I find it very convenient that the machines take credit cards, but unfortunately Chicago's don't accept cash -- only coins, and even then they only accept coins until the coin-boxes are full, which -- in my experience -- often limits you to a couple dozen coins.
When meters are $6, it means you essentially HAVE to use a credit card, which I'm not a big fan of -- if nothing else, you lose a little more privacy.
I'll give you that, unlike spam, it's not written.
Costs money? To send spam, you need a computer and an Internet connection -- to send spam effectively, you need tens of thousands of computers with Internet connections. Sending spam costs spammers money -- the returns far outweigh the costs in either case.
Illegal? "pirate radio", as referred to in the article, is and was legal. Once you leave a country's territory (territorial waters), you are no longer subject to that country's laws.
Maybe not the best term, but any unsolicited bulk advertising is pretty spam-like.
I provide residential desktop computer support for a living, which includes a lot of malware removal. I find that it's virtually always possible to recover all data, programs, etc., and get the user back to exactly where they want to be.
I use tools including ClamAV/AVG/Norton, Ad-Aware, Spybot, and a couple custom scripts that can remove the malware. Windows repair installations help restore any files that become corrupt.
My entire process, from start to finish, including checking for bad hardware, backing up data, and actually repairing the system, does take 6-12 hours, but the economy of scales works in our favor.
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I highly recommend Python with wxWidgets for Windows GUI development. Because Python is scripted (though yuo can create an exe from a Python script) there are always plenty of examples to refer. I managed to create my first (fairly advanced) database-driven Windows GUI application in under an hour with Python, having never used the language before.
I was all excited to see the headline, thinking that it was finally within our reach, and then I saw that it was the same article (over two years old) that I read long ago.
I'd rather keep mine. The article says that the max speed is 230kbps, and the max sustainable is 115.2 kbps. It won't be too long that you can get that with a cellular modem.
If you have an apple, and I have an apple, and we exchange the apples, then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea, and I have an idea, and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas.
Someone should create a VoIP "standard". It could be a protocol. That way, people could write different applications on different operating systems, and it could all work together!
What strikes me as odd is that the term "random numbers" is still used even among us, the excessively nerdy. Of course, pseudo-random is better, but I think that "unpredictable" would be the best term.
All numbers generated are based on something, so they'll never be truly random. The best that we can do is make them truly unpredictable, such that it cannot be determined which specific factors they are based on.
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I'll admit it... that was the best new software developer techno song that I've heard all year.
Does anyone know where I can download a cut with less background noise?
Actually, no cash.
I find it very convenient that the machines take credit cards, but unfortunately Chicago's don't accept cash -- only coins, and even then they only accept coins until the coin-boxes are full, which -- in my experience -- often limits you to a couple dozen coins.
When meters are $6, it means you essentially HAVE to use a credit card, which I'm not a big fan of -- if nothing else, you lose a little more privacy.
Oh contraire!
I'll give you that, unlike spam, it's not written.
Costs money? To send spam, you need a computer and an Internet connection -- to send spam effectively, you need tens of thousands of computers with Internet connections. Sending spam costs spammers money -- the returns far outweigh the costs in either case.
Illegal? "pirate radio", as referred to in the article, is and was legal. Once you leave a country's territory (territorial waters), you are no longer subject to that country's laws.
Maybe not the best term, but any unsolicited bulk advertising is pretty spam-like.
I provide residential desktop computer support for a living, which includes a lot of malware removal. I find that it's virtually always possible to recover all data, programs, etc., and get the user back to exactly where they want to be.
I use tools including ClamAV/AVG/Norton, Ad-Aware, Spybot, and a couple custom scripts that can remove the malware. Windows repair installations help restore any files that become corrupt.
My entire process, from start to finish, including checking for bad hardware, backing up data, and actually repairing the system, does take 6-12 hours, but the economy of scales works in our favor.
Shameless plug: If you need computer support in the Chicago area, my company ( www.geeks42.com / www.geeksone.com ) can help! Drop your computer off at any UPS store and have it repaired promptly and professionally.
There are quite a few out there:
t aller_dnld.htmle /
http://davidf.sjsoft.com/mirrors/mcmillan-inc/ins
http://py2exe.sourceforge.net/
http://starship.python.net/crew/atuining/cx_Freez
I prefer the first.
I highly recommend Python with wxWidgets for Windows GUI development. Because Python is scripted (though yuo can create an exe from a Python script) there are always plenty of examples to refer. I managed to create my first (fairly advanced) database-driven Windows GUI application in under an hour with Python, having never used the language before.
Not just 3 or 4. We've got:
solids
liquids
gases
plasmas
Bose-Einstein condensates
fermionic condensates
4 states?
What is this? 1990?
We've actually doubled the number of states of matter in the past half century.
I was all excited to see the headline, thinking that it was finally within our reach, and then I saw that it was the same article (over two years old) that I read long ago.
Why stop at WiFi for uploading to the net?
Imagine a beowolf cluster of these!
-- Obligatory, and the submitter asked for it
www.orkut.com
and
www.okcupid.com
For friends or dating.
What's controversial about that?
It makes sense for a company to comply with the laws of companies in which they target consumers.
It seems to me that if Google did not take steps to block certain contact, the site might be banned entirely in China.
Chinese users still have the traditional means of bypassing such measures, such as anonymous proxies.
I'd rather keep mine. The article says that the max speed is 230kbps, and the max sustainable is 115.2 kbps. It won't be too long that you can get that with a cellular modem.
When I was little I had a capsula ( http://www.discoverthis.com/capsula.html ) set that could walk on water... didn't anyone else?
Oh -- it looks like they're still being made... I guess it's time to find out my Visa's credit limit.
If you have an apple, and I have an apple, and we exchange the apples, then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea, and I have an idea, and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas.
- George Bernard Shaw
Residents of those contries have the option of using foreign ISPs, or even anonymous proxies, to bypass the blacklists.
neworder.box.sk has some links to good anonymous proxies.
Someone should create a VoIP "standard". It could be a protocol. That way, people could write different applications on different operating systems, and it could all work together!
That really depends on your operating system :)
Most webcams work with Video4Linux, so if you've got Linux on your PDA, you can use pretty much any video app for display (Xine, etc.)
Yes. It's an argument against monopolies. But it's also an argument against standards and any kind of compatibility.
With the good comes the bad.
This will make charging people to walk past my house much easier. In the past it's been tough for me to collect the $50 that I charge.
mmm... I saw the first page about 30 seconds before the database crashed. Looks cool.
Good effort, but 400 isn't a power of 2. Maybe 512.
2
4
8
16
32
64
128
256
512...
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What strikes me as odd is that the term "random numbers" is still used even among us, the excessively nerdy. Of course, pseudo-random is better, but I think that "unpredictable" would be the best term.
All numbers generated are based on something, so they'll never be truly random. The best that we can do is make them truly unpredictable, such that it cannot be determined which specific factors they are based on.
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http://www.drewbradford.com/
I appreciate your devotion to Debian. Fortunately for you it looks like DEBIAN CAN NOW RUN ON AN x86!
That's right! Debian Woody is actually now being distributed for the x86 architecture.
This product is a standard Pentium 4 x86 box.
Yep you have to get admin...
unless you have a boot disk.
Take a Linux floppy, mount your drive, and copy c:\windows\repair\SAM to your floppy.
All done.