You know, if you just use it to run a vpn, there is this cool new and totally free OS called Linux that you might want to check out. Really, it's quite neat.
Here is my question: Don't capacitators discharge all of it's energy at once, just like it loads all of it's energy at once. For something to function similar to a battery it would require a slow but steady release of energy. So even if you could make a capacitator with the cojones to match a battery, wouldn't it instantly fry your computer?
Well yeah, ofcourse all of those things should be prioritized. But there are many organizations in the world trying (and not always succeeding) to do that. Why not spend a little money in another way, try another thing. Maybe it wont help at all, but maybe it will, and at the very least, it can't hurt.
We've tried to support the poorer parts of the world for many, many years with food and while it has undoubtedly saved millions (maybve billions) of lives the economy, with some exception, hasn't improved much. This might be a great way to get children to be interested in learning and maybe inspire some of them to get a higher education.
I think this is a great humanitarian initiative, showing that there is more to living than just staying alive. I'm not saying we should stop with the food, but this here is very much a Good Thing.
If you, you know, live in poverty, you probably don't care about the stylishness that much. Also, if you live in, say, Africa, you probably have gotten used to the color orange.
Actually there is. I remember reading this thing someone wrote about playing RPS against an "RPS-newbie". It said that you should always start with scissors because the other person will uncounciously make the connection that rock is the strongest position and then, "to be clever" use paper. Ergo, you should use scissors.
This wont win you all single round RPS games but statistically it's a good plan.
Well, technically, the Vernam cipher and the one time pad is slightly different, the Vernam cipher uses XOR where the one-time pad uses good ole' Vigenère style addition.
The cipher was invented by Gilbert Vernam, and I like using the term because it describes the general cipher instead of the one-time pad, which really is a much more restricted application of it. Also, I beliece that's the term David Kahn used most often in The Codebreakers, and who am I to argue with David Kahn:P. As a plus, it sounds way cooler.
And yes, obviously you are right. My point was that, used correctly (and it has been, several times, russian spies used this alot), the cipher is unbreakable. The cipher isn't useless, it just has limited application. As I said, russian spies used it alot back in the day, and even though we have had their encrypted communications for ~40 years, we still havent been able to break them. And we never will.
What, are you crazy??? Ofcourse they teach ciphers the US is unable to make! Hell, I never took crypto-courses at the university, and I can teach you a few that is practically unbreakable simply because I'm curious about this stuff.
Hell I'll teach you the Vernam cipher right now! For each message create a totally random string of letters as long as the message to serve as a key. Convert the letters in the key and the message to binary numbers, XOR them together, and convert them back to letters. Make sure the key was mindblowingly random (no PRNGs!) and that you never, ever, EVER! use the key again. To decrypt, just XOR the cipher with the key again.
The basic principle is this: in Sweden it is illegal for any council (that's what members of the swedish cabinet are officially called since historically they were councils to the king) to micromanage or in any way in influence individual officers or cases in their department. That is, the council of finance cannot go to Skatteverket (basically the IRS) and say "You shouldn't make John Smith pay taxes this year", and the council of justice cannot go to a police officer and say "Arrest that guy!".
This is legal in most countries like the UK and US but not in Sweden.
You know nothing of law do you? This is a principle called "separation of powers", ever heard of it? Saying that in Sweden it's illegal for police to take orders from politicians, is like saying that it is illegal for the US president to wiretap people without a warrant. It takes no great legal mind to figure that one out.
I would like to say that this is severely overstating Thomas Bodström's intentions. He is in favour of allowing more permissive wiretapping laws, but only because it's nigh impossible to get permission to bug anyone in Sweden. To say that he is a proponent of an orwellian big brother-society is completely false to the point of being libellous. I don't particularly like the guy, but please, lets not throw out falsehoods.
Also, I can tell you that the Swedish general population is nowhere near 90-10 in favour of the pirate bay (however, those are probably the correct numbers if you ask them "Was it right that the raid was ordered by another nation"). In such issues, the general population of Sweden is pretty much where the rest of the world is, you know, "You shouldn't steal".
Yeah, I'm sure the RIAA have never, ever heard of Demonoid.com. Make sure nobody says mininova. Damn! Now they're shut down too!
I would seriously doubt that there are any torrent sites with 500+ users that the RIAA/MPAA/whoever are not aware of. There is no risk whatsoever in saying a torrent-site's name in an open forum. Don't be a tool.
I never had a problem with Windows ME either. It rarely froze, I had no problem with drivers, and it was overall a pretty decent OS. That is, for me it was, I don't doubt that it was satan to others
You're interpreting the Due Process clause in a very narrow way, and it has been long held (atleast since Griswold v. Connecticut) that the due process clause protects much, much more than is specifically written down. It has been interpreted as liming the government on infringing inalienable natural rights of individuals. This is called substantive due process. This has been interpreted as protecting for instance privacy and abortion, aswell as the rest of the bill of rights.
This is the case: The government wishes to punish him for excercising his first amendment right. The government can't do that. It violates due process and the first amendment. It's really as simple as that.
It's not outrageous because he posted it on a blog, it's outrageous because this kid cannot express himself, like he has a constitutional right to, without getting punished for it by a government institution. We're not some crazy group of internet-maniacs that would have said "Ohh, it was in a newspaper. Well, then we don't care."
It's actually fairly offensive of you to suggest that this story got extra headlines because it was in a blog.
On an tangential note, I must say that the 14th amendment is one of the greatests parts of the american constitution. I mean, with that amendment they really got it right.
Really, it brilliantly captures what it means to live in a democratic society (it's not the only one ofcourse, the first, fourth and fifth amendments are also pretty vital). A nation cannot fuck with a persons civil liberties, they cannot abrige their rights only because a specific right isn't covered in the bill of rights, and they have to offer each and every person the Equal Protection under the laws.
It's basically saying "Fine, you don't like (abortion|homosexuality|sodomy|black people|privacy|integration|whatever), but you know what, it's a fundamental right in any democratic society. So stick your ignorant ideas up your bigoted ass." It's an awesome amendment.
My question is why can't this be done much more easily with suction instead? I mean like a hollow round thing you suck the air out of so you don't fall of. You see people in crime-movies all the time using that to remove glass they've just cut. That seems like a much more viable solution for a non-organic unit.
I can't comment on how it is in France, since I didn't study there, but I can tell you that here in Sweden, the universities are top-notch. There are a number of Swedish cities which are basically "university-towns" such as Lund where I studied. The campuses, the education, the university live, is just as good as anywhere in the world. To say that universities that are government funded are per definition worse is just plain wrong. I understand how americans would think that a university that is free is sup-par compared to that of a university that you have to pay enormous sums of money to go to, but it's simply not true. Sweden has some of the greatest universities in Europe (such as the Karolinska Institute who hands out the Nobel Prize in medicine, The Royal Institute of Technology and Chalmers to name a few), so I don't buy that argument one bit.
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You know, if you just use it to run a vpn, there is this cool new and totally free OS called Linux that you might want to check out. Really, it's quite neat.
Here is my question: Don't capacitators discharge all of it's energy at once, just like it loads all of it's energy at once. For something to function similar to a battery it would require a slow but steady release of energy. So even if you could make a capacitator with the cojones to match a battery, wouldn't it instantly fry your computer?
Ahh, crap, now I have not interest whatsoever in the story!
Well yeah, ofcourse all of those things should be prioritized. But there are many organizations in the world trying (and not always succeeding) to do that. Why not spend a little money in another way, try another thing. Maybe it wont help at all, but maybe it will, and at the very least, it can't hurt.
I think this is a great humanitarian initiative, showing that there is more to living than just staying alive. I'm not saying we should stop with the food, but this here is very much a Good Thing.
If you, you know, live in poverty, you probably don't care about the stylishness that much. Also, if you live in, say, Africa, you probably have gotten used to the color orange.
Yes, that's true, and that's why it works best on newbies, they don't think that far.
This wont win you all single round RPS games but statistically it's a good plan.
The agent could use TOR, that would pretty much guarantee his anonymity.
The cipher was invented by Gilbert Vernam, and I like using the term because it describes the general cipher instead of the one-time pad, which really is a much more restricted application of it. Also, I beliece that's the term David Kahn used most often in The Codebreakers, and who am I to argue with David Kahn :P. As a plus, it sounds way cooler.
And yes, obviously you are right. My point was that, used correctly (and it has been, several times, russian spies used this alot), the cipher is unbreakable. The cipher isn't useless, it just has limited application. As I said, russian spies used it alot back in the day, and even though we have had their encrypted communications for ~40 years, we still havent been able to break them. And we never will.
Hell I'll teach you the Vernam cipher right now! For each message create a totally random string of letters as long as the message to serve as a key. Convert the letters in the key and the message to binary numbers, XOR them together, and convert them back to letters. Make sure the key was mindblowingly random (no PRNGs!) and that you never, ever, EVER! use the key again. To decrypt, just XOR the cipher with the key again.
There, that's unbreakable. Completetly, 100%, mathematically proven, not-even-when-the-aliens-come-with-their-supercomp uters unbreakable.
So no, I'm fairly certain that they teach whatever they want.
We dual-boot so we can play WoW!
This is legal in most countries like the UK and US but not in Sweden.
You know nothing of law do you? This is a principle called "separation of powers", ever heard of it? Saying that in Sweden it's illegal for police to take orders from politicians, is like saying that it is illegal for the US president to wiretap people without a warrant. It takes no great legal mind to figure that one out.
Also, I can tell you that the Swedish general population is nowhere near 90-10 in favour of the pirate bay (however, those are probably the correct numbers if you ask them "Was it right that the raid was ordered by another nation"). In such issues, the general population of Sweden is pretty much where the rest of the world is, you know, "You shouldn't steal".
However, I'm fairly certain that requiring people to have wives to hire them would be illegal under swedish law. IANAL, but i'm pretty sure.
I did not know that, I guess you learn something every day. Would mod you informative, had I not already commented :P
More than Hotmail? Seriously?
I would seriously doubt that there are any torrent sites with 500+ users that the RIAA/MPAA/whoever are not aware of. There is no risk whatsoever in saying a torrent-site's name in an open forum. Don't be a tool.
I never had a problem with Windows ME either. It rarely froze, I had no problem with drivers, and it was overall a pretty decent OS. That is, for me it was, I don't doubt that it was satan to others
This is the case: The government wishes to punish him for excercising his first amendment right. The government can't do that. It violates due process and the first amendment. It's really as simple as that.
It's actually fairly offensive of you to suggest that this story got extra headlines because it was in a blog.
Really, it brilliantly captures what it means to live in a democratic society (it's not the only one ofcourse, the first, fourth and fifth amendments are also pretty vital). A nation cannot fuck with a persons civil liberties, they cannot abrige their rights only because a specific right isn't covered in the bill of rights, and they have to offer each and every person the Equal Protection under the laws.
It's basically saying "Fine, you don't like (abortion|homosexuality|sodomy|black people|privacy|integration|whatever), but you know what, it's a fundamental right in any democratic society. So stick your ignorant ideas up your bigoted ass." It's an awesome amendment.
My question is why can't this be done much more easily with suction instead? I mean like a hollow round thing you suck the air out of so you don't fall of. You see people in crime-movies all the time using that to remove glass they've just cut. That seems like a much more viable solution for a non-organic unit.
I can't comment on how it is in France, since I didn't study there, but I can tell you that here in Sweden, the universities are top-notch. There are a number of Swedish cities which are basically "university-towns" such as Lund where I studied. The campuses, the education, the university live, is just as good as anywhere in the world. To say that universities that are government funded are per definition worse is just plain wrong. I understand how americans would think that a university that is free is sup-par compared to that of a university that you have to pay enormous sums of money to go to, but it's simply not true. Sweden has some of the greatest universities in Europe (such as the Karolinska Institute who hands out the Nobel Prize in medicine, The Royal Institute of Technology and Chalmers to name a few), so I don't buy that argument one bit.