Sure? Thermal imaging can pick out hot objects, such as ewoks. (Assuming they aren't cold-blooded like snakes) But it could get cluttered because of all the other animals'/birds in the forest.
The main point however, was how easy you could spot the ewoks anyway. Inexperienced fighters with no camouflage running around...
The ewoks were cute? They capture a bunch of obviously intelligent humanoids who weren't even trying to hurt them and tried to roast them alive.
They walked into a trap set for food-collecting purposes, so what did they expect? Not very smart from ewok standpoint. And they probably didn't care for "humanoid appearance", as that is too different from "ewok-like appearance". (People eat apes some places...)
And they had robots. Not a good thing for ewoks whose earlier experience with humanoids and machines was the harassing stormtroopers.
Seems they were going for quantity and consistency rather than quality when they decided to make an entire army out of clueless dimwits
But of course! Clueless dimwits who won't demand much pay, won't ever revolt...
And who cares if they have high death counts - they are probably cheap to replace with more clones. The privates don't need to be smart if you have enough of them.
Pentium = 5th generation, Pentium 4 = 4th generation of the 5th generation.
Could be worse. Take a look at the X windowing system. Started out as the W windowing system, which got incremented to X. Then they didn't go on to Y, but added numbers, so we're up to X11. Where it stopped, so we have X11 revision 6...
And yes - I know they had reasons for not going on to Y, it still looks funny to me.
The length of panels alone doesn't matter, area does. Maybe they are wider too? More efficient? Module modified to use less power? Mistakes happen, but probably not such a basic one.
For example, a webpage may contain 4k of text, and say, 20 2k images. Why make 21 TCP connections, when you can make one, and send the whole page in one XML stream?
That is a good point, but the article was way beyond that. "chat and transfer files at the same time..." I use multiple applications for that sort of thing, thank you. A protocol supporting multiple connections in one gets more overhead. Rolling all the stuff in a webpage into a "transfer blob" makes sense though.
Personally, I don't think freedom means Big Brother telling all his little plebs to play nicely with each other.
Easy to agree to, but who is big brother? Could be the government. But he could also be a corporation pulling stunts like "you can pay us for *not* selling your transaction details to spammers, or the press (in case of celebrities)"
Freedom means being able to do anything you're willing to take responsibility for. There are ways to protect your privacy on the internet.
The problem with this is that doing the privacy yourself restrict your freedom. Lack of laws may cut you off from internet trade. Say you want to buy something and don't want everybody to know. A sextoy perhaps. Can't do that online if the shop is free to sell the details of this transaction.
Compare to traditional privacy: What if the law didn't prevent companies from installing video surveillance in your bedroom without you even knowing it? Anybody could become a porn star, or you would have to go on a "bug hunt" whenever you wanted privacy.
Laws prevent this, and extending such laws to internet transactions seems useful to me. I can then buy stuff on the net without having details sold to spammers or even professional blackmailers. (Well, it may still happen, but then the shop can be sued out of existense)
I saw a program on PBS not 5 minutes ago where a Symantec spokesperson was saying that online privace is really basically the responsibility of the users:)
True, very true. Who else would have the responsibility? The government? </I>
Wrong, very wrong. Government is responsible for making sensible law. The lawbreaker is responsible for breaking it, no matter what the victim did. I go to prison if I steal your car - even if you left it with the keys in it. It is still a crime. (You may have trouble collecting insurance for being stupid, I still go to prison if caught.)
Creating illegal databases harvested from webpages is a crime (if outlawed) no matter how easy it is to do so.
I'm 30 and still hear the TV whine. One of the reasons I never turn the thing on, and annoy others that want to keep it on all times "in case something interesting comes on." And then they complain about the noisy computer...
I'm really looking forward to the day when CRT's become old-fashioned and everything goes LCD or similiar. Both tvs and monitors.
jamming the PSU fan at night might be an option...
Jamming it will probably destroy the fan, it could even catch fire. Put an on/off switch on the fan cable instead. And make sure the machine don't get too hot.
My question is this: Can an easter egg still be exciting if all the mystery is taken out of it. If i can download the source, i can look for the egg that way,
You can't necessarily find it by looking at source! Consider the well-known compiler security problem: A "special" compiler is created that will keep inserting this special stuff in future compilers even if they don't have this special code. This could be used for inserting easter eggs in open source. There would be one compiler version with the egg visible, and all future compilers would have it without having that source.
great - the sooner we have ripped every last shred of valuable ore from this retchid planet the sooner we can go destroy some place else.
We may preserve earth resources longer by using asteroids instead. As for destroying - there isn't much to destroy. Ever tried looking at those asteroids - not much of a loss. And there's so many of them you'd have a hard time using them up for a long time too.
Strange, it depends on countries... In Switzerland, where GSM is working, you can even sometimes have a phone conversation on second level/floor under ground, f.e. in a public parking !!!
Not at all surprising. Cell phone companies compete to have the best coverage, and will happily place extra (short range) transmitters in tunnels, public parking, etc. so they can boast about it.
That results in many tons of pressure over the entire door, meaning it would take a superhuman to wedge the door open at altitude, even if the latch did open.
Wonder what might happen if the latch is open, and the plane hit some really bad turbulence. Could a gust of wind punch the unlatched door in? Having the door open during landing would probably be somewhat distracting too.
Some time later, someone did try to get in, but they saw a bunch of stuff logging to "/dev/lp1" and left.
Sure they left? Sure they didn't to a "ls -l/dev/lp1" and noticed your trick?
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Short version of UCITA: The developer has FULL liability unless waivered by a shrink-wrapped license.
You're right, at the moment. But with the UCITA in action, your no warranty clause in the GPL would be overruled by law.</I>
So what's the problem? Just put a shrink-wrap license on the gpl'ed software then. Not at all a prolem for distribution CD's. And surely something can be worked out for downloading too. FTP servers have a greeting message...
Usually the goal is to shut the person up permanently. A DoS attack won't itself do that, as it can't be maintained indefinitely. But if the ISP on which the target resides kicks them off, well...
And the solution? DOS'ing any ISP with this policy.
Most users have a hard enough time switching between different versions of Office
Good reason to not use Office, find something with less intentional breakage from version to version.
And the "everybody knows windows" argument isn't that strong. People get one year older each year, all you need is to get sufficiently many of the young started with linux.
There are new people every year, and new companies too. More and more are getting able to switch - if they want to.
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Sure? Thermal imaging can pick out hot objects, such as ewoks. (Assuming they aren't cold-blooded like snakes) But it could get cluttered because of all the other animals'/birds in the forest.
The main point however, was how easy you could spot the ewoks anyway. Inexperienced fighters with no camouflage running around...
The ewoks were cute? They capture a bunch of obviously intelligent humanoids who weren't even trying to hurt them and tried to roast them alive.
They walked into a trap set for food-collecting purposes, so what did they expect? Not very smart from ewok standpoint. And they probably didn't care for "humanoid appearance", as that is too different from "ewok-like appearance". (People eat apes some places...)
And they had robots. Not a good thing for ewoks whose earlier experience with humanoids and machines was the harassing stormtroopers.
Seems they were going for quantity and consistency rather than quality when they decided to make an entire army out of clueless dimwits
But of course! Clueless dimwits who won't demand much pay, won't ever revolt...
And who cares if they have high death counts - they are probably cheap to replace with more clones. The privates don't need to be smart if you have enough of them.
(Next question: Why didn't they have any thermal imaging, thus letting overgrown teddybears ambush them?)
1. The fight was in full daylight, and the ewoks weren't camouflaged. Thermal imaging simply wouldn't make them more visible than they already were.
2. The stormtroopers expected a handful of people from that ferry that got through the shield. Not an ewok ambush at all.
Pentium = 5th generation, Pentium 4 = 4th generation of the 5th generation.
Could be worse. Take a look at the X windowing system. Started out as the W windowing system, which got incremented to X. Then they didn't go on to Y, but added numbers, so we're up to X11. Where it stopped, so we have X11 revision 6...
And yes - I know they had reasons for not going on to Y, it still looks funny to me.
Pentium intravenous!
The length of panels alone doesn't matter, area does. Maybe they are wider too? More efficient? Module modified to use less power? Mistakes happen, but probably not such a basic one.
For example, a webpage may contain 4k of text, and say, 20 2k images. Why make 21 TCP connections, when you can make one, and send the whole page in one XML stream?
That is a good point, but the article was way beyond that. "chat and transfer files at the same time..." I use multiple applications for that sort of thing, thank you. A protocol supporting multiple connections in one gets more overhead. Rolling all the stuff in a webpage into a "transfer blob" makes sense though.
Of course a mouse button is a key. So now americans needs to select URL's by circling them with the mouse. Or similiar key-less operation. :-)
Personally, I don't think freedom means Big Brother telling all his little plebs to play nicely with each other.
Easy to agree to, but who is big brother? Could be the government. But he could also be a corporation pulling stunts like "you can pay us for *not* selling your transaction details to spammers, or the press (in case of celebrities)"
Freedom means being able to do anything you're willing to take responsibility for. There are ways to protect your privacy on the internet.
The problem with this is that doing the privacy yourself restrict your freedom. Lack of laws may cut you off from internet trade. Say you want to buy something and don't want everybody to know. A sextoy perhaps. Can't do that online if the shop is free to sell the details of this transaction.
Compare to traditional privacy: What if the law didn't prevent companies from installing video surveillance in your bedroom without you even knowing it? Anybody could become a porn star, or you would have to go on a "bug hunt" whenever you wanted privacy.
Laws prevent this, and extending such laws to internet transactions seems useful to me. I can then buy stuff on the net without having details sold to spammers or even professional blackmailers. (Well, it may still happen, but then the shop can be sued out of existense)
I saw a program on PBS not 5 minutes ago where a Symantec spokesperson was saying that online privace is really basically the responsibility of the users :)
True, very true. Who else would have the responsibility? The government? </I>
Wrong, very wrong. Government is responsible for making sensible law. The lawbreaker is responsible for breaking it, no matter what the victim did. I go to prison if I steal your car - even if you left it with the keys in it. It is still a crime. (You may have trouble collecting insurance for being stupid, I still go to prison if caught.)
Creating illegal databases harvested from webpages is a crime (if outlawed) no matter how easy it is to do so.
I'm 30 and still hear the TV whine. One of the reasons I never turn the thing on, and annoy others that want to keep it on all times "in case something interesting comes on." And then they complain about the noisy computer...
I'm really looking forward to the day when CRT's become old-fashioned and everything goes LCD or similiar. Both tvs and monitors.
Volkswagon used to make cars that needed no liquid cooling.
Used to. Guess why they don't do that any more? They weren't that powerful. More power means more cooling necessary - for a car.
Chips are easier, but transmeta chips aren't the fastest either.
jamming the PSU fan at night might be an option...
Jamming it will probably destroy the fan, it could even catch fire. Put an on/off switch on the fan cable instead. And make sure the machine don't get too hot.
My question is this: Can an easter egg still be exciting if all the mystery is taken out of it. If i can download the source, i can look for the egg that way,
You can't necessarily find it by looking at source! Consider the well-known compiler security problem: A "special" compiler is created that will keep inserting this special stuff in future compilers even if they don't have this special code. This could be used for inserting easter eggs in open source. There would be one compiler version with the egg visible, and all future compilers would have it without having that source.
great - the sooner we have ripped every last shred of valuable ore from this retchid planet the sooner we can go destroy some place else.
We may preserve earth resources longer by using asteroids instead. As for destroying - there isn't much to destroy. Ever tried looking at those asteroids - not much of a loss. And there's so many of them you'd have a hard time using them up for a long time too.
Strange, it depends on countries... In Switzerland, where GSM is working, you can even sometimes have a phone conversation on second level/floor under ground, f.e. in a public parking !!!
Not at all surprising. Cell phone companies compete to have the best coverage, and will happily place extra (short range) transmitters in tunnels, public parking, etc. so they can boast about it.
That results in many tons of pressure over the entire door, meaning it would take a superhuman to wedge the door open at altitude, even if the latch did open.
Wonder what might happen if the latch is open, and the plane hit some really bad turbulence. Could a gust of wind punch the unlatched door in? Having the door open during landing would probably be somewhat distracting too.
(Imagine traveling on a 12-hour plane flight with *no walkman* --- *shudder*).
Bring your old mechanical wind-up record player. No electronics, but you need an extra seat...
Doppler would shift the frequency off the channel
Only if the tower is behind or in front of you. A tower to the side isn't affected much.
Some time later, someone did try to get in, but they saw a bunch of stuff logging to "/dev/lp1" and left.
/dev/lp1" and noticed your trick?
Sure they left? Sure they didn't to a "ls -l
Short version of UCITA: The developer has FULL liability unless waivered by a shrink-wrapped license.
You're right, at the moment. But with the UCITA in action, your no warranty clause in the GPL would be overruled by law.</I>
So what's the problem? Just put a shrink-wrap license on the gpl'ed software then. Not at all a prolem for distribution CD's. And surely something can be worked out for downloading too. FTP servers have a greeting message...
Usually the goal is to shut the person up permanently. A DoS attack won't itself do that, as it can't be maintained indefinitely. But if the ISP on which the target resides kicks them off, well...
And the solution? DOS'ing any ISP with this policy.
Most users have a hard enough time switching between different versions of Office
Good reason to not use Office, find something with less intentional breakage from version to version.
And the "everybody knows windows" argument isn't that strong. People get one year older each year, all you need is to get sufficiently many of the young started with linux.
There are new people every year, and new companies too. More and more are getting able to switch - if they want to.