I must recommend Breakfast of Champions, especially if you've read Vonnegut before and are familiar with his characters (Kilgore Trout, Rosewater, etc). He just has fun and plays God with his characters. Its a fine read if you like self-referential humor.
'It's a terrible precedent for universities to be essentially paying for the entertainment of its students.''
Last time I heard, it is the students and/or their families who are paying for this via the tuition and related fees, not the other way around. Where is the outrage at universities funneling more and more money into sports teams, choosing childrens games over academics?
That is a post to a Cypherpunks mailing list concerning a hypothetical device to crack the 1024 bit keys that are so widely used in ssh and the like. The "machine" would cost between several hundred million to a billion dollars and require a megawatt or so of power, but would make cracking those types of keys childs play.
Considering that spy agencies could spend up to 2 billion USD on satellites, they would be crazy to pass something like this up.
I saw your segment in the documentary "0wned" at H2K2 last summer (a blurb here. Did showing how to make free phone calls earn you major respect amongst the inmates when you were incarcerated?
I work as an accountant for a large payroll firm and most of my job is to weed out clients that are not running payrolls and are getting free nil filing on our tax filing service, generating cost with no return. If you're using a payroll service, don't expect them to file for you if you are not active.
The parent comments advice is probably the most important advice you'll get on this thread.
"Forgetting is the most beneficial process we possess," Williams says. It enables us to deal with painful situations without actually reliving them.
I am very interested in seeing how the brain would adapt to this. Would the brain always remember things or, in the case of trauma, learn to halt impulses before they reach the implanted area so that they are "forgotten"?
Provided hooks are in for a force-feedback system or OCR to speech software, this GUI could be beneficial to blind users. Very few GUIs are built from the ground up with them in mind.
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I must recommend Breakfast of Champions, especially if you've read Vonnegut before and are familiar with his characters (Kilgore Trout, Rosewater, etc). He just has fun and plays God with his characters. Its a fine read if you like self-referential humor.
'It's a terrible precedent for universities to be essentially paying for the entertainment of its students.''
Last time I heard, it is the students and/or their families who are paying for this via the tuition and related fees, not the other way around. Where is the outrage at universities funneling more and more money into sports teams, choosing childrens games over academics?
it'll take care of those pesky RFIDs in clothing these days.
significant improvements/advantages (like super fine tuning, rms, ta, like the stuff on the car audio tuners)
Lets not get carried away. Theres NO way Stallman will fit in the box.
At least that way you don't wake up the next
morning not remembering anything and feeling
dirty...
Au contraire, I believe you're confusing these with these.
No need to worry. A backend to the Total Information Awareness database ought to fill in the blanks for you.
According to this article, Lucasfilm sued Dr. Dre for sampling the "THX deep note" on his Chronic 2001 album.
Slashdotted? Nah, I prefer to think of it as derailed!
Thank you, I'll be here all week. Try the fish.
Theres nothing more reckless or irresponsible than a man in the depths of an ether binge.
I wouldn't be so sure.
That is a post to a Cypherpunks mailing list concerning a hypothetical device to crack the 1024 bit keys that are so widely used in ssh and the like. The "machine" would cost between several hundred million to a billion dollars and require a megawatt or so of power, but would make cracking those types of keys childs play.
Considering that spy agencies could spend up to 2 billion USD on satellites, they would be crazy to pass something like this up.
Food for thought...
I saw your segment in the documentary "0wned" at H2K2 last summer (a blurb here. Did showing how to make free phone calls earn you major respect amongst the inmates when you were incarcerated?
I work as an accountant for a large payroll firm and most of my job is to weed out clients that are not running payrolls and are getting free nil filing on our tax filing service, generating cost with no return. If you're using a payroll service, don't expect them to file for you if you are not active.
The parent comments advice is probably the most important advice you'll get on this thread.
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When they put RFIDs the pocket protectors, I did not speak up.
When they put RFIDs in Members Only jackets, I did not speak up.
When they put RFIDs in sans-a-belt slacks, I did not speak up.
They put RFIDs in expo schwag. Now who will speak up for me?
"If it is not superconductivity then it must be violating the second law of thermodynamics," he says.
"In this house, we obey the laws of thermodynamics!"
If you're interested in rolling your own, give these a look:
Freevo
MythTV
I would want my money back...
So you saw Phantom Menace too?
C'mon, three dupes on the front page. What more could you want?!?!
Seriously though, I thought it was much funnier last year with the bizarro-world threads where first posters and trolls got modded to insightful.
Do you think I could cook enough food for eveyone if I made a beowulf cluster of these?
Get away with it? I don't think so. All in favor of demoting CmdrTaco to the rank of corporal, say aye.
Put away that ipecac syrup and induce vomiting with this choice quote from the article:
"I have had the privilege of having been graced by an angel through Live," wrote Ico on one of the Xbox Live forums.
"It was the golden gate to my soulmate," he added.
Sorry if this ruined anyones upholstery.
I've also found the Unoffical Zaurus FAQ to be extremely helpful as well.
"Forgetting is the most beneficial process we possess," Williams says. It enables us to deal with painful situations without actually reliving them.
I am very interested in seeing how the brain would adapt to this. Would the brain always remember things or, in the case of trauma, learn to halt impulses before they reach the implanted area so that they are "forgotten"?
Provided hooks are in for a force-feedback system or OCR to speech software, this GUI could be beneficial to blind users. Very few GUIs are built from the ground up with them in mind.
why are people so opposed to Flash on the net?
Ask the blind.