you can still download porn, just not upload it. You can be a porn customer not a porn distributor. Who'd want to host a porn server on the tiny upload speed on cable anyway? That said, it's a lame policy and shame on them for having it.
I had a similar experience with a domain I used to have "algebraic.com". I wasn't using it much so I let is lapse. I saw that some tool registered it, so I recently sent him an e-mail mentioning that I had it once and wondered how much he wanted for it.
Wait, a high powered rifle is EXACTLY what you want to use to bring down a big animal. A shotgun slug won't penetrate well at all (it's a subsonic round and has a high cross sectional area). A high powered rifle moves at over 3,000 fps (several times the speed of sound), has a small cross sectional area, and will penetrate deep into a fleshy mass.
Hunters in Africa (whom I think are total losers for shooting animals instead of just shooting pictures of animals) don't carry shotguns, with or without slugs. They carry high powered rifles. The term "elephant gun" refers to just such a gun.
Usually the only other gun a cop will have with him, besides his semi-auto pistol sidearm, would be a shot-gun. Shot-guns are nice in Urban settings as they don't over-penetrate walls and accidentally kill bystanders who might be standing a ways away or in another room/house/building. In any case, if they did use a shot gun to kill the Tiger it was only because they didn't have a high powered rifle with them.
...of course, I like to get the BFG and the quad-damage power up and get a good killing spree going but I doubt the cops had either of those in the zoo map...
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I use Truecrypt as well, it's a great application. It's also limited to 256-bit keys. Anyone wonder why? It encrypts and decrypts in no time flat, so the small keys aren't for CPU load or anything (well, not for the user's CPU load). It's because that's the biggest key we're allowed to have. I keep Googling around looking for where this rule/law/whatever is published but I never seem to find it. Does anyone have a handy link to where the laws are as to what encryption strength we can and can't have?
None of the following makes sense:
1) you buy a radio, you can play it for free. BUT if you play it at your office or coffee shop then you owe the RIAA money. Those songs are being BROADCAST, anyone can receive and amplify them... unless you do it in a place of business then the government supported RIAA-MAFIA can come and extort you.
2) you buy a TV, you can watch it for free -- even NFL games (which are widely broadcast). BUT if you watch it at your office or bar then you better have "express written consent" to do so. This makes fascism sound almost reasonable by comparison. I mean, you bought the damn TV, the information is being broadcast, you didn't sign anything when you bought it saying how you would and wouldn't use it to receive those broadcasts yet you're beholden to these nutty laws pushed through by the "IP" holders.
3) you can sing "happy birthday" to your friends and family on their birthday. BUT if you go to a restaurant the people working there can't sing "happy birthday" to anyone w/o paying extortion money to the RIAA.
...I could go on.
The IP laws are crazy. You're not trying to keep the song "happy birthday" secret, you're BROADCASTING it so everyone can hear it. Then you tell people they're not allowed to sing it themselves w/o paying you money to do so -- like you have a license on their lungs or air or something. These are the crazy IP laws that will radically change in the next 10, 20, 30 years as the kids behind us grow up and the old "the internet is full of tubes" people finally die.
I think it's pretty clear that, at least in the director's cut, Deckard is a replicant. His dream sequence with the unicorn, and the Jr. Detective leaving the origami unicorn behind for him to find, seems to be proof enough for me.
Where's the media? Where are we? The situation isn't helped with the Internet to the country disconnected. We love images and sound bites.
I wonder how we could help get information flowing out of Burma again. Donate some bi-directional satellite gear to get key bloggers hooked back up to the internet? Donate a bunch of Iridium cell phones with data connectors? There's got to be a group out there that would help distribute the gear within Burma, and even handle the donation process...
As for Spears -- dunno, don't care. I don't watch when she's on; that's all I can do, I suppose.
I founded a company back in the boom that merged with another one, the combined entity is now called deCarta (http://www.decarta.com/products/hws/hws_features_benefits.html). They provide mapping technology to Google.
They also host services, just like Google does, that you can connect to via their API's. Those API's are made to be OpenLS compliant, AJAX friendly, and other good things.
Disclaimer: I haven't written any code to work with their stuff, I haven't been with the company since 2003, I don't know how good or bad it this part of their business is. If anyone wants to take a look at tell me I'm all ears (sounds like the tech guys on here are a lot better at tech than I am).
Anyway, my only point is that there is a food-chain in the mapping space and nothing says that you will get the best value or service from either Microsoft OR Google, despite how popular their offerings might be. There are lots of other players in the chain that might be able to do more for you than the guys with the popular UI's at the top of the chain.
Neal Stephenson did an article for Wired on the laying of global fiber optic cable about a decade ago. It's a long read but a good one (kind of like Snow Crash was). He travels around the world following the laying of FLAG (Fiber Link Around the Globe). He covers everything from laying the cable, to the landing points, to over-land connections, to telco monopolies, to everything else. If you're a geek and into submarine cable laying, then the article below is almost required reading.
http://econ161.berkeley.edu/OpEd/virtual/stephenson.html
The most basic way to "hack" a wireless communications system is to simply whatch where the transmissions are coming from. You don't need to break the code to do this, you just need to know on which frequencies they broadcast. This is called "signals traffic".
Therefore, the following:
"special Hezbollah teams monitored the constantly changing radio frequencies of Israeli troops on the ground. That gave guerrillas a picture of Israeli movements, casualty reports and supply routes. It also allowed Hezbollah anti-tank units to more effectively target advancing Israeli armor, according to the officials."
Could really just mean:
1) we saw a lot of radio transmissions coming from over there, so we knew they were over there ("picture of Israeil movements")
2) we launched mortars/rockets a whole bunch of places. When we launched a mortar/rocket and immediately saw a radio transmission we had a "casualty report".
3) averaging over time we saw that radio transmissions made a line on a map, this we called a "supply route".
4) our anti-tank units would point their weaopns towards transmissions, "more effectively target advancing Israeli armor".
It never says that they broke any codes, but you can get useful information anyway.
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you can still download porn, just not upload it. You can be a porn customer not a porn distributor. Who'd want to host a porn server on the tiny upload speed on cable anyway? That said, it's a lame policy and shame on them for having it.
... He said "I'd take $10,000". Dick.
Hunters in Africa (whom I think are total losers for shooting animals instead of just shooting pictures of animals) don't carry shotguns, with or without slugs. They carry high powered rifles. The term "elephant gun" refers to just such a gun.
Usually the only other gun a cop will have with him, besides his semi-auto pistol sidearm, would be a shot-gun. Shot-guns are nice in Urban settings as they don't over-penetrate walls and accidentally kill bystanders who might be standing a ways away or in another room/house/building. In any case, if they did use a shot gun to kill the Tiger it was only because they didn't have a high powered rifle with them.
mod parent up I use Truecrypt as well, it's a great application. It's also limited to 256-bit keys. Anyone wonder why? It encrypts and decrypts in no time flat, so the small keys aren't for CPU load or anything (well, not for the user's CPU load). It's because that's the biggest key we're allowed to have. I keep Googling around looking for where this rule/law/whatever is published but I never seem to find it. Does anyone have a handy link to where the laws are as to what encryption strength we can and can't have?
None of the following makes sense: ... unless you do it in a place of business then the government supported RIAA-MAFIA can come and extort you.
...I could go on.
1) you buy a radio, you can play it for free. BUT if you play it at your office or coffee shop then you owe the RIAA money. Those songs are being BROADCAST, anyone can receive and amplify them
2) you buy a TV, you can watch it for free -- even NFL games (which are widely broadcast). BUT if you watch it at your office or bar then you better have "express written consent" to do so. This makes fascism sound almost reasonable by comparison. I mean, you bought the damn TV, the information is being broadcast, you didn't sign anything when you bought it saying how you would and wouldn't use it to receive those broadcasts yet you're beholden to these nutty laws pushed through by the "IP" holders.
3) you can sing "happy birthday" to your friends and family on their birthday. BUT if you go to a restaurant the people working there can't sing "happy birthday" to anyone w/o paying extortion money to the RIAA.
The IP laws are crazy. You're not trying to keep the song "happy birthday" secret, you're BROADCASTING it so everyone can hear it. Then you tell people they're not allowed to sing it themselves w/o paying you money to do so -- like you have a license on their lungs or air or something.
These are the crazy IP laws that will radically change in the next 10, 20, 30 years as the kids behind us grow up and the old "the internet is full of tubes" people finally die.
I think it's pretty clear that, at least in the director's cut, Deckard is a replicant. His dream sequence with the unicorn, and the Jr. Detective leaving the origami unicorn behind for him to find, seems to be proof enough for me.
Where's the media? Where are we? The situation isn't helped with the Internet to the country disconnected. We love images and sound bites. I wonder how we could help get information flowing out of Burma again. Donate some bi-directional satellite gear to get key bloggers hooked back up to the internet? Donate a bunch of Iridium cell phones with data connectors? There's got to be a group out there that would help distribute the gear within Burma, and even handle the donation process... As for Spears -- dunno, don't care. I don't watch when she's on; that's all I can do, I suppose.
I founded a company back in the boom that merged with another one, the combined entity is now called deCarta (http://www.decarta.com/products/hws/hws_features_benefits.html). They provide mapping technology to Google.
They also host services, just like Google does, that you can connect to via their API's. Those API's are made to be OpenLS compliant, AJAX friendly, and other good things.
Disclaimer: I haven't written any code to work with their stuff, I haven't been with the company since 2003, I don't know how good or bad it this part of their business is. If anyone wants to take a look at tell me I'm all ears (sounds like the tech guys on here are a lot better at tech than I am).
Anyway, my only point is that there is a food-chain in the mapping space and nothing says that you will get the best value or service from either Microsoft OR Google, despite how popular their offerings might be. There are lots of other players in the chain that might be able to do more for you than the guys with the popular UI's at the top of the chain.
Neal Stephenson did an article for Wired on the laying of global fiber optic cable about a decade ago. It's a long read but a good one (kind of like Snow Crash was). He travels around the world following the laying of FLAG (Fiber Link Around the Globe). He covers everything from laying the cable, to the landing points, to over-land connections, to telco monopolies, to everything else. If you're a geek and into submarine cable laying, then the article below is almost required reading. http://econ161.berkeley.edu/OpEd/virtual/stephenson.html
Therefore, the following:
Could really just mean:
1) we saw a lot of radio transmissions coming from over there, so we knew they were over there ("picture of Israeil movements")
2) we launched mortars/rockets a whole bunch of places. When we launched a mortar/rocket and immediately saw a radio transmission we had a "casualty report".
3) averaging over time we saw that radio transmissions made a line on a map, this we called a "supply route".
4) our anti-tank units would point their weaopns towards transmissions, "more effectively target advancing Israeli armor".
It never says that they broke any codes, but you can get useful information anyway.