Well, they did crack (gain unauthorized root-level access to) all the 560 boxes on this DoS network, correct? And since they so far have not actually BEGUN a DoS attack on anyone, the only crime they've committed so far is cracking.
Google's caching system is great for those informative web-sites that dropped off the net, are temporarily down, or just really slow. It's also nice for sites that rotate their content, because even if the current site no longer has the info you were looking for (or they do, but it's archived somehwere deep in the site) the Google cache has it, and with all your keywords highlighted.
Hmm... You know how new users are always saying "I've got the Internet IN my computer"? Well, I guess Google really does.
Given the [car|bike|skates|skiis|etc.] that these guys are using, and the time that they've thrown into [becoming an expert at using it] I could probably kick ass with the best of them.
OK. So go win an Olympic(tm) ski jump medal. Should be about as easy as winning a national quake championship. Just takes a lot of practice, right? Anybody call fall down a hill...
BattleBots is fun (I went to the live taping of a show here in San Francisco), but it's not very impressive, technology-wise. My main problem with it is that the robots are just radio-controlled by humans, so it doesn't get into any of the interesting problems that other events like RoboCup do (sensing, reacting, making goals(heh)). It's just like radio controlled cars with buzz-saws bolted on (which IS fun, but I wouldn't really call them robots).
When I was an irresponsible teenager I used to put small chunks of dry ice (maybe a cup's worth) into an empty 2 liter plastic soda bottle, pour in some hot water, screw on the top, and get back. A couple minutes of nervous anticipation, and the thing would blow like a mother fornicator. Those soda bottles can really hold a lot of pressure.
One thing I never tried (but thought would be cool) would be to weigh the bottle down, and toss it in to a body of water after screwing the top on. Shallow water = big splash! Deep water = dunno...
You had hands? We had to write on our stubs! And we didn't have pencils, so we had to use sharp rocks. And we had jokes like this that went on so long they weren't funny anymore. And those were the funny jokes!
from the google cache of the site:
"an array of beneficial potential applications: provide a tamper-proof means of locating and identifying individuals for e-business and e-commerce security"
what the FUCK does that mean? any way i interpret that, it sounds pretty freakin scary. are they talking about tagging employees or customers?
yeah, specially cause if you have one and someone wants to disable it (like if they kidnapped you -- yow, i've been watching too much tv) i think it might hurt a LITTLE more to remove an implant. you know that once these things are actually being sold any serious x-files watching kidnapper would check for an implant (even if they don't have a special implant detector, i bet a metal detecter would work).
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I don't see how people using most non-Micros~1 OSes have that choice. - they don't have any IE5 available!
I imagine you were refering to linux, but I just wanted to point out that the MacOS has IE5, and it is badass! =) I just assumed that IE on Windows would be the same, but I was sorely disappointed when I started using my Win2k notebook. I can't wait till the PC version of IE catches up with the Mac version (I have no idea why MS would have it still lagging behind). The PC version is pretty clunky, and I can see why many PC users prefer Netscape (there is NO competition on the Mac side: Netscape SUCKS!).
If you've never used Mac IE5, you should find someone with a Mac and check it out. I think it may be the best browser on any platform.
if you are even just decent enough at your job that things aren't falling apart, you should be getting at least 2-3 times that. if you are good, more like 4-5 times.
maybe you don't have a lot of experience at 19, but if you can do the job you should be getting a real salary. but then, if you're happy with 21k i'm sure your "state-spanning" morgage broker employer is happy to pay you that.
There are a small number of us who can see or distinguish fewer colors than average... so what?
It's not a HUGE deal, but it can definitely be annoying. All too often in maps and charts graphic designers will use colors that have equal values (light/dark levels) and only different hues. If you are colorblind, it makes it very hard to tell the difference. The designers can fix this easily by using colors with differing values (as well as differing hues). And as another poster pointed out, those color codes on transistors are a pain! I have to carefully compare them to ones I know the value of.
It's not urgent, but if there was a relatively easy way to fix colorblindless, I'd be up for it.
we don't really know if colorblinds are really colorblind - their spectrum might just be tuned to a different range.
Umm, isn't that same thing?
I'm (somewhat) colorblind, and playing Super Puzzle Fighter is a bitch! Maybe i can see more types of orange or something, but that's not much of a consolation when I'm getting the mega block smack down.
I think that's one of your standard triping-out-on-drugs thoughts, along with "how can the universe be inifititely big, but then if it isn't, is there like a wall or something? whoa...." and "are there anymore brownies?".
I think the laws can be written to deal with intent, so anyone who creates something with the *intent* of distributing the source code could be charged.
Ob. Analogy: It is illegal to take a gun and murder someone, but it's *also* illegal to setup a little rube goldberg device so that when the person opens a door, a rope pulls something off a shelf, that lands on the remote, which turns on the tv, which scares the dog, whose leash is attached to the trigger, so that when he runs across the room, the gun goes off. If your intent was the murder, then you will end up in jail.
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energy available is not a limiting factor. One practical limit is that the highly excited states are very closely spaced in energy
Yikes! So a core dump might involve a rather large mushroom cloud?
- Isaac =)
Well, they did crack (gain unauthorized root-level access to) all the 560 boxes on this DoS network, correct? And since they so far have not actually BEGUN a DoS attack on anyone, the only crime they've committed so far is cracking.
- Isaac =)
Google's caching system is great for those informative web-sites that dropped off the net, are temporarily down, or just really slow. It's also nice for sites that rotate their content, because even if the current site no longer has the info you were looking for (or they do, but it's archived somehwere deep in the site) the Google cache has it, and with all your keywords highlighted.
Hmm... You know how new users are always saying "I've got the Internet IN my computer"? Well, I guess Google really does.
- Isaac =)
Given the [car|bike|skates|skiis|etc.] that these guys are using, and the time that they've thrown into [becoming an expert at using it] I could probably kick ass with the best of them.
OK. So go win an Olympic(tm) ski jump medal. Should be about as easy as winning a national quake championship. Just takes a lot of practice, right? Anybody call fall down a hill...
- Isaac =)
You better keep shopping with us, or we'll go out of business and tell the whole WORLD what you've been buying!
- Isaac =)
http://www.realdoll.com/
Honey, I'm home!
- Isaac =)
BattleBots is fun (I went to the live taping of a show here in San Francisco), but it's not very impressive, technology-wise. My main problem with it is that the robots are just radio-controlled by humans, so it doesn't get into any of the interesting problems that other events like RoboCup do (sensing, reacting, making goals(heh)). It's just like radio controlled cars with buzz-saws bolted on (which IS fun, but I wouldn't really call them robots).
- Isaac =)
They won the orginal case, and an appeal, but the case was later thrown out because of a technicality.
LOTS of details on the case:
http://www.sonic.net/sentinel/gvcon7.html
- Isaac =)
2000-08-19 21:41:17 Buzzz... Vibrate that Mouse (articles,news) (rejected)
Two days ago. And I even got the name (iFeel) right. And added a link to the iBrator.
Not that I'm bitter...
- Isaac =)
Hemos said: "course then we'd just take an image, resize and upload it".
That was you? Bitch!
- isaac =)
Dry ice in a sealed container is also dangerous
When I was an irresponsible teenager I used to put small chunks of dry ice (maybe a cup's worth) into an empty 2 liter plastic soda bottle, pour in some hot water, screw on the top, and get back. A couple minutes of nervous anticipation, and the thing would blow like a mother fornicator. Those soda bottles can really hold a lot of pressure.
One thing I never tried (but thought would be cool) would be to weigh the bottle down, and toss it in to a body of water after screwing the top on. Shallow water = big splash! Deep water = dunno...
We had to write on our hands.
You had hands? We had to write on our stubs! And we didn't have pencils, so we had to use sharp rocks. And we had jokes like this that went on so long they weren't funny anymore. And those were the funny jokes!
- Isaac =)
from the google cache of the site:
"an array of beneficial potential applications: provide a tamper-proof means of locating and identifying individuals for e-business and e-commerce security"
what the FUCK does that mean? any way i interpret that, it sounds pretty freakin scary. are they talking about tagging employees or customers?
- isaac =)
yeah, specially cause if you have one and someone wants to disable it (like if they kidnapped you -- yow, i've been watching too much tv) i think it might hurt a LITTLE more to remove an implant. you know that once these things are actually being sold any serious x-files watching kidnapper would check for an implant (even if they don't have a special implant detector, i bet a metal detecter would work).
- isaac =)
I don't see how people using most non-Micros~1 OSes have that choice. - they don't have any IE5 available!
I imagine you were refering to linux, but I just wanted to point out that the MacOS has IE5, and it is badass! =) I just assumed that IE on Windows would be the same, but I was sorely disappointed when I started using my Win2k notebook. I can't wait till the PC version of IE catches up with the Mac version (I have no idea why MS would have it still lagging behind). The PC version is pretty clunky, and I can see why many PC users prefer Netscape (there is NO competition on the Mac side: Netscape SUCKS!).
If you've never used Mac IE5, you should find someone with a Mac and check it out. I think it may be the best browser on any platform.
- Isaac =)
if you are even just decent enough at your job that things aren't falling apart, you should be getting at least 2-3 times that. if you are good, more like 4-5 times.
maybe you don't have a lot of experience at 19, but if you can do the job you should be getting a real salary. but then, if you're happy with 21k i'm sure your "state-spanning" morgage broker employer is happy to pay you that.
- isaac =)
there's an urban legend that ingestion of LSD cures color-blindness
Hmm... I'll have to make sure there's a color blindess test thingie (with the little red and green circles) around next time and see if that's true.
- Isaac =)
There are a small number of us who can see or distinguish fewer colors than average... so what?
It's not a HUGE deal, but it can definitely be annoying. All too often in maps and charts graphic designers will use colors that have equal values (light/dark levels) and only different hues. If you are colorblind, it makes it very hard to tell the difference. The designers can fix this easily by using colors with differing values (as well as differing hues). And as another poster pointed out, those color codes on transistors are a pain! I have to carefully compare them to ones I know the value of.
It's not urgent, but if there was a relatively easy way to fix colorblindless, I'd be up for it.
- Isaac =)
we don't really know if colorblinds are really colorblind - their spectrum might just be tuned to a different range.
Umm, isn't that same thing?
I'm (somewhat) colorblind, and playing Super Puzzle Fighter is a bitch! Maybe i can see more types of orange or something, but that's not much of a consolation when I'm getting the mega block smack down.
- Isaac =)
I think that's one of your standard triping-out-on-drugs thoughts, along with "how can the universe be inifititely big, but then if it isn't, is there like a wall or something? whoa...." and "are there anymore brownies?".
- isaac =)
transforms PA-8000 binary code into PA-8000 binary code
Hey, I've got a program right here that translates x86 binary code into x86 binary code at BLISTERING speeds!
It's called "copy".
- Isaac =)
hmm... so if we assume the second chute has the same reliability as the first, then you only have a .09% chance of making a big loud SPLAT.
- isaac =)
crazy-smart people that are an order of magnitude ahead of the crowd.
But there are a lot of crazy dumb people out there too. Have you ever watched Jerry Springer?
- Isaac =)
Notice that is says (my emphasis):
Apache/1.3.6 (Unix) mod_ssl/2.2.8 SSLeay/0.9.0b on Windows 2000
Shouldn't it says win32, NT or something like that?
- Isaac =)
I think the laws can be written to deal with intent, so anyone who creates something with the *intent* of distributing the source code could be charged.
Ob. Analogy: It is illegal to take a gun and murder someone, but it's *also* illegal to setup a little rube goldberg device so that when the person opens a door, a rope pulls something off a shelf, that lands on the remote, which turns on the tv, which scares the dog, whose leash is attached to the trigger, so that when he runs across the room, the gun goes off. If your intent was the murder, then you will end up in jail.
- Isaac =)