It's quite scary actually, but I was thinking of your reference when I read the parent article... Obscure enough - but nothing really suprises me on/. anymore.
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TROZ! Pinky, what is TROZ? Why its ZORT in the mirror! haha! TROZ!
I just bought an offensive movie. I generate a backup copy. I didnt like this part of the movie much, so I omit it from my back up copy. Oops! I just accidentally (on purpose) cracked the original disc into two half discs. I think I will sell this copy of the cracked movie.... I just bought an offensive movie. I generate a backup copy. I didnt like this part of the movie much, so I omit it from my back up copy. Oops! I just accidentally (on purpose) cracked the original disc into two half discs. I think I will sell this copy of the cracked movie....
repeat as required to generate profit...
- finis
Mil Grade Crypto... IS defined :-P
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PGP & GPG
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· Score: 5, Informative
"Cryptography purists may recoil when the author repeatedly uses the term 'military-grade encryption.'... there is no real definition of 'military-grade encryption' -- and even if there were, it would be classified."
Generally, the IMSAI did not have a 'font'. It primarily used a terminal over serial for IO (assuming you weren't stuck flipping switches on the front). The terminal generally had a screen and a tape reader/puncher.
There were s100 cards for the IMSAI/Altair that held character buffers, and could spit out NTSC to a suitable monitor or TV. I have one of these, and the picture quality is remarkably good. However, most 'tapeware' assumed a serial terminal, and had to be convinced to use the character buffer through much cursing and gnashing of teeth.
Still planning on making a HTTP server on my old box... but have been a bit busy lately. And have to work on the power supply before that happens.
I use email, and I use RSS. Each has its uses and drawbacks. As the GP pointed out, he WANTS to get security related emails. As a time critical notice, a push mechanism such as email makes more sense than a polling mechanism such as RSS.
What I would like to see (it might exist even, but not in the mainstream) is a distributed syndication protocol. Something like... Usenet mashed together with IRC. But with signed publishers, and the end-user running the equivalent of a news-server instead of a client, getting subscriptions through NNTP-style replication, but with a maximum allowable tree depth to minimize delay.
This noise is caused by the high voltage (and resulting non-trivial magnetic field) produced in the flyback transformer which induces unwanted parasitic vibrations... very similar to the charge pumps used in camera flash circuits...
The reason you can hear it is that the scan frequency falls within the range of human hearing:
NTSC = 525 lines (480 are visible) 30 times a second (interlacing does not affect the scanning frequency, just where the lines are placed)
30*525 = 15750Hz
This is quite high, and most older people cannot hear it, but I definitely can. If you have sufficiently good (or bad)speakers, you can test this by using a tone generator on your computer. (The old plugin for winamp comes to mind). Laptop speakers, which are usually tiny POS plastic cone jobbies will generally be better at this than large desktop speakers that make up for poor quality with over-emphasized bass response.
For PAL (and to appease those Euro-punks that like to slam Americanism), the equation is:
You meant that in jest... but this is the kind of parallelization required to run such things as Ray-traced applications or games in realtime (or at least jerky realtime - which is much better than several seconds watching each frame draw).
The GP was obviously talking about Lotus Notes/Domino. Remote management and replication, ugh! Yes it's scriptable, but still frelling slow to replicate a dummy user, give certificates, set up locations, etc.
> That said, PVR'ing content of that kind of resolution, which essentially involves constant recording to disk, is enormously more demanding on any PC.
Recording an MPEG2 stream is amazingly NOT CPU intensive. The old G3 iMacs with Firewire are more than capable of recording an HD MPEG2 stream to disk. The reason, of course, is that no encoding is required to PVR the data, since it is received as a MPEG2 transport stream in the first place. Playback is another problem, and something that a G3 cannot decode, but is more than happy to send back out the Firewire port to be decoded by whatever tuner you pulled the stream from (assuming it has the play-from-firewire capability). This is the same when pulling a stream in from an ATSC tuner card, except for the firewire part. No encoding needed. A DE-coder would be nice on the card, for systems whose main CPU is not up to the task of 1080i playback, but for newer computers, not strictly a necessity.
You, sir, have no idea of what you speak. The parent post is not a troll. DRM in this case (amazingly enough, as the parent mentioned it) has nothing to do with rights management. All of his points are valid, including the use of AM (MW) as an emergency band/mode.
Read up on GNU radio, and you might learn some interesting stuff that you are otherwise considering a troll.
While a recognizeable obscure quote from the movie Flash Gordon by itself is very worthy of kudos, this entry loses 4 point for being in the much more popular Queen song from said movie soundtrack, which makes it all the less obscure.
Yes, DVDs do provide 720 x 480, though it may be interlaced or progressive, at various framerates. If you use an NTSC interface like S-Video or composite video, and the DVD is interlaced, you still get the full resolution of the DVD.
NTSC specifies 480 visible scanlines (525 total), interlaced, which is what broadcast TV, VHS, laserdisc, and DVD have to provide to work with NTSC sets.
DVDs have a greater horizontal resolution than VHS or laserdisc, with 720 vertial lines across, as opposed to 400 for laserdisc and ~250 for VHS. However, a good regular TV monitor is fully capable of 720 lines of resolution, through composite or SVIDEO. Speaking of which, composite and SVIDEO are equal in quality. The only difference between the two is the location of the comb filter (either in the source, or the monitor). In fact, many laserdisc players worked better using composite video, since the comb filter in the player was superior to the one in the monitor (TV set). SVIDEO theoretially holds up better for longer cable lengths with less signal degradation (hue shift, dot creep).
Component video (either RGB from bygone days, or YPbBr) allows for interlaced ot component transfer of video at various resolutions. From a DVD player, 480i or 480p is generally used (except in upconverting DVD players). 480i provides the same resolution as SVIDEO or composite, though with less dot creep over equivalent quality cabling. 480p works with monitors that support it, and sometimes increases the quality of video (depending on source format and monitor type).
As far as upconverting DVD players go. Hahahaaa!!!! Marketing genius. I'm suprised MonsterCable did not come out with them first. The DVD is encoded as 720x480. Upconverting it to 1920x1080i or 1280x720p, whether done in the monitor or DVD player, will not make a difference. (Unless perhaps, the monitor is a HD CRT rear projection - some of the early ones I believe changed the scan patterns depending on input resolution, to save money on a scaler, so they might benefit). This is the same as the composite/SVIDEO idea. It may be possible to upconvert during the iDCT phase to produce some noticeable difference, but from what I've seen, the DVD players have an upconverter after the first frame rendering.
Brazil is just a hack on the name that English speakers gave it. Like Germany being Bundesrepublik Deutschland. You do not yell at people for referring to it as Deutschland, so why rant when someone says Brasil?
This might be interesting news, though I remember reading this article the first time, in December 2004. Is anyone ambitious enough to search and see if this is indeed a dupe too?
oddly, the captcha i have to type for this post is 'insipid', which is perfect to describe the joke that nobody catches, until of course, someone does finally reply.
In other words, you cannot tell us what you did for the DoD due to the NDA, but then neither can you tell the DoD what you did for them. The secrets will die with you, brother!
Interesting... It would be laughable in some other context, but I feel your pain.
I am not sure whether you intended for your rant to be flamebait or not. And although you are not mentioning it, it seems you prefer the tenets (or rather lack thereof) of anarchy, since it is the only governmental form that has no direct limits on one's freedoms. Or at least, until someone with a larger club comes around and starts up a feudal system or some other form of government. Anarchist groups can, perhaps, exist for some time. Anarchy is unstable, however, and does not scale well.
Established government is necessary if freedoms are to be preserved. Not all governments types do so, and not all that do, do it well. Some freedoms do have to be monitored or limited in order to preserve others. Ideally, one person's freedom should stop where another's starts. Should I be allowed to walk on your lawn, or should you be allowed to kick me off it. Laws are made to help define the boundary of freedoms so that it is easier to determine if I can or cannot walk on your lawn.
The U.S. ideally had a constitutionally limited democratic republic. The Senate was republic half of L branch, and the house represented the democratic. Through the years the significance of congress has diminished as the population has grown but the congress has not, due to logistics. This diminishes the direct representation the house members are supposed to have for small groups of people. Also, since there is no direct representation, senators AND house members have little need to listen to the people they represent, since they are safe until the end of their term. It is much more to the advantage of politicians to take bribes from mega-corporates than to listen to the people they represent. This in my opinion is the main failing of the current system.
Talk of the NWO is not unfounded. I do agree with you that it is a real thing, and something that should not be allowed to come to pass. However, abolishment of all government in order to prevent it does not strike me as a very effective mechanism.
The speed of the electrons is on the order of cm/s, and is related to the current density.
The electromotive force, or voltage, travels at about the speed of light.
Picture a hose of water. The water (electrons) takes a long time to get from one end to the other... but the effect of putting water in one end is immediately seen at the other end (within reason).
With AC, electrons never really gain ground in a balanced load situation. Back and forth and.. . . .
I know I remember seeing the end of this movie at one time, with the laser, airplane and popcorn, but Google isn't turning up anything, and I cannot remember what the movie was...
Can anyone give me a hand identifying the parent's reference?
Slashdot Mirror
It's quite scary actually, but I was thinking of your reference when I read the parent article... Obscure enough - but nothing really suprises me on /. anymore.
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TROZ!
Pinky, what is TROZ?
Why its ZORT in the mirror! haha! TROZ!
I just bought an offensive movie. I generate a backup copy. I didnt like this part of the movie much, so I omit it from my back up copy. Oops! I just accidentally (on purpose) cracked the original disc into two half discs. I think I will sell this copy of the cracked movie....
I just bought an offensive movie. I generate a backup copy. I didnt like this part of the movie much, so I omit it from my back up copy. Oops! I just accidentally (on purpose) cracked the original disc into two half discs. I think I will sell this copy of the cracked movie....
repeat as required to generate profit...
- finis
"Cryptography purists may recoil when the author repeatedly uses the term 'military-grade encryption.' ... there is no real definition of 'military-grade encryption' -- and even if there were, it would be classified."
Ahem, reference http://www.nsa.gov/ia/industry/crypto_suite_b.cfm
While Suite A is classified, Suite B, specifically AES, is specifically mentioned as being suitable for up to TOP SECRET info.
Military grade is not a useless term, as it is therein defined.
HOO-AH!
Sounds like they didn't get a cent from you before then either! What do you expect from playing hard crack warez, n00b?
Generally, the IMSAI did not have a 'font'. It primarily used a terminal over serial for IO (assuming you weren't stuck flipping switches on the front). The terminal generally had a screen and a tape reader/puncher.
There were s100 cards for the IMSAI/Altair that held character buffers, and could spit out NTSC to a suitable monitor or TV. I have one of these, and the picture quality is remarkably good. However, most 'tapeware' assumed a serial terminal, and had to be convinced to use the character buffer through much cursing and gnashing of teeth.
Still planning on making a HTTP server on my old box... but have been a bit busy lately. And have to work on the power supply before that happens.
...is my passport. Verify ME?
I'm trying to think of a way for you to be cruder. It's just not coming.
I use email, and I use RSS. Each has its uses and drawbacks. As the GP pointed out, he WANTS to get security related emails. As a time critical notice, a push mechanism such as email makes more sense than a polling mechanism such as RSS.
What I would like to see (it might exist even, but not in the mainstream) is a distributed syndication protocol. Something like... Usenet mashed together with IRC. But with signed publishers, and the end-user running the equivalent of a news-server instead of a client, getting subscriptions through NNTP-style replication, but with a maximum allowable tree depth to minimize delay.
Just my random babbling for the day.
This noise is caused by the high voltage (and resulting non-trivial magnetic field) produced in the flyback transformer which induces unwanted parasitic vibrations... very similar to the charge pumps used in camera flash circuits...
The reason you can hear it is that the scan frequency falls within the range of human hearing:
NTSC = 525 lines (480 are visible) 30 times a second (interlacing does not affect the scanning frequency, just where the lines are placed)
30*525 = 15750Hz
This is quite high, and most older people cannot hear it, but I definitely can. If you have sufficiently good (or bad)speakers, you can test this by using a tone generator on your computer. (The old plugin for winamp comes to mind). Laptop speakers, which are usually tiny POS plastic cone jobbies will generally be better at this than large desktop speakers that make up for poor quality with over-emphasized bass response.
For PAL (and to appease those Euro-punks that like to slam Americanism), the equation is:
25*625 = 15625Hz
which is very similar.
- Strydre
You meant that in jest... but this is the kind of parallelization required to run such things as Ray-traced applications or games in realtime (or at least jerky realtime - which is much better than several seconds watching each frame draw).
/
/ screenshots/mutlipleReflectiveSpheres.JPG
Refer to:
http://graphics.cs.uni-sb.de/~sidapohl/egoshooter
and for a screenshot with multiple reflection:
http://graphics.cs.uni-sb.de/~sidapohl/egoshooter
The GP was obviously talking about Lotus Notes/Domino. Remote management and replication, ugh! Yes it's scriptable, but still frelling slow to replicate a dummy user, give certificates, set up locations, etc.
> That said, PVR'ing content of that kind of resolution, which essentially involves constant recording to disk, is enormously more demanding on any PC.
Recording an MPEG2 stream is amazingly NOT CPU intensive. The old G3 iMacs with Firewire are more than capable of recording an HD MPEG2 stream to disk. The reason, of course, is that no encoding is required to PVR the data, since it is received as a MPEG2 transport stream in the first place. Playback is another problem, and something that a G3 cannot decode, but is more than happy to send back out the Firewire port to be decoded by whatever tuner you pulled the stream from (assuming it has the play-from-firewire capability). This is the same when pulling a stream in from an ATSC tuner card, except for the firewire part. No encoding needed. A DE-coder would be nice on the card, for systems whose main CPU is not up to the task of 1080i playback, but for newer computers, not strictly a necessity.
You, sir, have no idea of what you speak. The parent post is not a troll. DRM in this case (amazingly enough, as the parent mentioned it) has nothing to do with rights management. All of his points are valid, including the use of AM (MW) as an emergency band/mode.
Read up on GNU radio, and you might learn some interesting stuff that you are otherwise considering a troll.
While a recognizeable obscure quote from the movie Flash Gordon by itself is very worthy of kudos, this entry loses 4 point for being in the much more popular Queen song from said movie soundtrack, which makes it all the less obscure.
Winner: Iron Chef!
Yes, DVDs do provide 720 x 480, though it may be interlaced or progressive, at various framerates.
If you use an NTSC interface like S-Video or composite video, and the DVD is interlaced, you still get the full resolution of the DVD.
NTSC specifies 480 visible scanlines (525 total), interlaced, which is what broadcast TV, VHS, laserdisc, and DVD have to provide to work with NTSC sets.
DVDs have a greater horizontal resolution than VHS or laserdisc, with 720 vertial lines across, as opposed to 400 for laserdisc and ~250 for VHS. However, a good regular TV monitor is fully capable of 720 lines of resolution, through composite or SVIDEO. Speaking of which, composite and SVIDEO are equal in quality. The only difference between the two is the location of the comb filter (either in the source, or the monitor). In fact, many laserdisc players worked better using composite video, since the comb filter in the player was superior to the one in the monitor (TV set). SVIDEO theoretially holds up better for longer cable lengths with less signal degradation (hue shift, dot creep).
Component video (either RGB from bygone days, or YPbBr) allows for interlaced ot component transfer of video at various resolutions. From a DVD player, 480i or 480p is generally used (except in upconverting DVD players). 480i provides the same resolution as SVIDEO or composite, though with less dot creep over equivalent quality cabling. 480p works with monitors that support it, and sometimes increases the quality of video (depending on source format and monitor type).
As far as upconverting DVD players go. Hahahaaa!!!! Marketing genius. I'm suprised MonsterCable did not come out with them first. The DVD is encoded as 720x480. Upconverting it to 1920x1080i or 1280x720p, whether done in the monitor or DVD player, will not make a difference. (Unless perhaps, the monitor is a HD CRT rear projection - some of the early ones I believe changed the scan patterns depending on input resolution, to save money on a scaler, so they might benefit). This is the same as the composite/SVIDEO idea. It may be possible to upconvert during the iDCT phase to produce some noticeable difference, but from what I've seen, the DVD players have an upconverter after the first frame rendering.
Um I do believe you meant, 'Thats just shiny'.
Though I personally prefer 'Frelling drad!'.
I do believe Brazil is properly: "República Federativa do Brasil".
The government website is at http://www.brasil.gov.br/
'Nuff said.
Brazil is just a hack on the name that English speakers gave it. Like Germany being Bundesrepublik Deutschland. You do not yell at people for referring to it as Deutschland, so why rant when someone says Brasil?
This might be interesting news, though I remember reading this article the first time, in December 2004. Is anyone ambitious enough to search and see if this is indeed a dupe too?
Truly, you have a dizzying intellect.
oddly, the captcha i have to type for this post is 'insipid', which is perfect to describe the joke that nobody catches, until of course, someone does finally reply.
In other words, you cannot tell us what you did for the DoD due to the NDA, but then neither can you tell the DoD what you did for them. The secrets will die with you, brother!
Interesting... It would be laughable in some other context, but I feel your pain.
I am not sure whether you intended for your rant to be flamebait or not. And although you are not mentioning it, it seems you prefer the tenets (or rather lack thereof) of anarchy, since it is the only governmental form that has no direct limits on one's freedoms. Or at least, until someone with a larger club comes around and starts up a feudal system or some other form of government. Anarchist groups can, perhaps, exist for some time. Anarchy is unstable, however, and does not scale well.
Established government is necessary if freedoms are to be preserved. Not all governments types do so, and not all that do, do it well. Some freedoms do have to be monitored or limited in order to preserve others. Ideally, one person's freedom should stop where another's starts. Should I be allowed to walk on your lawn, or should you be allowed to kick me off it. Laws are made to help define the boundary of freedoms so that it is easier to determine if I can or cannot walk on your lawn.
The U.S. ideally had a constitutionally limited democratic republic. The Senate was republic half of L branch, and the house represented the democratic. Through the years the significance of congress has diminished as the population has grown but the congress has not, due to logistics. This diminishes the direct representation the house members are supposed to have for small groups of people. Also, since there is no direct representation, senators AND house members have little need to listen to the people they represent, since they are safe until the end of their term. It is much more to the advantage of politicians to take bribes from mega-corporates than to listen to the people they represent. This in my opinion is the main failing of the current system.
Talk of the NWO is not unfounded. I do agree with you that it is a real thing, and something that should not be allowed to come to pass. However, abolishment of all government in order to prevent it does not strike me as a very effective mechanism.
"I can't install most applications as they either arn't in a repository, or my distro (FC3) is not supported [anymore]."
It's your own fault for not using debian...
The speed of the electrons is on the order of cm/s, and is related to the current density.
.. . . .
The electromotive force, or voltage, travels at about the speed of light.
Picture a hose of water. The water (electrons) takes a long time to get from one end to the other... but the effect of putting water in one end is immediately seen at the other end (within reason).
With AC, electrons never really gain ground in a balanced load situation. Back and forth and
I know I remember seeing the end of this movie at one time, with the laser, airplane and popcorn, but Google isn't turning up anything, and I cannot remember what the movie was...
Can anyone give me a hand identifying the parent's reference?
Oh! The cruelty! The envy!
What I wouldn't give for a Beowulf Cluster of B*bs, signed but the great ID #1
*faints*