that sorta works when you have a fixed frequency monitor signal, i'd imagine.
however, in today's monitors, each resolution has a different monitor frequency... switching that several times per screen refresh would probably blow something in your display.
AFAIK, echelon is rumored (perhaps verified) to use keyword recognition (most likely very similar to baynesian spam filtering), on voice traffic, as a first-level filter.
Thus, if you start talking about aluminum rods and yellow cake, your comm will be flagged for more thorough analysis, perhaps even reaching the attention of a human.
The US and allies seem pretty happy with the results. I'd imagine that if you cut out the error inherent in analysing voice traffic (garbled, mis-recognized), results would become even better.
Unless you encrypt the message using java script (or other turing complete language) in the browser (and also solve the problem of how to verify that the java script doesn't have a backdoor), encrypted web mail is pointless.
I dunno. I downloaded E 16 recently, found a nice minimal theme (orange something or other) that (and this is a deal breaker for most themes) has a clear difference between focussed and unfocussed windows.
It's rock stable, and with 30mins customization, is as good as sawfish was, back in the day. Sawfish broke for me ~ RH 9.0, and I never got around to fixing it. The secret was finding the option to get rid of the multiple desktop slider bar.
Interpreters can be smarter than the raw hardware. Slower in the straight line, perhaps, but overtake you in the corners. See PyPy, HP's dynamo, Sun's HotSpot, and Ungar's self.
Curious what 1) sort of death and 2) what timeframe:
1) catastrophic failure that took out the whole controller, or just frequent errors?
2) Minutes, days, weeks?
I have four identical drives in raid 5: I'm willing to turn off the machine until replacements come, but will need them to be alive long enough to rebuild.
I seem to recall ntp docs pointing out that the software clock (ie increment time counter by 0.0x secods every tick) is order of magnitudes more accurate than the cheapo motherboard rtc. IIRC, the RTC loses several seconds per year.
ok, do you know how hard it is to fall into the sun?
consider that the earth travels 18*pi lightseconds / year along its orbit, that is HELL of a lot of tangential velocity you need to kill before you can fly directly into the sun.
else you just narrowly miss, and get a wildly eliptic orbit that will be slingshotted by mercury or venus in a few years.
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But how many viewers noticed that he a) dodged the question b) made a pretty controversial statement too? That's disingenuous.
No, it's friggin brilliant. Machiavellian, almost.
I can't believe bush did it on purpose, for that very reason.
yes, it is generally accepted that echelon has one of its early layers of screening a simple keyword recognition system; mentioning anthrax on a cell phone will likely get you analyzed by more advanced (and hence more computationally expensive) systems.
Eventually, the output of the system is likely screened by a room full of analysts before being compiled into briefs for the higher-ups.
Now, it is obvious that you can't afford to throw away any of the intercepts -- tomorrow the NSA might find connections between osama and kerry, and would then want to reanalyze all of kerry's past calls -- so the data volumes are ginormous.
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You're thinking of Garcia's (?) Circuit Cellar, from non-sucky BYTE ?
Those articles were the best part of an excellent magazine.
that sorta works when you have a fixed frequency monitor signal, i'd imagine.
however, in today's monitors, each resolution has a different monitor frequency... switching that several times per screen refresh would probably blow something in your display.
I notice Lizardtech have no example images on their website. Confidence inspiring it is not.
please do explain so that I too may use it correctly.
How is 6 Mbit/s of bandwidth incorrect?
AFAIK, echelon is rumored (perhaps verified) to use keyword recognition (most likely very similar to baynesian spam filtering), on voice traffic, as a first-level filter.
Thus, if you start talking about aluminum rods and yellow cake, your comm will be flagged for more thorough analysis, perhaps even reaching the attention of a human.
The US and allies seem pretty happy with the results. I'd imagine that if you cut out the error inherent in analysing voice traffic (garbled, mis-recognized), results would become even better.
Where does non-heavy hydrogen fusion get the neutrons from?
Would it be possible to fuse hydrogen 1 in a neutron-rich environment?
Perhaps this is what cold fusion does?
Unless you encrypt the message using java script (or other turing complete language) in the browser (and also solve the problem of how to verify that the java script doesn't have a backdoor), encrypted web mail is pointless.
I dunno. I downloaded E 16 recently, found a nice minimal theme (orange something or other) that (and this is a deal breaker for most themes) has a clear difference between focussed and unfocussed windows.
It's rock stable, and with 30mins customization, is as good as sawfish was, back in the day. Sawfish broke for me ~ RH 9.0, and I never got around to fixing it. The secret was finding the option to get rid of the multiple desktop slider bar.
well, yes.
That's the point, isn't it?
Interpreters can be smarter than the raw hardware. Slower in the straight line, perhaps, but overtake you in the corners. See PyPy, HP's dynamo, Sun's HotSpot, and Ungar's self.
well...
That particular expression has always bugged me. What you mean (and what the python compiler seems special cased to do) is:
not (a is b)
where 'is' is pointer comparison in python. However, the way it SHOULD be parsed, in a pedantic reading is
a is (not b)
where 'not b' -> None, for any not false b,
or -> 1 when b is false
(false is a special concept in python: empty lists, empty strings, 0, None are all false)
so 'a is (not b)' -> true iff a is None and b is not false, or when a is 1 and b is false.
HP's dynamo.
I'm suprised that JREs don't ship with class libraries precompiled into native libraries.
I'm curious how much performance could be gained from a highly optimized precompiled class library.
I just bought one, thanks to your tip. Precisely what I was looking for! (zipzoomfly was cheapest I could find, if you include shipping)
network block device.. linux only tho
Curious what 1) sort of death and 2) what timeframe:
1) catastrophic failure that took out the whole controller, or just frequent errors?
2) Minutes, days, weeks?
I have four identical drives in raid 5: I'm willing to turn off the machine until replacements come, but will need them to be alive long enough to rebuild.
I seem to recall ntp docs pointing out that the software clock (ie increment time counter by 0.0x secods every tick) is order of magnitudes more accurate than the cheapo motherboard rtc. IIRC, the RTC loses several seconds per year.
The cool thing about these devices is that you can zoom the display by changing the depth of your eye's focus.
alas, the idiom is for len to be used like so:
len(foo)
not
foo.len()
you can of course implement the latter if you wish, but then you can't pass objects of your class to methods expecting a list.
things with __ in the name have special syntax shortcuts.
len(foo) -> foo.__len__()
a = foo[bar] -> a = foo.__gettitem__(bar)
a = foo.bar -> a = foo.__getattr__('bar')
Foo() calls Foo.__init__(new Foo object)
The __ methods allow you to override how an object behaves; the same object can be a method, a dictionary, and have instance variables.
I dunno. It's not like you can just be hanging out in orbit around the earth and drop a rock: it'd stay in orbit around the earth.
... which is .... 475 m/s.
So say you're floating opposite the earth in its orbit. Now if you drop the rock it'll just orbit the sun.
In order for it to actually "fall", you have to give it a negative push of 16pi lightseconds / year
oh. wait: we're not 8 light seconds away from the sun, but 8.3 light minutes (500 ls)
That gives you an orbital velocity of 30000 m/s. That's not insignificant.
For example, the space shuttle does not have enough fuel to break earth orbit, much less slow down enough to fall into the sun.
ok,
do you know how hard it is to fall into the sun?
consider that the earth travels 18*pi lightseconds / year along its orbit, that is HELL of a lot of tangential velocity you need to kill before you can fly directly into the sun.
else you just narrowly miss, and get a wildly eliptic orbit that will be slingshotted by mercury or venus in a few years.
But how many viewers noticed that he a) dodged the question b) made a pretty controversial statement too? That's disingenuous.
No, it's friggin brilliant. Machiavellian, almost.
I can't believe bush did it on purpose, for that very reason.
Steve never met a camera he didn't like.
The intro's are just rehashes of the press releases, and all the test shots are done in bright light, out doors.
For a camera to suck under those conditions, it'd have to ship from the factory with grease on the lens.
yes, it is generally accepted that echelon has one of its early layers of screening a simple keyword recognition system; mentioning anthrax on a cell phone will likely get you analyzed by more advanced (and hence more computationally expensive) systems.
Eventually, the output of the system is likely screened by a room full of analysts before being compiled into briefs for the higher-ups.
Now, it is obvious that you can't afford to throw away any of the intercepts -- tomorrow the NSA might find connections between osama and kerry, and would then want to reanalyze all of kerry's past calls -- so the data volumes are ginormous.
'cause looks are the reason we upgrade distros