Re:The Thieves Don't Leave and Come Back BECAUSE..
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Review: Panic Room
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Actually... Jared Leto's character was the only one that knew about the money. (The guy selling the house at the beginning said there were rumors of money, but nobody knew where it was.) They were stealing it in the first place because Leto's a greedy bastard and wanted it all tax-free.
And as for why they didn't just leave and come back, Forest Whitaker mentions near the beginning that their faces would be on tape, thanks to all the camers in the house. Sure they could have run, and probably would have gotten away with it, but they didn't know that.
I was a little disappointed the article didn't mention some of these more positive uses of the technology. There are some online journals that have gone one step further and granted free access to a list of third world countries (people who could really use the free information). There are some pretty high profile sites in there, too, like the BMJ Specialist Journals, The New England Journal of Medicine, and Proceedings of the National Acadamy of Sciences. I tried to find some press releases for those journals, but came up empty handed.
Re:Spiderman new arch enemy
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Spidergoats
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Actually, since we all know how poor Peter Parker really is (he has to sell photos of his battles to make money to pay for costume supplies, etc), I would think the spidergoats would be of great help to him. If he had one as a pet, he would no longer have to invest money in chemicals to fill up his web shooters. He could just milk his goat each night.
Aside from requiring SSL, a system that I've used in the past is to base a session ID on the username, IP address, and expiration timestamp. These are all stuck together in one big string and crypted. Yes, I know crypt only works on 8 characters. The crypted string is then used as a salt to MD5 encrypt the whole thing. The result is used as the session key and stored both in a cookie and the database. If somebody tries stealing the cookie, they have to connect from the same IP address, too, and if the real user has logged out, it's not an issue, because the session is removed from the database. There are still a couple holes, but given that I've had no education in security or cryptography, I don't think it's so bad.
I don't recall the details, cause I *still* haven't had time to mess with Linux Q3A, but a friend of mine said something about renice-ing X to fix the mouse performance issues. He also mentioned a script that will do it for you (among other things) before starting up Quake. Sorry for being so vague, but there *is* a solution out there.
I suppose I was mistaken. Any cuts that I had heard about would not have affected the story, just lowered the violence level a bit, such as some of the scenes with people getting various body parts shot off with arrows (which I regrettably only saw in the Japanese trailers). But like I said, I haven't seen the Disney version.
I only caught the end of a fan-subbed copy of Mononoke Hime, and haven't seen Disney's version, but I heard from some people who ought to know that Disney cut a small amount of material from the original Japanese version because it was a little too bloody for their taste.
I'm curious as to how this would affect audio tracks on the US release of the DVD, since I'm assuming it will be Disney's slightly editted version of the movie. I'm sure Disney could make a bit of money by releasing a "Special Edition" DVD with all the footage, the original Japanese audio, and their audio (cleverly editted around the additional material, of course).
Personally, if I have the choice I'll go for a subtitled version, as I'm sure most anime fans would. However, I've heard good things about the Disney version, so I'd love to have a DVD with both.
I just can't pass up the opportunity to plug my very own toolkit, ftTK. ftTK was my senior thesis, a library with intended support for Xlib, Win32, and Mac OS, as well as anything else I feel like adding later. Unfortunately, ftTK is currently pretty much useless, since it doesn't yet handle user input in any sort of consistent way, and many, many other things are still non-existant. Someday....
Re:Yeah there are some at tucows
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SSH v. SRP
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There's an SSH module available for Tera Term someplace. Incidentally, The Stanford guys use a modified version of Tera Term for their Windows SRP client. Last I checked, however, there were no SRP clients for MacOS, which IMO gives SSH a significant advantage with Mac clients like NiftyTelnet SSH out there.
I ran SRP daemons on my linux box for a while last year. It was relatively nice, supporting telnet and ftp, except it was meant as a replacement for your standard ftp and telnet daemons. This meant that things like dpkg would sometimes overwrite my SRP daemons when they decided it was time to upgrade ftpd.
Another disadvantage to SRP is that it creates yet another set of password files (tpasswd if I recall). If you installed SRP on a machine with existing user accounts, you had to reset the users' password for them to be able to use SRP. If you decide to disallow non-SRP connections, this can be a big problem.
Don't get me wrong, I liked SRP. I sniffed one of my sessions once and all that was displayed was garbage, which made me feel nice and secure. But I personally feel that SRP hasn't been around long enough, and isn't supported as widely as SSH.
Yes, but were you aware that right across the street from the Gates building is the Paul Allen Center for Integrated Systems? They've usually got some wonderful art on display in the halls, but stay away from that damn snack machine. It will eat your money every time.
Last year a friend of mine did his thesis in robotics. He built an "amoebot", which was basically a hexagon with three motors which, by changing the shape of the hexagon could redistribute its weight and roll forward.
He only had time to build a couple proof-of-concept prototypes, so they're not nearly as slick looking as S5, but still pretty nifty when you think about how it works. His second model would scan for a light source and move towards it. He's got some pics and movies on his homepage.
First off, I didn't see any mention of X in the article, unless there's more to it than the single paragraph that I found. If this does refer to an nVidia X server, then it's really nothing new. If it refers to something else, I'd like a bit more information.
Second, the guys over at XFree said about 4 to 6 weeks between snapshots, and the last snapshot was around the end of August. Anybody know what's up over there? Is nVidia expecting 4.0 to be released by the end of the year for their "new ICD"?
A few posts have been made on Blue's News in an attempt to clear up some confusion over this. Activision has stated that they will make a formal press release when Q3 officially goes gold, but Todd Hollenshead from ID says they're done with everything on their end. Check out Blue's for more details.
I hear from a lot of people about how much high school sucked for them. That seems to be one of the main themes in the comments here. Something I'm not seeing a lot of though is this: It doesn't have to be that bad. There are a few ways to escape the ridicule and humiliation that sometimes go with being a high school student and being different, one of which I was lucky enough to find. A small college in Massachusetts called Simon's Rock accepts the majority of its students after 10th and 11th grade. It's a great experience, because a lot of the students who apply do so because they don't feel like they fit in at high school. The community is pretty understanding and very accepting of differences, so being weird is the norm. I'm now completing my junior year at Simon's Rock, and I think the best decision I've ever made in my life was to come here. And the past few weeks have only reinforced that, for everybody I know that wears a trenchcoat or dresses all in black or plays Quake every night is still doing so, without a peep from the administration. *shameless plug* and it's still not too late to apply for next year *end plug*
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And as for why they didn't just leave and come back, Forest Whitaker mentions near the beginning that their faces would be on tape, thanks to all the camers in the house. Sure they could have run, and probably would have gotten away with it, but they didn't know that.
I was a little disappointed the article didn't mention some of these more positive uses of the technology. There are some online journals that have gone one step further and granted free access to a list of third world countries (people who could really use the free information). There are some pretty high profile sites in there, too, like the BMJ Specialist Journals, The New England Journal of Medicine, and Proceedings of the National Acadamy of Sciences. I tried to find some press releases for those journals, but came up empty handed.
Actually, since we all know how poor Peter Parker really is (he has to sell photos of his battles to make money to pay for costume supplies, etc), I would think the spidergoats would be of great help to him. If he had one as a pet, he would no longer have to invest money in chemicals to fill up his web shooters. He could just milk his goat each night.
Aside from requiring SSL, a system that I've used in the past is to base a session ID on the username, IP address, and expiration timestamp. These are all stuck together in one big string and crypted. Yes, I know crypt only works on 8 characters. The crypted string is then used as a salt to MD5 encrypt the whole thing. The result is used as the session key and stored both in a cookie and the database. If somebody tries stealing the cookie, they have to connect from the same IP address, too, and if the real user has logged out, it's not an issue, because the session is removed from the database. There are still a couple holes, but given that I've had no education in security or cryptography, I don't think it's so bad.
I don't recall the details, cause I *still* haven't had time to mess with Linux Q3A, but a friend of mine said something about renice-ing X to fix the mouse performance issues. He also mentioned a script that will do it for you (among other things) before starting up Quake. Sorry for being so vague, but there *is* a solution out there.
I suppose I was mistaken. Any cuts that I had heard about would not have affected the story, just lowered the violence level a bit, such as some of the scenes with people getting various body parts shot off with arrows (which I regrettably only saw in the Japanese trailers). But like I said, I haven't seen the Disney version.
I only caught the end of a fan-subbed copy of Mononoke Hime, and haven't seen Disney's version, but I heard from some people who ought to know that Disney cut a small amount of material from the original Japanese version because it was a little too bloody for their taste.
I'm curious as to how this would affect audio tracks on the US release of the DVD, since I'm assuming it will be Disney's slightly editted version of the movie. I'm sure Disney could make a bit of money by releasing a "Special Edition" DVD with all the footage, the original Japanese audio, and their audio (cleverly editted around the additional material, of course).
Personally, if I have the choice I'll go for a subtitled version, as I'm sure most anime fans would. However, I've heard good things about the Disney version, so I'd love to have a DVD with both.
I just can't pass up the opportunity to plug my very own toolkit, ftTK. ftTK was my senior thesis, a library with intended support for Xlib, Win32, and Mac OS, as well as anything else I feel like adding later. Unfortunately, ftTK is currently pretty much useless, since it doesn't yet handle user input in any sort of consistent way, and many, many other things are still non-existant. Someday....
There's an SSH module available for Tera Term someplace. Incidentally, The Stanford guys use a modified version of Tera Term for their Windows SRP client. Last I checked, however, there were no SRP clients for MacOS, which IMO gives SSH a significant advantage with Mac clients like NiftyTelnet SSH out there.
I ran SRP daemons on my linux box for a while last year. It was relatively nice, supporting telnet and ftp, except it was meant as a replacement for your standard ftp and telnet daemons. This meant that things like dpkg would sometimes overwrite my SRP daemons when they decided it was time to upgrade ftpd.
Another disadvantage to SRP is that it creates yet another set of password files (tpasswd if I recall). If you installed SRP on a machine with existing user accounts, you had to reset the users' password for them to be able to use SRP. If you decide to disallow non-SRP connections, this can be a big problem.
Don't get me wrong, I liked SRP. I sniffed one of my sessions once and all that was displayed was garbage, which made me feel nice and secure. But I personally feel that SRP hasn't been around long enough, and isn't supported as widely as SSH.
Yes, but were you aware that right across the street from the Gates building is the Paul Allen Center for Integrated Systems? They've usually got some wonderful art on display in the halls, but stay away from that damn snack machine. It will eat your money every time.
Last year a friend of mine did his thesis in robotics. He built an "amoebot", which was basically a hexagon with three motors which, by changing the shape of the hexagon could redistribute its weight and roll forward.
He only had time to build a couple proof-of-concept prototypes, so they're not nearly as slick looking as S5, but still pretty nifty when you think about how it works. His second model would scan for a light source and move towards it. He's got some pics and movies on his homepage.
Two points...
First off, I didn't see any mention of X in the article, unless there's more to it than the single paragraph that I found. If this does refer to an nVidia X server, then it's really nothing new. If it refers to something else, I'd like a bit more information.
Second, the guys over at XFree said about 4 to 6 weeks between snapshots, and the last snapshot was around the end of August. Anybody know what's up over there? Is nVidia expecting 4.0 to be released by the end of the year for their "new ICD"?
A few posts have been made on Blue's News in an attempt to clear up some confusion over this. Activision has stated that they will make a formal press release when Q3 officially goes gold, but Todd Hollenshead from ID says they're done with everything on their end. Check out Blue's for more details.
This stuff happens way too often. Does anybody know if AMD has an e-mail address for reporting blatant FUD like this?
I hear from a lot of people about how much high school sucked for them. That seems to be one of the main themes in the comments here. Something I'm not seeing a lot of though is this: It doesn't have to be that bad.
There are a few ways to escape the ridicule and humiliation that sometimes go with being a high school student and being different, one of which I was lucky enough to find. A small college in Massachusetts called Simon's Rock accepts the majority of its students after 10th and 11th grade. It's a great experience, because a lot of the students who apply do so because they don't feel like they fit in at high school. The community is pretty understanding and very accepting of differences, so being weird is the norm. I'm now completing my junior year at Simon's Rock, and I think the best decision I've ever made in my life was to come here. And the past few weeks have only reinforced that, for everybody I know that wears a trenchcoat or dresses all in black or plays Quake every night is still doing so, without a peep from the administration.
*shameless plug* and it's still not too late to apply for next year *end plug*