Your Tinfoil Hat Will Protect You.
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Sensors Gone Wild
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· Score: 3, Insightful
Don't worry... the tinfoil hat you're wearing will keep you from being sensed. All sensors can be fooled... Some systems of sensors are just a little better than others... You just need to know what they measure and send them crappy information.
I saw this happening on my router about three weeks ago... lights freaking out blinking... in other words a lot of traffic going through... Hit the good ole netstat -n and the spoofed IP adds were from get this... IANA.org What a sense of humor! Went through a bout of paranoia updated all my hardware firmware and other crap... Called Comcast told them about the DoS attack... of course they didn't care...
When I went to college, there was a girl named Teresa Watt who had an account on the RS/6000. My buddy Rob had tears in his eyes when he showed me that you can actually "finger twatt".
Fish naturally spin about a foot off the surface of the earth naturally... They're worth about 100 points and when you catch one it makes an amusing noise.
On another note that first map looks extremely bogus. Download and look at it... PDF file. I think it gets the general trends right but I'd like to know EXACTLY where all this data is coming from. The chart lists quantities which I assume to be people per square mile or kilometer... Also the accuracy of data that you collect in third world nations is suspect because they have more things to worry about than counting people accurately... Also city regions like Miami and LA are made to look sparse compared to Cuba... The ENTIRETY of Cuba is ~11,200,000... Just looks odd...
Patents of course last something on the order of 17 years after invention to keep competition off of the idea. Copyrights last the lifetime of the creator plus about 75 years after death. Trademarks can last different periods based on what kind of trademark... Whther it is registered or simply has been in use by the company for a while...
An interesting thing to note is that a lot of institutions like universities are much more concerned over there rights to intellectual property outside of patents... Gatorade for instance has well run past a patent expire date. The trademark and the license to use it by Pepsico is worth millions every year to the University of Florida. 5 million I think...
It might look something like this
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Wartrapping?
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· Score: 5, Funny
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)NO!(
Or failing that a picture of a fat bear with handcuffs being lead away by the brain police. Damn you Pooh bear...
Check out Schlumberger www.slb.com. They're the 800 lb gorilla of the oilfield services industry. Their original solution to finding what was going on at the other end of a drilling rig was to simply pulse mud. Switch it on and off and measure the changes in this signal on the end of the drilling rig. When drilling a rig mud is used to stabilize the walls of the shaft . The advantage of this technique is this... No circular conductor built into the pipe means it can be adapted easily to old equipment and its cheaper. This new system described will eventually make its gains... but its gonna be a while... I saw someone mention wireless... Totally unfriendly environment and there is WAY to much noise, not to mention these holes are so deep you're not going to penetrate all the way back up the hole to the rig on the surface. Anyway... that's a really basic description of what the old new and a couple considerations are in the industry... Look up Schlumberger for a little more info... or Halliburton...
I cannot recommend more highly this doctor. He just started his own practiceafter working with Vanderbilt for a while.
Ming Wang, M.D., Ph.D.
in Nashville, TN
This guy is one of the best in the world, and when you have someone working on your eyes that's what you want.... Not some quack in a strip mall. It will cost you more, but it is completely worth it. I know people who have had bad eye surgery and people who have had it done right... This guy does it right... Working on the eyes of 800 physicians should really make that point... Check out his credentials:
* Has successfully performed over 8,000 consecutive LASIK procedures;
* Was named as a "VISX Star Surgeon" for having a LASIK surgical volume ranked in the top 5% nationally;
* Over 800 physicians have entrusted their own eyes to Dr. Wang for LASIK surgery since 1997.
* M.D. (magna cum laude) Harvard Medical School and MIT;
* Ph.D. in laser physics, atomic spectroscopy;
* Residency (Wills Eye Hospital);
* Cornea/refractive surgery fellowship (Bascom Palmer Eye Institute);
* One of the very few LASIK surgeons in the world who has both ophthalmology training and in lasers(Ph.D).
We are a little over a year away from the centennial of powered flight. The Wrights made their first successful powered flight on December 17th of 1903. The first run was something around 12 seconds... Later in the day they recorded durations of just short of 1 minute. The wing warping technique was used to control the roll of the airplane. The Europeans later developed the control surfaces known as ailerons to get around patents that the Wright Brothers had made on their wing warping technique. Ailerons eventually became the method of choice for future development for many engineering reasons.
An article on this matter was published and graces the cover of the September 2002 Aerospace America magazine. The plane this system is being tested on if not intended for is the F-18, the writer of the article was J.R. Wilson. Aerospace America page at AIAA.org
Talk about repetitive plots. Slashdot the movie!!!
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Star Trek: Pick A Plot
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· Score: 2
An exciting epic featuring all the repetitive sagas of a daily news site. Including a giant karma sucking troll as the head of the evil M$ Corporation. Featuring repeated posts from the NY Times (registry required) of the latest plot of the M$ troll to takeover the world (Killer asteroid, robbing us of music, this mysterious disease BSD that they all keep talking about.). Popular polls of where the geek masses eat, sleep, drink, and #@!%. The heroes of our film? A dynamic duo of CmdrTaco and his little buddy CowboyNeal.
I think we could develop this into one of great film franchises of history. I hear that a cadre of circus chickens are lined up to direct.
That's part of what was malfunctioning. Its hard to describe the errors. Because of the semicolons not being preferred I had to switch out for commas so I could make sure everyone was on the list in the To: pop up. Most of these people were also new recruits for our organization. So they had no entries and we were compiling the e-mail from a txt file... a sign up sheet and contacts... It was a rare situation, but it brought to light an annoyance that I'd rather not have in a mail program. More power to them fixing it... When they do I'll be on board, I liked everything else I saw. Mozilla Mail has me for a little while longer until then.
I admire the hard work put into Evolution. I was in the process of moving all my contacts over into their PIM. Until... I had a large message to send out and the program was straining under the weight of not having , instead of ; between addresses in an e-mail to ~40 people. These folks were not on a regular distribution list and probably never will be. It made sense to send the message that way. It took minutes for the program to move through through the addresses so I could add another.
It's slick... I'll use it some day but it didn't impress this time around. I'll try it again in about 6 months.
Considering that if things are crowded that day 8 of your 24 hour license is spent actually downloading the file. Echoing the bandwidth cost concern the only clever way I could see this working is if you ordered in advance and it downloaded the day before you wanted it... Pay Per View has so many more legitimate advantages and Idon't even use that. Does this maybe play into that crippled multimedia PC story I saw a few days ago?
It's mentioned in the article and my friends and I had the same reaction. Vanilla Coke tastes like Rum and Coke. I wonder if you can get someone placebo effect drunk on the stuff.
As for what I think makes a good fuel during any task. A southern standard, sweetened ice tea. Guaranteed to have more caffeine than coffee and as much sugar as you want. Plus tea is mild enough to where it doesn't tie your stomach in a knot if you drink it too fast.
By the way what's the next story, comparing the most satisfying munchies for gaming?
Will they still use all their freaky proprietary connectors I've seen in some models? That would raise the cost of any retailer trying to support the machine. It's little things like a drive bay just a little too thin in width or a power/everybutton connection to the mobo. That's what got me out of manufactured PC's years ago.
Also, "Steven" and I were in the same class in high school. He's a nice guy, a bit goofy at times, but all in all ok. It's funny working in a world where people crack on him as an icon. I'm as annoyed by his character as the rest of us, maybe a little more. I hate anyone that acts like an idiot constantly. But way to go... If I could fall ass backwards into an ad campaign like that I'd love it. Go Dude Go!
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VisionTek Folds
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· Score: 2
Initially there were some really awful releases of Radeon drivers. I bought the original 64MB VIVO model that was top of their line two years ago. The drivers freaked out on showing crosshairs and other visual cues in Macromedia products. To which the suggestion was turn down the color level... Yeah good idea for graphic design. But they fixed it in short order and the performance since then has been quite satisfying. That's the Windows experience.
As for Linux, flawless from day 1 and continues to be. On my desktop I have that card I mentioned before. I also have a Sony GR-370 laptop with Mobile Radeon. It's really quite good.
Follow the link to the VisionTek web site and the first two stories right now are about expanding production and product lines. Now of course I guess that's a little outdated.
I've been impressed with NVidia chips for a while but recently I've been buying ATI products for their solid OpenGL performance. Being a user for both work and play has demanded I have a card that can handle engineering apps as well as Tribes II.
Ted Turner purchased MGM and its classic film library back in 1986, In the 90's Castle Rock and New Line hooked up with Turner Broadcasting and then New Line Cinema. Then of course Turner orchestrated the gigantic merger of his company with Time Warner in the late 90's. It would follow that since the songs were long ago attached to those films and there wasn't a clause in the agreement saying specifically that promotion is forbidden... Time Warner would be in the clear. Besides that geez what a bunch of nit picking wussies.
It is from the Department of Redundancy Department. I know I have seen this before too.
Some people seem to be missing the point on CD's DVD's and other forms of optical storage. Speed is nice... but cheap is better If you need insane speed buy a hard drive. If you want compact and rewritable use flash memory... I got several negative comments about not liking new disc sizes in optical storage a couple days ago...
I went to Bonnaroo music festival back in late June and kept thinking how cool would it be to hook up a little wireless community with all the attendees. Would be a great way to swap audio with show tapers. There were dozens of bands there so no one group could cover them all. It was out in the middle of the country so getting a connection to the larger net would be tough. The other thing was the radio traffic through the weekend was ridiculous. 75,000 people and only one cellular tower... and all the little FRS radios were in use, all channels and privacy codes possible. The "tech" companies there included only Gateway and XBox... but I think the development of a network community at large scale festivals could be a really nice way to enhance the experience. Also the sponsorship of the infrastructure needed would be another way to help fund the event. Anyone have any thoughts on bringing tech to more traditional gatherings?
Rocks, 99% of the hardware works with little or no special attention after a RH 7.2 install. Battery life is a little less it seems but when I need Linux on the laptop its for network diagnostics and usually I solve a problem there quite quickly. Dual booting with XP via GRUB... I'm quite impressed, any questions?
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Don't worry... the tinfoil hat you're wearing will keep you from being sensed. All sensors can be fooled... Some systems of sensors are just a little better than others... You just need to know what they measure and send them crappy information.
I saw this happening on my router about three weeks ago... lights freaking out blinking... in other words a lot of traffic going through... Hit the good ole netstat -n and the spoofed IP adds were from get this... IANA.org What a sense of humor! Went through a bout of paranoia updated all my hardware firmware and other crap... Called Comcast told them about the DoS attack... of course they didn't care...
Still a great piece of hardware.
Is it a gaggle or a flock?
And yes I'm happy we can finally tell the guys who ask "Can you imagine a cluster of these?" to shut up and build it.
When I went to college, there was a girl named Teresa Watt who had an account on the RS/6000. My buddy Rob had tears in his eyes when he showed me that you can actually "finger twatt".
Thank you AC... where ever you are.
Rats! and management thinks THEY'RE the ones responsible for chewing holes in the firewall.
Fish naturally spin about a foot off the surface of the earth naturally... They're worth about 100 points and when you catch one it makes an amusing noise.
On another note that first map looks extremely bogus. Download and look at it... PDF file. I think it gets the general trends right but I'd like to know EXACTLY where all this data is coming from. The chart lists quantities which I assume to be people per square mile or kilometer... Also the accuracy of data that you collect in third world nations is suspect because they have more things to worry about than counting people accurately...
Also city regions like Miami and LA are made to look sparse compared to Cuba... The ENTIRETY of Cuba is ~11,200,000... Just looks odd...
Patents of course last something on the order of 17 years after invention to keep competition off of the idea. Copyrights last the lifetime of the creator plus about 75 years after death. Trademarks can last different periods based on what kind of trademark... Whther it is registered or simply has been in use by the company for a while...
An interesting thing to note is that a lot of institutions like universities are much more concerned over there rights to intellectual property outside of patents... Gatorade for instance has well run past a patent expire date. The trademark and the license to use it by Pepsico is worth millions every year to the University of Florida. 5 million I think...
)( :-(
or
)NO!(
Or failing that a picture of a fat bear with handcuffs being lead away by the brain police. Damn you Pooh bear...
Can you imagine you walk into an arsenic mine that looks like a peach orchard and decide to sample the goods?
Check out Schlumberger www.slb.com. They're the 800 lb gorilla of the oilfield services industry. Their original solution to finding what was going on at the other end of a drilling rig was to simply pulse mud. Switch it on and off and measure the changes in this signal on the end of the drilling rig. When drilling a rig mud is used to stabilize the walls of the shaft . The advantage of this technique is this... No circular conductor built into the pipe means it can be adapted easily to old equipment and its cheaper. This new system described will eventually make its gains... but its gonna be a while... I saw someone mention wireless... Totally unfriendly environment and there is WAY to much noise, not to mention these holes are so deep you're not going to penetrate all the way back up the hole to the rig on the surface. Anyway... that's a really basic description of what the old new and a couple considerations are in the industry... Look up Schlumberger for a little more info... or Halliburton...
I cannot recommend more highly this doctor. He just started his own practiceafter working with Vanderbilt for a while.
Ming Wang, M.D., Ph.D. in Nashville, TN
This guy is one of the best in the world, and when you have someone working on your eyes that's what you want.... Not some quack in a strip mall. It will cost you more, but it is completely worth it. I know people who have had bad eye surgery and people who have had it done right... This guy does it right... Working on the eyes of 800 physicians should really make that point... Check out his credentials:
From his web site: drmingwang.com
* Has successfully performed over 8,000 consecutive LASIK procedures; * Was named as a "VISX Star Surgeon" for having a LASIK surgical volume ranked in the top 5% nationally; * Over 800 physicians have entrusted their own eyes to Dr. Wang for LASIK surgery since 1997.
* M.D. (magna cum laude) Harvard Medical School and MIT; * Ph.D. in laser physics, atomic spectroscopy; * Residency (Wills Eye Hospital); * Cornea/refractive surgery fellowship (Bascom Palmer Eye Institute); * One of the very few LASIK surgeons in the world who has both ophthalmology training and in lasers(Ph.D).
We are a little over a year away from the centennial of powered flight. The Wrights made their first successful powered flight on December 17th of 1903. The first run was something around 12 seconds... Later in the day they recorded durations of just short of 1 minute. The wing warping technique was used to control the roll of the airplane. The Europeans later developed the control surfaces known as ailerons to get around patents that the Wright Brothers had made on their wing warping technique. Ailerons eventually became the method of choice for future development for many engineering reasons.
An article on this matter was published and graces the cover of the September 2002 Aerospace America magazine. The plane this system is being tested on if not intended for is the F-18, the writer of the article was J.R. Wilson. Aerospace America page at AIAA.org
As a mini series... I've seen it, and it does no justice to the book. I think I fell asleep during watching it more than once.
IMDB Entry
An exciting epic featuring all the repetitive sagas of a daily news site. Including a giant karma sucking troll as the head of the evil M$ Corporation. Featuring repeated posts from the NY Times (registry required) of the latest plot of the M$ troll to takeover the world (Killer asteroid, robbing us of music, this mysterious disease BSD that they all keep talking about.). Popular polls of where the geek masses eat, sleep, drink, and #@!%. The heroes of our film? A dynamic duo of CmdrTaco and his little buddy CowboyNeal.
I think we could develop this into one of great film franchises of history. I hear that a cadre of circus chickens are lined up to direct.
Ideas?
That's part of what was malfunctioning. Its hard to describe the errors. Because of the semicolons not being preferred I had to switch out for commas so I could make sure everyone was on the list in the To: pop up. Most of these people were also new recruits for our organization. So they had no entries and we were compiling the e-mail from a txt file... a sign up sheet and contacts... It was a rare situation, but it brought to light an annoyance that I'd rather not have in a mail program. More power to them fixing it... When they do I'll be on board, I liked everything else I saw. Mozilla Mail has me for a little while longer until then.
I admire the hard work put into Evolution. I was in the process of moving all my contacts over into their PIM. Until... I had a large message to send out and the program was straining under the weight of not having , instead of ; between addresses in an e-mail to ~40 people. These folks were not on a regular distribution list and probably never will be. It made sense to send the message that way. It took minutes for the program to move through through the addresses so I could add another.
It's slick... I'll use it some day but it didn't impress this time around. I'll try it again in about 6 months.
Considering that if things are crowded that day 8 of your 24 hour license is spent actually downloading the file. Echoing the bandwidth cost concern the only clever way I could see this working is if you ordered in advance and it downloaded the day before you wanted it... Pay Per View has so many more legitimate advantages and Idon't even use that. Does this maybe play into that crippled multimedia PC story I saw a few days ago?
It's mentioned in the article and my friends and I had the same reaction. Vanilla Coke tastes like Rum and Coke. I wonder if you can get someone placebo effect drunk on the stuff.
As for what I think makes a good fuel during any task. A southern standard, sweetened ice tea. Guaranteed to have more caffeine than coffee and as much sugar as you want. Plus tea is mild enough to where it doesn't tie your stomach in a knot if you drink it too fast.
By the way what's the next story, comparing the most satisfying munchies for gaming?
Will they still use all their freaky proprietary connectors I've seen in some models? That would raise the cost of any retailer trying to support the machine. It's little things like a drive bay just a little too thin in width or a power/everybutton connection to the mobo. That's what got me out of manufactured PC's years ago.
Also, "Steven" and I were in the same class in high school. He's a nice guy, a bit goofy at times, but all in all ok. It's funny working in a world where people crack on him as an icon. I'm as annoyed by his character as the rest of us, maybe a little more. I hate anyone that acts like an idiot constantly. But way to go... If I could fall ass backwards into an ad campaign like that I'd love it. Go Dude Go!
Initially there were some really awful releases of Radeon drivers. I bought the original 64MB VIVO model that was top of their line two years ago. The drivers freaked out on showing crosshairs and other visual cues in Macromedia products. To which the suggestion was turn down the color level... Yeah good idea for graphic design. But they fixed it in short order and the performance since then has been quite satisfying. That's the Windows experience.
As for Linux, flawless from day 1 and continues to be. On my desktop I have that card I mentioned before. I also have a Sony GR-370 laptop with Mobile Radeon. It's really quite good.
Follow the link to the VisionTek web site and the first two stories right now are about expanding production and product lines. Now of course I guess that's a little outdated.
I've been impressed with NVidia chips for a while but recently I've been buying ATI products for their solid OpenGL performance. Being a user for both work and play has demanded I have a card that can handle engineering apps as well as Tribes II.
Ted Turner purchased MGM and its classic film library back in 1986, In the 90's Castle Rock and New Line hooked up with Turner Broadcasting and then New Line Cinema. Then of course Turner orchestrated the gigantic merger of his company with Time Warner in the late 90's. It would follow that since the songs were long ago attached to those films and there wasn't a clause in the agreement saying specifically that promotion is forbidden... Time Warner would be in the clear. Besides that geez what a bunch of nit picking wussies.
It is from the Department of Redundancy Department. I know I have seen this before too.
Some people seem to be missing the point on CD's DVD's and other forms of optical storage. Speed is nice... but cheap is better If you need insane speed buy a hard drive. If you want compact and rewritable use flash memory... I got several negative comments about not liking new disc sizes in optical storage a couple days ago...
I went to Bonnaroo music festival back in late June and kept thinking how cool would it be to hook up a little wireless community with all the attendees. Would be a great way to swap audio with show tapers. There were dozens of bands there so no one group could cover them all. It was out in the middle of the country so getting a connection to the larger net would be tough. The other thing was the radio traffic through the weekend was ridiculous. 75,000 people and only one cellular tower... and all the little FRS radios were in use, all channels and privacy codes possible. The "tech" companies there included only Gateway and XBox... but I think the development of a network community at large scale festivals could be a really nice way to enhance the experience. Also the sponsorship of the infrastructure needed would be another way to help fund the event. Anyone have any thoughts on bringing tech to more traditional gatherings?
Rocks, 99% of the hardware works with little or no special attention after a RH 7.2 install. Battery life is a little less it seems but when I need Linux on the laptop its for network diagnostics and usually I solve a problem there quite quickly. Dual booting with XP via GRUB... I'm quite impressed, any questions?