The article tells us that the senate is moving for digital signatures that are as legally binding as a pen and paper signature. Does that mean that current internet documents that are "digitally signed + legally binding" are, in fact, NOT legally binding? (Case in point: the Napster-getting-unbanned-by-Metallica declaration?)
Does this mean that, in it's current state, a legally-binding, digitally-signed document does NOT exist?
Standing Up at 70,000 lb. Any animal has to be able to lift its own weight off the ground, i.e. stand up, with no more difficulty than Kazmaier experiences doing a 1000 lb. squat. Consider, however, what would happen to Mr. Kazmaier, were he to be scaled up to 70,000 lb., the weight commonly given for the brontosaur. Kazmaier's maximum effort at standing, fully warmed up, assuming the 1000 lb. squat, was 1340 lb. (1000 for the bar and 340 for himself). The scaled maximum lift would be a solution to:
1340/340^.667 = x/70,000^667 or 47,558 lb..
He'd not be able to lift his weight off the ground!
This makes so much sense.. I always wondered about that, ever since I saw Jurassic Park, with the T-Rex tearing along at like 100 km/hour chasing the jeep through the woods. Assuming the Rex is, say, oh 70 tons,
M = 70,000 KG V = 27.7 M/S
Kinetic Energy = 1/2(m)(v^2) = 1/2(70,000)(27.7)^2 = 26,855,150 J of energy
I still wonder if an animal that size COULD, in fact, exerpt that much energy. And even if it could, don't you think it would get tired, maybe start dragging it's stomach on the ground?
".. autostereoscopy can produce vivid lifelike 3D images."
Need I say more? MMM.. pr0n.. and in 3d.. My desire to leave the house is dwindling by the day! Maybe they're trying to prevent the geeks of society from reproducing..? =)
It's not too OLD to code, but rather too YOUNG..
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From my experience, you can never get too old to code. However, being too YOUNG to code, that's a whole different story.
I'm currently experiencing this -- I'm 18 years old, graduating high school this year. I am also a very talented coder -- both C/C++/etc and internet languages -- html/javascript/etc. Unfortunately, I can't get a "geek" job anywhere. Why? A few reasons:
I'm only 18 -- Not enough work experience for a company to justify hiring me. (My resume has tons of volunteer stuff, and letters of reference, for the record.)
I don't have a collage/university degree.
Believe me, getting the good geek jobs NOW, even though I am highly qualified, is insanely difficult.
Besides such obvious applications as medical imaging, prepress or photo archives enabled by JPEG2000's lossless-compression feature (meaning no pixels are lost in compression), experts said that where JPEG2000 truly shines for mass market applications is in wireless applications.
Excuse me.. have we forgotten the MOST IMPORTANT application? Think of just how high the quality of porn will become! I won't have to leave my room for weeks!:)
I'm curious.. what effect will the DOJ splitting up Microsoft have at all? From what I can see, there are 2 different outcomes possible:
Microsoft continues to develop Windows in it's Windows company, but still blends Internet Explorer in. After all, they will be (most likely) all working in the same building, and have access to everybody's source code.
Microsoft buys up Netscape from AOL, thus eliminating the whole anti-trust crap in the first place.
Seriously though, what exactly will it do? Microsoft's employees, from what I understand of it, talk to each other -- the OS team, the IE team, and the Office team -- so that they can interweave their applications together. What's going to stop them from doing it after the breakup?
SpamCop does a wonderful job of helping eliminate spam -- you just paste the headers and full body of any spam you recieve, and it chews through it, and reports the spam to the account's admin! It's VERY VERY cool! And free too.. check it out guys =)
Speaking Klingon (_NOT_ "Klingonese", I'm a Trekkie, and proud of it dammit!) is pretty easy =)
1. First, spend a few minutes thumping your chest and snarling. This language is mostly about attitude.
2. Say "Ha! Ha! Ha!" as loudly as you can to get used to forcing sounds up from your diaphragm. 3. The most important word to know is "Qapla'" (pronounced "kap-LA!"), which is a way of wishing people "Success!" Imagine at least five scenarios where you might say this and grunt it out as loudly as you can, putting heavy emphasis on the second syllable. 4. The second most important word to know is "putaQ" (pronounced "poo-tak"), which is a nicely general insult. 5. There, now you have a sentence, "Qapla' putaQ!" (I wish you success, you jerk!) Go up to someone you don't like, thump your chest, snarl, and grunt very loudly, "Qapla' putaQ!" 6. Run.
Also, there is an official Klingon/English, English/Klingon dictionary available, appropriately titled "The Klingon/English Dictionary" =)
OK, I know that I'm gonna be moderated down for being off-topic, but I have a quickie submission that didn't get accepted, even though I know the slashdot readers will enjoy it:
Humans have been using light and sound to achieve altered states of consciousness for thousands of years. Primitive cultures used flickering fires and rythmic drumming to induce these altered states. Today, you can choose from a wide variety of electronic brain-wave machines which use light and/or sound to alter brain-wave activity. Brain-wave activity ranges from fully awake to deep dreamless sleep. This activity is categorized into five primary groups: Beta, Alpha, Theta, Delta, and Gamma.
This site is intended to be used just as your own personal home Video recorder is currently used. That means you may NOT record and watch any shows which you do not already have access to or subscribe to in your own personal residence. You may use this only for your own personal viewing. These shows may not be copied, sold or rebroadcast. By accepting you agree to follow these terms and accept any legal responsibility for any violation of these terms.
Interesting.. aren't THEY coping and rebroadcasting the shows themselves?
Anyways, I'm a dialup user, so I'm used to super-slow load times, so the Slashdot effect doesn't really get to me much. From what I can see, the site is really well set up -- you say "OK, I want to record a show on.. Sunday!" and they give you a list of shows they can record.
.. Unfortunately, even a dialup user has his limits. The site has timed out on me several times, so I wonder how you would even watch the recorded shows properly. *Shrug*
http://www.brightmail.com is an excellent way to reduce the amount of spam that you recieve. They act as a gateway -- you set your mailserver to "mail.brightmail.com", your login to user%host.com (note the % and not an @), leave the pass the same, and check your e-mail.
I've been using their service (it's free) for around a year, and the amount of spam that actually reaches my inbox has been reduced to pretty much zero! Check them out; no more spam =)
.. so you can turn it off, and voila! No logs, no mess.. although, I'm sure that inetd or something (I, too, am showing ignorance) logs everything.. or wait, is that HTTPD?
.. now that I wasn't aware of.. I see so many companies advertising shells for the sole perpose is to run an irc bouncer.. *shurg*
As for the bouncing/encrypting, Zero-Knowledge Systems wrote a piece of software called Freed0m, which does just that. Of course there is a free trial available.. it's quite cool -- it acts as a proxy.. only with a gazillion (I'm guessing at the exact number) layers of encryption. Check it out, it's definately worth a look.
I don't know how (or even IF) you can spoof your IP addy when you are using napster, however, just get a buddy to run a Linux box, throw up a nice port bouncer, and spoof away! =)
CitizenC is AssMonkey@pm3-2-66.winnipeg.escape.ca
Becomes:
CitizenC is citizenc@owns.all.the.couriers.org
I'm sure there are other solutions out there.. but BNC is what I use for irc, plus it lets you use funky hostnames too =)
Reading the article, I a number of thoughts crossed my mind, most of them revolving around possible additional uses of the technology indicated:
* Allergy information on food -- I have allergies to several foods, many of which are life threatening. However, many of them are quantity based -- I can eat a small amount without getting sick, etc. I'd like to see a small handreader that could read a barcode similar to the above, and would instantly display exactly HOW MUCH of each ingrediant there is.
* Movies - Link me instantly to several online reviews, baby!
* Games - One swipe of the barcode, and my PDA will tell me what the latest version is, patches that are available, all retrieved online as I stand waiting in line at Future Shop, purchase in hand.
* Medical Information - RE: Allergies, (Above) I also wear a Medical Alert bracelet -- it lists all my allergies on it. What I would like to see is also have a little link that somebody could use to get emergency treatment information on the fly.
I read the article, and I must say, the technological implications is very VERY cool. Unfortunately, it hinges on people wanting to go out and buy a $300 (I'm guessing at the price) reader device, instead of just typing out the URL when the paper is sitting right next to you! I don't know about you guys, but I really wish I had that kind of cash to throw around.
Not to mention, I read most of my news online anyway.. *shrug*
AskJesus.Org, By TheSpark - An AskJeves Parrody
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The brilliant brains behind TheSpark.com have brought out AskJesus, a parrody of AskJeves. What the site does is a tad hard to explain.. just take a look at this thread, AskJesusified! I laughed my ass off =)
Ok, it was a bad example. However, I looked at the Mozilla source, smaller programs my friends wrote, and even basic.C sample programs from across the web, and it went right over my head. Sure, i'm not the BIGGEST, baddest programmer in the world, but I can hold my own.
People are reading the source code, but you have to be a 'black hat hacker' to understand it.
The gentlemen who wrote this article is brilliant -- there is no doubt it my mind, and he definately raises some interesting issues.
When I first installed Linux, I was.. not good at programming. Words like "compile", "./configure", and "make" were as forign to me as "Je parle francais comme une vache espanogle." ("I speak french like a spanish cow.") Once, I tried looking at the source code for BitchX. ONCE. The code itself was spread across a gazillion (I forget the exact number) files.
Now I DO know how to code. I'm taking my super-happy C++ coding classes in high school, so I know my way around a compiler and the like. So, after reading this article, I thought "hey, lets see if I can understand this NOW!" Guess what? It's still spaghetti code. I still can't unstand a stick of it, other then the PRINTFs and SCANFs. That's it. And I got a 98% in the class.
So I submit that it is not that nobody is reading the source for programs. Rather, TONS of people are reading it, they just don't know what they are looking at.
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The article tells us that the senate is moving for digital signatures that are as legally binding as a pen and paper signature. Does that mean that current internet documents that are "digitally signed + legally binding" are, in fact, NOT legally binding? (Case in point: the Napster-getting-unbanned-by-Metallica declaration?)
Does this mean that, in it's current state, a legally-binding, digitally-signed document does NOT exist?
.- CitizenC (User Info)
This makes so much sense.. I always wondered about that, ever since I saw Jurassic Park, with the T-Rex tearing along at like 100 km/hour chasing the jeep through the woods. Assuming the Rex is, say, oh 70 tons,
M = 70,000 KG
V = 27.7 M/S
Kinetic Energy = 1/2(m)(v^2) = 1/2(70,000)(27.7)^2 = 26,855,150 J of energy
I still wonder if an animal that size COULD, in fact, exerpt that much energy. And even if it could, don't you think it would get tired, maybe start dragging it's stomach on the ground?
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You say tomato, I say collage. Leeme lone. =)
.- CitizenC (User Info)
I'm currently experiencing this -- I'm 18 years old, graduating high school this year. I am also a very talented coder -- both C/C++/etc and internet languages -- html/javascript/etc. Unfortunately, I can't get a "geek" job anywhere. Why? A few reasons:
Believe me, getting the good geek jobs NOW, even though I am highly qualified, is insanely difficult.
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Seriously though, what exactly will it do? Microsoft's employees, from what I understand of it, talk to each other -- the OS team, the IE team, and the Office team -- so that they can interweave their applications together. What's going to stop them from doing it after the breakup?
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Of course there are OTHER is.god subdomains.. anybody ELSE have good ones? =)
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Check out a sample report that SpamCop generates!
.- CitizenC (User Info)
SpamCop does a wonderful job of helping eliminate spam -- you just paste the headers and full body of any spam you recieve, and it chews through it, and reports the spam to the account's admin! It's VERY VERY cool! And free too.. check it out guys =)
.- CitizenC (User Info)
Also, there is an official Klingon/English, English/Klingon dictionary available, appropriately titled "The Klingon/English Dictionary" =)
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Build Your Own Brain-Wave Machine!
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Interesting.. aren't THEY coping and rebroadcasting the shows themselves?
Anyways, I'm a dialup user, so I'm used to super-slow load times, so the Slashdot effect doesn't really get to me much. From what I can see, the site is really well set up -- you say "OK, I want to record a show on.. Sunday!" and they give you a list of shows they can record.
Hrm.. I wonder if I can use it to record pr0n =)
.- CitizenC (User Info)
http://www.brightmail.com is an excellent way to reduce the amount of spam that you recieve. They act as a gateway -- you set your mailserver to "mail.brightmail.com", your login to user%host.com (note the % and not an @), leave the pass the same, and check your e-mail.
I've been using their service (it's free) for around a year, and the amount of spam that actually reaches my inbox has been reduced to pretty much zero! Check them out; no more spam =)
.- CitizenC (User Info)
.. I recently registered my domain (www.planetq3f.com) through them, and the text contract that I got in the mail didn't mention this at all..
.- CitizenC (User Info)
.. so you can turn it off, and voila! No logs, no mess.. although, I'm sure that inetd or something (I, too, am showing ignorance) logs everything.. or wait, is that HTTPD?
.- CitizenC (User Info)
.. now that I wasn't aware of.. I see so many companies advertising shells for the sole perpose is to run an irc bouncer.. *shurg*
As for the bouncing/encrypting, Zero-Knowledge Systems wrote a piece of software called Freed0m, which does just that. Of course there is a free trial available.. it's quite cool -- it acts as a proxy.. only with a gazillion (I'm guessing at the exact number) layers of encryption. Check it out, it's definately worth a look.
.- CitizenC (User Info)
I don't know how (or even IF) you can spoof your IP addy when you are using napster, however, just get a buddy to run a Linux box, throw up a nice port bouncer, and spoof away! =)
CitizenC is AssMonkey@pm3-2-66.winnipeg.escape.ca
Becomes:
CitizenC is citizenc@owns.all.the.couriers.org
I'm sure there are other solutions out there.. but BNC is what I use for irc, plus it lets you use funky hostnames too =)
.- CitizenC (User Info)
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Reading the article, I a number of thoughts crossed my mind, most of them revolving around possible additional uses of the technology indicated:
* Allergy information on food -- I have allergies to several foods, many of which are life threatening. However, many of them are quantity based -- I can eat a small amount without getting sick, etc. I'd like to see a small handreader that could read a barcode similar to the above, and would instantly display exactly HOW MUCH of each ingrediant there is.
* Movies - Link me instantly to several online reviews, baby!
* Games - One swipe of the barcode, and my PDA will tell me what the latest version is, patches that are available, all retrieved online as I stand waiting in line at Future Shop, purchase in hand.
* Medical Information - RE: Allergies, (Above) I also wear a Medical Alert bracelet -- it lists all my allergies on it. What I would like to see is also have a little link that somebody could use to get emergency treatment information on the fly.
Does anybody else have any ideas?
.- CitizenC (User Info)
I read the article, and I must say, the technological implications is very VERY cool. Unfortunately, it hinges on people wanting to go out and buy a $300 (I'm guessing at the price) reader device, instead of just typing out the URL when the paper is sitting right next to you! I don't know about you guys, but I really wish I had that kind of cash to throw around.
Not to mention, I read most of my news online anyway.. *shrug*
.- CitizenC (User Info)
The brilliant brains behind TheSpark.com have brought out AskJesus, a parrody of AskJeves. What the site does is a tad hard to explain.. just take a look at this thread, AskJesusified! I laughed my ass off =)
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Ok, it was a bad example. However, I looked at the Mozilla source, smaller programs my friends wrote, and even basic .C sample programs from across the web, and it went right over my head. Sure, i'm not the BIGGEST, baddest programmer in the world, but I can hold my own.
People are reading the source code, but you have to be a 'black hat hacker' to understand it.
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The gentlemen who wrote this article is brilliant -- there is no doubt it my mind, and he definately raises some interesting issues.
.. not good at programming. Words like "compile", "./configure", and "make" were as forign to me as "Je parle francais comme une vache espanogle." ("I speak french like a spanish cow.") Once, I tried looking at the source code for BitchX. ONCE. The code itself was spread across a gazillion (I forget the exact number) files.
When I first installed Linux, I was
Now I DO know how to code. I'm taking my super-happy C++ coding classes in high school, so I know my way around a compiler and the like. So, after reading this article, I thought "hey, lets see if I can understand this NOW!" Guess what? It's still spaghetti code. I still can't unstand a stick of it, other then the PRINTFs and SCANFs. That's it. And I got a 98% in the class.
So I submit that it is not that nobody is reading the source for programs. Rather, TONS of people are reading it, they just don't know what they are looking at.
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.. that this proves, once and for all, that size does, in fact, matter ;)
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