Hmmm,
Lets just say that I am refinishing some furnature and was using large amounts of denatured alcohol to clean off the stripper. (varnish remover not a person) Anyway, I spill some on my clothes during the process. So I get pulled over when I drive to the hardware (nails not computer) store to buy a paint brush? Sounds like a potential law suit to me.
This has less to do with lawyers and everything to do with stupidity. If you are stupid enough to make a stupid bet you deserve to loose. This was a gamble. The challenger though it was a sure thing, but it was still a gamble. He gambled, he lost. That simple. It was a stupid bet. I am less afraid of lawyers than I am of stupidity. BTW, Who was the first to bring up legal action???
(Actually the most frightening thing is when lawyers or anyone else defends stupidity)
Well back in the olden days when I had a 2400 baud modem and a 286 I remember logging on to a bbs and selecting text files from a list. The server would compress the files remotely using the fancy newfangled program called pkzip. I could then download this much smaller file.
Unless I'm reading this wrong isn't this what this is about?
Just a thought
Was the web site downloadable on school PCs? If so, this is no different than a student being suspended for distributing
an obscene parody pamphlet, or running down the halls yelling obscene things about the assistant principle.
This is NOT the same. If it had been posted on a school web site, yes. This was a personal web site not in any way associated with the school. It is more like he was distributing pamphlets somewhere other than school grounds. The school can't punish someone for something they did off school grounds.
I think the principal should be held personally responsible for this, not the taxpayers.
The Enigma was NOT unbreakable it was just hyped to be unbreakable.
This system is mathematicly proven to be unbreakable. That means it can't be broken without the key. It does not mean that it is secure, it is only as secure as the keys. If someone has the cyphertext there is absolutely no way they can recover the plaintext. All currently used cryptosystems are breakable, just not feasably breakable. This system is honest to goodness unbreakable, but like I said if the keys are not secure unbreakablity is meaningless.
There is no reference to being "Reactionless" anywhere in the article. This article is about a guy who noticed an interesting way of creating a force. Forces cause an action and a reaction. There is no mention of anything about not being an action and a reaction to this force. There is nothing described that cannot be explained by simple high school physics.
Please read the article and create a meaningful title to the post.
Wouldn't any simple compression or encryption like a password encryped zip file render this crawler useless? What if I posted a bunch of mp3's zipped with a password like "music" that I made known to my friends? It couldn't read them. If it broke my encryption wouldn't it be a violation of the DMCA's anti-circumnavigation provisions?
When you code in VP assembly, you let the assembler and dynamic translator worry about all those registers
Is't that what a compiler and linker do? Why would you use defines and instead of programming in C and just delaring a variable? Why not just write a nice optimizing compiler back-end to do this? Is it just me or does this sound a lot like re-inventing the Wheel?
flounder
Sorry for all the rhetorical questions, but as Steven Wright always says "What if there were no rehtorical questions?"
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How did they forget Larry Wall? Perl is the duct tape of the programming world. Slash is even written in Perl.
$ units
1989 units, 71 prefixes, 32 nonlinear units
You have: 328491 ft
You want: km
* 100.12406
/ 0.0099876097
You have:
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flounder
Hmmm,
Lets just say that I am refinishing some furnature and was using large amounts of denatured alcohol to clean off the stripper. (varnish remover not a person) Anyway, I spill some on my clothes during the process. So I get pulled over when I drive to the hardware (nails not computer) store to buy a paint brush? Sounds like a potential law suit to me.
Flounder
Duh, where do you think that electricity stored in the battery came from ??
If Mr. Chiu needs the money why not win Mr. Randi's Million Dollar Challenge?
Flounder
This has less to do with lawyers and everything to do with stupidity. If you are stupid enough to make a stupid bet you deserve to loose. This was a gamble. The challenger though it was a sure thing, but it was still a gamble. He gambled, he lost. That simple. It was a stupid bet. I am less afraid of lawyers than I am of stupidity. BTW, Who was the first to bring up legal action???
(Actually the most frightening thing is when lawyers or anyone else defends stupidity)
my $0.02
flounder
No.
Unless I'm reading this wrong isn't this what this is about? Just a thought
Flounder
This is NOT the same. If it had been posted on a school web site, yes. This was a personal web site not in any way associated with the school. It is more like he was distributing pamphlets somewhere other than school grounds. The school can't punish someone for something they did off school grounds.
I think the principal should be held personally responsible for this, not the taxpayers.
This system is mathematicly proven to be unbreakable. That means it can't be broken without the key. It does not mean that it is secure, it is only as secure as the keys. If someone has the cyphertext there is absolutely no way they can recover the plaintext. All currently used cryptosystems are breakable, just not feasably breakable. This system is honest to goodness unbreakable, but like I said if the keys are not secure unbreakablity is meaningless.
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flounder
No does not mean NO!
Look at they way you were dressed, You were asking for it!
Please read the article and create a meaningful title to the post.
It is operated by a touchscreen display, and so won't need a mouse.
Yipppie....
Have you ever used a touchscreen? We banned our machine vendors from using them in our factory because they suck.
Remember the Gorilla Arm
Hmmmm...
Wouldn't any simple compression or encryption like a password encryped zip file render this crawler useless? What if I posted a bunch of mp3's zipped with a password like "music" that I made known to my friends? It couldn't read them. If it broke my encryption wouldn't it be a violation of the DMCA's anti-circumnavigation provisions?
flounder
When you code in VP assembly, you let the assembler and dynamic translator worry about all those registers
Is't that what a compiler and linker do? Why would you use defines and instead of programming in C and just delaring a variable? Why not just write a nice optimizing compiler back-end to do this? Is it just me or does this sound a lot like re-inventing the Wheel?
flounder
Sorry for all the rhetorical questions, but as Steven Wright always says "What if there were no rehtorical questions?"
How's this:
It's our mission to
customer statisfaction
on time delivery
Of course Mission Statements don't require intellegence (artifical or not)
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