It should be possible to modify a flat bed scanner (perhaps by modifying one with a sheet feeder option) to be able to continuously scan the register's receipt tape for that day. The data would not be immediately available in such system, but it would also be rather more secure.
I bought some hard drives from a company I found through one of those on line cheap price location sites (not mentioning the name because I don't want to encourage them), but it was about 10% cheaper than the next less expensive vendor. My companies policy at the time was to record the serial numbers of all the drives. I noticed that I could not find a serial number printed, but there was a barcode where the serial number field should be. I scanned the barcodes of the drives, noticed that they were all the same, and figured I was just looking in the wrong place. I called Maxtor (the drives were labeled with Maxtor labels), and they had me run some more tests, and they came to the conclusion, "We never made those drives". They were all counterfeit. Needless to say, the drives all failed after only a few days / weeks of use.
unless you're going by specific areas repeatedly, or flying or super-leaping all the time I think most people *ARE* doing that. I know when I was watching my friend play CoH, he flew everywhere. Walking everywhere just takes too long.
Interesting, why is base-3 more efficient than base-2? Because 3 is closer approximation of e than 2. I remember learning this in telecommunications theory, but I don't remember why it is true. Wikipedia's article on weird number bases mentions base-phi (golden ratio), but there is no mention of base-e.
it may hit mach 2, but at the top of its peak it's travelling at mach 0. =P Actually much sooner, as once it is out of the atmosphere, there is no air to carry sound, and with no sound, there is no speed greater than the speed of sound. I guess it is not really Mach 0, rather Mach NaN.
Well, they could argue (though not sure how well it would stand) that to reverse engineer the protocol he would have needed either a legit copy and account of the game, in which case he would have agreed to the term and conditions, or a private server that would be considered illegal since WoW server software isn't legally distributed to begin with. If he is the legitimate owner of the network that the traffic passes through, he could (probably even legally) sniff that traffic without ever laying eyes on the official client or server.
By the very nature of the tool, the author himself has necessarily also infringed on the terms and conditions. Blizzard could sue the author as a user of his own tool. This is only true if the author has agreed to the Blizzard ToS. If he reverse engineered the protocol and wrote the bot, he could easily have done so without ever obtaining the Blizzard code or agreeing to their license or service ToS.
Its mildly cool and all, but I'm sorry, remote controlled vehicles are not robots. They're kind of the complete opposite of robots. They are robots, but they are not autonomous robots. Wikipedia's article on robots gives some defining characteristics of robots, but it is not a definitive list.
Toshiba notebook (the correct name eludes me at the moment...I believe it is the ToughBook I am not sure the name of Toshiba's more rugged laptop, but it is definitely not ToughBook. On a side note, I have a Panaasonic ToughBook and I can vouch for its ruggedness.
I'm a contractor with the Postal Service (Class A 56) and I don't think we need the whole thing. Probably 50-75% of postal computers are individual post offices that access the network through a DSL (or in some small towns, dialup) and VPN. Data Centers and other large facilities should easily be able to fit in 1-10 class B's depending upon just how many sites there are. Well, it used to be that all that ip space was divided up amongst different processing & distribution centers, post offices, etc. Now like everyone else, they are using a lot of NAT.
We could probably buy 5-10 years if they could reclaim just the 3, 9, 13, 17, 19, 20, 34 and 40 class As and get over 130,000,000 IPs back. Well, think about this: 3.x.x.x is owned by General Electric: whois 3.0.0.0
So naturally, you would expect www.ge.com to be in that block. And you would be wrong. dig www.ge.com;; QUESTION SECTION:;www.ge.com. IN A;; ANSWER SECTION: www.ge.com. 30 IN A 216.74.131.56
I have always thought it was rather irresponsible of them.
why would anyone "accidentally" type in dellbatterogram.com? I could understand for instance delll.com or something possible to mistakenly type, but that makes no sense.
Sad, but I do remember when I finally registered here (after months of lurking, I'd say), I felt like my UID was _really_ late compared to a lot of the 4-digits that were posting. strangely enough, I was in a similar situation. I waited a while before registering. Of course back in those days nobody cared about whether you had a 3- or a 4-digit userid. Of course, now it's a geek pride thing to just have a 4-digit, and I do feel a bit jealous of the 3-digit guys:-P
I thought Chernobyl's incident was cause primarily because of the lack of safety controls. It wasn't necessarily because it was unsafe, it was because they didn't really have a way of knowing it was unsafe until and event was happening and then there wasn't enough containment mechanisms and protocols in place to deal with it properly. that is true, but the reactor itself was also unsafe, due to it's positive feedback failure mode, that is, an increase in reactor temperature resulted in an even higher reactor temperature.
Roads are publicly funded. Should the telecom physical layer do the same? Should property taxes also apply to data transmission lines? There are such things as privately funded roads. Here is one example.
I just want to second your recommendation for Panasonic Toughbooks. I just got one about a year ago. Pricey, but excellent quality. The "tough" part of the name is the truth, too. That's why I got it, since I consider myself a klutz. I did not get one of the fully rugged ones (waterproof, shockproof, etc.) but mine is semi-rugged (shockproof, magnesium alloy case).
What I don't get more than that is the people who buy the iPod just to put Linux on it. That actually causes negative understanding. This article is not about running linux on your ipod, it is about using your ipod with linux on the desktop instead of windows/mac.
Check it, they have a donate tab where you can donate like a nonprofit for tax deductions. Of course they are using paypal. You would think they would be using google checkout!
I thought about that too, but I don't know if it is large enough scale to cool the entire ship. David Brin's idea, mentioned by another comment, was to have the cooling laser (which an onboard laser pointed away from the ship) be powered by the thermoelectric effect, IIRC.
But what about the heat? It's quite difficult to cool off lump of metal in a vacuum without discarding hot material to do so. Even if you could feasibly power a craft to Mars with this, how would you stop yourself from arriving as Astronaut McNuggets? The only way you could is by radiation. Whether that is by big fins to radiate passively in IR, or by using a more powerful active radiation emitter. Perhaps even the propulsion laser itself could cool the ship, since it would be dumping a bunch of energy out of the ship. Perhaps someone more comfortable with blackbody optics and thermal effects can do the math.
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It should be possible to modify a flat bed scanner (perhaps by modifying one with a sheet feeder option) to be able to continuously scan the register's receipt tape for that day. The data would not be immediately available in such system, but it would also be rather more secure.
I bought some hard drives from a company I found through one of those on line cheap price location sites (not mentioning the name because I don't want to encourage them), but it was about 10% cheaper than the next less expensive vendor. My companies policy at the time was to record the serial numbers of all the drives. I noticed that I could not find a serial number printed, but there was a barcode where the serial number field should be. I scanned the barcodes of the drives, noticed that they were all the same, and figured I was just looking in the wrong place. I called Maxtor (the drives were labeled with Maxtor labels), and they had me run some more tests, and they came to the conclusion, "We never made those drives". They were all counterfeit. Needless to say, the drives all failed after only a few days / weeks of use.
double kudos for the Futurama ref :-)
Welcome to my sig... Best one-liner I have seen in quite some time.
whois 3.0.0.0
OrgName: General Electric Company
NetRange: 3.0.0.0 - 3.255.255.255
CIDR: 3.0.0.0/8
NetName: GE-INTERNET
So naturally, you would expect www.ge.com to be in that block. And you would be wrong.
dig www.ge.com
www.ge.com. 30 IN A 216.74.131.56
I have always thought it was rather irresponsible of them.
oh, never mind. I just noticed that dell has dellbatteryprogram.com
/. after all) would never type in anything but dell.com)
(despite the fact that any sufficiently paranoid person (this IS
why would anyone "accidentally" type in dellbatterogram.com? I could understand for instance delll.com or something possible to mistakenly type, but that makes no sense.
I just want to second your recommendation for Panasonic Toughbooks. I just got one about a year ago. Pricey, but excellent quality. The "tough" part of the name is the truth, too. That's why I got it, since I consider myself a klutz. I did not get one of the fully rugged ones (waterproof, shockproof, etc.) but mine is semi-rugged (shockproof, magnesium alloy case).
I thought about that too, but I don't know if it is large enough scale to cool the entire ship. David Brin's idea, mentioned by another comment, was to have the cooling laser (which an onboard laser pointed away from the ship) be powered by the thermoelectric effect, IIRC.