"The solar spectrum consists of a continuum with thousands of dark absorption lines superposed. The lines are called the Frauenhofer lines, and the solar spectrum is sometimes called the Frauenhofer spectrum. These lines are produced primarily in the photosphere."
In words, Gauss's law states that "if you add up the surface integral of the displacement vector D over a closed surface S , what you get is the sum of the total charge enclosed by that surface."
I was taught this as a basic theorem in Physics, and thought it interesting as a tool. Then my girlfriend, who was far smarter than I, told me she was learning the same equation in Calc II, and that it could be proven using regular calculus (and had been proven, in fact, by Gauss, hence the name). I was stunned. Took me a week to come down off the glow.
OK, so you're drawing a line between "newborn spammer" and "SpamFriendlyISP" in order to make your point. If SPEWS had been invented in 1988, it would still have had to wait until spam became a problem before it could do squat. SPEWS depends on the existence of people who spam in order to stop other spam. It cannot stop spam/ab initio/.
(Misspelling "menorah" once is forgivable. Why on earth didn't you spell it correctly on your second post? The spelling does vary a bit, since the actual spelling of the word is in Hebrew letters; but there are a few generally acceptable transliterations - menorah and menora being the most popular - and you missed them all.)
A nativity scene and a menorah are not even close to being coequal in religious meaning, by the way. The nearest Jewish equivalent to the nativity, ironically, would be an image of the two tablets of the ten commandments. (Ironic because most Americans would not immediately realize an image of the ten commandments was meant to be a Jewish religious symbol.)
The point is, SPEWS cannot stop a newborn spammer; only one who has spammed in the past. In that sense, it does wait for spam to happen, at least once.
This is the exact opposite of the situation with lyrics, where the privileged parties in the music publishing business can sue anyone and everyone to prevent them from "publishing" even a fragment of a song lyric, even though the whole point of lyrics is to have them distributed as widely as possible.
You do realize that song was written by, and first performed and recorded by, Bruce Springsteen, I hope? That Manfred Mann's version was merely a cover (and IMHO an inferior one)?
To the best of my knowledge there is still no crack for the Xbox that doesn't involve hardware modification.
Please improve your pitiful knowledge. http://www.xbox-linux.org/>
Softmodding (modding with no hardware modification) is possible based on a few different methods. There are at least three games for which a savegame buffer overflow exploit is known. You can download a malicious savegame, load it from within the game, and linux boots. From there you can ftp anything you like to your hard drive. (This is the method I chose.) No hardware modification is required. Getting the savegame available to the XBOX can bit tricky. You can either buy an xbox memory card with one installed, or use a standard USB memory drive connected to the controller port -- the controller ports are standard USB with a different connector, but commercial USB adapters are available from real companies (i.e., companies with interests other than assisting you in softmodding).
Among the popular "permanent" softmods you can install onto the harddrive are font mods (buffer overflow in the font file that loads with the splash screen) and sound mods (buffer overflow in the sound processing code, for playing ripped tracks - the original MS software includes a CD ripper for inserting your own soundtracks into games that support it). (I chose the font mod).
Now that you have a mod on your hard drive, you can run unsigned code, including linux itself, alternate dashboards, or (my favorites) Xbox Media Center (not to be confused with the Media Center package Microsoft sells for Xbox) or Xbox-MAME.
A totally different way to go involves opening the XBOX, connecting its hard drive to a PC, loading linux on it, and putting it back in the XBOX. That could be considered "hardware modification" but it requires nothing more than guts and a few screwdrivers.
It wasn't so much that power corrupted, as that power attracted the corrupt and gave them even greater scope within which to practise their corruption...
That may or may not be what Orwell was trying to say; I think the Snowball/Lenin conflict was just a retelling of the Trotsky/Lenin conflict. However, my personal belief about power is that power itself corrupts, no matter how wonderful the possessor. Sometimes the corruption leads to the possessor's downfall before it leads to public harm (Carter, Clinton); sometimes the reverse (Nixon, GWB).
(Oops, did I just announce my political affiliation? So sorry.)
The other side of that coin is that Jews were often prohibited from doing many other jobs, or from owning land; moneylending and tax collecting were among the few allowed to them. And if Christendom had really thought moneylending was so evil, do you think they would have let the Jews do it for them?
I hadn't heard of Crzmblski's Limit, so naturally I went to Google to find out what it was... to my surprise, Google has already removed all references to it. So it must be fantastically important, so important that Google must hide it from the world... now I'm *really* scared.
Whyinhell would you use a block size of 515? Not only is it too small, it is neither a divisor nor a multiplier the sector size -- guaranteeing inefficient reblocking.
And if you should want a new subnet, you won't be able to get it without special arrangement (read: bribe) with your ISP. "But why would you want more than one subnet," I hear you ask. Lots of reasons; you might have more than one set of computers in your organization that need to be firewalled from each other...
When I realized, I didn't know whether the IPv6 protocols allow you to subnet a subnet that has been assigned to you. If your ISP hands you a 64-bit subnet, can you break that into 4 60-bit networks internally, like you would with classless IPv4? If you can, then my Overlords argument falls over.
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"The solar spectrum consists of a continuum with thousands of dark absorption lines superposed. The lines are called the Frauenhofer lines, and the solar spectrum is sometimes called the Frauenhofer spectrum. These lines are produced primarily in the photosphere."
-- The Solar Spectrum
Can't even paste the surface integral symbol into /.'s HTML restrictor ... see http://cnx.rice.edu/content/m1005/latest/ for a decent formatting.
In words, Gauss's law states that "if you add up the surface integral of the displacement vector D over a closed surface S , what you get is the sum of the total charge enclosed by that surface."
I was taught this as a basic theorem in Physics, and thought it interesting as a tool. Then my girlfriend, who was far smarter than I, told me she was learning the same equation in Calc II, and that it could be proven using regular calculus (and had been proven, in fact, by Gauss, hence the name). I was stunned. Took me a week to come down off the glow.
OK, so you're drawing a line between "newborn spammer" and "SpamFriendlyISP" in order to make your point. If SPEWS had been invented in 1988, it would still have had to wait until spam became a problem before it could do squat. SPEWS depends on the existence of people who spam in order to stop other spam. It cannot stop spam /ab initio/.
(Misspelling "menorah" once is forgivable. Why on earth didn't you spell it correctly on your second post? The spelling does vary a bit, since the actual spelling of the word is in Hebrew letters; but there are a few generally acceptable transliterations - menorah and menora being the most popular - and you missed them all.)
A nativity scene and a menorah are not even close to being coequal in religious meaning, by the way. The nearest Jewish equivalent to the nativity, ironically, would be an image of the two tablets of the ten commandments. (Ironic because most Americans would not immediately realize an image of the ten commandments was meant to be a Jewish religious symbol.)
The point is, SPEWS cannot stop a newborn spammer; only one who has spammed in the past. In that sense, it does wait for spam to happen, at least once.
Am I the only one who thought this meant it was going to run on a diesel-electric hybrid engine? Or maybe on hydrogen?
Exactly.
This is the exact opposite of the situation with lyrics, where the privileged parties in the music publishing business can sue anyone and everyone to prevent them from "publishing" even a fragment of a song lyric, even though the whole point of lyrics is to have them distributed as widely as possible.
For example, that is why the phone company can legally charge you to NOT publish your phone number.
But the phone company cannot sue me if I decide to publish my own phone number, for example on business cards.
You do realize that song was written by, and first performed and recorded by, Bruce Springsteen, I hope? That Manfred Mann's version was merely a cover (and IMHO an inferior one)?
No offense meant ... well, not much anyway. :) I was mostly trying for a Funny upmod.
BTW, I'm not the poster who met his wife online.
The first chipless linux boot was by Habibi in March 2003, announced April 1 IIRC.0 403019435.htm
http://www.geek.com/news/geeknews/2003Mar/gee2003
And xboxes can be connected to VGA.
http://www.google.com/search?q=xbox+vga
To the best of my knowledge there is still no crack for the Xbox that doesn't involve hardware modification.
Please improve your pitiful knowledge.
http://www.xbox-linux.org/>
Softmodding (modding with no hardware modification) is possible based on a few different methods. There are at least three games for which a savegame buffer overflow exploit is known. You can download a malicious savegame, load it from within the game, and linux boots. From there you can ftp anything you like to your hard drive. (This is the method I chose.) No hardware modification is required. Getting the savegame available to the XBOX can bit tricky. You can either buy an xbox memory card with one installed, or use a standard USB memory drive connected to the controller port -- the controller ports are standard USB with a different connector, but commercial USB adapters are available from real companies (i.e., companies with interests other than assisting you in softmodding).
Among the popular "permanent" softmods you can install onto the harddrive are font mods (buffer overflow in the font file that loads with the splash screen) and sound mods (buffer overflow in the sound processing code, for playing ripped tracks - the original MS software includes a CD ripper for inserting your own soundtracks into games that support it). (I chose the font mod).
Now that you have a mod on your hard drive, you can run unsigned code, including linux itself, alternate dashboards, or (my favorites) Xbox Media Center (not to be confused with the Media Center package Microsoft sells for Xbox) or Xbox-MAME.
A totally different way to go involves opening the XBOX, connecting its hard drive to a PC, loading linux on it, and putting it back in the XBOX. That could be considered "hardware modification" but it requires nothing more than guts and a few screwdrivers.
That's pre-1999, bub.
Oooh, ancient history!!! They met online in the last millennium! How could THAT happen, huh?
Fucking newcomers. I was meeting dates online in 1984.
(Well, all right, I didn't get that many dates.)
It wasn't so much that power corrupted, as that power attracted the corrupt and gave them even greater scope within which to practise their corruption...
That may or may not be what Orwell was trying to say; I think the Snowball/Lenin conflict was just a retelling of the Trotsky/Lenin conflict. However, my personal belief about power is that power itself corrupts, no matter how wonderful the possessor. Sometimes the corruption leads to the possessor's downfall before it leads to public harm (Carter, Clinton); sometimes the reverse (Nixon, GWB).
(Oops, did I just announce my political affiliation? So sorry.)
Using Cartman's "Oh Holy Night" erases any chance of a +1 Good Taste that ever existed.
It does grant a +1 Funny though.
The other side of that coin is that Jews were often prohibited from doing many other jobs, or from owning land; moneylending and tax collecting were among the few allowed to them. And if Christendom had really thought moneylending was so evil, do you think they would have let the Jews do it for them?
ObSF:
Heinlein, Robert. (1950). "The Man Who Sold the Moon." In The Man Who Sold The Moon. Chicago: Shasta Publishers.
I hadn't heard of Crzmblski's Limit, so naturally I went to Google to find out what it was
The developers tried to take it out but every time they tried the intellisense in Visual Studio "corrected" the "mistaken" alterations.
Just like Brian Kernighan's C compiler was trained to do
Whyinhell would you use a block size of 515? Not only is it too small, it is neither a divisor nor a multiplier the sector size -- guaranteeing inefficient reblocking.
Maybe IHBT.
Who's like us?
... and they're all dead.
Damn few...
<snore>
The joke was pretty lousy even without accuracy.
No, he had them arranged with 1,2,3 above 4,5,6. Go read TFA.
Perl is already Tolkienized -- just look at the start of every source file!
What, do you have to run it on a Tolkien Ring network instead of Ethernet?
"One Ring to rule them all,
One Ring to find them,
One Ring to bring them all
And in the darkness bind them."
When I realized, I didn't know whether the IPv6 protocols allow you to subnet a subnet that has been assigned to you. If your ISP hands you a 64-bit subnet, can you break that into 4 60-bit networks internally, like you would with classless IPv4? If you can, then my Overlords argument falls over.