The mistake that you make with your sarcastic comment, is that you only worry about the people closeby that you can see. The people working at the Telcos and ISPs may be invisible to you, but are no less real. Also, if spooks or crooks or crooked spooks want to tap comms, they don't go to your house to hook a tap - that only happens in the movies - they do it in a Telco switch. Encryption over the last little bit of the route is better than nothing, but don't kid yourself - the best equipment for routing and tapping, is in the Telcos. BTW, I used to work at a Telco...
Sometimes a pencil and eraser can't be beat. I once figured out a set of small look-up tables for a LFSR error correction system using a pad of block paper - almost used the whole pad before I had it figured out, but there was no way to do that on a computer, it would just have been too cumbersome.
Many a DotBomb went bust with tons of data iretrievably lost on their servers. You can't do business without trust, but you should take reasonable risks and storing corp data in a nebulous cloud is perhaps not very appropriate, unless of course, if the data isn't really worth saving in the first place. I once encountered a Realty office where the lady typed everything up on a Win95 PC, she would print the docs directly and never saved anything. She simply said: "Why bother?".
Hmm, but what difference does it make? The mail was sent to you in plain text over thousands of kilometers of unprotected internet wiring. Why bother encrypting the last little bit?
Those Think Geek Ts that says: "I read your email", are true you know.
Yup, I think we should throw all the intermediate cruft out and make a really simple system - one with a keyboard that prints directly on the paper. Then we can eliminate the screen and storage too and instead of paying $3000 for a PC and printer combo, all people would need is a simple $50 machine.
One thing that I have never seen in discussions of cratering, is elastic collisions. Everybody seems to assume that collisions are necessarily plastic: A smaller body smashes into a larger body and the smaller body is pulverised in the process.
However, in the asteroid belt especially, many collisions may be elastic, with bodies bouncing off each other like billiard balls, leaving behind large indentations. This could happen, as these bodies are moving in essentially the same direction and therefore collisions may not always have much force.
Ghostscript and Ghostview, combined with a PS capable printer driver can do it. You don't actually need the printer - just the driver. I usually install an Apple laser printer driver for this purpose. You print to the Apple printer and save it to a file, then double click the Postscript file and export it to PDF with Ghostview. With some effort, this can be automated, I just can't be bothered, since I don't do this often.
"...they just observed..." Actually, that IS a wiretap.
You can't say that since the packets passed through your computer, that you have a right to look at them - you don't. Just as you don't have the right to clip a Battensky onto your neighbour's phone line and listen in, simply because it is strung accross your property.
I think you identified the reason for the bad movies. The MPAA is trying to put the bootleggers out of business, by making movies that are so bad, nobody wants to watch them.
Well, once you have the lower back implant to prevent you from walking away from the telly during advertisements, combined with the mechanical eye openers from Clockwork Orange and the poetry appreciation chair of the Vogons, then a stiff shot of Risperdael may be required too, in order to keep you attentive and objective while absorbing all the good things beamed at you...
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The mistake that you make with your sarcastic comment, is that you only worry about the people closeby that you can see. The people working at the Telcos and ISPs may be invisible to you, but are no less real. Also, if spooks or crooks or crooked spooks want to tap comms, they don't go to your house to hook a tap - that only happens in the movies - they do it in a Telco switch. Encryption over the last little bit of the route is better than nothing, but don't kid yourself - the best equipment for routing and tapping, is in the Telcos. BTW, I used to work at a Telco...
No - insulting.
You connect the mic and headphone to an acoustic transducer and fasten it to your phone handset with a rubber band: http://www.computerhope.com/jargon/a/acoustic.htm
300Bd broadband here we come...
I know that the effective steganography makes you feel safe, but behold the power of tcpdump | grep.
It is easy to reduce a huge stream of crap to a trickle of specific data.
Sometimes a pencil and eraser can't be beat. I once figured out a set of small look-up tables for a LFSR error correction system using a pad of block paper - almost used the whole pad before I had it figured out, but there was no way to do that on a computer, it would just have been too cumbersome.
Many a DotBomb went bust with tons of data iretrievably lost on their servers. You can't do business without trust, but you should take reasonable risks and storing corp data in a nebulous cloud is perhaps not very appropriate, unless of course, if the data isn't really worth saving in the first place. I once encountered a Realty office where the lady typed everything up on a Win95 PC, she would print the docs directly and never saved anything. She simply said: "Why bother?".
Hmm, but what difference does it make? The mail was sent to you in plain text over thousands of kilometers of unprotected internet wiring. Why bother encrypting the last little bit?
Those Think Geek Ts that says: "I read your email", are true you know.
Yup, I think we should throw all the intermediate cruft out and make a really simple system - one with a keyboard that prints directly on the paper. Then we can eliminate the screen and storage too and instead of paying $3000 for a PC and printer combo, all people would need is a simple $50 machine.
WordPerfect 10 can run on Wine: http://www.aerospacesoftware.com/wordperfect-howto .html
So, you don't need to keep that Win98 PC around anymore!
Hmm, care to enlighten us on the details of the electronic jammer that you carry in your pocket?
One thing that I have never seen in discussions of cratering, is elastic collisions. Everybody seems to assume that collisions are necessarily plastic: A smaller body smashes into a larger body and the smaller body is pulverised in the process.
However, in the asteroid belt especially, many collisions may be elastic, with bodies bouncing off each other like billiard balls, leaving behind large indentations. This could happen, as these bodies are moving in essentially the same direction and therefore collisions may not always have much force.
You just need a better PDF reader. Switch to Linux - then you have a choice of many.
"...name a reasonably successful product or technology - past or present - which Microsoft pioneered."
That is easy: "The interweb!"
Ghostscript and Ghostview, combined with a PS capable printer driver can do it. You don't actually need the printer - just the driver. I usually install an Apple laser printer driver for this purpose. You print to the Apple printer and save it to a file, then double click the Postscript file and export it to PDF with Ghostview. With some effort, this can be automated, I just can't be bothered, since I don't do this often.
Not just that - the Office 12 file formats are different too. Therefore there really is no reason at all not to make a switch to OOo.
Why don't you go to the Adobe web site and read what THEY have to say about it? Right on their home page...
"...they just observed..." Actually, that IS a wiretap.
You can't say that since the packets passed through your computer, that you have a right to look at them - you don't. Just as you don't have the right to clip a Battensky onto your neighbour's phone line and listen in, simply because it is strung accross your property.
$6000??? I think you forgot a few zeroes.
Actually, it is amazing how much better some movies are if you press the mute button...
I think you identified the reason for the bad movies. The MPAA is trying to put the bootleggers out of business, by making movies that are so bad, nobody wants to watch them.
You contradict yourself. First you say the movies suck so you don't want to watch them, then you say you'll watch them at home.
To watch or not to watch, that is the question.
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Well, once you have the lower back implant to prevent you from walking away from the telly during advertisements, combined with the mechanical eye openers from Clockwork Orange and the poetry appreciation chair of the Vogons, then a stiff shot of Risperdael may be required too, in order to keep you attentive and objective while absorbing all the good things beamed at you...
You forgot the RIAA DRM implants in your ears and the MPAA DRM implants in the optic nerve...
Why are you still complaining about fonts? This has been fixed many years ago.