Heh. My house was saved from a lightning strike a few years ago by the mailbox.
The mailbox pedestal (masonry) had chicken wire inside, apparently to reinforce the mortar between the cinder block core and the outer layer of rock. One stormy night a LOUD clap of thunder was heard and one (only one) breaker popped, for a room in the back of the house. The next morning we discovered pulverized bits of masonry all over the front yard and a large divot in one corner of the mailbox.
Not quite. 1.6 update 7 was the last one before the new regime of uninstalling the old versions when you update to the new, so if you still have any 1.6u7 or earlier they'll be left in place even though you're running the latest version. You have to get rid of the old ones manually.
This process was IIRC never put in place for the 1.5 series, so you're wrong there as well - you'll hang on to all the 1.5s and 1.4s etc. unless you manually remove them.
It involves cutting spending on healthcare, which the Republicans are completely aware the Dems will never agree to. It wasn't a serious proposal but merely a thumb in the eye.
I've been eliminating Java from my supported computers unless absolutely necessary for that very reason: exploits, exacerbated by a crappy updater. Not a one of them has complained about not having it since I started.
I help manage a BlueCat Adonis and this requires a Java application (not an applet) to run. Our Cisco AnyConnect VPN uses Java to install the client unless you're using Internet Explorer, which uses ActiveX.
At home I will sometimes use the DBGL front-end for DOSBox, which is Java-based.
Other than the Cisco thing, I can't think of the last time I had to run Java in a browser.
One of our old packages required Java 1.5 to execute certain Crystal Reports queries but would otherwise function, and there's one still in use elsewhere that requires JVM 1.4_03 and nothing else; not _02 or _04; it will refuse to run with anything else.
Yes. Given the years of consolidation so that the media outlets are generally owned by large companies with other interests to protect, it's inescapable.
These people pop up (usually with brand-new accounts) at Ars Technica every time there's an AGW story. I think there must be a website somewhere devoted to these nutbars and if one of them is on a site that runs a story, they'll post at this place (FreeRepublic or elsewhere) and bring all their buddies.
That or a few of them have e.g. Google News set to show all stories about AGW and go from there.
There will also be One Guy who brings his pet goat aboard for sexual gratification, and another with a suspiciously young-looking "niece", and several with gratuitously loud sound systems. Some of those will be rich enough that their neighbors will have no recourse.
Ayup. We collapsed the USSR by forcing them to compete with our military spending, and now we're letting guerrillas "force" us to spend money we haven't got on our military.
Bin Laden was a bastard, but you have to admire a professionally done job.
There weren't any F-86s in theater at first, and no plans for them to be there until the MiG-15 made its surprising debut - at first the North Koreans were largely limited to Yak-9s and other piston-engined aircraft.
I doubt there were many in existence in early 1950 either given the defense cutbacks after 1945.
Point of order: the F-51s weren't used as fighters in Korea; they were (inappropriately!) used for close support. It was the F-82 Twin Mustang that was briefly used as a fighter-bomber in Korea until enough jets were in theater.
Tangent: the whole reason the MiG-15 was such a big threat is that Winston Churchill's Conservative Party lost the UK elections in 1945. In his place was Labour's Clement Attlee, whose government willingly sent samples of the Rolls-Royce Nene engine to the Soviet Union after the war, an excellent engine well in advance of the BMW 003 and Jumo 004 engines the Soviets captured from Germany.
That tactic eventually worked for them with the V-22 Osprey; it's why they're still using Vietnam-era UH-1s and AH-1s instead of upgrading to UH-60s and AH-64s like the other services did.
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That's such a stupid position that I won't bother arguing, but can only mock.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA
What makes you think we have the source for either of those? Vendors don't typically give that unless you pay the big coin.
So...
Netcraft confirms it! Anarcho-capitalism is dying...
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Glad to see you say so.
What I don't get are the libertarians who think that requiring companies to give factual information is somehow an unconstitutional overreach.
Heh. My house was saved from a lightning strike a few years ago by the mailbox.
The mailbox pedestal (masonry) had chicken wire inside, apparently to reinforce the mortar between the cinder block core and the outer layer of rock. One stormy night a LOUD clap of thunder was heard and one (only one) breaker popped, for a room in the back of the house. The next morning we discovered pulverized bits of masonry all over the front yard and a large divot in one corner of the mailbox.
Do you have anything /intelligent/ to add, or are you going to sling cliched partisan attacks all day?
And quite often they vote far-right Republican. Your point?
Not quite. 1.6 update 7 was the last one before the new regime of uninstalling the old versions when you update to the new, so if you still have any 1.6u7 or earlier they'll be left in place even though you're running the latest version. You have to get rid of the old ones manually.
This process was IIRC never put in place for the 1.5 series, so you're wrong there as well - you'll hang on to all the 1.5s and 1.4s etc. unless you manually remove them.
It involves cutting spending on healthcare, which the Republicans are completely aware the Dems will never agree to. It wasn't a serious proposal but merely a thumb in the eye.
Oh? I've become more liberal since college and am willing to pay higher taxes to support said things.
Maybe that's a tired old cliche and it's not as true as you'd like to think.
I've been eliminating Java from my supported computers unless absolutely necessary for that very reason: exploits, exacerbated by a crappy updater. Not a one of them has complained about not having it since I started.
I help manage a BlueCat Adonis and this requires a Java application (not an applet) to run. Our Cisco AnyConnect VPN uses Java to install the client unless you're using Internet Explorer, which uses ActiveX.
At home I will sometimes use the DBGL front-end for DOSBox, which is Java-based.
Other than the Cisco thing, I can't think of the last time I had to run Java in a browser.
Someone's doing it wrong, then. Java Update will normally pop up a UAC window to execute, then possibly another if a new version exists to install.
If your admin has disallowed it, then they should be using Active Directory to push out .MSIs for each new release of the JRE.
We're now up to Java 1.6 update 32 or 1.7 update 4, with the former recommended for production use.
One of our old packages required Java 1.5 to execute certain Crystal Reports queries but would otherwise function, and there's one still in use elsewhere that requires JVM 1.4_03 and nothing else; not _02 or _04; it will refuse to run with anything else.
Yes. Given the years of consolidation so that the media outlets are generally owned by large companies with other interests to protect, it's inescapable.
These people pop up (usually with brand-new accounts) at Ars Technica every time there's an AGW story. I think there must be a website somewhere devoted to these nutbars and if one of them is on a site that runs a story, they'll post at this place (FreeRepublic or elsewhere) and bring all their buddies.
That or a few of them have e.g. Google News set to show all stories about AGW and go from there.
There will also be One Guy who brings his pet goat aboard for sexual gratification, and another with a suspiciously young-looking "niece", and several with gratuitously loud sound systems. Some of those will be rich enough that their neighbors will have no recourse.
Ayup. We collapsed the USSR by forcing them to compete with our military spending, and now we're letting guerrillas "force" us to spend money we haven't got on our military.
Bin Laden was a bastard, but you have to admire a professionally done job.
Weeping sores? You'd better use more KY, buddy.
There weren't any F-86s in theater at first, and no plans for them to be there until the MiG-15 made its surprising debut - at first the North Koreans were largely limited to Yak-9s and other piston-engined aircraft.
I doubt there were many in existence in early 1950 either given the defense cutbacks after 1945.
The point being that I doubt parent's really willing to make the choice between "live free" or "die", big words aside.
Point of order: the F-51s weren't used as fighters in Korea; they were (inappropriately!) used for close support. It was the F-82 Twin Mustang that was briefly used as a fighter-bomber in Korea until enough jets were in theater.
Tangent: the whole reason the MiG-15 was such a big threat is that Winston Churchill's Conservative Party lost the UK elections in 1945. In his place was Labour's Clement Attlee, whose government willingly sent samples of the Rolls-Royce Nene engine to the Soviet Union after the war, an excellent engine well in advance of the BMW 003 and Jumo 004 engines the Soviets captured from Germany.
That tactic eventually worked for them with the V-22 Osprey; it's why they're still using Vietnam-era UH-1s and AH-1s instead of upgrading to UH-60s and AH-64s like the other services did.
You talk pretty tough but I bet you're just as chickenshit as the rest of us.
That was the 14th Amendment, idiot, and they did it anyway.