...of what Microsoft actually had to say on the topic and bet your butt that some card manufacturers based their drivers on the flawed examples. In short, as usual, many Windows systems are vulnerable and Microsoft are duckshovelling again, or should I say `as always'? Dollars to doughnuts Windows does this on other layers as well. Still, not as bad as dear old RSTS, where reading the NL: (null) device got you whatever entire disk block was last read by anyone on the system, and the password file was read often.
Surely we'll eventually be able to round up several thousand qubits.
One would expect so, but quantum physics has concealed some interesting surprises before today, I see no reason for it to suddenly stop doing that. (-:
Talked to one of the IT people in UWA's Anatomy department yesterday too, and it seems the odds I've been giving on life are way too good.
Quantum states in the observed universe in 15GA == 1E210
Bits of data in 300 genes >= 1E24,000
So... factor-of-three orders of magnitude impossible to specify given only one universe with which to calculate (ie, not "next to no chance" but 400 orders of magnitude beyond "no chance").
But... factor-of-400 orders of magnitude less impossible than a simple lifeform arising randomly and spontaneously in ideal conditions (at least 23,800 orders of magnitude beyond "no chance"). And that's under ideal conditions and with no stopping for breath. (-:
...or any other form of Unix (or OS/2, or CygWin) that might have bc.
GnomeCalc broke trying to figure out how many permutations can be represented by a 300-gene sequence (-: turns out to be at least a 24,000 digit number, so who can blame it?:-) but after thinking for a few seconds (on an Athlon 1800), spat out lots of digits. I use wc to count the digits (and allow for the backslashes) at that scale, since I don't know of a calculator with a "How many digits, you reckon?" button.
Isn't this somewhat like keepalive and pipelining?
As has been said countless times already, no. This is a violation of the TCP standard. Pipelining works within the HTTP standard, and part of that is keeping the connection open using standard TCP signalling technology, which this is definitely not.
Yeah, keep rationalizing your actions when you're nothing but a thief.
Yes, there is that, but even more annoying is he's helping the software drug trade along by handing out free samples. If `Microsoft is evil' then so is their software.
The Internet treats everything stupid like that as a network failure and routes around it.
There are hacks all through most Web, FTP etc servers to deal with stupid traffic from IE and/or Windows. For example, there's a standard SetEnvIf command for Apache's config to work around this exact problem with IE (which would otherwise work at connection-flooding the server, and if said server actually left those ports open like IE wanted it would be begging to be blind-spoofed).
At least there's a sporting chance the European scientists will be using the same set of measurement units throughout...
Yah: roods, perches, pecks, puncheons, barleycorns, chains, seams, hundredweight, gill, minima, kips, kilderkins, sacks, kor, chenises and periots expressed in at least English, French, German, Belgian, Dutch, Russian, Spanish and Polish at every locus. On the upside, the OpenOffice.org document standard will be used for shipping all of this around.
The British do use light-nanoseconds, it's call `a foot'. (-:
Launching to Mars from the Moon would be cheaper, since the force needed to break the moon's gravity is a[]lot less.
Building a moon-base from which to do this would not be cheaper. Launching from space would be cheaper still for launches, but again building an asteroid-processing plant to achieve space industry would by frightfully expensive, even if we could lassoo a handy earth-crossing asteroid. The big launch-cost-saving move would be to plaster over that huge first step by building a space elevator.
This is a sad thing to say, since thay're about all the USA has right now, but the other big economic step would be to shoot NASA, being careful to preserve the history it carries. It has gone from a relatively small, tightly focussed team to a self-preserving institution. The meta-planners seem to have no idea, as project after project gets 3/4 built and then canned, Fred and way-obsolete Shuttles continue to get funded but more interesting and productive things like powersats and elevators are passed over. NASA personnel, the dudes who breathe life into ancient satellites and otherwise regularly pull NASA's cojones out of the fire, would then be available to the commercial replacements.
Commerce is no silver bullet either. Safety regs with real teeth would be needed, for example.
The underlying problems are mostly social. Very few people see any return from this kind of effort, it all looks like very expensive geek toys to them. The projects which are pretty much guaranteed a return, like powersats, colonies, moon/asteroid mining and so on are all priced to cause collective sticker shock. That elevator seems to be the only useful `next step' priced at under $1T (actually $10-20G, any one of a dozen billionaires could privately fund it alone).
Sending people into space is a complete waste of money and resources at this point. We should take up manned missions when space is so cheap that it just doesn't make sense to send equipment up there without them.
Actually, it's gypped, pronounced `jipped'; without the second `p' the `i' would be a long sound, so it would say `jaiypped'. The dictionary doesn't mention the Gypsies, but they are actually a race, called Romnies. This didn't stop them from `adopting' a lot of non-Romny fellow-travellers, and with a relatively small population this would actually be necessary to prevent problems with inbreeding.
While we're at it, `buy' == purchase, `by' == via, with or past, and (not in these posts, but it is common) `lose' == not win, `loose' == rattling around, not fastened down.
...were you representing the DA's office and asking them about Ralsky's drug charges or checking to see whether the lawyers were on drugs because they represent him?
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Never once had a second piece of spam to those addresses, and that domain's got the least spam of any in my possession. (-:
Send a bounce to all of the addresses listed, if it succeeds, add the email address to a list, poison a few random fake blogs with it, and auto-subscribe it to every web site with a form on it that you've found from spidering links in spam. Fight spam with spam, excellent idea! Just sending the bounce will make the bouncing address a spam target, so after a while you wouldn't even need user intervention, since most of the weird form field questions would have been answered and your addresses would really be out there. Your spam-harvesting spammer introduction agency would have hit critical mass. (-:
As a side issue, you could listen for worms and email viruses, sending the attacking machines a gratis copy of the Debian installer, with a suitably educated, er, bootloader. (-:
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Meta-discussion here. Note the signatures of Gorge Bush and Oliver White displayed prominently at top right.
The amount of industrial nepotism that goes on, to say nothing of hundreds of millions in political back-rooms deals, is amazing. America was actually funding Russia to some extent during the Cold War. American industrialists had a hand in building the missiles at the heart of the Cuban crisis. The problem is that you can't formalise such arrangements.
Both Russia and China have impressive heavy-lift credentials. They got those by not farting around with fancy stuff (just getting the basic engineering right), and by reducing the politics to the level of `if this succeeds, you will be a national hero, if it fails you will be dead'. They should try that in the US; the burgeoning litigation industry there would implode.
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...where do you want your data to go today? Oops, sorry! (-:
...of what Microsoft actually had to say on the topic and bet your butt that some card manufacturers based their drivers on the flawed examples. In short, as usual, many Windows systems are vulnerable and Microsoft are duckshovelling again, or should I say `as always'? Dollars to doughnuts Windows does this on other layers as well. Still, not as bad as dear old RSTS, where reading the NL: (null) device got you whatever entire disk block was last read by anyone on the system, and the password file was read often.
One would expect so, but quantum physics has concealed some interesting surprises before today, I see no reason for it to suddenly stop doing that. (-:
Talked to one of the IT people in UWA's Anatomy department yesterday too, and it seems the odds I've been giving on life are way too good.
I suspect that at some level they know, but it's human nature (our human nature) to justify what we're doing instead of changing it.
Good point. I guess it shows how long it's been since I picked up a real calculator.
So... factor-of-three orders of magnitude impossible to specify given only one universe with which to calculate (ie, not "next to no chance" but 400 orders of magnitude beyond "no chance").
But... factor-of-400 orders of magnitude less impossible than a simple lifeform arising randomly and spontaneously in ideal conditions (at least 23,800 orders of magnitude beyond "no chance"). And that's under ideal conditions and with no stopping for breath. (-:
...or any other form of Unix (or OS/2, or CygWin) that might have bc.
:-) but after thinking for a few seconds (on an Athlon 1800), spat out lots of digits. I use wc to count the digits (and allow for the backslashes) at that scale, since I don't know of a calculator with a "How many digits, you reckon?" button.
GnomeCalc broke trying to figure out how many permutations can be represented by a 300-gene sequence (-: turns out to be at least a 24,000 digit number, so who can blame it?
Persistent connections work through the HTTP protocol layer over standard TCP, this is a violation of a much lower TCP protocol layer instead.
As has been said countless times already, no. This is a violation of the TCP standard. Pipelining works within the HTTP standard, and part of that is keeping the connection open using standard TCP signalling technology, which this is definitely not.
Yes, there is that, but even more annoying is he's helping the software drug trade along by handing out free samples. If `Microsoft is evil' then so is their software.
The Internet treats everything stupid like that as a network failure and routes around it.
There are hacks all through most Web, FTP etc servers to deal with stupid traffic from IE and/or Windows. For example, there's a standard SetEnvIf command for Apache's config to work around this exact problem with IE (which would otherwise work at connection-flooding the server, and if said server actually left those ports open like IE wanted it would be begging to be blind-spoofed).
If you complain, nothing gets done...
Some diagnoses seem to be real, albeit often attributable to weird things like allergies/intolerances, some appear to be phantoms.
Makes me wonder why Bill, Scott, Larry etc haven't jumped at the chance. Money by the Energiafull would seem to be right up their collective alleys.
...even if the rest of your life so obviously and anonymously sucks... (-:
Yah: roods, perches, pecks, puncheons, barleycorns, chains, seams, hundredweight, gill, minima, kips, kilderkins, sacks, kor, chenises and periots expressed in at least English, French, German, Belgian, Dutch, Russian, Spanish and Polish at every locus. On the upside, the OpenOffice.org document standard will be used for shipping all of this around.
The British do use light-nanoseconds, it's call `a foot'. (-:
Building a moon-base from which to do this would not be cheaper. Launching from space would be cheaper still for launches, but again building an asteroid-processing plant to achieve space industry would by frightfully expensive, even if we could lassoo a handy earth-crossing asteroid. The big launch-cost-saving move would be to plaster over that huge first step by building a space elevator.
This is a sad thing to say, since thay're about all the USA has right now, but the other big economic step would be to shoot NASA, being careful to preserve the history it carries. It has gone from a relatively small, tightly focussed team to a self-preserving institution. The meta-planners seem to have no idea, as project after project gets 3/4 built and then canned, Fred and way-obsolete Shuttles continue to get funded but more interesting and productive things like powersats and elevators are passed over. NASA personnel, the dudes who breathe life into ancient satellites and otherwise regularly pull NASA's cojones out of the fire, would then be available to the commercial replacements.
Commerce is no silver bullet either. Safety regs with real teeth would be needed, for example.
The underlying problems are mostly social. Very few people see any return from this kind of effort, it all looks like very expensive geek toys to them. The projects which are pretty much guaranteed a return, like powersats, colonies, moon/asteroid mining and so on are all priced to cause collective sticker shock. That elevator seems to be the only useful `next step' priced at under $1T (actually $10-20G, any one of a dozen billionaires could privately fund it alone).
How much did you donate to getting a space elevator built then? $zero? You could at least buy the book instead of just pontificating!
Use < and >
Actually, it's gypped, pronounced `jipped'; without the second `p' the `i' would be a long sound, so it would say `jaiypped'. The dictionary doesn't mention the Gypsies, but they are actually a race, called Romnies. This didn't stop them from `adopting' a lot of non-Romny fellow-travellers, and with a relatively small population this would actually be necessary to prevent problems with inbreeding.
While we're at it, `buy' == purchase, `by' == via, with or past, and (not in these posts, but it is common) `lose' == not win, `loose' == rattling around, not fastened down.
...were you representing the DA's office and asking them about Ralsky's drug charges or checking to see whether the lawyers were on drugs because they represent him?
`here' is a unique, randomly-generated email link like this one: `Bill-Me-USD1000-and-Read-This.-1243363468-3707143 8@$COMPANY' and `payable' is a link to a page describing terms:
Never once had a second piece of spam to those addresses, and that domain's got the least spam of any in my possession. (-:
Send a bounce to all of the addresses listed, if it succeeds, add the email address to a list, poison a few random fake blogs with it, and auto-subscribe it to every web site with a form on it that you've found from spidering links in spam. Fight spam with spam, excellent idea! Just sending the bounce will make the bouncing address a spam target, so after a while you wouldn't even need user intervention, since most of the weird form field questions would have been answered and your addresses would really be out there. Your spam-harvesting spammer introduction agency would have hit critical mass. (-:
As a side issue, you could listen for worms and email viruses, sending the attacking machines a gratis copy of the Debian installer, with a suitably educated, er, bootloader. (-:
Meta-discussion here. Note the signatures of Gorge Bush and Oliver White displayed prominently at top right.
The amount of industrial nepotism that goes on, to say nothing of hundreds of millions in political back-rooms deals, is amazing. America was actually funding Russia to some extent during the Cold War. American industrialists had a hand in building the missiles at the heart of the Cuban crisis. The problem is that you can't formalise such arrangements.
Both Russia and China have impressive heavy-lift credentials. They got those by not farting around with fancy stuff (just getting the basic engineering right), and by reducing the politics to the level of `if this succeeds, you will be a national hero, if it fails you will be dead'. They should try that in the US; the burgeoning litigation industry there would implode.
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