Suppose you decided you'd give each english letter a randomly assigned 8 bit number to send your secret messages how long do you think it would take a cryptographer to crack it with a reasonable chunk of text. (hint not very long)
given that how long do you think it would take them to figure out ASCII which puts the entire english alphabet in order?
copy it from one media format to the next BEFORE the old one dissapears or keep your data on your hard drives and copy it to your new ones each time you upgrade.
Low capacity removable media like floppies and to some extent CDs is the enemy of data preservation because it makes the job of copying stuff to fresh media require far more human labour.
IIRC they are giving away thouer browser to PC (both windows and linux) and MAC users but they are not giving it away for other platforms. Presumablly thier aim is to gain mindshare (among both users and web developers) with thier free PC browsers and then sell browsers for platforms like mobiles either to the mobile vendors or direct to end users.
yeah libraries can be a pita even if you can get an issue patched there are still deployment issues.
i'm not sure how this is specific to OSS though. Indeed with a closed source library you don't even have the option of shipping a custom version.
OSS gives you options if the upstream devs decide to screw you, how much those options are worth depends on how easy to get into the code is, if anyone else is interested and how much time/money you have to spend.
i'd say that depends on the type of propane stove.
some of the ones that sit on top of a small gas bottle require extreme care as they are not very stable. OTOH something that has a couple of rings, a seperate gas bottle and is flat and stable shouldn't be a problem
i must admit i haven't been keeping up on the details of NDS hacking and the items listed at those links don't seem to correspond with anything i saw last time i looked into this.
but bearing in mind that a GBA can be had for about £20 round here its unlikely to be cheaper than one to get all the bits you need.
hmm all etherkillers i've seen before have had a joint in them but i can't see one in that one.
the mains plug is moulded and i'd think it would be damn near impossible to terminate mains flex in a rj45 and also i don't see any wires running down the rj45 though its hard to tell.
I think they just stuffed the mains flex into the boot of the rj45 without actually terminating it not really made an etherkiller.
there are but iirc you need both a GBA flashcart and either a special bridge device or a very specific wireless nic to hack your DS into running unofficial software in DS mode.
the cost of getting that kit will almost certainly be more than the cost of a GBA.
are you enough of an idiot to be fooled by that parody site or simply posting for effect.
"dihydrogen monoxide" is just another name for water. The point of that site is to show how by selective use of facts its posible to make anything sound demonic even if its something that is essential for life.
P.S. can't say i particularlly like the new interface on/.:(
yeah whilst lazer pointers are usefull presentation tools it seems a very bad idea to give one each out to a huge unruly first year (you yanks call it freshman i belive) class.
its certinaly possible to make a virus that infects source and probbally possible to make one that infects distribution isos as well (though this is tricky because of the extreme size of the files and the huge variation in structure between distros.
if there is code inside it that will be run and you know its structure and there isn't some kind of integrity verification process that you can't get at to comprimise you can infect it.
so if you bother to partition your usage into *MULTIPLE* user accounts (or your box has users other than yourself) limited privilages a good thing.
but saving a reinstall is not really that huge an advantage if all your data is gone which it will be if you just run a single user account (which afaict most users do).
i'm guessing they did it as a test to see what would happen if they made thier browser free.
one other thing i just loaded a copy of opera on a uni machine that lists as unregistered and i'm pretty damn sure was from before this announcement and yet i saw no adverts (i did see an ugly white space but it wasn't as big as i remember the ad banners being).
update: no a banner has just appeared in that browser took a while though.
i didn't get any links for the running shoe when i searched for just samba.
However if someone is looking for the running shoe and gets a whole load of irrelevent computing links a sponsored link would be the only relavent thing on the page and therefore likely to get clicked on.
You put batteries filled with acid inside your remotes every day, have you ever seen one of those things explode? Its quite nasty not had them explode but have had them leak and they are pretty strong acids.
i tend to stick to alkaline batteries as i'm pretty sure that the mix inside them is alkali rather than acid and therefore less damaging to metal contacts if they leak.
if it runs on raw petrol methonol or whatever then you are right. If you have to buy the stuff in some form of cartridge then it could get more expensive. Think printer cartridge type costs here.
afaict the real problems with flying cars are as follows.
cost (both of the car itself and getting the license) danger (real or percived) takeoff/landing (i doubt they would ever wan't people taking off from public roads even if it were feasible to take off without extending wings of some sort which would mean you'd have to fly between airfields then take the wings off and drive through the heavy traffic anyway to reach your desitnation)
I am mystified by the suggestion that traditional encyclopedias are "closed and opaque". The information they contain is available to anyone who owns a copy, or has access to a public library. There is no obfuscation of the information encyclopedias contain in a way that one could describe as "opaque". no the text itself isn't obfuscated but the details of how it developed often are.
with wikipedia if its important to you then you can read both the history of edits and the discussions about those edits before making your descision on if you should trust it or not.
differentiation is easy because there are simple rule for differentiating functions of functions and products of two functions so if you know how to differentiate the individual functions you can differentiate basically any combination of them.
with integration there are no such rules so integration consists of guessing what methods to use and hoping you get to an answer which may not even exist. or you know the answer from past differentiation of something else.
are there integrations that have been done by a human but can't be done by programs like mathematica. I'd guess the answer is probablly a yes though i don't know for sure as i've never used mathematica or studied really advanced maths.
ok seems debian has a slightly different interpretation of the standard to redhat/mandrake then or redhat/mandrakes packagers were just lazy.
in debian lsb depends on lsb-core which depends on a mail transport agent but doesn't specify which one (there is a specific one in an or with mail transport agent to help some package management tools pick one to install as a dependency).
i belive debian have a rule that any MTA whose/usr/bin/sendmail doesn't comply with LSB requirements must be set up with a conflicts so it can't be installed at the same time as the LSB packages but i could be wrong.
having just looked up AJAX it looks like you'd still have to request on a timer or use some pretty dirty trickery to make this work for true dynamic updating. (e.g. where updates are something that come from the server not something that happen in response to user input).
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Suppose you decided you'd give each english letter a randomly assigned 8 bit number to send your secret messages how long do you think it would take a cryptographer to crack it with a reasonable chunk of text. (hint not very long)
given that how long do you think it would take them to figure out ASCII which puts the entire english alphabet in order?
copy it from one media format to the next BEFORE the old one dissapears or keep your data on your hard drives and copy it to your new ones each time you upgrade.
Low capacity removable media like floppies and to some extent CDs is the enemy of data preservation because it makes the job of copying stuff to fresh media require far more human labour.
IIRC they are giving away thouer browser to PC (both windows and linux) and MAC users but they are not giving it away for other platforms. Presumablly thier aim is to gain mindshare (among both users and web developers) with thier free PC browsers and then sell browsers for platforms like mobiles either to the mobile vendors or direct to end users.
yeah libraries can be a pita even if you can get an issue patched there are still deployment issues.
i'm not sure how this is specific to OSS though. Indeed with a closed source library you don't even have the option of shipping a custom version.
OSS gives you options if the upstream devs decide to screw you, how much those options are worth depends on how easy to get into the code is, if anyone else is interested and how much time/money you have to spend.
i'm sure i was told that wet jeans are terrible for this, maybe you should consider some other type of trowsers.
i'd say that depends on the type of propane stove.
some of the ones that sit on top of a small gas bottle require extreme care as they are not very stable. OTOH something that has a couple of rings, a seperate gas bottle and is flat and stable shouldn't be a problem
sure they could but that would add hugely to the cost and force the thing to be a pretty much permanent fixture of the room.
the list of comments posted on the user page is no longer full width so there is a really ugly white gap next to it.
the reply form is now so much bulkier that i generally have to scroll down before i can enter my post.
i must admit i haven't been keeping up on the details of NDS hacking and the items listed at those links don't seem to correspond with anything i saw last time i looked into this.
but bearing in mind that a GBA can be had for about £20 round here its unlikely to be cheaper than one to get all the bits you need.
hmm all etherkillers i've seen before have had a joint in them but i can't see one in that one.
the mains plug is moulded and i'd think it would be damn near impossible to terminate mains flex in a rj45 and also i don't see any wires running down the rj45 though its hard to tell.
I think they just stuffed the mains flex into the boot of the rj45 without actually terminating it not really made an etherkiller.
there are but iirc you need both a GBA flashcart and either a special bridge device or a very specific wireless nic to hack your DS into running unofficial software in DS mode.
the cost of getting that kit will almost certainly be more than the cost of a GBA.
are you enough of an idiot to be fooled by that parody site or simply posting for effect.
/. :(
"dihydrogen monoxide" is just another name for water. The point of that site is to show how by selective use of facts its posible to make anything sound demonic even if its something that is essential for life.
P.S. can't say i particularlly like the new interface on
yeah whilst lazer pointers are usefull presentation tools it seems a very bad idea to give one each out to a huge unruly first year (you yanks call it freshman i belive) class.
its certinaly possible to make a virus that infects source and probbally possible to make one that infects distribution isos as well (though this is tricky because of the extreme size of the files and the huge variation in structure between distros.
if there is code inside it that will be run and you know its structure and there isn't some kind of integrity verification process that you can't get at to comprimise you can infect it.
so if you bother to partition your usage into *MULTIPLE* user accounts (or your box has users other than yourself) limited privilages a good thing.
but saving a reinstall is not really that huge an advantage if all your data is gone which it will be if you just run a single user account (which afaict most users do).
i'm guessing they did it as a test to see what would happen if they made thier browser free.
one other thing i just loaded a copy of opera on a uni machine that lists as unregistered and i'm pretty damn sure was from before this announcement and yet i saw no adverts (i did see an ugly white space but it wasn't as big as i remember the ad banners being).
update: no a banner has just appeared in that browser took a while though.
i didn't get any links for the running shoe when i searched for just samba.
However if someone is looking for the running shoe and gets a whole load of irrelevent computing links a sponsored link would be the only relavent thing on the page and therefore likely to get clicked on.
(and Car not) ;)
was that a typo or where you trying to make a joke?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carnot_heat_engine
You put batteries filled with acid inside your remotes every day, have you ever seen one of those things explode? Its quite nasty
not had them explode but have had them leak and they are pretty strong acids.
i tend to stick to alkaline batteries as i'm pretty sure that the mix inside them is alkali rather than acid and therefore less damaging to metal contacts if they leak.
if it runs on raw petrol methonol or whatever then you are right. If you have to buy the stuff in some form of cartridge then it could get more expensive. Think printer cartridge type costs here.
afaict the real problems with flying cars are as follows.
cost (both of the car itself and getting the license)
danger (real or percived)
takeoff/landing (i doubt they would ever wan't people taking off from public roads even if it were feasible to take off without extending wings of some sort which would mean you'd have to fly between airfields then take the wings off and drive through the heavy traffic anyway to reach your desitnation)
I am mystified by the suggestion that traditional encyclopedias are "closed and opaque". The information they contain is available to anyone who owns a copy, or has access to a public library. There is no obfuscation of the information encyclopedias contain in a way that one could describe as "opaque".
no the text itself isn't obfuscated but the details of how it developed often are.
with wikipedia if its important to you then you can read both the history of edits and the discussions about those edits before making your descision on if you should trust it or not.
differentiation is easy because there are simple rule for differentiating functions of functions and products of two functions so if you know how to differentiate the individual functions you can differentiate basically any combination of them.
with integration there are no such rules so integration consists of guessing what methods to use and hoping you get to an answer which may not even exist. or you know the answer from past differentiation of something else.
are there integrations that have been done by a human but can't be done by programs like mathematica. I'd guess the answer is probablly a yes though i don't know for sure as i've never used mathematica or studied really advanced maths.
ok seems debian has a slightly different interpretation of the standard to redhat/mandrake then or redhat/mandrakes packagers were just lazy.
/usr/bin/sendmail doesn't comply with LSB requirements must be set up with a conflicts so it can't be installed at the same time as the LSB packages but i could be wrong.
in debian lsb depends on lsb-core which depends on a mail transport agent but doesn't specify which one (there is a specific one in an or with mail transport agent to help some package management tools pick one to install as a dependency).
i belive debian have a rule that any MTA whose
having just looked up AJAX it looks like you'd still have to request on a timer or use some pretty dirty trickery to make this work for true dynamic updating. (e.g. where updates are something that come from the server not something that happen in response to user input).