"We are
glad to announce that we found a collision for SHA-0."
- from the article
I just found the wording kinda weird...
I'm hoping to do research in cryptography in the future. I know I'd feel quite proud if I found a vulnerability like that, but is it appropriate to show such enthusiasm?
Kinda like an overjoyed astronomer that finds a comet heading into a collision course with Earth.
Uhm, the book describes them as [b]dark skinned[/b] men from the south, as opposed to pale haired light skinned men from the north.
Orcs weren't white in the book, either.
I'm gonna have to agree with pclminion on this issue. The OP said the dude was an exchange student to clarify later in the post that his origins and his programming skills were not the real issue, but rather the coding language.
Responses would have likely brought up the programmers skills anyways. He just wanted to kill two birds with one stone.
p.s. And no, I'm not some random white dude. My name does actually reflect my ethnicity.
It's peer to peer. DCC is from one person's client to another. The information in a file never passes through the server. The chatting portion and initial requests travel through the server.
I once got an actual stanza...
on
Spam as Poetry
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· Score: 4, Interesting
The email had nothing else in the body except some seemingly random words.
I assumed it was a virus, or a spambot, but I couldn't tell as nothing else was inside the email. It came from a random spamming domain name, but why wasn't there an ad in it? I'm too lazy to solve the mystery.
On the surface the intent is simple: to create rich, compelling worlds.
In a world without adequate depth, story will suffer. When story suffers, gameplay suffers. The goal at Sojourn Development is to elevate the art and craft of gaming to a truly immersive level, to leverage the capabilities of technology to deepen the players' experience with the story, to give them the tools to write their own, to let them forge their own world within the ones we bring to life.
The trajectories of artistic expression and entertainment are drawing close to one another. The development of online worlds offers exciting possibilities: art, entertainment, and community have the opportunity to meld into a form far more engaging than those we can imagine at this point. Sojourn Development views its efforts as a step or two along this path.
Sojourn Development is currently developing a first-person, massively-multiplayer online role playing game under the working title "Glympse" (formerly known as "Chivalry"). All of the company's efforts and resources are going into this massive undertaking.
Tens of thousands of players will adventure simultaneously in the world of Glympse, writing their own stories through their actions in the game, weaving them into the fabric of a much larger tale. They will discover the stories of those who come before them, and leave their own for those who come behind. They will gather together for strength in massive numbers, they will decide to go it alone... they will move through the world of Glympse according to their own designs.
His worth fluctuates, and last time I checked was much higher than 40 billion -- either way, even if he gave 90% of his fortune he'd still have billions. Who needs a billion dollars?
Mark 10:24-25
24 The disciples were amazed at his words. But Jesus said again, "Children, how hard it is to enter the kingdom of God! 25 It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God."
You don't have to like the bible to see the truth in those words.
It's not how much you give, but how much you give of yourself.
Ordinary mirrors will reflect visible light and other desirable wavelengths. Only reflected light makes it through the windows into the agricultral areas.
Alright, that makes more sense.
Not everyone in low-gravity vomits.
That wasn't what I was saying. I was trying to say that because heading toward the poles of the rotating ball will make it seem like if they're on a turntable while at the same time lessening gravity they will vomit. There will also be no horizon in order to guide the mind with, just a relative rotating axis in the middle, which would make people even more sick if they went anywhere else away from the equator.
But changing an object's mass does not alter its orbit in any event, unless it is a significant percentage of the mass of the object it is orbiting. Deimos could suddenly double or halve its mass, and it would still keep heading in much the same orbit.
By taking away pieces it would mean you would have to propel the mass off of it. Any landings and take offs on it would also slightly vary its course.
Think of a spaceship mining large parts of the Earth -- relative to the Earth's size the ship would be about 400km across (about the size of a country).
The problem is, the mass on the moons can't suddenly disappear, you have to collect them. By collecting anything on it using several different propulsions, you'll disturb the moons. Now it is only a very small disturbance, but it isn't the teeny-tiny miniscule disturbane we are used to when dealing with large rocks (like the moon) and very small ships (like apollo).
That explains some things, but I have a few q's and comments.
What kinda special reflective mirrors/windows do you speak of that can reflect such a high and broad spectrum without also blocking most of the visible light?
About the gravity from the "sphere", how would you actually utilize the areas that are not on the equator without having people vomiting everywhere?
The phobos and deimos involvement still alludes me. A ship with the volume of a 400m diameter sphere is about 4% the size of deimos and 2% the size of phobos. Activity on moons that small might alter their course and turn it into a large projectile.
I'm also still skeptical about building such a gigantic ship. Don't get me wrong, I would love to see something amazing like that, but every extra person you add to the ship will increase danger. Every extra kilogram would also take more energy, which would also increase danger.
If something should go wrong, you essentially lost a dozens of people, who were probably cream of the crop of their technical fields.
It won't run out of food as the habitat is self-sufficient. Psychological stress is minimised because of the habitat's large size. Gravity is sustained, and a full medical team can go out to maintain health. Shielding removes the radiation issue totally. Journey time becomes irrelevant.
Your "lunar" shield can't protect against high frequency radiation. Also, your ship won't have enough gravity to even observe it without instruments.
What's more, the vessel is completely reusable so rinse and repeat. Refuel from Phobos/Diemos and go back to the Earth/Moon system or head on out as far as the asteroids. Any further and the solar panels will have difficulty powering the mass driver.
Phobos and Deimos aren't large enough for you to land a "self-sustained habitat".
I hope you do realize how much plant life and technology is needed to keep even one human self-sustained, let alone a large group.
There's a large difference between Earth's pull on the surface of the planet itself and the Earth's pull from the moon. I hate to break it to you, but gravity decreases the further you are away from mass.
The idea is to use the moon's minerals so that ships are able to carry less materials to the moon from earth (the most expensive part), then shoot from the moon's lower gravity field a more massive ship needed to reach mars.
Construction of smaller pieces into a larger ship might also sometimes be a better choice than sending one large chunk straight into space.
One promising idea is to use laser or ionic propulsion. The moon could serve as an electric/light propulsion and refuel station utilizing a solar array. Without an atmosphere, light will travel uninhibited.
Would you believe that the overall temperature of the puddle is rising if you took general data across the puddle?
Would you believe predictions on the future kinetic energy of individual water molecules' by looking at a far spread data within the puddle?
There's a large difference in your two examples. There's also different techniques for finding the information gathered between weather reports and global warming data.
"Developed countries such as the United States, with only 25 percent of the world's population, are responsible for more than 75 percent of the accumulated greenhouse gas pollution in the atmosphere to date. Nonetheless, many developing countries - including China, India, Mexico, Brazil and Argentina - have made progress in reducing the greenhouse gas emission rates from their economies through improved transport, forestry and other policies.[1] While U.S. carbon dioxide emissions continue to rise, emissions in China have dropped more than 17 percent since 1997.[2]"
The search engine awaits you. There's arguments on whether developing nations (what you call poor third world countries) are "exempt" from in the Kyoto Protocol. The US, however, seems to have rejected the protocol due to developing nations. How this makes sense, well, maybe I'll figure it out later.
So we're praising consumer choice and will leave it at that? I'm not trying to say iTunes is a bad service, I just don't believe their model of doing things is worth the hype it has. I'll wait until someone comes out with a legit service that truly serves the customers.
I shop at independent music stores. Normal prices are around 10-14 bucks for standard pop. My CDs, which I was making a point for (if you read my post again), actually costs anywhere from 5-12 dollars. I also stated that my CDs typically have more songs. Punk music is dominated by short songs which are then piled into one CD. Rare is there any CD which has less than 10 songs.
And unlike the previous arguments (e.g. I don't want to pay RIAA, they overcharge, etc.) this time it IS stealing with no excuses.
It was copyright infringement. There's still no physical loss preventing sales with another potential customer. Any moral and legal problems would be exactly the same as before.
let's no get into $0.99 is too much per song, I don't think it's *that* much.
Most of my music has around 13-18 songs per CD (One had 22. They sold their cd for 10 bucks. I like punk.), unless it's by Goa or classical artists (which sell their CD's for quarter price of a "normal" CD anyways). I don't see how it's an advantage; it's the same price as a typical CD in stores. Not every artist has your so called 10 bad songs for every 2 good ones.
One dollar definitely isn't the best they can do -- well, unless you spend millions trying to invent your own proprietary music formats and pay people to maintain it.
Hah, just write the same "to" adress as the return address, then drop it in the mailbox.
Works every, damn, time.
My postoffice doesn't care if I have a blank return address -- but even if they did, I could just write down the address (found on whitepages.com using a random zip) of "john smith".
Slashdot Mirror
and I HATE PDF...
1. Finland
2. Korea
3. Canada
4. Hong Kong-China
5. Netherlands
6. Macao-China
7. Liechtenstein
8. Japan
9. Australia
10. Switzerland
11. Iceland
12. New Zealand
13. Denmark
14. Belgium
15. Czech Rep.
16. France
17. Ireland
18. Sweden
19. Austria
20. Slovak Rep.
21. Norway
22. Germany
23. Luxembourg
24. Poland
25. Spain
26. Hungary
27. Latvia
28. United States
29. Portugal
30. Russian Federation
31. Italy
32. Greece
33. Serbia
34. Uruguay
35. Turkey
36. Thailand
37. Mexico
38. Brazil
39. Tunisia
40. Indonesia
Who said it was for cars? Mistubishi isn't just an automotive company...
Uhm, the book describes them as [b]dark skinned[/b] men from the south, as opposed to pale haired light skinned men from the north. Orcs weren't white in the book, either.
I'm gonna have to agree with pclminion on this issue. The OP said the dude was an exchange student to clarify later in the post that his origins and his programming skills were not the real issue, but rather the coding language.
Responses would have likely brought up the programmers skills anyways. He just wanted to kill two birds with one stone.
p.s. And no, I'm not some random white dude. My name does actually reflect my ethnicity.
It's peer to peer. DCC is from one person's client to another. The information in a file never passes through the server. The chatting portion and initial requests travel through the server.
BBC to Put Entire Radio & TV Archive Online
Spam Vikings await.
Mark 10:24-25
You don't have to like the bible to see the truth in those words.
It's not how much you give, but how much you give of yourself.
In case you didn't understand Mr. AC next to me on this thread:
If there are no markings, then obviously they'd know who did it.
Think of a spaceship mining large parts of the Earth -- relative to the Earth's size the ship would be about 400km across (about the size of a country).
The problem is, the mass on the moons can't suddenly disappear, you have to collect them. By collecting anything on it using several different propulsions, you'll disturb the moons. Now it is only a very small disturbance, but it isn't the teeny-tiny miniscule disturbane we are used to when dealing with large rocks (like the moon) and very small ships (like apollo).
Ugh, sorry for the bad math, 400m would make it much less than 1% the volume size of the smaller moon deimos, since deimos has a diameter of 12000m.
That explains some things, but I have a few q's and comments.
What kinda special reflective mirrors/windows do you speak of that can reflect such a high and broad spectrum without also blocking most of the visible light?
About the gravity from the "sphere", how would you actually utilize the areas that are not on the equator without having people vomiting everywhere?
The phobos and deimos involvement still alludes me. A ship with the volume of a 400m diameter sphere is about 4% the size of deimos and 2% the size of phobos. Activity on moons that small might alter their course and turn it into a large projectile.
I'm also still skeptical about building such a gigantic ship. Don't get me wrong, I would love to see something amazing like that, but every extra person you add to the ship will increase danger. Every extra kilogram would also take more energy, which would also increase danger.
If something should go wrong, you essentially lost a dozens of people, who were probably cream of the crop of their technical fields.
As opposed to hurting the relative rich in poor third world countries? Uhm, who did you think I was talking about?
Of course, I cry for the 1% rich in third world countries. I really do. I'm crying right now for them -- see? Those are tears.
Reread the text I posted in my comment. There is a clear mention of forest.
Why do I even bother?
I hope you do realize how much plant life and technology is needed to keep even one human self-sustained, let alone a large group.
Perhaps this was all a bad joke.
There's a large difference between Earth's pull on the surface of the planet itself and the Earth's pull from the moon. I hate to break it to you, but gravity decreases the further you are away from mass. The idea is to use the moon's minerals so that ships are able to carry less materials to the moon from earth (the most expensive part), then shoot from the moon's lower gravity field a more massive ship needed to reach mars. Construction of smaller pieces into a larger ship might also sometimes be a better choice than sending one large chunk straight into space. One promising idea is to use laser or ionic propulsion. The moon could serve as an electric/light propulsion and refuel station utilizing a solar array. Without an atmosphere, light will travel uninhibited.
How do you observe a puddle on the ground?
Would you believe that the overall temperature of the puddle is rising if you took general data across the puddle?
Would you believe predictions on the future kinetic energy of individual water molecules' by looking at a far spread data within the puddle?
There's a large difference in your two examples. There's also different techniques for finding the information gathered between weather reports and global warming data.
We're suppose like a man for one good deed? Nasa alone doesn't make a president.
So we're praising consumer choice and will leave it at that? I'm not trying to say iTunes is a bad service, I just don't believe their model of doing things is worth the hype it has. I'll wait until someone comes out with a legit service that truly serves the customers.
I shop at independent music stores. Normal prices are around 10-14 bucks for standard pop. My CDs, which I was making a point for (if you read my post again), actually costs anywhere from 5-12 dollars. I also stated that my CDs typically have more songs. Punk music is dominated by short songs which are then piled into one CD. Rare is there any CD which has less than 10 songs.
One dollar definitely isn't the best they can do -- well, unless you spend millions trying to invent your own proprietary music formats and pay people to maintain it.
Japan and Germany were never colonies in the last century. India was given back its country.
Hah, just write the same "to" adress as the return address, then drop it in the mailbox.
Works every, damn, time.
My postoffice doesn't care if I have a blank return address -- but even if they did, I could just write down the address (found on whitepages.com using a random zip) of "john smith".