Seriously, pot smoker's have known that for years, I can't believe computer nerds had no idea before then. If you don't want you're house (car, dormroom, whatever) smelling like weed when you smoke it, smoke out of a oney (a type of pipe that holds enough pot for one hit) and blow the smoke through a dryer sheet. If you use new ones, the whole room will smell morning fresh. If you use old ones they'll just get stained and the room won't smell like pot much. On a computer you wouldn't want to use fresh sheets because that smelly shit will coat your electronics. That's potovation for you.
I wish I could get the Foriegner Belt from Aqua Teen Hunger Force.
Officer: "Can you give me your liscense, registration and proof of insurance, please?" Me: "Sure officer. Fill your eyes with that double vision." Squealing tires as the cop runs in eight directions while shooting in twelve. Fun times that would be...
Why does everyone forget Canada? From what I've seen, they have one of the strongest Constitutions out there. Their Charter of Rights (or whatever it's called, i forget) guarantees every right that the US Bill of Rights contains with one difference, they actually enforce it. Just last year the Canadian equivilent to the Supreme Court declared the prohibition on marijuana to be illegal because it effectually caused injury to people with diseases like glaucoma and cancer by not providing an effective treatment for those ailments. Marijuana being the most effective treatment, then could not legally be completely prohibited. Now you need a liscense or some other bullshit to grow, possess or sell but who cares? Canada legallized pot because their Constitution is so strong. When will the US (or any other country) do that?
I would like to remove stupid people from traffic jams just like you but that would really piss me off. Then I couldn't have fun driving my ultra-fast Eagle Talon TSi AWD. Systems that take control from the people are almost bad when considered from a rights standpoint. Just look at Congress lately. Why would you want more control taken from you?
Actually, all courts are required to interpret and enforce the Constitution, not just the Supreme Court. Any number of courts can strike down laws for being unconstitutional but that case law only applies to their jurisdiction. In the case of the Supreme Court, the entire country is their jurisdiction, so their decisions have a much greater weight than some Federal Circuit Court Judge in LA.
"Oh look, the courier went down a hill too fast, this syquest cartridge is fucked."
No, SparQ disks were much worse than that. (I assume the Syquest disks you're refering to are SparQ) In two years of use, I had 18 of 24 Sparq disks die and 3 of 4 sparq drives bite the dust. Initially, I thought it was a better investment than a Zip drive; they were around the same costs for both media and drive and sparq disks hold 1GB rather 100MB for zip. Ten times cheaper. I got what I paid for, alright. To this day, when I hear a drive spin up eight times in a row without beeping, I cringe.
Go with AT&T Broadband cable service (or Comcast or whatever the hell they're calling it these days.). They seem to quite fast and hell, they'll sell you extra IPs for $4.95 a month. No fucking NAT to screw with gaming. My family currently connects five computers that way.
That makes sense. I completely forgot about the 5-layer model. Never owned Tannenbaum so I've only heard vague references to it anyway. As far as the TCP/IP model goes, it has physical and application layers as well as transport and network layers but doesn't really concern itself with them. Why should it anyway? TCP/IP runs on any physical standard (for the most part) and doesn't give a rat's ass about application layer protocols. On an interesting sidenote, I believe the TCP/IP model calls the transport layer the Internet layer, just to confuse people in CCNA classes. Or at least in the class I was in, thats how it seemed. (I, however, had already learned of the models, networking, subnetting and all that other stuff while trying to Linux to network before I figured out what I was doing. Man its easy to get sidetracked)
I didn't bother to read the whole patent but from the abstract I don't think he described the application layer of the OSI model. I think he described Novell NetWare. Everything he talked about could be summed up with NetWare.
If I remember correctly, there is only one OSI model and it's seven-layer. I think you may be thinking of the TCP/IP model of networking which has only four layers. Or maybe your considering the OSI model to now be eight layered because most people split up the Data Link layer into two separate layers: Logical Link Control and Media Access Control. Even with that split it's still only seven layers though with the Data Link having two parts.
To answer your question: Yes though OSI model was made before 1994.
For a second I thought you were quoting Steven "MC" Hawking (http://www.mchawking.com/) in his song Entropy:
"Creationists always try to use the second law, to disprove evolution, but their theory has a flaw. The second law is quite precise about where it applies, only in a closed system must the entropy count rise. The earth's not a closed system' it's powered by the sun, so fuck the damn creationists, Doomsday get my gun!"
in Linux you could use esd (the Enlightened Sound Daemon) to copy to output sound to a WAV file easily. Just play the stream to esd and esdmon to pipe a copy of the output stream to a file. Use Ogg or Lame or whatever on it after that. You can digitally record any sound like that in linux (if you can play it on Linux) with ease.
First, thermite doesn't explode. It reacts quickly and violently, with extremely high heat. The parent poster was right, a multistage computer controlled ignition system would work and be tits.
For those you who think it burns and/or requires oxygen, your wrong. This is the equation for a thermite reaction:
Fe2O3(s) + 2AL(s) -> AL2O3 + 2Fe + energy
That's right. Powdered aluminum and powdered rust make thermite. It's ignition temperature is so high that it is normally lit with burning magnesium metal. It reacts so hot that a small amount (like a kilo) can melt a hole through the engine block of a car and keep going through the concrete. That'll definitely be suffucient to melt your porno.
Though that action may not violate your rights, it does violate that student's rights. Just because a person isn't a US citizen does not mean they don't share the same rights as we do (while they're LEGALLY here, that is). Besides, these crazy scenarios that poeple use to justify violations of rights (be that the right to privacy, speech or whatever) are just plain stupid. Odds are people who want to do terrorist harm to the US aren't going to hit up libraries for information on how to do. Hell, I doubt there are even books that explain how to constuct chemical weapons availiable at libraries. Look at September 11. Which one of those suicide hijackers used a book from a library on how to crash a plane into a building? One may have learned how to fly a plane in the US, but what's wrong with that? A man wants to learn to fly a plane. Not even close to a crime. Why should the fed be allowed to investigate thousands of innocent people for educating themselves to MAYBE find ONE seemingly terrorist and prosecute that person with evidence obtained unconstitutionally. (yes unconstitutionally, ALL searches require probably cause or a warrant (which requires specific evidence of a crime). That's the fourth amendment for you.)
Besides, the next logical extension of Patriot Act powers is the ability to search a person's home, person or vehicle, without a warrant. If you want that to happen to stop a few terrorists, I hope you really like some cop sticking his hand up your ass because you were tired and sick and, as such, looked high and, as we all know, all terrorists get high all the time.
People who think like you should arbitrarily be searched and humiliated just to show you what you support. You're all goddamn fascist assholes.
Damn straight. Who the hell knows how to make a PICmicro chip writer or TI calc link by hand on USB? Even if you could it would be damn expensive so why would you want to?
I'd like to second your non-Newcastle bashing concerning Sherwood. That shit's just that. Shit. My family is mildly rich, so we have a lot in the way of electronics. My older brother used to have a Sherwood system that sucked royal ass. Everyone I know that's had non-Newcastle has had nothing but trouble. That and they sound like shit. The Newcastle stuff is pretty good. My entire system (refurbished Sherwood Newcastle) cost less than 500. One note though, these entire system sets come with POS wire. Something like 24 gauge. Trash it and get better. 14 or 16 gauge should do it. 18 would work but at a slight sonic detriment at high volumes. 12 costs way too much. Also go with high quality cables between electronics. Gold plated is not necessary but don't use the thin shit. Get a surge protector and don't skip on it. No matter what, if your power surges, you'll be looking at a repair on your reciever that might not be cheap. Especially with SN stuff. As I was saying with all the systems my family has, I've found that Yamaha is the best sonically, but they aren't the cheapest. Pioneer is cheap but not that great. Sherwood Newcastle has problems with fuzzy power but isn't that bad in either quality or price. As for the no sub500 recievers, that should be qualified slightly more. Sub500 for MSRP is bad but a refurbished or used 900 MSRP system that sells for 300 shouldn't be dismissed; it's a high quality 900 machine. Hope my rant helpd
Hydrogen+oxygen is the 16th most energy dense compound (source: guinness book of records), so why don't we use that? It's cheap and easy to obtain, as it comes from water. Contrary to popular belief, creating the hydrogen+oxygen mix can be done in the car with electricity. Burning the hydrogen+oxygen produces water again so it's not like we're polluting at all. Just a little more heat and rain, but that's not much to pay for clean air, and both of those are trivial. Lastly, the standard engine blocks gasoline cars use can be used for hydrogen+oxygen (though most everything else would have to be changed). So, why don't we, the hacker community, be engineers by nature, come up with a decently easy way of converting cars to run on hydrogen+oxygen,hydrolysized as needed with the water possibly coming from the air (maybe a second generation thing)? Oh, yah, that's right, we forget we could. GET OFF YOUR DUMB ASSES AND HELP US MAKE THE WORLD BETTER INSTEAD OF RELYING ON CAPITALISM TO DO IT FOR US!!! YOU KNOW DAMN WELL THEY WON'T!!!
In case you didn't realise it in hindsight, what you were talking about WAS (IS) individualism. Individualism is the belief that any individual has the right to choose what he/she/it (hereafter: it) does and does not do. Choosing to not use the GPL is certainly within the bounds of individualism, is it not? Or maybe you thought he was referring to conformity after a major paradigm shift (say, one that says only free software is good. Wouldn't that be a paradigm change?). If you did, you were obviously confused. One of these days you should check on your definitions. Definitions of individuals and, probably, paradigm, knowing your stupidity, would be a good start.
As you are probably aware, the technical pronunciation of GNU is 'new' (if you didn't before, you do now.). (For those of you who didn't, its because when a word's root word's 'gn' only procedes OR follows (as in sign or gnome), the 'g' in the 'gn' is silent.) My question is: "What is your take on this all too important pronunciation issue? How should GNU be pronounced?" Sorry for answering the latter one.
Well someone's a bit touchy today (and stupid too). Maybe you should be the one doing some research. I already did. In case you didn't know it, the first ammendment does apply to the states (United States Supreme Court decisions are considered law. Besides, the supremecy clause says that federal law always, and in every case, supercedes state law. Federal law includes USSC decisions and, thus, they apply to the states. As for cities, read on.). Because it applies to states, it also applies to state's entities. City governments are entities of the states, not separate little governments in the eyes of federal law. They maintain the local order since states couldn't possibly check everywhere at once. If you don't remember why they're entities of the states, I'll tell you. The Constition of the US doesn't declare them, the states do in their constitutions. Like the states being entities of the fed, the cities are entities of the states.
You're missing the point of disallowing censorware. We don't want to make porn availiable but rather to make all constitutionally protected sites (read: all sites not containing porn. Technically schools are also bound by this, making censorware illegal in public schools as well.) availiable. So when you say we want porn to be allowed, you're talking through your dumb ass.
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You must smoke pot.
Seriously, pot smoker's have known that for years, I can't believe computer nerds had no idea before then. If you don't want you're house (car, dormroom, whatever) smelling like weed when you smoke it, smoke out of a oney (a type of pipe that holds enough pot for one hit) and blow the smoke through a dryer sheet. If you use new ones, the whole room will smell morning fresh. If you use old ones they'll just get stained and the room won't smell like pot much. On a computer you wouldn't want to use fresh sheets because that smelly shit will coat your electronics. That's potovation for you.
I wish I could get the Foriegner Belt from Aqua Teen Hunger Force.
Officer: "Can you give me your liscense, registration and proof of insurance, please?"
Me: "Sure officer. Fill your eyes with that double vision."
Squealing tires as the cop runs in eight directions while shooting in twelve. Fun times that would be...
Why does everyone forget Canada? From what I've seen, they have one of the strongest Constitutions out there. Their Charter of Rights (or whatever it's called, i forget) guarantees every right that the US Bill of Rights contains with one difference, they actually enforce it. Just last year the Canadian equivilent to the Supreme Court declared the prohibition on marijuana to be illegal because it effectually caused injury to people with diseases like glaucoma and cancer by not providing an effective treatment for those ailments. Marijuana being the most effective treatment, then could not legally be completely prohibited. Now you need a liscense or some other bullshit to grow, possess or sell but who cares? Canada legallized pot because their Constitution is so strong. When will the US (or any other country) do that?
I would like to remove stupid people from traffic jams just like you but that would really piss me off. Then I couldn't have fun driving my ultra-fast Eagle Talon TSi AWD. Systems that take control from the people are almost bad when considered from a rights standpoint. Just look at Congress lately. Why would you want more control taken from you?
Actually, all courts are required to interpret and enforce the Constitution, not just the Supreme Court. Any number of courts can strike down laws for being unconstitutional but that case law only applies to their jurisdiction. In the case of the Supreme Court, the entire country is their jurisdiction, so their decisions have a much greater weight than some Federal Circuit Court Judge in LA.
"Oh look, the courier went down a hill too fast, this syquest cartridge is fucked."
No, SparQ disks were much worse than that. (I assume the Syquest disks you're refering to are SparQ) In two years of use, I had 18 of 24 Sparq disks die and 3 of 4 sparq drives bite the dust. Initially, I thought it was a better investment than a Zip drive; they were around the same costs for both media and drive and sparq disks hold 1GB rather 100MB for zip. Ten times cheaper. I got what I paid for, alright. To this day, when I hear a drive spin up eight times in a row without beeping, I cringe.
Go with AT&T Broadband cable service (or Comcast or whatever the hell they're calling it these days.). They seem to quite fast and hell, they'll sell you extra IPs for $4.95 a month. No fucking NAT to screw with gaming. My family currently connects five computers that way.
I give them the finger, tell them about the fifth ammendment and ask for my phonecall.
That makes sense. I completely forgot about the 5-layer model. Never owned Tannenbaum so I've only heard vague references to it anyway. As far as the TCP/IP model goes, it has physical and application layers as well as transport and network layers but doesn't really concern itself with them. Why should it anyway? TCP/IP runs on any physical standard (for the most part) and doesn't give a rat's ass about application layer protocols. On an interesting sidenote, I believe the TCP/IP model calls the transport layer the Internet layer, just to confuse people in CCNA classes. Or at least in the class I was in, thats how it seemed. (I, however, had already learned of the models, networking, subnetting and all that other stuff while trying to Linux to network before I figured out what I was doing. Man its easy to get sidetracked)
I didn't bother to read the whole patent but from the abstract I don't think he described the application layer of the OSI model. I think he described Novell NetWare. Everything he talked about could be summed up with NetWare.
If I remember correctly, there is only one OSI model and it's seven-layer. I think you may be thinking of the TCP/IP model of networking which has only four layers. Or maybe your considering the OSI model to now be eight layered because most people split up the Data Link layer into two separate layers: Logical Link Control and Media Access Control. Even with that split it's still only seven layers though with the Data Link having two parts.
To answer your question: Yes though OSI model was made before 1994.
For a second I thought you were quoting Steven "MC" Hawking (http://www.mchawking.com/) in his song Entropy:
"Creationists always try to use the second law,
to disprove evolution, but their theory has a flaw.
The second law is quite precise about where it applies,
only in a closed system must the entropy count rise.
The earth's not a closed system' it's powered by the sun,
so fuck the damn creationists, Doomsday get my gun!"
Sweet. (unless you're being facetious (sp?))
I would but then again I am a revolutionary communo-anarchist so maybe I don't represent the general slashdot crowd. It'd be sweet if I did though.
Nah "youdonthaveone" is my favorite default password. Just think:
.
Sysadmin: Welcome to the company, Joe. You password is youdonthaveone
--two hours later--
Joe: What the fuck is wrong with computer. I thought I didn't have a password.
in Linux you could use esd (the Enlightened Sound Daemon) to copy to output sound to a WAV file easily. Just play the stream to esd and esdmon to pipe a copy of the output stream to a file. Use Ogg or Lame or whatever on it after that. You can digitally record any sound like that in linux (if you can play it on Linux) with ease.
First, thermite doesn't explode. It reacts quickly and violently, with extremely high heat. The parent poster was right, a multistage computer controlled ignition system would work and be tits.
For those you who think it burns and/or requires oxygen, your wrong. This is the equation for a thermite reaction:
Fe2O3(s) + 2AL(s) -> AL2O3 + 2Fe + energy
That's right. Powdered aluminum and powdered rust make thermite. It's ignition temperature is so high that it is normally lit with burning magnesium metal. It reacts so hot that a small amount (like a kilo) can melt a hole through the engine block of a car and keep going through the concrete. That'll definitely be suffucient to melt your porno.
Though that action may not violate your rights, it does violate that student's rights. Just because a person isn't a US citizen does not mean they don't share the same rights as we do (while they're LEGALLY here, that is). Besides, these crazy scenarios that poeple use to justify violations of rights (be that the right to privacy, speech or whatever) are just plain stupid. Odds are people who want to do terrorist harm to the US aren't going to hit up libraries for information on how to do. Hell, I doubt there are even books that explain how to constuct chemical weapons availiable at libraries. Look at September 11. Which one of those suicide hijackers used a book from a library on how to crash a plane into a building? One may have learned how to fly a plane in the US, but what's wrong with that? A man wants to learn to fly a plane. Not even close to a crime. Why should the fed be allowed to investigate thousands of innocent people for educating themselves to MAYBE find ONE seemingly terrorist and prosecute that person with evidence obtained unconstitutionally. (yes unconstitutionally, ALL searches require probably cause or a warrant (which requires specific evidence of a crime). That's the fourth amendment for you.)
Besides, the next logical extension of Patriot Act powers is the ability to search a person's home, person or vehicle, without a warrant. If you want that to happen to stop a few terrorists, I hope you really like some cop sticking his hand up your ass because you were tired and sick and, as such, looked high and, as we all know, all terrorists get high all the time.
People who think like you should arbitrarily be searched and humiliated just to show you what you support. You're all goddamn fascist assholes.
Damn straight. Who the hell knows how to make a PICmicro chip writer or TI calc link by hand on USB? Even if you could it would be damn expensive so why would you want to?
I'd like to second your non-Newcastle bashing concerning Sherwood. That shit's just that. Shit. My family is mildly rich, so we have a lot in the way of electronics. My older brother used to have a Sherwood system that sucked royal ass. Everyone I know that's had non-Newcastle has had nothing but trouble. That and they sound like shit. The Newcastle stuff is pretty good. My entire system (refurbished Sherwood Newcastle) cost less than 500. One note though, these entire system sets come with POS wire. Something like 24 gauge. Trash it and get better. 14 or 16 gauge should do it. 18 would work but at a slight sonic detriment at high volumes. 12 costs way too much. Also go with high quality cables between electronics. Gold plated is not necessary but don't use the thin shit. Get a surge protector and don't skip on it. No matter what, if your power surges, you'll be looking at a repair on your reciever that might not be cheap. Especially with SN stuff. As I was saying with all the systems my family has, I've found that Yamaha is the best sonically, but they aren't the cheapest. Pioneer is cheap but not that great. Sherwood Newcastle has problems with fuzzy power but isn't that bad in either quality or price. As for the no sub500 recievers, that should be qualified slightly more. Sub500 for MSRP is bad but a refurbished or used 900 MSRP system that sells for 300 shouldn't be dismissed; it's a high quality 900 machine. Hope my rant helpd
They already did that. It's called Lojban. www.lojban.org
Hydrogen+oxygen is the 16th most energy dense compound (source: guinness book of records), so why don't we use that? It's cheap and easy to obtain, as it comes from water. Contrary to popular belief, creating the hydrogen+oxygen mix can be done in the car with electricity. Burning the hydrogen+oxygen produces water again so it's not like we're polluting at all. Just a little more heat and rain, but that's not much to pay for clean air, and both of those are trivial. Lastly, the standard engine blocks gasoline cars use can be used for hydrogen+oxygen (though most everything else would have to be changed). So, why don't we, the hacker community, be engineers by nature, come up with a decently easy way of converting cars to run on hydrogen+oxygen ,hydrolysized as needed with the water possibly coming from the air (maybe a second generation thing)? Oh, yah, that's right, we forget we could. GET OFF YOUR DUMB ASSES AND HELP US MAKE THE WORLD BETTER INSTEAD OF RELYING ON CAPITALISM TO DO IT FOR US!!! YOU KNOW DAMN WELL THEY WON'T!!!
In case you didn't realise it in hindsight, what you were talking about WAS (IS) individualism. Individualism is the belief that any individual has the right to choose what he/she/it (hereafter: it) does and does not do. Choosing to not use the GPL is certainly within the bounds of individualism, is it not? Or maybe you thought he was referring to conformity after a major paradigm shift (say, one that says only free software is good. Wouldn't that be a paradigm change?). If you did, you were obviously confused. One of these days you should check on your definitions. Definitions of individuals and, probably, paradigm, knowing your stupidity, would be a good start.
As you are probably aware, the technical pronunciation of GNU is 'new' (if you didn't before, you do now.). (For those of you who didn't, its because when a word's root word's 'gn' only procedes OR follows (as in sign or gnome), the 'g' in the 'gn' is silent.) My question is: "What is your take on this all too important pronunciation issue? How should GNU be pronounced?"
Sorry for answering the latter one.
Well someone's a bit touchy today (and stupid too). Maybe you should be the one doing some research. I already did. In case you didn't know it, the first ammendment does apply to the states (United States Supreme Court decisions are considered law. Besides, the supremecy clause says that federal law always, and in every case, supercedes state law. Federal law includes USSC decisions and, thus, they apply to the states. As for cities, read on.). Because it applies to states, it also applies to state's entities. City governments are entities of the states, not separate little governments in the eyes of federal law. They maintain the local order since states couldn't possibly check everywhere at once. If you don't remember why they're entities of the states, I'll tell you. The Constition of the US doesn't declare them, the states do in their constitutions. Like the states being entities of the fed, the cities are entities of the states.
You're missing the point of disallowing censorware. We don't want to make porn availiable but rather to make all constitutionally protected sites (read: all sites not containing porn. Technically schools are also bound by this, making censorware illegal in public schools as well.) availiable. So when you say we want porn to be allowed, you're talking through your dumb ass.