LoL I agree... changing keyboards was really easy once I committed myself to it... I heard about it a year and a half ago, and at the time only used a laptop with static location keys (not really, but fragile to remove, and difficult, so I shied away) so I didn't changeover till the summer...
Question, do you still use a normal keyboard and just have the keyboard layout changed? or do you actually have a dvorak-designed piece of hardware (I've seen weird shapes of those) I would like a listed dvorak keyboard, because its counterintuitive to look down at my 10 dollar keyboard, to see where my fingers should be and actually place them on what is listed to be the wrong key... It made changing over to dvorak that much harder...
One of my thoughts is that dvorak users are an invisible minority... the ones savy enough to catch on on their own are smart enough to pry off the keys (which doesn't work on some keyboards with variably shaped keys) or relabling keys (stickers seem disgusting) and so, they make do without cheap keyboards... and so the few hardwired dvorak keyboards cost 80 dollars or more... But there is no way of figuring out how many people really use dvorak... I'm worried that someday the operating system won't let you change the keyboard layouts and I'll have to resort to crude inefficient hacks to get my keyboard to be as fast/painless as before...
... read the rest of the article, and what you just pasted... current treatments have a high risk of rejection... the new system uses your own cells and just causes them to grow at high speed...
but see what you don't realize is that what passes in the fiberoptic cable is the encryption key... so the bits you would get would never be a part of the final key... the bleeding would just introduce some more zero's and as described in the article, the system is based off the bits that are recieved... the reciever of the signal (over fiberoptic) tells the sender which bits it recieved, they do some checking on some of those bits to make sure they recieved what they were supposed to, but if the recipient doesn't get certain bits (the ones that bled out), its not a big deal. They just don't use those as part of the key... You can capture all the message, if you hack the internet communication, but the point is that it will be encrypted using a big key that was sent via fiberoptic, and you would have no idea what the key was, other than the fact that whatever number bit you caught will NOT have been used in the making of the key.
Its not that easy... the system described above is set up to send single photons (or nothing) through the fiberoptic cable... bleeding photons out would just intercept the signal, and those bits would be invalidated from being used in the key.
Whoa, what are you talking about? Would you mind linking us to this mathematical proof of the impossibility to crack a one-time pad? Because the fact of the matter is that someone could try every possible one-time pad of a set size... and they could try all the sizes between 1 and kingdom come, and with infinite time they are garunteed to find the right pad... so please elaborate what you mean there...
Currently they already can break it... not to sound like a conspiracy theorist... but seriously, the current classic encrypition schemes can all be broken given enough time and enough resources, and with intelligent people working on them, there are many optimizations that can be implemented to prune the possible codes that need to be tried brute force... Current schemes could take XXXXXX years to crack, but it doesn't have to... It could be the first code they try...
ideally a quantum repeater would not personally know the state of a particle... I would recieve a qubit, and preserve its state of indeterminancy when passing it on... The measurment of a state off the qubit collapses its indeterminancy SO... it wouldn't really be possible for some hacker to get data off of a repeater without changing the results for the participants involved...
That's why he had propblems... They had groomed for geeks, but didn't want them on the air, meaning they had to get someone for whom the show wasn't targeted, to call in, and ask a question.
Exactly what I was thinking... not only will we be worrying about biological warfare, but we will have to deal with the fact that there will be nanocale mechanical viruses to worry about as well... Crazily programmable ones at that...
That hexagon maze with mecury kicked ass!!! I remember beeing fascinated with it, and going and taking it off the shelf and playing with it, and then one day accidentally breaking it... hmmmm... that might also explain some other things about me...:)
I can see that I am uncultured now, Thanks For helping!
Seriously though, I vaguely remember hearing that there were 3 types of Braille, but at the time I remeber feeling slightly confused, but not pursuing the matter... Now it makes much more sense and helps me realize that there is more to the issue than I thought...
The passengers on the flight are subject to the laws of the territory it departed from until the flight lands... Meaning though the flight needs permission to overfly a country, that country doesn't get a say about the things the passengers are doing until the flight lands...
:) I moved on to dvorak by choice over the past year (well, over the summer in fact), and I am quite happy with the result. My only gripe is that most of the keyboards I have used have slightly differently shaped keys such that if I were to rearrange the keys they would not feel right under my fingers... this means that I generally use a standard qwerty keyboard, and just ignore the key layouts, making it quite confusing for anyone who watches me type or who attempts to use my computer without my permission... And when I look down at my fingers for whatever reason, I am visualizing a dvorak, instead of the letters... I looked at the keylabel replacement option, but that is just not interesting, i don't want a sticker under my fingers when I type... Thus, is there any place I could find dvorak keyboard for around 10 dollars?:) because that is the cost of my current keyboard, and it would be a shame to spend 60-80 dollars to get a dvorak keyboard...
the infinite popups have to do with the activex control thats part of the script... if you break part of the javascript (ie you make the two URL bits in the script different things, what happens is that it trys to open the same window over and over reloading the same namespace) it goes crazy and essentially launches the same window until you kill the initial window with the link in it..
My question had to do with an OS, an altogether different thing than pirated games... I guess that does invalidate my thought of them wanting people to buy the xbox for the sake of it though...
What measures do you or anybody expect MS to take? Other than voiding your warranty, why would they care?
I'm curious about this, since if other people provide software for the Xbox, and Microsoft doesn't have an analog for sale... ie they don't offer the Xbox OS for individual resale, why would they care if someone provided a free OS?... Especially since its in Microsoft's best image to look like they actually do care about opensource projects, and want to support them...
Same sort of thing happened for me... My High-School (Pioneer HS, Ann Arbor, MI) had an enrollment af 2700-2800 and is the largest highschool in the state of Michigan. Due to that the school offered a great number of classes designed to prep for the much contested AP exams of which there were two exams in Computer Science... (one harder than the other). As soon as I was able I took the class (back in sophomore year) and had a great time like the dork that I am... then I had to wait until sophomore year in College to take my next programming class, because there were an unfortunate number of prerequisites that they wanted me to get out of the way... Anyways, my point was that I watched over the three years as the class size shrunk from 30 or so down to 9 with the programming 1 and 2 classes that were offered (easier semi-prereqs) dissappearing... and with the change of the college board to Java, the class dissappeared entirely...
I think its a great shame because the programming class back then, and the things I learned to do from it was/were the reason I decided to become a CSE major...
I echo the appoval for a CS competition/CS tutorial, though having a battle bots type demonstration would dazzle a good portion of the students, in my opinion...
Half the time, CS people looking to learn another language will just grab any book for the language, read the titles of the first few chapters, (barely looking at "Hello World!") and catching the details in the more advanced sections while extending their knowledge through wonderful use of search engines for "tutorial for a C/C++ programmer to learn XXX language"
but then again, that's just my personal experience with current CS people/students/profs at my university...
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Ok, first off, how the hell can you take a screenshot of a bluescreen unless you have a digital camera??? lol
Anyways, I know for a fact that bluescreen for XP exists, because I routinely trip one in an hp pavilion laptop of mine. 2.5 yrs old, off the shelf for 1.5 years, it has started to die in 1 out of 5 hardboots. It gets near to letting me enter a password, and sometimes after, sometimes before, I get a bluescreen coredump of bad_pool_header or page_fault_in_a_non-paged_area now (among others), truth be told, this laptop was badly dropped once, but its a beast, and all that was visible that happened was the breaking of the protective flap on a corner floppy drive bay (fixed) these blue screens and problems surrounding them did not start appearing till 6months later... do to the bluescreens and the fact that I have access to much nicer computers, I use it mainly for the purpose of a remote terminal to the computers I use primarily for work, along with backup HD space, music storage/playback, and wifi connectivity...
The upshot of using it like this means that I rarely stress the cpu, and so it runs much colder than it did when i used to have it as my main platform
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LoL I agree... changing keyboards was really easy once I committed myself to it... I heard about it a year and a half ago, and at the time only used a laptop with static location keys (not really, but fragile to remove, and difficult, so I shied away) so I didn't changeover till the summer... Question, do you still use a normal keyboard and just have the keyboard layout changed? or do you actually have a dvorak-designed piece of hardware (I've seen weird shapes of those) I would like a listed dvorak keyboard, because its counterintuitive to look down at my 10 dollar keyboard, to see where my fingers should be and actually place them on what is listed to be the wrong key... It made changing over to dvorak that much harder... One of my thoughts is that dvorak users are an invisible minority... the ones savy enough to catch on on their own are smart enough to pry off the keys (which doesn't work on some keyboards with variably shaped keys) or relabling keys (stickers seem disgusting) and so, they make do without cheap keyboards... and so the few hardwired dvorak keyboards cost 80 dollars or more... But there is no way of figuring out how many people really use dvorak... I'm worried that someday the operating system won't let you change the keyboard layouts and I'll have to resort to crude inefficient hacks to get my keyboard to be as fast/painless as before...
I'm personally a big fan of dvorak, but I was wondering? How Many people actually do use it?
:) Point to you.
... read the rest of the article, and what you just pasted... current treatments have a high risk of rejection... the new system uses your own cells and just causes them to grow at high speed...
mea culpa, My Apologies to you.:)
but see what you don't realize is that what passes in the fiberoptic cable is the encryption key... so the bits you would get would never be a part of the final key... the bleeding would just introduce some more zero's and as described in the article, the system is based off the bits that are recieved... the reciever of the signal (over fiberoptic) tells the sender which bits it recieved, they do some checking on some of those bits to make sure they recieved what they were supposed to, but if the recipient doesn't get certain bits (the ones that bled out), its not a big deal. They just don't use those as part of the key... You can capture all the message, if you hack the internet communication, but the point is that it will be encrypted using a big key that was sent via fiberoptic, and you would have no idea what the key was, other than the fact that whatever number bit you caught will NOT have been used in the making of the key.
Its not that easy... the system described above is set up to send single photons (or nothing) through the fiberoptic cable... bleeding photons out would just intercept the signal, and those bits would be invalidated from being used in the key.
Whoa, what are you talking about? Would you mind linking us to this mathematical proof of the impossibility to crack a one-time pad? Because the fact of the matter is that someone could try every possible one-time pad of a set size... and they could try all the sizes between 1 and kingdom come, and with infinite time they are garunteed to find the right pad... so please elaborate what you mean there...
Currently they already can break it... not to sound like a conspiracy theorist... but seriously, the current classic encrypition schemes can all be broken given enough time and enough resources, and with intelligent people working on them, there are many optimizations that can be implemented to prune the possible codes that need to be tried brute force... Current schemes could take XXXXXX years to crack, but it doesn't have to... It could be the first code they try...
ideally a quantum repeater would not personally know the state of a particle... I would recieve a qubit, and preserve its state of indeterminancy when passing it on... The measurment of a state off the qubit collapses its indeterminancy SO... it wouldn't really be possible for some hacker to get data off of a repeater without changing the results for the participants involved...
not quite, they very probably would escape that for you... :)
That's why he had propblems... They had groomed for geeks, but didn't want them on the air, meaning they had to get someone for whom the show wasn't targeted, to call in, and ask a question.
Exactly what I was thinking... not only will we be worrying about biological warfare, but we will have to deal with the fact that there will be nanocale mechanical viruses to worry about as well... Crazily programmable ones at that...
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That hexagon maze with mecury kicked ass!!! I remember beeing fascinated with it, and going and taking it off the shelf and playing with it, and then one day accidentally breaking it... hmmmm... that might also explain some other things about me...
I can see that I am uncultured now, Thanks For helping!
Seriously though, I vaguely remember hearing that there were 3 types of Braille, but at the time I remeber feeling slightly confused, but not pursuing the matter... Now it makes much more sense and helps me realize that there is more to the issue than I thought...
The passengers on the flight are subject to the laws of the territory it departed from until the flight lands... Meaning though the flight needs permission to overfly a country, that country doesn't get a say about the things the passengers are doing until the flight lands...
:) I moved on to dvorak by choice over the past year (well, over the summer in fact), and I am quite happy with the result. My only gripe is that most of the keyboards I have used have slightly differently shaped keys such that if I were to rearrange the keys they would not feel right under my fingers... this means that I generally use a standard qwerty keyboard, and just ignore the key layouts, making it quite confusing for anyone who watches me type or who attempts to use my computer without my permission... And when I look down at my fingers for whatever reason, I am visualizing a dvorak, instead of the letters... I looked at the keylabel replacement option, but that is just not interesting, i don't want a sticker under my fingers when I type... Thus, is there any place I could find dvorak keyboard for around 10 dollars? :) because that is the cost of my current keyboard, and it would be a shame to spend 60-80 dollars to get a dvorak keyboard...
the title of the comment is all that is required... I wonder how many slashdotters will purchase trillian 3.0 today?
the infinite popups have to do with the activex control thats part of the script... if you break part of the javascript (ie you make the two URL bits in the script different things, what happens is that it trys to open the same window over and over reloading the same namespace) it goes crazy and essentially launches the same window until you kill the initial window with the link in it..
My question had to do with an OS, an altogether different thing than pirated games... I guess that does invalidate my thought of them wanting people to buy the xbox for the sake of it though...
What measures do you or anybody expect MS to take? Other than voiding your warranty, why would they care?
I'm curious about this, since if other people provide software for the Xbox, and Microsoft doesn't have an analog for sale... ie they don't offer the Xbox OS for individual resale, why would they care if someone provided a free OS?... Especially since its in Microsoft's best image to look like they actually do care about opensource projects, and want to support them...
Same sort of thing happened for me... My High-School (Pioneer HS, Ann Arbor, MI) had an enrollment af 2700-2800 and is the largest highschool in the state of Michigan. Due to that the school offered a great number of classes designed to prep for the much contested AP exams of which there were two exams in Computer Science... (one harder than the other). As soon as I was able I took the class (back in sophomore year) and had a great time like the dork that I am... then I had to wait until sophomore year in College to take my next programming class, because there were an unfortunate number of prerequisites that they wanted me to get out of the way... Anyways, my point was that I watched over the three years as the class size shrunk from 30 or so down to 9 with the programming 1 and 2 classes that were offered (easier semi-prereqs) dissappearing... and with the change of the college board to Java, the class dissappeared entirely...
I think its a great shame because the programming class back then, and the things I learned to do from it was/were the reason I decided to become a CSE major...
I echo the appoval for a CS competition/CS tutorial, though having a battle bots type demonstration would dazzle a good portion of the students, in my opinion...
Half the time, CS people looking to learn another language will just grab any book for the language, read the titles of the first few chapters, (barely looking at "Hello World!") and catching the details in the more advanced sections while extending their knowledge through wonderful use of search engines for "tutorial for a C/C++ programmer to learn XXX language"
but then again, that's just my personal experience with current CS people/students/profs at my university...
Ok, first off, how the hell can you take a screenshot of a bluescreen unless you have a digital camera??? lol
Anyways, I know for a fact that bluescreen for XP exists, because I routinely trip one in an hp pavilion laptop of mine. 2.5 yrs old, off the shelf for 1.5 years, it has started to die in 1 out of 5 hardboots. It gets near to letting me enter a password, and sometimes after, sometimes before, I get a bluescreen coredump of bad_pool_header or page_fault_in_a_non-paged_area now (among others), truth be told, this laptop was badly dropped once, but its a beast, and all that was visible that happened was the breaking of the protective flap on a corner floppy drive bay (fixed) these blue screens and problems surrounding them did not start appearing till 6months later... do to the bluescreens and the fact that I have access to much nicer computers, I use it mainly for the purpose of a remote terminal to the computers I use primarily for work, along with backup HD space, music storage/playback, and wifi connectivity...
The upshot of using it like this means that I rarely stress the cpu, and so it runs much colder than it did when i used to have it as my main platform