We were in the Englischer Garten, waiting for the corona to show. My friends and I had bought a bottle of champagne for the occasion, and we had just gotten our lunch to each during the show. Although the sky was partially cloudy, it was clear in the section that the sun was until about 3 minutes before the actual corona showed (read: total eclipse). Then, as if by an act of God, a large cloud came over the sun and covered everything up. We ended up seeing the corona (and by the way, it was much more visible than at night; I could easily read a paper if I had wanted to at that time) for about two seconds. So much for the "two minutes of spectacular corona" that filled the hotels in Munich and all the surrounding town to overflowing. Too bad that where I actually lived, in the south of Munich, where my parents and brothers were, it was perfectly clear and we could see anything;-P I hope other people had better experiences with the eclipse, although it was kind of funny when a bunch of sun worshipers ran through the Garten yelling "Wir waeren alle tot!" (that is, "we're all gonna die!".
No... It's more like "If you pay us money, we'll choose which towns are inappropriate for your children [presumably who the program is bought for] to view and restrain anyone from your house who doesn't know the secret password from entering them." So it's pretty much tough luck for whoever doesn't know the password/can crack the program (hehehehe... I bet they use plaintext or XOR to store the passwords).
I've been using a masq'd box as a firewall/gateway for my home LAN for the past six months or so. It does everything perfectly, and I don't load up any modules. I just use ipchains, and everything on the other boxen looks like it were directly connected to the internet; it works perfectly. Every application from ICQ to AIM to telnet to Quake II to email to whatever you want will run like this.
I would love to know how people can say that he was the "leader of the newest generation." I don't know where Katz got this quote from, but it's completely absurd. I hadn't paid more then two minutes' attention to JFK Jr. before his death, and have only paid more than that since then because of the media over-saturation of the event. So he died. Get over it! He's a fallible human being, like everyone else on Earth. If you've never met the man, or at least have been affected by him in some way, then there is really no reason for you to greive. I truly cannot understand how people get so emotionally involved over someone who they've never met. At least Princess Di was an incredibly benevolent person.
It will be most interesting to see how the animals actually turn out after they have been successfully cloned. It may give some interesting insight into instincts... Just my $0.02.
Man... I'm in high school and I know people whose entire lives revolve around the TV. It's pathetic. I have a friend whose family keeps the bloody thing on constantly. I have seen like two instances when there hasn't been a TV running in their house. The last TV I watched was Leno a few nights back when I really really wanted to see the singer (Tim McGraw - yeah, I listen to country). I remember that after I started to get involved with computers and the 'net, TV just didn't do anything for me. I watch popular shows and wonder how people actually like them. Yuck.
I love my chair. It's a beautiful, hand-made, traditional wooden chair. It scrapes up my floor. It thuds whenever I move it somewhere. It's hard for people to lift up. And it's the most damn comfortable thing I've ever sat in. I don't know how it manages this, but it does. I don't really see the need for one of these ergo-chairs:)
Yeah, this was pretty funny. I used to live right next to Amish country, and I remember that when Weird Al did "Amish Paradise" they thought it was hilarious.
And here's something that's a little bizarre - I was reading the New Yorker a few months back, and I saw an article on how the Amish boys usually go through a rebellious phase when they reach around 20 years old - they go and buy cars, run around and do what pretty much every other 20 year old would do. The Amish tolerate it pretty well; it seems to be part of how they grow up. After a few years of this, apparently, they settle down to a lifestyle more akin to their parents. The really interesting thing in this article was that two Amish boys about this age were caught trafficking drugs... Huge shock to anyone who's lived near 'em:)
One of the first things that I learned about when I was studying the physical layer in network communications were protocols using this type of medium for physical transport. The author of the text (Andrew Tanenbaum, the author of Minix) criticized it for its easy disruption by weather/obstruction/heat. Something that many people seem to fail to consider with this is the refractive qualities of air - although they see the obvious, such as birds and other foreign object flying through the paths of the beams(something the is quite likely to be corrected for in the protocol; any good data protocol will incorporate error correction/detection featers so these types of incidents are made quite irrelevant), they don't seem to see that if there is a substantial difference in the heat between the two points, the air will be different enough to refract the light so it misses the transceiver entirely. Again, if the protocol designers have a clue, they might incorporate some sort of detection/correction (in this case, possibly moving motors in the transceiver to correct for the refraction). Just my two cents worth on this protocol.
I can't really decide whether this article was meant to be funny or not, but it certainly managed to be so... 30 million lines of code being "embeddable" is a laugh:)
Do you know, I've known about this ever since Internet Underground (used to be a great magazine about the web, but I don't know what's happened to it now) did a report on fourmilab (his site)? I'm surprised that this hadn't already been posted...
In the USA, the averate voter turnout of eligible voters is appalling - something like 25-35% per election. Compare that with a place like Germany, which is surprised when it has only 80%, and you can probably see that the answer to your question about "When was the last time you voted?" will be quite a long time to many normal US citizens... Don't get me wrong, I love America, I'm an American citizen myself, and I'm not implying that you (be you the author or another reader) doesn't vote, I'm saying that many US citizens need to start exercising their rights... What good is a limb if it atrophies?
PS - Don't ask me where I got those statistics. I could easily be wrong.
Hey, wow, wonderful. I haven't heard anything about Echelon in the mainstream, ever. I do know that I live about an hour away from one of their biggest monitoring stations(in Bavaria)... You can see the golf balls (doppler radar for the most part) and antennae arrays from miles around... Lotsa US military personnel on base down there, and they don't talk about what they do for a living. When I first found out about it, I was scared as shit. Now, I just remember not to joke about anything involving the CIA on the phone (semi-joke, that).
Cheerfully awaiting the arrival of a CIA field agent at my front door.
Actually, I think that you can only use the:: notation to specify a field like so: 0000:0000:0000. I'm not sure if this is still the way that it is, my text on the matter being from 1996. I believe IPv4 notation will still be allowed for some time while the transition is going on.
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Anyone else remember that book from grade school? A man got a lot of penguins and kept them in his basement after they multiplied and outgrew the icebox. Imagine having a basement full of little Tuxes:)
I always just choose to have the tty emulation built into the kernel and use that to dial up. i4l always gave me too many problems; now I just use the normal pppd with/dev/ttyI0, and everything works fine.
It seems to me like this guy's trolling for flames. He may be right that Linux is getting a huge amount of publicity, but it's doubtful that he's actually had experience with the OS if he can talk about it like this. I use Linux all the time - work, home, whatever. Fine, Microsoft makes products for the everyday man, but Linux is still far superior to Windows, even if it doesn't provide the ease of use. And he didn't even bother to consider that Linux has only really been mainstream for the past year or so, while NT and other MS products have had more of the market than anything else for the past half-decade.
Maybe I misunderstood, but I'm not so sure that the ratio of body size:brain size matters all too much, at least with intra-species relations. I can see it having something to do with inter-species, though. We can't really hope to start measuring the intelligence of other species before we have an accurate and consistent test for our own race...
I'd have to say that you're right on this.. I currently go to high school with around 80 people in my class (850 overall from Pre-kindergarten through 12th) and have had the luck to never have experienced the bullying that goes on in other places.
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We were in the Englischer Garten, waiting for the corona to show. My friends and I had bought a bottle of champagne for the occasion, and we had just gotten our lunch to each during the show. Although the sky was partially cloudy, it was clear in the section that the sun was until about 3 minutes before the actual corona showed (read: total eclipse). Then, as if by an act of God, a large cloud came over the sun and covered everything up. We ended up seeing the corona (and by the way, it was much more visible than at night; I could easily read a paper if I had wanted to at that time) for about two seconds. So much for the "two minutes of spectacular corona" that filled the hotels in Munich and all the surrounding town to overflowing. Too bad that where I actually lived, in the south of Munich, where my parents and brothers were, it was perfectly clear and we could see anything ;-P
I hope other people had better experiences with the eclipse, although it was kind of funny when a bunch of sun worshipers ran through the Garten yelling "Wir waeren alle tot!" (that is, "we're all gonna die!".
The funniest thing about all three of these posts is that they were moderated up...
Huh? How are we gonna manage to get video encoded in an audio format?
No... It's more like "If you pay us money, we'll choose which towns are inappropriate for your children [presumably who the program is bought for] to view and restrain anyone from your house who doesn't know the secret password from entering them."
So it's pretty much tough luck for whoever doesn't know the password/can crack the program (hehehehe... I bet they use plaintext or XOR to store the passwords).
I've been using a masq'd box as a firewall/gateway for my home LAN for the past six months or so. It does everything perfectly, and I don't load up any modules. I just use ipchains, and everything on the other boxen looks like it were directly connected to the internet; it works perfectly. Every application from ICQ to AIM to telnet to Quake II to email to whatever you want will run like this.
I would love to know how people can say that he was the "leader of the newest generation." I don't know where Katz got this quote from, but it's completely absurd. I hadn't paid more then two minutes' attention to JFK Jr. before his death, and have only paid more than that since then because of the media over-saturation of the event. So he died. Get over it! He's a fallible human being, like everyone else on Earth. If you've never met the man, or at least have been affected by him in some way, then there is really no reason for you to greive. I truly cannot understand how people get so emotionally involved over someone who they've never met. At least Princess Di was an incredibly benevolent person.
It will be most interesting to see how the animals actually turn out after they have been successfully cloned. It may give some interesting insight into instincts...
Just my $0.02.
Man... I'm in high school and I know people whose entire lives revolve around the TV. It's pathetic. I have a friend whose family keeps the bloody thing on constantly. I have seen like two instances when there hasn't been a TV running in their house.
The last TV I watched was Leno a few nights back when I really really wanted to see the singer (Tim McGraw - yeah, I listen to country). I remember that after I started to get involved with computers and the 'net, TV just didn't do anything for me. I watch popular shows and wonder how people actually like them. Yuck.
I love my chair. It's a beautiful, hand-made, traditional wooden chair. It scrapes up my floor. It thuds whenever I move it somewhere. It's hard for people to lift up. And it's the most damn comfortable thing I've ever sat in. I don't know how it manages this, but it does. I don't really see the need for one of these ergo-chairs :)
Yeah, this was pretty funny. I used to live right next to Amish country, and I remember that when Weird Al did "Amish Paradise" they thought it was hilarious.
:)
And here's something that's a little bizarre - I was reading the New Yorker a few months back, and I saw an article on how the Amish boys usually go through a rebellious phase when they reach around 20 years old - they go and buy cars, run around and do what pretty much every other 20 year old would do. The Amish tolerate it pretty well; it seems to be part of how they grow up. After a few years of this, apparently, they settle down to a lifestyle more akin to their parents. The really interesting thing in this article was that two Amish boys about this age were caught trafficking drugs... Huge shock to anyone who's lived near 'em
One of the first things that I learned about when I was studying the physical layer in network communications were protocols using this type of medium for physical transport. The author of the text (Andrew Tanenbaum, the author of Minix) criticized it for its easy disruption by weather/obstruction/heat. Something that many people seem to fail to consider with this is the refractive qualities of air - although they see the obvious, such as birds and other foreign object flying through the paths of the beams(something the is quite likely to be corrected for in the protocol; any good data protocol will incorporate error correction/detection featers so these types of incidents are made quite irrelevant), they don't seem to see that if there is a substantial difference in the heat between the two points, the air will be different enough to refract the light so it misses the transceiver entirely. Again, if the protocol designers have a clue, they might incorporate some sort of detection/correction (in this case, possibly moving motors in the transceiver to correct for the refraction). Just my two cents worth on this protocol.
I can't really decide whether this article was meant to be funny or not, but it certainly managed to be so... 30 million lines of code being "embeddable" is a laugh :)
Do you know, I've known about this ever since Internet Underground (used to be a great magazine about the web, but I don't know what's happened to it now) did a report on fourmilab (his site)? I'm surprised that this hadn't already been posted...
In the USA, the averate voter turnout of eligible voters is appalling - something like 25-35% per election. Compare that with a place like Germany, which is surprised when it has only 80%, and you can probably see that the answer to your question about "When was the last time you voted?" will be quite a long time to many normal US citizens...
Don't get me wrong, I love America, I'm an American citizen myself, and I'm not implying that you (be you the author or another reader) doesn't vote, I'm saying that many US citizens need to start exercising their rights... What good is a limb if it atrophies?
PS - Don't ask me where I got those statistics. I could easily be wrong.
Hey, wow, wonderful. I haven't heard anything about Echelon in the mainstream, ever. I do know that I live about an hour away from one of their biggest monitoring stations(in Bavaria)... You can see the golf balls (doppler radar for the most part) and antennae arrays from miles around... Lotsa US military personnel on base down there, and they don't talk about what they do for a living. When I first found out about it, I was scared as shit. Now, I just remember not to joke about anything involving the CIA on the phone (semi-joke, that).
Cheerfully awaiting the arrival of a CIA field agent at my front door.
This reads like something out of the Onion... I can't tell whether it's real or not :)
Actually, I think that you can only use the :: notation to specify a field like so: 0000:0000:0000. I'm not sure if this is still the way that it is, my text on the matter being from 1996. I believe IPv4 notation will still be allowed for some time while the transition is going on.
Anyone else remember that book from grade school? A man got a lot of penguins and kept them in his basement after they multiplied and outgrew the icebox. Imagine having a basement full of little Tuxes :)
No, if you sold a computer, you'd have to make the source code "readily available." I believe that the Internet would count for this.
Just look at Gates! ;)
I always just choose to have the tty emulation built into the kernel and use that to dial up. i4l always gave me too many problems; now I just use the normal pppd with /dev/ttyI0, and everything works fine.
It seems to me like this guy's trolling for flames. He may be right that Linux is getting a huge amount of publicity, but it's doubtful that he's actually had experience with the OS if he can talk about it like this. I use Linux all the time - work, home, whatever. Fine, Microsoft makes products for the everyday man, but Linux is still far superior to Windows, even if it doesn't provide the ease of use. And he didn't even bother to consider that Linux has only really been mainstream for the past year or so, while NT and other MS products have had more of the market than anything else for the past half-decade.
Neanderthals also had much thicker skulls.
Maybe I misunderstood, but I'm not so sure that the ratio of body size:brain size matters all too much, at least with intra-species relations. I can see it having something to do with inter-species, though. We can't really hope to start measuring the intelligence of other species before we have an accurate and consistent test for our own race...
They forgot to mention that those things will probably be running Linux in the next month...
I'd have to say that you're right on this.. I currently go to high school with around 80 people in my class (850 overall from Pre-kindergarten through 12th) and have had the luck to never have experienced the bullying that goes on in other places.