Microsoft - well... dunno... hard to say anything... Some of their ietf work has been brilliant. It is the implementation (and the marketing in command of it) that has been horrible.
Sendmail - no fscking thanks. Their track record in inventing features and suddenly introducing them without at least informing the internet community at large is not anything to shout about. Basically in order to deal with the sender-address-must-resolve and the antispam parts of their rulesets you usually need 4 apirins and 200ml of vodka. That along with 24 hours of sleep gives you a chance of recovering your sanity after getting it to work after the upgrade forced by the next inevitable Sendmail Security FuBAR(TM). Note - it is a chance. Some people never recover. In other words there is a reason for the upside down bat to be the sendmail logo. That is the way a sysadmin looks like after dealing with it. No matter how much I dislike some of Exim sillies I would stick with it.
That is what the French have been doing for 5+ years now. They have some defficiencies in the implementation and used to use fairly short keys, but this is the way their system works.
inducing a strong electromagnetic field upon the planet's core
Venus has vritually zero magentic field so
In fact, the main reason for Venus not being ever suitable for terraforming (at least on its sunny side) is that there is no magnetic field so the first solar flare will irradiate to death any leaving creature there. This is the first problem to be solved for terraforming it. It is a catch 22 situation - in order to to convert Venus CO2 and H2SO4 atmosphere into something useable it has to be populated with algae and bacteria. In order for them to function they need solar energy. If they get in the Sun on Venus they die because there is no protection from high energy particles.
Their economy is in a slum right now; how are they paying?
Get a clue.
Read some actual reports on Russian economy
Russia still has regions living in extreme poverty, but as an overall economy it has had a year on year GDP grouth of 7+ for the third year running. So in fact economically, it has no problem in affording it.
That is besides the fact that spectrum price is a function of its scarcity. If all the TV spectrum will suddenly become free it will cost anything, but the billions he imagines. A few millions - yes. Many millions - maybe, billions - nope.
As far as I recall, Intel has not released anything yet. They put something on the roadmap, but they are still 100% behind Itanic. They released an improved 32bit emulation environment for the latter though
Helium has the advantage over hydrogen that it seeps through solid barriers at about 25% of the rate. It is still too bloody high for it to be anything near usefull. That is the biggest problem with any light gas baloon - they deflate on their because the gas traverses the membrane at a considerable rate. As a result the gas has to be constantly replenished.
So both the helium and the hydrogen designs are inherently flawed because they will have a time to leave on the order of a few weeks at most. It is simply not worth it.
If this is to fly ever it will have to use different technology. Most likely Neon or Nitrogen (which are just slightly lighter then the 95% CO2 mix) and an isotope source to warm it up. This way you can get 2-3 years worth of service.
I would disagree.
Soyuz still has an ejector system 40+ missions and counting. I do not know how does it function, but it is a well known fact that it exists, is functional and is still present. One of the main objections for Russians to using shuttles when the ISS started was that it does not have an emergency abort in the takeoff.
If the Russians had a shuttle program, they'd have lost at least ten by now
Get a clue. You desperately need it.
They did. It was started at the same time as US. While the US was from inception and till now intended as a manned system and requires 7 guinea pigs to fly (and die), the russian from inception was designed to run in fully automated mode if needed. It can also carry as many people as the US one, but it took off and landed automatically day one.
It went through a number of prototypes which were considerably smaller then the shuttle and can land on both sea and ground. There are publically available pictures taken from New Zeland destroyer of russians retrieving one of the prototypes after a water landing in the South Pacific in the late 70-es.
The program developement ended with the Buran which had the same spec as the shuttle and could still fly in fully automated mode (take off, dock, land). It completed one fully automatic space flight and landed successfully. On the second flight with crew on board the system malfunctioned at a similar time in the take off sequence like the Challenger. The main difference between the Challenger and Buran was the fact that the Buran had a working ejector system and the crew escaped unharmed. Which makes a remarkable difference compared to the shuttle. And it was not kept secret. It was in the news and well known.
After that incident the powers that be finally did an economical analysis of the program and found that it is completely unviable. The reason being that copying the shuttle was wrong. The shuttle was designed to satisfy several silly USAF requirements and as a result was and still is too big for our rocket technology. The early prototypes were right. We cannot build a reusable vehicle larger then about 30% of the shuttle and keep it reliable.
And the funniest bit is that one of the prototypes for the new NASA vehicle is a literal copy of these prototypes. Compare the Kiwi pictures of the real thing from the 70-es and the NASA material. Actually nothing funny - it is the reality. Same as with the Yak 142 technology making its way into the next generation of US VTL fighter jet, so on so forth. I would not go into why and what as it will be marked as a flamebait though they are well known as well.
And now, this author has demonstrated the ability to send a patch-virus out with new updated instructions.
WHOULD YOU PLEASE EXPLAIN TO THE LESS ENLIGHTENED AUDIENCE WHY THE F**K DID YOU DECIDE THAT THIS IS THE SAME AUTHOR
Mydoom.(A|B) was widely available for download and still is. Figuring out how to use its zombie network does not require stellar intelligence and guru level programming. So any lamer could get this one to work. In fact I am confident that this is a L4M3R because there is no commercial motive and it does not seem to be related to SPAM, viagra and penile patches.
54. At this point in time, IBM's UNIX expertise was centered on its own Power PC processor. IBM had little or no expertise on Intel processors.
Even if we ignore what the term IBM PC means, even if we ignore iRMS, even if we ignore OS2 this still leaves AIX/386 which as far as I recall used to run a considerable part of NATO radar infrastructure. OK, IBM insisted on it being useable only on boards with 1M L2 cache, but I it happily ran on much less then that.
If your back is so bad that you cannot turn your head you should not be driving anyway. Having a back that is that bad often results in pressing pedals incorrectly due to the pain overriding normal sensitivity feedback.
Or when you're in heavy traffic.
If you are - stay in lane unless you really need to go somewhere. Bloody lane-hoppers....
Or when pulling a trailer
Ever hear of a trailer mirror set?
or if your car's structural supports are in your way.
Well. This car should not have been allowed on the road in first place. Yeah, I know. Audi A2 - looks cute. That is until you realise that it has FRONT blind spots. To the front left and right. That is besides the fact that the read window distorts the view so that anything coming from the back looks like a van.
My current primary car (a Sirion) has 0 blind spots even with the mirrors adjusted the usual way (until you see the car). This is not entirely unexpected as it carries nearly van-sized mirror on something the size of a Golf MKIII.
My old one - an Astra had a blind sector on both sides with the passenger side being almost 20+ degrees wide due to the fact that the mirrors were not correctly designed. There was no way on earth to adjust it to allow correct visibility. Even leaning across the passenger seat you could not get a proper view so driving in areas infested by cyclists was like a lottery. I have noticed ths same thing on all other "proper" GM cars except the Corsa and the Suzuki designs (Agila, Swift whatever it is called in the US, etc).
So it all depends on the car. There are cars out there whose visibility is so bad that simply should not be allowed on the road (Audi A2 is a stellar example). In btw, as a result of the Astra experience this has become one of my primary items when looking for a new car as well as a car to rent abroad. If the visibility sucks (Astra, Vectra, Cadillac, Audi A2, All Fiats since the UNO, so on so forth) it is a NO THANKS. Renault, GM Corsa, VW, Daihatsu, Toyota - yep, anytime.
Close, but no quite. More likely they suddenly realised that they would not be able to tripple count votes by overseas personnel in Florida this time. They also realiased that they will not be able to add new votes after the deadline.
All you needed to do is point them to the securityfocus information and the kasperski press releases that clearly state that
1. The virus was posted via well known SPAM network used in counterfeight software peddling. This is also the reason why the infection went through the roof so fast (it got to too many people in too short time).
2. The virus has generally been traced to russian SPAM gangs.
It is nothing to do with linux, sco, msft. It is just business as usual.
No they have not. Check if your ISP is not doing them a favour and if they are not transparrently proxying DNS. If you wandering why do you need to transparently proxy DNS look up recent discussions on BUGTRAQ about trojans using port 53
Bollocks. There is nothing like crawling from behind on your dear honey pointing the double barrel at the head and blowing it off. I did not believe it myself until I saw it working for a family of friends.
They ran a company together so they had to live with each other 24h round the clock. They used to quarrel like crazy and were on the verge of a divorce. Then everything went quiet and I did not understand what happend until I visited their office during lunch break and found them playing doom death match, no monsters. The happiness continued for around 2 years (switching from doom to quake at one point).
Recently due to economic conditions the company had to be wound down and they found jobs in different places. As a result they could no longer find time for the daily relaxing "blow your partners head off" session. Quarrles returned and it all ended in a divorce.
So, it all depends. And IMO it is much better to vent all the anger in cyberspace instead of having a shouting match in the kitchen.
attacking the Soviets was pure madness right from the start
Correct. Note - I am not defending Hitler. I have to note that if he did not attack Stalin would have attacked him in August. With more and better tanks, more and better planes, more and better heavy guns, much more infantry, more fleet in the Baltic, so on so forth. Stalin killed almost all of his officers going after Tuhachevski's followers, otherwise it would have been even same command level and tactics. Which in fact were devised and polished in the Spanish civil war by both sides where they killed civilians by the thousands (Gernica is just one example).
Just to back my words lets look at tanks (rest exept field antitank and field AAA cannons is similar)
Germans: 1941
T2 and T3 - 20 mm and 40 mm cannon, 35 mm max armour, 36 km/h max speed.
Russians:BT7, 40 mm cannons, 35 mm max armour, 70km/h max speed and transmission capable of jumping at 30+ km/h speed from a 5m cliff into a ford (feat unmatched by any tank till today). KV1 - 75 mm cannon, 100 mm armour (impenetrable by any german field cannon ), 20-30 km/h max speed. Not even talking about T34 which just started going to field units. Compared to them the German kit in the beginning of the war was a pile of oldfashioned toys.
And if you do not believe it ask yourselves a question - why Stalin did not bild a single military base in the occupied Polish and baltic republic terrirories for two years. The only things that were build were supply depoes containing ammunition, fuel, oil and spares. No long term concrete airfields, no fortifications, no garrisons, nothing. Only offensive positions.
Dresden did not have any significant military targets. That is the reason it was not targeted through the war. Its only fault was that it was going to fall into the russian sphere of influence.
After Yalta both the British and the US stopped bombing many industrial sites in West Germany. They bombed what the Russians claimed to themselves in Yalta instead.
Incorrect. Russian BT5 and BT7 at the time did up to 75 km/h in on-road mode, 40 km/h in off-road mode, 40 mm cannon and 35mm armour. KV-1 had 75 mm cannon and 100+ mm armour which was absolutely inpenetrable by any german field cannon. Compared to them T-II and T-III which were the maintstay of the Vermacht in 1939-1941 are an absolute joke. 20mm and 40 mm cannons with barely 30 something km/h.
The difference is that Stalin killed Tuchachevski and 99% of his officers between 1939 and 1941. As a result the Germans had officers which could use their kit and the Russians did not. On the sole occasion when the German faced a Russian officer who new what he was doing with tanks during the Kiev tank school counterattack Guderian barely escaped capture and the Germans had to lick their wounds for several days. It is exemplary though that the russian command did not use the temporary advantage and ordered their troups to sit where they are instead of regrouping. As a result they lost Kiev and suffered the single biggest loss in WW II. It is also exemplary that the tank school did this using tanks modified for training stripped off some of the essential kit and even missing main armour plates on some. It is also exemplary that the NKVD passed the Germans information who was in command of the charge and as they did not consider people from the party hierarchy eligible for prisoner of war status this person ended in Aushvitc. It is also exemplary that all allies did the best they could to erase the episode from history and the only place you can find it now are the memoars of Guderian.
To be on topic, this person was actually the second to smack Guderian for good and make him retreat and regroup. The first one was a French colonel almost year earlier. That French colonel used his tank detachment correctly and as a result the enture Guderian tank brigade had to retreat for more then 40 km. It is also exemplary that the cretinous inbread idiots in the allied high command did not believe the reports from the battle field and did not do a thing to use this single allied battle victory in France. Yeah the name of the colonel if you have not guessed was Charles de Golle.
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Microsoft - well... dunno... hard to say anything... Some of their ietf work has been brilliant. It is the implementation (and the marketing in command of it) that has been horrible.
Sendmail - no fscking thanks. Their track record in inventing features and suddenly introducing them without at least informing the internet community at large is not anything to shout about. Basically in order to deal with the sender-address-must-resolve and the antispam parts of their rulesets you usually need 4 apirins and 200ml of vodka. That along with 24 hours of sleep gives you a chance of recovering your sanity after getting it to work after the upgrade forced by the next inevitable Sendmail Security FuBAR(TM). Note - it is a chance. Some people never recover. In other words there is a reason for the upside down bat to be the sendmail logo. That is the way a sysadmin looks like after dealing with it. No matter how much I dislike some of Exim sillies I would stick with it.
That is what the French have been doing for 5+ years now. They have some defficiencies in the implementation and used to use fairly short keys, but this is the way their system works.
Venus has vritually zero magentic field so
In fact, the main reason for Venus not being ever suitable for terraforming (at least on its sunny side) is that there is no magnetic field so the first solar flare will irradiate to death any leaving creature there. This is the first problem to be solved for terraforming it. It is a catch 22 situation - in order to to convert Venus CO2 and H2SO4 atmosphere into something useable it has to be populated with algae and bacteria. In order for them to function they need solar energy. If they get in the Sun on Venus they die because there is no protection from high energy particles.
YOu forgot to add what experimental subjects did they use. Actually, point taken. Everyone knows that anyway.
Get a clue.
Read some actual reports on Russian economy
Russia still has regions living in extreme poverty, but as an overall economy it has had a year on year GDP grouth of 7+ for the third year running. So in fact economically, it has no problem in affording it.
That is besides the fact that spectrum price is a function of its scarcity. If all the TV spectrum will suddenly become free it will cost anything, but the billions he imagines. A few millions - yes. Many millions - maybe, billions - nope.
As far as I recall, Intel has not released anything yet. They put something on the roadmap, but they are still 100% behind Itanic. They released an improved 32bit emulation environment for the latter though
Helium has the advantage over hydrogen that it seeps through solid barriers at about 25% of the rate. It is still too bloody high for it to be anything near usefull. That is the biggest problem with any light gas baloon - they deflate on their because the gas traverses the membrane at a considerable rate. As a result the gas has to be constantly replenished.
So both the helium and the hydrogen designs are inherently flawed because they will have a time to leave on the order of a few weeks at most. It is simply not worth it.
If this is to fly ever it will have to use different technology. Most likely Neon or Nitrogen (which are just slightly lighter then the 95% CO2 mix) and an isotope source to warm it up. This way you can get 2-3 years worth of service.
I would disagree. Soyuz still has an ejector system 40+ missions and counting. I do not know how does it function, but it is a well known fact that it exists, is functional and is still present. One of the main objections for Russians to using shuttles when the ISS started was that it does not have an emergency abort in the takeoff.
Get a clue. You desperately need it.
They did. It was started at the same time as US. While the US was from inception and till now intended as a manned system and requires 7 guinea pigs to fly (and die), the russian from inception was designed to run in fully automated mode if needed. It can also carry as many people as the US one, but it took off and landed automatically day one.
It went through a number of prototypes which were considerably smaller then the shuttle and can land on both sea and ground. There are publically available pictures taken from New Zeland destroyer of russians retrieving one of the prototypes after a water landing in the South Pacific in the late 70-es.
The program developement ended with the Buran which had the same spec as the shuttle and could still fly in fully automated mode (take off, dock, land). It completed one fully automatic space flight and landed successfully. On the second flight with crew on board the system malfunctioned at a similar time in the take off sequence like the Challenger. The main difference between the Challenger and Buran was the fact that the Buran had a working ejector system and the crew escaped unharmed. Which makes a remarkable difference compared to the shuttle. And it was not kept secret. It was in the news and well known.
After that incident the powers that be finally did an economical analysis of the program and found that it is completely unviable. The reason being that copying the shuttle was wrong. The shuttle was designed to satisfy several silly USAF requirements and as a result was and still is too big for our rocket technology. The early prototypes were right. We cannot build a reusable vehicle larger then about 30% of the shuttle and keep it reliable.
And the funniest bit is that one of the prototypes for the new NASA vehicle is a literal copy of these prototypes. Compare the Kiwi pictures of the real thing from the 70-es and the NASA material. Actually nothing funny - it is the reality. Same as with the Yak 142 technology making its way into the next generation of US VTL fighter jet, so on so forth. I would not go into why and what as it will be marked as a flamebait though they are well known as well.
WHOULD YOU PLEASE EXPLAIN TO THE LESS ENLIGHTENED AUDIENCE WHY THE F**K DID YOU DECIDE THAT THIS IS THE SAME AUTHOR
Mydoom.(A|B) was widely available for download and still is. Figuring out how to use its zombie network does not require stellar intelligence and guru level programming. So any lamer could get this one to work. In fact I am confident that this is a L4M3R because there is no commercial motive and it does not seem to be related to SPAM, viagra and penile patches.
#ifndef AVOID_LITIGATION_CODE
#include <jfs.h>
#include <rcu.h>
#include <numa.h>
#include <evm.h>
#endif
#ifndef AVOID_LITIGATION_CODE
#include
#include
#include
#endif
Even if we ignore what the term IBM PC means, even if we ignore iRMS, even if we ignore OS2 this still leaves AIX/386 which as far as I recall used to run a considerable part of NATO radar infrastructure. OK, IBM insisted on it being useable only on boards with 1M L2 cache, but I it happily ran on much less then that.
Lets see you do that with a bad back.
If your back is so bad that you cannot turn your head you should not be driving anyway. Having a back that is that bad often results in pressing pedals incorrectly due to the pain overriding normal sensitivity feedback.
Or when you're in heavy traffic.
If you are - stay in lane unless you really need to go somewhere. Bloody lane-hoppers....
Or when pulling a trailer
Ever hear of a trailer mirror set?
or if your car's structural supports are in your way.
Well. This car should not have been allowed on the road in first place. Yeah, I know. Audi A2 - looks cute. That is until you realise that it has FRONT blind spots. To the front left and right. That is besides the fact that the read window distorts the view so that anything coming from the back looks like a van.
This does not mean that you should not augment the mirrors with cameras. Nissan (and Renault which owns most of it) already do.
You are correct for a correctly designed car.
My current primary car (a Sirion) has 0 blind spots even with the mirrors adjusted the usual way (until you see the car). This is not entirely unexpected as it carries nearly van-sized mirror on something the size of a Golf MKIII.
My old one - an Astra had a blind sector on both sides with the passenger side being almost 20+ degrees wide due to the fact that the mirrors were not correctly designed. There was no way on earth to adjust it to allow correct visibility. Even leaning across the passenger seat you could not get a proper view so driving in areas infested by cyclists was like a lottery. I have noticed ths same thing on all other "proper" GM cars except the Corsa and the Suzuki designs (Agila, Swift whatever it is called in the US, etc).
So it all depends on the car. There are cars out there whose visibility is so bad that simply should not be allowed on the road (Audi A2 is a stellar example). In btw, as a result of the Astra experience this has become one of my primary items when looking for a new car as well as a car to rent abroad. If the visibility sucks (Astra, Vectra, Cadillac, Audi A2, All Fiats since the UNO, so on so forth) it is a NO THANKS. Renault, GM Corsa, VW, Daihatsu, Toyota - yep, anytime.
Close, but no quite. More likely they suddenly realised that they would not be able to tripple count votes by overseas personnel in Florida this time. They also realiased that they will not be able to add new votes after the deadline.
Well...
All you needed to do is point them to the securityfocus information and the kasperski press releases that clearly state that
1. The virus was posted via well known SPAM network used in counterfeight software peddling. This is also the reason why the infection went through the roof so fast (it got to too many people in too short time).
2. The virus has generally been traced to russian SPAM gangs.
It is nothing to do with linux, sco, msft. It is just business as usual.
No they have not. Check if your ISP is not doing them a favour and if they are not transparrently proxying DNS. If you wandering why do you need to transparently proxy DNS look up recent discussions on BUGTRAQ about trojans using port 53
Congratulations to Mike Peterjohn.
Who in btw is a founder and one of the Netcraft executives. So dunno about the dogfood. I wish other company CTOs could post dogfood like that.
Bollocks. There is nothing like crawling from behind on your dear honey pointing the double barrel at the head and blowing it off. I did not believe it myself until I saw it working for a family of friends.
They ran a company together so they had to live with each other 24h round the clock. They used to quarrel like crazy and were on the verge of a divorce. Then everything went quiet and I did not understand what happend until I visited their office during lunch break and found them playing doom death match, no monsters. The happiness continued for around 2 years (switching from doom to quake at one point).
Recently due to economic conditions the company had to be wound down and they found jobs in different places. As a result they could no longer find time for the daily relaxing "blow your partners head off" session. Quarrles returned and it all ended in a divorce.
So, it all depends. And IMO it is much better to vent all the anger in cyberspace instead of having a shouting match in the kitchen.
Correct. Note - I am not defending Hitler. I have to note that if he did not attack Stalin would have attacked him in August. With more and better tanks, more and better planes, more and better heavy guns, much more infantry, more fleet in the Baltic, so on so forth. Stalin killed almost all of his officers going after Tuhachevski's followers, otherwise it would have been even same command level and tactics. Which in fact were devised and polished in the Spanish civil war by both sides where they killed civilians by the thousands (Gernica is just one example).
Just to back my words lets look at tanks (rest exept field antitank and field AAA cannons is similar)
Germans: 1941 T2 and T3 - 20 mm and 40 mm cannon, 35 mm max armour, 36 km/h max speed.
Russians:BT7, 40 mm cannons, 35 mm max armour, 70km/h max speed and transmission capable of jumping at 30+ km/h speed from a 5m cliff into a ford (feat unmatched by any tank till today). KV1 - 75 mm cannon, 100 mm armour (impenetrable by any german field cannon ), 20-30 km/h max speed. Not even talking about T34 which just started going to field units. Compared to them the German kit in the beginning of the war was a pile of oldfashioned toys.
And if you do not believe it ask yourselves a question - why Stalin did not bild a single military base in the occupied Polish and baltic republic terrirories for two years. The only things that were build were supply depoes containing ammunition, fuel, oil and spares. No long term concrete airfields, no fortifications, no garrisons, nothing. Only offensive positions.
You missed something.
Dresden did not have any significant military targets. That is the reason it was not targeted through the war. Its only fault was that it was going to fall into the russian sphere of influence.
After Yalta both the British and the US stopped bombing many industrial sites in West Germany. They bombed what the Russians claimed to themselves in Yalta instead.
Incorrect. Russian BT5 and BT7 at the time did up to 75 km/h in on-road mode, 40 km/h in off-road mode, 40 mm cannon and 35mm armour. KV-1 had 75 mm cannon and 100+ mm armour which was absolutely inpenetrable by any german field cannon. Compared to them T-II and T-III which were the maintstay of the Vermacht in 1939-1941 are an absolute joke. 20mm and 40 mm cannons with barely 30 something km/h.
The difference is that Stalin killed Tuchachevski and 99% of his officers between 1939 and 1941. As a result the Germans had officers which could use their kit and the Russians did not. On the sole occasion when the German faced a Russian officer who new what he was doing with tanks during the Kiev tank school counterattack Guderian barely escaped capture and the Germans had to lick their wounds for several days. It is exemplary though that the russian command did not use the temporary advantage and ordered their troups to sit where they are instead of regrouping. As a result they lost Kiev and suffered the single biggest loss in WW II. It is also exemplary that the tank school did this using tanks modified for training stripped off some of the essential kit and even missing main armour plates on some. It is also exemplary that the NKVD passed the Germans information who was in command of the charge and as they did not consider people from the party hierarchy eligible for prisoner of war status this person ended in Aushvitc. It is also exemplary that all allies did the best they could to erase the episode from history and the only place you can find it now are the memoars of Guderian.
To be on topic, this person was actually the second to smack Guderian for good and make him retreat and regroup. The first one was a French colonel almost year earlier. That French colonel used his tank detachment correctly and as a result the enture Guderian tank brigade had to retreat for more then 40 km. It is also exemplary that the cretinous inbread idiots in the allied high command did not believe the reports from the battle field and did not do a thing to use this single allied battle victory in France. Yeah the name of the colonel if you have not guessed was Charles de Golle.