Chemicals themselves, like software or maths should not be patentable. Non-obvious, novel and unique synthesis methods perhaps but not the end products.
Any and all disparaging comments about the EULA, as per the terms of this Software Agreement, shall be kept for a minimum of at least two (2) milennia from the last day on which our Lord and Saviour ("Yahweh") expired for the applicable sins of mankind. VMware, or deities designated by VMware, will, at any time during the period when you are obliged to maintain such records, be entitled to inspect such records and your immortal soul, in order to verify that the darkest pits of the eternal pit of damnation are reserved for your treacherous malfeasance...
Unreal Tournament 2000 is available fro Linux, and runs on modest specs. Linky. Spiderweb also has a Linux port of Exile III though it is notoriously buggy and its recommended you use Wine.
Its a piece of shit player, I hate it, I don't want it, ergo I don't want iTunes. It's actively causing Apple harm, not me. I frankly don't give two shits.
What, no love for Brussels? Though Asia sounds good. I guess Singapore and Tokyo have a shot too. Still, my money's on Dubai, they've got the vision and drive to do it.
Let's see now, who's opinion to respect, the person who has traveled the world performing military service for his country or the ignorant bigot who will probably never set foot outside his sheltered little world or risk his life for his country. Decisions, decisions...
Obviously quite a few Israelis are Jews, but not all Jews are Israelis. Again obviously, Palestinians are mostly Arabs, yet not all Arabs are Palestinian. Less obvious is that there are Jews who are native Palestinians, and Palestinian Arabs who are Israeli citizens. It is far from a simple issue.
Oh, and in no way do all Jews support the Zionists or the occupation of Israel, conversely not all Arabs are against the Zionist movement and some wish success to the nation of Israel. Most in the region, Arab and Jew alike wish for peace and stability and an end to bloodshed and animosity. Its hard to see this though when all we have in the media are polarised soundbites of politicians propagandising, though the net is changing that.
History time, feel free to skip to the last bit. Israel was last under Jewish control around 200AD when the Romans kicked them out, naming it Palestine 'cos thats what the Greeks had called it for centuries.
It was then under the control of various empires, most recently changing hands from the Ottoman Empire to the British IIRC. The natives were mostly Arabs and Jews, with some European influences. Arabs and Jews lived side by side in harmony all this time, it was so happy that they had flowers and rainbows and lollipops and sunshine pouring out their arseholes. Well not quite, but it was about to get worse.
Zionism popped up near the end of the 1800s I think, wanted a homeland and started a mass migration to Palestine. This was going smoothly enough, fine by the Brits, but it was enough to start a counter movement by the local Arabs, who identified strongly with the Syrian independence movement and wanted the Brits out.
So anyway skipping ahead, after WWII and the Holocaust the UN backed Israel, and the Palestine conflict was born. Israel was reclaimed after 1700 odd years and it sort of pissed off the local resident Arabs that their ancestral homes were being taken and they were being shot up and forced to seek refuge in Jordan, Syria, Iran, Lebanon and elsewhere, where around half (5 million or so) still reside to this day.
Let me finish up with the six day war. In the sixties Egypt kicked the UN out of its territory which it had invited there (and had every right to kick out), it was all show, just posturing but Israel took the bait, shat themselves and preemptively struck out. Treaties between the local Arabs kicked in causing a war between Israel on one side, and Egypt, Syria and Iran on the other. Oh and Jordan. The Arabs got thumped, and Egypt eventually signed a peace treaty. I'm not sure the others ever did, and are probably still at a ceasefire or something. It helps explain the tensions between Israel and Iran though. I mean, if you got your arse kicked by your cocky little upstart neighbour you'd probably stay pissed for a long time.
First up, the dates: First possible install August 8th, disconnected August 29th. Now to the relevant quote:
Product / Rates / Move, Change, Cancel Fees**
Ethernet Service w/ Internet Access*
10 Mbps - Dedicated / $850.00 / $250.00 100 Mbps - Dedicated / $7650.00 / $250.00 1000 Mbps - Dedicated / $53,550.00 / Special Construction quote Static IP address / $120 per IP address / n/a
* Bandwidth may not be changed after service is installed. Pricing is on a per plug or per connector basis.
** For 1 Gig ports, moves and changes will be permitted only on an individual case basis and pursuant to a special construction quote. For 10 and 100 Mbps service, special construction charges may apply, in addition to a Move, Change Fees, depending upon the nature of the move change requested.
Then a bunch of 'special considerations' such as the need to pay up front, ability for them to terminate the service if their 'acceptable use' policy is violated, extra $500 fees for ordering less than a week beforehand, that sort of thing. Oh and $6,305 (purchase only) for a router + IP phone package (phones not included, available separately for only $110(purchase only)). The small one that is, the big one is only $18,476 (purchase only).
There's more, but I've got a resume to polish. Time to get into the convention business.
Why renounce citizenship? He only mentioned the company going offshore, not the employees. Also, what would stop a former national from doing business with the US after renouncing citizenship? Owning a company I can see, but how are you unable to do business?
Perhaps our system is protected by the Oort cloud, perhaps we are not sufficiently advanced to pose even a remote threat, perhaps the lifeforms aren't worried about competition or are in fact actively protecting and nurturing us... there may even be overt evidence, we simply don't recognise it as such and classify it as a natural phenomenon.
All are just as likely as your assumptions. To properly refute this theory you would need to disprove the possibility entirely, not just handwave at the unlikeliness of it.
Indeed, such a species may have the capabilities to create a Matrioshka brain yet chooses not to, for any number of reasons. Perhaps they cannot ethically or morally justify the destruction of a solar system, or more likely have a reasoning which is simply beyond our comprehension.
Unless you give us reason to. Basically, if we do something like that, it's for defense.
Or, you know, for some light entertainment. Generally you're spot on though, most admins thrive on a challenge and snooping or getting your own back using the network is just too easy to be enjoyable. I much prefer practicing my offline hacking skills if and when they're needed.
If a hacker can get a copy of the encrypted passwords he can launch his dictionary attack offline, taking as many attempts as he wishes. Generally a hacker won't be using the front door to get into a system, making the locks there fairly useless. He might sniff the encrypted passwords from the network, use a compromised account to simply download them from the disk or have a trojan collect them, there are many indirect ways.
The reasoning that dictionary words are terrible security is because a brute force attack (the simplest type) goes from needing billions of attempts to a few hundred thousand at most.
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Chemicals themselves, like software or maths should not be patentable. Non-obvious, novel and unique synthesis methods perhaps but not the end products.
I know! We'll call it 'Public Domain'.
Any and all disparaging comments about the EULA, as per the terms of this Software Agreement, shall be kept for a minimum of at least two (2) milennia from the last day on which our Lord and Saviour ("Yahweh") expired for the applicable sins of mankind. VMware, or deities designated by VMware, will, at any time during the period when you are obliged to maintain such records, be entitled to inspect such records and your immortal soul, in order to verify that the darkest pits of the eternal pit of damnation are reserved for your treacherous malfeasance...
Sorta half the price, around half the features. Not exactly the same spec.
If we're stuck on MIPS, perhaps an N64 emulator would work. I wonder if Irix can be coaxed on?
And run about 100x faster than it currently does.
Unreal Tournament 2000 is available fro Linux, and runs on modest specs. Linky. Spiderweb also has a Linux port of Exile III though it is notoriously buggy and its recommended you use Wine.
If only there were a way to get the source code and recompile...
Its a piece of shit player, I hate it, I don't want it, ergo I don't want iTunes. It's actively causing Apple harm, not me. I frankly don't give two shits.
There is no iModel for that iBusiness that iCan think of...
Of course. Getting an amiga is the easiest way to a green card.
What, no love for Brussels? Though Asia sounds good. I guess Singapore and Tokyo have a shot too. Still, my money's on Dubai, they've got the vision and drive to do it.
With friends like these...
Let's see now, who's opinion to respect, the person who has traveled the world performing military service for his country or the ignorant bigot who will probably never set foot outside his sheltered little world or risk his life for his country. Decisions, decisions...
Obviously quite a few Israelis are Jews, but not all Jews are Israelis. Again obviously, Palestinians are mostly Arabs, yet not all Arabs are Palestinian. Less obvious is that there are Jews who are native Palestinians, and Palestinian Arabs who are Israeli citizens. It is far from a simple issue.
Oh, and in no way do all Jews support the Zionists or the occupation of Israel, conversely not all Arabs are against the Zionist movement and some wish success to the nation of Israel. Most in the region, Arab and Jew alike wish for peace and stability and an end to bloodshed and animosity. Its hard to see this though when all we have in the media are polarised soundbites of politicians propagandising, though the net is changing that.
History time, feel free to skip to the last bit. Israel was last under Jewish control around 200AD when the Romans kicked them out, naming it Palestine 'cos thats what the Greeks had called it for centuries.
It was then under the control of various empires, most recently changing hands from the Ottoman Empire to the British IIRC. The natives were mostly Arabs and Jews, with some European influences. Arabs and Jews lived side by side in harmony all this time, it was so happy that they had flowers and rainbows and lollipops and sunshine pouring out their arseholes. Well not quite, but it was about to get worse.
Zionism popped up near the end of the 1800s I think, wanted a homeland and started a mass migration to Palestine. This was going smoothly enough, fine by the Brits, but it was enough to start a counter movement by the local Arabs, who identified strongly with the Syrian independence movement and wanted the Brits out.
So anyway skipping ahead, after WWII and the Holocaust the UN backed Israel, and the Palestine conflict was born. Israel was reclaimed after 1700 odd years and it sort of pissed off the local resident Arabs that their ancestral homes were being taken and they were being shot up and forced to seek refuge in Jordan, Syria, Iran, Lebanon and elsewhere, where around half (5 million or so) still reside to this day.
Let me finish up with the six day war. In the sixties Egypt kicked the UN out of its territory which it had invited there (and had every right to kick out), it was all show, just posturing but Israel took the bait, shat themselves and preemptively struck out. Treaties between the local Arabs kicked in causing a war between Israel on one side, and Egypt, Syria and Iran on the other. Oh and Jordan. The Arabs got thumped, and Egypt eventually signed a peace treaty. I'm not sure the others ever did, and are probably still at a ceasefire or something. It helps explain the tensions between Israel and Iran though. I mean, if you got your arse kicked by your cocky little upstart neighbour you'd probably stay pissed for a long time.
First up, the dates: First possible install August 8th, disconnected August 29th. Now to the relevant quote:
Product / Rates / Move, Change, Cancel Fees**
Ethernet Service w/ Internet Access*
10 Mbps - Dedicated / $850.00 / $250.00
100 Mbps - Dedicated / $7650.00 / $250.00
1000 Mbps - Dedicated / $53,550.00 / Special Construction quote
Static IP address / $120 per IP address / n/a
* Bandwidth may not be changed after service is installed. Pricing is on a per plug or per connector basis.
** For 1 Gig ports, moves and changes will be permitted only on an individual case basis and pursuant to a special construction quote. For 10 and 100 Mbps service, special construction charges may apply, in addition to a Move, Change Fees, depending upon the nature of the move change requested.
Then a bunch of 'special considerations' such as the need to pay up front, ability for them to terminate the service if their 'acceptable use' policy is violated, extra $500 fees for ordering less than a week beforehand, that sort of thing. Oh and $6,305 (purchase only) for a router + IP phone package (phones not included, available separately for only $110(purchase only)). The small one that is, the big one is only $18,476 (purchase only).
There's more, but I've got a resume to polish. Time to get into the convention business.
Why renounce citizenship? He only mentioned the company going offshore, not the employees. Also, what would stop a former national from doing business with the US after renouncing citizenship? Owning a company I can see, but how are you unable to do business?
Perhaps our system is protected by the Oort cloud, perhaps we are not sufficiently advanced to pose even a remote threat, perhaps the lifeforms aren't worried about competition or are in fact actively protecting and nurturing us... there may even be overt evidence, we simply don't recognise it as such and classify it as a natural phenomenon.
All are just as likely as your assumptions. To properly refute this theory you would need to disprove the possibility entirely, not just handwave at the unlikeliness of it.
Indeed, such a species may have the capabilities to create a Matrioshka brain yet chooses not to, for any number of reasons. Perhaps they cannot ethically or morally justify the destruction of a solar system, or more likely have a reasoning which is simply beyond our comprehension.
Don't the Raelians and Scientologists already have that market covered?
Proverbs 27:1
Boast not thyself of tomorrow; for thou knowest not what a day may bring forth.
In this case foolish to assume SETI is an empty hope.
Unless you give us reason to. Basically, if we do something like that, it's for defense.
Or, you know, for some light entertainment. Generally you're spot on though, most admins thrive on a challenge and snooping or getting your own back using the network is just too easy to be enjoyable. I much prefer practicing my offline hacking skills if and when they're needed.
If a hacker can get a copy of the encrypted passwords he can launch his dictionary attack offline, taking as many attempts as he wishes. Generally a hacker won't be using the front door to get into a system, making the locks there fairly useless. He might sniff the encrypted passwords from the network, use a compromised account to simply download them from the disk or have a trojan collect them, there are many indirect ways.
The reasoning that dictionary words are terrible security is because a brute force attack (the simplest type) goes from needing billions of attempts to a few hundred thousand at most.
no need to disassemble the BIOS, your time is worth more than that.
No self-respecting hacker considers reverse engineering BIOSes a waste of time. Try more along the lines of socialising, bathing, that sort of thing.
Hell yeah! Forget banning him, they should hire this guy.