....a technological solution along the lines of:
"You have selected to use sendmail. Please insert your Testicles (privates) into the Spam-Feedback(TM)device to proceed..."
"You are sending 5000 pieces of mail to 5000 recicients, and has one of the known spam subject lines. Your testicles will be kept until the authorities arrive. Have a nice day."
Now if we could just pass a law that ALL computers everywhere had to have these kind of feedback devices, spam would be a thing of the past!
The cost of spam are probably higher than the costs of copyright infringement, so lets write our congressional staff!!
... This book points up the fact that Heisenbergs' graphite moderator was heavily contaminated with Boron, Which Fermi was very careful about.
The boron content made it impossible for H. to duplicate Fermi's successes with natural uranium.
The Big Question Is: Did Heisenberg know about the boron contamination, and its implications, or did he not understand its importance, or did he not understand about neutron absorption at all?
He actually built a reactor similar to Fermi's. (It is talked about in the book.) That we found it is how we know about why it didn't work.
But was it built that way on purpose, just to fool the Nazis, (No one would have noticed the boron unless they were an excellent physicist) or did he fsck up and miss it?
If you're using music CD-R's to run backups, with the ~$2.00 (last I read) per disk added to go to the record companies,
YOU'RE A MORON.
More likely, you're using the Computer type CD-R's for about $.50 each;
AND YOU'RE A MORON because you don't know what you're
using for backups.
Get A CLUE before you start talking. Your boss might read this, and fire you. I sure as hell wouldn't want you backing up MY Data.
paying that much for a marginally improved image is not very wise;
BUT a DVD will do 1024x480, which fills the 16x9 wideness ratio; and should look better.
Lets see...
Masturbation is wrong, but it's OK for the Catholic Church to cover up all the Priests having sex with little boys....
And, It's OK to help the Nazi's, because we're not Jewish...
And Warez is bad because multimillion dollar companies who can spend millions on prosecuting their potential customers are losing a few bucks...
Man, a sense of proportion is sadly missing these days.
Hell, our govenor is holding our state parks hostage in response to not getting an income tax.... Talk about fucked!
...But all our people have guns.
The average American both has, and knows how to use weapons, not just in Quake!
Our average guys here in the south can shoot off a fly's nads at fifty yards.
Didn't you ever watch Jethro and Jed Clampett?
microsoft would love to do this; but they don't have anyone good enough to write code for the kernel.
Have you ever looked at microsoft code?
All of my instructors called that kind 'spaghetti code' and gave me a bad grade.
leaving in the 'stubs' so that it takes up twice as much room is only done at microsoft.
Remember the curse of the.0 microsoft version!
remember Dos 2.0? No?
win 3.0? no?
Now the only NT4.0 rocked was that the problems were in 3.50!
the 4.0 was only grafting on a 95-like face.
What the f...?
My machine crashed while writing this the first time. RIAA killbots??
Seriously; The Copy protection thing will go the way of the DiVX debacle several years ago.
I own all of Metallica's albums up to the point Lars came out against Napster.
Thought the song for the mission impossible album was a knockoff of a metallica sound; Imagine my surprise to find that it WAS metallica...
You can really tell when the money became more important than the music...
I will be buying all my music at the used Cd stores till the record companies get their shit together.
The RIAA doesn't get a dime off the resales...
I also respected Metallica.
Ireally liked the non commercial stuff the put out in the early part of last decade.
But; I heard the track they did for the mission impossible soundtrack, and thought "Is this the most commercial metallica rip off I've ever heard.
The next day, I found out it WAS metallica.
THEN I saw an interview of the anti-napster bullshit lars was putting out.
Respect went to Zero real fast.
I've bought my last Metallica anything, Until I see Lars get down on his Knees and Kiss ALL his fans' Ass.
It was OUR money that put him where he is today anyway.
I WON'T Buy Anything Copy Protected.
I will buy older music i like at the used cd shops, where the RIAA doesn't get a dime.
1bin laded was not the primary recipient of cia aid; that was well covered in the media.
2 we obviously didn't kill enough of the towel headed bastards; If we did, this wouldn't have happened.
3 Are you telling us that afganistan made pharmacuticals for central africa? That's laughable.
If the tv images of palestinians we saw were 10 years old, why was that van only 4 years old?
and, why were they were mentioning the world trade center by name in the translation?
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We should rebuild the towers as soon as reasonably possible; And use the skulls of bin laden , the palestinian assholes who were celebrating yesterday, and all the other assholes who gave succor to these terrorists.
Glass their fucking country from border to border, and make sure everyone knows why!
We need just one general to 'lose his cool' and go rogue for about ten minutes;
'Um.. Mr. Putin? Its George w. on the red phone. He says to pull all our troops away from the afgan border, and give them rad suits. No, I dont think its another drunk...'
Of course, that would be terrorism, I guess, but I think we would be able to live with ourselves.
hell, I not only took a shower, I actually listened to an illegally downloaded mp3.
Not to mention the illegal recording of three copyrighted TV channels YESTERDAY. (for shame!)
Kill all proponents of religeons who advocate 'spiritual ascention to heaven' through suicide/murder.
It worked really well on the vikings, afew hundred years ago.
These people should be nuked back to the stone age, since they cannot be trusted with steel weapons.
Under their system of belief, it would be justifiable to nuke them all, because 'god knows his own.'
Start with afganistan, then work our way south;
owning the middle east would definately help gas prices.
If we decide not to kill them all, they would make great crash test dummies and medical test subjects. Maybe then we could cure aids, or something.
These are not people, they are animals, and should be treated as such.
Afew innocents would probably die, but thats the way life is sometimes. Sometimes you have to kill things lower on the food chain to survive.
Kill them before they kill more of us.
This is why I no longer use their spyware that tyey issue for their users. I have an Email address there that I use for spam mail, and have had it for over 10 years.(how many people do you know with 5 digit aol email addresses?)
Their software does the same thing to your harddrive if installed.
One of the first things I noticed was a huge file generated during install that had all of my files listed, by directory. It didn't used to be encrypted, but i bet it is now.
filemon, or similar program will show its generation during install, for those interested.
portmon will also show the accesses made to your machine during slow periods, while not downloading, etc.
I also noticed that if i created a 'bait' file, that it would be uploaded the next time i recieved an 'online upgrade'.
I only access their mail thru netscape now, and use a firewall religeously, but other places still hit my pc occasionly, looking for certain filenames.
remember, on a windows pc, any file whos name is known can be copied to a remote machine.
big bro' has been with us for a while.
To aol users: get some good monitoring programs, make some files that look suspicious, and see what happens.
how exactly does a sine wave have a wavelength of pi?
One cycle is 2*pi radians, but what does that have to do with wavelength?
wavelength is frequency devided by propagation velocity, and that makes wavelength variavle, depending on many factors.
BTW, propagation velocity in copper is significantly less than light speed in a vacuum, and is further modified by capacitance between everything else, as well as inductive effects at these frequencies.
The waveforms of the CPU are not well defined square waves, but none of us will probably see what they do look like; like quantum mechanics, looking at them with a probe changes the waveform. (and crashes the computer, most of the time.) Note: a logic analyser doesn't give realworld representations of waveshape. an oscilloscope does, but none of the shops I've ever worked at had one that would show a 1.2GHz waveform. and using my 700MHz Bandwidth home scope crashes every motherboard I've looked at.
I think AMD is really screwing themselves by this MHz crap. It puts them in the Cyrix mindset, and Techies will avoid the chips until they prove themselves, which will delay acceptance.
If I buy a 1.2GHz Thunderbird with 266fsb, I know what I'm getting. If I have to look up reviews to see what kind of performance to expect, there is no "wow, I've got to have that" appeal. Who gives a fuck about a 'performance rating' thats tied to an unreproducable factory test?
You're absolutely on target about the situation. I recently built a mondo system, and found out a few things I had only suspected:
The difference between a 750Mhz Duron and a 1.2G Athlon isnt perceptable in most programs, even Q3Arena.(With the same hardware)
RAM makes a difference to 256MB, above 512MB you can get problems.
Hard drive speed is now the major bottleneck.
Try a KT7A-RAID (Cheap,now) with an array of 7200RPM fast drives, and you will be amazed at the boost! Be careful about shutting down, as those heavily cached harddrives don't get to write their info when you shut down! And the windows fix for that problem doesn't work.
All cdr and like disks use a metallic film on one side. On cdr media, it's in the outside, top layer. If you don't believe me, take a 'coaster' cdr and scrape the label side. Almost everyone uses aluminum because its so easy to use. The only other material i've even heard of for this use is the gold cds made by 'original master recordings'.
These use gold instead of Al and 'Sound better'.(right)
So, fungus is a real possibility here in 'americas rainforest' (Tennessee). We've had near 100% Humidity and 80-90 degrees for the last few days.
Legalisation of drugs would have some desatbilizing effects on the us economy; The people who are getting rich (politicians, drug lords, boyz 'n' da hood, etc.) will have to come up with something else to bring in their millions.
God forbid, these assholes might have to get a real job, or something.
Also, the deaths due to an unlimited supply of coke would certainly lower the number of people in the job market. Note that this would not likely kill your average geek; we know about things like dosage limits and toxicity. The Cheerleader/football class would be wiped out rapidly, causing economic upheaval. After all, who would get all those high paying govt. jobs if you killed off all the stupid people.
The Cartels own too much of our govt. for legalization to ever happen, though. They keep congress on a short junkie leash, and would nip any legalization move in the bud, so to speak.
Why do you think that drug testing is used, anyway? Most companies use it to see if you're motivated enough to pass (cheat) on the test, not because they care about the result. The only time it is generally given in a way hard to circumvent, is when you're in the hospital, and they want to deny your workmans compensation claim.
Superconduction of any currently used interconnect material currently in use is way too cold for silicon to be usable. Gain of all transistor types is basically a function of temperature, and only special supercondicting structures (squids, josephson junctions, etc.) work at these temperatures.
Silicon becomes unusable as a semiconductor much hotter than copper or aluminum superconduct.
But, What about a superconductor as a substrate?
In all the Niven stuff a current superconductor is a heat superconductor; Wouldn't that make overclocking easy!
A room temperature superconductor doesn't exist, but when it does, you could have a heat sink with a zero temperature coefficient. All heat would get dumped to the cooling source with no losses.
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...Is that MY Slashdot ID # is TWO million less than Carmacks!!!!
....a technological solution along the lines of:
"You have selected to use sendmail. Please insert your Testicles (privates) into the Spam-Feedback(TM)device to proceed..."
"You are sending 5000 pieces of mail to 5000 recicients, and has one of the known spam subject lines. Your testicles will be kept until the authorities arrive. Have a nice day."
Now if we could just pass a law that ALL computers everywhere had to have these kind of feedback devices, spam would be a thing of the past!
The cost of spam are probably higher than the costs of copyright infringement, so lets write our congressional staff!!
... This book points up the fact that Heisenbergs' graphite moderator was heavily contaminated with Boron, Which Fermi was very careful about.
The boron content made it impossible for H. to duplicate Fermi's successes with natural uranium.
The Big Question Is: Did Heisenberg know about the boron contamination, and its implications, or did he not understand its importance, or did he not understand about neutron absorption at all?
He actually built a reactor similar to Fermi's. (It is talked about in the book.) That we found it is how we know about why it didn't work.
But was it built that way on purpose, just to fool the Nazis, (No one would have noticed the boron unless they were an excellent physicist) or did he fsck up and miss it?
If you're using music CD-R's to run backups, with the ~$2.00 (last I read) per disk added to go to the record companies,
YOU'RE A MORON.
More likely, you're using the Computer type CD-R's for about $.50 each;
AND YOU'RE A MORON because you don't know what you're
using for backups.
Get A CLUE before you start talking. Your boss might read this, and fire you. I sure as hell wouldn't want you backing up MY Data.
paying that much for a marginally improved image is not very wise;
BUT a DVD will do 1024x480, which fills the 16x9 wideness ratio; and should look better.
Lets see...
Masturbation is wrong, but it's OK for the Catholic Church to cover up all the Priests having sex with little boys....
And, It's OK to help the Nazi's, because we're not Jewish...
And Warez is bad because multimillion dollar companies who can spend millions on prosecuting their potential customers are losing a few bucks...
Man, a sense of proportion is sadly missing these days.
Hell, our govenor is holding our state parks hostage in response to not getting an income tax.... Talk about fucked!
...But all our people have guns.
The average American both has, and knows how to use weapons, not just in Quake!
Our average guys here in the south can shoot off a fly's nads at fifty yards.
Didn't you ever watch Jethro and Jed Clampett?
...About using a chainsaw hand while downloading porn would be changeing hands in mid-stroke!!!
microsoft would love to do this; but they don't have anyone good enough to write code for the kernel.
Have you ever looked at microsoft code?
All of my instructors called that kind 'spaghetti code' and gave me a bad grade.
leaving in the 'stubs' so that it takes up twice as much room is only done at microsoft.
Remember the curse of the .0 microsoft version!
remember Dos 2.0? No?
win 3.0? no?
Now the only NT4.0 rocked was that the problems were in 3.50!
the 4.0 was only grafting on a 95-like face.
What the f...?
My machine crashed while writing this the first time. RIAA killbots??
Seriously; The Copy protection thing will go the way of the DiVX debacle several years ago.
I own all of Metallica's albums up to the point Lars came out against Napster.
Thought the song for the mission impossible album was a knockoff of a metallica sound; Imagine my surprise to find that it WAS metallica...
You can really tell when the money became more important than the music...
I will be buying all my music at the used Cd stores till the record companies get their shit together.
The RIAA doesn't get a dime off the resales...
I also respected Metallica.
Ireally liked the non commercial stuff the put out in the early part of last decade.
But; I heard the track they did for the mission impossible soundtrack, and thought "Is this the most commercial metallica rip off I've ever heard.
The next day, I found out it WAS metallica.
THEN I saw an interview of the anti-napster bullshit lars was putting out.
Respect went to Zero real fast.
I've bought my last Metallica anything, Until I see Lars get down on his Knees and Kiss ALL his fans' Ass.
It was OUR money that put him where he is today anyway.
I WON'T Buy Anything Copy Protected.
I will buy older music i like at the used cd shops, where the RIAA doesn't get a dime.
Forth has no intrinsic right not to be trashed.
look at any beginner class and...
OH; You Meant the Fourth, as in Amendment....
1bin laded was not the primary recipient of cia aid; that was well covered in the media.
2 we obviously didn't kill enough of the towel headed bastards; If we did, this wouldn't have happened.
3 Are you telling us that afganistan made pharmacuticals for central africa? That's laughable.
If the tv images of palestinians we saw were 10 years old, why was that van only 4 years old?
and, why were they were mentioning the world trade center by name in the translation?
Kill em ALL!
We should rebuild the towers as soon as reasonably possible; And use the skulls of bin laden , the palestinian assholes who were celebrating yesterday, and all the other assholes who gave succor to these terrorists.
Glass their fucking country from border to border, and make sure everyone knows why!
We need just one general to 'lose his cool' and go rogue for about ten minutes;
'Um.. Mr. Putin? Its George w. on the red phone. He says to pull all our troops away from the afgan border, and give them rad suits. No, I dont think its another drunk...'
Of course, that would be terrorism, I guess, but I think we would be able to live with ourselves.
hell, I not only took a shower, I actually listened to an illegally downloaded mp3.
Not to mention the illegal recording of three copyrighted TV channels YESTERDAY. (for shame!)
Kill all proponents of religeons who advocate 'spiritual ascention to heaven' through suicide/murder.
It worked really well on the vikings, afew hundred years ago.
These people should be nuked back to the stone age, since they cannot be trusted with steel weapons.
Under their system of belief, it would be justifiable to nuke them all, because 'god knows his own.'
Start with afganistan, then work our way south;
owning the middle east would definately help gas prices.
If we decide not to kill them all, they would make great crash test dummies and medical test subjects. Maybe then we could cure aids, or something.
These are not people, they are animals, and should be treated as such.
Afew innocents would probably die, but thats the way life is sometimes. Sometimes you have to kill things lower on the food chain to survive.
Kill them before they kill more of us.
This is why I no longer use their spyware that tyey issue for their users. I have an Email address there that I use for spam mail, and have had it for over 10 years.(how many people do you know with 5 digit aol email addresses?)
Their software does the same thing to your harddrive if installed.
One of the first things I noticed was a huge file generated during install that had all of my files listed, by directory. It didn't used to be encrypted, but i bet it is now.
filemon, or similar program will show its generation during install, for those interested.
portmon will also show the accesses made to your machine during slow periods, while not downloading, etc.
I also noticed that if i created a 'bait' file, that it would be uploaded the next time i recieved an 'online upgrade'.
I only access their mail thru netscape now, and use a firewall religeously, but other places still hit my pc occasionly, looking for certain filenames.
remember, on a windows pc, any file whos name is known can be copied to a remote machine.
big bro' has been with us for a while.
To aol users: get some good monitoring programs, make some files that look suspicious, and see what happens.
how exactly does a sine wave have a wavelength of pi?
One cycle is 2*pi radians, but what does that have to do with wavelength?
wavelength is frequency devided by propagation velocity, and that makes wavelength variavle, depending on many factors.
BTW, propagation velocity in copper is significantly less than light speed in a vacuum, and is further modified by capacitance between everything else, as well as inductive effects at these frequencies.
The waveforms of the CPU are not well defined square waves, but none of us will probably see what they do look like; like quantum mechanics, looking at them with a probe changes the waveform. (and crashes the computer, most of the time.) Note: a logic analyser doesn't give realworld representations of waveshape. an oscilloscope does, but none of the shops I've ever worked at had one that would show a 1.2GHz waveform. and using my 700MHz Bandwidth home scope crashes every motherboard I've looked at.
I think AMD is really screwing themselves by this MHz crap. It puts them in the Cyrix mindset, and Techies will avoid the chips until they prove themselves, which will delay acceptance.
If I buy a 1.2GHz Thunderbird with 266fsb, I know what I'm getting. If I have to look up reviews to see what kind of performance to expect, there is no "wow, I've got to have that" appeal. Who gives a fuck about a 'performance rating' thats tied to an unreproducable factory test?
You're absolutely on target about the situation. I recently built a mondo system, and found out a few things I had only suspected:
The difference between a 750Mhz Duron and a 1.2G Athlon isnt perceptable in most programs, even Q3Arena.(With the same hardware)
RAM makes a difference to 256MB, above 512MB you can get problems.
Hard drive speed is now the major bottleneck.
Try a KT7A-RAID (Cheap,now) with an array of 7200RPM fast drives, and you will be amazed at the boost! Be careful about shutting down, as those heavily cached harddrives don't get to write their info when you shut down! And the windows fix for that problem doesn't work.
assholes!!
All cdr and like disks use a metallic film on one side. On cdr media, it's in the outside, top layer. If you don't believe me, take a 'coaster' cdr and scrape the label side. Almost everyone uses aluminum because its so easy to use. The only other material i've even heard of for this use is the gold cds made by 'original master recordings'.
These use gold instead of Al and 'Sound better'.(right)
So, fungus is a real possibility here in 'americas rainforest' (Tennessee). We've had near 100% Humidity and 80-90 degrees for the last few days.
Legalisation of drugs would have some desatbilizing effects on the us economy; The people who are getting rich (politicians, drug lords, boyz 'n' da hood, etc.) will have to come up with something else to bring in their millions.
God forbid, these assholes might have to get a real job, or something.
Also, the deaths due to an unlimited supply of coke would certainly lower the number of people in the job market. Note that this would not likely kill your average geek; we know about things like dosage limits and toxicity. The Cheerleader/football class would be wiped out rapidly, causing economic upheaval. After all, who would get all those high paying govt. jobs if you killed off all the stupid people.
The Cartels own too much of our govt. for legalization to ever happen, though. They keep congress on a short junkie leash, and would nip any legalization move in the bud, so to speak.
Why do you think that drug testing is used, anyway? Most companies use it to see if you're motivated enough to pass (cheat) on the test, not because they care about the result. The only time it is generally given in a way hard to circumvent, is when you're in the hospital, and they want to deny your workmans compensation claim.
Superconduction of any currently used interconnect material currently in use is way too cold for silicon to be usable. Gain of all transistor types is basically a function of temperature, and only special supercondicting structures (squids, josephson junctions, etc.) work at these temperatures.
Silicon becomes unusable as a semiconductor much hotter than copper or aluminum superconduct.
But, What about a superconductor as a substrate?
In all the Niven stuff a current superconductor is a heat superconductor; Wouldn't that make overclocking easy!
A room temperature superconductor doesn't exist, but when it does, you could have a heat sink with a zero temperature coefficient. All heat would get dumped to the cooling source with no losses.