Some years ago in the DOS/Win3 age, I was watching my friend working at his PC. His 2 cats were trying desperately to get his attention but he ignored them for the moment, too immersed in his work. So, the cats decided to take revenge. One jumped onto his desk and approached the keyboard from the left, Then the other cat also jumped onto his desk and approached from the right. Next the cat on the left plonked down on the lower corner of the keyboard, hitting the Ctrl and Alt keys. My friend had little time to react, for the cat on the right took a few steps and firmly put its paw down on the numpad '.'/Del key. The PC promptly rebooted... I remember we went reeling with laughter for some time after.
That's easy, just put your paw down on them. Doing some quadruple bucky Y, now that's something hard to do with only your hands... I wonder if there are any programs out there that do something cool with them (easter eggs?)
Would you also care to explain how someone might track one of these given you have to be less than around 2 meters away from one to read them?
Well, for example, they could be tracking you when you are taking a quick stroll down the mall after visiting the library, when you step through one of those electronic anti-shoplifting system (EAS) antennas at the entrance of shops. They could be modified in no time flat to track more sophisticated RFID tags.
Basically, anywhere you have to 'squeeze' through a relatively confined space, they could install concealed antennas and track you passing through. A few examples (to show just how common these are, some are already being used for RFID tracking):
- Office entrances
- Subway turnstiles, train doors
- Elevators
etc. ... or places where people tend to concentrate confined to a small space for some time
- pedestrian crossings, at traffic lights
- in front of reception desks
etc.
In case you're wondering if this is all a load of bollocks, I have discussed this many times with my friend, who has been developing EAS and RFID systems for many years.
He also says the RFID detection range is steadily improving (they're ofcourse already working on the next genration systems, using DSP to eliminate background noise and boost the signal), so the need for a confined space is becoming less and less.
-- Just because you're paranoid, it doesn't mean they're not out to get you...
If software were encoded as music, you probably could extract some interesting snippets, dissect them (with a disassembler ofcourse) and write a critical review of them under the Fair Use Policy.
...you can't even tell whether it's supposed to be music.
That's because it is supposed to be encoded bonus pictures not on the album cover... Or was it a spreadsheet of their projected revenue from the album?
No, you insensitive clod, it is like the way Arthur Dent (from the Hitchhiker's Guide, you know) finally mastered the art of unassisted human flight by throwing himself to the ground and missing. -- "..Ah, negative I am a meat popsicle.".... Korben Dallas, The Fifth Element
Well, I guess it must be the eleventh planet then, for we already found a tenth. Wasn't it called Quauar? Or was it the other way round? I mean Niburu being the eleventh. Come to think about it, that blob out there was probably called Quaoar Never mind, err.. WHOOSH..WHOOSH.. Is this thing on?
Just imagine a Beowulf Cluster of these... Studying them (from a safe distance) would be way more cool than, for example, watching the Perseids (too predictable in timing and too unstable, for they fade away to a blue screen err..sky). Also, I wonder if you could run NetBSD on them. Not to forget, if they come really close there will be great need for tweaking them, too. (how's that for geekiness?) And if they do hit us, well, that will be the most 'massive' DDoS attack in history...
Scientists at the NCSA are actually trying to turn a bunch of PS2's into a supercomputer. They are using the Sony's Linux Kit, so they probably need few if any mods to the PS2's.
LOL! (mis)reading your comment brought back memories: A friend of mine, a graphics artist, had to do a project for a Web design course. He came up with the Instant Pizza Delivery.
It claimed to be the fastest pizza delivery ever. As soon as you had selected which kind of pizza you wanted and mindlessly clicked away some OK popup, your printer whirred into action and... out came your pizza! Too bad it was only a picture of it...
This is turning into one hell of a steaming blubbering ball of insanity.
Soon someone with his or her mind in something like the state of John Nash in his lesser years will argue that the base 16 decimal expansion of Pi contains a gzip'ped tarball of DeCSS and declare the use of Pi illegal in any circumstance where it could possibly be expanded to that many digits.
I pity beforehand the poor schmuck who will be required to actually prove this in a court of law. I'm afraid the world (maybe even the universe) may not be big enough to support the evidence (pun intended).
Anyway, that case might go down as the biggest in its class in history...
Your algorithm for transforming the OSI language codes into something else is in fact a circumvention of a copy-protection scheme and thus in violation of the DMCA. (Hint: the '_' is the copy protect character...)
I don't know about your book, but in my book a firewall (in the computer network sense) is just a security scheme for controlling and possibly monitoring access from one (part of a) network to another and possibly vice versa.
It makes perfect sense to use a firewall to control access from or to a single host, and in that case you don't really need NAT.
The fact that NAT is included in most firewalls nowadays is just a matter of convenience, not of definition.
If it's in the small print, I'm afraid the case against Apple isn't going to hold any water.
If for some strange reason the case does succeed, this may mean big trouble for many other statements of file size or disk capacity, whether in documents or in size indications by software apps like file managers, many of which use 1 GB == 1,024 MB.
Oddly enough, the mathematical software Maple V has known about the prefixes "kibi" and "gibi" for as long as I can remember (check the "Unit Prefixes" help topic).
I for one am a supporter of strict SI unit prefix compliance, which will end the confusion.
Reading the announcement, one passage struck me as odd:
2. At least one of your code contributions (a new file or a modification of an existing file) must have been accepted into the pnetlib System.Windows.Forms codebase.
Does this mean that only those who already have had code accepted into the codebase can enter the competition? Or am I mixing up verb tenses (passive present perfect, passive future perfect) here?
And I don't mean the 'insert coin' kind of 'life' (or the 'click the funky icon' kind, for that matter). Just get up and away from the computer... Heyy! the Sun is shining outside! The cats're meowing in the kitchen (what, did I forget to feed them?) and... whoa, where's my daughter???
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Some years ago in the DOS/Win3 age, I was watching my friend working at his PC.
His 2 cats were trying desperately to get his attention but he ignored them for the moment, too immersed in his work.
So, the cats decided to take revenge. One jumped onto his desk and approached the keyboard from the left, Then the other cat also jumped onto his desk and approached from the right. Next the cat on the left plonked down on the lower corner of the keyboard, hitting the Ctrl and Alt keys. My friend had little time to react, for the cat on the right took a few steps and firmly put its paw down on the numpad '.'/Del key. The PC promptly rebooted...
I remember we went reeling with laughter for some time after.
That's easy, just put your paw down on them. Doing some quadruple bucky Y, now that's something hard to do with only your hands... I wonder if there are any programs out there that do something cool with them (easter eggs?)
Seems like a neat idea, but I can already hear all the alarm bells and whistles going off next time you leave a shop carrying one of those.
I cant resist asking, just what does a mini box of nerds look like? Owyee, now I've done it...
Well, for example, they could be tracking you when you are taking a quick stroll down the mall after visiting the library, when you step through one of those electronic anti-shoplifting system (EAS) antennas at the entrance of shops. They could be modified in no time flat to track more sophisticated RFID tags.
Basically, anywhere you have to 'squeeze' through a relatively confined space, they could install concealed antennas and track you passing through.
... or places where people tend to concentrate confined to a small space for some time
A few examples (to show just how common these are, some are already being used for RFID tracking):
- Office entrances
- Subway turnstiles, train doors
- Elevators
etc.
- pedestrian crossings, at traffic lights
- in front of reception desks
etc.
In case you're wondering if this is all a load of bollocks, I have discussed this many times with my friend, who has been developing EAS and RFID systems for many years.
He also says the RFID detection range is steadily improving (they're ofcourse already working on the next genration systems, using DSP to eliminate background noise and boost the signal), so the need for a confined space is becoming less and less.
--
Just because you're paranoid, it doesn't mean they're not out to get you...
dArn Slashcode!! (yes, I know, preview...preview...)
/dev/hda0 > /dev/audio
$ cat
Have a nice trip (or sweet dreams if you're so inclined)...
If software were encoded as music, you probably could extract some interesting snippets, dissect them (with a disassembler ofcourse) and write a critical review of them under the Fair Use Policy.
That's because it is supposed to be encoded bonus pictures not on the album cover... Or was it a spreadsheet of their projected revenue from the album?
No, you insensitive clod, it is like the way Arthur Dent (from the Hitchhiker's Guide, you know) finally mastered the art of unassisted human flight by throwing himself to the ground and missing. ... Korben Dallas, The Fifth Element
--
"..Ah, negative I am a meat popsicle.".
Well, I guess it must be the eleventh planet then, for we already found a tenth. Wasn't it called Quauar? Or was it the other way round? I mean Niburu being the eleventh.
Come to think about it, that blob out there was probably called Quaoar
Never mind, err.. WHOOSH..WHOOSH.. Is this thing on?
Just imagine a Beowulf Cluster of these...
Studying them (from a safe distance) would be way more cool than, for example, watching the Perseids (too predictable in timing and too unstable, for they fade away to a blue screen err..sky).
Also, I wonder if you could run NetBSD on them.
Not to forget, if they come really close there will be great need for tweaking them, too. (how's that for geekiness?)
And if they do hit us, well, that will be the most 'massive' DDoS attack in history...
Scientists at the NCSA are actually trying to turn a bunch of PS2's into a supercomputer.
They are using the Sony's Linux Kit, so they probably need few if any mods to the PS2's.
Snow
Are you kidding? Not even FedEx would be fast enough to deliver that to you in its original state...
LOL! (mis)reading your comment brought back memories: A friend of mine, a graphics artist, had to do a project for a Web design course. He came up with the Instant Pizza Delivery.
It claimed to be the fastest pizza delivery ever. As soon as you had selected which kind of pizza you wanted and mindlessly clicked away some OK popup, your printer whirred into action and... out came your pizza! Too bad it was only a picture of it...
This is turning into one hell of a steaming blubbering ball of insanity.
Soon someone with his or her mind in something like the state of John Nash in his lesser years will argue that the base 16 decimal expansion of Pi contains a gzip'ped tarball of DeCSS and declare the use of Pi illegal in any circumstance where it could possibly be expanded to that many digits.
I pity beforehand the poor schmuck who will be required to actually prove this in a court of law. I'm afraid the world (maybe even the universe) may not be big enough to support the evidence (pun intended).
Anyway, that case might go down as the biggest in its class in history...
No you don't!
Your algorithm for transforming the OSI language codes into something else is in fact a circumvention of a copy-protection scheme and thus in violation of the DMCA. (Hint: the '_' is the copy protect character...)
1. Sue
2. Sue some more
3. ?
4. Profit!
I don't know about your book, but in my book a firewall (in the computer network sense) is just a security scheme for controlling and possibly monitoring access from one (part of a) network to another and possibly vice versa.
It makes perfect sense to use a firewall to control access from or to a single host, and in that case you don't really need NAT.
The fact that NAT is included in most firewalls nowadays is just a matter of convenience, not of definition.
If it's in the small print, I'm afraid the case against Apple isn't going to hold any water.
If for some strange reason the case does succeed, this may mean big trouble for many other statements of file size or disk capacity, whether in documents or in size indications by software apps like file managers, many of which use 1 GB == 1,024 MB.
Oddly enough, the mathematical software Maple V has known about the prefixes "kibi" and "gibi" for as long as I can remember (check the "Unit Prefixes" help topic).
I for one am a supporter of strict SI unit prefix compliance, which will end the confusion.
Does this mean that only those who already have had code accepted into the codebase can enter the competition? Or am I mixing up verb tenses (passive present perfect, passive future perfect) here?
..and you can see it again, right now.
Check out this link. The monitors have tracking systems so you can move around while viewing 3D.
And I don't mean the 'insert coin' kind of 'life' (or the 'click the funky icon' kind, for that matter).
Just get up and away from the computer... Heyy! the Sun is shining outside! The cats're meowing in the kitchen (what, did I forget to feed them?) and... whoa, where's my daughter???
Smile..! You're on Slashdot!
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Please don't let the 'clickability factor' of an http URL (1 click) versus a plain old mailto (2 or more clicks to send) get in the way of privacy protection. I suppose that when you have just subscribed to a mailing list you are interested in more than just the confirmation message, so you have some clicks to spare
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