I have to agree with you. A very small proprotion of the people who speed on a motorway or a country road around where I live are teenagers.
Now driving without due care and attention, talking on the phone, overtaking right in front of a car in the opposite lane, pulling out without looking for traffic, jumping red lights, ignoring "no left/right turn" signs and otherwise driving while in a "brain impaled on the penis" state - that is definitely the norm (when I see teenager rates for car insurers, I cannot blame the insurers, the rates nowdays are mostly based on stats and the stats are selfexplanatory).
Anyway, I agree with you, the social complexity of a pod and the level of communication a pod uses when hunting shows that the entire glia/cortex story is loads of bull. The guys who wrote that bull should go to a delphinarium and watch some dolphins for a while.
The first time I have seen stealth kernel mode rootkits in the wild for Linux and Solaris was Dec 1996. This is nearly 10 years ago. As a matter of fact in this area Linux and Solaris were first and Windows did not really follow until 2K became commonplace in the home. From there on the malware writers came back and hacked 98 and me.
So your optimism regarding SloWarez is misplaced and misguided.
This was transmitted in the standard slot on Sunday evening within the 4 weeks leading to the last election.
Unfortunately I do not remember the date and I have not recorded it, but this pins it down to 4 shows. So if you know a place to look up the old schedules we can get the actual show name from there.
British media is obliged to lie by law. If it gives you the exact details it gets a call from the home office right away and may be sued for providing articles and materials useable for terrorism. It is quite funny actually. They do it all the time. For example in the docudrama about Smallpox BBC did after 9/11 there were 3-4 deliberate mistakes towards the end which were obviously introduced during last minute editing. As the docudrama has actually been written and shot with the assistance of a long list of virology and microbiology consultants there was no way for this to be non-deliberate.
Same with the 7/7 coverage. It took the media 3-4 days of speaking half truths to get to the point of what "household chemicals" were used in the process. Specifically, neither BBC, nor ITV mentioned the words paint thinner for 2 days. In fact, IIRC, BBC did not mention it till copycat explosions a few weeks later.
This is a result of the old antiterror laws passed by Tatcher to deal with IRA and there is nothing that can be done about it, because in Britain the freedom of speech is not enshrined in law.
As I do not want any visits from Tony Bliar govt henchmen I will follow that law and will not put any details here.
Disclaimer: I have not done any chemistry since I finished by degree 12 years ago. I have done an MSc in it though:-)
1. The plot is somewhat feasible. 2. The media is focusing on the wrong type of explosives. It is not feasible to do that with peroxides and most organic explosives. It is perfectly feasible to do that with inorganics. Off the top of my head there are at least 3-4 very well behaved inorganic reactions which take two clear solutions and produce an explosive with 90%+ yield, nice, clean, no mess, no fuss, no fumes, no vapours, 5 minutes in the toilet and it is ready. 3. While the chemical part of the plot is feasible, getting the chemicals on the plane is not. In all cases at least one of the solutions will look like a solid metal brick on X-ray (this should be enough for most slashdotters to guess one of the compounds) and is bound to cause undue interest even in the most apathetic security guard.
Bliar is also doing it, but with a specific british twist. At the moment the highest public figure trust ratings in the country are held by the natural history narrators like Attenborough (and politicians and reporters are around the bottom of the trust league tables). So guess what does el presidente Antonio Bliar's govt do in the run-up to the last election?
They broadcast a show which is an 1h long (yes 1h long) infomercial for the benefits of the government agricultural and environmental policy singing praise to the advances in nature preservation and conservation by the government of Antonio Bliar (with quite a few highly questionable "facts" inside). They do it in the standard natural world BBC slot on Sunday evening and it is named and advertised as a natural history program.
Now this is what I call fake news. Done properly to continue brainwashing the population into a subordinate sheep under the ever watching eye of Big Brother.
While they offer software virtualisation products, they are also interested in these products having hardware assistance. The AMD and Intel specs were designed with input from them (amidst other vendors).
As far as the results there is nothing surprising here. This has happened before. Fault driven emulation of 80287 was nearly 50%+ slower than compiled in emulation. There were quite a few other examples x86 which all revolve around the fact that the x86 fault handling in protected mode is hideously slow. Last time I have had a look at it in asm was in the 386 days and the numbers were in the 300 clock cycle range for most faults (assuming no wait on memory accesses). While 486 and Pentium improved the things a bit in a few places, the overall order remains the same (or even worse, due to memory waits). Anything that relies on faults in x86 is bound to be hideously slow.
Not that this matters, as none of the VM technologies is particularly caring about resources. They are deployed because there is an excess resource in the first place.
The turkish separatists I mentioned were repeatedly trying to set a bomb in a train in Bulgaria so it blows up in a tunnel (thanks god missing every time). In at least one case they have chosen compartments with priority seating for pregnant, mothers with kids and disabled.
Are you also trying to tell us that the PanAm flight above Lockerbie was a military target?
Are you also trying to tell us that the Israeli sportsmen at the Munich olympics were a special forces squad?
Are you also trying to tell us that Japanese subway commuters gassed with Zarin were a military detachment? From whose army may I ask?
Ahem, 15+ years ago the terrorists also had wide government support. The Red Brigades and Carlos had the support of KGB and Shtazi. The turk separatists who blew up the trains in Bulgaria in the mid-80es had at least the support of the turkish special services and possibly CIA support. Libians supported anyone and everyone for the fun of it. There were even more various groups in the middle east then there are now. So on, ad naseum. There were terrorists all over the place.
And noone was poking a probe in your arse at an airport.
In the majority of companies your CEO is not interested in your best work. Just read old slashdot article and the discussion on it
He is interested in you "not doing it for the money" so he can underpay you and provide fake perks instead of a salary.
He is interested in you "burning in your job" so he can make you work a 60+ hour week without paying you overtime.
He is interested in you applying for the job without reading all of the small print, asking all the relevant questions about the salary, possible career progression, stock, options, benefits and all the rest so he can fire you or underpay you anytime he likes
If you have an unhealthy interest in the small print he will know that he will have a much more difficult time screwing you left, right and center. Frankly, if you are 30, if you are smart enough to consider your career wrong and think of a career change you will be asking these questions. Why change the career if you would not. This will make finding any jobs very hard. You will not fit the prototype which the currently popular management sociopaths love to mind-rape.
I am speaking this out of experience by the way - I have had quite a few interviews ended and offers dropped the moment I start looking through the small print. Which I will continue doing anyway. I have changed career twice (the second time at the age of 28) for a reason. And it is the old cat motoL "I do it for the money, if you want "loyalty", get a dog".
Just about time for the Eurostar fortunes to go up and up and up. If I have to go on a business trip to Europe today I will be booking on the train, not on the plain.
For all the reasons you have mentioned and then some.
Until they introduce this policy on the trains... And the ferries...
Tony Bliar did it for the last election by sending UK troops in Iraq north outside their zone of control. Don't see why he would not do his religious chum again (they prey together every time they see each other).
With all the remote control? Doubt it. Even if it did, with this IR sig and speed you can take pot-shots at it with nearly any AA gun and hit it at leasure. Even a WW2 era AA system will have no problems with it provided that its sight has been upgraded for IR. A more modern AA like one of the russian ZSUs will simply take it out "in the meantime" with one volley and continue onto more important stuff.
The only thing this may be usefull for are police operations.
This may be nitpicking, but the article is a bit misleading. The item described in it is not a classic paraglider. It is a powered ultralite parachute hang glider. Different cattle of fish altogether. It is not invisible, it is not silent and it has an IR signature larger than many planes. It is a perfect strela/stinger bait. The IR signature on it will allow a lock on from many km away and it is too slow and cumbersome to perform any evasive action.
And if the terrorists did not exist, some individuals in the government would have invented them.
If MOSSAD did not meddle in the affairs of Palestinian resistance HAMAS would not have been there: http://www.globalresearch.ca/articles/ZER403A.html. In fact HAMAS wrecks the peace process in the middle east exactly when and where Israel wants it so it will be extremely surprising if they are not on MOSSAD's payroll (the old question who does it benefit comes to mind).
If Bush and Bliar did not provide free advertising, campaining and support to Bin Laden, Laden would have remained a fringe opportunist. Once successfull, but soon dead. Once again, looking at how many items from his agenda Bush pushed blaming on Bin Laden I would be surprised if Bin Laden is not provided with timely information on the current knowledge of his whereabouts (so he can escape in time). Frankly he should have been dead 100 times by now just out of following dialisis gear shipments in the middle east. As long as he is alive there is a scarecrow to use for scaremongering so he will be alive for a long time to go.
More likely fast in terms of "lawyers homing fast".
Anyway, the problem is elsewhere. It all boils down to Telco thinking combined with incompetence. ISPs have degenerated to the point of being either telco resellers or telco wannabies and they are no longer capable of solving a trivial problem through network design and product definition. So they try a silver bullet (CacheLogic) or a big stick (fare share, bandwidth throttle and "kick the hogs" policies) instead.
Once upon a time around 10+ years ago it was commonplace to charge people for traffic and to have multiple charge categories with local traffic free or nearly free. That was in the days before the big telcos became interested in the Internet. When the big telcos became interested in the Internet the first thing they pushed for was to increase port density and bandwidth on access concentrators and routers. In order to do this the vendors killed the bandwidth accounting features. Best example - Cisco Netflow stopped working in 1999-2000 with the release of CEF (can give plenty of other examples actually).
As a result of the normal equipment upgrade cycle 10 years later there are very few devices out there capable (and tested in real deployments) of bandwidth accounting on the edge. Even if there were, as a result of the "people upgrade cycle" there are even less people in ISP business development and engineering capable of defining, developing and rolling out a bandwidth accounting based product.
If the charging was based on bandwidth accounting and local traffic was free (or seriously discounted) the "bandwidth hogs" problem would go away right away. So will most of the "Joe Idiot" problems related to people not cleaning their zombie machines (when these start costing them money they will be cleaned right away). People will again start running local network services for community purposes. For example I used to run centralised network backup for some friends but I stopped as eats the monthly "fair use" quota allocated to me by the ISP in less than a week. And so on.
The only people who will actually suffer from the reintroduction of bandwidth and differentiated charging will be c***sucking freeloaders of the Nichlaus Zenstrom "it is my right to steal your bandwidth for my service" variety. And CacheLogic (the economical drive to buy their device will go away). Frankly, good bye and good riddance.
If it is in the UK you can use the standard laws against nuisance noise for which you do not need a lawyer. Dig the relevant address of your council website, write a well written letter and off you go. Same as with security lights shining with your windows. No need for using your lawyers. This is something you pay for using your council tax.
Most other legislations around EU (and many other countries outside it) are not any different. All you need to do is find the relevant local council address and send a complaint. They will send an engineer with measuring equipment at your site ASAP. The mere appearance of the van with the measurement equipment may be enough for the idiot Meldrew clone to take his Mosquito and shovel it where sun does not shine.
Many modern printers from Panasonic, Kyosera and even HP themselves will beat the sh** out of 4P as far as price per page is concerned.
Based on my extremely unscientific observations HP remains the best game in town nowdays. Panasonic has horrid puke crap shite instead of drivers so whatever you win in terms of price per copy,you will lose on computer downtime and driver problems. Kyosera/Mita will deliver the best price per page but you have treat it very nicely, gently, maintain it, cuddle it and don't even dare breathing on it the wrong way. Epson cost per page is through the roof which leaves HP.
I have heard nice stuff about Brother and Samsung, but I have not tried them myself.
I have an extremely entertaining conversation with one UK bank at the moment.
The clowns insist on using snail mail to reply to mails sent using their "secure" webmail. They have stated that they do not send emails to customers as a matter of policy and they are forced to stick to it even if this means filling Royal Mail coffers.
As e-commerce grows there will be more and more cases like this until the end-users start to actively use encrypted/signed email and banks start to require this for communicating with them.
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I have to agree with you. A very small proprotion of the people who speed on a motorway or a country road around where I live are teenagers.
Now driving without due care and attention, talking on the phone, overtaking right in front of a car in the opposite lane, pulling out without looking for traffic, jumping red lights, ignoring "no left/right turn" signs and otherwise driving while in a "brain impaled on the penis" state - that is definitely the norm (when I see teenager rates for car insurers, I cannot blame the insurers, the rates nowdays are mostly based on stats and the stats are selfexplanatory).
Damnation. Broke the link on the first post.
I guess that you have not read this.
this.
And Bayer recommends heroin. They actually hold the trademark and it should be heroin (TM). They put it on the market right after putting aspirin.
Yeah and dolphins do not beach themselves...
Anyway, I agree with you, the social complexity of a pod and the level of communication a pod uses when hunting shows that the entire glia/cortex story is loads of bull. The guys who wrote that bull should go to a delphinarium and watch some dolphins for a while.
Flamebait, but I will take it.
The first time I have seen stealth kernel mode rootkits in the wild for Linux and Solaris was Dec 1996. This is nearly 10 years ago. As a matter of fact in this area Linux and Solaris were first and Windows did not really follow until 2K became commonplace in the home. From there on the malware writers came back and hacked 98 and me.
So your optimism regarding SloWarez is misplaced and misguided.
This was transmitted in the standard slot on Sunday evening within the 4 weeks leading to the last election. Unfortunately I do not remember the date and I have not recorded it, but this pins it down to 4 shows. So if you know a place to look up the old schedules we can get the actual show name from there.
British media is obliged to lie by law. If it gives you the exact details it gets a call from the home office right away and may be sued for providing articles and materials useable for terrorism. It is quite funny actually. They do it all the time. For example in the docudrama about Smallpox BBC did after 9/11 there were 3-4 deliberate mistakes towards the end which were obviously introduced during last minute editing. As the docudrama has actually been written and shot with the assistance of a long list of virology and microbiology consultants there was no way for this to be non-deliberate.
:-)
Same with the 7/7 coverage. It took the media 3-4 days of speaking half truths to get to the point of what "household chemicals" were used in the process. Specifically, neither BBC, nor ITV mentioned the words paint thinner for 2 days. In fact, IIRC, BBC did not mention it till copycat explosions a few weeks later.
This is a result of the old antiterror laws passed by Tatcher to deal with IRA and there is nothing that can be done about it, because in Britain the freedom of speech is not enshrined in law.
As I do not want any visits from Tony Bliar govt henchmen I will follow that law and will not put any details here.
Disclaimer: I have not done any chemistry since I finished by degree 12 years ago. I have done an MSc in it though
1. The plot is somewhat feasible.
2. The media is focusing on the wrong type of explosives. It is not feasible to do that with peroxides and most organic explosives. It is perfectly feasible to do that with inorganics. Off the top of my head there are at least 3-4 very well behaved inorganic reactions which take two clear solutions and produce an explosive with 90%+ yield, nice, clean, no mess, no fuss, no fumes, no vapours, 5 minutes in the toilet and it is ready.
3. While the chemical part of the plot is feasible, getting the chemicals on the plane is not. In all cases at least one of the solutions will look like a solid metal brick on X-ray (this should be enough for most slashdotters to guess one of the compounds) and is bound to cause undue interest even in the most apathetic security guard.
They are learning from each other.
Bliar is also doing it, but with a specific british twist. At the moment the highest public figure trust ratings in the country are held by the natural history narrators like Attenborough (and politicians and reporters are around the bottom of the trust league tables). So guess what does el presidente Antonio Bliar's govt do in the run-up to the last election?
They broadcast a show which is an 1h long (yes 1h long) infomercial for the benefits of the government agricultural and environmental policy singing praise to the advances in nature preservation and conservation by the government of Antonio Bliar (with quite a few highly questionable "facts" inside). They do it in the standard natural world BBC slot on Sunday evening and it is named and advertised as a natural history program.
Now this is what I call fake news. Done properly to continue brainwashing the population into a subordinate sheep under the ever watching eye of Big Brother.
Understanding is a three-edged sword: your side, their side, and the truth.
--Kosh Naranek
http://bofh.ntk.net/Star-Trek-Lost.html
This provides a detailed answer to your question.
While they offer software virtualisation products, they are also interested in these products having hardware assistance. The AMD and Intel specs were designed with input from them (amidst other vendors).
As far as the results there is nothing surprising here. This has happened before. Fault driven emulation of 80287 was nearly 50%+ slower than compiled in emulation. There were quite a few other examples x86 which all revolve around the fact that the x86 fault handling in protected mode is hideously slow. Last time I have had a look at it in asm was in the 386 days and the numbers were in the 300 clock cycle range for most faults (assuming no wait on memory accesses). While 486 and Pentium improved the things a bit in a few places, the overall order remains the same (or even worse, due to memory waits). Anything that relies on faults in x86 is bound to be hideously slow.
Not that this matters, as none of the VM technologies is particularly caring about resources. They are deployed because there is an excess resource in the first place.
Really?
The turkish separatists I mentioned were repeatedly trying to set a bomb in a train in Bulgaria so it blows up in a tunnel (thanks god missing every time). In at least one case they have chosen compartments with priority seating for pregnant, mothers with kids and disabled.
Are you also trying to tell us that the PanAm flight above Lockerbie was a military target?
Are you also trying to tell us that the Israeli sportsmen at the Munich olympics were a special forces squad?
Are you also trying to tell us that Japanese subway commuters gassed with Zarin were a military detachment? From whose army may I ask?
Are you...
Come on... Get real...
Where are my mod points where I need them.
Ahem, 15+ years ago the terrorists also had wide government support. The Red Brigades and Carlos had the support of KGB and Shtazi. The turk separatists who blew up the trains in Bulgaria in the mid-80es had at least the support of the turkish special services and possibly CIA support. Libians supported anyone and everyone for the fun of it. There were even more various groups in the middle east then there are now. So on, ad naseum. There were terrorists all over the place.
And noone was poking a probe in your arse at an airport.
In the majority of companies your CEO is not interested in your best work. Just read old slashdot article and the discussion on it
He is interested in you "not doing it for the money" so he can underpay you and provide fake perks instead of a salary.
He is interested in you "burning in your job" so he can make you work a 60+ hour week without paying you overtime.
He is interested in you applying for the job without reading all of the small print, asking all the relevant questions about the salary, possible career progression, stock, options, benefits and all the rest so he can fire you or underpay you anytime he likes
If you have an unhealthy interest in the small print he will know that he will have a much more difficult time screwing you left, right and center. Frankly, if you are 30, if you are smart enough to consider your career wrong and think of a career change you will be asking these questions. Why change the career if you would not. This will make finding any jobs very hard. You will not fit the prototype which the currently popular management sociopaths love to mind-rape.
I am speaking this out of experience by the way - I have had quite a few interviews ended and offers dropped the moment I start looking through the small print. Which I will continue doing anyway. I have changed career twice (the second time at the age of 28) for a reason. And it is the old cat motoL "I do it for the money, if you want "loyalty", get a dog".
Well...
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It is half the way there: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/06/23/evangelic
All you need to do is add some raping and incest.
Well...
Just about time for the Eurostar fortunes to go up and up and up. If I have to go on a business trip to Europe today I will be booking on the train, not on the plain.
For all the reasons you have mentioned and then some.
Until they introduce this policy on the trains... And the ferries...
Tony Bliar did it for the last election by sending UK troops in Iraq north outside their zone of control. Don't see why he would not do his religious chum again (they prey together every time they see each other).
With all the remote control? Doubt it. Even if it did, with this IR sig and speed you can take pot-shots at it with nearly any AA gun and hit it at leasure. Even a WW2 era AA system will have no problems with it provided that its sight has been upgraded for IR. A more modern AA like one of the russian ZSUs will simply take it out "in the meantime" with one volley and continue onto more important stuff.
The only thing this may be usefull for are police operations.
This may be nitpicking, but the article is a bit misleading. The item described in it is not a classic paraglider. It is a powered ultralite parachute hang glider. Different cattle of fish altogether. It is not invisible, it is not silent and it has an IR signature larger than many planes. It is a perfect strela/stinger bait. The IR signature on it will allow a lock on from many km away and it is too slow and cumbersome to perform any evasive action.
And if the terrorists did not exist, some individuals in the government would have invented them.
l . In fact HAMAS wrecks the peace process in the middle east exactly when and where Israel wants it so it will be extremely surprising if they are not on MOSSAD's payroll (the old question who does it benefit comes to mind).
If MOSSAD did not meddle in the affairs of Palestinian resistance HAMAS would not have been there: http://www.globalresearch.ca/articles/ZER403A.htm
If Bush and Bliar did not provide free advertising, campaining and support to Bin Laden, Laden would have remained a fringe opportunist. Once successfull, but soon dead. Once again, looking at how many items from his agenda Bush pushed blaming on Bin Laden I would be surprised if Bin Laden is not provided with timely information on the current knowledge of his whereabouts (so he can escape in time). Frankly he should have been dead 100 times by now just out of following dialisis gear shipments in the middle east. As long as he is alive there is a scarecrow to use for scaremongering so he will be alive for a long time to go.
If...
More likely fast in terms of "lawyers homing fast".
Anyway, the problem is elsewhere. It all boils down to Telco thinking combined with incompetence. ISPs have degenerated to the point of being either telco resellers or telco wannabies and they are no longer capable of solving a trivial problem through network design and product definition. So they try a silver bullet (CacheLogic) or a big stick (fare share, bandwidth throttle and "kick the hogs" policies) instead.
Once upon a time around 10+ years ago it was commonplace to charge people for traffic and to have multiple charge categories with local traffic free or nearly free. That was in the days before the big telcos became interested in the Internet. When the big telcos became interested in the Internet the first thing they pushed for was to increase port density and bandwidth on access concentrators and routers. In order to do this the vendors killed the bandwidth accounting features. Best example - Cisco Netflow stopped working in 1999-2000 with the release of CEF (can give plenty of other examples actually).
As a result of the normal equipment upgrade cycle 10 years later there are very few devices out there capable (and tested in real deployments) of bandwidth accounting on the edge. Even if there were, as a result of the "people upgrade cycle" there are even less people in ISP business development and engineering capable of defining, developing and rolling out a bandwidth accounting based product.
If the charging was based on bandwidth accounting and local traffic was free (or seriously discounted) the "bandwidth hogs" problem would go away right away. So will most of the "Joe Idiot" problems related to people not cleaning their zombie machines (when these start costing them money they will be cleaned right away). People will again start running local network services for community purposes. For example I used to run centralised network backup for some friends but I stopped as eats the monthly "fair use" quota allocated to me by the ISP in less than a week. And so on.
The only people who will actually suffer from the reintroduction of bandwidth and differentiated charging will be c***sucking freeloaders of the Nichlaus Zenstrom "it is my right to steal your bandwidth for my service" variety. And CacheLogic (the economical drive to buy their device will go away). Frankly, good bye and good riddance.
If it is in the UK you can use the standard laws against nuisance noise for which you do not need a lawyer. Dig the relevant address of your council website, write a well written letter and off you go. Same as with security lights shining with your windows. No need for using your lawyers. This is something you pay for using your council tax.
Most other legislations around EU (and many other countries outside it) are not any different. All you need to do is find the relevant local council address and send a complaint. They will send an engineer with measuring equipment at your site ASAP. The mere appearance of the van with the measurement equipment may be enough for the idiot Meldrew clone to take his Mosquito and shovel it where sun does not shine.
Depends how many copies are you printing.
Many modern printers from Panasonic, Kyosera and even HP themselves will beat the sh** out of 4P as far as price per page is concerned.
Based on my extremely unscientific observations HP remains the best game in town nowdays. Panasonic has horrid puke crap shite instead of drivers so whatever you win in terms of price per copy,you will lose on computer downtime and driver problems. Kyosera/Mita will deliver the best price per page but you have treat it very nicely, gently, maintain it, cuddle it and don't even dare breathing on it the wrong way. Epson cost per page is through the roof which leaves HP.
I have heard nice stuff about Brother and Samsung, but I have not tried them myself.
I have an extremely entertaining conversation with one UK bank at the moment.
The clowns insist on using snail mail to reply to mails sent using their "secure" webmail. They have stated that they do not send emails to customers as a matter of policy and they are forced to stick to it even if this means filling Royal Mail coffers.
As e-commerce grows there will be more and more cases like this until the end-users start to actively use encrypted/signed email and banks start to require this for communicating with them.