> You actually CAN prove negative statements . it is called INDUCTION. look it up,
For mathematics, yes. The example in the post you are replying to is biology. Nice try however.
> You can also "prove" negative statements to high degrees of confidence using this other thing called STATISTICS . look it up,
"prove" != prove. The GP didn't say you couldn't get a high confidence that you are correct, he only said you cannot PROVE it. The type of proofs that can be taken as indisputable absolute truths are very rare outside of pure mathematics.
I thought that, as a species, we had evolved beyond separating voice and data.
Come on, guys, everything's a number.
Yes, you are correct.
However, vendors will keep separating voice and data for the same reason that sending 255 bytes as an SMS is many many orders of magnitude more expensive than sending 255 bytes as raw data.
In the end, it all comes down to extracting as much money from the end user as is at all possible.
My GSM/CDMA knowledge is a bit rusty, but i think it's something like this:
1. The encryption is based on the phones IMSI number, which is never transmitted in the open. The BSC/RNC will issue a temporary IMSI (TMSI) which is used for all unsafe communication (and I think even all encrypted communication). The TMSI is used in combination with some public key crypto system to guard against replay attacks.
2. I think this could work if you manage to pull it off (getting your fake BST/RBS to overpower the real one), but I can't quite remember what it is that makes your phone recognize one network as the one belonging to your provider, but should be possible to fake nonetheless.
3. To clone a GSM phone you need the IMSI number, which is linked to your SIM card, and can not be obtained from the phone before the card is in place. For UMTS phones, you can acquire the ESN and clone it, but that number should never be printed where it can be easily accessed (it's usually found inside the battery compartment.)
I managed to pour a.5L bottle of sprite into my laptop once. Quickly turned it up side down and yanked the battery before anything had time to short out.
Removed the keyboard (was easy on that model) and threw it in the sink and rinsed it out for about 20 minutes while I cleaned up the few drops that had gotten into the laptop itself. 24h of drying later everything worked flawlessly.
That chews those writes faster than you'd expect, and write leveling can only do so much especially if the drive is mostly full.
Not really. With dynamic wear leveling, you will use the entire disk, not only the empty parts. Some SSD manufacturers (and their customers) have found out the hard way why only using the empty parts is a bad idea...
However, there has been multiple hints in the books that Tarmon Gai'don won't be the end of anything, and that all the characters will be fighting wars and whatnot after that.
I saw people above mention iFrames, which probably means that you could put this into an ad service, have it serve your iFrame on GoodSiteA, thus forcing all clicks on that site to BadSiteB.
I went on a three week business trip in August to the US, and was very paranoid since I had heard all these horror stories about passing the border (both ways). But, while the entry into the US was a bit tedious, with waiting in a long line to get finger printed and photographed (I love having all that information linked together and owned by a foreign country btw), my passage over the border in the other way was probably the fastest and smoothest I've seen in any country so far.
This bnetd thing, I don't know, might be ok, might not, but give it's purpose of being able to play net games with hacked versions
While I'm sure that there are a lot of people who use it for this reason (probably an overwhelming majority), I have spent a lot of time playing StarCraft on alternative servers running bnetd, with friends, all of us owning legal copies of the game.
There are several resons you might want to do this, less lag, less spammers and idiots... But the biggest gain is the ability to host custom ladders (there is now support for this on B.NET, but this is rather new).
I spent a lot of time playing a ladder called PGT, which used a lot of custom modifications to allow a very good scoring system, with numerous ranking levels, all of which was displayed directly in the game and so on.. Many many times better than anything BNET could offer at the time, and it drew in a lot of people who wanted to play competitively.
The problem with solar power on the moon is that you have large period of times when it's night (14 days or so), followed by an equal time of constant light (barring any lunar eclipse).
The 'dark side of the moon' is simple the side that is pointed away from Earth, when you see a crescent moon, an area the size of the dark area you see will be sunlit on that side.
So, for solar power to work, you will need some way to store a huge amount of energy for the dark period.
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The claims of some regarding LHC are no less crazy. What distresses me is the level of coverage these nutbars have had on the news channels. I don't know about you, but I've had several people with non scientific backgrounds who've been scared by this 'news' turn to me for some real world information/reassurance.
In Sweden, one of the larger newspapers have been giving a lot of room to these doomsday "theories".
Then yesterday the ran a story about how "the media" is scaring all the kids out there, with some examples of kids starting to cry in school because they thought the world would end.
Sometimes I almost wish the nutjobs were right so we could get it over and done with...
Indeed. I have not worked with iPhones, but I have been in contact with embedded flash chips from a variety of vendors.
Most use a PATA interface for their disks, and provide a complete layout of all the I/O pins. With this, it is easy enough to throw something together which can let you plug the chip into a regular 80-pin PATA connector, or CF reader if you have one of those laying around.
It's easy: you have a design document specifying all features you want in your product. As long as you do not have them, in a working way, you are in alpha. Once you've checked off all of them, your in beta. When you've met your quality guidelines, you can put out a RC.
Actually, in Sweden, we have the option of putting a blank vote in the ballot.
If none of the candidates are to your liking, there are some good reasons to vote 'blank' rather than not voting at all, not least that the blank votes still count when tallying the total number of votes. This means that it will be harder for small, extremist parties to get the 4% of votes they need to enter the Riksdag.
You can't win an argument with ANYONE who has a "don't discuss this with me I know I'm right" attitude, because they don't argue. They state their beliefs, put their fingers in their ears, and just sit there.
No, it's not an excuse, and I don't think it was supposed to be one either, it's more of a "well, the impact of this shouldn't be great, since there are so few reasons to have telnet enabled."
But, indeed, the bug should not have been there in the first place.
My suggestion: make movies cheaper and drop DRM altogether. PC game companies are realising this. My Oblivion DVD says 'we didn't include any copy protection so please don't copy this'... and I didn't.
Actually, the only thing I can see that DRM (or copy-protection) could help with is so called 'casual copying', i.e. the thing I know at least I did as a kid:
"Hey, you've got the new Doom II? Cool! I have a bunch of blank disks in my backpack, could I get a copy?"
But other than that, no, they will never stop piracy, only inconvenience their customers. Some companies understand that, like ID Software who eventually dropped the CD check in Quake 3, others do not, like Blizzard who recently made it so you can no longer play on Battle.Net if you are using any form of No-CD patch, regardless of your bought and valid CD Key.
I don't think not knowing Swedish will be a major problem for anyone wanting to move here. Might be a little inconvenient, but almost the entire population speaks passable English, so as long as you don't mind weird grammar and funny accents, you should be ok.
In a debate close to the election, both of the top candidates for the prime minister post got asked the question 'does the current laws making file sharing (of copyrighted materials) a felony need to be changed?', to which both responded 'yes'.
In fact, one of the candidates (I forget which one) said 'we cannot have a law on the books that makes our children criminals. This needs to be changed, and we will have to find a way to compensate artists.'
I actually once tried to download an install for Gator, just to see if they had one. I was only half surprised when I couldn't find anything but PR drivel on their site.
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And it took how long before it was cracked?
I still think the implementation of Bluetooth on those things are "castrated".
I don't really see why I can't use my regular cell phone as a 3G modem, and connect my iPod to it via Bluetooth to get internet access on it.
As far as I can tell, the only thing you can use Bluetooth for, on iPod or iPhone, is to connect a speaker (handsfree)
> You actually CAN prove negative statements . it is called INDUCTION. look it up ,
For mathematics, yes. The example in the post you are replying to is biology. Nice try however.
> You can also "prove" negative statements to high degrees of confidence using this other thing called STATISTICS . look it up ,
"prove" != prove. The GP didn't say you couldn't get a high confidence that you are correct, he only said you cannot PROVE it. The type of proofs that can be taken as indisputable absolute truths are very rare outside of pure mathematics.
I thought that, as a species, we had evolved beyond separating voice and data.
Come on, guys, everything's a number.
Yes, you are correct.
However, vendors will keep separating voice and data for the same reason that sending 255 bytes as an SMS is many many orders of magnitude more expensive than sending 255 bytes as raw data.
In the end, it all comes down to extracting as much money from the end user as is at all possible.
My GSM/CDMA knowledge is a bit rusty, but i think it's something like this:
1. The encryption is based on the phones IMSI number, which is never transmitted in the open. The BSC/RNC will issue a temporary IMSI (TMSI) which is used for all unsafe communication (and I think even all encrypted communication). The TMSI is used in combination with some public key crypto system to guard against replay attacks.
2. I think this could work if you manage to pull it off (getting your fake BST/RBS to overpower the real one), but I can't quite remember what it is that makes your phone recognize one network as the one belonging to your provider, but should be possible to fake nonetheless.
3. To clone a GSM phone you need the IMSI number, which is linked to your SIM card, and can not be obtained from the phone before the card is in place. For UMTS phones, you can acquire the ESN and clone it, but that number should never be printed where it can be easily accessed (it's usually found inside the battery compartment.)
Yes, exactly.
.5L bottle of sprite into my laptop once. Quickly turned it up side down and yanked the battery before anything had time to short out.
I managed to pour a
Removed the keyboard (was easy on that model) and threw it in the sink and rinsed it out for about 20 minutes while I cleaned up the few drops that had gotten into the laptop itself. 24h of drying later everything worked flawlessly.
Most people work 8 hours a day on monitors <20" ...(you insensitive clod)
I feel sorry for you :(
*posted from dual 24" WS setup*
That chews those writes faster than you'd expect, and write leveling can only do so much especially if the drive is mostly full.
Not really. With dynamic wear leveling, you will use the entire disk, not only the empty parts. Some SSD manufacturers (and their customers) have found out the hard way why only using the empty parts is a bad idea...
However, there has been multiple hints in the books that Tarmon Gai'don won't be the end of anything, and that all the characters will be fighting wars and whatnot after that.
I saw people above mention iFrames, which probably means that you could put this into an ad service, have it serve your iFrame on GoodSiteA, thus forcing all clicks on that site to BadSiteB.
I guess I must be lucky or something...
I went on a three week business trip in August to the US, and was very paranoid since I had heard all these horror stories about passing the border (both ways). But, while the entry into the US was a bit tedious, with waiting in a long line to get finger printed and photographed (I love having all that information linked together and owned by a foreign country btw), my passage over the border in the other way was probably the fastest and smoothest I've seen in any country so far.
This bnetd thing, I don't know, might be ok, might not, but give it's purpose of being able to play net games with hacked versions
While I'm sure that there are a lot of people who use it for this reason (probably an overwhelming majority), I have spent a lot of time playing StarCraft on alternative servers running bnetd, with friends, all of us owning legal copies of the game.
There are several resons you might want to do this, less lag, less spammers and idiots... But the biggest gain is the ability to host custom ladders (there is now support for this on B.NET, but this is rather new).
I spent a lot of time playing a ladder called PGT, which used a lot of custom modifications to allow a very good scoring system, with numerous ranking levels, all of which was displayed directly in the game and so on.. Many many times better than anything BNET could offer at the time, and it drew in a lot of people who wanted to play competitively.
The problem with solar power on the moon is that you have large period of times when it's night (14 days or so), followed by an equal time of constant light (barring any lunar eclipse).
The 'dark side of the moon' is simple the side that is pointed away from Earth, when you see a crescent moon, an area the size of the dark area you see will be sunlit on that side.
So, for solar power to work, you will need some way to store a huge amount of energy for the dark period.
The claims of some regarding LHC are no less crazy. What distresses me is the level of coverage these nutbars have had on the news channels. I don't know about you, but I've had several people with non scientific backgrounds who've been scared by this 'news' turn to me for some real world information/reassurance.
In Sweden, one of the larger newspapers have been giving a lot of room to these doomsday "theories".
Then yesterday the ran a story about how "the media" is scaring all the kids out there, with some examples of kids starting to cry in school because they thought the world would end.
Sometimes I almost wish the nutjobs were right so we could get it over and done with...
It does not violate the DMCA, since they do not remove the CSS, and they have a license to use it.
Indeed. I have not worked with iPhones, but I have been in contact with embedded flash chips from a variety of vendors.
Most use a PATA interface for their disks, and provide a complete layout of all the I/O pins. With this, it is easy enough to throw something together which can let you plug the chip into a regular 80-pin PATA connector, or CF reader if you have one of those laying around.
It's easy: you have a design document specifying all features you want in your product. As long as you do not have them, in a working way, you are in alpha. Once you've checked off all of them, your in beta. When you've met your quality guidelines, you can put out a RC.
Actually, in Sweden, we have the option of putting a blank vote in the ballot.
If none of the candidates are to your liking, there are some good reasons to vote 'blank' rather than not voting at all, not least that the blank votes still count when tallying the total number of votes. This means that it will be harder for small, extremist parties to get the 4% of votes they need to enter the Riksdag.
He probably meant that if your core body temp. hits 35C, you will shiver.
If your core body temp. hits 27C, I think you're in quite a bit of trouble...
You can't win an argument with ANYONE who has a "don't discuss this with me I know I'm right" attitude, because they don't argue. They state their beliefs, put their fingers in their ears, and just sit there.
But, indeed, the bug should not have been there in the first place.
Actually, the only thing I can see that DRM (or copy-protection) could help with is so called 'casual copying', i.e. the thing I know at least I did as a kid:
"Hey, you've got the new Doom II? Cool! I have a bunch of blank disks in my backpack, could I get a copy?"
But other than that, no, they will never stop piracy, only inconvenience their customers. Some companies understand that, like ID Software who eventually dropped the CD check in Quake 3, others do not, like Blizzard who recently made it so you can no longer play on Battle.Net if you are using any form of No-CD patch, regardless of your bought and valid CD Key.
I don't think not knowing Swedish will be a major problem for anyone wanting to move here. Might be a little inconvenient, but almost the entire population speaks passable English, so as long as you don't mind weird grammar and funny accents, you should be ok.
In a debate close to the election, both of the top candidates for the prime minister post got asked the question 'does the current laws making file sharing (of copyrighted materials) a felony need to be changed?', to which both responded 'yes'.
In fact, one of the candidates (I forget which one) said 'we cannot have a law on the books that makes our children criminals. This needs to be changed, and we will have to find a way to compensate artists.'
I actually once tried to download an install for Gator, just to see if they had one. I was only half surprised when I couldn't find anything but PR drivel on their site.