Question: why not simply use the random crap we all have on our PCs to generate random numbers? Say...choose 5 folders at random on a PC. You could use size limits to narrow the search..say between 500Mb and 2Gb. Then make a hash based on those five folders, something like file sizes or time stamps or a combination of the two, wouldn't that be pretty damned random?
Now maybe I'm understanding it wrong, certainly not a crypto expert by any stretch, but surely nobody has the exact combination of downloads+pictures+music+temp+docs that I do, and that data should be able to be mixed in plenty of ways to generate random numbers, yes? And by choosing random folders based on size instead of just choosing defaults you shouldn't run into the "everyone has the same" problem like the default contents of my music or my pictures, so am I missing something?
What you're describing sounds more like something that could be the "seed" for the random number generator - which would then still use an algorithm to generate the "random" numbers (since they're using an algorithm, they'd still just be pseudo-random).
Pardon my mercenary attitude, but why exactly would they want to insure you? You're getting towards the end of your life, and within a few years you will likely require medical treatment far exceeding what you would pay for health insurance. That's why you want to buy it. And that's why they don't want to sell you it - because it's very likely to be an excellent deal for you and a very poor one for them.
You did an excellent job of responding like an economist or a business man. Now reply as if he was your dad.
Part of what was implied with that assignment recognizing that the teacher probably hates their job, has no intentions of actually teaching you, and (like most) just wants to do the minimum to get by (which is reading papers that are exactly 3 pages long, as 3 has probably been mandated by the department for whatever reason). I'm assuming that because she gave you a B, you never wrote over the requirement again (and as you said, you stopped doing work - meaning she had to do even less work, win in her book). This is how people (in general) work - they take the requirements and do whatever they can to just get by.
Allowing an airline to charge someone extra because the airline has arranged their seats so that 15% of the population cannot not fit into a seat is something that is the airline's problem, not the passengers.
How is this different from clothing manufacturers making it so 15% of the population can't fit into a medium or a large (thus forcing the larger customer to buy an X(XX)L for an increased price)? Is it okay to charge more for more fabric required but not okay to charge more for more seat space required?
Is it a restaurants fault if their meal does not entirely fill 15% of the population and they are "forced" to buy dessert?
Your argument seems very strange to me - companies should offer something that pleases every single person, regardless of what is profitable or economical. Unless you're intending for the 85% of the population who is satisfied to be subsidizing the other 15%.
The tools on sysinternals are tools that should come with windows from day one.
Yeah. And an image editor - wait, no, 3 image editors a few which work only on the command line. And five word processors. Ten calculators. A utility to write random data to the disk.
The average user doesn't need these tools. The people who can make use of them without messing other things up already know about them.
The thing is...for how much they go after the child pornography viewers...is it really that much of a problem?
It is much more rare that I see stories about the actual pornographers being caught and while the viewers are certainly depraved (and you can argue that by consuming the child porn, they encourage those who make it), aren't the pornographers the ones we would rather catch? It wouldn't surprise me if the amount of children actually being forced into child porn is VERY small since the already existing library of images probably contains enough to keep the perverts trading for a long time.
If that is true...then this definitely is an excuse to encroach on peoples rights and use the old "think of the children" excuse because if this much effort was really being put in to catching so few potential criminals...it would be a huge waste compared to what those officers could be doing elsewhere.
Agreed that the producers are much more of a problem. To that end, wouldn't a much better law be that all digital cameras have embedded 3g that transmits all taken images to the FBI directly?
I believe the movie you're looking for starred Harrison Ford and Rutger Hauer.
artificial life, with serial numbers on DNA, and a pre-programmed lifespan... where did DARPA replicate that idea from, and when can I get a basic pleasure model?
by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries.
What a curious definition of "promote" we've arrived at.
It's actually pro-mote. As in "in favor of dust". As in the progress of science and useful arts should collect dust if it's not making some business (read: MY business) money.
Google also has billions and billions of dollars and can exert pressure on information distributors.
Google Exec: "Oops, sorry MPA, apparently you and all of your associated studios just fall off the google. Oh noes!"
Would that hurt them? Seriously, who goes to the website for movie studios? Or the official movie website for that matter? If anyone I know has a question about a movie at all they go straight to imdb, not googling for the movie studio or official site.
Even besides contract killing, there are other forms of contract crime. Could I pay neighborhood kids a pittance to shoplift for me? Are protection rackets and blackmail now legal? Organized crime is a lot like a business that happens to be engaged in illegal services. What happens when the guy with the money all of a sudden bears no legal responsibility for the crimes from which he profits?
does Alt+PrtSc allow you to manually select any *section* of screen ?
didn't think so..
I know, if only they would invent some sort of "cropping" functionality...they could put it in a basic graphics program that comes with operating system and call it "MS Paint" or something...Or maybe if they allowed you to crop images right inside of Word by right clicking the image and choosing "Size"...Sigh, a man can dream...
A few more questions if you don't mind - all of these seem to be cross platform, are you personally using windows or linux for this (just curious, I don't really have a preference, but I think I could set it up easier/faster in windows)?
Are you using newzbin as a basic or premium member? I had never heard of this site before. Do you have an invite, available (seems to be invite only), if so could you please toss one to 'clrams' (sans quotes) at google's e-mail service?
I am seriously dating myself here. I've always wanted the computerbook used by Penny from the Inspector Gadget cartoon. I always thought that was the ideal form factor for a PDA/computer. The closest thing I ever found was the HP-28 calculator, but that's been out of production for over a decade. Now finally! we are getting it.
If it's not a controlled substance you can prescribe it for yourself. What's the point? I don't need a doctor to buy aspirin or cold medicine. If I need an antibiotic I need a real visit to a real doctor.
Insurance may cover (some of) the medication's cost if you have a prescription. I can buy my infant's vitamin for $15 a bottle over the counter - with the prescription written by his doctor, my insurance covers half.
Slashdot Mirror
So your suggestion is to generate a random with a random? How do you get the random slashdot thread?
From the previous random, duh!
Question: why not simply use the random crap we all have on our PCs to generate random numbers? Say...choose 5 folders at random on a PC. You could use size limits to narrow the search..say between 500Mb and 2Gb. Then make a hash based on those five folders, something like file sizes or time stamps or a combination of the two, wouldn't that be pretty damned random?
Now maybe I'm understanding it wrong, certainly not a crypto expert by any stretch, but surely nobody has the exact combination of downloads+pictures+music+temp+docs that I do, and that data should be able to be mixed in plenty of ways to generate random numbers, yes? And by choosing random folders based on size instead of just choosing defaults you shouldn't run into the "everyone has the same" problem like the default contents of my music or my pictures, so am I missing something?
What you're describing sounds more like something that could be the "seed" for the random number generator - which would then still use an algorithm to generate the "random" numbers (since they're using an algorithm, they'd still just be pseudo-random).
Pardon my mercenary attitude, but why exactly would they want to insure you? You're getting towards the end of your life, and within a few years you will likely require medical treatment far exceeding what you would pay for health insurance. That's why you want to buy it. And that's why they don't want to sell you it - because it's very likely to be an excellent deal for you and a very poor one for them.
You did an excellent job of responding like an economist or a business man. Now reply as if he was your dad.
Part of what was implied with that assignment recognizing that the teacher probably hates their job, has no intentions of actually teaching you, and (like most) just wants to do the minimum to get by (which is reading papers that are exactly 3 pages long, as 3 has probably been mandated by the department for whatever reason). I'm assuming that because she gave you a B, you never wrote over the requirement again (and as you said, you stopped doing work - meaning she had to do even less work, win in her book). This is how people (in general) work - they take the requirements and do whatever they can to just get by.
Allowing an airline to charge someone extra because the airline has arranged their seats so that 15% of the population cannot not fit into a seat is something that is the airline's problem, not the passengers.
How is this different from clothing manufacturers making it so 15% of the population can't fit into a medium or a large (thus forcing the larger customer to buy an X(XX)L for an increased price)? Is it okay to charge more for more fabric required but not okay to charge more for more seat space required?
Is it a restaurants fault if their meal does not entirely fill 15% of the population and they are "forced" to buy dessert?
Your argument seems very strange to me - companies should offer something that pleases every single person, regardless of what is profitable or economical. Unless you're intending for the 85% of the population who is satisfied to be subsidizing the other 15%.
Vista/7 doesn't have Volume License Keys anymore AFAIK, the "thousands of times" keys are only for XP and earlier.
I hadn't heard this before, but it's good to know that there's no way I'll ever be upgrading our systems to Vista/7 :P
The tools on sysinternals are tools that should come with windows from day one.
Yeah. And an image editor - wait, no, 3 image editors a few which work only on the command line. And five word processors. Ten calculators. A utility to write random data to the disk.
The average user doesn't need these tools. The people who can make use of them without messing other things up already know about them.
The thing is...for how much they go after the child pornography viewers...is it really that much of a problem?
It is much more rare that I see stories about the actual pornographers being caught and while the viewers are certainly depraved (and you can argue that by consuming the child porn, they encourage those who make it), aren't the pornographers the ones we would rather catch? It wouldn't surprise me if the amount of children actually being forced into child porn is VERY small since the already existing library of images probably contains enough to keep the perverts trading for a long time.
If that is true...then this definitely is an excuse to encroach on peoples rights and use the old "think of the children" excuse because if this much effort was really being put in to catching so few potential criminals...it would be a huge waste compared to what those officers could be doing elsewhere.
Agreed that the producers are much more of a problem. To that end, wouldn't a much better law be that all digital cameras have embedded 3g that transmits all taken images to the FBI directly?
Anyone else think it's funny that they're talking about "expecting a rise" in the interview?
I believe the movie you're looking for starred Harrison Ford and Rutger Hauer.
artificial life, with serial numbers on DNA, and a pre-programmed lifespan... where did DARPA replicate that idea from, and when can I get a basic pleasure model?
Screw basic, send me an advanced model!
What a curious definition of "promote" we've arrived at.
It's actually pro-mote. As in "in favor of dust". As in the progress of science and useful arts should collect dust if it's not making some business (read: MY business) money.
Google also has billions and billions of dollars and can exert pressure on information distributors.
Google Exec: "Oops, sorry MPA, apparently you and all of your associated studios just fall off the google. Oh noes!"
Would that hurt them? Seriously, who goes to the website for movie studios? Or the official movie website for that matter? If anyone I know has a question about a movie at all they go straight to imdb, not googling for the movie studio or official site.
Except... who is going to buy this? People that own iPhones! Can you tether your iPhone?
Yes, but I jailbroke mine ages ago. Can't wait to jailbreak an iPad, too!
Even besides contract killing, there are other forms of contract crime. Could I pay neighborhood kids a pittance to shoplift for me? Are protection rackets and blackmail now legal? Organized crime is a lot like a business that happens to be engaged in illegal services. What happens when the guy with the money all of a sudden bears no legal responsibility for the crimes from which he profits?
The police hire someone to make him reconsider?
I didn't realise the US job market was quite that "flexible".
That's why we have such a strong economy - we care more about the people that make up the businesses than the business itself.
...7-dehydrocholesterol...photolyzed...epidermal stratum basale and stratum spinosum..6-electron conrotatory electrocyclic...spontaneously isomerizes...cholecalciferol...antarafacial hydride [1,7] Sigmatropic shift...
Come on, he's not a child, you don't need to dumb it down :P
does Alt+PrtSc allow you to manually select any *section* of screen ? didn't think so..
I know, if only they would invent some sort of "cropping" functionality...they could put it in a basic graphics program that comes with operating system and call it "MS Paint" or something...Or maybe if they allowed you to crop images right inside of Word by right clicking the image and choosing "Size"...Sigh, a man can dream...
Hmmm. Definitely looking into this, thanks!
A few more questions if you don't mind - all of these seem to be cross platform, are you personally using windows or linux for this (just curious, I don't really have a preference, but I think I could set it up easier/faster in windows)?
Are you using newzbin as a basic or premium member? I had never heard of this site before. Do you have an invite, available (seems to be invite only), if so could you please toss one to 'clrams' (sans quotes) at google's e-mail service?
And this media setup is?
I am seriously dating myself here. I've always wanted the computer book used by Penny from the Inspector Gadget cartoon. I always thought that was the ideal form factor for a PDA/computer. The closest thing I ever found was the HP-28 calculator, but that's been out of production for over a decade. Now finally! we are getting it.
Dating yourself as what, over 25?
"Our bear makes other people more beautiful to you"
Is that a Care Bear, or what kind of bear, exactly?
Of course, they could always put a sloping cover above the signs so it doesn't get, well, covered in snow.
Like how sloping roofs don't get snow on them! Oh wait.
If it's not a controlled substance you can prescribe it for yourself. What's the point? I don't need a doctor to buy aspirin or cold medicine. If I need an antibiotic I need a real visit to a real doctor.
Insurance may cover (some of) the medication's cost if you have a prescription. I can buy my infant's vitamin for $15 a bottle over the counter - with the prescription written by his doctor, my insurance covers half.
That goes for any possible role that could be introduced, it won't be liked or appreciated if it isn't a necessary and fun component of the game.
Fixed that! If disarming the traps is both necessary and boring/unfun then people will still (rightly) complain.
Thanks for the link, I'm giving this a try now!