Actually, that sounds like a pretty damn cool idea. Any reason one couldn't use a tattooing dye/ink that absorbed daytime light to glow in the dark/night? Has anyone ever heard of something like this being done?
Is there a substance that would, if applied in a tattoo-like manner, be non-toxic to humans but have a lifetime glow effect (even if it did need to charge in the sun). Hell, I'd pay extra for that.
Just a question, wouldn't a mouse be rather out of proportion to humans for testing heart-machines? How about something larger like a pig, etc? As a bonus, you could make bacon afterwards provided you weren't using weird chemicals on the animal too.:-)
I've looked into this from time to time, but overall it seemed quite a lot of trouble. Know any good places to find info on starting traffic-shaping with IPTables (I've heard it's easier on BSD, but I've too little time to switch my server over to that just yet).
Most store-bought routers do have the ability to manage, watch, or log the computers currently connected (by MAC and/or hostname). No reason one couldn't knock the neighbour off if he was overusing when you need it, or blacklist him if he's doign so consistently.
I think I'd rather come up to a compromise... have him create a shared folder with his downloads, and then let me leech anything I need.
What scares me more is my roomate, he has open writable shares on his open wireless connection... which was to make it easier in transferring files to/from other machines in the house (and with his brother). On the same network, I have a samba server which isn't as easily visible through his wireless router, and a wireless router of my own which is connected to a non-routing port (my server does DHCP), but doesn't broadcast SSID.
I don't mind if others connect to my WAP, but I don't care for making it 100% visible either. I also route all 'net traffic through my server, which handles the DHCP, etc rather than letting the wireless do so. If need be I could use a VPN for encryption or perhaps shape the traffic a bit... but so far nobody is really leeching much of our WLAN so I won't bother.
We have both noticed a lot of open networks in the area though, and I've considered that we do have a couple of motorola USB-wireless cards - which sucks dogmeat in windows due to crap drivers... "http://www.usr.com/products/networking/wireless-p roduct.asp?sku=USR5420"... (though not linux supported, should be usable if I paid the $20 for 'driverloader'). It might be fun to one day setup my server to round-robin the wireless connections in the neighbourhood, picking up strong WiFi and perhaps bleeding some of the excess P2P traffic off our own network in a "neighbourhood relay" of local volunteer networks. Overall if enough people joined in we might get an overall better speed by reducing saturation on any given connection...
Semi-OT, but I thought I'd pop it in as useful, since I'm surprised that KOffice can't open PDF (at least in read-only mode or something like that): you can open PDF or PostScript files in GIMP (I think it might require GhostScript, though). Useful if you receive PDF documents which you need to "sign" and "fax"... at least more useful than the "print, sign, re-scan, fax with faxmodem" method I used to use.
Still, I wish that there were a native KDE app that could handle adding/editing PDF's more natively, so that I could simply add a page signature as opposed to exporting each page to GIMP. Neither KOffice nor OO do that (and certainly MS-Office on windows does)
Not 100% true. I've had apps that were "pretty" but a whole lot less useful. In fact, quite often in many applications the prettiness (windows zooming around, animated icons, annoying bloody paperclips) gets in the way of the actual functionality.
For example, I've been reliving the "good ol' days" with ZSNes and GSnes (GSnes being a snes9x frontend). ZSnes has an interfaces which is independent of my windowing environment, so it doesn't get any of the fancy KDE/etc decorations etc. However, on closer investigation the menus are better laid out, and it performs better (uses GL acceleration, whereas the '9x openGL version has broken netplay).
All in all, between the two I'd rather choose the more usable/functional product, even if it isn't as "pretty." The same can be applied to OpenOffice, with part of the "usability" on an immediate basis being how close it is to MS Office for users who have been familiar with that product like.
One wonders that, if a backdoor were included, would not the NSA or whatever other organization then also want a copy *without* the backdoor. After all, it's one thing to know that it will let you into anyone else's machine, but another to have it possible for others to get into yours.
I think I'll have to find some special place where I can get a copy of "Vista - Professional NSA Edition"
Of course, in that copy there's probably a Syrian backdoor installed, but what the heck;-)
Well, here I am working in schools. Our elementary school labs are almost entirely linux. The kids actually quite like it, the teachers sometimes don't... or at least the older teachers. Now why is that... because people seem to dislike change at older ages.
Last time I setup a basic Open-Source lab (Abiword, OpenOffice, Firefox, GIMP, etc) the kids had figured out tricks that I hadn't even touched. They had gorgeous Impress (Openoffice program similar to Powerpoint) presentations, and were happily playing with penguin games. In fact, if there's anything the kids love about linux most it's the penguins... they draw penguin pictures, have stuffed penguin toys, play penguin games, etc. Of course OSS isn't just about Linux, there's BSD (which we also use) and even windows OSS applications as well (the aforementioned Impress was actually the windows version).
Going back to the games, it seems that in the OS world games are often more "wholesome" than many of the windows components. Of course, part of this is probably due to the fact that many popular linux games are based on old classics (Frozen-Bubble, SuperTux, Pingus == Arcade Bubble Game, Mario, Lemmings)... but that does tend to make it overall kid and/or educational-environment friendly.
I'll one-up you on that, how about it reads the latest investigative reports on political lobbying, or my old accounting textbook. Of course the outcome would still be the same (opponent's head explodes).
Correlation does not imply causation in most circumstances. Perhaps playing video games with violence will, in fact, set off some of the more unstable individuals to do something truely terrible... but then that might only occur if they play the game at the wrong/right time as opposed to watching a violent movie, playing cops'n'robbers' or any other number of things that might upset somebody in an unstable mental state.
I could have endless hours of antispam amusement if they shipped my antispam dance pad with one of the bigger spammers tied to the top of it. Stomping away at a spammer would be much more fun than stomping away at spam. Heck, for that I'd probably even invites my friends over, it's more fun than 'twister':-)
Actually, that would be a fun idea for a tech business where people know the slashot-eque moderation system. Have a shirt with various moderations where people can "mod" the things you do or say over the day. In the end, see if you have 5 checkmarks for -1 troll, and 10 for +1 Insightful:-)
OK, so let's get this straight. The first book in non-fiction, the second is a fictional story. For the first book to be non-fiction, it is (presumably) based on some fact or at least real-life events/evidence/etc that should have happened.
So therefore, what is to say that the "Da Vinci Code" is based on the book in question, rather than the realistic events that were earmarked by the book in question?
Hope you take good care of your disks, you won't be copying then due to Sony/Blu-ray's DRM...
Personally, I'll opt for whatever format hoses me over the least, and supporting Sony's DRM tendencies is probably one of the last things I'd want to do...
And how many books, movies, etc don't involve such a thing? Maybe not worlds, but quite often whole cities, continents, and sometimes beyond the world to the galaxy etc.
"Saving the world" has been a theme of books, movies, and even games for a long time.
IBM can afford it more than SCO can. And in the long term, Linux has become more visible. In the longer term, IBM willing the case may do a lot for the legitimacy of linux and/or its licenses, particular if IBM and various linux license holders decide to fire back. Having a big company like IBM outright support Linux is hardly a bad thing, reputation-wise.
Cellphone application, with internet in general, have had a bad history with me. Other than one phone I hacked up with some 3rd-party apps, the only time I've really managed to screw up a phone software-wise was browsing (on my providers site, for phone #'s I believe). Web browsers on phones are hardly a tried-and-true technology, and the thought of adding more software, and things such as AV software frightens me. There have been a few incidents where I've strongly linked poor behavior and errors not to viruses, but the hugely resident antivirus/security programs. In particular, the security suites from companies such as McAfee and Symantec as extremely intrusive... I'd hate to have to deal with something similar on a phone.
And to take it a bit further into the area of speculation... how soon after cellphone AV programs become common can we expect to see larger cellphone virus outbreaks. This wouldn't surprise me.
Really, so when an apartment of students hook up their broadband router and then have it taken down as "banned" hardware, it was because it was costing money?
I wonder if this is a situation where a USB drive would come in handy? Easy enough to take the thing and toss it in a secure place (vault, etc), and you could also use a secure filesystem on it, even if the OS filesystem were left open.
If a consultant had private data on the company... perhaps confidential shareholder information, personal information about management, etc... would the company then sue the consultant if he left his/her laptop unsecured and it was stolen?
I have a laptop for work, and I leave the damn thing in the office. Then, at least, I can't be held responsible for company property if my house were broken into. If I had strongly confidential data on the thing (other than a few encryption keys, which can be changed easily enough) I would probably stick an encrypted filesystem on it.
I was recently browsing through the various games, and found that many of them had "screenshots" that were 90% pre-rendered cutscenes. Graphics don't always count for much in my book, but it would be nice if I could at least see what the actual game was supposed to look like.
The practice of advertising with pre-rendered cutscenes and/or graphics is worse. The cutscenes are semi-understandable as the are part of the game, but using a rendered to make the game graphics far beyond what you'll see during gameplay on an actual PC is just evil.
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Actually, that sounds like a pretty damn cool idea. Any reason one couldn't use a tattooing dye/ink that absorbed daytime light to glow in the dark/night? Has anyone ever heard of something like this being done?
Is there a substance that would, if applied in a tattoo-like manner, be non-toxic to humans but have a lifetime glow effect (even if it did need to charge in the sun). Hell, I'd pay extra for that.
Just a question, wouldn't a mouse be rather out of proportion to humans for testing heart-machines? How about something larger like a pig, etc? As a bonus, you could make bacon afterwards provided you weren't using weird chemicals on the animal too. :-)
I've looked into this from time to time, but overall it seemed quite a lot of trouble. Know any good places to find info on starting traffic-shaping with IPTables (I've heard it's easier on BSD, but I've too little time to switch my server over to that just yet).
Most store-bought routers do have the ability to manage, watch, or log the computers currently connected (by MAC and/or hostname). No reason one couldn't knock the neighbour off if he was overusing when you need it, or blacklist him if he's doign so consistently.
p roduct.asp?sku=USR5420" ... (though not linux supported, should be usable if I paid the $20 for 'driverloader'). It might be fun to one day setup my server to round-robin the wireless connections in the neighbourhood, picking up strong WiFi and perhaps bleeding some of the excess P2P traffic off our own network in a "neighbourhood relay" of local volunteer networks. Overall if enough people joined in we might get an overall better speed by reducing saturation on any given connection...
I think I'd rather come up to a compromise... have him create a shared folder with his downloads, and then let me leech anything I need.
What scares me more is my roomate, he has open writable shares on his open wireless connection... which was to make it easier in transferring files to/from other machines in the house (and with his brother). On the same network, I have a samba server which isn't as easily visible through his wireless router, and a wireless router of my own which is connected to a non-routing port (my server does DHCP), but doesn't broadcast SSID.
I don't mind if others connect to my WAP, but I don't care for making it 100% visible either. I also route all 'net traffic through my server, which handles the DHCP, etc rather than letting the wireless do so. If need be I could use a VPN for encryption or perhaps shape the traffic a bit... but so far nobody is really leeching much of our WLAN so I won't bother.
We have both noticed a lot of open networks in the area though, and I've considered that we do have a couple of motorola USB-wireless cards - which sucks dogmeat in windows due to crap drivers... "http://www.usr.com/products/networking/wireless-
Semi-OT, but I thought I'd pop it in as useful, since I'm surprised that KOffice can't open PDF (at least in read-only mode or something like that): you can open PDF or PostScript files in GIMP (I think it might require GhostScript, though). Useful if you receive PDF documents which you need to "sign" and "fax"... at least more useful than the "print, sign, re-scan, fax with faxmodem" method I used to use.
Still, I wish that there were a native KDE app that could handle adding/editing PDF's more natively, so that I could simply add a page signature as opposed to exporting each page to GIMP. Neither KOffice nor OO do that (and certainly MS-Office on windows does)
Not 100% true. I've had apps that were "pretty" but a whole lot less useful. In fact, quite often in many applications the prettiness (windows zooming around, animated icons, annoying bloody paperclips) gets in the way of the actual functionality.
For example, I've been reliving the "good ol' days" with ZSNes and GSnes (GSnes being a snes9x frontend). ZSnes has an interfaces which is independent of my windowing environment, so it doesn't get any of the fancy KDE/etc decorations etc. However, on closer investigation the menus are better laid out, and it performs better (uses GL acceleration, whereas the '9x openGL version has broken netplay).
All in all, between the two I'd rather choose the more usable/functional product, even if it isn't as "pretty." The same can be applied to OpenOffice, with part of the "usability" on an immediate basis being how close it is to MS Office for users who have been familiar with that product like.
One wonders that, if a backdoor were included, would not the NSA or whatever other organization then also want a copy *without* the backdoor. After all, it's one thing to know that it will let you into anyone else's machine, but another to have it possible for others to get into yours.
;-)
I think I'll have to find some special place where I can get a copy of "Vista - Professional NSA Edition" Of course, in that copy there's probably a Syrian backdoor installed, but what the heck
How about if you put one of the keywords in the channel name, how would affected machines behave on getting a listing or joining the channel?
It's better if you can see it... but I suppose having the computer hooked to a projected scoreboard or something like that would be equally amusing.
Well, here I am working in schools. Our elementary school labs are almost entirely linux. The kids actually quite like it, the teachers sometimes don't... or at least the older teachers. Now why is that... because people seem to dislike change at older ages.
Last time I setup a basic Open-Source lab (Abiword, OpenOffice, Firefox, GIMP, etc) the kids had figured out tricks that I hadn't even touched. They had gorgeous Impress (Openoffice program similar to Powerpoint) presentations, and were happily playing with penguin games. In fact, if there's anything the kids love about linux most it's the penguins... they draw penguin pictures, have stuffed penguin toys, play penguin games, etc. Of course OSS isn't just about Linux, there's BSD (which we also use) and even windows OSS applications as well (the aforementioned Impress was actually the windows version).
Going back to the games, it seems that in the OS world games are often more "wholesome" than many of the windows components. Of course, part of this is probably due to the fact that many popular linux games are based on old classics (Frozen-Bubble, SuperTux, Pingus == Arcade Bubble Game, Mario, Lemmings)... but that does tend to make it overall kid and/or educational-environment friendly.
I'll one-up you on that, how about it reads the latest investigative reports on political lobbying, or my old accounting textbook. Of course the outcome would still be the same (opponent's head explodes).
Correlation does not imply causation in most circumstances. Perhaps playing video games with violence will, in fact, set off some of the more unstable individuals to do something truely terrible... but then that might only occur if they play the game at the wrong/right time as opposed to watching a violent movie, playing cops'n'robbers' or any other number of things that might upset somebody in an unstable mental state.
I could have endless hours of antispam amusement if they shipped my antispam dance pad with one of the bigger spammers tied to the top of it. Stomping away at a spammer would be much more fun than stomping away at spam. Heck, for that I'd probably even invites my friends over, it's more fun than 'twister' :-)
Actually, that would be a fun idea for a tech business where people know the slashot-eque moderation system. Have a shirt with various moderations where people can "mod" the things you do or say over the day. In the end, see if you have 5 checkmarks for -1 troll, and 10 for +1 Insightful :-)
OK, so let's get this straight. The first book in non-fiction, the second is a fictional story. For the first book to be non-fiction, it is (presumably) based on some fact or at least real-life events/evidence/etc that should have happened.
So therefore, what is to say that the "Da Vinci Code" is based on the book in question, rather than the realistic events that were earmarked by the book in question?
Hope you take good care of your disks, you won't be copying then due to Sony/Blu-ray's DRM...
Personally, I'll opt for whatever format hoses me over the least, and supporting Sony's DRM tendencies is probably one of the last things I'd want to do...
And how many books, movies, etc don't involve such a thing? Maybe not worlds, but quite often whole cities, continents, and sometimes beyond the world to the galaxy etc.
"Saving the world" has been a theme of books, movies, and even games for a long time.
IBM can afford it more than SCO can. And in the long term, Linux has become more visible. In the longer term, IBM willing the case may do a lot for the legitimacy of linux and/or its licenses, particular if IBM and various linux license holders decide to fire back. Having a big company like IBM outright support Linux is hardly a bad thing, reputation-wise.
Cellphone application, with internet in general, have had a bad history with me. Other than one phone I hacked up with some 3rd-party apps, the only time I've really managed to screw up a phone software-wise was browsing (on my providers site, for phone #'s I believe). Web browsers on phones are hardly a tried-and-true technology, and the thought of adding more software, and things such as AV software frightens me. There have been a few incidents where I've strongly linked poor behavior and errors not to viruses, but the hugely resident antivirus/security programs. In particular, the security suites from companies such as McAfee and Symantec as extremely intrusive... I'd hate to have to deal with something similar on a phone.
And to take it a bit further into the area of speculation... how soon after cellphone AV programs become common can we expect to see larger cellphone virus outbreaks. This wouldn't surprise me.
I'm sure they could have come up with another reason for not implementing it themselves, but by making it a ban nobody can implement any wireless.
Really, so when an apartment of students hook up their broadband router and then have it taken down as "banned" hardware, it was because it was costing money?
I wonder if this is a situation where a USB drive would come in handy? Easy enough to take the thing and toss it in a secure place (vault, etc), and you could also use a secure filesystem on it, even if the OS filesystem were left open.
If a consultant had private data on the company... perhaps confidential shareholder information, personal information about management, etc... would the company then sue the consultant if he left his/her laptop unsecured and it was stolen?
I have a laptop for work, and I leave the damn thing in the office. Then, at least, I can't be held responsible for company property if my house were broken into. If I had strongly confidential data on the thing (other than a few encryption keys, which can be changed easily enough) I would probably stick an encrypted filesystem on it.
I was recently browsing through the various games, and found that many of them had "screenshots" that were 90% pre-rendered cutscenes. Graphics don't always count for much in my book, but it would be nice if I could at least see what the actual game was supposed to look like.
The practice of advertising with pre-rendered cutscenes and/or graphics is worse. The cutscenes are semi-understandable as the are part of the game, but using a rendered to make the game graphics far beyond what you'll see during gameplay on an actual PC is just evil.
Or the could use AOL broadband... which just makes them doubly scary (10x the bandwidth, 1/10 the brains!)