I don't know the history of his project, maybe it's the same guy, maybe not, but any project of that scale that starts with "Working without blueprints" is headed straight for the wall IMO.
Well, I have to admit I don't think some of those connections are supported in SDS/2.
One reason why Comcast might be doing this is to put a stop to viruses that might redirect you to a malicious DNS that redirects your bank web page requests to their own servers.
Why would a virus change your DNS to point somewhere malicious when they can just put an entry in your local hosts file or otherwise hijack and resolve the look-up locally?
I predict it still won't be recordable over Firewire on a PC or Mac. Wherever it fits in the tiers of service and where amongst the switched digital video channels, it'll still be encrypted.
(I had accidentally typed "channels" as "chanels" and was tempted to leave it like that.)
Six of the G-7 countries have found ways to protect the innocent from being prosecuted for possession of child pornography.
So, 6 out of 7 are nice enough to not prosecute you for child porn possession, if you happen to be innocent. Leaving asside "innocent until proven guilty" issues, that means that one of the G-7 countries quite happy to prosecute the innocent for child porn charges. Which one is that, and why is nobody making a bigger stink about it?
I don't think he said what he thought he was saying. Instead of "from being prosecuted" he meant "by prosecuting". He meant to label the one that doesn't as being Japan.
Consider, the Guide's entry on the planet Traal, reading "Ravenous Bugblatter Beasts often make delicious meals for visiting tourists," instead of "Ravenous Bugblatter Beasts often make delicious meals of visiting tourists."
In The War of the Worlds (1953) we whacked their landing cylinder hard with a shovel, knocking off a large chunk of its heat shield. Then, when the aliens peeked out that night, three guys (untrained in the methods of first contact) approached it yelling aggressively in an incomprehensible Earth language swinging a big stick in front of them with some white fabric attached to the end. Clearly it was more hostile action and the only thing to do was fire the Heat Ray at them and an EMP disabling all local electronics.
And when more natives showed up with a lightly armored vehicle apparently immune to the EMP, it was clearly a prelude to another attack, so it had to be blasted too.
And when the pit was surrounded by the local military and an aircraft tried to fly over and dropped flares that hurt the aliens' eyes, that was the last straw, so the aircraft had to be shot down and the whole area around the pit had to be razed to keep the natives back while they finished extracting themselves from their landing craft.
So clearly these native peoples were not capable of peaceful coexistence with the alien colonists.
And thus the war began.
Still, there was a faction that thought that perhaps coexistence could be negotiated. When it was discovered two humans were still in a structure where a cylinder had landed, a surveillance probe was sent in to locate them. The male proved to be aggressive, attacking and severing the probe from the alien craft, but there was hopes that contact with the female of the species might be more conducive.
A physical greeting was attempted. In order to show that the aliens truly meant no harm, the alien stripped nude to show it had no weapons and gently approached the female, gently touching her shoulder, and attempted tactile telepathy with her. While the attempt established a primitive connection with the female's mind, creating an empathic link, the consciousnesses of the aliens and the humans were too different. The female summoned the male to attack again, first blinding the nude ambassador, then brutally attacking him, causing serious physical injury. (The female would later be judged insane by her fellow humans for the effects the attempt had upon her, though in fact she would be sensitive to the aliens' transmissions for the rest of her life, though unable to decipher them.)
It was then the council determined that no peace could be had with this native species. They were to be exterminated like fungus. And so the war was set resolutely on its path toward the genocide of this irredeemably xenophobic, aggressive, and hostile native population and the planet seized for the good of the survival of the alien colonists.
Unfortunately, the first wave succumbed to a bacteria that produced a near-death paralysis in the first colonial wave. As a last effort, a mental suppression signal was engaged to whittle away the native's memory of the attack while the rest of the colonial fleet continued on its way. 35 Earth years passed until the advance forces discovered that radiation could counteract the bacteria sufficiently for revival and most of the natives had forgotten the war and rebuilt their world. But with their superior weapons seized and concealed or destroyed by the natives, the aliens found it difficult to resume the war, resorting to insurgent and terrorist tactics defeat the humans before the deadline of the colonists' arrival.
BadAnalogyGuy, please don't dilute yourself or others if you think Louisiana is going to put any money toward education.
I think the word you're looking for is "delude". You may have only heard it used and never seen it written properly. They are phonetically similar and "dilute" almost (but not quite) makes sense.
The rest shows signs of thought change mid-sentence: you want either "by thinking" or "please, you're deluding yourself and others if you think". That happens a lot, especially due to re-editing. It'll happen again; it still does to me on occasion.
Want to free yourself entirely form the influence of gravity from distant objects that affects the shape of the spacetime you're in ? Sorry, buddy, try another universe.
Sorry for not being a native english speaker and thanks for the pointer.:-)
You'd be surprised how many native English speakers get it wrong. I'm even surprised how many native English speakers can't even speak properly. (When is Meadow Guild Solid coming out again?)
There's even this homophone list that has questionable entries like "sort, sought", "talk, torque", "tuba, tuber", and "pawn, porn", which to me sound nothing alike. What dialect of English pronounces those pairs of words the same? Certainly not a proper one.
"And when all the programs on all the channels actually were made by actors with cleft palates speaking lines by dyslexic writers and filmed by blind cameramen—instead of merely seeming like that—it somehow made the whole thing more worthwhile." -- Douglas Adams
35,000 DVD-Rs would be used up in one year by someone making complete weekly backups of 3.16 TB of data. That could be 16 workstations each having 200 GB to back up. And that's without any additional redundancy.
10,080 minutes in a week, 672.34 disks a week, that's about 15 minutes per disk going 24/7.
How much per disk in bulk is 35,000 DVD-Rs (I assume less than 4.7 cents per disk), and can you get something else of equivalent or greater storage capacity in bulk at a cheaper price per GB (tapes, hard drives)?
They could also be keying off the scent of the method of labeling the disks. There are after all many ways to do it, and I've seen some (presumably) legitimate disks that looked pretty amateurish in their printing and other DVD-Rs that had beautiful labeling.
It could even be that the inks have absorbed some airborne cocaine during the manufacturing process, or some piracy operation has an owner that likes to use the blood of his enemies as a paint thickener.
It's still pretty hard to get shadows to fall properly from two poses superimposed on each other unless you have mapped out all the lighting and have an accurate 3D model of everything to pose identically to the two images of the single subject. And then there are the little differences life experiences make between even identical twins (slight variations in haircuts, healed injuries, diet) that would be difficult to completely fake using only one person, especially across a series of photos over time, let alone full motion video.
Of course it is best that an attacker not know whether or not you repeat digits. The point is you're more insecure if an attacker knows you repeat digits than if you don't.
For a five digit PIN instead of :
10*10*10*10*10 (100,000) you get: 10*9*8*7*6 you get ( 30240 ) more than 3 times less possibilities. !
And for a five digit PIN with a known repeated digit: 10*10*10*10*1 ( 10,000 + 4 for permutations of the repeated digit < 30,240 ) more than 3 times again fewer possibilities (almost 10 times less baseline for no prior knowledge).
And it is easier to tell over the shoulder if you hit the same number more than once, especially twice in a row, so you're more vulnerable. If someone learns definitively whether or not a digit in my PIN is repeated, I'd rather they learn they are not than they are.
But even better is if they're deceived about it: then they'll be searching the wrong data space. It helps if your ATM allows you to enter more digits than necessary.
I'm pretty sure Verizon, Time Warner, AT&T, Comcast, Cablevision, Cox, Suddenlink, just to name a few ISPs, aren't directly involved in any illegal activities on their network.
At least, not knowingly directly involved.
Since when does direct involvement require knowledge?
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Get something that goes over terrain better than a tank, and you would have a great defense contract.
I can name two, but I've been beaten to the contract already: aircraft and spacecraft. They can even go over terrain a tank can't, such as water.
I don't know the history of his project, maybe it's the same guy, maybe not, but any project of that scale that starts with "Working without blueprints" is headed straight for the wall IMO.
Well, I have to admit I don't think some of those connections are supported in SDS/2.
One reason why Comcast might be doing this is to put a stop to viruses that might redirect you to a malicious DNS that redirects your bank web page requests to their own servers.
Why would a virus change your DNS to point somewhere malicious when they can just put an entry in your local hosts file or otherwise hijack and resolve the look-up locally?
When would you stop torrenting?
Do you want the smart-ass answer or the serious answer?
The smart-ass answer involves seeding percentages.
The serious answer depends upon when traditional delivery channels resume being reliable.
I predict it still won't be recordable over Firewire on a PC or Mac. Wherever it fits in the tiers of service and where amongst the switched digital video channels, it'll still be encrypted.
(I had accidentally typed "channels" as "chanels" and was tempted to leave it like that.)
Six of the G-7 countries have found ways to protect the innocent from being prosecuted for possession of child pornography.
So, 6 out of 7 are nice enough to not prosecute you for child porn possession, if you happen to be innocent. Leaving asside "innocent until proven guilty" issues, that means that one of the G-7 countries quite happy to prosecute the innocent for child porn charges. Which one is that, and why is nobody making a bigger stink about it?
I don't think he said what he thought he was saying. Instead of "from being prosecuted" he meant "by prosecuting". He meant to label the one that doesn't as being Japan.
Consider, the Guide's entry on the planet Traal, reading "Ravenous Bugblatter Beasts often make delicious meals for visiting tourists," instead of "Ravenous Bugblatter Beasts often make delicious meals of visiting tourists."
In The War of the Worlds (1953) we whacked their landing cylinder hard with a shovel, knocking off a large chunk of its heat shield. Then, when the aliens peeked out that night, three guys (untrained in the methods of first contact) approached it yelling aggressively in an incomprehensible Earth language swinging a big stick in front of them with some white fabric attached to the end. Clearly it was more hostile action and the only thing to do was fire the Heat Ray at them and an EMP disabling all local electronics.
And when more natives showed up with a lightly armored vehicle apparently immune to the EMP, it was clearly a prelude to another attack, so it had to be blasted too.
And when the pit was surrounded by the local military and an aircraft tried to fly over and dropped flares that hurt the aliens' eyes, that was the last straw, so the aircraft had to be shot down and the whole area around the pit had to be razed to keep the natives back while they finished extracting themselves from their landing craft.
So clearly these native peoples were not capable of peaceful coexistence with the alien colonists.
And thus the war began.
Still, there was a faction that thought that perhaps coexistence could be negotiated. When it was discovered two humans were still in a structure where a cylinder had landed, a surveillance probe was sent in to locate them. The male proved to be aggressive, attacking and severing the probe from the alien craft, but there was hopes that contact with the female of the species might be more conducive.
A physical greeting was attempted. In order to show that the aliens truly meant no harm, the alien stripped nude to show it had no weapons and gently approached the female, gently touching her shoulder, and attempted tactile telepathy with her. While the attempt established a primitive connection with the female's mind, creating an empathic link, the consciousnesses of the aliens and the humans were too different. The female summoned the male to attack again, first blinding the nude ambassador, then brutally attacking him, causing serious physical injury. (The female would later be judged insane by her fellow humans for the effects the attempt had upon her, though in fact she would be sensitive to the aliens' transmissions for the rest of her life, though unable to decipher them.)
It was then the council determined that no peace could be had with this native species. They were to be exterminated like fungus. And so the war was set resolutely on its path toward the genocide of this irredeemably xenophobic, aggressive, and hostile native population and the planet seized for the good of the survival of the alien colonists.
Unfortunately, the first wave succumbed to a bacteria that produced a near-death paralysis in the first colonial wave. As a last effort, a mental suppression signal was engaged to whittle away the native's memory of the attack while the rest of the colonial fleet continued on its way. 35 Earth years passed until the advance forces discovered that radiation could counteract the bacteria sufficiently for revival and most of the natives had forgotten the war and rebuilt their world. But with their superior weapons seized and concealed or destroyed by the natives, the aliens found it difficult to resume the war, resorting to insurgent and terrorist tactics defeat the humans before the deadline of the colonists' arrival.
I went with the twowaysampler and maxheadroom tags.
I think I'll add videophone to the list too.
I just made a few now. In fact, I'm now working on a complete mask+hat+glasses combo. I'm going to be so safe now!
And if anyone looks at you funny, you can just say you're on your way to a costume party as Jiffy-Pop Popcorn.
Ha-ha ha ha, NARF!
BadAnalogyGuy, please don't dilute yourself or others if you think Louisiana is going to put any money toward education.
I think the word you're looking for is "delude". You may have only heard it used and never seen it written properly. They are phonetically similar and "dilute" almost (but not quite) makes sense.
The rest shows signs of thought change mid-sentence: you want either "by thinking" or "please, you're deluding yourself and others if you think". That happens a lot, especially due to re-editing. It'll happen again; it still does to me on occasion.
Well, realistically, is 15 cents per month too much to ask for any boondoggle?
I'm raisin' fundin' for a boondoggle / Boondoggle boondoggle.
Unfortunately they may discover that their mutual attraction is purely gravitational.
Want to free yourself entirely form the influence of gravity from distant objects that affects the shape of the spacetime you're in ? Sorry, buddy, try another universe.
Meh, I'll settle for a Lagrangian-point wedding.
I thought it was "There's no accounting for taste."
I thought it was: "My accountant has no taste."
I thought it was: "My dog has no nose." "How does he smell?" "An earthy, peaty sort of aroma, with a hint of lilac."
Like being short for "sawbones" wasn't a good enough explanation for them for an old country doctor's nickname.
Sometimes it sucks being part of the Digital Monastic Brotherhood.
Sorry for not being a native english speaker and thanks for the pointer. :-)
You'd be surprised how many native English speakers get it wrong. I'm even surprised how many native English speakers can't even speak properly. (When is Meadow Guild Solid coming out again?)
There's even this homophone list that has questionable entries like "sort, sought", "talk, torque", "tuba, tuber", and "pawn, porn", which to me sound nothing alike. What dialect of English pronounces those pairs of words the same? Certainly not a proper one.
"And when all the programs on all the channels actually were made by actors with cleft palates speaking lines by dyslexic writers and filmed by blind cameramen—instead of merely seeming like that—it somehow made the whole thing more worthwhile." -- Douglas Adams
35,000 DVD-Rs would be used up in one year by someone making complete weekly backups of 3.16 TB of data. That could be 16 workstations each having 200 GB to back up. And that's without any additional redundancy.
10,080 minutes in a week, 672.34 disks a week, that's about 15 minutes per disk going 24/7.
How much per disk in bulk is 35,000 DVD-Rs (I assume less than 4.7 cents per disk), and can you get something else of equivalent or greater storage capacity in bulk at a cheaper price per GB (tapes, hard drives)?
They could also be keying off the scent of the method of labeling the disks. There are after all many ways to do it, and I've seen some (presumably) legitimate disks that looked pretty amateurish in their printing and other DVD-Rs that had beautiful labeling.
It could even be that the inks have absorbed some airborne cocaine during the manufacturing process, or some piracy operation has an owner that likes to use the blood of his enemies as a paint thickener.
It's still pretty hard to get shadows to fall properly from two poses superimposed on each other unless you have mapped out all the lighting and have an accurate 3D model of everything to pose identically to the two images of the single subject. And then there are the little differences life experiences make between even identical twins (slight variations in haircuts, healed injuries, diet) that would be difficult to completely fake using only one person, especially across a series of photos over time, let alone full motion video.
Of course it is best that an attacker not know whether or not you repeat digits. The point is you're more insecure if an attacker knows you repeat digits than if you don't.
For a five digit PIN instead of :
10*10*10*10*10 (100,000)
you get:
10*9*8*7*6 you get ( 30240 ) more than 3 times less possibilities. !
And for a five digit PIN with a known repeated digit:
10*10*10*10*1 ( 10,000 + 4 for permutations of the repeated digit < 30,240 ) more than 3 times again fewer possibilities (almost 10 times less baseline for no prior knowledge).
And it is easier to tell over the shoulder if you hit the same number more than once, especially twice in a row, so you're more vulnerable. If someone learns definitively whether or not a digit in my PIN is repeated, I'd rather they learn they are not than they are.
But even better is if they're deceived about it: then they'll be searching the wrong data space. It helps if your ATM allows you to enter more digits than necessary.
Um, how did they know that?
In a word: twins.
There's also the matter of recognizing previously investigated imagery for which participants (offenders and victims) have been identified.
I'm pretty sure Verizon, Time Warner, AT&T, Comcast, Cablevision, Cox, Suddenlink, just to name a few ISPs, aren't directly involved in any illegal activities on their network.
At least, not knowingly directly involved.
Since when does direct involvement require knowledge?
However, http://xkcd.com/463/