Well, that holds true for pretty much everything, doesn't it? If you've pissed someone off really badly, who wields considerable power, then they will track you down, Tor or not.
OpenBSD's project leader is also more dictatorial than Linus
But unlike Linus, who can throw industrial-grade Finnish profanities at his minions, Theo's Afrikaans cuss-word-foo is weak. Something along the lines of "Jy was uit jou ma se gat gebore want haar poes was te besig" wouldn't go amiss, methinks.
Easy solution. Run NoScript and you won't have to encounter any google search enhancements (although for a split second while your results are loaded, you can see them before noscript forces the webpage to behave itself).
It feels so hackneyed at this point to try to describe the dystopia we are headed toward (already in?)
I dunno, it seems to me that an advanced technology-enabled dystopia is not universal in its spread. Poor third-world countries do not seem to be headed that way. Corruption may have something to do with it, but I'm too tired at the moment to form a logical construct to validate that thought.
Crops as in grain are pollinated by wind, not by beans, if you meant that.
I'm sure it was bees and not beans that you meant to write, but I wasn't only thinking of bees as a pollinating vector (because you'd want more than just staple crops). As you said, agricultural crops are wind-pollinated, because they don't sprout beautiful flowers to attract insec (except I think with maize, which may be pollinated by bees). Pollination by insects is far, far more precise and efficient than pollination by wind. But in the case of a Mars colony, are you going to generate wind to facilitate pollination (not that it isn't possible, but will you get the desired effect)? I think you'd have to painstakingly do it by hand.
I believe Biosphere 2 was the first large-scale attempt, and they were mostly successful
Would you really consider Biosphere 2 to be a success? Yes, the people in there survived for however long it was, and certainly it was a radical new attempt at facilitating sustenance of an intelligent life-form like ours, but there was a failure in advancing the idea further, and while similar, it is quite different from a Mars habitat.
Mars has massive reserves of water and CO2 readily available, which plants can turn into all the air and biomass you want, and cellulose can be converted to a number of extremely versatile construction materials. Include sand and eventual mining operations for trace elements and you're well positioned to not only survive but grow and prosper.
I don't think growing crops there would be easy. Pollination is a big problem, and having to live on an algal diet won't be easy. Plus, there are the usual phytopathological problems: pests, diseases, parasites, etc. Managing contaminants, the inevitability of escaping gases, making do with extremely limited resources (industrial operations require massive quantities of power and water and I'm not convinced of your vision of growth and prosperity) are only a few of the innumerable challenges that lie ahead in even bootstrapping a Mars colony. Despite how tough it's going to be, I think it is an idea worthy of being pursued, but only after having carefully experimented it here on Earth.
self-sustaining human-supporting ecosystems are a hard problem
So, wouldn't it be prudent to set-up such an environment here on earth, run tests with human inhabitants, and then carry over that experience into building a Mars colony?
Well, you weren't. In my comment, while I certainly didn't mention the threats of violence to his person, an absence of condemnation does not amount to me justifying something as unacceptable as that.
Come back with your rant when Poettering's crap is not being forced down the throats of users of most major distros, and when the company he works for ceases to wield great influence over what eventually becomes accepted standard in the community. Nobody is forcing me to use Windows either, but I use Linux over it for the freedom Linux offers. Yet it's starting to become more of a "You're only free to do these things if you want to use our more popular distro. Piss off if you don't like it". I know I could always try and gather some like minded people and start yet another distro, but when software vendors will only support the major distros and their offerings won't work on your incompatible OS, you have no choice but to fall at the feet of the those you disagree with. Significant alterations to basic software is not synonymous with "scratching an itch".
Well said. Also, this is Dubai, with a king and God as rulers. They don't care about false positives, as long as the rich aren't inconvenienced, and the enslaved foreign labour in the slums is kept in check.
Ha! The irc logs make it look like it was the work of some 16-year olds:
(10:05:05 PM) leondavidson@jabber.org/a12dcd98a30c36c2: @danawhite ceo of ufc.com basically challenging us to hack ufc again (10:05:12 PM) leondavidson@jabber.org/a12dcd98a30c36c2: saying we are terrorists (10:05:15 PM) yohoho@jabber.ccc.de: lol (10:05:16 PM) leondavidson@jabber.org/a12dcd98a30c36c2: and we can't hack his shit (10:05:20 PM) leondavidson@jabber.org/a12dcd98a30c36c2: webcache.googleusercontent.com/search? q=cache:wpl8k-4wsVMJ:bars.ufc.com/bar/jbs-sports-bar/fl/us/5560/ufc-rio-/%3Frelease%3D1%26profile%3DiPhone+site:ufc.com+mysql&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us&client=firefox-a (10:05:27 PM) leondavidson@jabber.org/a12dcd98a30c36c2: bars.ufc.com got some sqli (10:05:30 PM) yohoho@jabber.ccc.de: hack it again? what's the point (10:05:43 PM) leondavidson@jabber.org/a12dcd98a30c36c2: we didn't hack it in the first place (10:05:50 PM) leondavidson@jabber.org/a12dcd98a30c36c2: t was a dns hijack by some other niggas (10:05:58 PM) leondavidson@jabber.org/a12dcd98a30c36c2: the point would be the lulz (10:06:30 PM) yohoho@jabber.ccc.de: oh right hah
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It's nice to think that every single moment is going to be spent talking to people in Nepalese[...]
Where does it say in the summary that submitter is going to be in Nepal? Could be in India or Bhutan.
You've done it now. APK is like Beetlejuice...hell, he is far more obliging, IMO.
He is from the Boötes void, so he probably has no idea what neighborhood is.
And the delicious irony of it all is that Belhadj is now going to sue the British government.
[...]unless you drew the ire of someone powerful.
Well, that holds true for pretty much everything, doesn't it? If you've pissed someone off really badly, who wields considerable power, then they will track you down, Tor or not.
And be headed!
Where? To some saner place, surely?
OpenBSD's project leader is also more dictatorial than Linus
But unlike Linus, who can throw industrial-grade Finnish profanities at his minions, Theo's Afrikaans cuss-word-foo is weak. Something along the lines of "Jy was uit jou ma se gat gebore want haar poes was te besig" wouldn't go amiss, methinks.
This is Slashdot. It is a violation of website rules to read any linked article.
I'm afraid that I might like the Watchtowe
It is eminently possible that you might like Watchtower.
Easy solution. Run NoScript and you won't have to encounter any google search enhancements (although for a split second while your results are loaded, you can see them before noscript forces the webpage to behave itself).
"the" instead of "ze"? That's not how we speak German in the US.
There is a joke in here, though, if you don't miss it. tab...init...inittab?? Ok, well, I tried.
Keeping a tab on these changes is becoming tiresome, init?
Website
Source.
It feels so hackneyed at this point to try to describe the dystopia we are headed toward (already in?)
I dunno, it seems to me that an advanced technology-enabled dystopia is not universal in its spread. Poor third-world countries do not seem to be headed that way. Corruption may have something to do with it, but I'm too tired at the moment to form a logical construct to validate that thought.
Crops as in grain are pollinated by wind, not by beans, if you meant that.
I'm sure it was bees and not beans that you meant to write, but I wasn't only thinking of bees as a pollinating vector (because you'd want more than just staple crops). As you said, agricultural crops are wind-pollinated, because they don't sprout beautiful flowers to attract insec (except I think with maize, which may be pollinated by bees). Pollination by insects is far, far more precise and efficient than pollination by wind. But in the case of a Mars colony, are you going to generate wind to facilitate pollination (not that it isn't possible, but will you get the desired effect)? I think you'd have to painstakingly do it by hand.
I believe Biosphere 2 was the first large-scale attempt, and they were mostly successful
Would you really consider Biosphere 2 to be a success? Yes, the people in there survived for however long it was, and certainly it was a radical new attempt at facilitating sustenance of an intelligent life-form like ours, but there was a failure in advancing the idea further, and while similar, it is quite different from a Mars habitat.
Mars has massive reserves of water and CO2 readily available, which plants can turn into all the air and biomass you want, and cellulose can be converted to a number of extremely versatile construction materials. Include sand and eventual mining operations for trace elements and you're well positioned to not only survive but grow and prosper.
I don't think growing crops there would be easy. Pollination is a big problem, and having to live on an algal diet won't be easy. Plus, there are the usual phytopathological problems: pests, diseases, parasites, etc. Managing contaminants, the inevitability of escaping gases, making do with extremely limited resources (industrial operations require massive quantities of power and water and I'm not convinced of your vision of growth and prosperity) are only a few of the innumerable challenges that lie ahead in even bootstrapping a Mars colony. Despite how tough it's going to be, I think it is an idea worthy of being pursued, but only after having carefully experimented it here on Earth.
self-sustaining human-supporting ecosystems are a hard problem
So, wouldn't it be prudent to set-up such an environment here on earth, run tests with human inhabitants, and then carry over that experience into building a Mars colony?
Is systemd trying to become emacs?
What was I thinking?
Well, you weren't. In my comment, while I certainly didn't mention the threats of violence to his person, an absence of condemnation does not amount to me justifying something as unacceptable as that.
Come back with your rant when Poettering's crap is not being forced down the throats of users of most major distros, and when the company he works for ceases to wield great influence over what eventually becomes accepted standard in the community. Nobody is forcing me to use Windows either, but I use Linux over it for the freedom Linux offers. Yet it's starting to become more of a "You're only free to do these things if you want to use our more popular distro. Piss off if you don't like it". I know I could always try and gather some like minded people and start yet another distro, but when software vendors will only support the major distros and their offerings won't work on your incompatible OS, you have no choice but to fall at the feet of the those you disagree with. Significant alterations to basic software is not synonymous with "scratching an itch".
Well said. Also, this is Dubai, with a king and God as rulers. They don't care about false positives, as long as the rich aren't inconvenienced, and the enslaved foreign labour in the slums is kept in check.
Is this you, Bennett?
Smart people do not own TVs
Well, it seems there aren't very many smart people in the world.
(10:05:05 PM) leondavidson@jabber.org/a12dcd98a30c36c2: @danawhite ceo of ufc.com basically challenging us to hack ufc again
(10:05:12 PM) leondavidson@jabber.org/a12dcd98a30c36c2: saying we are terrorists
(10:05:15 PM) yohoho@jabber.ccc.de: lol
(10:05:16 PM) leondavidson@jabber.org/a12dcd98a30c36c2: and we can't hack his shit
(10:05:20 PM) leondavidson@jabber.org/a12dcd98a30c36c2: webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?
q=cache:wpl8k-4wsVMJ:bars.ufc.com/bar/jbs-sports-bar/fl/us/5560/ufc-rio-/%3Frelease%3D1%26profile%3DiPhone+site:ufc.com+mysql&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us&client=firefox-a
(10:05:27 PM) leondavidson@jabber.org/a12dcd98a30c36c2: bars.ufc.com got some sqli
(10:05:30 PM) yohoho@jabber.ccc.de: hack it again? what's the point
(10:05:43 PM) leondavidson@jabber.org/a12dcd98a30c36c2: we didn't hack it in the first place
(10:05:50 PM) leondavidson@jabber.org/a12dcd98a30c36c2: t was a dns hijack by some other niggas
(10:05:58 PM) leondavidson@jabber.org/a12dcd98a30c36c2: the point would be the lulz
(10:06:30 PM) yohoho@jabber.ccc.de: oh right hah