Dell PCs are pretty quiet -- not as quiet as some others, but they do a good job.
The ones that I've seen have a large exhaust fan and a pretty solid case.
Hrmm... one entry in the Manhattan phone book.
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Junkie Loves His Spam
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If this isn't the same guy as in the article, I feel sorry for him!
13 listed living at 325 W 32rd St (apartment?), in Manhattan NY, including one Orlando Soto. http://www.smartpages.com/whitepages/index. jhtml?F rom=50stateswp&wpsearch=1&fname=orlando&lname=soto &CityZipAC=Manhattan&State=NY
Show me an encyclopedia that can tell me Darl's phone number, and I'll show you an encyclopedia that stands a chance against Wikipedia and google.
Seriously -- the static collection of information just can't keep up with the volume and diversity of information that people seek nowadays. They used to be the first stop for information, mostly due to lack of options.
Now, we have to settle for Google until the first edition of the real HHGTG comes out.
I mean, our own periodic table lists all **KNOWN** elements, but what if there's an equivalent to a huge iron ore plate where these things are landing?
That would explain why they're relatively flat, and also why radio communication is shoddy (at best). Just because we can't detect it doesnt' mean that something isn't there.
what are the possibilities of a scenario like this happening?
I mean...Everyone knows that there's a billion ways that each file on P2P networks will have a different hash (different encoding, a ID text file, or even just ending the file 1 second early). Regardless, this hash will differ, and they won't be able to filter out what's out there.
But -- what about the garbage taht the RIAA is putting on kazaa? I haven't tested this theory - but do teh RIAA files all have the same hash? Would it, theoretically, be possible to block the tainted files using this same idea? It would just mean that someone would haev to keep a database of RIAA mp3 hashes.
So lets say that somehow, against all odds, a crew finds a way to survive there, and makes a stable colony.
GREAT!
But then... They could declare Mars to be their own, and screw over any hopes of earthlings because we have no way of making it there reliably -- and even if we do, we'd be spent from the long trip just to get there.
How many of you would risk your life to make it there, and then give it all up because someone on another planet says that you owe it to them?
Try living in a student house with 8 or so people in it.
Back in the day, we'd end up using IM more frequently than we'd actually go in and talk to each other. Not only was it more convenient, it also let us respond after studying, when we got home, or whatever. With the schedules so different, it was just easier than getting up, banging on the door, then going back and messaging them later on.
But then again, the best way to get each other's attention was to crank up Quake....
One thing that's made me wonder is, if I want to use gcc or another gpl compiler, would the resultant project automatically be gpl'd?
http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#IfInter pr eterIsGPL When the interpreter just interprets a language, the answer is no. The interpreted program, to the interpreter, is just data; a free software license like the GPL, based on copyright law, cannot limit what data you use the interpreter on. You can run it on any data (interpreted program), any way you like, and there are no requirements about licensing that data to anyone.
Hey -- it'd be great to get rid of that annoying guy getting calls in the theatre, but how would you feel if you walked out of a LOTR marathon and found out that 11 hours ago, someone in your family was in a serious car accident and they couldn't get a call through all that time?
The best physics humour ever Points of View: December 2003
Robert P Crease selects the funniest jokes about physics and physicists from his readers' poll
Three months ago I asked readers of Physics World to contribute samples of new physics jokes, fresh forms of physics wit, or cases of "found humour" in physics (see "So you think physics is funny?"). I received about 200 replies, including jokes in several languages, stories, Photoshop creations, video clips and links to science cartoon databases.
I was also contacted by a representative of BBC Radio Five Live, who claimed to be interested in having me talk about physics humour late one night. My subsequent negative experience - I hope nobody was awake to hear it - illustrates an important lesson about science humour.
Outsiders don't get it When I was first hooked up, the show's host Dotun Adebayo was finishing a segment on dirty bombs, treating the expert being interviewed with deference and respect. When that concluded, he said something like: "And now for something completely different!" That should have alerted me that I was bring set up.
Adebayo retold some jokes from my column in Physics World - accompanied by a conspicuously too-loud laugh track - then asked me to explain the jokes. Stupidly, I complied. Too late, it dawned on me that while some aspects of science, such as safety and health, are sacred to outsiders, other parts are simply targets for ridicule. Professional humour is one. The point of the programme was to laugh, not at jokes, but at physicists for their supposedly mechanical and cerebral wit.
The lesson was that I should have resisted. Being jousted, I should have jousted back - perhaps with the aid of a simple jest. "I can't explain these jokes to you, Dotun, they're only for smart people!" I should have said. "But try this one: did you hear about the restaurant NASA is starting on the Moon? Great food, no atmosphere! Still with me, Dotun? Shall I slow down?" (Thanks to Larry Bays from the Los Alamos National Laboratory for that joke.)
My Five Live experience reminded me of two other cases of comedians appropriating professional humour. One is a recent New Yorker article in which Woody Allen couches everyday anxiety-provoking experiences (being late for work, trying to seduce someone) in language borrowed from physics. A typical sentence runs: "I could feel my coupling constant invade her weak field as I pressed my lips to her wet neutrinos." Allen lumbers across a whole page in this meant-to-be-cute vein. Don't abandon that film career, Woody.
The other comedian to have tackled professional humour is Steve Martin, who tells his audience that he has worked up a joke about wrenches because a convention of plumbers is in town that night. The punchline, when it eventually comes, is: "It says sprocket, not socket!" When the supposedly expected guffaws fail to materialize, Martin feigns puzzlement. "Were those plumbers supposed to be here this show?" he asks. Now that brings laughs.
These episodes illustrate a mixture of ways in which outsiders can appropriate the technical vocabulary of a profession for humorous purposes. Allen uses the poetic suggestiveness of technical terms (coupling, weak field and so on) for good-natured fun; his sentences do not make sense if you are an insider and go only by the words. Martin makes fun out of our not being insiders and not understanding the words. Radio Five Live made fun of the insiders themselves: the fact that they do understand the words.
Jests Humour, anthropologists tell us, is a flexible tool for managing the social environment. It can be used to draw people in by sharing, to keep people away by intimidating, to build charisma, to impress, to entertain, to relieve tension, to test and challenge oneself and others. But it is an especially useful tool in science, and particularly physics, precisely because it engages, fosters and celebrates the same values that the field itself depends on - namely cleverness, play and
I never really understood why someone didn't just contact the CC companies and get a really low limit on their credit cards. Hell, even TELL them that you're going to use it for "verification purposes" online, so that you'd want to know who tried to charge money to it. I don't know if you can, but ask them to keep track of where it was rejected.
Enter the number once, and watch the traceable info for spammers / people that buy this information just ROLL in.
It may be time-consuming, but so is this battle with attempting to blacklist spammers.
So if we're moving towards all this fancy tech, do we have to worry about syncing the data?
How would that be done? WiFi? But then, there'd be an opportunity to take the literal 'wardriving' approach. And given how poor computer security is in most homes nowadays....
When you say "some people have too much time on their hands", are you talking about the guy that made the case mod, or the guy that spent 10 minutes waiting for pictures of a case mod?;)
Daniel Reid, senior computer science student at Algoma University finished explaining his project to a room full of his peers. The room fell silent as everyone waited in eager anticipation of the demonstration that was about to begin. Danny sat down in front of an ordinary windows computer and typed a simple command, ping www.sony.co.jp This command sends a test message to the specified computer, namely a webserver on the other side of the planet in Japan.
Ah yes the humble ping test, used to test for connectivity between your computer and another. But this was no ordinary test. It would couple together one of the most primitive centuries old technologies known to man together with the one of the fastest fiber-optic backbones in the Internet.
It all began several months earlier when Professor George Townsend was lecturing to a group of computer science students taking his fourth year Computer Networks course. The topic of the day was the OSI networking model, which describes a layered method of combining different types of technologies together to form functional networking systems. During the lecture, Professor Townsend made the claim that the design of the model permits different types of technologies to be transparently connected together. He suddenly stopped in mid lecture, and stared off into space stroking his beard thoughtfully. After a short moment of silent thought, he suggested to the class, that in theory, this should permit us to use any technology we like to connect a computer to the Internet without compromising its ability to participate in the Internet. Furthermore, he exclaimed, his voice rising in excitement, we could use a set of bongo drums to communicate as our technology of choice!
This was a dangerous claim to make at Algoma University where a unique blend of students exist as a result of the very successful Second Degree Accelerated programs it offers in Computer Science and Information Technology. These fast-track programs allow completion of an accredited university degree for people that already have a university degree in another discipline in only one calendar year. The program attracts many mature students who often bring a great deal of real world experience with them. So, of course, it was not surprising that there were many who doubted professor Townsend's words. We demand proof, they shouted!
The next morning, Professor Townsend sent out a challenge to the students in the course offering bonus marks to the first student to volunteer to attempt to connect a standard windows PC to the internet using a system of bongo drums. Danny eagerly took up the challenge. Now, several weeks later, under the guidance and direction of Professor Townsend, Danny had a working prototype.
After typing the ping command, Danny tapped smartly on the enter key, and a hush fell upon the room as the students waited to see what would happen. There was a short pause, and then suddenly the primitive sounds of a message being beaten out on a set of bongos filled the air. Several minutes passed, and yet the class remained quiet not wanting to disturb the communication. Having passed through the bongo-link and out onto the Internet, the ping message then raced to its destination in Japan.
Sony's web server in Japan was none the wiser concerning the source of the communication, and obediently responded to the ping request. The silence was broken by another set of bongos at the opposite side of the classroom as they began relaying their response back to Danny's computer. Several more minutes passed, and the class remained attentive, spellbound by what they were witnessing. Finally, the bongos stopped, and suddenly the successful ping response appeared on the screen of Dannys computer.
The classroom filled with cheers! History had been made! For the very first time, a computer had successfully communicated over the Internet using Bongo drums!
Why does everyone complain about a/.-ing, when a perfectly good Google Cache is here? http://216.239.41.104/search?sourceid=navcl ient&ie =UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=cache:http%3A%2F%2Fwww.dvddebate.com%2Farticle.php%3Fsid%3D3574
During August, 67 per cent of all successful and verifiable digital attacks against on-line servers targeted Linux, followed by Microsoft Windows at 23.2 per cent.
Of course, that really depends on how you 'verify' a breach, doesn't it?/me turns off logging and closes eyes, going back to my happy place.
Slashdot Mirror
Strange.
I still see 1GB in my account, which it still says in the FAQ.
The faq also says a maximum of 10MB per message.
While it may be simple to say "it was the phone", its more likely that it was static electricity imho.
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For an example, check out this video, notice what she's doing just before she comes close to the metal in the nozzle (right next to the gas vapour).
http://www.everythingisnt.com/archives/00001265
Dell PCs are pretty quiet -- not as quiet as some others, but they do a good job.
The ones that I've seen have a large exhaust fan and a pretty solid case.
If this isn't the same guy as in the article, I feel sorry for him!
. jhtml?F rom=50stateswp&wpsearch=1&fname=orlando&lname=soto &CityZipAC=Manhattan&State=NY
13 listed living at 325 W 32rd St (apartment?), in Manhattan NY, including one Orlando Soto.
http://www.smartpages.com/whitepages/index
Show me an encyclopedia that can tell me Darl's phone number, and I'll show you an encyclopedia that stands a chance against Wikipedia and google.
Seriously -- the static collection of information just can't keep up with the volume and diversity of information that people seek nowadays. They used to be the first stop for information, mostly due to lack of options.
Now, we have to settle for Google until the first edition of the real HHGTG comes out.
AFAIK, Firebird still retains the same interface as Interbase.
p ://www.ibphoenix.com/a6181.htm
This means that PHP4.0 has full support for it -- but I'm not sure how this applies with the new version of firebird.
http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.ibase.php
htt
Or, alternatively, you could advertise on /. by snagging the first post! =P
If you sell your CD, you lose your right to have that music.
That means that you have to remove it from your iPod.
When you sell the CD, you sell your rights to listen to it. Fair use only allows you to do so much.
IANAL, yadda yadda ya.
I mean, our own periodic table lists all **KNOWN** elements, but what if there's an equivalent to a huge iron ore plate where these things are landing?
That would explain why they're relatively flat, and also why radio communication is shoddy (at best). Just because we can't detect it doesnt' mean that something isn't there.
what are the possibilities of a scenario like this happening?
But I think that this is a GREAT idea!
I mean...Everyone knows that there's a billion ways that each file on P2P networks will have a different hash (different encoding, a ID text file, or even just ending the file 1 second early). Regardless, this hash will differ, and they won't be able to filter out what's out there.
But -- what about the garbage taht the RIAA is putting on kazaa? I haven't tested this theory - but do teh RIAA files all have the same hash? Would it, theoretically, be possible to block the tainted files using this same idea? It would just mean that someone would haev to keep a database of RIAA mp3 hashes.
So lets say that somehow, against all odds, a crew finds a way to survive there, and makes a stable colony.
GREAT!
But then... They could declare Mars to be their own, and screw over any hopes of earthlings because we have no way of making it there reliably -- and even if we do, we'd be spent from the long trip just to get there.
How many of you would risk your life to make it there, and then give it all up because someone on another planet says that you owe it to them?
Try living in a student house with 8 or so people in it.
Back in the day, we'd end up using IM more frequently than we'd actually go in and talk to each other. Not only was it more convenient, it also let us respond after studying, when we got home, or whatever. With the schedules so different, it was just easier than getting up, banging on the door, then going back and messaging them later on.
But then again, the best way to get each other's attention was to crank up Quake....
One thing that's made me wonder is, if I want to use gcc or another gpl compiler, would the resultant project automatically be gpl'd?
r pr eterIsGPL
http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#IfInte
When the interpreter just interprets a language, the answer is no. The interpreted program, to the interpreter, is just data; a free software license like the GPL, based on copyright law, cannot limit what data you use the interpreter on. You can run it on any data (interpreted program), any way you like, and there are no requirements about licensing that data to anyone.
A digital camera with 5x or better optical zoom is a nice thing, too.
I've always wondered -- at 5x optical zoom, wouldn't hand shake play a huge factor?
Hey -- it'd be great to get rid of that annoying guy getting calls in the theatre, but how would you feel if you walked out of a LOTR marathon and found out that 11 hours ago, someone in your family was in a serious car accident and they couldn't get a call through all that time?
The best physics humour ever
Points of View: December 2003
Robert P Crease selects the funniest jokes about physics and physicists from his readers' poll
Three months ago I asked readers of Physics World to contribute samples of new physics jokes, fresh forms of physics wit, or cases of "found humour" in physics (see "So you think physics is funny?"). I received about 200 replies, including jokes in several languages, stories, Photoshop creations, video clips and links to science cartoon databases.
I was also contacted by a representative of BBC Radio Five Live, who claimed to be interested in having me talk about physics humour late one night. My subsequent negative experience - I hope nobody was awake to hear it - illustrates an important lesson about science humour.
Outsiders don't get it
When I was first hooked up, the show's host Dotun Adebayo was finishing a segment on dirty bombs, treating the expert being interviewed with deference and respect. When that concluded, he said something like: "And now for something completely different!" That should have alerted me that I was bring set up.
Adebayo retold some jokes from my column in Physics World - accompanied by a conspicuously too-loud laugh track - then asked me to explain the jokes. Stupidly, I complied. Too late, it dawned on me that while some aspects of science, such as safety and health, are sacred to outsiders, other parts are simply targets for ridicule. Professional humour is one. The point of the programme was to laugh, not at jokes, but at physicists for their supposedly mechanical and cerebral wit.
The lesson was that I should have resisted. Being jousted, I should have jousted back - perhaps with the aid of a simple jest. "I can't explain these jokes to you, Dotun, they're only for smart people!" I should have said. "But try this one: did you hear about the restaurant NASA is starting on the Moon? Great food, no atmosphere! Still with me, Dotun? Shall I slow down?" (Thanks to Larry Bays from the Los Alamos National Laboratory for that joke.)
My Five Live experience reminded me of two other cases of comedians appropriating professional humour. One is a recent New Yorker article in which Woody Allen couches everyday anxiety-provoking experiences (being late for work, trying to seduce someone) in language borrowed from physics. A typical sentence runs: "I could feel my coupling constant invade her weak field as I pressed my lips to her wet neutrinos." Allen lumbers across a whole page in this meant-to-be-cute vein. Don't abandon that film career, Woody.
The other comedian to have tackled professional humour is Steve Martin, who tells his audience that he has worked up a joke about wrenches because a convention of plumbers is in town that night. The punchline, when it eventually comes, is: "It says sprocket, not socket!" When the supposedly expected guffaws fail to materialize, Martin feigns puzzlement. "Were those plumbers supposed to be here this show?" he asks. Now that brings laughs.
These episodes illustrate a mixture of ways in which outsiders can appropriate the technical vocabulary of a profession for humorous purposes. Allen uses the poetic suggestiveness of technical terms (coupling, weak field and so on) for good-natured fun; his sentences do not make sense if you are an insider and go only by the words. Martin makes fun out of our not being insiders and not understanding the words. Radio Five Live made fun of the insiders themselves: the fact that they do understand the words.
Jests
Humour, anthropologists tell us, is a flexible tool for managing the social environment. It can be used to draw people in by sharing, to keep people away by intimidating, to build charisma, to impress, to entertain, to relieve tension, to test and challenge oneself and others. But it is an especially useful tool in science, and particularly physics, precisely because it engages, fosters and celebrates the same values that the field itself depends on - namely cleverness, play and
I never really understood why someone didn't just contact the CC companies and get a really low limit on their credit cards. Hell, even TELL them that you're going to use it for "verification purposes" online, so that you'd want to know who tried to charge money to it. I don't know if you can, but ask them to keep track of where it was rejected.
Enter the number once, and watch the traceable info for spammers / people that buy this information just ROLL in.
It may be time-consuming, but so is this battle with attempting to blacklist spammers.
So if we're moving towards all this fancy tech, do we have to worry about syncing the data?
How would that be done? WiFi? But then, there'd be an opportunity to take the literal 'wardriving' approach. And given how poor computer security is in most homes nowadays....
Linux Based Tablets Are Coming
You know that its time to go to bed when you read the title and start thinking:
"Why the hell did those folks at Slashdot put Linux on a table?!?!"
When you say "some people have too much time on their hands", are you talking about the guy that made the case mod, or the guy that spent 10 minutes waiting for pictures of a case mod? ;)
Modern and Centuries Old Technologies Meet at AUC
Daniel Reid, senior computer science student at Algoma University finished explaining his project to a room full of his peers. The room fell silent as everyone waited in eager anticipation of the demonstration that was about to begin. Danny sat down in front of an ordinary windows computer and typed a simple command, ping www.sony.co.jp This command sends a test message to the specified computer, namely a webserver on the other side of the planet in Japan.
Ah yes the humble ping test, used to test for connectivity between your computer and another. But this was no ordinary test. It would couple together one of the most primitive centuries old technologies known to man together with the one of the fastest fiber-optic backbones in the Internet.
It all began several months earlier when Professor George Townsend was lecturing to a group of computer science students taking his fourth year Computer Networks course. The topic of the day was the OSI networking model, which describes a layered method of combining different types of technologies together to form functional networking systems. During the lecture, Professor Townsend made the claim that the design of the model permits different types of technologies to be transparently connected together. He suddenly stopped in mid lecture, and stared off into space stroking his beard thoughtfully. After a short moment of silent thought, he suggested to the class, that in theory, this should permit us to use any technology we like to connect a computer to the Internet without compromising its ability to participate in the Internet. Furthermore, he exclaimed, his voice rising in excitement, we could use a set of bongo drums to communicate as our technology of choice!
This was a dangerous claim to make at Algoma University where a unique blend of students exist as a result of the very successful Second Degree Accelerated programs it offers in Computer Science and Information Technology. These fast-track programs allow completion of an accredited university degree for people that already have a university degree in another discipline in only one calendar year. The program attracts many mature students who often bring a great deal of real world experience with them. So, of course, it was not surprising that there were many who doubted professor Townsend's words. We demand proof, they shouted!
The next morning, Professor Townsend sent out a challenge to the students in the course offering bonus marks to the first student to volunteer to attempt to connect a standard windows PC to the internet using a system of bongo drums. Danny eagerly took up the challenge. Now, several weeks later, under the guidance and direction of Professor Townsend, Danny had a working prototype.
After typing the ping command, Danny tapped smartly on the enter key, and a hush fell upon the room as the students waited to see what would happen. There was a short pause, and then suddenly the primitive sounds of a message being beaten out on a set of bongos filled the air. Several minutes passed, and yet the class remained quiet not wanting to disturb the communication. Having passed through the bongo-link and out onto the Internet, the ping message then raced to its destination in Japan.
Sony's web server in Japan was none the wiser concerning the source of the communication, and obediently responded to the ping request. The silence was broken by another set of bongos at the opposite side of the classroom as they began relaying their response back to Danny's computer. Several more minutes passed, and the class remained attentive, spellbound by what they were witnessing. Finally, the bongos stopped, and suddenly the successful ping response appeared on the screen of Dannys computer.
The classroom filled with cheers! History had been made! For the very first time, a computer had successfully communicated over the Internet using Bongo drums!
the server's still alive!
Why does everyone complain about a /.-ing, when a perfectly good Google Cache is here?l ient&ie =UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=cache:http%3A%2F%2Fwww.dvddebate .com%2Farticle.php%3Fsid%3D3574
http://216.239.41.104/search?sourceid=navc
During August, 67 per cent of all successful and verifiable digital attacks against on-line servers targeted Linux, followed by Microsoft Windows at 23.2 per cent.
/me turns off logging and closes eyes, going back to my happy place.
Of course, that really depends on how you 'verify' a breach, doesn't it?
*sigh*
Well, theoretically here's one. When I can duck out and drive across the country to verify it, I'll let you know ;)
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For now, geocache away, Toynbee followers!
http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_
For a message board on this topic, go here (http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Zone/3790/geoboo
otherwise -- were the ISP linked from the story, we'd have to see if they can also recover from a Slashdotting within 72 hrs! ;)
/. article has an effect close to a tornado?
Could it actually be that a