ritualistic cannibalism in Christianity consists of eating bread and drinking wine.
Yep, and wars were fought over the question whether this bread and wine is really Jesuses body or not. Comparing it to a miner saying "I sweated blood..." trivializes it. I mean, obviously it's not cannibalism since it's obviously not Jesuses body, but the Catholic church says it is and takes this stuff really seriously.
The technology to do this is (apparently) called transcranial magnetic stimulation. And even though it looks really freaky in the video with the twitching and everything, it appears to be safe as long as you don't suffer from epileps; in fact it's routinely done for therapeutic and diagnostic purposes.
I guess you still shouldn't try it at home, though.
Passive RFID chips can do some computation themselves, and many can do crypto, but it's extremely limited. For instance, the ubiquitous Mifare chips used for opening doors and even payment systems use proprietary crypto - and it's very broken, anybody with very simple tools can listen in and copy the code.
Yes but then again Bruce Schneier's password has so much entropy, that gzipping it results in a stream sixty four times as long. And yet he can type it with a single roundhouse kick to the keyboard.
Somehow I don't see the Chinese capturing American or European astronauts. And I don't think terrorists are a big danger, either, though it would make a great movie.
Wow. You are deluded. Yeep, the UN is the enemy of the human rights activist! Boggles the mind. I wrote up three different versions of a reply but there's no point, you are too far gone to talk to via the internet.
It's shit like this that's wrong with the absurd anti-terror legislation. Next they'll be coming for Greenpeace activists enacting "passive violence" by barring entrance to a factory or sitting in front of trains... Maybe add national security to the deal, after all, the blocked factory or train might be vital to the war effort or something. Oh and of course hackers are the worst of all, just look at what they did in Die Hard 4!
So why would anybody be so dumb to announce the crime - just kill whoever you want to kill without "serving in advance", and if - if - you get caught, you just "serve after the fact". Or does everybody who doesn't serve in advance get killed once caught or some other ridiculous thing? ("Serve in advance and save 50% on all punishments!") Sorry, but the idea isn't very good.
What's wrong with having something around that only a few thousand people are interested in?
Quoting (not necessarily agreeing with all of) the Deletionism page:
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It's not easily soluble in water. Try washing your hands with vegetable oil or something... That's also why drinking water does nothing to alleviate the burning sensation - and why drinking milk does help a bit!
Though one thing I still cannot understand in both Europe and Japan is why are plane tickets more often than not cheaper than train tickets?
Not sure if this is true for anywhere else, but here in Germany fuel and energy is heavily taxed, which factors into the train ticket prices. Airplanes, however, are excempt. We pay about EUR 0.60 per liter of gas, the airlines pay EUR 0.00 per liter of kerosene. Compared to driving in a car, railway travel is somewhat competitive.
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Are you really willing to sit there and tell me that you would rather have your hands butchered than give up your text-based password?
No, of course not. I'd give up the password in an instant. That's the point! There better be a text-based alternate login.
ritualistic cannibalism in Christianity consists of eating bread and drinking wine.
Yep, and wars were fought over the question whether this bread and wine is really Jesuses body or not. Comparing it to a miner saying "I sweated blood..." trivializes it. I mean, obviously it's not cannibalism since it's obviously not Jesuses body, but the Catholic church says it is and takes this stuff really seriously.
The technology to do this is (apparently) called transcranial magnetic stimulation. And even though it looks really freaky in the video with the twitching and everything, it appears to be safe as long as you don't suffer from epileps; in fact it's routinely done for therapeutic and diagnostic purposes.
I guess you still shouldn't try it at home, though.
Way to go, justifying genocide!
Err. 24-bit displays aren't nearly as rare as you think. I'm sure they were, though, 10 years ago when that SGI display was still revolutionary...
http://xkcd.com/243/
Passive RFID chips can do some computation themselves, and many can do crypto, but it's extremely limited. For instance, the ubiquitous Mifare chips used for opening doors and even payment systems use proprietary crypto - and it's very broken, anybody with very simple tools can listen in and copy the code.
Do document possible marks of a struggle, apparently. One of the official reasons for the police to humiliate people, I guess.
Even better: change her browser's homepage. *cackles*
That was pretty cool. Thanks for the link.
You rock. That is all.
Yes but then again Bruce Schneier's password has so much entropy, that gzipping it results in a stream sixty four times as long. And yet he can type it with a single roundhouse kick to the keyboard.
Somehow I don't see the Chinese capturing American or European astronauts. And I don't think terrorists are a big danger, either, though it would make a great movie.
So, are you going to contradict yourself and disagree with me?
Nope!
Wow. You are deluded. Yeep, the UN is the enemy of the human rights activist! Boggles the mind. I wrote up three different versions of a reply but there's no point, you are too far gone to talk to via the internet.
It's shit like this that's wrong with the absurd anti-terror legislation. Next they'll be coming for Greenpeace activists enacting "passive violence" by barring entrance to a factory or sitting in front of trains... Maybe add national security to the deal, after all, the blocked factory or train might be vital to the war effort or something. Oh and of course hackers are the worst of all, just look at what they did in Die Hard 4!
Yep, but those aren't HD. They are barely D. ;) Still nice.
Bikes have no cargo capacity, which means they're no good for getting groceries or hauling laundry.
I find that using a 25 to 45 litre backpack greatly increases the cargo capacity.
Well that was unexpectedly funny. Thank you very much. Choosing a dog, indeed.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1000BASE-T#1000BASE-T
So why would anybody be so dumb to announce the crime - just kill whoever you want to kill without "serving in advance", and if - if - you get caught, you just "serve after the fact". Or does everybody who doesn't serve in advance get killed once caught or some other ridiculous thing? ("Serve in advance and save 50% on all punishments!") Sorry, but the idea isn't very good.
Quoting (not necessarily agreeing with all of) the Deletionism page:
It's not easily soluble in water. Try washing your hands with vegetable oil or something... That's also why drinking water does nothing to alleviate the burning sensation - and why drinking milk does help a bit!
Though one thing I still cannot understand in both Europe and Japan is why are plane tickets more often than not cheaper than train tickets?
Not sure if this is true for anywhere else, but here in Germany fuel and energy is heavily taxed, which factors into the train ticket prices. Airplanes, however, are excempt. We pay about EUR 0.60 per liter of gas, the airlines pay EUR 0.00 per liter of kerosene. Compared to driving in a car, railway travel is somewhat competitive.
That's not the only reason, but it's one reason.
Five 8-bit jpegs combine to a nice 16 bpp HDR image.