"The machine is agonizingly slow because of its tiny 3GB drive"
Proving that whoever wrote it, is retarded. The rest of the article goes about the same way, saying "Oh, this computer has 3 PCI slots, instead of the other computer that has 2PCI and 1AGP." Without pointing out how important having an AGP slot is, so you can put a decent graphics card in it.
If you belive the bible hasnt changed in thousands of years maybe you should either read the bible, or go to church. Better yet go to a few different churches that use the 'same' bible. There are HUNDREDS of niche's of christianity and each one has a slightly different bible.
Oh, and btw, the dead sea scrolls arnt written in english....
I've got like 30 of those keyboards in my basement. Sorry boys but my logitech "Internet Navigator" will stay. I am thinking of removing the Windows and the "Right Click" buttons(whatever the hell its called). Its got 19 extra buttons as well as a scroll button.:) The good thing is that theres a bunch of ways to hack the program controling everything to make it do whatever ya want. AND is USB. AND it doesnt weight more than my computer.:)
My parents always watch DVDs in pan-n-scan, because my dad says "We bought a big tv and that widescreen doesnt use it, what a waste!", but I personally ONLY watch DVD's in widescreen unless not available. You can see a lot more of whatever is going on, I feel.:)
This is one of the stupidest tests I have ever seen.
They are comparing DSL to Cable for bandwidth... without giving specs on the DSL. DSL is not the same as cable!! Cable is a community shared network, and DSL is a DIRECT line. If you buy DSL at 768k, your going to get 768k! They completely forgot to mention this little tidbit of information in the article.
Sure, your basic cable connection dollar for dollar is going to be faster. $35 will get you a cable internet connection, its usually atleast $50 for DSL ( of the 768/256 category).
I just dont get how 'technical articles' can be written by people who obviously have no technical background.
Sounds great, but 31 miles? How about 50 feet though wood and concrete? Line of sight is nice, but for most interesting home networking, there's just no way.
Its nice to people dont even read the whole HEADLINE, let alone the article before they start posting.
"up to 31 miles of linear service area range and allows users connectivity without a direct line of sight to a base station,"
Yeah, the problem with pretty much all systems like the one you are talking about is this:
User has the software (demo, trial, etc), which has a way to input a registration code, which it then converts into, essentially, a hashed value of it. All the 'user' has to do is use a disassembler and set a few breakpoints, find where the function to encode the data is called, and then basically cut and paste this code into their key generator.:)
This is course doesnt really apply to a single key without a matching name. Most system passwords work the same way I believe, but its not as easy to crack because the password is stored already hashed. The only way to get to the end result is to run every possible combination of values into the hash function until you get the right hash value out, aka brute force.
Hi, I'm wondering if you think there's a future for ROT13. I've heard it's pretty secure...
Paul:
While you may have figured out my super-secret ROT13 cipher, nobody will ever crack *this* message because I switched to our ultra-secret plan B: applying a Caeser cipher 13 times:-).
as an indian programmer, i must admit that i find your sig offensive. >> Open source development is my way of >> competing with the low-cost programmers in >> India
I think you mean: Should have 5% of the size of the parent star, not 5% bigger...
But on another note, Pluto is not an asteroid nor a planet, it is a comet. Its got a tail, albeit a small one, but then again Pluto is friggin 14th magnitude.
So I do amateur astronomy when I get the time, and about two years or so ago I built a digital camera for my telescope. So I was out in my yard with the laptop hooked up to the digital camera which was hooked up to the telescope and I set it to do a nice 10-minute exposure. I turned it on and went in the house to scarf whatever I could in 10 minutes.
On my way back out I looked in the yard and I was scared to death at what was happening. My sprinkler system was on full boar, and my laptop and my telescope with Go-To mount, and my digital camera were all SOAKED.
I imediately ran out, and turned off the sprinkler system, and went to check the damages. The telescope was fairly water-proof and housed pretty well, and it worked fine with no problems. The laptop was a different story.:( It had shorted and was now off, and so I brought it in the house and took it completely apart when I found it wouldnt boot. After FOUR DAYS of letting it dry out, it finally booted successfully!!!! I was sooooo happy! The digital camera also took no damage, as it was housed very well (homebuilt!).
What I would *really* recomend is a large pair of binoculars. I bought a pair of Swift 11x80's (11x zoom, 80mm diameter in each lense) for about $200 online, and I must say I love this pair of binoculars!!!
Be warned its a very large pair of binoculars (12" long) and thus is hard to hold steady sometimes, but its got a very wide field of view being only 11x zoom, but personally I like being able to see the very sharp, very bright images that this pair of binoculars lets me see.
Swift does make some 20x80's (and some 60x80's!) which lets you see more detail, but less area. I plan on grabbing a 20x80 spotting scope when I get out of college.
As far as telescopes go, you only need about 4.5"/125mm aperture to see the rings of saturn, but a 6" or 8" would definately do a much better job. Meade sells an autogided 125mm ETX scope that is... well.. not too great if you ask anyone serious in astronomy. Especially since its $900. But it would get the job done.
From my own personal experience, I try to stay away from Meade's lower end products as they tend to be SHIT. In fact the LX200 series is probably the only thing from them I would ever buy now that I know something about telescopes. Celestron makes a number of really great scopes too, and on the lower end products is generally much better quality than Meades, although generally more expensive.
802.11a sucks (not really)... it was release first but almost nobody used it since it was much more expensive and not as readily available as 802.11b. So, now that everyone has an 802.11b WAP, they dont wanna switch it all at once, so 802.11g takes its place as well as having more speed (not sure of its exact speed, its not popular enough yet, heh).
So as far as security goes... Its wireless and thus completely insecure. I mean, even 128 bit is insecure, you just need to transfer a crap load of data and have a big bad computer to do the processing. But I am pretty sure they are better than 802.11b, since they have had a year and a half to think it over nice and hard.
Life is not what it seems, but it seems that sometimes life is not what it does not apear to seem as well.
-Bill
I saw it said "T1 or greater", so thats 1.5Mbit, and there was some other stuff saying up to 2Mbit. So, if thats all it can handle then that sucks. Sure, greater area is awesome, but we need something extremely fast and extremely directional in a more residential market so we can get a free wireless backbone that can have hot spots on the ends. I see a day where we no longer have ISPs, we are just all connected to each other in a huge mesh.
I wonder when people will realize you can make these things with a 2x4 and a piece of rope? I'm from Nebraska, we've got a lot of corn there... So, well, its just fun, ya know?
-Bill
Yey, the more newbs on Linux the better. Just think if everyone knew how to install it, and then we could finally ditch M$ and take over the world!!
Muhuhahahahahaha!!!!
So, about a year ago I broke into 10+ accounts at paypal, and moved a couple of bucks (12k or so) around, didnt TAKE anything, just moved back and forth from accounts. After a good amount of time after that, I contacted paypal and told them how I was able to do it, and how EASY it was. I got in touch with someone, who, I presume is one of, if not the only security guy at PayPal. According to him, its not worth there time to impliment more security features as it makes it harder for the user to gain their access to the account. Plus, its not PayPals loss if they get hacked... so why pay money and lose users to not gain anything?
Well then I guess its bad to tell you that Kodak has had a 16MP (4096x4096 pixel) camera for a few years now. These CCDs have been out for a long time, its just too inneficient to produce them. You can go buy a high quality Kodak 16MP camera... and it'll only set you back $20,000.
A meteorite the size of a marble (lets put that at 10grams), moving at... lets say... 40,000km/hr (normal asteroids and stuff move at about 40,000km/hr).. So the total energy for that object (given by the equation: K = 1/2mv^2) would be:
8000000 joules.
WOW! Tons of energy huh!! Well, too bad that.01kg meteorite falls through like 100 miles of atmosphere, slowing it down to somewhere under 300km/hr. Giving it the energy of about 450joules... Which is just about enough to really sting when it hits you. Hey lets even say it would knock you unconcious, or possibly even kill you if it hit you right. But it wont evaporate an entire lake. Even if the meteorite had 8,000,000joules of energy, thats hardly enough to evaporate even a moderately good size lake. A single Megaton of energy (a moderately large nuclear bomb) is 4,000,000,000,000,000 joules!!!!!!!
-CyberBill
Some info gotten at:
http://www.ss.astro.umd.edu/deepimpact/disczone/ch allenge.html
The 'one in a million' meteorites that are warm, are made of combinations of metals, and are *BIG*. They stay warm (atleast on the outside) because they are extremely heat-conductive and dont flake-away when heated, and those generally 'splode when they hit. The reason they have to be big(and dense!) is because it takes more force to slow down a more massive object than a smaller massive object. Its like throwing a wiffle(sp?) or ping-pong ball as hard as you can, and a baseball as hard as you can.
-CyberBill
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"The machine is agonizingly slow because of its tiny 3GB drive"
Proving that whoever wrote it, is retarded. The rest of the article goes about the same way, saying "Oh, this computer has 3 PCI slots, instead of the other computer that has 2PCI and 1AGP." Without pointing out how important having an AGP slot is, so you can put a decent graphics card in it.
-Bill
If you belive the bible hasnt changed in thousands of years maybe you should either read the bible, or go to church. Better yet go to a few different churches that use the 'same' bible. There are HUNDREDS of niche's of christianity and each one has a slightly different bible.
Oh, and btw, the dead sea scrolls arnt written in english....
-Bill
What kind of a sick perv would name his cat Giz.
-Bill
I've got like 30 of those keyboards in my basement. Sorry boys but my logitech "Internet Navigator" will stay. I am thinking of removing the Windows and the "Right Click" buttons(whatever the hell its called). Its got 19 extra buttons as well as a scroll button. :) The good thing is that theres a bunch of ways to hack the program controling everything to make it do whatever ya want. AND is USB. AND it doesnt weight more than my computer. :)
Bill
Your contradicting yourself. WRITE operations. You dont write anything when you READ an html file and/or a program off of a flash card.
Either way though, the guys DSL line or whatever he is using will be clogged for the next week (Unless he changes the DNS entry).
-Bill
My parents always watch DVDs in pan-n-scan, because my dad says "We bought a big tv and that widescreen doesnt use it, what a waste!", but I personally ONLY watch DVD's in widescreen unless not available. You can see a lot more of whatever is going on, I feel. :)
-Bill
This is one of the stupidest tests I have ever seen.
They are comparing DSL to Cable for bandwidth... without giving specs on the DSL. DSL is not the same as cable!! Cable is a community shared network, and DSL is a DIRECT line. If you buy DSL at 768k, your going to get 768k! They completely forgot to mention this little tidbit of information in the article.
Sure, your basic cable connection dollar for dollar is going to be faster. $35 will get you a cable internet connection, its usually atleast $50 for DSL ( of the 768/256 category).
I just dont get how 'technical articles' can be written by people who obviously have no technical background.
-Bill
Sounds great, but 31 miles? How about 50 feet though wood and concrete? Line of sight is nice, but for most interesting home networking, there's just no way.
Its nice to people dont even read the whole HEADLINE, let alone the article before they start posting.
"up to 31 miles of linear service area range and allows users connectivity without a direct line of sight to a base station,"
-Bill
Yeah, the problem with pretty much all systems like the one you are talking about is this:
:)
:)
User has the software (demo, trial, etc), which has a way to input a registration code, which it then converts into, essentially, a hashed value of it. All the 'user' has to do is use a disassembler and set a few breakpoints, find where the function to encode the data is called, and then basically cut and paste this code into their key generator.
This is course doesnt really apply to a single key without a matching name. Most system passwords work the same way I believe, but its not as easy to crack because the password is stored already hashed. The only way to get to the end result is to run every possible combination of values into the hash function until you get the right hash value out, aka brute force.
Hope this helps your friend in the future.
-Bill
Anonymous Coward:
:-).
Hi, I'm wondering if you think there's a future for ROT13. I've heard it's pretty secure...
Paul:
While you may have figured out my super-secret ROT13 cipher, nobody will ever crack *this* message because I switched to our ultra-secret plan B: applying a Caeser cipher 13 times
http://www.rot13.com/index.php
I guess I cant cheat on my wife anymore!
You are a horrible person. And its FRIGGIN SWEET!! LOL!!!
-Bill
as an indian programmer, i must admit that i find your sig offensive. >> Open source development is my way of >> competing with the low-cost programmers in >> India
Grow up.
-Bill
I think you mean: Should have 5% of the size of the parent star, not 5% bigger...
But on another note, Pluto is not an asteroid nor a planet, it is a comet. Its got a tail, albeit a small one, but then again Pluto is friggin 14th magnitude.
Bill
So I do amateur astronomy when I get the time, and about two years or so ago I built a digital camera for my telescope. So I was out in my yard with the laptop hooked up to the digital camera which was hooked up to the telescope and I set it to do a nice 10-minute exposure. I turned it on and went in the house to scarf whatever I could in 10 minutes.
:( It had shorted and was now off, and so I brought it in the house and took it completely apart when I found it wouldnt boot. After FOUR DAYS of letting it dry out, it finally booted successfully!!!! I was sooooo happy! The digital camera also took no damage, as it was housed very well (homebuilt!).
On my way back out I looked in the yard and I was scared to death at what was happening. My sprinkler system was on full boar, and my laptop and my telescope with Go-To mount, and my digital camera were all SOAKED.
I imediately ran out, and turned off the sprinkler system, and went to check the damages. The telescope was fairly water-proof and housed pretty well, and it worked fine with no problems. The laptop was a different story.
I still hate automatically sprinkler systems.
Bill
What I would *really* recomend is a large pair of binoculars. I bought a pair of Swift 11x80's (11x zoom, 80mm diameter in each lense) for about $200 online, and I must say I love this pair of binoculars!!!
Be warned its a very large pair of binoculars (12" long) and thus is hard to hold steady sometimes, but its got a very wide field of view being only 11x zoom, but personally I like being able to see the very sharp, very bright images that this pair of binoculars lets me see.
Swift does make some 20x80's (and some 60x80's!) which lets you see more detail, but less area. I plan on grabbing a 20x80 spotting scope when I get out of college.
As far as telescopes go, you only need about 4.5"/125mm aperture to see the rings of saturn, but a 6" or 8" would definately do a much better job. Meade sells an autogided 125mm ETX scope that is... well.. not too great if you ask anyone serious in astronomy. Especially since its $900. But it would get the job done.
From my own personal experience, I try to stay away from Meade's lower end products as they tend to be SHIT. In fact the LX200 series is probably the only thing from them I would ever buy now that I know something about telescopes. Celestron makes a number of really great scopes too, and on the lower end products is generally much better quality than Meades, although generally more expensive.
Bill
802.11a sucks (not really)... it was release first but almost nobody used it since it was much more expensive and not as readily available as 802.11b. So, now that everyone has an 802.11b WAP, they dont wanna switch it all at once, so 802.11g takes its place as well as having more speed (not sure of its exact speed, its not popular enough yet, heh).
So as far as security goes... Its wireless and thus completely insecure. I mean, even 128 bit is insecure, you just need to transfer a crap load of data and have a big bad computer to do the processing. But I am pretty sure they are better than 802.11b, since they have had a year and a half to think it over nice and hard.
Life is not what it seems, but it seems that sometimes life is not what it does not apear to seem as well.
-Bill
I saw it said "T1 or greater", so thats 1.5Mbit, and there was some other stuff saying up to 2Mbit. So, if thats all it can handle then that sucks. Sure, greater area is awesome, but we need something extremely fast and extremely directional in a more residential market so we can get a free wireless backbone that can have hot spots on the ends. I see a day where we no longer have ISPs, we are just all connected to each other in a huge mesh.
w00t, man... w00t.
-Bill
I wonder when people will realize you can make these things with a 2x4 and a piece of rope? I'm from Nebraska, we've got a lot of corn there... So, well, its just fun, ya know? -Bill
All I have to say is 'w00t'... I really cant wait till the day when we all have wireless 1GB connections. *drool* -Bill
Yey, the more newbs on Linux the better. Just think if everyone knew how to install it, and then we could finally ditch M$ and take over the world!! Muhuhahahahahaha!!!!
Bill
So, about a year ago I broke into 10+ accounts at paypal, and moved a couple of bucks (12k or so) around, didnt TAKE anything, just moved back and forth from accounts. After a good amount of time after that, I contacted paypal and told them how I was able to do it, and how EASY it was. I got in touch with someone, who, I presume is one of, if not the only security guy at PayPal. According to him, its not worth there time to impliment more security features as it makes it harder for the user to gain their access to the account. Plus, its not PayPals loss if they get hacked... so why pay money and lose users to not gain anything?
Bill
This would make porn Soooooo much better!!!!!! -Bill
Well then I guess its bad to tell you that Kodak has had a 16MP (4096x4096 pixel) camera for a few years now. These CCDs have been out for a long time, its just too inneficient to produce them. You can go buy a high quality Kodak 16MP camera... and it'll only set you back $20,000.
A meteorite the size of a marble (lets put that at 10grams), moving at... lets say... 40,000km/hr (normal asteroids and stuff move at about 40,000km/hr).. So the total energy for that object (given by the equation: K = 1/2mv^2) would be:
.01kg meteorite falls through like 100 miles of atmosphere, slowing it down to somewhere under 300km/hr. Giving it the energy of about 450joules... Which is just about enough to really sting when it hits you. Hey lets even say it would knock you unconcious, or possibly even kill you if it hit you right. But it wont evaporate an entire lake. Even if the meteorite had 8,000,000joules of energy, thats hardly enough to evaporate even a moderately good size lake. A single Megaton of energy (a moderately large nuclear bomb) is 4,000,000,000,000,000 joules!!!!!!!
-CyberBill
h allenge.html
8000000 joules.
WOW! Tons of energy huh!! Well, too bad that
Some info gotten at:
http://www.ss.astro.umd.edu/deepimpact/disczone/c
The 'one in a million' meteorites that are warm, are made of combinations of metals, and are *BIG*. They stay warm (atleast on the outside) because they are extremely heat-conductive and dont flake-away when heated, and those generally 'splode when they hit. The reason they have to be big(and dense!) is because it takes more force to slow down a more massive object than a smaller massive object. Its like throwing a wiffle(sp?) or ping-pong ball as hard as you can, and a baseball as hard as you can. -CyberBill