gzip (among others) is your friend. If it doesn't compress, it is random.
Besides, who sends random data around? If it isn't a picture, text, music, movie or program, it is suspect. Statistical analysis will identify these in a heartbeat.
So, yes. They just block all data that looks random.
PCs == Lego; Macs == Barbies; Linux == a pile of I-beams and a box of nuts and bolts.
You had a deprived childhood if you don't know the term "Erector Set" and have to resort to "a pile of I-beams and a box of nuts and bolts". THOSE were fantastic toys.
The council has to approve all bills passed by parliament and has the power to veto them if it considers them inconsistent with the constitution and Islamic law. The council can also bar candidates from standing in elections to parliament, the presidency and the Assembly of Experts.
Reformist attempts to reduce the council's vetting powers have proved unsuccessful and the council banned all but six of more than 1,000 hopefuls in the 2005 elections.
By allowing only whom they vet to run, they ultimately control darn near everything. No one who differs too much from their views is permitted to even stand for election.
Northern Wisconsin is about as far from redneck and white as it gets.
There. I fixed that for you. The original poster probably meant the Deep South, not the Midwest. More like an all-white part of Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi or South Carolina as opposed to Wisconsin. Idaho is almost all white, but no where near as racist as parts of the South.
This is how the foreign policy of the US works. It's not about being the "nice guy". Do you think the US cares about whether some people are living "free"? If so, why no engagement in southeast asia, why no aid in central Africa?
Simple: No necessary resources, no influence, no power, nothing to gain. Simple as that.
No, it isn't. Sudan has plenty of oil. Why do you think the northern part gives a damn about the southern part? Because that (Darfur and points south) is where the oil is. China is heavily invested in the Sudan.
Burma (Myanmar) has lots of natural gas, gems, timber and minerals. Central Africa (the region, not specifically the CAR) is loaded with lovely things like bauxite, diamonds, uranium and all that wonderful timber. Amazingly enough, China is also heavily invested in Burma and many places in Africa as well.
North Korea is within spitting distance (literally!) of South Korea, and a short lob to Japan. Not to mention they share borders with both China AND Russia. I'm sure THOSE countries would like us to deploy a few hundred thousand troops on their border.
Is "freedom" and "democracy" the overriding principle of American foreign policy? Hell no. But it is a consideration. Democracy and Republics are much more stable forms of government. Stability means safe trade. That is, we can buy their stuff and they can buy ours. Notice all the money in the world that MEANS anything comes from stable democracies? The dollar (U.S., Canadian or Australian), the Euro, Pound and Yen.
Iran is complicated. The Soviet Union under Stalin had serious ambitions in expanding their burgeoning empire. Just ask the Eastern European nations about that one. They showed their intent after WW2 when all three powers were withdrawing from Iran -- the U.K., U.S. and U.S.S.R. -- and the Soviets sort of lingered in the norther oil fields of Iran, refusing to withdraw and demanding oil concessions. They had a history of that, with Tsarist Russia taking sizable chunks of Azerbaijan from Iran back in the late 1700s and early 1800s. It was the U.S. that forced them to fully leave.
From Wikipedia:
Following their defeat by Russia, Qajar Persia was forced to sign the Treaty of Gulistan in 1813, which acknowledged the loss of the territory to Russia. Local khanates were either abolished (like in Baku or Ganja) or accepted Russian patronage. Another Russo-Persian war in 1826-28 resulted in another crushing defeat for the Iranian army. The Russians dictated another final settlement as per the Treaty of Turkmenchay, which resulted in the Qajars of Persia ceding Caucasian territories in 1828. The treaty established the current borders of Azerbaijan and Iran as the rule of local khans ended.
The U.S.S.R. with access thru a friendly nation (Mossadeq's Iran) to both vast oil reserves and a warm-water port was by far and away an unacceptable risk. I'm fairly certain Iran S.S.R. would have been a hell of a lot worse.
What I'm saying is that is listed under "input". That indicates to me it was reformulating your English question into a proper mathematical statement. Nowhere do I see output.
The "input" statement is the same formulation, but there is now a "result" block which was missing from your query. That result states "False" as opposed to changing the element symbol to the not-an-element symbol (funny E with a line thru it, IIRC).
If you're right, and I'm wrong, then WA needs to fix their interface because it is unclear that it actually confirms your question or just gives up. I'd like to see a "Result" block that simply says "True", like it does with the false answer.
The U.S. document is a much more general framework, extending to about a dozen pages or so. The European one, rejected by France and the Netherlands after ratification by a dozen other nations, runs to almost 500 pages. Yes, that is per language. There is obviously a vast difference in the meaning of the word "Constitution" depending on where you hale from.
"Rights" shouldn't be separated out as to "digital" or otherwise. Things like a right to privacy and access to public (government) information shouldn't be classified as "digital" or not. You also don't want to specify specific file formats or things like that. Something generic, like all public government publications shall be public domain and available in copyright and patent-free electronic formats. Full specifications for those formats should be available likewise.
This gets you around the obscenity that the U.S. does with things like State building and electrical codes, which are copyright and only available from specific vendors at ridiculous prices in many States.
The Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) is a component of the Direct Rendering Infrastructure, a system to provide efficient video acceleration (especially 3D rendering) on Unix-like operating systems, e.g. Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD, and OpenBSD.
It consists of two in-kernel drivers (realized as kernel modules on Linux), a generic drm driver, and another which has specific support for the video hardware. This pair of drivers allows a userspace client direct access to the video hardware.
It's when you reply to a string of earlier messages and place your reply on top, so that whoever reads will have no idea of the context.
What's top posting?
Let's all go into comp.lang.c and start top posting to threads. They LOVE IT when you do that.
Should I do this instead?
No, no, no. When trolling a programming forum, make damnsure you post in HTML-formatted text. If you can figure out how to include the <blink> tag, you could probably hear their heads explode from halfway around the world.
If not, your best bet is to include code snippets in multiple languages, each using different tab-stops for indentation. Make frequent references in how this would be much easier in Java, unless posting to comp.lang.java, then post on how C# fixed it and is really Java done right.
Oh, and make sure to quote a multi-page question fully and answer only with one sentence. They love that.
Finally, big sigs with ASCII art and geek code blocks. The bigger the better. True masters have sigs bigger than their actual post.
The people who are bitching and moaning about this are total Apple Fanbois. If Steve Jobs stopped short, you'd need the jaws of life to extricate them from his ass.
Protest all you want, but AT&T can call your bluff. What are you going to do? Not use your iPhone? Not buy another iPhone? Yeah, right. That thing you are bent over is a barrel of your own choosing. To change AT&Ts policy you'd need a credible threat to their business, and fanbois threatening to stop using their precious iPhone aren't credible.
This is Slashdot. Always go with the default reason. The editors fucked up. It explains almost everything.
Dupes. The editors fucked up. Miscategorized. The editors fucked up. Everything that says "iPhone" promoted to front page. The editors fucked up. Cowboy Neal. The editors fucked up.
A generation (or two) ago the kid would have had her address, phone number and parent's names memorized before entering school and been given instructions on how recognize a policeman or other "trustworthy" person. Bank tellers are a good choice, considering all the cameras in a bank.
But, you're right that a tracking device is treating the symptom and not the disease. The procedures of the school need to be reviewed and addressed.
A missed opportunity to combine both the infamous "First Post" and "Godwin's Law -- Discussion Over", making the shortest Slashdot comment thread theoretically possible.
If only the article somehow involved Natalie Portman eating Grits and telling CoS "All your base in those Hawaiian volcanoes belong to us"...
Mmmmmm.....AREXX. Metacontrol of damn near everything on an Amiga.
I had software that used frame capture on an IV-24 board, fed the image to ASDG's Art Department for processing, then passed it to a database (I forget which one) for storage along with the rest of the inmate's info. It was a jail management system and basically was off-the-shelf software with a bit of glue code done in AREXX. Magic.
A back haul line that runs from the tower to a CLEC. You didn't think they operated on a mesh configuration, did you? They are essentially big access points.
T-1s used to be common, as are bonded T-1s for rural areas. DS-3s and OC-3 fiber beyond that.
There is much more debt than disposable funds, which is my point. Taxing the rich won't work because of this. The U.S. has more debt than there is money in the WORLD, much less what they can squeeze from the top 10% of the population.
Either way it demonstrates the sheer stupidity of "tax the rich" as a reliable source of income. The State was taking a beating with the economy, yet somehow the idea that "the rich" were also taking the same beating never occurred to the Maryland legislature.
Ethanol, regardless of what it is made from, is corrosive to rubber, plastic and aluminum. Engines and fuel systems that can safely run ethanol as a fuel cost more. That is why E-85 vehicles cost a bit more than their non-Flex Fuel counterparts.
Gaskets, hoses, tanks, fuel lines, etc. all need to be different. Basically, not the cheap rubber and plastic used now.
Economics, and the freeloading corn subsidies, are a whole 'nuther issue.
I don't think the bone of contention with ethanol has anything to do with how good a fuel it is.
Please explain how you come up with that statement when the article in question basically says exactly the opposite.
Quote: "...but there is increasing evidence that it is destroying engines in large numbers." I do believe that is calling into question how good a fuel it is. Either that or the current crop of automotive engines and fuel systems, which has supposedly been designed to handle E-15 for over a decade, are all shit.
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gzip (among others) is your friend. If it doesn't compress, it is random.
Besides, who sends random data around? If it isn't a picture, text, music, movie or program, it is suspect. Statistical analysis will identify these in a heartbeat.
So, yes. They just block all data that looks random.
PCs == Lego; Macs == Barbies; Linux == a pile of I-beams and a box of nuts and bolts.
You had a deprived childhood if you don't know the term "Erector Set" and have to resort to "a pile of I-beams and a box of nuts and bolts". THOSE were fantastic toys.
Dig a bit deeper and you find:
The council has to approve all bills passed by parliament and has the power to veto them if it considers them inconsistent with the constitution and Islamic law. The council can also bar candidates from standing in elections to parliament, the presidency and the Assembly of Experts.
Reformist attempts to reduce the council's vetting powers have proved unsuccessful and the council banned all but six of more than 1,000 hopefuls in the 2005 elections.
By allowing only whom they vet to run, they ultimately control darn near everything. No one who differs too much from their views is permitted to even stand for election.
Northern Wisconsin is about as far from redneck and white as it gets.
There. I fixed that for you. The original poster probably meant the Deep South, not the Midwest. More like an all-white part of Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi or South Carolina as opposed to Wisconsin. Idaho is almost all white, but no where near as racist as parts of the South.
This is how the foreign policy of the US works. It's not about being the "nice guy". Do you think the US cares about whether some people are living "free"? If so, why no engagement in southeast asia, why no aid in central Africa?
Simple: No necessary resources, no influence, no power, nothing to gain. Simple as that.
No, it isn't. Sudan has plenty of oil. Why do you think the northern part gives a damn about the southern part? Because that (Darfur and points south) is where the oil is. China is heavily invested in the Sudan.
Burma (Myanmar) has lots of natural gas, gems, timber and minerals. Central Africa (the region, not specifically the CAR) is loaded with lovely things like bauxite, diamonds, uranium and all that wonderful timber. Amazingly enough, China is also heavily invested in Burma and many places in Africa as well.
North Korea is within spitting distance (literally!) of South Korea, and a short lob to Japan. Not to mention they share borders with both China AND Russia. I'm sure THOSE countries would like us to deploy a few hundred thousand troops on their border.
Is "freedom" and "democracy" the overriding principle of American foreign policy? Hell no. But it is a consideration. Democracy and Republics are much more stable forms of government. Stability means safe trade. That is, we can buy their stuff and they can buy ours. Notice all the money in the world that MEANS anything comes from stable democracies? The dollar (U.S., Canadian or Australian), the Euro, Pound and Yen.
Iran is complicated. The Soviet Union under Stalin had serious ambitions in expanding their burgeoning empire. Just ask the Eastern European nations about that one. They showed their intent after WW2 when all three powers were withdrawing from Iran -- the U.K., U.S. and U.S.S.R. -- and the Soviets sort of lingered in the norther oil fields of Iran, refusing to withdraw and demanding oil concessions. They had a history of that, with Tsarist Russia taking sizable chunks of Azerbaijan from Iran back in the late 1700s and early 1800s. It was the U.S. that forced them to fully leave.
From Wikipedia:
Following their defeat by Russia, Qajar Persia was forced to sign the Treaty of Gulistan in 1813, which acknowledged the loss of the territory to Russia. Local khanates were either abolished (like in Baku or Ganja) or accepted Russian patronage. Another Russo-Persian war in 1826-28 resulted in another crushing defeat for the Iranian army. The Russians dictated another final settlement as per the Treaty of Turkmenchay, which resulted in the Qajars of Persia ceding Caucasian territories in 1828. The treaty established the current borders of Azerbaijan and Iran as the rule of local khans ended.
The U.S.S.R. with access thru a friendly nation (Mossadeq's Iran) to both vast oil reserves and a warm-water port was by far and away an unacceptable risk. I'm fairly certain Iran S.S.R. would have been a hell of a lot worse.
Thanks. That leads me to believe it didn't really do the original calculation, instead it just gave up quietly.
Of course, they could always "cheat". They could create a list of known Mersenne Primes and just check against that...
Yes, I know that. :-)
What I'm saying is that is listed under "input". That indicates to me it was reformulating your English question into a proper mathematical statement. Nowhere do I see output.
Try it this way and you'll see what I'm looking for: http://www29.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=is+(2%5E42%2C643%2C800+-+1)+a+prime+number
The "input" statement is the same formulation, but there is now a "result" block which was missing from your query. That result states "False" as opposed to changing the element symbol to the not-an-element symbol (funny E with a line thru it, IIRC).
If you're right, and I'm wrong, then WA needs to fix their interface because it is unclear that it actually confirms your question or just gives up. I'd like to see a "Result" block that simply says "True", like it does with the false answer.
Really? I don't see where it generates output.
Change the last digit of the power to a 0 and it quickly comes up with FALSE, but I never see a "TRUE" for the original question. Where is the answer?
Just for entertainment value, hover over the "more" link there.
Too bad it can't give the MEDIAN length. That might be more reassuring.
The U.S. document is a much more general framework, extending to about a dozen pages or so. The European one, rejected by France and the Netherlands after ratification by a dozen other nations, runs to almost 500 pages. Yes, that is per language. There is obviously a vast difference in the meaning of the word "Constitution" depending on where you hale from.
"Rights" shouldn't be separated out as to "digital" or otherwise. Things like a right to privacy and access to public (government) information shouldn't be classified as "digital" or not. You also don't want to specify specific file formats or things like that. Something generic, like all public government publications shall be public domain and available in copyright and patent-free electronic formats. Full specifications for those formats should be available likewise.
This gets you around the obscenity that the U.S. does with things like State building and electrical codes, which are copyright and only available from specific vendors at ridiculous prices in many States.
640 light years should be enough for anyone
The Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) is a component of the Direct Rendering Infrastructure, a system to provide efficient video acceleration (especially 3D rendering) on Unix-like operating systems, e.g. Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD, and OpenBSD.
It consists of two in-kernel drivers (realized as kernel modules on Linux), a generic drm driver, and another which has specific support for the video hardware. This pair of drivers allows a userspace client direct access to the video hardware.
From WikiPedia.
Karma Whoring FTW!
It's when you reply to a string of earlier messages and place your reply on top, so that whoever reads will have no idea of the context.
What's top posting?
Let's all go into comp.lang.c and start top posting to threads. They LOVE IT when you do that.
Should I do this instead?
No, no, no. When trolling a programming forum, make damn sure you post in HTML-formatted text. If you can figure out how to include the <blink> tag, you could probably hear their heads explode from halfway around the world.
If not, your best bet is to include code snippets in multiple languages, each using different tab-stops for indentation. Make frequent references in how this would be much easier in Java, unless posting to comp.lang.java, then post on how C# fixed it and is really Java done right.
Oh, and make sure to quote a multi-page question fully and answer only with one sentence. They love that.
Finally, big sigs with ASCII art and geek code blocks. The bigger the better. True masters have sigs bigger than their actual post.
Linspire nee Lindows did this some years ago and it is still around.
http://www.cnr.com/
The people who are bitching and moaning about this are total Apple Fanbois. If Steve Jobs stopped short, you'd need the jaws of life to extricate them from his ass.
Protest all you want, but AT&T can call your bluff. What are you going to do? Not use your iPhone? Not buy another iPhone? Yeah, right. That thing you are bent over is a barrel of your own choosing. To change AT&Ts policy you'd need a credible threat to their business, and fanbois threatening to stop using their precious iPhone aren't credible.
That explains why he is actually looking at the BOOK in this picture. I'd ace college too, if I could ignore those two.
http://www.daylife.com/photo/076m3k4g056Fe
This is Slashdot. Always go with the default reason. The editors fucked up. It explains almost everything.
Dupes. The editors fucked up.
Miscategorized. The editors fucked up.
Everything that says "iPhone" promoted to front page. The editors fucked up.
Cowboy Neal. The editors fucked up.
See?
A generation (or two) ago the kid would have had her address, phone number and parent's names memorized before entering school and been given instructions on how recognize a policeman or other "trustworthy" person. Bank tellers are a good choice, considering all the cameras in a bank.
But, you're right that a tracking device is treating the symptom and not the disease. The procedures of the school need to be reviewed and addressed.
Godwin's Law IN THE ARTICLE AND SUMMARY! YES!
A missed opportunity to combine both the infamous "First Post" and "Godwin's Law -- Discussion Over", making the shortest Slashdot comment thread theoretically possible.
If only the article somehow involved Natalie Portman eating Grits and telling CoS "All your base in those Hawaiian volcanoes belong to us"...
Mmmmmm.....AREXX. Metacontrol of damn near everything on an Amiga.
I had software that used frame capture on an IV-24 board, fed the image to ASDG's Art Department for processing, then passed it to a database (I forget which one) for storage along with the rest of the inmate's info. It was a jail management system and basically was off-the-shelf software with a bit of glue code done in AREXX. Magic.
A back haul line that runs from the tower to a CLEC. You didn't think they operated on a mesh configuration, did you? They are essentially big access points.
T-1s used to be common, as are bonded T-1s for rural areas. DS-3s and OC-3 fiber beyond that.
There is much more debt than disposable funds, which is my point. Taxing the rich won't work because of this. The U.S. has more debt than there is money in the WORLD, much less what they can squeeze from the top 10% of the population.
Then what?
Either way it demonstrates the sheer stupidity of "tax the rich" as a reliable source of income. The State was taking a beating with the economy, yet somehow the idea that "the rich" were also taking the same beating never occurred to the Maryland legislature.
No, it isn't.
Ethanol, regardless of what it is made from, is corrosive to rubber, plastic and aluminum. Engines and fuel systems that can safely run ethanol as a fuel cost more. That is why E-85 vehicles cost a bit more than their non-Flex Fuel counterparts.
Gaskets, hoses, tanks, fuel lines, etc. all need to be different. Basically, not the cheap rubber and plastic used now.
Economics, and the freeloading corn subsidies, are a whole 'nuther issue.
I don't think the bone of contention with ethanol has anything to do with how good a fuel it is.
Please explain how you come up with that statement when the article in question basically says exactly the opposite.
Quote: "...but there is increasing evidence that it is destroying engines in large numbers." I do believe that is calling into question how good a fuel it is. Either that or the current crop of automotive engines and fuel systems, which has supposedly been designed to handle E-15 for over a decade, are all shit.