So if stars have a window in which space travel is possible for life on planets in the goldilocks zone, and that window can close cutting those planets off from space travel (or severely restrict it), how does this effect the Drake Equation for being able to find other intelligent life in the universe? Life would need to advance at a rate such that it can exploit space effectively at the right time or become planet-locked.
Grif:
You think they'll show up?
Simmons 2.0:
Well, my gut says no, but then again, my gut's made of an advanced polymer, and it doesn't know what the hell it's talking about. Stupid gut.
Meanwhile my e815 is turning itself off rather than charge its battery. Three different chargers, two different batteries. Thankfully I was able to set up call forwarding before the first battery got too low to boot the phone.
Assuming of course that you have equipment capable of VOD, using the cable company's boxes and DVRs, and not a TiVo. Perhaps they should consider letting people subscribe to the adult channels for an additional $n a month.
And if they are offering that now, they're certainly not advertising it. Or at least not in this area.
Just because your code is in ROM doesn't mean you can't be hacked. Your stack is still in RAM. If you can find one little exploit that lets you put as little as, say, 12 bytes onto the stack, if you know everything that's in the ROM, you could repurpose the existing ROM code to do whatever you wanted by calling the tail ends of existing functions.
On that link, search forward for "Because they knew this was a voting machine, security was paramount. They made it so that it was impossible to execute code from RAM. They thought, there's no way, there's no reason that anyone has a legitimate reason for executing code from RAM" and read from there. Yes, it's long. Get the MP3 if you'd rather listen.
Which reduces the quality of the radio signal for anyone downwave from the power harvesting site. It effectively steals power from the transmitter intended to provide service to those more distant than you from the transmitter.
Permissible is interception for purpose of reception of the signal, such as a crystal radio, at a small scale. Not permissible is powering your lights, robots, or anything else that does not simply turn the signal back into its intended form.
It may be permissible to leech power from a WiFi signal in order to power a device that will use the data in the stream if you could be sure you're stealing power from signals intended for you and no one else.
But AFAIK the rules are to protect man-made signals, unless the scientific community have petitioned to protect their ability to study background radiation by preventing the same harvesting of power from natural radio sources, else they'll have to do their studies elsewhere.
This idea first came from an episode of Not ^Necessarily The News in the 1980s. It's amazing how they are now taking it seriously.
Comedy Central was co-owned by HBO. If only The Daily Show could dip into the N^NTN archives at HBO for this segment and run it. Or someone could get it up on YouTube? (It is still not released on DVD, reaired on HBO Comedy, nor streaming AFAICT; only available as a Best Of VHS tape, and I don't know if this segment (at least two parts) is on that tape.)
In fact it works pretty well, well enough for their purposes. They don't need enough precision to drop a bomb on you, rather they need just enough to know what neighborhood you're in, so they can target you with ads for local pizza joint you may not have heard of.
Or region-lock DRMed content against you.
Coming soon: laws requiring content providers to filter access based on location of the recipient, such as not serving pornographic content to computers on school property. Like the "drug free zone" around schools, except it's a "porn free zone", and it's mapped out on Google.
Because if such databases are built, considered accurate enough, and are freely accessible, you're going to be expected to check against them as due diligence.
[2012] Adam Mitchell: [in introduction] This is Mr. Van Statten. Rose Tyler: And who is he when he's not at home? Adam Mitchell: Mr. Van Statten owns the Internet. Rose Tyler: Don't be so stupid. No one owns the Internet! Henry Van Statten: [grinning] And let's just keep the whole world thinking that way, right kid?
It's not smart to take your eyes off the road. Even for a single millisecond.
Yes, we should ban the dashboard from cars. All those indicator lights and gauges are distracting. There's no reason why anyone needs to know empirically how fast they're driving.
Don't blink. Don't even blink. Blink and you're dead. Traffic changes fast, faster than you could believe. Don't turn your head, don't look away, and don't blink! Good luck.
I worked at the University when they made the move to Notes and was involved in the conversion / activation. It was absolutely horrifying, but honestly it was better than what was in place before
So did I. (29 WSEC machine room graveyard shift network monitoring. I learned first hand that there was one person being paid to be on call that you should never call.)
I remember commenting on how bad Lotus Notes was and being told that regardless of its deficits the deal was made, people had been paid, and the whole University was being switched to it. Since leaving I've never had the occasion to use it again.
Could that be why I lost access to my CSE Alumni account?
Unless they use the exact same compiler binary, with the same libraries, the source might not compile to the exact same object code.
And just because you have the compiler's source doesn't mean its binary can be created unless it is compiled with the same compiler the original compiler was compiled with, and so on.
It would also be trivial to create a compiler that produces unique object code each time the same source code is compiled while having the code be functionally equivalent, all the while also hiding this capability from the compiler's source.
Meanwhile, Rybka is counter-suing the ICGA boardmembers and all of its human opponents for plagiarizing their parents' DNA, copying half of both parents' nuclear DNA and completely copying their mothers' ribosomal DNA. Rybka is suing all opponents regardless of age, arguing that the statute of limitations does not apply as the plagiarism has been ongoing by the humans continuously making additional copies through methods called "mitosis" and "cytokinesis". The point of contention appears that the humans made no attempt to disclose to Rybka that they were not original works, did not satisfactorily disclose the authorship of their DNA, and that such fraud has been perpetuated for generations.
It would ban the sale of any animal that walks, flies, swims, crawls or slithers
So where do I go to buy these immobile, rolling, skating, biking, driving, jet-/rocket-propelled, and/or hovering pets? Or must I buy mutilated pets that need one of these alternate modes of propulsion not banned by the statute?
Someone's been bought off by the pet rabbit consortium.
And what of service animals? Seeing-eye dogs? Helper monkeys? Will SFPD have to do without their dogs trained to find drugs, explosives, and missing, escaped, and/or deceased persons?
Is San Francisco really going to do without their truffle-hunting pigs?
Copy II PC was the program I used to copy write protected floppies. I think Wizardry was the first one where I needed to use this.
For whatever reason, one of the Wizardry games was protected against Copy II PC, and that made me leave it on the shelf until something better came along.
Actually, Wizardry was an early example of what Capcom is doing. There were enemies in the game that, once you killed them, they stayed dead. The game disk would be modified to remove them from the game. And since it needed to modify the game disk to play the game, you couldn't write-protect your copy to prevent it from self-destructing, so it required a more sophisticated crack. I experienced it from the Apple II side (and with Copy II Plus).
For this reason, original copies of the game are rarely complete. It took a re-release of the Wizardry collection for PC to be able to play them again as if for the first time.
My copy developed a bad sector that corresponded to a particular room on the map. In order to fix it, I had to copy it to another disk and copy another, good sector on top of the problem one in order to get through that room. I decided to rename the enemies for that conflict to be Mutoids, basing them on the Vampire stats.
It could be worse. They could say it was 3,069 decimeters over sea level. Not only is it a bigger number, but it also gets stupid people to associate it to the word "decimate".
(Remove 10% of the population 3,069 times and... you're left with a population far closer to zero than to one.)
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"He who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken." Cally once said that was a saying amongst her people.
Cally was murdered. So were most of her people.
(Kerr Avon)
We got solar houses in enchanting New Mexico waiting for you.
So if stars have a window in which space travel is possible for life on planets in the goldilocks zone, and that window can close cutting those planets off from space travel (or severely restrict it), how does this effect the Drake Equation for being able to find other intelligent life in the universe? Life would need to advance at a rate such that it can exploit space effectively at the right time or become planet-locked.
How much is the fine when I fail to return them?
You become a ward of the library.
Grif: You think they'll show up? Simmons 2.0: Well, my gut says no, but then again, my gut's made of an advanced polymer, and it doesn't know what the hell it's talking about. Stupid gut.
Meanwhile my e815 is turning itself off rather than charge its battery. Three different chargers, two different batteries. Thankfully I was able to set up call forwarding before the first battery got too low to boot the phone.
when the Falcon hits the ground at Mach 20, the target will get obliterated.
FALCON PUNCH!
Assuming of course that you have equipment capable of VOD, using the cable company's boxes and DVRs, and not a TiVo. Perhaps they should consider letting people subscribe to the adult channels for an additional $n a month.
And if they are offering that now, they're certainly not advertising it. Or at least not in this area.
Just because your code is in ROM doesn't mean you can't be hacked. Your stack is still in RAM. If you can find one little exploit that lets you put as little as, say, 12 bytes onto the stack, if you know everything that's in the ROM, you could repurpose the existing ROM code to do whatever you wanted by calling the tail ends of existing functions.
On that link, search forward for "Because they knew this was a voting machine, security was paramount. They made it so that it was impossible to execute code from RAM. They thought, there's no way, there's no reason that anyone has a legitimate reason for executing code from RAM" and read from there. Yes, it's long. Get the MP3 if you'd rather listen.
Indeed, it'd take two wars against the Cylons for us to give up our networked devices completely.
Which reduces the quality of the radio signal for anyone downwave from the power harvesting site. It effectively steals power from the transmitter intended to provide service to those more distant than you from the transmitter.
Permissible is interception for purpose of reception of the signal, such as a crystal radio, at a small scale. Not permissible is powering your lights, robots, or anything else that does not simply turn the signal back into its intended form.
It may be permissible to leech power from a WiFi signal in order to power a device that will use the data in the stream if you could be sure you're stealing power from signals intended for you and no one else.
But AFAIK the rules are to protect man-made signals, unless the scientific community have petitioned to protect their ability to study background radiation by preventing the same harvesting of power from natural radio sources, else they'll have to do their studies elsewhere.
This idea first came from an episode of Not ^Necessarily The News in the 1980s. It's amazing how they are now taking it seriously.
Comedy Central was co-owned by HBO. If only The Daily Show could dip into the N^NTN archives at HBO for this segment and run it. Or someone could get it up on YouTube? (It is still not released on DVD, reaired on HBO Comedy, nor streaming AFAICT; only available as a Best Of VHS tape, and I don't know if this segment (at least two parts) is on that tape.)
In fact it works pretty well, well enough for their purposes. They don't need enough precision to drop a bomb on you, rather they need just enough to know what neighborhood you're in, so they can target you with ads for local pizza joint you may not have heard of.
Or region-lock DRMed content against you.
Coming soon: laws requiring content providers to filter access based on location of the recipient, such as not serving pornographic content to computers on school property. Like the "drug free zone" around schools, except it's a "porn free zone", and it's mapped out on Google.
Because if such databases are built, considered accurate enough, and are freely accessible, you're going to be expected to check against them as due diligence.
[2012]
Adam Mitchell: [in introduction] This is Mr. Van Statten.
Rose Tyler: And who is he when he's not at home?
Adam Mitchell: Mr. Van Statten owns the Internet.
Rose Tyler: Don't be so stupid. No one owns the Internet!
Henry Van Statten: [grinning] And let's just keep the whole world thinking that way, right kid?
This gives whole new meaning to decimating the population.
You misread. They're not going to stream video anymore; they're only going to stream their plans.
It's not smart to take your eyes off the road.
Even for a single millisecond.
Yes, we should ban the dashboard from cars. All those indicator lights and gauges are distracting. There's no reason why anyone needs to know empirically how fast they're driving.
Don't blink. Don't even blink. Blink and you're dead. Traffic changes fast, faster than you could believe. Don't turn your head, don't look away, and don't blink! Good luck.
Watson. Hang up. I hate you.
I worked at the University when they made the move to Notes and was involved in the conversion / activation. It was absolutely horrifying, but honestly it was better than what was in place before
So did I. (29 WSEC machine room graveyard shift network monitoring. I learned first hand that there was one person being paid to be on call that you should never call.)
I remember commenting on how bad Lotus Notes was and being told that regardless of its deficits the deal was made, people had been paid, and the whole University was being switched to it. Since leaving I've never had the occasion to use it again.
Could that be why I lost access to my CSE Alumni account?
Unless they use the exact same compiler binary, with the same libraries, the source might not compile to the exact same object code.
And just because you have the compiler's source doesn't mean its binary can be created unless it is compiled with the same compiler the original compiler was compiled with, and so on.
Specifically, Ken Thompson's Reflections on Trusting Trust.
It would also be trivial to create a compiler that produces unique object code each time the same source code is compiled while having the code be functionally equivalent, all the while also hiding this capability from the compiler's source.
Meanwhile, Rybka is counter-suing the ICGA boardmembers and all of its human opponents for plagiarizing their parents' DNA, copying half of both parents' nuclear DNA and completely copying their mothers' ribosomal DNA. Rybka is suing all opponents regardless of age, arguing that the statute of limitations does not apply as the plagiarism has been ongoing by the humans continuously making additional copies through methods called "mitosis" and "cytokinesis". The point of contention appears that the humans made no attempt to disclose to Rybka that they were not original works, did not satisfactorily disclose the authorship of their DNA, and that such fraud has been perpetuated for generations.
It would ban the sale of any animal that walks, flies, swims, crawls or slithers
So where do I go to buy these immobile, rolling, skating, biking, driving, jet-/rocket-propelled, and/or hovering pets? Or must I buy mutilated pets that need one of these alternate modes of propulsion not banned by the statute?
Someone's been bought off by the pet rabbit consortium.
And what of service animals? Seeing-eye dogs? Helper monkeys? Will SFPD have to do without their dogs trained to find drugs, explosives, and missing, escaped, and/or deceased persons?
Is San Francisco really going to do without their truffle-hunting pigs?
Copy II PC was the program I used to copy write protected floppies. I think Wizardry was the first one where I needed to use this.
For whatever reason, one of the Wizardry games was protected against Copy II PC, and that made me leave it on the shelf until something better came along.
Actually, Wizardry was an early example of what Capcom is doing. There were enemies in the game that, once you killed them, they stayed dead. The game disk would be modified to remove them from the game. And since it needed to modify the game disk to play the game, you couldn't write-protect your copy to prevent it from self-destructing, so it required a more sophisticated crack. I experienced it from the Apple II side (and with Copy II Plus).
For this reason, original copies of the game are rarely complete. It took a re-release of the Wizardry collection for PC to be able to play them again as if for the first time.
My copy developed a bad sector that corresponded to a particular room on the map. In order to fix it, I had to copy it to another disk and copy another, good sector on top of the problem one in order to get through that room. I decided to rename the enemies for that conflict to be Mutoids, basing them on the Vampire stats.
It could be worse. They could say it was 3,069 decimeters over sea level. Not only is it a bigger number, but it also gets stupid people to associate it to the word "decimate".
(Remove 10% of the population 3,069 times and... you're left with a population far closer to zero than to one.)
Cally: My people have a saying: "A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken."
Avon: Life expectancy must be fairly short among your people.
Avon: Cally was murdered. So were most of her people.