Whatcha think the first man to step on Mars will be wearing?
A perfectly colour co-ordinated, colour calibrated
Armani space suit with a Timex custom sundial (no batteries required, totally solar) set far MarsTime.
And probably drinking colour calibrated Coca-Cola.
Holy shit, I think I might be missing out by not reading at -1. Its a whole different world.
I want some of whatever this guy is on, wow...
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Re:The 52 most dangerous American officials
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TIA Project to End
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Stay exactly where you are, place your hands against the wall and remain in that position. You will be collected shortly.
You are scheduled for a visit to a thought re-alignment centre where a quick mental enema will cure you of your ills. Reading non-US approved news sources is unpatriotic and will not be tolerated.
I'm beginning to think that/. is fast becoming a bastion of the ill-informed who couldn't be bothered with learning how their own government actually works, but having plenty of opinion (and fantastic imagination) on what it's doing wrong.
When I went to petitionononline.com I couldn't find the petition site, instead I came across a very useful search engine for the World Wide Interweb from those good people at Verisign:-)
However to be fair it does provide a link to the correct site. I'm sure that won't last.
I would guess that the fusion is less likely, and would require more energy because it requires smashing two H atoms together at sufficient force to overcome repulsion, whereas fission just requires sufficent energy to be absorbed by a single H atom.
But I'm probably totally wrong - anyone with some more physics out there?
Prior to the RIP act, (it is speculated that) the UK and US have had for many years reciprocal agreements to spy on each other's populations using Echelon, neatly bypassing any issues regarding spying on ones own population.
However i think that since 11/09/03 no one gives a toss about the niceties of civil liberties, i.e. Dept. of Homeland Security and RIP. Your privacy has been sacrificed on the altar of political expediency.
Using the word 'subverted' is perhaps unfair. What bothers me is the fact that the intent of the first amendment is to protect 'the people', and instead it seems to be used against you.
"[Spammers] have come to court not because their freedom of speech is threatened but because their profits are; to dress up their complaints in First Amendment garb demeans the principles for which the First Amendment stands."
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there appears to be recognition of the problem, but no one seems to have the legal power to do anything.
Under the First Amendment, Congress shall make no law infringing on the freedom of speech. Spam, like it or not, is speech.
I'm not from the US so I don't have a real understanding of your constitutional laws. The idea of spam being 'speech' sounds strange, does this mean that you have a consitutional right to 'say' anything you want in unsolicited e-mail?
In the context of spam this 'speech' is generally companies advertising products and services. I think that in the US companies can be treated as people, so it appears that a law that was initially designed to protect a persons rights to express themselves is now subverted to allow companies to protect their right to advertise any way they want.
In the EU there are many restrictions on advertising to ensure that the adverts are not offensive, abusive or making fraudulent claims. Am I correct in my interperetation that in the US there are far fewer restrictions because of the freedom of speech requirement. If there are specific laws and regulations on advertising which override freedom of speech, then surely these can be applied to spam as well?
Reminds of an interesting
comment here a couple of months ago. Apparently one method of attack is to setup a fake base station that presuades the phone it is in iraq or someother dubious place. The suggestion was that this would cause the phone to switch off its encryption and speak in the clear.
Of course if you are smart enough to get hold of a base station (where from?) and set it up I would have thought you would be able to persuade the victims phone to route its calls through you and negotiate the encryption, so you would be able to decrypt the call anyhow.
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Cracking GSM
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· Score: 1, Interesting
However the original name Groupe Speciale Mobile may give a hint that the standard was not developed in the US, and therefore any reverse engineering is totally out of the scope of any US law.
The three original countries involved in the development of GSM were West Germany, France and Italy, later followed by the UK. Under EU law reverse engineering for the purpose of producing an interface is (at the moment) still legal. Although I think we are being dragged in the same direction as the USA wil lots of DMCA like proposals.
Doh! _not_ "registers", "locations" - been working with PICs too much recently.
Also I like the graphs of "Bit capacity vs Temperature", "Number of remaining pins vs Number of Socket Insertions",
and the non-hermetic sealing technique that prevents the entrapment of harmful ions but allows the free exchange of
friendly ones.
Probably the ultimate Tiny apps are written for embedded applications where 64k of code is bloatware. There are many billions of 4,8 and some16 bit embedded controllers (Intel has sold over a billion 8051 variants) in use around the world, running everything from your toaster to your car. The Microchip PIC is a good example, a RISC processor with maybe 300 to a couple of 1000 words of flash/(ee)prom program space, and maybe 25 to 200 bytes of RAM, running at a few MHz. If you want to play you can buy a programmer for ~£/$100, chips for a couple of £/$ - and the development software is FREE - breadboard it and add LCD displays etc. and you're only limited by your imagination. Pretty easy to create TCP/IP stack on one, and even embedded HTTP servers - I think the mechanical hit counter from a few months back was based on a PIC (anyone got a link?).
Writing code for these devices is a complete art form in itself - every processor cycle and every byte of ROM and RAM count. Your can get C (and even Basic) compilers for these devices, but you have to use assembly to squeeze out the last drop, and do some very dodgy tricks to use all those spare bits hanging around. We don't use OOP for obvious reasons;-)
I spend most of my time writing embedded code, every once in the while I code for PC end (64Mb RAM, 1GHz clock wow!), and it is so relaxing not having to think about every byte and the most efficient way to code loops etc, but it makes you think that there must be a hell of a lot of wasted clock cycles in most applications because there is no pressure to tighten the code.
Check out The Ganssle Group for some great articles on embedded development.
Ha... in France they caught a Homing pigeon with a note in arabic... how will the FBI try to intercept those? Using trained hawks or eagles?
Aha, so are they using RFC1149
"A Standard for the Transmission of IP Datagrams on Avian Carriers" implementation? Damn cunning. Maybe the FBI needs a Pigeon Packet Sniffer - well birds of prey are carnivores.
There was a more sophisticated idea by Daedalus (in Nature?) a few years ago; instead of jumping all together, phase the jumping spatially in order to direct the energy. By carefully controlling the order of jumps one can focus the resultant energy at any point around the earth - similar to phased array radars.
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I want a device that gives me a {rewarding stimulation} when someone mods me up :-)
There are definately more rewarding things than hugs.
Come on you mods.
Whatcha think the first man to step on Mars will be wearing?
A perfectly colour co-ordinated, colour calibrated Armani space suit with a Timex custom sundial (no batteries required, totally solar) set far MarsTime.
And probably drinking colour calibrated Coca-Cola.
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Holy shit, I think I might be missing out by not reading at -1. Its a whole different world.
I want some of whatever this guy is on, wow...
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Stay exactly where you are, place your hands against the wall and remain in that position. You will be collected shortly.
You are scheduled for a visit to a thought re-alignment centre where a quick mental enema will cure you of your ills. Reading non-US approved news sources is unpatriotic and will not be tolerated.
Have a nice day!
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I'm beginning to think that /. is fast becoming a bastion of the ill-informed who couldn't be bothered with learning how their own government actually works, but having plenty of opinion (and fantastic imagination) on what it's doing wrong.
You're new here, aren't you ;-)
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When I went to petitionononline.com I couldn't find the petition site, instead I came across a very useful search engine for the World Wide Interweb from those good people at Verisign :-)
However to be fair it does provide a link to the correct site. I'm sure that won't last.
Wait until sunrise, you will see a nice demonstration of fusion in a vacuum.
:-)
Its been running for 4.5 billion years without a sign of any problem
Interesting question, IANAP but i think:
Fission = H + energy -> p+ + n + e-
Fusion = H + H +energy -> He +n +energy
I would guess that the fusion is less likely, and would require more energy because it requires smashing two H atoms together at sufficient force to overcome repulsion, whereas fission just requires sufficent energy to be absorbed by a single H atom.
But I'm probably totally wrong - anyone with some more physics out there?
I meant 11/09/01, must proof-read my psots more closely!
Prior to the RIP act, (it is speculated that) the UK and US have had for many years reciprocal agreements to spy on each other's populations using Echelon, neatly bypassing any issues regarding spying on ones own population.
However i think that since 11/09/03 no one gives a toss about the niceties of civil liberties, i.e. Dept. of Homeland Security and RIP. Your privacy has been sacrificed on the altar of political expediency.
Oh my god, you mean they're the anti-trust?
Using the word 'subverted' is perhaps unfair. What bothers me is the fact that the intent of the first amendment is to protect 'the people', and instead it seems to be used against you.
quoting from an interesting article (on the freedom to chalk of all things):
[QUOTE]
US Federal Judge Stanley Sporkin said:
"[Spammers] have come to court not because their freedom of speech is threatened but because their profits are; to dress up their complaints in First Amendment garb demeans the principles for which the First Amendment stands."
[/QUOTE]
there appears to be recognition of the problem, but no one seems to have the legal power to do anything.
Under the First Amendment, Congress shall make no law infringing on the freedom of speech. Spam, like it or not, is speech.
I'm not from the US so I don't have a real understanding of your constitutional laws. The idea of spam being 'speech' sounds strange, does this mean that you have a consitutional right to 'say' anything you want in unsolicited e-mail?
In the context of spam this 'speech' is generally companies advertising products and services. I think that in the US companies can be treated as people, so it appears that a law that was initially designed to protect a persons rights to express themselves is now subverted to allow companies to protect their right to advertise any way they want.
In the EU there are many restrictions on advertising to ensure that the adverts are not offensive, abusive or making fraudulent claims. Am I correct in my interperetation that in the US there are far fewer restrictions because of the freedom of speech requirement. If there are specific laws and regulations on advertising which override freedom of speech, then surely these can be applied to spam as well?
Reminds of an interesting comment here a couple of months ago. Apparently one method of attack is to setup a fake base station that presuades the phone it is in iraq or someother dubious place. The suggestion was that this would cause the phone to switch off its encryption and speak in the clear. Of course if you are smart enough to get hold of a base station (where from?) and set it up I would have thought you would be able to persuade the victims phone to route its calls through you and negotiate the encryption, so you would be able to decrypt the call anyhow.
However the original name Groupe Speciale Mobile may give a hint that the standard was not developed in the US, and therefore any reverse engineering is totally out of the scope of any US law.
The three original countries involved in the development of GSM were West Germany, France and Italy, later followed by the UK. Under EU law reverse engineering for the purpose of producing an interface is (at the moment) still legal. Although I think we are being dragged in the same direction as the USA wil lots of DMCA like proposals.
Doh! _not_ "registers", "locations" - been working with PICs too much recently.
Also I like the graphs of "Bit capacity vs Temperature", "Number of remaining pins vs Number of Socket Insertions", and the non-hermetic sealing technique that prevents the entrapment of harmful ions but allows the free exchange of friendly ones.
In a similar vein...
The first random access memory was designed to read and write to random registers.
This does away with the address bus, reducing the pin count and making programming much more exciting.
Try the intersection of google labs and 100,000 slashdot users - Its an empty set.
Correction:
To quote from your link, he actually invented "first mechanical binary digital computer".
Babbage still remains as the pioneer of programmable computing machines.
A dont forget (one of) the first computer programmers, Ada Lovelace, perhaps the Grandmother of computer programmers.
"Life would be much easier if everyone's IP was tattooed on their forehead."
Another subliminal channel for those FBI Trojans.
I wonder how much information you could leak out without the user noticing - bandwidth for a few passwords and CC numbers is not much.
Writing code for these devices is a complete art form in itself - every processor cycle and every byte of ROM and RAM count. Your can get C (and even Basic) compilers for these devices, but you have to use assembly to squeeze out the last drop, and do some very dodgy tricks to use all those spare bits hanging around. We don't use OOP for obvious reasons ;-)
I spend most of my time writing embedded code, every once in the while I code for PC end (64Mb RAM, 1GHz clock wow!), and it is so relaxing not having to think about every byte and the most efficient way to code loops etc, but it makes you think that there must be a hell of a lot of wasted clock cycles in most applications because there is no pressure to tighten the code.
Check out The Ganssle Group for some great articles on embedded development.
Aha, so are they using RFC1149 "A Standard for the Transmission of IP Datagrams on Avian Carriers" implementation? Damn cunning. Maybe the FBI needs a Pigeon Packet Sniffer - well birds of prey are carnivores.
Phased array jumping is much more effective.
There was a more sophisticated idea by Daedalus (in Nature?) a few years ago; instead of jumping all together, phase the jumping spatially in order to direct the energy. By carefully controlling the order of jumps one can focus the resultant energy at any point around the earth - similar to phased array radars.