I don't particularly like the Imperial measuring system either, but at least it's not based entirely on arbitrary bullshit.
Meter: The other suggested defining the metre as one ten-millionth of the length of the Earth's meridian along a quadrant, that is the distance from the equator to the north pole.
Kilogram: The kilogram was originally defined as one thousand times "the absolute weight of a volume of pure water equal to the cube of the hundredth part of a meter, and at the temperature of melting ice"
You have to pick one standard unit of bullshit for every fundamental measurement, length, mass, time, etc. All other units can then be derived from these fundamental units. So of course length and mass are all "made-up" for any measurement system. But I don't think it's a good idea to make up multiple units for each type like imperial!
Besides, you can reason the original idea of the 'meter' is somewhat rational and neutral (at least for earthlings).
But using the diameter of the kings left nutt as an inch can hardly be called sane.
Once this encryption is turned on, it stays turned on until the computer or the monitor are turned off. So if you read slashdot after watching a DVD, everything you see on the screen has gone through encryption and decryption. Doesn't matter, because you couldn't read the signal from the cable anyway.
Does this mean KVMs won't work for DVI connections with HDCP?
"The Bible says that in the end times everything will burn up, but that perspective isn't in the DVD."
Meeh, I saw the projected global temperature chart... that curve looked nearly vertical at the end. I think Al Gore and the Bible are pretty much aligned on this point.
Not to sound insensitive to those with disabilities, but why not simply let the market push the matter?
If left on it's own the market sure would work things out; but it wouldn't benefit the disabled. The disabled are such a small proportion of the customer base I highly doubt it's economicaly feasble to cater to them. If you owned a mom and pop coffee shop would you pay thousands of dollars to add a ramp and then pay thousands more to renovate a bathroom to be wheel chair accessable. How many coffees would wheel chair bound people have to buy just to BREAK EVEN? That's why government has to be involved. However, maybe they should put more effort into the software the blind people use to browse sites with instead of everyone retro-fitting their websites.
Is it illegal to call someone up toll-free and gloat that they were bombed? Seriously, that was my first instinct, and it's not too late to bail out... I'm still on hold... have been for 15 minutes...
I remember when the Telus workers went on strike and anyone with a Telus account was unable to get to the strikers web-blog due to technical, uhh hum, difficulties. Of course in hind sight it all makes sense because those technical difficulties were most likely due to staff shortages:).
I indeed found several articles on: "Estrogens are changing the sex of fish".
In fact here is a link to a pdf. The dude on the cover looks like he must have drank a lot of estrogen laden water himself, hahhaha.
http://www.cualum.org/coloradan/Dec2005/troubledwa ters.pdf
Thsnks, I have a new site to add to my bookmarks now. It's getting harder and harder to find old versions of softare in my opinion. Most people just link to the vendor site or tell you to go to download.com, where once the new version comes out the old version is wiped from existance.
How thorough are the searches. I mean, if you had CAT5 running through your walls, and it just so happened that a V-Gear LanDisk was connected into that network and actually dry walled into the wall... would they ever find your data? They'd essentially be hauling away dumb terminals:)
Bittorrent splits files up into pieces of about 64KB, then makes a hash of _each_ of those, as well as the entire file.
Yeah so... that only ensures no one RUNS / USES a corrupt file at the END of the download. You can still poison a torrent.
Example:
User X starts downloading a torrent, then adds one ~64KB of corrupt data (as per example above) that still passes the MD5. Remember user X hasn't finished the total download so they don't MD5 the entire thing yet. However, other people inclusing user Y are still downloading these BAD pieces.
After about an hour later on the XViD movie user Y finishes and does an MD5 on the ENTIRE file. Yup, it's poisoned. Can't trick me! I'll just download it again... oh no wait?! After N hours and a full MD5 hash I keep getting an invalid file... it's as if these BAD pieces were spread everywhere like POISON!!! Hence the term poisoning.
Yeah, I know the complete file is shiat but it's too late and everyone keeps spreading the shiat!
I'm going to file a patent on a new idea I had.
Everyone else uses a single dick when clearly two is better. I call it "double penetration".
I'd like to someone find prior art on that!
Please send all prior art to admin@slashdot.org
This won't be a problem at all. If you inject a single incorrect block, it will not be detected until the file is completely downloaded (assuming that it disrupts the hash of the entire file.)
When it is detected, the client will have to go through the trouble of trying to find which block was corrupted - which can be troublesome as the bad block was already transferred to other downloading peers which inturn are passing the bad block as legit.
You can poison a piece as you stated, however a piece isn't shared as it comes in, you only share a piece once you receive the entire thing (ie all blocks) and have confirmed the hash OF THE PIECE (the hash of the entire file is done as a double check at the end).
Therefore you can waste someones time by injecting poisoned blocks but since that pieces hash won't check out it won't get propogated to anyone else.
In addition anyone who sends blocks which ultimately result in a BAD piece... get the boot!
I've already looked into poisoning Torrents:
1) There is a hash on the entire file (simple enough)
2) The data shared from a torrent is broken up into pieces. Contributors can only send whole pieces. (ie many people contribute to the entire file you're downloading but only 1 person contributes to a given piece). AND EACH PIECE IS HASHED.
Take a look at the.torrent for yourself. The.torrent contains the hash of every piece. So not only would you have to make a file of the SAME SIZE with the SAME HASH, but every 1MB (for example) would also need to have the SAME HASH.
Not only that but if you inject enough bad pieces you get booted (and yes this can be tracked, becuase as I stated before pieces come from a single individual).
Most small PIC/AVR projects that I have seen use these: http://edtp.com
The only problem is it's a SW solution so don't expect them to outlast even the saddest DoS attack:)
Those pipes look like solid copper. It must be a pain to re-route them if you use non-standard sized components. Isn't there a flexible material they can use that will still withstand the heat?
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I don't particularly like the Imperial measuring system either, but at least it's not based entirely on arbitrary bullshit.
Meter: The other suggested defining the metre as one ten-millionth of the length of the Earth's meridian along a quadrant, that is the distance from the equator to the north pole.
Kilogram: The kilogram was originally defined as one thousand times "the absolute weight of a volume of pure water equal to the cube of the hundredth part of a meter, and at the temperature of melting ice"
You have to pick one standard unit of bullshit for every fundamental measurement, length, mass, time, etc. All other units can then be derived from these fundamental units. So of course length and mass are all "made-up" for any measurement system. But I don't think it's a good idea to make up multiple units for each type like imperial!
Besides, you can reason the original idea of the 'meter' is somewhat rational and neutral (at least for earthlings).
But using the diameter of the kings left nutt as an inch can hardly be called sane.
Once this encryption is turned on, it stays turned on until the computer or the monitor are turned off. So if you read slashdot after watching a DVD, everything you see on the screen has gone through encryption and decryption. Doesn't matter, because you couldn't read the signal from the cable anyway.
Does this mean KVMs won't work for DVI connections with HDCP?
"The Bible says that in the end times everything will burn up, but that perspective isn't in the DVD." Meeh, I saw the projected global temperature chart... that curve looked nearly vertical at the end. I think Al Gore and the Bible are pretty much aligned on this point.
Is it illegal to call someone up toll-free and gloat that they were bombed? Seriously, that was my first instinct, and it's not too late to bail out... I'm still on hold... have been for 15 minutes...
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I remember when the Telus workers went on strike and anyone with a Telus account was unable to get to the strikers web-blog due to technical, uhh hum, difficulties. Of course in hind sight it all makes sense because those technical difficulties were most likely due to staff shortages :).
Scientists have discovered a wide range of other drugs in our drinking water, from pain killers to... antidepressants.
:).
I know I always feel better after a tall glass of water. I guess that explains it
I indeed found several articles on: "Estrogens are changing the sex of fish". In fact here is a link to a pdf. The dude on the cover looks like he must have drank a lot of estrogen laden water himself, hahhaha. http://www.cualum.org/coloradan/Dec2005/troubledwa ters.pdf
Thsnks, I have a new site to add to my bookmarks now. It's getting harder and harder to find old versions of softare in my opinion. Most people just link to the vendor site or tell you to go to download.com, where once the new version comes out the old version is wiped from existance.
How thorough are the searches. I mean, if you had CAT5 running through your walls, and it just so happened that a V-Gear LanDisk was connected into that network and actually dry walled into the wall... would they ever find your data? They'd essentially be hauling away dumb terminals :)
Yeah so... that only ensures no one RUNS / USES a corrupt file at the END of the download. You can still poison a torrent.
Example:
User X starts downloading a torrent, then adds one ~64KB of corrupt data (as per example above) that still passes the MD5. Remember user X hasn't finished the total download so they don't MD5 the entire thing yet. However, other people inclusing user Y are still downloading these BAD pieces.
After about an hour later on the XViD movie user Y finishes and does an MD5 on the ENTIRE file. Yup, it's poisoned. Can't trick me! I'll just download it again... oh no wait?! After N hours and a full MD5 hash I keep getting an invalid file... it's as if these BAD pieces were spread everywhere like POISON!!! Hence the term poisoning.
Yeah, I know the complete file is shiat but it's too late and everyone keeps spreading the shiat!
God has prior art, their patents are invalid.
And they say a hacked XBox is only useful for pirates. I loaded the game onto the XBox HDD... load times aren't a problem :)
http://www.google.ca/maps?q=Ellesmere+Island,+Cana da&ll=80.829156,-66.599121&spn=1.041906,10.301331& hl=en
I'm going to file a patent on a new idea I had.
Everyone else uses a single dick when clearly two is better. I call it "double penetration".
I'd like to someone find prior art on that!
Please send all prior art to admin@slashdot.org
This won't be a problem at all. If you inject a single incorrect block, it will not be detected until the file is completely downloaded (assuming that it disrupts the hash of the entire file.) When it is detected, the client will have to go through the trouble of trying to find which block was corrupted - which can be troublesome as the bad block was already transferred to other downloading peers which inturn are passing the bad block as legit.
You can poison a piece as you stated, however a piece isn't shared as it comes in, you only share a piece once you receive the entire thing (ie all blocks) and have confirmed the hash OF THE PIECE (the hash of the entire file is done as a double check at the end).
Therefore you can waste someones time by injecting poisoned blocks but since that pieces hash won't check out it won't get propogated to anyone else.
In addition anyone who sends blocks which ultimately result in a BAD piece... get the boot!
I've already looked into poisoning Torrents: 1) There is a hash on the entire file (simple enough) 2) The data shared from a torrent is broken up into pieces. Contributors can only send whole pieces. (ie many people contribute to the entire file you're downloading but only 1 person contributes to a given piece). AND EACH PIECE IS HASHED. Take a look at the .torrent for yourself. The .torrent contains the hash of every piece. So not only would you have to make a file of the SAME SIZE with the SAME HASH, but every 1MB (for example) would also need to have the SAME HASH.
Not only that but if you inject enough bad pieces you get booted (and yes this can be tracked, becuase as I stated before pieces come from a single individual).
Most small PIC/AVR projects that I have seen use these: http://edtp.com The only problem is it's a SW solution so don't expect them to outlast even the saddest DoS attack :)
I bet that's the first time anyone ever said, "That's so good it makes me wanna puke!" and mean it! ;)
the 1ghz mini-itx boards don't passively cool without gluing on a Zalman flower heatsink
Does this mean the heat sink will take up more volume than the actual motherboard?
Does this mean I can use my spare 1F Caps as electric car nitros?
As with Bex/Dish you own the equipment. There's alot of these units/dishes floating around.
Huh, well mainly use Mozilla for the popup blocker.. so I tried it and I'm not going back!
Those pipes look like solid copper. It must be a pain to re-route them if you use non-standard sized components. Isn't there a flexible material they can use that will still withstand the heat?