I've been playing with some interesting components recently. The kind that doesn't do things on its own, but you can use it to control things. There are three really interesting developments:
1. The Raspberry Pi, an extremely cheap ($35), extremely small linux PC that can change personality and function by just swapping an SD card. Use it to put brains in your devices. Not available yet, but Real Soon Now... (http://www.raspberrypi.org)
2. The OpenPicus FlyPort. A tiny card that contains a stand-alone webserver with wifi interface that can control and monitor relays, analog sensors etc etc. I have one controlling and monitor my garage door. Programmable in C. (http://www.openpicus.com)
3. The TinkerForge Bricks. A USB connected set of stackable bricks that can control and monitor many things and create wireless and wired connections. Connect it to a Windows/Mac/Windows PC and control it with Python, Java or C. (http://www.tinkerforge.com)
I'm a software guy and controlling hardware has mostly been beyond my grasp, but these open hardware products (I own 2 & 3) have basically given me a new playing field. Warmly recommended and worth doing some advertising for (no relation except as a satisfied customer).
I guess it's theoretically possible, but in practice it's been a long time since I've seen a executable infecting virus. The last ones were macro viruses.
My guess is that executable viruses aren't really found in the wild anymore.
> Almost as good (and hopefully unrelated translation): "no one has goats that are large enough".
Yeah, that one is easy to explain. The dutch word 'bok' means 'male goat' and 'floating crane' as well as other things. The context decides which one makes sense. You'd think even the dumbest algorithm would figure the context of this article out, but no...
The article says that there aren't any floating cranes large enough to lift ships like this one. The floating crane building hasn't kept up with the boat building. No one has goats that are large enough...
A salvage expert (former CEO of the leading company in that field Smit Tak) says it can't be done in the following Dutch newspaper article (google translated):
I'm only really familiar with the Canon range, but for DSLR there's only 3 choices. The 'minimum bar' is APS-C sensor size and anything above that is very expensive. AFAIK anyhing above APS-C in DSLR's is hi-end!
There's actually quite a difference between kids in this respect. My oldest rarely put things in his mouth and had stopped doing that when he was about 1yo. The youngest always put everything in his mouth and is just starting to slow down a bit at two.
I use Fastmail, but apparently I haven't used the bounce feature for quite a while. The backscatter argument for getting rid of it makes sense, though. Pity, because it was still useful *occaisionally*;)
I doubt if it'll get you less spam, but manually bouncing mail is one of the many standard features of the Fastmail webclient. Runs on any platform that has a web browser.
"Narrowband Sockets defines an efficient implementation of User Datagram Protocol (UDP) using store and forward services over wireless messaging networks."
Failed horribly of course. I know cause I once built an agent to send push email to phones with it. Worked pretty well with my old Nokia 9110. I should have called it blackberry and built a big company around it;)
Funny thing is that this road pricing scheme has already been dumped by the present government. I have no idea why this suddenly pops up again on Slashdot.
In defence of the system I have to add that this would have been a replacement for the present taxes (taxes on buying and owning a car) which had the perverse effect of actually encouraging driving more kms. If you already pay a lot to own a car you would want to use it as well. The reasons why the scheme was cancelled were cost (the technology costs a lot) and privacy.
TOTLOL showed parent-rated videos from youtube. My son used to love it. Unfortunately, the creator wasn't able to find a profitable way of exploiting it (I bought a subscription) so it died eventually. The great thing was, that you could leave your kid (mine was three) alone and let them browse related videos without being afraid they'd get stuck in something weird or incomprehensible. There's enough appropriate material on youtube and anyone can embed it, so what's stopping you?
NB: While googling for TOTLOL I found this one: http://video.kidzui.com/ looks similar. Better check it out!
Another kids site that's too good to die: www.poissonrouge.com (french, but there's no real language barrier)
Allopathy (as in 'allopathic schools') is a derogatory term used by purveyors of 'alternative' medicine (or quacks) to describe evidence based main stream medicine.
You're right. If you buy one of those Internet TV's you're likely to get one or two firmware updates and that's it. I really do like the idea of a single self-contained device instead of a TV with a bunch of unsightly 'boxes' attached, but I'm not optimistic. Perhaps the TV manufacturers could agree on an expansion slot standard where you could insert a media player card with internal HDMI and IR connections. Then the media player cowboys could produce devices for that
Part of the problem is that sex drive in women is related to testosterone levels. Young women (20ies) have relatively low T levels, they rise when they get older. And then there's the birth control pill, which has the diabolical side effect to reduce se drive in women. So there you are, with a gorgeous woman, no risk of getting pregnant and she doesn't feel like having sex;)
There's no way that would happen in my country (sucks to be in yours, I guess) and I kind of follow the legal news for professional reasons.
In fact I'd see myself as a possible victim of the following scenario: 1. Install truecrypt out of technical interest 2. Create encrypted partition without anything interesting on it 3. Forget about it for a few months 4. Forget password 5....
It's kind of surprising how rarely strong encryption stuff comes around in court. Most criminals don't seem to bother using it. Just a few months ago a particularly nasty pedophile was caught with his harddisks truecrypted. The police couldn't crack the things, of course. He finally gave up the password voluntarily. Before you say: "I told you so", they had more than enough evidence to 'hang' him without the keys. The fucker filmed himself and shared the movies with other pervs in the US. One of those pervs was caught which lead them to this guy. Thankfully.
Most pedo's seem to be caught when they take their broken computers to a repair shop with illegal stuff on them in plain view. Those repair guys probably examine every disk they lay their hands on.
X.
PS: Is that 'sucks to be you' some new popular expression in the US, I seem to run into it a lot, or did I just start noticing?
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I've been playing with some interesting components recently. The kind that doesn't do things on its own, but you can use it to control things. There are three really interesting developments:
1. The Raspberry Pi, an extremely cheap ($35), extremely small linux PC that can change personality and function by just swapping an SD card. Use it to put brains in your devices. Not available yet, but Real Soon Now... (http://www.raspberrypi.org)
2. The OpenPicus FlyPort. A tiny card that contains a stand-alone webserver with wifi interface that can control and monitor relays, analog sensors etc etc. I have one controlling and monitor my garage door. Programmable in C. (http://www.openpicus.com)
3. The TinkerForge Bricks. A USB connected set of stackable bricks that can control and monitor many things and create wireless and wired connections. Connect it to a Windows/Mac/Windows PC and control it with Python, Java or C. (http://www.tinkerforge.com)
I'm a software guy and controlling hardware has mostly been beyond my grasp, but these open hardware products (I own 2 & 3) have basically given me a new playing field. Warmly recommended and worth doing some advertising for (no relation except as a satisfied customer).
I guess it's theoretically possible, but in practice it's been a long time since I've seen a executable infecting virus. The last ones were macro viruses.
My guess is that executable viruses aren't really found in the wild anymore.
> Almost as good (and hopefully unrelated translation): "no one has goats that are large enough".
Yeah, that one is easy to explain. The dutch word 'bok' means 'male goat' and 'floating crane' as well as other things. The context decides which one makes sense. You'd think even the dumbest algorithm would figure the context of this article out, but no...
The article says that there aren't any floating cranes large enough to lift ships like this one. The floating crane building hasn't kept up with the boat building. No one has goats that are large enough...
"Then you must therefore first erection."
I really don't know why I bother with that silly Google Translate... :(
A salvage expert (former CEO of the leading company in that field Smit Tak) says it can't be done in the following Dutch newspaper article (google translated):
http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=nl&tl=en&js=n&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&layout=2&eotf=1&u=http%3A%2F%2Fm.trouw.nl%2Farticle%2F15%2F3126744%2FIn-stukken-zagen-dat-is-enige-optie.html&act=url
I came here thinking it was a Perl tutorial... :(
I'm only really familiar with the Canon range, but for DSLR there's only 3 choices. The 'minimum bar' is APS-C sensor size and anything above that is very expensive. AFAIK anyhing above APS-C in DSLR's is hi-end!
"Live preview is just a toy feature for those used to using point and shoots though."
Not true at all. It 's great for precision focusing especially when you're using a tripod.
There's actually quite a difference between kids in this respect. My oldest rarely put things in his mouth and had stopped doing that when he was about 1yo. The youngest always put everything in his mouth and is just starting to slow down a bit at two.
I use Fastmail, but apparently I haven't used the bounce feature for quite a while. The backscatter argument for getting rid of it makes sense, though. Pity, because it was still useful *occaisionally* ;)
I doubt if it'll get you less spam, but manually bouncing mail is one of the many standard features of the Fastmail webclient. Runs on any platform that has a web browser.
I use it occasionally to get rid of humans...
"I think he considered the accelerator to be a boolean variable."
You just made my quotations list ;)
http://press.nokia.com/1997/07/31/nokia-provides-narrowband-sockets-server-implementation/
"Narrowband Sockets defines an efficient implementation of User Datagram Protocol (UDP) using store and forward services over wireless messaging networks."
Failed horribly of course. I know cause I once built an agent to send push email to phones with it. Worked pretty well with my old Nokia 9110. I should have called it blackberry and built a big company around it ;)
Oh, and we don't live in Suburbia because it's cheaper, but because there's less trash...
Funny thing is that this road pricing scheme has already been dumped by the present government. I have no idea why this suddenly pops up again on Slashdot.
In defence of the system I have to add that this would have been a replacement for the present taxes (taxes on buying and owning a car) which had the perverse effect of actually encouraging driving more kms. If you already pay a lot to own a car you would want to use it as well. The reasons why the scheme was cancelled were cost (the technology costs a lot) and privacy.
TOTLOL showed parent-rated videos from youtube. My son used to love it. Unfortunately, the creator wasn't able to find a profitable way of exploiting it (I bought a subscription) so it died eventually. The great thing was, that you could leave your kid (mine was three) alone and let them browse related videos without being afraid they'd get stuck in something weird or incomprehensible. There's enough appropriate material on youtube and anyone can embed it, so what's stopping you?
NB: While googling for TOTLOL I found this one: http://video.kidzui.com/ looks similar. Better check it out!
Another kids site that's too good to die: www.poissonrouge.com (french, but there's no real language barrier)
Allopathy (as in 'allopathic schools') is a derogatory term used by purveyors of 'alternative' medicine (or quacks) to describe evidence based main stream medicine.
You're right. If you buy one of those Internet TV's you're likely to get one or two firmware updates and that's it. I really do like the idea of a single self-contained device instead of a TV with a bunch of unsightly 'boxes' attached, but I'm not optimistic. Perhaps the TV manufacturers could agree on an expansion slot standard where you could insert a media player card with internal HDMI and IR connections. Then the media player cowboys could produce devices for that
So true, all my teaspoons are metric ;)
That's simply not true, at least not in my country.
In Holland nearly everybody says every syllable of 'millimeter'.
People will say 'kay', but AFAIK, that's mostly limited to money. As in: He makes 70 kay a year.
Did she have the hormonal version. /. what's next?)
There's also a (classic) non-hormonal version that gave no problems here.
(discussing gyno stuff on
Part of the problem is that sex drive in women is related to testosterone levels. Young women (20ies) have relatively low T levels, they rise when they get older. And then there's the birth control pill, which has the diabolical side effect to reduce se drive in women. So there you are, with a gorgeous woman, no risk of getting pregnant and she doesn't feel like having sex ;)
Use an IUD instead.
There's no way that would happen in my country (sucks to be in yours, I guess) and I kind of follow the legal news for professional reasons.
In fact I'd see myself as a possible victim of the following scenario: ...
1. Install truecrypt out of technical interest
2. Create encrypted partition without anything interesting on it
3. Forget about it for a few months
4. Forget password
5.
It's kind of surprising how rarely strong encryption stuff comes around in court. Most criminals don't seem to bother using it. Just a few months ago a particularly nasty pedophile was caught with his harddisks truecrypted. The police couldn't crack the things, of course. He finally gave up the password voluntarily. Before you say: "I told you so", they had more than enough evidence to 'hang' him without the keys. The fucker filmed himself and shared the movies with other pervs in the US. One of those pervs was caught which lead them to this guy. Thankfully.
Most pedo's seem to be caught when they take their broken computers to a repair shop with illegal stuff on them in plain view. Those repair guys probably examine every disk they lay their hands on.
X.
PS: Is that 'sucks to be you' some new popular expression in the US, I seem to run into it a lot, or did I just start noticing?
Hence Truecrypt's plausible deniability.
They'll have to prove there's more data before they can prosecute you.
If the encryptor was using a one time pad any solution would be correct for one possible key.