The sound weapon being sold may be non-lethal, but who is to say they won't RE the device and make lethal sound weapons. Sound can kill. If you stand next to a speaker when 160db of sound comes out of it, you'll be dead. NASA uses sound to test the tiles on the shuttle, anyone caught inside that tester would be killed instantly when the sound came on. 1) because they have guns
2) because the device is fairly simple, they dont need to buy one to RE it.
Your point is kind of moot, isn't it? No my point is that your taking something people are giving your for free, then complaining that its not good enough, well go do it yourself.
I felt KDE4.0 was very vista-like:( forunatly i have been told that by there are no objections to patching it to allow it to be kde3.5 like, personally id rather stick with kde3.5+compiz, but some of the backend changes are fairly impressive, so by the time somebody offers kde4 that looks like kde3 ill be happy to switch.
I think fedora switched to KDE4 early hopefully to give it enough users that people will start developing on its stong base to get it to feature parity with kde3.5 (in terms of little tweaks people have anyway) quicker.
Its a shame that this isnt always the case though, for example the 25 year bsd bug got reported by samba but it got bumped back at samba instead of looking into it.
Some maintainers upstream/distro are just hard to work with, it seams premature to label all debian maintainers arrogant tho, just as it would be premature to claim that all BSD maintainers are arrogant.
Hardening has been around for years SELinux RSBAC PaX Grsecurity Bastille apparmor
are not new, its just that they are finally getting into the mainstream distos, if you wanted a secure linux system you could of had one 5/10 years ago, its just you had to actually do it yourself.
Linux kernel has no integrated security it has some security layer that gives all security systems access (or it can, its recommended to compile without it if you dont use it as otherwise a rootkit could use it).
SElinux sure it could have a NSA back-door, probably doesn't, but a lot of distros dont use SElinux instead they opt for apparmor, or nothing at all, or other security measures ( PAX, etc)
Disregard that it seams sleep deprivation has kicked in and i switched threads from beer to coke half way through that post, I dont think that there are any ethical issues around beer companies, but my point stands that there is no way to get the beer easily (e.g at your pub)
Much like Free coke & Linux, i love the idea but they haven't managed to break the OEM monopoly(ok Linux is doing it slowly) meaning that unless you want to make your own, which can be tricky and may not work/taste as well/good as a premade one. Unfortunately it looks like its just for enthusiasts, unless they can make it significantly better than the competition and get OEMs to offer it (e.g much better performance/usability on small systems). Unfortunately for beer/coke there is no metric as its down to taste, the only metric that can be used is popularity, which means that they cant be better than coke until they are better than coke. There only hope is that universities will offer it as an ethical alternative to their shelves of coke-cola & drug company products (such as the way my uni offers one water along side evian, etc & fair trade chocolate next to nestle and mars)
I cant rember where i read about it, but theres quite an interesting concept about life on a neutron star (where it would be based about nuclear interactions instead of electronic interaction, somewhere. I think it was probably sci-fi but it is a cool concept.
Generally people consider water essential to life because: Chemical based life forms are much more likely than nuclear or gravitation based life forms (too small or too slow) Carbon based life is much more likely than non-carbon based life Carbon based life depends on water for alot of interactions (mainly due to hydrogen bonding) Considering non-carbon life forms, if life where nitrogen based, it would probably also depend on water There is the possibility of phosphorus based life (which would probably be hydrophobic tho) The possibility of silicon based life also exists (which wouldn't depend on water)
Im fairly sure this was all over the news, covered on BBC radio & tv, hell even Wikinews had this covered by 8:00am GMT (midnight PST) yesterday morning.
The funny part is the excuse they used to get into the war. Japan attacks the US, so they send troops over to Europe. When the war was ending, they declared the Japanese conflict a separate war. So how again did the Japanese attacking the US justify sending troops to Europe? (Sarcasm)Politics are great!!!(/Sarcasm) Wasnt it because we still had a navy, and your sort of got blown to crap,
The people who want power are the people who want to exploit it. No sane person would really want to deal with the problems of everyone under the office in question. They are in it for the benefits they can get out of it. (Which usually screws you in the process) There are a number of people who are forced into leadership positions and find that they do well. However, these people are few and far between. (and are often constantly looking for an excuse to get out) reprasentative democracy is the form of goverment that sucks the least tho, not electing people sucks slightly more as nothing gets done.
You have to consider that there were 4 countries that got trashed in the war: france, germany -> both given lots of money to rebuild japan -> given even more money because somebody made them glow russia -> not given any money, in fact some historians think that America wanted to stay out of WWII as long as possible as they liked the fact that Russia was getting crushed.
Russia was almost ruined by the end of WWII to turn it round and become a supper power isnt easy (irrespective of their failures as a supper power).
I wonder what the measure as efficientcy, dicisions made or % of decisions that where 'right'(asin did not get revoked at a latter date) or number of right decisions? I only want a government with a high % of right decisions no matter how few of them they make.
A 1 man cabinet will make lots of decisions very fast, but will not get any right except for stuff he knows about, but a cabinet with 20 members will probably take its time but each member will contribute their expertise.
I think the problem is simply crosstalk, in a cabinet of 20 all 20 probably discuss everything when in fact except for a few difficult areas ( crime & education) most members have nothing to do with the others, but id still rather have a very inefficient cabinet threat look into everything in detail than a small one that gets everything wrong.
Dammit I hate those guys, with all their, reason is the best way to win an argument crap, and their logic is much better than spouting crap. I swear if I see another moderation fanboy im going to smash up a moderator.
Thats just apple sucking, while spam filtering sucks if your working on a whitelist you should get no-spam in your inbox but lots of emails in your spam box. Last spam filtering i used was turning up false positives too often, although its been a while since i botherd with an automated system, i just relly on social engeniering now (dont give out my email to strangers, and use a webmail(yahoo as i had one lying about) for any signups.
Actually I did RTFA but she was only using the photobooth due to her own stupidity, the thread was to do with possible misuse of the webcam and i suspect the green LED can be switched off (or permanently on) via a firmware hack meaning that if somebody got into your system you wouldn't be able to rely on the green light or the countdown.
But its crappy articles like this one that mean that often there is much more content in the discussion than the actual article.
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The sound weapon being sold may be non-lethal, but who is to say they won't RE the device and make lethal sound weapons. Sound can kill. If you stand next to a speaker when 160db of sound comes out of it, you'll be dead. NASA uses sound to test the tiles on the shuttle, anyone caught inside that tester would be killed instantly when the sound came on. 1) because they have guns
2) because the device is fairly simple, they dont need to buy one to RE it.
There was a bug in the installer when using dvd version, so he had to use the text version, no real critisms.
I felt KDE4.0 was very vista-like :( forunatly i have been told that by there are no objections to patching it to allow it to be kde3.5 like, personally id rather stick with kde3.5+compiz, but some of the backend changes are fairly impressive, so by the time somebody offers kde4 that looks like kde3 ill be happy to switch.
I think fedora switched to KDE4 early hopefully to give it enough users that people will start developing on its stong base to get it to feature parity with kde3.5 (in terms of little tweaks people have anyway) quicker.
Because FF3b5 is much more stable than FF2. plus as somebody else pointed out its not a production OS.
Its a shame that this isnt always the case though, for example the 25 year bsd bug got reported by samba but it got bumped back at samba instead of looking into it.
Some maintainers upstream/distro are just hard to work with, it seams premature to label all debian maintainers arrogant tho, just as it would be premature to claim that all BSD maintainers are arrogant.
Yeah fuck all these people compiling stuff for me, its not like im too lazy to compile and patch my own system!
Hardening has been around for years
SELinux
RSBAC
PaX
Grsecurity
Bastille
apparmor
are not new, its just that they are finally getting into the mainstream distos, if you wanted a secure linux system you could of had one 5/10 years ago, its just you had to actually do it yourself.
Linux kernel has no integrated security it has some security layer that gives all security systems access (or it can, its recommended to compile without it if you dont use it as otherwise a rootkit could use it).
SElinux sure it could have a NSA back-door, probably doesn't, but a lot of distros dont use SElinux instead they opt for apparmor, or nothing at all, or other security measures ( PAX, etc)
Actually I was going for OpenCola I dont think the ubuntu cola is open source :(
You ask for one and this Shuttleworth guy sends you a six pack, and ask you to give them to your friends (yeah like that's gunna happen *burp*)
Disregard that it seams sleep deprivation has kicked in and i switched threads from beer to coke half way through that post, I dont think that there are any ethical issues around beer companies, but my point stands that there is no way to get the beer easily (e.g at your pub)
Much like Free coke & Linux, i love the idea but they haven't managed to break the OEM monopoly(ok Linux is doing it slowly) meaning that unless you want to make your own, which can be tricky and may not work/taste as well/good as a premade one.
Unfortunately it looks like its just for enthusiasts, unless they can make it significantly better than the competition and get OEMs to offer it (e.g much better performance/usability on small systems). Unfortunately for beer/coke there is no metric as its down to taste, the only metric that can be used is popularity, which means that they cant be better than coke until they are better than coke. There only hope is that universities will offer it as an ethical alternative to their shelves of coke-cola & drug company products (such as the way my uni offers one water along side evian, etc & fair trade chocolate next to nestle and mars)
I cant rember where i read about it, but theres quite an interesting concept about life on a neutron star (where it would be based about nuclear interactions instead of electronic interaction, somewhere. I think it was probably sci-fi but it is a cool concept.
Generally people consider water essential to life because:
Chemical based life forms are much more likely than nuclear or gravitation based life forms (too small or too slow)
Carbon based life is much more likely than non-carbon based life
Carbon based life depends on water for alot of interactions (mainly due to hydrogen bonding)
Considering non-carbon life forms, if life where nitrogen based, it would probably also depend on water
There is the possibility of phosphorus based life (which would probably be hydrophobic tho)
The possibility of silicon based life also exists (which wouldn't depend on water)
Im fairly sure this was all over the news, covered on BBC radio & tv, hell even Wikinews had this covered by 8:00am GMT (midnight PST) yesterday morning.
Japan attacks the US, so they send troops over to Europe.
When the war was ending, they declared the Japanese conflict a separate war.
So how again did the Japanese attacking the US justify sending troops to Europe?
(Sarcasm)Politics are great!!!(/Sarcasm) Wasnt it because we still had a navy, and your sort of got blown to crap, The people who want power are the people who want to exploit it.
No sane person would really want to deal with the problems of everyone under the office in question.
They are in it for the benefits they can get out of it. (Which usually screws you in the process)
There are a number of people who are forced into leadership positions and find that they do well.
However, these people are few and far between. (and are often constantly looking for an excuse to get out) reprasentative democracy is the form of goverment that sucks the least tho, not electing people sucks slightly more as nothing gets done.
You mean outsource their botnet?
You have to consider that there were 4 countries that got trashed in the war:
france, germany -> both given lots of money to rebuild
japan -> given even more money because somebody made them glow
russia -> not given any money, in fact some historians think that America wanted to stay out of WWII as long as possible as they liked the fact that Russia was getting crushed.
Russia was almost ruined by the end of WWII to turn it round and become a supper power isnt easy (irrespective of their failures as a supper power).
I wonder what the measure as efficientcy, dicisions made or % of decisions that where 'right'(asin did not get revoked at a latter date) or number of right decisions?
I only want a government with a high % of right decisions no matter how few of them they make.
A 1 man cabinet will make lots of decisions very fast, but will not get any right except for stuff he knows about, but a cabinet with 20 members will probably take its time but each member will contribute their expertise.
I think the problem is simply crosstalk, in a cabinet of 20 all 20 probably discuss everything when in fact except for a few difficult areas ( crime & education) most members have nothing to do with the others, but id still rather have a very inefficient cabinet threat look into everything in detail than a small one that gets everything wrong.
Dammit I hate those guys, with all their, reason is the best way to win an argument crap, and their logic is much better than spouting crap.
I swear if I see another moderation fanboy im going to smash up a moderator.
While i agree with the GGP, its not like were gunna be tried by americans
AM i reading a different TFA, i cant find any mention of that and i got the impression they were using a Linux & BSD based system?
Thats just apple sucking, while spam filtering sucks if your working on a whitelist you should get no-spam in your inbox but lots of emails in your spam box.
Last spam filtering i used was turning up false positives too often, although its been a while since i botherd with an automated system, i just relly on social engeniering now (dont give out my email to strangers, and use a webmail(yahoo as i had one lying about) for any signups.
Actually I did RTFA but she was only using the photobooth due to her own stupidity, the thread was to do with possible misuse of the webcam and i suspect the green LED can be switched off (or permanently on) via a firmware hack meaning that if somebody got into your system you wouldn't be able to rely on the green light or the countdown.
But its crappy articles like this one that mean that often there is much more content in the discussion than the actual article.