The big advantage of a media pc is versatility. Many different wireless controllers/mice/keyboards. You can have some fantastic setups like uTorrent watching an RSS feed to auto-download your shows. Boxie watching your video directories and automatically adding the shows into your queue. Then you get in an argument with your GF about what movie that actor was in you can alt-tab google it and alt-tab back.
There was some of that in the new one but users didn't seem to have any real extra abilities. Any abilities a user might have were arcane, slow, and indirect. I would have enjoyed more direct manipulation of the simulation.
The original light cycles only did 90 degree turns while in the game.. they are supposed to be like normal bikes. I would say what we like in games has evolved more
We sure it's been DDOS'd? I checked my logs and moot posted late last night with this picture: http://imgur.com/bY2n4 It looks like he unplugged the 4chan servers?
Yeah, there are independent place around too, i can't recall the names though. In Louisville (the nearest big city) there are many little clothing shops. Especially along Bardstown Road. But to be honest, i think there are more independent shops in the cities than in the country towns.
In Farscape they were all searching for a way home (this should sound familiar to SG:U).
Farscape also had crazy drama with lots of in-fighting until an outside force threatened the crew. Then they banded together to defeat the enemy. The crew of Moya also fits the "wrong people at the wrong place" line as well.
Farscape is my fav scifi of all time. People forget how much drama the show had. Like two John Crichtons and one falls in love with Aeryn who of course dies leaving an extremely complicated love scenerio. Or when D'Argo finally finds his son and his son becomes fuckbuddies with D'Argo's wife-to-be. Or when Aeryn is pregnant with John's child and leaves "forever" without telling him about it.
I'm really enjoying the "fingerprint of god" thing they came up with. Hope they flesh it out a lot more. Most Stargate shows live from episode to episode and eventually run into a big enemy that turns into the long-term story/war.
I read that the writers have already created a 5 year story arc though.
Damnit syfy. It's a great show! Keep it on and make some money with it. I read that the writers already have five seasons written out with a true ending. People comparing SG:U to Galactica obviously weren't watching either show. SG:U is more like Farscape than BSG.
SG:U's timeslot was taken by WWE wrestling or something and moved to Tuesdays. Also a big portion of SG:U's fanbase doesn't watch it on normal TV. Syfy will either have to cater to mindless TV watchers or put the episodes on their website. I would pay 5-10$ for each episode as it comes out if i could watch it ad-free on my media-pc (without pirating). Having to wait 1-2 weeks to watch an episode on Hulu is stupid.. what tech-head is going to sit patiently and wait when they can torrent and watch it within 20min?
I'm actually really pissed if it's canceled. Listen to me, i'm in disbelief saying "if it's canceled". Fucking syfy.
In my area of KY there are plenty of smaller food and clothing shops too. In fact a new meat store just opened up mid-way between two walmarts. They sell local chicken eggs, fresh meat, process any kills you have (if you hunt), and they have a decent veggie section. There are also two farmer's markets within 10 miles of my house.
As far as clothing goes there is Kohls, JcPenny, Fashion Bug, TJ Max, Target, Carhartt and more. This is a small-midsize town. You can drive through the town in about ten minutes (if too many lights don't catch you).
I doubt KY is the only place like this. Abstrackt either lives within walking distance of Walmart and doesn't have a car, or maybe just crying wolf.
I think it's that way so a person can't write a good post, get modded up, and then put shockimage links into it afterwards. Refunding mod points is an option but after how long? Could sockpuppets mod themselves up and a few days later edit posts to get their points back?
I actually like the no-editing thing but damn does it attract spelling/grammer nazi's.
They aren't labeled by performance but by iteration and then performance. You could have a later iteration with less performance in some situations. If the marketing department was in charge, each card would be called Xtreme Surpra 9000 with no relation to previous cards in the title.. it would be worse.
Don't forget that the documents you can get from wikileaks could be altered or have redactions. If the source documents are still classified they cannot be mixed with the NIPRnet.
If the policy is to declassify documents that have been stolen and are publicly available.. someone with proper security clearance will have to diff the public doc to the classified one. A declassified copy is then placed on the unclassified network but the original remains. You can copy material from the unclassified network into the classified one, but not the other way around.
I however believe you to be correct, it is silly. But let me ask you this, if you worked with classified material on one computer and unclassified on another and classified material routinely popped up on your unclassified computer.. how stringent will you be with preventing classified material from transfering to your unclassified computer. There are surely second order effects to consider with the USAF's policy.
Yeah, i have the feeling that he's looking for someone who knows how shitty life can get. But most women i've met in poor countries are uneducated.. not as in they don't have college, as in the don't know anything at all (writing, math, astronomy).
The fact that it's an online dating thing means he wants a woman who came _from_ that environment but is no longer part of it. It really is a odd taste in women. He specifically wants someone from a shithole, not a mature girl with a great personality. I only read the summary but i'm reading into the details far too much as is. I'm sure my early 2000's dating profile is also stupid.
The difference is small to change the encryption method.
For example: echo crypt($password, $salt); This does "standard DES" and also SHA-512.. with no change in syntax.
The change would be: $salt = "$6$rounds=5000$usesomesillystringforsalt$";//for SHA-512 $salt = "xy";//for DES $password = "123456";
I wasn't trying to be offensive or a know it all, just that i'm a bit of a php fan and enjoy discussing anything security related.
My fav topic being.. stripping the $salt from the resulting hash and NOT storing it with the hash in the database. Using the salt as a serverside password of sorts (non-random). So even someone with a six letter password would still have the protection of a crazy long password (as long as the salt could remain secret). But if the salt was copied along with the passwd DB, a rainbow table could be built.
If crypt is off-hand for DES.. my appologies.. i don't travel in any IRL linux circles. I was just trying to defend the poor ancient crypt lib, hah
Crypt isn't that flawed and ancient. It can also do blowfish, SHA512, and SHA256. You can also force a number of rounds too, to make hashing much more time consuming.
LiveJournal (the creator of OpenID, if i remember correctly) doesn't require anything other than an email to sign up. My account is pretty old but i use it everyday. I have tried most "social" sites as they came out (geocities, LJ, friendster, myspace, facebook) but i always end up back at LJ : )
I use two desks, one for software and one for hardware. It helps if your programming cables can reach from your PC to your embedded device on the second desk. Even better if you have a rolling chair to quickly go from coding station to soldering station and back. Having the desks together in an L-shape works well for me.
You won't need much space on your solder station. I use a small tools bin (wire stripper, scissors, solder, ect), solder iron, fume sucker, 3rd hands thing/vice, and a bright lamp. Parts storage doesn't have to be very close to your hardware desk. For each project you'll have most of your part requirements planned out and you grab them all up at once and put it on your desk. For storage i use an open backed bookshelf with assorted tackle boxes and tupperware containers. A good supply of common parts is ideal. Having perf boards and portable power supplies is also great.. mostly to help get your projects out of your hackerspace for other people to see. Breadboarding is great but doesn't travel well.
I wouldn't worry too much about planning out the perfect workspace. Start with a computer workstation. Grow some workspace to fit a solder iron. Parts storage will fill up an unused corner of the space. It'll all organically come together. As far as power goes, two sockets is plenty. I keep a "danger powerstrip" on the hardware desk that is easy to turn on and off. When the strip is on, the lamp and solder iron are powered. So i know that if the lamp is on, the station is hot.
I think the problem is scale though. Volunteers have other jobs and are on call for emergencies (which should be rare). The larger the population, the more fire calls. Not to mention the complex situations that will come up. Chemical/Electrical fires and large building fires (need more water than what a truck can carry.. which means a fire hydrant system needs to be in place).
Critical services can be provided without government, you're right. But can you trust that part-time firefighters and police will arrive asap and save you, or your family, or your home if they are just volunteering to do so? What if the police officer doesn't like you? It's not his job to save you afterall, it's just his hobby.
I prefer paid professionals for critical services. Which means they are training how to better do their job when they aren't putting out fires or answering a call.
I also prefer critical services that aren't run as a business. Trying to squeeze the most ammount of work from the most minimal ammount of people. Getting the job done while spending the least ammount on equipment. I like redundency and spare assets while working in critical situations. Because shit breaks and people make mistakes. But you are right, there is a certain level of sanity required to prevent bloat.
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Ewww.. they would atleast have to be frosted piss flakes to get my attention.
It's running on my server at home, so i hope so ; )
A lot of vid cards come with hdmi these days.
The big advantage of a media pc is versatility. Many different wireless controllers/mice/keyboards. You can have some fantastic setups like uTorrent watching an RSS feed to auto-download your shows. Boxie watching your video directories and automatically adding the shows into your queue. Then you get in an argument with your GF about what movie that actor was in you can alt-tab google it and alt-tab back.
In support of my vid card statement, over 200 different cards: http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/Category/guidedSearch.asp?CatId=28&sel=Detail;236_1246_18861_18861
There was some of that in the new one but users didn't seem to have any real extra abilities. Any abilities a user might have were arcane, slow, and indirect. I would have enjoyed more direct manipulation of the simulation.
The original light cycles only did 90 degree turns while in the game.. they are supposed to be like normal bikes. I would say what we like in games has evolved more
Nevermind : / checked the status page.
We sure it's been DDOS'd? I checked my logs and moot posted late last night with this picture:
http://imgur.com/bY2n4
It looks like he unplugged the 4chan servers?
Yeah, there are independent place around too, i can't recall the names though. In Louisville (the nearest big city) there are many little clothing shops. Especially along Bardstown Road. But to be honest, i think there are more independent shops in the cities than in the country towns.
In Farscape they were all searching for a way home (this should sound familiar to SG:U).
Farscape also had crazy drama with lots of in-fighting until an outside force threatened the crew. Then they banded together to defeat the enemy. The crew of Moya also fits the "wrong people at the wrong place" line as well.
Farscape is my fav scifi of all time. People forget how much drama the show had. Like two John Crichtons and one falls in love with Aeryn who of course dies leaving an extremely complicated love scenerio. Or when D'Argo finally finds his son and his son becomes fuckbuddies with D'Argo's wife-to-be. Or when Aeryn is pregnant with John's child and leaves "forever" without telling him about it.
Both are good shows, imo.
They can't even give the SG:U cast notice. They were basically fired over twitter. F'ing Syfy man
I'm really enjoying the "fingerprint of god" thing they came up with. Hope they flesh it out a lot more. Most Stargate shows live from episode to episode and eventually run into a big enemy that turns into the long-term story/war.
I read that the writers have already created a 5 year story arc though.
Damnit syfy. It's a great show! Keep it on and make some money with it. I read that the writers already have five seasons written out with a true ending. People comparing SG:U to Galactica obviously weren't watching either show. SG:U is more like Farscape than BSG.
SG:U's timeslot was taken by WWE wrestling or something and moved to Tuesdays. Also a big portion of SG:U's fanbase doesn't watch it on normal TV. Syfy will either have to cater to mindless TV watchers or put the episodes on their website. I would pay 5-10$ for each episode as it comes out if i could watch it ad-free on my media-pc (without pirating). Having to wait 1-2 weeks to watch an episode on Hulu is stupid.. what tech-head is going to sit patiently and wait when they can torrent and watch it within 20min?
I'm actually really pissed if it's canceled. Listen to me, i'm in disbelief saying "if it's canceled". Fucking syfy.
Louisville?
In my area of KY there are plenty of smaller food and clothing shops too. In fact a new meat store just opened up mid-way between two walmarts. They sell local chicken eggs, fresh meat, process any kills you have (if you hunt), and they have a decent veggie section. There are also two farmer's markets within 10 miles of my house.
As far as clothing goes there is Kohls, JcPenny, Fashion Bug, TJ Max, Target, Carhartt and more. This is a small-midsize town. You can drive through the town in about ten minutes (if too many lights don't catch you).
I doubt KY is the only place like this. Abstrackt either lives within walking distance of Walmart and doesn't have a car, or maybe just crying wolf.
I think it's that way so a person can't write a good post, get modded up, and then put shockimage links into it afterwards. Refunding mod points is an option but after how long? Could sockpuppets mod themselves up and a few days later edit posts to get their points back?
I actually like the no-editing thing but damn does it attract spelling/grammer nazi's.
Sorry, i know this post is O/T.
The top half of your post reminded me of Battlestar Galactica (the ship in the show).
They aren't labeled by performance but by iteration and then performance. You could have a later iteration with less performance in some situations. If the marketing department was in charge, each card would be called Xtreme Surpra 9000 with no relation to previous cards in the title.. it would be worse.
I second Mount & Blade: Warband
Think middle age warfare simulation. I love brutal castle seiges and open plains cav battles.
Don't forget that the documents you can get from wikileaks could be altered or have redactions. If the source documents are still classified they cannot be mixed with the NIPRnet.
If the policy is to declassify documents that have been stolen and are publicly available.. someone with proper security clearance will have to diff the public doc to the classified one. A declassified copy is then placed on the unclassified network but the original remains. You can copy material from the unclassified network into the classified one, but not the other way around.
I however believe you to be correct, it is silly. But let me ask you this, if you worked with classified material on one computer and unclassified on another and classified material routinely popped up on your unclassified computer.. how stringent will you be with preventing classified material from transfering to your unclassified computer. There are surely second order effects to consider with the USAF's policy.
Sooo, some guy said it 10 years ago?
Yeah, i have the feeling that he's looking for someone who knows how shitty life can get. But most women i've met in poor countries are uneducated.. not as in they don't have college, as in the don't know anything at all (writing, math, astronomy).
The fact that it's an online dating thing means he wants a woman who came _from_ that environment but is no longer part of it. It really is a odd taste in women. He specifically wants someone from a shithole, not a mature girl with a great personality. I only read the summary but i'm reading into the details far too much as is. I'm sure my early 2000's dating profile is also stupid.
The difference is small to change the encryption method.
For example: echo crypt($password, $salt);
This does "standard DES" and also SHA-512.. with no change in syntax.
The change would be: //for SHA-512 //for DES
$salt = "$6$rounds=5000$usesomesillystringforsalt$";
$salt = "xy";
$password = "123456";
I wasn't trying to be offensive or a know it all, just that i'm a bit of a php fan and enjoy discussing anything security related.
My fav topic being.. stripping the $salt from the resulting hash and NOT storing it with the hash in the database. Using the salt as a serverside password of sorts (non-random). So even someone with a six letter password would still have the protection of a crazy long password (as long as the salt could remain secret). But if the salt was copied along with the passwd DB, a rainbow table could be built.
If crypt is off-hand for DES.. my appologies.. i don't travel in any IRL linux circles. I was just trying to defend the poor ancient crypt lib, hah
Crypt isn't that flawed and ancient. It can also do blowfish, SHA512, and SHA256. You can also force a number of rounds too, to make hashing much more time consuming.
http://php.net/manual/en/function.crypt.php
Here is example code & output copied from that link: ...
if (CRYPT_SHA512 == 1) {
echo 'SHA-512: ' . crypt('rasmuslerdorf', '$6$rounds=5000$usesomesillystringforsalt$') . "\n";
Standard DES: rl.3StKT.4T8M
Extended DES: _J9..rasmBYk8r9AiWNc
MD5: $1$rasmusle$rISCgZzpwk3UhDidwXvin0
Blowfish: $2a$07$usesomesillystringfore2uDLvp1Ii2e./U9C8sBjqp8I90dH6hi
SHA-256: $5$rounds=5000$usesomesillystri$KqJWpanXZHKq2BOB43TSaYhEWsQ1Lr5QNyPCDH/Tp.6
SHA-512: $6$rounds=5000$usesomesillystri$D4IrlXatmP7rx3P3InaxBeoomnAihCKRVQP22JZ6EY47Wc6BkroIuUUBOov1i.S5KPgErtP/EN5mcO.ChWQW21
LiveJournal (the creator of OpenID, if i remember correctly) doesn't require anything other than an email to sign up. My account is pretty old but i use it everyday. I have tried most "social" sites as they came out (geocities, LJ, friendster, myspace, facebook) but i always end up back at LJ : )
I use two desks, one for software and one for hardware. It helps if your programming cables can reach from your PC to your embedded device on the second desk. Even better if you have a rolling chair to quickly go from coding station to soldering station and back. Having the desks together in an L-shape works well for me.
You won't need much space on your solder station. I use a small tools bin (wire stripper, scissors, solder, ect), solder iron, fume sucker, 3rd hands thing/vice, and a bright lamp. Parts storage doesn't have to be very close to your hardware desk. For each project you'll have most of your part requirements planned out and you grab them all up at once and put it on your desk. For storage i use an open backed bookshelf with assorted tackle boxes and tupperware containers. A good supply of common parts is ideal. Having perf boards and portable power supplies is also great.. mostly to help get your projects out of your hackerspace for other people to see. Breadboarding is great but doesn't travel well.
I wouldn't worry too much about planning out the perfect workspace. Start with a computer workstation. Grow some workspace to fit a solder iron. Parts storage will fill up an unused corner of the space. It'll all organically come together. As far as power goes, two sockets is plenty. I keep a "danger powerstrip" on the hardware desk that is easy to turn on and off. When the strip is on, the lamp and solder iron are powered. So i know that if the lamp is on, the station is hot.
I think the problem is scale though. Volunteers have other jobs and are on call for emergencies (which should be rare). The larger the population, the more fire calls. Not to mention the complex situations that will come up. Chemical/Electrical fires and large building fires (need more water than what a truck can carry.. which means a fire hydrant system needs to be in place).
Critical services can be provided without government, you're right. But can you trust that part-time firefighters and police will arrive asap and save you, or your family, or your home if they are just volunteering to do so? What if the police officer doesn't like you? It's not his job to save you afterall, it's just his hobby.
I prefer paid professionals for critical services. Which means they are training how to better do their job when they aren't putting out fires or answering a call.
I also prefer critical services that aren't run as a business. Trying to squeeze the most ammount of work from the most minimal ammount of people. Getting the job done while spending the least ammount on equipment. I like redundency and spare assets while working in critical situations. Because shit breaks and people make mistakes. But you are right, there is a certain level of sanity required to prevent bloat.