Re:Exactly! It sure rocks in aerospace though!
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The Sexiest Metal
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Actually, they did use steel for another Mach 3 jet, the Russian Mig 25, but it paid the price in lots of extra weight and slow acceleration. Aluminum can only go up to Mach 2.5 before the heat from air resistance weakens the material. Steel and titanium can take higher temperatures.
"I chat with peers and various clients on all the major IM services (AIM, MSN, ICQ, Yahoo"
Then you may have noticed like I have that MSN is the least reliable of all the IM services. There was the week-long outage last year, and just last week my account on MSN Messenger along with Passport and Hotmail was down for a night. Yahoo and AIM never have such bad outages, and Microsoft had ambitions for Passport/Hailstorm to be the gatekeeper and authenticator to all online transactions? Fat chance.
Beyond the crippling of consumer electronics, there's an even bigger danger of crippling our labor force in the global marketplace.
All professional computer programmers start out as student and hobbyist programmers. If individuals cannot learn and share code in safety, the chilling effect on the academic and hobbyist community will be tremendous.
The scope of this legislation is so broad, that any programmer could face criminal prosecution for writing software that moves bits or stores bits on an unprotected OS, i.e. any open source OS. For example, Linux and existing hardware will be grandfathered in under the new law, but if I submit even a trivial bugfix patch to cp, I'm a criminal.
Of course that's another danger- bugfixes for open source software become illegal leaving security holes unpatched. Take that one to Tom Ridge.
Lazy sysadmins who install with all default settings and never update are not likely to dig into the source to disable the expiration. If they're REALLY lazy they might not even try to find unofficial download sites with non-expiring binary packages.
This motion to dismiss was like a halfcourt shot at the halftime buzzer. Not much of a chance, but you had to try it. No big deal. Just go on with the trial.
Confirmed here too. For god's sake go into your profile and clean all your private info out like address and phone number. They could cancel your account if you give them fake info, but when was the last time that happened to anyone. Definitely don't give them any more info than they require. Last I checked a street address and phone number are not required, just a ZIP code and birth date.
"They are limiting their user-base to newbies, as anyone who knows anything about their system should know how to install a browser and/or an email client."
This would be a serious problem for a low-margin business like an ISP. Newbies are exactly the kind of user who'd call in with stupid questions (the "how do I use this?" sort). It doesn't take long for a support call to eat up the profit on a $20/mo account. OTOH tech saavy users are more likely to figure it out themselves and not call unless there really is a problem with the ISP.
Don't forget electricity and portability. Can't read a PDF if you're rebooting or installing the OS. A Palm or PocketPC is portable, but then you're limited by the battery life and the 2 inch wide screen.
"You can bet I won't buy another CD that won't let me encode it to MP3s."
Hell, don't even buy this one. Just return it as a defective item. If they point out the fine print that says does not play on Mac/PC, just lie and say it doesn't play on your car stereo/DVD player/old CD player/etc.
Time scale always annoyed me. Click on the sink and it takes 20min (game time) to put away the dishes. Click on the radio and it takes 15 min to walk across the room to turn it on. You have to wake up 2 hrs before work for enough time to shit, shower and shave and then eat breakfast. Where do they get these lazy fucks?
Re:Or use the simple method....
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Spy v. Spy
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This isn't about AdAware and the advertising spyware that tracks your websurfing. This is keyboard and screen monitoring spyware used by law enforcement, corporate IS depts, and, as the article points out, suspicious spouses. Internet connectivity does give some remote monitoring features but the software probably logs locally too.
Rather than robots, I predict intelligent ape-servants will be the household helpers of the future, always resentful of their subservience to man leading to a revolt where the apes conquer the humans.
Mobile phones aren't intended to be mission critical communications devices. They have no liability for missed calls or no service. I could just as easily lose service by driving into a tunnel, behind a hill, or just into one of the many dead zones around town. If somebody really didn't want to be disturbed, they could just as thoroughly block calls by putting their theater or restaurant underground or behind heavy concrete walls.
I'd agree that most Apple hardware is high quality, but the one exception is the CDROM drive door on the G4 towers. It is the cheesiest piece of shit that even Emachines would be ashamed to put on one of their cases.
I'd say Intel is equally guilty of marketing BS. Their P4-1.5Ghz can barely keep up with a PIII-1.0Ghz. That's the only reason AMD went with the stupid PR rating. In fact, reviews like this one have shown that AMD has been very conservative with the PR ratings, and the Athlon XP regularly spanks the equivalently rated P4 in speed tests.
Among other things, it would slow the rotation of the earth if enough of them were built. A few tenths of a second don't sound like much, but they add up over the millenia.
There are some things that are just so difficult to upgrade piece by piece, I may as well wait til the next distro includes it. A few months ago I wanted to try Evolution 1.0, but after reading about it at Ximian, I just gave up. Too many libraries and dependencies. On their site they said Red Carpet was the easiest way to install, but I wasn't about to rip out Gnome and install Ximian Gnome just to try out Evolution. Mozilla has a perfectly good IMAP client.
I guess I should have explained. By "professional" I don't mean that they're nice guys and never abuse their authority. I meant that they can arrest an armed and dangerous suspect without getting killed or hurt.
I know lots of people like to make fun of government workers (and for good reason), but security is one thing that government workers do better than private companies. Just compare your average rent-a-cop to your average police officer. The professionalism and training of real law enforcement officers is far beyond what you'd find with security guards. Unfortunately, the new federalized airport security isn't a real full-blown law enforcement agency, and I'm afraid it will end up closer to DMV quality staff.
Another complicating factor are the licenses which are open source but not free, for example Qmail, Pine and IPfilter. Pine is a mail user agent with a long history of security bugs. The other two are critical server software with, fortunately, a better history of security bugs. However all of them have licenses which restrict the distribution of derivative works, i.e. patched source or binaries, and because of that the community is not empowered to fix the software themselves.
This is exactly why UCITA is bad. If firmware in embedded controllers get classified as licensed software that's immunity from liability for a whole class of products. A big business or government agency would have a legal staff checking their contracts so they don't give away immunity to vendors of critical software, but consumer products are another matter, like the ABS brakes on your car.
I think you mean the F-16 fighter. It's aerodynamicly unstable and needs constant correction from the autopilot to maintain a course. The instability also makes it maneuverable, so the design has advantages too. The SR71 was built in the early 60s before all this digital crap.
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Actually, they did use steel for another Mach 3 jet, the Russian Mig 25, but it paid the price in lots of extra weight and slow acceleration. Aluminum can only go up to Mach 2.5 before the heat from air resistance weakens the material. Steel and titanium can take higher temperatures.
Try Mplayer. It plays ASF.
"I chat with peers and various clients on all the major IM services (AIM, MSN, ICQ, Yahoo"
Then you may have noticed like I have that MSN is the least reliable of all the IM services. There was the week-long outage last year, and just last week my account on MSN Messenger along with Passport and Hotmail was down for a night. Yahoo and AIM never have such bad outages, and Microsoft had ambitions for Passport/Hailstorm to be the gatekeeper and authenticator to all online transactions? Fat chance.
Beyond the crippling of consumer electronics, there's an even bigger danger of crippling our labor force in the global marketplace.
All professional computer programmers start out as student and hobbyist programmers. If individuals cannot learn and share code in safety, the chilling effect on the academic and hobbyist community will be tremendous.
The scope of this legislation is so broad, that any programmer could face criminal prosecution for writing software that moves bits or stores bits on an unprotected OS, i.e. any open source OS. For example, Linux and existing hardware will be grandfathered in under the new law, but if I submit even a trivial bugfix patch to cp, I'm a criminal.
Of course that's another danger- bugfixes for open source software become illegal leaving security holes unpatched. Take that one to Tom Ridge.
Lazy sysadmins who install with all default settings and never update are not likely to dig into the source to disable the expiration. If they're REALLY lazy they might not even try to find unofficial download sites with non-expiring binary packages.
This motion to dismiss was like a halfcourt shot at the halftime buzzer. Not much of a chance, but you had to try it. No big deal. Just go on with the trial.
Confirmed here too. For god's sake go into your profile and clean all your private info out like address and phone number. They could cancel your account if you give them fake info, but when was the last time that happened to anyone. Definitely don't give them any more info than they require. Last I checked a street address and phone number are not required, just a ZIP code and birth date.
"They are limiting their user-base to newbies, as anyone who knows anything about their system should know how to install a browser and/or an email client."
This would be a serious problem for a low-margin business like an ISP. Newbies are exactly the kind of user who'd call in with stupid questions (the "how do I use this?" sort). It doesn't take long for a support call to eat up the profit on a $20/mo account. OTOH tech saavy users are more likely to figure it out themselves and not call unless there really is a problem with the ISP.
Don't forget electricity and portability. Can't read a PDF if you're rebooting or installing the OS. A Palm or PocketPC is portable, but then you're limited by the battery life and the 2 inch wide screen.
"You can bet I won't buy another CD that won't let me encode it to MP3s."
Hell, don't even buy this one. Just return it as a defective item. If they point out the fine print that says does not play on Mac/PC, just lie and say it doesn't play on your car stereo/DVD player/old CD player/etc.
Time scale always annoyed me. Click on the sink and it takes 20min (game time) to put away the dishes. Click on the radio and it takes 15 min to walk across the room to turn it on. You have to wake up 2 hrs before work for enough time to shit, shower and shave and then eat breakfast. Where do they get these lazy fucks?
This isn't about AdAware and the advertising spyware that tracks your websurfing. This is keyboard and screen monitoring spyware used by law enforcement, corporate IS depts, and, as the article points out, suspicious spouses. Internet connectivity does give some remote monitoring features but the software probably logs locally too.
Rather than robots, I predict intelligent ape-servants will be the household helpers of the future, always resentful of their subservience to man leading to a revolt where the apes conquer the humans.
Mobile phones aren't intended to be mission critical communications devices. They have no liability for missed calls or no service. I could just as easily lose service by driving into a tunnel, behind a hill, or just into one of the many dead zones around town. If somebody really didn't want to be disturbed, they could just as thoroughly block calls by putting their theater or restaurant underground or behind heavy concrete walls.
Hello? Are the editors asleep at the wheel? Factoring Breakthrough?
I'd agree that most Apple hardware is high quality, but the one exception is the CDROM drive door on the G4 towers. It is the cheesiest piece of shit that even Emachines would be ashamed to put on one of their cases.
I'd say Intel is equally guilty of marketing BS. Their P4-1.5Ghz can barely keep up with a PIII-1.0Ghz. That's the only reason AMD went with the stupid PR rating. In fact, reviews like this one have shown that AMD has been very conservative with the PR ratings, and the Athlon XP regularly spanks the equivalently rated P4 in speed tests.
Among other things, it would slow the rotation of the earth if enough of them were built. A few tenths of a second don't sound like much, but they add up over the millenia.
There are some things that are just so difficult to upgrade piece by piece, I may as well wait til the next distro includes it. A few months ago I wanted to try Evolution 1.0, but after reading about it at Ximian, I just gave up. Too many libraries and dependencies. On their site they said Red Carpet was the easiest way to install, but I wasn't about to rip out Gnome and install Ximian Gnome just to try out Evolution. Mozilla has a perfectly good IMAP client.
I guess I should have explained. By "professional" I don't mean that they're nice guys and never abuse their authority. I meant that they can arrest an armed and dangerous suspect without getting killed or hurt.
I know lots of people like to make fun of government workers (and for good reason), but security is one thing that government workers do better than private companies. Just compare your average rent-a-cop to your average police officer. The professionalism and training of real law enforcement officers is far beyond what you'd find with security guards. Unfortunately, the new federalized airport security isn't a real full-blown law enforcement agency, and I'm afraid it will end up closer to DMV quality staff.
You mean like in Heinlin's The Puppetmasters where everyone had to walk around naked to show they weren't carrying an alien?
Another complicating factor are the licenses which are open source but not free, for example Qmail, Pine and IPfilter. Pine is a mail user agent with a long history of security bugs. The other two are critical server software with, fortunately, a better history of security bugs. However all of them have licenses which restrict the distribution of derivative works, i.e. patched source or binaries, and because of that the community is not empowered to fix the software themselves.
This is exactly why UCITA is bad. If firmware in embedded controllers get classified as licensed software that's immunity from liability for a whole class of products. A big business or government agency would have a legal staff checking their contracts so they don't give away immunity to vendors of critical software, but consumer products are another matter, like the ABS brakes on your car.
I think you mean the F-16 fighter. It's aerodynamicly unstable and needs constant correction from the autopilot to maintain a course. The instability also makes it maneuverable, so the design has advantages too. The SR71 was built in the early 60s before all this digital crap.