Why would you need an assembler to examine the differences between an input and an output? There are more ways to decipher encryption than by reverse engineering the machine that did the encrypting. I doubt the hard drive even used any actual code to do the encryption, and even if it was proper AES encryption it would probably still have been done in hardware rather than software?
Haha.. no I don't feel left out tbh, and it's good that you personally recognise that other countries can be great too, that's a happy medium. I wouldn't call Britain particularly 'great' at the moment, though I do like living here. A couple of reasons I would maybe consider moving to the US would be for the way cheaper housing (I know that inner city places will still be expensive, but there is a lot more suburban land to go around than in the UK) and cheaper goods like cars and electronics equipment. But so far that isn't enough of a draw:P I used to want to live in Canada, but at the moment that wouldn't be a good idea as I still get pissed off by the memory of my Canadian gf.
Not that it really matters, because our perceptions will also be different in those places:P I suppose if the frames are localised then that's one way of being able to measure the differences though, rather than just theorising.. possibly by sending an atomic clock in, retrieve it, and see how much difference in time had elapsed? Though if the journey is long then the speed at which the clock is moving would also change how fast it 'ticks', or warp time around it, whatever you want to say. Or is there a more efficient way to do it just via observation, taking into account for example that if the speed of light in there is veeeeery slow, how are you going to be able to tell? Actually I guess you could see patterns of stars around the edges that have since moved/changed intensity or something, but can still be seen by looking through the frame? Or are the chances of an area with an incredibly slow speed of light not very high?
Actually I just got a little excited there thinking about if the speed of light was faster, you'd be able to see things happen before you normally would, if there was a frame that accelerated the speed of light. I guess the practical upsides to learning all of this could be something like 'subspace' in Star Trek, allowing us to have faster than earth-light travel and communication?
Would probably help if you got english down first before you start slagging off those who are multilingual. Also I'd learn a bit more about the state of national economies around the globe, because I hear America's economy ain't doing too great right now. I also have a lot of respect for those that can speak more than one language, and I think you'd sadly find that they have better english than you. I'll just run down a list of things for fun and in case you want to brush up:
1) after 'goes like this' you should have a colon, or at the very least a full stop. 2) was, not ws 3) fun, not fund 4) country, not county 5) comma or colon after 'as in' 6) fairly acceptable really - but try not to start sentences with 'and' unless you're sure that your little addendum is actually going to impress anyone
Not trying to flame or anything. I'm just really easily upset when I hear Americans talk about how great America is. I know they actually believe it, but I think that in most cases it is a result of not realising how great some other countries and cultures are too. They may be surprised to find that a lot of people, like me, wouldn't even want to live in America.
Either that or some jerk in the crowd could laser in "YOU SUCK!" just as the batter is about to swing.. and I thought laser pens at the cinema were annoying:s
Well, if you must know, there are magical anti-DRM pixies inside the code that lovingly polish every bit as it passes through the transcoding process just to get its guard down, then they sprinkle them with magic pixie dust to remove the DRM, and finish the process with a nice close shave and boot polish. It's a trade secret though so don't tell anyone.
Really though - a DRM remover is a DRM remover, and this just goes to demonstrate that you will *always* be able to break DRM with the analog hole, the whole thing is such a joke.
That was actually hilarious. I love repetitive humour. I absolutely love it. I really do love repetetive humour. Anyway Cowboy Neal would think up a few different options, post them as a poll on slashdot, then do whatever we told him to, obviously..
Would you want 10 Terabytes of unsorted data? Or would you want 1 Gigabyte of sorted data? Hmmm.. the internet.. or wikipedia.. PLEASE DON'T MAKE ME CHOOSE!!!:(
Correlation does not always indicate causality though, of course. It's just the notion that a tool is required to be of a certain size to be professional that is amusing. I guess while Microsoft has been trying to catch up to this whole internet thing, that they got sidetracked and ended up adopting pornstar like philosophies.
Damnit I guess that second point is partially my fault. Here's what I was originally gonna post:
After the system has been keeping track of who contacts you and who you respond to, the site lists your profile in other people's search results along with your criteria-specific response rate: "Lisa has responded to 56% of people who contacted her who meet her criteria." The criteria specific response rate would maybe be better if it was changed to "Lisa is pretty easy". Less thinking about numbers, more of what you really want to know!
Yeah I guess I did lose the context, because he was replying to something I was saying about the beads and I didn't relate what he was saying to the parent of my earlier reply - I tend to reply to a few/. posts at once and then check the replies via the email notifier.
I was thinking similar stuff to you with regards to the beads thing that the problem was getting shifted to how the beads are connected and such, though I wasn't able to think about it so clearly as you put it because I was having trouble trying to visualise how you'd turn it into a method of solving a problem for a graph. Thanks for pointing out what he meant anyway, it was winding me up quite a lot trying to reply to him without saying he was an idiot (when in fact it was myself being the idiot, I guess I should check back beyond my own posts next time that happens!)
Tell me about it. I accidentally bricked an AIBO when reverse enegineering the OS to make sure that it wasn't going to try and chew on anyone's ankles or purposely try to trip them up. The kids were crying and bitching for weeks, but it was obviously for their own good.
I.. fail to see how you can call it 'poor' until you have a better alternative? Electricity moves fast, is portable via batteries, can run at any scale from the power grid level down to the microprocessors.. there is no other mobile medium that we can control that would be better, other than light, other small particles, magnetism.. all would still require electricity in the system to control any mechanical parts or power whatever is generating the particles or forces involved. I'm trying to see your viewpoint but I just can't dismiss something a poor idea unless I know that there are better ways to do the same thing - unless perhaps the idea is life threatening or otherwise stupid, but in this case it's proven to be quite effective so far.
If you read the whole of the comment (don't strain yourself, now), you'd see that the user is in fact paying for "insert speed here", but for a premium they can also get "insert speed here" for the first $size_limit || $time_limit of their download, which *is* a good thing when browsing webpages or other small files.
It's been a while since I did information theory and all that, but wouldn't that be the same as going through an array of values and decrementing each one until one reaches zero? Not very efficient. I fail to see how it's an analogy for a decent algorithm.
That's why I always switch off the driver aids when driving my car and my fighter jets - if I haven't seen the source, then I'm damned if I'm going to trust some little computer to keep me alive.
Slashdot Mirror
Only took something like 5 years*, eh? :P
* I can't actually remember how long ago it was
Why would you need an assembler to examine the differences between an input and an output? There are more ways to decipher encryption than by reverse engineering the machine that did the encrypting. I doubt the hard drive even used any actual code to do the encryption, and even if it was proper AES encryption it would probably still have been done in hardware rather than software?
Haha.. no I don't feel left out tbh, and it's good that you personally recognise that other countries can be great too, that's a happy medium. I wouldn't call Britain particularly 'great' at the moment, though I do like living here. A couple of reasons I would maybe consider moving to the US would be for the way cheaper housing (I know that inner city places will still be expensive, but there is a lot more suburban land to go around than in the UK) and cheaper goods like cars and electronics equipment. But so far that isn't enough of a draw :P I used to want to live in Canada, but at the moment that wouldn't be a good idea as I still get pissed off by the memory of my Canadian gf.
Yeah, isn't it weird how not everyone seems to do things exactly the same way you do them? Sheesh.
Not that it really matters, because our perceptions will also be different in those places :P I suppose if the frames are localised then that's one way of being able to measure the differences though, rather than just theorising.. possibly by sending an atomic clock in, retrieve it, and see how much difference in time had elapsed? Though if the journey is long then the speed at which the clock is moving would also change how fast it 'ticks', or warp time around it, whatever you want to say. Or is there a more efficient way to do it just via observation, taking into account for example that if the speed of light in there is veeeeery slow, how are you going to be able to tell? Actually I guess you could see patterns of stars around the edges that have since moved/changed intensity or something, but can still be seen by looking through the frame? Or are the chances of an area with an incredibly slow speed of light not very high?
Actually I just got a little excited there thinking about if the speed of light was faster, you'd be able to see things happen before you normally would, if there was a frame that accelerated the speed of light. I guess the practical upsides to learning all of this could be something like 'subspace' in Star Trek, allowing us to have faster than earth-light travel and communication?
Would probably help if you got english down first before you start slagging off those who are multilingual. Also I'd learn a bit more about the state of national economies around the globe, because I hear America's economy ain't doing too great right now. I also have a lot of respect for those that can speak more than one language, and I think you'd sadly find that they have better english than you. I'll just run down a list of things for fun and in case you want to brush up:
1) after 'goes like this' you should have a colon, or at the very least a full stop.
2) was, not ws
3) fun, not fund
4) country, not county
5) comma or colon after 'as in'
6) fairly acceptable really - but try not to start sentences with 'and' unless you're sure that your little addendum is actually going to impress anyone
Not trying to flame or anything. I'm just really easily upset when I hear Americans talk about how great America is. I know they actually believe it, but I think that in most cases it is a result of not realising how great some other countries and cultures are too. They may be surprised to find that a lot of people, like me, wouldn't even want to live in America.
Lampshades?
Either that or some jerk in the crowd could laser in "YOU SUCK!" just as the batter is about to swing .. and I thought laser pens at the cinema were annoying :s
Well, if you must know, there are magical anti-DRM pixies inside the code that lovingly polish every bit as it passes through the transcoding process just to get its guard down, then they sprinkle them with magic pixie dust to remove the DRM, and finish the process with a nice close shave and boot polish. It's a trade secret though so don't tell anyone.
Really though - a DRM remover is a DRM remover, and this just goes to demonstrate that you will *always* be able to break DRM with the analog hole, the whole thing is such a joke.
That was actually hilarious. I love repetitive humour. I absolutely love it. I really do love repetetive humour. Anyway Cowboy Neal would think up a few different options, post them as a poll on slashdot, then do whatever we told him to, obviously..
It's the digital equivalent of growing seamonkeys!
Correlation does not always indicate causality though, of course. It's just the notion that a tool is required to be of a certain size to be professional that is amusing. I guess while Microsoft has been trying to catch up to this whole internet thing, that they got sidetracked and ended up adopting pornstar like philosophies.
The toad in TFA looks like Jabba the Hut. Hence I have tagged this article jabbathetoad :)
Well.. just to be on the safe side, I for one welcome our new zombie demon toad overlords
Most insightful and funny post I've seen for some time ;)
After the system has been keeping track of who contacts you and who you respond to, the site lists your profile in other people's search results along with your criteria-specific response rate: "Lisa has responded to 56% of people who contacted her who meet her criteria." The criteria specific response rate would maybe be better if it was changed to "Lisa is pretty easy". Less thinking about numbers, more of what you really want to know!
Yeah I guess I did lose the context, because he was replying to something I was saying about the beads and I didn't relate what he was saying to the parent of my earlier reply - I tend to reply to a few /. posts at once and then check the replies via the email notifier.
I was thinking similar stuff to you with regards to the beads thing that the problem was getting shifted to how the beads are connected and such, though I wasn't able to think about it so clearly as you put it because I was having trouble trying to visualise how you'd turn it into a method of solving a problem for a graph. Thanks for pointing out what he meant anyway, it was winding me up quite a lot trying to reply to him without saying he was an idiot (when in fact it was myself being the idiot, I guess I should check back beyond my own posts next time that happens!)
Tell me about it. I accidentally bricked an AIBO when reverse enegineering the OS to make sure that it wasn't going to try and chew on anyone's ankles or purposely try to trip them up. The kids were crying and bitching for weeks, but it was obviously for their own good.
Give it time..
I .. fail to see how you can call it 'poor' until you have a better alternative? Electricity moves fast, is portable via batteries, can run at any scale from the power grid level down to the microprocessors.. there is no other mobile medium that we can control that would be better, other than light, other small particles, magnetism.. all would still require electricity in the system to control any mechanical parts or power whatever is generating the particles or forces involved. I'm trying to see your viewpoint but I just can't dismiss something a poor idea unless I know that there are better ways to do the same thing - unless perhaps the idea is life threatening or otherwise stupid, but in this case it's proven to be quite effective so far.
If you read the whole of the comment (don't strain yourself, now), you'd see that the user is in fact paying for "insert speed here", but for a premium they can also get "insert speed here" for the first $size_limit || $time_limit of their download, which *is* a good thing when browsing webpages or other small files.
It's been a while since I did information theory and all that, but wouldn't that be the same as going through an array of values and decrementing each one until one reaches zero? Not very efficient. I fail to see how it's an analogy for a decent algorithm.
The truth lies somewhere in between the two extremes..
That's why I always switch off the driver aids when driving my car and my fighter jets - if I haven't seen the source, then I'm damned if I'm going to trust some little computer to keep me alive.