> It's when the government knows they are there and do nothing about it. The Taliban didn't just "house" Al Qaeda , they harbored them.
No shit soldier. Get your rifle and head on to Washington. Because the US of A should be getting ready to get a whooping from you. Here is a list of terrorists that US harbors. So go and take down that country son, make you momma proud:
That is not true. In starvation mode the body will use the fat first and then the muscle. A body without muscle and all fat is useless. In other words, look at the victims of famine, they usually can still move even though they are emaciated, _but_ they are not fat. If muscle would burn first, they would just end up as sacks of lard + bones completely unable to move. If such an organism ever evolved it probably, it would have quickly died out out as it would not be very efficient.
Good point. Also some studies have shown that those who exercise don't lose as much weight because they perceive exercise as this great calorie burning activity, then they go and eat more to reward themselves for the 'great job' they've done. In other words they think they are way ahead and have plenty of calorie budget while in reality they didn't really burn that many calories.
All in all, if humans would have burned as many calories as we think we burn exercising we wouldn't be here. We would have starved ourselves to death, just by hunting or gathering berries. I think it is completely ridiculous to get eat giant American-sized portions (spend more money on food) and then spend hours and hours in the gym (paying for gym membership and paying with lost time) just to burn all that excess fat off.
Now, don't get me wrong, I think exercise is good for health. So people should exercise, but it is just not the best way to lose weight.
Yet Soyuz keeps chugging along while the Shuttle is being retired. There were over 850 launches of the Soyuz launch vehicle with very few failures. I would say Russian space engineering is not worse than American space engineering when it comes to safety and reliability. Now when it comes to fancy features and gadgets, they are definetly behind.
Go with tags, they are more powerful. Folders will force you into a hierarchy (if you can even have sub-folders).
With tags you can create arbitrary categories. So a "status" tag can be assigned to an email that already has a "report" tag but also to the one that has a "meetings" tag. In other words it is like being able to put the same object in two different folders.
One drawback of tags is, that it is harder to visualize. Google does a good job with searching but I can't think how you can visualize it (as a graph/hypergraph actually might work).
The other drawback is that people are more used to folder because they dealt with file systems before ("I'll make a folder for dates, then inside we'll split them by topic" kind of thinking).
In most places you cannot discharge a fire arm.
You cannot shoot a laser into the sky because you can blind the pilots. Perhaps have your own drones that try to knock other drones from the sky? Or a directed EMP pulse? "Hey officer this is just a bird deterrent, sorry I had no idea your electronic 'bird' was flying near by, sure do apologize." -- yeah probably won't work very well.
The bottom line is if they already sent out drones to spy on you, it is already too late.
What if you shoot down UAVs that fly onto your private property? Or "Oops! I just happened to step on the trigger of my EMP weapon" when "your" drones happened to be near by. Sorry they fell from the sky like sacks of potatoes.
Yeah I do see a black market for protecting your privacy against drones. Not that it will help at all since they'll just send the squads after you and put you on a free flight to Egypt. Hmm pyramids, I always wanted to see the pyramids...
Because for really good audio sound cards inside a computer case are not a good idea so might as well go with a crappy one for testing or just use the bundled one.
In general D/A conversion needs to be performed outside the computer case, in a specialized box. So that is why people spend tons of money on a computer then spend a lot more money on a USB / Ethernet digital audio platform.
A while ago, in one of the ex-Soviet Baltic republics, a local radio station would accept calls from drivers who would notify them of speed traps. After a while the local police was losing money and a new law came into effect that made it illegal to broadcast the location of police. So then the said station would accept calls from drivers who would notify them of location where blue cars with white stripes and colored red & blue lights on top would be parked along the major roads and highways.
This would actually be an interesting test to see if the police is interested in safety, in which case they wouldn't mind their location being broadcast or they use the speed traps to generate regular revenue for their community, in which case they would be very much against the idea.
I agree with the other points but not about roadway congestion. The transportation network throughput will be higher if people drive in a car 60mph as opposed to have 3 times as many people drive bikes but moving at only 15mph. Yes, you'll have a lot more people on the road at the same time but they'll be moving a lot slower. I guess the best is to have motor bikes and very narrow lanes. That will result in a very high death count though...
Among other things, we had ZX80 source listings, MK61 programmable calculator listings
Yeah, I remember the Yuniy Tehnic, Tehnika Molodyoji and Modelist Konstruktor. I had a cheap Soviet replica of ZX Specturm called BYTE. It came with a crappy rubber keyboard, so I canibalized the keys from an old Soviet fax machine and sodered them onto the PCB contacts of my BYTE. It looked ugly as hell, but it worked for years and years.
Then I remember I had a C, Pascal, Forth and LaserBasic(?) compiler on it. Tons of games (Manic Miner, Chase HQ, Equinox, Ikari...) -- those were the days. Today's games are a million times more realistic, my processors are faster, we got wireless but the thrill is still not the same as when I was writing my own Z80 assembler interpreter, maybe it's just me getting old...
Not necessarily. Take a fuzzy digital photograph that is of a large enough size and you can relatively safely hide a message in the noise. Basically use existing random data to hide your random data. Use a little modeling to make sure the new noise floor profile matches the old one as much as possible and throw away all the Exif metadata (if using digital photos) such that the attacker cannot know the model of the camera. Then also throw away the original image so there isn't a clean original against which someone who seizes your computer can compare your stegotext against. Now the "joke" seems a little more serious, doesn't it...?
The stupid thing is to have a safe in a place where it can be found. She should have been using steganography to conceal the existence of data to begin with. Once an adversary with more power, money or authority knows you have something, they can always start cutting off your fingers (or those of your loved ones) and they won't need to wait for the encryption algorithm to be brute-forced.
So no matter how big the safe or how many bits the encryption key has, they'll get access to the stuff in the time O(log N), where N = X + Y, where X : number of the digits you have left, and Y -- the number of the digits your loved ones have left.
A good secret is one whose existence is a secret...
Encrypting your data and not hiding it is the same as getting a $100k super secure safe, locking your stuff in it, but leaving it in the middle of the living room. Any { law enforcement agency / criminal gang / anyone with more resources and more muscles that you } will just force you to give them the key. In other words, they see the super secure safe and automatically assume there must be at least $1M in there and then they force you to give them the key. The govt will cite all kinds of stupid idiotic laws, the criminals will start cutting of the fingers (yours or your loved ones').
The solution is to use something like steganography and hide the data such that nobody even will suspect anything. The best secrets are the ones that are not even known to exist.
If the adversary is convinced that you do have the data and knows the data type, then create a similar but fake data set to be substituted for the real one.
Imagine that he would have been a Russian scientist who knew that Russia was building a doomsday device and started spying for U.S. Eventually U.S. would have been able to build that device as well and a strategic equilibrium would be reached quickly.
Let me guess, that guy would have been a hero, right? Why? Because he was working for "God's" country and not for the "evil" Soviets.
Wake up! US is not the only country in the world and it doesn't have any sort of moral high ground. It might have had it before 2003, but it doesn't have it now after Iraq and Guantanamo and sending innocent people people to Egypt to be tortured ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extraordinary_rendition ).
Yeah, all the spies are thieves and the best ones are traitors. Someone's hero is another one's villain...
That's alright, as long as all spies are thieves and traitors regardless of the government they are working for. Or let me guess, the American spies are heroes and anti-American spies are traitors and thieves? Of course, because we are "God's" country and we are special. Our killings are always "fights for freedom" and "wars on terror".
What's the news for nerds angle here?
That Russia Honors the Spy Who Stole the A-Bomb . Duh...
Yeah, some nerds like to take a break from playing D&D and are actually interested in what's happening in the real world.
Microsoft can't shut them down, but a nice fat check to each one of them certainly will make them shut up.
Recently they tried to bribe their way to the Nigerians to get ahead of Mandriva. Then we hear of Blamer throwing chairs around the office yelling "I'm going to fucking kill Google", I really wouldn't put it above them trying to bribe this committee into submission.
In other words, when everything else fails, look for the money trail.
In all honesty, no matter how much I would care about some open standards, Linux, Linus, and so on (and I do care about those things), if Microsoft sent me a $100k check in exchange of not caring "as much" about open standards, I don't know if I would resist. (If I would resist, I probably wouldn't resist if they doubled the offer).
To me this "bribing conspiracy" makes sense. It would be pocket change for Microsoft and would quickly solve their problem (promoting OOXML). Not a bad business move on their part...
Yes, but you can transport them on a large nuclear submarine and quietly lay them down by your enemies coastlines. Say 20 of these 100Mt bad boys and you got yourself a nice man made tsunami. No need to fly around or expose the launch...
but I do know that Sun forced Microsoft to stop distributing their own Java platform.
Yeah, because it was not up to standard. And Sun is the one who defined the Java Standard. If anything was to be called Java, it had to have the same API. I don't have a problem with it. I still see Java as Sun's language and they can do whatever they want with it.
Microsoft might not restrict changes to Mono's API, but if they one day change the interface spec for.NET, what choice would the Mono developers have but follow along on Microsoft's leash? The alternative would be pointless :
- Oh, well we have our 'own'.NET version. - So can I compile/run my Microsoft.NET program on it.? - Well not really, it's not exactly compatible - So it's not exactly.NET ? -...[silence]...Yeah... we have Mono - Ok, have fun with your Mono, but I want a Microsoft compatible.NET API
No. Pivo means 'beer'. Which actually would make me pretty happy. Just listening to that sweet 4 letter word....hm, I'll go grab another cold one from the fridge!
The ironic thing is that they advertise themselves as the "morality" party despite scandal after scandal after bribe after...
I call that the Google syndrome (Do no evil, ever... unless of course it, interferes with making money...)
If the Reps never bothered to claim a higher moral ground, nobody would have paid this much attention to all their sexual escapades and bribes. But as soon as they said "oh look at those immoral Democrats, we'd never kill babies, commit adultery and so on", they immediately shot themselves in the foot because now the voters will scrutinize them more closely. And I actually believe both parties are equally evil. It is just necessary to recycle them once in a while. As soon as one party stays in power too long, they become more lazy and corrupt. It gives the other party(ies?) a chance to use that to kick them out.
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No shit soldier. Get your rifle and head on to Washington. Because the US of A should be getting ready to get a whooping from you. Here is a list of terrorists that US harbors. So go and take down that country son, make you momma proud:
Pedro Remon
Guillermo Novo
Louis Posada Carriles
That is not true. In starvation mode the body will use the fat first and then the muscle. A body without muscle and all fat is useless. In other words, look at the victims of famine, they usually can still move even though they are emaciated, _but_ they are not fat. If muscle would burn first, they would just end up as sacks of lard + bones completely unable to move. If such an organism ever evolved it probably, it would have quickly died out out as it would not be very efficient.
Good point. Also some studies have shown that those who exercise don't lose as much weight because they perceive exercise as this great calorie burning activity, then they go and eat more to reward themselves for the 'great job' they've done. In other words they think they are way ahead and have plenty of calorie budget while in reality they didn't really burn that many calories. All in all, if humans would have burned as many calories as we think we burn exercising we wouldn't be here. We would have starved ourselves to death, just by hunting or gathering berries. I think it is completely ridiculous to get eat giant American-sized portions (spend more money on food) and then spend hours and hours in the gym (paying for gym membership and paying with lost time) just to burn all that excess fat off. Now, don't get me wrong, I think exercise is good for health. So people should exercise, but it is just not the best way to lose weight.
Yet Soyuz keeps chugging along while the Shuttle is being retired. There were over 850 launches of the Soyuz launch vehicle with very few failures. I would say Russian space engineering is not worse than American space engineering when it comes to safety and reliability. Now when it comes to fancy features and gadgets, they are definetly behind.
With tags you can create arbitrary categories. So a "status" tag can be assigned to an email that already has a "report" tag but also to the one that has a "meetings" tag. In other words it is like being able to put the same object in two different folders.
One drawback of tags is, that it is harder to visualize. Google does a good job with searching but I can't think how you can visualize it (as a graph/hypergraph actually might work).
The other drawback is that people are more used to folder because they dealt with file systems before ("I'll make a folder for dates, then inside we'll split them by topic" kind of thinking).
The bottom line is if they already sent out drones to spy on you, it is already too late.
Yeah I do see a black market for protecting your privacy against drones. Not that it will help at all since they'll just send the squads after you and put you on a free flight to Egypt. Hmm pyramids, I always wanted to see the pyramids...
Because for really good audio sound cards inside a computer case are not a good idea so might as well go with a crappy one for testing or just use the bundled one. In general D/A conversion needs to be performed outside the computer case, in a specialized box. So that is why people spend tons of money on a computer then spend a lot more money on a USB / Ethernet digital audio platform.
This would actually be an interesting test to see if the police is interested in safety, in which case they wouldn't mind their location being broadcast or they use the speed traps to generate regular revenue for their community, in which case they would be very much against the idea.
Yes!
I agree with the other points but not about roadway congestion. The transportation network throughput will be higher if people drive in a car 60mph as opposed to have 3 times as many people drive bikes but moving at only 15mph. Yes, you'll have a lot more people on the road at the same time but they'll be moving a lot slower. I guess the best is to have motor bikes and very narrow lanes. That will result in a very high death count though...
Yeah, I remember the Yuniy Tehnic, Tehnika Molodyoji and Modelist Konstruktor. I had a cheap Soviet replica of ZX Specturm called BYTE. It came with a crappy rubber keyboard, so I canibalized the keys from an old Soviet fax machine and sodered them onto the PCB contacts of my BYTE. It looked ugly as hell, but it worked for years and years.
Then I remember I had a C, Pascal, Forth and LaserBasic(?) compiler on it. Tons of games (Manic Miner, Chase HQ, Equinox, Ikari
So no matter how big the safe or how many bits the encryption key has, they'll get access to the stuff in the time O(log N), where N = X + Y, where X : number of the digits you have left, and Y -- the number of the digits your loved ones have left.
A good secret is one whose existence is a secret...
Encrypting your data and not hiding it is the same as getting a $100k super secure safe, locking your stuff in it, but leaving it in the middle of the living room. Any { law enforcement agency / criminal gang / anyone with more resources and more muscles that you } will just force you to give them the key. In other words, they see the super secure safe and automatically assume there must be at least $1M in there and then they force you to give them the key. The govt will cite all kinds of stupid idiotic laws, the criminals will start cutting of the fingers (yours or your loved ones').
The solution is to use something like steganography and hide the data such that nobody even will suspect anything. The best secrets are the ones that are not even known to exist.
If the adversary is convinced that you do have the data and knows the data type, then create a similar but fake data set to be substituted for the real one.
Let me guess, that guy would have been a hero, right? Why? Because he was working for "God's" country and not for the "evil" Soviets.
Wake up! US is not the only country in the world and it doesn't have any sort of moral high ground. It might have had it before 2003, but it doesn't have it now after Iraq and Guantanamo and sending innocent people people to Egypt to be tortured ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extraordinary_rendition ).
Yeah, all the spies are thieves and the best ones are traitors. Someone's hero is another one's villain...
What's the news for nerds angle here?
That Russia Honors the Spy Who Stole the A-Bomb . Duh...
Yeah, some nerds like to take a break from playing D&D and are actually interested in what's happening in the real world.
Recently they tried to bribe their way to the Nigerians to get ahead of Mandriva. Then we hear of Blamer throwing chairs around the office yelling "I'm going to fucking kill Google", I really wouldn't put it above them trying to bribe this committee into submission.
In other words, when everything else fails, look for the money trail.
In all honesty, no matter how much I would care about some open standards, Linux, Linus, and so on (and I do care about those things), if Microsoft sent me a $100k check in exchange of not caring "as much" about open standards, I don't know if I would resist. (If I would resist, I probably wouldn't resist if they doubled the offer).
To me this "bribing conspiracy" makes sense. It would be pocket change for Microsoft and would quickly solve their problem (promoting OOXML). Not a bad business move on their part...
You are wasting your time, the answer will always be 42....
Yes, but you can transport them on a large nuclear submarine and quietly lay them down by your enemies coastlines. Say 20 of these 100Mt bad boys and you got yourself a nice man made tsunami. No need to fly around or expose the launch...
Yeah, because it was not up to standard. And Sun is the one who defined the Java Standard. If anything was to be called Java, it had to have the same API. I don't have a problem with it. I still see Java as Sun's language and they can do whatever they want with it.
Microsoft might not restrict changes to Mono's API, but if they one day change the interface spec for .NET, what choice would the Mono developers have but follow along on Microsoft's leash? The alternative would be pointless :
- Oh, well we have our 'own' .NET version. .NET program on it.? .NET ? ...[silence]...Yeah ... we have Mono .NET API
- So can I compile/run my Microsoft
- Well not really, it's not exactly compatible
- So it's not exactly
-
- Ok, have fun with your Mono, but I want a Microsoft compatible
The profit part. You are focused on 1) and 2) but what's important is 3) "Profit!"
1) Support OOXML
2) ?
3) Profit! (i.e. get $$$ from M$)
I call that the Google syndrome (Do no evil, ever... unless of course it, interferes with making money...)
If the Reps never bothered to claim a higher moral ground, nobody would have paid this much attention to all their sexual escapades and bribes. But as soon as they said "oh look at those immoral Democrats, we'd never kill babies, commit adultery and so on", they immediately shot themselves in the foot because now the voters will scrutinize them more closely. And I actually believe both parties are equally evil. It is just necessary to recycle them once in a while. As soon as one party stays in power too long, they become more lazy and corrupt. It gives the other party(ies?) a chance to use that to kick them out.
Teh libertarians?