The stuff that you can put on these phones -BLEW MY MIND-.
It's insane, and you'll not believe it until you see it. First, dispel the idea that EDGE is slow as / slower than dial-up, it's much better. Even my podunk town of only five digit population within a fifteen mile area, and even further out of town, I get around or over 200 kbps.
Once you realize that, you realize, oh wow, all those web apps actually can work, even some crazy ones you wouldn't think would. And all the time people are coming up with new stuff.
If I hadn't received one as a gift this holiday season, I'd probably still be a skeptic. My return gift was to jailbreak the phone of my father who bought himself and I one. As a networking guy for most of his life, but a little out of the loop, he had no idea he wasn't just buying a cool phone, but something that runs a BSD kernel and can be manipulated just like any other OS. VNC? Samba? CHECK! It's the single most useful and capable device I've ever owned, and I think we're only cracking the surface here.
If I were to walk into a crowded theatre and hold up an enormous flashlight, an extremely bright LED, or worse, trigger as powerful a flash of white light as is currently possible with modern engineering, I would not only be kicked from the theatre, but I'd risk damaging those antennas of everyone in the room, not to mention interfering with the ability of everyone from seeing the picture on the screen.
It turns out your brain isn't as good a filter as you'd like, if you can't filter that out.
Smart money is on the patcher program just creating a diff of everything on the disk from their final configuration that they liked and the unmodified version. They probably filtered C:\Windows, but not C:\
Vista and Linux both have to poll the hardware devices to ensure that your computer still works if you switch around your hard drive cable, or if you have a new network card, or your motherboard changes, or even more drastic: you just dropped an old hard drive into a new computer.
I am not a quantum physicist, so I have to ask, what implications does this have for Quantum Physics and its many strange -and proven- predictions?
How does unifying Gravity with the Standard Model help us get towards a theory of everything that explains the large-scale effects of General Relativity with the small-scale effects of Quantum Physics? What is it about this particular representation that makes it a 'Theory of Everything,' as opposed to a new standard model that contains a definition of a graviton?
Could someone put this in layman's terms, or not-quite layman's terms?
What better ways can we think of then? Perhaps he could call local government offices. Perhaps he could contact embassy officials from various countries whose login data is being compromised in this way. He did both. (Apparently the only foreign government interested in his statements was Iran.)
Now, he had exhausted all of this easy options. He could have gone to the press, but I think you'll find it's a little harder to get on the national news, even in Sweden, with computechbabble as they understand it, and trying to make it relevant to their audience is awful hard. You only really need to speak to one group of people, the government, and they've already turned you down.
So he published a subset of the information he acquired and said to hell with it, deleting the rest, or so his blog says. Furthermore, he no longer believes that the information he acquired was directly form the embassies, but more likely it was information that an actual hacker or hackers had obtained, and then transmitted in plaintext over tor to maintain anonymity.
No one under sixteen permitted without a parent to any show after 9PM, no exceptions. G, PG, PG-13, R, all require anyone under sixteen to have a parent with them who can be responsible for them. Great policy implemented a number of years ago that has resulted in many thank-yous from regular customers.
In addition, no one under six permitted to R-rated movies, no exceptions. Again, same thing, great policy, no exceptions. It's not because we're liberal extremists part of a nanny corporation that thinks we should determine what you can show to your kids... it's because a while ago it was determined that children in R-rated movies were the number one annoyance to adults attending. Again, many thank-yous from regular customers.
Cell phones are impossible to police. Everyone has them. Always someone will forget to turn theirs off, and there are social groups that don't care at all and will chat in the movie theatre just because it's cool. (That's usually the age group that's just old enough to go to an R-rated movie without a parent.) There are so many idiots that come in to certain movies that appeal to that age group that it's a serious problem that a solution like a jammer would be great for. I would love nothing more than to be able to look out the port hole glass from the projection booth, point at a phone and have the damn thing's connection forcibly terminated. It'd be fucking heaven on earth for me. I would stroll around the projection booth constantly just waiting for the opportunity. These fuckers don't have any social conscience at all and dammit, if you have to communicate something while you're in a theatre, you can flip it open as discreetly as I do where no one can see the glare and text message someone. These assholes don't have any idea how bright a cell phone is in a dark theatre and it stands out like a somehow-lit glowstick at a rave party no one was invited to.
Yeah, wide-area jammers and Faraday-cage style construction is morally ambiguous, you are potentially causing a lot of grief if a necessary message needs to be transmitted, but there are certainly cases where I feel it's warranted too. Maybe the problem is that the FCC doesn't allow for any definition of private property to determine the signals present on just that property. Frankly, if I were a business-owner I would like to be able to say I could disallow a particular spectrum's use inside my own establishment. Additionally, any broadcast that doesn't leave that property shouldn't result in a fine, should it?
It's a tragedy of the commons in the theatre and that's why we kick people out for flipping them open all the time indiscreetly.
Simply put, the average Joe that walks into a theatre will not walk out of the theatre if they get a call from someone important. I think it's a social problem, yeah, but because it's -impossible- to catch everyone and simply "enforce the policy every time" as people above say is a solution, there has to be a more proactive approach. Regrettably, the ethics and the oddball situations prevent a lot of people from saying yes or no to various techniques.
But don't be spiteful just because you don't understand the problem. You obviously haven't had a lot of experience with people ruining other people's movie watching experience, we lose quite a bit of money refunding those tickets and giving them passes to another show because some jackass(es) in the theatre ruined their movie.
You're thinking of Peano arithmetic. (Defined by nought, 0, and the successor function, S, and a few other axioms. You define 1 as "0S" and 2 as "0SS", etc.)
You can run Photoshop running and have it stall a core on an image operation and have Firefox open to a flash or javascript intensive website and have it stall on another core.
Terrorists use laptops powered by various operating systems... Is Microsoft at fault for terrorism?
Or how about Ford/GM/Toyota/etc. Their vehicles shuffled terrorists around. Are they responsible for terrorism?
What about the manufacturers of the planes that hit the twin towers, clearly with no planes, there could have been no 9/11. Is Boeing responsible for terrorism?
Hey now, I was about to correct the grandparent and tell him that 99% of all appliances can run Linux (I swear I got my toaster to boot!) but are you saying my golf clubs can too?
I'd use Ubuntu on my laptop, but it whirrs the fan constantly, it runs about 25 degrees Fahrenheit hotter than Vista except when I put it into sleep mode (which didn't even work until I found an obscure article on how to fix it.)
Also: You don't run Vista. You're a liar, or you're using a lot of hand-coded apps that require admin for whatever reason on boot. But anti-virus programs that use the API Microsoft publishes don't need a UAC prompt to run. Nor does a properly coded CPU monitoring app (have you considered just running Task Manager and minimizing it?)
My laptop and desktop both boot to a wallpaper and taskbar with anti-virus and a few other programs running, no UAC prompts after login....
FU Canonical! I kid, of course, they're great people and they're making Linux, as a whole, better every day. Their contributions are invaluable and they're doing a lot to make it worthwhile. But- It's just not ready for everyone to use it.
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The stuff that you can put on these phones -BLEW MY MIND-.
It's insane, and you'll not believe it until you see it. First, dispel the idea that EDGE is slow as / slower than dial-up, it's much better. Even my podunk town of only five digit population within a fifteen mile area, and even further out of town, I get around or over 200 kbps.
Once you realize that, you realize, oh wow, all those web apps actually can work, even some crazy ones you wouldn't think would. And all the time people are coming up with new stuff.
If I hadn't received one as a gift this holiday season, I'd probably still be a skeptic. My return gift was to jailbreak the phone of my father who bought himself and I one. As a networking guy for most of his life, but a little out of the loop, he had no idea he wasn't just buying a cool phone, but something that runs a BSD kernel and can be manipulated just like any other OS. VNC? Samba? CHECK! It's the single most useful and capable device I've ever owned, and I think we're only cracking the surface here.
If I were to walk into a crowded theatre and hold up an enormous flashlight, an extremely bright LED, or worse, trigger as powerful a flash of white light as is currently possible with modern engineering, I would not only be kicked from the theatre, but I'd risk damaging those antennas of everyone in the room, not to mention interfering with the ability of everyone from seeing the picture on the screen.
It turns out your brain isn't as good a filter as you'd like, if you can't filter that out.
Smart money is on the patcher program just creating a diff of everything on the disk from their final configuration that they liked and the unmodified version. They probably filtered C:\Windows, but not C:\
The routers are all owned by AT&T :(
I find your ideas interesting and would like to offer you a job.
Vista and Linux both have to poll the hardware devices to ensure that your computer still works if you switch around your hard drive cable, or if you have a new network card, or your motherboard changes, or even more drastic: you just dropped an old hard drive into a new computer.
OSX doesn't spend nearly as much time doing that.
Ok, can someone explain the entirety of the theory or do I need to peruse math sites until I understand what he's saying?
Thank you by the way, I wasn't aware that the Standard Model included quantum theory, which I should have checked.
Please mod parent up informative.
I am not a quantum physicist, so I have to ask, what implications does this have for Quantum Physics and its many strange -and proven- predictions?
How does unifying Gravity with the Standard Model help us get towards a theory of everything that explains the large-scale effects of General Relativity with the small-scale effects of Quantum Physics? What is it about this particular representation that makes it a 'Theory of Everything,' as opposed to a new standard model that contains a definition of a graviton?
Could someone put this in layman's terms, or not-quite layman's terms?
What better ways can we think of then? Perhaps he could call local government offices. Perhaps he could contact embassy officials from various countries whose login data is being compromised in this way. He did both. (Apparently the only foreign government interested in his statements was Iran.)
Now, he had exhausted all of this easy options. He could have gone to the press, but I think you'll find it's a little harder to get on the national news, even in Sweden, with computechbabble as they understand it, and trying to make it relevant to their audience is awful hard. You only really need to speak to one group of people, the government, and they've already turned you down.
So he published a subset of the information he acquired and said to hell with it, deleting the rest, or so his blog says. Furthermore, he no longer believes that the information he acquired was directly form the embassies, but more likely it was information that an actual hacker or hackers had obtained, and then transmitted in plaintext over tor to maintain anonymity.
When can the community expect a reasonable, and open discussion about setting sane defaults for MySQL?
Where the community cannot reach consensus, no default should be specified and the user should be asked.
The irony is that none of us really intend to read the article anyway, we just see the underlined shiny text and click out of habit.
And will the competition come out with something that obsoletes the need that the Itanium fills before it launches?
(Don't forget how AMD stole Intel's thunder!)
I take offense to your signature, sir. Truth and Beauty differ by over an order of magnitude mass difference in electronvolts.
Who knows what's in the magic box though?!
It could be the solution to all of our problems, or even a boat!
I've always wanted a boat.
No one under sixteen permitted without a parent to any show after 9PM, no exceptions. G, PG, PG-13, R, all require anyone under sixteen to have a parent with them who can be responsible for them. Great policy implemented a number of years ago that has resulted in many thank-yous from regular customers.
In addition, no one under six permitted to R-rated movies, no exceptions. Again, same thing, great policy, no exceptions. It's not because we're liberal extremists part of a nanny corporation that thinks we should determine what you can show to your kids... it's because a while ago it was determined that children in R-rated movies were the number one annoyance to adults attending. Again, many thank-yous from regular customers.
Cell phones are impossible to police. Everyone has them. Always someone will forget to turn theirs off, and there are social groups that don't care at all and will chat in the movie theatre just because it's cool. (That's usually the age group that's just old enough to go to an R-rated movie without a parent.) There are so many idiots that come in to certain movies that appeal to that age group that it's a serious problem that a solution like a jammer would be great for. I would love nothing more than to be able to look out the port hole glass from the projection booth, point at a phone and have the damn thing's connection forcibly terminated. It'd be fucking heaven on earth for me. I would stroll around the projection booth constantly just waiting for the opportunity. These fuckers don't have any social conscience at all and dammit, if you have to communicate something while you're in a theatre, you can flip it open as discreetly as I do where no one can see the glare and text message someone. These assholes don't have any idea how bright a cell phone is in a dark theatre and it stands out like a somehow-lit glowstick at a rave party no one was invited to.
Yeah, wide-area jammers and Faraday-cage style construction is morally ambiguous, you are potentially causing a lot of grief if a necessary message needs to be transmitted, but there are certainly cases where I feel it's warranted too. Maybe the problem is that the FCC doesn't allow for any definition of private property to determine the signals present on just that property. Frankly, if I were a business-owner I would like to be able to say I could disallow a particular spectrum's use inside my own establishment. Additionally, any broadcast that doesn't leave that property shouldn't result in a fine, should it?
It's a tragedy of the commons in the theatre and that's why we kick people out for flipping them open all the time indiscreetly.
Simply put, the average Joe that walks into a theatre will not walk out of the theatre if they get a call from someone important. I think it's a social problem, yeah, but because it's -impossible- to catch everyone and simply "enforce the policy every time" as people above say is a solution, there has to be a more proactive approach. Regrettably, the ethics and the oddball situations prevent a lot of people from saying yes or no to various techniques.
But don't be spiteful just because you don't understand the problem. You obviously haven't had a lot of experience with people ruining other people's movie watching experience, we lose quite a bit of money refunding those tickets and giving them passes to another show because some jackass(es) in the theatre ruined their movie.
No such thing as 'base 1.'
You're thinking of Peano arithmetic. (Defined by nought, 0, and the successor function, S, and a few other axioms. You define 1 as "0S" and 2 as "0SS", etc.)
Yep.
You can run Photoshop running and have it stall a core on an image operation and have Firefox open to a flash or javascript intensive website and have it stall on another core.
Progress is being able to stall your CPU twice!
Terrorists use laptops powered by various operating systems... Is Microsoft at fault for terrorism?
Or how about Ford/GM/Toyota/etc. Their vehicles shuffled terrorists around. Are they responsible for terrorism?
What about the manufacturers of the planes that hit the twin towers, clearly with no planes, there could have been no 9/11. Is Boeing responsible for terrorism?
No. Bad analogy guy, is that you?
My random number generator compresses very well, allowing me to store exobytes of random data.
/* determined to be suitably random via dice roll */ }.
I just use int rand() { return 4;
(Credit: Randall Munroe at xkcd.com for part of this joke or the xkcd followers will flame me until I am but a charred husk of a person.)
Hey now, I was about to correct the grandparent and tell him that 99% of all appliances can run Linux (I swear I got my toaster to boot!) but are you saying my golf clubs can too?
And they can't release a non-US version that people in the US will "accidentally" download?
I'd use Ubuntu on my laptop, but it whirrs the fan constantly, it runs about 25 degrees Fahrenheit hotter than Vista except when I put it into sleep mode (which didn't even work until I found an obscure article on how to fix it.)
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Also: You don't run Vista. You're a liar, or you're using a lot of hand-coded apps that require admin for whatever reason on boot. But anti-virus programs that use the API Microsoft publishes don't need a UAC prompt to run. Nor does a properly coded CPU monitoring app (have you considered just running Task Manager and minimizing it?)
My laptop and desktop both boot to a wallpaper and taskbar with anti-virus and a few other programs running, no UAC prompts after login.
FU Canonical! I kid, of course, they're great people and they're making Linux, as a whole, better every day. Their contributions are invaluable and they're doing a lot to make it worthwhile. But- It's just not ready for everyone to use it.
The CIA's method:
1) Find geeks.
2) Gonzales says, "???" happened.
3) PROFIT!
Dude, if I had a million dollars...