Well I think the entire application could be on every computer, however tasks could be distributed throughout the entire network. I wouldn't try this via dial-up-style BBS. as for encrypted packets, they could be disguised. Why not disguise them as as completely different information. One common way of doing this would be to embed the encrypted information in a picture, essentially stenography. It would look like a photo sharing service like Hello or Easy share, however that information would just be used to encapsulate the encrypted packets. You could use stock pictures (public domain) or tell it to use your own pictures. Essentially making a distributed shared dark net application look like some mundane everyday application. Data storage for the BBS could be distributed in a redundant way across the network so if any part of the network was inaccessible the data could be reconstituted from the remainder -as long as there was enough of the network above a critical point still functioning. You would just need to make sure the network could re-synchronize when two parts are split and then regain connectivity.
There is nothing simple about them... It doesn't work out evenly at all. As a matter of fact if you round it off, like you did, you get errors. There is no coincidence... YOU ARE MAKING THE COINCIDENCE. We make every 4th year a Leap year, but every year that is evenly divisible by 100 is not unless they are also divisible by 400 / that do not leave a remainder of 200 or 600 when divided by 900. ---What the hell kind of coincidence are you seeing? There is none! Not only that but in 8,000 years we will probably be off by a whole day using our current system. We don't even know for sure! There is no coincidence it took us 1400 years to figure out and fix a problem with the Julian caledar precisely because there is no coincidence.
Not to mention the fact that the length of days on Earth and the length of years is not fixed, but is changing. Tidal acceleration from the sun and moon slows the revolution of the earth, making the day longer. Precession of the equinoxes moves the position of the vernal equinox (which is how we measure a year) with respect to perihelion and so changes the length of the vernal equinoctial year. A change in sea level can change the length of a day, and the falling of a techtonic plate during an earthquake can speed it up (and has). Ther is no coincidence!
Is there a way to develop a secure, and for the most part Sysopless, BBS system? Where, while hosted on his computer, all ptp communications are fully encrypted, even from him? Or some sort of "dumb router" taking the place of a real sysop?
How about a computerless-BBS.... or a Distributed system. What about a bbs that doesn't exist, rather it is distributed and ran among all the users? Wouldn't that be neat. As long as you had enough users to keep it running. But a BBS that is run as a distributed shared application. No sysop, hell no system, just the BBS network. As long as you had a minimum number of users, the BBS would be up and running distributed amongst all the users. Run it as an encrypted darknet and voila!
Yes, yes, my bad.:-) It's almost exactly 365.25 days a year instead. Still a co-incidence.
Just be cause something is the way it is, doesn't make it a coincidence. At some point you have to realize what you are talking about. I'm sorry but this isn't a coincidence.
A coincidence is an apparent chance or unlikely event which creates an unexpected and significant situation.
This is not a coincidence. A coincidence would be if all the planets had the same number of days in a year. they don't. There is nothing apparently unlikely about the number of days in our year nor is it unexpected nor is it significant. It's just the way it is. Just because something is the way it is doesn't mean it's a coincidence. By your reason, it wouldn't matter how many days there are in a year, it would still be coincidental, in which case it cannot be a coincidence by definition. Words mean things. Find out what they mean before you use them.
Apparently I'm still on Daylight Savings Time... yet another dimension to the screwball way we keep track of time. I think we should just have two clocks everywhere. One with local time, one in 24 hour UTC... do that for a few decades, so everyone gets really used to it. I also believe that ANY schedule at all that spans more than one timezone should be posted in UTC. All network and cable TV should be posted in UTC (or at least include it in the list of timezones they do post) Radio should do I too. They can make the clock on the sign at the bank flash local time and then also UTC -- just like they do for the temperature in Fahrenheit and Celsius. There is no reason to just switch, but why not do both. It's the best we could do for the metric switch in the US. And since we know no one wants to change, they don't have to, but it makes people AWARE there is a difference.
Actually, in all seriousness, it is *quite* a co-incidence that the Earth rotates almost exactly 364.75 times an orbit, isn't it?
There are 365.24218967 days in a (Tropical) year. Unless you meant 365.256363051 days in a sidereal year. Or did you mean 365.259635864 Days in an anomalistic year? Perhaps 346.620075883 days in a Draconian (Lunar) year? Regardless I don't know where you got the 3/4ths of a day, since it's just wrong. If you were right we'd be skipping days on leap years, and doing it more often.
What is the maximum acceptable price that slashdot readers would give to different types of downloadable product
That would really depend. First, what types of restrictions are we talking about? Is the license per computer (device) or per person / family?
Will I get to watch it again and again, or will I at some point need to purchase approval to view the content again?
Will it install a rootkit on my computer?!?!
If it is per device, what happens should I want to move (not copy) the content to another device?
The biggest problem here is TRUST, and I DO NOT TRUST THEM!
There are many more questions this bring up. At this point I'm ready to give up on the members of the Motion Picture Assholiation of America and the Recording Industry Assholiation of America. Time and time again they have chosen to disregard common sense and implement an attack on their own consumer base in an effort to not just prolong a failing business model, but to try to make a business model that is completely abhorrent to a free market.
If the member companies of the motion picture industry would really like to mend some fences, they should consider completely dissolving the MPAA. Maybe then I would no longer look at them as a really bad joke.
A social security number is NOT an identification number, it is for a social security account. Unless they need to report information to the IRS, they have no need or right to a social security number.
YES it is possible to go through life not giving out your Social Security number. There are very few places that really require it... Oh sure they say they do, but yelling and stomping my feet on the ground has indeed helped me find out how many places WANT a SSN ---but if youscream loudly enough will soon back down.
Why is it always OUR responsibility to help all these people ?
Why can't these people do things on their own?
It is their problem, they caused it and they get to live with it.
Corporate entities in states that control corporations are countries.
In countries where the state controls the phone company, the phone company's policy is the state's policy.
As an American I am proud to say I'm glad I don't have to talk to France, Germany, Egypt and Saudi Arabia. If they are so much holier than us, fine. Let them go. It's going to be more of a burden to them than it will be to us and the rest of the world. The world is changing, you can either change with it or fade in to obscurity.
Isn't the moon to far away to have a significant effect?
We don't want to rip the planets into pieces!!
Just because the Moon is far enough away not to be torn apart doesn't mean that it has little effect on Earth. It moves the oceans around. It raises and lowers the crust. It may even churn the core. You don't think the center of gravity of the Earth-Moon System moving around inside the Earth's mantel doesn't do much?
We don't need to be so close together to cause objects on the surface of planet to fly off due to tidal forces, Just enough to mix up the fluid parts. The oceans move due to tidal forces, why can't the liquid parts of the interior? -this is what they say is going on in Titan, Io and Europa. I don't see any of them flying apart.
The cooling of Mars's core has nothing to do with insolation. Planetary cores are molten (or not) due to the presence of radioactive elements which release heat as they decay. Mars is less dense than Earth, meaning it's core is much smaller and probably has a smaller proportion of uranium, etc than Earth. Thus, the amount of heat generated by radioactive decay dropped off much faster than here, thus ending most geological activity billions of years ago (not all of it, though, as there are indications of volcanic activity as recent as 100 million years ago which is a small fraction of Mars's lifetime). If solar influx had anything to do with tectonics, we would expect Mercury to be much more active than Earth, but it's not. It's about as dead as the Moon, geologically speaking
Is it possible that the conditions here on Earth are caused specifically by the Moon? I mean tidal forces from our Moon ought to have something to do with why our core remains liquid, and why we have a magnetic dynamo. Is it possible that perhaps Mars at one time had a larger satellite it has since lost? Perhaps it is not a coincidence the only other places we think we have _seen_ volcanic activity also happen to be places where there are high tidal forces (like Io and Titan). -Understandable we do have evidence of past volcanic activity on both Mars and Venus and they do not have large moons {?anymore?}, but it does lead me to speculate. How much of that volcanism is due to cooling since creation and Atomic decay... how much could have been due to the constant churning of tidal forces? ---What would happen to Mars if it had a larger satellite? If it did and the insides melted and gasses were produced, what would happen to the Martian atmosphere? -Could Mars again have a magnetic field? (it's always fun to speculate).
Could it be possible to terraform Mars by giving it a sufficiently large satellite?
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You wouldn't happen to know the name of the show by any chance?
Why Yes I do.
Leonardo's Dream Machines
The world's leading experts boldly attempt to build, for the first time ever, two of Leonardo da Vinci's machines to the exact specifications that he designed 500 years ago. The first is a giant crossbow, with arms nearly 70 feet across, and the second is a glider that predated flight by 400 years. This two-part special reveals whether the inventor's ideas were flights of fancy or revolutionary designs hundreds of years ahead of their time.
It is presented in 2 parts which -atleast in my area were aired one right after the other. --- It should be on next on Wednesday October 19th In my area anyway
And we all know how much PBS likes money... for $29.99 you can buy it from their website. Will not be released until 11/15/2005. They are offering 20% off too.
What everyone keeps missing here is that you don't even need to think about parabolas.... If you take a bunch of mirrors and aim the reflection of the sun at the same point, no matter where the mirror is, you will get a parabola, or a fresnel of a parabola or something inbetween. Period.
You don't even need to know what a parabola is to make this work. It just will. The understanding of a parabola is only needed if you try to set the mirrors up ahead of time.
That being said Arcimedes of Syracuse did indeed know plenty about a parabola. One of his works was the Quadrature of the Parabola.
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Well I think the entire application could be on every computer, however tasks could be distributed throughout the entire network. I wouldn't try this via dial-up-style BBS. as for encrypted packets, they could be disguised. Why not disguise them as as completely different information. One common way of doing this would be to embed the encrypted information in a picture, essentially stenography. It would look like a photo sharing service like Hello or Easy share, however that information would just be used to encapsulate the encrypted packets. You could use stock pictures (public domain) or tell it to use your own pictures. Essentially making a distributed shared dark net application look like some mundane everyday application. Data storage for the BBS could be distributed in a redundant way across the network so if any part of the network was inaccessible the data could be reconstituted from the remainder -as long as there was enough of the network above a critical point still functioning. You would just need to make sure the network could re-synchronize when two parts are split and then regain connectivity.
There is nothing simple about them... It doesn't work out evenly at all. As a matter of fact if you round it off, like you did, you get errors. There is no coincidence... YOU ARE MAKING THE COINCIDENCE. We make every 4th year a Leap year, but every year that is evenly divisible by 100 is not unless they are also divisible by 400 / that do not leave a remainder of 200 or 600 when divided by 900. ---What the hell kind of coincidence are you seeing? There is none! Not only that but in 8,000 years we will probably be off by a whole day using our current system. We don't even know for sure! There is no coincidence it took us 1400 years to figure out and fix a problem with the Julian caledar precisely because there is no coincidence.
Not to mention the fact that the length of days on Earth and the length of years is not fixed, but is changing. Tidal acceleration from the sun and moon slows the revolution of the earth, making the day longer. Precession of the equinoxes moves the position of the vernal equinox (which is how we measure a year) with respect to perihelion and so changes the length of the vernal equinoctial year. A change in sea level can change the length of a day, and the falling of a techtonic plate during an earthquake can speed it up (and has). Ther is no coincidence!How about a computerless-BBS.... or a Distributed system. What about a bbs that doesn't exist, rather it is distributed and ran among all the users? Wouldn't that be neat. As long as you had enough users to keep it running. But a BBS that is run as a distributed shared application. No sysop, hell no system, just the BBS network. As long as you had a minimum number of users, the BBS would be up and running distributed amongst all the users. Run it as an encrypted darknet and voila!
Just be cause something is the way it is, doesn't make it a coincidence. At some point you have to realize what you are talking about. I'm sorry but this isn't a coincidence.
This is not a coincidence. A coincidence would be if all the planets had the same number of days in a year. they don't. There is nothing apparently unlikely about the number of days in our year nor is it unexpected nor is it significant. It's just the way it is. Just because something is the way it is doesn't mean it's a coincidence. By your reason, it wouldn't matter how many days there are in a year, it would still be coincidental, in which case it cannot be a coincidence by definition. Words mean things. Find out what they mean before you use them.
Apparently I'm still on Daylight Savings Time... yet another dimension to the screwball way we keep track of time. I think we should just have two clocks everywhere. One with local time, one in 24 hour UTC... do that for a few decades, so everyone gets really used to it. I also believe that ANY schedule at all that spans more than one timezone should be posted in UTC. All network and cable TV should be posted in UTC (or at least include it in the list of timezones they do post) Radio should do I too. They can make the clock on the sign at the bank flash local time and then also UTC -- just like they do for the temperature in Fahrenheit and Celsius. There is no reason to just switch, but why not do both. It's the best we could do for the metric switch in the US. And since we know no one wants to change, they don't have to, but it makes people AWARE there is a difference.
You get up at 10 AM and go to bet at 3 AM? What line of work are you in? Is that Second Shift or something? Sure you get up in the morning BARELY!
Actually, in all seriousness, it is *quite* a co-incidence that the Earth rotates almost exactly 364.75 times an orbit, isn't it? There are 365.24218967 days in a (Tropical) year. Unless you meant 365.256363051 days in a sidereal year. Or did you mean 365.259635864 Days in an anomalistic year? Perhaps 346.620075883 days in a Draconian (Lunar) year? Regardless I don't know where you got the 3/4ths of a day, since it's just wrong. If you were right we'd be skipping days on leap years, and doing it more often.
Yes, you are such a shining example, aren't you. :P
Gotcha
Some of the smartest people I know are dumb.
Now that you laughed, read it again and THINK about what I just said If you don't get it, you're one of them.
Some people have no sense of humor at all. :)
Yup. They're called blue-staters.
Ya got that right! Good humor is politically incorrect as it is all insensitive to someone, some animal or something.
And most of those people figure out real quick they should go to Walgreens and pick up a pair of reading glasses for $5-$15 to solve that problem.
But they're mostly leftists...
The problem is stereotypes don't really work, particularly hen you use enough they could cover anyone.
That would really depend. First, what types of restrictions are we talking about? Is the license per computer (device) or per person / family?
Will I get to watch it again and again, or will I at some point need to purchase approval to view the content again?
Will it install a rootkit on my computer?!?!
If it is per device, what happens should I want to move (not copy) the content to another device?
The biggest problem here is TRUST, and I DO NOT TRUST THEM!
There are many more questions this bring up. At this point I'm ready to give up on the members of the Motion Picture Assholiation of America and the Recording Industry Assholiation of America. Time and time again they have chosen to disregard common sense and implement an attack on their own consumer base in an effort to not just prolong a failing business model, but to try to make a business model that is completely abhorrent to a free market.
If the member companies of the motion picture industry would really like to mend some fences, they should consider completely dissolving the MPAA. Maybe then I would no longer look at them as a really bad joke.
A social security number is NOT an identification number, it is for a social security account. Unless they need to report information to the IRS, they have no need or right to a social security number.
YES it is possible to go through life not giving out your Social Security number. There are very few places that really require it... Oh sure they say they do, but yelling and stomping my feet on the ground has indeed helped me find out how many places WANT a SSN ---but if youscream loudly enough will soon back down.
Are you so sure of this?
There are many who are now arguing the sun is indeed getting brighter.
Why is it always OUR responsibility to help all these people ?
Why can't these people do things on their own?
It is their problem, they caused it and they get to live with it.
Corporate entities in states that control corporations are countries.
In countries where the state controls the phone company, the phone company's policy is the state's policy.
As an American I am proud to say I'm glad I don't have to talk to France, Germany, Egypt and Saudi Arabia. If they are so much holier than us, fine. Let them go. It's going to be more of a burden to them than it will be to us and the rest of the world. The world is changing, you can either change with it or fade in to obscurity.
Actually I am aware of all that. But I sure as hell remember NASA telling us that they could not do that.... that's all I'm saying.
Yes. But do the sanitizers that remove the offensive parts know that?
What happened? I remember when we were told that aiming Hubble at the Moon or the Earth would destroy it's sensitive instruments.
No, I don't
Just because the Moon is far enough away not to be torn apart doesn't mean that it has little effect on Earth. It moves the oceans around. It raises and lowers the crust. It may even churn the core. You don't think the center of gravity of the Earth-Moon System moving around inside the Earth's mantel doesn't do much?
We don't need to be so close together to cause objects on the surface of planet to fly off due to tidal forces, Just enough to mix up the fluid parts. The oceans move due to tidal forces, why can't the liquid parts of the interior? -this is what they say is going on in Titan, Io and Europa. I don't see any of them flying apart.
Is it possible that the conditions here on Earth are caused specifically by the Moon? I mean tidal forces from our Moon ought to have something to do with why our core remains liquid, and why we have a magnetic dynamo. Is it possible that perhaps Mars at one time had a larger satellite it has since lost? Perhaps it is not a coincidence the only other places we think we have _seen_ volcanic activity also happen to be places where there are high tidal forces (like Io and Titan). -Understandable we do have evidence of past volcanic activity on both Mars and Venus and they do not have large moons {?anymore?}, but it does lead me to speculate. How much of that volcanism is due to cooling since creation and Atomic decay... how much could have been due to the constant churning of tidal forces? ---What would happen to Mars if it had a larger satellite? If it did and the insides melted and gasses were produced, what would happen to the Martian atmosphere? -Could Mars again have a magnetic field? (it's always fun to speculate).
Could it be possible to terraform Mars by giving it a sufficiently large satellite?
Why Yes I do.
Leonardo's Dream MachinesThe world's leading experts boldly attempt to build, for the first time ever, two of Leonardo da Vinci's machines to the exact specifications that he designed 500 years ago. The first is a giant crossbow, with arms nearly 70 feet across, and the second is a glider that predated flight by 400 years. This two-part special reveals whether the inventor's ideas were flights of fancy or revolutionary designs hundreds of years ahead of their time.
It is presented in 2 parts which -atleast in my area were aired one right after the other. --- It should be on next on Wednesday October 19th In my area anyway
And we all know how much PBS likes money... for $29.99 you can buy it from their website. Will not be released until 11/15/2005. They are offering 20% off too.
You don't even need to know what a parabola is to make this work. It just will. The understanding of a parabola is only needed if you try to set the mirrors up ahead of time.
That being said Arcimedes of Syracuse did indeed know plenty about a parabola. One of his works was the Quadrature of the Parabola.