Engineers only care about more that 5 significant figures if the measuring devices used in the field also have the same capability.:) . I once had to look at a drawing that expressed the length of a piece of aluminum to 1/10000 inch. I wrote back to the engineer asking for the ambient temperature at the time the measurement was taken since the coefficient of thermal expansion was enough to effect the measurement. I also asked if he used laser or platinum/iridium ruler and a microscope to make the measurement in the first place. . ......you get the idea....
This is a centimeter . [picture of ladybug like insect] . . Q: What then, is this? . [picture of same insect upside down with it's legs sticking in the air] . . A: It's an erg, because an erg is a dyne-centimeter. . ......sorry....
Engineers: === Think math is a crude approximation of nature . Scientist: === Think nature is a crude approximation of math . Mathematicians: === Can't draw the connection
"The difference between aircraft structural engineering and civil engineering is that, in civil engineering, structures don't usually move unless there is a lawsuit involved." . . ....well, I thought it was funny...
The RFID chip is a *device*, universal *device* access is mode 666. That's not a hair, it's the punchline. . I was always told it was BCD, but the man page does indeed say octal. . ....BTW - this was just an observation, not intended to implicate Unix as the "OS of the beast" or anything. . Then again, perhaps the Revelations author does not count the thumb as one of your fingers;)....
"I may have slipped up on a detail here or there, but basically that's what that all means." . Yup, you missed a detail.... . I said universal *device* access. In Unix, you can't execute a device. Therefore, universal access is given by mode 666. If this were a file, then the mode would be 777.
Sure...devices and files on a Unix (or Unix like) system are handled essentially the same way. Each has a designated owner and a designated group. Say, the device is a modem. The owner would be "root" (or the "superuser") and the group could be, say, "internet". Permissions could be set up so that any user who is a member of the group "internet" can access the mode through thier account. It's basically a simple, elegant way to manage permissions. . . Now, the mode number follows the format USER-GROUP-OTHER ("OTHER" is everybody else). Each of USER, GROUP, and OTHER gets it's own three digit binary number to represent what they can do to the file in order of READ, WRITE, and EXECUTE. So, giving everybody access to said modem would be as follows: . USER = 110, GROUP = 110, OTHER = 110. . This means anyone can read data from or write data to the modem (in Unix, you can't execute a device so the last bit is zero. If we were talking about a file, then U, G, and O would each be 111).
Now, the shorthand is to express this as a three digit "mode" number where each digit is the decimal equivalent of the three digit binary numbers for USER, GROUP, and OTHER. Therefore, the mode number that grants universal access to a device would be 666.
This elimiates the anonymous purchase. No more slinking into the adult bookstore for that copy of "Wendy the Whip" Quarterly (or whatever) that is purchased with cash so it doesn't show up on your bank statement for your wife to see. . Seriously though, if you have absolute access to how someone spends their money, you essentially know everything about them. It becomes an extreme invasion of privacy making the technological hurdles somewhat minor in comparison to the social and political hurdles. . Regarding the mark of the beast; given that this is an implantable device, I can't help but find it interesting that the "number of the beast" is also the Unix mode number for universal device access. Don't know if that means anything, but it is an interesting coincidence. .
People think nothing about spending $100.00 for a decent pair of tennis shoes. Why is it that spending a similar amount to protect your skull is considered a "Yuppie" status symbol? . . You really need to restrict your post to things you actually have some knowledge about.
We just had a member of our bicycle club get killed when he blew his front tire on a fast decent. He went over the bars and landed on his head with his wife following behind. . . Go ahead and tell me again how helmets are just a status symbol. . . You clearly don't ride (at least not for fitness), don't presume to tell me what is and is not necessary safety equipment.
It also had a headset so I could use in while I was on my bicycle. Small size, voice operated dialing, and easily accessable while on my road bike would be a plus. Not only that, but standing in a airport with your finger in your ear talking to yourself would tend to make people leave you alone, that would be a *BIG* plus.
1) Herring is confronted by big nasty predetor, darn near shits himself . 2) Aroma causes said predetor to lose appetite . 3) Other herring, alerted by noise, flee to safety . 4) Soon, herring learn to fart to warn other herring of impending doom. . 5) Herring's whose fart do not also alert the predetor are highly prized and get first pick of the female herring. . 6) "Quiet farting" passed on the future generations. . .....at the institute, they said I was mad....
If you try to mimic the idea of a computer developing "anti-bodies" to combat computer viruses, would it not then be possible for the computer to inadvertantly develop a defense for legitimate code? . . In other words, would your computer become "allergic" to certain programs? . . Not a computer expert...just thinking out loud... . .
I not only understand this move, but I agree with it. It does not appear to me that they are dropping their free distro outright, their just moving it entirely into the open domain. They still support and have access to that developer community and even say the development of Fedora could find it's way into enterprise RedHat. I would imagine that finding support for Fedora should be no harder than finding support for Debian (or any other free distro).
So, instead of RedHat 10, you have Fedora 1.0....big deal, won't stop me from using it.
All this means is that they are focusing thier business on Enterprise level support. I, for one, welcome our new RedHat over{smack}...er....I, for one, hope it works out for them.
Hmmm...a $20 device that makes things vibrate in response to music...I'm surprised it isn't more popular with the girls...parents all over the country wondering why their daughters are suddenly "really into" flamico guitar music. . . ....there might be a market here. . . . ....[trying to slink away before anybody gets that]...
Sorta reminiscent of the playable memory modules for the Dreamcast. Also, give me a keyboard, mouse, and virtual image display goggles (instead of a monitor) so I can do work on an airplane without people looking over my shoulder.
Oh yea..and a good solid RPN Scientific calculator
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don't need graphing for field calculations, but something on par with my old HP would be great.
First off NO GAMES!!!...NO CUTESY DOWNLOADABLE BATTERY/MONEY WASTING CRAP!!!....I WANT A BUSINESS TOOL NOT A TOY!!!! . ...ooohh, that was cathartic....I feel better now...what was I talking about? Oh yes, my perfect phone...
Second: Manage my communications, that means a generous address book that can be categorized based on personal contacts, coworkers, customers, goverment contacts, secret Nevada test site, etc. Give me reliable phone capabilities along with text messaging and, keep a copy of my e-mail messages for when I'm away from my laptop. In a pinch, it would be useful to check e-mail but that is not the highest priority as any business e-mail I get would very likely require me to get to my computer anyway.
Third: Be my organizer. Calander, To-Do list, appointments, pocket watch, that kind of stuff.
Fourth: Act like a USB or Smart Media drive to give me an easy way to transfer files between my office and home computers. I suppose some marketing guy will assume MP3 player as well, but I'll never use it. I'd rather have the battery life and purchase a separate dedicated MP3 player.
Fifth: Camera abilities - It would be nice if I could say, stick this thing in the belly of a Boeing 737 and document the progress of an airframe modification or something like that. It doesn't have to be a great camera, but it does have to work in a variety of conditions so focus and flash is a plus.
Sixth: Webcam - my only indulgence, it would be nice to call my family from the road and be able to use my camera as a webcam while they used Gnomemeeting or some equivalent.
There's already enough debris orbiting the Earth to be a significant danger to manned space travel as it is. One good conflict up there could easily generate enough debris to make it all but impossible to put anything in orbit without it getting destroyed by colliding with a piece of debris, both moving at orbital velocities.
Not to be too "doom and gloom", but we could find ourselves basically trapped on Earth until we find a way to clean up the mess.
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Engineers only care about more that 5 significant figures if the measuring devices used in the field also have the same capability. :) .....you get the idea....
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I once had to look at a drawing that expressed the length of a piece of aluminum to 1/10000 inch. I wrote back to the engineer asking for the ambient temperature at the time the measurement was taken since the coefficient of thermal expansion was enough to effect the measurement. I also asked if he used laser or platinum/iridium ruler and a microscope to make the measurement in the first place.
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This is a centimeter .....sorry....
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...well, I thought it was funny...
"The difference between aircraft structural engineering and civil engineering is that, in civil engineering, structures don't usually move unless there is a lawsuit involved."
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The RFID chip is a *device*, universal *device* access is mode 666. That's not a hair, it's the punchline. ...BTW - this was just an observation, not intended to implicate Unix as the "OS of the beast" or anything. ;) ....
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I was always told it was BCD, but the man page does indeed say octal.
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Then again, perhaps the Revelations author does not count the thumb as one of your fingers
"I may have slipped up on a detail here or there, but basically that's what that all means."
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Yup, you missed a detail....
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I said universal *device* access. In Unix, you can't execute a device. Therefore, universal access is given by mode 666. If this were a file, then the mode would be 777.
Sure...devices and files on a Unix (or Unix like) system are handled essentially the same way. Each has a designated owner and a designated group. Say, the device is a modem. The owner would be "root" (or the "superuser") and the group could be, say, "internet". Permissions could be set up so that any user who is a member of the group "internet" can access the mode through thier account. It's basically a simple, elegant way to manage permissions.
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Now, the mode number follows the format USER-GROUP-OTHER ("OTHER" is everybody else). Each of USER, GROUP, and OTHER gets it's own three digit binary number to represent what they can do to the file in order of READ, WRITE, and EXECUTE. So, giving everybody access to said modem would be as follows:
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USER = 110, GROUP = 110, OTHER = 110.
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This means anyone can read data from or write data to the modem (in Unix, you can't execute a device so the last bit is zero. If we were talking about a file, then U, G, and O would each be 111).
Now, the shorthand is to express this as a three digit "mode" number where each digit is the decimal equivalent of the three digit binary numbers for USER, GROUP, and OTHER. Therefore, the mode number that grants universal access to a device would be 666.
Yea, I got your money right here (grabbing crotch).
" I'm a firm believer that anything that sends those fucking Bible-thumping loonies into a tizzy is a good thing."
...ya'll can write your own joke from there....
Now, the above sentance is a case where punctuation is very important....
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This elimiates the anonymous purchase. No more slinking into the adult bookstore for that copy of "Wendy the Whip" Quarterly (or whatever) that is purchased with cash so it doesn't show up on your bank statement for your wife to see.
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Seriously though, if you have absolute access to how someone spends their money, you essentially know everything about them. It becomes an extreme invasion of privacy making the technological hurdles somewhat minor in comparison to the social and political hurdles.
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Regarding the mark of the beast; given that this is an implantable device, I can't help but find it interesting that the "number of the beast" is also the Unix mode number for universal device access. Don't know if that means anything, but it is an interesting coincidence.
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People think nothing about spending $100.00 for a decent pair of tennis shoes. Why is it that spending a similar amount to protect your skull is considered a "Yuppie" status symbol?
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You really need to restrict your post to things you actually have some knowledge about.
We just had a member of our bicycle club get killed when he blew his front tire on a fast decent. He went over the bars and landed on his head with his wife following behind.
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Go ahead and tell me again how helmets are just a status symbol.
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You clearly don't ride (at least not for fitness), don't presume to tell me what is and is not necessary safety equipment.
It's not the cleverness of the scheme, it's the greed of the victim. Nice to see that works in both directions.
I can still get political and "charity solicitation" calls that I'd have to pay for if they come to my cell. ...no thanks...
It also had a headset so I could use in while I was on my bicycle. Small size, voice operated dialing, and easily accessable while on my road bike would be a plus. Not only that, but standing in a airport with your finger in your ear talking to yourself would tend to make people leave you alone, that would be a *BIG* plus.
Probably played out something like this:
....at the institute, they said I was mad....
1) Herring is confronted by big nasty predetor, darn near shits himself
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2) Aroma causes said predetor to lose appetite
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3) Other herring, alerted by noise, flee to safety
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4) Soon, herring learn to fart to warn other herring of impending doom.
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5) Herring's whose fart do not also alert the predetor are highly prized and get first pick of the female herring.
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6) "Quiet farting" passed on the future generations.
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If you try to mimic the idea of a computer developing "anti-bodies" to combat computer viruses, would it not then be possible for the computer to inadvertantly develop a defense for legitimate code?
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. In other words, would your computer become "allergic" to certain programs?
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Not a computer expert...just thinking out loud...
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I not only understand this move, but I agree with it. It does not appear to me that they are dropping their free distro outright, their just moving it entirely into the open domain. They still support and have access to that developer community and even say the development of Fedora could find it's way into enterprise RedHat. I would imagine that finding support for Fedora should be no harder than finding support for Debian (or any other free distro).
So, instead of RedHat 10, you have Fedora 1.0....big deal, won't stop me from using it.
All this means is that they are focusing thier business on Enterprise level support. I, for one, welcome our new RedHat over{smack}...er....I, for one, hope it works out for them.
Hmmm...a $20 device that makes things vibrate in response to music...I'm surprised it isn't more popular with the girls...parents all over the country wondering why their daughters are suddenly "really into" flamico guitar music. ...there might be a market here. ...[trying to slink away before anybody gets that]...
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It'll run off the monitor illumination but, problem is, as soon I determine that the monitor is on, it's state changes and it goes off again....
Sorta reminiscent of the playable memory modules for the Dreamcast. Also, give me a keyboard, mouse, and virtual image display goggles (instead of a monitor) so I can do work on an airplane without people looking over my shoulder.
don't need graphing for field calculations, but something on par with my old HP would be great.
First off NO GAMES!!!...NO CUTESY DOWNLOADABLE BATTERY/MONEY WASTING CRAP!!!....I WANT A BUSINESS TOOL NOT A TOY!!!! ..ooohh, that was cathartic....I feel better now...what was I talking about? Oh yes, my perfect phone...
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Second: Manage my communications, that means a generous address book that can be categorized based on personal contacts, coworkers, customers, goverment contacts, secret Nevada test site, etc. Give me reliable phone capabilities along with text messaging and, keep a copy of my e-mail messages for when I'm away from my laptop. In a pinch, it would be useful to check e-mail but that is not the highest priority as any business e-mail I get would very likely require me to get to my computer anyway.
Third: Be my organizer. Calander, To-Do list, appointments, pocket watch, that kind of stuff.
Fourth: Act like a USB or Smart Media drive to give me an easy way to transfer files between my office and home computers. I suppose some marketing guy will assume MP3 player as well, but I'll never use it. I'd rather have the battery life and purchase a separate dedicated MP3 player.
Fifth: Camera abilities - It would be nice if I could say, stick this thing in the belly of a Boeing 737 and document the progress of an airframe modification or something like that. It doesn't have to be a great camera, but it does have to work in a variety of conditions so focus and flash is a plus.
Sixth: Webcam - my only indulgence, it would be nice to call my family from the road and be able to use my camera as a webcam while they used Gnomemeeting or some equivalent.
There's already enough debris orbiting the Earth to be a significant danger to manned space travel as it is. One good conflict up there could easily generate enough debris to make it all but impossible to put anything in orbit without it getting destroyed by colliding with a piece of debris, both moving at orbital velocities.
Not to be too "doom and gloom", but we could find ourselves basically trapped on Earth until we find a way to clean up the mess.