It sounds like a announcement of a new peripheral interface, not necessarily a memory card product announcement. And 2 tb in a memory card? Let's see.... with 1 gb SD memory cards going for $270, that 2tb card would only set me back a cool half $mil. Great! I'll take two.
The students modified the vehicle for unmanned flight by replacing the factory tail with a custom lifting tail, which moved the center of gravity further towards the rear of the plane.
Doesn't adding lift to the rear of an aircraft move the center of lift, which is different from the center of gravity ???
Also from the the story:
... the wings on the airframe had a heavier than designed for load.
Fraunhofer Gesellschaft IIS has a history of defending their IP (MPEG 1 audio layer 3 e.g. MP3). As most/.-ers know, MP3 decoder licensing is free, but a "commercial" encoder will cost ya (licensing info). I wonder what the scam will be for losono.....
Comcast could check the TTL of every packet exiting your network. If you have a mixture of machines (Mac, Windows, Linux, Sun), packets will probably have different TTL values. I seem to recall, but may be mistaken, that there was a module for IpTables that would re-write TTL.
Can I just wrap their cable modem in aluminum foil & ground it to prevent their detecting wireless networks???
The company I work for, which makes rotating magnetic storage devices, pays what some co-workers describe as "an enormous amount of money" to be Microsoft or Windows "Certified" (I don't know the exact figure). Now, understand that MS doesn't do an bit of work here.... we buy the test platforms, run the tests, collect & collate the data, and go forth to Redmond on bended knee to present our lowly product and request "Certification". MS collects a fat check and stamps it "yea" or "nay".
Pardon my attitude, but if you ask me, they should be the ones coming to us to see if they're ATA, Serial-ATA, FC, or Serial-SCSI compatible. We have the expertise, they just write a driver.
Re:These things ... This is God Calling.
on
Directed Sound
·
· Score: 1
I'll bet the defense dept is interested! Imagine the possibilities. From a hidden location, aim one at a fundamentalist insert religion. Suddenly that person hears The Voice : "This is God / Allah / Vishnu / whomever, and I want you to destroy the Eiffel Tower / Church of the Holy Sepulchre / Wailing Wall / New York Stock Exchange / Kaaba Shrine". Or "I want you to build me an ark.".
Judging by the spam I get, there's other (...cough cough, ahem) body parts, usually associated with the male of the species, which are popular with the enhancement sales crowd. Not that it's necessary in my case, of course. My hand ^H^H^H^H girlfriend hasn't complained yet....
Re:SIlence is a pipe dream for me
on
A Silent PC Solution?
·
· Score: 2, Interesting
Glue carpet padding all...over
The drawback with this solution is that you've traded noise for noxious outgassing fumes from the glue & carpet.
Flash! Daleks invade Nebraska! Film at 11
on
Robocones
·
· Score: 1
this news doesn't affect anybody who uses a customized HOSTS file to stop the majority of ads from appearing anyway.
MSIE (heaven forbid!) can block a list of sites. I think the effect is the same (but I may be worng)
Tools
Internet Options...
Security tab
Restricted Sites
Sites...
I wish there was something similiar in Firefox! My employeer's virus scanner (McAfee) can restrict sites by IP address or URL.
A problem is that these days, some web sites (SlickDeals.net) are doing some things that causes valid pages to fail to load because of my "blocked sites". I usually get a "Cannot find server or DNS Error" because I've blocked various ad sites.
guess what we need is a good samaritan to step forth and martyr his/her self.
TROLL MOD="-99"
Call me old-fashioned, but I'd rather see a good samaritan step forward and martyr Atty General John Ashcroft & RIAA president Hillary Rosen./TROLL
basic operation of a program shouldn't require a manual; Documentation is for those who want to know how something works
Nonsense! No two people think the same way. What makes sense to the designer or a system might be completely abstruse to someone attempting to use that system. Menus, knobs, buttons, levers which one person thinks are obvious may confuse another. A programmer from one culture may design a program or device which someone from another part of the world simply can't comprehend. I'd like to see you climb into a backhoe and instinctively "know" which lever did what, assuming you don't have some experience with such a system. Granted, a reasonable smart person could probably figure it out eventually, and with only minor danger to themselves or others. But scale things up to, let's say, operating the space shuttle, and let's see how grammy fares.
The first microwave I ever bought required me to press the "YES" button far too often:
POWER
9
YES
Time
3:00
YES
BEGIN
YES
None of the confirmations were necessary, but the programmer of the device thought they were. Having to press the YES key after every selection didn't make any sense to me, but I wasn't gonna get my popcorn without doing it.
Not that I'm paranoid or anything. Ok, ok, so I'm paranoid and the governments' out to get me, but I still gotta wonder how quickly it was cracked by the boys with the big iron. Even though private/personal computational horsepower has increased dramatically over the years, while govt funding has decreased, I still can't see a general purpose CPU or network of CPUs being able to compete with dedicated crypto hardware.... Am I wrong??
Another interesting link here Paper: "Architectural considerations for cryptanalytic hardware" Cypherpunks Tonga
The recording device... showed that... the driver had the gas pedal to the floor
Two thoughts come to my mind:
Is there any chance the "recording device" could be wrong? E.G. does the software ever make a mistake?
On my Windows PC, I effectively have "the gas pedal to the floor" and it still just sits there like a turd in the tank.
I guess in the case of the first issue, the prosecution must be able to prove the odds of a software or hardware malfunction are remote enough to justify sending someone up the river. Another problem is that the device didn't record the state of events outside the automobile, specifically the state of the traffic light in question. Did the deceased run a red light before the fatal collision?
If stalkers, vengeful ex's, child molesters, congresspersons, or other unsavory types had knowledge of where anyone was at any time, it could be bad.
In any case, I'm generally where I need to be at any particular time. That might not be where I want to be at that time, but that's just a divergence between my expectations & the realities of life, and my serenity is, for the most part, inversely proportional to my expectations.
magnum marine for spammer management (I feel a mod-down comin on!)
(Apologies if I've left your favorite tool out of this list)
I have a vague notion about how to use some of them in limited fashion, but I'm handicaped by not having an intimate knowledge of how IP and TCP really work (down at the packet level).
This software product may contain the following:
logic or programmatic errors; algorithm errors; design errors; unused, invalid, or obsolete code; stolen code; improper, incorrect, or misleading documentation. You, the purchaser or user of this software product, are entirely responsible for any flaws, errors, omissions, or other acts committed by the designers, creators, and implementors of this product during the design, creation, or implementation of said product.
Use of this product may enable third parties to surreptitiously control your computing environment. You are entirely responsible for the acts of these third parties.
Special notification for citizens of the United States
Parts of this product may have been designed or implemented outside the United States by programmers who may not (personally) be friendly to United States interests, and who have, in any case, eliminated the jobs of tax-paying US workers.
Purchase or use of this software may marginalize, restrict, or eliminate one or more or your constitutionally guaranteed civil rights.
Gettysburg and Antietam from Firaxis. Here, and
here. Reviews here, and here.
The following was snipped from the Firaxis website:
Sid Meier's Gettysburg!, released in October 1997, was voted "Wargame of the Year" by the game industry's top opinion leaders, including Computer Gaming World magazine and GameSpot online; and was also awarded with "Editor's Choice" awards from both PC Gamer and OGR. Sid Meier's Antietam!, released in December 1999, was awarded "Wargame of the Year" by Computer Gaming World magazine. Relive the excitement, drama, and action of America's bloodiest day.
... room in my cube for fifteen computers ...
on
Optimizing distcc
·
· Score: 1
I only had room in my cube for fifteen computers.
I wonder how much noise and heat is generated by 15 PCs running in a small cubeacular office environment....
Slashdot Mirror
It sounds like a announcement of a new peripheral interface, not necessarily a memory card product announcement. And 2 tb in a memory card? Let's see .... with 1 gb SD memory cards going for $270, that 2tb card would only set me back a cool half $mil. Great! I'll take two.
The students modified the vehicle for unmanned flight by replacing the factory tail with a custom lifting tail, which moved the center of gravity further towards the rear of the plane.
Doesn't adding lift to the rear of an aircraft move the center of lift, which is different from the center of gravity ???
Also from the the story:
Understand, I am not.
Gotta like any registered & trademarked moniker that can be easily misspelled into something more "interesting".
Fraunhofer Gesellschaft IIS has a history of defending their IP (MPEG 1 audio layer 3 e.g. MP3). As most /.-ers know, MP3 decoder licensing is free, but a "commercial" encoder will cost ya (licensing info). I wonder what the scam will be for losono.....
At last, someone is making a replacement for my beloved Northgate Omnikey.
I hope you find it as moderatly fascinating as I did.
Can I just wrap their cable modem in aluminum foil & ground it to prevent their detecting wireless networks???
Pardon my attitude, but if you ask me, they should be the ones coming to us to see if they're ATA, Serial-ATA, FC, or Serial-SCSI compatible. We have the expertise, they just write a driver.
I'll bet the defense dept is interested! Imagine the possibilities. From a hidden location, aim one at a fundamentalist insert religion. Suddenly that person hears The Voice : "This is God / Allah / Vishnu / whomever, and I want you to destroy the Eiffel Tower / Church of the Holy Sepulchre / Wailing Wall / New York Stock Exchange / Kaaba Shrine". Or "I want you to build me an ark.".
Exterminate! Exterminate!! Exterminate!!!
I wish there was something similiar in Firefox! My employeer's virus scanner (McAfee) can restrict sites by IP address or URL.
A problem is that these days, some web sites (SlickDeals.net) are doing some things that causes valid pages to fail to load because of my "blocked sites". I usually get a "Cannot find server or DNS Error" because I've blocked various ad sites.
Judging by the picture on the Applications page, this thing ain't a pocket calculator or PDA.
Nonsense! No two people think the same way. What makes sense to the designer or a system might be completely abstruse to someone attempting to use that system. Menus, knobs, buttons, levers which one person thinks are obvious may confuse another. A programmer from one culture may design a program or device which someone from another part of the world simply can't comprehend. I'd like to see you climb into a backhoe and instinctively "know" which lever did what, assuming you don't have some experience with such a system. Granted, a reasonable smart person could probably figure it out eventually, and with only minor danger to themselves or others. But scale things up to, let's say, operating the space shuttle, and let's see how grammy fares.
The first microwave I ever bought required me to press the "YES" button far too often:
- POWER
- 9
- YES
- Time
- 3:00
- YES
- BEGIN
- YES
None of the confirmations were necessary, but the programmer of the device thought they were. Having to press the YES key after every selection didn't make any sense to me, but I wasn't gonna get my popcorn without doing it.Not that I'm paranoid or anything. Ok, ok, so I'm paranoid and the governments' out to get me, but I still gotta wonder how quickly it was cracked by the boys with the big iron. Even though private/personal computational horsepower has increased dramatically over the years, while govt funding has decreased, I still can't see a general purpose CPU or network of CPUs being able to compete with dedicated crypto hardware .... Am I wrong??
Another interesting link here
Paper: "Architectural considerations for cryptanalytic hardware"
Cypherpunks Tonga
The recording device ... showed that ... the driver had the gas pedal to the floor
- Two thoughts come to my mind:
- Is there any chance the "recording device" could be wrong? E.G. does the software ever make a mistake?
- On my Windows PC, I effectively have "the gas pedal to the floor" and it still just sits there like a turd in the tank.
I guess in the case of the first issue, the prosecution must be able to prove the odds of a software or hardware malfunction are remote enough to justify sending someone up the river. Another problem is that the device didn't record the state of events outside the automobile, specifically the state of the traffic light in question. Did the deceased run a red light before the fatal collision?In any case, I'm generally where I need to be at any particular time. That might not be where I want to be at that time, but that's just a divergence between my expectations & the realities of life, and my serenity is, for the most part, inversely proportional to my expectations.
- nmap for basic port sniffing.
- nessus for more extensive security sweeping.
- ethereal for packet capture & analysis.
- snort for intrusion detection.
- magnum marine for spammer management (I feel a mod-down comin on!)
(Apologies if I've left your favorite tool out of this list)I have a vague notion about how to use some of them in limited fashion, but I'm handicaped by not having an intimate knowledge of how IP and TCP really work (down at the packet level).
Use and enjoy!
The following was snipped from the Firaxis website:
I wonder how much noise and heat is generated by 15 PCs running in a small cubeacular office environment....