"If I die, I die," he scoffs. "I'd rather die trying this than spend the next 40 years bitter than I never made the attempt."
"Funny, I'd rather live for those 40 years."
He'd rather do somthing significant with his life. You apparantly don't. What's the problem?
The only glitch could be the Federal Aviation Administration, which has demanded that Walker produce a flight plan and details of his rocket design before it issues a permit for his launch.
"If they are not going to grant me permission to launch, I'll just take the whole thing across the border to Mexico," Walker says.
"Great, and then Tostitos can sponsor the flight. That's all we need: corn chips and salsa raining down in the Pacific instead of Mir..."
How the hell did you come to that conclusion? The article doesn't say anyone is sponsering him at all. And just because he's launching from Mexico doesn't mean a producer of Pseudo-Mexican food would be sponsering the thing and insisting he load his rocket with their products instead of things like fuel. Besides, corn chips and salsa won't damage the Pacific ocean nearly as much as the space slime growing inside Mir.
Non-existant or minor, if you exclude the fact that a marginally reckless driver (like the teenagers who made up most of the market for the Corvair) can flip the fuckin' thing over just going around a corner. They solved the problems, and they still didn't sell. That wasnt Naders fault. Michelins (spelling?) tires are no so shitty that they explode, and Ford isnt agrivating the problem by underinflating them either. But people aren't exactly flocking to buy them now either.
THAT'S the silliest thing I'VE ever heard. You are no better than Mister pedophile. Enough commie bashing. Why dont you go back to writing code with visual C++ and creating half assed shareware that 4 people will pay $95 for the full version of.
whats wrong with a tarball? i cant think of a better format. in a single well compressed file, you get the source (and/or precompiled binaries), no goofy scripts run when you extract it that are likely to destroy some unrelated config file or add some backdoor to your system, while having only a small chance of achieving their intended purpose (unless a backdoor was the idea..), and it doesnt throw the binaries to some backwater area of your filesystem that you've never even seen before. you are left for yourself to inspect the code and compile it, or if you're brave, use precompiled binaries. a file format like rpm where it has binary files in it and it runs a script on extraction is a security flaw just as wide as anything a script kiddie reads on bugtraq. The rpm that you think is installing the latest copy of bitchx so you dont have to worry about compiling it (wimp) has probably been modified to spam irc channels and usenet with your root password and things.
just encrypt all your email with pgp and your data with hard disk encryption. carnivore cant touch your email, and if they take your computer, well, you set up your computer to delete the keys if it is handled the wrong way, right? my only gripe is that the encryption keys are too small. for linux, a loopback encrypted filesystem can use one of several algorithms, but most only use 128 bit keys. i hear blowfish can go up to 384. why not?
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You crack me up. You think these big corporations have control over linux. They have no more control than you or I do. Even Alan and Linus couldnt exert control over linux in such a way that they could do somthing that the community in general was against. If Linus wakes up tomorrow, and decides that from now on, linux will have a half ass crufted on gui that crashes fairly consistantly, nobody would listen. He would find himself without a kernel, and he would be flamed six ways from sunday. Or maybe the tree would fork. No one could be bribed to do somthing bad, as you suggest, such as forcing people to buy O'Reilly books in order to get the kernel, or to view Red Hat ads while making, because the average user is to damn smart.
If anyone tried to licence this, I'd hit 'em with a prior-art based lawsuit, based around the fact that I was using the code long before they licenced it. Of course, people born after it was licenced wouldn't have this option. Of course, I could always just make them pay me royalties...
I think this clown has the right idea. ICANN has too much power. We should create a way to byass their meaningless authority and create all the TLDs we want, and register all the domains we want without ISPs stealing them or the copyright police suing.
I think the Macquarium hack was much cooler. It upgrades a Mac's resolution from b&w to real life. And it runs at the speed of a real aquarium too. If one could figure out how to harness the processing power of a goldfish...
The only prob with the inexpensive ones (mine was $10, and worth 1000x that imo) is that when somthing falls on them (like a fist) they break. i just soldered mine back together. now i need an AT extension cable...
MS porting their stuff to linux is to be expected. It fits in with their standard practice of monopolizing the market for somthing, and linux media players would be a perfect toehold on our boxes for MS. Id say that we should avoid ALL MS linux products, not only to keep our systems safe, but to make sure they don't do for linux media players what they did for OSs and web browsers.
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"If I die, I die," he scoffs. "I'd rather die trying this than spend the next 40 years bitter than I never made the attempt."
"Funny, I'd rather live for those 40 years."
He'd rather do somthing significant with his life. You apparantly don't. What's the problem? The only glitch could be the Federal Aviation Administration, which has demanded that Walker produce a flight plan and details of his rocket design before it issues a permit for his launch. "If they are not going to grant me permission to launch, I'll just take the whole thing across the border to Mexico," Walker says.
"Great, and then Tostitos can sponsor the flight. That's all we need: corn chips and salsa raining down in the Pacific instead of Mir..."
How the hell did you come to that conclusion? The article doesn't say anyone is sponsering him at all. And just because he's launching from Mexico doesn't mean a producer of Pseudo-Mexican food would be sponsering the thing and insisting he load his rocket with their products instead of things like fuel. Besides, corn chips and salsa won't damage the Pacific ocean nearly as much as the space slime growing inside Mir.
Non-existant or minor, if you exclude the fact that a marginally reckless driver (like the teenagers who made up most of the market for the Corvair) can flip the fuckin' thing over just going around a corner. They solved the problems, and they still didn't sell. That wasnt Naders fault. Michelins (spelling?) tires are no so shitty that they explode, and Ford isnt agrivating the problem by underinflating them either. But people aren't exactly flocking to buy them now either.
THAT'S the silliest thing I'VE ever heard. You are no better than Mister pedophile. Enough commie bashing. Why dont you go back to writing code with visual C++ and creating half assed shareware that 4 people will pay $95 for the full version of.
In my understanding, the government couldn't give a rats ass. It's the MPAA thats pursuing the case.
whats wrong with a tarball? i cant think of a better format. in a single well compressed file, you get the source (and/or precompiled binaries), no goofy scripts run when you extract it that are likely to destroy some unrelated config file or add some backdoor to your system, while having only a small chance of achieving their intended purpose (unless a backdoor was the idea..), and it doesnt throw the binaries to some backwater area of your filesystem that you've never even seen before. you are left for yourself to inspect the code and compile it, or if you're brave, use precompiled binaries. a file format like rpm where it has binary files in it and it runs a script on extraction is a security flaw just as wide as anything a script kiddie reads on bugtraq. The rpm that you think is installing the latest copy of bitchx so you dont have to worry about compiling it (wimp) has probably been modified to spam irc channels and usenet with your root password and things.
just encrypt all your email with pgp and your data with hard disk encryption. carnivore cant touch your email, and if they take your computer, well, you set up your computer to delete the keys if it is handled the wrong way, right? my only gripe is that the encryption keys are too small. for linux, a loopback encrypted filesystem can use one of several algorithms, but most only use 128 bit keys. i hear blowfish can go up to 384. why not?
You crack me up. You think these big corporations have control over linux. They have no more control than you or I do. Even Alan and Linus couldnt exert control over linux in such a way that they could do somthing that the community in general was against. If Linus wakes up tomorrow, and decides that from now on, linux will have a half ass crufted on gui that crashes fairly consistantly, nobody would listen. He would find himself without a kernel, and he would be flamed six ways from sunday. Or maybe the tree would fork. No one could be bribed to do somthing bad, as you suggest, such as forcing people to buy O'Reilly books in order to get the kernel, or to view Red Hat ads while making, because the average user is to damn smart.
If anyone tried to licence this, I'd hit 'em with a prior-art based lawsuit, based around the fact that I was using the code long before they licenced it. Of course, people born after it was licenced wouldn't have this option. Of course, I could always just make them pay me royalties...
I think this clown has the right idea. ICANN has too much power. We should create a way to byass their meaningless authority and create all the TLDs we want, and register all the domains we want without ISPs stealing them or the copyright police suing.
I think the Macquarium hack was much cooler. It upgrades a Mac's resolution from b&w to real life. And it runs at the speed of a real aquarium too. If one could figure out how to harness the processing power of a goldfish...
Red Hat in the Media
Linux open to backdoor password - This is a good example...
(Reported by MSNBC)
Im sure Microsoft created this error intentionally to discredit Linux.
heh...obviously i included stdio.h. html is the most worthless language in the world. oops.
#include
/*
Fuck the thought police
Fuck Bill clinton
Fuck the DMCA
Fuck moderators
*/
main()
{
printf("Have a nice day\n");
return0;
}
The only prob with the inexpensive ones (mine was $10, and worth 1000x that imo) is that when somthing falls on them (like a fist) they break. i just soldered mine back together. now i need an AT extension cable...
MS porting their stuff to linux is to be expected. It fits in with their standard practice of monopolizing the market for somthing, and linux media players would be a perfect toehold on our boxes for MS. Id say that we should avoid ALL MS linux products, not only to keep our systems safe, but to make sure they don't do for linux media players what they did for OSs and web browsers.