I was going to queue up FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF to see a pre-image that creates the largest MD5 hash value, but someone beat me to it. However, the task is still "Waiting to start...". I'll post a reply when it completes.
Terry Nation had a serious falling out with the BBC over control and payments, and continually refused the BBC permission to use them.
I believe that's why Colin Baker was lamenting in "Doctor Who - The Colin Baker Years" that a clip from "Revelation of the Daleks" could not be shown.
Plus, the BBC doesn't have a very good record with Daleks. There aren't very many working models left, and when the BBC borrowed one from the Dr Who Exhibition in Llangollen (now back in Blackpool after god know's hoow many years) they managed to damage it.
>Godel's Incompleteness Theorem doesn't apply to Turing's Theorem.
"A great many different proofs of Godel's theorem are now known, and the result is now considered easy to prove and almost obvious: It is equivalent to the unsolvability of the halting problem, or alternatively to the assertion that there is an r.e. (recursively enumerable) set that is not recursive." International Journal of Theoretical Physics 22
>We could spend days listing reasons why the ark as described in the story could never have existed.
If any of you want the most defensible argument for the feasibility of the ark and sustainment of the animals, refer to "Noah's Ark: A Feasibility Study". By defensible, I mean appealing to only naturalistic reasoning. The flood itself and the arrival of the animals will always require supernatural intervention.
Around 1979/1981, my father had in his home office a phone that used punch cards to auto-dial. You'd find the card you wanted, push the card in, and it would incrementally eject itself as it dialed the number found on each row of the punch card, making loud mechanical noises in the process. I was allowed to play with the one that dialed the time of day service. Can't seem to find a picture of one online.
I was wondering why I haven't been getting moderator points for a while. After all, I can meta-moderate.
I was wonder about that as well. I used to moderate all the time, but I haven't received moderation points for well over a year. I thought it was because I favorably moderated folks on my friends list occasionally, and some audit process must have kicked in. Can anyone shed some light on when/why one loses their "privilege" to moderate?
It used to be that religion trumped science (ala Galileo).
Now religion is trumped by science, and science is trumped by political correctness. If you doubt it, just try to start up a conversation on how Darwinism might apply to different races of human. Or look at the backlash against scientists that write articles debunking global warming.
Today, as in the past, who trumps whom has little to do with the certainty of what is being argued.
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Over the duration of a few years, around the time of the Wen Ho Lee witch hunt at LANL, the "purchase circle" at Amazon.com for Los Alamos (National Laboratory) had A Tremor in the Blood: Uses and Abuses of the Lie Detector as one of their top 10 sold books. Clearly, the employees wanted to protect themselves.
Back in the 1950's, my father (who is only a mere 6'3") was selected for a sales position over another applicant. He was later told by his manager that the deciding factor was that he was taller.
The random content (continents actually) generator in Seven Cities of Gold made the game. Of course, waiting 10+ minutes for it to complete was annoying, but this wasn't uncommon in 1984.
There was quite a war between the Apple ][, Commodore 64, and Atari 400/800 back in the day. But within slashdot circles, the C64 always seems to engender the most nostalgia.
I got my C64 t-shirt and bumper sticker from these guys a few months back.
Fwais 2.0 is an excellent overview of the current landscape and psychology involving intranet, vpn and Internet host security
For those who want a more thorough background in the crypto-related topics found in Fwais2 (VPNs, tunneling, TLS, etc.), check out:
http://www.youdzone.com/cryptobooks.html
There are now 147 cryptography and cryptography-related books (90 reviewed). 29 of the books have on-line errata links, and 7 of the books are free to download in their entirety.
Someone DID do a remake of sorts- he could not get the rights to the name, so it's called Space H.O.R.S.E.
Even less well known is the MULE remake Traders by Merit Software 1991. It was clearly a remake of the original game, but unfortunately they added an unnecessary fighting aspect to the game if things wern't going your way.
Another MULE clone (this one I haven't played) is Subtrade: Return to Irata by Century Interactive 1993.
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I was going to queue up FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF to see a pre-image that creates the largest MD5 hash value, but someone beat me to it. However, the task is still "Waiting to start...". I'll post a reply when it completes.
I believe that's why Colin Baker was lamenting in "Doctor Who - The Colin Baker Years" that a clip from "Revelation of the Daleks" could not be shown.
Plus, the BBC doesn't have a very good record with Daleks. There aren't very many working models left, and when the BBC borrowed one from the Dr Who Exhibition in Llangollen (now back in Blackpool after god know's hoow many years) they managed to damage it.
Uhhh... are they that hard to make?
"A great many different proofs of Godel's theorem are now known, and the result is now considered easy to prove and almost obvious: It is equivalent to the unsolvability of the halting problem, or alternatively to the assertion that there is an r.e. (recursively enumerable) set that is not recursive."
International Journal of Theoretical Physics 22
If any of you want the most defensible argument for the feasibility of the ark and sustainment of the animals, refer to "Noah's Ark: A Feasibility Study". By defensible, I mean appealing to only naturalistic reasoning. The flood itself and the arrival of the animals will always require supernatural intervention.
That, and it accesses both of my cdrom drives for no good reason.
Wasn't Disneyland's Rocket Rods billed as the "Transportation of the Future"?
All is well, as long as you don't have to turn.
"JDKs = 1.2.2" was supposed to be "JDKs <=1.2.2" (thanks for helping with html suppression slashdot)
And for those that don't trust tinyurl links, here's the original.
hp-ux already does this in software (pdf doc): http://tinyurl.com/2w2rt
Although, this can mess up on JDKs = 1.2.2.
Saw these in the pet store yesterday.
Around 1979/1981, my father had in his home office a phone that used punch cards to auto-dial. You'd find the card you wanted, push the card in, and it would incrementally eject itself as it dialed the number found on each row of the punch card, making loud mechanical noises in the process. I was allowed to play with the one that dialed the time of day service. Can't seem to find a picture of one online.
I was wondering why I haven't been getting moderator points for a while. After all, I can meta-moderate.
I was wonder about that as well. I used to moderate all the time, but I haven't received moderation points for well over a year. I thought it was because I favorably moderated folks on my friends list occasionally, and some audit process must have kicked in. Can anyone shed some light on when/why one loses their "privilege" to moderate?
It used to be that religion trumped science (ala Galileo).
Now religion is trumped by science, and science is trumped by political correctness.
If you doubt it, just try to start up a conversation on how Darwinism might apply to different races of human. Or look at the backlash against scientists that write articles debunking global warming.
Today, as in the past, who trumps whom has little to do with the certainty of what is being argued.
How could anyone forget Tom Baker as Puddleglum?
Above link was from the book "Modern Operating Systems". Other stego books here
"Three physicists walk into an h-Bar..."
Thank you, I'll be here all week.
Think Geek has a cool way of reenacting your favorite moments from Space Invaders on your office wall. And here's their action shot.
Over the duration of a few years, around the time of the Wen Ho Lee witch hunt at LANL, the "purchase circle" at Amazon.com for Los Alamos (National Laboratory) had A Tremor in the Blood: Uses and Abuses of the Lie Detector as one of their top 10 sold books. Clearly, the employees wanted to protect themselves.
Back in the 1950's, my father (who is only a mere 6'3") was selected for a sales position over another applicant. He was later told by his manager that the deciding factor was that he was taller.
The random content (continents actually) generator in Seven Cities of Gold made the game. Of course, waiting 10+ minutes for it to complete was annoying, but this wasn't uncommon in 1984.
I just flew back in from DEFCON 11, where people were selling/wearing the following:
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- Life ain't nothin but bitches, money, and root.
- I need a girl who's name doesn't end with
- I rooted your girlfriend's box, and I didn't use a trojan
- Computer security is like sex. Once your penetrated, you're pretty much f*cked.
- Chicks dig guys that write recursive algorithms
- Save a filesystem -- Mount a sysadmin
- When you're caught, we're splitting up your warez
- My other computer is your linux box
- Trinity is a script kiddie
- There's no place like 127.0.0.1
I got my C64 t-shirt and bumper sticker from these guys a few months back.
For those who want a more thorough background in the crypto-related topics found in Fwais2 (VPNs, tunneling, TLS, etc.), check out: http://www.youdzone.com/cryptobooks.html
There are now 147 cryptography and cryptography-related books (90 reviewed). 29 of the books have on-line errata links, and 7 of the books are free to download in their entirety.
Even less well known is the MULE remake Traders by Merit Software 1991. It was clearly a remake of the original game, but unfortunately they added an unnecessary fighting aspect to the game if things wern't going your way.
Another MULE clone (this one I haven't played) is Subtrade: Return to Irata by Century Interactive 1993.
"Marty -- You're not thinking forth dimensionally."
Total Information Awareness underware is still available