Your argument doesn't make any sense. It's possible for me to be mugged and not have the foresight to be carrying a camera with me, so we should put cameras everywhere. It's possible for someone to overhear incriminating evidence in a bus, or a bar, or a subway, and not have the foresight to be recording it, so we should put microphones everywhere.
Just because it may be the only way to ensure that there is evidence of this "crime" doesn't mean that it should be done.
The original post seems to place a high priority on "I want my portable to be useful" and only a small afterthought on "oh yeah, that would be cool, too!" In that case, pointing out the most practical way to achieve his goals is relevant.
It exists, look at http://www.vivato.net/. It is a bit pricey, though; I'm too lazy to find it on their site right now, but I looked before, and it ran on the order of ten thousand dollars a copy.
Why is everyone so concerned with storing data on computers these days? I honestly don't understand why computers are showing up in offices all over the place. I guess it makes sense if you are talking about someone who is illiterate, someone who puts their files all over the place and has no concept of organization. But I don't think I've had to search for more than three files in the past year. That figure might be slightly affected by the fact that searching for files in a file cabinet is quite slow, but if you just organize your files to start with I don't see what the problem is.
Not all mass commercial mailings are spam, silly. If that feature can be made to work easily, it will make my life way easier. As it is, I've given up on trying to use AppleScript to get Mail to do what I want, and now I just mail everybody by stuffing all of their addresses into the BCC field.
And yes, every single person I e-mail in this manner has explicitly opted in.
Heehee. I think you're the fourth. Yet more proof that I had a flash of genius when I came up with that one. Putting pi in your sig is so cliche. But deliberately putting a subtly-wrong version of pi in your sig, now, that is something interesting....
Who cares about the license? Since you don't need a license to legally use your copy of Windows, fuck it. As long as you aren't committing copyright infringement, which you aren't if you give your copy to somebody else without keeping a copy for yourself, you're fine.
Would you want a bar to kick me out if I came up and started pissing in your beer? You are, in effect, pissing in my air. "Discriminating" against you is absolutely fine in my book.
There have been some secret missions carried out on the shuttle. The fact that these missions have been carried out is public knowledge, although the details are not.
Given the amount of preparation required for a mission and the number of people involved, I don't think it would be possible to carry a secret payload or carry out a black operation during an otherwise normal mission without at least the existence of such a thing being known to the public. I'm not a big believer in conspiracies, and something like that would just be too hard to keep secret.
But there is no way to get the fingerprint to the random third party that doesn't fall vulnerable to a MitM attack either, unless you give it to them over the phone or something. Yes, self-signed certs are useful in some situations, but in the general case of running a normal web site that just happens to be encrypted, they're not completely reliable.
It's not hard, it's impossible. You can see the launch for hundreds of miles around, and the reentry is visible for hundreds of miles to either side of a path that's thousands of miles long. If you think the military has the ability to hide such an event, you may as well go all out and start believing in alien technology recovered from Roswell or whatever.
Unless I grossly misunderstand how SSL certs work, using a self-signed cert means that anybody in the position to do so can perform a man-in-the-middle attack by spoofing DNS replies and pretending to be your site. Since your cert is self-signed, there's no way for a random third party to tell the difference between your site and a spoof. Getting your cert signed by an authority doesn't just make the annoying dialog go away, it adds to your site's security.
BBC's streaming video also royally sucked; there was absolutely no commentary, and the cameraman was either drunk or had a very bad case of ADD, so I really had no idea of what was going on the entire time. The original poster is incorrect on this particular thing, but his general point is still very true.
It always escaped me why the US (or someone else) didn't simply mass produce gun-type bombs, rather than apply the tremendous amount of science and engineering to perfect the implosion assembly type, of which Fat Man was the first design of many.
The gun design requires a lot of refined material, which is expensive. It also doesn't scale. You can make implosion bombs use fantastically small amounts of material, or you can scale their yield up greatly, or use them as the trigger to a fusion bomb, and they will be cheaper to produce (even if more expensive to design) than the gun design. When you're making thousands of them, using less material is a significant gain. When you're planning on using thousands of them in a full-scale war that you want some people to survive, using less material is also a significant gain. And when you want to stick them on top of missiles or inside bombers to launch them at your enemies, making them as small and as light as possible is yet another significant gain.
I don't think you understand. In the Linux zealot's world, things like "ease of use" and "installers" and "can print without a Ph. D. in computer science" fall under the umbrella of marketing.
I just got an order of books from Amazon today, shipped using their free Super Saver shipping, which ended up being UPS Ground in this case. I'm in Wisconsin, it came from Kentucky. I ordered Monday, they shipped Tuesday, they arrived Wednesday. That's pretty damned fast.
And is everyone here is just assuming that information is authentic? That could just be some poor random schmuck whose name got used by someone else (identity theft happens), so let's not start any DDOS or Phone tree attacks on the guy. Or for the more dense:
"You! Step away from the wardialer! NOW!"
-- Your lucky number is 3552664958674928. Watch for it everywhere.
It's ok. I'll just wardial the number in your sig instead.
Firewire and USB were invented at the same time. Also, until USB 2.0 came around, USB couldn't do what firewire did. (And even now, there are still things it can't do.) So there is no "instead of" to be found in the situation. Just because Apple invented Firewire doesn't mean it's not a standard.
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Irrelevant. Apple doesn't have 95% of the market, never had 95% of the market, and never will have 95% of the market.
I really hope you're right, because if you are, they'll stop using them.
Your argument doesn't make any sense. It's possible for me to be mugged and not have the foresight to be carrying a camera with me, so we should put cameras everywhere. It's possible for someone to overhear incriminating evidence in a bus, or a bar, or a subway, and not have the foresight to be recording it, so we should put microphones everywhere.
Just because it may be the only way to ensure that there is evidence of this "crime" doesn't mean that it should be done.
The original post seems to place a high priority on "I want my portable to be useful" and only a small afterthought on "oh yeah, that would be cool, too!" In that case, pointing out the most practical way to achieve his goals is relevant.
It exists, look at http://www.vivato.net/. It is a bit pricey, though; I'm too lazy to find it on their site right now, but I looked before, and it ran on the order of ten thousand dollars a copy.
I guess I'd better reply; I'll keep it short since I'll probably be doing this a lot. Yes, I know it's not correct, it's a joke. Thanks.
You have, of course, a legitimate question, but I want to point out that the controversy over ID cards in this story is in the UK, not the US.
And why pay for soda when water's free and doesn't expand your waistline or rot your teeth?
Because it tastes good?
Why is everyone so concerned with storing data on computers these days? I honestly don't understand why computers are showing up in offices all over the place. I guess it makes sense if you are talking about someone who is illiterate, someone who puts their files all over the place and has no concept of organization. But I don't think I've had to search for more than three files in the past year. That figure might be slightly affected by the fact that searching for files in a file cabinet is quite slow, but if you just organize your files to start with I don't see what the problem is.
(Hint: computers exist to do things for you.)
Not all mass commercial mailings are spam, silly. If that feature can be made to work easily, it will make my life way easier. As it is, I've given up on trying to use AppleScript to get Mail to do what I want, and now I just mail everybody by stuffing all of their addresses into the BCC field.
And yes, every single person I e-mail in this manner has explicitly opted in.
Heehee. I think you're the fourth. Yet more proof that I had a flash of genius when I came up with that one. Putting pi in your sig is so cliche. But deliberately putting a subtly-wrong version of pi in your sig, now, that is something interesting....
Who cares about the license? Since you don't need a license to legally use your copy of Windows, fuck it. As long as you aren't committing copyright infringement, which you aren't if you give your copy to somebody else without keeping a copy for yourself, you're fine.
Would you want a bar to kick me out if I came up and started pissing in your beer? You are, in effect, pissing in my air. "Discriminating" against you is absolutely fine in my book.
There have been some secret missions carried out on the shuttle. The fact that these missions have been carried out is public knowledge, although the details are not.
Given the amount of preparation required for a mission and the number of people involved, I don't think it would be possible to carry a secret payload or carry out a black operation during an otherwise normal mission without at least the existence of such a thing being known to the public. I'm not a big believer in conspiracies, and something like that would just be too hard to keep secret.
But there is no way to get the fingerprint to the random third party that doesn't fall vulnerable to a MitM attack either, unless you give it to them over the phone or something. Yes, self-signed certs are useful in some situations, but in the general case of running a normal web site that just happens to be encrypted, they're not completely reliable.
It's not hard, it's impossible. You can see the launch for hundreds of miles around, and the reentry is visible for hundreds of miles to either side of a path that's thousands of miles long. If you think the military has the ability to hide such an event, you may as well go all out and start believing in alien technology recovered from Roswell or whatever.
Unless I grossly misunderstand how SSL certs work, using a self-signed cert means that anybody in the position to do so can perform a man-in-the-middle attack by spoofing DNS replies and pretending to be your site. Since your cert is self-signed, there's no way for a random third party to tell the difference between your site and a spoof. Getting your cert signed by an authority doesn't just make the annoying dialog go away, it adds to your site's security.
BBC's streaming video also royally sucked; there was absolutely no commentary, and the cameraman was either drunk or had a very bad case of ADD, so I really had no idea of what was going on the entire time. The original poster is incorrect on this particular thing, but his general point is still very true.
It always escaped me why the US (or someone else) didn't simply mass produce gun-type bombs, rather than apply the tremendous amount of science and engineering to perfect the implosion assembly type, of which Fat Man was the first design of many.
The gun design requires a lot of refined material, which is expensive. It also doesn't scale. You can make implosion bombs use fantastically small amounts of material, or you can scale their yield up greatly, or use them as the trigger to a fusion bomb, and they will be cheaper to produce (even if more expensive to design) than the gun design. When you're making thousands of them, using less material is a significant gain. When you're planning on using thousands of them in a full-scale war that you want some people to survive, using less material is also a significant gain. And when you want to stick them on top of missiles or inside bombers to launch them at your enemies, making them as small and as light as possible is yet another significant gain.
I don't think you understand. In the Linux zealot's world, things like "ease of use" and "installers" and "can print without a Ph. D. in computer science" fall under the umbrella of marketing.
I just got an order of books from Amazon today, shipped using their free Super Saver shipping, which ended up being UPS Ground in this case. I'm in Wisconsin, it came from Kentucky. I ordered Monday, they shipped Tuesday, they arrived Wednesday. That's pretty damned fast.
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Your lucky number is 3552664958674928. Watch for it everywhere.
It's ok. I'll just wardial the number in your sig instead.
Firewire and USB were invented at the same time. Also, until USB 2.0 came around, USB couldn't do what firewire did. (And even now, there are still things it can't do.) So there is no "instead of" to be found in the situation. Just because Apple invented Firewire doesn't mean it's not a standard.
He said it was for an ex-wife, so I assume he is referring to some kind of obligatory alimony/child-support payments.
What's your point? The software is being tested. The time to find out it doesn't work is not when your 1 billion dollar satellite is around Mars.