It is my understanding that most modern cargo vessels can cruise at about 20 knots. The choose to chug allong at about 13 knots because that is where the "sweet spot" is. Having a single gas turbine engine spinning one impeller at a high enough RPM to drive a large cargo ship at high speed is possible, but who wants to pay the fuel cost?
For now, I'm gonna chalk this one up to wishfull thinking. And maybe Coast Guard/military specops. Just take a look at the films from the '50s and '60s previewing all the inventions that we will be using in 2000. The main difference between then and now is that they actually had working prototypes of the suitcase car and the inflatible airplane.
I already set up a forward list with my district representative, senator, and bill.gates@microsoft.com on it. Any time I get spam, I just send it along. I am pretty sure I'm on their ban-list by now, but it still helps me to blow off steam...
I don't know if it is just a caffine crash or what, but your sig had me laughing for quite a while. I had images of psycologists with o-scopes and multimeters probing to try and reenigne-esrever a brain.
Don't trash the environmentalists (does that sound right? who knows). Environmentalists, feminists, NRA, PETA. All these groups are the core of our real political process. While it is true that these groups seem to dominate your government...that is how it is SUPOSED to be.
If you want something, say openDVD, you can go to your senator and ask him for it, or you and 900 friends can e-mail him (Kurt-the-Pope can then be hired to filter your DoS attack), or you can form a political action group based on open standards and get 30 seconds on CNN. Which has more power? Which has the best chance of achiveing your goals?
Remember...political action groups are there because they work. Find a group that supports YOUR goals, and join.
Just try to remember to fight the cause, not the group. It isn't the environmentalists you dislike, but the lack of new power stations...
Do you think that a free-market is more viable than a controlled economy? Personally, I wouldn't want my community controlling my internet access. Especially if you lived in the "Bible Belt". I think that the answer to California's problem is to let the buisness that is in place try to make money. If they but electricity at $10/kilowatt-hour, what is wrong with them selling it to you for $12, or $15, or even $100? Let the buisness make money.
Now, I know that California has probs building a new power plant. Would you want a new coal-plant near your house, or a concrete damn on your favorite river? A truly free market will give the citizens a TRUE choice. It will let them VOTE WITH THEIR WALLETS. If you don't want a new power station, fine...that will be $100/kw-h. Oh, what's that? You don't mind nuclear power so much now do you? Or coal stacks? Or a nice new lake.
All I am trying to say is...Let the buisnessmen run the buisness and keep the power in the hands of the consumer where it belongs...and tell the politicians to get bent.
A normal 2-wire telephone does not have a "send" and "recive" side. The modem will transmit and then recive based on a time delay. AFAIK, there is no easy way to make a 2-wire modem talk to another without a telephone switch.
I can see how this would work if the gaming company pressed the CD as bootable, auto-partitioning, and self installing. That would finally give a gaming company a base to work off of. They would know what OS you were using, what libs were installed, and have the ability to trace bugs in the code all the way to the kernel level.
The only downside would be that in order to do that, you'd have to have a rather specific system...geforce/3dfx/matrox video...
Well, I work a 12-hour shift with 2 on and 2 off. So that is about 182 days a year. Out of that, I get a 30 day vacation. So I got 152 days. 5 days of sick leave gets me down to 147 days a year. I get a 2-hour lunch which kicks out another 12 days leaving 135 days a year. I usually show up late and leave early which kills about another 5 days. So that leaves about 130 days that I actually go to work. While I'm at work, I probable kill 30 days in the toilet reading a Neil Stephenson book, 30 talking about politics, 15 wondering what to do for lunch, 10 or so sleeping.
That leaves about 45 days a year of ACTUAL work. Oops, I forgot/.ing, make that about 5 days of work that I do.
Why are you so concerned with saying "can't"? If you don't think it is possible, then shove off. If I want to have a series of games burned to a cd with a known good config, then I can do it. What you seem to be overlooking is that some of thoes patches/hacks to make Q3:Arena work on a system may also make it unstable. In that case, having a system of bootable cds is almost a requirement.
OK...so what happens when a pecker like me (that doesn't sound right does it) takes a keyboard and plugs it into your keyboard port. Or, better still, the NSA takes the hard drive platters and does a bit by bit analysis on them.
I am not trying to be an asshole here, but the question was about encryption.
As for your technique....I LOVE IT. it has to be the coolest thing since sliced bread. But, alas, I am meerly a pecker (still doesn't seem right), so I'll have to stick with a pathetic BIOS lock. But I did desolder the jumper block from the motherboard....do I get cool points for that?
I have a question. Does it really matter if they watch you? There are laws covering what they can and cannot use as evidence agianst you. If they had a folder of you doing subversive freaky things....so what? They can't use it unless they had a reason to suspect you in the first place.
NSA: Hey, Bios_Hakr has a huge collection of MP3's
Judge: How do you know?
NSA: We hacked his box and found them!
Judge: Did you have a search warrant?
NSA: We don't need one, we are the Good Guys(TM)
Judge: Bios, you are free to go.
My lawyer: The NSA owes us money for being assholes.
Even if they found you doing it in the first place. Then got a warrant, your lawyer would ask them why they suspected you. Their answer would be something to the effect of we were watching him for a few months before we had a warrant.
I am not a big fan of government condoned privacy violations, but I really don't see how this could actually HELP the NSA catch criminals.
is an encrypted filesystem. Would it really be difficult to have the OS reside unincrypted and the/usr could be un-encrypted at boot. I have never actually tried to encrypt a directory but it seem that this couldn't be too difficult. It might take a long time, but how often do you really need to reboot a linux box. The Bad Guys(tm) can com in and when they take the box to their offices....they get random noise.
Hey, maybe we could look up that Turing guy's estate and sue them. After all, he started this whole mess. Of course, if the cryptonomicon is right, that could prove to be difficult...
I think the "throwaway phone" is really just a way to express how our phones work in europe. Instead of having a contract with a service provider, we buy a card that is worth a certian ammount of credit. You insert the card into your phone, talk till the credit is gone, then go purchace another card. Sounds kinda silly at first, but it is really great when you hear how americans are getting screwed with cellphones.
I am postiong this comment, shutting my box down, and never turning it on agian. The fact that this is even being considered just makes me long for the days when we did nothing more than sit outside and bang rock together.
You want to hear a really sobering thought, this kind of crap happens in every sector of interests. We see crap like this because we are computer/internet geeks. If there are any model airplane geeks, you may have heard that you need emmisions controls on your engines. If you are in some other area of interest (I suck b-cus I can only think of two things I like), you will see this happening everywhere.
My point is that we might as well sit outside and bang rocks unless things change soon.
My understanding of the tech is that it is very similar to HDSL. The basic theory (of DSL) is that the only part of a wave that really matters is the peak or trough. The rest of the wave is just wasted bandwidth. To increase the data rate the DSL modem will produce a wave up to the peak/trough then stop that wave and go right into the next wave. The effect it produces on an o-scope looks like high-speed chirps.
The next stratagey they use is to increace the combination of bianary digits that a wave can represent. Instead of letting a peak/trough represent a bianry 1/0, they use a "bullseye" to let the peak/trough send multiple bits.
Since/. dislikes whitespace, i'll give you an example using amplitude/phase readouts
0 volts amplitude and 0 degrees of phase shift would be binary 0000
.1v and 0d is 0001b
.2v and 0d is 0010b
.1v and 1d is 0011b
to help visualize this think about each wave as a seperate entity and not part of the carrier and then place the voltages and phases on a sheet of graph paper.
By allowing each wave to represent a byte/word vice a single bit, you pump up the datarate. This is why we refer to modems in kb/s and not baud anymore.
If this is what they are doing, they are just modifying the current algorithms that everyone uses for standard modems.
That isn't quite right. The p50 used a 50mhz FSB . The p66 used a 66mhz FSB. The next step, the p75, had a 50mhz FSB with a 1.5 multiplier. Some people said that it's performance was about the same as the p66 but you could avoid the p66's floating point probs. The p90 used 1.5*60 and the p100 was 66*1.5.
The problem with so called datahavens and off-shore hosting is that the A.Root server IS in the US and can be modified by a court order (see the e-toy/e-toys dispute). If your off-shore ISP is going to have it's domain name revoked because of your site, guess what they are going to do. Even if they do take a stand, the US can pressure the telcos to cut your service.
ps.. I'm not parinoid, but if all else fails, they (the copyright owner) could just DoS you into 300-baud-land
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What the hell? Like the abundance of games for the M$ platform is a major factor for corperations. Where do you get off saying that the introduction of another game will affect Linux in the workplace. It will not have any affect at all once your administrator shows that no one can install them, much less play them on a buisness box. OTOH, it will make linux more attractive to the end user to know that it is not all about buisness. I use Windows for games only. In fact, the only reason i keep a dual boot config is because of the lack of games for linux.
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It is my understanding that most modern cargo vessels can cruise at about 20 knots. The choose to chug allong at about 13 knots because that is where the "sweet spot" is. Having a single gas turbine engine spinning one impeller at a high enough RPM to drive a large cargo ship at high speed is possible, but who wants to pay the fuel cost?
For now, I'm gonna chalk this one up to wishfull thinking. And maybe Coast Guard/military specops. Just take a look at the films from the '50s and '60s previewing all the inventions that we will be using in 2000. The main difference between then and now is that they actually had working prototypes of the suitcase car and the inflatible airplane.
I already set up a forward list with my district representative, senator, and bill.gates@microsoft.com on it. Any time I get spam, I just send it along. I am pretty sure I'm on their ban-list by now, but it still helps me to blow off steam...
Is it just me, or does the lucidity of /. posts have a direct corelation to the User# and it's proximity to the Holy Creator?
Maybe that's why I've never been modded up:)
I don't know if it is just a caffine crash or what, but your sig had me laughing for quite a while. I had images of psycologists with o-scopes and multimeters probing to try and reenigne-esrever a brain.
Don't trash the environmentalists (does that sound right? who knows). Environmentalists, feminists, NRA, PETA. All these groups are the core of our real political process. While it is true that these groups seem to dominate your government...that is how it is SUPOSED to be.
If you want something, say openDVD, you can go to your senator and ask him for it, or you and 900 friends can e-mail him (Kurt-the-Pope can then be hired to filter your DoS attack), or you can form a political action group based on open standards and get 30 seconds on CNN. Which has more power? Which has the best chance of achiveing your goals?
Remember...political action groups are there because they work. Find a group that supports YOUR goals, and join.
Just try to remember to fight the cause, not the group. It isn't the environmentalists you dislike, but the lack of new power stations...
Do you think that a free-market is more viable than a controlled economy? Personally, I wouldn't want my community controlling my internet access. Especially if you lived in the "Bible Belt". I think that the answer to California's problem is to let the buisness that is in place try to make money. If they but electricity at $10/kilowatt-hour, what is wrong with them selling it to you for $12, or $15, or even $100? Let the buisness make money.
Now, I know that California has probs building a new power plant. Would you want a new coal-plant near your house, or a concrete damn on your favorite river? A truly free market will give the citizens a TRUE choice. It will let them VOTE WITH THEIR WALLETS. If you don't want a new power station, fine...that will be $100/kw-h. Oh, what's that? You don't mind nuclear power so much now do you? Or coal stacks? Or a nice new lake.
All I am trying to say is...Let the buisnessmen run the buisness and keep the power in the hands of the consumer where it belongs...and tell the politicians to get bent.
A normal 2-wire telephone does not have a "send" and "recive" side. The modem will transmit and then recive based on a time delay. AFAIK, there is no easy way to make a 2-wire modem talk to another without a telephone switch.
I can see how this would work if the gaming company pressed the CD as bootable, auto-partitioning, and self installing. That would finally give a gaming company a base to work off of. They would know what OS you were using, what libs were installed, and have the ability to trace bugs in the code all the way to the kernel level.
The only downside would be that in order to do that, you'd have to have a rather specific system...geforce/3dfx/matrox video...
Well, I work a 12-hour shift with 2 on and 2 off. So that is about 182 days a year. Out of that, I get a 30 day vacation. So I got 152 days. 5 days of sick leave gets me down to 147 days a year. I get a 2-hour lunch which kicks out another 12 days leaving 135 days a year. I usually show up late and leave early which kills about another 5 days. So that leaves about 130 days that I actually go to work. While I'm at work, I probable kill 30 days in the toilet reading a Neil Stephenson book, 30 talking about politics, 15 wondering what to do for lunch, 10 or so sleeping.
/.ing, make that about 5 days of work that I do.
That leaves about 45 days a year of ACTUAL work. Oops, I forgot
Why waste good canned meat on a worthless spammer?
Why are you so concerned with saying "can't"? If you don't think it is possible, then shove off. If I want to have a series of games burned to a cd with a known good config, then I can do it. What you seem to be overlooking is that some of thoes patches/hacks to make Q3:Arena work on a system may also make it unstable. In that case, having a system of bootable cds is almost a requirement.
Just create directories that look interesting..
#pwd
/home/iran/chemical/plans/contacts/sadam/almost there/keep trying/go away/one more/ru mad yet/y r u still here/rtfm/leave now/r u tired yet/....
And so on...
Just put so much crap on your disk that noone will ever find your 20k freeciv game that you are so concerned with encrypting....
OK...so what happens when a pecker like me (that doesn't sound right does it) takes a keyboard and plugs it into your keyboard port. Or, better still, the NSA takes the hard drive platters and does a bit by bit analysis on them.
I am not trying to be an asshole here, but the question was about encryption.
As for your technique....I LOVE IT. it has to be the coolest thing since sliced bread. But, alas, I am meerly a pecker (still doesn't seem right), so I'll have to stick with a pathetic BIOS lock. But I did desolder the jumper block from the motherboard....do I get cool points for that?
I have a question. Does it really matter if they watch you? There are laws covering what they can and cannot use as evidence agianst you. If they had a folder of you doing subversive freaky things....so what? They can't use it unless they had a reason to suspect you in the first place.
NSA: Hey, Bios_Hakr has a huge collection of MP3's
Judge: How do you know?
NSA: We hacked his box and found them!
Judge: Did you have a search warrant?
NSA: We don't need one, we are the Good Guys(TM)
Judge: Bios, you are free to go.
My lawyer: The NSA owes us money for being assholes.
Even if they found you doing it in the first place. Then got a warrant, your lawyer would ask them why they suspected you. Their answer would be something to the effect of we were watching him for a few months before we had a warrant.
I am not a big fan of government condoned privacy violations, but I really don't see how this could actually HELP the NSA catch criminals.
is an encrypted filesystem. Would it really be difficult to have the OS reside unincrypted and the /usr could be un-encrypted at boot. I have never actually tried to encrypt a directory but it seem that this couldn't be too difficult. It might take a long time, but how often do you really need to reboot a linux box. The Bad Guys(tm) can com in and when they take the box to their offices....they get random noise.
Hey, maybe we could look up that Turing guy's estate and sue them. After all, he started this whole mess. Of course, if the cryptonomicon is right, that could prove to be difficult...
I think the "throwaway phone" is really just a way to express how our phones work in europe. Instead of having a contract with a service provider, we buy a card that is worth a certian ammount of credit. You insert the card into your phone, talk till the credit is gone, then go purchace another card. Sounds kinda silly at first, but it is really great when you hear how americans are getting screwed with cellphones.
I am postiong this comment, shutting my box down, and never turning it on agian. The fact that this is even being considered just makes me long for the days when we did nothing more than sit outside and bang rock together.
You want to hear a really sobering thought, this kind of crap happens in every sector of interests. We see crap like this because we are computer/internet geeks. If there are any model airplane geeks, you may have heard that you need emmisions controls on your engines. If you are in some other area of interest (I suck b-cus I can only think of two things I like), you will see this happening everywhere.
My point is that we might as well sit outside and bang rocks unless things change soon.
Can I get a cluster of thoes? Sorry, had to be said....
What, it's not stable? That never stopped M$ from calling win95 a release?
My understanding of the tech is that it is very similar to HDSL. The basic theory (of DSL) is that the only part of a wave that really matters is the peak or trough. The rest of the wave is just wasted bandwidth. To increase the data rate the DSL modem will produce a wave up to the peak/trough then stop that wave and go right into the next wave. The effect it produces on an o-scope looks like high-speed chirps.
/. dislikes whitespace, i'll give you an example using amplitude/phase readouts
The next stratagey they use is to increace the combination of bianary digits that a wave can represent. Instead of letting a peak/trough represent a bianry 1/0, they use a "bullseye" to let the peak/trough send multiple bits.
Since
0 volts amplitude and 0 degrees of phase shift would be binary 0000
.1v and 0d is 0001b
.2v and 0d is 0010b
.1v and 1d is 0011b
to help visualize this think about each wave as a seperate entity and not part of the carrier and then place the voltages and phases on a sheet of graph paper.
By allowing each wave to represent a byte/word vice a single bit, you pump up the datarate. This is why we refer to modems in kb/s and not baud anymore.
If this is what they are doing, they are just modifying the current algorithms that everyone uses for standard modems.
MP3 is all about throin' the tea into the harbour, my loyalist friend.
That isn't quite right. The p50 used a 50mhz FSB . The p66 used a 66mhz FSB. The next step, the p75, had a 50mhz FSB with a 1.5 multiplier. Some people said that it's performance was about the same as the p66 but you could avoid the p66's floating point probs. The p90 used 1.5*60 and the p100 was 66*1.5.
The problem with so called datahavens and off-shore hosting is that the A.Root server IS in the US and can be modified by a court order (see the e-toy/e-toys dispute). If your off-shore ISP is going to have it's domain name revoked because of your site, guess what they are going to do. Even if they do take a stand, the US can pressure the telcos to cut your service.
ps.. I'm not parinoid, but if all else fails, they (the copyright owner) could just DoS you into 300-baud-land
What the hell? Like the abundance of games for the M$ platform is a major factor for corperations. Where do you get off saying that the introduction of another game will affect Linux in the workplace. It will not have any affect at all once your administrator shows that no one can install them, much less play them on a buisness box.
OTOH, it will make linux more attractive to the end user to know that it is not all about buisness. I use Windows for games only. In fact, the only reason i keep a dual boot config is because of the lack of games for linux.