If you were observing it directly from an orbiting telescope, the hard radiation might cause a slight increase in your chances of getting cancer - and not just in your eye.
What would happen to my chances of getting lightning, flamey, strechy, or invisibly rock strong super powers?
It would prove that it doesn't require a divinity to create life. That doesn't demolish the stated premise of ID but it is a blow to the implied premise of ID, namely "We all know that it was Yahweh but came up with this as a roundabout way of not actually saying it."
You have to understand the mentality of the people you're arguing with. They think that their import oil fueled Escalade is the best way to show their Red-Blooded Americaness. This just goes to show the power of marketing. I recall conservative public service ads in the Seventies urging the necessity of getting off imported oil in the wake the OPEC inspired Oil Crisis. Mind you, they didn't bang on about "Saving The Planet" but they were very much about "Saving America". But then neocons shoved aside the real conservatives a long time ago and their Ministry Of Truth works great.
I had a cute thought the instant I heard of watermarking that is supposed to be robust against "common alterations". What if I (or my Evil Pirate Cabal) buy several copies of a watermarked work and then average them together? In this case, we're using watermarks to obliterate each other. Whatever obfuscated channels these things have to live in, they're being forced into collision. In the most naive case, just distribute the averaged product. And I suspect the more pretty-much-identical products you average the better this works. When they run a trace, is this stuff so good that they see all three or four watermarks? Or munged up noise?
This is also the most obvious way to get started on attacking these watermarks. Take two differently watermarked copies A and B. You can immediately generate differences between the two and all sorts of products like (A+B)/2 - B. At any rate, I bet it wouldn't be super difficult to extract the watermark data from a number of examples. Once you have that, you can start coming up with specific ways of noising them up.
It's honestly like you guys are determined to kill yourselves in the most expensive, controversial way possible. May I humbly recommend the Hutchins/Carradine route instead. It's a lot more pleasant and leaves a lot less mess.
But...but...everyone knows that when you die that you take one last explosive crap. And with your pants down? Eew!
I have Ubuntu Netbook Remix installed on a 4G 701. The camera, wireless, sd card and all the rest work with current software and no "self-destructing inode" misfeature bugs. It was all autodetected so I didn't have to do any system administration to get the hardware lit up. I like the interface better than what came on the Xandros as well.
Rather than forward all sorts of ports to different hosts behind a firewall you just need an ssh server that can connect to those hosts and all connections to that (properly secured) ssh server.
On the client you do something like putty -D 1080 username@host. This creates a SOCKS 5 proxy on the client that can connect to anything the ssh server you've connected to can see. On Linux and (maybe) OS X, you use run your remote client through proxychains or tsocks eg.
Bandwidth allowing, you can connect to as many remote clients as you like at the same time. Seems "firewall friendly" to me.This is sometimes called "socksification". You can also use "localhost" in software like browsers that can be set to use SOCKS.
Windows users don't have quite as easy a time socksifying appsthough you can try FreeCap or SocksCap. I don't have to do much in the way of remote printing though I suppose print clients could be tunneled that way as well.
Yep. But OS X built-in VNC insists on sending full resolution, full color-depth, and no compression whatsoever unless you tunneled over SSH with compression. At least this is what happens if you use a common Linux or Windows VNC client. I've been installing Vine Server for years to overcome the severe deficiencies of the VNC built into OS X.
They have a very nice tool that slipstreams (among others) mass storage and network drivers into Windows installation media. I've used it for XP and 2003 and have found that DriverPacked install media will pretty much find your storage controller even on recent machines.
Well the fact is until relatively recently, the Soviets/Russians were still enamored of Stalin's observation that "quantity has a quality all it's own". Since we did have to face the fact the Soviets had a large advantage in bulk equipment and manpower, we put some effort into countering it. An attack plane that can consistently take out one target with one munition is better than 10 planes that need to drop a lot of dumb bombs to accomplish the same thing etc. etc. And it turns out that Soviet planners WERE concerned about the large numbers of A-10s we had deployed in Europe. Those were designed to make armored units cease to exist and we very much had hordes of tanks coming in over the Urals in mind when we made the things. Though I really think they respected the thing because it was one of the few weapons we built they way they did: simple, robust, and massively armed.
None of this means that victory was assured or that we regarded the Soviets as weak opponents. But it does mean we could credibly counter sheer bulk and manpower with fewer but more effective weapons.
They have a nice automated tool that merges "driverpacks" they assemble and a volume or oem licensed installer disc you supply into a nice DVD image that contains most network and mass-storage drivers. There are some gotchas if you want to be able to do "repair installs" from such discs but reading their forums has the answer for fixing that. I believe you omit the "winnt.sif" or some such from the image. They assume you are producing a disc for unattended installs and you can either have the ability to do a repair install or an unattended install but not both on the same media.
The AK-47 itself gets as close to stone age as it possibly can. It made mostly out of wood and stamped parts and has really loose tolerances and is as mechanically simple for a weapon of that class to be. Given good plans I bet the first gun foundries capable of producing interchangeable parts could turn them out. That is mid-1800s tech. The ammo would be trickier than the gun itself but late 1800s tech could manage the ammo.
In what world should collaborators not be made to pay? The big difference between those villagers and the occupiers is the fact they lived there. You expect to be oppressed by occupiers but when your neighbor licks their boots and helps out the oppressor that makes the collaborator more reprehensible than the occupier. If such a one had turned some of your loved ones over to the SS or maybe just took something he wanted backed by an invader's gun then perhaps you wouldn't be so quick to toss off such quick moral judgments.
Not really. The only real use for a hot sauce of that magnitude is when you want to up the amount of heat in a dish without otherwise affecting the flavor. Take chili. You can hot it up a bit with Tabasco Sauce but you'll also add quite a bit of vinegary twang. Not that there is anything wrong with that necessarily but it may not be a flavor you want in your chili. On the other hand, if you use a small amount of one these "XXX" sauces then your chili gets hotter but the other flavors aren't masked as much.
That doesn't really answer my question though. I know that anti-missile systems are at least somewhat effective against standard anti-ship missiles and cruise missiles.
These things are supersonic and can dodge and weave. Do we have an effective counter?
What about those nifty anti-missile gatling guns on American ships? Can they or any other tech reliably intercept these things? I've seen the sentiment that America spending billions to build carriers may be foolish if a few $200,000 "Sizzler" missiles can take one out. I don't how severe that threat actually is but it is an argument I've seen either as the merits of a supersonic cruise missile or questionable investment in expensive capital ships vulnerable to them.
Buying Novell just to use them as an anticompetitive weapon would once again draw unwelcome regulator attention to MS. The MS way would be to bankroll proxies to do their dirty work for them just as they did with SCO.
Yes but MySQL insisted on a very novel interpretation of the GPL. They insisted that the socket interface to make SQL queries was also covered by the GPL effectively meaning that merely querying a MySQL instance was sufficient to require that the app doing the querying had to be GPLed or one of their commercial licensees. Even RMS himself has taken pains to get across that merely using GPLed software over customary interfaces doesn't "infect" anything else with the GPL unless you have something like bison that emits GPLed structures that you incorporation into your own source. And this happenstance doesn't apply to MySQL.
If someone had wanted to press it and take them to court over this, there is sufficient precedent for a good lawyer to prevail but of course that would have been costly so they have never been called on this in an official way though plenty of developers have told them they're full of it. We can only hope that Oracle doesn't continue insisting on this stupidity. I would think they are involved in enough GPLed codebases to see the madness it leads to.
Eventually, someone cut to the heart of the issue from there side. Basically, he said "Do you know how much I pay each year for my support contract? No? Well, it's a lot. If I have any problems that don't fix themselves in under five minutes, I'm going to pick up the phone and call you. I'm paying you to support me if I have trouble, I shouldn't have to troubleshoot it myself."
Perhaps so but there is a big difference between not knowing how to use your crap and your crap being broke. So in cases like this, you have to clearly establish whether "technical support" includes "training".
All that said, I arrange things so that I automate or just do for the users as many things as possible because most of them can only be bothered to learn things by rote which they write on a sticky note....usually with passwords right on it.
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If you were observing it directly from an orbiting telescope, the hard radiation might cause a slight increase in your chances of getting cancer - and not just in your eye.
What would happen to my chances of getting lightning, flamey, strechy, or invisibly rock strong super powers?
And this is what should happen to Vinny and Guido.....
http://flimmr.passagen.se/movie/robot_chicken_bob_the_builder_vs_the_mafia.action
It would prove that it doesn't require a divinity to create life. That doesn't demolish the stated premise of ID but it is a blow to the implied premise of ID, namely "We all know that it was Yahweh but came up with this as a roundabout way of not actually saying it."
So what about descendants of children created this way?
You have to understand the mentality of the people you're arguing with. They think that their import oil fueled Escalade is the best way to show their Red-Blooded Americaness. This just goes to show the power of marketing. I recall conservative public service ads in the Seventies urging the necessity of getting off imported oil in the wake the OPEC inspired Oil Crisis. Mind you, they didn't bang on about "Saving The Planet" but they were very much about "Saving America". But then neocons shoved aside the real conservatives a long time ago and their Ministry Of Truth works great.
I had a cute thought the instant I heard of watermarking that is supposed to be robust against "common alterations". What if I (or my Evil Pirate Cabal) buy several copies of a watermarked work and then average them together? In this case, we're using watermarks to obliterate each other. Whatever obfuscated channels these things have to live in, they're being forced into collision. In the most naive case, just distribute the averaged product. And I suspect the more pretty-much-identical products you average the better this works. When they run a trace, is this stuff so good that they see all three or four watermarks? Or munged up noise?
This is also the most obvious way to get started on attacking these watermarks. Take two differently watermarked copies A and B. You can immediately generate differences between the two and all sorts of products like (A+B)/2 - B. At any rate, I bet it wouldn't be super difficult to extract the watermark data from a number of examples. Once you have that, you can start coming up with specific ways of noising them up.
It's honestly like you guys are determined to kill yourselves in the most expensive, controversial way possible. May I humbly recommend the Hutchins/Carradine route instead. It's a lot more pleasant and leaves a lot less mess.
But...but...everyone knows that when you die that you take one last explosive crap. And with your pants down? Eew!
I have Ubuntu Netbook Remix installed on a 4G 701. The camera, wireless, sd card and all the rest work with current software and no "self-destructing inode" misfeature bugs. It was all autodetected so I didn't have to do any system administration to get the hardware lit up. I like the interface better than what came on the Xandros as well.
Rather than forward all sorts of ports to different hosts behind a firewall you just need an ssh server that can connect to those hosts and all connections to that (properly secured) ssh server.
On the client you do something like putty -D 1080 username@host. This creates a SOCKS 5 proxy on the client that can connect to anything the ssh server you've connected to can see. On Linux and (maybe) OS X, you use run your remote client through proxychains or tsocks eg.
proxychains rdesktop internal_ip
proxychains ssvncviewer -bgr233 -encodings tight other_internal_ip
Bandwidth allowing, you can connect to as many remote clients as you like at the same time. Seems "firewall friendly" to me.This is sometimes called "socksification". You can also use "localhost" in software like browsers that can be set to use SOCKS.
Windows users don't have quite as easy a time socksifying appsthough you can try FreeCap or SocksCap. I don't have to do much in the way of remote printing though I suppose print clients could be tunneled that way as well.
Yep. But OS X built-in VNC insists on sending full resolution, full color-depth, and no compression whatsoever unless you tunneled over SSH with compression. At least this is what happens if you use a common Linux or Windows VNC client. I've been installing Vine Server for years to overcome the severe deficiencies of the VNC built into OS X.
DriverPacks are your friend: http://driverpacks.net/
They have a very nice tool that slipstreams (among others) mass storage and network drivers into Windows installation media. I've used it for XP and 2003 and have found that DriverPacked install media will pretty much find your storage controller even on recent machines.
Well the fact is until relatively recently, the Soviets/Russians were still enamored of Stalin's observation that "quantity has a quality all it's own". Since we did have to face the fact the Soviets had a large advantage in bulk equipment and manpower, we put some effort into countering it. An attack plane that can consistently take out one target with one munition is better than 10 planes that need to drop a lot of dumb bombs to accomplish the same thing etc. etc. And it turns out that Soviet planners WERE concerned about the large numbers of A-10s we had deployed in Europe. Those were designed to make armored units cease to exist and we very much had hordes of tanks coming in over the Urals in mind when we made the things. Though I really think they respected the thing because it was one of the few weapons we built they way they did: simple, robust, and massively armed.
None of this means that victory was assured or that we regarded the Soviets as weak opponents. But it does mean we could credibly counter sheer bulk and manpower with fewer but more effective weapons.
DriverPacks is your friend for this: http://driverpacks.net/
They have a nice automated tool that merges "driverpacks" they assemble and a volume or oem licensed installer disc you supply into a nice DVD image that contains most network and mass-storage drivers. There are some gotchas if you want to be able to do "repair installs" from such discs but reading their forums has the answer for fixing that. I believe you omit the "winnt.sif" or some such from the image. They assume you are producing a disc for unattended installs and you can either have the ability to do a repair install or an unattended install but not both on the same media.
The AK-47 itself gets as close to stone age as it possibly can. It made mostly out of wood and stamped parts and has really loose tolerances and is as mechanically simple for a weapon of that class to be. Given good plans I bet the first gun foundries capable of producing interchangeable parts could turn them out. That is mid-1800s tech. The ammo would be trickier than the gun itself but late 1800s tech could manage the ammo.
In what world should collaborators not be made to pay? The big difference between those villagers and the occupiers is the fact they lived there. You expect to be oppressed by occupiers but when your neighbor licks their boots and helps out the oppressor that makes the collaborator more reprehensible than the occupier. If such a one had turned some of your loved ones over to the SS or maybe just took something he wanted backed by an invader's gun then perhaps you wouldn't be so quick to toss off such quick moral judgments.
Not really. The only real use for a hot sauce of that magnitude is when you want to up the amount of heat in a dish without otherwise affecting the flavor. Take chili. You can hot it up a bit with Tabasco Sauce but you'll also add quite a bit of vinegary twang. Not that there is anything wrong with that necessarily but it may not be a flavor you want in your chili. On the other hand, if you use a small amount of one these "XXX" sauces then your chili gets hotter but the other flavors aren't masked as much.
I wonder if chucking in a few hippies might help the efficiency of the whole operation.
That doesn't really answer my question though. I know that anti-missile systems are at least somewhat effective against standard anti-ship missiles and cruise missiles.
These things are supersonic and can dodge and weave. Do we have an effective counter?
What about those nifty anti-missile gatling guns on American ships? Can they or any other tech reliably intercept these things? I've seen the sentiment that America spending billions to build carriers may be foolish if a few $200,000 "Sizzler" missiles can take one out. I don't how severe that threat actually is but it is an argument I've seen either as the merits of a supersonic cruise missile or questionable investment in expensive capital ships vulnerable to them.
They still smelled like crap though.
Buying Novell just to use them as an anticompetitive weapon would once again draw unwelcome regulator attention to MS. The MS way would be to bankroll proxies to do their dirty work for them just as they did with SCO.
Yes but MySQL insisted on a very novel interpretation of the GPL. They insisted that the socket interface to make SQL queries was also covered by the GPL effectively meaning that merely querying a MySQL instance was sufficient to require that the app doing the querying had to be GPLed or one of their commercial licensees. Even RMS himself has taken pains to get across that merely using GPLed software over customary interfaces doesn't "infect" anything else with the GPL unless you have something like bison that emits GPLed structures that you incorporation into your own source. And this happenstance doesn't apply to MySQL.
If someone had wanted to press it and take them to court over this, there is sufficient precedent for a good lawyer to prevail but of course that would have been costly so they have never been called on this in an official way though plenty of developers have told them they're full of it. We can only hope that Oracle doesn't continue insisting on this stupidity. I would think they are involved in enough GPLed codebases to see the madness it leads to.
Perhaps so but the navies of various countries have been giving them rather strong hints as to what are and are not acceptable sources of revenue.
Eventually, someone cut to the heart of the issue from there side. Basically, he said "Do you know how much I pay each year for my support contract? No? Well, it's a lot. If I have any problems that don't fix themselves in under five minutes, I'm going to pick up the phone and call you. I'm paying you to support me if I have trouble, I shouldn't have to troubleshoot it myself."
Perhaps so but there is a big difference between not knowing how to use your crap and your crap being broke. So in cases like this, you have to clearly establish whether "technical support" includes "training".
All that said, I arrange things so that I automate or just do for the users as many things as possible because most of them can only be bothered to learn things by rote which they write on a sticky note....usually with passwords right on it.
I've used it extensively in Linux. Worked for me but YMMV.