Not exactly - they would have to break the erasing circuit, say, by removing the capacitor from a live board (which could be detected in hardware) - say what you will but event of losing power is easy to notice and doesn't have to be signalled from external sources. And keeping the power up + simulating connectivity with motherboard while moving the chips would be rather difficult
Still, power down without shutdown, then boot up operating system without such feature and you're gone. The only way I see it to be sure, DRAM upon losing power uses on-board capacitor to erase its own contents, the feature built into the RAM die. Even BIOS is not sufficient if you just pull the plug and move the RAM to a different PC.
Sure you can squeeze lots into a very expensive ballpen.
My point is a commodity, not a gadget though. It's very hard to find a bicycle lamp without a CPU nowadays - the off/blink/permanent light cycle is handled by one, and that's the standard in the industry. Toasters are some way behind, but microwave ovens - I hate the ones with buttons and LED display, give me rotary dial any day - but these are increasingly harder to come by. CPU inside, and the rotary dial is often just an interface to optical encoder. Or what about multimeters? I still have some old-fashioned ones with a needle and multiple scales, but nowadays you'll find only digital ones.
All these devices are programmed in assembler and all of them dominated the market to the point of pushing non-digital counterparts off the market entirely.
Why in the world do you assume it's unwanted publicity?
If you wanted to advertize their money laundering services, how would you go about that? Publish an ad in newspapers? On TV? Advertize on the webpage? How would you even word such an ad?
Meantime, Viral Marketing is the new wave. It's a grassroots campaign. If anyone is looking where to launder their money, now they know. And that publicity all nearly for free.
Actually, assembly is very relevant for embedded devices - except i386 assembly that is:)
Sure 'smartphones' etc start getting programmable in high-level languages but OTOH simple microcontrollers enter more and more of daily appliances. You don't write firmware in assembly for a DVD player anymore, but you write it for a toaster or a bicycle lamp, devices that 5 years ago didn't have any firmware or programming capability. The frontier is and likely always will be assembly, and even though the frontier keeps moving and likely in 5 years the bicycle lamps will be programmable in Java, maybe ballpens will be programmable in assembly.
Ebay very recently introduced transaction fees in Poland. There would be nothing special about that if it had a monopolist position here, but it does not, by far. THE auction service for Poland is Allegro.pl, with easily nearly 90% of the market. Then there was Swistak.pl and then Ebay. And then two theme-specific collectibles sites. That's the market. All the "small players" compete with Allegro by being free of charge.
With introduction of the fees the number of auctions on Ebay dropped from 400,000 to 80,000... why allegedly? Because if you seek ANYTHING other than 'e-book, shippable only in electronic from, world-wide' from countries outside Poland, you get only about 8000 auctions, many of them same item in multiple categories.
Yeah, 8,000 auctions vs 3,700,000 on Allegro. 8,000 from 400,000. There have been some management changes in ebay, and they were for the worse.
'cause I think I'm supposed to know but I don't, but how does the tag "montypythonwaswrong" relate to this story?
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Actually, the way to get things off the net is NOT TO TOUCH THEM.
There were quite a few entries linking my nick to my real name in the past - accidential leaks. Nowadays Google provides only false positives. All the old data has expired, died forgotten. If it still exists, it's not being indexed.
Actually, it would blast a 1.3-micron hole through your finger and quite a bit of stuff behind it. One femtosecond is not not enough to "cut", just to make a single straight hole. And 1.3 micron is 13% of an average cell size meaning unless it hits a neuron on its way you wouldn't even feel it, it would just pretty much harmlessly go through.
That's only true for taking momentary volumetric number of particles - but they aren't stationary, they travel at a very high speed. Particles carried by solar wind may be that rare but they can be caught up in the suits - the suits get exposed to lots of the 'void matter'.
Just like during sand storm, a cubic meter of air may contain a handful of sand at any time, but capture all sand that passes through a trap a square meter big carried by a 100km/h wind, and you'll have tons of it in no time.
Besides, these particles are usually charged ions. Free ions tend to be very reactive, meaning they have very strong smell.
Could anyone summarize what they are? I mean, BeOS in a pill? I know it's one of UNIXoids, but how does it differ from others?
Say, I used a couple - Solaris, QNX, Free, Open and NetBSD, several flavours of Linux etc. They all differed -somewhat-. Startup done differently. Other default shell, different default gfx environment which felt this or that way. Sure the differences "under the hood" were deep, but the surface felt often very similar.
So what are the most striking differences between BeOS and the rest, user/admin experience wise?
But it's really more like a flash mob with no real purpose, only this flash mob took form of a different kind of gathering, seeming to all "outside" like a real protest.
Same with Hal Turner, his show was made nearly impossible because of Anonymous prank-calling him during his program en masse. Hal Turner is a white supremacist, meaning a target of little public compassion, so the prank calls disrupting his program could be seen as a form of protest. But these were JUST prank calls, Anonymous loved to hear themselves on air, doing it - if you visited any of Anonymous hangouts you'd see it's ridden with racial bigotry, racial stereotypes are a dominant running gag, Not that they hate blacks, they just like to tick off the politically correct.
How comes so few are interested where does Anonymous come from.
And so many are so misguided as to Anonymous motives.
If your mother was drowning, Anonymous wouldn't move a finger. He might laugh, or throw rocks. Anonymous is the motor force behind raids on Habbo Hotel, against random journals on DeviantArt or LiveJournal, they aren't interested in any political agenda. They are a Horde, a bunch of random people interested in spreading chaos and observing its results. They dont' give a shit about Church of Scientology. They just picked it as a commonly disliked target (so attacking it will likely draw support to them) and raided it the same style they raid Habbo, except IRL. Noisy, disruptive and creative, deep chaos that has some artistic feeling to it, and they got to make a lot of fuss about it. But don't be mistaken, they could have raided Mormons, IRS, Public Transport department, Citybank or anything they'd feel like raiding, no political agenda whatsoever. They prefer extreme, weird, mysterious targets but that's not because they really hate them, that's because the public will be more interested.
Yeah, that should mark me as Fair Game to Anonymous. Rules 1 and 2 not broken though.
But that doesn't mean that locking the doors and setting the alarm (x-rays and searches) is a bad idea......
Unless you spend over 15 minutes in front of the door fumbling with the multiple locks and alarms, you call in locksmith twice a month to let you in, and you got arrested twice for attempt to get inside your own car.
I look at a seller's negatives, skip the ones which seem dumb, then check the comments of buyers who gave negatives that sound reasonable. If they get negatives from the seller, I label the seller "vengeful asshole" and pick a different one.
Once I took the risk and got screwed by such one. He never got a comment from me. He paid up by court order, 1x the sales value for me, and 20x to a charity of the jury's choice.
per your sig: http://slashdot.org/firehose.pl...and everyone can see the articles in the future, much earlier than the subscribers and without editor bias censorship.
quarter horse: weight about 500kg, max speed of 88km/h and very good acceleration. I don't know how fast draft horses can sprint, but I'm pretty sure the calculation isn't all that much off.
An object of 750kg can accelerate to 60km/h in 5 impulses (rapid pushes). How far will an object of 75kg travel when one such impulse is applied at angle of 45 degrees upward?
The 750kg object is a horse. About 5 pushes of hind hooves are enough to reach the full speed. The 75kg object is a human kicked by the horse (remaining motionless with a counter-push of front hooves).
The result was something like 30 meters. The damage was equivalent to fall from 6th floor.
And they tell us horses can't say "no" when they don't want sex.
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Not exactly - they would have to break the erasing circuit, say, by removing the capacitor from a live board (which could be detected in hardware) - say what you will but event of losing power is easy to notice and doesn't have to be signalled from external sources. And keeping the power up + simulating connectivity with motherboard while moving the chips would be rather difficult
Still, power down without shutdown, then boot up operating system without such feature and you're gone.
The only way I see it to be sure, DRAM upon losing power uses on-board capacitor to erase its own contents, the feature built into the RAM die. Even BIOS is not sufficient if you just pull the plug and move the RAM to a different PC.
Sorry but I'm honesty not interested in nude pics of a chimp.
Sure you can squeeze lots into a very expensive ballpen.
My point is a commodity, not a gadget though. It's very hard to find a bicycle lamp without a CPU nowadays - the off/blink/permanent light cycle is handled by one, and that's the standard in the industry. Toasters are some way behind, but microwave ovens - I hate the ones with buttons and LED display, give me rotary dial any day - but these are increasingly harder to come by. CPU inside, and the rotary dial is often just an interface to optical encoder. Or what about multimeters? I still have some old-fashioned ones with a needle and multiple scales, but nowadays you'll find only digital ones.
All these devices are programmed in assembler and all of them dominated the market to the point of pushing non-digital counterparts off the market entirely.
Why in the world do you assume it's unwanted publicity?
If you wanted to advertize their money laundering services, how would you go about that? Publish an ad in newspapers? On TV? Advertize on the webpage? How would you even word such an ad?
Meantime, Viral Marketing is the new wave. It's a grassroots campaign. If anyone is looking where to launder their money, now they know. And that publicity all nearly for free.
Actually, assembly is very relevant for embedded devices - except i386 assembly that is :)
Sure 'smartphones' etc start getting programmable in high-level languages but OTOH simple microcontrollers enter more and more of daily appliances. You don't write firmware in assembly for a DVD player anymore, but you write it for a toaster or a bicycle lamp, devices that 5 years ago didn't have any firmware or programming capability. The frontier is and likely always will be assembly, and even though the frontier keeps moving and likely in 5 years the bicycle lamps will be programmable in Java, maybe ballpens will be programmable in assembly.
On not entirely unrelated note:
Ebay very recently introduced transaction fees in Poland.
There would be nothing special about that if it had a monopolist position here, but it does not, by far.
THE auction service for Poland is Allegro.pl, with easily nearly 90% of the market. Then there was Swistak.pl and then Ebay. And then two theme-specific collectibles sites. That's the market. All the "small players" compete with Allegro by being free of charge.
With introduction of the fees the number of auctions on Ebay dropped from 400,000 to 80,000...
why allegedly? Because if you seek ANYTHING other than 'e-book, shippable only in electronic from, world-wide' from countries outside Poland, you get only about 8000 auctions, many of them same item in multiple categories.
Yeah, 8,000 auctions vs 3,700,000 on Allegro. 8,000 from 400,000. There have been some management changes in ebay, and they were for the worse.
'cause I think I'm supposed to know but I don't, but how does the tag "montypythonwaswrong" relate to this story?
Actually, the way to get things off the net is NOT TO TOUCH THEM.
There were quite a few entries linking my nick to my real name in the past - accidential leaks. Nowadays Google provides only false positives. All the old data has expired, died forgotten. If it still exists, it's not being indexed.
Be careful where you put the digits "3" and "4" next to each other.
Really what did I expect, was posting Rule 34 on said movie reference.
Actually, it would blast a 1.3-micron hole through your finger and quite a bit of stuff behind it. One femtosecond is not not enough to "cut", just to make a single straight hole. And 1.3 micron is 13% of an average cell size meaning unless it hits a neuron on its way you wouldn't even feel it, it would just pretty much harmlessly go through.
Yep, the table would display recipes for food placed on them, but only the title and first sentence. You'd have to pay for the rest.
Also, if you place your MP3 player or a xero of a book or such, the house will automatically report you to the police.
That's only true for taking momentary volumetric number of particles - but they aren't stationary, they travel at a very high speed. Particles carried by solar wind may be that rare but they can be caught up in the suits - the suits get exposed to lots of the 'void matter'.
Just like during sand storm, a cubic meter of air may contain a handful of sand at any time, but capture all sand that passes through a trap a square meter big carried by a 100km/h wind, and you'll have tons of it in no time.
Besides, these particles are usually charged ions. Free ions tend to be very reactive, meaning they have very strong smell.
Could anyone summarize what they are? I mean, BeOS in a pill?
I know it's one of UNIXoids, but how does it differ from others?
Say, I used a couple - Solaris, QNX, Free, Open and NetBSD, several flavours of Linux etc. They all differed -somewhat-. Startup done differently. Other default shell, different default gfx environment which felt this or that way. Sure the differences "under the hood" were deep, but the surface felt often very similar.
So what are the most striking differences between BeOS and the rest, user/admin experience wise?
Heh... Yes, it sounds :)
But it's really more like a flash mob with no real purpose, only this flash mob took form of a different kind of gathering, seeming to all "outside" like a real protest.
Same with Hal Turner, his show was made nearly impossible because of Anonymous prank-calling him during his program en masse. Hal Turner is a white supremacist, meaning a target of little public compassion, so the prank calls disrupting his program could be seen as a form of protest. But these were JUST prank calls, Anonymous loved to hear themselves on air, doing it - if you visited any of Anonymous hangouts you'd see it's ridden with racial bigotry, racial stereotypes are a dominant running gag, Not that they hate blacks, they just like to tick off the politically correct.
Anonymous is not so difficult to find, and finding them means you passed the test of IQ necessary to join.
How comes so few are interested where does Anonymous come from.
And so many are so misguided as to Anonymous motives.
If your mother was drowning, Anonymous wouldn't move a finger. He might laugh, or throw rocks. Anonymous is the motor force behind raids on Habbo Hotel, against random journals on DeviantArt or LiveJournal, they aren't interested in any political agenda. They are a Horde, a bunch of random people interested in spreading chaos and observing its results. They dont' give a shit about Church of Scientology. They just picked it as a commonly disliked target (so attacking it will likely draw support to them) and raided it the same style they raid Habbo, except IRL. Noisy, disruptive and creative, deep chaos that has some artistic feeling to it, and they got to make a lot of fuss about it. But don't be mistaken, they could have raided Mormons, IRS, Public Transport department, Citybank or anything they'd feel like raiding, no political agenda whatsoever. They prefer extreme, weird, mysterious targets but that's not because they really hate them, that's because the public will be more interested.
Yeah, that should mark me as Fair Game to Anonymous. Rules 1 and 2 not broken though.
oh, you keep getting new locks and adding them besides the old ones. :P
Getting a new car would in this context would mean moving to a different country.
But that doesn't mean that locking the doors and setting the alarm (x-rays and searches) is a bad idea......
Unless you spend over 15 minutes in front of the door fumbling with the multiple locks and alarms, you call in locksmith twice a month to let you in, and you got arrested twice for attempt to get inside your own car.
I look at a seller's negatives, skip the ones which seem dumb, then check the comments of buyers who gave negatives that sound reasonable. If they get negatives from the seller, I label the seller "vengeful asshole" and pick a different one.
Once I took the risk and got screwed by such one. He never got a comment from me. He paid up by court order, 1x the sales value for me, and 20x to a charity of the jury's choice.
D'oh. Everyone knows pi seconds is one nanocentury.
per your sig: http://slashdot.org/firehose.pl ...and everyone can see the articles in the future, much earlier than the subscribers and without editor bias censorship.
quarter horse: weight about 500kg, max speed of 88km/h and very good acceleration.
I don't know how fast draft horses can sprint, but I'm pretty sure the calculation isn't all that much off.
I did a similar calculation a while ago.
An object of 750kg can accelerate to 60km/h in 5 impulses (rapid pushes).
How far will an object of 75kg travel when one such impulse is applied at angle of 45 degrees upward?
The 750kg object is a horse. About 5 pushes of hind hooves are enough to reach the full speed.
The 75kg object is a human kicked by the horse (remaining motionless with a counter-push of front hooves).
The result was something like 30 meters. The damage was equivalent to fall from 6th floor.
And they tell us horses can't say "no" when they don't want sex.