> the new Samsung 256GB SSD features a sequential read speed of 200 megabytes per second (MB/s)
The article continues:
"That is at the hardware level. Unfortunately, some OS designs prevent reads any faster than 640k/s, 'since 640k per second is all the read speed anybody will ever need.' "
I goofed this one myself. I mis-entered some of the data on one of the two patterns. By chance, it made the pattern be a length of 5 x (some 2-digit prime). The other one also happened to be 5 x (some other 2-digit prime). This immediately suggested a series of 5 digit numbers, one base 2, the other base 3. It turned into gobbledey-gook when ASCII-ified, for obvious reasons as we now know (as were all offsets 0..255, etc.)
I have no problem using hardware you have purchased for an issue it wasn't built or sold for. I have no more problem using Linux on a PS3 than I do throwing the PS3 on a fire to help keep you warm.
I do have issues with using software, music, etc. that you did not pay for, but the key difference is paid for vs. not paid for.
Well, I typed in both the top and bottom things (NOT assuming any were wrap-around splits), and the first had 115 numbers, or 5 * 23. The second had 265 numbers, or 5 * 53.
This suggested strongly that both were 5 digit data "bytes", the first in base 3 and the second in base 2.
Then I converted both into proper numbers and loaded them into a quick and dirty program I wrote to see if they were ASCII, rotating offsets for all 256 possible values, but it's obvious now why it didn't produce anything but junk.
I wonder if this (that both had a total number of 5 * (some prime)) was a deliberatly planned misdirection, or just one hell of a coincidence between the two data lists.
The interstices would not represent zeroes, unless the message just happened to have no more than 1 zero in a row. Hence | represents 0, || represents 1, and ||| represents 2, or some rotation of that.
By the way, this is apparently some kind of "unary" notation, though what zero it is remains to be seen. Similarly, the bottom set, having no more than two | in a row, might be another unary notation of something in a base 2.
As for the little dots, some, like the symbol for E, are repeated, so it's safe to assume they're part of the symbol. Others, like 6, are repeated without the dots, so it's probably a stray mark. Still others, like 5, 0, and 8 are not repeated, so we can't tell for sure whether the odd marks are stray or part of the symbol.
It's also possible they are an additional notation applied to the base symbol, giving it a slightly different meaning, or adding more info.
Worse, the only ones hurt by them "going out of business" will be the honest customers. The cheaters who hacked it or tricked it will continue their merry playing.
> a server found by security firm Finjin that contained a 1.4-GB cache of > stolen data, accumulated over a period of less than a month from > compromised PCs around the world. The "crimeserver," as Finjin dubs it, > "provided command and control functions for malware attacks in addition > to being a drop site for data harvested from compromised computers..."
Fucking Morpheus! Can't the feds ever stop this guy?!?!?
"Neither side is required to call" is not the same as "The defense is not permitted to call..."
What I want to know is isn't the prosecution required to prove there was a murder? Maybe not produce a "body" per se, but at least prove there was a murder?
Cool! A Minnie Driver / Anne Hathaway love scene!
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George Will, among others, points out the failure in the "War on Drugs" is evidenced by the falling price, and increasing quality, of cocaine and other drugs, both showing an increase in competition for the consumer's dollar.
Actually fighting in the streets was OK, too, as long as you consented to it. Then they "got around" this common-law thing via the invention of the "disturbing the peace" law.
> Lord Wallace of Tankerness
Sounds like some 14 year old's World of Warcraft warrior character.
> Microsoft has developed a small plug-in device that investigators can use to quickly > extract forensic data from computers that "may have been used in crimes." It basically > bypasses all of the Windows security (decrypting passwords, etc.)
Two days later:
"Here's a list of 347 web sites where you can download this.
Thirty seven days later:
"Microsoft has issued a security alert because of a hack that will allow anyone to remotely access and take control of your computer."
Six months later:
"Microsoft has issued a patch via their patch update system. Also, there is no more backdoor utility."
Three days later:
"Here are 4,277 web sites where you can download the new government backdoor spying Microsoft utility."
etc.
Actually, I wondered a long time ago if the government didn't get all up in Microsoft's face about monopoly violations so they could induce them to secretly give up ways to invade computers remotely. A few show trials and penalties, and then the government decides it's done.
There's something more badass than a Super Star Destroyer? SWEET JESUS! Hyper Death Destroyers, a 121 mile long monstrosity that can hold a SSD in it's bay! Actually visible side-by-side of a Death Star! Big enough to hold a true planet destroying ray, although it must take over 12 hours to recharge. It can, however, recharge to capital-ship busting level in 39.3 seconds.
I think this was in that novel where Leia and Luke's daughter has her mind wiped and her face altered, and she accidently makes love to Leia.
> Yesterday, the Open Source community took an emotional hit when veteran > Linux programmer Hans Reiser was convicted of first degree murder in the > suspicious disappearing of his wife, Nina.
In the Nerdly Devastation Rating System, this is somewhat worse than O.J. killing his wife, and the uncomfort level this gives you watching a Naked Gun Movie, but no way near as bad as William Shatner finding, or maybe "finding" his wife dead in the pool, when watching TOS.
If a key logger just traps key presses, you could conceivably type out your password by clicking on letters in the Character Map mini-app under Accessories, then copy and paste it into the password field (which most will allow pasting.)
If the key logger is a little more robust and smart enough to copy the clipboard changes and the like, this method wouldn't work.
While it's true some spiders don't use webbing, most of the spiders in WoW and other games live in dens and areas with webs everywhere. In WoW's case, there are often wrapped up and struggling ornaments on display.
Can't wait until they do this with the English version, and people pick up the book and try to find the Shakespeare article, only to find printed pages of The Hulk's primary foes, Wolverine's origin, and a detailed description of Blue Beetle's flying beetlecar.
> Well, he (actually not him, the graphics effects people) did make [LotR] very pretty, > but my overall level of excitement from the movie is pretty low. There was a lot > of parts that just really dragged on.
So it was a very faithful reproduction of the books, then!
Worse, who wants to go see a movie where someone like Legolas has to shoot 200 arrows into an orc before it dies? Or Strider has to hit a goblin with his sword 300 times before it dies?
These aren't weapons. They're Nerf products!
Envision Frodo's spider scene. Now imagine the spider doesn't actually try to wrap him in webs, but just kind of barks at him. I've yet to see a game that actually has spiders fight the way a spider would, wrapping people up.
> The FCC & Stanford hoped to host an on-campus debate over Net Neutrality and invited AT&T, > Comcast, Verizon, and Time Warner to take part. None of them showed up. Unfortunately, > only one side of the issue was voiced despite Stanford being home to people opposing Net Neutrality.
In a completely unrelated story, Brown university hoped to host an on-campus debate over the war in Iraq and invited George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, and Condoleeza Rice to take part. None of them showed up. Unfortunately only one side of the issue was voiced despite Brown being home to people opposing the war in Iraq.
Stop! This thread is about the lighthearted and pure nerdling joy of finding an unreleased Atari 2600 game at a flea market. If you're talking about family members dying during 9/11, then the thread's gone horribly wrong!
More than that, the Prime Directive was a bass-ackwards plot device to attempt to explain why neither the Vulcans nor anybody else ever openly visited Earth in the past.
"Oh, they must not wanna interfere because 'we're not ready yet'."
What crap! WTF is so damned "magical" about the state of some planet's culture when they invent interstellar travel, as opposed to 50 or 200 or 1000 years earlier?
For most of human history, the vast bulk of the population lived in misery, while a few kings lived at the top. Preserve this for century on century?
Any space culture that does that is no no friend of humanity or justice.
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> the new Samsung 256GB SSD features a sequential read speed of 200 megabytes per second (MB/s)
The article continues:
"That is at the hardware level. Unfortunately, some OS designs prevent reads any faster than 640k/s, 'since 640k per second is all the read speed anybody will ever need.' "
I goofed this one myself. I mis-entered some of the data on one of the two patterns. By chance, it made the pattern be a length of 5 x (some 2-digit prime). The other one also happened to be 5 x (some other 2-digit prime). This immediately suggested a series of 5 digit numbers, one base 2, the other base 3. It turned into gobbledey-gook when ASCII-ified, for obvious reasons as we now know (as were all offsets 0..255, etc.)
"Rats!"
I have no problem using hardware you have purchased for an issue it wasn't built or sold for. I have no more problem using Linux on a PS3 than I do throwing the PS3 on a fire to help keep you warm.
I do have issues with using software, music, etc. that you did not pay for, but the key difference is paid for vs. not paid for.
Enhancing cellular metabolism is called Accelerated Metabolism and is actually one of the best powers in the game.
Well, I typed in both the top and bottom things (NOT assuming any were wrap-around splits), and the first had 115 numbers, or 5 * 23. The second had 265 numbers, or 5 * 53.
This suggested strongly that both were 5 digit data "bytes", the first in base 3 and the second in base 2.
Then I converted both into proper numbers and loaded them into a quick and dirty program I wrote to see if they were ASCII, rotating offsets for all 256 possible values, but it's obvious now why it didn't produce anything but junk.
I wonder if this (that both had a total number of 5 * (some prime)) was a deliberatly planned misdirection, or just one hell of a coincidence between the two data lists.
The interstices would not represent zeroes, unless the message just happened to have no more than 1 zero in a row. Hence | represents 0, || represents 1, and ||| represents 2, or some rotation of that.
By the way, this is apparently some kind of "unary" notation, though what zero it is remains to be seen. Similarly, the bottom set, having no more than two | in a row, might be another unary notation of something in a base 2.
As for the little dots, some, like the symbol for E, are repeated, so it's safe to assume they're part of the symbol. Others, like 6, are repeated without the dots, so it's probably a stray mark. Still others, like 5, 0, and 8 are not repeated, so we can't tell for sure whether the odd marks are stray or part of the symbol.
It's also possible they are an additional notation applied to the base symbol, giving it a slightly different meaning, or adding more info.
Worse, the only ones hurt by them "going out of business" will be the honest customers. The cheaters who hacked it or tricked it will continue their merry playing.
> a server found by security firm Finjin that contained a 1.4-GB cache of
> stolen data, accumulated over a period of less than a month from
> compromised PCs around the world. The "crimeserver," as Finjin dubs it,
> "provided command and control functions for malware attacks in addition
> to being a drop site for data harvested from compromised computers..."
Fucking Morpheus! Can't the feds ever stop this guy?!?!?
Well, I'll tell you this:
> and is easily defeated by the end user with Firefox and "NoScript"
It should have been even more easily defeated by the end user by doing nothing, by automatic updates.
"Neither side is required to call" is not the same as "The defense is not permitted to call..."
What I want to know is isn't the prosecution required to prove there was a murder? Maybe not produce a "body" per se, but at least prove there was a murder?
George Will, among others, points out the failure in the "War on Drugs" is evidenced by the falling price, and increasing quality, of cocaine and other drugs, both showing an increase in competition for the consumer's dollar.
Actually fighting in the streets was OK, too, as long as you consented to it. Then they "got around" this common-law thing via the invention of the "disturbing the peace" law.
> Lord Wallace of Tankerness
Sounds like some 14 year old's World of Warcraft warrior character.
> Microsoft has developed a small plug-in device that investigators can use to quickly
> extract forensic data from computers that "may have been used in crimes." It basically
> bypasses all of the Windows security (decrypting passwords, etc.)
Two days later:
"Here's a list of 347 web sites where you can download this.
Thirty seven days later:
"Microsoft has issued a security alert because of a hack that will allow anyone to remotely access and take control of your computer."
Six months later:
"Microsoft has issued a patch via their patch update system. Also, there is no more backdoor utility."
Three days later:
"Here are 4,277 web sites where you can download the new government backdoor spying Microsoft utility."
etc.
Actually, I wondered a long time ago if the government didn't get all up in Microsoft's face about monopoly violations so they could induce them to secretly give up ways to invade computers remotely. A few show trials and penalties, and then the government decides it's done.
My reaction was:
> Performance Showdown - SSDs vs. HDDs
There's something more badass than a Super Star Destroyer? SWEET JESUS! Hyper Death Destroyers, a 121 mile long monstrosity that can hold a SSD in it's bay! Actually visible side-by-side of a Death Star! Big enough to hold a true planet destroying ray, although it must take over 12 hours to recharge. It can, however, recharge to capital-ship busting level in 39.3 seconds.
I think this was in that novel where Leia and Luke's daughter has her mind wiped and her face altered, and she accidently makes love to Leia.
> Yesterday, the Open Source community took an emotional hit when veteran
> Linux programmer Hans Reiser was convicted of first degree murder in the
> suspicious disappearing of his wife, Nina.
In the Nerdly Devastation Rating System, this is somewhat worse than O.J. killing his wife, and the uncomfort level this gives you watching a Naked Gun Movie, but no way near as bad as William Shatner finding, or maybe "finding" his wife dead in the pool, when watching TOS.
If a key logger just traps key presses, you could conceivably type out your password by clicking on letters in the Character Map mini-app under Accessories, then copy and paste it into the password field (which most will allow pasting.)
If the key logger is a little more robust and smart enough to copy the clipboard changes and the like, this method wouldn't work.
While it's true some spiders don't use webbing, most of the spiders in WoW and other games live in dens and areas with webs everywhere. In WoW's case, there are often wrapped up and struggling ornaments on display.
So...no.
> the most popular 50,000 articles
Can't wait until they do this with the English version, and people pick up the book and try to find the Shakespeare article, only to find printed pages of The Hulk's primary foes, Wolverine's origin, and a detailed description of Blue Beetle's flying beetlecar.
> Well, he (actually not him, the graphics effects people) did make [LotR] very pretty,
> but my overall level of excitement from the movie is pretty low. There was a lot
> of parts that just really dragged on.
So it was a very faithful reproduction of the books, then!
Worse, who wants to go see a movie where someone like Legolas has to shoot 200 arrows into an orc before it dies? Or Strider has to hit a goblin with his sword 300 times before it dies?
These aren't weapons. They're Nerf products!
Envision Frodo's spider scene. Now imagine the spider doesn't actually try to wrap him in webs, but just kind of barks at him. I've yet to see a game that actually has spiders fight the way a spider would, wrapping people up.
> The FCC & Stanford hoped to host an on-campus debate over Net Neutrality and invited AT&T,
> Comcast, Verizon, and Time Warner to take part. None of them showed up. Unfortunately,
> only one side of the issue was voiced despite Stanford being home to people opposing Net Neutrality.
In a completely unrelated story, Brown university hoped to host an on-campus debate over the war in Iraq and invited George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, and Condoleeza Rice to take part. None of them showed up. Unfortunately only one side of the issue was voiced despite Brown being home to people opposing the war in Iraq.
Look, the nerd's trying to do comedy. Cut him some slack!
> Even if I had a family member that died in 9/11
Stop! This thread is about the lighthearted and pure nerdling joy of finding an unreleased Atari 2600 game at a flea market. If you're talking about family members dying during 9/11, then the thread's gone horribly wrong!
> though note that the mouse makes a poor substitute for a paddle
Richard Gere might disagree.
More than that, the Prime Directive was a bass-ackwards plot device to attempt to explain why neither the Vulcans nor anybody else ever openly visited Earth in the past.
"Oh, they must not wanna interfere because 'we're not ready yet'."
What crap! WTF is so damned "magical" about the state of some planet's culture when they invent interstellar travel, as opposed to 50 or 200 or 1000 years earlier?
For most of human history, the vast bulk of the population lived in misery, while a few kings lived at the top. Preserve this for century on century?
Any space culture that does that is no no friend of humanity or justice.