Some people might find it funny. Some don't. Regardless of one's sense of humor, it was still way offtopic. If you find this type of post funny, browse at -1.
void recursion (void) { recursion(); } while(1) printf ("infinite loop"); if (true) printf ("Stupid sig quote");
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void recursion (void) { recursion(); } while(1) printf ("infinite loop"); if (true) printf ("Stupid sig quote");
They would have to be standing right next to you to hear the signals because low powered radio is just that -- low powered. If it's only designed to work within a certain range of a computer, then the eavesdropper would have to be that close too. Although I _can_ see this problem happening in offices where people are close together but can't see each other directly.
Of course, I still don't think it had to be moderated down for disagreeing with the rest of/., but why don't I complain in the moderation section and not here
Especially that blocking thing; that would be really cool
It's a phone, for crying out loud. I know that the spread of Linux cannot possibly be bad (no flames please) but does a phone deserve that much power? All it creates is another device that requires synchornization. If you write a note on the telephone and you want to get it on the computer, what can you do? It gives you no advantage over a pad of paper next to the phone.
While MIT *does* have a reputation for "hacks" (skillful pranks, not compromising a computer), the university staff would never allow this to occur. And asking for money for a nonexistant legal fund isn't even a hack; it's a scam. This would never get past the staff; if it was a fake, the PR for MIT would be nightmarish.
This problem could tie in very nicely to the new package system. There could be two versions of every kind of distro: A pentium version and an amd/x86 version. I, for one, installed Debian on my 386 w/ 4 megs (Dad won't let me partition the main computer:-( ), and I would be very disappointed if Debian made their distribution Pentium-based.
OK, maybe I'm a special case, but lots of other companies use old 486's for routers etc while using Pentium workstations. They would also be very happy with the new package pool + Pentium/non-pentium distros.
The immediate reaction to any e-commerce tax is "heck no!". Of course we don't want governmental interference with this great electronic world. However, the same people who believe this (usually) believe that eventually technology will progress to the point where the whole world spends their entire time wired directly into the Internet in a utopia of communication. I, myself, subscribe to this view.
But stop and think for a moment. If in a thousand years we will spend our life wired up, then surely in a hundred we will do all our shopping online! But at this point, the government won't be able to collect sales tax because of our silly "moratorium" on Internet taxes. So why now do we shout "keep the Internet tax-free" when in a hundred years the government will be mired in debt due to our shortsightedness?
This was in response to the AC's post. Of course people have already said that the screenshots might be fake. Of course people have already said that iWin is a scam. That was not my point. If I had posted a new message that said "It's a hoax because"... then that would have been rightfully moderated as redundant. My point here is that this AC seems to be up to something fishy. As I am the only response so far to this comment, it could not possibly be considered redundant. The first part was just to back up my main point; the real point was that this AC could not possibly have installed iWin.
or any sort of indication that this program is available in any shape or form?
The only proof of its mere existence is two blurry screenshots, one of which looks like win95/8 and the other of which looks like WindowMaker.
Yet you claim to have installed it. Where did you get it from?
Maybe I'm just being paranoid, but this comment was also posted anonymously. To quote Shakespeare (Roger Bacon? who knows), "Something is rotten in the state of Denmark."
This comment was not intended to be an insult to those who believe in this.
In case the humor is lost on you, I was reffering to them examining the human/alien/hoax/not_alien_just_bashed in/insert_favorite_adjective_here head. So the joke was that they were examining the person/alien/etc.'s head when they should have been examining their own:-)
This does not fall under my definition of a "troll". I don't believe this report -- but I respect the beliefs of people who do.
Call me stupid, but hasn't the theory of Relativity been proven several times over? I remember at least one experiment involving atomic clocks on airplanes...
Yeah, that original comment may have been stretching it just a bit:-). PalmPilots are pretty good, although my personal opinion is that for that much money you could get a bunch of peripherals and games instead... but if my job needed a Palm I would think differently.
It's just that when you have a joke, why waste it?:-)
At the very least, it would need some kind of weird-palm-connector-thingy to PS/2 adapter. That's assuming that the keyboard uses the same protocol as a normal keyboard.
I've never liked the small keyboards anyway because they cramp my fingers. And besides, why do you need that much desk space anyway? Isn't the whole point of a desk to put a computer on?:-)
Palm Computing today has announced a roll-out portable computer to go with their Palm Plot(tm) line of portable plastic devices. An insider source was quoted as saying:
With the advent of all the Windows CE(rror) (copyright Microsoft corp., used without permission so nya nya nya to bill) devices and Palm Plot(tm) clones, we were worried that someone might actually create a useable machine that would be able to... you know... do stuff. Our current model, the Palm 3.14159, only emits radio signals to cause cancer. We were surprised that we could sell it, but Wired News said that's what consumers want. But now that the clones and CE(rror)'s can finally almost "do stuff", we needed a way to re-enter the marketplace.
Sources close to Palm Software(zd00dz) said that this new device, code-named CheeseFile, will give the users the ability to "surf the Internet, send e-mail, create a calendar, and do everything the PalmPlot should have done to begin with but didn't because our company sucks wait a minute, are you taping this YOU'D BETTER NOT BE TAPING THIS OR I'LL K1CK UR @$$ I 3M W4R3Z D00DZ!@$##!@!@@!!!!"
One place where emotion control could be used is in the army. Blank out the majority of the emotions (except for a few necessary ones) for the duration of the battle and you would probably do a lot better than your "human" opponents. In Israel, for example, women can't fight in the army; but not because of lack of strength/skill. It is because the men can't handle it. So I can think of a few emotions that people can do without during certain times.
This example could be generalized to any job that requires a high concentration level. Construction work, nuclear plants, and math quizzes:-) come to mind.
To generalize the generalization, you could use this for any project where you want to concentrate, release adrenaline, or use any other of the myriad emotions that might be desirable for a particular setting.
What you described is a principle commonly used in ham radio shacks to isolate radio equipment from harmful interference. My uncle was setting up a radio room in his basement and surrounded the whole thing with a wire screen to keep out unwanted RFI. It's called an RF cage, and apparently it doesn't have to be a solid piece of metal, as there was about two inches of space inbetween each wire. Maybe the spacing just has to be smaller than the length of the wave, but that's just a wild guess. Maybe someone with more physics knowledge than me could answer that.
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like I said elsewhere
do not waste your points on this
send other things up
void recursion (void)
{
recursion();
}
while(1) printf ("infinite loop");
if (true) printf ("Stupid sig quote");
see my other post
(response to anon. coward)
do not challenge me
void recursion (void)
{
recursion();
}
while(1) printf ("infinite loop");
if (true) printf ("Stupid sig quote");
you dare challenge me?
I turn you to many shreds.
resistance? futile!
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to moderator:
yes, this is way offtopic
please do not hurt me
use your points for good
by sending a comment up
not marking this down
void recursion (void)
{
recursion();
}
while(1) printf ("infinite loop");
if (true) printf ("Stupid sig quote");
that was offtopic
I would moderate you down
but I don't have points
void recursion (void)
{
recursion();
}
while(1) printf ("infinite loop");
if (true) printf ("Stupid sig quote");
#1837 (or so, I forget) at 11:10 EST. At this rate...
800 per hour... round that to 700 to account for slack-off once more articles are posted
20,000 / 700 = ~28.6 hours.
And this is ignoring the major drop-off once this article disappears from the front page or gets pushed down too far.
So while it is certainly a nice effort, 20,000 is incredibly unrealistic.
void recursion (void)
{
recursion();
}
while(1) printf ("infinite loop");
if (true) printf ("Stupid sig quote");
If the author had left that phrase out, /. readers would have complained "Wait a minute! Not all desktop OSes are unstable! What about Linux?"
:-)
Then someone would have replied that *BSD is more stable than Linux; this would have started a 10-post-minimum flamewar
Then someone would have replied that Linux isn't all that stable; this comment would garnish several replies before being moderated down.
Despite the comparison being really not that great, it was for the better.
void recursion (void)
{
recursion();
}
while(1) printf ("infinite loop");
if (true) printf ("Stupid sig quote");
Some people might find it funny. Some don't. Regardless of one's sense of humor, it was still way offtopic. If you find this type of post funny, browse at -1.
void recursion (void)
{
recursion();
}
while(1) printf ("infinite loop");
if (true) printf ("Stupid sig quote");
hahaha
void recursion (void)
{
recursion();
}
while(1) printf ("infinite loop");
if (true) printf ("Stupid sig quote");
They would have to be standing right next to you to hear the signals because low powered radio is just that -- low powered. If it's only designed to work within a certain range of a computer, then the eavesdropper would have to be that close too. Although I _can_ see this problem happening in offices where people are close together but can't see each other directly.
It actually sounds useful now :-)
/., but why don't I complain in the moderation section and not here
Of course, I still don't think it had to be moderated down for disagreeing with the rest of
Especially that blocking thing; that would be really cool
It's a phone, for crying out loud. I know that the spread of Linux cannot possibly be bad (no flames please) but does a phone deserve that much power? All it creates is another device that requires synchornization. If you write a note on the telephone and you want to get it on the computer, what can you do? It gives you no advantage over a pad of paper next to the phone.
While MIT *does* have a reputation for "hacks" (skillful pranks, not compromising a computer), the university staff would never allow this to occur. And asking for money for a nonexistant legal fund isn't even a hack; it's a scam. This would never get past the staff; if it was a fake, the PR for MIT would be nightmarish.
This problem could tie in very nicely to the new package system. There could be two versions of every kind of distro: A pentium version and an amd/x86 version. I, for one, installed Debian on my 386 w/ 4 megs (Dad won't let me partition the main computer :-( ), and I would be very disappointed if Debian made their distribution Pentium-based.
OK, maybe I'm a special case, but lots of other companies use old 486's for routers etc while using Pentium workstations. They would also be very happy with the new package pool + Pentium/non-pentium distros.
The immediate reaction to any e-commerce tax is "heck no!". Of course we don't want governmental interference with this great electronic world. However, the same people who believe this (usually) believe that eventually technology will progress to the point where the whole world spends their entire time wired directly into the Internet in a utopia of communication. I, myself, subscribe to this view.
But stop and think for a moment. If in a thousand years we will spend our life wired up, then surely in a hundred we will do all our shopping online! But at this point, the government won't be able to collect sales tax because of our silly "moratorium" on Internet taxes. So why now do we shout "keep the Internet tax-free" when in a hundred years the government will be mired in debt due to our shortsightedness?
This was in response to the AC's post. Of course people have already said that the screenshots might be fake. Of course people have already said that iWin is a scam. That was not my point. If I had posted a new message that said "It's a hoax because"... then that would have been rightfully moderated as redundant. My point here is that this AC seems to be up to something fishy. As I am the only response so far to this comment, it could not possibly be considered redundant. The first part was just to back up my main point; the real point was that this AC could not possibly have installed iWin.
OK...
Where's the download?
or the order form?
or any sort of indication that this program is available in any shape or form?
The only proof of its mere existence is two blurry screenshots, one of which looks like win95/8 and the other of which looks like WindowMaker.
Yet you claim to have installed it. Where did you get it from?
Maybe I'm just being paranoid, but this comment was also posted anonymously. To quote Shakespeare (Roger Bacon? who knows), "Something is rotten in the state of Denmark."
This comment was not intended to be an insult to those who believe in this.
:-)
In case the humor is lost on you, I was reffering to them examining the human/alien/hoax/not_alien_just_bashed in/insert_favorite_adjective_here head. So the joke was that they were examining the person/alien/etc.'s head when they should have been examining their own
This does not fall under my definition of a "troll". I don't believe this report -- but I respect the beliefs of people who do.
ought to have his head examined :-)
Call me stupid, but hasn't the theory of Relativity been proven several times over? I remember at least one experiment involving atomic clocks on airplanes...
Yeah, that original comment may have been stretching it just a bit :-). PalmPilots are pretty good, although my personal opinion is that for that much money you could get a bunch of peripherals and games instead... but if my job needed a Palm I would think differently.
:-)
It's just that when you have a joke, why waste it?
At the very least, it would need some kind of weird-palm-connector-thingy to PS/2 adapter. That's assuming that the keyboard uses the same protocol as a normal keyboard.
:-)
I've never liked the small keyboards anyway because they cramp my fingers. And besides, why do you need that much desk space anyway? Isn't the whole point of a desk to put a computer on?
Sources close to Palm Software(zd00dz) said that this new device, code-named CheeseFile, will give the users the ability to "surf the Internet, send e-mail, create a calendar, and do everything the PalmPlot should have done to begin with but didn't because our company sucks wait a minute, are you taping this YOU'D BETTER NOT BE TAPING THIS OR I'LL K1CK UR @$$ I 3M W4R3Z D00DZ!@$##!@!@@!!!!"
One place where emotion control could be used is in the army. Blank out the majority of the emotions (except for a few necessary ones) for the duration of the battle and you would probably do a lot better than your "human" opponents. In Israel, for example, women can't fight in the army; but not because of lack of strength/skill. It is because the men can't handle it. So I can think of a few emotions that people can do without during certain times.
:-) come to mind.
This example could be generalized to any job that requires a high concentration level. Construction work, nuclear plants, and math quizzes
To generalize the generalization, you could use this for any project where you want to concentrate, release adrenaline, or use any other of the myriad emotions that might be desirable for a particular setting.
I found a couple places through Altavista:
Advanced Technology Systems Corporation -- has TEMPEST-compliant and "ruggedized" (their word not mine) devices.
Candes Systems, Inc. -- Offers TEMPEST-compliant desktops and laptops.
The EMF Safety Catalog -- Mostly stuff about reducing EMF radiation, but also has some TEMPEST-compliant devices
What you described is a principle commonly used in ham radio shacks to isolate radio equipment from harmful interference. My uncle was setting up a radio room in his basement and surrounded the whole thing with a wire screen to keep out unwanted RFI. It's called an RF cage, and apparently it doesn't have to be a solid piece of metal, as there was about two inches of space inbetween each wire. Maybe the spacing just has to be smaller than the length of the wave, but that's just a wild guess. Maybe someone with more physics knowledge than me could answer that.