In case you haven't figured it out yet, college is a filter. In public school, you get everybody, from the brains to the guys who are going to peak out if they get to be a day manager at the self-serve gas place. In college, the lower end of the bell curve is absent, and the population is more appreciative of intellect.
You're lucky the school moved you out, even if it was for the wrong reason. You're also lucky you figured out what was going on and took advantage of it. Congratulations.
It's only 1 centimeter with post processing (the errors are made available the next day for correcting readings). The best that can be achieved immediately is 1-3 meter error, due to atmospheric affects.
That was Mountain Dew. It was actually considered a brilliant marketing move - give kids pagers for general use, but pay for them by advertising delivered via the pager.
If you remember back when Microsoft first unleashed TerraServer on the world, they made a big thing about how it was the largest online database (subject to a considerable amount of debate, see this old Slashdot article), and how well-suited NT was to handle it. Shortly after the site went live and melted down, MS upgraded the system to handle the hammering it got from the initial Slashdot effect. Either the/. effect has gotten worse, MS took some hardware away, or NT bit rot has set in.
Might be worthwhile to port Linux to one of these boxes! Bonus points for the student!
This would be the most extreme port possible, since the AS/400 security model is directly implemented in hardware. 64-bit native addressing, and the addresses include the drive space. Fully object oriented, again supported in the hardware. Check this site for info.
No, there's actually a concept of 'negative' energy, which is not the same as a negative delta in positive energy. I'm not clear on the difference myself, but there *is* a difference.
Hell yes, it's intentional. How does a text string that says "Netscape engineers are weenies!" wind up in a system DLL and make it through quality assurance checks without being intentional?
There was an article in a relatively recent Scientific American discussing wormholes and warp drives. At least according to that article, some of the situations required more energy than was available in the visible universe. There are also some situations that require negative energy, which nobody's figured out how to create yet.
If, by this definition, DeCSS is illegal, then the DVD players you get from department stores are just as illegal!
The movie vendors have explicitly licensed the DVD players, or rather the player manufacturers, which is why the players are legal. DeCSS was not licensed.
You need to find a better excuse. The round trip to the geosyncronous communications satellites is 750+ ms. That's why they are pretty much not used for phone calls any more, and for sure, not for the Internet.
es, and I've only seen one ISP (UUNet) which actually uses that as their primary address.
Sprint's Internet backbone is called sprintlink, and their address is sprintlink.net. And in Toledo, we have glasscity.net, and in Ann Arbor, ic.net and voyager.net.
No. A law can found unconstitutional by the Supreme court, which means it is illegal. When that happens, the law in question is immediately invalidated. Any convictions under that law are instantly voided, retroactive back to when the law was inacted.
If the difference between $30 and $113 is "...a pretty chunk of change...", then you must work for a really small company. Personally, while it might be a neat hack for home use, if RAID is that important to you, I'd really recommend something that can be supported.
Pseudorandom number sequences always have some period because the algorithms that generate them run on a finite amount of tape. If your computer has an infinite tape, it can generate pseudorandom sequeunces with no period.
I believe this is incorrect. Isn't really the case that pseudorandom sequences have a period because you absolutely cannot develop a random sequence with a deterministic process? It wouldn't matter how long the tape was.
There are a set of specs on how to do "content protection" via various encryption methods including elliptical curve algorithms. They are going private to avoid another DeCSS.
Seems unlikely. I took a quick look at the encryption specification (the "security" on that site pretty much sucks), and it generally concerns itself with communication protocols for key exchange. It talks very little about the actual encryption, and I didn't see any limits on key length.
Besides, if you've done any studying on crypto, you'll remember that you can't keep the algorithm secret - the algorithm has to be publically secure. The security comes solely from the key length and the quality of the encryption. If their encryption is any good, then public exposure of the algorithm is not a security hole.
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It's a twisted kind of logic. If your library has full internet access, then it attracts the guys who will surf porn. Those guys are the same guys that will rape young girls. Therefore, the guy was hanging around the library, just about to, or just finishing up, surfing porn, and in the mood to rape a young girl, and he found one. Logically, if you don't have full internet access, the guy wouldn't have been there since he couldn't get to the porn, therefore he wouldn't have raped the young girl there.
I'm afraid I can't agree on this one. It's one thing to talk about a denial-of-service attack, and even to demonstrate it. The early flood tools demonstrated that flaw just fine. But TFN doesn't acutally show us anything new about DoS attacks. It's sole "purpose" (if it has a legimitate purpose) is to demonstrate that the ultimate source of a DoS can be disguised, and we already knew that.
The problem is that moderating this kind of shit down burns moderation points that would be better used elsewhere, and there's a limited number of moderation points available. I realize that Rob & Co. don't like censorship, but I really think they need to step in and do something about this kind of crap and soon, or/. will become totally unusable. Suggestion: let more people become unlimited moderators.
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Yes, but that's including the postprocessing.
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You're lucky the school moved you out, even if it was for the wrong reason. You're also lucky you figured out what was going on and took advantage of it. Congratulations.
...phil
It's only 1 centimeter with post processing (the errors are made available the next day for correcting readings). The best that can be achieved immediately is 1-3 meter error, due to atmospheric affects.
...phil
That was Mountain Dew. It was actually considered a brilliant marketing move - give kids pagers for general use, but pay for them by advertising delivered via the pager.
...phil
If you remember back when Microsoft first unleashed TerraServer on the world, they made a big thing about how it was the largest online database (subject to a considerable amount of debate, see this old Slashdot article), and how well-suited NT was to handle it. Shortly after the site went live and melted down, MS upgraded the system to handle the hammering it got from the initial Slashdot effect. Either the /. effect has gotten worse, MS took some hardware away, or NT bit rot has set in.
...phil
This would be the most extreme port possible, since the AS/400 security model is directly implemented in hardware. 64-bit native addressing, and the addresses include the drive space. Fully object oriented, again supported in the hardware. Check this site for info.
...phil
No, there's actually a concept of 'negative' energy, which is not the same as a negative delta in positive energy. I'm not clear on the difference myself, but there *is* a difference.
...phil
Hell yes, it's intentional. How does a text string that says "Netscape engineers are weenies!" wind up in a system DLL and make it through quality assurance checks without being intentional?
...phil
This isn't a flaw - it's deliberate. It's no more a flaw than the flight simulator in Excel 97.
...phil
There was an article in a relatively recent Scientific American discussing wormholes and warp drives. At least according to that article, some of the situations required more energy than was available in the visible universe. There are also some situations that require negative energy, which nobody's figured out how to create yet.
...phil
Jon writes for Rolling Stone. When things are printed there, people *do* pay attention.
...phil
This isn't the first time this has happened. During the Gulf war, something very similar occured.
...phil
The BBC has no advertisements because there is an annual tax to own a television.
...phil
The movie vendors have explicitly licensed the DVD players, or rather the player manufacturers, which is why the players are legal. DeCSS was not licensed.
...phil
You need to find a better excuse. The round trip to the geosyncronous communications satellites is 750+ ms. That's why they are pretty much not used for phone calls any more, and for sure, not for the Internet.
...phil
Sprint's Internet backbone is called sprintlink, and their address is sprintlink.net. And in Toledo, we have glasscity.net, and in Ann Arbor, ic.net and voyager.net.
...phil
I've given up on Babblefish. www.freetranslation.com does a much better job. Running barrapunto.com through FreeTranslation gives a pretty readable result.
...phil
No. A law can found unconstitutional by the Supreme court, which means it is illegal. When that happens, the law in question is immediately invalidated. Any convictions under that law are instantly voided, retroactive back to when the law was inacted.
...phil
Beware false economy.
...phil
I believe this is incorrect. Isn't really the case that pseudorandom sequences have a period because you absolutely cannot develop a random sequence with a deterministic process? It wouldn't matter how long the tape was.
...phil
Seems unlikely. I took a quick look at the encryption specification (the "security" on that site pretty much sucks), and it generally concerns itself with communication protocols for key exchange. It talks very little about the actual encryption, and I didn't see any limits on key length.
Besides, if you've done any studying on crypto, you'll remember that you can't keep the algorithm secret - the algorithm has to be publically secure. The security comes solely from the key length and the quality of the encryption. If their encryption is any good, then public exposure of the algorithm is not a security hole.
...phil
It's a twisted kind of logic. If your library has full internet access, then it attracts the guys who will surf porn. Those guys are the same guys that will rape young girls. Therefore, the guy was hanging around the library, just about to, or just finishing up, surfing porn, and in the mood to rape a young girl, and he found one. Logically, if you don't have full internet access, the guy wouldn't have been there since he couldn't get to the porn, therefore he wouldn't have raped the young girl there.
...phil
The Internet hasn't been the government's network since the early '90s, at least. It's all phone companies now.
...phil
I'm afraid I can't agree on this one. It's one thing to talk about a denial-of-service attack, and even to demonstrate it. The early flood tools demonstrated that flaw just fine. But TFN doesn't acutally show us anything new about DoS attacks. It's sole "purpose" (if it has a legimitate purpose) is to demonstrate that the ultimate source of a DoS can be disguised, and we already knew that.
...phil
The problem is that moderating this kind of shit down burns moderation points that would be better used elsewhere, and there's a limited number of moderation points available. I realize that Rob & Co. don't like censorship, but I really think they need to step in and do something about this kind of crap and soon, or /. will become totally unusable. Suggestion: let more people become unlimited moderators.
...phil