Even a cursory examination should show that these numbers don't have enough uniqueness to be globally unique IDs
That is being somewhat harsh, especially because my cursory examination shows 192 available bits. Just because they don't look randomly assigned doesn't mean they aren't unique. There are lots of ways to write 0001, 0002...
BTW, this doesn't mean I think Eartlink is lying. I believe them.
While it may be nonlethal to those it is used on, imagine if this were used on a large crowd: The people burned would turn tail and run, and with a large enough crowd, people towards the back would almost certainly be trampled to death
It can be shown that a Turing machine on a grid (with move up+down along with left+right) can be simulated by a machine with merely a tape. From there, it can be seen that a Turing machine can simulate a life grid, and so the two are equivalent.
I recently looked at a list of patents the NSA had for stuff, and anong the really cool stuff, something very very interesting popped up: Integrated Child Seat for Vehicle. This really piqued my curiosity. Why does the NSA have a patent for a child seat?
While scipt kiddies are bad, and lots of them are very bad, they are reletivly easy to discover, and are (usually) not bright or skillfull enough to cover their tracks. Publishing holes probably does make more of them, but they force you to patch these holes. If the holes weren't published, you wouldn't be alerted to them, and then the only people who knew about them would be people who/are/ bright and skillfull enough to hide themselves. Would you rather a giant (but pitifully unskilled) army in front of you, or one very skilled assassin behind you?
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Manager: Code me up some software that sends us the complete contents of the user's hard drive
Software Engineer: Uhh... that's against the code of ethics! *hands over copy*
M: hehe, that's funny... it even asks me not to ask you to do that sort of stuff...But seriously, code it or you're fired. While you're at it, can you make it delete our competitor's software?
-Disclaimer- I've never been in anything resembling that situation
Gah. Over the weekend, I made myself a CD (at work:) of all sorts of neat things to take home. Things like new OS's, new windowing systems, and a few other things that I want to play with. Berlin was one of them. And of course, to follow with murphy's law, several of them have to post updates within a day or two after the CD is burned and at home. Plan9 even had a patch that covered my hardware setup. Boy I wish I had a fast connection at home...
mmmmm....LLL... The algorithm that I think I'd vote for (that and monte carlo) It saved my rear several times last semester, when in analytical number theory, we'd get results (using Baker-Wustholtz) that would have had us search through 10^50 numbers before an assignment was due, in several hours. LLL brought that down to like 500 in one step, then 20 in the next. YAY!
I saw a complaint about this clause on comp.os.plan9 The reply was that it wasn't for any nefarious purposes, but to keep someone from sueing over something that was given away. Much like the disclaimer on GNU stuff: If we give you this thing (for free) and it screws up your stuff, you can't take us to court...
yay! But should the M$ symbol here at slashdot change? Say, use just the robotic bits for the Applications, and use the remaining BillG bits for the OS? Or maby, since they're gonna be appealing this thing for a while. just put a noose loosely around BillG of Borg's neck, to show that M$ is standing on the stool, just waiting for it to be kicked out from under them...
I remember my first language: Logo. It was cool. because you got to control that little turtle thing, and was a high enough level language as to be quite easy. I can't remember how old I was when I learned it, but IIRC I still believed in Santa at the time...
Collect a lot of pr0n, and put in national security type keywords in the comment section in the pictures. Encrypt them lightly, and send them to a friend in North Korea. Some poor schmuck sees a lot of traffic going to North Korea, and easily decrypts it. Boss-man walks in, sees the pr0n. "No, really! It has all these keywords, really!"
I could imagine playing something like flashlight tag with the squirt guns. Unfortunatly, if you get hit, your more likely to get hit again, but that's your fault. Though you're less likley to get some horrible injury from tripping on something you can't see... What about eye drops? Can this stuff be put into a saline solution and made into eye drops that would make my eyes glow? That would ROCK!
So, what we could do is add a really crappy router (well not really a router, just a machine that you send crypto source to and it puts it through, mabey on a web page or FTP server) at the border between us and Canada or us and Mexico. Instead of doing the standard data-through-wires thing, it would actually print out a copy of the data, which would actually be fed over the border, then OCR'd on the other side. Problem solved.
I'm suprised that no one has mentioned M-x spook in Emacs yet. It's pretty funny, it generates a random set of 'spook words' automatically from a great big list it has... It makes for entertaining reading sometimes when you're very bored:)
That's what I want. A tool for LARTs. A big knife, pincers that heat up like those key deicer things (but hotter), and some form of flame projection utility would be good. Also, mabey a pen laser to blind them from afar. Finally, it should be built in suck a way that if someone with no clue tried to use it, they'd hurt themselves. Badly.
Alas, I'l probably have to make do with my Closet of Fun. Not pocked-sized though... *sigh*
OOh, upon inspection of Wenger's site, they have a 'computer whiz' model... I still prefer my rigging knife. No fancy dodads, but keeps the lusers at bay. When I need to do fiddleing with hardware, I also use a racheting screwdriver/wrench set I got as a gift a while back. Wire stripping is done with fire if possible, or with the knife.
I've never been able to understand how people can believe that a human's life is more important than any other animals. As an example, let's take me, and my cat. How do I affect the world at large? I make a big mess. My species and I have wiped out more other species than any other single species. We've poisoned the air, and the water, and demolished huge areas of land for our living space. My cat and his species, however, may have wiped out a couple of species of rodent, or small flightless birds. The only pollution they've ever caused it from their excrement, or their corpse. AFAIK, cats have never cut down a forest, or paved a swamp.
So from the planet's view, human = bad; cat = not bad. The only thing that thinks humans are any good are other humans, and their pets.
The only thing that humans have over other animals is a better ability to reason. But even our own culture doesn't value that much!
I dunno... I participated in a turing test once, as the human on the other side of a terminal.
More than half of judges failed me (ie: thought I was an AI).
Half of me felt that that was so cool, but the other half started wondering if I've been playing with computers to much... The first half musta won, cause I haven't cut back one bit:)
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Does anyone here know if it's possible to obtain prints of any of these pictures?
scratch that... it just took a while to kick me
I seem to be able to log into AIM using oscar and Gaim... is it possible there is a AIM server or 2 that's not been updated?
That is being somewhat harsh, especially because my cursory examination shows 192 available bits. Just because they don't look randomly assigned doesn't mean they aren't unique. There are lots of ways to write 0001, 0002...
BTW, this doesn't mean I think Eartlink is lying. I believe them.
While it may be nonlethal to those it is used on, imagine if this were used on a large crowd: The people burned would turn tail and run, and with a large enough crowd, people towards the back would almost certainly be trampled to death
It can be shown that a Turing machine on a grid (with move up+down along with left+right) can be simulated by a machine with merely a tape. From there, it can be seen that a Turing machine can simulate a life grid, and so the two are equivalent.
Scientists aren't sure what is is yet??!?!?!? IT MUST BE ALIENS!!!! AAAAAAAAAAAAHHH!
>This ought to be illegal, on the grounds that it's the greatest breach of privacy ever concieved.
Of course, the FBI won't have any form of carnivore system attatched, nor will Eschelon be allowed near it. Of Course.
I recently looked at a list of patents the NSA had for stuff, and anong the really cool stuff, something very very interesting popped up: Integrated Child Seat for Vehicle. This really piqued my curiosity. Why does the NSA have a patent for a child seat?
While scipt kiddies are bad, and lots of them are very bad, they are reletivly easy to discover, and are (usually) not bright or skillfull enough to cover their tracks. Publishing holes probably does make more of them, but they force you to patch these holes. /are/ bright and skillfull enough to hide themselves.
If the holes weren't published, you wouldn't be alerted to them, and then the only people who knew about them would be people who
Would you rather a giant (but pitifully unskilled) army in front of you, or one very skilled assassin behind you?
Manager: Code me up some software that sends us the complete contents of the user's hard drive
Software Engineer: Uhh... that's against the code of ethics! *hands over copy*
M: hehe, that's funny... it even asks me not to ask you to do that sort of stuff...But seriously, code it or you're fired. While you're at it, can you make it delete our competitor's software?
-Disclaimer- I've never been in anything resembling that situation
Gah. Over the weekend, I made myself a CD (at work :) of all sorts of neat things to take home. Things like new OS's, new windowing systems, and a few other things that I want to play with. Berlin was one of them.
And of course, to follow with murphy's law, several of them have to post updates within a day or two after the CD is burned and at home. Plan9 even had a patch that covered my hardware setup. Boy I wish I had a fast connection at home...
mmmmm....LLL... The algorithm that I think I'd vote for (that and monte carlo) It saved my rear several times last semester, when in analytical number theory, we'd get results (using Baker-Wustholtz) that would have had us search through 10^50 numbers before an assignment was due, in several hours. LLL brought that down to like 500 in one step, then 20 in the next. YAY!
I saw a complaint about this clause on comp.os.plan9 The reply was that it wasn't for any nefarious purposes, but to keep someone from sueing over something that was given away. Much like the disclaimer on GNU stuff: If we give you this thing (for free) and it screws up your stuff, you can't take us to court...
yay!
But should the M$ symbol here at slashdot change? Say, use just the robotic bits for the Applications, and use the remaining BillG bits for the OS? Or maby, since they're gonna be appealing this thing for a while. just put a noose loosely around BillG of Borg's neck, to show that M$ is standing on the stool, just waiting for it to be kicked out from under them...
I remember my first language: Logo. It was cool. because you got to control that little turtle thing, and was a high enough level language as to be quite easy. I can't remember how old I was when I learned it, but IIRC I still believed in Santa at the time...
I was thinking...
Collect a lot of pr0n, and put in national security type keywords in the comment section in the pictures.
Encrypt them lightly, and send them to a friend in North Korea. Some poor schmuck sees a lot of traffic going to North Korea, and easily decrypts it. Boss-man walks in, sees the pr0n. "No, really! It has all these keywords, really!"
I could imagine playing something like flashlight tag with the squirt guns. Unfortunatly, if you get hit, your more likely to get hit again, but that's your fault. Though you're less likley to get some horrible injury from tripping on something you can't see...
What about eye drops? Can this stuff be put into a saline solution and made into eye drops that would make my eyes glow? That would ROCK!
So, what we could do is add a really crappy router (well not really a router, just a machine that you send crypto source to and it puts it through, mabey on a web page or FTP server) at the border between us and Canada or us and Mexico. Instead of doing the standard data-through-wires thing, it would actually print out a copy of the data, which would actually be fed over the border, then OCR'd on the other side. Problem solved.
I'm suprised that no one has mentioned M-x spook in Emacs yet. It's pretty funny, it generates a random set of 'spook words' automatically from a great big list it has... :)
It makes for entertaining reading sometimes when you're very bored
That's what I want. A tool for LARTs. A big knife, pincers that heat up like those key deicer things (but hotter), and some form of flame projection utility would be good. Also, mabey a pen laser to blind them from afar. Finally, it should be built in suck a way that if someone with no clue tried to use it, they'd hurt themselves. Badly.
Alas, I'l probably have to make do with my Closet of Fun. Not pocked-sized though... *sigh*
OOh, upon inspection of Wenger's site, they have a 'computer whiz' model...
I still prefer my rigging knife. No fancy dodads, but keeps the lusers at bay. When I need to do fiddleing with hardware, I also use a racheting screwdriver/wrench set I got as a gift a while back. Wire stripping is done with fire if possible, or with the knife.
I've never been able to understand how people can believe that a human's life is more important than any other animals. As an example, let's take me, and my cat.
How do I affect the world at large? I make a big mess. My species and I have wiped out more other species than any other single species. We've poisoned the air, and the water, and demolished huge areas of land for our living space.
My cat and his species, however, may have wiped out a couple of species of rodent, or small flightless birds. The only pollution they've ever caused it from their excrement, or their corpse. AFAIK, cats have never cut down a forest, or paved a swamp.
So from the planet's view, human = bad; cat = not bad. The only thing that thinks humans are any good are other humans, and their pets.
The only thing that humans have over other animals is a better ability to reason. But even our own culture doesn't value that much!
I dunno...
:)
I participated in a turing test once, as the human on the other side of a terminal.
More than half of judges failed me (ie: thought I was an AI).
Half of me felt that that was so cool, but the other half started wondering if I've been playing with computers to much... The first half musta won, cause I haven't cut back one bit
Heh, gotta love Forward's novels... Ya, so the literary worth ain't all that great, but a lot of the physics/engineering ideas are quite cool...
:P
Sorta like dirty stories for enginerds