Rimmer didn't do the repair - he's only a level 3 technician which is basically a toilet cleaner.
OTOH his over inflated ego meant he thought he had something to do with it, hence the trial in 'Justice' where Kryten eloquently gets rimmer off with the classic defence: "Who would let this man, this joke of a man, a man who couldn't outwit a used tea bag, be in a position where he might endanger the entire crew? Who? Only a yogurt.
The problem with phpBB is it's so damned hard to upgrade. There's no plugin architecture - 'plugins' are done by hand-modifying the code (and the changes aren't even sent as diffs, they're instructions that must be hand applied).
Because of this even a minor upgrade is about a days work whilst everything is re-applied and retested. It's hell if you have any custom themes - because you have to basically recreate it from scratch because again the themes are hooked into the core code and themes for one version don't work with another.
My wife has a heavily modified phpBB for example, it's somewhere in the early 2.x cycle I think. She doesn't even remember the names of half the changes, and some of them are custom mods. Upgrading simply isn't an option for her, because it would basically mean scrapping her forum and starting again.
They want a fully working modern bomb to look 'big and mean' in front of the americans.
A terrorist however doesn't need that.. something with a few kiloton yield that takes out a small area (or fails and merely irradiates a small area) is a lot easier to build.
So fission bombs *are* easy, if you don't care much about the yield, or safety precautions.
Meh. Just get something highly radioactive and blow it up using conventional explosives.
Simple to do. Light on the damage but very high on the 'terror' scale - especially since the press will inevitably call it a 'nuclear' explosion because they're stupid.
The cleanup will take anything from months to years too.
Politicians of the time really thought that the USSR was waiting for the excuse to invade Western Europe, and reacted to what they knew. That the information was completely wrong is neither here nor there (*why* it was so wrong is open to debate). \
I don't see the problem with storing DNA.. in fact it's a good idea. Next time there's a murder/rape, find the DNA at the scene, filter out what shouldn't be there and go and arrest the culprit. No messing around with months of investigation getting nowhere, as normally happens.
It's not like DNA is actually useful for anything other than identifying you.
Well once you've discounted the ones on the borders of the congestion charge zone (which are permanently focussed on number plate recognition), and those in stores (which are all independent so useless for tracking) there aren't *that* many.
Slashdot just likes to use a big numbers to say there are more in London than elsewhere.
Of course the best way to track anyone these days is a combination of credit card and mobile phone. No camera needed.
The problem with that is it's self perpetuating... and why voter turnout has dropped to 15% in local elections at ties.
Really you should be voting for your chosen candidate *Even if he has no chance* because one day the other 85% might decide to do the same thing, and they need your support.
One vote means little, but for example in this seat I'm in which is a very safe labour seat... the majority is only 600 people. That's not a lot of people that need to change, and it's a good thing to break the apathy and actually give the system a chance to work.
Oh and of course because the's the head of the army she can unilaterally declare war on France, for example. Again this is unlikely.
She can no longer order the death penalty (no more 'off with his head!':p). The death penalty for 'arson in the royal dockyards' was abolished in 1971. The death penalty for treason was abolished in 1988, just before the signing of the human rights act.
The British Empire contains subjects. We're all subjects of the Queen.
OTOH she doesn't have a lot of power in practice - in theory she appoints the prime minister and the cabinet, and could unilaterally dismiss the government.. the army also swear allegience to her so they couldn't exactly stop her. In reality that just isn't going to happen. No monarch has dismissed an elected prime minister since 1834.
Firstly there's hugee amounts of prior art for ads at the bottom of the screen. This is not new (it's also illegal in some countries due to the implicit mixing of advertising/content that it causes, but probably not in the US where most of googles content will be generated).
Secondly that a heck of a lot *more* annoying than full page ads, because to skip it you have to fast forward past parts of the programme you actually wanted to watch.
Don't know if this idea has crossed the pond yet, but in the UK we have whole hour shows containing ads (albeit mildly amusing ones), with commercial breaks in between.
Stateless autoconfig will only tell you the ipv6 address and router. It's not good enough for full config.
You need to distribute the addresses of DNS, NTP, WINS, etc. etc. - for that you need DHCPv6.
Zeroconf will not cut it. That's for discovering services on the local subnet only... not broadcasting DNS addresses etc. On top of that it won't cross routers (by design), making it unsuitable for any reasonable size network (It has exactly the same issues as Netbios broadcast in fact, which hardly ever works.. hence the WINS hack which also hardly ever works).
Reverse DNS you mentioned - this not solvable without DHCPv6 at present (and is a critical issue for a well functioning network).
The other issue with stateless autoconfig is you can't fix the addresses centrally. In theory they should stay the same but in practice network cards die.. and the address is just the MAC address of the network card. If that happens to your main webserver you're screwed.
Basically you can either buy a cisco and upgrade to an ISP that'll route ipv6 (that's the neatest way of doing it, but is expensive and limits your ISP choice), or if you can get hold of an old WRT54G you can install a custom firmware that supports ipv6 and create a tunnel to a tunnel broker somewhere - it'll be much slower (tunnel latency is typically 300ms+ for the first hop because there are so few of them) but you'll be 'on' the ipv6 internet.
Interestingly that sequence in 2002 was exactly what Mythbusters repeated several years later.
Sounds like they read that article and repeated the experiment to see what would happen - and there was me thinking they'd actually made some of it up...
Your print never reads the same twice (fingerprints are a poor biometric for this reason - you can only really guess within a certain probability that it's the right one), so to do what you're suggesting you'd have to store the hash on the device.
So your security is dependent on them hiding the hash to the rest of the data. Security is only as strong as its weakest point.
Of course using this software virtually guarantees that your account *will* be stolen, because the author 'accidentally' kept a record of your username/password 'for backup purposes'.
The dev. cert is free, and if you're only doing freeware that's the only thing you need.. anyone can sign an app for their own phone.
$250 if you want the convenience of commercial pre-signed apps. And Nokia don't take 30% of your revenue for the privilege... so it's *still* cheaper than the apple solution.
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Rimmer didn't do the repair - he's only a level 3 technician which is basically a toilet cleaner.
OTOH his over inflated ego meant he thought he had something to do with it, hence the trial in 'Justice' where Kryten eloquently gets rimmer off with the classic defence:
"Who would let this man, this joke of a man, a man who couldn't outwit a used tea bag, be in a position where he might endanger the entire crew? Who? Only a yogurt.
The problem with phpBB is it's so damned hard to upgrade. There's no plugin architecture - 'plugins' are done by hand-modifying the code (and the changes aren't even sent as diffs, they're instructions that must be hand applied).
Because of this even a minor upgrade is about a days work whilst everything is re-applied and retested. It's hell if you have any custom themes - because you have to basically recreate it from scratch because again the themes are hooked into the core code and themes for one version don't work with another.
My wife has a heavily modified phpBB for example, it's somewhere in the early 2.x cycle I think. She doesn't even remember the names of half the changes, and some of them are custom mods. Upgrading simply isn't an option for her, because it would basically mean scrapping her forum and starting again.
They want a fully working modern bomb to look 'big and mean' in front of the americans.
A terrorist however doesn't need that.. something with a few kiloton yield that takes out a small area (or fails and merely irradiates a small area) is a lot easier to build.
So fission bombs *are* easy, if you don't care much about the yield, or safety precautions.
Meh. Just get something highly radioactive and blow it up using conventional explosives.
Simple to do. Light on the damage but very high on the 'terror' scale - especially since the press will inevitably call it a 'nuclear' explosion because they're stupid.
The cleanup will take anything from months to years too.
then stopped because they were horrified,
Actually they stopped because Japan surrendered.
If it hadn't done there's no doubt they would have taken out Tokyo.
And this 'horrified' country then proceeded to build the largest nuclear arsenal in the world.
Hindsight is a wonderful thing.
Politicians of the time really thought that the USSR was waiting for the excuse to invade Western Europe, and reacted to what they knew. That the information was completely wrong is neither here nor there (*why* it was so wrong is open to debate).
\
I don't see the problem with storing DNA.. in fact it's a good idea. Next time there's a murder/rape, find the DNA at the scene, filter out what shouldn't be there and go and arrest the culprit. No messing around with months of investigation getting nowhere, as normally happens.
It's not like DNA is actually useful for anything other than identifying you.
Well once you've discounted the ones on the borders of the congestion charge zone (which are permanently focussed on number plate recognition), and those in stores (which are all independent so useless for tracking) there aren't *that* many.
Slashdot just likes to use a big numbers to say there are more in London than elsewhere.
Of course the best way to track anyone these days is a combination of credit card and mobile phone. No camera needed.
The problem with that is it's self perpetuating... and why voter turnout has dropped to 15% in local elections at ties.
Really you should be voting for your chosen candidate *Even if he has no chance* because one day the other 85% might decide to do the same thing, and they need your support.
One vote means little, but for example in this seat I'm in which is a very safe labour seat... the majority is only 600 people. That's not a lot of people that need to change, and it's a good thing to break the apathy and actually give the system a chance to work.
Oh and of course because the's the head of the army she can unilaterally declare war on France, for example. Again this is unlikely.
:p). The death penalty for 'arson in the royal dockyards' was abolished in 1971. The death penalty for treason was abolished in 1988, just before the signing of the human rights act.
She can no longer order the death penalty (no more 'off with his head!'
Nah you got it backwards.
The British Empire contains subjects. We're all subjects of the Queen.
OTOH she doesn't have a lot of power in practice - in theory she appoints the prime minister and the cabinet, and could unilaterally dismiss the government.. the army also swear allegience to her so they couldn't exactly stop her. In reality that just isn't going to happen. No monarch has dismissed an elected prime minister since 1834.
Firstly there's hugee amounts of prior art for ads at the bottom of the screen. This is not new (it's also illegal in some countries due to the implicit mixing of advertising/content that it causes, but probably not in the US where most of googles content will be generated).
Secondly that a heck of a lot *more* annoying than full page ads, because to skip it you have to fast forward past parts of the programme you actually wanted to watch.
It could be worse.. it could be patented by Apple!
Then anyone who suggested it might be wrong would be modded into oblivion.
Don't know if this idea has crossed the pond yet, but in the UK we have whole hour shows containing ads (albeit mildly amusing ones), with commercial breaks in between.
So they already had the idea.
So what you're saying is..
There is no spoon.
You want a list of 99.99% of the sites on the entire internet???? :p
Better to start with a list of what *is* available.
Stateless autoconfig will only tell you the ipv6 address and router. It's not good enough for full config.
You need to distribute the addresses of DNS, NTP, WINS, etc. etc. - for that you need DHCPv6.
Zeroconf will not cut it. That's for discovering services on the local subnet only... not broadcasting DNS addresses etc. On top of that it won't cross routers (by design), making it unsuitable for any reasonable size network (It has exactly the same issues as Netbios broadcast in fact, which hardly ever works.. hence the WINS hack which also hardly ever works).
Reverse DNS you mentioned - this not solvable without DHCPv6 at present (and is a critical issue for a well functioning network).
The other issue with stateless autoconfig is you can't fix the addresses centrally. In theory they should stay the same but in practice network cards die.. and the address is just the MAC address of the network card. If that happens to your main webserver you're screwed.
Pretty much no home routers support ipv6.
Basically you can either buy a cisco and upgrade to an ISP that'll route ipv6 (that's the neatest way of doing it, but is expensive and limits your ISP choice), or if you can get hold of an old WRT54G you can install a custom firmware that supports ipv6 and create a tunnel to a tunnel broker somewhere - it'll be much slower (tunnel latency is typically 300ms+ for the first hop because there are so few of them) but you'll be 'on' the ipv6 internet.
I got that at first, then I remembered firefox disables ipv6 by default. To enable it you have to go into about:config and reenable it.
Leave it disabled though, it murders your browsing speed.
Interestingly that sequence in 2002 was exactly what Mythbusters repeated several years later.
Sounds like they read that article and repeated the experiment to see what would happen - and there was me thinking they'd actually made some of it up...
I simply scheduled my login times to be the same each day.
So anyone that knew you could easily get that part of the login. Not only compromising the system but locking you out in the process!
That's like setting your password to your wifes name or something. No security at all.
Your print never reads the same twice (fingerprints are a poor biometric for this reason - you can only really guess within a certain probability that it's the right one), so to do what you're suggesting you'd have to store the hash on the device.
So your security is dependent on them hiding the hash to the rest of the data. Security is only as strong as its weakest point.
Get a decent TV. There's a massive difference between DVD and Bluray.
DRM? Who cares. I'm not planning on copying 20gb+ disks.
Of course using this software virtually guarantees that your account *will* be stolen, because the author 'accidentally' kept a record of your username/password 'for backup purposes'.
The dev. cert is free, and if you're only doing freeware that's the only thing you need.. anyone can sign an app for their own phone.
$250 if you want the convenience of commercial pre-signed apps. And Nokia don't take 30% of your revenue for the privilege... so it's *still* cheaper than the apple solution.