My first was Slackware on a CD that came in a manual called "Using Linux". Then I tried Mandrake, Ubuntu and various "light" distros like Puppy Linux. Then I spent a while switching between FreeBSD and OpenBSD, then went to Debian, and now I'm back to FreeBSD. And I hereby declare FreeBSD the winner for my needs.
I leave my TV on while I'm web surfing because (a) I don't like a silent house, and (b) there will be something I want to see in an hour. So I'm wondering what this thing will do if it detects no one is watching. Probably turn up the sound and play all commercials!
Yes, HMA is good and they have a large selection of proxies in many countries. Changing to a different one is a matter of a few seconds. Plus you don't have to set up anything in your browser like you do to use a socks proxy.
It's time to organize a general boycott of the productions of their member companies. Can't you find some entertainment other than seeing the latest movie? I haven't bought a theater ticket in 10 years, and I do just fine. Most of their stuff these days is garbage anyway. The only way we are EVER going to be free of this tyranny is to deprive the members of the money they need to keep supporting it.
Provided the claim has any base in reality. I have been using CFLs for years, and so far my luck with them has been uniformly bad. They burn out in 3 to 6 months in my application. Possibly my environment is too hot for the electronics inside.
I know a psychiatrist, and he told me that the test is no longer in general use precisely because it's in the public domain. He said, with perfect logic, that since there's no way of knowing whether the patient has seen the "right" answers, there's no validity to the results.
Yes, I started to follow the link, then hit "stop" when I realized we're also clobbering them. MD I hope will get their ass kicked for this. They better!
Yes, this stuff is over my head too, but I thought one of the reasons for needing dark energy is to explain the expansion of the voids. Otherwise they should just sit there, riding along with the expansion of the universe as a whole - no?
Sadly, this is true. I used to own "pinkfud.org", a name totally useless to anyone else, and lost it to one of these people. Rather than try to buy it back, I registered "pinkfud.net" and went with that. I will never understand what they expected to gain from grabbing a no-value name like that.
While I agree in general with the post above, I'd like to say I've personally seen this in the wild a decade ago. In 1997, I had an administrative position with a smallish hosting company. I happened to notice one hosted site that had a.jpg image which, from the size, should have been around 5K. Instead, it was over 30K. This made me suspicious, and I opened the image with my trusty hex editor. Sure enough, there was a long list of cracked key-codes to commercial software hidden inside.
I would also mention that steganography per se has been around since ancient times. The term applies to any method of concealing the presence of a message. Microdots, tiny pinholes in the pages of a book, messages broken into short segments that are woven into a longer message, many other tricks. The idea is nothing new, only the methods have changed.
This idea was never practical for the simple reason that the average driver can't be trusted to fly an airplane. Now that we live in the age of "Homeland Security", it's doubly unlikely that any government will allow "unknown flying objects" buzzing around.
Yes, it's a bit costly. But for all the times I've wanted to be able to transfer stuff from one place to another without having made any plans for it (like burning a DVD), and given the reliability of Google, I'll probably buy the 6G plan for myself.
For what it's worth, this is the link to the demo page. If you look at it in Firefox, you can just view source. I didn't try IE on it, so I really don't know whether it works or not.
I think you are exactly right. We are already giving out a much smaller RF fingerprint than we did in, say, 1980, simply because we're finding better ways to communicate. We have also been moving our RF usage to higher frequencies, which tend to be shorter range (as any ham knows). I expect the usual pattern of civilizations is to be "noisy" for a short time, then go silent. Personally, I have no trouble believing there are other life forms out there. But I doubt we are going to find them unless they want to be found.
Political hacks "rewording" scientific findings to suit their own purposes is exactly why we now have so many environmental problems. And one Al Gore hasn't helped that situation one bit. We need to listen to REAL scientists who MIGHT actually have some idea what we should do. But with all the government interference, the real stuff keeps getting drowned out by bogus scare tactics. Oh shit, I sound like a dork here and I'll probably get flamed for it. But I am a "real" scientist. And I know what we should do about global warming, just as I know we won't do it. Because too many special interests want their profit more than they want the world to survive. Sorry, it's a sore topic with me. I hate political "peer review" screwing over the real work. Only PEERS should do peer review.
I'M IN UR REACTOR EATIN UR FUELZ!
Now to be serious, radiation resistant bacteria are also known. If mankind ever wipes itself out with nukes, it's comforting to know the world won't be a totally dead place. Everything will start all over, and who knows what will happen next time.
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My first was Slackware on a CD that came in a manual called "Using Linux". Then I tried Mandrake, Ubuntu and various "light" distros like Puppy Linux. Then I spent a while switching between FreeBSD and OpenBSD, then went to Debian, and now I'm back to FreeBSD. And I hereby declare FreeBSD the winner for my needs.
I leave my TV on while I'm web surfing because (a) I don't like a silent house, and (b) there will be something I want to see in an hour. So I'm wondering what this thing will do if it detects no one is watching. Probably turn up the sound and play all commercials!
Well, happy Ham Day from WA0YSK. :)
Yes, HMA is good and they have a large selection of proxies in many countries. Changing to a different one is a matter of a few seconds. Plus you don't have to set up anything in your browser like you do to use a socks proxy.
Fine with me. I never had a Netflix account and I don't know whether my DVD player even works - I haven't turned it on in years.
It's time to organize a general boycott of the productions of their member companies. Can't you find some entertainment other than seeing the latest movie? I haven't bought a theater ticket in 10 years, and I do just fine. Most of their stuff these days is garbage anyway. The only way we are EVER going to be free of this tyranny is to deprive the members of the money they need to keep supporting it.
I remember playing that until my wife threatened violence :)
Softdisk Publishing? Seems right, but that was a long time ago. It was a DOS game.
When I saw it, it said "Hello Slashdot". Interesting, don't you think?
Provided the claim has any base in reality. I have been using CFLs for years, and so far my luck with them has been uniformly bad. They burn out in 3 to 6 months in my application. Possibly my environment is too hot for the electronics inside.
I know a psychiatrist, and he told me that the test is no longer in general use precisely because it's in the public domain. He said, with perfect logic, that since there's no way of knowing whether the patient has seen the "right" answers, there's no validity to the results.
I mean, well, that classic photo wouldn't impress very many employers....
Yes, I started to follow the link, then hit "stop" when I realized we're also clobbering them. MD I hope will get their ass kicked for this. They better!
Yes, this stuff is over my head too, but I thought one of the reasons for needing dark energy is to explain the expansion of the voids. Otherwise they should just sit there, riding along with the expansion of the universe as a whole - no?
As a matter of fact, mine does not. Which surprises me. But yeah, I'm running Beta 2 right now, and it's good.
Sadly, this is true. I used to own "pinkfud.org", a name totally useless to anyone else, and lost it to one of these people. Rather than try to buy it back, I registered "pinkfud.net" and went with that. I will never understand what they expected to gain from grabbing a no-value name like that.
While I agree in general with the post above, I'd like to say I've personally seen this in the wild a decade ago. In 1997, I had an administrative position with a smallish hosting company. I happened to notice one hosted site that had a .jpg image which, from the size, should have been around 5K. Instead, it was over 30K. This made me suspicious, and I opened the image with my trusty hex editor. Sure enough, there was a long list of cracked key-codes to commercial software hidden inside.
I would also mention that steganography per se has been around since ancient times. The term applies to any method of concealing the presence of a message. Microdots, tiny pinholes in the pages of a book, messages broken into short segments that are woven into a longer message, many other tricks. The idea is nothing new, only the methods have changed.
This idea was never practical for the simple reason that the average driver can't be trusted to fly an airplane. Now that we live in the age of "Homeland Security", it's doubly unlikely that any government will allow "unknown flying objects" buzzing around.
When did that happen? Well, I guess since they have Roswell, it makes sense.
Yes, it's a bit costly. But for all the times I've wanted to be able to transfer stuff from one place to another without having made any plans for it (like burning a DVD), and given the reliability of Google, I'll probably buy the 6G plan for myself.
For what it's worth, this is the link to the demo page. If you look at it in Firefox, you can just view source. I didn't try IE on it, so I really don't know whether it works or not.
I think you are exactly right. We are already giving out a much smaller RF fingerprint than we did in, say, 1980, simply because we're finding better ways to communicate. We have also been moving our RF usage to higher frequencies, which tend to be shorter range (as any ham knows). I expect the usual pattern of civilizations is to be "noisy" for a short time, then go silent. Personally, I have no trouble believing there are other life forms out there. But I doubt we are going to find them unless they want to be found.
Political hacks "rewording" scientific findings to suit their own purposes is exactly why we now have so many environmental problems. And one Al Gore hasn't helped that situation one bit. We need to listen to REAL scientists who MIGHT actually have some idea what we should do. But with all the government interference, the real stuff keeps getting drowned out by bogus scare tactics. Oh shit, I sound like a dork here and I'll probably get flamed for it. But I am a "real" scientist. And I know what we should do about global warming, just as I know we won't do it. Because too many special interests want their profit more than they want the world to survive. Sorry, it's a sore topic with me. I hate political "peer review" screwing over the real work. Only PEERS should do peer review.
I have a notebook, and I do use it. But for the "real" stuff, I prefer a full sized keyboard and monitor.
Oh, all right. I'll go up there and get some damned samples. I had other things to do, but since this seems to be such a big deal to you....
I'M IN UR REACTOR EATIN UR FUELZ! Now to be serious, radiation resistant bacteria are also known. If mankind ever wipes itself out with nukes, it's comforting to know the world won't be a totally dead place. Everything will start all over, and who knows what will happen next time.