The best cups of coffee don't follow immediately after the roast, so if they are brewing immediately after roasting, it is gimmick only.
Most coffees taste best when brewed somewhere on the order of 12-24 hours after roasting. My understanding is that this is because the reaction continues after you remove the beans from heat.
Have you been to any of the retail shops like Best Buy and Circuit City lately? It seems the average cost of a keyboard is now $80-90. I don't think a $140 keyboard would be *that* out of place there. If you want just a plain old wired keyboard, you had better shop online.
Secondly, I listen to WMBI, which is decidedly right-leaning. Yet, on one of their programs, one of the church leaders in Bejing reported that the government was not stifling state-allowed religions... in fact, the government was very much hands-off.
I have no idea what things are like inside of China, but your anectode is by no means evidence that the government goes easy on religion. In fact, it sounds exactly like what a religious leader inside China would say if he feared a government reprisal.
Strauss warned that writing software for the chip's complex architecture might be a stumbling block, but the company has assured him that its compiler makes it easy to program.
Putting aside for a second the fact that their claim is not backed by a working prototype, this sentence should make you weary that even if they did you would only see this performance on a benchmark, and not on any real applications.
If, on the other hand, they do in fact have a chip that is not too hard to program and can pound crunch numbers that quickly, it will certainly bring with it a revolution in high performance computing, and probably change the world as we know it.
Specifically, a family and their luggage. They could zip around at 3000 meters up, powered by laser repeater stations every few miles, set up much like cellular phone towers
I'd hate to see my "call" dropped from one of these towers. Redial!!!! Redial!!!!
What I produced in that hour was all the information required to steal the identities of 300,000 people, most of whom would be considered to have high financial (if not emotional or artistic) net worth.
So, he doesn't mention which Federal agency, but he mentions that most of the identities he harvested would be considered to have high financial net worth. Could this be the payroll list for some major government outfit? The IRS? Or is he just looking at some public record of net worths that is published by the IRS?
For an example of the former, go to any public university. Their entire payroll is required by law to be public information. If this contained SSN's, there would certainly be problems...
* gnuftp, the FTP server for the GNU project was root compromised.
* After substantial investigation, we don't believe that any GNU
source has been compromised.
* To be extra-careful, we are verifying known, trusted secure
checksums of all files before putting them back on the FTP site.
Events Concerning Cracking of Gnuftp
A root compromise and a Trojan horse were discovered on gnuftp.gnu.org, the FTP server of the GNU project. The machine appears to have been cracked in March 2003, but we only very recently discovered the crack. The modus operandi of the cracker shows that (s)he was interested primarily in using gnuftp to collect passwords and as a launching point to attack other machines. It appears that the machine was cracked using a ptrace exploit immediately after the exploit was posted on bugtraq.
(For the ptrace bug, an root-shell exploit available on 17 March 2003, and
a working fix was not available on linux-kernel until the following week.
Evidence found on the machine indicates that were cracked during that
week.)
Given the nature of the compromise and the length of time the machine was compromised, we have spent the last few weeks verifying the integrity of the GNU source code stored on gnuftp. Most of this work is done, and the remaining work is primarily for files that were uploaded since early 2003, as our backups from that period could also theoretically be compromised.
Historical Integrity Checks
We have compared the md5sum of each source code file (such as.tar.gz,.tar.bz2, diff's, etc.) on ftp.gnu.org with a known good data. The file, ftp://ftp.gnu.org/before-2003-08-01.md5sums.asc, contains a list of files in the format:
MD5SUM FILE [REASON,... REASON]
The REASONs are a list of reasons why we believe that md5sum is good for that file. The file as a whole is GPG-signed.
Remaining Files
The files that have not been checked are listed in the root directory as "MISSING-FILES". We are in the process of asking GNU maintainers for trusted secure checksums of those files before we put them in place.
We have lots of evidence now to believe that no source has been compromised -- including the MO of the cracker, the fact that every file we've checked so far isn't compromised, and that searches for standard source trojans turned up nothing.
However, we don't want to put files up until we've had a known good source confirm that the checksums are correct.
Alpha FTP Site
The Alpha FTP site at ftp://alpha.gnu.org/ has been a lower priority for us, but we plan to follow the same procedure there.
- -- Bradley M. Kuhn, Executive Director Free Software Foundation | Phone: +1-617-542-5942 59 Temple Place, Suite 330 | Fax: +1-617-542-2652 Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA | Web: http://www.gnu.org
E-mail is the property of the sender and receiver, and both have the right to do with the text as they see fit. Thus, posting it is legit.
So, if I send you the text of me new book entitled "Teh meaning of life" as the body of an email, along with appropriate copymark markings, that means you are free to make as many copies as you want and post it wherever?
Slashdot Mirror
What about these ones? They work fine for me.
The best cups of coffee don't follow immediately after the roast, so if they are brewing immediately after roasting, it is gimmick only. Most coffees taste best when brewed somewhere on the order of 12-24 hours after roasting. My understanding is that this is because the reaction continues after you remove the beans from heat.
On the upside, think of how much weight you will lose.
I'm confused. What article has a headline with the word "largest" in it?
I swear I hit "preview". Here's the link
This guy bought a space station, and wants to make it a disco. And it only cost him a cool $100 grand.
I thought that's why in areas like this, they buried people above ground in cement tombs. Prevents the tombs from floating away in a flood.
Have you been to any of the retail shops like Best Buy and Circuit City lately? It seems the average cost of a keyboard is now $80-90. I don't think a $140 keyboard would be *that* out of place there. If you want just a plain old wired keyboard, you had better shop online.
You should look into using mplayer. It has an option to dump the stream to a file, for offline viewing.
Does nobody even bother to check if it's available legally online?
Most of the Daily Show is available for free online from comedy central's website.
A very fast segmented sieve (to find primes in an arbitrary range) can be found here, by Tomás Oliveira e Silva.
Of tangential interest is his Goldbach conjecture verification project. You can download his client and contribute to the project. He's shooting for 10^18...
Probably because bandwidth isn't free...just a guess.
Am I the only one that sees this?
Huh?
Google and half a brain.
If, on the other hand, they do in fact have a chip that is not too hard to program and can pound crunch numbers that quickly, it will certainly bring with it a revolution in high performance computing, and probably change the world as we know it.
I'd hate to see my "call" dropped from one of these towers. Redial!!!! Redial!!!!
From http://ftp.gnu.org/MISSING-FILES.README
.tar.gz, .tar.bz2, diff's, etc.) on ftp.gnu.org with a known good data. The file, .asc, contains a list of files
... REASON]
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA1
To the Free Software Community:
Summary
* gnuftp, the FTP server for the GNU project was root compromised.
* After substantial investigation, we don't believe that any GNU
source has been compromised.
* To be extra-careful, we are verifying known, trusted secure
checksums of all files before putting them back on the FTP site.
Events Concerning Cracking of Gnuftp
A root compromise and a Trojan horse were discovered on gnuftp.gnu.org,
the FTP server of the GNU project. The machine appears to have been
cracked in March 2003, but we only very recently discovered the crack.
The modus operandi of the cracker shows that (s)he was interested
primarily in using gnuftp to collect passwords and as a launching point to
attack other machines. It appears that the machine was cracked using a
ptrace exploit immediately after the exploit was posted on bugtraq.
(For the ptrace bug, an root-shell exploit available on 17 March 2003, and
a working fix was not available on linux-kernel until the following week.
Evidence found on the machine indicates that were cracked during that
week.)
Given the nature of the compromise and the length of time the machine was
compromised, we have spent the last few weeks verifying the integrity of
the GNU source code stored on gnuftp. Most of this work is done, and the
remaining work is primarily for files that were uploaded since early 2003,
as our backups from that period could also theoretically be compromised.
Historical Integrity Checks
We have compared the md5sum of each source code file (such as
ftp://ftp.gnu.org/before-2003-08-01.md5sums
in the format:
MD5SUM FILE [REASON,
The REASONs are a list of reasons why we believe that md5sum is good for
that file. The file as a whole is GPG-signed.
Remaining Files
The files that have not been checked are listed in the root directory as
"MISSING-FILES". We are in the process of asking GNU maintainers for
trusted secure checksums of those files before we put them in place.
We have lots of evidence now to believe that no source has been
compromised -- including the MO of the cracker, the fact that every file
we've checked so far isn't compromised, and that searches for standard
source trojans turned up nothing.
However, we don't want to put files up until we've had a known good source
confirm that the checksums are correct.
Alpha FTP Site
The Alpha FTP site at ftp://alpha.gnu.org/ has been a lower priority for
us, but we plan to follow the same procedure there.
- --
Bradley M. Kuhn, Executive Director
Free Software Foundation | Phone: +1-617-542-5942
59 Temple Place, Suite 330 | Fax: +1-617-542-2652
Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA | Web: http://www.gnu.org
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So who wants to spearhead this?
I nominate Al Gore. He's the one who invented this whole intrenat thingy anyways.
E-mail is the property of the sender and receiver, and both have the right to do with the text as they see fit. Thus, posting it is legit.
So, if I send you the text of me new book entitled "Teh meaning of life" as the body of an email, along with appropriate copymark markings, that means you are free to make as many copies as you want and post it wherever?
I don't think so