That's random data but it istotally compressible. Even though you banged away at your keyboard, by the virue its a US/UK keyboard, your options are still very limited. Since this is standard ascii text which is 8 bits per character, it works out to 32*8=256 bits (remember to count the spaces!!!)
Now we just string those together you get 30*5=150 bits, plus a bit at the end to let decoder know that your at the end (since your going to be stuffing 5bit strings into 8bit strings you'll end up having some carry over. You've also gotta store the table so you can go the other direction, which when added to the now 5 bit stream, you end up with something a bit larger. But for a real example with a couple thousand letters, it would end up working out.
I'm sure I've made some stupid mistake, if so just flame away. I can take the heat.
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Yeah, I know, I'm one of those people who puts their hand in front of the camera at the ATM...
I see this as just another way that microsoft is going to pull off the ultimate fast one...
Once they get their.net stuff up and running, with the next release of windows, it'll be compulsary that you have a.net subscription, which by the way states that you have to accept updates from microsoft (much in the way that Diablo2 updates itself, it just happens) and it'll automatically deduct your subscription cost monthly (and the fee for downloading the patch...) from your microsoft passport account...
Once they get this infrastructure in place, they'll roll out their Digital Copyright Management System (DCMS). digitally unsigned MP3's will be unplayable because their point of origin will be unknown. Since they only support ripping of WMA files anyway, you'd only be able to play WMA files that were created on your machine (your computers unique GUID would be watermarked into the rip during the encoding.) The converting of WMA files back into cdda format and ripping them onto CD's would be completely disallowed. Since DCMS is implemented at the OS level (down near all the filesytem calls) trying to even use winamp wouldn't work since winamp wouldn't even be able to open the file. Not that you'd possibly be allowed to install winamp, since it's not a digitally signed application from Microsoft, you'd have to pay extra to allow the installing of non microsoft sanctioned programs. If you think that this idea is far fetched, Go and download a driver that hasn't been "certified" by microsoft... Now imagine this taken to the next level, where instead of giving you a choice it would just exit out of the install or worse, you'd get fined for trying to install non-ms software.
Now that the whole world is connected to.net, microsoft can start selling all kinds of totally anonymous usage information based off of data collected from everybody.
So, how does microsoft get everybody off their backs really quickly? (those people being the DOJ) Use their monopoly to benefit the DOJ. Before they went that road, once they rolled out DRMS, the RIAA and the MPAA would get right into their corner (forget about divx every working again...) Where I get this idea from is looking at the EULA for Windows Media Player... at the end is a clause that says that microsoft has the right to download onto the users pc updates without their knowledge, these updates may disable software that doesn't comply with Digital Rights Management. (I'm paraphrasing) Then microsoft would cut a deal with the DOJ where'd they be able todo searches of all the data collected from everybody's machine connected to.net. Since your inclusively connected, you could be extensively profiled (for good or bad).
Yeah, I know it was rambling, but its juat what I think is going to happen.
Agree with the Water thing. I've totally cut soda out of my diet and I saw immediate changes. The other thing I started doing is going to the gym. (my company has an in house one) Basically my weight stayed the same (195-200) but my belly went away as I converted it into muscle. The other areas that this has helped is my snowboarding, I feel much stronger overall.
I know this is a bit off topic (I'm not sure how you'd go about loopback mounting an iso image under NT) but under linux, you'd have to do some recompiling, I'm pretty sure the default install only allows 8 or so loopback devices.
Granted its a quick recompile, but it sure wrecks uptime...
Its sad that people even rented that pile of filth called Crapaphile DungPee, though I'm sure there is some p0rno that's a daraliction of the name that's probably good....
as for boycotting.au stuff that'll be tough... I've already got my tickets for FOTHR...
Go down to your bank and go open another paypal only checking account.
Then when you need to pay for something or get payed its not all jumbled up with all your other money.
My buddy does this and is yet to have a problem. Plus it insulates you from them freezing your checking account and a whole bunch of automatic withdrawals failing!
Though I have heard of the IT department at a local college who was soliciting modest quota changes for beer...
1 beer or a modest cash donation = 5mb more space
Since he was the guy in charge of such things he had final say on who got what on the "toaster".
Maybe I'm all confused but what happened to just good old respect?
I'm human, your human, were all human? Lets get over the idea that any one of us is any better than any other of us. Maybe people didn't notice, but nobody gets away. Were all on the same spaceship flying through space. Boundries are just lines drawn in the dirt, nothing more.
I think globalization is about knocking down the walls in our hearts and minds and realizing that if we don't start working together as a world nation, there won't be any nations left. We are just a tiny planet in a small solar system in a really big universe. We were given the opportunity to make something of ourselves. So far its only been war and hate. I want my grandkids to be exploring the stars, not digging at the dead earth.
Oh well, nobody seems to care about common sense anymore anyway.
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That Rail company would be "AMTRAK" and their (being the goverment) [is] talking about finally giving up on the rail company. Mainly because the gave the company the opportunity to become profitable and they just sat on their asses and burned through the money.
NOTE: This is just what I WISH I could get for a laptop if price were no option.
Case: Titanium or spun aluminum, something tough enough that I can drop the thing and not scream "Oh fuck" and to protect the solar panels that'll slide out from the cover...
Power:
1. Solar panels that would slide out of the cover and detach so they could be aimed at the sun, also the cover of the laptop should have attach points for them and plug into a common "power in" point2. Kickass light long lasting battery or fuelcell technology.
3. The "power in" point should accept upto 240V in so it could be plugged into anything, from a car lighter to a european plug and everything in between. Also the solar panels should be able to charge the onboard battery when the machine is off.
Ram: at least 128mb
Non Volitile Storage: If I could get my hands on a a multi GB DOC drive, that would be dandy. I'd like something that was like 20mm on a side perferrably. so that I could several of them. My idea is the less moving parts the better.
Keyboard: something confortable (this has for the most part been sorted out.
Mouse: The "nipple" works good as do touch pads. Not really sure, maye something better?
Display: 1024x768x16 at a minimum. Also, the solar panels could be oriented in such a way that they could be used as "shades" so that the glare could be cut.
Video Card: a card with great 2D and good 3D.
CPU: Crusoe or SA or PPC, whichever would give me the best weight/power@heat/performance. I'd be pscyed if they could build a processor that had the main memory on the same die as the processor. Also it should be low power enough that cooling isn't an issue. (hence why I like the crusoe). The other idea would be todo some underclocking.
Security: Since its in an aluminum/titanium case, it should be lockable. Though Acer has started including a Fingerprint scanner on their laptops. That would be a sweet way to login. Try Guessing THAT password!
Enviromental: I'd like to be able to take this laptop to the beach and set it down. It should be compeletly water proof to 10M with all external connectors sealable by either the clamshell of the case or double seal gromits. Internally all components would be sealed in that injectable clearn rubber epoxy stuff. The keyboard would be completely replaceable without having to open the machine. I'm thinking it would be either some clip in system or small aluminum jack screws. As for the keyboard connector it would be connected via surface contacts so that their wouldn't even be a cable running inside.
Other things I'd like it to have would be a GPS of some kind. This could be just a PCMCIA card since I don't think I'd ever have a modem in it.
This would be my ultimate laptop. It would be a bit bulkier (probably like one of those thin aluminum suitcase things) but it would be kickass.
My mail servers are always bogged down with SPAM. I really think it should be a beatable offense. Possibley we could clone that sex offender law for spammers. If convicted you'd have to register with the local police.
That's what has happened with all of those who maintained MBL lists. They got sued until they ran out of money, lost or won. If they won, the suer would then just go after their ISP to get them cut off.
Thats why most sites just maintain our own block lists and/or do content blocking (aka, all mail with the word "brest" gets deferred)
Education: I've almost got a BA in Comp Sci
Experience: Did 5 years on the front lines (Help Desk work) and started playing with Linux because I hated windows. Moved from Helpdesk to Junior UA position 2 years ago and started doing routine stuff. Got a feel for HPUX / Solaris stuff along the way. Also took an HPUX class. Got involved doing Disaster Recovery Planning and Backup stuff.
I'd say go and shoot for a Junior position and just start building your skills. Your never too old todo anything, as long as your willing to learn, not even the sky is the limit.
To a certain degree, the encryption genie is out of the bottle. How would the goverment go about reeling in the use of SSH and SSL all over the place? Could they possibly pass a law that said you had to upload your private keys or face prosecution? (I don't think they could get away with that but who knows)
Thanks,
Mysticalfruit
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Actually Whoosydinger did his Ph.D thesis on rsync.
My company had something that "haunted" the corner of the cellar floor of their main building. I had a personall experience with it while doing windows 95 upgradres really late at night. I was busy stuffing disks into thie POS machine when I suddenly got the feeling that I was being watched and that it wanted me to leave. I was so creeped I bailed and came back the next day. The guy who worked on that floor and ran the Next network gave me a shocked look when I told him that I was there at 10:30 at night. He then told me all about the "ghost" that has freaked people out enough that they refused to work 3rd shift in that corner of the building. Freaky stuff.
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That's random data but it istotally compressible. Even though you banged away at your keyboard, by the virue its a US/UK keyboard, your options are still very limited. Since this is standard ascii text which is 8 bits per character, it works out to 32*8=256 bits (remember to count the spaces!!!)
.: 1 occurance 01010
This is how the occurances break down
1. " ": 4 occurances 00001
2. o: 3 occurances 00010
3. q: 3 occurances 00011
4. i: 1 occurance 00100
5. e: 3 occurances 00101
6. r: 1 ocurrance 00110
7. g: 1 occurance 00111
8. j: 1 occurance 01000
9. n: 1 occurance 01001
10.
11. a: 3 occurances 01011
12. m: 1 occurance 01100
13. d: 1 occurance 01101
14. n: 2 occurances 01110
15. v: 2 occurances 01111
16. p: 1 occurance 10000
17. f: 2 occurances 10001
18. l: 1 occurance 10010
19. z: 1 occurance 10011
20. oq: 2 occurance 10100
So we've got 19 different individual "pattens" that we can incode with 5 bits instead of 8.
Now we just string those together you get 30*5=150 bits, plus a bit at the end to let decoder know that your at the end (since your going to be stuffing 5bit strings into 8bit strings you'll end up having some carry over. You've also gotta store the table so you can go the other direction, which when added to the now 5 bit stream, you end up with something a bit larger. But for a real example with a couple thousand letters, it would end up working out.
I'm sure I've made some stupid mistake, if so just flame away. I can take the heat.
Yeah, I know, I'm one of those people who puts their hand in front of the camera at the ATM...
.net stuff up and running, with the next release of windows, it'll be compulsary that you have a .net subscription, which by the way states that you have to accept updates from microsoft (much in the way that Diablo2 updates itself, it just happens) and it'll automatically deduct your subscription cost monthly (and the fee for downloading the patch...) from your microsoft passport account...
.net, microsoft can start selling all kinds of totally anonymous usage information based off of data collected from everybody.
.net. Since your inclusively connected, you could be extensively profiled (for good or bad).
I see this as just another way that microsoft is going to pull off the ultimate fast one...
Once they get their
Once they get this infrastructure in place, they'll roll out their Digital Copyright Management System (DCMS). digitally unsigned MP3's will be unplayable because their point of origin will be unknown. Since they only support ripping of WMA files anyway, you'd only be able to play WMA files that were created on your machine (your computers unique GUID would be watermarked into the rip during the encoding.) The converting of WMA files back into cdda format and ripping them onto CD's would be completely disallowed. Since DCMS is implemented at the OS level (down near all the filesytem calls) trying to even use winamp wouldn't work since winamp wouldn't even be able to open the file. Not that you'd possibly be allowed to install winamp, since it's not a digitally signed application from Microsoft, you'd have to pay extra to allow the installing of non microsoft sanctioned programs. If you think that this idea is far fetched, Go and download a driver that hasn't been "certified" by microsoft... Now imagine this taken to the next level, where instead of giving you a choice it would just exit out of the install or worse, you'd get fined for trying to install non-ms software.
Now that the whole world is connected to
So, how does microsoft get everybody off their backs really quickly? (those people being the DOJ) Use their monopoly to benefit the DOJ. Before they went that road, once they rolled out DRMS, the RIAA and the MPAA would get right into their corner (forget about divx every working again...) Where I get this idea from is looking at the EULA for Windows Media Player... at the end is a clause that says that microsoft has the right to download onto the users pc updates without their knowledge, these updates may disable software that doesn't comply with Digital Rights Management. (I'm paraphrasing) Then microsoft would cut a deal with the DOJ where'd they be able todo searches of all the data collected from everybody's machine connected to
Yeah, I know it was rambling, but its juat what I think is going to happen.
Well, if it works under transgaming's winex, then no reboot will be nessisary!
Agree with the Water thing. I've totally cut soda out of my diet and I saw immediate changes. The other thing I started doing is going to the gym. (my company has an in house one) Basically my weight stayed the same (195-200) but my belly went away as I converted it into muscle. The other areas that this has helped is my snowboarding, I feel much stronger overall.
I just passed in my independent study paper (saved in winword/2000) using Staroffice and I didn't have a single problem.
I don't need microsoft to get my job done... and never will.
This stuff has been on the market for a long time. Though it is cool stuff.
Though, all I want for yule is a solid state harddrive that's as fast as ram...
I don't think they'd take the faith road... I think they'd take the money road...
Here's 50K, put a nice backdoor in... Thanks...
Money... keeping the spy game going since...um their was money...
I know this is a bit off topic (I'm not sure how you'd go about loopback mounting an iso image under NT) but under linux, you'd have to do some recompiling, I'm pretty sure the default install only allows 8 or so loopback devices.
Granted its a quick recompile, but it sure wrecks uptime...
Its sad that people even rented that pile of filth called Crapaphile DungPee, though I'm sure there is some p0rno that's a daraliction of the name that's probably good....
.au stuff that'll be tough... I've already got my tickets for FOTHR...
as for boycotting
Go down to your bank and go open another paypal only checking account.
Then when you need to pay for something or get payed its not all jumbled up with all your other money.
My buddy does this and is yet to have a problem. Plus it insulates you from them freezing your checking account and a whole bunch of automatic withdrawals failing!
I suppose the difference is the setting of the party...
Corporation: someones backyard
University: someone's dormroom.
Though I have heard of the IT department at a local college who was soliciting modest quota changes for beer...
1 beer or a modest cash donation = 5mb more space
Since he was the guy in charge of such things he had final say on who got what on the "toaster".
Maybe I'm all confused but what happened to just good old respect?
I'm human, your human, were all human? Lets get over the idea that any one of us is any better than any other of us. Maybe people didn't notice, but nobody gets away. Were all on the same spaceship flying through space. Boundries are just lines drawn in the dirt, nothing more.
I think globalization is about knocking down the walls in our hearts and minds and realizing that if we don't start working together as a world nation, there won't be any nations left. We are just a tiny planet in a small solar system in a really big universe. We were given the opportunity to make something of ourselves. So far its only been war and hate. I want my grandkids to be exploring the stars, not digging at the dead earth.
Oh well, nobody seems to care about common sense anymore anyway.
That Rail company would be "AMTRAK" and their (being the goverment) [is] talking about finally giving up on the rail company. Mainly because the gave the company the opportunity to become profitable and they just sat on their asses and burned through the money.
NOTE: This is just what I WISH I could get for a laptop if price were no option.
Case: Titanium or spun aluminum, something tough enough that I can drop the thing and not scream "Oh fuck" and to protect the solar panels that'll slide out from the cover...
Power:
1. Solar panels that would slide out of the cover and detach so they could be aimed at the sun, also the cover of the laptop should have attach points for them and plug into a common "power in" point2. Kickass light long lasting battery or fuelcell technology.
3. The "power in" point should accept upto 240V in so it could be plugged into anything, from a car lighter to a european plug and everything in between. Also the solar panels should be able to charge the onboard battery when the machine is off.
Ram: at least 128mb
Non Volitile Storage: If I could get my hands on a a multi GB DOC drive, that would be dandy. I'd like something that was like 20mm on a side perferrably. so that I could several of them. My idea is the less moving parts the better.
Keyboard: something confortable (this has for the most part been sorted out.
Mouse: The "nipple" works good as do touch pads. Not really sure, maye something better?
Display: 1024x768x16 at a minimum. Also, the solar panels could be oriented in such a way that they could be used as "shades" so that the glare could be cut.
Video Card: a card with great 2D and good 3D.
CPU: Crusoe or SA or PPC, whichever would give me the best weight/power@heat/performance. I'd be pscyed if they could build a processor that had the main memory on the same die as the processor. Also it should be low power enough that cooling isn't an issue. (hence why I like the crusoe). The other idea would be todo some underclocking.
Security: Since its in an aluminum/titanium case, it should be lockable. Though Acer has started including a Fingerprint scanner on their laptops. That would be a sweet way to login. Try Guessing THAT password!
Networking: Integrated 1Gbit + wireless + 1 pcmcia slot.
Enviromental: I'd like to be able to take this laptop to the beach and set it down. It should be compeletly water proof to 10M with all external connectors sealable by either the clamshell of the case or double seal gromits. Internally all components would be sealed in that injectable clearn rubber epoxy stuff. The keyboard would be completely replaceable without having to open the machine. I'm thinking it would be either some clip in system or small aluminum jack screws. As for the keyboard connector it would be connected via surface contacts so that their wouldn't even be a cable running inside.
Other things I'd like it to have would be a GPS of some kind. This could be just a PCMCIA card since I don't think I'd ever have a modem in it.
This would be my ultimate laptop. It would be a bit bulkier (probably like one of those thin aluminum suitcase things) but it would be kickass.
I've ripped the Incubus cd with both MusicMatch and grip (using Bladeenc) and I've had no problems.
My mail servers are always bogged down with SPAM. I really think it should be a beatable offense. Possibley we could clone that sex offender law for spammers. If convicted you'd have to register with the local police.
That's what has happened with all of those who maintained MBL lists. They got sued until they ran out of money, lost or won. If they won, the suer would then just go after their ISP to get them cut off.
Thats why most sites just maintain our own block lists and/or do content blocking (aka, all mail with the word "brest" gets deferred)
Education: I've almost got a BA in Comp Sci
Experience: Did 5 years on the front lines (Help Desk work) and started playing with Linux because I hated windows. Moved from Helpdesk to Junior UA position 2 years ago and started doing routine stuff. Got a feel for HPUX / Solaris stuff along the way. Also took an HPUX class. Got involved doing Disaster Recovery Planning and Backup stuff.
I'd say go and shoot for a Junior position and just start building your skills. Your never too old todo anything, as long as your willing to learn, not even the sky is the limit.
To a certain degree, the encryption genie is out of the bottle. How would the goverment go about reeling in the use of SSH and SSL all over the place? Could they possibly pass a law that said you had to upload your private keys or face prosecution? (I don't think they could get away with that but who knows)
Thanks,
Mysticalfruit
Actually Whoosydinger did his Ph.D thesis on rsync.
My company had something that "haunted" the corner of the cellar floor of their main building. I had a personall experience with it while doing windows 95 upgradres really late at night. I was busy stuffing disks into thie POS machine when I suddenly got the feeling that I was being watched and that it wanted me to leave. I was so creeped I bailed and came back the next day. The guy who worked on that floor and ran the Next network gave me a shocked look when I told him that I was there at 10:30 at night. He then told me all about the "ghost" that has freaked people out enough that they refused to work 3rd shift in that corner of the building. Freaky stuff.