I climb rock -- fake or real, it doesn't matter. I love it. Rock climbing has this amazing ability to work out large and small muscle groups. The large muscles are for power (ie. to lift yourself from hold to hold) and the small muscles are for stabilization (balance, etc.) It also works every part of the body if you do it right (arms, shoulders, chest, back, abs, legs, forearms). I think there are several excellent things about climbing that would please a geek:
Think of it as a puzzle: get from point a to point b using these holds or in the smallest amount of time, or with the greatest efficiency. Think of it as an NP-complete problem.:-)
You put on muscle mass: however, your body is fantastic at optimizing the amount of muscle for your efforts. Look at climber's bodies. They are well-defined and not ugly-bulky. Women dig climber's bodies.
Flexibility: climbing requires flexibility. Fortunately, flexibility is the easiest of (flex. strength, endurance) to enhance. Flexibility means you can look like spiderman and impress others.
Endurance: You try hanging on some rock for more than 30 minutes as a newbie and you'll see what I mean. After a bit (6 months) you'll be able to campus some trick routes (ie. only hands, no feet).
It's damn fun and a great feeling to know that you can climb a vertical surface that resembles a pane of glass
It's can be done in solitude (as bouldering, which is within 1-5 metres of the ground). Appease the anti-socialness in you!:-) On the other hand, getting together with others is far more rewarding.
The cost is low: you can try it with a pair of sneakers and some crushed chalk. A pair of shoes will run you between $80-$160 (Cdn or US), though the shoes are something that can be had second-hand (I don't recomment anything else be used second-hand though). I gained 35 lbs of muscle mass in about 8 months just from climbing. My fat percentage is very low (about 8% -- it shouldn't drop below about 5% which can be unhealthy). Of course, diet is important, but if you excercise, you can increase your metabolism which can enable you to burn calories just by breathing.:-)
Actually, no. They don't mean asterisknix.com. Visiting unix.com yields a web site that appears to be devoted to the exchange of knowledge and has NOTHING to do with Unix, except maybe to host knowledge associated with unix.
In this case, I believe unix.com should go to the company that holds the UNIX trademark. unix.com current holders should find something else more befitting their content. Perhaps a variant of: uix.com (since it's the Universal Internet eXchange [as they use it]) (of course, uix.com is in use by the Underground Internet eXchange, so I guess that idea is pooched.)
I thought that this is what the user-mode (mode 42? 43?) was for. So long as you could put in the correct (or compatible) CHS values, the BIOS would happily churn away, even if the values did not address the entire disk.
For everyone screaming how bad it would be for a pacemaker to be on the 'net: get a freaking clue people! Ever hear of transmit-only? This would absolutely be a Good Thing(tm). If the pacemaker had some problems, then it could easily alert either someone -- whether it be the user to preemptively protect them, or to automatically call 911 on behalf of the user.
Then again, we could be the product of our own planet's evolutionary path combined with some insight from a space-faring race. This could explain the sorts of things we see when examining ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs.
Of course, both Drake's equation and the above are mere speculation, so anything is possible.
...or we are the ultimate in Artifical Intelligence.
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Well, I gues that's what happens when you don't hit preview, eh?:-)
I was going to qualify that by saying that statistically-speaking, one could deliver the false page to the set of requestors following closely behind the IP that grabbed/robots.txt. Of course, you go on to say that why don't the search engine companies spread the requests out?
Well, how does the search engines know who is a cloaker and who isn't? Search engines *should* be good netizens, and abide by rules of conduct. Hence/robots.txt, throttling, some form of search that doesn't kill a server (eg. breadth-first), etc.
I read the books. They're not too bad. It's interesting that there are three of them (that I have -- they may be more, but I haven't seen them) and that they all work backward in time. The final passage of the first book is the opening monologue of the first game.
I think a good idea would be for self-setting clocks would be to have a built-in speech-recognition system that could set the time. Imagine your clock being set by:
Your own voice - easy as pie
An announcer on the radio -- in your car or a clock radio - who the hell can set the car clock anyways??!
The flip side of this coin is even if the information we deem private is being collected, how can anyone possible care? Yes, this sounds a lot like flamebait, but bear with me for a second.
Every day, you as an individual will probably buy something using a debit card, or credit card, or otherwise engage in some activity (shopping, drinking at a bar, etc.) that is being harvested for information. Multiply that by about 50 million (in the States, or 10 million in Canada), and then by as many days as you want to think about.
That's a fuck of a lot of information.
We might as well be anonymous in the face of all that data.
It's entirely possible that someone you know works for a company that collects and analyzes data. It's possible that person is so self-absorbed and perverted enough to do a search for "John Doe" just so they can look up stuff about them. It probably holds them mesmerized for about 5 minutes before they realize that there is more important things to be doing.
And for those of you worried about having this data released to the wild, think about the corporations that collect this data: Do you think they would allow this data to be released? It's probably stored in vaults and data farms comparable to government installations.
Now of course, there are several cases in which this information could be released: warrants, hackers, blah, blah, blah. However, the truly important and truly private data such as what the previous poster stated is not going to end up in there. Who gives a flying fuck whether you bought ribbed condoms on Jan. 4th at the Pharmacy across town? Maybe you don't want some people to know, but the probability of them finding out through harvested information is practically nil.
Yes, I glossed over a number of points. My overall feeling is that privacy for privacy's sake is never going to be a reality. GET OVER IT. Do what you can/want: turn off cookies, browse without images, pay by cash, etc.
It's quite amazing. I watched the letters on the page morph into the correct spellings right before my eyes! They must be scanning these comments for the words "spell", "spelling error", etc.
I wish they had caught these mistakes before the story blurb was put on the front page -- it's damned embarrassing.
A good thing would be to tie a spell check to the 'preview' button so that posters (comment and story alike) could see if there is anything that needs to be fixed. Of course, the onus should be on the editors to fix these long before they make it live.
I see lots of posts already from people claiming this is a hoax based on the fact that you can't tell a one from a zero. Well if you RTFA (article), they explain how this can be done through the use of decoding the physical encoding done by the hardware. They explain that the encoding scheme used is a NRZ-L (non-return-to-zero level). This means that everything can be assumed to be a one except for when data is being transmitted, in which case the bits are zeros.
This is a PHYSICAL encoding, not something cooked up by them. It's used in a variety of devices. Look it up.
There are other schemes, including non-return-to-zero inverted, and non-return-to-zero space. However these two encoding schemes do not work with absolute values, only transitions from one value to another (ie. from one to zero, or zero to one). There is also Return-to-zero and biphase encoding schemes as well, which attempt to correct problems found in the non-return-to-* schemes. However, NRZ-L is the most simple form of encoding, IIRC.
Well, I didn't say it was nicely done, but the results are there for everyone to read without having to plod through the registry. If that guy wants to waste his cycles writing crap experiments, then power to him.
Quite a large list of offending extensions
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See here for a discussion on the experiments of a particular fellow on finding a list of offending Windows extensions that are not unhidden even if "Show all extensions" is used.
Shouldn't the images be less angled than this? If the satellite is 423 miles above the surface, then shouldn't I see the tops of buildings and less of the sides? It looks like Ultima 5.
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- Think of it as a puzzle: get from point a to point b using these holds or in the smallest amount of time, or with the greatest efficiency. Think of it as an NP-complete problem.
:-)
- You put on muscle mass: however, your body is fantastic at optimizing the amount of muscle for your efforts. Look at climber's bodies. They are well-defined and not ugly-bulky. Women dig climber's bodies.
- Flexibility: climbing requires flexibility. Fortunately, flexibility is the easiest of (flex. strength, endurance) to enhance. Flexibility means you can look like spiderman and impress others.
- Endurance: You try hanging on some rock for more than 30 minutes as a newbie and you'll see what I mean. After a bit (6 months) you'll be able to campus some trick routes (ie. only hands, no feet).
- It's damn fun and a great feeling to know that you can climb a vertical surface that resembles a pane of glass
- It's can be done in solitude (as bouldering, which is within 1-5 metres of the ground). Appease the anti-socialness in you!
:-) On the other hand, getting together with others is far more rewarding.
The cost is low: you can try it with a pair of sneakers and some crushed chalk. A pair of shoes will run you between $80-$160 (Cdn or US), though the shoes are something that can be had second-hand (I don't recomment anything else be used second-hand though). I gained 35 lbs of muscle mass in about 8 months just from climbing. My fat percentage is very low (about 8% -- it shouldn't drop below about 5% which can be unhealthy). Of course, diet is important, but if you excercise, you can increase your metabolism which can enable you to burn calories just by breathing.In this case, I believe unix.com should go to the company that holds the UNIX trademark. unix.com current holders should find something else more befitting their content. Perhaps a variant of: uix.com (since it's the Universal Internet eXchange [as they use it]) (of course, uix.com is in use by the Underground Internet eXchange, so I guess that idea is pooched.)
I thought that this is what the user-mode (mode 42? 43?) was for. So long as you could put in the correct (or compatible) CHS values, the BIOS would happily churn away, even if the values did not address the entire disk.
Apparently, it has already happened...
For everyone screaming how bad it would be for a pacemaker to be on the 'net: get a freaking clue people! Ever hear of transmit-only? This would absolutely be a Good Thing(tm). If the pacemaker had some problems, then it could easily alert either someone -- whether it be the user to preemptively protect them, or to automatically call 911 on behalf of the user.
Then again, we could be the product of our own planet's evolutionary path combined with some insight from a space-faring race. This could explain the sorts of things we see when examining ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs.
Of course, both Drake's equation and the above are mere speculation, so anything is possible.
Reading this comment, it's funny that my Slashdot fortune is that "sacred cows make great hamburgers."
I thought that SPACE carried up to season 4.
...or we are the ultimate in Artifical Intelligence.
Well, I gues that's what happens when you don't hit preview, eh? :-)
I was going to qualify that by saying that statistically-speaking, one could deliver the false page to the set of requestors following closely behind the IP that grabbed /robots.txt. Of course, you go on to say that why don't the search engine companies spread the requests out?
Well, how does the search engines know who is a cloaker and who isn't? Search engines *should* be good netizens, and abide by rules of conduct. Hence /robots.txt, throttling, some form of search that doesn't kill a server (eg. breadth-first), etc.
Sure, base the decision on those IPs requesting /robots.txt.
I read the books. They're not too bad. It's interesting that there are three of them (that I have -- they may be more, but I haven't seen them) and that they all work backward in time. The final passage of the first book is the opening monologue of the first game.
The screenshots on the NWN page clearly shows characters walking through water as well.
Granted. But then it's going to be released to some other company with a vested interest in keeping it under wraps.
I've seen some additional posts commenting that people don't generally care about data harvesting so long as it is:
It's interesting though. I saw a post that said: "NOBODY needs to know when I buy my Milk and Eggs!"
Wrong. The comment should read: "NOBODY cares when I buy my Milk and Eggs!" There is a remarkable difference, IMO.
The flip side of this coin is even if the information we deem private is being collected, how can anyone possible care? Yes, this sounds a lot like flamebait, but bear with me for a second.
Every day, you as an individual will probably buy something using a debit card, or credit card, or otherwise engage in some activity (shopping, drinking at a bar, etc.) that is being harvested for information. Multiply that by about 50 million (in the States, or 10 million in Canada), and then by as many days as you want to think about.
That's a fuck of a lot of information.
We might as well be anonymous in the face of all that data.
It's entirely possible that someone you know works for a company that collects and analyzes data. It's possible that person is so self-absorbed and perverted enough to do a search for "John Doe" just so they can look up stuff about them. It probably holds them mesmerized for about 5 minutes before they realize that there is more important things to be doing.
And for those of you worried about having this data released to the wild, think about the corporations that collect this data: Do you think they would allow this data to be released? It's probably stored in vaults and data farms comparable to government installations.
Now of course, there are several cases in which this information could be released: warrants, hackers, blah, blah, blah. However, the truly important and truly private data such as what the previous poster stated is not going to end up in there. Who gives a flying fuck whether you bought ribbed condoms on Jan. 4th at the Pharmacy across town? Maybe you don't want some people to know, but the probability of them finding out through harvested information is practically nil.
Yes, I glossed over a number of points. My overall feeling is that privacy for privacy's sake is never going to be a reality. GET OVER IT. Do what you can/want: turn off cookies, browse without images, pay by cash, etc.
Feel free to flame away.
It's quite amazing. I watched the letters on the page morph into the correct spellings right before my eyes! They must be scanning these comments for the words "spell", "spelling error", etc.
I wish they had caught these mistakes before the story blurb was put on the front page -- it's damned embarrassing.
A good thing would be to tie a spell check to the 'preview' button so that posters (comment and story alike) could see if there is anything that needs to be fixed. Of course, the onus should be on the editors to fix these long before they make it live.
This is a PHYSICAL encoding, not something cooked up by them. It's used in a variety of devices. Look it up.
There are other schemes, including non-return-to-zero inverted, and non-return-to-zero space. However these two encoding schemes do not work with absolute values, only transitions from one value to another (ie. from one to zero, or zero to one). There is also Return-to-zero and biphase encoding schemes as well, which attempt to correct problems found in the non-return-to-* schemes. However, NRZ-L is the most simple form of encoding, IIRC.
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That's *hilarious*!Well, I didn't say it was nicely done, but the results are there for everyone to read without having to plod through the registry. If that guy wants to waste his cycles writing crap experiments, then power to him.
See here for a discussion on the experiments of a particular fellow on finding a list of offending Windows extensions that are not unhidden even if "Show all extensions" is used.
Just because we require a universe, everyone starts to think that it is a requirement for all life. :-)
Shouldn't the images be less angled than this? If the satellite is 423 miles above the surface, then shouldn't I see the tops of buildings and less of the sides? It looks like Ultima 5.
Does this even make sense?
For being overhyped, I certainly didn't hear about it until yesterday courtesy of /.
I can't be the only one.