"The DMCA gives the big boys a new threat to use. A friend of mine was recently held up at gunpoint in the store where he works, he explained to me that he was 99% sure the gun was a replica and yet he didn't laugh the guy off, any ideas why?"
Because the money that the robber wanted was not his own money? (Isn't that the true reason?) Besides, wouldn't the insurance company replace the loss?
Imagine a beowulf cluster of these...
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No, seriously!
If I want to build a server park for big calculations.
Would it be cheaper to just buy a bunch of Xboxes mod them and with the use of linux create a big cluster for calculations?
As I understand it the hardware in the Xbox is underpriced and would be the cheapest way in price per unit to lay hands on hardware with that capability.
Well, Of course they can't bomb a plane crashed on the ground in a country they currently aren't at war with.
They were at war in Vietnam, but they weren't at war with China.
Besides, as I understand it, spy planes never contain any advanced technology, they are ordinary planes outfitted with unclassified spying equipments, just in case the plane would be shot down. (or captured in any way)
One thing that could be interesting, would be to see what the enemy did with the electronic equipment while it was in their hands.
That may very well be the reason they wanted the equipment back.
There is one thing that in my opinion seem to be inplausible and therefore a possible indication that the story might not be true.
As I understand it, the standard procedure to prevent the enemy getting their hands on sensitive electronic equipment is to bomb the chrashed airplane.
Why would they risk peoples life when they simply could drop a few bombs and destroy the wreck.
Remember that F-117 that got shot down during the Kosovo terror bombings?
When his plane first got hit by the missile, one of the reasons he dived down was so that he could bring the plane down in one piece so that it would be easier to bomb the wreck. (Unfortunately they have painted the plane black, which actually is the wrong color, the black color made the plane easier to spot under the circumstances and led to him being shot down)
But why risk peoples life on the ground when a few bombs will make it impossible to extract anything of value?
Natures final test, either an species intelligent enough and able to cooperate to destroy incoming meteorites have evolved, or it will die to leave space for new species to evolve.
But we are to bent on doing the meteorites work for them.
Sure, thats possible. It's also possible the kids physical health are degenerating and although they will be very capable in the mind, they will also have a weak body.
The lack of exercise when growing up will most likely have consequences for the health later in the life.
The human body is constructed to be moving. Not sitting. I guess the americans in particular, have noticed this the most of all the current civilisations.
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"Too late... No time."
Concorde pilot Christian Marty, moments before the supersonic jet crashed into a hotel in Gonesse on the outskirts of Paris.
Doesn't people get it? We are at war with Mars, the mars polar lander was not a probe it was a nuclear bomb. We have been at war with the martians since the 70's.
But the linux community should be/are going to be more open in acknowledging security bugs and virus. Therefore fighting Virus and other security bugs or whatever that may arise would go faster and be more efficient. There is no big company that can issue a propagandistic pressrelease to cover up the truth.
Therefore Linux should evolve faster and in the end be strongest in a security perspective.
The openness is a strong pillar for linux to rest on.
I remenber the comic, beyond the action and the storyline it had some philosophy against racism. I'd like to see that they have kept some of this into the movie and not just only made yet another action movie with pathethic excuses for stupid action sequences.
And Patrick Stewart rocks.
One can see how they more and more want to force the viewers to come to their website and see the trailer. I didn't see any downloadable formats, although I didnt look that thouroghly either.
The question is, after the movie have finished downloading it should be somewhere on the harddrive, does anyone know where? In which file it uses for cache?
Then someone could take the file and put up a mirror for those linux users too.
The movie bladerunner comes to my mind. A future where the governments have become powerless. And the big corporations have all the power. (also Gibson and the computer games Syndicate/Syndicate wars display this future)
The privacy issue may very well be the first step towards total domination by global corporations. The DVD issue also gives me a feeling that MPAA can control the media output more than the average citizen without money can.
On a sidenote: Humanity never cease to amaze me, if people dont like JonKatz articles why do they read them, why do they put their time in logging in and wasting everyones time with pathetical flames. I guess there are many script kiddies and teenagers out there.
How can this afflict the privacy of the homeowner. I can imagine a lots of ways this can be abused by corporations.
Security considerations, Do we really need to have everything connected to the net, what if a hacker disconnects/turns on the refrigerator/microwave while the owner is on vacation.
(it doesnt imply its connected to the net yet i feel its relevant)
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New startbutton?
Well, they have to change something to motivate people to buy the new os.
Now I have to change my universal galactic conquest map.
They better get it right this time, bloody amateurs.
Now it wont be long until even your clothes are Haxx0red and 0wned...
"For the uninformed voyager is the most distant man made object."
Correction:
The most distant object that we know about.
Aliens, Macro wormholes or Gravitionally anomalies may have caused a human manmade object to appear farter from earth than this probe.
"The DMCA gives the big boys a new threat to use. A friend of mine was recently held up at gunpoint in the store where he works, he explained to me that he was 99% sure the gun was a replica and yet he didn't laugh the guy off, any ideas why?"
Because the money that the robber wanted was not his own money? (Isn't that the true reason?) Besides, wouldn't the insurance company replace the loss?
A life is worth more than money.
I agreee! Never been more insulted in my life!
No, seriously!
If I want to build a server park for big calculations.
Would it be cheaper to just buy a bunch of Xboxes mod them and with the use of linux create a big cluster for calculations?
As I understand it the hardware in the Xbox is underpriced and would be the cheapest way in price per unit to lay hands on hardware with that capability.
Well, Of course they can't bomb a plane crashed on the ground in a country they currently aren't at war with.
They were at war in Vietnam, but they weren't at war with China.
Besides, as I understand it, spy planes never contain any advanced technology, they are ordinary planes outfitted with unclassified spying equipments, just in case the plane would be shot down. (or captured in any way)
One thing that could be interesting, would be to see what the enemy did with the electronic equipment while it was in their hands.
That may very well be the reason they wanted the equipment back.
There is one thing that in my opinion seem to be inplausible and therefore a possible indication that the story might not be true.
As I understand it, the standard procedure to prevent the enemy getting their hands on sensitive electronic equipment is to bomb the chrashed airplane.
Why would they risk peoples life when they simply could drop a few bombs and destroy the wreck.
Remember that F-117 that got shot down during the Kosovo terror bombings?
When his plane first got hit by the missile, one of the reasons he dived down was so that he could bring the plane down in one piece so that it would be easier to bomb the wreck. (Unfortunately they have painted the plane black, which actually is the wrong color, the black color made the plane easier to spot under the circumstances and led to him being shot down)
But why risk peoples life on the ground when a few bombs will make it impossible to extract anything of value?
I believe the problem might be that he broke in without getting proper clearance on the 8th of march.
If you are going to do any security audit. Get a written permit signed by the responsible person. Then break in.
If you break in first, without anyone asking you to break in, I can really understand if you get prosecuted.
Blasted chrisd, he Does It Again... Another Spoiler!
Do you know that a file increases roughly in 30-35 percent when using the SMTP-protocol.
Why must people use up the resources of the internet with their Idiotical behavior. Email was never intendened to send large binary files.
Hah! They're bluffing. Everybody knows it was the Aliens who built the pyramids.
But what about meteorites then?
We need protection against meteorites!!!
Natures final test, either an species intelligent enough and able to cooperate to destroy incoming meteorites have evolved, or it will die to leave space for new species to evolve.
But we are to bent on doing the meteorites work for them.
Sure, thats possible. It's also possible the kids physical health are degenerating and although they will be very capable in the mind, they will also have a weak body.
... No time."
The lack of exercise when growing up will most likely have consequences for the health later in the life.
The human body is constructed to be moving. Not sitting. I guess the americans in particular, have noticed this the most of all the current civilisations.
--
"Too late
Concorde pilot Christian Marty, moments before the supersonic jet crashed into a hotel in Gonesse on the outskirts of Paris.
Bah, I think it was the martians who nabbed it or destroyed it. We are since a long time back, at war with the martians, don't you people know that?
As I understand it Orson Welles did not intentially planned on fooling people.
Doesn't people get it?
We are at war with Mars, the mars polar lander was not a probe it was a nuclear bomb. We have been at war with the martians since the 70's.
Hello? Cant you guys/girls see the obvious?
But the linux community should be/are going to be more open in acknowledging security bugs and virus.
Therefore fighting Virus and other security bugs or whatever that may arise would go faster and be more efficient. There is no big company that can issue a propagandistic pressrelease to cover up the truth.
Therefore Linux should evolve faster and in the end be strongest in a security perspective.
The openness is a strong pillar for linux to rest on.
We who live in the city of Göteborg in Sweden have already had a similar offer from our local municipality over a half year ago.
(although I didnt need it, since I already have a free cable connection)
Its good if the recognition of internet gets widespread attention.
slightly off topic, but I am so hilariously funny...
I remenber the comic, beyond the action and the storyline it had some philosophy against racism.
I'd like to see that they have kept some of this into the movie and not just only made yet another action movie with pathethic excuses for stupid action sequences.
And Patrick Stewart rocks.
One can see how they more and more want to force the viewers to come to their website and see the trailer. I didn't see any downloadable formats, although I didnt look that thouroghly either.
The question is, after the movie have finished downloading it should be somewhere on the harddrive, does anyone know where? In which file it uses for cache?
Then someone could take the file and put up a mirror for those linux users too.
The movie bladerunner comes to my mind. A future where the governments have become powerless. And the big corporations have all the power. (also Gibson and the computer games Syndicate/Syndicate wars display this future)
The privacy issue may very well be the first step towards total domination by global corporations. The DVD issue also gives me a feeling that MPAA can control the media output more than the average citizen without money can.
On a sidenote: Humanity never cease to amaze me, if people dont like JonKatz articles why do they read them, why do they put their time in logging in and wasting everyones time with pathetical flames. I guess there are many script kiddies and teenagers out there.
Privacy considerations,
How can this afflict the privacy of the homeowner. I can imagine a lots of ways this can be abused by corporations.
Security considerations,
Do we really need to have everything connected to the net, what if a hacker disconnects/turns on the refrigerator/microwave while the owner is on vacation.
(it doesnt imply its connected to the net yet i feel its relevant)
I found this other rant he wrote also interesting:
http://www.mpog.com/pvp/rants_dd.html
Its about dungeons and dragons and in light of the current viloence debate i find it interesting.