You could be the coolest abstract artist on the block by making huge pieces and turning them into furniture/conversation pieces/place where you go to cry. Or paint your walls as 1 giant tetris game. Every year add a new piece in.
Contrary to nearly every science fiction chase scene, the asteroid belt in orbit around our star is hardly what anyone would call dense. It "survived"? Heck, it'd have to try pretty hard to hit a rock out there!
Man, that makes me think how "Space C.O.P.S" is going to be such an awesome show in 50 years. Some hick gets drunk and wrecks his cruiser after he runs into an asteroid:
I....I shweaa ofisher, dat f*cking asteroid comes from nowheers and plaws int....into ma spashe truck.
Have you been drinking rocket fuel today son?
Jusht a few spache beers, nutin' I cant....
*Space pukes
Ok, this is the most pointless post ever, I'm going to watch the Jetsons.
Perhaps if instead of taking DNA samples from everyone arrested for a felony, if they only took samples from people convicted of a felony. After all, a convicted felon already forfeits certain rights upon conviction. But what about people wrongly arrested?
Yeah, like OJ!!
The new republicans are supposedly big supporters of "states rights" (Do a little research on Newt Gingrich), but it seems to me that they only support states rights when it is some big corporation who benefits. But then again, both parties seem to bend over backwards for big money, the major difference being how far back each one bends.
I am in the market for a monitor(well, actually a TV/Monitor combo) so I headed on over to Sanyo's site. any company that makes a Hello Kitty toaster has to be an awesome company. I would order one cept I don't have $40 to burn:(
So, we apply a little bit of public-key encryption, and it makes it pretty much impossible.
The problem with RFID is that is is a passive device(it just coughs up the info whenever it's asked), thus it cannot encrypt info with the gas station's public key. Now the ID itself could be encrytped with a public key of the user, but that does nothing to stop "replay' attacks, ie the attacker "records" the id and replays it whenever he wants to charge something to the account(obviously he can only use it in places that have RFID readers, but).
You could create an active device, but that would require a battery, and with today's battery technology, that would add bulk.
,I>people have forgotten that very simple ideas often make a big difference, e.g. wheel, axe, chalk, paperclip.... Hmmm, paperclip maybe I should have left that one out;-)
"I see you are trying to think, would you like to know how Microsoft software can help you?"
Sorry, too easy!
He won, get over it. Unless you happen to have some information that the US Supreme Court overlooked?
Yeah, I have some, namely the fact that the supposed supporters of states rights won't let a state decide how to run it's election. The fact that the supreme court ruled on that at all is probably the grossest violation of the constitution I have ever seen. If you are going to support the electoral college, then at least allow the states the right to choose their electors.
I guess ignoring the constitution before he took office was just a sign of things to come.
From a company who figured out how to eliminate toilet paper
I have seen some of these in Japan, but was always too afraid to use them. However, a lot of people seemed to judging by the sounds coming from the toilet.
A huge TV screen is positioned high above the dresser to meet perfectly with your line of vision, showing verdant scenes of a river ambling through a forest.
Won't that make people feel the urge to pee?
Or at least the one I had was. In a failed attempt to install a faster cyrix chip, I managed to bend the pins of my SX/33 significantly, and then bend them back with my finger(ah, those were the days, when I ordered my p4 through the mail a few years ago, it was delivered with a bent pin, and it took me about an hour wiht a pair of tweezers to bend it back), and I dropped it on the shag carpeting in my house, got a pin stuck, and just ripped it right out, no problem:P
Though my friend managed to cook one by plugging it in backwards, he said the chip glowed red. And after it was cooled back down a small chunk just fell off.
If something weird happens in the election or as just an occasional precautionary measure for some randomised set of polling places, count the paper ballots and see if they tally with the votes recorded by the voting machines.
Actually, you would re-count when the poll results skew significantly from the exit polls. If done correctly exit polls are surprisingly accurate.
A danger in paper ballots is they take a long time and a lot of resources to count. So you have to have a rather strict procedure to issue a re-count. Otherwise you would have every politician who lost a race demanding a recount and you would have chaos.
Paper ballots are nice, but having a secure *cough* open-source *cough* system to begin with that people can actually have confidence in is even more important.
Karaoke! To me it would be awesome if you could turn the music you bouth from iTMS into karoke(ie have 2 seperate tracks when you d/l, a normal AAC track and a track with no audio and some type of lyrics file. You could assign a video to the song or just use the visualizer in iTunes to stream to your tv. It would be a lot of fun, plus I would be that people would probably buy more music when they are drunk and high on karaoke!
After you sign that contract, you become their bitch. I learned the hard way with Verizon. I only found out that they had stopped me from writing programs for my phone despite that the salesman told me I could, and they wouldn't fix my broken phone that was under warranty because they thought it was because of physical abuse.
After you sign that contract, they get your money no matter what, so there is very little incentive for them to improve customer service(also note how customer service is never touted in television commercials for various carriers). But damn do they make those phones tempting. I wish that the manufacturers didn't charge you out the arse for them if you buy them directly...
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Well, so far I have received funny, interesting, offtopic, and flamebait mods. Nothing beats the sampler.
is to buy a mac and run yellow dog on it!
/ducks
You could be the coolest abstract artist on the block by making huge pieces and turning them into furniture/conversation pieces/place where you go to cry. Or paint your walls as 1 giant tetris game. Every year add a new piece in.
you fail it!
Contrary to nearly every science fiction chase scene, the asteroid belt in orbit around our star is hardly what anyone would call dense. It "survived"? Heck, it'd have to try pretty hard to hit a rock out there!
Man, that makes me think how "Space C.O.P.S" is going to be such an awesome show in 50 years. Some hick gets drunk and wrecks his cruiser after he runs into an asteroid:
I....I shweaa ofisher, dat f*cking asteroid comes from nowheers and plaws int....into ma spashe truck.
Have you been drinking rocket fuel today son?
Jusht a few spache beers, nutin' I cant....
*Space pukes
Ok, this is the most pointless post ever, I'm going to watch the Jetsons.
Perhaps if instead of taking DNA samples from everyone arrested for a felony, if they only took samples from people convicted of a felony. After all, a convicted felon already forfeits certain rights upon conviction. But what about people wrongly arrested?
Yeah, like OJ!!
*ducks
The new republicans are supposedly big supporters of "states rights" (Do a little research on Newt Gingrich), but it seems to me that they only support states rights when it is some big corporation who benefits. But then again, both parties seem to bend over backwards for big money, the major difference being how far back each one bends.
3 cheers for raising the post count!
I am in the market for a monitor(well, actually a TV/Monitor combo) so I headed on over to Sanyo's site. any company that makes a Hello Kitty toaster has to be an awesome company. I would order one cept I don't have $40 to burn :(
gah, stupid shift key
So, we apply a little bit of public-key encryption, and it makes it pretty much impossible.
The problem with RFID is that is is a passive device(it just coughs up the info whenever it's asked), thus it cannot encrypt info with the gas station's public key. Now the ID itself could be encrytped with a public key of the user, but that does nothing to stop "replay' attacks, ie the attacker "records" the id and replays it whenever he wants to charge something to the account(obviously he can only use it in places that have RFID readers, but).
You could create an active device, but that would require a battery, and with today's battery technology, that would add bulk.
,I>people have forgotten that very simple ideas often make a big difference, e.g. wheel, axe, chalk, paperclip.... Hmmm, paperclip maybe I should have left that one out ;-)
"I see you are trying to think, would you like to know how Microsoft software can help you?"
Sorry, too easy!
ack! The insensitive clod that you are! you fail it!
He won, get over it. Unless you happen to have some information that the US Supreme Court overlooked?
Yeah, I have some, namely the fact that the supposed supporters of states rights won't let a state decide how to run it's election. The fact that the supreme court ruled on that at all is probably the grossest violation of the constitution I have ever seen. If you are going to support the electoral college, then at least allow the states the right to choose their electors.
I guess ignoring the constitution before he took office was just a sign of things to come.
you fail it wit da girl!
Just raising the post count of the article and my own Phil, just move along now.
And improve on the dog translator
As a side note, has anyone ever actually tried this thing out?
From a company who figured out how to eliminate toilet paper
I have seen some of these in Japan, but was always too afraid to use them. However, a lot of people seemed to judging by the sounds coming from the toilet.
A huge TV screen is positioned high above the dresser to meet perfectly with your line of vision, showing verdant scenes of a river ambling through a forest.
Won't that make people feel the urge to pee?
Or at least the one I had was. In a failed attempt to install a faster cyrix chip, I managed to bend the pins of my SX/33 significantly, and then bend them back with my finger(ah, those were the days, when I ordered my p4 through the mail a few years ago, it was delivered with a bent pin, and it took me about an hour wiht a pair of tweezers to bend it back), and I dropped it on the shag carpeting in my house, got a pin stuck, and just ripped it right out, no problem :P
Though my friend managed to cook one by plugging it in backwards, he said the chip glowed red. And after it was cooled back down a small chunk just fell off.
can you get away with naming a source file org.asm?
* rim shot
I apologize.
A large number of posts, this post will never get modded!
Yay!
If something weird happens in the election or as just an occasional precautionary measure for some randomised set of polling places, count the paper ballots and see if they tally with the votes recorded by the voting machines.
Actually, you would re-count when the poll results skew significantly from the exit polls. If done correctly exit polls are surprisingly accurate.
A danger in paper ballots is they take a long time and a lot of resources to count. So you have to have a rather strict procedure to issue a re-count. Otherwise you would have every politician who lost a race demanding a recount and you would have chaos.
Paper ballots are nice, but having a secure *cough* open-source *cough* system to begin with that people can actually have confidence in is even more important.
Karaoke! To me it would be awesome if you could turn the music you bouth from iTMS into karoke(ie have 2 seperate tracks when you d/l, a normal AAC track and a track with no audio and some type of lyrics file. You could assign a video to the song or just use the visualizer in iTunes to stream to your tv. It would be a lot of fun, plus I would be that people would probably buy more music when they are drunk and high on karaoke!
After you sign that contract, you become their bitch. I learned the hard way with Verizon. I only found out that they had stopped me from writing programs for my phone despite that the salesman told me I could, and they wouldn't fix my broken phone that was under warranty because they thought it was because of physical abuse.
After you sign that contract, they get your money no matter what, so there is very little incentive for them to improve customer service(also note how customer service is never touted in television commercials for various carriers). But damn do they make those phones tempting. I wish that the manufacturers didn't charge you out the arse for them if you buy them directly...