"Whistler is seen eating a box of "Cap'n Crunch". In the 1970s, "Cap'n Crunch" came with a small whistle in the box. A "phone phreaker" called "Captain Crunch" (John Draper) discovered that this whistle could be used to get free phone calls (one of many components in the practice of "phone phreaking", which digital phone switching-systems has made almost totally obsolete). Whistler is patterned after Joe Engressia, a blind telephone expert born with perfect pitch who was one of the original phone phreakers."
It seems like it, taken from the trivia page of sneakers from imdb.
Exactly. If anything. it's a threat to microsoft and apple, but maybe not so much the latter. Since microsoft has screwed up more and more stuff lately, if they don't come on track again, more and more users will start looking towards the alternatives. Since they have a PC computer already, installing linux could be a nice step to take before scrapping the compouter and go Apple and the more dists that looks good and shiney and do what they should, the better.
I was for instance surprised that there was no hassle AT ALL installing my Brother HL-1250 printer the other day while in windows I've always hassled with drivers and previously in linux I had to config some stuff manually, but this time it was just 100% plug in and pl^H^H print. Totally awesome, I had my tabs printed out in no-time.
I've gone the path from windows to linux by testing out a lot of distros (pretty much redhat->suse->debian->mepis->ubuntu) and most people don't have the patience enough to walk through a wall of configuration, so this is good news for everyone! Even the ubuntu crew should benefit from this in the long run.
well, by being on that list they'll get their fair share of their 15 minutes of fame, and that is called marketing. "who are they?".. well, now people find out. but of course, they have no business of being on that list whoever is behind it, as so many people will say, this is a battle for the big boys.
I wonder if this could finally lead to an "in home" MRI scanner? If it costs under a thousand bucks and a person has a family history of cancer, why not invest in one?
because it will interfear with our tin foil hats of course.
FUI I'm 30 and I don't run a ricer. I'm not out to beat other drivers, I just want to be able to make 0-60 in whatever time I need, but as fast as I can, just because I enjoy it. I'm not driving inresponsible, but a police officer sure could fine me for what he beleives is dangerous driving, that's why I try to do it in deserted areas, if I wanted the credit I would do it in the city, no?
Secondly, are you saying that you are not in the same opinion, when you and your wife runs a 320bph van as everyday car? What the fuck man, get a ford focus or something if you don't like the engines?
And if I die/get hurt on the track, that will not hurt the tax payers? Sure the insurance is one thing, but my health is equal.
But my original post was mostly about how I wouldn't like the police or government to track my every move, especially not in my car. Cheers.
If you dragrace with yourself and yourself alone one a lone road in the middle of nowhere, does it really matter? I would not like to have the authorities to have a closer look at my driving. I hate the speed cameras they tend to set up everywhere on the road, but in front of schools for instance (where they'd really matter), I'm yet to spot one.
I might just got that wrong since I'm not into the tv business, but it was something about the recievers and how we all should be "forced" to change them in the near future if we decided to go HD ourselves or something, might not be that much of a deal.
Sweden just recently (yesterday) pulled the plug on the analogue broadcast and going for full digital. The only drawback is that they have focused on the old mpeg2 standard, not the mpeg4 which is required for hd resolutions (norway apparently went the whole nine and went for mpeg4, good for them).
Although I'm not very interesterd, tv is so overrated anyway, why not focus more on direct, live, content streamable for the net and paid for individually? TV networks is not for all of us.
.. actually the city in sweden with most students per capita, since lund university is located there. If anyone is willing to adopt to linux or just bash windows it's young people. This is probably a big issue down there but so far I haven't heard anything about this over here, and I'm about 150km away.
Radiostations has been compressing audio forever to be able to send farther by doing this with a (tadam) compressor. Expensive equipment too to do it in real time, although a friend of mine has done it with a low end pentium and two soundcards:)
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Very true. And makes you think twice about online apps like word processing etc. I even feel a bit paranoid about stuff like gmail.
Slow down cowboy! I'm slowly grasping how this blog thing works!
Yeah, that's what we need. Alcohol kills and hurts way more people. I'm not saying people should do crack, but I'm saying there are others too.
In practice, that's the same thing, so you didn't top him :-)
;-)
I would suggest the time then I visited slashdot for the first time, that was a huge mistake
.. now this thread is something I thought would never appear on slashdot. And modded informative/insightful all over the place? Hell just froze ;)
"Whistler is seen eating a box of "Cap'n Crunch". In the 1970s, "Cap'n Crunch" came with a small whistle in the box. A "phone phreaker" called "Captain Crunch" (John Draper) discovered that this whistle could be used to get free phone calls (one of many components in the practice of "phone phreaking", which digital phone switching-systems has made almost totally obsolete). Whistler is patterned after Joe Engressia, a blind telephone expert born with perfect pitch who was one of the original phone phreakers."
It seems like it, taken from the trivia page of sneakers from imdb.
I can't decide if this is funny or what so I don't wanna mod it, and since you're anonymous anyway I'll just assume it's RMS posting ;)
Exactly. If anything. it's a threat to microsoft and apple, but maybe not so much the latter. Since microsoft has screwed up more and more stuff lately, if they don't come on track again, more and more users will start looking towards the alternatives. Since they have a PC computer already, installing linux could be a nice step to take before scrapping the compouter and go Apple and the more dists that looks good and shiney and do what they should, the better.
I was for instance surprised that there was no hassle AT ALL installing my Brother HL-1250 printer the other day while in windows I've always hassled with drivers and previously in linux I had to config some stuff manually, but this time it was just 100% plug in and pl^H^H print. Totally awesome, I had my tabs printed out in no-time.
I've gone the path from windows to linux by testing out a lot of distros (pretty much redhat->suse->debian->mepis->ubuntu) and most people don't have the patience enough to walk through a wall of configuration, so this is good news for everyone! Even the ubuntu crew should benefit from this in the long run.
Happy new year everybody.
that's my server you insensitive clod!
;)
(yeah I know it's late but it's a good joke
Was the laser attached to a missile launcher?
or a shark?
well, by being on that list they'll get their fair share of their 15 minutes of fame, and that is called marketing. "who are they?" .. well, now people find out. but of course, they have no business of being on that list whoever is behind it, as so many people will say, this is a battle for the big boys.
now they don't have to rely on bicycles for the supercomputer energy needs!
you know this is scary as hell, because it's true.
I wonder if this could finally lead to an "in home" MRI scanner? If it costs under a thousand bucks and a person has a family history of cancer, why not invest in one?
because it will interfear with our tin foil hats of course.
I kinda like this one too: "Music fans listens to music, audiophiles listens to stereos" which I think come in handy :)
... he still have bugs in the missile code!
FUI I'm 30 and I don't run a ricer. I'm not out to beat other drivers, I just want to be able to make 0-60 in whatever time I need, but as fast as I can, just because I enjoy it. I'm not driving inresponsible, but a police officer sure could fine me for what he beleives is dangerous driving, that's why I try to do it in deserted areas, if I wanted the credit I would do it in the city, no?
Secondly, are you saying that you are not in the same opinion, when you and your wife runs a 320bph van as everyday car? What the fuck man, get a ford focus or something if you don't like the engines?
And if I die/get hurt on the track, that will not hurt the tax payers? Sure the insurance is one thing, but my health is equal.
But my original post was mostly about how I wouldn't like the police or government to track my every move, especially not in my car.
Cheers.
If you dragrace with yourself and yourself alone one a lone road in the middle of nowhere, does it really matter? I would not like to have the authorities to have a closer look at my driving. I hate the speed cameras they tend to set up everywhere on the road, but in front of schools for instance (where they'd really matter), I'm yet to spot one.
A sarcastic smile? A sardonic smile? A wistful smile? A retail smile? The masked lie? "Mmmm... this casserole taste great, hunny"
;-)
She will not need to use a computer to detect that, fool
I might just got that wrong since I'm not into the tv business, but it was something about the recievers and how we all should be "forced" to change them in the near future if we decided to go HD ourselves or something, might not be that much of a deal.
Sweden just recently (yesterday) pulled the plug on the analogue broadcast and going for full digital. The only drawback is that they have focused on the old mpeg2 standard, not the mpeg4 which is required for hd resolutions (norway apparently went the whole nine and went for mpeg4, good for them).
Although I'm not very interesterd, tv is so overrated anyway, why not focus more on direct, live, content streamable for the net and paid for individually? TV networks is not for all of us.
Well instead of credit card name you could just state whom the tickets was for and require id at entrance...
.. actually the city in sweden with most students per capita, since lund university is located there. If anyone is willing to adopt to linux or just bash windows it's young people. This is probably a big issue down there but so far I haven't heard anything about this over here, and I'm about 150km away.
... and many will insist that you should see them in order 4,5,1,2,3,6 so they don't spoil the ents.
Radiostations has been compressing audio forever to be able to send farther by doing this with a (tadam) compressor. Expensive equipment too to do it in real time, although a friend of mine has done it with a low end pentium and two soundcards :)