OK - good point. Now, tell me which old computers have WIFI transmitters inside of them. The nearest thing to that, was an ASUS server board that came with an optional PCI card. That card had to be installed in the last PCI slot, it wouldn't work in any other slot. Can't remember the board's part number now, but it was one of the earliest AMD Bulldozer offerings. I've still got that PCI card lying around somewhere, but it's not nearly as fast as the routers I'm using today. Wireless G is simply obsolete now.
Most of my routers have had firmware updates available from the vendor. Not all, but most. The cheapo routers that I've inherited, like Actiontec, have never been updated at all. Zoom has been updated. I think Zhone had an update availabe, can't remember for certain. But, the better quality routers have all had official updates available. I'm partial to Netgear, and my newest told me that a firmware update was available, just before I upgraded it to DD-WRT.
Change of OS requires that driver be recompiled though. A Linux 3.1 kernel can't use a driver from Linux 2.6. If/when my kernel is upgraded to 4.x that driver will have to be recompiled again. That means, updating the firmware of the radio. And, while I'm recompiling that driver, I can set the parameters under which the radio will operate.
Sorry, it's all or nothing. Either I have access to all the hardware, or I have access to none of the hardware. Anything else is just a brick.
Router Name DD-WRT Router Model Netgear WNDR4500 Firmware Version DD-WRT v24-sp2 (02/04/15) giga - build 26138M Kernel Version Linux 3.10.67 #6269 Wed Feb 4 06:34:18 CET 2015 mips
Maybe I'm turning into a grammar nazi. Or, maybe the dumbing down of America is just getting on my nerves.
Free range? That's what you have when you don't fence your cattle/sheep/goats/other livestock. They are free to range over as much pasturage as they can reach, and still come back to the watering hole.
You meant "free reign", I believe. Unless you think Brahma bulls are responsible for the terrorism.
That's dumb. If I don't listen the first time, I won't hear you the second time. Around about the third time, I'm thinking about putting a primer on the old reliable muzzle loader, and blasting away at the broken record. *
* You younger puppies ** probably don't remember vinyl records, which would sometimes crack, then send the needle into a repetitive loop in one groove.
Within hours after the attacks in Paris, Belgium raided multiple sites, and arrested a number of suspected accomplices.
They have the ability to monitor, what they lack is the balls to act on their intelligence. Better to wait until an attack goes down, then arrest the conspirators, than to use the intelligence proactively.
You're an inhuman little douchepot. You don't give a damn about terrorisim unless it involves the death of Americans? #frenchlivesdon'tmatter #britishlivesdon'tmatter #onlyamericanlivesmatter #i'mafuckingxenophobewhocaresfornooneoutsidemycozylittleworld #jewishlivesdon'tmatter #ragheadlivesdon'tmatter #onlydouchebagslikemematter
Got any idea how many cops have been decertified and/or imprisoned in the US lately? Police work, like the intel services, ATTRACT PEOPLE WHO ARE UTTER DOUCHEBAGS. Maybe MOST people are just average Americans, with a tendency to defend freedom - but you've also got a bunch of douchebags.
Define "significant". If someone makes a patch which I apply to MY CAR, that is significant, to me.
And, because I applied the patch, my car DOES NOT accelerate uncontrollably, or veer off the road, or catch fire and blow up, or turn into a Decepticon in your children's school zone, it's pretty significant to you as well.
"it can become an easy vector for other agencies to know more about me when I don't want them to know about me."
That is precisely what CISPA is all about. Government goes into partnership with all the major advertising agencies, major companies, and internet providers. To be a member of that unhallowed partnership, you are required to collect and share data with all other partners.
Please try to keep up here. We place the weapon into orbit. We are aiming at targets in orbit. There is no diffraction, unless someone left dirty handprints on the lens. We have a satellite, in orbit, designed to kill other satellites. 20,000 miles is nothing. A laser beam that measures several microns wide at it's origin will still be several microns wide at it's destination. Firing that same laser from the surface of the earth, at an orbiting target, will indeed diffuse the beam over several meters. At least as bad, the atmosphere is going to absorb a lot of that light, so the total energy of the dispersed beam is going to be much less than the total energy of the beam when fired.
Since lasers work off of electricity, we needn't worry about sending up an electrical generation plant - just spread out a bunch of photoelectric cells. Fire - recharge - fire - recharge - continue until targets are gone, or someone kills your satellite destroyer.
Details. If I can destroy a target a couple hundred miles up, then I have the skills, knowledge, and probably the resources to reach a couple hundred miles more. Besides which - with energy weapons, range matters not at all after the atmosphere is below you. Range means nothing - if you can make an accurate shot of 200 miles, then you can also make an accurate shot of 20,000 miles. The same is nearly true of kinetic weapons. Unless you are planning on using your rocket/satellite to ram the other satellites, putting any weapons platform into orbit turns all satellites into potential targets.
To be most effective, you probably want to put your satellite killer platform into the highest orbit possible, but even a low earth orbit is adequate.
I know that all that you say is true. I know that there are repetitively redundant backups for everything. But, one thing I never established for myself. Without electrical power, could we have fired our main guns? I know that after an EMP, our missiles and rockets would have been useless. Torpedos would almost certainly have been useless. But, the main guns? I'm just not sure. Some of the subsystems would be worthless, for sure. And, ammunition would be limited to whatever was in the ready locker, and what the powder monkeys could hump up three decks. Could we fire the guns?
I just don't know for sure. Something would have to be hacked together to set off the electrical primers, for starters.
In space, low orbit and high orbit mean almost nothing to a satellite. The Chinese hit the moon with a couple of spacecraft - WTF makes you think they can't hit something in high earth orbit?
I'll grant that China has given us every opportunity to mislead ourselves - but you are still misleading yourself.
That's all well and good. A lot of bright minds have been studying the future of warfare though. You might peruse some of the future war genre of Science Fiction. David Drake states it quite clearly. When the shit hits the fan, the satellites share first place honors with aviation for "shit to destroy first". In the age of energy and kinetic weapons, satellites are defenseless bits of scrap, just waiting to be shot up.
The last few generations have come to rely on technology. If the tech breaks, YOU are fucked. The boys and girls who understand physics, and have studied the ancient arts are a lot less fucked, so they might survive to fuck each other.
Sometechcompany has contintuity and visibility. The Company writes policy, press releases, public relations statements, etc. So, year after year after year, The Company keeps reiterating how great they are, and how unappreciated they are.
The techs who have worked for The Company in the past and the present have no such outlet. Their reasons for leaving aren't publicized. Two, or six, or twenty people might know your real reasons for leaving, but none of it is publicized. Outside of your immediate freinds and associates, no one knows how shitty The Company has been treating you.
And, it is the job of HR to ensure that your reasons are twisted, perverted, and/or hidden from public view. Often enough, it would cost your freinds and associates their jobs to make any attempt to set the record straight.
So, when all is said and done, The Company just gets away with whatever the hell they please, and you have no recourse other than leaving.
It should be noted that SP-3 is very nearly a different OS than the original XP with no service packs installed. A lot of things changed over the course of three service packs.
Want to know the truth? Get an XP box with no updates connected to the internet without a firewall? Countdown to infection is around 30 to 45 seconds!
I saw that paraded so much that eventually i tried it, and no it is complete bullshit.
You aren't as right as you think. There was a time when a fresh install of XP was indeed infected before updates could be downloaded from Microsoft. That pretty much ended with SP3. Actually, I think it was addressed with SP2, but the first SP2 also broke XP on AMD machines, causing an endless reboot cycle. Naturally I was quite biased against SP2 for that reason.
Just because your experiment failed doesn't mean that the stories are lies. I experienced that "complete bullshit", thank you very much.
Like feminism, the "gay rights" movement doesn't have much room for non-WASPs either. Mr. Granderson, being a gay and a black man, should know what he is talking about. Funny how "progressives" talk the talk, but can't walk the walk.
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OK - good point. Now, tell me which old computers have WIFI transmitters inside of them. The nearest thing to that, was an ASUS server board that came with an optional PCI card. That card had to be installed in the last PCI slot, it wouldn't work in any other slot. Can't remember the board's part number now, but it was one of the earliest AMD Bulldozer offerings. I've still got that PCI card lying around somewhere, but it's not nearly as fast as the routers I'm using today. Wireless G is simply obsolete now.
Most of my routers have had firmware updates available from the vendor. Not all, but most. The cheapo routers that I've inherited, like Actiontec, have never been updated at all. Zoom has been updated. I think Zhone had an update availabe, can't remember for certain. But, the better quality routers have all had official updates available. I'm partial to Netgear, and my newest told me that a firmware update was available, just before I upgraded it to DD-WRT.
"moving OS driver code into firmware"
Change of OS requires that driver be recompiled though. A Linux 3.1 kernel can't use a driver from Linux 2.6. If/when my kernel is upgraded to 4.x that driver will have to be recompiled again. That means, updating the firmware of the radio. And, while I'm recompiling that driver, I can set the parameters under which the radio will operate.
Sorry, it's all or nothing. Either I have access to all the hardware, or I have access to none of the hardware. Anything else is just a brick.
Router Name DD-WRT
Router Model Netgear WNDR4500
Firmware Version DD-WRT v24-sp2 (02/04/15) giga - build 26138M
Kernel Version Linux 3.10.67 #6269 Wed Feb 4 06:34:18 CET 2015 mips
Maybe I'm turning into a grammar nazi. Or, maybe the dumbing down of America is just getting on my nerves.
Free range? That's what you have when you don't fence your cattle/sheep/goats/other livestock. They are free to range over as much pasturage as they can reach, and still come back to the watering hole.
You meant "free reign", I believe. Unless you think Brahma bulls are responsible for the terrorism.
That's dumb. If I don't listen the first time, I won't hear you the second time. Around about the third time, I'm thinking about putting a primer on the old reliable muzzle loader, and blasting away at the broken record. *
* You younger puppies ** probably don't remember vinyl records, which would sometimes crack, then send the needle into a repetitive loop in one groove.
** I love sadpuppies and rabidpuppies
Within hours after the attacks in Paris, Belgium raided multiple sites, and arrested a number of suspected accomplices.
They have the ability to monitor, what they lack is the balls to act on their intelligence. Better to wait until an attack goes down, then arrest the conspirators, than to use the intelligence proactively.
You're an inhuman little douchepot. You don't give a damn about terrorisim unless it involves the death of Americans? #frenchlivesdon'tmatter #britishlivesdon'tmatter #onlyamericanlivesmatter #i'mafuckingxenophobewhocaresfornooneoutsidemycozylittleworld #jewishlivesdon'tmatter #ragheadlivesdon'tmatter #onlydouchebagslikemematter
Got any idea how many cops have been decertified and/or imprisoned in the US lately? Police work, like the intel services, ATTRACT PEOPLE WHO ARE UTTER DOUCHEBAGS. Maybe MOST people are just average Americans, with a tendency to defend freedom - but you've also got a bunch of douchebags.
http://bigstory.ap.org/article...
"significant extent."
Define "significant". If someone makes a patch which I apply to MY CAR, that is significant, to me.
And, because I applied the patch, my car DOES NOT accelerate uncontrollably, or veer off the road, or catch fire and blow up, or turn into a Decepticon in your children's school zone, it's pretty significant to you as well.
"it can become an easy vector for other agencies to know more about me when I don't want them to know about me."
That is precisely what CISPA is all about. Government goes into partnership with all the major advertising agencies, major companies, and internet providers. To be a member of that unhallowed partnership, you are required to collect and share data with all other partners.
Please try to keep up here. We place the weapon into orbit. We are aiming at targets in orbit. There is no diffraction, unless someone left dirty handprints on the lens. We have a satellite, in orbit, designed to kill other satellites. 20,000 miles is nothing. A laser beam that measures several microns wide at it's origin will still be several microns wide at it's destination. Firing that same laser from the surface of the earth, at an orbiting target, will indeed diffuse the beam over several meters. At least as bad, the atmosphere is going to absorb a lot of that light, so the total energy of the dispersed beam is going to be much less than the total energy of the beam when fired.
Since lasers work off of electricity, we needn't worry about sending up an electrical generation plant - just spread out a bunch of photoelectric cells. Fire - recharge - fire - recharge - continue until targets are gone, or someone kills your satellite destroyer.
Details. If I can destroy a target a couple hundred miles up, then I have the skills, knowledge, and probably the resources to reach a couple hundred miles more. Besides which - with energy weapons, range matters not at all after the atmosphere is below you. Range means nothing - if you can make an accurate shot of 200 miles, then you can also make an accurate shot of 20,000 miles. The same is nearly true of kinetic weapons. Unless you are planning on using your rocket/satellite to ram the other satellites, putting any weapons platform into orbit turns all satellites into potential targets.
To be most effective, you probably want to put your satellite killer platform into the highest orbit possible, but even a low earth orbit is adequate.
I know that all that you say is true. I know that there are repetitively redundant backups for everything. But, one thing I never established for myself. Without electrical power, could we have fired our main guns? I know that after an EMP, our missiles and rockets would have been useless. Torpedos would almost certainly have been useless. But, the main guns? I'm just not sure. Some of the subsystems would be worthless, for sure. And, ammunition would be limited to whatever was in the ready locker, and what the powder monkeys could hump up three decks. Could we fire the guns?
I just don't know for sure. Something would have to be hacked together to set off the electrical primers, for starters.
http://ddg23.tripod.com/ddg23_...
Will it survive an EMP?
"The US, Russia, China, Israel, and even Iran wouldn't do this,"
You presume to much. Any of those actors would do so, if they believed conditions made the satellites more useful to the enemy than to themselves.
In space, low orbit and high orbit mean almost nothing to a satellite. The Chinese hit the moon with a couple of spacecraft - WTF makes you think they can't hit something in high earth orbit?
I'll grant that China has given us every opportunity to mislead ourselves - but you are still misleading yourself.
That's all well and good. A lot of bright minds have been studying the future of warfare though. You might peruse some of the future war genre of Science Fiction. David Drake states it quite clearly. When the shit hits the fan, the satellites share first place honors with aviation for "shit to destroy first". In the age of energy and kinetic weapons, satellites are defenseless bits of scrap, just waiting to be shot up.
You're thinking of the cock's son?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
This isx utterly retarded. Pilots learn to use analog instruments, I'm pretty sure the navy has enough back ups. Just seriously, get in the sea
http://breakingdefense.com/201...
The last few generations have come to rely on technology. If the tech breaks, YOU are fucked. The boys and girls who understand physics, and have studied the ancient arts are a lot less fucked, so they might survive to fuck each other.
Sometechcompany has contintuity and visibility. The Company writes policy, press releases, public relations statements, etc. So, year after year after year, The Company keeps reiterating how great they are, and how unappreciated they are.
The techs who have worked for The Company in the past and the present have no such outlet. Their reasons for leaving aren't publicized. Two, or six, or twenty people might know your real reasons for leaving, but none of it is publicized. Outside of your immediate freinds and associates, no one knows how shitty The Company has been treating you.
And, it is the job of HR to ensure that your reasons are twisted, perverted, and/or hidden from public view. Often enough, it would cost your freinds and associates their jobs to make any attempt to set the record straight.
So, when all is said and done, The Company just gets away with whatever the hell they please, and you have no recourse other than leaving.
It should be noted that SP-3 is very nearly a different OS than the original XP with no service packs installed. A lot of things changed over the course of three service packs.
Restore points didn't always work - better to make a disk image of a known good working system. A full disk image is superior to most backups too.
Want to know the truth? Get an XP box with no updates connected to the internet without a firewall? Countdown to infection is around 30 to 45 seconds!
I saw that paraded so much that eventually i tried it, and no it is complete bullshit.
You aren't as right as you think. There was a time when a fresh install of XP was indeed infected before updates could be downloaded from Microsoft. That pretty much ended with SP3. Actually, I think it was addressed with SP2, but the first SP2 also broke XP on AMD machines, causing an endless reboot cycle. Naturally I was quite biased against SP2 for that reason.
Just because your experiment failed doesn't mean that the stories are lies. I experienced that "complete bullshit", thank you very much.
I guess a "brave face" would mask my contempt for these creatures?
Like feminism, the "gay rights" movement doesn't have much room for non-WASPs either. Mr. Granderson, being a gay and a black man, should know what he is talking about. Funny how "progressives" talk the talk, but can't walk the walk.
http://edition.cnn.com/2009/PO...