The Incredible is not the US version of the Desire. Desire is more similar to the Nexus One.
Quick survey shows that: N1, Motorola Droid, Droid Incredible - all have Google on the chassis Samsung Captivate (AT&T US version of Galaxy S) - Doesn't say Google on the chassis (But does come with Google apps)
I agree that it makes no sense, however the electric company used to do exactly that:
"When electricity was first introduced into the household, it was primarily used for lighting. At that time, many electricity companies operated a split-tariff system where the cost of electricity for lighting was lower than that for other purposes. This led to portable appliances (such as vacuum cleaners, electric fans, and hair driers) being connected to the light fitting."
In the book "The Art of Embedded Systems Programming" the author recommends writing prototype code in a different language, something like VB. Partially because it's just meant to be quick code anyway, and partially because then there is NO temptation to ship it.
"A blur does not destroy the information, it merely redistributes it. "
That's not true. A blur is a low pass filter, meaning it destroys the high frequency data. A very intense blur has a lower frequency cutoff than a very weak blur.
When I go grocery shopping I always grab a basket rather than a cart. I fill the basket until it's overflowing and then decide that I should check out so I can manage to carry it all. That's just with my messenger bag, if I needed to I could put a rear rack on my bike and get some panniers, which would double or triple my capacity. I have grocery stores 3 miles away, or 8 miles away. I tend to prefer the 8 mile one because I can go on a longer ride and stop there on the way back.
Roads are plowed, snow isn't a big deal.
If you're curious about biking then try getting a bike and commuting to work once in a while, or making small trips to the grocery on it. Keep your car so you don't feel limited, but enjoy the freedom the bicycle gives you.
Tell them the harddrive made a noise like a marble dropping and now is making scratching noises. They skip all the questions at just offer to replace at that point.
If you could design a car that would stop all injuries to people inside in all crashes at less than 100 MPH then it would probably be better than a car that avoided most crashes, but if it ever got in a crash would leave the passengers dead or severely injured.
You do realize that you aren't the only person on the road? If you're getting into accidents all the time but survive every one a-okay, you're still hurting/murdering other people that you hit.
Naturally animals get B12 by eating unwashed plants (B12 is produced by bacteria in the soil). Us humans tend to wash our vegetables, so down the drain goes that B12. However most soy milks are fortified with it. (Meaties and ovo lactos get their B12 from the animals that ate the soil)
"Pale and frail" I was vegetarian for 8 years before going vegan (And fish was the only meat I ate before that). Since going vegan I've become much healthier (Not to say I was unhealthy before) (Partially because I'm more knowledgeble about nutrition, and partially because I wasn't eating any of the crap I used to). I am white and skinny, but not pale or frail.
"Unnatural to be a vegan"? You make me laugh. Have you ever seen an Elephant? We're also the only species that drinks another species milk. You cannot argue unnatural.
>Trains require even more expensive roads - tracks.
Destroying the environment has costs too, just because they are hidden doesn't nullify them. Airplanes are terrible compared to trains.
>Trains are very dangerous to pedestrians.
Elevated?
>It's very expensive to build tracks out to where they are needed - unless the builders have been good enough to build clusters in nice straight lanes.
Yes, it would cost money.
>Trains are safer per mile than cars - but not as safe per mile as commercial planes.
And if we had massive amounts of planes in the air, we'd have air traffic issues.
>Training America to take the train has been a failure.
And that is where we are at fault. But a shared plane would do not better. People want to live in their own cager, it's just the way they are.
not only will this make it easier to be seen (hence more skill in hiding) but it will also prevent outsiders from mistaking you for doing something bad. Last night I heard a dog barking and saw out my window someone wearing mostly black clearly hiding in the alcove of a garage door. My first reaction was not oh some kids playing laser tag, but hrmm what is he up to? And I looked out the window trying to both be seen by him and figure out what he was doing, After I realized they were just playing laser tag I wasn't concerned, but if I had poor eyesight and was more paranoid I could called the cops on them. If the owner of the garage saw them for example, she might have thought they were tagging, and called the cops.
NX is a PUBLIC standard, they WANT other implementations of it. Nothing becomes real mainstream if it's closed, look at HTTP/FTP/SMTP/VNC those are all standards. Then you have closed things, like IM where there are a million different closed protocols (and yes a few open ones).
Knoppix is implementing a protocol that NX released, they also released a proprietary implementation of it. Obviously they want people to buy theirs, but they published the protocol so that others could use it to. (In turn making their protocol stronger, and their product stronger)
In Super Size Me, they talk about how McDonalds tries to make kids have such happy memorizes of the place that when they are adults they return to try to get that happy feeling again (hence the hamster tubes and the toys and the clowns). And so the main character of Super Size Me said that thats why when he has kids he's going to punch them in the face every time they drive by a McDonalds.
That will drop you into a root shell. The hard drive is mounted read/only, but mount -o remount,rw / will fix that, then just run passwd, umount / and reboot.
"Just curious, what fun stuff could you do? Nothing mean or dirty, just to F* with someone to teach them not to use the "default" settings."
At least say what you mean. Do you really want to "teach them" not to use the default settings? Does it effect you in anyway aside from/letting/ you use their access point?
What you mean is just to screw with them because you can and find it funny.
It depends on the router, most simple WiFi routers really don't have anything too interesting. I suppose you could point the DNS servers at your own, then have your own redirect www.yahoo.com to www.google.com and www.google.com to www.yahoo.com or something along those lines.
"Of course everything was not running very snappy; on their website they warn you: the emulated processor is about 40 times slower than the host processor. Still, I was amazed at what I saw: it worked!"
At 40 times slower than the host, you'd need one hell of a CPU to use this for as your primary environment.
NX means you can mark a segment of code, well not code but data, as NX [Not Executable]. So lets say I mark some buffer as NX (Because it is just to contain a string anyway) and then someone finds a buffer overflow, and fills my string with some shell code then uses the buffer overflow to jump over to the string's location.
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The Incredible is not the US version of the Desire. Desire is more similar to the Nexus One.
Quick survey shows that:
N1, Motorola Droid, Droid Incredible - all have Google on the chassis
Samsung Captivate (AT&T US version of Galaxy S) - Doesn't say Google on the chassis (But does come with Google apps)
Hey "Anonymous Coward", I'll send you my $400 and my address and you can mail me the phone. Thanks.
I agree that it makes no sense, however the electric company used to do exactly that:
"When electricity was first introduced into the household, it was primarily used for lighting. At that time, many electricity companies operated a split-tariff system where the cost of electricity for lighting was lower than that for other purposes. This led to portable appliances (such as vacuum cleaners, electric fans, and hair driers) being connected to the light fitting."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domestic_AC_power_plugs_and_sockets
I remember using Phoenix when I was in highschool. I think it was even called Firebird for a while while I was in highschool, maybe not Firefox.
Point being, my ID is lower than yours.
In the book "The Art of Embedded Systems Programming" the author recommends writing prototype code in a different language, something like VB. Partially because it's just meant to be quick code anyway, and partially because then there is NO temptation to ship it.
Interesting idea at least.
"A blur does not destroy the information, it merely redistributes it. "
That's not true. A blur is a low pass filter, meaning it destroys the high frequency data. A very intense blur has a lower frequency cutoff than a very weak blur.
When I go grocery shopping I always grab a basket rather than a cart. I fill the basket until it's overflowing and then decide that I should check out so I can manage to carry it all. That's just with my messenger bag, if I needed to I could put a rear rack on my bike and get some panniers, which would double or triple my capacity. I have grocery stores 3 miles away, or 8 miles away. I tend to prefer the 8 mile one because I can go on a longer ride and stop there on the way back.
Roads are plowed, snow isn't a big deal.
If you're curious about biking then try getting a bike and commuting to work once in a while, or making small trips to the grocery on it. Keep your car so you don't feel limited, but enjoy the freedom the bicycle gives you.
Skidding to a stop is still not as fast as appling just enough braking power without skidding.
The whole place is wired/unwired.
Unwired is the stupidest term to mean wireless in the history of the world. Just say wireless.
Tell them the harddrive made a noise like a marble dropping and now is making scratching noises. They skip all the questions at just offer to replace at that point.
If you could design a car that would stop all injuries to people inside in all crashes at less than 100 MPH then it would probably be better than a car that avoided most crashes, but if it ever got in a crash would leave the passengers dead or severely injured.
You do realize that you aren't the only person on the road? If you're getting into accidents all the time but survive every one a-okay, you're still hurting/murdering other people that you hit.
The real solution is to outlaw cars.
But if the motor and battery is your own body, it's no extra weight to carry.
Umm if they are counting like what? Starting at 1 does not change the way you count.
000001 is the first issue
111111 is the last (issue 63)
Naturally animals get B12 by eating unwashed plants (B12 is produced by bacteria in the soil). Us humans tend to wash our vegetables, so down the drain goes that B12. However most soy milks are fortified with it. (Meaties and ovo lactos get their B12 from the animals that ate the soil)
"Pale and frail" I was vegetarian for 8 years before going vegan (And fish was the only meat I ate before that). Since going vegan I've become much healthier (Not to say I was unhealthy before) (Partially because I'm more knowledgeble about nutrition, and partially because I wasn't eating any of the crap I used to). I am white and skinny, but not pale or frail.
"Unnatural to be a vegan"? You make me laugh. Have you ever seen an Elephant? We're also the only species that drinks another species milk. You cannot argue unnatural.
>Trains require even more expensive roads - tracks.
Destroying the environment has costs too, just because they are hidden doesn't nullify them. Airplanes are terrible compared to trains.
>Trains are very dangerous to pedestrians.
Elevated?
>It's very expensive to build tracks out to where they are needed - unless the builders have been good enough to build clusters in nice straight lanes.
Yes, it would cost money.
>Trains are safer per mile than cars - but not as safe per mile as commercial planes.
And if we had massive amounts of planes in the air, we'd have air traffic issues.
>Training America to take the train has been a failure.
And that is where we are at fault. But a shared plane would do not better. People want to live in their own cager, it's just the way they are.
not only will this make it easier to be seen (hence more skill in hiding) but it will also prevent outsiders from mistaking you for doing something bad. Last night I heard a dog barking and saw out my window someone wearing mostly black clearly hiding in the alcove of a garage door. My first reaction was not oh some kids playing laser tag, but hrmm what is he up to? And I looked out the window trying to both be seen by him and figure out what he was doing, After I realized they were just playing laser tag I wasn't concerned, but if I had poor eyesight and was more paranoid I could called the cops on them. If the owner of the garage saw them for example, she might have thought they were tagging, and called the cops.
NX is a PUBLIC standard, they WANT other implementations of it. Nothing becomes real mainstream if it's closed, look at HTTP/FTP/SMTP/VNC those are all standards. Then you have closed things, like IM where there are a million different closed protocols (and yes a few open ones).
Knoppix is implementing a protocol that NX released, they also released a proprietary implementation of it. Obviously they want people to buy theirs, but they published the protocol so that others could use it to. (In turn making their protocol stronger, and their product stronger)
Google Cache
/.'ed already!?
*Sigh* Why doesn't slashdot mirror what it posts...
"And how long before someone posts a one-line Perl script decrypter and makes it open-source. :)"
The following will convert Lofaro encrypted text into plain text. It is released to the public domain.
perl -ne 'tr/A-Za-z/ZA-Yza-y/; print'
In Super Size Me, they talk about how McDonalds tries to make kids have such happy memorizes of the place that when they are adults they return to try to get that happy feeling again (hence the hamster tubes and the toys and the clowns). And so the main character of Super Size Me said that thats why when he has kids he's going to punch them in the face every time they drive by a McDonalds.
Single user mode so it's a unix I presume?
at the LILO or GRUB prompt (Assuming it's linux)
LILO: Linux init=/bin/bash
That will drop you into a root shell.
The hard drive is mounted read/only, but mount -o remount,rw / will fix that, then just run passwd, umount / and reboot.
"Just curious, what fun stuff could you do? Nothing mean or dirty, just to F* with someone to teach them not to use the "default" settings."
/letting/ you use their access point?
At least say what you mean. Do you really want to "teach them" not to use the default settings? Does it effect you in anyway aside from
What you mean is just to screw with them because you can and find it funny.
It depends on the router, most simple WiFi routers really don't have anything too interesting. I suppose you could point the DNS servers at your own, then have your own redirect www.yahoo.com to www.google.com and www.google.com to www.yahoo.com or something along those lines.
"unless they come up with some sophisticated algo to check each file to see if it is an MP3"
$ file foo.mp3
foo.mp3: MP3, 64 kBits, 44.1 kHz, Mono
$ mv foo.mp3 foo.txt
$ file foo.txt
foo.txt: MP3, 64 kBits, 44.1 kHz, Mono
I don't know that google is using such a thing though, and one could always encode them in a non-standard or encrypted format.
read the article
"Of course everything was not running very snappy; on their website they warn you: the emulated processor is about 40 times slower than the host processor. Still, I was amazed at what I saw: it worked!"
At 40 times slower than the host, you'd need one hell of a CPU to use this for as your primary environment.
Get a nice usb keyboard/mouse set, and a mac.
NX is completely different from NOP.
NX means you can mark a segment of code, well not code but data, as NX [Not Executable]. So lets say I mark some buffer as NX (Because it is just to contain a string anyway) and then someone finds a buffer overflow, and fills my string with some shell code then uses the buffer overflow to jump over to the string's location.
No luck, the shell code is marked NX.