I parallel parked in a space that was literally about 8 inches bigger than my car, without a scratch to my car or anyone else's. I was so proud, I wanted to take a picture.
Well, in this case the security they're trying to achieve is that of your system, as opposed to certain tightly controlled platforms that simply "secure" data from pirates:). Or your own copies of media that you should be able to fairly use, for that matter (but that's a different discussion entirely).
stack of floppies whose aggregate capacity was a significant fraction of my hard drive's space.
Yeah, I know what you mean. Floppies was precious! I remember my parents paying $350 for a 20MB hard drive when I was about 12. I don't know how anyone was able to put up with limitations like that -- of course, that was when your "Internet" software (Prodigy) was about 300k, and before web browsers were like 35 MB
Well, I never really called them coasters, cause I would just peel the label off the best I could and format them. At least the old AOL 2.0 disks were useful.
Maybe that's their idea: "they're not about to change anytime soon, that'll be too difficult for them; let's go ahead and jab them with this new license."
Maybe that's the case, maybe not. If so, I would imagine that can be construed as an abuse. Monopolies, while not illegal in and of themselves, do have to play with a special set of rules, and some might possibly consider it is an abuse of monopoly (it's a stretch, though).
Wow, I just realized that GM isn't General Motors, and that the April Fools' jokes are over!
But since cancer cells are (as I understand it, I'm not all that knowledgeable about this) caused by "genetic modifications" in themselves, how do we know (as someone said) that these don't have adverse effects in themselves?
However I suppose that if I did have this condition, I'd be willing to try...
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someone just has to look through the executable for strings.
For this reason, if I write in backdoors like that in a PHP script (a single admin password, for example), I don't actually store the password in a database or the script plaintext, I use an MD5 hash. Even if someone somehow manages to see it (they shouldn't anyway), it's still hard for them to guess what the password is (which they need to POST to the script).
What's the deal with all of these crazy and groundbreaking types of surgery going on in Italy? I think someone there was working on cloning, some other people did other stuff (no other good examples are coming to mind at the moment). Do they give better funding for that type of research there?
Probably the best way is to get tenure at an academic institution.
Indeed! I'm working on it myself, trying to get into a PhD program, and hopefully teach at a university somewhere. They don't really lay off people or go bankrupt, and (unless you're at a real beaureaucratic place -- such universities exist) most people are pretty progressive and not so political. They think "outside the box" (god I'm sorry for using that phrase).
For me, it'd be way more fulfilling to me personally (and I would be more useful to society) teaching someone than filling out TPS reports (which I've done). I'm not expecting to get filthy rich, but I'll live.
2600 would be all into finding out how to do it and telling the world about it, but not going ahead and actually doing it
True, I should have been more careful in not implying that 2600 will actually reward people for doing this (and if you mess with the military's dns you're on your own, fool!).
Rush Limbauh making an argument that global warming doesn't matter because when a piece of ice melts in a glass of water, the level doesn't go up;... Then someone pointed out that Antartica is actually a piece of land with ice ON TOP of it.
Antarctica is, indeed, a continent, not an ice cube. This and many other observations/debunk-ments are in Rush Limbaugh is a Big Fat Idiot, by Al Franken, a funny, funny book.
Now that contracts are masquerading as installation checkboxes
This is sort of debatable, whether or not such things are enforceable. This site has a buttload of examples (and the page is even reasonably balanced) -- there's lots of debate as to whether or not checkboxes and that kind of stuff is really legally enforceable. There's probably lots on./ too about this, but I'm too lazy/tired to look.
They don't want to rebuild the WTC exactly as it was, for philosophical/religious reasons (it's considered sacred by many people, because so many died there; building on the original footprints is a no-no), as well as practical reasons: recently (AFAIK) very tall office buildings just aren't selling a whole lot of square feet of officespace these days. Rebuilding a monument is a different story.
Quantum computing is about much more than how many cycles per second it can run (of course it doesn't hurt that it goes faster anyway). Increasing the number of operations to per second to dozens of billions is almost child's play, compared to what quantum computers can do.
I have no idea as to exactly how they work, with the "being in two states at once" deal; but allegedly, instead of a computation requiring, say, exponential (like 2^n) time on a conventional machine, it takes only polynomial (or smaller?) time, which is a HUGE win (much more so than even consistently linearly increasing numbers of flops). Essentially, ALL of the key possibilities can be done "simultaneously" and the correct result is the one that gets reported.
If I'm wrong about the exponential->polynomial thing, someone please correct me...
Wait, let's see. That "violence idea" is making me think. If it's ok for feds to draw guns on people who steal cable, then it's certainly ok to meet the laptop-stealin' crook at his/her door with a.45. Right??
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I parallel parked in a space that was literally about 8 inches bigger than my car, without a scratch to my car or anyone else's. I was so proud, I wanted to take a picture.
Well, in this case the security they're trying to achieve is that of your system, as opposed to certain tightly controlled platforms that simply "secure" data from pirates :). Or your own copies of media that you should be able to fairly use, for that matter (but that's a different discussion entirely).
Yeah, I know what you mean. Floppies was precious! I remember my parents paying $350 for a 20MB hard drive when I was about 12. I don't know how anyone was able to put up with limitations like that -- of course, that was when your "Internet" software (Prodigy) was about 300k, and before web browsers were like 35 MB
Well, I never really called them coasters, cause I would just peel the label off the best I could and format them. At least the old AOL 2.0 disks were useful.
Maybe that's the case, maybe not. If so, I would imagine that can be construed as an abuse. Monopolies, while not illegal in and of themselves, do have to play with a special set of rules, and some might possibly consider it is an abuse of monopoly (it's a stretch, though).
I agree with the peace part. But whose vision? Whose purpose?
(hopefully the US's - anyone who disagrees gets shot)
But since cancer cells are (as I understand it, I'm not all that knowledgeable about this) caused by "genetic modifications" in themselves, how do we know (as someone said) that these don't have adverse effects in themselves?
However I suppose that if I did have this condition, I'd be willing to try...
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But, I didn't pay for it. Ah, gotcha there!
(actually, it's because I'm using XP with that pirated serial number that SP1 kindly "de-activates" for you)
They can use GNU/Hurd
For this reason, if I write in backdoors like that in a PHP script (a single admin password, for example), I don't actually store the password in a database or the script plaintext, I use an MD5 hash. Even if someone somehow manages to see it (they shouldn't anyway), it's still hard for them to guess what the password is (which they need to POST to the script).
Or perhaps to make fur coats out of.
What's the deal with all of these crazy and groundbreaking types of surgery going on in Italy? I think someone there was working on cloning, some other people did other stuff (no other good examples are coming to mind at the moment). Do they give better funding for that type of research there?
Indeed! I'm working on it myself, trying to get into a PhD program, and hopefully teach at a university somewhere. They don't really lay off people or go bankrupt, and (unless you're at a real beaureaucratic place -- such universities exist) most people are pretty progressive and not so political. They think "outside the box" (god I'm sorry for using that phrase).
For me, it'd be way more fulfilling to me personally (and I would be more useful to society) teaching someone than filling out TPS reports (which I've done). I'm not expecting to get filthy rich, but I'll live.
2600 would be all into finding out how to do it and telling the world about it, but not going ahead and actually doing it True, I should have been more careful in not implying that 2600 will actually reward people for doing this (and if you mess with the military's dns you're on your own, fool!).
Doesn't (didn't) 2600 have a contest like this? The first person to manage to get a .mil domain gets a free subscription, or something like that?
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Antarctica is, indeed, a continent, not an ice cube. This and many other observations/debunk-ments are in Rush Limbaugh is a Big Fat Idiot, by Al Franken, a funny, funny book.
I think that Microsoft did develop NT themselves, but with much help from some of the same guy that did VMS (basic googleing turned up this.
This is sort of debatable, whether or not such things are enforceable. This site has a buttload of examples (and the page is even reasonably balanced) -- there's lots of debate as to whether or not checkboxes and that kind of stuff is really legally enforceable. There's probably lots on ./ too about this, but I'm too lazy/tired to look.
They don't want to rebuild the WTC exactly as it was, for philosophical/religious reasons (it's considered sacred by many people, because so many died there; building on the original footprints is a no-no), as well as practical reasons: recently (AFAIK) very tall office buildings just aren't selling a whole lot of square feet of officespace these days. Rebuilding a monument is a different story.
I have no idea as to exactly how they work, with the "being in two states at once" deal; but allegedly, instead of a computation requiring, say, exponential (like 2^n) time on a conventional machine, it takes only polynomial (or smaller?) time, which is a HUGE win (much more so than even consistently linearly increasing numbers of flops). Essentially, ALL of the key possibilities can be done "simultaneously" and the correct result is the one that gets reported.
If I'm wrong about the exponential->polynomial thing, someone please correct me...
Read this.
Wait, let's see. That "violence idea" is making me think. If it's ok for feds to draw guns on people who steal cable, then it's certainly ok to meet the laptop-stealin' crook at his/her door with a .45. Right??