I'm not exactly sure, I think I was actually thinking about it from the server side when I made that comment. The browser doesn't have too much of anything I suppose. Maybe whatever server he is using isn't correctly handling the HTTP GET/POST request or whatever.
I don't think that WMF really has the same potential at all as what is currently in use in DVD players. Microsoft doesn't have that kind of power. They can't change industry standards in industries they aren't even a part of!
I haven't been able to test what you said about the CGI script, but that is rather interesting. I would expect it to parse left to right, and once it hits the ".cgi?" it should know that everything following that is an argument to sent to the cgi-script. Sounds like poor parsing routines to me....
Unless you've got fscked up file types set up or something, when you tell it to "open", it's going to use either winzip or some other program. This would be the whole point of file types in Windows. It doesn't just randomly execute files without proper extensions.
In your case, you probably didn't have an association for.zip, therefore it prompted you as to what you wanted to do, so when you said to use notepad, all it did was try to open the binary data from the zip file in notepad, nothing else. Get a clue.
the only way I can think of to circumvent this would be something like b.txt.exe, which I believe will appear to the person as a text file, but will execute when you "open" it. (Works on a local machine this way, I assume it would be the same coming from a website, since that's how it decides what to do with the file coming in.)
These people don't have much to do about "terrorists", so they had to find some way to get look productive. Besides, from the article it sounds like they target actual businesses or people at these businesses participating in these practices.
Which makes me think.. shouldn't the execs get in trouble for neglecting to find out if the software they're using is pirated or not? Oh well...
Actually, the way that's worded, it's hard to say if it is proper grammar or not. Is "Members of Warez" a group? If so, then he is correct. (at least grammatically, probably not what he meant.) If he is referring to "Members" then he is incorrect. It all depends how you break down the sentence.
Reminds me of the iPod commercial, shows the guy downloading music and listening to it and what not, then at the very end, near the bottom of the screen it says "Don't steal music."
Well yeah, I know, but it was alot easier to make my point saying it my way. Besides, who would run fiber around a house without putting it inside something? I'm sure mice would love to munch on it, and unlike copper wires, it won't electrocute them either.
TSC is alot different than what he implied. I can get the same effect from just about any broadband connection to my cable modem at home.
But you're seeing images of what it is like to be on the machine. As far as getting actual data back to your machine and not just your monitor is a different situation all together.
Same thing with VNC, it's just screen captures, not the actual data being sent back. (which is why it is quicker to browse the web for me from my parents house using VNC to my pc at home (since they only connect at 28800 bps)
I was wondering the same thing. Solar/wind/etc, are by far the most clean and efficient methods of producing power. I think a 1km high tower is a bad idea for obvious reasons, but putting solar panels on your home or have your own windmill (or in countries where windmills produce alot of power), it is obvious that isn't that incredibly cost in-effective either.
Also, nuclear energy only appears to be cleaner than coal and gas plants because it doesn't spew out thick black smoke into the air. Nevermind the radioactive waste they produce.
I might be wrong about this, but also seem to recall a certain nuke plant on Lake Erie polluting the water and making it impossible to eat nearly 1/2 of the fish in the lake. (Don't they also warm up the water, causing other problems to the environment?) - last paragraph is not asserted as fact, so if you can back me up or prove otherwise, please do.
How exactly do you account for barrels upon barrels of nuclear waste? Many of which are no longer properly secured and are eroding, etc., etc.? Maybe we can just pile them all in your backyard since you don't seem to mind too much. If we found enough people like you, we could solve this problem.
Usually with a structure like this, there wouldn't be an observation deck. While it would be damn cool to be on a structure 1 km above the earths surface and look down, the feasibility of that isn't there. I doubt it would even have an elevator, and 99% of the space would be devoted to what is needed to make the thing work, don't count on much room inside for people.
On thing I would like to point out, 20 square kilometers is one hell of a footprint, and 1km is awfully high, even though I think solar power is great because of its cleanliness, the size and appearance of this building alone make me doubt its worthfulness. I think the money to build it could be better spent on more research to find a way to make it not be such an eyesore and more efficient.
unless you really want all the computers to act like one computer.
Not unless he's got a super computer, 100 Mb/s is nothing compared to the speed of a computer actually being there. The only way to acheive that is if the processors are very close together, that kind of distributed processing works great. Distribution over ethernet = slowslowslow (but useful for large scale projects where time isn't of the issue.).
Anyway, you need to study more about distributed computing and multiprocessor systems.
Also, if you were running fiber, you wouldn't have any turns greater than 90 degrees, and you would put it in some kind of insulated conduit.
Fiber doesn't break that easily unless it is shot by some freak accident (this has happened before), or the boats running it across the ocean happen to drop it on an old mine.
With all the fiber crossing our oceans, I hope to hell it doesn't break that easily.
Definitely! And if you can't afford them, just make sure that all electrical wires cross your phone lines and ethernet cables at 90 degree angles, if they are running parallel to each other at any point, it will cause serious problems.
I would still consider that stupidity and incompetence, since obviously whoever is in charge of what happens to the routers at those ISPs isn't taking care of a very easy to correct problem.
Then all the dimwitted network admins who don't know how to setup a router to allow only local IPs to send packets are going to go to jail or be fined thousands of dollars... I suppose Cisco could ship routers preconfigured this way, but forever network admin that knows what they're doing there is at least one more that doesn't have a clue what he is doing, but managed to plug everything it and it worked.
It would be interesting to get Matt Groening's point of view on this. (Whether he pushes towards the more profane or less profane.)
Bart and Homer's language have progressed towards the more profane over the years from "Eat my shorts, man!" to as much as they can possibly get away with.
I recall an alien in one of the Halloween episodes saying "Holy Flurcking Schnit", about as close as they'll ever be able to get.
The failure rate of normal reproduction is around 50%. I believe that includes all miscarriages and still births, or if they die within so many hours of birth.
No effect to developers? A major architecture change would cause alot of systems programmers, and people working with DBMSs to have to rethink their entire approach.
If the data is all represented in a format other than binary, that means that it will be that way on disk as well as internally, (otherwise it seems pointless to have to switch it to binary when leaving the processor, non?).
Operating systems would have to be rewritten for this new architecture, and that isn't exactly an easy process, especially considering that we're not talking just Intel to Alpha here.
I'd like to use your use of Benjamin Franklin's quote to say something. I have heard far too many people saying the opposite of that: "What's the point in freedom in your dead?" sort of statements. I've even read these statements in reader comments in Time magazine.
Does the American public have no concept of what freedom really is? Do the people claiming life outweighs the importance of freedom have any clue what any war that we fought in the past was for? We might as well be Czechoslovakia during World War II and let Hitler roll right over us, since it's better than being dead. (no offense to Czechs, I have Czech heritage myself.)
Whatever happened to "Give me liberty, or give me death!"?
Also, unless you pay the $200-$300 a year fee to use OnStar services (which the $200 package is mostly emergency services). You don't get to use it. I would actually assume the OnStar device itself doesn't add to the cost of that package much, and may even be included free as far as pricing is concerned, so by not using it, you aren't losing anything.
Quote from the article: OnStar, by far the biggest service with 1.5 million users, says it makes note of a car's location only in an emergency or when a driver makes contact with the service. The OnStar system is built into many G.M. models and the high-end Honda Acura models; the service is free for the first year.
"The privacy and the confidentiality of our subscribers are of the utmost importance," said Don Butler, the OnStar vice president in charge of the new Virtual Advisor service. "We're not going to be in a situation where we are tracking the location of a vehicle. We just don't think that's what consumers are looking for."
If you read more, it sounds like they don't keep track at all where you go, so it would take quite a change to catalogue the travel of 1.5 million vehicles, updating every second.
Apparently, OnStar does not have "their big database" that you speak of.
Besides, this isn't advertising like you know it, the article mentions telling the person the gas station in the area with the lowest price, and maybe if the person was asked to be notified if they past a store with something they were looking for in stock. I doubt it is going to bombard with a plethora of advertisements everytime you drive by a Walmart. For one, it is too distracting to the driver, and they know people don't want that. You can't sell a product people don't want.
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I'm not exactly sure, I think I was actually thinking about it from the server side when I made that comment. The browser doesn't have too much of anything I suppose. Maybe whatever server he is using isn't correctly handling the HTTP GET/POST request or whatever.
I don't think that WMF really has the same potential at all as what is currently in use in DVD players. Microsoft doesn't have that kind of power. They can't change industry standards in industries they aren't even a part of!
I haven't been able to test what you said about the CGI script, but that is rather interesting. I would expect it to parse left to right, and once it hits the ".cgi?" it should know that everything following that is an argument to sent to the cgi-script. Sounds like poor parsing routines to me....
In your case, you probably didn't have an association for .zip, therefore it prompted you as to what you wanted to do, so when you said to use notepad, all it did was try to open the binary data from the zip file in notepad, nothing else. Get a clue.
the only way I can think of to circumvent this would be something like b.txt.exe, which I believe will appear to the person as a text file, but will execute when you "open" it. (Works on a local machine this way, I assume it would be the same coming from a website, since that's how it decides what to do with the file coming in.)
Which makes me think.. shouldn't the execs get in trouble for neglecting to find out if the software they're using is pirated or not? Oh well...
Actually, the way that's worded, it's hard to say if it is proper grammar or not. Is "Members of Warez" a group? If so, then he is correct. (at least grammatically, probably not what he meant.) If he is referring to "Members" then he is incorrect. It all depends how you break down the sentence.
Reminds me of the iPod commercial, shows the guy downloading music and listening to it and what not, then at the very end, near the bottom of the screen it says "Don't steal music."
Well yeah, I know, but it was alot easier to make my point saying it my way. Besides, who would run fiber around a house without putting it inside something? I'm sure mice would love to munch on it, and unlike copper wires, it won't electrocute them either.
But you're seeing images of what it is like to be on the machine. As far as getting actual data back to your machine and not just your monitor is a different situation all together.
Same thing with VNC, it's just screen captures, not the actual data being sent back. (which is why it is quicker to browse the web for me from my parents house using VNC to my pc at home (since they only connect at 28800 bps)
Also, nuclear energy only appears to be cleaner than coal and gas plants because it doesn't spew out thick black smoke into the air. Nevermind the radioactive waste they produce.
I might be wrong about this, but also seem to recall a certain nuke plant on Lake Erie polluting the water and making it impossible to eat nearly 1/2 of the fish in the lake. (Don't they also warm up the water, causing other problems to the environment?) - last paragraph is not asserted as fact, so if you can back me up or prove otherwise, please do.
How exactly do you account for barrels upon barrels of nuclear waste? Many of which are no longer properly secured and are eroding, etc., etc.? Maybe we can just pile them all in your backyard since you don't seem to mind too much. If we found enough people like you, we could solve this problem.
On thing I would like to point out, 20 square kilometers is one hell of a footprint, and 1km is awfully high, even though I think solar power is great because of its cleanliness, the size and appearance of this building alone make me doubt its worthfulness. I think the money to build it could be better spent on more research to find a way to make it not be such an eyesore and more efficient.
Not unless he's got a super computer, 100 Mb/s is nothing compared to the speed of a computer actually being there. The only way to acheive that is if the processors are very close together, that kind of distributed processing works great. Distribution over ethernet = slowslowslow (but useful for large scale projects where time isn't of the issue.).
Anyway, you need to study more about distributed computing and multiprocessor systems.
Also, if you were running fiber, you wouldn't have any turns greater than 90 degrees, and you would put it in some kind of insulated conduit.
Fiber doesn't break that easily unless it is shot by some freak accident (this has happened before), or the boats running it across the ocean happen to drop it on an old mine.
With all the fiber crossing our oceans, I hope to hell it doesn't break that easily.
Definitely! And if you can't afford them, just make sure that all electrical wires cross your phone lines and ethernet cables at 90 degree angles, if they are running parallel to each other at any point, it will cause serious problems.
It wasn't that bad for me, was only up there for 5 seconds. Beats the hell out of waiting 3 minutes while watching TV, or 10 on the radio.
I would still consider that stupidity and incompetence, since obviously whoever is in charge of what happens to the routers at those ISPs isn't taking care of a very easy to correct problem.
Then all the dimwitted network admins who don't know how to setup a router to allow only local IPs to send packets are going to go to jail or be fined thousands of dollars... I suppose Cisco could ship routers preconfigured this way, but forever network admin that knows what they're doing there is at least one more that doesn't have a clue what he is doing, but managed to plug everything it and it worked.
Bart and Homer's language have progressed towards the more profane over the years from "Eat my shorts, man!" to as much as they can possibly get away with.
I recall an alien in one of the Halloween episodes saying "Holy Flurcking Schnit", about as close as they'll ever be able to get.
The failure rate of normal reproduction is around 50%. I believe that includes all miscarriages and still births, or if they die within so many hours of birth.
fsck on a 30 gig drive for each unmount isn't my idea of fun.
If the data is all represented in a format other than binary, that means that it will be that way on disk as well as internally, (otherwise it seems pointless to have to switch it to binary when leaving the processor, non?).
Operating systems would have to be rewritten for this new architecture, and that isn't exactly an easy process, especially considering that we're not talking just Intel to Alpha here.
Does the American public have no concept of what freedom really is? Do the people claiming life outweighs the importance of freedom have any clue what any war that we fought in the past was for? We might as well be Czechoslovakia during World War II and let Hitler roll right over us, since it's better than being dead. (no offense to Czechs, I have Czech heritage myself.)
Whatever happened to "Give me liberty, or give me death!"?
Also, unless you pay the $200-$300 a year fee to use OnStar services (which the $200 package is mostly emergency services). You don't get to use it. I would actually assume the OnStar device itself doesn't add to the cost of that package much, and may even be included free as far as pricing is concerned, so by not using it, you aren't losing anything.
"The privacy and the confidentiality of our subscribers are of the utmost importance," said Don Butler, the OnStar vice president in charge of the new Virtual Advisor service. "We're not going to be in a situation where we are tracking the location of a vehicle. We just don't think that's what consumers are looking for."
If you read more, it sounds like they don't keep track at all where you go, so it would take quite a change to catalogue the travel of 1.5 million vehicles, updating every second.
Apparently, OnStar does not have "their big database" that you speak of.
Besides, this isn't advertising like you know it, the article mentions telling the person the gas station in the area with the lowest price, and maybe if the person was asked to be notified if they past a store with something they were looking for in stock. I doubt it is going to bombard with a plethora of advertisements everytime you drive by a Walmart. For one, it is too distracting to the driver, and they know people don't want that. You can't sell a product people don't want.