I bought some stuff to build a computer from sellers on pricewatch.com and had very bad service. I now know to go to sites like resellerratings.com first. Anyway, one of the companies screwed up my order, I got 404s from their order page,I was never sure if they got my order, if they gave me the pricewatch price, if I got the shipping discount, and I never even got a receipt. I emailed, no reply. I called, no answer and their mailbox was full. This went on for a week when eventually my $250 or so of hardware arrived but still no receipt or explaination of the discounts or pricewatch prices. I emailed them again, told them they had 24 hours to reply, or I was going to call my credit card company and reverse the charges. 48 hours later I called my CC company, reversed the charges, sent them copies of all my emails I sent and gave their phone number.
I guess they never got through either because I got all that stuff for free. Sucks to be a crooked seller.
Good bye, spherical 15" and 17" monitors from the early/mid 1990s. Good bye P90 and P166. Good bye junk I've wanted to get rid of forever but didn't want to pollute the world with.
The US was first to invent a 10-warhead MIRV weapon: the MX. It changed the balance of everything: where a blip on a radar Soviet screen could be nothing (shadow, meteorite, etc.) or maybe a minor attack on the USRR, with the MX missle that blip could be a nothing or an attack that could wipe out every major city in the USSR and therefore require a decision to retaliate.
What did Reagan (who thought that sub-launched missles could be called back and that there was no segregation in South Africa) call the MX when he announced it?
I'm supposed to get 20 and 28, I think. I average 23.5 and my records go back to when I bought it used in 2001. I doubt it was serviced much/at all before I bought it. Anyway, the best I have ever gotten is 26mpg on a highway trip, but I drive fast. In the snow in NH it got 18. I have the OEM tires and maintain everything very well, but still my mpg is low.
It has been mathematically proven that the electoral system actually gives and individual voter MORE power in an election.
Not only do states like Maine just not understand math, but by splitting their electoral votes they guarantee that no candidate will ever care about their state. Even if they had 20 electoral votes instead of 4, do you think candidates would waste their time and millions of dollars trying to win 11 votes instead of 10 they would get if they didn't campaign at all?
Teaching a subject not only forces you to know your stuff and revisit the fundmentals, but you are asked fundmental questions you wouldn't normally think of.
I think explaining your work is similar: to explain it, you have to start with the fundamentals which you normally wouldn't revisit when trying to solve a higher problem.
I've heard of the myth of "security through obscurity" (i.e. hiding the key under the mat is secure because NOBODY knows it's there) but I have never heard of security through confusing the users (label the entrance door in chinese, I suppose).
Perhaps the poster is suggesting a new paradigm: security through UN-usability: if NOBODY can use a system then it should stay pretty secure. (Do you know any Atari ST 'sploits?) Heck, even if it isn't then who cares because nobody uses it.
Also, binoculars should be banned because they just help terrorists look for physical security vulnerabilities.
We need strong laws to protect people who are too lazy and incompetent to protect themselves. Security through court-ordered obscurity is the only way to freedom.
Also, binoculars should be banned because they just help terrorists look for physical security vulnerabilities.
We need strong laws to protect people who are too lazy and incompetent to protect themselves. Security through court-ordered obscurity is the only way to freedom.
a kid in Boston. The ear-splitting screeching noise it made in turns was horrible and scary, and the sparks sure didn't help. Now, living in Texas, I'm nostalgic for it. I assume it will be the same with mag-lev trains.
the fuck up? I went to see LOTR but ended up hearing stupid hip-hop-ghetto comments for 3 hours. I suppose I should be happy there wasn't a family with their 3 todlers running around screaming.
You math is right but I would have said 2A * 1.2V * 1hour/30sec = 288W Of course, that's assuming that a 2000mAh battery actually needs 2A for an hour to charge, (or could produce such a current), which is a while 'nother story.
If they ever did release such a battery I don't see how you could charge a few at a time without causing problems. I would have them all share the ~288W when charging, and put an * somewhere on the packaging explaining in microscopic print that they charge in 30 seconds when charged one at a time, but I'm a cynic.
Here's a link to the playfair cypher which, despite it's age, does not have a quick solution. The only conputerized solutions I've seen are "shotgun hill climbing" algorithms that sometimes find and answer and sometimes need to be restarted. This cipher was actually considered impossible to break for a very long time.
with multiple images. Years ago a company I was working at had an FPGA that could store 4 images and switch between them every clock cycle, no chaos required.
For those who don't know, an FPGA is a flexible computer chip. Imagine a motherboard full 100,000s or millions of solid state "glue logic" gates that could be re-aranged by little elves repeatedly, and that's an FGPA, but larger, and less expensive. You could build an 8088, then a DSP, then a fast FFT, a converter, then a crypto processor, whatever. Creative uses them on some soundblasters so the hardware (yes, the hardware) can be upgraded ith more features in the future. On mine they added a few digital effects and the ability to handle another few hundred MIDI voices.
My friend Hat wanted to know what would happen if
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he ate a 5 lbs bag of sugar. This is not that strange of an idea from Hat. Anyway, when I told him my guess that "you would instantly get diabetes" he was scared off from doing it. Now I will never know.
I went window shopping for HDTVs with my wife and these two guys talked up one TV so much they not only convinced my wife but she started hammering on me to buy it that moment for a special one-day price, yada yada.
It scared me a little because she was now teaming with them against me, and they had almost convinced me to drop $5,000 when I was aiming around $2,000, mostly because they could have it in time for me to watch my Patriots win the superbowl.
Anyway, I never buy anything before reading reviews, and told my wife that. I later got more info on that $5,000 TV and not only was it not top of the line, nor even top of it's catagory, nor top of it's brand, and it was barely 1 megapixel. I think I also found it on line for thousands less.
I've converted databases from ancient DOS programs that had to go through multiple converters and other crap that took me a whole summer, but it was fun compared to what I had to do at Lockheed Martin.
They pulled me off a project designing flight controls for a micro air vehicle so I could "get a feel for other parts of the company" but instead had me "down and idle" for a few weeks before putting me in charge of going through PRINTOUTS of three different versions of a database to verify every entry made it to the newer version. Hundreds didn't.
Before you ask why a human had to do this or why they were printed, let me tell you what my now-wife was doing: they printed a huge txt document, scanned it as jpegs, dragged those into a word doc, gave it to her and asked her to make some gramatical changes and a few additions. The original? What original? Why would you need the original -- we sent you the electronic version.
Another program I was working required an engineer a few months from retirement to reverse engineer FPGA designs he had done 10+ years earlier so I could write them in VHDL. All the maps and docs were backed up on an old tape system, and then all the tape readers were disposed of. But they had the tapes safe and sound, and honestly never saw a problem with their system. I swear to God.
You can't steal a signature, that's the whole point.
Perhaps you meant stole the key. In that case he would report when his key was stolen so that everyone would know the second they tried to verify his signature.
And the idea of reading the freaking source is just rediculous. Even if the source were ONLY a few hundred thousand lines, what are the odds you would catch a well hidden trojan?
Only an idiot would suggest that every single person on the Internet should read hundreds of thousands or millions of lines of code before installing any program. I signature would obviously be much less work.
Crawl back into your cave you usless waste of space.
Think about it. The nuclear fuel rod was not magically produced in outer space, it was made by refining thousands of tons of material on Earth. Sending it into orbit reduces the amount of radioactive material on Earth. The fact that coolant might rain down and be even distributed over the Earth is nothing compared to what you get every time you are near a rock or in a basement.
Now, a core falling could be bad news, but I should hope that in the next few hundred years technology would advance enough to retrieve and dispose of such a thing.
That depends. If you are Joe Schmoe with his home network, then yes. If you a General Joe Schmoe setting up something important, then no.
Frankly, the sooner we all get used to using digital signatures and PK encryption the sooner a lot of problems go away. "That's odd, Joe forgot to digitally sign this strange executable he emailed me, and he signs everything..."
In the parent post's defense, you can almost always get the source code from the "source" or author. However, sometimes you rely on some other guy to produce a.deb or.rpm or whatever which you might not trust as much as the author.
From the source? You mean you drive over to the author's house and he hands you a CD?
Or do you mean you got it from his web page? And by "his" web page, do you mean you got it from a page that you assumed was his? Maybe it wasn't. Maybe it was a copy. Maybe someone hijacked his page. Maybe someone shut down his page and spoofed it. Maybe someone hijacked your connection and inserted their own source when you were downloading.
But I suppose if it's on the Internet is had to be authentic, right?
Even if you trust the source, you can't trust the medium. Now, if you used digital signatures then I take it all back.
Does it have to be a Zippo brand lighter or would a non-trendy, non-overpriced, non-wind-proof... oh... nevermind.
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lately it has been scrwing up. It will suddenly decide channel 48 doesn't exist until I reboot it, causing it to go crazy when it's supposed to record the Daily Show, and randomly not resolve conflicts.
I still think it was a far better value, but I fear what tech support is going to tell me. I can't live without it if I have to send it in for repairs...
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I bought some stuff to build a computer from sellers on pricewatch.com and had very bad service. I now know to go to sites like resellerratings.com first. Anyway, one of the companies screwed up my order, I got 404s from their order page,I was never sure if they got my order, if they gave me the pricewatch price, if I got the shipping discount, and I never even got a receipt. I emailed, no reply. I called, no answer and their mailbox was full. This went on for a week when eventually my $250 or so of hardware arrived but still no receipt or explaination of the discounts or pricewatch prices. I emailed them again, told them they had 24 hours to reply, or I was going to call my credit card company and reverse the charges. 48 hours later I called my CC company, reversed the charges, sent them copies of all my emails I sent and gave their phone number.
I guess they never got through either because I got all that stuff for free. Sucks to be a crooked seller.
Now to sue my movers...
Good bye, spherical 15" and 17" monitors from the early/mid 1990s. Good bye P90 and P166. Good bye junk I've wanted to get rid of forever but didn't want to pollute the world with.
The US was first to invent a 10-warhead MIRV weapon: the MX. It changed the balance of everything: where a blip on a radar Soviet screen could be nothing (shadow, meteorite, etc.) or maybe a minor attack on the USRR, with the MX missle that blip could be a nothing or an attack that could wipe out every major city in the USSR and therefore require a decision to retaliate.
What did Reagan (who thought that sub-launched missles could be called back and that there was no segregation in South Africa) call the MX when he announced it?
The "Peace Keeper."
I'm supposed to get 20 and 28, I think. I average 23.5 and my records go back to when I bought it used in 2001. I doubt it was serviced much/at all before I bought it. Anyway, the best I have ever gotten is 26mpg on a highway trip, but I drive fast. In the snow in NH it got 18. I have the OEM tires and maintain everything very well, but still my mpg is low.
It has been mathematically proven that the electoral system actually gives and individual voter MORE power in an election.
Not only do states like Maine just not understand math, but by splitting their electoral votes they guarantee that no candidate will ever care about their state. Even if they had 20 electoral votes instead of 4, do you think candidates would waste their time and millions of dollars trying to win 11 votes instead of 10 they would get if they didn't campaign at all?
Teaching a subject not only forces you to know your stuff and revisit the fundmentals, but you are asked fundmental questions you wouldn't normally think of.
I think explaining your work is similar: to explain it, you have to start with the fundamentals which you normally wouldn't revisit when trying to solve a higher problem.
I've heard of the myth of "security through obscurity" (i.e. hiding the key under the mat is secure because NOBODY knows it's there) but I have never heard of security through confusing the users (label the entrance door in chinese, I suppose).
Perhaps the poster is suggesting a new paradigm: security through UN-usability: if NOBODY can use a system then it should stay pretty secure. (Do you know any Atari ST 'sploits?) Heck, even if it isn't then who cares because nobody uses it.
Also, binoculars should be banned because they just help terrorists look for physical security vulnerabilities.
We need strong laws to protect people who are too lazy and incompetent to protect themselves. Security through court-ordered obscurity is the only way to freedom.
Also, binoculars should be banned because they just help terrorists look for physical security vulnerabilities.
We need strong laws to protect people who are too lazy and incompetent to protect themselves. Security through court-ordered obscurity is the only way to freedom.
a kid in Boston. The ear-splitting screeching noise it made in turns was horrible and scary, and the sparks sure didn't help. Now, living in Texas, I'm nostalgic for it. I assume it will be the same with mag-lev trains.
the fuck up? I went to see LOTR but ended up hearing stupid hip-hop-ghetto comments for 3 hours. I suppose I should be happy there wasn't a family with their 3 todlers running around screaming.
All those years you said I was "wasting my time" I was actually practicing to become a surgeon. NOW who's the loser? Huh? Eat THAT.
You math is right but I would have said
2A * 1.2V * 1hour/30sec = 288W
Of course, that's assuming that a 2000mAh battery actually needs 2A for an hour to charge, (or could produce such a current), which is a while 'nother story.
If they ever did release such a battery I don't see how you could charge a few at a time without causing problems. I would have them all share the ~288W when charging, and put an * somewhere on the packaging explaining in microscopic print that they charge in 30 seconds when charged one at a time, but I'm a cynic.
Here's a link to the playfair cypher which, despite it's age, does not have a quick solution. The only conputerized solutions I've seen are "shotgun hill climbing" algorithms that sometimes find and answer and sometimes need to be restarted. This cipher was actually considered impossible to break for a very long time.
with multiple images. Years ago a company I was working at had an FPGA that could store 4 images and switch between them every clock cycle, no chaos required.
For those who don't know, an FPGA is a flexible computer chip. Imagine a motherboard full 100,000s or millions of solid state "glue logic" gates that could be re-aranged by little elves repeatedly, and that's an FGPA, but larger, and less expensive. You could build an 8088, then a DSP, then a fast FFT, a converter, then a crypto processor, whatever. Creative uses them on some soundblasters so the hardware (yes, the hardware) can be upgraded ith more features in the future. On mine they added a few digital effects and the ability to handle another few hundred MIDI voices.
he ate a 5 lbs bag of sugar. This is not that strange of an idea from Hat. Anyway, when I told him my guess that "you would instantly get diabetes" he was scared off from doing it. Now I will never know.
I went window shopping for HDTVs with my wife and these two guys talked up one TV so much they not only convinced my wife but she started hammering on me to buy it that moment for a special one-day price, yada yada.
It scared me a little because she was now teaming with them against me, and they had almost convinced me to drop $5,000 when I was aiming around $2,000, mostly because they could have it in time for me to watch my Patriots win the superbowl.
Anyway, I never buy anything before reading reviews, and told my wife that. I later got more info on that $5,000 TV and not only was it not top of the line, nor even top of it's catagory, nor top of it's brand, and it was barely 1 megapixel. I think I also found it on line for thousands less.
My wife, of course, denies she was sold by them.
I've converted databases from ancient DOS programs that had to go through multiple converters and other crap that took me a whole summer, but it was fun compared to what I had to do at Lockheed Martin.
They pulled me off a project designing flight controls for a micro air vehicle so I could "get a feel for other parts of the company" but instead had me "down and idle" for a few weeks before putting me in charge of going through PRINTOUTS of three different versions of a database to verify every entry made it to the newer version. Hundreds didn't.
Before you ask why a human had to do this or why they were printed, let me tell you what my now-wife was doing: they printed a huge txt document, scanned it as jpegs, dragged those into a word doc, gave it to her and asked her to make some gramatical changes and a few additions. The original? What original? Why would you need the original -- we sent you the electronic version.
Another program I was working required an engineer a few months from retirement to reverse engineer FPGA designs he had done 10+ years earlier so I could write them in VHDL. All the maps and docs were backed up on an old tape system, and then all the tape readers were disposed of. But they had the tapes safe and sound, and honestly never saw a problem with their system. I swear to God.
I love it when anon cowards call me a troll.
You can't steal a signature, that's the whole point.
Perhaps you meant stole the key. In that case he would report when his key was stolen so that everyone would know the second they tried to verify his signature.
And the idea of reading the freaking source is just rediculous. Even if the source were ONLY a few hundred thousand lines, what are the odds you would catch a well hidden trojan?
Only an idiot would suggest that every single person on the Internet should read hundreds of thousands or millions of lines of code before installing any program. I signature would obviously be much less work.
Crawl back into your cave you usless waste of space.
Think about it. The nuclear fuel rod was not magically produced in outer space, it was made by refining thousands of tons of material on Earth. Sending it into orbit reduces the amount of radioactive material on Earth. The fact that coolant might rain down and be even distributed over the Earth is nothing compared to what you get every time you are near a rock or in a basement.
Now, a core falling could be bad news, but I should hope that in the next few hundred years technology would advance enough to retrieve and dispose of such a thing.
That depends. If you are Joe Schmoe with his home network, then yes. If you a General Joe Schmoe setting up something important, then no.
Frankly, the sooner we all get used to using digital signatures and PK encryption the sooner a lot of problems go away. "That's odd, Joe forgot to digitally sign this strange executable he emailed me, and he signs everything..."
50 million stoners in the US & we can't vote out the War on (some) Drugs? WTF?
Voting was yesterday, man? WTF, man, why didn't you tell me man. You were sleeping? Bummer, man, bummer. Is that a twinkie?
In the parent post's defense, you can almost always get the source code from the "source" or author. However, sometimes you rely on some other guy to produce a .deb or .rpm or whatever which you might not trust as much as the author.
From the source? You mean you drive over to the author's house and he hands you a CD?
Or do you mean you got it from his web page? And by "his" web page, do you mean you got it from a page that you assumed was his? Maybe it wasn't. Maybe it was a copy. Maybe someone hijacked his page. Maybe someone shut down his page and spoofed it. Maybe someone hijacked your connection and inserted their own source when you were downloading.
But I suppose if it's on the Internet is had to be authentic, right?
Even if you trust the source, you can't trust the medium. Now, if you used digital signatures then I take it all back.
Does it have to be a Zippo brand lighter or would a non-trendy, non-overpriced, non-wind-proof... oh... nevermind.
lately it has been scrwing up. It will suddenly decide channel 48 doesn't exist until I reboot it, causing it to go crazy when it's supposed to record the Daily Show, and randomly not resolve conflicts.
I still think it was a far better value, but I fear what tech support is going to tell me. I can't live without it if I have to send it in for repairs...