You are incorrect. You can make the phone connect when it is on hook, at least you could in the Netherlands (and I do not believe our phones are that different from the ones abroad). This was al over the news (xx years ago). It was Rob Gonggrijp that brought it into the media (including live demonstrations), the same guy that now is making all the fuzz about the Dutch voting machines.
And, on another note, he is also involved in the only really secure AND really open source mobile handset, the CryptoPhone.
I'm sorry for not being an enthusiast for the 'theme' junk that in my opinion detracts from the lego concept entirely, but I didn't see 'plain lego bricks' on the list.
If you would watch kids play with the stuff, you would not not call it 'theme' junk. It is surprising how fast the themes get disassembled and reconstructured to match the kids own fantasy. My daughter got a lot of Belville stuff, and the girly pinkish content does make her like all those kits instantaneously. So, she builds it once according to the box, and then the transformations begin: phones turn into showers, sleds into aeroplanes, etc. Even if it is themed, it is still Lego, and those knobs and holes keep calling 'build! build! build!'
I grew up building stuff with legos, and didn't need anything but regular bricks to do so with.
Buy one of the designer sets, and curse fate for being young then and old now. I would have loved 3x1 blocks, hinges, a choice of wheels, right angle connections, etc.
And people who devote a disproportionate amount of their time just to stay on top of such common denominator topics. E.g., computers. There are plenty of people whose only real interest in computers and in following the prowess of a give OS, whether they consciously realize it or not, is only really to seem to belong to the group of Tom, Dick and Harry who seem interested in that OS. Bonus points if it's just groupthink, and deep down inside, Tom, Dick and Harry aren't in it for any other reason either.
Seems like a third-hand account of the Greenpeace campaign I love my Mac. I just wish it came green.
I like the fact that Greenpeace ripped of all the Apple style elements for this campaign, calaculating that Apple would not dare to sue them over this - would be more much attention to a campaign Apple would like to ignore.
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As is your skin. All of it. You are fucking covered in the little guys, and it's rarely a problem.
And don't forget your intestines, plenty off the little buggers inside you too. In fact [too lazy to search for a link] you carry more cells around that are not part of your body than cells that are. Fortunately your own cells are a lot bigger.
One of the great features of the original MacOS was that it didn't have "installation". You put an application somewhere, the Finder found it, and you could launch it. If you wanted to delete it, you deleted it, and it disappeared.
Have you ever installed one of the following (and these are the first three that spring to mind)?
Quark Xpress
Microsoft Office
MacLink
Extensions, libraries, fonts, helper programms all over the place
And don't tell me you forgot the torture that was Extension Manager already.
Would it be nice if all the iApps had a similar look? Yes. Is it more important that they all have a similar "feel"? Yes.
OK, please follow me and close the main window by clicking the red button in:
iTunes - nothing remarkable happens, it is just the window that vanishes
iDVD - closes the current project, goes to opening screen
iChat - nothing remarkable happens, it is just the window that vanishes
iDVD - closes the current project, goes to opening screen
iPhoto - quits application
Three types of behaviour in five applications on a principal part of the interface. I wish Apple shared your beliefs.
The cover view is made crappy by not grouping compilations - hence the same album art repeated for different artists.
That's a matter of ticking the tick box in preferences.
I _do_ hope the gapless playback works ad advertised - the old workaround, setting the songs to overflow for 0 seconds won't work anymore since the minimum overflow time has been set at 1 second.
Well, the news about encryption hasn't reached the Dutch military yet. They just managed to lose their THIRD unencrypted memory stick this year - this time in Afghanistan:
Military 'forgets' another memory stick The Dutch has yet again lost a data storage device, this time at the military base in the Afghan province of Uruzgan. The commander reported a device was missing but no details have been released about the information it contained. Last month military chiefs advised their personnel not to use memory sticks until a secure encryption technique is available. Military and police personnel have lost several memory sticks with sensitive information in the last year.
Just don't ever allow your kids to shred anything, even once. If you do, you may find yourself re-filling your taxes, one piece of sellotape at a time.
Or have a bunch of fanatic Iranian students do it for you. I have a copy of Documents From the US Espionage Den, volume 5[6 MB PDF] that is a quite good illustration of why US embassies have been incinerating and not shredding their paper waste since 1979.
Yes, this is something I thought about since Bayesian filtering started. As a spammer you should use real content to thwart the filters, not some random words. There is a whole load of email (mailing lists) and newsgroups to be analyzed, a lot of real signatures that can be added.
If you use the right groups as a seed, you spam will reach that particular user base. Bicyclists in your case, linux lovers, and it is not hard to think about other large users groups that you could target: gardeners, young parents, file swappers, pop music fans, etc. Surely all bigger than the group of people that regularly receives Huckleberry Finn in an e-mail.
I just ran it through LAME version 3.97 (beta 2, Jan 20 2006).
Lowest bitrate track is 32 kbps, highest bitrate track 160 kbps (but there's an incredible amount of stereo switching on the last one).
64 out of 99 tracks are less than 100 kbps. Imagine how many copies of this I can place on my MP3 player!
And on the gapless playback: none of it on my Samsung YEPP. Firmware upgradeable yes, but what good is that when they do not release new firmware? iTunes on MacOSX only plays back gapless-like when you tell it to overflow songs for 0 seconds. Which it manages to screw up completely with longer tracks (might be 10 or 20 seconds overlap between podcasts).
Exchanging data in the way mentioned above is a way that an interested third party is unable to work out who's sending, and who is receiving the message - if lots of people can receive it then it becomes harder to tell out of those who can receive it, who is able to read it, or make anything of it
But you have to make sure that your receiving mode is exactly the same as Joe Average's. A Dutch extertionist once used a classified ads site (the biggest list of second hand cars in the Netherlands) to have his funds transferred to him, by having bank account details embedded in the picture of one of the cars (with steganography). Sounds perfect.
However, the guy accessed the page through an American anonymiser (surfola.com) instead of through a normal Dutch ISP (as all the other page viewers did). Dutch police contacted the FBI, FBI contacted surfola, surfola gave FBI the guy's CC details, Dutch police arrested the guy. Ten years jail sentence for being too paranoid.
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You are incorrect. You can make the phone connect when it is on hook, at least you could in the Netherlands (and I do not believe our phones are that different from the ones abroad). This was al over the news (xx years ago). It was Rob Gonggrijp that brought it into the media (including live demonstrations), the same guy that now is making all the fuzz about the Dutch voting machines.
And, on another note, he is also involved in the only really secure AND really open source mobile handset, the CryptoPhone.
Old but still funny: Microsoft re-designs the iPod packaging.
...unless you are the lunch.
If you would watch kids play with the stuff, you would not not call it 'theme' junk. It is surprising how fast the themes get disassembled and reconstructured to match the kids own fantasy. My daughter got a lot of Belville stuff, and the girly pinkish content does make her like all those kits instantaneously. So, she builds it once according to the box, and then the transformations begin: phones turn into showers, sleds into aeroplanes, etc. Even if it is themed, it is still Lego, and those knobs and holes keep calling 'build! build! build!'
Buy one of the designer sets, and curse fate for being young then and old now. I would have loved 3x1 blocks, hinges, a choice of wheels, right angle connections, etc.
In the Netherlands the NBIP just released the numbers of government ordered Internet-taps for January till September this year:
Number of taps: 31
Cost per tap: EUR 9.500 (US$ 11.900)
Compensation per tap: EUR 13 (US$ 16)
How much was that SAN again?
Really though, the era of sharing every scrap of your daily existance on the Intertubes is drawing to a close.
Well, you can file that next to "I think there is a world market for maybe five computers." and "640K ought to be enough for anybody."
And people who devote a disproportionate amount of their time just to stay on top of such common denominator topics. E.g., computers. There are plenty of people whose only real interest in computers and in following the prowess of a give OS, whether they consciously realize it or not, is only really to seem to belong to the group of Tom, Dick and Harry who seem interested in that OS. Bonus points if it's just groupthink, and deep down inside, Tom, Dick and Harry aren't in it for any other reason either.
Seems like a third-hand account of the Greenpeace campaign I love my Mac. I just wish it came green. I like the fact that Greenpeace ripped of all the Apple style elements for this campaign, calaculating that Apple would not dare to sue them over this - would be more much attention to a campaign Apple would like to ignore.
As is your skin. All of it. You are fucking covered in the little guys, and it's rarely a problem.
And don't forget your intestines, plenty off the little buggers inside you too. In fact [too lazy to search for a link] you carry more cells around that are not part of your body than cells that are. Fortunately your own cells are a lot bigger.
One of the great features of the original MacOS was that it didn't have "installation". You put an application somewhere, the Finder found it, and you could launch it. If you wanted to delete it, you deleted it, and it disappeared.
Have you ever installed one of the following (and these are the first three that spring to mind)?
Quark Xpress
Microsoft Office
MacLink
Extensions, libraries, fonts, helper programms all over the place
And don't tell me you forgot the torture that was Extension Manager already.
Would it be nice if all the iApps had a similar look? Yes. Is it more important that they all have a similar "feel"? Yes.
OK, please follow me and close the main window by clicking the red button in:
iTunes - nothing remarkable happens, it is just the window that vanishes
iDVD - closes the current project, goes to opening screen
iChat - nothing remarkable happens, it is just the window that vanishes
iDVD - closes the current project, goes to opening screen
iPhoto - quits application
Three types of behaviour in five applications on a principal part of the interface. I wish Apple shared your beliefs.
The cover view is made crappy by not grouping compilations - hence the same album art repeated for different artists.
That's a matter of ticking the tick box in preferences.
I _do_ hope the gapless playback works ad advertised - the old workaround, setting the songs to overflow for 0 seconds won't work anymore since the minimum overflow time has been set at 1 second.
You must be new here.
Jokes are supposed to be original.
Basically your are describing 1998 technology, the Swiss CityCart. Which was in itself a progression of a Dutch experiment in 1972, the Witkar.
Be warned: both projects were ended quite quickly. There are a lot of technological, social en political pitfalls on the way.
Well, the news about encryption hasn't reached the Dutch military yet. They just managed to lose their THIRD unencrypted memory stick this year - this time in Afghanistan:
Military 'forgets' another memory stick
The Dutch has yet again lost a data storage device, this time at the military base in the Afghan province of Uruzgan. The commander reported a device was missing but no details have been released about the information it contained. Last month military chiefs advised their personnel not to use memory sticks until a secure encryption technique is available. Military and police personnel have lost several memory sticks with sensitive information in the last year.
For an article about the previous two sticks: Officer lost memory stick with details of Afghan mission
Could somebody pleas visit those army barracks with a very big clue stick ?
Just don't ever allow your kids to shred anything, even once. If you do, you may find yourself re-filling your taxes, one piece of sellotape at a time.
Or have a bunch of fanatic Iranian students do it for you. I have a copy of Documents From the US Espionage Den, volume 5 [6 MB PDF] that is a quite good illustration of why US embassies have been incinerating and not shredding their paper waste since 1979.
OK, who wants to buy shares in my chain of airport barber shops?
A modified watch could give out enough juice to do the deed.
You mean like a Casio digital watch? That is a very suspicious thing to wear these days, and can easily earn you a one way ticket to Guantanamo bay.
Yes, this is something I thought about since Bayesian filtering started. As a spammer you should use real content to thwart the filters, not some random words. There is a whole load of email (mailing lists) and newsgroups to be analyzed, a lot of real signatures that can be added.
If you use the right groups as a seed, you spam will reach that particular user base. Bicyclists in your case, linux lovers, and it is not hard to think about other large users groups that you could target: gardeners, young parents, file swappers, pop music fans, etc. Surely all bigger than the group of people that regularly receives Huckleberry Finn in an e-mail.
I just ran it through LAME version 3.97 (beta 2, Jan 20 2006).
Lowest bitrate track is 32 kbps, highest bitrate track 160 kbps (but there's an incredible amount of stereo switching on the last one).
64 out of 99 tracks are less than 100 kbps. Imagine how many copies of this I can place on my MP3 player!
And on the gapless playback: none of it on my Samsung YEPP. Firmware upgradeable yes, but what good is that when they do not release new firmware? iTunes on MacOSX only plays back gapless-like when you tell it to overflow songs for 0 seconds. Which it manages to screw up completely with longer tracks (might be 10 or 20 seconds overlap between podcasts).
Exchanging data in the way mentioned above is a way that an interested third party is unable to work out who's sending, and who is receiving the message - if lots of people can receive it then it becomes harder to tell out of those who can receive it, who is able to read it, or make anything of it
But you have to make sure that your receiving mode is exactly the same as Joe Average's. A Dutch extertionist once used a classified ads site (the biggest list of second hand cars in the Netherlands) to have his funds transferred to him, by having bank account details embedded in the picture of one of the cars (with steganography). Sounds perfect.
However, the guy accessed the page through an American anonymiser (surfola.com) instead of through a normal Dutch ISP (as all the other page viewers did). Dutch police contacted the FBI, FBI contacted surfola, surfola gave FBI the guy's CC details, Dutch police arrested the guy. Ten years jail sentence for being too paranoid.
This is just about the perfect sound to run through MP3 compression.
And this would be the perfect album to run through MP3 compression, if only players could play it back gapless.