I know this already, that would be your challenge, not mine.:-)
Hehe, touché.:-)
This would not be very difficult either. The trick is to not have any hard-coded timings at all but use determine the difference in timing based on the actual data. Some simple statistical analysis should do the trick.
Yeah, it's not a previously unsolved problem, but much more of a challenge than learning the morse alphabet.
Well, there allready is a program for it, as other commenters have pointed out.
You don't really need to learn morse code to write such an application. You just need to have the conversion table handy when you make the application.
Your real challenges would be 1: Setting up the development environment and learningn the API. Should not be difficult, but takes some time.
2: Working out the timing for interpreting key presses as dots and dashes and seperating words. This is the real challenge.
If, in the jurors' minds, the only reason for owning a gun would be to kill somebody, then maybe. You would get to show them otherwise.
When it comes to intent, the terrorist organizations are quite happy to tell them their justifications for their actions. If you're an outspoken "Aryan Nation" activist, and goes to shoot targets at a gun club with mainly black members after forcing them to accepting your membership, then we might be venturing into a grey area.
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Good points. Perhaps he meant "good regular keyboard with Braille". A Braille writing keyboard, of the kind used in the old-fashioned paper Braille writers, would be useless for a sighted person, since the key layout is quite different. One finger per key, etc. The kind you want is the regular layout keyboard with Braille indentations on the keys.
I got Braille stickers for my keyboard and have now sticked them on. They don't damage the keys, and will come off again if you make try to take them off. I had to trim some of the stickers for the special keys like Alt and Ctrl. And there's no stickers for Æ, Ø and Å, but I knew that before ordering.
It will remain to be seen wether or not I learn some Braille.
True. I watched Jano Fett try to defend little Boba, but Obi-Wan cut him down. Then Jango was killed too. General Grievous exacted revenge on Obi-Wan, though.:-)
This is why the first condition is that there is an unlawful act. Legal school detention is not illegal. But if a bunch of school bullys kept you locked in at school demanding that your parents vote for certain candidate in the election, then that would actually be terrorism. What's interesting is that the definition excludes armed robbery from the definition of a terrorist act, while it doesn't exclude kidnap for money from the definition. Maybe because the kidnappers may sell the kidnapped person to politically motivated terrorists who then uses the victim for political gain.
There has to be an unlawful act. You shooting targets isn't unlawful, AFAICT. Also, you aren't intending to endanger anybody.
In many places, using a firearm in the furtherance of a crime is a seperate offence. You shooting targets isn't going to be covered by this. You're using a firearm, but there's no felony. However, if you burglarize a home, and are caught with a loaded weapon, your penalty would be higher than if you were caught unarmed.
When it comes to indirect endangerment, I'm not quite sure what the difference to direct endangerment is supposed to be. I would guess that a tort/liablity lawyer or a criminal lawyer would have a good understanding of this. It could be using a weapon in a plot to endanger people, where the weapons themselves are not the danger. For example, shooting at a pile of snow to start an avalanche? Or shooting the tires of fire engines to stop them from responding to fires?
Agreed. Competition is all well and good, it's what makes free markets work. But I'm rather tired of this "must balance the USA" mentality in some EU politicians. I guess they're sad because without a constitution and a United States of Europe they can't have the world's attention turned to *their* political scandals.
If he has a problem with big multinationals, then he can say it without tacking "American" on there. As if there weren't any big European multinational companies. Granted, some of them have their headquarters in Switzerland, not part of the EU, but many others do belong in the EU.
In my opinion, wether something is good or bad doesn't rest so much on wether it's American or not. I'll leave Princess Bunhead to explain:
Princess Bunhead: "You'll never get away with this, Black Helmet Man! You are bad! You are bad and we are good! Your badness will be the end of you, and our goodness will be our triumph! Bad is bad - good is good! Bad-bad-good-bad! Good-good-bad-good, bad! Good."
My point wasn't that this was legitimate. My point was that if you're looking for a precise definition of "terrorism" in a world where every moron is calling his enemy a "terrorist", it's usefull to exchange "terrorist" with "direct action activism", or "violent direct action activism". It fits the actions of groups like the IRA, ETA, Al Qaida and so on. It does not fit P2P file sharers, the present government of Japan, the Mormon Tabernackle Choir, etc.
And I don't think substantial property damage is legitimate activism either.
When it comes to domestic terrorist organizations, that's the FBI's domain. But now that the Department of Homeland Security is this "super-agency" that coordinates all security, links between domestic and foreign organizations should be noticed sooner, in theory.
What's missing from the law is that terrorism usually is defined as being perpetrated by a subnational group, not by a state. If a state does those things they would be called "state terrorism", "war crimes" or "acts of war" instead of plain vanilla terrorism.
I mean whos to say what constituits a "terrorist" website?
The secretary of state, I think.
Sec. 219. (a) Designation.-(1) In general.-The Secretary is authorized to designate an organization as a terrorist organization in accordance with this subsection if the Secretary finds that-
(A) the organization is a foreign organization;
(B) the organization engages in terrorist activity (as defined in section 212(a)(3)(B) 1a/ or terrorism (as defined in section 140(d)(2) of the Foreign Relations Authorization Act, Fiscal Years 1988 and 1989 (22 U.S.C. 2656f(d)(2)), or retains the capability and intent to engage in terrorist activity or terrorism); and
(C) the terrorist activity 1a/ or terrorism of the organization threatens the security of United States nationals or the national security of the United States.
And here's the definition of terrorism. Think "direct action activism".
INA Act 212(a)(3)(B)4/ (iii) TERRORIST ACTIVITY DEFINED.-As used in this Act, the term "terrorist activity" means any activity which is unlawful under the laws of the place where it is committed (or which, if 4/ it had been committed in the United States, would be unlawful under the laws of the United States or any State) and which involves any of the following:
(I) The highjacking or sabotage of
any conveyance (including an aircraft, vessel, or vehicle).
(II) The seizing or detaining, and threatening to kill, injure, or continue to detain, another individual in order to compel a third person (including a governmental organization) to do or abstain from doing any act as an explicit or implicit condition for the release of the individual seized or detained.
(III) A violent attack upon an internationally protected person (as defined in section 1116(b)(4) of title 18, United States Code) or upon the liberty of such a person.
(IV) An assassination.
(V) The use of any-
(a) biological agent, chemical agent, or nuclear weapon or device, or
(b) explosive, 4/ firearm, or other weapon or dangerous device (other than for mere personal monetary gain), with intent to endanger, directly or indirectly, the safety of one or more individuals or to cause substantial damage to property.
(VI) A threat, attempt, or conspiracy to do any of the foregoing.
"If I had a 13 year old, for example, I might let it play a 15+ game, but would not allow it to play an 18+ game."
The law doesn't stop you from doing that. What it does is prevent the clerk behind the counter from making that decision for you.
I know. I should have made my position clear in that post too: I support banning the clerks from selling to underage customers. Too often the clerk will act "cool" and get more business by breaking the age limits, so a ban should be legally enforced. Like liquor licenses, almost.
"Don't let them become the monsters that we see in these violent games"
Wouldn't it be, like, wicked cool if some of the kids who played these games became real zombies, goblins and orcs and stuff? Would make for an interesting drive through the suburb.
And that's what this is. The government is forcing the game industry to help parents shield children from violence and sexuality. As you say, parents might have different standards. If I had a 13 year old, for example, I might let it play a 15+ game, but would not allow it to play an 18+ game.
For anybody else reading this in a similar situation (Linux wiz with non-technical children at college): If the kid has Internet access, give yourselves an account on that machine and ssh into it, then use su to get root and manage the machine, for example running file system checks, downloading patches and so on. Ask the kid for permission first though. An un-patched Linux or BSD computer has just as big a potential as a spam zombie as that of a Windows computer, although it's less likely to be attacked. For the power failures, I would suggest using a journaled file system like EXT3, and a cheap non-interruptable power supply, if you can afford it. Actually, in that situation a cheap laptop is better, since it comes with its own batteries.
Your sentence finished itself in my head before my eyes reached the end of it, it was expanded like this:
Pressed about security by Mr. Mossberg, Mr. Otellini had a startling confession: He spends an hour a weekend removing spyware from his daughter's computer.
What he needs isn't a new computer, buta new daughter.:-)
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They ship internationally, too. I bought the stickers with braille on them instead of an all new keyboard. I never look at the keyboard unless I'm using special keys or typing with one hand (like when I'm on the phone, you perverts).
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I know this already, that would be your challenge, not mine. :-)
:-)
Hehe, touché.
This would not be very difficult either. The trick is to not have any hard-coded timings at all but use determine the difference in timing based on the actual data. Some simple statistical analysis should do the trick.
Yeah, it's not a previously unsolved problem, but much more of a challenge than learning the morse alphabet.
Well, there allready is a program for it, as other commenters have pointed out.
You don't really need to learn morse code to write such an application. You just need to have the conversion table handy when you make the application.
Your real challenges would be
1: Setting up the development environment and learningn the API. Should not be difficult, but takes some time.
2: Working out the timing for interpreting key presses as dots and dashes and seperating words. This is the real challenge.
I wonder wether FunWithHeadlines is still holding his breath? :-)
From the dupe story: Re:SCO mydoom
Did you just press reload, or did you force a reload with Crtl or Shift and reload?
I would think that offering the items in an alternative way would violate the ebay terms of service.
If, in the jurors' minds, the only reason for owning a gun would be to kill somebody, then maybe. You would get to show them otherwise.
When it comes to intent, the terrorist organizations are quite happy to tell them their justifications for their actions. If you're an outspoken "Aryan Nation" activist, and goes to shoot targets at a gun club with mainly black members after forcing them to accepting your membership, then we might be venturing into a grey area.
Good points. Perhaps he meant "good regular keyboard with Braille". A Braille writing keyboard, of the kind used in the old-fashioned paper Braille writers, would be useless for a sighted person, since the key layout is quite different. One finger per key, etc. The kind you want is the regular layout keyboard with Braille indentations on the keys.
I got Braille stickers for my keyboard and have now sticked them on. They don't damage the keys, and will come off again if you make try to take them off. I had to trim some of the stickers for the special keys like Alt and Ctrl. And there's no stickers for Æ, Ø and Å, but I knew that before ordering.
It will remain to be seen wether or not I learn some Braille.
True. I watched Jano Fett try to defend little Boba, but Obi-Wan cut him down. Then Jango was killed too. General Grievous exacted revenge on Obi-Wan, though. :-)
Now, that's one of the most insightful comments I've read on slashdot in five years.
This is why the first condition is that there is an unlawful act. Legal school detention is not illegal. But if a bunch of school bullys kept you locked in at school demanding that your parents vote for certain candidate in the election, then that would actually be terrorism. What's interesting is that the definition excludes armed robbery from the definition of a terrorist act, while it doesn't exclude kidnap for money from the definition. Maybe because the kidnappers may sell the kidnapped person to politically motivated terrorists who then uses the victim for political gain.
There has to be an unlawful act. You shooting targets isn't unlawful, AFAICT. Also, you aren't intending to endanger anybody.
In many places, using a firearm in the furtherance of a crime is a seperate offence. You shooting targets isn't going to be covered by this. You're using a firearm, but there's no felony. However, if you burglarize a home, and are caught with a loaded weapon, your penalty would be higher than if you were caught unarmed.
When it comes to indirect endangerment, I'm not quite sure what the difference to direct endangerment is supposed to be. I would guess that a tort/liablity lawyer or a criminal lawyer would have a good understanding of this.
It could be using a weapon in a plot to endanger people, where the weapons themselves are not the danger. For example, shooting at a pile of snow to start an avalanche? Or shooting the tires of fire engines to stop them from responding to fires?
Agreed. Competition is all well and good, it's what makes free markets work. But I'm rather tired of this "must balance the USA" mentality in some EU politicians. I guess they're sad because without a constitution and a United States of Europe they can't have the world's attention turned to *their* political scandals.
If he has a problem with big multinationals, then he can say it without tacking "American" on there. As if there weren't any big European multinational companies. Granted, some of them have their headquarters in Switzerland, not part of the EU, but many others do belong in the EU.
In my opinion, wether something is good or bad doesn't rest so much on wether it's American or not. I'll leave Princess Bunhead to explain:
Princess Bunhead: "You'll never get away with this, Black Helmet Man! You are bad! You are bad and we are good! Your badness will be the end of you, and our goodness will be our triumph! Bad is bad - good is good! Bad-bad-good-bad! Good-good-bad-good, bad! Good."
My point wasn't that this was legitimate. My point was that if you're looking for a precise definition of "terrorism" in a world where every moron is calling his enemy a "terrorist", it's usefull to exchange "terrorist" with "direct action activism", or "violent direct action activism". It fits the actions of groups like the IRA, ETA, Al Qaida and so on. It does not fit P2P file sharers, the present government of Japan, the Mormon Tabernackle Choir, etc.
And I don't think substantial property damage is legitimate activism either.
Script kiddie? I thought the point was to notify the ISP and DNS service to close the site down, not about DDoSing.
When it comes to how sad it is that Hezbollah keep losing their website, I've got this for you: [sound of world's smallest violin]
When it comes to domestic terrorist organizations, that's the FBI's domain. But now that the Department of Homeland Security is this "super-agency" that coordinates all security, links between domestic and foreign organizations should be noticed sooner, in theory.
What's missing from the law is that terrorism usually is defined as being perpetrated by a subnational group, not by a state. If a state does those things they would be called "state terrorism", "war crimes" or "acts of war" instead of plain vanilla terrorism.
The secretary of state, I think.
And here's the definition of terrorism. Think "direct action activism".
An Israeli website about the websites of designated terrorist organizations, and how their ISPs react: Internet Haganah
The data you're looking for is allready available on line. Have a look here and here for example
Here's the address that you can send your ISP info to: president@whitehouse.gov
"If I had a 13 year old, for example, I might let it play a 15+ game, but would not allow it to play an 18+ game."
The law doesn't stop you from doing that. What it does is prevent the clerk behind the counter from making that decision for you.
I know. I should have made my position clear in that post too: I support banning the clerks from selling to underage customers. Too often the clerk will act "cool" and get more business by breaking the age limits, so a ban should be legally enforced. Like liquor licenses, almost.
"Don't let them become the monsters that we see in these violent games"
Wouldn't it be, like, wicked cool if some of the kids who played these games became real zombies, goblins and orcs and stuff? Would make for an interesting drive through the suburb.
Me: "Orc, 11'clock"
Friend 1: Click! "Dang, shotgun jam!"
Me: *sverve* BANG! "Eat car door!"
Friend 1: "Wow! Cool!"
Me: "Crowd of zombies!"
Friend 1: "Man the M2!"
Friend 2: "Ok!" rattattattatta
And that's what this is. The government is forcing the game industry to help parents shield children from violence and sexuality.
As you say, parents might have different standards. If I had a 13 year old, for example, I might let it play a 15+ game, but would not allow it to play an 18+ game.
For anybody else reading this in a similar situation (Linux wiz with non-technical children at college): If the kid has Internet access, give yourselves an account on that machine and ssh into it, then use su to get root and manage the machine, for example running file system checks, downloading patches and so on. Ask the kid for permission first though. An un-patched Linux or BSD computer has just as big a potential as a spam zombie as that of a Windows computer, although it's less likely to be attacked.
For the power failures, I would suggest using a journaled file system like EXT3, and a cheap non-interruptable power supply, if you can afford it. Actually, in that situation a cheap laptop is better, since it comes with its own batteries.
Oh, I know what that means: Lego Star Wars on my AmigaOne. If only I could fix the sound in Mac-on-Linux.
They ship internationally, too. I bought the stickers with braille on them instead of an all new keyboard. I never look at the keyboard unless I'm using special keys or typing with one hand (like when I'm on the phone, you perverts).