I might send a malformed SMS that encodes a 200-byte message
No, you can't.
Messages are sent with the MAP mo- and mt-ForwardSM operations, whose payload length is limited by the constraints of the signalling protocol to precisely 140 octets (140 octets = 140 * 8 bits = 1120 bits).
At the same time, we have to realize that in certain instances it is truly very difficult, or even impossible to read the written text well and find its true meaning, even if we do have the knowledge of the rules of this writing and reading and also use the only good key leading there, which is the Hungarian language in establishing the sound values. After all, we are dealing with the spiritual heritage of a world of 4-5000 years ago; the workings of the minds of the people then was completely different from ours. This difficulty can be bridged only if we become thoroughly familiar with the belief system, statesmanship of the ages BC. It is for this reason that when we do translate a text we must sometimes add lengthy explanations to a given sentence. The following examples will clarify this statement.
The Egyptian and Sumerian texts frequently use the following names of their Sungod: Égúr, Székúr, Kerek Úr, Napúr, Õsúr, Magúr, Útúr, Honúr, Szemúr, Égetõ Úr, Vörös Szemû and some at least twenty more expressions. Western scholars who are not familiar with the key-language understand only the Úr suffix of these words which they translate as God. They also believe that as many such words with Úr endings exist, that many gods were worshipped by the ancients. For them there is a God An, God Utu, God Sek and so on. Anyone familiar with the key-language and the ancients' religion will recognize these words as the names of the same Sungod; the ancients stressed one of the Sungod's characteristics and function by a given name. We may compare this practice to the Roman Catholic Church's practice to call God the Father in his creative capacity, the Son is his redemptive function and the Holy Spirit as his sanctifying function. We will fully understand the Sungod's many names if we are familiar with the concepts of the ancients concerning the Sungod. According to them, the sun, this heavenly body is God's visible picture. Since this picture appears round, they name him Kerek Úr (Round Lord). Since the Sun brightens everything and sees everything, like a giant eye another name of his is Szemúr (Occulate Lord). Since his eye is pairless, they call him Egyszemû (One Eyed), according to the sun's color Vörös Szemû (Red Eyed) and since the Sun resides in the sky they also called him Égi Szem or Égszem (Eye of Heavens). When they contemplated its immense heat they called him Égetõ Úr (Scorching Lord) and Sütõ Úr (Shining Lord). They also believed that he is the only Lord in his world so they called him Honúr (Lord of his Home) and Égi Király (King of Heavens). As they saw the apparent motion as he rises in the morning his name then was Ra-Kel (Ra rises), the rising on the eastern borders Kel-Út (The Road of Rising/East) where he sits down onto his chair: Szék-Úr (Lord of the Chair or the Seated/Settled Lord), later on he sits into his chariot and travels the shiny roads of the skies: Útúr (Lord of the Road) and when he finished his daily journey and reaches the west: Nyug-Út (Resting/Western Road) and as he sinks below the horizon: Esút, Este (The Falling/Evening Road, Evening). As we clarify this section of their belief everything becomes clearer and also realize that the ancients whose religion was connected with the Sun were never polytheistic, they only had one God.
When I read this my first impression, though admittedly not an informed one, was "you mean people pay to use FAT?"
No they don't. At least, nobody I've ever heard of. Also, do US patents apply to imported software? Say, I download OpenBSD from [insert patent-free country here], then I use that to build my own product, am I infringing?
Terraforming kind of loses its purpose if you have to nuke the planet to oblivion afterwards. Unless of course you have a better way of generating a strong enough wave.
I can't remember the last time my photo ID was *required*, except possibly to put on my driver's license (so, by a government-only department that already had all the information about me it required), and my driving license has *never* been requested or required for anything. I don't have *anything* else with my photo on, at all. I'm pretty sure the only other "photo ID" I've ever had was a student card, because it got me student discounts. Even that was optional.
I take it you don't open bank accounts too often, travel internationally, or buy cigarettes and alcohol. Being a smoker kind of made it a necessity when I started travelling around. The £100 really is fucked up though.
Having a standard format for an ID maybe be useful, but then the next step is to require people to carry it, and then making it a crime to not present that to a police officer when requested.
So what? This is already the case in Hungary. Makes catching wanted criminals easier, too. If you don't have it on you when a police officer asks for it, you either earned yourself a trip to the police station to clarify your identity, or tell them you live near enough for them to escort you home. It's not an offense, just an inconvenience. This is admittedly a remnant from the socialist regime, but it actually does more good than harm, since most of these checks take place at night, and the officers can't be bothered to check everyone, only those who look shady.
In all other cases, it works exactly like a photo ID you already have.
What's all the uproar about ID cards? It's not like you don't use photo ID (and credit cards) everywhere already. This looks like it just standardizes the process.
You are assuming the people were accustomed to, or at least had heard of the open source alternatives before turning to piracy.
No, I just assume that if they search for "Photoshop", "Gimp" is not a search result by any reasonable standard.
I don't think people accustomed to open source software turn to pirating their commercial alternatives that often.
Wrong again. Case in point: me, virtualbox and vmware. Many of us who know about Open Source, also know which tool is the best for the task. License is secondary, especially if you don't live in the US.
Personally I don't really approve of piracy because it hurts Open Source alternatives and wouldn't trust anything downloaded from PB to not have trojans on it these days.
See what this phrase did to us? Free Software was about freedom, giving the users choice, and all those warm and fuzzies. Open Source can be hurt if the users decide what they want.
P.S. I've seen more trojans from Sony and retail games.
What irritates me is that all the browsers I've ever heard of run everything they can by default. The only distro coming even close to something sane is Gentoo with the "restrict-javascript" USE flag with firefox (that pulls in noscript, but still does not enable it by default).
Of course I can't know about everything, feel free to correct me.
You almost have to wonder if this scares the crap out of the powers that be. That something they created could, in theory, be something that fuels their eventual downfall, (assuming things ever got really bad....)
You can't really fight tanks with Twitter, you know.
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Just look at software. How many developers learn to code without looking at examples? And why does good documentation contain lots of those?
Face it: once you've seen some code, from that point on everything you write can be considered a remix of all those, coupled with your own ideas.
Nope. Imagine Vista on this.
I might send a malformed SMS that encodes a 200-byte message
No, you can't.
Messages are sent with the MAP mo- and mt-ForwardSM operations, whose payload length is limited by the constraints of the signalling protocol to precisely 140 octets (140 octets = 140 * 8 bits = 1120 bits).
Who the fuck though it would be a good idea to automatically execute the content of a message you have no control over whatsoever?
Sumerian cannot be "completely" translated (whatever that means)
At least we can try from a different perspective:
At the same time, we have to realize that in certain instances it is truly very difficult, or even impossible to read the written text well and find its true meaning, even if we do have the knowledge of the rules of this writing and reading and also use the only good key leading there, which is the Hungarian language in establishing the sound values. After all, we are dealing with the spiritual heritage of a world of 4-5000 years ago; the workings of the minds of the people then was completely different from ours. This difficulty can be bridged only if we become thoroughly familiar with the belief system, statesmanship of the ages BC. It is for this reason that when we do translate a text we must sometimes add lengthy explanations to a given sentence. The following examples will clarify this statement.
The Egyptian and Sumerian texts frequently use the following names of their Sungod: Égúr, Székúr, Kerek Úr, Napúr, Õsúr, Magúr, Útúr, Honúr, Szemúr, Égetõ Úr, Vörös Szemû and some at least twenty more expressions. Western scholars who are not familiar with the key-language understand only the Úr suffix of these words which they translate as God. They also believe that as many such words with Úr endings exist, that many gods were worshipped by the ancients. For them there is a God An, God Utu, God Sek and so on. Anyone familiar with the key-language and the ancients' religion will recognize these words as the names of the same Sungod; the ancients stressed one of the Sungod's characteristics and function by a given name. We may compare this practice to the Roman Catholic Church's practice to call God the Father in his creative capacity, the Son is his redemptive function and the Holy Spirit as his sanctifying function. We will fully understand the Sungod's many names if we are familiar with the concepts of the ancients concerning the Sungod. According to them, the sun, this heavenly body is God's visible picture. Since this picture appears round, they name him Kerek Úr (Round Lord). Since the Sun brightens everything and sees everything, like a giant eye another name of his is Szemúr (Occulate Lord). Since his eye is pairless, they call him Egyszemû (One Eyed), according to the sun's color Vörös Szemû (Red Eyed) and since the Sun resides in the sky they also called him Égi Szem or Égszem (Eye of Heavens). When they contemplated its immense heat they called him Égetõ Úr (Scorching Lord) and Sütõ Úr (Shining Lord). They also believed that he is the only Lord in his world so they called him Honúr (Lord of his Home) and Égi Király (King of Heavens). As they saw the apparent motion as he rises in the morning his name then was Ra-Kel (Ra rises), the rising on the eastern borders Kel-Út (The Road of Rising/East) where he sits down onto his chair: Szék-Úr (Lord of the Chair or the Seated/Settled Lord), later on he sits into his chariot and travels the shiny roads of the skies: Útúr (Lord of the Road) and when he finished his daily journey and reaches the west: Nyug-Út (Resting/Western Road) and as he sinks below the horizon: Esút, Este (The Falling/Evening Road, Evening). As we clarify this section of their belief everything becomes clearer and also realize that the ancients whose religion was connected with the Sun were never polytheistic, they only had one God.
Nevertheless, the cat is out of the bag now. There will be those who support <video>, and those who don't. And those who don't, will disappear.
And to "throw a chair".
1. Allow everyone in the world to sniff my browsing history.
2. give up the ability to see my own browsing history.
How about
3. treat this as a serious security risk and act accordingly (report the bug and use the browser that comes out first with a patch)
When I read this my first impression, though admittedly not an informed one, was "you mean people pay to use FAT?"
No they don't. At least, nobody I've ever heard of. Also, do US patents apply to imported software? Say, I download OpenBSD from [insert patent-free country here], then I use that to build my own product, am I infringing?
Is an EMP effective against nanorobots?
Terraforming kind of loses its purpose if you have to nuke the planet to oblivion afterwards. Unless of course you have a better way of generating a strong enough wave.
So, now we have an American agency, operating within America, and recording American telephone conversations without oversight of law.
And no manpower to do anything useful with it.
I can't remember the last time my photo ID was *required*, except possibly to put on my driver's license (so, by a government-only department that already had all the information about me it required), and my driving license has *never* been requested or required for anything. I don't have *anything* else with my photo on, at all. I'm pretty sure the only other "photo ID" I've ever had was a student card, because it got me student discounts. Even that was optional.
I take it you don't open bank accounts too often, travel internationally, or buy cigarettes and alcohol. Being a smoker kind of made it a necessity when I started travelling around. The £100 really is fucked up though.
Having a standard format for an ID maybe be useful, but then the next step is to require people to carry it, and then making it a crime to not present that to a police officer when requested.
So what? This is already the case in Hungary. Makes catching wanted criminals easier, too. If you don't have it on you when a police officer asks for it, you either earned yourself a trip to the police station to clarify your identity, or tell them you live near enough for them to escort you home. It's not an offense, just an inconvenience. This is admittedly a remnant from the socialist regime, but it actually does more good than harm, since most of these checks take place at night, and the officers can't be bothered to check everyone, only those who look shady.
In all other cases, it works exactly like a photo ID you already have.
What's all the uproar about ID cards? It's not like you don't use photo ID (and credit cards) everywhere already. This looks like it just standardizes the process.
How do these folks break even if the data will be free to download and use?
As it stands right now, the US government won't.
You are assuming the people were accustomed to, or at least had heard of the open source alternatives before turning to piracy.
No, I just assume that if they search for "Photoshop", "Gimp" is not a search result by any reasonable standard.
I don't think people accustomed to open source software turn to pirating their commercial alternatives that often.
Wrong again. Case in point: me, virtualbox and vmware. Many of us who know about Open Source, also know which tool is the best for the task. License is secondary, especially if you don't live in the US.
Personally I don't really approve of piracy because it hurts Open Source alternatives and wouldn't trust anything downloaded from PB to not have trojans on it these days.
See what this phrase did to us? Free Software was about freedom, giving the users choice, and all those warm and fuzzies. Open Source can be hurt if the users decide what they want.
P.S. I've seen more trojans from Sony and retail games.
http://xkcd.com/326/
What irritates me is that all the browsers I've ever heard of run everything they can by default. The only distro coming even close to something sane is Gentoo with the "restrict-javascript" USE flag with firefox (that pulls in noscript, but still does not enable it by default).
Of course I can't know about everything, feel free to correct me.
There are more seeders for porn.
Whenever the ad servers get to a critical overusage point, replace them with a set of text ads.
Except you want to get paid for banners especially when you got the most visitors.
Exactly. What ads?
Sounds like a job for... Google!
Though I'd be happier if they released it in at least two major formats.
Either the tanks stop, or the next place the people meet is outside Mahmoud Ahmadinejads' house with brick and chain.
Assuming their army either runs out of bullets or refuses to shoot, and of course that there are actually enough people willing to risk their lives.
You almost have to wonder if this scares the crap out of the powers that be. That something they created could, in theory, be something that fuels their eventual downfall, (assuming things ever got really bad....)
You can't really fight tanks with Twitter, you know.