As the US government now demands that a backdoor be put into this World War II relic... it WAS considered 'strong' encryption in World War II anyway...
But how strong? Wasn't the enigma made for banking communications and then adobted by the military? Everyone knew back when the banks used it that there was the flaw that pressing a letter on the keypad would never result in that same letter being in that same place in the cypher text, but I don't thinks it a major leap of faith to assume the banking industry didn't expect several governments would work hard to attempt to foil the scheme...
And furthermore, Turing didn't make the machine, or even have any impact on the design - turing was in the position the US gov is - trying to break down the ecryption. If you went up to Turing at a point when he was deeply stuck on something and asked his feelings about having a known backdoor, what would he say?
(note: I do not support the US gov in the area of wanting backdoors, but I don't think unresearhed complaints against it is appropriate either)
But you don't need to do every problem with a graph. Look into operations research. What you do there is boil down all the limits.
Example, to fly this plane means R fuel cost, S crew cost, T maintenance, U airport costs, V etc... Now put in this information for all possible flights, and all the passenger demand info (you'd want regular flight days, as well as holidays, etc..) and put all of this into a gigantic equations where you are trying to maximize or minimize something - maximize profits, or maybe minimize certain costs. Then you can relate this to a rather large matrix. Now so far we haven't asked for any info you wouldn't need for your graph. Then you apply one of the methods from operations research to your data set and you get either a number, or maybe a bound range of an answer - without the contruction of the graph, or all of the graph traversals...
Yes, if you want to do something on-the-fly, like have a computer fly the planes for you, and update as weather changes then you'd probably want to think about a graph. But to generate the day-to-day schedules for your planes, look into OR.
Here's the textbook I reccoment to learn Operations Research: here
But a lot of the cost of doing business things, which can be done using a graph, don't have to be.
Look into operations research. An early on thing you will learn in OR is the simplex method, where in you boil down a lot of your information (cost to move part A from here to there and buying B if needed, etc...) into a matrix and then use something like the Simplex Method you can maximizie say your profit, or minimize the delays, or minimize the total number of planes in the air, etc..
Now, does the world's flight system have a lot of inputs - you bet, planes, fuel, flight crew, union regulations, holidays, tons of things that you and I could probably never think of...
Now... I just wanted to post that there are ways of solving these problems without a graph - yes a graph is a lovely way for highly dynamic systems, but if you want to answer the question "What is the best schedule given these 1,000 limitations?" then look into operations research. Yes, I mentioned the simplex method, and I fully exepct following posts arguing Parametric Linear Programming or maybe some Markov Chains and their impact, but the core is still the same - if you have a set of limitations and are looking to maximumize (or minimize) something, then operations research is a fun thing!
The first question that arises is how one can duplicate 101 keys that are on today's computer keyboards with the 24 finger key locations (3-way for 4 fingers of each hand) on the ISOS keyboard . The answer is you don't want to.
First time I saw that I thought they were going to get rid of lesser used characters completely... But then I realized they probably would have had to say it like this:
The irst uestion that arises is ho one can dulicate 101 keys that are on todas comuter keboards with the 24 inger ke locations (3-way or 4 ingers o each hand) on the ISOS keboard. The answer is ou dont ant to.
I saw a presentation from a Dr. David Fu with the NSA and he talked (he had to get approval from his boss on the outline) about how one would look at a stream of data (radio pickup) and using statistic info, detect if this fits into the idea of "random" of if it falls into the other category. I would assume that real approaches use something beyond the simple math that was presented to our undergraduate minds, but I know it sure made me think. I didn't take notes at the time, but those of you in colleges and/or cool schools, contact the NSA and see if they might have a PR team, or a person working there who is a graduate of your institution who might want to come back and give a little talk.
I look at the things the ACLU has written, and although I do not disagree with a single thing they say, it seems a little light on facts. I feel I am in the "know" about computer security issues and how they impact my rights, however this stuff just seems to be written on a very low level. This has made me wonder, usually when I talk to someone about why the actions of the US government are creepy right now I get into details - I explain the whole clipper chip fiasco, and I get them to ponder the real reason the feds case was dropped (google cache) so quickly against Phil Zimmerman. Anyway, this means almost always gets others to be more in the "know." But is this approach not appropriate in dealing with my representatives? I realize that for many in congress the little people's letters are just read by someone else and tallied and maybe a few are handed over with the stats... But should I send a cookie-cutter boxing-gloves-on letter, or a diatribe explaining not just things are bad - but WHY?
You forgot about looking into Swap Nut. I poked at it a few times while in windows and, although I have only ever used napster for file sharing, I liked its ease of use, and the multiple file searches at the same time. It also had other things I liked, like suspecting IPs in the 192.168.x.x range probably wouldn't get me the files I wanted.
Oh, and I was sorta put off when a friend first recomended it by name only... Then I read on their site the idea is By "Going Nuts," users can search for and find almost any type of digital file (audio, video, photos etc.) through a secure [they said secure, not me, I think putting your IP all over creation isn't secure, but I digress] peer-to-peer network.
But I took a java class recently and we had access to the JavaTM 2 Platform, Standard Edition, v 1.3 API Specification and the listings of the fuctions was great, however lacking a search made for harder answers to "hmm where is the random number generation functions." If your stuff resembles this documentation about your functions, please add a search.
Quoth the "Ask Slashdot":
Instead of using Linux we also considered using the free Solaris binaries, but the (older) workshop we need is not released on Intel...
Me:
Ahem, no.
Quoth you:
Also what about the possibility of buying a [few?] [sic] cheap sun boxes on ebay etc. This would allow you to keep running your current apps whilst figuring out your medium to long term solution
Me: I would like to extend this idea. I am familiar with sun HW and I extend to you at least my help (as I am sure other posters will help). Please list the arcitecture you are running on right now. If it's a sparc 2, then I think we can help you get HW at a reasonable price - probably cheaper than the x86 HW you would have used for solaris x86. What are your price limitations? If you are sub $100 no matter what HW or SW, then that needs to be taken into account. There is no point worry about the things we can not change, like the required platform for your SW develop (4m vs 4u vs x86), and worry about the things you can change, like what platform you have post lease. Another thing to factor into your cost benefit analysis of this migration is if your development software has not been migrated in the directions have already considered, do you feel it is worth continuing along this line if further down the road you may be forced into no choice but total software migration?
I watched a recent show on the Digital Duo where there was a segment about digital picture frames. I did not realize some of them were offering some sort of internet appliance like things. One I recall would try to get headlines, however DD reported that some of the headlines included what was on the Today show (not exactly a headline in the normal sense...)
Another thing to think about, beyond obvious visiable range is input type. If you can have a frame but you have to continue to pay someone to host your pictures, content, whatever you are not only paying for this, but you are possibly relying on them to stay up or you may lose content. I have heard about eth ones where you can serve your own content, however I am the only geek on my block with cat5 running around more than cat hair.
What I want to know, what is the real difference between a $300 digital picture frame, and a low low end $300 color laptop. This search (prices between 0 and 300) I just ran on eBay shows to me several laptops I can stick linux, (or in risk of flamebait) windows and put ontop of the TV where I have family photos now, and just run a slide show of pics on local HD, NFS, MS File Share, samba, ftp, whatever my heart dreams up. What does a magic picture frame get me that one of these laptops doesn't??
Ok, lets stop for a minute and think about more than just what the article says in black and white. What do you need a computer to do to help stop bullets? What device that cannot stop bullets could begin to stop them just by adding a computer? Adding a computer seems, to me at least, to imply some sort of sensing and adjusting. For instance maybe you make a product that can stop bullets, but is too difficult to wear as it would not flex - understandable, a brick wall is easy to make, but hard to wear. So, you would like your product to change states from flexible (denim) to "safe" (brick wall). Ok, so you use a computer. Now, how the heck is this computer going to know there is a bullet? Maybe detect it? What else is the point of adding smartness (computers) to armor? Once a bullet penetrates thru the armor it is a little too late to start to think about repelling this bullet. Maybe you'd prefer armor with the guarantee "Will stop n-1 bullets where n is the number of bullets that impact."
As for "SOAPY WATER" - ever wash your car? Ever get the soapy water on you when you didn't want to? Ok, forget that, ever wash your clothes? Assuming you use the regular non-nanotec-clothes washer, do you really think every last residue of soap is free of your clothes? Many detergents contain phosphorous to make whites just that extra bright when sun hits them, ever get near a black light and see how your clothes phosphoresces because of the residual things left behind?
I guess to me the difference between these magic socks and regular socks is the idea of having to endure the regular stench of people over a long period of time, or a condensed version of their stench every now and then... Now, jeans that keep that SBD in until I'm ready to (ahem) air it out and now we're talking....
Ahem - "Using a freon coolant as their liquid, they conducted a series of boiling experiments on the space shuttle during 5 missions..." [bold added by me] and the exact info on the substance in those main boiling photos (the one showing lots of bubles compared to one big one) is preciesly "Fluid: Freon R-113, Heat Flux: 8 W/cm2 , Subcooling: 5 F." As listed on POOL BOILING EXPERIMENT as linked to in the article.
GAP ads eh? I can only fear the slogans of the nano-ads. Well, maybe we can convince them to run ads directly proportional to the technology- really small!
But what really is the point of clear sunscreen? Do we find the white stuff all that disgusting? Hasn't it become sort of a social norm?
As for a suit like that from the preditor, what if it was made to be reversable? Would it what is behind you instead of what is behind me? And the article mentions "embedded sensors and tiny computers that allow it to stop bullets" - how will computers help to stop the bullets? People wear protective armor in places they don't want to be injured, i.e. themselves and their vehicles. These are areas they expect a higher degree of bullets to be thrown towards - how will a computer "sensing" the approach of a bullet do anything more for you? Will it cause a burst of "pain" before you get shot? Isn't that the idea of a reflex to the sound of the gun shot? If this computer is able to sense a bullet coming, then why skip over this great detection thing and not let a computer inform people that there is the potential of being shot? What is the difference here?
Then there's the "odor-trapping fabric whose molecular-sized sponges hold stale vapors through multiple wearings, until the item -- socks, for example -- come into contact with a washing machine's soapy water" talk about the potential of smelling like a wet dog when you hop on the elevator at work after running in from the rain...
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The best thing I got from that show was that the catapults on wheels worked the best. The reason was their counter wight was able to fall in a straighter line towards the center of the Eather, rather than the arc created on a fixed leg catapult. If you watch one on wheels fire, it will shimmy back and forth, but watch the weight in reference to another object (like a tree on the horizon) and you'll notice it very closely falls in a straight line... At the time I didn't think a free rolling catapult would work better, but now that I understand why it just seems so obvious. In any event, that PBS show was great!!!
Ahem... go here check the system status where you are. East coast it says:
DSL Network
Posted Date: 8/6/01 10:18:41 PM CST
Status: Open
In an effort to limit the propagation of the Code Red internet worm across the Verizon internet services network, Verizon has placed filters on the network to protect its end users from being infected with the Code Red Internet Worms. These filters will not impede users ability to browse the internet but will prevent infected machines from scanning Verizon internet services network. Verizon is doing all we can to protect our end users from this internet worm. If you feel you may have been infected with this worm, please contact a virus/network security websites to learn about the latest patches and/or symptoms of this internet worm.
I'd also like to point out that if your machine really is really so open... then why is it that I can ping you... yet no web pages load? Could it be that maybe verizon is filtering incoming port 80??
I'm mad 'cause when I called to sign up and I told them I'd be running linux they said I couldn't and I did - so why I am being cut off when it is impossible for me to get infected with code red???
Well, with everyone feeling the need to chime in about what ranges they see like we did when we were taking bets if school would be canceled, I just felt like saying:
Maximum PC made reference to what they saw as the first.... A quick look through the ones I have laying around here didn't produce a title for you, but as I recall it looked like yanni and smelled even worse.
Either they don't have the funding so they are selling off their domain, or they just packed up the day before the launch (obviously the site was up when the link was posted on/. since I know an trust the editors on this type of thing). In either event I don't think there is going to be anyone to check out any data collected...
This sounds like a movie ripe for MST3K... they get the results, only the people who record the findings are infested with a Martian thing... oh, let's call him "Eegah" who makes the people use a really silly (oh like ROT 13 let's say) scheme that no one would think of later so the true findings will go un-noticed...
well, that's sorta why I was poking fun - you'd think an official report would attempt to do more than just a few seconds worth of capture... however your mention of lester flatt makes me want to play "Foggy Mountain Breakdown" and try to outrun some cops....
I know it's out of the top ten that includes divx and porn sex and xxx.... but "stays crunchy even" are we worried about the cereal habits of our kids?
And "Steely Dan" beating "Rage Against The" ?? Wow, I never would have guessed...
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It's some of each, or realy neither... the duality of light. First we thought one thing, then disproved that and went with another, then Planck and Einstein had fun poking at the photoelectric effect and Einstein settled on photons. (Millikan's experiments helped Einstein win the Nobel prize, and Millikan got one of his own later)
So what's the answer? Is light a wave, or is light a flow of particles? Well, the bottom line is that it's neither one. Light is are you ready? a "quantum vector field." That phrase doesn't give you much of a mental picture, does it? I actually kind of know what a quantum vector field is, and it doesn't give me any mental picture. The fact is that the true nature of light defies mental picturing, because it's not quite like anything we can lay our hands on. Under certain conditions, such as when we shine it through narrow slits and look at the result, it behaves as only a wave can. Under other conditions, such as when we shine it on a metal and examine the spray of electrons that comes off, light behaves as only particles can. This multiple personality of light is referred to as "wave-particle duality." Light behaves as a wave, or as particles, depending on what we do with it, and what we try to observe. And it's wave-particle duality that lies at the heart of the Heisenberg uncertainty principle.
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As the US government now demands that a backdoor be put into this World War II relic ... it WAS considered 'strong' encryption in World War II anyway ...
But how strong? Wasn't the enigma made for banking communications and then adobted by the military? Everyone knew back when the banks used it that there was the flaw that pressing a letter on the keypad would never result in that same letter being in that same place in the cypher text, but I don't thinks it a major leap of faith to assume the banking industry didn't expect several governments would work hard to attempt to foil the scheme...
And furthermore, Turing didn't make the machine, or even have any impact on the design - turing was in the position the US gov is - trying to break down the ecryption. If you went up to Turing at a point when he was deeply stuck on something and asked his feelings about having a known backdoor, what would he say?
(note: I do not support the US gov in the area of wanting backdoors, but I don't think unresearhed complaints against it is appropriate either)
But you don't need to do every problem with a graph. Look into operations research. What you do there is boil down all the limits.
Example, to fly this plane means R fuel cost, S crew cost, T maintenance, U airport costs, V etc... Now put in this information for all possible flights, and all the passenger demand info (you'd want regular flight days, as well as holidays, etc..) and put all of this into a gigantic equations where you are trying to maximize or minimize something - maximize profits, or maybe minimize certain costs. Then you can relate this to a rather large matrix. Now so far we haven't asked for any info you wouldn't need for your graph. Then you apply one of the methods from operations research to your data set and you get either a number, or maybe a bound range of an answer - without the contruction of the graph, or all of the graph traversals...
Yes, if you want to do something on-the-fly, like have a computer fly the planes for you, and update as weather changes then you'd probably want to think about a graph. But to generate the day-to-day schedules for your planes, look into OR.
Here's the textbook I reccoment to learn Operations Research: here
But a lot of the cost of doing business things, which can be done using a graph, don't have to be.
Look into operations research. An early on thing you will learn in OR is the simplex method, where in you boil down a lot of your information (cost to move part A from here to there and buying B if needed, etc...) into a matrix and then use something like the Simplex Method you can maximizie say your profit, or minimize the delays, or minimize the total number of planes in the air, etc..
Now, does the world's flight system have a lot of inputs - you bet, planes, fuel, flight crew, union regulations, holidays, tons of things that you and I could probably never think of...
Now... I just wanted to post that there are ways of solving these problems without a graph - yes a graph is a lovely way for highly dynamic systems, but if you want to answer the question "What is the best schedule given these 1,000 limitations?" then look into operations research. Yes, I mentioned the simplex method, and I fully exepct following posts arguing Parametric Linear Programming or maybe some Markov Chains and their impact, but the core is still the same - if you have a set of limitations and are looking to maximumize (or minimize) something, then operations research is a fun thing!
I can put windows 95 on my pII and my pentium 166, but I can't put windows 2000 on my pentium 166.
If A implies B, that does not imply that B implies A.
The only one I have dealt with is
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Ada 95: Problem Solving and Program Design (3rd Ed.) by Feldman and Koffman
And those of you out there who are thinking of reading that linked book and are looking to get ada for your system:
http://www.usafa.af.mil/dfcs/bios/mcc_html/adagid
This site is the AdaGIDE homepage and contains information on AdaGIDE only (my links to GNAT don't seem valid any longer).
The first question that arises is how one can duplicate 101 keys that are on today's computer keyboards with the 24 finger key locations (3-way for 4 fingers of each hand) on the ISOS keyboard . The answer is you don't want to.
First time I saw that I thought they were going to get rid of lesser used characters completely... But then I realized they probably would have had to say it like this:
The irst uestion that arises is ho one can dulicate 101 keys that are on todas comuter keboards with the 24 inger ke locations (3-way or 4 ingers o each hand) on the ISOS keboard. The answer is ou dont ant to.
I saw a presentation from a Dr. David Fu with the NSA and he talked (he had to get approval from his boss on the outline) about how one would look at a stream of data (radio pickup) and using statistic info, detect if this fits into the idea of "random" of if it falls into the other category. I would assume that real approaches use something beyond the simple math that was presented to our undergraduate minds, but I know it sure made me think. I didn't take notes at the time, but those of you in colleges and/or cool schools, contact the NSA and see if they might have a PR team, or a person working there who is a graduate of your institution who might want to come back and give a little talk.
I look at the things the ACLU has written, and although I do not disagree with a single thing they say, it seems a little light on facts. I feel I am in the "know" about computer security issues and how they impact my rights, however this stuff just seems to be written on a very low level. This has made me wonder, usually when I talk to someone about why the actions of the US government are creepy right now I get into details - I explain the whole clipper chip fiasco, and I get them to ponder the real reason the feds case was dropped (google cache) so quickly against Phil Zimmerman. Anyway, this means almost always gets others to be more in the "know." But is this approach not appropriate in dealing with my representatives? I realize that for many in congress the little people's letters are just read by someone else and tallied and maybe a few are handed over with the stats... But should I send a cookie-cutter boxing-gloves-on letter, or a diatribe explaining not just things are bad - but WHY?
You forgot about looking into Swap Nut. I poked at it a few times while in windows and, although I have only ever used napster for file sharing, I liked its ease of use, and the multiple file searches at the same time. It also had other things I liked, like suspecting IPs in the 192.168.x.x range probably wouldn't get me the files I wanted.
Oh, and I was sorta put off when a friend first recomended it by name only... Then I read on their site the idea is By "Going Nuts," users can search for and find almost any type of digital file (audio, video, photos etc.) through a secure [they said secure, not me, I think putting your IP all over creation isn't secure, but I digress] peer-to-peer network.
But I took a java class recently and we had access to the JavaTM 2 Platform, Standard Edition, v 1.3 API Specification and the listings of the fuctions was great, however lacking a search made for harder answers to "hmm where is the random number generation functions." If your stuff resembles this documentation about your functions, please add a search.
Quoth you:
Could x86 solaris be an option?
Quoth the "Ask Slashdot":
Instead of using Linux we also considered using the free Solaris binaries, but the (older) workshop we need is not released on Intel...
Me:
Ahem, no.
Quoth you:
Also what about the possibility of buying a [few?] [sic] cheap sun boxes on ebay etc. This would allow you to keep running your current apps whilst figuring out your medium to long term solution
Me: I would like to extend this idea. I am familiar with sun HW and I extend to you at least my help (as I am sure other posters will help). Please list the arcitecture you are running on right now. If it's a sparc 2, then I think we can help you get HW at a reasonable price - probably cheaper than the x86 HW you would have used for solaris x86. What are your price limitations? If you are sub $100 no matter what HW or SW, then that needs to be taken into account. There is no point worry about the things we can not change, like the required platform for your SW develop (4m vs 4u vs x86), and worry about the things you can change, like what platform you have post lease. Another thing to factor into your cost benefit analysis of this migration is if your development software has not been migrated in the directions have already considered, do you feel it is worth continuing along this line if further down the road you may be forced into no choice but total software migration?
I watched a recent show on the Digital Duo where there was a segment about digital picture frames. I did not realize some of them were offering some sort of internet appliance like things. One I recall would try to get headlines, however DD reported that some of the headlines included what was on the Today show (not exactly a headline in the normal sense...)
Another thing to think about, beyond obvious visiable range is input type. If you can have a frame but you have to continue to pay someone to host your pictures, content, whatever you are not only paying for this, but you are possibly relying on them to stay up or you may lose content. I have heard about eth ones where you can serve your own content, however I am the only geek on my block with cat5 running around more than cat hair.
What I want to know, what is the real difference between a $300 digital picture frame, and a low low end $300 color laptop. This search (prices between 0 and 300) I just ran on eBay shows to me several laptops I can stick linux, (or in risk of flamebait) windows and put ontop of the TV where I have family photos now, and just run a slide show of pics on local HD, NFS, MS File Share, samba, ftp, whatever my heart dreams up. What does a magic picture frame get me that one of these laptops doesn't??
Ok, lets stop for a minute and think about more than just what the article says in black and white. What do you need a computer to do to help stop bullets? What device that cannot stop bullets could begin to stop them just by adding a computer? Adding a computer seems, to me at least, to imply some sort of sensing and adjusting. For instance maybe you make a product that can stop bullets, but is too difficult to wear as it would not flex - understandable, a brick wall is easy to make, but hard to wear. So, you would like your product to change states from flexible (denim) to "safe" (brick wall). Ok, so you use a computer. Now, how the heck is this computer going to know there is a bullet? Maybe detect it? What else is the point of adding smartness (computers) to armor? Once a bullet penetrates thru the armor it is a little too late to start to think about repelling this bullet. Maybe you'd prefer armor with the guarantee "Will stop n-1 bullets where n is the number of bullets that impact."
As for "SOAPY WATER" - ever wash your car? Ever get the soapy water on you when you didn't want to? Ok, forget that, ever wash your clothes? Assuming you use the regular non-nanotec-clothes washer, do you really think every last residue of soap is free of your clothes? Many detergents contain phosphorous to make whites just that extra bright when sun hits them, ever get near a black light and see how your clothes phosphoresces because of the residual things left behind?
I guess to me the difference between these magic socks and regular socks is the idea of having to endure the regular stench of people over a long period of time, or a condensed version of their stench every now and then... Now, jeans that keep that SBD in until I'm ready to (ahem) air it out and now we're talking....
Ahem - "Using a freon coolant as their liquid, they conducted a series of boiling experiments on the space shuttle during 5 missions..." [bold added by me] and the exact info on the substance in those main boiling photos (the one showing lots of bubles compared to one big one) is preciesly "Fluid: Freon R-113, Heat Flux: 8 W/cm2 , Subcooling: 5 F." As listed on POOL BOILING EXPERIMENT as linked to in the article.
GAP ads eh? I can only fear the slogans of the nano-ads. Well, maybe we can convince them to run ads directly proportional to the technology- really small!
But what really is the point of clear sunscreen? Do we find the white stuff all that disgusting? Hasn't it become sort of a social norm?
As for a suit like that from the preditor, what if it was made to be reversable? Would it what is behind you instead of what is behind me? And the article mentions "embedded sensors and tiny computers that allow it to stop bullets" - how will computers help to stop the bullets? People wear protective armor in places they don't want to be injured, i.e. themselves and their vehicles. These are areas they expect a higher degree of bullets to be thrown towards - how will a computer "sensing" the approach of a bullet do anything more for you? Will it cause a burst of "pain" before you get shot? Isn't that the idea of a reflex to the sound of the gun shot? If this computer is able to sense a bullet coming, then why skip over this great detection thing and not let a computer inform people that there is the potential of being shot? What is the difference here?
Then there's the "odor-trapping fabric whose molecular-sized sponges hold stale vapors through multiple wearings, until the item -- socks, for example -- come into contact with a washing machine's soapy water" talk about the potential of smelling like a wet dog when you hop on the elevator at work after running in from the rain...
The best thing I got from that show was that the catapults on wheels worked the best. The reason was their counter wight was able to fall in a straighter line towards the center of the Eather, rather than the arc created on a fixed leg catapult. If you watch one on wheels fire, it will shimmy back and forth, but watch the weight in reference to another object (like a tree on the horizon) and you'll notice it very closely falls in a straight line... At the time I didn't think a free rolling catapult would work better, but now that I understand why it just seems so obvious. In any event, that PBS show was great!!!
Ahem... go here check the system status where you are. East coast it says:
DSL Network
Posted Date: 8/6/01 10:18:41 PM CST
Status: Open
In an effort to limit the propagation of the Code Red internet worm across the Verizon internet services network, Verizon has placed filters on the network to protect its end users from being infected with the Code Red Internet Worms. These filters will not impede users ability to browse the internet but will prevent infected machines from scanning Verizon internet services network. Verizon is doing all we can to protect our end users from this internet worm. If you feel you may have been infected with this worm, please contact a virus/network security websites to learn about the latest patches and/or symptoms of this internet worm.
I'd also like to point out that if your machine really is really so open... then why is it that I can ping you... yet no web pages load? Could it be that maybe verizon is filtering incoming port 80??
I'm mad 'cause when I called to sign up and I told them I'd be running linux they said I couldn't and I did - so why I am being cut off when it is impossible for me to get infected with code red???
Well, with everyone feeling the need to chime in about what ranges they see like we did when we were taking bets if school would be canceled, I just felt like saying:
Nothing from the 192.168.0.x range here!!
=)
Maximum PC made reference to what they saw as the first.... A quick look through the ones I have laying around here didn't produce a title for you, but as I recall it looked like yanni and smelled even worse.
Look out for snakes....
Either they don't have the funding so they are selling off their domain, or they just packed up the day before the launch (obviously the site was up when the link was posted on /. since I know an trust the editors on this type of thing). In either event I don't think there is going to be anyone to check out any data collected...
This sounds like a movie ripe for MST3K... they get the results, only the people who record the findings are infested with a Martian thing... oh, let's call him "Eegah" who makes the people use a really silly (oh like ROT 13 let's say) scheme that no one would think of later so the true findings will go un-noticed...
well, that's sorta why I was poking fun - you'd think an official report would attempt to do more than just a few seconds worth of capture... however your mention of lester flatt makes me want to play "Foggy Mountain Breakdown" and try to outrun some cops....
I know it's out of the top ten that includes divx and porn sex and xxx.... but "stays crunchy even" are we worried about the cereal habits of our kids?
And "Steely Dan" beating "Rage Against The" ?? Wow, I never would have guessed...
It's some of each, or realy neither... the duality of light. First we thought one thing, then disproved that and went with another, then Planck and Einstein had fun poking at the photoelectric effect and Einstein settled on photons. (Millikan's experiments helped Einstein win the Nobel prize, and Millikan got one of his own later)
So what's the answer? Is light a wave, or is light a flow of particles? Well, the bottom line is that it's neither one. Light is are you ready? a "quantum vector field." That phrase doesn't give you much of a mental picture, does it? I actually kind of know what a quantum vector field is, and it doesn't give me any mental picture. The fact is that the true nature of light defies mental picturing, because it's not quite like anything we can lay our hands on. Under certain conditions, such as when we shine it through narrow slits and look at the result, it behaves as only a wave can. Under other conditions, such as when we shine it on a metal and examine the spray of electrons that comes off, light behaves as only particles can. This multiple personality of light is referred to as "wave-particle duality." Light behaves as a wave, or as particles, depending on what we do with it, and what we try to observe. And it's wave-particle duality that lies at the heart of the Heisenberg uncertainty principle.