Of course, 'randomly' is a bit of a misnomer. If they were random, they would be different every time. What the article should have said is that the digits are distributed normally, or if they thought that sounded too technical, that every digit has an equal probability.
I have to agree, when I was dialling up, I always listened to how I connected, except when it was 2 am and I didn't want to wake up everyone in the whole house. I think this reinforces the point that geeks have different expectations/requirements than others. What is ironic is that the sound is annoying to a non-geek, while the geek, who actually knows how to turn the sound off, listens to it.
I saw a commercial on tv recently that was promoting some broadband or other, and they mentioned the modem sounds too. It makes me wonder why people don't just turn the speaker off on their modems. (ATM0 anyone?)
heh, true about wood work. It did look nice in the movie though. I expect that if you are going to pay say $100000 for this house (incl. land, building permits, etc. (and I could be way off in either direction)) that you might not mind spending another several thousand for the wood work. As for the sunlight, there are windows in every room, and skylights, so that should not be an issue.
I wouldn't expect so. Just put down "pre-formed concrete" when asked for the construction method:-) Note that I am sure the design would have to be approved by a county/city engineer, but so does every house built.
wow, thanks. I actually must have missed the previous slashdot post. Hopefully/.ers will go tell the Copyright Office what they think about the DMCA
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The cost of processing paper checks is distributed with reciprocal agreements similar to the ones that phone networks use. The only parties involved are the banks, but of course customers always have to pay fees/minimum balances, etc. Also, I think the Federal Reserve Bank is involved in this whole process, so there may be some payment there as well. I am pretty sure that the fed acts as something like a regional distribution center, but I am not sure exactly how. When you write me a check, my bank will recordit, imprint it, and send it to your bank, who takes it out of your account. There is no clearing house involved. Note that this is not always the case, as companies like Checkrite act as a clearing house and charge the vendors. With MC/Visa/etc, every transaction is cleared (ie approved or declined) and that is what the fee is.
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my bank, USAA Federal Savings Bank has no atm fees, regardless of who's atm you use, and they refund the fee that the owning bank charges! (up to a certain limit) If you meet their qualifications (current or former military, or their family), I reccomend that you check them out.
The problem is twofold. First, there are a lot of people, and by and large most of them don't want to live in a cramped little apartment building in a 200 floor skyrise for the sake of minimizing the horizontal distance they need to travel to work.
I personally would love to live in such an apartment. Sadly, I think that the events of 11 Sep, 2001 will really decrease new skyscraper building projects. I think the coolest thing in the world would be to live and work in an arcology, but I don't really think that we will see arcologies becoming a reality any time soon. I believe they could even make economical sense by themselves, but even if they are paid for in a public good model, I would approve.
in the link about FDIC insurance coverage, they specifically mention that your money is stored ELSEWHERE in a FDIC insured bank. Paypal is not storing your money, they are putting your money into a third party bank account by proxy.
Client SSL certificates don't solve the problem, merely move it down one step. A client cert is frequently not even secured with a password, there is no way paypal can verify your cert password strength. With your password entered on the paypal wbesite, they could in theory at least do password strength checking. In addition, a client cert should be signed by some CA, and the CAs don't know who you are; it is not like you have to go in person to verisign and show them id to get a cert. Not to mention how easy it is to be your own CA.
obviously this was talking about the machines h4x0red into doing the ddos, not the root servers being ddosed. Or, it was some attempt at sarcasm, ie the root servers obviously are not running an old unpatched NT
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this sounds equivalent (or at least analagous) to the problem of making secure digital cash/wallets for anonymous peer to peer financial transactions. Also to the problem of secure electronic elections.
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This requires the pulse player, which doesn't work under Linux.
Of course, 'randomly' is a bit of a misnomer. If they were random, they would be different every time. What the article should have said is that the digits are distributed normally, or if they thought that sounded too technical, that every digit has an equal probability.
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I have to agree, when I was dialling up, I always listened to how I connected, except when it was 2 am and I didn't want to wake up everyone in the whole house. I think this reinforces the point that geeks have different expectations/requirements than others. What is ironic is that the sound is annoying to a non-geek, while the geek, who actually knows how to turn the sound off, listens to it.
and of course, made more interesting by the fact that aol is now shipping CDs in tins :-)
I saw a commercial on tv recently that was promoting some broadband or other, and they mentioned the modem sounds too. It makes me wonder why people don't just turn the speaker off on their modems. (ATM0 anyone?)
interestingly enough, the term stippling is pretty old too. note the references to 19th cent. painters etc. in the article...
heh, true about wood work. It did look nice in the movie though. I expect that if you are going to pay say $100000 for this house (incl. land, building permits, etc. (and I could be way off in either direction)) that you might not mind spending another several thousand for the wood work. As for the sunlight, there are windows in every room, and skylights, so that should not be an issue.
I wouldn't expect so. Just put down "pre-formed concrete" when asked for the construction method :-) Note that I am sure the design would have to be approved by a county/city engineer, but so does every house built.
heh, I remember that too. I wonder if that is still in the archives?
wow, thanks. I actually must have missed the previous slashdot post. Hopefully /.ers will go tell the Copyright Office what they think about the DMCA
The cost of processing paper checks is distributed with reciprocal agreements similar to the ones that phone networks use. The only parties involved are the banks, but of course customers always have to pay fees/minimum balances, etc. Also, I think the Federal Reserve Bank is involved in this whole process, so there may be some payment there as well. I am pretty sure that the fed acts as something like a regional distribution center, but I am not sure exactly how. When you write me a check, my bank will recordit, imprint it, and send it to your bank, who takes it out of your account. There is no clearing house involved. Note that this is not always the case, as companies like Checkrite act as a clearing house and charge the vendors. With MC/Visa/etc, every transaction is cleared (ie approved or declined) and that is what the fee is.
my bank, USAA Federal Savings Bank has no atm fees, regardless of who's atm you use, and they refund the fee that the owning bank charges! (up to a certain limit) If you meet their qualifications (current or former military, or their family), I reccomend that you check them out.
Well, there is at least one decent editor that runs on it.
The problem is twofold. First, there are a lot of people, and by and large most of them don't want to live in a cramped little apartment building in a 200 floor skyrise for the sake of minimizing the horizontal distance they need to travel to work.
I personally would love to live in such an apartment. Sadly, I think that the events of 11 Sep, 2001 will really decrease new skyscraper building projects. I think the coolest thing in the world would be to live and work in an arcology, but I don't really think that we will see arcologies becoming a reality any time soon. I believe they could even make economical sense by themselves, but even if they are paid for in a public good model, I would approve.
This reminds me of the rush to get reiser (and ext3) in 2.4
in the link about FDIC insurance coverage, they specifically mention that your money is stored ELSEWHERE in a FDIC insured bank. Paypal is not storing your money, they are putting your money into a third party bank account by proxy.
Client SSL certificates don't solve the problem, merely move it down one step. A client cert is frequently not even secured with a password, there is no way paypal can verify your cert password strength. With your password entered on the paypal wbesite, they could in theory at least do password strength checking. In addition, a client cert should be signed by some CA, and the CAs don't know who you are; it is not like you have to go in person to verisign and show them id to get a cert. Not to mention how easy it is to be your own CA.
Does this remind anyone else about the previous slashdot story about synesthasia? (The music is pointy!)
hehehe, first of all, there is no one single place, second of all, I bet it is not where you think it is :-)
obviously this was talking about the machines h4x0red into doing the ddos, not the root servers being ddosed. Or, it was some attempt at sarcasm, ie the root servers obviously are not running an old unpatched NT
iirc, for ip addresses in email, foo@123.123.123.123 is not a valid email address, it should be foo@[123.123.123.123]
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this sounds equivalent (or at least analagous) to the problem of making secure digital cash/wallets for anonymous peer to peer financial transactions. Also to the problem of secure electronic elections.
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the coolest single-disk linux system I have ever used.