Just as long as it's not one of your *other* machines that has been compromised, and someone is using it to compromise your windows box from a system internal to your network.
Better get a network sniffer up and running, and see what's connecting locally to the box too - just in case.
Why do I have a feeling that most people focused on Prince's spelling rather than what he was saying?
That's exactly the point.
GSM SMS has a hard limit of 150 or so characters. Instant Messengers / IRC have a time limit (for fluid conversation)
That's where I expect to see abbreviations.
Articles read by the general public with no real character limit, I expect to see the extended versions which don't require any deciphering. It seriously interrupts your inner monologue to stop and decode the context of '4' or 'U' in a sentence.
He appears to have an important message to get across. If he wants people to fully comprehend him, he needs to write as clearly as possible, with the least amount of distraction from his message. Abbreviations are fine if they are required. In this case, they appear to be unnecessary, and have distracted people from his message.
All you need is enough gas to apply enough force to the inside of the bag to keep it inflated against the near vacuum of space (oh, and against your rock when you finally hit it).
eg: a 0.1 psi pressure difference would be more than enough, considering the amount of square inches on the surface of a cubic mile bag. A cubic meter of liquified gas expands to many,many,many cubic meters of gas when you're talking an 0.1psi pressure differential between your container and the Outside.
Notice my excellent mixture of SI and Imperial units? That's apparently very important and nearly a mandantory requirement in space R&D;-)
It was Jean Foucault who designed that experiment, and in 1862 he came up with a figure of 298,000,000 m/s compared to the current SI definition of 299,792,458m/s
He also demonstrated in Paris in 1851 that the earth did indeed revolve upon it's axis, by using a large pendulum. (Of course, people in 1851 had generally accepted that the earth did revolve around an axis, but this was the first physical demonstration of the effect of such rotation)
Google is your friend.. but in cases like this, it's hard to find the right search terms... "user-agent mozilla" gets you close, but anyway, here's what you need.
Put this in a file called "user.js" in your profiles directory (it should be in the same directory as "prefs.js")
user_pref("general.useragent.override", "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.0; Windows 98; DigExt)");
This will make IE-only sites believe that Mozilla is IE5.0
When you want to download a song, you need to right-click and "save link target as..." otherwise (in my case, anyway) mozilla will download the file and try and run it in your mp3 player without prompting you to save to disk.
Via Telstra (australia), I still get the original listen4ever site. And I saturate my ADSL (50KB/sec) when I load pages from that site... perhaps your upstream ISP is being devious?
Wouldn't the bill be considered lawful authority? If Australian law can be applied to US citizens, it's likely (though I ain't anal) that US law would apply to those same citizens.
*snort* Laws passed by any sovereign country are only valid inside that country. The USA can pass as many crap bills as it wants - Australian courts would likely tell you to fuck off and give you six months jail for that kind of argument.
And as for a "long and distinguished record of being a penal colony" 1788 (first landing) to 1868(last convicts shipped off to Australia) is 80 years, and 134 years ago now. So back off, pal.
Although , we *do* have a lot of desert out there... maybe a survivor 2.0 as suggested would be ok.
So US American Movie Execs can face legal charges in Australia if a Bill is passed inj the US?
No need to pass the bill - the law against unlawful computer access is already present in Australia (or Victoria , anyway). If someone can prove that said media execs did indeed get unlawful entry into an Australian computer system, then regardless of whether it is legal in the U.S., they're still breaking Australian law.
Break pretty much *any* sovereign country's law (in their own country) and you can expect to face the consequences if they have an extradition treaty with your country, and they're irritated enough to go through the paperwork.
I don't know of ANY DSL providor that garauntees 1.5Mbit (you probably meant mbit). All of the ads that I see say "up to 1.5mbps". Depending on his distance from the CO it might be a good speed.
Telstra in australia will not give you an aDSL line if when tested it can not reach 1.5Mbps. Which is a bit of a pain, as no 1.5Mbps, no aDSL.
Moves are afoot by InterNode (another.au ISP to get Telstra to change this to something lower, so that people can still get service even if they can't get 1.5Mbps). As all aDSL work is done by telstra (they pretty much own the last mile of copper in.au) they effectively can do what they like.
BTW by poking around my alcatel modem , it tells me that my line is good for max of around 6.8Mbps downstream to me. I know someone mentioned once that in Hong Kong they could get 6Mbit / 1Mbit adsl connections for relatively cheap. Bastards.
(Oh, btw it should be big M , for Mega, little m is milli)
Even a small (1000cc) fuel-injected engine is good for 50kW mechanical output. Match a generator (or more correctly, an alternator, as it would likely be AC powered) and you're good for at least 30-40KW of electrical power.
Try This Procmail Script. It's pretty handy, fixes those auto-xecute mime problems, renames files so that you have to save them before opening them, and cleans up any active html/scripting. It can be setup to email back people who have sent suspicious stuff, will filter on filename if you want - it's quite comprehensive.
Personally I don't care about the lose-weight-fast / get-rich-quick schemes.
I get three or four a day, and I wouldn't mind so much about it, if it wasn't for all the penis enlargement, !!!!RAPE SEX!!!!!, hot ANAL teens and other sexually explicit material arriving in my inbox daily.
I have kids aged 1 and 2 - I don't want them exposed to this type of crud when they go to use my computer.
(And smart replies about where I've been surfing will be ignored - I surf at work.)
It's not just about your CPU failing. If you have a serious PSU failure there is a good chance you'll have insulation breakdown on the 110V(or 240V in my case) mains section.If this breakdown happens *before* the fuse (which is generally located on the board) , you can have the situation where you can very easily reach temperatures high enough to start a fire in most things.
If you are not careful about your house wiring, or power your system(s) with cheap, thin conductor extension leads/power boards,you can go for some length of time (30 seconds or so), before the fuse blows or the breaker trips. Not good if your power supply has just turned into a 1000W bar heater.
You wouldn't need a vacuum - all you do is make it air-tight with a vent at the top - fill it with CO2 and the heavier-than-air CO2 will displace all the air out of the box. Seal the vent, and you're done.
We used to do a similar thing with nitrogen when welding on truck fuel tanks, but we kept a constant flow of gas going in. You made damn sure that the tank was full of inert gas before striking an arc on the tank, that's for certain.
Oh , you might want to put some silica gel in the bottom of the case to adsorb any residual moisture....
So, what's to stop me (besides my conscience) from exploiting this for a free laptop?
Probably the fraud investigation unit of your card provider. They are pretty thorough, and if they manage to find anything , well , it's off to the full extent of the law with you.
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Just as long as it's not one of your *other* machines that has been compromised, and someone is using it to compromise your windows box from a system internal to your network.
Better get a network sniffer up and running, and see what's connecting locally to the box too - just in case.
What's wrong with ambivilous? It's a perfectly cromulent word.
It's sad to note that yet another useful fact in my brain has been replaced by a Simpsons quote.
Why do I have a feeling that most people focused on Prince's spelling rather than what he was saying?
That's exactly the point.
GSM SMS has a hard limit of 150 or so characters.
Instant Messengers / IRC have a time limit (for fluid conversation)
That's where I expect to see abbreviations.
Articles read by the general public with no real character limit, I expect to see the extended versions which don't require any deciphering. It seriously interrupts your inner monologue to stop and decode the context of '4' or 'U' in a sentence.
He appears to have an important message to get across. If he wants people to fully comprehend him, he needs to write as clearly as possible, with the least amount of distraction from his message. Abbreviations are fine if they are required. In this case, they appear to be unnecessary, and have distracted people from his message.
All you need is enough gas to apply enough force to the inside of the bag to keep it inflated against the near vacuum of space (oh, and against your rock when you finally hit it).
;-)
eg: a 0.1 psi pressure difference would be more than enough, considering the amount of square inches on the surface of a cubic mile bag. A cubic meter of liquified gas expands to many,many,many cubic meters of gas when you're talking an 0.1psi pressure differential between your container and the Outside.
Notice my excellent mixture of SI and Imperial units? That's apparently very important and nearly a mandantory requirement in space R&D
It was Jean Foucault who designed that experiment, and in 1862 he came up with a figure of 298,000,000 m/s compared to the current SI definition of 299,792,458m/s
He also demonstrated in Paris in 1851 that the earth did indeed revolve upon it's axis, by using a large pendulum. (Of course, people in 1851 had generally accepted that the earth did revolve around an axis, but this was the first physical demonstration of the effect of such rotation)
Give it a few years, some manufacturer in china will release a combo DVD/DIVX/WMA/OGG/SACD/CD player with digital out.
Oops! Another brilliant copy protection scheme bypassed.
Google is your friend.. but in cases like this, it's hard to find the right search terms... "user-agent mozilla" gets you close, but anyway, here's what you need.
Put this in a file called "user.js" in your profiles directory (it should be in the same directory as "prefs.js")
This will make IE-only sites believe that Mozilla is IE5.0
When you want to download a song, you need to right-click and "save link target as..." otherwise (in my case, anyway) mozilla will download the file and try and run it in your mp3 player without prompting you to save to disk.
It appears that they have a user-agent redirect setup to go to mp3mediaworld.com.
Any IE derivative browser gets to listen4ever, anything else gets mp3mediaworld.com.
Thanks to Ethereal and Mozilla's customisable user-agent setting, I can now actually get to the site in Mozilla and turn off those squillion pop-ups.
Oh and a big thanks to the RIAA for letting us know about this site
Via Telstra (australia), I still get the original listen4ever site. And I saturate my ADSL (50KB/sec) when I load pages from that site... perhaps your upstream ISP is being devious?
*IRA* contributions?
er, shouldn't that be a little more underhanded and discreet?
I know, do not feed the crackpots, but :
The "hydro" in magnetohydrodynamic means WATER.
I guess you're after magnetoaerodynamic.
It's a pretty easy mistake to make when it's Super Secret Alien Buzzword Central around here.
Wouldn't the bill be considered lawful authority? If Australian law can be applied to US citizens, it's likely (though I ain't anal) that US law would apply to those same citizens.
*snort* Laws passed by any sovereign country are only valid inside that country. The USA can pass as many crap bills as it wants - Australian courts would likely tell you to fuck off and give you six months jail for that kind of argument.
And as for a "long and distinguished record of being a penal colony" 1788 (first landing) to 1868(last convicts shipped off to Australia) is 80 years, and 134 years ago now. So back off, pal.
Although , we *do* have a lot of desert out there... maybe a survivor 2.0 as suggested would be ok.
So US American Movie Execs can face legal charges in Australia if a Bill is passed inj the US?
No need to pass the bill - the law against unlawful computer access is already present in Australia (or Victoria , anyway). If someone can prove that said media execs did indeed get unlawful entry into an Australian computer system, then regardless of whether it is legal in the U.S., they're still breaking Australian law.
Break pretty much *any* sovereign country's law (in their own country) and you can expect to face the consequences if they have an extradition treaty with your country, and they're irritated enough to go through the paperwork.
Well, this new IR laser beats the hell out of the old Nuclear Armed Jeep .
What the hell were they thinking of when they made that?
"Hey son, I went to check on your driving last night and that damn box didn't work! Can you explain?"
"Yeah, I accidentally poured my beer into it while driving. Sorry about that. Guess they won't replace that under warranty."
Repeat until parent is broke. Or you have to get your own car.
I don't know of ANY DSL providor that garauntees 1.5Mbit (you probably meant mbit). All of the ads that I see say "up to 1.5mbps". Depending on his distance from the CO it might be a good speed.
.au ISP to get Telstra to change this to something lower, so that people can still get service even if they can't get 1.5Mbps). As all aDSL work is done by telstra (they pretty much own the last mile of copper in .au) they effectively can do what they like.
Telstra in australia will not give you an aDSL line if when tested it can not reach 1.5Mbps.
Which is a bit of a pain, as no 1.5Mbps, no aDSL.
Moves are afoot by InterNode (another
BTW by poking around my alcatel modem , it tells me that my line is good for max of around 6.8Mbps downstream to me. I know someone mentioned once that in Hong Kong they could get 6Mbit / 1Mbit adsl connections for relatively cheap. Bastards.
(Oh, btw it should be big M , for Mega, little m is milli)
You betcha.
Even a small (1000cc) fuel-injected engine is good for 50kW mechanical output. Match a generator (or more correctly, an alternator, as it would likely be AC powered) and you're good for at least 30-40KW of electrical power.
And frankly I'd rather not be in a plane that lost control for five minutes once a year.
As long as it's parked on the ground during those five minutes, it's no problem.
Try This Procmail Script. It's pretty handy, fixes those auto-xecute mime problems, renames files so that you have to save them before opening them, and cleans up any active html/scripting. It can be setup to email back people who have sent suspicious stuff, will filter on filename if you want - it's quite comprehensive.
Personally I don't care about the lose-weight-fast / get-rich-quick schemes.
I get three or four a day, and I wouldn't mind so much about it, if it wasn't for all the penis enlargement, !!!!RAPE SEX!!!!!, hot ANAL teens and other sexually explicit material arriving in my inbox daily.
I have kids aged 1 and 2 - I don't want them exposed to this type of crud when they go to use my computer.
(And smart replies about where I've been surfing will be ignored - I surf at work.)
I'd presume that the switching regulator IC would have some sort of thermal protection in it, even if it just failed when it got too hot.
It's not just about your CPU failing.
If you have a serious PSU failure there is a good chance you'll have insulation breakdown on the 110V(or 240V in my case) mains section.If this breakdown happens *before* the fuse (which is generally located on the board) , you can have the situation where you can very easily reach temperatures high enough to start a fire in most things.
If you are not careful about your house wiring, or power your system(s) with cheap, thin conductor extension leads/power boards,you can go for some length of time (30 seconds or so), before the fuse blows or the breaker trips. Not good if your power supply has just turned into a 1000W bar heater.
You wouldn't need a vacuum - all you do is make it air-tight with a vent at the top - fill it with CO2 and the heavier-than-air CO2 will displace all the air out of the box. Seal the vent, and you're done.
We used to do a similar thing with nitrogen when welding on truck fuel tanks, but we kept a constant flow of gas going in. You made damn sure that the tank was full of inert gas before striking an arc on the tank, that's for certain.
Oh , you might want to put some silica gel in the bottom of the case to adsorb any residual moisture....
So, what's to stop me (besides my conscience) from exploiting this for a free laptop?
Probably the fraud investigation unit of your card provider. They are pretty thorough, and if they manage to find anything , well , it's off to the full extent of the law with you.
That's the sun, hotshot. Try looking for lasers at night.