So, for example, a religion that says all sex is wrong tends not to last very long.
The Shakers died out for this reason. They believed that sex was originally only given for procreation. Since Man proved unable to resist sex for pleasure, the Shakers believed that celibacy was a necessary cross to bear to get in back in touch with God. Hardly anybody wants to convert to a religion with no sex at all and there was little procreation within the church. Apart from a few oldsters that might still be around, this religion killed itself.
A few years ago I came across a classroom that had a 2600, some sticks, some paddles, and a box o' games. It was hooked up and functional but they really didn't seem to know what to do with it. I showed them how to play 4-way Warlords;-D. The nice thing about Warlords in that mode is that the graphics really don't matter. It gets personal very quickly. I finished up in that room and left on a note of "Wait until I get the ball!
I'll grant that most of the titles in that box o' games suck on any number of levels.
Some Starlink corn wound up being made into supermarket burrito shells. Starlink was engineered to make its own pesticide and was intended only for animal feed and non-food uses. The problem was that it looks just like regular corn.
Now the stuff didn't turn out to be seriously poisonous to humans but it was nonetheless not intended to enter the food supply.
This still isn't proof against analog capture. If this were absolutely forced on me, I'd get a set of cheapo USB speakers. I'd cut the cones out of them and tap directly into what used to be the voice coils. At worst, I may have to apply some EQ if the signal is emphasized strangely.
Autosplitting software is completely useless on albums that segue between tracks. Unless all you listen to is top-forty pop, this is a huge problem. I gave up track-splittling when it was a feature on cassette decks and they called it "autofind".
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Ah hell! Yet another HCI high priest. You people could manage to injure yourselves at dildo practice.
Nonetheless, the 8-bit character encodings are well documented. Creating a filter for them on a machine that would have to be the equivalent of a quad-processor 20Ghz P-IV should be fairly trivial. Trivial will probably not be a good word for trying to read a MSO document created today.
Koffice is in the process of transistioning to the OOo formats. I can hardly wait. I love the framebased workflow of Koffice but have trouble if I want to use those documents outside of koffice.
The devs behind Firefox are trying really hard to make a piece of Open Source software that appeals to the masses. The non-technical-adepts don't like software with ten jazillion options in a menu tree. The propellor-heads can handle about:config just fine. They've added the features that even 95% of non-IT types think are essential. If you know what NTLM is then about:config is nothing to complain about.
What about a poor geek in such a country? I find this attitude of "It's an almost charity thing and you should be grateful for what we choose to give you." to be very condencending.
It will be perfectly natural for a few recipients of these things to gain skills and to try to find a way to get them to do other things. There is VERY little reason for these to be locked down to the extent that they are.
I have NEVER seen the cheesy slide attachments that come with flatbed scanners work well. There is a way to get passable results without spending a ton of money.
Project your slides onto good screen with an overhead projector and take pictures with a digital camera. You'll want to disable the flash for this. Are the results as good as a dedicated slide scanner? No. Will it look better than what comes out of your scanner attachment? Absolutely.
If a stock kernel is altered in much the same way it is altered for Xen then you can use Qemu-fast. Other wise Qemu uses the "SoftMMU" to virtualize the x86 "sensitive" instructions. I find it quite useful for for "Win98-in-a-cage". It comes in handy for proprietary groupware clients and so forth.
I suppose the major difference is the Qemu seems to emphasize interactive use of virtual/emulated machines much as Vmware does. Xen seems to be more suited for headless containers that server instances of Linux/BSD/Plan9 are running in.
I'll leave the speculations about the price/performance vis-a-vis ATI's and Nvidia's cards to others. There is something else that worries me. The management behind this engineer gives the go-ahead based on positive techie feedback. They actually go ahead and build the things and techies actually buy it and improve the drivers. The likely subpar performance is overlooked because it is still the fastest video they've ever had on their Powerpc and Sparc boxes. Now that a little bit of money is rolling in, it is time to start the ball rolling on the OpenGPU2.....only maybe it won't be based on an FPGA and it isn't going so open this time.
Do we have any idea if this botique manufacturer won't jerk the football up at the last second?
Serial killers also tend to murder people that have little or no connection to them. Most murder victims knew their killer. Some sort of love, money, or pain issue tends to be identifiable as a motive. This helps the cops weed the list of suspects down to some sort of manageable number.
Serial killers on the other hand are driven by internal compulsions. Since most anybody will do for a victim there won't be a helpful web of connections the cops can use to narrow things down a bit. The hardest kind of murder to solve a random killing. If a typical whackjob could stop with just one or two, the police would hardly ever catch them. The most prolific serial killers get caught because once they've killed 37 people or so there are identifiable patterns, maybe a few eyewitnesses, and some really identifing physical evidence. The cops eventually get lucky.
You don't have to be particularly smart to kill four or five people if they're total strangers and nobody sees you do it.
I meant anything Sun releases will be a curiosity. They'll almost surely use something that is closer to the NPL or SISSL than the MPL. What I said still stands. The five licenses I mention are what most FOSS kernel and graphics subsystem coders are using. A different license than what they are using means that the BSD and Linux guys have to go out of their way to avoid seeing Sun's code. They've certainly hinted that they hope to fracture current FOSS communities with this. An incompatible license combined with a (later) implied threat of legal tainting would do it.
The thing will have an IP address, a MAC, and a physical port that it has been plugged into. For sure, the last cannot be spoofed and the firewall can be instructed to disallow ANY traffic from that port to the outside.
That would be yet another argument against closed source software. If it can tattle to the cops then it can tattle to others. No such backdoor should be present, period. If the shenanigans are implemented on the printer itself then a few simple packet filter rules will damn well keep its traffic contained.
I hate to reply to myself but I just remembered something else. Keeping your mouth shut doesn't just apply to the cops should you have been sloppy enough to merit being questioned. You don't tell your mom, best friend, girlfriend, or even your priest anything. You don't even want to smile real big if other people are in the room when Perfect Crimes? comes on.
I'll add a fifth rule that directly follows from the fourth rule. Work alone if you can. If the hijinks you have in mind need helpers then fewer is better. Most people aren't very good at keeping secrets and the cops know how to exploit that as well.
I'll assume we're talking about legal jurisdictions that at least pretend to be civilized. A lawyer once told me that most people who are in jail talked themselves in. It turns out that it is usually pretty difficult to get good witness testimony and enough evidence to convict. Most cops don't lose any sleep over it because it is also fairly easy to get most people to incriminate themselves with any number of techniques. You most especially don't go along when they say, "You better start co-operating or we'll really get mean." There is a reason why many law enforcement types don't like Miranda. Remaining silent is your right; never let them tell you any different. They sure as hell will use anything you say against you.
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So, for example, a religion that says all sex is wrong tends not to last very long.
The Shakers died out for this reason. They believed that sex was originally only given for procreation. Since Man proved unable to resist sex for pleasure, the Shakers believed that celibacy was a necessary cross to bear to get in back in touch with God. Hardly anybody wants to convert to a religion with no sex at all and there was little procreation within the church. Apart from a few oldsters that might still be around, this religion killed itself.
A few years ago I came across a classroom that had a 2600, some sticks, some paddles, and a box o' games. It was hooked up and functional but they really didn't seem to know what to do with it. I showed them how to play 4-way Warlords ;-D. The nice thing about Warlords in that mode is that the graphics really don't matter. It gets personal very quickly. I finished up in that room and left on a note of "Wait until I get the ball!
I'll grant that most of the titles in that box o' games suck on any number of levels.
The OGG container-file format and Vorbis encoder
Yes, please excuse my misuse of these ridiculously confusing names,
Yeah, Quicktime container and Sorenson codec are sooo much more transparent that I can tell what someone is talking about from the sound of it alone.
Some Starlink corn wound up being made into supermarket burrito shells. Starlink was engineered to make its own pesticide and was intended only for animal feed and non-food uses. The problem was that it looks just like regular corn.
Now the stuff didn't turn out to be seriously poisonous to humans but it was nonetheless not intended to enter the food supply.
This still isn't proof against analog capture. If this were absolutely forced on me, I'd get a set of cheapo USB speakers. I'd cut the cones out of them and tap directly into what used to be the voice coils. At worst, I may have to apply some EQ if the signal is emphasized strangely.
Autosplitting software is completely useless on albums that segue between tracks. Unless all you listen to is top-forty pop, this is a huge problem. I gave up track-splittling when it was a feature on cassette decks and they called it "autofind".
Ah hell! Yet another HCI high priest. You people could manage to injure yourselves at dildo practice.
Go ahead mod it flamebait. I have karma to burn.
CDs were not deliberately engineered to be incompatible with vinyl. Apple went out of their way to break something. I call bullshit on your analogy.
Nonetheless, the 8-bit character encodings are well documented. Creating a filter for them on a machine that would have to be the equivalent of a quad-processor 20Ghz P-IV should be fairly trivial. Trivial will probably not be a good word for trying to read a MSO document created today.
Koffice is in the process of transistioning to the OOo formats. I can hardly wait. I love the framebased workflow of Koffice but have trouble if I want to use those documents outside of koffice.
The devs behind Firefox are trying really hard to make a piece of Open Source software that appeals to the masses. The non-technical-adepts don't like software with ten jazillion options in a menu tree. The propellor-heads can handle about:config just fine. They've added the features that even 95% of non-IT types think are essential. If you know what NTLM is then about:config is nothing to complain about.
What about a poor geek in such a country? I find this attitude of "It's an almost charity thing and you should be grateful for what we choose to give you." to be very condencending.
It will be perfectly natural for a few recipients of these things to gain skills and to try to find a way to get them to do other things. There is VERY little reason for these to be locked down to the extent that they are.
I'd be shocked if Windows XP ran (acceptably) well on a P2.
With 256 MB of RAM, it's tolerable. With 384 MB or more, it feels just fine for routine Office stuff.
I nonetheless find it ironic that those who want most to shut down free speech scream the loudest when nobody wants to listen to them.
Mr Garrison: I can say "fag" and not get beeped because I'm gay.
Randy: Hey!, I can say (beep). Oh.
Jimbo: That's not fair. I ought to be able to say "fag" if I want to.
Mr. Garrison: You didn't get beeped. I guess we learned something about Jimbo today didn't we? You want to go to my house and make out or something?
I have NEVER seen the cheesy slide attachments that come with flatbed scanners work well. There is a way to get passable results without spending a ton of money.
Project your slides onto good screen with an overhead projector and take pictures with a digital camera. You'll want to disable the flash for this. Are the results as good as a dedicated slide scanner? No. Will it look better than what comes out of your scanner attachment? Absolutely.
If a stock kernel is altered in much the same way it is altered for Xen then you can use Qemu-fast. Other wise Qemu uses the "SoftMMU" to virtualize the x86 "sensitive" instructions. I find it quite useful for for "Win98-in-a-cage". It comes in handy for proprietary groupware clients and so forth.
I suppose the major difference is the Qemu seems to emphasize interactive use of virtual/emulated machines much as Vmware does. Xen seems to be more suited for headless containers that server instances of Linux/BSD/Plan9 are running in.
I'll leave the speculations about the price/performance vis-a-vis ATI's and Nvidia's cards to others. There is something else that worries me. The management behind this engineer gives the go-ahead based on positive techie feedback. They actually go ahead and build the things and techies actually buy it and improve the drivers. The likely subpar performance is overlooked because it is still the fastest video they've ever had on their Powerpc and Sparc boxes. ....only maybe it won't be based on an FPGA and it isn't going so open this time.
Now that a little bit of money is rolling in, it is time to start the ball rolling on the OpenGPU2.
Do we have any idea if this botique manufacturer won't jerk the football up at the last second?
Serial killers also tend to murder people that have little or no connection to them. Most murder victims knew their killer. Some sort of love, money, or pain issue tends to be identifiable as a motive. This helps the cops weed the list of suspects down to some sort of manageable number.
Serial killers on the other hand are driven by internal compulsions. Since most anybody will do for a victim there won't be a helpful web of connections the cops can use to narrow things down a bit. The hardest kind of murder to solve a random killing. If a typical whackjob could stop with just one or two, the police would hardly ever catch them. The most prolific serial killers get caught because once they've killed 37 people or so there are identifiable patterns, maybe a few eyewitnesses, and some really identifing physical evidence. The cops eventually get lucky.
You don't have to be particularly smart to kill four or five people if they're total strangers and nobody sees you do it.
I meant anything Sun releases will be a curiosity. They'll almost surely use something that is closer to the NPL or SISSL than the MPL. What I said still stands. The five licenses I mention are what most FOSS kernel and graphics subsystem coders are using. A different license than what they are using means that the BSD and Linux guys have to go out of their way to avoid seeing Sun's code. They've certainly hinted that they hope to fracture current FOSS communities with this. An incompatible license combined with a (later) implied threat of legal tainting would do it.
The thing will have an IP address, a MAC, and a physical port that it has been plugged into. For sure, the last cannot be spoofed and the firewall can be instructed to disallow ANY traffic from that port to the outside.
That would be yet another argument against closed source software. If it can tattle to the cops then it can tattle to others. No such backdoor should be present, period. If the shenanigans are implemented on the printer itself then a few simple packet filter rules will damn well keep its traffic contained.
I hate to reply to myself but I just remembered something else. Keeping your mouth shut doesn't just apply to the cops should you have been sloppy enough to merit being questioned. You don't tell your mom, best friend, girlfriend, or even your priest anything. You don't even want to smile real big if other people are in the room when Perfect Crimes? comes on.
I'll add a fifth rule that directly follows from the fourth rule. Work alone if you can. If the hijinks you have in mind need helpers then fewer is better. Most people aren't very good at keeping secrets and the cops know how to exploit that as well.
I'll add a fourth rule:
KEEP YOUR YAP SHUT!
I'll assume we're talking about legal jurisdictions that at least pretend to be civilized. A lawyer once told me that most people who are in jail talked themselves in. It turns out that it is usually pretty difficult to get good witness testimony and enough evidence to convict. Most cops don't lose any sleep over it because it is also fairly easy to get most people to incriminate themselves with any number of techniques. You most especially don't go along when they say, "You better start co-operating or we'll really get mean." There is a reason why many law enforcement types don't like Miranda. Remaining silent is your right; never let them tell you any different. They sure as hell will use anything you say against you.
It seems to be more stable as well. The share mount with my mp3s would freeze up every few hours of steady use with Beep/XMMS. CIFS Just Works.