I upgraded from an early 80's Fuji to a Marin Mill Valley last fall. After riding nearly 1000 miles on it, I'm still loving it. It's so much ligher and faster, and with its standard wheel size I can put kevlar weave tires on it, which keeps me from getting flats every 2 weeks or so due to all the broken glass on the streets. While it's not as light as carbon fiber, I won't be horribly upset if it gets stolen and I don't have to worry about the frame snapping when it's 5F outside...
I keep getting the fake US Bank and Citibank emails where they want your login info. I got a bit annoyed that I got several of them a day, so I decided to see if I could do anything about it. I of course forward the email to everyone who should be interested, such as the abuse contacts at whatever bank they come from, the (almost always) chinese isp which hosts them, and the ftc. I've also messed with a few of them to see if their scripts contain errors. I just modify their forms to have file inputs, and then upload an ISO image. At some point along the upload PHP/asp/etc dies, revealing more information about what tools they're using. I've tried the run of the mill form attacks (submitting quotes and text in number fields, using id numbers of -1, altering serialized objects passed through hidden fields) against a few without much luck. I can get most of the scripts to generate errors that would not happen if they had been coded properly, but I haven't had luck with them revealing any more info. The file submits make it easy to use up bandwidth without much effort. Not enough bandwidth to harm anything, but enough that an admin should notice the traffic spike.
Rule #2: Just answer a firm NO. Never explain why you don't want something, it just gives them grounds to argue with you. Refuse to explain yourself if they ask. Any arguments you say will lead to a sales pitch they've been trained to argue against. It may seem impolite, but it's really easier that way.
Reminds me of "average" people voting regarding nuclear power...
Yes. Decisions should only be made by the intelligentsia, rather than those whom the decisions will affect. TMI was a perfectly safe reactor, designed by geniuses.
The IP ruling will affect the public, so the legal system is a great place to fight it out. It should have been made with more experts testifying, however.
One problem with this is that votes can be traced by sequence on the receipt. One variation on this idea would be to add a second receipt printer and (pseudo ) randomly decide which printer the vote goes to. That way, beyond the first few votes everything would be anonymous, yet verifiable. Each result print would also have to make an audible noise so the voting machine software couldn't slip in extra votes when nobody is at the machine.
With some modifications, electronic voting could be more secure than paper ballots.
Who the hell goes hiking or exploring and only walks a mile? A mile is about 22 minutes of slow walking. I don't get the point of it unless you get enough people to form a grid.
UMN Mapserver is free, can use nationalatlas.gov
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UMN Mapserver works fairly well to display map files from nationalatlas.gov (water features, county boundaries, state boundaries, a lot else). I have used this to display points on state and county maps. I use data from the Tiger 2002 files to get long/late coordinates from an address in order to plot onto the map. The tiger files aren't 100% useful for mailing addresses, as they don't contain all streets and have no information about R.R. postal addresses. As far as understanding the tiger files goes, there are some help documents which explain what all the files are as well as their data formats.
For controlling a computer via bluetooth, there is Bemused
Which works pretty well for playing mp3s, and can do other things which I haven't tested.
There have been a lot of other attempts to read data in with camera phones.
http://semacode.org/ allows you to open up web links from physical items.
You could also enable magic_quotes in your php.ini. However, if you\'re too dumb to know the basics of sql, chances are your program won\'t work quite right.
Either less channels will be available under the a la carte model, or the price per channel will be increased. Cable companies or companies creating content will need to take in the same amount of revenue, so if less people buy it they will just have to charge more per person or go out of business. In the long run this will either lead to higher per channel prices or less channels. You could also just cancel your cable entirely and do more useful things with your time than watch TV.
I wrote proof of concept code for this a few years ago. Mine is implemented as modified network sniffer code (with promisc disabled), so it doesn't require any weird firewall configs. I was considering some other things which could be useful, such as transmitting data via a fake network scan.
Your body decreases blood flow to your extremities when the core temperature drops. If that thinsulate was truly keeping you warm enough, your hands wouldn't experience decreased blood flow and get cold.
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PHP changes so often that it's a bad idea to own books on it. Best practices change from week to week. I would be happy if the zend team stopped introducing undocumented application breaking parsing changes into the most minor of upgrades.
Frequent language changes are one of the biggest flaws of PHP.
Just alter the mail RFC so that all e-mail must be at least 1 megabyte. Then it will get really expensive for the spammers, people with open relays, or ISPs which choose to ignore spam from stolen dialup accounts.
I'm sick of seeing spam on google. I'm glad that my time is less likely to be wasted by those goddamn ebay redirect pages and "search engines" because of this.
Yes, designing an entirely new interface with new metaphors and icons for every single app is a GREAT idea.
Flash only excels at making things pretty. For everything else, there's something easier to use and faster.
Is this truly the typical scenario? Most of the nerds I know are under 180 lbs. I would have to assume that the proportion of overweight nerds is the same as in the general population.
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I upgraded from an early 80's Fuji to a Marin Mill Valley last fall. After riding nearly 1000 miles on it, I'm still loving it. It's so much ligher and faster, and with its standard wheel size I can put kevlar weave tires on it, which keeps me from getting flats every 2 weeks or so due to all the broken glass on the streets. While it's not as light as carbon fiber, I won't be horribly upset if it gets stolen and I don't have to worry about the frame snapping when it's 5F outside...
I keep getting the fake US Bank and Citibank emails where they want your login info. I got a bit annoyed that I got several of them a day, so I decided to see if I could do anything about it. I of course forward the email to everyone who should be interested, such as the abuse contacts at whatever bank they come from, the (almost always) chinese isp which hosts them, and the ftc. I've also messed with a few of them to see if their scripts contain errors. I just modify their forms to have file inputs, and then upload an ISO image. At some point along the upload PHP/asp/etc dies, revealing more information about what tools they're using. I've tried the run of the mill form attacks (submitting quotes and text in number fields, using id numbers of -1, altering serialized objects passed through hidden fields) against a few without much luck. I can get most of the scripts to generate errors that would not happen if they had been coded properly, but I haven't had luck with them revealing any more info. The file submits make it easy to use up bandwidth without much effort. Not enough bandwidth to harm anything, but enough that an admin should notice the traffic spike.
Rule #2: Just answer a firm NO. Never explain why you don't want something, it just gives them grounds to argue with you. Refuse to explain yourself if they ask. Any arguments you say will lead to a sales pitch they've been trained to argue against. It may seem impolite, but it's really easier that way.
Plasma tvs don't require $400-$1000 bulbs for every thousand hours of viewing.
Reminds me of "average" people voting regarding nuclear power... Yes. Decisions should only be made by the intelligentsia, rather than those whom the decisions will affect. TMI was a perfectly safe reactor, designed by geniuses. The IP ruling will affect the public, so the legal system is a great place to fight it out. It should have been made with more experts testifying, however.
One problem with this is that votes can be traced by sequence on the receipt. One variation on this idea would be to add a second receipt printer and (pseudo ) randomly decide which printer the vote goes to. That way, beyond the first few votes everything would be anonymous, yet verifiable. Each result print would also have to make an audible noise so the voting machine software couldn't slip in extra votes when nobody is at the machine. With some modifications, electronic voting could be more secure than paper ballots.
The Miami recount was stopped by some violent GOP brownshirts
It's unlikely that an ISP will survive if they block all porn.
There is nothing more annoying than a fruit booter taking up the full width of the lake trail. I hope these groups don't block traffic quite as much.
Having only 132 mb of memory is painful.
Who the hell goes hiking or exploring and only walks a mile? A mile is about 22 minutes of slow walking. I don't get the point of it unless you get enough people to form a grid.
UMN Mapserver works fairly well to display map files from nationalatlas.gov (water features, county boundaries, state boundaries, a lot else). I have used this to display points on state and county maps. I use data from the Tiger 2002 files to get long/late coordinates from an address in order to plot onto the map. The tiger files aren't 100% useful for mailing addresses, as they don't contain all streets and have no information about R.R. postal addresses. As far as understanding the tiger files goes, there are some help documents which explain what all the files are as well as their data formats.
For controlling a computer via bluetooth, there is Bemused Which works pretty well for playing mp3s, and can do other things which I haven't tested. There have been a lot of other attempts to read data in with camera phones. http://semacode.org/ allows you to open up web links from physical items.
I'm working on an open source bar code recognition program which functions, but is still in its alpha stages.
You could also enable magic_quotes in your php.ini. However, if you\'re too dumb to know the basics of sql, chances are your program won\'t work quite right.
Either less channels will be available under the a la carte model, or the price per channel will be increased. Cable companies or companies creating content will need to take in the same amount of revenue, so if less people buy it they will just have to charge more per person or go out of business. In the long run this will either lead to higher per channel prices or less channels. You could also just cancel your cable entirely and do more useful things with your time than watch TV.
Why not replace the entire staff with a movie projector and screen? They could save a lot more money that way.
I wrote proof of concept code for this a few years ago. Mine is implemented as modified network sniffer code (with promisc disabled), so it doesn't require any weird firewall configs. I was considering some other things which could be useful, such as transmitting data via a fake network scan.
Your body decreases blood flow to your extremities when the core temperature drops. If that thinsulate was truly keeping you warm enough, your hands wouldn't experience decreased blood flow and get cold.
PHP changes so often that it's a bad idea to own books on it. Best practices change from week to week. I would be happy if the zend team stopped introducing undocumented application breaking parsing changes into the most minor of upgrades. Frequent language changes are one of the biggest flaws of PHP.
UPS requires its employees to go through a metal detector when leaving but not entering the premises. This is to reduce theft.
Just alter the mail RFC so that all e-mail must be at least 1 megabyte. Then it will get really expensive for the spammers, people with open relays, or ISPs which choose to ignore spam from stolen dialup accounts.
Computing the entire 7.2e16 values (man crypt) should take about 52 years. Assuming Moore's law, this drops to about 7.2 years.
I'm sick of seeing spam on google. I'm glad that my time is less likely to be wasted by those goddamn ebay redirect pages and "search engines" because of this.
Yes, designing an entirely new interface with new metaphors and icons for every single app is a GREAT idea. Flash only excels at making things pretty. For everything else, there's something easier to use and faster.
Is this truly the typical scenario? Most of the nerds I know are under 180 lbs. I would have to assume that the proportion of overweight nerds is the same as in the general population.