As far as Counter-Strike goes, it isn't so much the ability of the individual as it is the team. Unlike a lot of other games, one person can't do much by themselves. They do of course, have the things you talked about with the exception of better hardware, since these high level tournaments are played on computers identical with the exception of peripherals. They have the ability to think fast but clearly in tight situations, they can all come up with individual tactics on the fly, and communication is key. They all know what they're supposed to do, what everyone else is supposed to do, and they could do a better job jerking off their teammate than themselves. As much as Counter-Strike is considered a "shoot'em up" game, strategy and teamwork is 97% of competative play.
Yeah, you're unique, just like everybody else. I've learned that no one will really believe you or care. I appear to be very similar. I like linux, photography and cooking. I'm pretty creative although I can't apply it a lot of the time. I've failed simple classes three times in a row. Unfortunately there doesn't seem to be much of an area for people like us to flourish. Most of what I feel are strongpoints go completely unnoticed and unappreciated by anyone who doesn't know me really well. I'm kind of shy; when I create something I feel nervous about sharing it. Some people label me as a pure genius while others wonder if I could spell my own name. I've tried to do the usual gig that everyone else seems to be doing but I just can't. I myself just turned 17 yesterday, and will be attending a community college starting this summer quarter after miserably failing my last 3 years at a college-prep oriented highschool. Depending on what college you're attending and what you plan on studying, you may find either that you continue to go unappreciated and suppressed, or that you have found a wonderful environment for growth and honing of your talents. After spending a little bit of time around the campus, I've come to expect the latter for myself when I begin in a few weeks. Good luck.
Straight from the Outer Limits episode. These "nanobots" turned a man into something of a jellyfish and he had gills as well. Of course as in any good Outer Limits episode, the "abort" command issued to the nanobots failed. But then, thats just a television show, right? These nanomachines couldn't REALLY churn through every nanogram of matter on our planet, RIGHT? IHMO, the Martian Sand Kings episode was way cooler, I mean they ate a dog for christs sake. Those beasts would mangle some nanobots. Thats it...we just need a bunch of sand-dwelling cockroaches with fangs on methamphetamine to regulate the reproduction of nanobots.
"Additionally, the e-Plate is designed to shatter if anyone tries to remove or otherwise tamper with it, and the tag can be programmed to transmit a warning if any attempt is made to dislodge the plate."
I thought RFID tags were a passive technology and worked on the principle of electromagnetic induction or something like that. Since when can they transmit warnings?
Lots of that spamming is for harvesting information. Russia and China are some of the biggest culprits in the theft of credit card numbers, eBay, Paypal, Amazon etc. Web hosting located in Russia or more often China for hosting scampages is available to anyone l33t enough to find the people selling it (not very l33t.) No logs, except of course the information you want to reap. Spam away and let the filled out forms roll in!
Finally there will be a chance for the aloe vera to soak into my poor foreskin instead of just boiling off when I set my machine back down... Aside from that, how much heat do modern laptops put off? I have an eNote Lite aka Lindows MobilePC. It has a Via C3 Ezra processor with I believe a very small (.9") heatsink and one fan in the whole machine. During operations like heavy compiling, my processor temperature will reach as high as 80C. Despite questioning for a long time whether my processor was going to melt out through the bottom of my computer into my lap, it never has, and although there can be some heat buildup if I set it on my bed or something, I've never had a problem with resting it on my lap. Perhaps this is more for people with larger laptops whos exhaust fans point out the bottom and they want to avoid excessive ball sweat this summer.
Actually my local department faithfully subscribes to the idea of community policing and so they end up being pretty close knit....Community members are encouraged to come and talk to the police officers and ride around with them. It wouldn't surprise me if such a birthday party could be arranged.
And who is going to take the time to track me down? And once they find me, who is going to arrest me? Who will assess all of this? First and foremost, who is going to prevent manufacture of devices like this?
I understand the points in the article about why the FCC should be abolished and I disagree with the FCC's regulations about content on public broadcasting channels and the like, but who will be there to stop me from playing Eminem on the frequency of the local police department that I love so much? Who will people complain to when their eleven o'clock news is intermittently interrupted by images of the Goatse man ready to go, because I'm driving through suburban neighborhoods with a transmitter in my car? And thats without even bringing the market into consideration... I think the FCC has an important role in the stability of our telecommunications that couldn't be taken up by the market itself simply due to the nature of business. Try putting the FCC on some tigher reins first before getting rid of them completely.
They have Lightspeed content filtering at my highschool and it catergorizes the link to the article as porn. Better yet, their function to submit a site for human evaluation is broken. I think it just doesn't like any non-US domains with the exception of.uk. I have tried to look at websites in Holland and Finland about some electronics projects before and it catergorized them as porn. Are there any non-AU mirrors? *sigh*
I'm trying to figure out the effectiveness of this protest. The message he sent is 16 bytes. I'm not sure how big SMS headers are but lets assume about 30 bytes. So thats 46 bytes per message. Times 80,012 = 3,680,552. I don't know exactly how much bandwidth etc is allocated for text messaging within a cellular telephone carrier, but three and a half megabytes in a month doesn't seem like much. Lets look at average traffic. The article states that he slept 8 hours per night over what appears to be a 31 day period. That would mean he is awake 16 hours per day. 2,580 messages over 16 hours is 161.25 messages per hour, 2.6875 messages per minute, or ~.045 messages per second. 46 bytes x.045 means he is only sending an average of 2.07 bytes per second. Pretty small beans. It would have been just as easy to send a 160 character message 80,012 times as it was to send his short one. Perhaps something like DoS was not his aim, but the article states that this was an "attack." I don't know too many people that need in the tens of thousands text messages per month that can't afford to pay more than $6.29/mo. Despite all this, I do believe that companies should hold true to their claims or offerings. I doubt that Mr. Ray's 2.07 bytes per second made them LOSE any money, but as seen in the article they sure could have made a shitload off of it. If a company is going to offer something like that, they should be prepared for power users taking full advantage of it.
I currently have a small amount of 35mm SLR experience but digital is really more my thing. Looks like the Nikon D70 is going to be what I'm aiming for. I can come up with a grand or two to invest, but I can't do it every couple of years so I'm going to want something that I won't need to upgrade soon (apparently the Nikon D70.) Thanks a lot for the plethora of input everyone!
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As far as Counter-Strike goes, it isn't so much the ability of the individual as it is the team. Unlike a lot of other games, one person can't do much by themselves. They do of course, have the things you talked about with the exception of better hardware, since these high level tournaments are played on computers identical with the exception of peripherals. They have the ability to think fast but clearly in tight situations, they can all come up with individual tactics on the fly, and communication is key. They all know what they're supposed to do, what everyone else is supposed to do, and they could do a better job jerking off their teammate than themselves. As much as Counter-Strike is considered a "shoot'em up" game, strategy and teamwork is 97% of competative play.
Yeah, you're unique, just like everybody else. I've learned that no one will really believe you or care. I appear to be very similar. I like linux, photography and cooking. I'm pretty creative although I can't apply it a lot of the time. I've failed simple classes three times in a row. Unfortunately there doesn't seem to be much of an area for people like us to flourish. Most of what I feel are strongpoints go completely unnoticed and unappreciated by anyone who doesn't know me really well. I'm kind of shy; when I create something I feel nervous about sharing it. Some people label me as a pure genius while others wonder if I could spell my own name. I've tried to do the usual gig that everyone else seems to be doing but I just can't. I myself just turned 17 yesterday, and will be attending a community college starting this summer quarter after miserably failing my last 3 years at a college-prep oriented highschool. Depending on what college you're attending and what you plan on studying, you may find either that you continue to go unappreciated and suppressed, or that you have found a wonderful environment for growth and honing of your talents. After spending a little bit of time around the campus, I've come to expect the latter for myself when I begin in a few weeks. Good luck.
Yes, meth is even infiltrating the likes of slashdot. We're all gacked and we're gonna kill you.
Straight from the Outer Limits episode. These "nanobots" turned a man into something of a jellyfish and he had gills as well. Of course as in any good Outer Limits episode, the "abort" command issued to the nanobots failed. But then, thats just a television show, right? These nanomachines couldn't REALLY churn through every nanogram of matter on our planet, RIGHT? IHMO, the Martian Sand Kings episode was way cooler, I mean they ate a dog for christs sake. Those beasts would mangle some nanobots. Thats it...we just need a bunch of sand-dwelling cockroaches with fangs on methamphetamine to regulate the reproduction of nanobots.
"Additionally, the e-Plate is designed to shatter if anyone tries to remove or otherwise tamper with it, and the tag can be programmed to transmit a warning if any attempt is made to dislodge the plate."
I thought RFID tags were a passive technology and worked on the principle of electromagnetic induction or something like that. Since when can they transmit warnings?
In Soviet Russia, everyone and their grandmother is a spammer.
Lots of that spamming is for harvesting information. Russia and China are some of the biggest culprits in the theft of credit card numbers, eBay, Paypal, Amazon etc. Web hosting located in Russia or more often China for hosting scampages is available to anyone l33t enough to find the people selling it (not very l33t.) No logs, except of course the information you want to reap. Spam away and let the filled out forms roll in!
Finally there will be a chance for the aloe vera to soak into my poor foreskin instead of just boiling off when I set my machine back down... Aside from that, how much heat do modern laptops put off? I have an eNote Lite aka Lindows MobilePC. It has a Via C3 Ezra processor with I believe a very small (.9") heatsink and one fan in the whole machine. During operations like heavy compiling, my processor temperature will reach as high as 80C. Despite questioning for a long time whether my processor was going to melt out through the bottom of my computer into my lap, it never has, and although there can be some heat buildup if I set it on my bed or something, I've never had a problem with resting it on my lap. Perhaps this is more for people with larger laptops whos exhaust fans point out the bottom and they want to avoid excessive ball sweat this summer.
I call it backdooring through closed source.
Before the story went public....I input to the sign "You're about to get RAPED by slashdot!" Now the story is public. No more website.
Wow, interesting story.
Actually my local department faithfully subscribes to the idea of community policing and so they end up being pretty close knit....Community members are encouraged to come and talk to the police officers and ride around with them. It wouldn't surprise me if such a birthday party could be arranged.
And who is going to take the time to track me down? And once they find me, who is going to arrest me? Who will assess all of this? First and foremost, who is going to prevent manufacture of devices like this?
If the FCC were abolished, you could buy it at your local Radioshack. This is why we can't just throw them out the window.
I understand the points in the article about why the FCC should be abolished and I disagree with the FCC's regulations about content on public broadcasting channels and the like, but who will be there to stop me from playing Eminem on the frequency of the local police department that I love so much? Who will people complain to when their eleven o'clock news is intermittently interrupted by images of the Goatse man ready to go, because I'm driving through suburban neighborhoods with a transmitter in my car? And thats without even bringing the market into consideration... I think the FCC has an important role in the stability of our telecommunications that couldn't be taken up by the market itself simply due to the nature of business. Try putting the FCC on some tigher reins first before getting rid of them completely.
He fixed it right after I posted. I feel the flames licking at my feet already :/
Last time I checked I couldn't write to 16x itself at any speed of media.
They have Lightspeed content filtering at my highschool and it catergorizes the link to the article as porn. Better yet, their function to submit a site for human evaluation is broken. I think it just doesn't like any non-US domains with the exception of .uk. I have tried to look at websites in Holland and Finland about some electronics projects before and it catergorized them as porn. Are there any non-AU mirrors? *sigh*
Gotta smokem all!
Wow, I already stood corrected.
AHHH Yes I see the post above about internetwork text msging fees. Please don't hurt me! I feel the flames licking at my feet already.
I'm trying to figure out the effectiveness of this protest. The message he sent is 16 bytes. I'm not sure how big SMS headers are but lets assume about 30 bytes. So thats 46 bytes per message. Times 80,012 = 3,680,552. I don't know exactly how much bandwidth etc is allocated for text messaging within a cellular telephone carrier, but three and a half megabytes in a month doesn't seem like much. Lets look at average traffic. The article states that he slept 8 hours per night over what appears to be a 31 day period. That would mean he is awake 16 hours per day. 2,580 messages over 16 hours is 161.25 messages per hour, 2.6875 messages per minute, or ~.045 messages per second. 46 bytes x .045 means he is only sending an average of 2.07 bytes per second. Pretty small beans. It would have been just as easy to send a 160 character message 80,012 times as it was to send his short one. Perhaps something like DoS was not his aim, but the article states that this was an "attack." I don't know too many people that need in the tens of thousands text messages per month that can't afford to pay more than $6.29/mo. Despite all this, I do believe that companies should hold true to their claims or offerings. I doubt that Mr. Ray's 2.07 bytes per second made them LOSE any money, but as seen in the article they sure could have made a shitload off of it. If a company is going to offer something like that, they should be prepared for power users taking full advantage of it.
Thanks for the informative answers (and not flaming ;)
I currently have a small amount of 35mm SLR experience but digital is really more my thing. Looks like the Nikon D70 is going to be what I'm aiming for. I can come up with a grand or two to invest, but I can't do it every couple of years so I'm going to want something that I won't need to upgrade soon (apparently the Nikon D70.) Thanks a lot for the plethora of input everyone!