"judging by the fact that it looks like there is still double sided tape on the opposite side to the camera hole" - so if the double sided tape was on the same side as the camera hole, where would it have been mounted??
I am yet to see a private key style card system that could not be coaxed into seeding subtle bit errors into the authentication encryption through microwave/thermal interference. This can then be used to interpolate the private key.
It would raise the bar, but I don't believe it would prevent the attachment of card readers. They may however need a number of samples, so it could restrict it to regular users of the installation.
Who says they are "non-profit(sic) sales teams"? You don't think the Initiative for Software Choice doesn't get a kickback for scuttling another Open Source bill?
Having friends within the ATO I can tell you with certainty that no savings will be passed on to the public.
That said, we may incur LESS additional budget bloat (a fixture since the introduction of GST and the complete farce of it's implementation).
Nah, disagree completely. It is semantic hair splitting though... Belief has no place in science - only confidence. Belief in a possibility (ie. theory/hypothesis) is an obvious oxymoron.
You say they 'believe', then call it a hypothesis - one is faith the other is science.
"otherwise those huge systems of galaxies don't obey Newton's laws" - As the story notes, the proposed dark matter is related to Einstein's cosmological constant. Now as to why Einstein 'believed'(sic) in it? Because that is what observation showed. The question here is why and is it truly constant.
"It does feel a bit like Ether to me to introduce a form of matter/energy which has never been measured at all." - Now that I can agree with.
In my usual agnostic way, I am certain that dark matter might exist.
Ok so what the original poster wants is software that you can run on faulty hardware and ALWAYS diagnose the fault correctly.
Sounds like using the internet to download the modem drivers you need to connect to the internet...
Memtest will indeed fail to detect some failures on some memory chips as it requires a high degree of knowledge regarding the bit/cell alignments within the silicon. ie. write to a bit, write to a adjacent(sic) bits and then check the original bit has not been corrupted by the adjacent writes. To do this memtest has to guess (or try a range of algorithms?) that will hopefully find MOST flaws.
Ouch Kisrael, as long as everyone will be happier apart then good luck to you... I get the feeling gaming was one issue amongst many...
I go through this exact issue every night with my wife. We finally get the kids to sleep and sit down for "quality time" and she watches the goddamn idiot box (tv).
Now I enjoy the odd show or two, but in general I would much rather be programming, writing, playing/writing music, stuffing about on/. or basically anything more mentally stimulating than "Reality TV XXVIII - Big brother pop star survivor celebrity average joe extravaganza".
However if I sit at my computer (2 metres away from the couch/tv) then I am ignoring/neglecting her needs, or have a mistress, or love my computer more than her, or etc.
The upshot of all this is: wake-up, get kids ready and play with them till I leave for work, work all day, come home and feed/bathe kids, get them ready for bed, sit in front of the TV watching shit I couldn't care less about, go to bed(sic), wait till wife falls asleep and get up so I can have some time to myself. Really helps my insomnia...
Ozymandias I met a traveller from an antique land,
Who said -- "two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert... near them, on the sand,
Half sunk a shattered visage lies, whose frown,
And wrinkled lips, and sneer of cold command,
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed;
And on the pedestal these words appear:
My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings,
Look on my Works ye Mighty, and despair!
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal Wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away."
Did anyone else (mis)read it as: "Comic Book Guy Physics"???
I had visions of algorithms used to model the cyclic tidal ripples of fat, a sweat/clothing border distribution theorem, statistical analysis of taco/time samples, and linear regression of "Worst ever" comments with respect to Bart displacement.
I'll continue the chain of back-slapping adulation here and say the parent is correct.
I have two kids and rarely get more than a few consecutive minutes per day to amuse myself.
Yet the number of games that allow you to achieve anything rewarding/diistracting in 2-3 minutes are few and far between. Most could barely load the savegame in that amount of time.
My current favourite is Petite Copter for XBox as I can jump into it in seconds and it requires deep concentration to fly with flair.
Of course I was forced to pirate it as it was only released in Japan... couldn't even find a mail order. I can only assume it was restricted to the japanese market as it is: a) Short, b) Difficult (initially), and c) Doesn't take 2 months and 14 days of solid playing to feel rewarding (Morrowind anyone?).
Why the hell can't people just make small fun games, slap them on a disc and sell for 20% usual game price? No, you have to get the small fun game and add bloat till it is a large crap game - but it takes months to finish so we can demand $100 bucks for it...
The average gamer demographic is no longer the male teenager with zero responsibilities and ample spare time. The publishing houses need to wake up to themselves.
Most people would probably want to edit their named.ca hint file, not the resolv.conf.
I was trying to think of the further ramifications of recommending this change: increased load on the remaining servers (which we can do little about... except maybe by creating a commercial service where we hijack users enquiries and... no wait), increased latency for some users querying some domains, and marginally increased vulnerability to DDoS attacks.
It brings to mind the famous quote: "The Internet interprets censorship as damage and routes around it."
-- L. Peter Deutsch
Some of the servers at work have verbal POST errors.
It is a bit unnerving when you are fixing something late at night, boot the fixed(sic) server while getting distracted with something else, and suddenly there is a woman just behind your ear saying "Replace the CPU!".
Terminals are service providers - at least in Australia - they charge airlines a "rental fee" for each gate at the terminal. They have a variety of rental models: leases, pay per use, etc. Hence they can easily recoup the costs involved (some would say it is even easier as they tend to monopolise the only major airport in a city...).
Immediate access to US markets for all manufactured goods and services;
Elimination of tariffs on exports to the US of wheat, other cereal crops and minerals;
Almost all tariffs to be removed from manufactured exports and the automotive industry;
Sixty-six per cent of agriculture tariffs to go;
The right to maintain local content rules in broadcasting and film;
Maintenance of the hotly contested Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme, although a committee will continue dialogue on health policy.
The United States will:
Maintain full tariffs on Australian sugar imports;
Maintain partial protection for its beef and dairy industries, with above-quota tariffs for beef not phased out for 18 years and an above-quota tariff allowed to remain on dairy;
Enjoy open access to all of Australia's agricultural, manufacturing and service sectors.
It does appear there have been additional concessions made by Howard that are not being made known to the Australian public. It is only through the American spokepeople that we are aware of these concessions at all.
It has not yet been ratified by parliament, and the opposition is promising to block it in the Senate in it's current form.
You could probably reduce atmospheric distorion of the final image.
I'm not sure it would be useful for amateurs, but I would think it could be used to achieve Hubble-esque pictures from earth (excluding atmospheric absorbtion bands).
That said, I have seen some interesting arrangements with lasers and image processing trickery to partially compensate for the "ripple and smear".
I seem to recall a very early translation of the Pythagorean (quasi-religious) text regarding the use of strings for the construction of triangles, right angles, etc. Ring any bells for anyone else?
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It would raise the bar, but I don't believe it would prevent the attachment of card readers. They may however need a number of samples, so it could restrict it to regular users of the installation.
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Having friends within the ATO I can tell you with certainty that no savings will be passed on to the public.
That said, we may incur LESS additional budget bloat (a fixture since the introduction of GST and the complete farce of it's implementation).
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You say they 'believe', then call it a hypothesis - one is faith the other is science.
"otherwise those huge systems of galaxies don't obey Newton's laws" - As the story notes, the proposed dark matter is related to Einstein's cosmological constant. Now as to why Einstein 'believed'(sic) in it? Because that is what observation showed. The question here is why and is it truly constant.
"It does feel a bit like Ether to me to introduce a form of matter/energy which has never been measured at all." - Now that I can agree with.
In my usual agnostic way, I am certain that dark matter might exist.
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Sounds like using the internet to download the modem drivers you need to connect to the internet...
Memtest will indeed fail to detect some failures on some memory chips as it requires a high degree of knowledge regarding the bit/cell alignments within the silicon. ie. write to a bit, write to a adjacent(sic) bits and then check the original bit has not been corrupted by the adjacent writes. To do this memtest has to guess (or try a range of algorithms?) that will hopefully find MOST flaws.
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I go through this exact issue every night with my wife. We finally get the kids to sleep and sit down for "quality time" and she watches the goddamn idiot box (tv).
Now I enjoy the odd show or two, but in general I would much rather be programming, writing, playing/writing music, stuffing about on /. or basically anything more mentally stimulating than "Reality TV XXVIII - Big brother pop star survivor celebrity average joe extravaganza".
However if I sit at my computer (2 metres away from the couch/tv) then I am ignoring/neglecting her needs, or have a mistress, or love my computer more than her, or etc.
The upshot of all this is: wake-up, get kids ready and play with them till I leave for work, work all day, come home and feed/bathe kids, get them ready for bed, sit in front of the TV watching shit I couldn't care less about, go to bed(sic), wait till wife falls asleep and get up so I can have some time to myself. Really helps my insomnia...
No wonder I never play games any more...
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Ozymandias
I met a traveller from an antique land,
Who said -- "two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert
Half sunk a shattered visage lies, whose frown,
And wrinkled lips, and sneer of cold command,
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed;
And on the pedestal these words appear:
My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings,
Look on my Works ye Mighty, and despair!
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal Wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away."
-- Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822)
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I had visions of algorithms used to model the cyclic tidal ripples of fat, a sweat/clothing border distribution theorem, statistical analysis of taco/time samples, and linear regression of "Worst ever" comments with respect to Bart displacement.
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I have two kids and rarely get more than a few consecutive minutes per day to amuse myself.
Yet the number of games that allow you to achieve anything rewarding/diistracting in 2-3 minutes are few and far between. Most could barely load the savegame in that amount of time.
My current favourite is Petite Copter for XBox as I can jump into it in seconds and it requires deep concentration to fly with flair.
Of course I was forced to pirate it as it was only released in Japan... couldn't even find a mail order. I can only assume it was restricted to the japanese market as it is: a) Short, b) Difficult (initially), and c) Doesn't take 2 months and 14 days of solid playing to feel rewarding (Morrowind anyone?).
Why the hell can't people just make small fun games, slap them on a disc and sell for 20% usual game price? No, you have to get the small fun game and add bloat till it is a large crap game - but it takes months to finish so we can demand $100 bucks for it...
The average gamer demographic is no longer the male teenager with zero responsibilities and ample spare time. The publishing houses need to wake up to themselves.
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Now THAT'S how you hype a movie. :)
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I was trying to think of the further ramifications of recommending this change: increased load on the remaining servers (which we can do little about... except maybe by creating a commercial service where we hijack users enquiries and... no wait), increased latency for some users querying some domains, and marginally increased vulnerability to DDoS attacks.
It brings to mind the famous quote:
"The Internet interprets censorship as damage and routes around it."
-- L. Peter Deutsch
The latest named.ca is available from here.
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It is a bit unnerving when you are fixing something late at night, boot the fixed(sic) server while getting distracted with something else, and suddenly there is a woman just behind your ear saying "Replace the CPU!".
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The long and the short of it was that the ENTIRE contract could have been invalidated by me...
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But the game was crap!
I hope you can get the source and compiler, or at least get the specs. It really doesn't do the hardware justice.
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For Australia, the agreement includes:
- Immediate access to US markets for all manufactured goods and services;
- Elimination of tariffs on exports to the US of wheat, other cereal crops and minerals;
- Almost all tariffs to be removed from manufactured exports and the automotive industry;
- Sixty-six per cent of agriculture tariffs to go;
- The right to maintain local content rules in broadcasting and film;
- Maintenance of the hotly contested Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme, although a committee will continue dialogue on health policy.
The United States will:It does appear there have been additional concessions made by Howard that are not being made known to the Australian public. It is only through the American spokepeople that we are aware of these concessions at all.
It has not yet been ratified by parliament, and the opposition is promising to block it in the Senate in it's current form.
We will see...
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I'm not sure it would be useful for amateurs, but I would think it could be used to achieve Hubble-esque pictures from earth (excluding atmospheric absorbtion bands).
That said, I have seen some interesting arrangements with lasers and image processing trickery to partially compensate for the "ripple and smear".
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It's not that they can't do it so much as it costs some postage...
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