Because, there was a story, that if you look (hard enough) into say Pi, you find your latest favourite Hollywood flick in there somewhere. So DMCA or something similar might be used to forbid you from even possessing a Pi number computed to a big fraction.
I understand the technical aspects of this, but I wonder if Pi has been computed sufficently to reveal any actual messages longer than say, a word?
I agree with most of that, but not entirely. For many, many years religion has been used to control the populace,
But then you go on to say..
but I believe that there was a more primitive drive that initiated it. I read an article a while back (may have been here, but who reads TFA?) that suggested that in our early years some primal version of religion "evolved" to encourage self-sacrifice or just general lack of strict self-interest to benefit the tribe. For example, the motivation to volunteer for a dangerous look-out position to defend the tribe could have been a building-block toward early religion.
That is being used to control the populace! Do you suppose that the shaman was stuck out at the dangerous look-out position?
And that kind of drive persisted because, even though the look-out may be killed, the tribe (who probably shares genetic material with the deceased look-out) has a better chance of survival than a tribe in which everyone refuses look-out duty out of pure self-interest.
Comrade, we all provide according to our talents. I talk to the gods, he runs down the fastest bison and you have the best hearing to listen from the dangerous lookout at night..
Out of curiosity how does a unicycle handle in a skid? As a bicyclist most of my crashes are due to unexpectedly loosing traction in the middle of a turn.
I've never been in a skid situation so I couldn't say, but coming off is likely not the disaster that it would be on a bicycle as its not easy to go as fast because you don't have gears or freewheel and the drive you do have is geared low to begin with. I have heard of people riding offroad though, and even entering events like the Polaris Challenge on unicycles (and not placing too shabbily either)
have never tried a unicycle though, so I've no idea how awkward they would be to begin with. I think a crash helmet would definitely be in order for what would in essence be a 15mph bar-stool!
Its not easy to begin with but you don't really need to worry about banging your head, the natural movement as soon as you start to totter is to just step off onto your feet and I've never heard of falling to the ground. I think probably because your hands are not holding on (when you panic learning on a bicycle, your hands will grip tighter which is exactly the wrong thing to do as it focuses your weight above the centre of gravity:). Shin guards are definitely a good idea though..
I used to ride a unicycle a couple of miles to work and just pushed it under my desk when I got there. Going up hills is ridiculously easy (the steeper the better you can zip right past bicyclists) but going downhill can be hard on the legs unless you get good enough to freewheel (foot on tyre as brake). If you want to get good, get a smaller wheel and find a unicycle hockey group to join.. (20" is maneuverable but 26" would be better for commuting)
It's a USB keyboard. That means that it communicates with the host via quite a complex protocol.
I wonder how different the Bluetooth keyboards are? I have an older one and I've never heard about this HIDFirmwareUpdaterTool, be interesting to see if I could hack my Bluetooth keyboard..
(I'm not likely to be vulnerable to a remote attack with this as I use a different OS and to my certain knowledge there is no way to initiate a firmware update from the host)
This is what I don't like about the modding system. Someone can spout a complete lie and people will mod them up for it, and they never have to support their lie with FACTS. I had thought the/. community was smarter than that, but I stand corrected.
Except that it takes less time to moderate a post than to construct a response. Often a successfull troll can get modded informative before somebody else takes the time to respond with a well constructed refutation but I've seen many cases where the reply is informative and the original post is modded to oblivion.
Personally I don't why people get bitten by mosquitoes so much, I rarely ever get bitten, even in a crowd while others are getting bitten. Maybe it's because I eat a lot of garlic
Further to the previous reply, it is often the case that you actually do get bitten just as much as the person with itchy bites all over them (and are at the same risk of malaria or yellow fever or dengue fever) but the truth is that your reaction to the mosquitoes anaesthetic is not as severe as theirs. Probably because you are accustomed to it, but it could be that your immune system is depressed somehow.
A couple of months ago, I would've argued that joe-six-pack wouldn't know what a proxy-server is and how to use it, but after seeing what was happening in Iran over the last couple of months I think maybe joe-six-pack is more web savvy than I gave him credit for.
In the UK, I believe most children are educated by their fellows about proxies because the school administrators block all kinds of chat servers that they need to access all the time.
That's not Linux, that's KDE or Gnome you are talking about.
Pedantry like this, which willfully ignores the issue at hand, is a kind of passive-aggressiveness which is an example of the attitude problem the parent was referring to.
Going back to the car analogy, Linux is the people who made the car engine and you are blaming them for the queue at the traffic lights? Dude, talk to the city management if you have a good idea to synchronise the traffic lights around the city..
In 1998 the Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act extended copyright protection to the duration of the author's life plus seventy years for general copyrights and to ninety-five years for works made for hire.
They have arranged to withold Tron from the public domain for an extra 20 years.
Because it could start a bad trend where most sites are pay per play when traditionally you recoup fees via ads instead of direct extortion of your viewers.
Some time in the future, historians will put my travel records in a big online database along with the records of millions of others, for non historians to check out for a few minutes before forgetting about it.
not if the people running The Disney Corporation have anything to do with it..
Intrigued, I did some google searching about bladeless wind turbines and there are some links but perhaps not any actual real life comparisons. Do you know of any such?
It seems to me though, from what I've heard recently, that a bladed wind turbine extracts power from the area that the blades cover whereas a rotating cylinder would only extract power from the area near the cylinder, even if the cylinders were arranged in a more traditional configuration and the catavent system would seem to intercept even less wind
Unfortunately, so can their abusive spouse ("vote like this or I will beat you black and blue"), their abusive boss ("vote like this or I will sack you"), their local mafia boss ("vote like this or you will be wearing concrete shoes") and the local freemasons lodge ("vote like this or we will ruin your business")
apart from that though, I find your ideas intriguing.. do you have a newsletter?
Back to the retail store analogy, it would be like a store having an official agreement for clerks to pull out "Coke" every time a customer specifically asked for "Pepsi". Such an agreement in a retail situation would certainly cause problems for interfering with fair sales if somebody like Walmart was doing it.
Dude, you can pay Walmart to put your "mabhatter soda" right next to Coke on the shelf if you want.. (I fully expect they have a price schedule already made up too.)
One of the victims mentioned, Charlotte Coleman's, died in 2001 when they paid for someone to obtain a list of friends and family from her parents phone
If you have a reference for that I would be interested to see it. I can only find that she died from a Bronchial Asthma attack and in fact her parents were trying to get in touch with her for some days before the body was found..
but the big drawback with it or the other small lightweight cars on the market is safety
Putting prejudice aside ("small and lightweight == unsafe"), have you done any research into actual safety of Smart cars? Personally, I have no interest in owning a car but I understand that the construction of the Smart car is a rigid cage that is light enough that during a collision with a heavier vehicle, the Smart car will be batted away like a ball and bounce off to the sidelines rather than being crushed. The occupants may get glass cuts and whiplash injuries but they will be protected from major trauma inside the framework. I haven't looked for any citations though, perhaps its just successful marketing.
Also, they might be shorter (in length) but I think they are slightly taller than many other cars (I'm in UK btw) and I haven't noticed any lack of visibility. Indeed, they often stand out more because of their 'strange' shape and gaudy liveries..
Not to mention the fairly recently demonstrated satellite killing ability on the part of the Chinese.. seems that keeping the location of new satellites secret for as long as possible would be a nice idea.
The days of journalists keeping the government in check and acting as the 4th estate I am afraid are long gone however, the papers are all owned by major corporate interests now, or don't have the money to pay a reporter to dig into a story for a few weeks to really do it right.
Although The Guardian gets bad rep for being a socialist rag, its not a bad read and is the last truly independent newspaper in the UK. Back in the 30's a former editor set up a trust fund that subsidises the paper to ensure editorial integrity and it has never made a proper profit.
Unfortunately for me, it turns out I also have a very rare eye problem, and am going slowly blind (it's similar to macular degeneration). Anyone out there still a successful partially blind programmer?
There was an Ask Slashdot back in 2001 entitled Are There Blind Programmers? and you may find some useful information there. Otherwise yes, there are blind programmers out there but as you no doubt understand, physical form is not always relevant on the internet and it may not be obvious.
I particularly enjoyed one training where it was clear that we should go outside once an our and look at things far in the distance, to avoid eye strain. Good luck with taking that many breaks in a day without getting fired.:)
I've worked a Data Entry job in the UK (for a year and half) where I was staring at a screen and typing continuously at 10,000+ kph and we were required to log out and have a 10 minute eye break after every 60 minutes of work. Actually, the rules said that we just had to have a break from the keyboard/screen and could carry out other tasks but we were in a dedicated data entry centre so there was no other tasks available and it was a general break.
It could be that your work doesn't involve intensive keyboard activity actually requiring a separate break (eg programming work can involve 'thinking' while you look at the plants) but if your OHSA training says you should have a break from the keyboard/screen then you really should. Just do something else and if they don't have anything else for you to do then take a piss. Even in the USA can they fire you for doing what you are told? I can't see that you would be required to damage yourself for a daily wage..
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I understand the technical aspects of this, but I wonder if Pi has been computed sufficently to reveal any actual messages longer than say, a word?
But then you go on to say..
That is being used to control the populace! Do you suppose that the shaman was stuck out at the dangerous look-out position?
Comrade, we all provide according to our talents. I talk to the gods, he runs down the fastest bison and you have the best hearing to listen from the dangerous lookout at night..
Yes
I've never been in a skid situation so I couldn't say, but coming off is likely not the disaster that it would be on a bicycle as its not easy to go as fast because you don't have gears or freewheel and the drive you do have is geared low to begin with. I have heard of people riding offroad though, and even entering events like the Polaris Challenge on unicycles (and not placing too shabbily either)
Its not easy to begin with but you don't really need to worry about banging your head, the natural movement as soon as you start to totter is to just step off onto your feet and I've never heard of falling to the ground. I think probably because your hands are not holding on (when you panic learning on a bicycle, your hands will grip tighter which is exactly the wrong thing to do as it focuses your weight above the centre of gravity :). Shin guards are definitely a good idea though..
I used to ride a unicycle a couple of miles to work and just pushed it under my desk when I got there. Going up hills is ridiculously easy (the steeper the better you can zip right past bicyclists) but going downhill can be hard on the legs unless you get good enough to freewheel (foot on tyre as brake). If you want to get good, get a smaller wheel and find a unicycle hockey group to join.. (20" is maneuverable but 26" would be better for commuting)
I wonder how different the Bluetooth keyboards are? I have an older one and I've never heard about this HIDFirmwareUpdaterTool, be interesting to see if I could hack my Bluetooth keyboard..
(I'm not likely to be vulnerable to a remote attack with this as I use a different OS and to my certain knowledge there is no way to initiate a firmware update from the host)
Except that it takes less time to moderate a post than to construct a response. Often a successfull troll can get modded informative before somebody else takes the time to respond with a well constructed refutation but I've seen many cases where the reply is informative and the original post is modded to oblivion.
Further to the previous reply, it is often the case that you actually do get bitten just as much as the person with itchy bites all over them (and are at the same risk of malaria or yellow fever or dengue fever) but the truth is that your reaction to the mosquitoes anaesthetic is not as severe as theirs. Probably because you are accustomed to it, but it could be that your immune system is depressed somehow.
Or it could be your diet..
In the UK, I believe most children are educated by their fellows about proxies because the school administrators block all kinds of chat servers that they need to access all the time.
Going back to the car analogy, Linux is the people who made the car engine and you are blaming them for the queue at the traffic lights? Dude, talk to the city management if you have a good idea to synchronise the traffic lights around the city..
Yes they did
They have arranged to withold Tron from the public domain for an extra 20 years.
Do not give Disney your money, they will only use it to steal your culture
s/instead of/aswell as/
not if the people running The Disney Corporation have anything to do with it..
Intrigued, I did some google searching about bladeless wind turbines and there are some links but perhaps not any actual real life comparisons. Do you know of any such?
It seems to me though, from what I've heard recently, that a bladed wind turbine extracts power from the area that the blades cover whereas a rotating cylinder would only extract power from the area near the cylinder, even if the cylinders were arranged in a more traditional configuration and the catavent system would seem to intercept even less wind
Unfortunately, so can their abusive spouse ("vote like this or I will beat you black and blue"), their abusive boss ("vote like this or I will sack you"), their local mafia boss ("vote like this or you will be wearing concrete shoes") and the local freemasons lodge ("vote like this or we will ruin your business")
apart from that though, I find your ideas intriguing.. do you have a newsletter?
Whoosh
Dude, you can pay Walmart to put your "mabhatter soda" right next to Coke on the shelf if you want.. (I fully expect they have a price schedule already made up too.)
If you have a reference for that I would be interested to see it. I can only find that she died from a Bronchial Asthma attack and in fact her parents were trying to get in touch with her for some days before the body was found..
Putting prejudice aside ("small and lightweight == unsafe"), have you done any research into actual safety of Smart cars? Personally, I have no interest in owning a car but I understand that the construction of the Smart car is a rigid cage that is light enough that during a collision with a heavier vehicle, the Smart car will be batted away like a ball and bounce off to the sidelines rather than being crushed. The occupants may get glass cuts and whiplash injuries but they will be protected from major trauma inside the framework. I haven't looked for any citations though, perhaps its just successful marketing.
Also, they might be shorter (in length) but I think they are slightly taller than many other cars (I'm in UK btw) and I haven't noticed any lack of visibility. Indeed, they often stand out more because of their 'strange' shape and gaudy liveries..
Not to mention the fairly recently demonstrated satellite killing ability on the part of the Chinese.. seems that keeping the location of new satellites secret for as long as possible would be a nice idea.
Your moms basement is not a bunker!
Although The Guardian gets bad rep for being a socialist rag, its not a bad read and is the last truly independent newspaper in the UK. Back in the 30's a former editor set up a trust fund that subsidises the paper to ensure editorial integrity and it has never made a proper profit.
There was an Ask Slashdot back in 2001 entitled Are There Blind Programmers? and you may find some useful information there. Otherwise yes, there are blind programmers out there but as you no doubt understand, physical form is not always relevant on the internet and it may not be obvious.
I've worked a Data Entry job in the UK (for a year and half) where I was staring at a screen and typing continuously at 10,000+ kph and we were required to log out and have a 10 minute eye break after every 60 minutes of work. Actually, the rules said that we just had to have a break from the keyboard/screen and could carry out other tasks but we were in a dedicated data entry centre so there was no other tasks available and it was a general break.
It could be that your work doesn't involve intensive keyboard activity actually requiring a separate break (eg programming work can involve 'thinking' while you look at the plants) but if your OHSA training says you should have a break from the keyboard/screen then you really should. Just do something else and if they don't have anything else for you to do then take a piss. Even in the USA can they fire you for doing what you are told? I can't see that you would be required to damage yourself for a daily wage..