Well, this is slightly better than drilling for oil.
When we burn naturally occurring fossil fuels, we add more carbon to our biosphere, when we use this new process, we are using carbon that is already circulating around our biosphere.
Most printers designed for home use, are cheap pieces of crap. A printer is an intricate mechanical device, and mechanical devices are very expensive.
The only way that cannon can pump out printers, even at cost, for $50 each, means that they are cutting corners in materials, quality control, or both.
if you want a printer that lasts, you need to start spending more than $200 for an ink jet or more than $2000 for a laser
My father's old PC would occasionally refuse to boot. regardless of what he did, the only way to make it boot again was for me to be standing in the room when he turned it on.
But everyone knows that as soon as the repair guy shows up, everythign starts working again.
it was never intended to fight terrorism. the fear of terrorism was used as a tool to persuade the people of the USA to allow their government to impose this law upon them.
the patriot act was *intended* to be every law-enforcement agency's wet dream
Then, with your own two hands, build somthing better than this. Show me a better tool for building short-run products, or prototypes. Hell, just build a CNC mill. If you can make it all by yourself, i will be impressed.
If you can, show us.
If you cant, then maybe you should try to be a little more polite.
The popular game "007: Agent under fire" was pulled from store shelves today, under threat of legal action from microsoft.
The software was found to be illegal by the standards of the Digital Millenium Copyright Act, in that it allowed users to potentially run bootleg computer games.
Microsoft's decision was backed firmly by the RIAA, MPAA..
if Bic started making blades that could be used with a mach 3 handle, nobody would buy them, because it would shave like a disposable Bic razor.
one expects to pay more for the high end Gillette and Schick (sp?) blades.
If dell wants to make money selling printers, then they should start charging more for the unit itsself. if they want to make money selling inks, then maybe they should start selling higher quality inks.
But using technology like this to stop 3rd party companies from selling compatible ink cartridges, and stopping the owners from refilling their cartridges, is dirty, and anti-competitive
if you're using it as a pure X terminal, it's not a problem, because the processing will be done on another machine. the 486 will only have to run X, and will be connected to a machine, with a fairly fast connection... like 100mbit ethernet
How RSA works in a nutshell ( I think) and Why we don't have to try all the keys:
First a key set is created: you pick a number E, and 2 prime numbers P and Q. There are some constraints on what you can use for E, but i don't remember them now.
E will be your encrypting key.
Then you calculate your decrypting key D with the following equasion D = ( P - 1 )(Q - 1) / E
Now, to encrypt our clear text T we use this equasion:
T' = T^E % N where N is the product of P and Q
Decryption is the same, except we raise T to the Dth power rather than the Eth power.
Now, one key is used as the public key, and we distribute N with it.
Why it works: encryption and decryption is done using a key, and the value N. However, to mathematically determine the private key from the public key, it is necessary to factor N back into P and Q. If P and Q are very large numbers, this will take a very very very long time.
So, we're not bruteforcing the keyspace, we're just trying to factor the modulus of the MS public key, so we can calculate the private key.
Now, since P and Q are primes, we can use a primality test to determine potential candidates, and eliminate ~80% of the wrong values, without much work.
There... now i hope i didn't make too many mistakes
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no, i doubt it.
they might be able to argue that if the customers were leasing the product. but they are selling the product, which is distribution
actually... they did
Is there any legal precedant for the use of tar, and feathers?
Well, this is slightly better than drilling for oil.
When we burn naturally occurring fossil fuels, we add more carbon to our biosphere, when we use this new process, we are using carbon that is already circulating around our biosphere.
Thrashing and Trashing may be used synonymously here.
Most printers designed for home use, are cheap pieces of crap. A printer is an intricate mechanical device, and mechanical devices are very expensive.
The only way that cannon can pump out printers, even at cost, for $50 each, means that they are cutting corners in materials, quality control, or both.
if you want a printer that lasts, you need to start spending more than $200 for an ink jet or more than $2000 for a laser
This certainly is "News for Nerds"
now, how about some "Stuff that matters" ?
I had an electric kettle that would turn itsself on occasionally for no reason.
I had to keep it unplugged because of this. I suspect that it had a faulty switch
There was a case in canada, where a man with a history of sleep walking disorders, drove 30km in his car and killed his mother-inlaw, while sleeping
My father's old PC would occasionally refuse to boot.
regardless of what he did, the only way to make it boot again was for me to be standing in the room when he turned it on.
But everyone knows that as soon as the repair guy shows up, everythign starts working again.
it was a circle, divided in quarters. 2 white, and 2 black. and it would spin.
it was never intended to fight terrorism.
the fear of terrorism was used as a tool to persuade the people of the USA to allow their government to impose this law upon them.
the patriot act was *intended* to be every law-enforcement agency's wet dream
That's what proper grounding, and a GFI are good for
Then, with your own two hands, build somthing better than this. Show me a better tool for building short-run products, or prototypes. Hell, just build a CNC mill. If you can make it all by yourself, i will be impressed.
If you can, show us.
If you cant, then maybe you should try to be a little more polite.
The popular game "007: Agent under fire" was pulled from store shelves today, under threat of legal action from microsoft.
The software was found to be illegal by the standards of the Digital Millenium Copyright Act, in that it allowed users to potentially run bootleg computer games.
Microsoft's decision was backed firmly by the RIAA, MPAA..
I will not lose my virginity!!! *crosses fingers*
Well, the mach 3 is worth paying for.
if Bic started making blades that could be used with a mach 3 handle, nobody would buy them, because it would shave like a disposable Bic razor.
one expects to pay more for the high end Gillette and Schick (sp?) blades.
If dell wants to make money selling printers, then they should start charging more for the unit itsself. if they want to make money selling inks, then maybe they should start selling higher quality inks.
But using technology like this to stop 3rd party companies from selling compatible ink cartridges, and stopping the owners from refilling their cartridges, is dirty, and anti-competitive
Hey, personally I think the Mach 3 is a wonderful invention... now with those teflon coated blades...
:O)
MMmm.... chock full of shaving goodness
Hell, where i live, if you don't tell somone that they're trespassing ( or post a sign to that effect), then they're not.
If somone leaves their wireless lan open, then they cant complain if somone uses their bandwidth.
I don't know abouy the USA, but where I am, unlocked = public
one describes a person who has a very low intelligence.
the other describes a person who cannot speak
But your beer sucks! ........ eh :oP
if you're using it as a pure X terminal, it's not a problem, because the processing will be done on another machine.
the 486 will only have to run X, and will be connected to a machine, with a fairly fast connection... like 100mbit ethernet
I'm assuming now, that you're in north america, as most of europe doesn't use 110v.
In north america, the neutral and ground wires are connected at some point in the circuit anyway.
To my understanding, this is to provide a refrence point for the hot wires, so each are 120v from ground, as opposed to 120v from the neutral wire.
In a properly wired circuit, there should be no current flow between a neutral wire, and a ground wire.
Can i borrow that?
:o)
my brother needs some "upgrades", i promise i'll give it back when i'm done
How RSA works in a nutshell ( I think) and Why we don't have to try all the keys:
First a key set is created:
you pick a number E, and 2 prime numbers P and Q.
There are some constraints on what you can use for E, but i don't remember them now.
E will be your encrypting key.
Then you calculate your decrypting key D with the following equasion
D = ( P - 1 )(Q - 1) / E
Now, to encrypt our clear text T we use this equasion:
T' = T^E % N
where N is the product of P and Q
Decryption is the same, except we raise T to the Dth power rather than the Eth power.
Now, one key is used as the public key, and we distribute N with it.
Why it works:
encryption and decryption is done using a key, and the value N. However, to mathematically determine the private key from the public key, it is necessary to factor N back into P and Q. If P and Q are very large numbers, this will take a very very very long time.
So, we're not bruteforcing the keyspace, we're just trying to factor the modulus of the MS public key, so we can calculate the private key.
Now, since P and Q are primes, we can use a primality test to determine potential candidates, and eliminate ~80% of the wrong values, without much work.
There... now i hope i didn't make too many mistakes