or you just don't follow the licence agreement and don't tell them about it...ignorance is bliss =) it's also great when you're just going to make your own version of the product
"Our product will integrate seamlessly into your system. Just tell your developers to read the documentation and within minutes they'll modify it to match your needs"
Licence agreement says: Any modification of code is prohibited. Use of external code to modify databases created by our program is prohibited.
Remember to send at least 10 copies of that line to the purchaser in the company. It's important they read it prior to signing the million dollar deal. It's your ass on the line, not theirs.
Not really, when you consider a mutation it happens in the next generation (unlike cancer). A mutation in a single cell in the hand will not cause the physical structure to change. The continued use of it in a particular way will cause the physical structure to change but it will not be passed on to future generations.
In case you wanted to know, cells that eventually go on to become sperm and eggs are actually segregated early in the embryonic stage. Thus, any genetic changes that happen to a person during their life will not be passed on to the next generation.
I find it particularly disturbing that Red Hat is growing "exponentially" in size. I'm pretty sure that they don't have to include all the options but they don't make it easy to disable them. Now many of you may jump on the bandwagon and say "Wait, Linux is not meant to be easy". I'll retort by saying: Red Hat should be easy. If you're going to target users with a desktop application then you don't make things harder. Desktops were invented to make things easier or more efficient to use. So it seems that if they do make it bigger, perhaps they should make it easier? size=ease of use
The details are a repost, this technology is "old" as in they did this same problem with travelling salesmen 2 years ago. Details were posted in SCIAM.com
not that password specifically:P yes there are a lot of permutations, but the point is that the average person has trouble remembering how to double click on the IE logo (hence one click web types)
The reason you want to enter 4 is because a lot of old systems only supported 4. They were trying to make you backwards compatible. But you raise an interesting point, passwords used to be the domain of the l33t (5, 10 years ago), but now everybody uses computers and they aren't as proficient. They can type, they can message but they don't understand computer security, for them the net is still their computer and the most secure box on the planet, why? because it's in their home.
Actually the example you give may not be the best passwords. Many people use brute force and almost all of them use a dictionary. There are a few that don't (they go through each an every possibility) and those ones pose a problem. Sequential password generate (aaa, aab, aac, aad...) pose problems as the generated password may occur much sooner than thought. The time taken decreases exponentially if the first few characters (either direction) are closer to the beginning of the alphabet.
The move by ICANN is totally unfair. I have watched and listened to the proceedings over the last few days. I am extremely disappointed as ICANN is attempting to consolidate power within their own group. The internet is not theirs, it is ours, it was never ment to be controlled or regulated by a small group. Those who think alike will stick together, what about those who "Think Different"?
A quote from icann.org: Created in October 1998 by a broad coalition of the Internet's business, technical, academic, and user communities. Shouldn't that mean that we the people who create the user communities have a choice on how the specific areas are run? Also, ICANN is a corporation, therefor it will side on the side of corporations and will attempt to modify the system to support corporations.
It seems that corporations are going to control of the internet as well...what are you going to do about it?
Actually, the whipping around of the elastic gives it some unrequired spin (in the "gun" method). Also, after a while the back of your thumb will start to hurt. In terms of accuracy, both methods (C and Gun) are very g00d. Also, you can load 6 onto each hand (double barrel, middle, ring, and pinkie) and get pretty decent firepower (nothing scares a coworker more than 2 armed hooligans busting into your cubicle and firing 24 elastics in under two seconds at your head). But, over extended use, the C method (albeit slower) does not have the same wear and tear upon your hands. In terms of distance, the C method shoots twice as far as the gun method (you've got more lenght with the C). And of course, the spin, the elastic whipping around your thumb (in the gun) causes it to gain spin that is just plain awful (my english just got really bad). To really see the difference use small elastics or big elastics. Once you get good enough you'll notice that the medium sized ones are used to snipe, the small ones for a bit closer range but for head shots (on demand) and the big ones just hurt really bad from 20 feet away.
this place (surefireproducts.com) sells some really nice products.
Of course, at work we have battle grouping for our elastic band wars and we've found that a good piece of card board works well as a machine gun...we've also found a hand technique which stings from 10 yards away. In fact, we did some studies of it in our friendly neighbourhood campus engineering department, and found that it has an inherent spin which stabilizes it (gyroscope).
Make a C with your index and thumb on your left hand. Hang the elastic loosely on it and then grab the bottom inside of the band and push towards your target (with your thumb). One side will be more tightly wound than the other. When you release your thumb it'll fire. No wear and tear as it doesn't hit your brace finger or cause redness (you newbies will find out what we mean when you use the two hand technique).
I've seen a lot of posts about people getting very worried about radiation. Perhaps fussion is the answer, it seems we may be pretty close: that fusion article from last week.
The whole space program is still following its trend of keeping large modules as a whole. The whole premise is: "if we have one large system that has few parts then less can go wrong". That is an obviously flawed system as many things still go wrong. In fact the systems that have been designed as modularized have only failed once (space shuttle O ring, 1986. Where as the moon lander never once malfunctioned). Most problems in space happen due to problems not with main systems but to smaller malfunctions like a clogged pipe (not inherent in the design or function of the overall system). But I digress, outer space is not a good environment for large thurst engines, smaller long lasting engines are good. That compares to the large engines required to leave Earths initial gravity. Again, we try to adapt one engine to both systems. As previously posted, high thurst reusable efficient engines for getting a space ship out of our atmosphere and into a different environment (you don't see me driving a car in the Marianas trench). The reasons that modularized systems don't fail is because we think they're going to fail so we study them to death and make them really safe, thus no failure.
This is probably one of the best ideas as in some cases water could flow in. Building some sort of water testing systems or collection systems into the sub for testing would be g00d as sources of contamination from chemical factories could also be found.
Smurfs are good to use as there's so many. Of course that only gets you a couple 1000. You could put them into Quadrants, talk about them as if they were in gangs...the Reds, Blues and so on. Then the head node of each grouping could be papa smurf. That kinda thing.
I apologise the diameter of the earth is 12760 not the circumference (noted in a reply to the original post by an anonymous coward...please mod that one up)
That makes an orbital distance of 13460 km from the center of the earth...42286 km per orbit. Or 7442336 km in the last mission, aka 4.65 million miles.
If it takes 90 minutes to orbit the earth and it was there for 11 days then...176 orbits of ze planet. 12760 km around the equator (that's 7926 miles). They're orbiting 350 km up (hubble is there, to avoid air friction). So the radius of the earth is 2030 km, add 350 to that = 2380km, multiply by 2pi = 14954 km every 90 minutes (one orbit). Thereby giving us 14954*176=2631904 km or 1644940 miles. Which means that NASA needs 10 more hubble repair missions and they get a free flight (all they gotta do is put the airlines logo on the shuttle).
Last year devicetop.com had a dev contest and first prize was a ride in a Mig and a week in Russia with a tour of the Space center. Second was a zero G flight with a tour of the Space center. Third was a tour of the Space center. In all three you got a week in Russia. Perhaps another company will put on a contest like that soon. From what was advertised, the first place prize cost something like $40,000. So it's not all that expensive. Of course you could just pop down another $100,000 and get an older used MIG (CD Player extra).
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The reason is probably that people who got laptops way back when (when they were cheap) are hanging on cause they are most likely computer competent (or sold them to hackers). Thus those competent people are gonna hang onto it, put linux onto it and use it for fun stuff. If you're looking for laptops (old ones) there's a lot of Universities that sell the old ones that the profs have no use for. Check those out (huuuuugeeeee bargains, plus they'll have some interesting confidential information, if you're lucky).
not to people, the debian packages have not yet been updated so your best bet is to download (like a real penguin) and install yourself (but only if you want to be a penguin, they dress well)
Over here in Waterloo we've known about this Blackberry for quite a while (among us UW programmers and all). What we also know about is that RIM really needs this Blackberry to succeed or it's gonna dive. They've spent a lot of money buying out other buildings in the area and building a brand new building of their own. Again, like dot coms they've been getting a ton of money and not been producing as much (that's the buzz round abouts). I hope for RIMs sake that the new Blackberry's sell really well, I think that price is the only obstacle but it will sell well among their corporate customers.
At companies they play radio music while they put you on hold. No different at our place. In fact the way most companies do this is to hook a radio directly into the phone line (they have a connector and all). Sometimes they hide it away in some corner where very few people visit. That is exactly where they hid it at our place (in the server room). So my buddy brought in his laptop and we hooked it right up to the phone line. For almost that entire day we were pumping out the Super Mario Brothers theme, some nice game remixes (like Speed Racer) and various other goodies. All good stuff that customers would like to listen to. We got away with it and we plan on doing it again =)
I believe that we're going to see major competition in the future for different use chips. Sure, why spend 10k when you can spend 2k for a nice Itanium machine that does everything. Yet, do you really want to spend 2k on a machine when you cand spend 500 on a nice graphics chip that doesn't need the Itanium power.
So competition isn't dead, it's just beginning of competition and maybe Intel will move into a Monopolistic position and will have to "share" their architecture.
Yes Spammers and what not are pretty annoying but the real problem is the new JavaScript messages. Us g33ks find SPAM quite annoying but usually no more (it just takes a tap of a key to delete it). The real problem is to the non-l33t who have a windows machine that will cause JavaScripts to popup. That is "harmful" to their machine as the email can cause the computer to crash. What will the policy towards these people be? Methinks that they may be branded terrorists (while some of you may agree) but that is too harsh a title.
A new policy MUST be drafted that outlines what the governments' (all of them) response will be to any email or computer threat. The main problem is that we need competent (computer competent) lawmakers, yet most lawmakers represent the average constitient and thus does not fully understand what new law/policy to make (thus branding many as terrorists).
Perhaps the best solution is for us not to write letters but to report spammers as quickly as possible or inform the less informed on how to block unwanted email.
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will finally get their flying car, perhaps from the german scientist? http://www.viewaskew.com/tv/leno/flyingcar.html
or you just don't follow the licence agreement and don't tell them about it...ignorance is bliss =)
it's also great when you're just going to make your own version of the product
"Our product will integrate seamlessly into your system. Just tell your developers to read the documentation and within minutes they'll modify it to match your needs"
Licence agreement says: Any modification of code is prohibited. Use of external code to modify databases created by our program is prohibited.
Remember to send at least 10 copies of that line to the purchaser in the company. It's important they read it prior to signing the million dollar deal. It's your ass on the line, not theirs.
Not really, when you consider a mutation it happens in the next generation (unlike cancer). A mutation in a single cell in the hand will not cause the physical structure to change. The continued use of it in a particular way will cause the physical structure to change but it will not be passed on to future generations.
In case you wanted to know, cells that eventually go on to become sperm and eggs are actually segregated early in the embryonic stage. Thus, any genetic changes that happen to a person during their life will not be passed on to the next generation.
I find it particularly disturbing that Red Hat is growing "exponentially" in size. I'm pretty sure that they don't have to include all the options but they don't make it easy to disable them.
Now many of you may jump on the bandwagon and say "Wait, Linux is not meant to be easy". I'll retort by saying: Red Hat should be easy. If you're going to target users with a desktop application then you don't make things harder. Desktops were invented to make things easier or more efficient to use.
So it seems that if they do make it bigger, perhaps they should make it easier?
size=ease of use
The details are a repost, this technology is "old" as in they did this same problem with travelling salesmen 2 years ago. Details were posted in SCIAM.com
not that password specifically :P
yes there are a lot of permutations, but the point is that the average person has trouble remembering how to double click on the IE logo (hence one click web types)
The reason you want to enter 4 is because a lot of old systems only supported 4. They were trying to make you backwards compatible.
But you raise an interesting point, passwords used to be the domain of the l33t (5, 10 years ago), but now everybody uses computers and they aren't as proficient. They can type, they can message but they don't understand computer security, for them the net is still their computer and the most secure box on the planet, why? because it's in their home.
Actually the example you give may not be the best passwords. Many people use brute force and almost all of them use a dictionary. There are a few that don't (they go through each an every possibility) and those ones pose a problem.
Sequential password generate (aaa, aab, aac, aad...) pose problems as the generated password may occur much sooner than thought. The time taken decreases exponentially if the first few characters (either direction) are closer to the beginning of the alphabet.
The move by ICANN is totally unfair. I have watched and listened to the proceedings over the last few days. I am extremely disappointed as ICANN is attempting to consolidate power within their own group. The internet is not theirs, it is ours, it was never ment to be controlled or regulated by a small group. Those who think alike will stick together, what about those who "Think Different"?
A quote from icann.org: Created in October 1998 by a broad coalition of the Internet's business, technical, academic, and user communities. Shouldn't that mean that we the people who create the user communities have a choice on how the specific areas are run?
Also, ICANN is a corporation, therefor it will side on the side of corporations and will attempt to modify the system to support corporations.
It seems that corporations are going to control of the internet as well...what are you going to do about it?
Actually, the whipping around of the elastic gives it some unrequired spin (in the "gun" method). Also, after a while the back of your thumb will start to hurt. In terms of accuracy, both methods (C and Gun) are very g00d. Also, you can load 6 onto each hand (double barrel, middle, ring, and pinkie) and get pretty decent firepower (nothing scares a coworker more than 2 armed hooligans busting into your cubicle and firing 24 elastics in under two seconds at your head).
But, over extended use, the C method (albeit slower) does not have the same wear and tear upon your hands. In terms of distance, the C method shoots twice as far as the gun method (you've got more lenght with the C).
And of course, the spin, the elastic whipping around your thumb (in the gun) causes it to gain spin that is just plain awful (my english just got really bad).
To really see the difference use small elastics or big elastics. Once you get good enough you'll notice that the medium sized ones are used to snipe, the small ones for a bit closer range but for head shots (on demand) and the big ones just hurt really bad from 20 feet away.
Of course, at work we have battle grouping for our elastic band wars and we've found that a good piece of card board works well as a machine gun...we've also found a hand technique which stings from 10 yards away. In fact, we did some studies of it in our friendly neighbourhood campus engineering department, and found that it has an inherent spin which stabilizes it (gyroscope).
Make a C with your index and thumb on your left hand. Hang the elastic loosely on it and then grab the bottom inside of the band and push towards your target (with your thumb). One side will be more tightly wound than the other. When you release your thumb it'll fire. No wear and tear as it doesn't hit your brace finger or cause redness (you newbies will find out what we mean when you use the two hand technique).
Perfect sniper fire in a cubicle environment.
Seems to be much safer and more efficient.
The whole space program is still following its trend of keeping large modules as a whole.
The whole premise is: "if we have one large system that has few parts then less can go wrong". That is an obviously flawed system as many things still go wrong. In fact the systems that have been designed as modularized have only failed once (space shuttle O ring, 1986. Where as the moon lander never once malfunctioned). Most problems in space happen due to problems not with main systems but to smaller malfunctions like a clogged pipe (not inherent in the design or function of the overall system).
But I digress, outer space is not a good environment for large thurst engines, smaller long lasting engines are good. That compares to the large engines required to leave Earths initial gravity. Again, we try to adapt one engine to both systems.
As previously posted, high thurst reusable efficient engines for getting a space ship out of our atmosphere and into a different environment (you don't see me driving a car in the Marianas trench).
The reasons that modularized systems don't fail is because we think they're going to fail so we study them to death and make them really safe, thus no failure.
This is probably one of the best ideas as in some cases water could flow in. Building some sort of water testing systems or collection systems into the sub for testing would be g00d as sources of contamination from chemical factories could also be found.
Smurfs are good to use as there's so many. Of course that only gets you a couple 1000. You could put them into Quadrants, talk about them as if they were in gangs...the Reds, Blues and so on. Then the head node of each grouping could be papa smurf. That kinda thing.
I apologise the diameter of the earth is 12760 not the circumference (noted in a reply to the original post by an anonymous coward...please mod that one up)
That makes an orbital distance of 13460 km from the center of the earth...42286 km per orbit. Or 7442336 km in the last mission, aka 4.65 million miles.
If it takes 90 minutes to orbit the earth and it was there for 11 days then...176 orbits of ze planet.
12760 km around the equator (that's 7926 miles). They're orbiting 350 km up (hubble is there, to avoid air friction). So the radius of the earth is 2030 km, add 350 to that = 2380km, multiply by 2pi = 14954 km every 90 minutes (one orbit). Thereby giving us 14954*176=2631904 km or 1644940 miles.
Which means that NASA needs 10 more hubble repair missions and they get a free flight (all they gotta do is put the airlines logo on the shuttle).
Last year devicetop.com had a dev contest and first prize was a ride in a Mig and a week in Russia with a tour of the Space center. Second was a zero G flight with a tour of the Space center. Third was a tour of the Space center. In all three you got a week in Russia. Perhaps another company will put on a contest like that soon.
From what was advertised, the first place prize cost something like $40,000. So it's not all that expensive. Of course you could just pop down another $100,000 and get an older used MIG (CD Player extra).
The reason is probably that people who got laptops way back when (when they were cheap) are hanging on cause they are most likely computer competent (or sold them to hackers). Thus those competent people are gonna hang onto it, put linux onto it and use it for fun stuff.
If you're looking for laptops (old ones) there's a lot of Universities that sell the old ones that the profs have no use for. Check those out (huuuuugeeeee bargains, plus they'll have some interesting confidential information, if you're lucky).
not to people, the debian packages have not yet been updated so your best bet is to download (like a real penguin) and install yourself (but only if you want to be a penguin, they dress well)
Over here in Waterloo we've known about this Blackberry for quite a while (among us UW programmers and all). What we also know about is that RIM really needs this Blackberry to succeed or it's gonna dive.
They've spent a lot of money buying out other buildings in the area and building a brand new building of their own. Again, like dot coms they've been getting a ton of money and not been producing as much (that's the buzz round abouts).
I hope for RIMs sake that the new Blackberry's sell really well, I think that price is the only obstacle but it will sell well among their corporate customers.
At companies they play radio music while they put you on hold. No different at our place. In fact the way most companies do this is to hook a radio directly into the phone line (they have a connector and all). Sometimes they hide it away in some corner where very few people visit. That is exactly where they hid it at our place (in the server room).
So my buddy brought in his laptop and we hooked it right up to the phone line. For almost that entire day we were pumping out the Super Mario Brothers theme, some nice game remixes (like Speed Racer) and various other goodies. All good stuff that customers would like to listen to.
We got away with it and we plan on doing it again =)
I believe that we're going to see major competition in the future for different use chips. Sure, why spend 10k when you can spend 2k for a nice Itanium machine that does everything. Yet, do you really want to spend 2k on a machine when you cand spend 500 on a nice graphics chip that doesn't need the Itanium power.
So competition isn't dead, it's just beginning of competition and maybe Intel will move into a Monopolistic position and will have to "share" their architecture.
Yes Spammers and what not are pretty annoying but the real problem is the new JavaScript messages. Us g33ks find SPAM quite annoying but usually no more (it just takes a tap of a key to delete it). The real problem is to the non-l33t who have a windows machine that will cause JavaScripts to popup. That is "harmful" to their machine as the email can cause the computer to crash. What will the policy towards these people be? Methinks that they may be branded terrorists (while some of you may agree) but that is too harsh a title.
A new policy MUST be drafted that outlines what the governments' (all of them) response will be to any email or computer threat. The main problem is that we need competent (computer competent) lawmakers, yet most lawmakers represent the average constitient and thus does not fully understand what new law/policy to make (thus branding many as terrorists).
Perhaps the best solution is for us not to write letters but to report spammers as quickly as possible or inform the less informed on how to block unwanted email.