So how do you estimate the error in your calculation due to differing density/thickness/weight throughout the paper? Do you cut up the paper into a thousand identical pieces and weigh each and determine the standard deviation? And then do you cut up multiple identical graph strips (and their inverses) to determine the errors in accuracy and precision in your scissors?
It is entirely possible. Even top-tier websites whore out their visitors to advertisers. Just look at a site like Gizmodo, they have like 20 other sites foisting ads, cookies, tracking scripts, and pixels on you. Ad networks do not vet the content that is being served out, so if a rogue 'advertiser' is able to push javascript or a 0-day png exploit out, your IE6-using mom just got ransomwared.
That said, I do not use antivirus, except in a virtual machine to scan highly suspect web stuff. Never rooted or virused. Antivirus is like having a bodyguard that belches and farts and likes to hit you in the arm and grab your girlfriends ass, you are guaranteed to have a bad time to protect against the chance of a real bad time. And I de-malware computers for a living (since software problems are the only consumer-level tech work left, since there is no repair or upgrade when everybody has appliance-level $300 laptops that are relevant about as long as the warranty). About the most Pwned I've gotten was having to kill the browser off because a rogue site got me caught in a javascript click-loop, trying to foist some exe.
A musician friend of mine noticed how a spring reverb sounds different depending on location. Altitude perhaps but also locations, Canada, Florida, west coast, etc.
So he started messing around with the magnets but not your typical magnets. I forget what type of magnet he called them but I think it was rare earth magnets as they don't wear out and that was something he said regarding the magnet quality. He eventually chopped one in half and oriented the parts in a suspended manner. They started spinning on their own and not a lightweight type of spin for their size.
He told his dad about it and his dad said, they will kill you. His Father had worked many years for a well known electronics company but for the military developing such things as lasers that can punch holes in thick plates of steel, leaving a burnt air path, etc..
Only I don't think my friend was the first to do this with magnets. Seems I came across other mentions of such free energy magnet devices that mysteriously vanished along with their discoverer/inventor.
My clearance level prevents me from revealing what I know about this subject, but I suggest you immediate forget all you heard from your friend. Especially don't go reading these subversive documents (PDF), or you will get the same visit from men-in-black that all undergraduate electrical engineers get after they realize the breadth of this worldwide conspiracy!
..I can only say this much: "harmonic time dependence", "poynting vector"..."inverse Fourier transform".. AAAA!!!
Maybe the focusing problem was that the optical design was developed to focus on objects 35,000km below it instead of objects 13 million light years above it...?
On April 21st (2008), the Ninth Circuit held in United States v. Arnold that the Fourth Amendment does not require government agents to have reasonable suspicion before searching laptops or other digital devices at the border, including international airports. Customs and Border Patrol are likely to use the opinion to argue that almost every property search at the border is constitutionally acceptable.
The point is correct though. At US customs inside the US, the electronic device has already been inspected and allowed on a plane by the airport security theatre at the port of origin. Apart from determining if import tax needs to be paid on the electronic device, there is no legitimate reason for customs to be mounting and duping hard drives (and demanding passwords - which is NOT allowed, but they still browbeat travelers into thinking it is). This is pure Gestapo in the US.
So in conclusion, the secret state police will detain US citizens and their devices when crossing the border through the 'lawless zone', with no reason needed. If you have nothing to hide, you'd still better encrypt every bit on the drive against a random one-time pad hard drive (that has never crossed a border, is secure while you are abroad, and completely zero-wiped upon your return), and replace some surface-mount components on your hard drive's circuit board with dummies so it won't fire up for goons at the border.
Your 'friends' might argue that their email address is theirs. They might appreciate a friend that doesn't give out their email address to data collectors and spammers. It looks like people in your contact list are accepting the risk of knowing you.
In fact, Google is doing a very good thing by aggravating Facebook.
Consider the stupidity of giving Facebook your email username and password, so that Facebook can log in to your email account as you, and scrape all your contact info. (While they are at it, why don't they get your emails too...) They've conned people into doing just that.
If you have any contact with a Gmail account user, Facebook gets your email address when the user sheepishly turn over their contact list to Facebook to automatically 'find friends'. If Facebook didn't already amass data on unwilling non-users (thanks to picture tags and such), they now have a wealth of email information about who knows who. And don't forget, their profit model is selling your privacy.
Google should make it possible to permanently blacklist your email address from its 'export' feature through a web form, even if you have a non-gmail address, so that your gmail 'friends' can't offer up your email address out of their contact lists to third parties.
The full Flash installer is buried in a deep link. You can use Internet Explorer, choose the 'different operating system or browser' link on the Adobe Flash download page, and get the Firefox version (likewise use an alternate browser to get the IE version).
Of course, if you want a direct link to download the most recent installer without the 'download manager' slimeware or 'free Google Toolbar', here it is!:
That's why you need to find a local DA to charge the RIAA lawyer that sent the takedown with perjury. Then issue a warrant if they don't appear. DAs are too busy getting plea deals from the poor with inept court appointed attorneys though. A better example case would be if the takedown was served on a video that was actually posted to youtube by the real copyright owner...
Yes, it's somewhat of a surprise for me: there's information on facebook that is of interest to them? Does this mean that terrorists are such idiots that they give clues as to their plans in their status updates?
The cops sure think so: examine this story, where comedian Joe Lipari had half a dozen semi-automatic-wielding men-in-black beating on his door to arrest him under the terrorist act within an hour of him making a 'threatening' joke status update on Facebook. Terrorism criminal charges still pending.
If you are installing or upgrading in Virtualbox, the guest additions (which include the auto-resize video driver) won't install correctly, you get an error: Warning: unknown version of the X Window System installed. Not Installing X Window System drivers.
At least you had the controller to get an idea what to hook the drive up to to make it work. That might give you a better idea if it was formatted RLL or MFM. After you get the drive hooked up with a replacement controller, then there's the challenge of determining the interleave and inputting the bad sector table (hopefully no more were added that weren't printed on the drive).
The problem would then be how to transfer the data off the computer, mount the drive in something else, etc. At least storing the ultimate data wouldn't be a problem, I could back up 1000 of these hard drives on my keychain fob.
You might actually find someone that can restore that data, but yes, there are many 'techs' that wouldn't immediately disqualify themselves from touching one of these and would destroy the disk data in attempting. Then try giving a Geek Squad tech a 9-track tape to back up if you really want to see a head explode (and those can be used in modern operating systems too).
No, it's men that recognize that asking random people for directions will get you a made-up answer by someone who doesn't know more than you, but is in self-denial of their ignorance (happened to my girlfriend who ended up driving 50 miles the wrong way.) See: asking for help at Best Buy.
It doesn't cost anything to let independently unviable fetuses prematurely delivered into the world die and try again. That would be a million dollars that could have gone into research to prevent miscarriages and premature births instead of long-term resuscitation bills to doctors, along with a further lifetime of bills, since nearly half of premature babies have neurological or developmental disabilities. Of course you have bible-belt-backed right-to-life laws like the federal Born Alive Infants Protection Act that mandate keep-alive care on us.
Anyway, to kill this offtopic thread, it would be as ridiculous to apply this 'Fight Club recall math' to toys as it is to toy-test chemistry sets intended for use by learned/learning juveniles (instead of bumbling babies.)
Oh, and it sucks that chemistry sets are almost legislated out of existence. It wasn't bad enough that there are no more actual chemicals or glassware, but the 'magnet experiments' that are left now can't include a paper clip. But think of the children!
150kbps, not 150Kbps...unless you are measuring the temperature of your data. K = Kelvin.
You can capitalize if it is Ki (kibibits, 1024 bits) For most data streams it actually is k (kilobits) though, i.e. 100kbps is 100,000 bits per second, which is 12.207 KiBps.
For a way the mind can actually interpret: 150kbps = 59.4+ seconds per MiB of data after removing the 6% TCP/IP overhead. Whether you should count protocol overhead depends on if the 'speed test' sites are doingitrite or measuring ultimate data transfer only.
Also, the word 'broadband' doesn't mean what most everybody thinks it means, my biggest peeve ever..
Besides, after all that work designing and implementing a complex DRM scheme, every single frame of that movie you just sold me is gonna be rendered to my computer's framebuffer. Which gets sent to the display driver. Which is... drumroll... whatever I felt like installing. In theory, I can make my own driver that writes an AVI. So even in theory, DRM is broken.
It don't work like you think it work.
The HDCP DRM system is not broken (except now with the master key released). There was previously no 'digital hole'. The decoding software (WinDVD software BDROM decoder, CableCard decoder) would only pass full HD video as HDCP encrypted data through the Operating Systems 'Protected Media Path' (PMP) software layer. The OS would only repeat the HDCP encrypted data to a video driver with HDCP authorization (generally requiring driver signing too). The video card driver would only provide HDCP authorization if the video card supported HDCP, in addition to the display device supporting HDCP. The HDCP encrypted video stream is decrypted in the display device. If HDCP handshaking fails, the video is downconverted to 540p digital, or only analog output is allowed, or you get no video at all. Where do you intercept unencrypted digital HD video in this system then?
The master key being revealed now allows devices or drivers to be created that are 'HDCP compliant' when they do things that are not allowed under the HDCP license. This can be as simple as an HDMI->HDMI box to plug your standalone Blu-Ray player into: it pretends to be an HDCP licensed display device, but outputs unencrypted digital HD video to old monitors or receivers and fixes the myriad handshake problems of HDCP. A display driver could be created that decodes HDCP video itself and outputs it to any digital display device, or even a emulated display driver that dumps the unencrypted video stream to disk (although OS driver signing requirements still would frustrate this.) Windows Blu-ray or CableCard decoder software could be run in a WINE sandbox and an HDCP compliant OS PMP could be emulated. A DVR app that says to a CableCard that it is using a HDCP-approved encrypted recording format (like Microsoft PlayReady), but is really recording in-the-clear. The big one: a HDMI video capture card that says it is an HDCP display device. These are some possibilities, but I can't think of many other intriguing examples. A Windows driver signing master key, or a BD+ crack that allows a unrevocable Linux Blu-Ray player would be much more win.
He's probably proud of his creating crap registry keys and files all over your system too. Although I haven't done a Process Monitor run on it to see where it writes to, the authors of 'trial' software don't want you just uninstalling and reinstalling to renew your 30 days, so they write undocumented registry keys and files all over your system in places they shouldn't, masquerading as something they are not, and don't remove the files or registry entries when the software is uninstalled.
Got reg keys like HKLM/Software/{2383984523-35835dfjae38833}/3858883399119111? That's only obnoxious, authors bury stuff deep in the microsoft/windows tree also.
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So how do you estimate the error in your calculation due to differing density/thickness/weight throughout the paper? Do you cut up the paper into a thousand identical pieces and weigh each and determine the standard deviation? And then do you cut up multiple identical graph strips (and their inverses) to determine the errors in accuracy and precision in your scissors?
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It is entirely possible. Even top-tier websites whore out their visitors to advertisers. Just look at a site like Gizmodo, they have like 20 other sites foisting ads, cookies, tracking scripts, and pixels on you. Ad networks do not vet the content that is being served out, so if a rogue 'advertiser' is able to push javascript or a 0-day png exploit out, your IE6-using mom just got ransomwared.
That said, I do not use antivirus, except in a virtual machine to scan highly suspect web stuff. Never rooted or virused. Antivirus is like having a bodyguard that belches and farts and likes to hit you in the arm and grab your girlfriends ass, you are guaranteed to have a bad time to protect against the chance of a real bad time. And I de-malware computers for a living (since software problems are the only consumer-level tech work left, since there is no repair or upgrade when everybody has appliance-level $300 laptops that are relevant about as long as the warranty). About the most Pwned I've gotten was having to kill the browser off because a rogue site got me caught in a javascript click-loop, trying to foist some exe.
A musician friend of mine noticed how a spring reverb sounds different depending on location. Altitude perhaps but also locations, Canada, Florida, west coast, etc.
So he started messing around with the magnets but not your typical magnets. I forget what type of magnet he called them but I think it was rare earth magnets as they don't wear out and that was something he said regarding the magnet quality. He eventually chopped one in half and oriented the parts in a suspended manner. They started spinning on their own and not a lightweight type of spin for their size.
He told his dad about it and his dad said, they will kill you. His Father had worked many years for a well known electronics company but for the military developing such things as lasers that can punch holes in thick plates of steel, leaving a burnt air path, etc..
Only I don't think my friend was the first to do this with magnets. Seems I came across other mentions of such free energy magnet devices that mysteriously vanished along with their discoverer/inventor.
My clearance level prevents me from revealing what I know about this subject, but I suggest you immediate forget all you heard from your friend. Especially don't go reading these subversive documents (PDF), or you will get the same visit from men-in-black that all undergraduate electrical engineers get after they realize the breadth of this worldwide conspiracy!
..I can only say this much: "harmonic time dependence", "poynting vector"..."inverse Fourier transform".. AAAA!!!
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Fact, pun, grammar, punctuation, logic, and math fail... Kudos, sir, you clearly told that kettle his color!
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Maybe the focusing problem was that the optical design was developed to focus on objects 35,000km below it instead of objects 13 million light years above it...?
Ten things you don't know about Hubble
Spying on a Hubble Telescope Look-Alike (Keyhole 11)
Regardless of how long it takes, there is no reason to search laptops at the border.
However, courts have ruled that no reason is even needed:
On April 21st (2008), the Ninth Circuit held in United States v. Arnold that the Fourth Amendment does not require government agents to have reasonable suspicion before searching laptops or other digital devices at the border, including international airports. Customs and Border Patrol are likely to use the opinion to argue that almost every property search at the border is constitutionally acceptable.
The point is correct though. At US customs inside the US, the electronic device has already been inspected and allowed on a plane by the airport security theatre at the port of origin. Apart from determining if import tax needs to be paid on the electronic device, there is no legitimate reason for customs to be mounting and duping hard drives (and demanding passwords - which is NOT allowed, but they still browbeat travelers into thinking it is). This is pure Gestapo in the US.
So in conclusion, the secret state police will detain US citizens and their devices when crossing the border through the 'lawless zone', with no reason needed. If you have nothing to hide, you'd still better encrypt every bit on the drive against a random one-time pad hard drive (that has never crossed a border, is secure while you are abroad, and completely zero-wiped upon your return), and replace some surface-mount components on your hard drive's circuit board with dummies so it won't fire up for goons at the border.
Your 'friends' might argue that their email address is theirs. They might appreciate a friend that doesn't give out their email address to data collectors and spammers. It looks like people in your contact list are accepting the risk of knowing you.
In fact, Google is doing a very good thing by aggravating Facebook.
Consider the stupidity of giving Facebook your email username and password, so that Facebook can log in to your email account as you, and scrape all your contact info. (While they are at it, why don't they get your emails too...) They've conned people into doing just that.
If you have any contact with a Gmail account user, Facebook gets your email address when the user sheepishly turn over their contact list to Facebook to automatically 'find friends'. If Facebook didn't already amass data on unwilling non-users (thanks to picture tags and such), they now have a wealth of email information about who knows who. And don't forget, their profit model is selling your privacy.
Google should make it possible to permanently blacklist your email address from its 'export' feature through a web form, even if you have a non-gmail address, so that your gmail 'friends' can't offer up your email address out of their contact lists to third parties.
It should have been named white sheep, to prevent against black [hat/sheep] hackers.
The full Flash installer is buried in a deep link. You can use Internet Explorer, choose the 'different operating system or browser' link on the Adobe Flash download page, and get the Firefox version (likewise use an alternate browser to get the IE version).
Of course, if you want a direct link to download the most recent installer without the 'download manager' slimeware or 'free Google Toolbar', here it is!:
That's why you need to find a local DA to charge the RIAA lawyer that sent the takedown with perjury. Then issue a warrant if they don't appear. DAs are too busy getting plea deals from the poor with inept court appointed attorneys though. A better example case would be if the takedown was served on a video that was actually posted to youtube by the real copyright owner...
New security update for Java today: 6u22, critical so you now get Carbonite slamware instead of Bing!
For your convenience, here's a spam-free win32 Java installer: Deep link to jre-6u22-windows-i586.exe or start clicking here for other platforms (last page before the cookiewall).
Now that Java is officially owned by pure evil , and installs quickstarters all over your OS and browser, consider it deprecated.
Yes, it's somewhat of a surprise for me: there's information on facebook that is of interest to them? Does this mean that terrorists are such idiots that they give clues as to their plans in their status updates?
The cops sure think so: examine this story, where comedian Joe Lipari had half a dozen semi-automatic-wielding men-in-black beating on his door to arrest him under the terrorist act within an hour of him making a 'threatening' joke status update on Facebook. Terrorism criminal charges still pending.
If you are installing or upgrading in Virtualbox, the guest additions (which include the auto-resize video driver) won't install correctly, you get an error: Warning: unknown version of the X Window System installed. Not Installing X Window System drivers.
the solution?:
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install build-essential linux-headers-$(uname -r)
sudo apt-get install virtualbox-ose-guest-x11
At least you had the controller to get an idea what to hook the drive up to to make it work. That might give you a better idea if it was formatted RLL or MFM. After you get the drive hooked up with a replacement controller, then there's the challenge of determining the interleave and inputting the bad sector table (hopefully no more were added that weren't printed on the drive).
The problem would then be how to transfer the data off the computer, mount the drive in something else, etc. At least storing the ultimate data wouldn't be a problem, I could back up 1000 of these hard drives on my keychain fob.
You might actually find someone that can restore that data, but yes, there are many 'techs' that wouldn't immediately disqualify themselves from touching one of these and would destroy the disk data in attempting. Then try giving a Geek Squad tech a 9-track tape to back up if you really want to see a head explode (and those can be used in modern operating systems too).
No, it's men that recognize that asking random people for directions will get you a made-up answer by someone who doesn't know more than you, but is in self-denial of their ignorance (happened to my girlfriend who ended up driving 50 miles the wrong way.) See: asking for help at Best Buy.
It doesn't cost anything to let independently unviable fetuses prematurely delivered into the world die and try again. That would be a million dollars that could have gone into research to prevent miscarriages and premature births instead of long-term resuscitation bills to doctors, along with a further lifetime of bills, since nearly half of premature babies have neurological or developmental disabilities. Of course you have bible-belt-backed right-to-life laws like the federal Born Alive Infants Protection Act that mandate keep-alive care on us.
Anyway, to kill this offtopic thread, it would be as ridiculous to apply this 'Fight Club recall math' to toys as it is to toy-test chemistry sets intended for use by learned/learning juveniles (instead of bumbling babies.)
Oh, and it sucks that chemistry sets are almost legislated out of existence. It wasn't bad enough that there are no more actual chemicals or glassware, but the 'magnet experiments' that are left now can't include a paper clip. But think of the children!
"senior executives" - they will gladly whore out their network for a buck.
150kbps, not 150Kbps...unless you are measuring the temperature of your data. K = Kelvin.
You can capitalize if it is Ki (kibibits, 1024 bits) For most data streams it actually is k (kilobits) though, i.e. 100kbps is 100,000 bits per second, which is 12.207 KiBps.
For a way the mind can actually interpret: 150kbps = 59.4+ seconds per MiB of data after removing the 6% TCP/IP overhead. Whether you should count protocol overhead depends on if the 'speed test' sites are doingitrite or measuring ultimate data transfer only.
Also, the word 'broadband' doesn't mean what most everybody thinks it means, my biggest peeve ever..
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Besides, after all that work designing and implementing a complex DRM scheme, every single frame of that movie you just sold me is gonna be rendered to my computer's framebuffer. Which gets sent to the display driver. Which is... drumroll... whatever I felt like installing. In theory, I can make my own driver that writes an AVI. So even in theory, DRM is broken.
It don't work like you think it work.
The HDCP DRM system is not broken (except now with the master key released). There was previously no 'digital hole'. The decoding software (WinDVD software BDROM decoder, CableCard decoder) would only pass full HD video as HDCP encrypted data through the Operating Systems 'Protected Media Path' (PMP) software layer. The OS would only repeat the HDCP encrypted data to a video driver with HDCP authorization (generally requiring driver signing too). The video card driver would only provide HDCP authorization if the video card supported HDCP, in addition to the display device supporting HDCP. The HDCP encrypted video stream is decrypted in the display device. If HDCP handshaking fails, the video is downconverted to 540p digital, or only analog output is allowed, or you get no video at all. Where do you intercept unencrypted digital HD video in this system then?
The master key being revealed now allows devices or drivers to be created that are 'HDCP compliant' when they do things that are not allowed under the HDCP license. This can be as simple as an HDMI->HDMI box to plug your standalone Blu-Ray player into: it pretends to be an HDCP licensed display device, but outputs unencrypted digital HD video to old monitors or receivers and fixes the myriad handshake problems of HDCP. A display driver could be created that decodes HDCP video itself and outputs it to any digital display device, or even a emulated display driver that dumps the unencrypted video stream to disk (although OS driver signing requirements still would frustrate this.) Windows Blu-ray or CableCard decoder software could be run in a WINE sandbox and an HDCP compliant OS PMP could be emulated. A DVR app that says to a CableCard that it is using a HDCP-approved encrypted recording format (like Microsoft PlayReady), but is really recording in-the-clear. The big one: a HDMI video capture card that says it is an HDCP display device. These are some possibilities, but I can't think of many other intriguing examples. A Windows driver signing master key, or a BD+ crack that allows a unrevocable Linux Blu-Ray player would be much more win.
There's only one country who would dare give us the raspberry...the USA!
The pride in his work is admirable.
He's probably proud of his creating crap registry keys and files all over your system too. Although I haven't done a Process Monitor run on it to see where it writes to, the authors of 'trial' software don't want you just uninstalling and reinstalling to renew your 30 days, so they write undocumented registry keys and files all over your system in places they shouldn't, masquerading as something they are not, and don't remove the files or registry entries when the software is uninstalled.
Got reg keys like HKLM/Software/{2383984523-35835dfjae38833}/3858883399119111? That's only obnoxious, authors bury stuff deep in the microsoft/windows tree also.