Having a web-pad or some other PDA (handspring!) with GPS capability would also be very cool, and it would have more memory than my Garmin (which has enough memory for about 10 MapSource counties with street-level detail, and the entire US with highway detail).
Windows CE palm-size devices, both the old ones and the new Pocket PCs, already support GPS, and have software support (DeLorme has a CE version, and I'm sure there's at least one other vendor with one).
A CE device with a serial connection to a GPS will still have its Compact Flash slot free, so you can stick in a flash memory card or a IBM microdrive to hold lots of maps.
One of the reasons i never bought a WinCE PDA is that i don't see the use of multiple windows open on such a small screen.
You obviously haven't spent much (or any) time with palmsize CE devices (e.g. Casiopeia E100/105). The vast majority of applications on that platform run full-screen, so you won't see multiple windows.
Actually, you can't use the business-reply card as a label, according to rule 917.243(b) in the Domestic Mail Manual, as detailed in this Straight Dope column.
Of course, you can send back a business-reply envelope with nothing (or a blank form) inside -- the USPS isn't going to bother checking those.
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The most redeeming quality of Beavis & Butthead is that it spun off Daria, the coolest show on MTV, with the possible exception of Celebrity Deathmatch.
ISTR that the US Navy was doing something using ELF to communicate with submarines -- they were planning or building a large antenna in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan for this purpose.
It was fairly controversial at the time (mid-late 80s) -- there was even a 60 Minutes piece on it.
I seem to recall that one of the 1980s Unix versions used a variant of Enigma to encrypt the password file. I want to say it was BSD, but it may have Bell Labs; any old Unix hands out there to confirm this?
What you should REALLY be worried about is automated face recognition that feeds into big-ass backend database.
It sounds like your Orwellian nightmare could be just a few years away. Just this morning, Public Radio International'sMarketplace described a prototype face-recognition system made by TRW and designed for use in cars to allow only "authorized users" to start the engine.
It doesn't take much of a leap to imagine this system being used for surveillance -- the NSA must be wetting themselves over this.
Antimatter would be even harder to comprehend to someone who hasn't read up on it. 100% conversion from mass to energy is not something to pass by.
By way of comparison, the mass of the U235 converted to energy in the Hiroshima explosion was about the size of a stick of chewing gum. However, the device contained a grapefruit-sized mass of U235, meaning that less than 1% of the full mass was converted to energy.
IIS 4.0 installs on Windows 95 or NT 4.0 Workstation as a stripped-down version called Personal Web Server. My guess (not having tried it) is that it'd be the same with Win98.
Windows 2000 uses IIS 5.0, which is pretty much the same as IIS 4.0, although I'm not sure how it'd install on Win2K professional (the successor to NT Workstation).
According to The Straight Dope, they use two chemicals, luciferin & luciferase, stored in separate, concentric tubes. Bending the tube breaks the inner tube, releasing its contents to mix with those of the outer tube.
If I remember correctly, luciferin & luciferase are the same chemicals fireflies use to produce their light.
It'll be interesting to see if male and female lifespans are equal in another 200 years or so, after sexual equality has been fully established.
According to Desmond Morris' The Human Sexes, recently rerun on TLC, men's life expectancy was several years longer than women's for most of recorded history.
It has been only in this century that women's lifespans have caught up with, and exceeded, men's -- Morris attributes this to improvements in medical care, specifically the dramatic reduction in the number of women who die while giving birth.
Ireland is part of Britain which refused invitation into the EU, remember?
Wrong, wrong, wrong. Ireland is an independent nation, and is very much a part of the EU. You're probably thinking of Northern Ireland, which is part of the UK.
A word document written five years in the past can, on a serialized PII/PIII, be traced to a particular computer. It was this misfeature that led to the identification and arrest of the author of Melissa Virus.
Not exactly. The tracing of Melissa was through a GUID (128-bit unique value) embedded in an infected document. GUIDs, in Win 95 (and probably Win 98 and NT4), are generated in part from the NIC's MAC address, and have nothing whatsoever to do with any CPU serial number.
So, the doc conceivably could be traced to a specific NIC which was in the machine of the virus's creator at the time the virus was created, but now may be in the machine of some innocent third party. If, in the future, MS changes its GUID generator to use CPU serial number, a doc could then, and only then, be traced to a specific CPU.
I look back with some regret at the failure of Micro Cornucopia. (Few will remember it.) How could anyone forget the best computer magazine ever? I learned more from it than I did from my Computer Engineering major.
I don't know, but on yesterday's Simpsons rerun here in Atlanta (the one where Homer & gang go to the '99 Super Bowl), the NFL's oldest living player was briefly shown -- a decrepit old man who claimed to be 53.
So, feeding the musical notes into a generation program and producing Das Cantenwerks would be legal, what if I did the same thing with some random Backstreet Boys song? They are 90% synthesized anyways. I bet I could recreate it in in minutes, sythesize the voices of me and/or a few of my friends and voila! My very own copy of some new crap pop music song. Is it legal for me to have that? Destribute it? Sell it? Should it be? Would it become so if the BS Boys died?
It almost certainly would be legal. See this Straight Dope column for details on recording other people's songs. Basically once a song's been recorded, anyone else can record it with or without permission.
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Having a web-pad or some other PDA (handspring!) with GPS capability would also be very cool, and it would have more memory than my Garmin (which has enough memory for about 10 MapSource counties with street-level detail, and the entire US with highway detail).
Windows CE palm-size devices, both the old ones and the new Pocket PCs, already support GPS, and have software support (DeLorme has a CE version, and I'm sure there's at least one other vendor with one).
A CE device with a serial connection to a GPS will still have its Compact Flash slot free, so you can stick in a flash memory card or a IBM microdrive to hold lots of maps.
One of the reasons i never bought a WinCE PDA is that i don't see the use of multiple windows open on such a small screen.
You obviously haven't spent much (or any) time with palmsize CE devices (e.g. Casiopeia E100/105). The vast majority of applications on that platform run full-screen, so you won't see multiple windows.
All the Reuters article says is that someone named Mafiaboy, like countless other "script kiddies", was looking for DoS programs.
Maybe he just has a very old, pre-Windows PC...
I want first dibs on sperm.banc (actually that has conjured up bizarre wondering about how online sperm banking would actually work...)
This would work pretty well as a collection device.
CE devices use MIPS 4xxx, Hitachi SH3/SH4, and StrongARM CPUs.
I don't know about gcc support, but someone's probably done it or in the process of doing it. Check out linuxce.org for a Linux port.
Actually, you can't use the business-reply card as a label, according to rule 917.243(b) in the Domestic Mail Manual, as detailed in this Straight Dope column.
Of course, you can send back a business-reply envelope with nothing (or a blank form) inside -- the USPS isn't going to bother checking those.
The most redeeming quality of Beavis & Butthead is that it spun off Daria, the coolest show on MTV, with the possible exception of Celebrity Deathmatch.
ISTR that the US Navy was doing something using ELF to communicate with submarines -- they were planning or building a large antenna in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan for this purpose.
It was fairly controversial at the time (mid-late 80s) -- there was even a 60 Minutes piece on it.
I seem to recall that one of the 1980s Unix versions used a variant of Enigma to encrypt the password file. I want to say it was BSD, but it may have Bell Labs; any old Unix hands out there to confirm this?
I think this is tradition without any specific purprose or reason
Sort of like the tradition of cosmonauts pissing on the tires of the ready trailer before boarding the capsule.
Not by Welles, anyway. According to this movie, the broadcast was a cover for an actual alien invasion.
What you should REALLY be worried about is automated face recognition that feeds into big-ass backend database.
It sounds like your Orwellian nightmare could be just a few years away. Just this morning, Public Radio International's Marketplace described a prototype face-recognition system made by TRW and designed for use in cars to allow only "authorized users" to start the engine.
It doesn't take much of a leap to imagine this system being used for surveillance -- the NSA must be wetting themselves over this.
Leibniz would probably have something to say about that...
Antimatter would be even harder to comprehend to someone who hasn't read up on it. 100% conversion from mass to energy is not something to pass by.
By way of comparison, the mass of the U235 converted to energy in the Hiroshima explosion was about the size of a stick of chewing gum. However, the device contained a grapefruit-sized mass of U235, meaning that less than 1% of the full mass was converted to energy.
IIS 4.0 installs on Windows 95 or NT 4.0 Workstation as a stripped-down version called Personal Web Server. My guess (not having tried it) is that it'd be the same with Win98.
Windows 2000 uses IIS 5.0, which is pretty much the same as IIS 4.0, although I'm not sure how it'd install on Win2K professional (the successor to NT Workstation).
According to The Straight Dope, they use two chemicals, luciferin & luciferase, stored in separate, concentric tubes. Bending the tube breaks the inner tube, releasing its contents to mix with those of the outer tube.
If I remember correctly, luciferin & luciferase are the same chemicals fireflies use to produce their light.
These guys seem to agree with you.
Actually, the Y10K bug has already been solved; read RFC2550 for details.
It'll be interesting to see if male and female lifespans are equal in another 200 years or so, after sexual equality has been fully established.
According to Desmond Morris' The Human Sexes , recently rerun on TLC, men's life expectancy was several years longer than women's for most of recorded history.
It has been only in this century that women's lifespans have caught up with, and exceeded, men's -- Morris attributes this to improvements in medical care, specifically the dramatic reduction in the number of women who die while giving birth.
Ireland is part of Britain which refused invitation into the EU, remember?
Wrong, wrong, wrong. Ireland is an independent nation, and is very much a part of the EU. You're probably thinking of Northern Ireland, which is part of the UK.
A word document written five years in the past can, on a serialized PII/PIII, be traced to a particular computer. It was this misfeature that led to the identification and arrest of the author of Melissa Virus.
Not exactly. The tracing of Melissa was through a GUID (128-bit unique value) embedded in an infected document. GUIDs, in Win 95 (and probably Win 98 and NT4), are generated in part from the NIC's MAC address, and have nothing whatsoever to do with any CPU serial number.
So, the doc conceivably could be traced to a specific NIC which was in the machine of the virus's creator at the time the virus was created, but now may be in the machine of some innocent third party. If, in the future, MS changes its GUID generator to use CPU serial number, a doc could then, and only then, be traced to a specific CPU.
I look back with some regret at the failure of Micro Cornucopia. (Few will remember it.) How could anyone forget the best computer magazine ever? I learned more from it than I did from my Computer Engineering major.
I don't know, but on yesterday's Simpsons rerun here in Atlanta (the one where Homer & gang go to the '99 Super Bowl), the NFL's oldest living player was briefly shown -- a decrepit old man who claimed to be 53.
Coincidence?
So, feeding the musical notes into a generation program and producing Das Cantenwerks would be legal, what if I did the same thing with some random Backstreet Boys song? They are 90% synthesized anyways. I bet I could recreate it in in minutes, sythesize the voices of me and/or a few of my friends and voila! My very own copy of some new crap pop music song. Is it legal for me to have that? Destribute it? Sell it? Should it be? Would it become so if the BS Boys died?
It almost certainly would be legal. See this Straight Dope column for details on recording other people's songs. Basically once a song's been recorded, anyone else can record it with or without permission.
It's a few days out of date; whois shows it as belonging to Transmeta, as of Friday.