All credit to Livermore for pursuing fusion research - far too little time and money is being spent on it atm - but this looks like a boondoggle to me. Why? According to the article, fusion experiments are expected to start in 2014, with the aim of liberating more energy than used to initiate the reaction sometime after this. Compare this to the efforts of JET the Joint European Torus project, which achieved breakeven (Q=1) during 1997 (good explanation of fusion milestones here). JET's successor, ITER aims to achieve Q of at least 10, paving the way for commercial-scale power generation. The only thing that worries me about ITER is the level of bureaucracy exhibited, but perhaps this is to be expected from a multi-national consortium. ITER are standing on the shoulders of giants, NIF are discussing specifications for a step-ladder.
I did try Divx for a while- and after the 9,000th complaint in about 2 days, I finally relented, and put it up in a.wmv format. The complaints were not about quality, but in the "how do I watch the movie" vein. You're kidding, right? DivX (and XviD) are video codecs. The encoded video is placed in a wrapper - usually.avi. This is a Microsoft file format! You click on it - your default video player plays it. In the case of WMP (Haaawwwkk-ptooie!) it will even 'phone home' to get the appropriate codec if it can't understand the encoding method (and if you let it).
Spybot S&D has a bad habit of finding spyware in some computer OEM default installs. That's a bad habit? If it's there, and it's reporting home, its spyware and you need to know about it.
Damn skippy it should! Every machine I've 'had a look at' for various friends and family has been infested with adware and spyware, lacking in firewalling and/or virus protection and slowed down by bloated startup folders. Even as a noob to Win98 and before that, when I didn't have my own computer, I knew not to run dodgy binaries, open unknown attachments etc. I don't believe mandating a level of competence to be desirable or even feasible (not to mention the cottage industry which would spring up offering 'Basic Computer Certification' for some useless lectures and blurry photocopied handouts), but 'If This Goes On' the 'net and its less clueful users are in big trouble.
I have no idea why, but the above site also contains (among others) the words 'vengaboys' , 'furby', 'turbolinux' and 'marlin'. Perhaps they're trying to catch Googlewhackers? My Goodness! I've added a meaning to the word "Googlewhack". Tee hee!
True, LSD was invented in Switzerland, but Berkeley became a major centre for its production, distribution and use. cf 'cars coming out of Detroit' - they weren't invented there either.
I don't have A4 paper, I don't want A4 paper, I've never even *seen* A4 paper. Well I've never *seen* 'US Letter' paper. But I now know why it's set as default on my LaserJet 4 Plus and in Konqeror's 'Print Properties' dialog.
This can also be done easily with linux The command you are looking for is 'mount -o loop [image.iso]/whereyouwanttomountit'. I use/fakedvd and neither mplayer, xine, nor dvd::rip [1] give me any problems. Mplayer will even play VCDImager and WinCD.bin files but not raw.iso images (just tried it!) [1] dvd::rip likes to work from a mounted DVD, but a straight dd rip is faster if somebody wants their DVD back quick.
re-plug them all in Never. Hard drives are forensically examined by being removed from their machines and duplicated (usually using dd). No investigator would ever boot a machine which is the subject of an investigation - auto-deletion scripts are just too easy to write.
Keep in mind that 256,000 bytes is only 250 MB, without compression I can fit 3 of those on a CD Er.. 256,000 bytes is less than 256Kb - you can fit almost 3000 of them on a CD. Keys are supposed to be as random as possible - if it compresses significantly its not random (listen (cat to/dev/dsp) to a compressed and uncompressed file and you'll hear whet I mean)
So some customers 'consume more than a terabyte of data each month'? In order to do this, the customer would have to max out a 3Mb/s connection, 24/7, for the entire month. Since the cable companies are only now 'doubling their top download speeds to 3 megabits, how is this possible? Now my connection is ADSL, 512/256. I run BitTorrent downloads 24/7 on an old headless box. Theoretically, I could pull down 165GB/mo. I know I don't because i haven't started buying shares in Maxtor, Hitachi or Western Digital yet.
A quick nmap of the default BitTorrent port (6881) on the class D I'm on (80.177.207.*) reveals twenty-five ports in state:filtered. According to iana this port has no formal assignment, so it is fairly safe to assume that these 25 out of an address space of 255 are running BitTorrent. On top of this, my own IP shows this port as closed (I'm behind a router), so there may be even more. Now, all credit to Bram Cohen for devising the best way to shift Linux.iso's around, but how many people actually use it for that?
woman with a British accent Do you have any idea how many accents are in use in the British Isles? You can make a close (within 50 miles) guess at where somebody grew up just by listening to them for a few minutes. It's like the US in microcosm. There are Northern, Southern, Eastern and Western (Wales and Cornwall, not Texas) accents, they all sound funny to each other, and are instantly distinguishable. Not even 10% of women here sound like Angelina Jolie ( more's the pity)
Filling in a NIP is not incriminating youreslf Bullshit. If you admit to driving the photographed vehicle at the stated time and place, you may as well be admitting guilt. Gatso evidence is regarded by courts as Holy Writ and is very rarely successfully challenged. I have found only one case where it has been.
NIP (Notice of Intended Prosecution) The last time I got one of these I wrote 'BUGGER OFF' across it with a fat black marker pen, placed it in the preaddressed envelope supplied and posted it (without the stamp, so the CPS[1] would have to pay the postage). I haven't heard anything from them since (over a year). Maybe enough people have used this loophole that they don't challenge unsigned forms anymore?
As in : Start > Settings > Control Panel (> Internet Options, > Networking, >Add/Remove Programs...)? The tools are there already, even in Windows.All anyone needs to do is use them.
The Acorn BBC Microcomputer Model B.
O/S on ROM, BASIC and assembler on ROM, excellent quality keyboard, connect to TV or RGB monitor; RS432, parallel/printer, analogue port (with on-board DAC/ADC), cassette and disk-drive ports, User Port for turtles et al (remember LOGO?), 'Tube' port for a (gasp!) co-processor and direct access to the system bus. I used these all the time in secondary school, saw 32 of them networked up to a 60MB Winchester HD, used one to run a CNC lathe, learned datalogging and control systems, played far too much ELITE and FRAK, and wondered if there was anything you couldn't hook a 'beeb' up to, or if there was anything it couldn't do. Oh, and an assembly-language speech synthesiser that fit on a single 5 1/4" floppy and sounds better than Stephen Hawking.
BitTorrent was made for this - and studios could link to their own trackers on their own websites rather than (presumably) paying Sharman Netwoks to advertise for them.
I fell foul of that change myself. They sent me a 'warning' email, I replied with something on the lines of "which part of 'unlimited' don't you understand?" and went on downloading Mandrake 8.1 (3*650MB). Two weeks later, they changed their TOS, adding the 12/24 hour bullshit. What wasn't clear from the announcement was that this was a rolling 12 hours, ie if I've been online all day with a big d/l or extended surfing/slashdotting, I couldn't access the service until 12 hours after I disconnected, even if a new calendar day has begun. I felt this was a particularly stupid rule, and continued to connect as and when I felt like it (the service is still called 'Anytime'). When they eventually kicked me off completely, I signed up with FreeServe who didn't give me any such bull, and were even fairly helpful with the 'mandatory' Freeserve Connection Kit (Windows only), giving me the 'last resort' dial-up number to put into kppp. Mind you, I did still receive an email a week asking me to d/l the damned thing.
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Compare this to the efforts of JET the Joint European Torus project, which achieved breakeven (Q=1) during 1997 (good explanation of fusion milestones here). JET's successor, ITER aims to achieve Q of at least 10, paving the way for commercial-scale power generation.
The only thing that worries me about ITER is the level of bureaucracy exhibited, but perhaps this is to be expected from a multi-national consortium.
ITER are standing on the shoulders of giants, NIF are discussing specifications for a step-ladder.
You're kidding, right? DivX (and XviD) are video codecs. The encoded video is placed in a wrapper - usually
That's a bad habit? If it's there, and it's reporting home, its spyware and you need to know about it.
Every machine I've 'had a look at' for various friends and family has been infested with adware and spyware, lacking in firewalling and/or virus protection and slowed down by bloated startup folders. Even as a noob to Win98 and before that, when I didn't have my own computer, I knew not to run dodgy binaries, open unknown attachments etc.
I don't believe mandating a level of competence to be desirable or even feasible (not to mention the cottage industry which would spring up offering 'Basic Computer Certification' for some useless lectures and blurry photocopied handouts), but 'If This Goes On' the 'net and its less clueful users are in big trouble.
My Goodness! I've added a meaning to the word "Googlewhack". Tee hee!
No, it doesn't have an automatic declick function - and declicking manually is no fun.
cf 'cars coming out of Detroit' - they weren't invented there either.
Well I've never *seen* 'US Letter' paper. But I now know why it's set as default on my LaserJet 4 Plus and in Konqeror's 'Print Properties' dialog.
The command you are looking for is 'mount -o loop [image.iso]
[1] dvd::rip likes to work from a mounted DVD, but a straight dd rip is faster if somebody wants their DVD back quick.
Never. Hard drives are forensically examined by being removed from their machines and duplicated (usually using dd). No investigator would ever boot a machine which is the subject of an investigation - auto-deletion scripts are just too easy to write.
Er.. 256,000 bytes is less than 256Kb - you can fit almost 3000 of them on a CD. Keys are supposed to be as random as possible - if it compresses significantly its not random (listen (cat to
s/you/i
At the moment, I'm happier to be a subject of HM than of TB
In order to do this, the customer would have to max out a 3Mb/s connection, 24/7, for the entire month. Since the cable companies are only now 'doubling their top download speeds to 3 megabits, how is this possible?
Now my connection is ADSL, 512/256. I run BitTorrent downloads 24/7 on an old headless box. Theoretically, I could pull down 165GB/mo. I know I don't because i haven't started buying shares in Maxtor, Hitachi or Western Digital yet.
I used to - see here
Do you have any idea how many accents are in use in the British Isles? You can make a close (within 50 miles) guess at where somebody grew up just by listening to them for a few minutes. It's like the US in microcosm. There are Northern, Southern, Eastern and Western (Wales and Cornwall, not Texas) accents, they all sound funny to each other, and are instantly distinguishable. Not even 10% of women here sound like Angelina Jolie ( more's the pity)
Bullshit.
If you admit to driving the photographed vehicle at the stated time and place, you may as well be admitting guilt. Gatso evidence is regarded by courts as Holy Writ and is very rarely successfully challenged.
I have found only one case where it has been.
The last time I got one of these I wrote 'BUGGER OFF' across it with a fat black marker pen, placed it in the preaddressed envelope supplied and posted it (without the stamp, so the CPS[1] would have to pay the postage). I haven't heard anything from them since (over a year). Maybe enough people have used this loophole that they don't challenge unsigned forms anymore?
[1] Crown Prosecution Service
The tools are there already, even in Windows.All anyone needs to do is use them.
O/S on ROM, BASIC and assembler on ROM, excellent quality keyboard, connect to TV or RGB monitor; RS432, parallel/printer, analogue port (with on-board DAC/ADC), cassette and disk-drive ports, User Port for turtles et al (remember LOGO?), 'Tube' port for a (gasp!) co-processor and direct access to the system bus. I used these all the time in secondary school, saw 32 of them networked up to a 60MB Winchester HD, used one to run a CNC lathe, learned datalogging and control systems, played far too much ELITE and FRAK, and wondered if there was anything you couldn't hook a 'beeb' up to, or if there was anything it couldn't do.
Oh, and an assembly-language speech synthesiser that fit on a single 5 1/4" floppy and sounds better than Stephen Hawking.
When they eventually kicked me off completely, I signed up with FreeServe who didn't give me any such bull, and were even fairly helpful with the 'mandatory' Freeserve Connection Kit (Windows only), giving me the 'last resort' dial-up number to put into kppp. Mind you, I did still receive an email a week asking me to d/l the damned thing.