It would be worth it to extend the cabin, slap in a port-a-potty and be done with the cabin access all together.
9/11 was a possibility since the '60s (Remember the pictures of the hijackers at the cockpit window? That's how long we've been absolute morons about this.) It wont stop either until the airline industry wakes up.
I can predict with absoute certainty that a big ol' AirBus loaded with people, luggaqge and fuel will get crashed into the Vatican. Why? Because they can.
They're Muslin extremists. This would be a chance to strike at the heart of Christendom, and its a soft target surrounded by civilian infrastructure. Even if they fuck up and take out the wrong hill, they still 'win.' As such this is an event waiting to take place.
But is like USB adoption, Microsoft won't do it until 'Apple's done it'.
Guess what? Apple's already done it, (with Airport Extreme and Express, with eight octet groups right on the hardware,) but they're not making a big deal out of it because Apple's customers are not tech savvy enough to know what the fuss is about anyway.
All Apple need to do is start making a noise and Microsoft will once again play 'catch up.'
I'm running IPv6 on my friggin LAN and the WAN is only running IPv4. Go figure?
While Linux(es) and BSD(s) can pretty much do everything the Mac does, the configuration of the software is dependent on the user knowing what all of the options are for.
The guy just wants to look at the screen, he doesn't wanna know or care about setting some register to affect the vertical refresh rate on the hardware.
Likewise, he doesn't know or care about hard disk sector interleaving and how, setting wrong can result in severe performance degradation depending on the interface card's buffer transfer speed.
Come to think of it, he doesn't want to bother with the constant upgrading, fetching, 'make'ing and compiling and trying to use the optional settings which reveal the same complexity that the hardware confront him with.
Windows is out because of its BSODs (soon to be joined by RSODs,) its worms, viri, Trojans and Spam, 'Social Engineering' and other psychopathic activities, and the rest of the creepy crawly menagery. Security and safety have become critica issues and Microsoft's Windows just ain't cutting it.
That leaves the Mac as the sole remaining mass market choice.
industrial (or beter yet military grade,) is that all of the handling issues are taken care of 'up front' and you out very little data at risk.
The difference between a commercial grade slot loading whatever and an industrial grade slot loading whatever is not what happens when the whatever is loaded in thye drive but before and after.
A consumer grade system stops at the drive, an industrial one goes all the way to the remote backup facility.
The difference is the difference between backups 'for real' and 'assuaging your conscience' that your data might be recoverable (but you hope like Hell you dont ever actually NEED to find out.)
Backups are treated like toilet paper. Hope you don't ever have an 'emergency'. (But one day you WILL. I can garantee that.)
Simpson: "I've got an awful lot of these keyboards but I'm afraid that they never printed the key caps on them so they aren't really any good."
Whapcaplet: "Well that's out selling point, Isn't it? 'Away with typos, away with work-a-day grammar and syntax. Make programming fun again'"
This also reminds of the late seventies when there was a keyboard sold with clear plastic key caps.
End each key could be programmer as one or more key strokes. The Alt keys generated different signals so the thing had like five modes for every key stroke.
I wonder whatever happened to the company that made them?
You can't legislate FOR child porn in this society.
We have too many secrets, too many thing hidden away, too many things that shouldn't ever see the light of day, too many parts of our psyche that tries to scurry away like a cockroach from the light of exposure.
I'm glad that this ruling came out because it makes this kind of barricading as suspect as it should be. The tools themselves are as suspect as they should be.
Encryption technique is not at issue here (its essential for secure transmission of data,) but the need for openess of the source IS!
Think about it!
Open Source becomes essential to insuring that your system is not a porn repository. How could Microsoft be against that? Do they have something to hide?:)
"If a publisher has a copyright, but decides that a work should not be in print - it is effectively censored."
I shudder to think that the idea has occured to Ann Coulter or Rush Limbaw(?sp) or any other of the Luddites out there who try to suppress information.
That doesn't mean in a wharehouse somewhere either.
A large proportion of books get a run of 1k or 2k volumes and 'dissapear' from the bookstore shelves within a year of two from being published.
Its simply isn't worth it to the book stores.
The books end their lives mouldering away in the remainder bins of 'discount book' stores and Salvation Army rummage sales (and don't earn another dime for the publishers.)
I've got some books that I've been looking for for years and won't find anywhere for any amount of money.
And that's just because of the storage costs, never mind that they aren't printed on acid free paper and are currently disappearing into 'slow smoke.'
I regret to state that the book publishers are trying to create a new revenue stream from nothing because they didn't care to do so before.
Screw 'em!
Let 'em lose the rights to scan ALL books that they can't be bothered to keep on the shelves.
Let 'em be forced to sell the rights to ALL the books that they can't be bothered to keep up to date.
Have you bought some school books lately?
They cost a nickle less than photo-copying the entire book would at the for-profit school copier.
They keep coming out with new 'editions' for accounting books and, man do they CHARGE!. Over a hundred bucks for an HR Management book and you can't use last years! (Like ALL of the laws governing HR ahd changed. Pshaw...)
In fact, M$ has ALWAYS followed. Any other way is too expensive.
They let others bust their balls trying to develop something that survives out there in the market place.
If and when it does, they swoop in, 'integrate' it into their system and steal the market.
Their R&D is not for 'creating new products' but 'how to integrate new options' as there come up.
They are quite content to let others do the innovating and they take the cream of the crop and then produce a knock-off which takes at least three tries 'till it works.
That's how you make money. And the worst part is that is the strategy for maintaining 'world domination.'
Notice how long Longhorn has been in the paddocks?
Microsoft is waiting for a credible threat until they release Longhorn. The threat is not here yet.
When the third world finally gets phones, and discovers the weath of information on the internet, they're going to take any road that they have to travel to the promined land.
If they can't afford the tolls on the high (legal) road, theyre going to have to gow down the low (pirate) road.
Since there's no blood involved, they probably don't see the hard in 'sharing' an app that they otherwise could not afford.
For what it does, displacing/replacing the cost and aesthetics of cat5 cable, wireless does a very bad job of it.
Quite apart from the security aspect, which was handled by slapping WEP on it, its a mess.
It can and does work with extremely simple networks (one transmitters, many receivers,) but it is absolutely terrible at topologies with repeators.
Apple's Airport and 'Bonjour' (previously called 'RendezVous') is one of the worst at letting you build network topologies.
I have scrapped my AirPort base and a couple of 'pucks' because I, a friend AND a network guy I paid for were unable to set up my network.
I am now running a network of Macs and Windows PC on a single LinkSys wireless router because I'd had one since moving to my new place and NOT laying down some cable.
It was simple, secure (WEP & destination addresses so only a few IP addresses are actually exposed and port filtering,) and easy to install.
As for AirPort, Apple's vaunted skills at GUI utterly failed them this time. Its a dogs breakfast of confusing and seemingly contradictory options, 'build' directions and concepts which just don't friggin work.
I'm out $300 bucks on the Airort equipment but two guys and myself are much wiser when it come to wireless. Friends don't let friends buy Airport.
Nice try Apple, but building networks should not be magic where you're never sure if doing one thing just undid another.
Your current GUI approach is totally inadequate, TOTALLY.
You could always VPN into it, like my friend who leaves stuff running on his box when he comes over from his place in the Bronx to my place in Jersey City.
If you're really worried about exposing some of your user space to 'malicious multi-threading' (which depends on a lot of factors to yield any possibility of capturing useful data,) perhaps you should not be running you code on such a compromised architecture as the x86.
I think a caveat, don't trust this box to do crypto, and a recommendation, turn off hyper-threading, is enough.
In fact, whatever software requires it turned off should be able to find out from the machines geshtalt and possibly issue a request to turn HT off while its running.
When he does, the prevalence of American Idol and their ilk actually become tolerable (by comparison to the rest of the content.:-)
Since I stated to study media again, I channel-hop for a while every night.
Yeech... What drek! (Like Bruce Springstein sang: "97 channels and nothing's on" [The number is probably wrong. I just gave it a nodding awareness, not an actual listen to the song.])
PBS can actually hold my attention sometimes but I usually end up back on my computer.
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so that they can't open the door.
In fact, why even have a door?
It would be worth it to extend the cabin, slap in a port-a-potty and be done with the cabin access all together.
9/11 was a possibility since the '60s (Remember the pictures of the hijackers at the cockpit window? That's how long we've been absolute morons about this.) It wont stop either until the airline industry wakes up.
I can predict with absoute certainty that a big ol' AirBus loaded with people, luggaqge and fuel will get crashed into the Vatican. Why? Because they can.
They're Muslin extremists. This would be a chance to strike at the heart of Christendom, and its a soft target surrounded by civilian infrastructure. Even if they fuck up and take out the wrong hill, they still 'win.' As such this is an event waiting to take place.
But is like USB adoption, Microsoft won't do it until 'Apple's done it'.
Guess what? Apple's already done it, (with Airport Extreme and Express, with eight octet groups right on the hardware,) but they're not making a big deal out of it because Apple's customers are not tech savvy enough to know what the fuss is about anyway.
All Apple need to do is start making a noise and Microsoft will once again play 'catch up.'
I'm running IPv6 on my friggin LAN and the WAN is only running IPv4. Go figure?
The switcher would be written up in the medical journals too:
1) Spontaneous rabies cure. (Mac fans are RABID!)
2) Survival by individual after being 'pithed'.
And, apart from AirPort topology problems and GUI handling issues, Apple has managed to not give me too many headaches.
a SysAdmin. He just wants to USE the technology.
While Linux(es) and BSD(s) can pretty much do everything the Mac does, the configuration of the software is dependent on the user knowing what all of the options are for.
The guy just wants to look at the screen, he doesn't wanna know or care about setting some register to affect the vertical refresh rate on the hardware.
Likewise, he doesn't know or care about hard disk sector interleaving and how, setting wrong can result in severe performance degradation depending on the interface card's buffer transfer speed.
Come to think of it, he doesn't want to bother with the constant upgrading, fetching, 'make'ing and compiling and trying to use the optional settings which reveal the same complexity that the hardware confront him with.
Windows is out because of its BSODs (soon to be joined by RSODs,) its worms, viri, Trojans and Spam, 'Social Engineering' and other psychopathic activities, and the rest of the creepy crawly menagery. Security and safety have become critica issues and Microsoft's Windows just ain't cutting it.
That leaves the Mac as the sole remaining mass market choice.
line about "In Soviet Union, the internet powers YOU!" (I have friends in Moscow. They gotta be hurting for their /. fix. :-)
We did archiving that way when I was working there.
'Protective' cases are a myth if your medium is unprotected at some point.
Shit always happens and unprotected media are an accident to happen (even tape reels.)
industrial (or beter yet military grade,) is that all of the handling issues are taken care of 'up front' and you out very little data at risk.
The difference between a commercial grade slot loading whatever and an industrial grade slot loading whatever is not what happens when the whatever is loaded in thye drive but before and after.
A consumer grade system stops at the drive, an industrial one goes all the way to the remote backup facility.
The difference is the difference between backups 'for real' and 'assuaging your conscience' that your data might be recoverable (but you hope like Hell you dont ever actually NEED to find out.)
Backups are treated like toilet paper. Hope you don't ever have an 'emergency'. (But one day you WILL. I can garantee that.)
Simpson: "I've got an awful lot of these keyboards but I'm afraid that they never printed the key caps on them so they aren't really any good."
Whapcaplet: "Well that's out selling point, Isn't it? 'Away with typos, away with work-a-day grammar and syntax. Make programming fun again'"
This also reminds of the late seventies when there was a keyboard sold with clear plastic key caps.
End each key could be programmer as one or more key strokes. The Alt keys generated different signals so the thing had like five modes for every key stroke.
I wonder whatever happened to the company that made them?
You can't legislate FOR child porn in this society.
:)
We have too many secrets, too many thing hidden away, too many things that shouldn't ever see the light of day, too many parts of our psyche that tries to scurry away like a cockroach from the light of exposure.
I'm glad that this ruling came out because it makes this kind of barricading as suspect as it should be. The tools themselves are as suspect as they should be.
Encryption technique is not at issue here (its essential for secure transmission of data,) but the need for openess of the source IS!
Think about it!
Open Source becomes essential to insuring that your system is not a porn repository. How could Microsoft be against that? Do they have something to hide?
"If a publisher has a copyright, but decides that a work should not be in print - it is effectively censored."
I shudder to think that the idea has occured to Ann Coulter or Rush Limbaw(?sp) or any other of the Luddites out there who try to suppress information.
tree version before I would even finish the e-version.
That doesn't mean in a wharehouse somewhere either.
A large proportion of books get a run of 1k or 2k volumes and 'dissapear' from the bookstore shelves within a year of two from being published.
Its simply isn't worth it to the book stores.
The books end their lives mouldering away in the remainder bins of 'discount book' stores and Salvation Army rummage sales (and don't earn another dime for the publishers.)
I've got some books that I've been looking for for years and won't find anywhere for any amount of money.
And that's just because of the storage costs, never mind that they aren't printed on acid free paper and are currently disappearing into 'slow smoke.'
I regret to state that the book publishers are trying to create a new revenue stream from nothing because they didn't care to do so before.
Screw 'em!
Let 'em lose the rights to scan ALL books that they can't be bothered to keep on the shelves.
Let 'em be forced to sell the rights to ALL the books that they can't be bothered to keep up to date.
Have you bought some school books lately?
They cost a nickle less than photo-copying the entire book would at the for-profit school copier.
They keep coming out with new 'editions' for accounting books and, man do they CHARGE!. Over a hundred bucks for an HR Management book and you can't use last years! (Like ALL of the laws governing HR ahd changed. Pshaw...)
If it could cost you your life, you'd be alot more careful shen you open your mouth. :)
The US is being led by intellectual bigots, between the Bushes, the burden of lawyers and the religious right.
Is it any wonder that advances are being made elsewhere?
Is it any wonder that the 'client countries' are where the capital is fleeing, along with the jobs.
America will cease to be a world player in less than a century.
It only takes one generation of idiots to bring it down and they're a quarter way here already.
Unfortunately, they still have the bomb.
In fact, M$ has ALWAYS followed. Any other way is too expensive.
They let others bust their balls trying to develop something that survives out there in the market place.
If and when it does, they swoop in, 'integrate' it into their system and steal the market.
Their R&D is not for 'creating new products' but 'how to integrate new options' as there come up.
They are quite content to let others do the innovating and they take the cream of the crop and then produce a knock-off which takes at least three tries 'till it works.
That's how you make money. And the worst part is that is the strategy for maintaining 'world domination.'
Notice how long Longhorn has been in the paddocks?
Microsoft is waiting for a credible threat until they release Longhorn. The threat is not here yet.
These things are less effective than 'Orders of Protection' from someone who's determined to cop your sh*t.
Securing your sh*t is the only viable alternative. But its an uphill battle with all the idiots out there trying to sell it.
Bah.
I LOATHED IT!
While I am pissed at the money wasted, I am really pissed that I WASTED my time on this piece of shit.
It was aweful. The plot. what there was of it, was more than utterly mangled by the dialog, what there was of it.
The audio sucked and the overall amateurishness of the peformances was eclipsed only by the overuse of the C.G.
This dog deserves a slow and painful death.
The paranioa Nazis, uh, the MPAA and RIAA, should lobby congress to put an end to those pesky power stations.
I mean that's at the root of all the problems.
We can all go back to a simpler life; back to the eighteenth century.
When the third world finally gets phones, and discovers the weath of information on the internet, they're going to take any road that they have to travel to the promined land.
If they can't afford the tolls on the high (legal) road, theyre going to have to gow down the low (pirate) road.
Since there's no blood involved, they probably don't see the hard in 'sharing' an app that they otherwise could not afford.
For what it does, displacing/replacing the cost and aesthetics of cat5 cable, wireless does a very bad job of it.
Quite apart from the security aspect, which was handled by slapping WEP on it, its a mess.
It can and does work with extremely simple networks (one transmitters, many receivers,) but it is absolutely terrible at topologies with repeators.
Apple's Airport and 'Bonjour' (previously called 'RendezVous') is one of the worst at letting you build network topologies.
I have scrapped my AirPort base and a couple of 'pucks' because I, a friend AND a network guy I paid for were unable to set up my network.
I am now running a network of Macs and Windows PC on a single LinkSys wireless router because I'd had one since moving to my new place and NOT laying down some cable.
It was simple, secure (WEP & destination addresses so only a few IP addresses are actually exposed and port filtering,) and easy to install.
As for AirPort, Apple's vaunted skills at GUI utterly failed them this time. Its a dogs breakfast of confusing and seemingly contradictory options, 'build' directions and concepts which just don't friggin work.
I'm out $300 bucks on the Airort equipment but two guys and myself are much wiser when it come to wireless. Friends don't let friends buy Airport.
Nice try Apple, but building networks should not be magic where you're never sure if doing one thing just undid another.
Your current GUI approach is totally inadequate, TOTALLY.
"not bieng reported, and are bieng actively"
Sorry to nit-pick but...
with a screen, on the LAN.
You could always VPN into it, like my friend who leaves stuff running on his box when he comes over from his place in the Bronx to my place in Jersey City.
That's how he checks the status of his box.
to secure boxes.
If you're really worried about exposing some of your user space to 'malicious multi-threading' (which depends on a lot of factors to yield any possibility of capturing useful data,) perhaps you should not be running you code on such a compromised architecture as the x86.
I think a caveat, don't trust this box to do crypto, and a recommendation, turn off hyper-threading, is enough.
In fact, whatever software requires it turned off should be able to find out from the machines geshtalt and possibly issue a request to turn HT off while its running.
When he does, the prevalence of American Idol and their ilk actually become tolerable (by comparison to the rest of the content. :-)
... What drek! (Like Bruce Springstein sang: "97 channels and nothing's on" [The number is probably wrong. I just gave it a nodding awareness, not an actual listen to the song.])
Since I stated to study media again, I channel-hop for a while every night.
Yeech
PBS can actually hold my attention sometimes but I usually end up back on my computer.