Thanks for that post. That makes sense except for one thing - why would rad-hardened processors have a better error recovery rate? Since they are rad-hardened, the overall error rate would be much much less, but how would that improve the recovery rate when an error occurs?
A company I used to work for discussed using some of their technology with Nasa. One of the things they told us was that they preferred processors a two or three years old because they were afraid of random bit-flippings caused by radiation etc.
That can't be the whole reason, otherwise they could just get modern parts and use up some of those spare cycles and memory to implement more redundancy and error-correcting codes. Surely that would be a far better safeguard against random bit-flip than using old technology. I suspect other factors play a more significant role.
Upon Comcast's receipt of a satisfactory notice of claimed infringement for these works, Comcast will respond expeditiously to either directly or indirectly (i) remove the allegedly infringing work(s) stored on the Service or the Personal Web Features or (ii) disable access to the work(s). Comcast will also notify the affected customer or user of the Service of the removal or disabling of access to the work(s). If the affected customer or user believes in good faith that the allegedly infringing works have been removed or blocked by mistake or misidentification, then that person may send a counter notification to Comcast.
So basically Comcast has decided to treat its customers as guilty until proven innocent when it comes to compyright infringement.
The general concensus on/. for several years has been that individual infringers should be punished and not the technology. Here, you have the RIAA doing just that, instead of trying to get I2 banned or restricted.
Just because a bunch of people agree on something does not make it correct. Its good to challenge the general concensus from time to time.
BBC previously said that Eccleston left for fear of being typecast. Now they apologise and say he left because he only signed up for one season. But that's an opportunity to leave, not a reason. I think he did leave for fear of being typecast, and the BBC is just covering their ass.
The Hiroshima bomb was nothing compared to the current nuclear weapons technology. When the Soviets detonated the Tsar Bomba, the yield was conservatively estimated at 50 megatons. That's only 1/8th the energy released by Mt. St. Helens. I wouldn't be surprised if even more powerful devices exist.
This, folks, is why I read Slashdot. Despite all the dupes, trolls, groupthink and pseudoscience, occasionally I read a gem of a post. That is one of the most scathing, concise attacks on DRM and IP ridiculousness that I have ever read. Parent poster, I salute you!
Maybe not commercial cars, but perhaps there might be military uses for such a vehicle.
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Mythbusters is far too quick to "bust" myths that are actually true to some extent. They make a couple of (usually poorly designed) tries to replicate the circumstances, and then when their small number of tests fail they declare the myth "busted".
This is a perfect example. Mythbusters claims to have "busted" the solar death ray myth, yet the guys in this article were successful in lighting shop rags, pairs of old jeans, boardgames, etc on fire, and have pictures to prove it.
There are probably 6 ways to leetify a given character: upper case, lower case, 2 number representations, 2 other representations. Supposing you have an 8 character long word, thats 6^8 = 1.68 * 10^6 possibilities. And thats assuming that you already know what the word was in the first place. In other words, leetifying a password will make it 1.5 million times harder to crack than if you had just left it as dictionary words.
Assuming 150,000 = 1.5 * 10^5 words in the dictionary, that means brute forcing 2.52*10^11 possible combinations*. Thats already more than the 26^8 = 2.08 * 10^11 combinations that you would need to brute force if you went character by character...
*note* it doesnt actually work out exactly like that since there are not nearly 10^5 8 character words in the dictionary, and the password guesser doesn't know how many characters long your password is, nor does it know if your password is a single word or a combination of several words, etc. Nevertheless, 10^5 seems a reasonable estimate.
You want to listen to "Your" music you bought on the computer you bought and now you are breaking the law.
I have all my cd's burned to.mp3/.ogg on my computer and route my speakers, headphones, etc from my soundcard so that I can use my computer as a glorified jukebox. Good thing I don't live in Norway.
Fuck you and your anti-republican group-think. I'm a moderate liberal, but this knee-jerk republican bashing over anything and everything is getting ridiculous. Did it ever occur to you that "those red staters" might have honest and well thought-out reasons for being republican? Did it ever occur to you that two intelligent enlightened people can have an honest disagreement over politics?
Mod me flaimbait for saying "Fuck", but at least mod the parent post flamebait for grossly generalizing and insulting a large class of people.
Last week episode showed how much the show improved. The plot worked, good inship fighting, little drama, and a few ship battles. Everything you want in a good episode.
See thats just the thing - you can't just take "everything you want in a good episode", add it up, and come out with a good episode. Plot, drama, production values - those are simply constraints that a good episode should meet. To make something great, there needs to be some insight and origionality, and the show needs to take risks. In my mind that is what Trek today is missing.
You claim that Enterprise is up to TNG standards. Tell me then, what episodes from Enterprise can match "Cause and Effect", "Tapestry", or "Parallels"? What good ideas has Enterprise come up with that haven't been done better in previous Trek's? What from Enterprise can equal "Frame of Mind", "Darmok", "The Drumhead", "Starship Mine", "The Best of Both Worlds", "Schisms",or "The Inner Light"? Hell, I could go on all day.
TNG had its bloopers, certainly, but every once in a while an episode came along that just knocked your socks off. That, in my mind, is the biggest difference between TNG and Enterprise. Enterprise just doesn't stand out from the crowd - its generic Sci-Fi. That's ok, I guess, but it doesn't compare to TNG.
I've been using SoulSeek for about a year now and never had it ask for donations. The thing about SoulSeek is that it's users are heavily oriented towards inde and electronic music. That's good if you are like me and are into that sort of music, but if not then finding what you want could be difficult.
The motto "Do no evil" is not just a slogan - it is an important and well known part of the Google brand. Were Google to start "doing evil", the loss of their good reputation and trustworthy image would hurt profits.
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Thanks for that post. That makes sense except for one thing - why would rad-hardened processors have a better error recovery rate? Since they are rad-hardened, the overall error rate would be much much less, but how would that improve the recovery rate when an error occurs?
A company I used to work for discussed using some of their technology with Nasa. One of the things they told us was that they preferred processors a two or three years old because they were afraid of random bit-flippings caused by radiation etc.
That can't be the whole reason, otherwise they could just get modern parts and use up some of those spare cycles and memory to implement more redundancy and error-correcting codes. Surely that would be a far better safeguard against random bit-flip than using old technology. I suspect other factors play a more significant role.
That's kind of a cool idea - treating it like any other economic system. What's the going exchange rate? Consider the arbitrage opportunities!
Upon Comcast's receipt of a satisfactory notice of claimed infringement for these works, Comcast will respond expeditiously to either directly or indirectly (i) remove the allegedly infringing work(s) stored on the Service or the Personal Web Features or (ii) disable access to the work(s). Comcast will also notify the affected customer or user of the Service of the removal or disabling of access to the work(s). If the affected customer or user believes in good faith that the allegedly infringing works have been removed or blocked by mistake or misidentification, then that person may send a counter notification to Comcast.
So basically Comcast has decided to treat its customers as guilty until proven innocent when it comes to compyright infringement.
The general concensus on /. for several years has been that individual infringers should be punished and not the technology. Here, you have the RIAA doing just that, instead of trying to get I2 banned or restricted.
Just because a bunch of people agree on something does not make it correct. Its good to challenge the general concensus from time to time.
BBC previously said that Eccleston left for fear of being typecast. Now they apologise and say he left because he only signed up for one season. But that's an opportunity to leave, not a reason. I think he did leave for fear of being typecast, and the BBC is just covering their ass.
The Hiroshima bomb was nothing compared to the current nuclear weapons technology. When the Soviets detonated the Tsar Bomba, the yield was conservatively estimated at 50 megatons. That's only 1/8th the energy released by Mt. St. Helens. I wouldn't be surprised if even more powerful devices exist.
Enable console, and type fov 90. 'nuff said.
This, folks, is why I read Slashdot. Despite all the dupes, trolls, groupthink and pseudoscience, occasionally I read a gem of a post. That is one of the most scathing, concise attacks on DRM and IP ridiculousness that I have ever read. Parent poster, I salute you!
Maybe not commercial cars, but perhaps there might be military uses for such a vehicle.
Mythbusters is far too quick to "bust" myths that are actually true to some extent. They make a couple of (usually poorly designed) tries to replicate the circumstances, and then when their small number of tests fail they declare the myth "busted".
This is a perfect example. Mythbusters claims to have "busted" the solar death ray myth, yet the guys in this article were successful in lighting shop rags, pairs of old jeans, boardgames, etc on fire, and have pictures to prove it.
Hey, Paul Erdos was known to do meth while working on proofs.
I seem to recall that current solar cells actually take more energy to produce then they can output in their lifetime.
Also, if you doubt that there are 6 substitutions for every character, I assure you there are at least that many.
& ,£,|=- ...
a,A,4,@,/\,^
b,B,3,|3,8,6
c,C,(,[,,o|
e,E,3,
f,F,ph,ef,|=,#
And remember, this is not even counting intentional misspellings, random insertions, and so forth.
There are probably 6 ways to leetify a given character: upper case, lower case, 2 number representations, 2 other representations. Supposing you have an 8 character long word, thats 6^8 = 1.68 * 10^6 possibilities. And thats assuming that you already know what the word was in the first place. In other words, leetifying a password will make it 1.5 million times harder to crack than if you had just left it as dictionary words.
Assuming 150,000 = 1.5 * 10^5 words in the dictionary, that means brute forcing 2.52*10^11 possible combinations*. Thats already more than the 26^8 = 2.08 * 10^11 combinations that you would need to brute force if you went character by character...
*note* it doesnt actually work out exactly like that since there are not nearly 10^5 8 character words in the dictionary, and the password guesser doesn't know how many characters long your password is, nor does it know if your password is a single word or a combination of several words, etc. Nevertheless, 10^5 seems a reasonable estimate.
1: take 2 words
2: put them together
3: l337'ify it.
Example:
ViewSonic
\/][eW5()n|K
hard to crack, easy to remember.
Or, more to the point:
.mp3/.ogg on my computer and route my speakers, headphones, etc from my soundcard so that I can use my computer as a glorified jukebox. Good thing I don't live in Norway.
You buy your computer. -- Legal
You buy your CD -- Legal
You want to listen to "Your" music you bought on the computer you bought and now you are breaking the law.
I have all my cd's burned to
Fuck you and your anti-republican group-think. I'm a moderate liberal, but this knee-jerk republican bashing over anything and everything is getting ridiculous. Did it ever occur to you that "those red staters" might have honest and well thought-out reasons for being republican? Did it ever occur to you that two intelligent enlightened people can have an honest disagreement over politics?
Mod me flaimbait for saying "Fuck", but at least mod the parent post flamebait for grossly generalizing and insulting a large class of people.
I'm pretty sure that the boating population has also increased since the time GPS was invented... Useless statistic.
Duplicate post - even in the same thread. ;)
While I agree with your pointss, I think that its important that a game should scale with the player as he/she becomes more skilled.
Last week episode showed how much the show improved. The plot worked, good inship fighting, little drama, and a few ship battles. Everything you want in a good episode.
See thats just the thing - you can't just take "everything you want in a good episode", add it up, and come out with a good episode. Plot, drama, production values - those are simply constraints that a good episode should meet. To make something great, there needs to be some insight and origionality, and the show needs to take risks. In my mind that is what Trek today is missing.
You claim that Enterprise is up to TNG standards. Tell me then, what episodes from Enterprise can match "Cause and Effect", "Tapestry", or "Parallels"? What good ideas has Enterprise come up with that haven't been done better in previous Trek's? What from Enterprise can equal "Frame of Mind", "Darmok", "The Drumhead", "Starship Mine", "The Best of Both Worlds", "Schisms",or "The Inner Light"? Hell, I could go on all day.
TNG had its bloopers, certainly, but every once in a while an episode came along that just knocked your socks off. That, in my mind, is the biggest difference between TNG and Enterprise. Enterprise just doesn't stand out from the crowd - its generic Sci-Fi. That's ok, I guess, but it doesn't compare to TNG.
I've been using SoulSeek for about a year now and never had it ask for donations. The thing about SoulSeek is that it's users are heavily oriented towards inde and electronic music. That's good if you are like me and are into that sort of music, but if not then finding what you want could be difficult.
In Soviet Russia the numbers make out with you? /runs
The motto "Do no evil" is not just a slogan - it is an important and well known part of the Google brand. Were Google to start "doing evil", the loss of their good reputation and trustworthy image would hurt profits.