my wife actually went out and bought my buddies and I a cowbell, stand to mount it on, and a drink holder that mounts on the same stand.
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This article is spot-on. Typically there's a single blanket email address for customer complaints and compliments. Usually it gets forwarded to a manager.
Yes you can. Wireless NIC's do peer-to-peer in a mode called Ad-Hoc. You'd just need to bridge the two connections on the internet-connected computer and you're set.
What is so fundamentally different about 802.11 from other forms of networking that is making it so hard to secure?
I think you hit it on the head here. You don't have to have physical access to a wire. You could be 50 meters away from the AP and be able to access the network.
Another problem was with the first implementation of WEP. The 40/64 bit encryption is terribly easy to break, as is well documented. The 104/128-bit WEP is more secure, enough for casual use, but with enough packets sniffed, can be broken as well.
A lot of the vendors are coming out with proprietary security systems which greatly increase the difficulty level of unauthorized access. Cisco, 3Com, Linksys, etc.
But I agree with you. I do tech support for 802.11b products, and the vast majority of our users just don't use encyrption and leave everything in default mode. They don't change the SSID, they broadcast said SSID and set access levels to ANY, simply because they won't take the 5 minutes to setup MAC Access Control and 128-bit WEP.
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Umm . . . not exactly. A large portion of that book was dedicated to the story of the SAS Major inside Kuwait coordinating an underground resistance. Not only that, but he was gathering "humint" from the courtesan of the Iraqi military official. In literature classes, you'd call this a polemic. I would have to argue that this book, besides being a great story, was Forsyth's polemic on the need for humint.
Yeah, they have a tech support call center out here in Beaverton just down the street from Stream (where I work). Apparently they took everybody into a room, unplugged all the phones, and sent them all home.
I too grew up on the "North Coast". (I think the only people who actually refer to it as the North Coast are the anchors at KIEM TV. www.kiem-tv.com for an example.
My dad teaches at one of the local schools down there (I'm in Portland now) and his class took a field trip to the Headwaters. He invited me along. This forest is outstandingly beautiful, even though most of the old-growth trees have been cut down already. Pretty much all that's left standing are the trees along the actual headwaters of the various creeks/rivers.
that any employment contract would forbid them from working on any of the XBox projects out there already, such as the XBox Linux Project, or from even disseminating any information they learn whatsoever. Maybe MS is trying to gut these projects before anything else is accomplished?
It wasn't about them getting more information from you, but about selling that information to third parties.
Speier's bill was designed to restrict banks and other financial companies from selling or disseminating information about customers' income and spending to third parties.
The banks already have most of your personal information. This is understandable, considering they provide credit cards, mortgages, loans, etc. Similar reasons apply for insurance companies. They need to know your personal info so they know how high your premium should be. This bill was designed to prevent said institutions from selling that information to third parties without express consent from the consumer. These institutions lobbied against the bill so that they can continue to sell this information to direct-marketing-type people. As much as I personally loathe this practice, it makes perfect sense from a business standpoint. They trade bits and bytes for hard cash. They don't give any physical resources, and they get cash.
Yahoo has a similar service to the one you describe. Check out http://launch.yahoo.com
I've found quite a few blues artists I've never heard of. You can skip tracks, and you can rate tracks, albums, or artists. Over time your personalized station reflects how you rate the three categories mentioned above. Plus, you can add specific artists or albums. And the quality is fine, as long as you have broadband.
the reason they can heat up water is due to the frequency itself, and it's ability to cause water molecules to move around in the field. It's not, as some say, because it's the resonant frequency of a water molecule.
Nearly correct, but a bit incomplete. It is because of the frequency of the microwave photon. The energy level of a microwave photon happens to correspond to the gap in energy levels between the ground quantum state of a water molecule and higher "excited" quantum states. The microwave photon collides with the water molecule. The water molecule absorbs the energy of the photon, causing it to "jump" to a higher energy level. Once enough of these photons are absorbed by enough water molecules, the average kinetic energy of the entire group of water molecules is raised, which in turn raises the temperature.
Rumor has it that the Gentoo folks are going to be releasing 1.4 during the Expo. They say it's going to be entirely built with GCC 3.2. Can anybody describe the benefits of a GCC3x release over the GCC 2.9.5(?) Gentoo I'm currently using?
Just like the article states . . . When two sounds interfere, another sound which has the frequency of the difference between the two original sounds is produced.
Anybody who's ever played a musical instrument in a small chamber-type group is familiar with this concept. For myself, it was introduced playing with Gerald Webster, a fine trumpet prof we had at Willamette University for a year. If two notes are played, and both notes are in tune relative to each other, a sub-tone is produced which at first sounds like a buzz in your ear. With practice, you can actually discern that the buzz harmonically "makes sense" with respect to the interval being played.
The reason it was first discovered by in conjunction with high-powered notes from an organ is that the sub-tone is very low in volume. Think about the wave structure associated with a certain tone. Then superimpose your second tone with an equal volume, or amplitude. Find the difference, and the amplitude of the difference is going to be quite small compared with the original amplitudes.
if he has an Apex. Quite a few of the Apex's can do PAL or NTSC. The one I have does both, and this is accomplished simply by hitting a few buttons on the remote. No firmware hack involved.
The region encoding will require a firmware hack, but Apex firmware hacks are everywhere on the Net. I'd say there's a good chance Mr. Perens is going to use an Apex.
I hardly see the parent as being flamebait. The guy/gal prefers KDE over Gnome. As a matter of fact, I prefer KDE also, though damn KPackage crashes EVERY time in KDE 3. But seriously, BadmanX is stating he prefers KDE, thinks Gnome won't ever catch up. I think that's a pretty fair comment for a discussion about Gnome.
I would think that the potential for the satellite being damaged by space debris would be far greater on the moon. Think of all the pebble-sized meteors shooting through space which are harmelessly incincerated in the Earth's atmosphere. The moon doesn't have an atmosphere to burn any of these meteors up. Seems like a 100 meter mirror would have an awful lot of surface space just waiting to get dinged from those pesky meteors.
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my wife actually went out and bought my buddies and I a cowbell, stand to mount it on, and a drink holder that mounts on the same stand.
This article is spot-on. Typically there's a single blanket email address for customer complaints and compliments. Usually it gets forwarded to a manager.
Yes you can. Wireless NIC's do peer-to-peer in a mode called Ad-Hoc. You'd just need to bridge the two connections on the internet-connected computer and you're set.
What is so fundamentally different about 802.11 from other forms of networking that is making it so hard to secure?
I think you hit it on the head here. You don't have to have physical access to a wire. You could be 50 meters away from the AP and be able to access the network.
Another problem was with the first implementation of WEP. The 40/64 bit encryption is terribly easy to break, as is well documented. The 104/128-bit WEP is more secure, enough for casual use, but with enough packets sniffed, can be broken as well.
A lot of the vendors are coming out with proprietary security systems which greatly increase the difficulty level of unauthorized access. Cisco, 3Com, Linksys, etc.
But I agree with you. I do tech support for 802.11b products, and the vast majority of our users just don't use encyrption and leave everything in default mode. They don't change the SSID, they broadcast said SSID and set access levels to ANY, simply because they won't take the 5 minutes to setup MAC Access Control and 128-bit WEP.
Umm . . . not exactly. A large portion of that book was dedicated to the story of the SAS Major inside Kuwait coordinating an underground resistance. Not only that, but he was gathering "humint" from the courtesan of the Iraqi military official. In literature classes, you'd call this a polemic. I would have to argue that this book, besides being a great story, was Forsyth's polemic on the need for humint.
Yeah, they have a tech support call center out here in Beaverton just down the street from Stream (where I work). Apparently they took everybody into a room, unplugged all the phones, and sent them all home.
My dad teaches at one of the local schools down there (I'm in Portland now) and his class took a field trip to the Headwaters. He invited me along. This forest is outstandingly beautiful, even though most of the old-growth trees have been cut down already. Pretty much all that's left standing are the trees along the actual headwaters of the various creeks/rivers.
that any employment contract would forbid them from working on any of the XBox projects out there already, such as the XBox Linux Project, or from even disseminating any information they learn whatsoever. Maybe MS is trying to gut these projects before anything else is accomplished?
I share your many of your opinions. . .
Hope that helps. :-)
Speier's bill was designed to restrict banks and other financial companies from selling or disseminating information about customers' income and spending to third parties.
The banks already have most of your personal information. This is understandable, considering they provide credit cards, mortgages, loans, etc. Similar reasons apply for insurance companies. They need to know your personal info so they know how high your premium should be. This bill was designed to prevent said institutions from selling that information to third parties without express consent from the consumer. These institutions lobbied against the bill so that they can continue to sell this information to direct-marketing-type people. As much as I personally loathe this practice, it makes perfect sense from a business standpoint. They trade bits and bytes for hard cash. They don't give any physical resources, and they get cash.
yep. called The End of Eternity.
However, for those people out there who are unfortunate to run Windows at work (like me) I still think Launch is good service. And it's free.
I've found quite a few blues artists I've never heard of. You can skip tracks, and you can rate tracks, albums, or artists. Over time your personalized station reflects how you rate the three categories mentioned above. Plus, you can add specific artists or albums. And the quality is fine, as long as you have broadband.
I'm using Liquid as well, and love it. The desktop "feel" seems to have quicked as well. I highly recommend it.
Nearly correct, but a bit incomplete. It is because of the frequency of the microwave photon. The energy level of a microwave photon happens to correspond to the gap in energy levels between the ground quantum state of a water molecule and higher "excited" quantum states. The microwave photon collides with the water molecule. The water molecule absorbs the energy of the photon, causing it to "jump" to a higher energy level. Once enough of these photons are absorbed by enough water molecules, the average kinetic energy of the entire group of water molecules is raised, which in turn raises the temperature.
Rumor has it that the Gentoo folks are going to be releasing 1.4 during the Expo. They say it's going to be entirely built with GCC 3.2. Can anybody describe the benefits of a GCC3x release over the GCC 2.9.5(?) Gentoo I'm currently using?
SNOOD!
Anybody who's ever played a musical instrument in a small chamber-type group is familiar with this concept. For myself, it was introduced playing with Gerald Webster, a fine trumpet prof we had at Willamette University for a year. If two notes are played, and both notes are in tune relative to each other, a sub-tone is produced which at first sounds like a buzz in your ear. With practice, you can actually discern that the buzz harmonically "makes sense" with respect to the interval being played.
The reason it was first discovered by in conjunction with high-powered notes from an organ is that the sub-tone is very low in volume. Think about the wave structure associated with a certain tone. Then superimpose your second tone with an equal volume, or amplitude. Find the difference, and the amplitude of the difference is going to be quite small compared with the original amplitudes.
Hope that clears it up.
if he has an Apex. Quite a few of the Apex's can do PAL or NTSC. The one I have does both, and this is accomplished simply by hitting a few buttons on the remote. No firmware hack involved. The region encoding will require a firmware hack, but Apex firmware hacks are everywhere on the Net. I'd say there's a good chance Mr. Perens is going to use an Apex.
how many ./'ers are going to need to this IR LED treatment after checking their optical mouse to see whether it is in fact a laser. |-)
I hardly see the parent as being flamebait. The guy/gal prefers KDE over Gnome. As a matter of fact, I prefer KDE also, though damn KPackage crashes EVERY time in KDE 3. But seriously, BadmanX is stating he prefers KDE, thinks Gnome won't ever catch up. I think that's a pretty fair comment for a discussion about Gnome.
I would think that the potential for the satellite being damaged by space debris would be far greater on the moon. Think of all the pebble-sized meteors shooting through space which are harmelessly incincerated in the Earth's atmosphere. The moon doesn't have an atmosphere to burn any of these meteors up. Seems like a 100 meter mirror would have an awful lot of surface space just waiting to get dinged from those pesky meteors.