FOAF looks too complicated for the vast majority of people. Nearly the entire population of universities are on Facebook, not just the CS department (who seem to dislike social networking anyway).
Facebook profiles tend to include cell phone numbers, emails and IM screennames. You can't look those up anywhere yet they're the best way to reach many people.
why do you want to hide the fact they can't drive the car? You want to advertise that! Like a bright red club does. My uncle has a lock on his manual shifter that makes it impossible to get it out of reverse. Any punk can see it before they break his window.
Agreed. I'm still amused by Sealand, a "country" that consists of an old British WWII radar platform a few miles off the coast of England. A rich guy bought it and declared independence, naming the platform a principality (himself as prince). There were even a few skirmishes with British law, but the Brits decided to let the guy do his thing and didn't bother them unless he tried to be a prick.
But there's this one German dude. He got it in his head to invade. Using an inflatable dinghy. I think he was even successful, single handedly overthrowing the prince. All was well until he got bored and left.
Now the "country" is for sale and the pirate bay expressed interest so they can use it as a safe-from-legal-threats datacenter location.
I don't understand this setup at all. Why the heck have Xorg drivers instead of straight Linux drivers? It seems that having a framebuffer-type layer that any GUI system could take advantage of would make a whole lot more sense than having the X server control everything. Does no one remember the XFree86 to Xorg switch and how everyone was whining to nVidia because they didn't have Xorg drivers ready right away? Besides, having video drivers depend on X cripples competing systems by forcing them to duplicate work and thus reduces effective Freedom(tm) to switch. This is like printing support used to mean your printer had to be supported by WordPerfect or whatever program you wanted to print from.
what do you mean burn up? The sparks you see when you leave a fork in the microwave are just that: sparks. The fork is safe. That said, while the light show may look menacing, it doesn't hurt the magnetron UNLESS the fork is touching one of the walls and hence has a path to the magnetron. So sticking a wire on a tray in the middle is ok.
The thing is, things don't stay fixed. The same old problems constantly get revisited when someone looks at something semi-widely accepted and decides the code is too ugly and makes a rewrite that doesn't add anything from the user's point of view but forces them to relearn another system.
It's one thing to go through several days of Googling and HOWTOs when setting up a new OS for the first time. It's another to do that every single time there's a new version out because they decided to change/rewrite so many things for just some trivial improvements.
Here's the thing about Europe: it has about 100 more people per square km than does the US. It's something like 30 for the US and 130 for Europe. That means that a bus route can service more people and actually be solvent. Hence more routes and denser schedules. The higher gas prices also drive demand. Proximity to work also means that walking or biking are feasible. A 10 minute walk scares the hell out of most Americans because they're so used to driving. In Amsterdam or Copenhagen biking to work is a real alternative with dedicated paths on every street and dedicated traffic signals.
But remember that many Europeans still would rather drive, and do if they can afford it. They drive small cars, but still would rather drive. In Poland, where you can throw a dart at the map and get there on public transport, there are more and more cars because people simply like the convenience now that they can afford it.
I did study abroad at Monash University in Australia, a school that claims to be one of the top CS programs, and is even listed as such in some rankings. You get 1 GB in the computer labs. Per year I'm assuming. If you're living in the halls, it's unlimited use provided you don't mind paying $17/GB. That's not a typo. I was getting around 150kb/s to the US. Don't get me started on the proxy that blocks pretty much EVERYTHING, that they justify as a requirement for metering how much you use, as apparently they've no idea how to track MAC addresses or logins.
My Aussie student friends seem to suggest that this is normal for many schools down under, and University of Western Australia seems to be even worse. So look on the bright side, $30/month is wonderful even if it's only "unlimited".
I had an '82 Suzuki GS550 bike that was easy to steal. Just pop open the fuse box (no key or tools needed to do that on that model), and there you see four old-style glass tube fuses. The top two were main and headlight i believe, and if you just took one of those fuses and put it between the two spots you'd notice that it fits quite snuggly, almost like it was meant to fit there. You'd also notice that the bike is now lit up as if there was a key in the on position. Everything works, including the starter and spark.
My steering lock was broken, so security through obscurity boo yeah! Along with security-through-parking-next-to-shinier-bikes.
The hidden volume is put in the empty space of the outer volume. You can't tell it's there because all volumes are filled with random bits upon creation. Since a good encryption algorithm's cyphertext looks random, you can't tell if it's still the random data from the format or a hidden volume. You need the hidden volume's key so you can decrypt it and only then will you know that it even exists. When you mount a volume and it asks for a password, it first tries it with the outer volume, and if that fails it looks for a hidden one. So the mounting procedure is identical, only the passwords differ.
The "data retention" (they call it protection) requires the hidden volume's key. If an attempt is made to write to an area that's part of the hidden volume, then the write will be denied and the outer volume will be thrown into read only mode. It must be remounted to be able to write to it again. If you don't give Truecrypt the hidden volume's key and attempt to write over the hidden volume, it will happily oblige because even Truecrypt doesn't know about the hidden volume. You'll corrupt some data, but at least nobody will know it's there. That's the idea.
I spent 5 months in Australia last year and the paranoia is getting there. Seems like the American message is absorbed verbatim by the gov't and filters down a lot faster than it does in the US. Do you see the same posters about turning in your suspicious neighbours that I saw? Melbourne's Flinders Street station has phones to report suspicious activity. It's been used several thousand times last year (false positives).
I tried to use one of these older HPs, I think it was a 48, and I had to give up. The screen refresh was so slow that it actually flickered, the first time I saw that on an LCD. It was nice, and I could have had it free, but I'd never use it just because it hurt my eyes after 2 minutes.
Then again I can tell you if your CRT is running at 60, 75, or 85+ Hz just by looking at it..
I remember one conversation I had at a Crypto conference, early in my career. It was outside amongst the jumbo shrimp, chocolate-covered strawberries, and other delectables. A bunch of us were talking about some cryptographic system, including Brian Snow of the NSA. Someone described an unconventional attack, one that didn't follow the normal rules of cryptanalysis. I don't remember any of the details, but I remember my response after hearing the description of the attack.
"That's cheating," I said.
Because it was.
I also remember Brian turning to look at me. He didn't say anything, but his look conveyed everything. "There's no such thing as cheating in this business."
-- Bruce Schneier
There are HD movie torrents. Whoever says the system isn't broken is in denial. The system was supposed to stop pirates. Pirates have no trouble with the current exploits, so the system is broken. How it's broken is irrelevant. The only people who might care are the honest people who bought the discs and got burned by the DRM. So the studios get none of the benefit, all of the costs, and angry customers.
100kW is around 134 hp. There are motorcycles capable of generating more power than that, and a single cylinder of a ship's diesel makes more than that, too.
A Danish bank mails you a card with 50 4-digit numbers. This is your one-time pad of sorts. When you log in to your account it asks you for, say, #23. You provide it, and it never asks for it again. When you're down to 20 numbers left or so, the bank automatically mails you another card. The card is something you have.
BPH (Polish bank) has your cell phone number on file. They do bank transfers, which are used over there a lot more than here, you can pay people directly like that (like an electronic check), even buy skype credit directly with it. When you attempt a transfer the bank sends you an SMS with a code you have to supply to the website. The cell phone is something you have. Trouble with this is that in the US some people have to pay for incoming SMSes. In the rest of the world that's usually free.
Right smack in the middle of the outback is the "city" of Alice Springs. There is a "river" going through it. They say that if you saw water in the river more than twice you're a local.
They have an annual boat race down the river. The boats don't have bottoms, and the team members grab the boat with their hands and run Flintstones-style.
It could very well be a Lithuanian name. Lithuania was part of Poland for a long time and there is a lot of mixing between the two. I think the territory was taken away after WWII, but I'm not 100% on that. Poland got picked up and moved a few hundred km to the west after WWII. A good chunk of Ukraine was also Polish, Lviv was a big Polish city. A lot of people got forcibly moved, sometimes killed, by the Soviets. I know about Ukraine because I'm from that region, but I wouldn't be surprised if Lithuania got similar treatment. So yeah, we are a mix of various things..
BTW, next time an Aboriginal person tries to tie racism to Europeans kicking them around, tell them that it's not racism. We do it to our own people too. We're just assholes;)
Large engines often have multiple cylinder configurations so the customer can choose how many they want based on their need, so it's often better to list the power per cylinder than for the entire engine.
It is available in 6 through 14 cylinder versions, all are inline engines.
It's spelled Kosciuszko. I find it funny that it's named after a Polish national (Tadeusz Kościuszko) who is also a US hero because he helped out in the revolutionary war (built West Point among other things). So the highest peak in a commonwealth country is named after someone who fought against the commonwealth.
(btw, the Aussie pronunciation of it totally butchers the name. It's ok, though, it still sounds cool and being Polish you get used to it and can sympathize:)
I'd actually prefer that things DID blurr when they moved. I find that old clips (news coverage of the Kennedy assassination comes to mind) look MUCH more fluid and natural simply because they have motion blurr built in. The strobe effect of the current stuff doesn't cut it.
I'd rather watch motion-blurred 24fps than strobed 60.
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FOAF looks too complicated for the vast majority of people. Nearly the entire population of universities are on Facebook, not just the CS department (who seem to dislike social networking anyway).
Facebook profiles tend to include cell phone numbers, emails and IM screennames. You can't look those up anywhere yet they're the best way to reach many people.
why do you want to hide the fact they can't drive the car? You want to advertise that! Like a bright red club does.
My uncle has a lock on his manual shifter that makes it impossible to get it out of reverse. Any punk can see it before they break his window.
Agreed. I'm still amused by Sealand, a "country" that consists of an old British WWII radar platform a few miles off the coast of England. A rich guy bought it and declared independence, naming the platform a principality (himself as prince). There were even a few skirmishes with British law, but the Brits decided to let the guy do his thing and didn't bother them unless he tried to be a prick.
But there's this one German dude. He got it in his head to invade. Using an inflatable dinghy. I think he was even successful, single handedly overthrowing the prince. All was well until he got bored and left.
Now the "country" is for sale and the pirate bay expressed interest so they can use it as a safe-from-legal-threats datacenter location.
I don't understand this setup at all. Why the heck have Xorg drivers instead of straight Linux drivers? It seems that having a framebuffer-type layer that any GUI system could take advantage of would make a whole lot more sense than having the X server control everything. Does no one remember the XFree86 to Xorg switch and how everyone was whining to nVidia because they didn't have Xorg drivers ready right away? Besides, having video drivers depend on X cripples competing systems by forcing them to duplicate work and thus reduces effective Freedom(tm) to switch. This is like printing support used to mean your printer had to be supported by WordPerfect or whatever program you wanted to print from.
what do you mean burn up? The sparks you see when you leave a fork in the microwave are just that: sparks. The fork is safe.
That said, while the light show may look menacing, it doesn't hurt the magnetron UNLESS the fork is touching one of the walls and hence has a path to the magnetron. So sticking a wire on a tray in the middle is ok.
It's one thing to go through several days of Googling and HOWTOs when setting up a new OS for the first time. It's another to do that every single time there's a new version out because they decided to change/rewrite so many things for just some trivial improvements.
Here's the thing about Europe: it has about 100 more people per square km than does the US. It's something like 30 for the US and 130 for Europe.
That means that a bus route can service more people and actually be solvent. Hence more routes and denser schedules. The higher gas prices also drive demand.
Proximity to work also means that walking or biking are feasible. A 10 minute walk scares the hell out of most Americans because they're so used to driving. In Amsterdam or Copenhagen biking to work is a real alternative with dedicated paths on every street and dedicated traffic signals.
But remember that many Europeans still would rather drive, and do if they can afford it. They drive small cars, but still would rather drive. In Poland, where you can throw a dart at the map and get there on public transport, there are more and more cars because people simply like the convenience now that they can afford it.
I did study abroad at Monash University in Australia, a school that claims to be one of the top CS programs, and is even listed as such in some rankings.
You get 1 GB in the computer labs. Per year I'm assuming.
If you're living in the halls, it's unlimited use provided you don't mind paying $17/GB. That's not a typo. I was getting around 150kb/s to the US.
Don't get me started on the proxy that blocks pretty much EVERYTHING, that they justify as a requirement for metering how much you use, as apparently they've no idea how to track MAC addresses or logins.
My Aussie student friends seem to suggest that this is normal for many schools down under, and University of Western Australia seems to be even worse.
So look on the bright side, $30/month is wonderful even if it's only "unlimited".
I had an '82 Suzuki GS550 bike that was easy to steal. Just pop open the fuse box (no key or tools needed to do that on that model), and there you see four old-style glass tube fuses. The top two were main and headlight i believe, and if you just took one of those fuses and put it between the two spots you'd notice that it fits quite snuggly, almost like it was meant to fit there. You'd also notice that the bike is now lit up as if there was a key in the on position. Everything works, including the starter and spark.
My steering lock was broken, so security through obscurity boo yeah! Along with security-through-parking-next-to-shinier-bikes.
The hidden volume is put in the empty space of the outer volume. You can't tell it's there because all volumes are filled with random bits upon creation. Since a good encryption algorithm's cyphertext looks random, you can't tell if it's still the random data from the format or a hidden volume. You need the hidden volume's key so you can decrypt it and only then will you know that it even exists. When you mount a volume and it asks for a password, it first tries it with the outer volume, and if that fails it looks for a hidden one. So the mounting procedure is identical, only the passwords differ.
The "data retention" (they call it protection) requires the hidden volume's key. If an attempt is made to write to an area that's part of the hidden volume, then the write will be denied and the outer volume will be thrown into read only mode. It must be remounted to be able to write to it again. If you don't give Truecrypt the hidden volume's key and attempt to write over the hidden volume, it will happily oblige because even Truecrypt doesn't know about the hidden volume. You'll corrupt some data, but at least nobody will know it's there. That's the idea.
look for bomber-sized gaps in background radiation
Also a "torch" is a flashlight, a term used at least in England and Australia.
I spent 5 months in Australia last year and the paranoia is getting there. Seems like the American message is absorbed verbatim by the gov't and filters down a lot faster than it does in the US. Do you see the same posters about turning in your suspicious neighbours that I saw? Melbourne's Flinders Street station has phones to report suspicious activity. It's been used several thousand times last year (false positives).
I tried to use one of these older HPs, I think it was a 48, and I had to give up. The screen refresh was so slow that it actually flickered, the first time I saw that on an LCD. It was nice, and I could have had it free, but I'd never use it just because it hurt my eyes after 2 minutes.
Then again I can tell you if your CRT is running at 60, 75, or 85+ Hz just by looking at it..
I remember one conversation I had at a Crypto conference, early in my career. It was outside amongst the jumbo shrimp, chocolate-covered strawberries, and other delectables. A bunch of us were talking about some cryptographic system, including Brian Snow of the NSA. Someone described an unconventional attack, one that didn't follow the normal rules of cryptanalysis. I don't remember any of the details, but I remember my response after hearing the description of the attack.
"That's cheating," I said.
Because it was.
I also remember Brian turning to look at me. He didn't say anything, but his look conveyed everything. "There's no such thing as cheating in this business."
-- Bruce Schneier
There are HD movie torrents. Whoever says the system isn't broken is in denial. The system was supposed to stop pirates. Pirates have no trouble with the current exploits, so the system is broken. How it's broken is irrelevant. The only people who might care are the honest people who bought the discs and got burned by the DRM. So the studios get none of the benefit, all of the costs, and angry customers.
100kW is around 134 hp. There are motorcycles capable of generating more power than that, and a single cylinder of a ship's diesel makes more than that, too.
A Danish bank mails you a card with 50 4-digit numbers. This is your one-time pad of sorts. When you log in to your account it asks you for, say, #23. You provide it, and it never asks for it again. When you're down to 20 numbers left or so, the bank automatically mails you another card. The card is something you have.
BPH (Polish bank) has your cell phone number on file. They do bank transfers, which are used over there a lot more than here, you can pay people directly like that (like an electronic check), even buy skype credit directly with it. When you attempt a transfer the bank sends you an SMS with a code you have to supply to the website. The cell phone is something you have. Trouble with this is that in the US some people have to pay for incoming SMSes. In the rest of the world that's usually free.
Right smack in the middle of the outback is the "city" of Alice Springs. There is a "river" going through it. They say that if you saw water in the river more than twice you're a local.
They have an annual boat race down the river. The boats don't have bottoms, and the team members grab the boat with their hands and run Flintstones-style.
It could very well be a Lithuanian name. Lithuania was part of Poland for a long time and there is a lot of mixing between the two. I think the territory was taken away after WWII, but I'm not 100% on that. Poland got picked up and moved a few hundred km to the west after WWII. A good chunk of Ukraine was also Polish, Lviv was a big Polish city. A lot of people got forcibly moved, sometimes killed, by the Soviets. I know about Ukraine because I'm from that region, but I wouldn't be surprised if Lithuania got similar treatment. So yeah, we are a mix of various things..
;)
BTW, next time an Aboriginal person tries to tie racism to Europeans kicking them around, tell them that it's not racism. We do it to our own people too. We're just assholes
Analog outputs get artificially reduced quality.
3 years? looks like someone was on the ball with iddqd.
Large engines often have multiple cylinder configurations so the customer can choose how many they want based on their need, so it's often better to list the power per cylinder than for the entire engine.
It's spelled Kosciuszko.
:)
I find it funny that it's named after a Polish national (Tadeusz Kościuszko) who is also a US hero because he helped out in the revolutionary war (built West Point among other things). So the highest peak in a commonwealth country is named after someone who fought against the commonwealth.
(btw, the Aussie pronunciation of it totally butchers the name. It's ok, though, it still sounds cool and being Polish you get used to it and can sympathize
I'd actually prefer that things DID blurr when they moved. I find that old clips (news coverage of the Kennedy assassination comes to mind) look MUCH more fluid and natural simply because they have motion blurr built in. The strobe effect of the current stuff doesn't cut it.
I'd rather watch motion-blurred 24fps than strobed 60.