Another thought...how about modifying bochs (or whatever) to log all assembler instructions executed? That way, you'll let it decrypt itself. Then you'll have access to the code (in assembler, anyway.)
I remember seeing a National Geographic documentary from the 80s about the successful connection of an electronic black-and-white camera to a blind man's brain.
Personally, I've always wanted to be able to type and use a mouse through such a connection...
Not really....there weren't nearly as many interfering signals at the time. Today, you've got interference being emitted by everything from radio stations to my digital watch.
Yet both can be copyrighted, and both can be patented. Both can be combined using genetic algorithms. (See some article from a while back on using a GA to determine the optimum set of flags for gcc)
And once we start engineering the behavior of life through things like gene therapy, there'll certainly be a creative aspect, as well.
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GMO could escape its farm environment and reproduce in the wild, gradually replacing the formerly dominant species on a genetic level.
DOSBox is available for Windows, too. From their screenshots, it looks like they've gotten Windows 3.1 to run under it. Dunno if you can install something like Win95, though.
I know GNOME installations predominantly use metacity. Windowmaker provides a lot of the same kind of docking functionality, with a wide variety applications available for it.
So, in other words, windowmaker can still provide some of the functionality of GNOME, and thus can serve as a replacement.
I disagree that humanizing the Borg was a bad thing.
Hugh showed that once you get someone away from their peer group, you have much better access to them in a social and mental sense.
And nothing can be completely alien to humanity...we've seen all manner of social behavior. Even physical differences, such as a crystalline life form (like the sand planet, or the more infamous Crystalline Entity) are still forms of life.
Star Trek has always been about about hope and bridging gaps, not about enforcing them or making them wider.
The language is vague in that sentence, so you misunderstood what he was saying. That is, that there ought to be some new species of alien who focuses on political influence through terrorism.
That doesn't just mean they provide dial-up or broadband service. An ISP can be a company that provides email and webspace, possibly exclusively. Rackspace would be an example of such an ISP.
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Another thought...how about modifying bochs (or whatever) to log all assembler instructions executed? That way, you'll let it decrypt itself. Then you'll have access to the code (in assembler, anyway.)
I remember seeing a National Geographic documentary from the 80s about the successful connection of an electronic black-and-white camera to a blind man's brain.
Personally, I've always wanted to be able to type and use a mouse through such a connection...
Have you tried decoding it at an assembler level? A lot of old DOS-based viruses were essentially partially-compressed executables.
I'm not an expert, but I don't believe you need true "line-of-sight" over such large distances, as the RF waves will bend around the earth's surface.
That's why, for best effect, you need clearance all around your LOS when connecting from point to point.
doh! I was thinking of the original wireless telegraph link.
Not really....there weren't nearly as many interfering signals at the time. Today, you've got interference being emitted by everything from radio stations to my digital watch.
Yet both can be copyrighted, and both can be patented. Both can be combined using genetic algorithms. (See some article from a while back on using a GA to determine the optimum set of flags for gcc)
And once we start engineering the behavior of life through things like gene therapy, there'll certainly be a creative aspect, as well.
GMO could escape its farm environment and reproduce in the wild, gradually replacing the formerly dominant species on a genetic level.
Ye gods! It's xbill all over again!
Yeah? Well, mine's "hunter2"
Didn't see that, did you?
It's Michigainians, you insensitive clod.
(j/k...I don't care which term you use.)
I'd also be concerned about their allowing you to send and receive email without going through their smarthost.
Will SP2 still come with AMD64 support?
DOSBox is available for Windows, too. From their screenshots, it looks like they've gotten Windows 3.1 to run under it. Dunno if you can install something like Win95, though.
I'd be somewhat irritated if the pilot wrinkled his craft's nose at me.
I know GNOME installations predominantly use metacity. Windowmaker provides a lot of the same kind of docking functionality, with a wide variety applications available for it.
So, in other words, windowmaker can still provide some of the functionality of GNOME, and thus can serve as a replacement.
This might be a troll, but I'll bite.
Don't like GNOME? Use windowmaker. If that's still too fat for you, use oroborus. Still too big? Try setting your window manager to "twm".
Don't like OpenOffice? MS Office isn't much better...maybe you'd better stick to HTML and CSS with Bluefish. Or maybe vim or Emacs.
FireFox still too slow? As long as you're dropping features by moving away, try w3m or lynx...two very capable text-based browsers.
Don't have a 3D accelerator? Play software-rendered Quake. Or (using that same project) use the SDL's aalib target.
I just remembered...there's an exemption in US law for open-source code. Odd as that may sound. Someone have a link?
Possibly the cryptoloop stuff, but remember that Linux is a global project.
That's why distributions like Debian distribute encryption-related stuff from servers outside the US.
Debian doesn't include mplayer...but you can still download it from their website.
I disagree that humanizing the Borg was a bad thing.
Hugh showed that once you get someone away from their peer group, you have much better access to them in a social and mental sense.
And nothing can be completely alien to humanity...we've seen all manner of social behavior. Even physical differences, such as a crystalline life form (like the sand planet, or the more infamous Crystalline Entity) are still forms of life.
Star Trek has always been about about hope and bridging gaps, not about enforcing them or making them wider.
I wasn't sure what this episode was about (I don't know them by name), so I looked it up. Here ya go, folks.
Hell yeah, DS9 is the best of the series that I've seen. (I haven't seen much of Voyager, and only the first episode of ENT.)
A Starfleet officer even faked the results of Sisko's blood test.
The language is vague in that sentence, so you misunderstood what he was saying. That is, that there ought to be some new species of alien who focuses on political influence through terrorism.
You mean you didn't include caffeine in the nutritional corner of your towel?
"ISP" means "Internet Service Provider"
That doesn't just mean they provide dial-up or broadband service. An ISP can be a company that provides email and webspace, possibly exclusively. Rackspace would be an example of such an ISP.