I created an encrypted Debian installation on my laptop with a 20+ character password, and proceeded to find out that Debian didn't support my hardware very well at the time. I stopped using the partition and forgot the password within a week. It remained the default boot option for at least ten months -- it's not like I needed the disk space, and I'm used to choosing from a boot menu every time I start my computer so it wasn't a big deal. I'm sure I'm not the only one who has done this.
Sounds like the Mig 25. Another advantage was that the more mature vacuum tech of the time meant they could use an incredibly powerful radar -- powerful enough that jamming systems of the time didn't affect it too much.
I got mine at Target. It still came for "free" with a two year extension of my contract, and the guy behind the counter didn't even know what a data plan was.
I was born in 1990 and every single meal I purchased while I was in public school was through a computer system that kept track of when we ate, and later, what we ate. The excuse was that our state school system subsidizes only one meal per day per student (or two if they eat breakfast, at a different rate), so if you bought two meals, you had to pay about double the normal price for the second one. It's a sad realization that the school district is actually raking in $6 or more per every single tiny and disgusting portion they sell to students.
But yeah, you do need a law to stop arrogant idiots from killing people while trying to drive a manual when all they've done is push on the right pedal.
I don't understand that line of thought. If you can't drive a manual, then don't. If you have to learn, then getting the basics down on a side road takes 10 minutes. After that, all you're going to do is accidentally stall your car and immediately start it again. At the worst, you'll try to start in third gear and sit there for a minute trying to figure out WTF you did wrong. Anyone studying for a special manual transmission license is going to go through these issues anyway.
I'm pretty sure the danger of an experienced manual driver accidentally flooring the brake while searching for the clutch in an automatic is greater than anything a driver new to the manual transmission could reasonably do.
I sometimes use this with my Blackberry on T-mobile. Leaving wifi on uses the battery pretty rapidly and of course roaming between different routers on the campus network isn't always smooth, but all of that is to be expected. It's primarily useful at my friend's beach house as I'm always the only one who can use my cell phone there and the connection quality is perfectly normal.
My school district changed filtering software every few years. All of the filter lists were manipulated to provide biased information. The most obvious example was that all websites that were critical to either that particular software or the laws and subsidies that require schools to use said software were blocked. Many many websites that were pro second amendment were blocked, as were many that promoted privacy or criticized censorship on the Internet. Even in seventh grade I regularly had to do my research for school projects at home. Not everyone at that school could afford that luxury.
God forbid a middle or high schooler wants to do research about something with an iota of more relevance to the real world than "Why recycling is good," "Why guns are bad," "Why authority is always right," and "Why abstinence always works." Luckily smart phones are rapidly making the classic school IT guy obsolete.
You argue that a person should have the freedom to choose his speed based on his good judgment and you also note the economic impact on individuals who are forced to drive at a specific speed. You go on to say that someone who chooses a different speed than you is selfish and violating your freedom. That simply does not make sense.
I've been on both sides of this issue -- running late with a long distance to go and a lot to lose for not arriving on time, and dead broke, in the right lane with the fuel gauge below empty in an ancient four speed, letting my speed dip to 49mph on the uphills, drafting semis, and killing the engine on the offramps.
Many HP scanners can save scans to a SD card and will automatically let you grab the images over a samba share. I used that a lot considering that no other method of scanning seemed to work on my old machine.
The major advertisers definitely have the ability to glean these fingerprints from some nontrivial percentage of the sites you visit. With enough data they stand a reasonable chance of finding connections between someone's different "personas" on the Internet, whether the difference between said personas is simply one person using two different computers or if it's someone actually trying hide their identity.
We once rented a movie on bluray. It started with a pop-up style advertisement for some web site. I'm guessing it was slipstreamed in for the profit of the movie rental place or perhaps their distributor. It couldn't be skipped and sat on our screen for 2 or 3 minutes as we mashed buttons trying to get to the main menu. It made me sad that we didn't just get a VHS.
It probably refers to orders of magnitude. He's saying that if our current computers run on the order of 10^n FLOPS (or whatever benchmark you want to use), then the theoretical Apple-ruined computers would run on the order of 10^(n-1) FLOPS. It's vaguely worded but a perfectly legitimate comparison. When making estimations in science, this is generally the qualifier to use the comparison "much less than" instead of "less than."
I once knew a guy who worked for a real estate company that sold similar caves. IIRC they were also mines that were no longer being used. A common use for these caves is to store cheese while it ages -- they're the perfect temperature and cheese companies can save lots of money in electricity costs.
I didn't believe him at first when he told me with a straight face that he used to evaluate and sell cheese caves.
Reminds me of a light for a left turn in my home town that was configured badly. Occasionally in the right weather and traffic conditions, you could be approaching a green light, and then have it turn yellow, then red in front of you with little to no possibility of stopping in time. Then you have to make a choice between attempting to stop, and risking sliding into the intersection once cross traffic has already started -- or flooring it and fishtailing through in the brief time window before other cars enter the intersection.
This happened to both me and some of my friends and family at the same light. After about a year the city finally changed the yellow light duration there.
The same city also is in the process of starting a red light camera system. I never expected such a thing to get past the voters, but some brilliant planner decided that the first cameras would go up in the *poor* parts of town, while the more expensive parts of town would get huge amounts of money to study and re-adjust their light timing. The voters ate that right up.
I'm losing some mod points by posting this, but I didn't notice the ages here -- 12, 14, and 15? Let them have some old/spare computers if they want. Show them where to download a virus scanner and tell them that if they break anything, they have to fix it. I don't see what the issue is here. They are going to have homework the requires the Internet anyway, so shutting down access after 10pm and in the early morning is just going to hurt them.
By the way, my middle and high schools implemented strict filtering schemes on their networks. We had to put a fair amount of effort into getting around them *not* because we wanted to browse facebook/myspace/b/ at school, but because we often did research for our essays on school computers, and we wanted actual, balanced evidence, rather than the limited and biased crap that the filters let through.
What if, instead of providing and then collecting bags, you provided some sort of special receptacle for wastes? You could place numerous such devices throughout populated areas. They could feed wastes into any sort of tank, processing system, or pipeline. You could even design the receptacles such that a user could sit on an ergonomic surface while delivering their waste. Since the receptacles are in central locations, one could even imagine providing special, cheap paper and even water and soap for sanitary purposes.
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Or this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wiLj3MsLCrw
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I created an encrypted Debian installation on my laptop with a 20+ character password, and proceeded to find out that Debian didn't support my hardware very well at the time. I stopped using the partition and forgot the password within a week. It remained the default boot option for at least ten months -- it's not like I needed the disk space, and I'm used to choosing from a boot menu every time I start my computer so it wasn't a big deal. I'm sure I'm not the only one who has done this.
Sounds like the Mig 25. Another advantage was that the more mature vacuum tech of the time meant they could use an incredibly powerful radar -- powerful enough that jamming systems of the time didn't affect it too much.
I dunno, I've had my power taken out by car crashes a number of times, but I have yet to lose any important infrastructure due to gunfire.
I got mine at Target. It still came for "free" with a two year extension of my contract, and the guy behind the counter didn't even know what a data plan was.
I was born in 1990 and every single meal I purchased while I was in public school was through a computer system that kept track of when we ate, and later, what we ate. The excuse was that our state school system subsidizes only one meal per day per student (or two if they eat breakfast, at a different rate), so if you bought two meals, you had to pay about double the normal price for the second one. It's a sad realization that the school district is actually raking in $6 or more per every single tiny and disgusting portion they sell to students.
You may be interested in this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Athens_Wireless_Metropolitan_Network :/ It's too bad that so few people are interested in participating in community networks like this.
I found out about it in an informative discussion on Reddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/a54yz/proggit_i_present_you_with_awmn/
Theoretically there's a similar project going on in the city where I go to university, but I've never seen a working node and attempts to get involved were met with no response
My graphing calculator boasts a Pentium 4 with hyperthreading.
"Fraud, which is a $50 billion problem, will be completely eradicated"
I don't understand that line of thought. If you can't drive a manual, then don't. If you have to learn, then getting the basics down on a side road takes 10 minutes. After that, all you're going to do is accidentally stall your car and immediately start it again. At the worst, you'll try to start in third gear and sit there for a minute trying to figure out WTF you did wrong. Anyone studying for a special manual transmission license is going to go through these issues anyway.
I'm pretty sure the danger of an experienced manual driver accidentally flooring the brake while searching for the clutch in an automatic is greater than anything a driver new to the manual transmission could reasonably do.
I sometimes use this with my Blackberry on T-mobile. Leaving wifi on uses the battery pretty rapidly and of course roaming between different routers on the campus network isn't always smooth, but all of that is to be expected. It's primarily useful at my friend's beach house as I'm always the only one who can use my cell phone there and the connection quality is perfectly normal.
My school district changed filtering software every few years. All of the filter lists were manipulated to provide biased information. The most obvious example was that all websites that were critical to either that particular software or the laws and subsidies that require schools to use said software were blocked. Many many websites that were pro second amendment were blocked, as were many that promoted privacy or criticized censorship on the Internet. Even in seventh grade I regularly had to do my research for school projects at home. Not everyone at that school could afford that luxury.
God forbid a middle or high schooler wants to do research about something with an iota of more relevance to the real world than "Why recycling is good," "Why guns are bad," "Why authority is always right," and "Why abstinence always works." Luckily smart phones are rapidly making the classic school IT guy obsolete.
You argue that a person should have the freedom to choose his speed based on his good judgment and you also note the economic impact on individuals who are forced to drive at a specific speed. You go on to say that someone who chooses a different speed than you is selfish and violating your freedom. That simply does not make sense. I've been on both sides of this issue -- running late with a long distance to go and a lot to lose for not arriving on time, and dead broke, in the right lane with the fuel gauge below empty in an ancient four speed, letting my speed dip to 49mph on the uphills, drafting semis, and killing the engine on the offramps.
Many HP scanners can save scans to a SD card and will automatically let you grab the images over a samba share. I used that a lot considering that no other method of scanning seemed to work on my old machine.
It makes sense because the turbine blades themselves are not moving directly downwind when the rest of the device is.
The major advertisers definitely have the ability to glean these fingerprints from some nontrivial percentage of the sites you visit. With enough data they stand a reasonable chance of finding connections between someone's different "personas" on the Internet, whether the difference between said personas is simply one person using two different computers or if it's someone actually trying hide their identity.
We once rented a movie on bluray. It started with a pop-up style advertisement for some web site. I'm guessing it was slipstreamed in for the profit of the movie rental place or perhaps their distributor. It couldn't be skipped and sat on our screen for 2 or 3 minutes as we mashed buttons trying to get to the main menu. It made me sad that we didn't just get a VHS.
I browse the web and use chat every day on a 312 MHz XScale machine. It also makes phone calls :D
It probably refers to orders of magnitude. He's saying that if our current computers run on the order of 10^n FLOPS (or whatever benchmark you want to use), then the theoretical Apple-ruined computers would run on the order of 10^(n-1) FLOPS. It's vaguely worded but a perfectly legitimate comparison. When making estimations in science, this is generally the qualifier to use the comparison "much less than" instead of "less than."
I once knew a guy who worked for a real estate company that sold similar caves. IIRC they were also mines that were no longer being used. A common use for these caves is to store cheese while it ages -- they're the perfect temperature and cheese companies can save lots of money in electricity costs.
I didn't believe him at first when he told me with a straight face that he used to evaluate and sell cheese caves.
Reminds me of a light for a left turn in my home town that was configured badly. Occasionally in the right weather and traffic conditions, you could be approaching a green light, and then have it turn yellow, then red in front of you with little to no possibility of stopping in time. Then you have to make a choice between attempting to stop, and risking sliding into the intersection once cross traffic has already started -- or flooring it and fishtailing through in the brief time window before other cars enter the intersection.
This happened to both me and some of my friends and family at the same light. After about a year the city finally changed the yellow light duration there.
The same city also is in the process of starting a red light camera system. I never expected such a thing to get past the voters, but some brilliant planner decided that the first cameras would go up in the *poor* parts of town, while the more expensive parts of town would get huge amounts of money to study and re-adjust their light timing. The voters ate that right up.
I'm losing some mod points by posting this, but I didn't notice the ages here -- 12, 14, and 15? Let them have some old/spare computers if they want. Show them where to download a virus scanner and tell them that if they break anything, they have to fix it. I don't see what the issue is here. They are going to have homework the requires the Internet anyway, so shutting down access after 10pm and in the early morning is just going to hurt them. By the way, my middle and high schools implemented strict filtering schemes on their networks. We had to put a fair amount of effort into getting around them *not* because we wanted to browse facebook/myspace/b/ at school, but because we often did research for our essays on school computers, and we wanted actual, balanced evidence, rather than the limited and biased crap that the filters let through.
Roadside parking and barriers/curbs in the middle of the road do not make bicycling any safer.
What if, instead of providing and then collecting bags, you provided some sort of special receptacle for wastes? You could place numerous such devices throughout populated areas. They could feed wastes into any sort of tank, processing system, or pipeline. You could even design the receptacles such that a user could sit on an ergonomic surface while delivering their waste. Since the receptacles are in central locations, one could even imagine providing special, cheap paper and even water and soap for sanitary purposes.
To be fair, it does represent a security flaw that is present in most modern operating systems.