FWIW, it's early in the morning here and at some point I detected some subtle sarcasm in the message I replied to, then forgot to mention it. It was too subtle for this time in the morning, so if it was intended, so be it.
When you execute via fax, the phone company has a record of the sender/receiver/time, and also the length of the call which gives some indication of the number of pages. Plus most of this information is printed on the fax itself and can be examined by forensics for physical forgery, which is more difficult than digital forgery.
The phone company (at least in the U.S.) does not record the time of a call unless it's a billiable long distance call (i.e. not part of an unlimited long distance plan). Yes, it's true, if you have an unlimited long distance plan, they might not even bother to log your calls, because it's cheaper not to.
The information printed on the fax from the sender is all from information that was entered by the sender, and is thus rather easy to spoof. If the receiving machine prints the caller ID, that can be spoofed too, but you have to make a little more effort than punching a few buttons on a fax machine. The time printed by the receiver can also be incorrect if the clock was set wrong.
And how is a fax immune to "digital forgery" when it is basically a digital format? Not only can you not verify the identity of the sender, you can't even be sure that the receiver will print it out on actual paper. It is entirely possible that a fax may be generated by a computer and received by a computer, with nothing physical to forge. So much for your forensics.
Standard practice for long-distance business contracts is to execute immediately by fax, then follow up with a signed copy by fedex.
...which only proves that the fax wasn't all that verifiable after all. It's merely a way to say "here's some circumstantial evidence right now that I signed something, with the original document to follow later".
Yeah, I know YANAL. Neither am I, but at least I can see that your swiss cheese has holes.
The reason access to all these keys has been granted is due to a lack of.htaccess on AMD’s site.
What's all this stupid talk about.htacess anyway? Those are the kind of files that should not be below a web server's DocumentRoot in the first place. The reason access to all these keys has been grated is because some moron put them in a live area of the web server where they didn't belong.
Headlights should fade out in a couple hundred yards, not be blinding people from 10 miles away.
That's called "collimation", which is not an inherent property of laser light, just a typically desirable one. Laser light is monochromatic (one frequency) and coherent (all waves in the same phase). Collimation is the focusing into a narrow beam. Some laser types are inherently collimated, some aren't.
To sum it up: the studies linking the shot with autism were done by an UK professor, who has been on trial for telling false results to help his own company.
Also, in places where the mercury containing ingredient was removed, the autism rate did not go down. My hypothesis is simply that autism diagnoses generally happen a few months after when children are supposed to get the vaccine, with no link other than the relative age between the two incidents.
As others have said, what's the problem with the Proton propellant if the crew compartment is properly space-worthy?
And why assemble anything? Not that orbital docking is exactly a big problem these days, but even if the Proton propellant is a problem, just have it launch the trans-lunar craft and transfer the crew in a rendezvous. And there shouldn't be a need to re-transfer if the trans-lunar craft has re-entry capability.
And most strangely of all, why the 1979 Iran hostages mission? WhyTF would you pick something as random as one of many failures by the Carter administration? This is Slashdot, you're supposed to use automotive analogies around here.
The problem is that even something as simple as a UART serial port is completely different from SoC manufacturer to manufacturer. In the PC world, only the 8250 and its derived chips were used. Even the Zilog SCC (which was the standard in the MacOS world until USB made it obsolete) was completely alien to standard PCs. Not only that, but the PC had a crazy keyboard interface that became an instant standard, even to the point that the original XBox had an A20 gate in its chipset.
So to even get console output from your kernel, it has to be built with the right UART drivers for your specific CPU. And there is no standard for auto-detecting hardware, either. I don't think there's any vendor-agnostic way to determine what ARM and SoC version you are using.
The CPUs were standard, but little else was. Sure, the C-64 and Atari 800 both had a 6502-based CPU, but they also had different video chips, different sound chips, different and mutually incompatible disk drive formats and serial communications protocols, etc
And that is probably the best analogy for the situation. The ARM CPU cores, while having quite a few differences from version to version, tend to be identical within a version, and are licensed as an entire unit from ARM, Inc. Very few companies (specifically Apple, thanks to the Newton era) have a license that allows them to mess with the core -- and even then they might not want to.
There is other stuff, at least in the current Cortex versions, such as basic interrupt control and probably the MMU, that is also part of that core (I work with Cortex M3 and no OS these days, so I really don't know about MMUs). But everything else is unique to the chip maker, even for the same type of interface. ST's I2C controller will be completely different from Cirrus's I2C controller, etc.
And FYI, the only reason an Atari ST could run MacOS was because the only assumption of MacOS in those days with respect to graphics was a 1-bit deep, 8 pixels per byte, bitmapped display. The Amiga also used a 68000, but it had a rocket science blitter thingy, which is why there wasn't a similar ability to run Amiga software on an ST.
Unfortunately, I think that Australia has raised their standards in the past dozen or so decades, and their response would be "Fawk no!" Or maybe something more colorful than that.
We need to hurry up with manned spaceflight to asteroids, since that seems to be our only realistic option for penal colonies these days.
I'm looking forward to the USB-powered space heaters that office secretaries will put under their desks. They were forbidden from doing that before because it takes too much power from the wall plugs, but this comes from the COMPUTER so it must be okay!
I'm in a bad mood precisely because of this topic. Stupid teabaggers.
I stopped reading right there, especially after the "loose" rant. If you're going to use that offensive slur, then I'm not going to assume any sort of intelligent argument follows. Unless you really don't mind me using the term "Dildocrat", that is.
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FWIW, it's early in the morning here and at some point I detected some subtle sarcasm in the message I replied to, then forgot to mention it. It was too subtle for this time in the morning, so if it was intended, so be it.
When you execute via fax, the phone company has a record of the sender/receiver/time, and also the length of the call which gives some indication of the number of pages. Plus most of this information is printed on the fax itself and can be examined by forensics for physical forgery, which is more difficult than digital forgery.
The phone company (at least in the U.S.) does not record the time of a call unless it's a billiable long distance call (i.e. not part of an unlimited long distance plan). Yes, it's true, if you have an unlimited long distance plan, they might not even bother to log your calls, because it's cheaper not to.
The information printed on the fax from the sender is all from information that was entered by the sender, and is thus rather easy to spoof. If the receiving machine prints the caller ID, that can be spoofed too, but you have to make a little more effort than punching a few buttons on a fax machine. The time printed by the receiver can also be incorrect if the clock was set wrong.
And how is a fax immune to "digital forgery" when it is basically a digital format? Not only can you not verify the identity of the sender, you can't even be sure that the receiver will print it out on actual paper. It is entirely possible that a fax may be generated by a computer and received by a computer, with nothing physical to forge. So much for your forensics.
Standard practice for long-distance business contracts is to execute immediately by fax, then follow up with a signed copy by fedex.
...which only proves that the fax wasn't all that verifiable after all. It's merely a way to say "here's some circumstantial evidence right now that I signed something, with the original document to follow later".
Yeah, I know YANAL. Neither am I, but at least I can see that your swiss cheese has holes.
You misspelled "O'Carter". Hope this helps!
The reason access to all these keys has been granted is due to a lack of .htaccess on AMD’s site.
What's all this stupid talk about .htacess anyway? Those are the kind of files that should not be below a web server's DocumentRoot in the first place. The reason access to all these keys has been grated is because some moron put them in a live area of the web server where they didn't belong.
Headlights should fade out in a couple hundred yards, not be blinding people from 10 miles away.
That's called "collimation", which is not an inherent property of laser light, just a typically desirable one. Laser light is monochromatic (one frequency) and coherent (all waves in the same phase). Collimation is the focusing into a narrow beam. Some laser types are inherently collimated, some aren't.
The only moment someone is in the bathroom and is able to use a computer is either sitting on the "white throne" or laying in the tub.
And for those times, a small table and a laptop are sufficient.
...you just have to move to NW Arkansas?
...currently in his third term, it would seem.
Indeed. I suggest "Barack Dubya Carter" instead, since he's so full of the chewy goodness of both of those other two presidents.
To sum it up: the studies linking the shot with autism were done by an UK professor, who has been on trial for telling false results to help his own company.
Also, in places where the mercury containing ingredient was removed, the autism rate did not go down. My hypothesis is simply that autism diagnoses generally happen a few months after when children are supposed to get the vaccine, with no link other than the relative age between the two incidents.
The Pusher Robot and the Shover Robot. They've been taking care of my grandma lately.
Why on earth would you want to store video at a resolution greater than the number of photoreceptors in the human eye?
So that CSI can zoom and enhance to read the license plates of that car that happened to drive by at the right moment.
I'm more interested in how well it will go over in LV.
Except that they hacked RSA. So the first panel would have to say that hackers took down the website of ZIA for the analogy to apply.
It is quite easy to exceed c in water, for example.
I'm okay with that as long as you don't p in the pool.
1/10 - Get a real keyboard
As others have said, what's the problem with the Proton propellant if the crew compartment is properly space-worthy?
And why assemble anything? Not that orbital docking is exactly a big problem these days, but even if the Proton propellant is a problem, just have it launch the trans-lunar craft and transfer the crew in a rendezvous. And there shouldn't be a need to re-transfer if the trans-lunar craft has re-entry capability.
And most strangely of all, why the 1979 Iran hostages mission? WhyTF would you pick something as random as one of many failures by the Carter administration? This is Slashdot, you're supposed to use automotive analogies around here.
The problem is that even something as simple as a UART serial port is completely different from SoC manufacturer to manufacturer. In the PC world, only the 8250 and its derived chips were used. Even the Zilog SCC (which was the standard in the MacOS world until USB made it obsolete) was completely alien to standard PCs. Not only that, but the PC had a crazy keyboard interface that became an instant standard, even to the point that the original XBox had an A20 gate in its chipset.
So to even get console output from your kernel, it has to be built with the right UART drivers for your specific CPU. And there is no standard for auto-detecting hardware, either. I don't think there's any vendor-agnostic way to determine what ARM and SoC version you are using.
My arms are incompatible because they have thumbs on the opposite sides of the hand. I have to wear a different glove for each one.
The CPUs were standard, but little else was. Sure, the C-64 and Atari 800 both had a 6502-based CPU, but they also had different video chips, different sound chips, different and mutually incompatible disk drive formats and serial communications protocols, etc
And that is probably the best analogy for the situation. The ARM CPU cores, while having quite a few differences from version to version, tend to be identical within a version, and are licensed as an entire unit from ARM, Inc. Very few companies (specifically Apple, thanks to the Newton era) have a license that allows them to mess with the core -- and even then they might not want to.
There is other stuff, at least in the current Cortex versions, such as basic interrupt control and probably the MMU, that is also part of that core (I work with Cortex M3 and no OS these days, so I really don't know about MMUs). But everything else is unique to the chip maker, even for the same type of interface. ST's I2C controller will be completely different from Cirrus's I2C controller, etc.
And FYI, the only reason an Atari ST could run MacOS was because the only assumption of MacOS in those days with respect to graphics was a 1-bit deep, 8 pixels per byte, bitmapped display. The Amiga also used a 68000, but it had a rocket science blitter thingy, which is why there wasn't a similar ability to run Amiga software on an ST.
Unfortunately, I think that Australia has raised their standards in the past dozen or so decades, and their response would be "Fawk no!" Or maybe something more colorful than that.
We need to hurry up with manned spaceflight to asteroids, since that seems to be our only realistic option for penal colonies these days.
It's either that or stop getting piss drunk. Your choice. Frankly, I don't do either, but my gut feeling is that having a FB page is the worse sin.
I'm looking forward to the USB-powered space heaters that office secretaries will put under their desks. They were forbidden from doing that before because it takes too much power from the wall plugs, but this comes from the COMPUTER so it must be okay!
The USA repays the borrowed money, with interest, all the time.
So did Bernie Madoff... until he didn't.
I'm in a bad mood precisely because of this topic. Stupid teabaggers.
I stopped reading right there, especially after the "loose" rant. If you're going to use that offensive slur, then I'm not going to assume any sort of intelligent argument follows. Unless you really don't mind me using the term "Dildocrat", that is.