And while your table is rocking away, so can your harddrives under your table. Check out this story on slashdot from a month ago, where a friend of mine turned some harddrives into speakers. Some people thought that was a hoax. Maybe now with this article, they might see that it's possible, and is so damn cool.
In my house (we have around 20 computers...don't ask). To remember which one's we're talking about, I came up with a scheme that lets you know which one, and it's specs. The first letter is the brand of PC: D=Dell, M=Micron, C=Custom. then there's a number with the clock speed. So we have computers named D1800, M866 etc... This is still easy to remember and say, plus you can know the speed of it just from the name.
They left out another good reason for better batteries and that is just holding a lot of energy. I don't have any links, but there's areas in the world that produce enough power for most countries naturally. I know one of these places is the antartic and the wind down there. If we got batteries to transport energy from there to here, we'd be set.
ordb.org is a great site for this. They are very professional with both addition of servers, and subtraction of them. My mail server was an open relay for a time till I got an email from them saying that I was blacklisted. I quickly fixed the server, and submitted that my site be checked again, the next day I was taken off their lists, very easy. They run about 20 tests connecting to your server and sending e-mails for the most common way of sending spam. Also, as they say in their faq that they reload their lists every hour to get servers off it quickly. Well done!
If you want XP, and don't want to pay for it, this whole issue is moot. You simply get the Corporate edition of XP. This has the auto-check routine written out of it my MS so they could give it to corporations with thousands of computers. Also for Universities and the such to distribute. Simply get one of these, and any working key, and ur set. People who would use this, wouldn't, simple as that.
The main site is posted here. But basicly CMU is also doing this, and has gotten very far. It can track a person running around a field with a life-vest. It can also lower some object into a person's hand. This might seem easly, but this is still all autonomous. One of the big projects this is for is the Coast Guard wants these to quickly find and possibly help people in the oceans. Teams of these things can scan the ocean for people while the choper with people are just loading up. Check out the videos on the site, very cool stuff.
that is true, the decreasing rate might not mean that we're finding all of them. But also remember that when looking for planets, it is so bloody hard. You have many different techniques to choose from. Looking for asteroids, which are in our general neighborhood, it relitivly easy and standard right now. Take a picture of the sky in one spot, then do it again 30 seconds later. Compare. If you can't see the asteroid, it probably isn't big enough to worry about. And we have enough groups scaning so we get all parts of the sky. Maybe new technology will come out, but I don't see how that will help much when we've got a very accurate system right now.
There are many groups out there now watching the skys for us. The largest is a government project called LINEAR based at Lincoln Labs. They find more than half of the new NEO (Near earth orbit) asteroids each year that are found. They have a telescope down in New Mexico and have the largest CCD (2560x1960 res) in the market. From their webpage, you can see they have found at least 727 NEO's. So there are a LOT of asteroids comming near us. But in space, near is still very far away. So unpack those bunkers and return to real life, we're still safe for a while. Also, the rate of finding new NEO's is decreasing, so that means that we've (humans) found most of the asteroids that can endanger us.
Many ideas have been thrown around for using this technology on the moon for sending things to mars. On the moon, with the gravity factor 1/6th of it on earth, it would be a lot easier to send stuff out into space. Also you could set a huge long rail using all the space you want. But of course we have to get the materials for that to the moon. Guess we should build one here, first.
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I'm with you on the fact that it's safer to fly from the airport than to drive to it. According to the site http://www.esrnational.org/airplanesafety.htm,
I calculated these averages of airline statistices from 1982 through 2000:
Fatalities: 121
Serious Injuries: 21
From http://www.car-accidents.com/pages/stats/2000_kill ed.html
Which shows car accidents, In just 2000, there were:
Fatalities: 41,821
Serious Injuries: 3,189,000
average of 121 in airplanes versus 41,000 in one year with cars. Just think about that.
Let me be the first to point out that the signup times are NOT the ones posted on the front page. The time are really from January 17th at 11:00 p.m (GMT -8) to January 18th at 11:00 p.m (GMT -8). So don't even try on the posted 7th, because nothing will come of it. Don't try. Please.
This is a good point, and your DNS example fits well, but there is a big difference between the article and your point. DNS is meant to be publicly available. The redundancy is so everyone everywhere can get access even if a few "nodes" go down. The article is talking about securing a lot of data, both from destruction, but also from theft. With many different centers like you suggest, it would be very hard to secure every one to a point where you could feel safe. With a chain of nodes holding sensitive data, the weakest node brings down the rest. So having only one place of holding the data, and putting lots of $$$ into it is better in this situtation than "Cheap geographical redundancy".
i've used XP for a few weeks now, and overall like it. The only problem with it that I've found is that it can get very slow when a few programs are accessing a single hard drive. This slows down the system and just creates a lot of lag. This did not happen in 98 as much, but it is extreamly stable, so I can wait a few extra seconds instead of having to reboot twice a day. Also, can anyone find out how to make sure DMA is turned on for the hard drives? I tried, but windows says it controls it and doesn't let the user at it.
When I listened to a talk given by a worker at Google, he said the main goal for them was to get them off their site as quickly as possible. Really changed the way that I viewed them.
Of course e-mail is great, but at first it was used to comunicate with a few people across the same network. What about the development of the DNS structure? The ability to have domain names and usernames for e-mail is a lot different from the original design of it.
...is that the hydrogen was NOT the main cause of the fire. The fire was caused by a part of the frame not grounding when the first rope was dropped from the ship to the ground. That then created a spark that went from the metal frame to the fabric that surounded the ship. This fabric had some iron oxide in it's paint. Also some aluminum was added to reflect sunlight so the gas wouldn't heat up. When this spark hit, a chemical reaction occured that melted the frame and lit the fabric on fire. This then lit the hydrogen that was kept inside a few seconds later.
These will be the images that we remember forever
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None of us will get these images out of our head. The fact that technology these days bring them to use faster does not mean they are worse. Everyone saw the challenger crash and remembers the image of all the pieces of the craft breaking up. For us youngsters, this is what we will remember, and what we're asked about by our children. People need to see these images to understand how the victims and their families are feeling. This will unite us as a nation, these images will go down in history. sadly.
What would you do if the cable company didn't say you could get a connection? probably go back to dsl, which is what most of us have to do. In my town, the cable company has a monopoly, and said they would have cable internet 2 year ago. Of course that didn't happen because there is no incentive to, and none of us can get another service. DSL is the only service here now to allow decent speeds.
no, I disagree. The content in the e-mail does not belong to you, even though the e-mail does. Technically you have it, but that does not mean it belongs to you. Think of it this way...Lets say in some business there is an automated system of sending out info. If there's a bug in the system, and someone else get's some info, it's not theirs, it just ended up in their box. Same thing here, something took info and sent it to a random person. That document is someone elses in your box.
Legally, (IANAL) I would think it would be the same as if you got some mail in your mailbox that wasn't yours. You are not at fault for having the information, but you are then responsible for your actions with that info. If you got some insider info on a company, and made millions off that stock, you would be liable for insider info fraud. So you could read away, but just don't do anything with it that you might regret.
Neural networks really need a good dataset to learn off of. This dataset has to have variables, some important, and some un-important. The important ones are then calculated out to see how important they are, and then put into the final equation. The spam e-mail could not be put into variables very easily. Any variables that we could think up (i.e. count of certain words) could be easily bypassed by the spammers.
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Hey man, without the net, you get no Slashdot. Think about that for a sec.
And while your table is rocking away, so can your harddrives under your table. Check out this story on slashdot from a month ago, where a friend of mine turned some harddrives into speakers. Some people thought that was a hoax. Maybe now with this article, they might see that it's possible, and is so damn cool.
In my house (we have around 20 computers...don't ask). To remember which one's we're talking about, I came up with a scheme that lets you know which one, and it's specs. The first letter is the brand of PC: D=Dell, M=Micron, C=Custom. then there's a number with the clock speed. So we have computers named D1800, M866 etc... This is still easy to remember and say, plus you can know the speed of it just from the name.
They left out another good reason for better batteries and that is just holding a lot of energy. I don't have any links, but there's areas in the world that produce enough power for most countries naturally. I know one of these places is the antartic and the wind down there. If we got batteries to transport energy from there to here, we'd be set.
I'm in scobell, along with the guy who the did the hard drive speakers. And apparently someone who lives 2 floors above him, who we don't know.
Who are you? come down to 010 if u wanna say hi ;-)
ordb.org is a great site for this. They are very professional with both addition of servers, and subtraction of them. My mail server was an open relay for a time till I got an email from them saying that I was blacklisted. I quickly fixed the server, and submitted that my site be checked again, the next day I was taken off their lists, very easy. They run about 20 tests connecting to your server and sending e-mails for the most common way of sending spam. Also, as they say in their faq that they reload their lists every hour to get servers off it quickly. Well done!
If you want XP, and don't want to pay for it, this whole issue is moot. You simply get the Corporate edition of XP. This has the auto-check routine written out of it my MS so they could give it to corporations with thousands of computers. Also for Universities and the such to distribute. Simply get one of these, and any working key, and ur set. People who would use this, wouldn't, simple as that.
The main site is posted here. But basicly CMU is also doing this, and has gotten very far. It can track a person running around a field with a life-vest. It can also lower some object into a person's hand. This might seem easly, but this is still all autonomous. One of the big projects this is for is the Coast Guard wants these to quickly find and possibly help people in the oceans. Teams of these things can scan the ocean for people while the choper with people are just loading up. Check out the videos on the site, very cool stuff.
Actually, it isn't "everybody" that wants to get the 1967 Cadillac El Dorado etc... But the guy who does is just, an asshole.
that is true, the decreasing rate might not mean that we're finding all of them. But also remember that when looking for planets, it is so bloody hard. You have many different techniques to choose from. Looking for asteroids, which are in our general neighborhood, it relitivly easy and standard right now. Take a picture of the sky in one spot, then do it again 30 seconds later. Compare. If you can't see the asteroid, it probably isn't big enough to worry about. And we have enough groups scaning so we get all parts of the sky. Maybe new technology will come out, but I don't see how that will help much when we've got a very accurate system right now.
There are many groups out there now watching the skys for us. The largest is a government project called LINEAR based at Lincoln Labs. They find more than half of the new NEO (Near earth orbit) asteroids each year that are found. They have a telescope down in New Mexico and have the largest CCD (2560x1960 res) in the market. From their webpage, you can see they have found at least 727 NEO's. So there are a LOT of asteroids comming near us. But in space, near is still very far away. So unpack those bunkers and return to real life, we're still safe for a while. Also, the rate of finding new NEO's is decreasing, so that means that we've (humans) found most of the asteroids that can endanger us.
Many ideas have been thrown around for using this technology on the moon for sending things to mars. On the moon, with the gravity factor 1/6th of it on earth, it would be a lot easier to send stuff out into space. Also you could set a huge long rail using all the space you want. But of course we have to get the materials for that to the moon. Guess we should build one here, first.
I'm with you on the fact that it's safer to fly from the airport than to drive to it. According to the site http://www.esrnational.org/airplanesafety.htm,
l ed.html
I calculated these averages of airline statistices from 1982 through 2000:
Fatalities: 121
Serious Injuries: 21
From http://www.car-accidents.com/pages/stats/2000_kil
Which shows car accidents, In just 2000, there were:
Fatalities: 41,821
Serious Injuries: 3,189,000
average of 121 in airplanes versus 41,000 in one year with cars. Just think about that.
Let me be the first to point out that the signup times are NOT the ones posted on the front page. The time are really from January 17th at 11:00 p.m (GMT -8) to January 18th at 11:00 p.m (GMT -8). So don't even try on the posted 7th, because nothing will come of it. Don't try. Please.
This is a good point, and your DNS example fits well, but there is a big difference between the article and your point. DNS is meant to be publicly available. The redundancy is so everyone everywhere can get access even if a few "nodes" go down. The article is talking about securing a lot of data, both from destruction, but also from theft. With many different centers like you suggest, it would be very hard to secure every one to a point where you could feel safe. With a chain of nodes holding sensitive data, the weakest node brings down the rest. So having only one place of holding the data, and putting lots of $$$ into it is better in this situtation than "Cheap geographical redundancy".
i've used XP for a few weeks now, and overall like it. The only problem with it that I've found is that it can get very slow when a few programs are accessing a single hard drive. This slows down the system and just creates a lot of lag. This did not happen in 98 as much, but it is extreamly stable, so I can wait a few extra seconds instead of having to reboot twice a day. Also, can anyone find out how to make sure DMA is turned on for the hard drives? I tried, but windows says it controls it and doesn't let the user at it.
When I listened to a talk given by a worker at Google, he said the main goal for them was to get them off their site as quickly as possible. Really changed the way that I viewed them.
Of course e-mail is great, but at first it was used to comunicate with a few people across the same network. What about the development of the DNS structure? The ability to have domain names and usernames for e-mail is a lot different from the original design of it.
...is that the hydrogen was NOT the main cause of the fire. The fire was caused by a part of the frame not grounding when the first rope was dropped from the ship to the ground. That then created a spark that went from the metal frame to the fabric that surounded the ship. This fabric had some iron oxide in it's paint. Also some aluminum was added to reflect sunlight so the gas wouldn't heat up. When this spark hit, a chemical reaction occured that melted the frame and lit the fabric on fire. This then lit the hydrogen that was kept inside a few seconds later.
None of us will get these images out of our head. The fact that technology these days bring them to use faster does not mean they are worse. Everyone saw the challenger crash and remembers the image of all the pieces of the craft breaking up. For us youngsters, this is what we will remember, and what we're asked about by our children. People need to see these images to understand how the victims and their families are feeling. This will unite us as a nation, these images will go down in history. sadly.
What would you do if the cable company didn't say you could get a connection? probably go back to dsl, which is what most of us have to do. In my town, the cable company has a monopoly, and said they would have cable internet 2 year ago. Of course that didn't happen because there is no incentive to, and none of us can get another service. DSL is the only service here now to allow decent speeds.
no, I disagree. The content in the e-mail does not belong to you, even though the e-mail does. Technically you have it, but that does not mean it belongs to you. Think of it this way...Lets say in some business there is an automated system of sending out info. If there's a bug in the system, and someone else get's some info, it's not theirs, it just ended up in their box. Same thing here, something took info and sent it to a random person. That document is someone elses in your box.
Legally, (IANAL) I would think it would be the same as if you got some mail in your mailbox that wasn't yours. You are not at fault for having the information, but you are then responsible for your actions with that info. If you got some insider info on a company, and made millions off that stock, you would be liable for insider info fraud. So you could read away, but just don't do anything with it that you might regret.
Neural networks really need a good dataset to learn off of. This dataset has to have variables, some important, and some un-important. The important ones are then calculated out to see how important they are, and then put into the final equation. The spam e-mail could not be put into variables very easily. Any variables that we could think up (i.e. count of certain words) could be easily bypassed by the spammers.