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  1. Re:Incorrect assumption on Unmanned (But Armed) Aircraft Experiments In 2001 · · Score: 2
    I strongly suspect that any actions against mobile ground units will be carried out by humans.
    Actually, you'll notice that the only 'AI' weapons the US Army really has are X to ground missiles; they don't track in on targets, they track in on geographical locations. In other words, they don't try to find targets, they go to a predetermined point and blow up. That's interesting.
  2. Re:Incorrect assumption on Unmanned (But Armed) Aircraft Experiments In 2001 · · Score: 2
    Perhaps laser relays
    It's too early in the morning to be sarcastic and scathing.
    • battlefield smoke
    • rain
    • clouds (being air units, at least
    • problems stabalizing the lasers
    I could go on, but I won't.
  3. Incorrect assumption on Unmanned (But Armed) Aircraft Experiments In 2001 · · Score: 5
    This is not logical: Since the planes can be networked and thus know each other's relative positions, preventing friendly fire is a much simpler problem than the visual recognition required to determine what to shoot at, unless you don't mind hitting non-military targets. I wonder what Asimov would think.
    Ok, so they won't shoot each other. But what about other friendly forces? Sure, put a location beacon on them, too. Then the enemy either a) tracks in on the frequency and shoots them, or b) jams them and watches chaos ensue. Humans will always point the trigger, if only so that the brass knows who to point the finger at later.
  4. Re:The errors have always been there, lost in da n on Analysis: Reforming Political Technology · · Score: 2

    By definition, anybody who actually runs for public office is probably one of the least eligable, or desirable, people to have in that office.

  5. Re:cool, but... on OS X on Intel Hardware? · · Score: 2

    But Sun doesn't 'sell' Solaris. You pretty much pay for the cost of the media. Support, sure, but Sun's moneymakers are hardware and Professional Services.

  6. Re:Open Source the GUI on OS X on Intel Hardware? · · Score: 2

    Yes, but when you get right down to it, their profitablity is based on the fact that they've colour-coordinated their cases. And got old songs to play for commercials. And given fancy names to old/unexciting technology. Microsoft: "Where do you want to go today?" Apple: "Who cares where you go, so long as you look good doing it!" Sun: "Wherever you want to go, you can do it more easily with Java! No, really!" Linux: "Well, I was planning on going Over There, but then I saw this little side-road, and I thought I'd take a look, and...." BSD: "Where ever you want to go, be assured that nobody can grab you on the way." BeOS: "Wherever you want to go, we'll break up the group into little pieces and send you all separatly." IBM: "No more than 6 people will ever want to go somewhere anyway...." That's all I can think of off hand.

  7. Re:Open Source != Non Commercial on The UNIX Systems Administration Handbook · · Score: 2

    Sorry, boyo, the OS itself is not commercial. They can, and do, sell it commercially, but it's not a commercial product. A fine distinction, but a distinction none the less. By the way, in this case specifically, when you 'buy' RH, you're buying manuals and support and the convenience of a CD.

  8. Re:Open Source != Non Commercial on The UNIX Systems Administration Handbook · · Score: 2

    He didn't say Red Hat was not a commercial company, he said it wasn't a commercial OS. Learn to read.

  9. Go the easy route on Online Bank Security: Cover Your Assets! · · Score: 2

    Step 1: Pick a bank. Step 2: typo-squat a domain Step 3: mimic their login screen perfectly Step 4: on submit, display a standard error message and redirect them to the real thing

  10. Re:hey, neat;) on MS 'Whistler' Looks Solid To ZDNET · · Score: 2

    Actually, it's one of the nicer UI features, and it's no differnet than right-clicking on my KDE desktop and selecting 'execute command'. The MS UI is designed such that you should never actually need to use a mouse, if you really don't want to; it's the programs that don't conform to the interface specs that make life difficult.

  11. Re:where telnet? ok ... on MS 'Whistler' Looks Solid To ZDNET · · Score: 2

    Sorry, by the way. Honest ignorance is something to be corrected, not insulted. I tend to assume that everybody has the same skills, knowledge, and experience that I do, and react accordingly. No SSH client, though.

  12. Re:where telnet? ok ... on MS 'Whistler' Looks Solid To ZDNET · · Score: 2

    Option 1: Click start menu. Select 'run' option. Into the resulting dialouge box, type 'telnet myclient.com' where myclient.com is your target host. Hit the enter key, or click the OK button. Boom, done. Option 2: Click start menu. Select 'run' option. Into the resulting dialouge box, type 'cmd' and hit enter key, or click OK button. This dumps you into the WinNT command prompt (as opposed to typing 'command', which would dump you into the Win9x command prompt.) At the prompt, type 'telnet myhost.com'. Or, for that matter, FTP, traceroute, ping, nslookup, and all the other standard TCP/IP apps. Try it for pretty much any app. GUI apps will launch normally. I usually use this to run things like Windows Explorer, etc etc. Also, type the names (and fully qualified paths, if the file isn't in the search path) of documents, to auto-launch the app. For example, typing a fully qualified http://www.mycorp.com URL will launch it in the registered web browser. By the same token, BTW, I don't think there's a 'telnet' option anywhere in my KDE desktop (don't have it handy to check) so I guess it doesn't have a telnet client. :-)

  13. Re:not me, unfortunately :) on MS 'Whistler' Looks Solid To ZDNET · · Score: 3
    nor even a telnet client
    BULLSHIT. Pure, undulterated bullshit. Not only does 2K have a telnet client, (and it's real character mode, not that GUI piece of crap NT had) but also a telnet server. If you're wrong, or lying, about that, what else are you wrong or lying about?
  14. Re:Eh? on MS 'Whistler' Looks Solid To ZDNET · · Score: 2
    Windows 2000 Advanced Server (above + backoffice + other new shit). Terminal services are now included, rather than in a separate package (NT 4 terminal server edition, etc)
    Nope. Server has Terminal Services. Advanced Server is Server + clustering support + support for up to 4 procs OOTB instead of 2. Datacenter Server's main features are OOTB support for 64 procs, and Intel's memory addressing scheme to allow for more than 4 gigabytes of physical RAM. Backoffice is separate.
  15. Re:Virtual Desktops? on MS 'Whistler' Looks Solid To ZDNET · · Score: 2
    Sounds almost like they are moving in the general direction of virtual desktops
    NT's been capable of virtual desktops since at least version 4. It's just seldom used, as is lots of stuff geared for the future.
  16. Re:I'm testing it. It's okay on MS 'Whistler' Looks Solid To ZDNET · · Score: 2
    How much do they pay you for all this work?
    How much do the random programmers who send code diffs into OSS authors get paid?
  17. Re:bad appearances... on FRG on W2K: No CoS · · Score: 2
    I mentally replace "Scientologist" with "Jew" and I see something that could have happened 50 years ago if we had a software industry
    Germany is trying so hard to avoid the mistakes of the past that they're doing the same thing, just on the other side. It is, quite literally, a pendulum effect. For example, because the fascists so infringed on the rights of people, Germany has now completely outlawed Fascisim and Nazi symbology, to the point that, for example, Corel software was once banned due to a clip-art CD having three Nazi symbols and two pictures of Hitler. Remind you of something? America's the same way, just not to the same extent. Trying to re-write history, 'affirmitive action' which is really anti-white racisim, as opposed to pro-equality. That sort of thing.
  18. Re:Actually they're probably justified... on FRG on W2K: No CoS · · Score: 3
    Their beliefs do not include ethics and/or morals of any sort that you would recognize
    Actually, they do, but only for themselves. As far as they're concerened, we're just a bunch of supressives and jailers who all pay heed to the words of Xenu, who neutron-bombed the Earth several millions of years ago, and put us all in prison colonies. Know thy enemy, know thyself, and victory shall be yours.
  19. Re:This is crazy on Quantum Security · · Score: 2
    Why can't Eve just let them be, for chrissakes?!?
    It's kinda the same way that all computer programmers are closet pagans, always saying hello to Mother Gaia.
  20. Re:That's all right... on Space Object May Be Killer - In 2030 · · Score: 2
    You bloody fscking idiots, you can't throttle a solid rocket like that, and you damn sure can't re-light the bastard!
    Yeah. At least Deep Impact used a different rocket technology to explain that little bit. :-)
  21. Re:FS encryption on When The FBI Knocks, A First-Person Account · · Score: 2

    Yup. HD's magnetic tracks are sufficiently small that using standard bulk erasers aren't even proof against future reading. Pave the drive over with 1s, 0s, 1s again, do a low level format, break it into little bits, then subject it to an acid bath. And I'm not trying to be funny. Media destruction is important in business, too.

  22. Re:You have the right to remain silent on When The FBI Knocks, A First-Person Account · · Score: 2

    And for the God's sakes, if you go to court, dress nice (upsize your clothes a size so you look meek) act respectiful and a bit scared, yes sir, no sir, and don't be an idiot. Law is law, but it is administered by humans, and most Judges have an ego problem. Contempt of court is pretty wide-open.

  23. Re:Yikes! on When The FBI Knocks, A First-Person Account · · Score: 3
    although the fact that he first looked at it hours after the breakin tells me about how clueful the FBI is
    Actually, that behaviour is valid. Many criminals are caught because they're idiots, and do idiot things like hang around the crime scene, blab to friends, etc etc. Checking your own handiwork hours after the fact is common behaviour. Go find some decent books on Criminal Psychology, and you'll find some interesting reading material.
  24. Re:MySQL *IS* a Database on MYSQL & Row Level Locking · · Score: 2

    Yup, the other way to do it is through middleware, generally objects. But at that point, your apps never touch the database anyway. And very rarely will you have seperate database backends that are running on different databases. In my experience, at least.

  25. Re:Row locking is already implemented - here's how on MYSQL & Row Level Locking · · Score: 2
    If SALES:54 wasn't locked before, this INSERT would be successufull.
    Beside the point. Table being read, read read. You put row 54 into your locking table, then do an update to the main table. BOOM: no selects can be done; THE ENTIRE TABLE IS LOCKED. If you've got 500,000 records, and one gets updated, the other 499,999 can't be read. Who cares that you're being sure, using the locking table, that you yourself won't touch it during read; THE DATABASE AUTOMATICALLY, AND UNAVOIDABLY, LOCKS THE ENTIRE TABLE.