A terabit is a thousand bits
I'm sorry.. but how/why is one terabit (1 000 000 000 000) equal to one thousand bits (1 000), again? Or is that Wikipedia Article != Authoritative?
I'm sure they know if the information was real or fake
Because of their recent record, I am not so sure. Sadly, it appears that on many issues they're not significantly more knowledgeable than anybody else.
Posted by simoniker on Tuesday June 29, @06:18PM
from the or-not dept.
Iphtashu Fitz writes "We've all seen it. The e-mail forwarded to us from a friend who got it from a coworker whose sister's cousin's roommate's great aunt knows somebody at Microsoft. The one from Bill Gates himself offering you cash to forward the e-mail to others in order to test out their new e-mail tracking system. If you haven't received that one you've undoubtedly gotten other e-mail hoaxes offering anything from gift certificates to free computers to free airline tickets. How do these sorts of hoaxes start and who starts them? Well Jonathon Keats at Wired Magazine decided to track down the origin of the Bill Gates e-mail tracking hoax. After a few dead ends he finally located then-student Bryan Mack, who created the hoax on November 18, 1997 while at the University of Houston. In Mack's own words: 'It was just a joke between a couple friends' that eventually got out of hand. One of his buddies had gotten a make-money-fast spam and Mack said 'I can come up with something better than that.' Three minutes later, Bill Gates' email-tracing program was born. At first he just sent it to a few friends, but those friends sent it to other friends (and so on), and it didn't take long for the e-mail to transform from a joke to a full-fledged hoax."
Because if you emit RF, you're giving your opponent another way to track your position. I'm not a military strategist, but advertising your position and time of presense (increased activity) sounds like a bad idea to me.
The whole thing is a stage to make kids and terrorist wannabes think twice. I mean, after this, would _you_ be more or less likely to put a piece of bacterial art on display (harmless or otherwise)? For most, I expect, this is a deterrent. The population is being scared into a hole as usual. Soon some common criminals will be branded terrorist, gagged using the right-deminishing legislation and crime levels will plummet. w00t.
If you did that, you might be playing right into the hands of the problem's creator by being another visitor to their place (read: money += tourists++).
CommView is a very nice packet viewer for windows with a complicated ruleset and lots of colour-coding, stats, etc. Alarms, packet searching, dns and also a neat Remote Agent feature. It'll cost ya, but its fun:)
For example, the Iterator anti-pattern is described as "The nag. One of the most taxing on system resources. Also an anti-pattern when used to repeatedly ask the same woman for a date."
That's called the "Poll" anti-pattern, you insensitive clod.
1) Fooling humans into thinking that they are having a conversation with another human
2) Doing [???] to produce artificial intelligence
3) Profit!
This appears to be an awkward implementation of the following design pattern:
1) Fooling humans
2) ???
3) Profit!
Relevant quote from the article for parent: "If they are not stretched beyond breaking point, the researchers estimate that the wires should be able to withstand several thousand cycles of extension and contraction"
I agree with you, but the post implies that in trade shows top down means speakers to audience. Who are the speakers in that context? They are the vendors who are selling stuff. So in that context, maybe it is better to have information flowing customer->vendor too?
If you cannot be bothered to include a decent debugging or descent information system, like the MERs did with tones, then you're flying blind. And you kind of deserve to never find out what happened.
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A terabit is a thousand bits I'm sorry.. but how/why is one terabit (1 000 000 000 000) equal to one thousand bits (1 000), again? Or is that Wikipedia Article != Authoritative?
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I'm sure they know if the information was real or fake
Because of their recent record, I am not so sure. Sadly, it appears that on many issues they're not significantly more knowledgeable than anybody else.
Posted by simoniker on Tuesday June 29, @06:18PM from the or-not dept.
Iphtashu Fitz writes "We've all seen it. The e-mail forwarded to us from a friend who got it from a coworker whose sister's cousin's roommate's great aunt knows somebody at Microsoft. The one from Bill Gates himself offering you cash to forward the e-mail to others in order to test out their new e-mail tracking system. If you haven't received that one you've undoubtedly gotten other e-mail hoaxes offering anything from gift certificates to free computers to free airline tickets. How do these sorts of hoaxes start and who starts them? Well Jonathon Keats at Wired Magazine decided to track down the origin of the Bill Gates e-mail tracking hoax. After a few dead ends he finally located then-student Bryan Mack, who created the hoax on November 18, 1997 while at the University of Houston. In Mack's own words: 'It was just a joke between a couple friends' that eventually got out of hand. One of his buddies had gotten a make-money-fast spam and Mack said 'I can come up with something better than that.' Three minutes later, Bill Gates' email-tracing program was born. At first he just sent it to a few friends, but those friends sent it to other friends (and so on), and it didn't take long for the e-mail to transform from a joke to a full-fledged hoax."
Can I have my money now?
I expect that is why MS has released Virtual PC 2004 (free demo available!)...
Because if you emit RF, you're giving your opponent another way to track your position. I'm not a military strategist, but advertising your position and time of presense (increased activity) sounds like a bad idea to me.
Besides why is the FBI involved?
The whole thing is a stage to make kids and terrorist wannabes think twice. I mean, after this, would _you_ be more or less likely to put a piece of bacterial art on display (harmless or otherwise)? For most, I expect, this is a deterrent. The population is being scared into a hole as usual. Soon some common criminals will be branded terrorist, gagged using the right-deminishing legislation and crime levels will plummet. w00t.
It's rediculous because Longhorn alone will set you back $2k ;)
If you did that, you might be playing right into the hands of the problem's creator by being another visitor to their place (read: money += tourists++).
CommView is a very nice packet viewer for windows with a complicated ruleset and lots of colour-coding, stats, etc. Alarms, packet searching, dns and also a neat Remote Agent feature. It'll cost ya, but its fun :)
So many random stories... I dont know what to believe any more :( Not that I knew before...
For example, the Iterator anti-pattern is described as "The nag. One of the most taxing on system resources. Also an anti-pattern when used to repeatedly ask the same woman for a date."
That's called the "Poll" anti-pattern, you insensitive clod.
1) Fooling humans into thinking that they are having a conversation with another human 2) Doing [???] to produce artificial intelligence 3) Profit! This appears to be an awkward implementation of the following design pattern: 1) Fooling humans 2) ??? 3) Profit!
... APRIL FOOL?
http://www.progressquest.com/
In Mother Russia, lawyers pay YOU!
No, seriously, I think Russia is a nice sane place for hacking and software legislation.
6 [gigabytes?]
To do that, they'd have to be 64 bit machines and I dont think they are. Maybe it was originally intended to read '600 megabytes'.
Man goes to work, has uneventful day, returns safely home. It's a Mini adventure!
Relevant quote from the article for parent: "If they are not stretched beyond breaking point, the researchers estimate that the wires should be able to withstand several thousand cycles of extension and contraction"
Yeah, I mean... Slashdot even has a LOTR category!
Try Teoma, AlltheWeb, Wisenut, Profusion and Vivisimo (both metasearch clustering engines)
:)
So many links! You only need one...
The xman application does that, only that has an X11 GUI.. *grin*
I agree with you, but the post implies that in trade shows top down means speakers to audience. Who are the speakers in that context? They are the vendors who are selling stuff. So in that context, maybe it is better to have information flowing customer->vendor too?
If you cannot be bothered to include a decent debugging or descent information system, like the MERs did with tones, then you're flying blind. And you kind of deserve to never find out what happened.