I added one more PCI card (a video capture card, in case I needed it and could find drivers later) buttoned up the box and put it under the workbench. Fool! FOOOL! Never EVER put the side of a box on unless you've tested the hardware inside. In fact, if any of the hardware is iffy, turn it on and then screw the case shut while it's running, that way you trap all the good mojo inside and it absolutely HAS to keep working.:P
That was my point you weren't. You were comparing an XP SP'zero' to the latest version of Ubuntu. If you had the latest version of XP it would have been a fairer comparison. It takes me less than half an hour to patch from a recent SP2 disc. Pardon my pragmatism, but he was comparing what's available TO HIM: His Windows XP disc, and a reasonably recent Ubuntu live CD. Sure, the two aren't competing on even ground, but that's not what the end user cares about.
(-1, Pedantic). How many commercial DVDs, the type that one would want to sit down and watch, are not encrypted via CSS? I'm ready to stand corrected if it's an appreciable number.
OR block out all neural activity? Speaking of this, did anyone else misread the title as "NC State Creates Most Powerful Positronic Brain Ever"? Too much Asimov for me, I guess.:P
Well, to get the benefits of your suggestion combined with the ease of the GP, try using an easily remembered phrase as the 'key', and the acronym for that phrase (maybe some-but-not-too-much leet speek included) as your password. Much less dictionary-able and still easy to remember.:)
Of course, in the old days you could get to the next town, or the next state if you'd been really bad, and leave your past behind. That doesn't happen any more, even if you move to the other side of the world.
rails against his imagined definition of terrorism by the US government Sorry, but what part of 'shock and awe' does not involve instilling fear into large numbers of people for the furthering of a political goal? That's not some imagined definition, it's pretty much by the book.
I think what a lot of people miss is that technology really only changes affects the types of crimes that are being committed. Sure forgery and ID theft are probably far easier now than they were 40 years ago, but 40 years ago it was far harder than it had been 150 years ago. These things come in waves, and it'll take some time before law enforcement and the legal system really catch up with them. From the first page of the article, this 'famous criminal' seems to think that all this great technology like photoshop and colour laser printers and the intarwebs are a mystery to the cops. He says he can forge a convincing-looking cheque far more easily now than then, sure, but now it will be laughed out of the bank rather than cleared. Its most likely use is to scam third parties that would probably fall for any cheque not actually drawn in crayon.
Interpreted seriously, the three laws are slavery. Interpreted seriously, robots are slaves.
That's the whole point of robots. "In its original Czech, robota means drudgery or servitude." - Wiki. A robot is simply a mechanical slave, the idea being that if it is manufactured then it is property, whereas if it is born in a biological manner it is not.
Well, fair enough, I actually thought Windows 3.1 wasn't bad given the time. I haven't used Vista enough to familiarise myself with it past the 'gaargh its different' phase, either, so I may be giving it an unfair rap. Also, don't lump 98SE in with 98 (which I'm not sure you did, but anyway...) 98SE was awesome, many people stayed with it until well after XP was established. I may have bent some of the ratings somewhat to make them conform with star trek...:P
If you're going to mod one of these posts up, pick this one.
Also, notice that (with consumer releases), Windows seems to be following the even-odd rule? 3.1, meh. '95, good. '98, meh. '98SE, good. ME, ai f'thangan! 2k/XP, excellent. Vista? Pfft. Windows7? Good things to come.;)
You have a LOT more faith in humans than I do. Wow, I think that's the first time I've ever been accused of that.:P I meant more that professional musicians who've already got it made and are still playing music for the sake of music, rather than money (and I'm giving Radiohead the benefit of the doubt here, although I may be mistaken) may care more about listeners than money. Of course there's plenty of bands that 'made it' but keep trying to squeeze more cash out of their fans (Metallica, I'm looking at you here!) but given the steps they've taken, Radiohead sound like they're not doing that so much.
A combination of high-precision GPS, compass, laser altimeter and some computer code with lots of sin() and cos() and goto().:P It'd be moderately expensive to develop such a system, but much cheaper than buying a 747, which you also have to do. On the plus side, both the code and the 747 would be reusable (well, assuming the sidewinders miss the 747, but that's another story.:P )
In practical terms you'd probably have a small self-guiding system on the missile, something along the lines of the systems used on laser guided bombs, although obviously with somewhat larger wing surfaces. That should be enough to nudge the whole thing in the right direction, given that it was roughly on target.
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Horny Heffalump. Hands down.
31 different flavours of AWESOME.
*thumbs up*
But... but... my car goes to 11!
You mean it uses a ridiculous amount of technology to achieve moderate success, and attracts a fan base of irritating hippies? :P
;)
Personally I'd go with the Golf TDi that can metamorphose into a flatbed truck, a roller skate, or a fleet of Boeing 747s on demand.
(-1, Pedantic). How many commercial DVDs, the type that one would want to sit down and watch, are not encrypted via CSS? I'm ready to stand corrected if it's an appreciable number.
Sing it with me, normal people!
Well, to get the benefits of your suggestion combined with the ease of the GP, try using an easily remembered phrase as the 'key', and the acronym for that phrase (maybe some-but-not-too-much leet speek included) as your password. Much less dictionary-able and still easy to remember. :)
Yeah! Anyway, he's a terrorist, he deserves whatever torture it took to get his confession!
...right?
...bicycle through the freezing snow... Sounds like some global warming would do you good.Of course, in the old days you could get to the next town, or the next state if you'd been really bad, and leave your past behind. That doesn't happen any more, even if you move to the other side of the world.
Because they weren't a massive multinational corporate cartel and thus couldn't afford the legal fees to defend themselves against such a cartel?
Because, as you well know, the stopping power of a sidearm is directly proportional to its manliness.
That is, until you are actually called upon to fire said sidearm.
Are you sure he wasn't abbreviating 'interweb'? ;)
That's the whole point of robots. "In its original Czech, robota means drudgery or servitude." - Wiki. A robot is simply a mechanical slave, the idea being that if it is manufactured then it is property, whereas if it is born in a biological manner it is not.
Well, fair enough, I actually thought Windows 3.1 wasn't bad given the time. I haven't used Vista enough to familiarise myself with it past the 'gaargh its different' phase, either, so I may be giving it an unfair rap. Also, don't lump 98SE in with 98 (which I'm not sure you did, but anyway...) 98SE was awesome, many people stayed with it until well after XP was established. I may have bent some of the ratings somewhat to make them conform with star trek... :P
If you're going to mod one of these posts up, pick this one.
;)
Also, notice that (with consumer releases), Windows seems to be following the even-odd rule? 3.1, meh. '95, good. '98, meh. '98SE, good. ME, ai f'thangan! 2k/XP, excellent. Vista? Pfft. Windows7? Good things to come.
Remove 'self'. You have 30 seconds to comply.
...you have 25 seconds to comply...
A combination of high-precision GPS, compass, laser altimeter and some computer code with lots of sin() and cos() and goto(). :P It'd be moderately expensive to develop such a system, but much cheaper than buying a 747, which you also have to do. On the plus side, both the code and the 747 would be reusable (well, assuming the sidewinders miss the 747, but that's another story. :P )
In practical terms you'd probably have a small self-guiding system on the missile, something along the lines of the systems used on laser guided bombs, although obviously with somewhat larger wing surfaces. That should be enough to nudge the whole thing in the right direction, given that it was roughly on target.