Hitler screwed up because he tried to take on the Russians prematurely. He split his resources unnecessarily. He also underestimated the Russians and didn't supply his men for winter.
He simply spread himself too thin and didn't have the supply resources for a 2 front war with all the pressure coming from the allies.
Your observations about the 262 are _completely_ wrong. The ONLY way we could shoot down that aircraft was when it was parked on the ground, taking off, or landing. Nothing could touch it at speed in the air unless there was an engine failure or flameout.
It could out climb, out run and out gun anything the allies had in the air. The only way they got shot down in flight is if there was a failure such as an engine flameout. They were practically invincible when flown by a pilot that understood the airplane, when at-speed.
Early turbo jets had issues at low speed when taking off and landing. They were slow to accelerate. So if an ally caught one taking off or landing it was like shooting a fish in a barrel.
They weren't as maneuverable because they were a jet aircraft with a high wing loading. Speed wins every time in air combat, when wielded correctly. Their main weapon tactically was speed and energy. With a top speed of mach.86, it was much faster than anything the allies had. Hans Guido Mutke pushed his to mach.95. The airframe was almost torn apart as it approached the speed of sound. He barely was able to get it back under control.
Top safe airspeed for the 262 was 559mph. The P51D topped out at 437mph. Some trick mustangs with postwar modifications were able to reach 459mph but that's pretty much the edge of stability for the airframe and they weren't that fast until after the war.
1) "climate change" is not the name of a problem. There's been climate change since the earth acquired an atmosphere. It's part of nature. I guess we see it as a problem if it kills us, but it's business as usual for the earth. There's a lot of evidence that it's been a lot hotter here, it's also been a lot colder. Man hasn't been around long enough to experience the real extremes which this planet, in conjunction with the natural forces around it, is capable of.
2) How do you know this? How does anyone know this? I'd like to defer to the fact that on the geological time scale, if the earth's entire history were compressed to 1000 years, man has been around for the last second or so. We ain't seen nothin' yet. You are talking out of your ass. Man, as a species, cannot even yet grasp the breadth of what he doesn't know about the earth. We glom on to what we do know, put it in a neat little package, and postulate about the rest, assuming the rest of it is just as neat. We're _always_ wrong when we do that. Einstein got close, but he still wasn't entirely correct about things.
Most of these climate scientists don't know their science as well as, nor are they smart as Einstein. They're a lot more wrong about their science and theories. Maybe some should take a statistics class. If they did they'd realize the samples they're working with are entirely too small to predict a cycle that's been going on for billions of years.
3) you can't "fix" something that ain't broke. Well you can try, but usually people end up causing a big problem when they engage in such activity. Try fixing the cam shafts in the engine of your new car to experience what I'm talking about. Add.020" to the cam lobe size on your cam shaft, and start it up. Tell me how the fixed engine works. You sure as hell can't fix something that ain't broke with politics. The notion is absurd.
Rather than trying to fix the climate, we need to fix ourselves and figure out a way to make the changes work for us. Otherwise we die. Buying a Prius and recycling plastic sure as hell won't stop it. It's bigger than us.
We're spending so much time playing with broken computer models and looking in the mirror, that most of us haven't noticed that the rest of the planets in the solar system are warming too.
My neighbor's chevy suburban had nothing to do with that.
my ATT coverage is generally fine. It's when I go way out in the sticks that I have issues. My GF lives in the middle of nowhere (70 miles from the nearest real city) and my coverage sucks there. Then again, so does everyone else's
No but they are motivated by financial gain. The headline is wrong. They file share to get stuff you'd otherwise need to buy, for free. If they don't share they are considered "leeches" and get blocked. Since they get stuff for free, they have more money in their bank account than they'd have if they paid for it.
The notion they are motivated by anything more complex or noble than getting expensive stuff like games, software and music for free is ridiculous.
Actually this depends on what context "brute force" is used in.
In the traditional definition of a brute force attack: Hashing is used to store the password so you can't read it simply by looking at the table data. When entering your password to log in, it's hashed then compared against the hash in the database.
How easy a password is to brute force depends 100% on how good the password is. Like he said, it doesn't matter what algorithm is used to hash the passwords for purposes of a brute force attack you are guessing the password, not decrypting the hash.
A brute force attack to break the salt, yes, that does depend on the algorithm.
This is an attack that would lead to better results since you could decrypt every password in the database once it was completed, and this would lead to compromises on other systems once a users email and password are known, since most users use the same password everywhere. Brute force password attacks only operate against one account password at a time so could be a lot slower to get the same result.
Currently SHA-2 is top dog as far as I know for unclassified hashing algorithms. There are SHA-3 finalists. Once they are selected SHA-3 will replace 2.
You can also use block cipher algorithms such as AES-256 or RSA-2048, but they can actually be less secure when used as hash functions than SHA-2, since they are intended to encrypt and decrypt data, not create cryptographically strong hashes.
This is why md5 is bad. There's commonly available code to reverse md5's function. You can simply crack the salt in a few minutes.
Because there are already programs in place to deal with health care for poor people. Now we're paying for it for people that don't need or want public health care. Democrats are ramrodding it down everyone's throat, whether or not they have health insurance they are happy with. If you have private health insurance, now you are paying for the poor people, people that don't need or want gov health care AND your own insurance. Not only that it's _illegal_ for a hospital to deny healthcare to someone in need to begin with.
ln a nutshell, the stated reasons for healthcare reform are pure bullshit. Anyone that buys into them is a fucking idiot. I know this personally. My girlfriend s a cancer survivor and is not only bankrupt but uninsurable because of her pre-existing condition. She gets all the free healthcare, prescriptions etc she needs and doesn't pay a dime, from the state. Health care reform is simply another way to juice money out of everyone's paycheck for services that were already provided AND paid for with tax dollars from existing taxes.
Now we will be paying for them twice. That's just fucking great isn't it.
in 2004, it hadn't come out yet that the Bush administration was wrong about Iraq and it was unknown that the reasons for going to war were fabricated or based on faulty intelligence. We were in a war that EVERYONE wanted us in, even democrats wanted blood for sept 11. The house and senate were nearly unanimous in the decision to go to war.
You don't yank a president midstream who's leading (at the time) a popularly supported war and appears to be doing a good job.
He didn't just blindly check red.
The guy is saying he's conservative but he'd vote for Obama over Palin. He said the GOP is a bunch of right wing radicals and religious nutjobs. You are the idiot.
>>Any tax dinged against a business MUST be passed along to the consumer,
>No it doesn't. The price that customers are charged has NO BEARING on the taxes assessed against it.
The fuck they don't. You levy taxes against the sale of goods and/or services and the cost of the taxes get passed DIRECTLY to the consumer. See alcohol and tobacco tax for a very simple example...
If the gov says tomorrow "Ok we're going to levy a $500 tax on all TVs" do you honestly think Best Buy will eat that tax for us? Hell no! The next day all TVs will be $500 more expensive.
Best Buy HAS to pass that added cost on to us. They can't stay in business otherwise.
If the tax is only levied against best buy, yea they have to stop selling TV's. They wouldn't be able to compete in that market segment anymore.
>Businesses do not pick a 'profit level' and operate there, moving up and down in response to costs.
This is correct. They pick a profit level and operate there, moving up and down in response to _demand_. On a level playing field, if every business is charged a new tax, every business will increase their price by the same amount, leading to higher prices for everyone. Demand will mostly stay the same and the prices will go up across the board. Again, see alcohol and tobacco tax...
Linux can run on 386's and support ISA slots. If that isn't cruft, I don't know what is.
The difference is you can configure your own linux kernel and get rid of the cruft in it if you know what you are doing and use a distro you compile yourself such as Gentoo to make it easy. This is tougher on a packaged precompiled distro.
You can't build your own kernel at all with windows.
Yea! Desktop wienie, sysad-ork or laptop schlep is much more appropriate than geek. I haven't seen an IT guy bite the head off of a live chicken or swallow live goldfish since 2003. That stereotype is long dead. Lets get with the times folks!
Outlook appts aren't compatible with anything but outlook and people tend to want to sync their phones with their appointments.
This works flawlessly with google calendar and most phones including the iphone which is popular with sales people.
Like it or not, salespeople are often the most important people in any company. They pay the bills.
That being said, if I was in this position, I'd keep exchange the way it is as long as it's working and move to google calendar for appointments etc. since it's cross platform. Most email clients will connect to an exchange server for email, so compatibility isn't really the issue, outside of appointments and that's a client side incompatibility.
I get an appt from outlook and I can't do anything with it.
Calendars aren't really synchronous dependent. An appointment is usually made at least a few days in advance and it will get synced whenever the server is up. An outage of an hour isn't going to kill anyone with calendaring since on-the-go people with phones will already have the appointment in their phone when the server is down.
A new appointment syncs nearly instantly with your phone automatically with googles system.
... in a cross walk.
"... gives workers the right..."
Often pedestrians are dead right when they jaywalk into 40mph traffic and get hit, even though they have the right of way in the crosswalk. I've seen women pushing a baby carriage, simply walk into traffic because they have a right to, putting their child and themselves in a life threatening situation by jaywalking in front of 40mph traffic. All they need to do is wait for the light to change, but they don't. Sure they can sue, if they are still alive. Is it worth risking your kid's life to save 3 minutes waiting for the light to change?
That's what this case reminds me of. Why fuck around? Is it really worth it to risk your job because you bitched about work on facebook? You have every right to express yourself after all.
Every game has a budget in a publicly traded company. When the budget money is gone the game gets released whether or not it's finished. That's just how big software works. Bethesda Softworks
was one of the companies that actually cared and used to release quality games. Then they got bought by Zenimax media. Now they have to answer to investors and stock holders.
A nearly instant reduction in game release quality was the result. Game design quality is next. IMHO Zenimax will destroy this company, just like EA destroyed every company they've bought. id software and Bethesda Game Studios will be pooched too. Watch...
Totally agree.
I hate both parties because it took both of them to allow the last 2 wars to start. Liberals seem to have amnesia when it comes to this... The house and senate were nearly unanimous when they voted on starting these wars. The neocons (GOP) were and are a bunch of yes-men to whatever a republican president says.
Liberals will say "well bush lied". They could have demanded to see the evidence. As it was they were bloodthirsty after 9/11 just like the neocons and the rest of this country, and wanted to punish _someone_. The fact that none will accept responsibility for it and most are still in office boggles the mind. Even liberals I knew, at the time, wanted bush to bomb the fuck out of iraq. They all changed their tune to "Blame Bush" when the war became unpopular.
The ONLY war we had any business engaging in in the last 40 years was the first gulf war, where Kuwait and the UN specifically asked us for help to stop hussein and boot him out of Kuwait.
SH should have been captured and executed for war crimes at this point in time.
My girlfriends usually dump me around November. I get a new one generally around late February. Happens like clockwork. I met the last one on Feb 9, we went out on our first date on March 3rd. Just got dumped yesterday. These guys are dead on.
like every successful social policy of the past century. You know, the stuff that brought us to the top of the list of developed countries after WWII.
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Like social security? Bankrupt
Medicare/Medicaid? Bankrupt
The programs enacted by the health care bill will also go bankrupt and be ineffective yet we'll still be getting taxed for them.
The government doesn't have a very good track record with managing money. It's pretty hard, no impossible, to believe they won't screw up health care too if you are a rational person.
We're going to get taxed to hell for it and it won't be there when we need it.
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Hitler screwed up because he tried to take on the Russians prematurely. He split his resources unnecessarily. He also underestimated the Russians and didn't supply his men for winter.
He simply spread himself too thin and didn't have the supply resources for a 2 front war with all the pressure coming from the allies.
Your observations about the 262 are _completely_ wrong. The ONLY way we could shoot down that aircraft was when it was parked on the ground, taking off, or landing. Nothing could touch it at speed in the air unless there was an engine failure or flameout.
It could out climb, out run and out gun anything the allies had in the air. The only way they got shot down in flight is if there was a failure such as an engine flameout. They were practically invincible when flown by a pilot that understood the airplane, when at-speed.
Early turbo jets had issues at low speed when taking off and landing. They were slow to accelerate. So if an ally caught one taking off or landing it was like shooting a fish in a barrel.
They weren't as maneuverable because they were a jet aircraft with a high wing loading. Speed wins every time in air combat, when wielded correctly. Their main weapon tactically was speed and energy. With a top speed of mach .86, it was much faster than anything the allies had. Hans Guido Mutke pushed his to mach .95. The airframe was almost torn apart as it approached the speed of sound. He barely was able to get it back under control.
Top safe airspeed for the 262 was 559mph. The P51D topped out at 437mph. Some trick mustangs with postwar modifications were able to reach 459mph but that's pretty much the edge of stability for the airframe and they weren't that fast until after the war.
I suggest you take a history lesson.
1) "climate change" is not the name of a problem. There's been climate change since the earth acquired an atmosphere. It's part of nature. I guess we see it as a problem if it kills us, but it's business as usual for the earth. There's a lot of evidence that it's been a lot hotter here, it's also been a lot colder. Man hasn't been around long enough to experience the real extremes which this planet, in conjunction with the natural forces around it, is capable of.
2) How do you know this? How does anyone know this? I'd like to defer to the fact that on the geological time scale, if the earth's entire history were compressed to 1000 years, man has been around for the last second or so. We ain't seen nothin' yet. You are talking out of your ass. Man, as a species, cannot even yet grasp the breadth of what he doesn't know about the earth. We glom on to what we do know, put it in a neat little package, and postulate about the rest, assuming the rest of it is just as neat. We're _always_ wrong when we do that. Einstein got close, but he still wasn't entirely correct about things.
Most of these climate scientists don't know their science as well as, nor are they smart as Einstein. They're a lot more wrong about their science and theories. Maybe some should take a statistics class. If they did they'd realize the samples they're working with are entirely too small to predict a cycle that's been going on for billions of years.
3) you can't "fix" something that ain't broke. Well you can try, but usually people end up causing a big problem when they engage in such activity. Try fixing the cam shafts in the engine of your new car to experience what I'm talking about. Add .020" to the cam lobe size on your cam shaft, and start it up. Tell me how the fixed engine works. You sure as hell can't fix something that ain't broke with politics. The notion is absurd.
Rather than trying to fix the climate, we need to fix ourselves and figure out a way to make the changes work for us. Otherwise we die. Buying a Prius and recycling plastic sure as hell won't stop it. It's bigger than us.
We're spending so much time playing with broken computer models and looking in the mirror, that most of us haven't noticed that the rest of the planets in the solar system are warming too.
My neighbor's chevy suburban had nothing to do with that.
Or Verizon will adopt a "Let's fuck iPhone users too, what are they going to do, go to AT&T?" stance, like they did with the blackberry.
Demand, not cost, will drive the prices. Verizon won't rock the boat as far as pricing. Why should they?
my ATT coverage is generally fine. It's when I go way out in the sticks that I have issues. My GF lives in the middle of nowhere (70 miles from the nearest real city) and my coverage sucks there. Then again, so does everyone else's
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it's ROGUE dammit! Rouge is makeup
No but they are motivated by financial gain. The headline is wrong. They file share to get stuff you'd otherwise need to buy, for free. If they don't share they are considered "leeches" and get blocked. Since they get stuff for free, they have more money in their bank account than they'd have if they paid for it.
The notion they are motivated by anything more complex or noble than getting expensive stuff like games, software and music for free is ridiculous.
It's simple greed...
Actually this depends on what context "brute force" is used in.
In the traditional definition of a brute force attack:
Hashing is used to store the password so you can't read it simply by looking at the table data. When entering your password to log in, it's hashed then compared against the hash in the database.
How easy a password is to brute force depends 100% on how good the password is. Like he said, it doesn't matter what algorithm is used to hash the passwords for purposes of a brute force attack you are guessing the password, not decrypting the hash.
A brute force attack to break the salt, yes, that does depend on the algorithm.
This is an attack that would lead to better results since you could decrypt every password in the database once it was completed, and this would lead to compromises on other systems once a users email and password are known, since most users use the same password everywhere. Brute force password attacks only operate against one account password at a time so could be a lot slower to get the same result.
Currently SHA-2 is top dog as far as I know for unclassified hashing algorithms. There are SHA-3 finalists. Once they are selected SHA-3 will replace 2.
You can also use block cipher algorithms such as AES-256 or RSA-2048, but they can actually be less secure when used as hash functions than SHA-2, since they are intended to encrypt and decrypt data, not create cryptographically strong hashes.
This is why md5 is bad. There's commonly available code to reverse md5's function. You can simply crack the salt in a few minutes.
Because there are already programs in place to deal with health care for poor people. Now we're paying for it for people that don't need or want public health care. Democrats are ramrodding it down everyone's throat, whether or not they have health insurance they are happy with. If you have private health insurance, now you are paying for the poor people, people that don't need or want gov health care AND your own insurance. Not only that it's _illegal_ for a hospital to deny healthcare to someone in need to begin with.
ln a nutshell, the stated reasons for healthcare reform are pure bullshit. Anyone that buys into them is a fucking idiot. I know this personally. My girlfriend s a cancer survivor and is not only bankrupt but uninsurable because of her pre-existing condition. She gets all the free healthcare, prescriptions etc she needs and doesn't pay a dime, from the state. Health care reform is simply another way to juice money out of everyone's paycheck for services that were already provided AND paid for with tax dollars from existing taxes.
Now we will be paying for them twice. That's just fucking great isn't it.
in 2004, it hadn't come out yet that the Bush administration was wrong about Iraq and it was unknown that the reasons for going to war were fabricated or based on faulty intelligence. We were in a war that EVERYONE wanted us in, even democrats wanted blood for sept 11. The house and senate were nearly unanimous in the decision to go to war.
You don't yank a president midstream who's leading (at the time) a popularly supported war and appears to be doing a good job.
He didn't just blindly check red.
The guy is saying he's conservative but he'd vote for Obama over Palin. He said the GOP is a bunch of right wing radicals and religious nutjobs. You are the idiot.
>>Any tax dinged against a business MUST be passed along to the consumer,
>No it doesn't. The price that customers are charged has NO BEARING on the taxes assessed against it.
The fuck they don't. You levy taxes against the sale of goods and/or services and the cost of the taxes get passed DIRECTLY to the consumer. See alcohol and tobacco tax for a very simple example...
If the gov says tomorrow "Ok we're going to levy a $500 tax on all TVs" do you honestly think Best Buy will eat that tax for us? Hell no! The next day all TVs will be $500 more expensive.
Best Buy HAS to pass that added cost on to us. They can't stay in business otherwise.
If the tax is only levied against best buy, yea they have to stop selling TV's. They wouldn't be able to compete in that market segment anymore.
>Businesses do not pick a 'profit level' and operate there, moving up and down in response to costs.
This is correct. They pick a profit level and operate there, moving up and down in response to _demand_. On a level playing field, if every business is charged a new tax, every business will increase their price by the same amount, leading to higher prices for everyone. Demand will mostly stay the same and the prices will go up across the board. Again, see alcohol and tobacco tax...
Fascism is "Nationalist Socialism"
It'll be $400k in about 8 more years.
Linux can run on 386's and support ISA slots. If that isn't cruft, I don't know what is. The difference is you can configure your own linux kernel and get rid of the cruft in it if you know what you are doing and use a distro you compile yourself such as Gentoo to make it easy. This is tougher on a packaged precompiled distro. You can't build your own kernel at all with windows.
Definitely sells better than a polished turd with a higher price tag. Most people like to polish a turd their own way and pay a lower price.
Yea! Desktop wienie, sysad-ork or laptop schlep is much more appropriate than geek. I haven't seen an IT guy bite the head off of a live chicken or swallow live goldfish since 2003. That stereotype is long dead. Lets get with the times folks!
Outlook appts aren't compatible with anything but outlook and people tend to want to sync their phones with their appointments. This works flawlessly with google calendar and most phones including the iphone which is popular with sales people. Like it or not, salespeople are often the most important people in any company. They pay the bills. That being said, if I was in this position, I'd keep exchange the way it is as long as it's working and move to google calendar for appointments etc. since it's cross platform. Most email clients will connect to an exchange server for email, so compatibility isn't really the issue, outside of appointments and that's a client side incompatibility. I get an appt from outlook and I can't do anything with it. Calendars aren't really synchronous dependent. An appointment is usually made at least a few days in advance and it will get synced whenever the server is up. An outage of an hour isn't going to kill anyone with calendaring since on-the-go people with phones will already have the appointment in their phone when the server is down. A new appointment syncs nearly instantly with your phone automatically with googles system.
... in a cross walk. "... gives workers the right ..."
Often pedestrians are dead right when they jaywalk into 40mph traffic and get hit, even though they have the right of way in the crosswalk. I've seen women pushing a baby carriage, simply walk into traffic because they have a right to, putting their child and themselves in a life threatening situation by jaywalking in front of 40mph traffic. All they need to do is wait for the light to change, but they don't. Sure they can sue, if they are still alive. Is it worth risking your kid's life to save 3 minutes waiting for the light to change?
That's what this case reminds me of. Why fuck around? Is it really worth it to risk your job because you bitched about work on facebook? You have every right to express yourself after all.
Every game has a budget in a publicly traded company. When the budget money is gone the game gets released whether or not it's finished. That's just how big software works. Bethesda Softworks was one of the companies that actually cared and used to release quality games. Then they got bought by Zenimax media. Now they have to answer to investors and stock holders. A nearly instant reduction in game release quality was the result. Game design quality is next. IMHO Zenimax will destroy this company, just like EA destroyed every company they've bought. id software and Bethesda Game Studios will be pooched too. Watch...
Even if you don't ignore the political aspect, he's just a vandal. Good riddance.
Nope democrats shit rose petals and fart Chanel No. 5. They are perfect in every way when they aren't there must be some kind of mistake.
Please refrain from calling the kettle black. Sincerely, The Pot
Totally agree. I hate both parties because it took both of them to allow the last 2 wars to start. Liberals seem to have amnesia when it comes to this... The house and senate were nearly unanimous when they voted on starting these wars. The neocons (GOP) were and are a bunch of yes-men to whatever a republican president says. Liberals will say "well bush lied". They could have demanded to see the evidence. As it was they were bloodthirsty after 9/11 just like the neocons and the rest of this country, and wanted to punish _someone_. The fact that none will accept responsibility for it and most are still in office boggles the mind. Even liberals I knew, at the time, wanted bush to bomb the fuck out of iraq. They all changed their tune to "Blame Bush" when the war became unpopular. The ONLY war we had any business engaging in in the last 40 years was the first gulf war, where Kuwait and the UN specifically asked us for help to stop hussein and boot him out of Kuwait. SH should have been captured and executed for war crimes at this point in time.
My girlfriends usually dump me around November. I get a new one generally around late February. Happens like clockwork. I met the last one on Feb 9, we went out on our first date on March 3rd. Just got dumped yesterday. These guys are dead on.
like every successful social policy of the past century. You know, the stuff that brought us to the top of the list of developed countries after WWII.
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Like social security? Bankrupt
Medicare/Medicaid? Bankrupt
The programs enacted by the health care bill will also go bankrupt and be ineffective yet we'll still be getting taxed for them.
The government doesn't have a very good track record with managing money. It's pretty hard, no impossible, to believe they won't screw up health care too if you are a rational person.
We're going to get taxed to hell for it and it won't be there when we need it.