Presence of guns doesn't make the US into Somalia -- Lack of guns doesn't make Britain into North Korea. But since you think in such simple minded terms then complete the cycle - move to North Korea.
A quote from one of the greatest statesman in history, not to mention prime minister of Britain, is in order. "Democracy is a lousy way to run a country - but it's the best we've come up with." - Winston Churchill.
How long before a hacker mods one of these to broadcast on frequencies that it should not be using?
Broadcasting on frequencies you shouldn't be is trivial and can be done with off-the-shelf equipment today very easily. Its also illegal and not that hard to locate the broadcast antenna. I wouldn't even call this activity "hacking"... its just unlicensed broadcasting in a licensed band.
For someone trained in such yeah. For a script kiddie - not so much. This would make it absurdly easy (read script kiddie level) to do and the nuisance value could be quite high. I hope the FCC has thought this out. Abuse is always possible, but it shouldn't be too easy or else it will become commonplace.
Once devices are built that are able to broadcast on these frequencies it would stand to reason that staying off the frequencies when they are "occupied" will be regulated by software. How long before a hacker mods one of these to broadcast on frequencies that it should not be using?
Well, to be honest, in a perfect world the connotations would be reversed - violence would be vulgar and sex would not be. If I can have only one I'd choose to have violence be seen as vulgar in the hopes there'd be less of it.
Heh heh, yup. Congress and Obama needs to dissolve that particular court - bunch of clowns.
Justices sit for life yes - the life of their job. Congress can dissolve the 9th circuit and replace it with a new court - this is a rarely used but effective check on judicial over reaching by the other two branches (the president must sign the act dissolving the court into law)
Script fulfillment is unlikely to kill anyone. As the knucklehead points out in his response to your post it's unlikely to cause a delay of more than a few minutes - an inconvenience at best.
However if his software is anything like mine it checks the new prescription against existing prescriptions for possible dangerous drug interactions. I wouldn't want to trust my life to someone someone so callous human life and cavalier about their code to make his previous statement. Admittedly, the code has the fail, the doctor has to fail and the pharmacist have to fail to spot the dangerous interaction for someone to get hurt, but the chance of this is going to be non-zero no matter how diligent the parties involved are. You just have to pray all parties involved are as diligent as they can be - and gorzek obviously is not given his comments and attitude.
Hi, I work for a competitor. I take the fact the system could kill if it gives out erroneous results or becomes unavailable very seriously. Knowing fucktards like you are out there gives me that much more motivation to make my product superior so we can eventually drive your dumb ass out of a job.
Calling this stuff misleading is like calling an illustration on the cover of War and Peace misleading. It's not like you'll get to see that exact image by reading the text in the book.
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I remember getting caught up in the hype and putting it on a 486 DX2 66 with 4 MB. Damn but that was slower than molasses running uphill in January. Suffered with that computer for nearly 2 years before I saved up enough for a replacement (poor college student at the time).
4e may copy the feel of WoW, but it's Magic: The Gathering at it's heart. As a foundation for a computer game it's a hopeless joke. Over a third of the powers in the game "interrupt" another power. That's great for a table top game, but every one of them will have to be rewritten for a computer game in real time. By the time they are done with it they're going to have a new system in place entirely.
This is one of those classic cases where strength becomes weakness. The strength of Linux is diversity, but diversity is the bane of game testing and deployment.
I know the W3C is slow, but even they can't take 15 years to complete a spec I should hope. HTML 4 was completed in 3 years, as was HTML 3. (2 and 1 I don't believe where ever formalized). If they do take that long then they will have long since ceased to be relevant.
Compared to what else was available at the time, it was. Netscape 4 was a class 1 cluster the likes of which the software world has rarely witnessed (and mind you this is a world that included Duke Nukem Forever).
CSS btw was Microsoft's recommendation to the W3C in the first place.
I stand by my original statement - the fly in the ointment is the browser's longevity (though Active X was a stupid idea I'll agree. Never used it myself)
Hehe, yup. Netscape 4 is FAR, FAR worse than IE 4 on its worst day. I still remember it and honestly I was more glad of its demise from the support list than I will be of IE 6's. IE 6 isn't a bad browser in and of itself, it just was allowed to stay around too long as Microsoft rested on their laurels. If IE 7 had come out in 2003 or 2004 no one would be complaining about IE in general or IE 6 in particular.
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Shut up and move to North Korea. Seriously.
Presence of guns doesn't make the US into Somalia -- Lack of guns doesn't make Britain into North Korea. But since you think in such simple minded terms then complete the cycle - move to North Korea.
A quote from one of the greatest statesman in history, not to mention prime minister of Britain, is in order. "Democracy is a lousy way to run a country - but it's the best we've come up with." - Winston Churchill.
Broadcasting on frequencies you shouldn't be is trivial and can be done with off-the-shelf equipment today very easily. Its also illegal and not that hard to locate the broadcast antenna. I wouldn't even call this activity "hacking"... its just unlicensed broadcasting in a licensed band.
For someone trained in such yeah. For a script kiddie - not so much. This would make it absurdly easy (read script kiddie level) to do and the nuisance value could be quite high. I hope the FCC has thought this out. Abuse is always possible, but it shouldn't be too easy or else it will become commonplace.
Once devices are built that are able to broadcast on these frequencies it would stand to reason that staying off the frequencies when they are "occupied" will be regulated by software. How long before a hacker mods one of these to broadcast on frequencies that it should not be using?
Even better. Fucking, Austria. I'm guessing the residents there get harassed over their town name quite frequently as well.
Well, to be honest, in a perfect world the connotations would be reversed - violence would be vulgar and sex would not be. If I can have only one I'd choose to have violence be seen as vulgar in the hopes there'd be less of it.
Our society would be a much, much better place if "kill" had the same vulgar and obscene connotations as "fuck".
Heh heh, yup. Congress and Obama needs to dissolve that particular court - bunch of clowns.
Justices sit for life yes - the life of their job. Congress can dissolve the 9th circuit and replace it with a new court - this is a rarely used but effective check on judicial over reaching by the other two branches (the president must sign the act dissolving the court into law)
You prefer it only get checked once?
Script fulfillment is unlikely to kill anyone. As the knucklehead points out in his response to your post it's unlikely to cause a delay of more than a few minutes - an inconvenience at best.
However if his software is anything like mine it checks the new prescription against existing prescriptions for possible dangerous drug interactions. I wouldn't want to trust my life to someone someone so callous human life and cavalier about their code to make his previous statement. Admittedly, the code has the fail, the doctor has to fail and the pharmacist have to fail to spot the dangerous interaction for someone to get hurt, but the chance of this is going to be non-zero no matter how diligent the parties involved are. You just have to pray all parties involved are as diligent as they can be - and gorzek obviously is not given his comments and attitude.
Hi, I work for a competitor. I take the fact the system could kill if it gives out erroneous results or becomes unavailable very seriously. Knowing fucktards like you are out there gives me that much more motivation to make my product superior so we can eventually drive your dumb ass out of a job.
Have a good day! :)
Perhaps Google takes this lesson from Wave's failure -- merge products together, don't dev them out on an island where they won't be used.
Calling this stuff misleading is like calling an illustration on the cover of War and Peace misleading. It's not like you'll get to see that exact image by reading the text in the book.
I remember getting caught up in the hype and putting it on a 486 DX2 66 with 4 MB. Damn but that was slower than molasses running uphill in January. Suffered with that computer for nearly 2 years before I saved up enough for a replacement (poor college student at the time).
4e may copy the feel of WoW, but it's Magic: The Gathering at it's heart. As a foundation for a computer game it's a hopeless joke. Over a third of the powers in the game "interrupt" another power. That's great for a table top game, but every one of them will have to be rewritten for a computer game in real time. By the time they are done with it they're going to have a new system in place entirely.
This is one of those classic cases where strength becomes weakness. The strength of Linux is diversity, but diversity is the bane of game testing and deployment.
Duh. Show me a BIOS, a Hypervisor or a Driver that isn't vulnerable to any of these Captain Obvious.
640 K was supposed to last forever :P
Possible Applications of 64 GB integrated into the motherboard.
And that's right off the top of my head.
K, that makes sense. And given that it took browser manufacturers 12 years to figure out CSS 2.1...
This kind of stuff makes me pine for the days of Basic on the C=64
I know the W3C is slow, but even they can't take 15 years to complete a spec I should hope. HTML 4 was completed in 3 years, as was HTML 3. (2 and 1 I don't believe where ever formalized). If they do take that long then they will have long since ceased to be relevant.
Perl, Visual Basic and old Grandpa COBOL want to have a word with you future boy...
Compared to what else was available at the time, it was. Netscape 4 was a class 1 cluster the likes of which the software world has rarely witnessed (and mind you this is a world that included Duke Nukem Forever).
True, quite true. IE Mac was it's own animal. The only thing it shared with IE Win was name.
What browser did in 2002? Answer: none.
CSS btw was Microsoft's recommendation to the W3C in the first place.
I stand by my original statement - the fly in the ointment is the browser's longevity (though Active X was a stupid idea I'll agree. Never used it myself)
Hehe, yup. Netscape 4 is FAR, FAR worse than IE 4 on its worst day. I still remember it and honestly I was more glad of its demise from the support list than I will be of IE 6's. IE 6 isn't a bad browser in and of itself, it just was allowed to stay around too long as Microsoft rested on their laurels. If IE 7 had come out in 2003 or 2004 no one would be complaining about IE in general or IE 6 in particular.