Can you scan my bookmarks? :) edit: i.e. if someone has a bookmark to a page on your site and it goes 404, then they are blocked for a year. You have no ability to scan it because it's a file on their local system.
There are actually other time signals around the world.
I had a Casio wave ceptor (one with analog hands which it doesn't look like they sell anymore; I should have kept it). Anyway, looking at a model that's currently available (WV-200R, but there are 2 other models available), its manual says it gets signals from "Germany (Mainflingen), England (Anthorn), United States (Fort Collins), [and] Japan."
I was curious so I looked those up:
Mainflingen DCF77 77.5 kHz
Anthorn 60 kHz
Fort Collins WWVB 60 kHz
Japan looks like they have Mount Otakayoda 40 kHz, and Mount Hagane 60 kHz.
There are also some other countries that have time broadcasts (e.g. France. Anywhere else?) but not that that watch uses.
There's also a station in Shangqiu City, Henan province, China, BPC 68.5 kHz
Casio brands watches that receive all 6 stations as multiband-6, and older ones that don't have the Chinese signal as multiband-5.
The analog display, chronograph watches like WVQ-M410-7AJF are delightful ; you can switch to timer mode and the main hands show the time ticking down (yes, they move counter-clockwise), and then switch back to normal timekeeping mode and the hands will move around the dial to set to the correct time again. Obviously at great expense to battery life, but it's solar powered. Unfortunately it's Japanese Domestic Market only, so you need to order it from a place like discovery mall japan. (The WVQ has a flimsy plastic - if you're willing to pay a lot more you could spring for the OCWS7000E ). Citizen has some GPS set watches.
Radio time signals used by watches and wall clocks are all in the 60-77.6 Khz range, probably best suited to small receivers and low power - other radio time signals are higher frequency. In the US, WWVH broadcasts at 2.5MHz, 5Mhz, 10Mhz and 15Mhz.
Then it's a little bit of a stretch but they could put a script with the name of a common typo similar to commonly run commands there. Maybe "ls-l" without the space in case they miss the space. Yeah, that's a stretch. I went looking for better sources.
> The current directory ( . ) is not in PATH by default, for security reasons. This prevents accidentally running unintended programs in your current directory.
-- POSIX Shell scripting from scratch, By Sultan Zavrak (states it in general terms. They also use ls as an example though, which shouldn't be affected if you have "." at the end.)
Practical UNIX and Internet Security has an example of "." (or having a null entry in the PATH, which also indicates the current directory; I didn't know that![0]) at the beginning, which is obviously a bad idea, but he (Simson Garfinkel) makes a good point:
> More generally, you should never have a path that is writable by other users.
Ah yes, finally, he covers a situation where you have a directory at the end of your path, that is writable by others ("." would count) and having a trojan named "mroe" (for "more") waiting patiently for the superuser to mess up.
He even goes so far to say that root should run commands with full paths, such as /sbin/chown and not just chown. I've never gone that far, except I can see the benefit of doing that in scripts.
So anyway, besides the typo example, there's also a kind of shadowing: let's say you expect a command to fail because the program is not installed. Or maybe you try to run a command you think is installed but it's not. You might even have a command or way of working that tries various commands until one works. If you have a path that someone can write to (including ".") then instead of failing, it will run something unintended, if they have shadowed that command in that directory.
[0] to quote the bash man page: A zero-length (null) directory name in the value of PATH indicates the current directory. A null directory name may appear as two adjacent colons, or as an initial or trailing colon.
You can also hold down the back button to get a menu of previous pages in order to skip multiple back button presses. (I still agree with your point and you might already know that. Maybe it helps someone.)
I have this OST and the Mortal Kombat one as well on CD (mentioned together since they both have the same song, "Halcyon + On + On" on them!). When I went to a 2600 meetings in Seattle in 1999, I listened to the Hacker's soundtrack in my car on the way, of course. I gave one of the people I met there a ride and we had a laugh when he saw the case in my car. (I feel like I have a story for every song. Thanks for indulging me.)
Mortal Kombat ost had a ridiculous influence on my childhood music tastes, another absolutely amazing sound track is The Saint, check out the artists involved.
Mortal Kombat OST has a lot of good industrial (genre) in it. Bands like KMFDM, but also The Immortals (Praga Khan / Lords of Acid). Orbital - Halcyon + On + On is a good track (more mellow, and one of the many tracks perfectly mixed into the movie), but it samples Kirsty Hawkshaw from Opus III. Traci Lords - Control is actually by Juno Reactor (with vocals by Traci Lords in that version) who IMO is a rather unique/special artist (and live band), who was later featured in various The Matrix tracks. My point being, all of these artists have done a lot of great work, and the mixing was ace.
Then you have other famous bands of that time: The Orb, The Shamen, The KLF, ...
My fav. Juno Reactor live set (and album) is still hands down 'Juno Reactor – Shango Tour 2001 Tokyo' [1]
Interesting, I wouldn’t have thought of that one since I remember not being impressed by the movie at the time. On Wikipedia, a quote from a review said “on the whole, it's one of the few soundtracks that works better as an album than as a movie.” That tracks!
Awhh, I love the movie also. Could be a nostalgia thing but it's just fun. Val kilmer is basically always great and it's a nice mix of sort of spy movie tropes while having fun with it.
Right before that, he says, "FYI man, alright. You could sit at home, and do like absolutely nothing, and your name goes through like 17 computers a day." Whenever I rewatch that movie, I think 17 is a tiny number compared to today. Probably 17,000+ now.
Indeed. On one of the many occasions I rewatched it with my wife, when it came to that bit I said "17? Those are rookie numbers these days."
Many jobs ago one of my colleagues was Steve Summit, perhaps best known as the comp.lang.c FAQ maintainer. One Friday afternoon, the rest of us except for Steve met up at our usual haunt for lunch and beer. Orders were placed and served, and the table's discussion turned to DRM and the benefits and drawbacks thereof. Half an hour into lunch, in the midst of this conversation, Steve burst in, sat down, and immediately joined in with "The problem with DRM is one of ownership. Any system with DRM is no longer under your total control, therefore you don't own it. You've ceded control, therefore ownership, to some company somewhere."
Then he paused, pointed to another coworker's plate of half-finished fries and said "Are you gonna eat those?"
You couldn't have gotten a better recreation of that Cereal Killer routine if you had scripted it as an homage. But Steve had never seen Hackers; that's just who he was/is as a person.
if you google your name (or handle, every hacker needs a handle, man...) it goes through double that, if memory serves (i might be off by a factor of 10 either side...)
I ran across a grammar mistake in one of the entries and clicked into the actual wikipedia entry to fix it. That was satisfying. Imagine being able to do that on social media.
If they are young trees along the side of the road, generally they are broken off at the stump by a car before they can grow, and then you're left with an empty tree well.
I got one of those MagSafe PopSockets and now I can set the phone on its back and it will be horizontal and doesn't have the camera being on the table.
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