A friend of a friend picked up a bootleg copy in NYC last week and its already made it to the other side of the the world. This is an NTSC DVD that looks like it was made from an analog signal. Its substandard even for a pirate copy quality and had an anoying subtitle saying "new line..." "call the mpaa at 1-800-..."
They are doing what JFK did to help get people focused on a project that improves the countires ability to do R&D. The result is that they will be the 1st to have a permanent station on the moon and it may be by the end of the decade.
All the space probes we can measure are slowing down. The ones where the effect is most oticed are teh GPS sats since they have real good clocks and we know where they are and the long distance Pioneer and Voyagers. NASA isn't sure why this is happening. They know its going on and need to find out why.
If I do an experiment where I can show gravity doesn't work like its expected to, they will look into it. Most of the time the result is that somone put an Acme magnet in the wrong place. NASA doesn't care what the experimentor's (or crackpot's) theory is, they want to duplicate the experiment and try to find out the real reason for the change in mass. If your respected enough to do an expirment, its worth their time to look into it even if your theory is the disk weighs less because of the magic elves.
I run about 700 groups on my own server and the level of junk is very, very low. Most of the groups I read on a regualr basis have almost no spam.
There are about 20 groups I read almost daily and about 100 I drop into from time to time. About 400 of the groups are associated with ones I read (I read sci.geo.sat-nav so I also get sci.geo.*). I also have regional groups for three areas.
I've got about 7 news peers. These are all smallish servers or smallish ISP's and their sysadmins have their pet groups as well so I carry them (they help me, I help them). That adds up to about 700 groups. Total in the spool is about 600 meg for 15 to 30 article storage.
My server is called news.abnormal.com and is open for public reading.
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But the poor slob took that job so they are jsut as gulty as telescum...
I had a friend that used this kind of line "Thanks for waking me up, if you have an accident on the way home from work, a surgon will have to put you back together. I hope they aren't as tired as I was last night when I had to put that little girl back together". He's made people cry.
Another thing that works well is something like siding sales people. Set up an apointment and when they are just about to hang up you ask them if they will bring the samples with the pickles on them. Spend the next few minutes showing them a reality that just isn't quite right. Remember its hard to sell stuff to crazy people.
Sometimes you can get very lucky. While I was living in SBC country, I got a call from a call center in the town I used to live in (which was GTE land). They were tring to sell me some useless SBC service (callig from GTE how odd). I found out the town they were calling from and I took a guess of which of the two call centers it was. This freaked out the girl on the phone who put me on to her supervisor who was confused by the fact that I knew way too much about his operation. After that I never got another call from them again.
People in call centers steal from me. They steal my time and they steal my sleep and I will treat them same as if they had broken in to my house and stole my stuff.
If your using:wq you do not understand so give it up. :wq was replaced by:x in a very early version of bsd. I still don't know where these young whipersnapers learn about the:wq as it was made obsolete in 1978 and I don't think there are too many/. people let alone Unix users that predate that.
If I had enough money, I could get people to swear I can code too.
I've meet someone that I think is clued in who has been dealing with MS since 1974. The story goes that there was an op code in an assember that didn't work right. Clued in geek calls MS and talks bill into making a patch. The patch is sent out and the new opcode works if you type it in call CAPS and not will most aruments since it wasn't added to the op code table but hard coded.
So far none of the "Bill gates could code" pages ever show any code he did him self but talk about code he might have managed. Come up with some more details and maybe you'll have a point.
Multitasking predates Gates. Most OS's at the time (including the ones MS used to build their cross compilers) all did multitasking. It was assumed any "real" os would do that.
Recently millions of Americans went to to an Aussie owned theater (Village) to watch a New Zealand made movie (LOTR) based on the works of a British author. Many of them saw the ads for the movie on a network founded by an Australian (Fox) while watching a show created by an American (Simpsons) but animated in India. They can buy the sound track made by a Japanese firm (Sony) with songs composed in Ireland (Enya).
A patent must be invented by a human, not a corporation however patent law encourages assignments to a company.
The $50 figure is a result of contract law requiring that each side get something. When the $50 figure was first used, it was quite a nice sum of money (it was more than than the cost of the patent)
Maybe you should have been paying attention when they taked about "map datums" in your map reading classes. Then you would understand taht 30 m error. Besides GPS is only good for about 10m (15m if you have the militray ones with the right keys)
How do they know which was last mailed? I don't can't remember when the last time I saw a clear postmark on a letter and most of the prepaid stuff has no postmark at all.
Did anyone provide a prepaid envelope?
This vote will be decided in court so I don't expect to see the result this year.
I do expect to see Fiorina looking for a job and saving her pennies for the lawsuits. I wonder if she will end up working the fry cooker like most history majors.
Huricannes that move inland are much more likly to cause lots of damage. Places built on the sea are generaly bult to deal with the high winds and the locals tend to have a good idea of where the sea surge is going to go. This is why storms that hit area that usualy don't get storms have such a damaging effect.
There is a point in Missouri called Hurricanne Point, It was the farther place inland that had damage from a hurricanne that hit the gulf in the late 1800's.
1) Ip allocations: I would expect that you get an IP addres from the DHCP server in 192.168/16. The may use overloaded NAT so they only need a few ip addresses 2) 802.11 gear starts at about $50 plus another $100 for a decent antenna. Some of the better stuff may be up to about $700. 3) Private 4) The same way you keep people from pissing the loccal pool, Bubba and his drinking buddies show up at the lusers house and LART.
The problem I see with this is that some of the frequencies they are using are overloaded and the other lines are pure line of sight. Low hill countryside means about 45% of the area will be shielded unless they have a very tall tower or single landsape feature. Even in that case 30% of the area will not be able to get a signal. These things work very well in areas where you've got a flat area and tall tower (Chicago) or a very tall mountain (Denver).
Most of the wireless lan gear seems to be based on large city coverage and there are some cost considerations for small towns or rural areas. The cheap 802.11 stuff can cope with about 90 users and after that, there are scaleability issues.
Its the only common format that can get in to two unique states, one requires an infinite amount of memory and the other, infinite amount of time to parse unless the dataset is small. Won't the XML idiots go back and take a basic class in computer science?
You know those O(n log n) like things and related memory issues? Maybe not since XLM is a trendy buzzword created by a useless group of ego pushers that never did anything useful but almost document what Netscape and IE had already done.
What happens when you don't know what your even looking for? Data mining is more about ways to automaticly find interesting ways of indexing and displaying data than simply looking up known values in unstructured data.
There is a package that is good at displaying unstructured data and letting you see strange patterns since it has tools to find patterns in the data. Its called Partek.
They are at the greenwich museum. The early clocks were made mostly of brass so they are big shiny metal things. With enough Lego's you could make your own working copy.
The Museum is in Greenwich England. Its at 51 degrees, 28 minutes 38 seconds north of the Equator but I don't remember what its longitiude is but its close to London.
I suspect MS used quite a bit of GCC since version 5 of their C compiler had many of the some of the same optimization bugs as GCC. Anyone got access to the source for the old versions of MS C?
The US DOD rent theirs too. McDonald Douglas Semiconductors used to be in St Louis and they never made a production chip but the rumors were they unmade chips.
Smartcards for the general market have to be robust enough and low power enough that they are smallish CPUs. The fast ones are 8Mhz and have some crypto functions built in. In raw CPU terms they are about the same level as a fast Z80.
In a cable TV system, the smart cards generate a seed that is feed to crypto unit. Most system gave up on the smart cards that just say "they get channles 2-20,45,Pr0n..." since they were cracked within days but you never know when a 20 year old cable system is still in use. The Foxtel system in Australia for example uses a signal down the wire that goes to the smart card which then generates a pseudo random sequence. Each of thouse numbers is like an index that tells it where the line is swaped. Their encryption is they take each scanline, break it and send the second part first. Someone in Norway(?) had written a program that would look for the split in real time and put it back together. I guess Murdoch might have something to worry about if the rumor is true and someone else is willing to pay for a crack.
Modern credit card systems do the ATM pin hiding trick in the smart card. If you have access to the networks used by a large department store, it would take about a year to crack most repeat customer's pin numbers. Since most pin numbers are only 4 digits, you only need to be able to feed the chip a few wrong tries per "swipe" and if they come in a few times a week, you could try 500 pin codes in a year. If you do that with 20 different cards a week, you will have someones full account details and their pin number in a year. Since its automated, there is no use to limit yourself to 20. This works for both Visa and that cool new clear card from that company no one will accept.
So in a smartcard based credit card system, All you accounts are belong to us.
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A friend of a friend picked up a bootleg copy in NYC last week and its already made it to the other side of the the world. This is an NTSC DVD that looks like it was made from an analog signal. Its substandard even for a pirate copy quality and had an anoying subtitle saying "new line..." "call the mpaa at 1-800-..."
They are doing what JFK did to help get people focused on a project that improves the countires ability to do R&D. The result is that they will be the 1st to have a permanent station on the moon and it may be by the end of the decade.
All the space probes we can measure are slowing down. The ones where the effect is most oticed are teh GPS sats since they have real good clocks and we know where they are and the long distance Pioneer and Voyagers. NASA isn't sure why this is happening. They know its going on and need to find out why.
If I do an experiment where I can show gravity doesn't work like its expected to, they will look into it. Most of the time the result is that somone put an Acme magnet in the wrong place. NASA doesn't care what the experimentor's (or crackpot's) theory is, they want to duplicate the experiment and try to find out the real reason for the change in mass. If your respected enough to do an expirment, its worth their time to look into it even if your theory is the disk weighs less because of the magic elves.
I run about 700 groups on my own server and the level of junk is very, very low. Most of the groups I read on a regualr basis have almost no spam.
There are about 20 groups I read almost daily and about 100 I drop into from time to time. About 400 of the groups are associated with ones I read (I read sci.geo.sat-nav so I also get sci.geo.*). I also have regional groups for three areas.
I've got about 7 news peers. These are all smallish servers or smallish ISP's and their sysadmins have their pet groups as well so I carry them (they help me, I help them). That adds up to about 700 groups. Total in the spool is about 600 meg for 15 to 30 article storage.
My server is called news.abnormal.com and is open for public reading.
But the poor slob took that job so they are jsut as gulty as telescum...
I had a friend that used this kind of line "Thanks for waking me up, if you have an accident on the way home from work, a surgon will have to put you back together. I hope they aren't as tired as I was last night when I had to put that little girl back together". He's made people cry.
Another thing that works well is something like siding sales people. Set up an apointment and when they are just about to hang up you ask them if they will bring the samples with the pickles on them. Spend the next few minutes showing them a reality that just isn't quite right. Remember its hard to sell stuff to crazy people.
Sometimes you can get very lucky. While I was living in SBC country, I got a call from a call center in the town I used to live in (which was GTE land). They were tring to sell me some useless SBC service (callig from GTE how odd). I found out the town they were calling from and I took a guess of which of the two call centers it was. This freaked out the girl on the phone who put me on to her supervisor who was confused by the fact that I knew way too much about his operation. After that I never got another call from them again.
People in call centers steal from me. They steal my time and they steal my sleep and I will treat them same as if they had broken in to my house and stole my stuff.
So your saying I should upgrade my server (which has been running for nearly a decade) so that people can use it to pirate binary stuff?
The next time I do an update, I'll be adding a cute patch that kills all binary posts at the nntp level, not after the fact like now.
If your using :wq you do not understand so give it up. :x in a very early version of bsd. I still don't know where these young whipersnapers learn about the :wq as it was made obsolete in 1978 and I don't think there are too many /. people let alone Unix users that predate that.
:wq was replaced by
If I had enough money, I could get people to swear I can code too.
I've meet someone that I think is clued in who has been dealing with MS since 1974. The story goes that there was an op code in an assember that didn't work right. Clued in geek calls MS and talks bill into making a patch. The patch is sent out and the new opcode works if you type it in call CAPS and not will most aruments since it wasn't added to the op code table but hard coded.
So far none of the "Bill gates could code" pages ever show any code he did him self but talk about code he might have managed. Come up with some more details and maybe you'll have a point.
Multitasking predates Gates. Most OS's at the time (including the ones MS used to build their cross compilers) all did multitasking. It was assumed any "real" os would do that.
but those had already found their way into CPM. You could do many unixy things in CPM on machines with at least a few 64k pages.
DOS 1.0 was PCDOS unless you ran it on a DEC rainbow or a few other very rare boxes. MSDOS was later.
Of course the 1.0 and 2.0 syscals are still in win 2002 or whatever its called.
Compaines that make stuff like Macrovision tend to patent ways of breaking it before they release the product. You may already be too late.
Recently millions of Americans went to to an Aussie owned theater (Village) to watch a New Zealand made movie (LOTR) based on the works of a British author. Many of them saw the ads for the movie on a network founded by an Australian (Fox) while watching a show created by an American (Simpsons) but animated in India. They can buy the sound track made by a Japanese firm (Sony) with songs composed in Ireland (Enya).
Yep, protecting American creativity...
A patent must be invented by a human, not a corporation however patent law encourages assignments to a company.
The $50 figure is a result of contract law requiring that each side get something. When the $50 figure was first used, it was quite a nice sum of money (it was more than than the cost of the patent)
Maybe you should have been paying attention when they taked about "map datums" in your map reading classes. Then you would understand taht 30 m error. Besides GPS is only good for about 10m (15m if you have the militray ones with the right keys)
How do they know which was last mailed? I don't can't remember when the last time I saw a clear postmark on a letter and most of the prepaid stuff has no postmark at all.
Did anyone provide a prepaid envelope?
This vote will be decided in court so I don't expect to see the result this year.
I do expect to see Fiorina looking for a job and saving her pennies for the lawsuits. I wonder if she will end up working the fry cooker like most history majors.
Most new cars produce so little CO that you can't even killyour self with the exahust anymore.
Huricannes that move inland are much more likly to cause lots of damage. Places built on the sea are generaly bult to deal with the high winds and the locals tend to have a good idea of where the sea surge is going to go. This is why storms that hit area that usualy don't get storms have such a damaging effect.
There is a point in Missouri called Hurricanne Point, It was the farther place inland that had damage from a hurricanne that hit the gulf in the late 1800's.
1) Ip allocations:
I would expect that you get an IP addres from the DHCP server in 192.168/16. The may use overloaded NAT so they only need a few ip addresses
2) 802.11 gear starts at about $50 plus another $100 for a decent antenna. Some of the better stuff may be up to about $700.
3) Private
4) The same way you keep people from pissing the loccal pool, Bubba and his drinking buddies show up at the lusers house and LART.
The problem I see with this is that some of the frequencies they are using are overloaded and the other lines are pure line of sight. Low hill countryside means about 45% of the area will be shielded unless they have a very tall tower or single landsape feature. Even in that case 30% of the area will not be able to get a signal. These things work very well in areas where you've got a flat area and tall tower (Chicago) or a very tall mountain (Denver).
Most of the wireless lan gear seems to be based on large city coverage and there are some cost considerations for small towns or rural areas. The cheap 802.11 stuff can cope with about 90 users and after that, there are scaleability issues.
XML is a wonderful idea.
Its the only common format that can get in to two unique states, one requires an infinite amount of memory and the other, infinite amount of time to parse unless the dataset is small. Won't the XML idiots go back and take a basic class in computer science?
You know those O(n log n) like things and related memory issues? Maybe not since XLM is a trendy buzzword created by a useless group of ego pushers that never did anything useful but almost document what Netscape and IE had already done.
What happens when you don't know what your even looking for? Data mining is more about ways to automaticly find interesting ways of indexing and displaying data than simply looking up known values in unstructured data.
There is a package that is good at displaying unstructured data and letting you see strange patterns since it has tools to find patterns in the data. Its called Partek.
If its done right, you build a round version of a linear motor and you don't need any bearings at all.
Since the blades in a circle and the mounting package is a square, there is not mucf (if any) space is lost.
They are at the greenwich museum. The early clocks were made mostly of brass so they are big shiny metal things. With enough Lego's you could make your own working copy.
The Museum is in Greenwich England. Its at 51 degrees, 28 minutes 38 seconds north of the Equator but I don't remember what its longitiude is but its close to London.
I suspect MS used quite a bit of GCC since version 5 of their C compiler had many of the some of the same optimization bugs as GCC. Anyone got access to the source for the old versions of MS C?
The US DOD rent theirs too.
McDonald Douglas Semiconductors used to be in St Louis and they never made a production chip but the rumors were they unmade chips.
Smartcards for the general market have to be robust enough and low power enough that they are smallish CPUs. The fast ones are 8Mhz and have some crypto functions built in. In raw CPU terms they are about the same level as a fast Z80.
In a cable TV system, the smart cards generate a seed that is feed to crypto unit. Most system gave up on the smart cards that just say "they get channles 2-20,45,Pr0n..." since they were cracked within days but you never know when a 20 year old cable system is still in use. The Foxtel system in Australia for example uses a signal down the wire that goes to the smart card which then generates a pseudo random sequence. Each of thouse numbers is like an index that tells it where the line is swaped. Their encryption is they take each scanline, break it and send the second part first. Someone in Norway(?) had written a program that would look for the split in real time and put it back together. I guess Murdoch might have something to worry about if the rumor is true and someone else is willing to pay for a crack.
Modern credit card systems do the ATM pin hiding trick in the smart card. If you have access to the networks used by a large department store, it would take about a year to crack most repeat customer's pin numbers. Since most pin numbers are only 4 digits, you only need to be able to feed the chip a few wrong tries per "swipe" and if they come in a few times a week, you could try 500 pin codes in a year. If you do that with 20 different cards a week, you will have someones full account details and their pin number in a year. Since its automated, there is no use to limit yourself to 20. This works for both Visa and that cool new clear card from that company no one will accept.
So in a smartcard based credit card system, All you accounts are belong to us.