We've had positions opened for many months, and it's extremely difficult to find qualified people to fill those positions at the salary we are offering.
(Other then the obvious drive through a muddy puddle --- the reason why I'm so glad the local council have still not resurfaced the intersection near home.)
My first encounter with python recreated the same joy I had when I first learned Pascal. That was the first time I wrote code that looked beautiful (previous languages were Basic and Z80).
Since Pascal it's been C, perl, and more and more time spent on debugging than writing.
I may not totally agree with Bush but I'll do the job I was trained to do.
I remember a scene from a war movie from a while back. The sergeant says to his special ops unit: "Well boys, the politicians have fucked up again and it's our job to go get our asses blown off for CNN."
We should be careful to stick with the following when talking to the layperson:
"copyright infringement" == unauthorised copying of a copyright work, excluding fair use, of course.
"counterfeiting" == the wholescale copying of the entire product including media and package which attempts to pass off the copy as the original product for commercial gain.
We should be careful to never use words like "piracy" or "theft" and to always challange their use.
IMO I can see how the *AA lose money to counterfeiting but most copyright infringement is casual copying which is just "try before you buy". (Or, the only way you can get that out-of-print hard-to-find single!)
While fighting the Gauls the Romans were astonished to see them run off the field at regular intervals to hammer their bronze swords straight again. The Romans' *steel* swords didn't get bent and guess who won the battle.
Steel can be brittle, it depends on the carbon content and crystal structure. Damascus steel (or wootz or bulat) was very tough despite it's high carbon content (~1 to 2%), but that's because the crystals had been broken down by careful forging.
The Harry Potter books are elitist. You're worthless unless you have innate magical ability - just look at how people without these abilities are ridiculed time and time again.
Exactly! The Harry Potter books are no more then a reincarnation of those boarding school books from the last centuary. Books like the "Billy Bunter" series, where the only non-white characters were foreign princes and hence acceptable because they were "royalty". Where excellence in sports was all that mattered. Where the senior boys had "fags" (younger boys as servants). Where caning was the common and frequent form of punishment.
1. The $45 figure makes mockery of all Microsoft's TCO FUD: if they really wanted to reduce TCO for their customers, they could start with the price.
2. MS could kill Linux companies by making Windows as cheap; cheaper even, they have huge reserves of cash and could run at a loss for years just to wipe out the competition from Linux.
Of course, you can't (yet) play the DivX in your DVD player, so use SVCD for that too but be prepared to use 3-4 disks per movie (each SVCD disk holds 35-40 mins).
I just received my eternaLightXray and I can't stop playing with it, it's so cool! It's got bright-dim, flash, strobe, SOS, and other modes. As well as a blue LED that flashes very 2s so you can locate it in the dark. I can't wait for night; I'm going down to the basement to test this baby.
If you want to replace the Maglite Solitaire, get
the LED light from Arc Flashlight. This is slightly smaller than the Solitaire and also uses only one AAA.
They also have infra-red and ultra-violet LED versions.
Considering that when Sneakers was made (1992) DES was ubiquitous, and most of the sites shown cracked by the box would be using DES, it was very plausable that the device is a DES cracker. After all the EFF showed it was very practical not long after.
In David Brin's "Piece Work" human females act as surrogate mothers for organic-industrial technology. The main character gives birth to a "star brain" --- the bio-computer of a space ship.
Her breast milk is an industrial lubricant.
Encrypt everything. And send more bogus messages than real ones (a 10:1 ratio seems right).
The idea is to swamp the snoopers so that they cannot keep up. It should be easy: there are more of us than them.
The biggest worry for liberty is that any law that requires one to give up a key that exists only in your head erodes the right to not self-incriminate and the right to silence. (Both rights are, I believe, much weaker in the UK than elsewhere.)
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Anything that discourages and eventually destroys air travel is good for the planet.
Gaia thanks United, Spirit and the TSA.
We've had positions opened for many months, and it's extremely difficult to find qualified people to fill those positions at the salary we are offering.
There, fixed it for ya.
I'd add:
Repo Man
Iron Giant
There, corrected it for you.
These businesses have nothing to do with sharing: it's hiring a driver and a car.
There, fixed it for you.
Any decent dazzle patterns to degrade ANPR?
(Other then the obvious drive through a muddy puddle --- the reason why I'm so glad the local council have still not resurfaced the intersection near home.)
Most (all?) Japanese cars have a "feature" that the door won't lock unless you're holding the handle up (open, whatever.)
On my VW Golf you can't press down the inner locking knob of the driver side door when it's open --- I've never locked my keys in that car.
Contact is an excellent DVD: features, quality and presentation. And it's a good film.
Will we finally hear the last of the `broken cupholder' jokes?!
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My first encounter with python recreated the same joy I had when I first learned Pascal. That was the first time I wrote code that looked beautiful (previous languages were Basic and Z80).
Since Pascal it's been C, perl, and more and more time spent on debugging than writing.
With python, code just flies out of fingers!
I remember a scene from a war movie from a while back. The sergeant says to his special ops unit: "Well boys, the politicians have fucked up again and it's our job to go get our asses blown off for CNN."
We should be careful to stick with the following when talking to the layperson:
"copyright infringement" == unauthorised copying of a copyright work, excluding fair use, of course.
"counterfeiting" == the wholescale copying of the entire product including media and package which attempts to pass off the copy as the original product for commercial gain.
We should be careful to never use words like "piracy" or "theft" and to always challange their use.
IMO I can see how the *AA lose money to counterfeiting but most copyright infringement is casual copying which is just "try before you buy". (Or, the only way you can get that out-of-print hard-to-find single!)
While fighting the Gauls the Romans were astonished to see them run off the field at regular intervals to hammer their bronze swords straight again. The Romans' *steel* swords didn't get bent and guess who won the battle.
Steel can be brittle, it depends on the carbon content and crystal structure. Damascus steel (or wootz or bulat) was very tough despite it's high carbon content (~1 to 2%), but that's because the crystals had been broken down by careful forging.
The use (and accumulation) of money is the sign of a primitive civilisation.
We should aspire to become like the Culture of Ian M Banks' novels.
Stop playing in a zero-sum game: *everybody* should be rich, not just *AA execs.
The Harry Potter books are elitist. You're worthless unless you have innate magical ability - just look at how people without these abilities are ridiculed time and time again.
Exactly! The Harry Potter books are no more then a reincarnation of those boarding school books from the last centuary. Books like the "Billy Bunter" series, where the only non-white characters were foreign princes and hence acceptable because they were "royalty". Where excellence in sports was all that mattered. Where the senior boys had "fags" (younger boys as servants). Where caning was the common and frequent form of punishment.
Two points:
1. The $45 figure makes mockery of all Microsoft's TCO FUD: if they really wanted to reduce TCO for their customers, they could start with the price.
2. MS could kill Linux companies by making Windows as cheap; cheaper even, they have huge reserves of cash and could run at a loss for years just to wipe out the competition from Linux.
Scary.
VHS -> VCD
S-VHS -> SVCD
DVD -> DivX
Of course, you can't (yet) play the DivX in your DVD player, so use SVCD for that too but be prepared to use 3-4 disks per movie (each SVCD disk holds 35-40 mins).
It looks like all those cyberpunkers were right: the fight of the 21st cen. is between the big evil corporations and the hackers.
And I mean `hackers' in the Steven Levy sense, ie programmers building free software, not those lame script kiddies and their worms.
RMS is correct: it's about *freedom*.
Of course, thanks to _Shadowrun_, _Netrunner_ and numerous other simulations we are *honed*.
Paper books are also:
o human readable: no machine needed
o batteries not necessary
I got mine from theLedLight.com; they've got them on special. You can also get them from Glow-Bug.
If you want to replace the Maglite Solitaire, get the LED light from Arc Flashlight. This is slightly smaller than the Solitaire and also uses only one AAA. They also have infra-red and ultra-violet LED versions.
Considering that when Sneakers was made (1992) DES was ubiquitous, and most of the sites shown cracked by the box would be using DES, it was very plausable that the device is a DES cracker. After all the EFF showed it was very practical not long after.
...humans?
In David Brin's "Piece Work" human females act as surrogate mothers for organic-industrial technology. The main character gives birth to a "star brain" --- the bio-computer of a space ship.
Her breast milk is an industrial lubricant.
It's easier to hide in a city than a village.
Encrypt everything. And send more bogus messages than real ones (a 10:1 ratio seems right).
The idea is to swamp the snoopers so that they cannot keep up. It should be easy: there are more of us than them.
The biggest worry for liberty is that any law that requires one to give up a key that exists only in your head erodes the right to not self-incriminate and the right to silence. (Both rights are, I believe, much weaker in the UK than elsewhere.)