It also works the other way. Drug companies do not research promising drugs if the profit margin is too low and actively help illegalize drugs that aren't patentable. Think of hemp, not patentable so illegal to grow or use or even to make a pair of jeans outof. You get the stupidity of a country claiming to be free and yet it is illegal to self medicate yourself. Yet plants such as Cicuta occidentilis are legal.
And second, we are now going the way venus went some millions of years ago. Earth is turning into a pressure cooker. If we don't fully understand what the heck happened in venus, we will fry. Literally. I don't think global warming will go anywhere near that far. Don't forget there has been times when the Earth has been tropical right to the poles. Of course it is quite likely that civilization could end and perhaps a significent number of creatures could go extinct. The Earth has been quite amazingly self regulating for the last couple of Billion years and has recovered from some pretty big enviromental disasters, eg astroid hits, huge lava flows etc
Explorers w/Bridgestone tires - have you ever seen how people drive SUVs? They drive them like they're sports cars. Except they aren't sports cars - they have a higher center of gravity. If you lose a tire at 80 mph, even in a sports car you're going to have problems; a vehicle with a higher center of gravity just makes it that much easier to roll it.
The problem is all the commercials that show that you can drive them as you would a sports car. I once lost a front tire at 75 mph on the freeway. Scared the hell out of me, thought I'd lost a wheel. I did stay in control and safely pull over. This was a 2 whl drive Nissan truck.
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Correct, catalytic converter removal will mess with emissions. I have never seen a catless car pass emissions, though I am sure it is possible with careful enough tuning (tho the car would probably run hot from the leanness necessary to burn enough the fuel to pass). I've had pretty good luck passing emissons here in Vancouver, BC without a cat on my Nissan Z24 PUs. 2 plugs per cylinder helps and the EGR has to be in good shape. And yes the test is just as stringent for small trucks as cars. Of course my '86 doesn't have a computer and still has the limiting cap on the carb idle mix screw Dave
And dependency hell that exceeds.dll hell... --------- This is an old, and utterly irrelevent argument in this day and age where pretty much everybody is using something like APT or Yum.
And a very inconsistent and often difficult application install process... ---------- The Windows installer is utterly inconsistent and difficult compared to something like KPackage or Synaptic.
Apt only works if the package you want to install is in the distributation. As an example I picked up a copy of Wordperfect 8. Had a hell of a time figuring out what packages the tarball needed and getting it working. My son has an old P200 with limited ram so I stuck slink on it. Seems most everything won't work as it depends on newer libs and apt crashes if I point it at stable. Also on a 26.4 connection it is not that easy to upgrade little well dist-upgrade. A lot of programs, libraries etc also depend on newer versions of gcc to compile so configure, make, make install also fails Most precompiled software just seems to have a script for installation which doesn't always work very good, none have ever added the app to the menu. At that even after running Debian on and off for years I'm still not sure where the menu is kept. I barely ever boot to Linux now as it changes so often and I no longer feel like spending so much time relearning where things are and how they work. Example I updated my mouse to a ps2 type and had to reconfigure X, got somewhat confused when I discovered that/dev was transitioning to a directory structure instead of a flat structure. Never did get the mouse working in a console. My other complaint is Linux is seeming too much like Windows. MS made a lot of bad decisions in their user interface and the only reason it caught on is due to forcing people to use it, too much of Linux seems to be following MS lead. If I wanted the Windows experience I'd run Windows Dave who's still happily runing OS/2
While Canada and Mexico might have benefitted from NAFTA,
Now that is funny, I don't know about Mexico but I really don't think Canada has benefitted at all. Also the States don't think nothing of breaking their word, guess thats why they need such a big military. See softwood lumber dispute as an example of how the US keeps its word Dave
And people should avoid those cleverly disguised closed-source programs that could have viruses hidden in them. Only use and write open source software that you can compile yourself after hand-inspecting the source code for trojans.
Weird, I write something pro-Open-Source and get moderated as a troll?
I think it might of been the comment about hand-inspecting the source code. I'm a knowledgeable user who compiles quite a bit of software but just because I have the source doesn't mean I'm going to spot any trojans since I'm not a programmer. Dave
I think the biggest difference is that Canada is a mosiac that tries to keep all cultures alive and seperate. Whereas the US is a melting pot that tries to combine all cultures into a homogenized culture.
Name me a country in the world that has a population as diverse as ours. Show me another place that has such a wide variety of culture. Honestly, if it can be pointed out that somewhere else in the world there is a place where more cultures co-exist than the United States, I will jump on that bandwagon right away. But, I don't think that place exists.
Wish you would tell Telus and Shaw that. I live north of Mission and the Cable ends about 3 miles down the road (either way). And the phone lines are still multiplexed (26.4 connections) little well DSL capable. Dave who yes is missing a tooth
If you want a cheap Canadian cellphone, get a Fido but don't expect it to work outside the cities. From the article Danger Hiptop / Sidekick $375.00 CDN (Fido) $199.00 USD = $264.97 CDN (T-Mobile).
Fido should actually cost more as they are the only provider that doesn't tie you into a contract. Also I live 30 minutes from Vancouver and I can't get any wireless access from home. Shit I can only get a 26.4 internet connection.
I would challenge any advocate of the "thrown free" argument to explain a single situation in which a body could be "thrown free" from a car in a way that would result in less injury than remaining restrained in the vehicle, even ignoring the hazard from landings.
While I agree that in most cases a seatbelt will save your life.I did know some people who hit a rock and ended up upside down in a creek. They died due to their seatbelts holding them upside down with their heads in the water. Whether they would of survived being thrown out is hard to say.
btw, there was no NT 1.0. The first version of NT was NT 3.1, magically version-synced with Windows 3.1.
It went like this MS + IBM OS/2 ver 1.x IBM OS/2 ver 2.x (my OS/2 ver 4.5 internally reports ver 2.45 as ver 3 was) MS OS/2 NT ver 3 Windows NT ver 3.1
The often suggested idea that we return to paper ballots misses an aspect of US elections that would make such thing difficult, namely the complexity of our elections. Although the national offices get most of the attention, ballots may include 20-100 other things to vote on. Everything from state representatives down to obscure changes in county and city charters that most don't even take the time to read.
This is a big problem with the American system. How can Joe Blow be informed about 20 to 100 differnt issues? Seems to be another way the USA manipulates voters, show them enough choices to thoroughly confuse them.
Seems a good solution would be to divide the elections up. This way voters could be informed on what they are actually voting.
SCO sued IBM for allegedly adding code from AIX into Linux. Since SCO and IBM had a license agreement that forbade IBM from using AIX code in anything else, SCO sued IBM.
What I wonder is why SCO didn't sue IBM for using AIX code in OS/2.
OS/2 includes JFS and the logical volume manager from AIX. The newer 32 bit tcpip stack was ported from AIX and OS/2 does SMP very well, scaling up to 64 CPUs so by SCOs reasoning they must of used code from AIX.
Took me about an hour on OS/2 using pop3proxy. Most of the time spent DLing various perl modules on a 26.4 connection. Also I'm getting about 0.1% false positives and maybe 2% misses after a bit of training Dave
My company provides vulnerability assessment and penetration testing services to financial services clients and we crack these things all the time.
The old ones run OS/2 v3.0 and a vulnerable version of sendmail, the slightly newer ones run Windows NT 4.0, with almost no patches installed and a default username and password.
Do the ATMs really have OS/2's sendmail actually running on them? Why? Perhaps the ATM has a few users who use Email?
I know in a home install of OS/2 sendmail is installed but is disabled and to get it running you have to go into the TCPIP settings notebook. IIRC you need to click on the sendmail tab, and fill out things like smpt gateway. Then you need to goto mail and click enable-multiuser for this workstation.
I just can't believe that ATMs would actually be running sendmail and am kind of surprised that it is even installed.
Dave
How would you get them to display Chinese characters? Almost all the ATMs in Toronto have this option, as well as Spanish, French and Italian in certain neighbourhoods.
OS/2 does support chinese as well as most other important languages
Dave
The problem here is you actually believe that the security of an ATM is that skin deep. Well, let me just say I'd trust Microsoft more about security than someone whose idea of security is "if they manage to do something to the ATM, then that's it, we all may as well go home".
I'd much sooner trust IBM for security then Microsoft. Having installed Windows and OS/2 I know that Windows out of the box is much more insecure. How many ports are open on Windows? OS/2 installs with everything off, sharing disabled, etc. And even when you enable sharing it uses plain netbios, no tcpip, so is relatively secure.
OS/2's tcpip stack (including built in firewall) is ported from AIX which also has a good reputation for security.
Dave
Actually, it wasn't that long ago that a large number of ATMs were running a version of IBM's OS/2 (2.1 I think). Not sure why banks are switching. OS/2 has probably got a fairly high "security through obcurity" quotient as well as having been relatively stable in that application. Can't say I know what real vulnerabilities it has, although I'm sure they exist.
Actually for a long time ATMs ran OS/2 ver 1.3, the old 16 bit version sold by IBM and Microsoft. With Y2K they were upgraded to OS/2 ver 4 or NT (which was quite capable of running 16 bit OS/2 command line programs, after all it did start out as OS/2 ver 3 NT).
OS/2 is quite stable as long s it has high quality hardware to run on, very unstable with crappy hardware.
As for vulnerabilities, an ATM install should have very few as OS/2 is modular enough that I'd imagine an ATM would have a minimal install. Most vulnabilities come from things like ported *nix software, insecure Lanman passwords, Rexx scripting and so on which should not be installed on ATMs. One of the main reasons for using OS/2 was because it was easy to connect to the IBM mainframes that were running the banks. This would not use TCPIP and be over a dedicated wire, much more secure. The only vulnerabilities I have seen IBM address have been flaws in the TCPIP stack which allowed DOS attacks.
I believe there was a couple of viriuses created in the lab that infected OS/2 but none ever in the wild.
I personally have only been infected once with a boot sector virus due to a bad piece of hardware and my leaving the floppy in the drive when rebooting
Dave, who is still proudly running OS/2 ver 4.5
Interestingly enough, if you read the law below, it seems they can lock this guy away for up to 10 years. With Canadian law (of which I'm hardly an expert) does that mean they can add ten years to the sentence he'll get for the child porn, or does he have to serve the sentence at the same time? Be nice if they could add ten years to his prison term...
It is up to the judges discretion whether to add the ten years or make it concurrent, though it seems it is concurrent most of the time. Its very hard for someone to be sentenced to more then 25 years up here.
Also it is common practice to bring as many charges as possible then use them in plea bargaining.
Dave who is not a lawyer
I always figured that MS changed their versioning for Windows so people would not ask "You need windows 4 what?" with the usual answer of "Because my computer is running too fast and I cannot catch it."
Actually they changed the version numbers because they had licensed Windows up to ver 4 to IBM. By skipping ver 4 they didn't have to supply source to IBM. Even internally Win95 was version 4.095. Gotta love how MS honours their agreements
Dave
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It also works the other way. Drug companies do not research promising drugs if the profit margin is too low and actively help illegalize drugs that aren't patentable. Think of hemp, not patentable so illegal to grow or use or even to make a pair of jeans outof. You get the stupidity of a country claiming to be free and yet it is illegal to self medicate yourself. Yet plants such as Cicuta occidentilis are legal.
And second, we are now going the way venus went some millions of years ago. Earth is turning into a pressure cooker. If we don't fully understand what the heck happened in venus, we will fry. Literally.
I don't think global warming will go anywhere near that far. Don't forget there has been times when the Earth has been tropical right to the poles.
Of course it is quite likely that civilization could end and perhaps a significent number of creatures could go extinct.
The Earth has been quite amazingly self regulating for the last couple of Billion years and has recovered from some pretty big enviromental disasters, eg astroid hits, huge lava flows etc
Explorers w/Bridgestone tires - have you ever seen how people drive SUVs? They drive them like they're sports cars. Except they aren't sports cars - they have a higher center of gravity. If you lose a tire at 80 mph, even in a sports car you're going to have problems; a vehicle with a higher center of gravity just makes it that much easier to roll it.
The problem is all the commercials that show that you can drive them as you would a sports car.
I once lost a front tire at 75 mph on the freeway. Scared the hell out of me, thought I'd lost a wheel. I did stay in control and safely pull over.
This was a 2 whl drive Nissan truck.
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Correct, catalytic converter removal will mess with emissions. I have never seen a catless car pass emissions, though I am sure it is possible with careful enough tuning (tho the car would probably run hot from the leanness necessary to burn enough the fuel to pass).
I've had pretty good luck passing emissons here in Vancouver, BC without a cat on my Nissan Z24 PUs. 2 plugs per cylinder helps and the EGR has to be in good shape. And yes the test is just as stringent for small trucks as cars.
Of course my '86 doesn't have a computer and still has the limiting cap on the carb idle mix screw
Dave
And dependency hell that exceeds
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This is an old, and utterly irrelevent argument in this day and age where pretty much everybody is using something like APT or Yum.
And a very inconsistent and often difficult application install process...
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The Windows installer is utterly inconsistent and difficult compared to something like KPackage or Synaptic.
Apt only works if the package you want to install is in the distributation. As an example I picked up a copy of Wordperfect 8. Had a hell of a time figuring out what packages the tarball needed and getting it working.
My son has an old P200 with limited ram so I stuck slink on it. Seems most everything won't work as it depends on newer libs and apt crashes if I point it at stable. Also on a 26.4 connection it is not that easy to upgrade little well dist-upgrade.
A lot of programs, libraries etc also depend on newer versions of gcc to compile so configure, make, make install also fails
Most precompiled software just seems to have a script for installation which doesn't always work very good, none have ever added the app to the menu. At that even after running Debian on and off
for years I'm still not sure where the menu is kept.
I barely ever boot to Linux now as it changes so often and I no longer feel like spending so much time relearning where things are and how they work.
Example I updated my mouse to a ps2 type and had to reconfigure X, got somewhat confused when I discovered that
My other complaint is Linux is seeming too much like Windows. MS made a lot of bad decisions in their user interface and the only reason it caught on is due to forcing people to use it, too much of Linux seems to be following MS lead.
If I wanted the Windows experience I'd run Windows
Dave who's still happily runing OS/2
While Canada and Mexico might have benefitted from NAFTA,
Now that is funny, I don't know about Mexico but I really don't think Canada has benefitted at all. Also the States don't think nothing of breaking their word, guess thats why they need such a big military.
See softwood lumber dispute as an example of how the US keeps its word
Dave
And people should avoid those cleverly disguised closed-source programs that could have viruses hidden in them. Only use and write open source software that you can compile yourself after hand-inspecting the source code for trojans.
Weird, I write something pro-Open-Source and get moderated as a troll?
I think it might of been the comment about hand-inspecting the source code. I'm a knowledgeable user who compiles quite a bit of software but just because I have the source doesn't mean I'm going to spot any trojans since I'm not a programmer.
Dave
I think the biggest difference is that Canada is a mosiac that tries to keep all cultures alive and seperate. Whereas the US is a melting pot that tries to combine all cultures into a homogenized culture.
Name me a country in the world that has a population as diverse as ours. Show me another place that has such a wide variety of culture. Honestly, if it can be pointed out that somewhere else in the world there is a place where more cultures co-exist than the United States, I will jump on that bandwagon right away. But, I don't think that place exists.
Canada
Wish you would tell Telus and Shaw that. I live north of Mission and the Cable ends about 3 miles down the road (either way). And the phone lines are still multiplexed (26.4 connections) little well DSL capable.
Dave who yes is missing a tooth
If you want a cheap Canadian cellphone, get a Fido but don't expect it to work outside the cities.
From the article
Danger Hiptop / Sidekick $375.00 CDN (Fido) $199.00 USD = $264.97 CDN (T-Mobile).
Fido should actually cost more as they are the only provider that doesn't tie you into a contract.
Also I live 30 minutes from Vancouver and I can't get any wireless access from home. Shit I can only get a 26.4 internet connection.
I would challenge any advocate of the "thrown free" argument to explain a single situation in which a body could be "thrown free" from a car in a way that would result in less injury than remaining restrained in the vehicle, even ignoring the hazard from landings.
While I agree that in most cases a seatbelt will save your life.I did know some people who hit a rock and ended up upside down in a creek. They died due to their seatbelts holding them upside down with their heads in the water.
Whether they would of survived being thrown out is hard to say.
btw, there was no NT 1.0. The first version of NT was NT 3.1, magically version-synced with Windows 3.1.
It went like this
MS + IBM OS/2 ver 1.x
IBM OS/2 ver 2.x (my OS/2 ver 4.5 internally reports ver 2.45 as ver 3 was)
MS OS/2 NT ver 3
Windows NT ver 3.1
Where did you get gcc? I have Turbo Pascal and QuickBasic, is there a C++ compiler for Windows 3.11 publicly available?
Openwatcom (openwatcom.org) compiles windows 3.11 code and should be able to be compiled to run on Win 3.11.
Dave
This is a big problem with the American system. How can Joe Blow be informed about 20 to 100 differnt issues? Seems to be another way the USA manipulates voters, show them enough choices to thoroughly confuse them.
Seems a good solution would be to divide the elections up. This way voters could be informed on what they are actually voting.
What I wonder is why SCO didn't sue IBM for using AIX code in OS/2.
OS/2 includes JFS and the logical volume manager from AIX. The newer 32 bit tcpip stack was ported from AIX and OS/2 does SMP very well, scaling up to 64 CPUs so by SCOs reasoning they must of used code from AIX.
Took me about an hour on OS/2 using pop3proxy. Most of the time spent DLing various perl modules on a 26.4 connection.
Also I'm getting about 0.1% false positives and maybe 2% misses after a bit of training
Dave
Do the ATMs really have OS/2's sendmail actually running on them? Why? Perhaps the ATM has a few users who use Email?
I know in a home install of OS/2 sendmail is installed but is disabled and to get it running you have to go into the TCPIP settings notebook. IIRC you need to click on the sendmail tab, and fill out things like smpt gateway. Then you need to goto mail and click enable-multiuser for this workstation.
I just can't believe that ATMs would actually be running sendmail and am kind of surprised that it is even installed.
Dave
OS/2 does support chinese as well as most other important languages
Dave
I'd much sooner trust IBM for security then Microsoft. Having installed Windows and OS/2 I know that Windows out of the box is much more insecure. How many ports are open on Windows? OS/2 installs with everything off, sharing disabled, etc. And even when you enable sharing it uses plain netbios, no tcpip, so is relatively secure.
OS/2's tcpip stack (including built in firewall) is ported from AIX which also has a good reputation for security.
Dave
Actually for a long time ATMs ran OS/2 ver 1.3, the old 16 bit version sold by IBM and Microsoft. With Y2K they were upgraded to OS/2 ver 4 or NT (which was quite capable of running 16 bit OS/2 command line programs, after all it did start out as OS/2 ver 3 NT).
OS/2 is quite stable as long s it has high quality hardware to run on, very unstable with crappy hardware. As for vulnerabilities, an ATM install should have very few as OS/2 is modular enough that I'd imagine an ATM would have a minimal install. Most vulnabilities come from things like ported *nix software, insecure Lanman passwords, Rexx scripting and so on which should not be installed on ATMs. One of the main reasons for using OS/2 was because it was easy to connect to the IBM mainframes that were running the banks. This would not use TCPIP and be over a dedicated wire, much more secure. The only vulnerabilities I have seen IBM address have been flaws in the TCPIP stack which allowed DOS attacks.
I believe there was a couple of viriuses created in the lab that infected OS/2 but none ever in the wild.
I personally have only been infected once with a boot sector virus due to a bad piece of hardware and my leaving the floppy in the drive when rebooting
Dave, who is still proudly running OS/2 ver 4.5
It is up to the judges discretion whether to add the ten years or make it concurrent, though it seems it is concurrent most of the time. Its very hard for someone to be sentenced to more then 25 years up here.
Also it is common practice to bring as many charges as possible then use them in plea bargaining.
Dave who is not a lawyer
Actually they changed the version numbers because they had licensed Windows up to ver 4 to IBM. By skipping ver 4 they didn't have to supply source to IBM. Even internally Win95 was version 4.095. Gotta love how MS honours their agreements
Dave
Results 61-75 of about 6673685 containing "mysql"
Well searching for OS/2 (something that still scares Bill) the numbers get smaller at first
Results 1-15 of about 408 containing "OS/2"
Results 226-240 of about 244 containing "os/2"
Results 241-255 of about 566328 containing "os/2"
Definately a screwed search engine
Dave