only captured at a resolution of 360x240, you're going to have a pretty crappy looking output video. Here's a website with additional information.
Better to do things at the best possible resolution... I mean, if you are going to go through the arduous task of converting over hundreds of hours of videos, wouldn't you spend the time to do it right the first time?
As long as your hardware can keep up, of course (to put this post back on topic...)
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A whole 6 megabytes of memory?!
Yup!! It's amazing what you can accomplish once you get rid of all the bloatware.
%90 of people will say: "Sign me up!"
Actually, it will probably be more like SPAM is today: "You gave permission to one of our 3rd party affiliates to receive this great offer (blah blah blah)".
Will a permission clause really make that big of a difference?
Sure they do, you just need to use the ol' "three finger salute" ... know what I mean?
That isn't true - if you don't have phone service there is no dial tone at all. It is possible that if you phone service is cut off for non-payment the dial tone and ability to call 911 may remain, but if you cancel your land line there is definitely no ability to call anywhere, not even 911.
:-)
This may not be true in all areas, but I know it is true in some cases. For instance, I just bought a house. The previous owner disconnected their service, and I never signed up for my own service. Still, if you plug a phone into the wall, you'll get a dial tone. If you try to dial out, you'll get that bi-tonal error dealie. Mind you, I didn't actually try dialing 911 as "just testing" probably wouldn't qualify as a plausible excuse.
In order to hook Vonage VoIP into my regular phone lines, I had to physically disconnect the external lines from Verizon, in order to ensure that there was no voltage running through the phone lines in the house.
Trust me, you get a dial tone.
I am being serious here mod me down if neccesary, BUT WHAT IN GODS NAME is the use of this.
Hold on Im getting mugged/raped/murdered OH but first let me log on to my computer to dial 911
WTF ?
VoIP is more-or-less a regular telephone, with the service part coming over your Internet connection, as opposed to your old copper wire phone lines.
The phones plug into their router, but otherwise acts like any other telephone does. You don't actually need a computer to use the phone, all you need is a live Internet connection.
i'm not a big fan of regulation, but requiring access to emergency services seems like a pretty reasonable request. the tone of this story seems to indicate that the government mandating that people are able to call for emergency service is somehow a bad thing. it's in the "your rights online" section, but i don't see where my rights are being trampled.
... you can still plug a phone into any jack and you should get a dial tone. As I understand it, this is 911-only service, so you can at least access the emergency services if you need them.
Are the mandates for VoIP somehow different from regular land-line service? Given a home that had phone service, but is now "disconnected"
I'm using Vonage for VoIP phone service, and they already allow Dialing 911.
Are there other VoIP service providers that don't?
Come on, we have to deal with half a minute of remote-locked FBI video warnings, what the heck does this new seal do any differently?/I
... and it's probably only going to get worse.
My guess is it will lock our remotes out for twice as long
Problem is, it takes even more skill to find a decently set-up and clean Addams Family pinball machine these days than it does to play it. In other words, finding a good pinball joing is damn near impossible.
... and I do my best to keep it in good working order.
:-)).
Plug: I have an Addams Family pinball machine on location at Barbella Piercing in Fountain Valley, CA
If you are in the area, you are more than welcome to come check it out. If you can take down my friend Brian's 735M high score, then all the better (I'm saying this because I know it will piss him off
Regarding the destruction of an egg cell, a woman's body does this every month, and a woman starts off with over 100,000 eggs, of which obviously almost all are destroyed at some point.
... but that number doesn't make a whole lot of sense to me.
Are you sure about that number? 100,000 eggs means 100,000 months (roughly), or about 8333 years!!
I'm no doctor
Time-Warner cable modem. I hope you don't download use more than 15 GB of uploads + downloads per month, or you'll hit the cap and get a nastygram demanding that you upgrade to the $80-90/month service (with its 40 GB cap).
I'm sure this varies from area to area. I *know* I download more than 15gb per month, and have been doing so for at least a year. Time Warner (Socal RR) has never raised an eyebrow at my (excessive) usage of their (unlimited) service.
After burning the thighs of some users they are now referred to as notebook computers.
Yeah, your thighs if you're lucky. This man actually burned his penis.
I was really annoyed by having that situation myself. That's why I love now having a TiVo so much. I can watch TV when I want to, not when a show is on, so I never have to even think of planning my life around TV.
... only to find out the other had taped it, and not watched it yet. Sometimes it'd take a few days to "catch up", but by then sometimes the material isn't as fresh for the other person.
... but even on a pure hobby level, there are definate reasons for watching the shows when they come on (or at least, before the next day if possible).
Yes and no, it depends on your level (and type) of social interaction. Friends of mine used to get reasonably annoyed (and vice versa) when a show would come on and we'd be all ready to discuss it the next day
Of course, if this means THAT much to you, then yeah, you should probably get out more
um, if your bruted password gens the same hash, why wouldn't the original (and unknown) password unlock it as well?
... I'm not sure that they are. If the original and generated password can both unlock the file ... does that guarantee that locking the file with the generated password will allow it to be unlocked with the original?
You are assuming the original and generated passwords are 100% equivalent
So, if such passwords can easily be bypassed anyway - what does this really change?
... thereby allowing your changes to go unnoticed.
Part of the point of the article is that you can unlock the document, make modifications, and then re-lock it using the original password
If your hack program only returns gobbledy-gook type passwords, how do you go about re-locking the document in such a way that your changes are undetected?
Imagine TomsDating.com? He could rank all your potential mates with a variety of benchmarks, and even try overclocking them.
Will they "go down" as quickly as this site did?
So let me get this straight, the virus infects a computer, and then infects other computers. Does the virus actually do anything?
I would guess that this is the trial run, to validate the theory behind a virus spreading in this manner. Once they know it works, the next one will have a payload.
"Many of these outsorcers (sic) have fairly long term commitments and can raise their prices and renogatiate at will..." Not so, at least with my company. We offloaded some of our mundane programming tasks to an Indian firm, and the wages are fixed for 10 years, with only a cost of living increase, and limited merit increases. Otherwise, our company would not have signed the long-term contract.
And if that company in India decides to break the contract? What's your recourse? Fire them and lose whatever they are working on?
You might also be able to go with someone else, but they will probably want wages that are comparable to what the first company is now demanding.
In the US against a US company, you can take them to court, sue for damages, etc, etc. What can you accomplish against a company in India?
I'm surprised to see that the adult film industry, previously at the forefront in digital-imaging technology has fallen behind here.
Well, at ~2 gigabytes per frame, even an 18gb DVD would only last 1/3rd of a second.
I should imagine that in the world of porn, that would be shall we say, unfulfilling?
82" rear-projection model [...] I shudder to wonder what the sticker price would have been. It's probably at least double what I paid ($3299).
Ooops, I just found one for sale and I was wrong. The 82" model runs for more than $20,000!!
If the article you reference is correct, plasma TV's have a horribly short lifespan. Well under 3 years of run-time before they lose HALF of their brightness?
... I just bought a 73" Mitsubishi rear-projection TV. I ended up buying the 2003 model, because it was $1200 cheaper than the 2004 model, and I don't really need the HDTV tuner right now anyway. It comes with the hookups, so I'll add one when they are affordable, and there's something in the HDTV format worth watching. :-)
... though I shudder to wonder what the sticker price would have been. It's probably at least double what I paid ($3299).
Perhaps this is by design? Planned obsolecense (sp?) is nothing new. Even if they didn't "design" it in, it will help fuel their market if people have to buy new TVs every few years.
Everyone's telling me the projection sets will likely be discontinued by this time next year, so buying one of them is investing in a dying technology.
I hope not
I also just checked their website, and the 2004 line now includes an 82" rear-projection model. If I had known about it before I made my purchase, I might have considered it
Anyway, it sounds like Mitsubishi, at least, is still pushing forward on this technology. My TV is gorgeous, and I really couldn't be happier with the purchase. I did consider an LCD projector (room's not really dark enough) as well as the plasma displays. I found that the plasmas were twice as expensive, for half the screen size. I am not hurting for space, so being able to hang it on the wall wasn't really an issue. I sure hope the lifespan of my rear-projection unit is longer than three years, though...
And did you know AMD is sending free amd64 arch manuals (4 nice books) freely to anyone in US and Canada? Did you?
Yep, mine came in yesterday!
Well, I didn't. Where does one sign up for the free manuals? Got a link handy?
Muchas Gracias...
Yes. Frost. On floppy.
... in the car ... in the sun.
Floppy?!?! We were talking about CDs
Is there a way to temporarily damage the data on a CD via heat (or otherwise?)
enough sunlight may damage data permanently
Is there a way to damage the data temporarily??
Isn't VHS like 360x240 (1/4 NTSC or PAL)?
... but it's still an analog source, and capturing at 720x480 definately makes a difference over capturing at SVCD (480x480) or VCD (352x240) resolutions ... which come out looking either fairly pixelated (SVCD) to horribly pixelated (VCD).
... I mean, if you are going to go through the arduous task of converting over hundreds of hours of videos, wouldn't you spend the time to do it right the first time?
Yes it is
In general (regardless of the source) you want to do your analog-digital conversion at the higher sampling rate/resolution, rather than multiply your final result at the digital level. NTSC has 525 scanlines to fill (though only about 480 are visible), so if you only captured at a resolution of 360x240, you're going to have a pretty crappy looking output video. Here's a website with additional information.
Better to do things at the best possible resolution
As long as your hardware can keep up, of course (to put this post back on topic...)