The problem is that long, non-dictionary passwords are hard to remember and will get written down on a sticky note under the keyboard. Or, if rarely used, forgotten entirely.
The bomb destroyed all communication lines out of Hiroshima. There was some rather confused radio communication from nearby towns, which the Japanese government did not take very seriously. After a while, they sent off a recon plane, which took over three hours to reach Hiroshima, and when its report got back to Tokyo, it was not comprehensive and the government still didn't really know what had happened. They learned that from a White House announcement after about 16 hours.
The leaflets you talk about were dropped beginning on August 8th, ONE DAY before the Nagasaki bombing.
And yes, of course there were those in the Japanese government and military who would grasp for any straw to keep fighting, even, as you say yourself, after the second bomb. So why do you think the advocats of reason could not eventually have prevailed after the first? Resolving this kind of internal struggle takes time. Time the US was not willing to give the Japanese.
Not one person has been locked up because of his or her name. Now, if you so happen to have the same name of a know terrorist, or have been linked to a terrorist organization, you will be denied entry to the US.
What I do believe is that you have to do is make the war(and it is a war) too horrible for the terrorists to continue,
Have fun trying that while the terrorists try the same on you.
to make people not support the terrorists,
By killing innocents left and right with flimsy justification, you achieve exactly the opposite. "morale bombing" was tried on a large scale in WWII. It failed.
to make countries sit up and control their own extremists.
At some point, what heavy-handed tactics achieve is that the countries instead are controlled by the extremists.
I think that we're far too tilted to the way of the carrot, rather than the stick.
You're damn stupid if you believe the second part of that. Fact is, they were simply not given the CHANCE to surrender after the first bomb. There was not enough time. It took half a day until anyone in Tokyo actually got a vague idea of what had happened in Hiroshima. The three days that passed between the two bombings were totally insufficient for a complete realization of the destruction and the process of making such a grave decision against the inevitable resistance.
In fact, even after the Nagasaki bombing it took FIVE DAYS until the actual surrender proclamation. By your logic the USA should have dropped another bomb (if it had had one) in the meantime, which we know would have been a pointless additional mass-murder.
The prediction was usually not based on the inability to print, but on the lack of necessity to print out documents when you have them available in electronic form whenever you need them.
And in fact I think the prediction has mostly come true, at least in some places. I've heard visitors to my company's offices remark on the lack of paper lying around. It's not missing completely, but there's a few sheets or thin booklets lying around here and there, compared with the many shelves stuffed with correspondence and records of all kinds that used to be typical for offices, and probably still are in more traditional industries and government beaurocracy.
1.5 minutes of downtime a day. Still not acceptable for an operation of this magnitute
What does "magnitude" have to do with acceptable downtime? I don't know about you, but I and everyone I know can most certainly live a couple of minutes without email. Considering what it costs to really get 99.9% uptime, I'm quite sure most companies would decide that 99% is actually peachy keen.
It would be really hard to paint the German government as "a puppet governement controlled from Washington DC", considering how openly it opposed the Iraq invasion.
Not THAT long either... when it's caused by a single, small nuclear device containing about 60kg of uranium, only about 0.7kg of wich actually underwent fission.
Well, it's certainly consistent with my experience. All the people I know who do filesharing switched from other networks pretty much exclusively to BitTorrent a few years back.
The Quran has many passages directing violence toward non-believers.
So has the bible. In fact, it's not some vague "fight them, may Allah destroy them", it's "Kill your own family and friends, and the Lord will bless you for it":
(Moses) stood at the entrance to the camp and shouted, "All of you who are on the LORD's side, come over here and join me." And all the Levites came. He told them, "This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: Strap on your swords! Go back and forth from one end of the camp to the other, killing even your brothers, friends, and neighbors." The Levites obeyed Moses, and about three thousand people died that day. Then Moses told the Levites, "Today you have been ordained for the service of the LORD, for you obeyed him even though it meant killing your own sons and brothers. Because of this, he will now give you a great blessing." (Exodus 32:26-29 NLT)
I'm too lazy to go through all of that, but it seems to pretty much confirm what I said. The kernel is 36MB bzipped, gcc is 30MB, glibc (which I have to admit I forgot about) is 12MB, the rest is a lot smaller. All in all, the GNU stuff is perhaps twice the size of the kernel, certainly not the vast difference the guy I replied to asserted.
As for the kernel being mostly driver code, that's sort of the POINT of a kernel, isn't it? Even a microkernel would still need a large collection of drivers to be in any way useful.
It's called "intelligence gathering", and if you think there aren't a lot of CIA guys trying to do exactly the same thing with any Chinese military server they can find, you probably also still believe in the easter bunny.
I think everybody should start blocking everything with origin out of china.
Makes it kinda hard to do business with them, which is way too profitable to give up over some silly little incident like this.
It feels like someone is trying to find an excuse to go on war with China.
Not until it's hyped up a LOT more.
But that's not going to happen. Next on the list is Iran, unless they manage to get the bomb first (which is exactly the reason why they want it). Attacking China itself would be suicide, it's way too big and powerful, and already has the bomb. The only way the USA and China could end up in a war is if China starts it by attacking Taiwan, and that would be a limited scenario.
It is more likely the other way around: If Linux wasn't created to be the core of the GNU system, GNU would have found another kernel elsewere or written their own.
They've tried that since before Linux existed and still haven't finished it. That's one of the reasons Stallman's insistence on "GNU/Linux" makes him look bad: it looks like he's just jealous that the Linux developers successfully did what the GNU developers are apparently not able to.
A kernel is a reasonable piece of software. But user space tools are a huge amount of programs, that took GNU decades of developping until they have a good amount of them. There is no chance that the Linux development people could do it by now.
I think you're severely overestimating the amount of GNU software that's really strictly necessary to get a running and useable Gnu/Linux system. Basically it's a large (but not THAT large) number of small tools - and gcc. I doubt these taken together are all that much larger than the Linux kernel (sourcecode-wise).
According to the Wikipedia article on SAT, the College Board originally claimed (at the time that question was used) that the test measured "inherent aptitude" and was not dependant on previous education. Furthermore, Mensa used to use SAT scores as an acceptance criterium, and some psychological researches claim they are a "strong indicator of general intelligence".
These examples were extreme and obvious, but if you think nothing like that was ever used in IQ tests then YOU don't know what the hell you are talking about. From this paper about the problem:
An example of a culturally biased question from the SAT is: "Runner:Marathon A) envoy:embassy B) martyr:massacre C) oarsman:regatta D) referee:tournament E) horse:stable. (Herrnstein and Murray, 1994)" This question seems more likely to be answered correctly by upper class children (who are predominantly white) because they are more likely to know what a regatta is.
IQ test questions and problems test *cognitive abilities* and reasoning, among other things, *not* knowledge.
That's what tests nowaday TRY to test, but as the example above shows, even questions aimed to test cognitive abilities require knowledge, which can create a bias.
Besides that, "cognitive abilities" and "reasoning" are rather hard to define clearly, especially in how exactly they are related to "intelligence". More specifically relating to a gender bias: in order to avoid probles as in the example above, today's IQ tests often use abstract figures rather than textual questions. But this may mean the questions strongly rely on spatial sense, something that, according to a lot of research, male brains are somewhat better suited for.
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The problem is that long, non-dictionary passwords are hard to remember and will get written down on a sticky note under the keyboard. Or, if rarely used, forgotten entirely.
Sorry, but it is you who is lying or misinformed.
The bomb destroyed all communication lines out of Hiroshima. There was some rather confused radio communication from nearby towns, which the Japanese government did not take very seriously. After a while, they sent off a recon plane, which took over three hours to reach Hiroshima, and when its report got back to Tokyo, it was not comprehensive and the government still didn't really know what had happened. They learned that from a White House announcement after about 16 hours.
The leaflets you talk about were dropped beginning on August 8th, ONE DAY before the Nagasaki bombing.
And yes, of course there were those in the Japanese government and military who would grasp for any straw to keep fighting, even, as you say yourself, after the second bomb. So why do you think the advocats of reason could not eventually have prevailed after the first? Resolving this kind of internal struggle takes time. Time the US was not willing to give the Japanese.
Not one person has been locked up because of his or her name. Now, if you so happen to have the same name of a know terrorist, or have been linked to a terrorist organization, you will be denied entry to the US.
Nope. You will be arrested, and sent to an allied nation to be tortured.
If the US knew that North Korea was going to hit South Korea or Japan with their massive stockpile of WMDs,
You mean, like they "knew" that Iraq had massive amounts of ready-to-fire WMDs?
What I do believe is that you have to do is make the war(and it is a war) too horrible for the terrorists to continue,
Have fun trying that while the terrorists try the same on you.
to make people not support the terrorists,
By killing innocents left and right with flimsy justification, you achieve exactly the opposite. "morale bombing" was tried on a large scale in WWII. It failed.
to make countries sit up and control their own extremists.
At some point, what heavy-handed tactics achieve is that the countries instead are controlled by the extremists.
I think that we're far too tilted to the way of the carrot, rather than the stick.
You are 100% wrong.
You're damn stupid if you believe the second part of that. Fact is, they were simply not given the CHANCE to surrender after the first bomb. There was not enough time. It took half a day until anyone in Tokyo actually got a vague idea of what had happened in Hiroshima. The three days that passed between the two bombings were totally insufficient for a complete realization of the destruction and the process of making such a grave decision against the inevitable resistance.
In fact, even after the Nagasaki bombing it took FIVE DAYS until the actual surrender proclamation. By your logic the USA should have dropped another bomb (if it had had one) in the meantime, which we know would have been a pointless additional mass-murder.
The prediction was usually not based on the inability to print, but on the lack of necessity to print out documents when you have them available in electronic form whenever you need them.
And in fact I think the prediction has mostly come true, at least in some places. I've heard visitors to my company's offices remark on the lack of paper lying around. It's not missing completely, but there's a few sheets or thin booklets lying around here and there, compared with the many shelves stuffed with correspondence and records of all kinds that used to be typical for offices, and probably still are in more traditional industries and government beaurocracy.
1.5 minutes of downtime a day. Still not acceptable for an operation of this magnitute
What does "magnitude" have to do with acceptable downtime? I don't know about you, but I and everyone I know can most certainly live a couple of minutes without email. Considering what it costs to really get 99.9% uptime, I'm quite sure most companies would decide that 99% is actually peachy keen.
It would be really hard to paint the German government as "a puppet governement controlled from Washington DC", considering how openly it opposed the Iraq invasion.
Funny that there's a letter
from Blanco requesting aid (in great detail) dated SUNDAY...
Note that the cartridges that come with new printers usually do NOT contain as much ink as a cartridge you buy - it's often a lot less, in fact.
Not THAT long either... when it's caused by a single, small nuclear device containing about 60kg of uranium, only about 0.7kg of wich actually underwent fission.
Well, it's certainly consistent with my experience. All the people I know who do filesharing switched from other networks pretty much exclusively to BitTorrent a few years back.
This has NOTHING to do with the trend to replace [insert your old P2P tech here] with [insert your new P2P tech here].
Except that eDonkey is OLDER than BitTorrent.
butter and ice cream are both essentially different forms of milk.
Not really, ice cream also contains a considerable amount of sugar and air, while butter has most of the water removed from the milk.
So has the bible. In fact, it's not some vague "fight them, may Allah destroy them", it's "Kill your own family and friends, and the Lord will bless you for it":
So your point is...?
No. Sex is not the answer. Sex is the question. "Yes" is the answer.
I'm too lazy to go through all of that, but it seems to pretty much confirm what I said. The kernel is 36MB bzipped, gcc is 30MB, glibc (which I have to admit I forgot about) is 12MB, the rest is a lot smaller. All in all, the GNU stuff is perhaps twice the size of the kernel, certainly not the vast difference the guy I replied to asserted.
As for the kernel being mostly driver code, that's sort of the POINT of a kernel, isn't it? Even a microkernel would still need a large collection of drivers to be in any way useful.
Act of war, my ass. That's day-to-day business as far as military intelligence is concerned.
Who the hell do they think they are.
It's called "intelligence gathering", and if you think there aren't a lot of CIA guys trying to do exactly the same thing with any Chinese military server they can find, you probably also still believe in the easter bunny.
I think everybody should start blocking everything with origin out of china.
Makes it kinda hard to do business with them, which is way too profitable to give up over some silly little incident like this.
It feels like someone is trying to find an excuse to go on war with China.
Not until it's hyped up a LOT more.
But that's not going to happen. Next on the list is Iran, unless they manage to get the bomb first (which is exactly the reason why they want it). Attacking China itself would be suicide, it's way too big and powerful, and already has the bomb. The only way the USA and China could end up in a war is if China starts it by attacking Taiwan, and that would be a limited scenario.
It is more likely the other way around: If Linux wasn't created to be the core of the GNU system, GNU would have found another kernel elsewere or written their own.
They've tried that since before Linux existed and still haven't finished it. That's one of the reasons Stallman's insistence on "GNU/Linux" makes him look bad: it looks like he's just jealous that the Linux developers successfully did what the GNU developers are apparently not able to.
A kernel is a reasonable piece of software. But user space tools are a huge amount of programs, that took GNU decades of developping until they have a good amount of them. There is no chance that the Linux development people could do it by now.
I think you're severely overestimating the amount of GNU software that's really strictly necessary to get a running and useable Gnu/Linux system. Basically it's a large (but not THAT large) number of small tools - and gcc. I doubt these taken together are all that much larger than the Linux kernel (sourcecode-wise).
According to the Wikipedia article on SAT, the College Board originally claimed (at the time that question was used) that the test measured "inherent aptitude" and was not dependant on previous education. Furthermore, Mensa used to use SAT scores as an acceptance criterium, and some psychological researches claim they are a "strong indicator of general intelligence".
IQ test questions and problems test *cognitive abilities* and reasoning, among other things, *not* knowledge.
That's what tests nowaday TRY to test, but as the example above shows, even questions aimed to test cognitive abilities require knowledge, which can create a bias.
Besides that, "cognitive abilities" and "reasoning" are rather hard to define clearly, especially in how exactly they are related to "intelligence". More specifically relating to a gender bias: in order to avoid probles as in the example above, today's IQ tests often use abstract figures rather than textual questions. But this may mean the questions strongly rely on spatial sense, something that, according to a lot of research, male brains are somewhat better suited for.
Q: Who won the Soccer World cup / Superbowl in 1990?
Q: What is the most common number of cylinders in a car engine?
Or, on the other side:
Q: Which color is the darkest: amethyst, indigo, azure, lavender?
Q: List at least 5 italian fashion designers.