on IRC.
That's where they were first distributed, that's where they will continue to be distributed.:)
I mostly use BT for Linux ISOs though. Like Knoppix, for example, seemed to have smashed FTP servers, even weeks after the latest version had been released. The torrent topped out my bandwidth for the entire download.:)
There is nothing tiny about 100 watts, dolt. That's a lot of power.
Granted that in realtive comparison to a regular FM station (anything from 5k up to 50k Max ERP, usually) it may not seem like a lot; but in fact, 100 watts is quite a bit of juice to be throwing around. Besides, the FCC watches the broadcast band more closely than any other.
The amount of energy emitted by RFID tags is in the milliwatts, if that. Depending on what band they are in, they could easily go unregulated. For example, most 900MHz cordless telephones operate in the middle of the amateur 900 MHz band. The amateur 900 MHz band is not regulated below 2 watts, therefore this is perfectly legal. (If I recall all this correctly.) For another example, most of those remote temperature sensors operate dead smack in the center of the amateur UHF band (~450MHz), also unregulated below a certain wattage. Hell, some of them dive straight in the middle of the UHF broadcast band without worries. (Don't quote me on any of this - it's been a while since I've studied my rules;))
Yes, that's right. Bit torrent is MMUUCCH safer. You just keep using it and thinking that, now...
Note for the intelligent: BT is perhaps less safe than other networks, because the tracker keeps track of your IP, and is more than happy to report it.
When was the last time you received SNAIL MAIL 1/4 as offensive as some of the stuff you get through regular email?
There was a story in the news recently here in Oregon about a kid that got sent a condom in the mail, unsolicited. The parent's weren't too happy about that...
The internet is silmutaniously the worlds largest strip club and the worlds largest library/school/university all rolled into one.
Hmm... after typing that, I just realized what educators could do differently to raise my grades...
Anyway... You made the point that parent's shouldn't be dropping their kids off at strip clubs. The problem is, when the strip club is the school, that means you should no longer drop your kids off at school, either... if that makes sense...
I've been working with computers and keyboards since I was about six. I only knew how to write about a year or two before I knew how to type. I spend hours per day mudding, and communicate online more than any other medium. I'm also fortunate to have one of the cell phones with AOL Instant Messenger enabled for free, and almost spend as much time on AIM as I do actually talking.
At this point, my average typing speed hovers around 70-80, peaking around 125. (This is mostly a result of years of mudding.)
I knew how to type about 5-6 years before I learned cursive.
I have no problem writing cursive whatsoever. Typing on a keyboard for hours daily, many multiples of the amount of time I spend writing cursive, has not degraded in the slightest my ability to write legible cursive.
While I can't honestly claim that I've been using a cell phone since I was nine, I'd like to know how many nine year olds have cell phones? Either way, use of my cellphone in recent years, as well as my keyboard for my entire life, hasn't ruined my ability to hold a pencil properly.
I run a legitimate e-mail server for my family, but cannot afford an SSL certificate for it. I instead use a self-signed one.
If self-signed certificates would be allowed, then spammers would make their own. So that can't be allowed.
If they are prompted, as you suggested earlier, it would inevitably lead to people who just ignore invalid ones, because they are sick of being prompted. My little mail server gets creamed.
Nice idea, but unless you get Verisign to give away free certs, I can't see it working.
Just trying to spark some thought into interesting alternate usses of the technology.
How long before somebody hacks it to use a camera as the input source? You could do all sorts of interesting things with a camera able to recognise objects. You could, say, periodically rotate a camera around your room to capture the various objects in it, and make a profile for insurance records if you house is ever broken into.
Now that scanners are available rather cheaply, you could easily hack a small scanner to fit in a mountable, waterproof box, and create a nifty keyless entry system for your house, using fingerprint, handprint, faceprint, armprint, footprint, or virtually anything else you can imagine. (You would, of course, keep a real key for backup purposes.)
"Sounds like fancy sci-fi wrapping from a journalist[...]"
I think was intended to be an insult, but - being as I'm not a journalist - I'll take the comparison as a compliment.
"[...]who has missed the opportunity to think and perhaps present something more insightful."
If my intent is to spark thought, need I do either?
You utter lack of appreciation for sarcasm notwithstanding, "home-use" style scanners with resolutions in the order of 2000+dpi are not uncommon, and resolution is only getting better. I know from personal experience that 1600 dpi can easily capture a persons fingerprint, with detail easily surpassing traditional inkpad methods.
Your crappy joke not withstanding, it makes you wonder just how well it will be able to identify individual momento's. Will it be able to distinguish one person's ass from another? Or more practically, palm? Fingerprint?
Windows:
Go to start->run
If on Windows 9x, type "command"
If on Win2k/XP, type "cmd"
Enter command:
ping -t -w 0 -l 20000 riaa.org
Linux:
Get root console,
ping -fs 20000 riaa.org
It wouldn't be hard to, say, send a small amount of infrared to the screen, to cause a big white dot to appear. We wouldn't notice it, either. Not sure about health considerations, though...
Either way, anything they put in can be removed with a suitable filter.
Mine ATTbi line has been at 256k up for a long time now...
Depending on where you are, you may just be getting it, or you may have had it for well over a year.
I don't remember where I heard this idea, weather here at the dot or in another forum, but it's one of the best I've ever heard. It was actually in reference to the data mining that national supermarket chains did with their "savings cards" and the like, rather than the U.S. Govt. The short of it was, throw crap in the database.
Don't own a cat? Buy two bags of cat food, and give them to your neighbors who do. Same with a dog, or any other pet.
Are you a jew? Buy all the pork you can get your hands on, and give it to the local charity, anonymously.
Randomly buy (over-the-counter) drugs and donate them.
Look suspicios from time to time. (Just make sure you aren't actually doing anything!) Let some of the cameras catch you. Make them waste their time.
Rent two hotel rooms at once (if you can afford it). Especially good if you are purchasing an "upper-class" one anyway, and can afford a $6/night shithole. They won't know which one you stayed in...
There are many other ways to do this. The idea is to pollute the database as best you can. Make the data in it so stupid and wholy inaccurate that the project needs to be dumped in 5 years anyway.
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Didn't the linuxchicks site get shut down for some sort of trademark violation??? http://linuxchicks.de/
on IRC. That's where they were first distributed, that's where they will continue to be distributed. :)
I mostly use BT for Linux ISOs though. Like Knoppix, for example, seemed to have smashed FTP servers, even weeks after the latest version had been released. The torrent topped out my bandwidth for the entire download. :)
There is nothing tiny about 100 watts, dolt. That's a lot of power.
;))
Granted that in realtive comparison to a regular FM station (anything from 5k up to 50k Max ERP, usually) it may not seem like a lot; but in fact, 100 watts is quite a bit of juice to be throwing around. Besides, the FCC watches the broadcast band more closely than any other.
The amount of energy emitted by RFID tags is in the milliwatts, if that. Depending on what band they are in, they could easily go unregulated. For example, most 900MHz cordless telephones operate in the middle of the amateur 900 MHz band. The amateur 900 MHz band is not regulated below 2 watts, therefore this is perfectly legal. (If I recall all this correctly.) For another example, most of those remote temperature sensors operate dead smack in the center of the amateur UHF band (~450MHz), also unregulated below a certain wattage. Hell, some of them dive straight in the middle of the UHF broadcast band without worries. (Don't quote me on any of this - it's been a while since I've studied my rules
Yes, that's right. Bit torrent is MMUUCCH safer. You just keep using it and thinking that, now... Note for the intelligent: BT is perhaps less safe than other networks, because the tracker keeps track of your IP, and is more than happy to report it.
It's a piece of crap, and far too buggy for everyday use. I have problems with everything from multiple accounts to SSL.
I use Evolution for my mail client (and NOT with the Mozilla libs, because it inherits bugs from them).
However, as of 1.3, I've been pretty satisfied with Mozilla as my primary web browser. It seems to work well enough for me to get along with it.
Incentivize? Is that even a word?
There was a story in the news recently here in Oregon about a kid that got sent a condom in the mail, unsolicited. The parent's weren't too happy about that...
The problem here is distinction.
The internet is silmutaniously the worlds largest strip club and the worlds largest library/school/university all rolled into one.
Hmm... after typing that, I just realized what educators could do differently to raise my grades...
Anyway... You made the point that parent's shouldn't be dropping their kids off at strip clubs. The problem is, when the strip club is the school, that means you should no longer drop your kids off at school, either... if that makes sense...
I've been working with computers and keyboards since I was about six. I only knew how to write about a year or two before I knew how to type. I spend hours per day mudding, and communicate online more than any other medium. I'm also fortunate to have one of the cell phones with AOL Instant Messenger enabled for free, and almost spend as much time on AIM as I do actually talking.
At this point, my average typing speed hovers around 70-80, peaking around 125. (This is mostly a result of years of mudding.)
I knew how to type about 5-6 years before I learned cursive.
I have no problem writing cursive whatsoever.
Typing on a keyboard for hours daily, many multiples of the amount of time I spend writing cursive, has not degraded in the slightest my ability to write legible cursive.
While I can't honestly claim that I've been using a cell phone since I was nine, I'd like to know how many nine year olds have cell phones? Either way, use of my cellphone in recent years, as well as my keyboard for my entire life, hasn't ruined my ability to hold a pencil properly.
What do you mean "how long"?
I have been for months.
Works quite well.
I happened to catch the episode where they showed this thing... Yes it works, no the heat/vibrations didn't kill the ants. It was a pretty cool mod.
I run a legitimate e-mail server for my family, but cannot afford an SSL certificate for it. I instead use a self-signed one.
If self-signed certificates would be allowed, then spammers would make their own. So that can't be allowed.
If they are prompted, as you suggested earlier, it would inevitably lead to people who just ignore invalid ones, because they are sick of being prompted. My little mail server gets creamed.
Nice idea, but unless you get Verisign to give away free certs, I can't see it working.
Interesting idea, but what exactly is the "sendmail" level? I use qmail myself...
"[W]hat is the point?"
Just trying to spark some thought into interesting alternate usses of the technology.
How long before somebody hacks it to use a camera as the input source? You could do all sorts of interesting things with a camera able to recognise objects. You could, say, periodically rotate a camera around your room to capture the various objects in it, and make a profile for insurance records if you house is ever broken into.
Now that scanners are available rather cheaply, you could easily hack a small scanner to fit in a mountable, waterproof box, and create a nifty keyless entry system for your house, using fingerprint, handprint, faceprint, armprint, footprint, or virtually anything else you can imagine. (You would, of course, keep a real key for backup purposes.)
"Sounds like fancy sci-fi wrapping from a journalist[...]"
I think was intended to be an insult, but - being as I'm not a journalist - I'll take the comparison as a compliment.
"[...]who has missed the opportunity to think and perhaps present something more insightful."
If my intent is to spark thought, need I do either?
You utter lack of appreciation for sarcasm notwithstanding, "home-use" style scanners with resolutions in the order of 2000+dpi are not uncommon, and resolution is only getting better. I know from personal experience that 1600 dpi can easily capture a persons fingerprint, with detail easily surpassing traditional inkpad methods.
Your crappy joke not withstanding, it makes you wonder just how well it will be able to identify individual momento's. Will it be able to distinguish one person's ass from another? Or more practically, palm? Fingerprint?
Gah. Fooxed the formatting.
Windows:
Go to start->run
If on Windows 9x, type "command"
If on Windows 2k/xp, type "cmd"
Enter command:
pint -t -w 0 -l 20000 riaa.org
Linux:
Get root console, run
ping -fs 20000 riaa.org
Windows: Go to start->run If on Windows 9x, type "command" If on Win2k/XP, type "cmd" Enter command: ping -t -w 0 -l 20000 riaa.org Linux: Get root console, ping -fs 20000 riaa.org
And what has the uptime for their servers been? 4-6 hours per day, tops? They are unreachable to me right now.
I think we're already pissed...
It wouldn't be hard to, say, send a small amount of infrared to the screen, to cause a big white dot to appear. We wouldn't notice it, either. Not sure about health considerations, though... Either way, anything they put in can be removed with a suitable filter.
Mine ATTbi line has been at 256k up for a long time now... Depending on where you are, you may just be getting it, or you may have had it for well over a year.
The sad part is that nobody is realizing it... Mod parent up!
I don't remember where I heard this idea, weather here at the dot or in another forum, but it's one of the best I've ever heard. It was actually in reference to the data mining that national supermarket chains did with their "savings cards" and the like, rather than the U.S. Govt. The short of it was, throw crap in the database.
Don't own a cat? Buy two bags of cat food, and give them to your neighbors who do. Same with a dog, or any other pet.
Are you a jew? Buy all the pork you can get your hands on, and give it to the local charity, anonymously.
Randomly buy (over-the-counter) drugs and donate them.
Look suspicios from time to time. (Just make sure you aren't actually doing anything!) Let some of the cameras catch you. Make them waste their time.
Rent two hotel rooms at once (if you can afford it). Especially good if you are purchasing an "upper-class" one anyway, and can afford a $6/night shithole. They won't know which one you stayed in...
There are many other ways to do this. The idea is to pollute the database as best you can. Make the data in it so stupid and wholy inaccurate that the project needs to be dumped in 5 years anyway.
"Sir, our intelligence shows you own a cat"
"Nope, sorry, never. I'm allergic to them."
"Then why did you purchase cat food?"
"Because I can."
...that these programs compress well.
Better use plenty of lines of context for that!