The point of the system, he explains, was to guarantee an automatic Soviet response to an American nuclear strike. Even if the US crippled the USSR with a surprise attack, the Soviets could still hit back. It wouldn't matter if the US blew up the Kremlin, took out the defense ministry, severed the communications network, and killed everyone with stars on their shoulders. Ground-based sensors would detect that a devastating blow had been struck and a counterattack would be launched.
Nothing can go wrong!
When I recently told former CIA director James Woolsey that the USSR had built a doomsday device, his eyes grew cold. "I hope to God the Soviets were more sensible than that." They weren't.
And nuclear weapons are sensible then?
Once initiated, the counterattack would be controlled by so-called command missiles. Hidden in hardened silos designed to withstand the massive blast and electromagnetic pulses of a nuclear explosion, these missiles would launch first and then radio down coded orders to whatever Soviet weapons had survived the first strike. At that point, the machines will have taken over the war.
So the whole "Doomsday Machine" thing was an automated system based on ground sensors to launch the missiles in case US attacks.
I still wonder were alive in this world after all the shit humans have pulled off... Wonder whats next.
We released a revised prototype on September 20, 2009. This revised prototype, which distributes keys across both the Vuze DHT and OpenDHT, invalidates this attack.
But does this *really* invalidate this type of attack? It seems it just adds another p2p protocol on it, and it would still be as vulnerable as before. Only difference seems to be that the current tool just doesn't work at the moment. Approach would still be the same.
In my opinion Vanish didn't really serve any purpose.
- As we all know (and what MPAA/RIIA hate), once you've got hold of the data you cannot "vanish" it. It's really easy to save a copy of it. - If you wanted encryption with public/private keys, theres PGP and other solutions to do it.
So the only thing Vanish added was the impossible-to-archieve vanishing of data.
Along with that it distributes your secret content all over the p2p network, where one machine can act as thousands of clients like to article says. I'd rather skip that and send the message directly and tell the other party to delete it, because vanishing doens't work if both parties dont do it.
Porn DEFINITELY needs more truth and less fiction. There are good reasons why this should be the case, not the least of which is how the ability to enjoy one's mate is hampered by artificial and unrealistic "ideals" being portrayed. People are riddled with imperfections.
Actually atleast for me this made me hate the "normal", unrealistic porn which was the only one available as my teenage years from tv. Growth to hate it, and "the girl next door" type porn and the clips on tube sites work a lot better.
Women do look porn, some of them regularly masturbate to it too. Lots of them have atleast tried.
My girlfriend also wanted to look it together once, but the annoying part is to find a clip that works for both, so it was forgotten pretty quickly on the background.
It might be a little annoying reading a porn magazine which has the text "'the photo was altered in order to modify the appearance of a person." thrown all over it.
But does this apply to persons only? I hope we'd finally get to know the truth about McDonalds hamburgers. Or can we count them as persons?
It doesn't necessarily have to be ridiculous sensationalism however. Lots of people read slashdot for the comments, ie. what other people think, what more information they can give to the subject or make funny jokes.
There are also news sites that tend to give more information about the subject, or actually add valid opinions and analysis to it. If its quality, I can easily pay for it. I wouldn't however pay for sensationalism, I keep away from such sites already.
But when its open source, it's easier to think that maybe I cant be bothered to look at this now, someone else can do it. When its proprietary software and you get the assignment to look at it, you pretty much have to do it.
So your argument basically is that you want something physical? That's a little bit hard with digital content.
Now instead of talking about not getting the physical paper, you could had said that instead of buying single news stories, you'd would rather buy a subscription to the paper. I would if the price was right, I wouldn't mind paying $1-5 dollars a month to some of the sites I have in my rss reader. This is even more true for news sites that are my work or hobby related, which I have special interest to. Frankly, lots of sites would be dropped too, and the first ones to go would be the generic every-day news sites.
However, I think the normal newspapers will stick around for long time still. Lots of people still like to read the actual newspaper. But it will probably go over time to more electronic format, even if you read it from the like of eBooks reader or so, when young people grow and older people that have got used to their habits go.
"Okay, so the summary of this is that you expect that 12 per cent to be back to where it should be next year, and you expect someone else to come up with a plan to do it," joked Bottomley. "That's open source."
That is also the problem. Everyone adds pieces and eventually it starts to become a mess. Then someone else should fix it.
If the content is premium content, something that I know is more valuable or interesting than elsewhere, then I have no problem paying for it. This is the reason people for pay for Wall Street Journal and the likes too - they get more out of it and the writers are specialized in the area.
For everyday news, no. I want opinions and better writing than just simply telling the news.
They aren't trusting the clients just for fun. Current technology has to put lots of things on the client so it works good. I surely hope this will, and probably does, change in the future but currently it's not applicable.
Nope. They are obviously all generated on server-side, so theres no cd key generators. However, there are lots of malware that claim to be "WoW cd key generators" that just steal accounts for their owners.
Several other small private aerospace companies not competing for Ansari X Prize are also making news. According to Aviation Week, Bigelow Aerospace, who are developing inflatable space modules, plan to announce shortly the creation of yet another prize competition, this one for $50 million, called Americaâ(TM)s Space Prize that will go to whoever develops a spacecraft that will service their inflatable space modules.
And yet another company, Space Exploration Technologies Corporation (SpaceX), plan to launch their first partly reusable rocket Falcon 1 early next year. In developing their space program, SpaceX has created new technology, which they claim allows them to reduce the cost of launch four times lower than their nearest competitor and increase reliability.
The interesting thing now, as the "space race" seems to be ending with usa, is who will take the lead with space exploration. chinese, russians or private companies?
I wouldn't accept a rootkit from my bank to do my online banking, why the hell would I accept a rootkit for playing a freaking video game?
I hope you understand the technical differences between online banking and an online multiplayer game. Because of latency, internet connections, servers still not as capable and so on, its still not possible to let the server control process everything. For example player movements are not send to the server, but only their x,y coordinates. Then server doesn't need to calculate everything, but client can handle it. On the other hand, server can still make some calculations based on movement speed (I think I read WoW allows up to 1.40x "too much speed" because it could be from latency, anything over that and player is cheating).
Only hackproof* way is for the server actually process keyboard and mouse commands and send the image back to client ( New Service Aims To Replace Consoles With Cloud Gaming ), but that still has a lots of problems (and then there would be crying about "I bought this software, why cant I actually have it?!?!?")
Currently the only good system is to make antivirus like signature scans for public hacks that get updated by the MMO team and doing basic checks on the server. Now this wont stop all the hacks, but it will stop "casual hacking" and those players who are hacking just to ruin others game.
I hope they work with GameGuard to make their system less invasive. Some anticheat protection is needed in online games, just to stop the kiddies getting hacks and ruining the game for every one. Those who make private hacks will always know their way around, but on the other hand they also know how to use them and wont ruin the game for everyone (for leveling or fishing or whatever - but they wont be running around killing people with hacks for fun, because they know that'll get them banned by gamemasters).
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The point of the system, he explains, was to guarantee an automatic Soviet response to an American nuclear strike. Even if the US crippled the USSR with a surprise attack, the Soviets could still hit back. It wouldn't matter if the US blew up the Kremlin, took out the defense ministry, severed the communications network, and killed everyone with stars on their shoulders. Ground-based sensors would detect that a devastating blow had been struck and a counterattack would be launched.
Nothing can go wrong!
When I recently told former CIA director James Woolsey that the USSR had built a doomsday device, his eyes grew cold. "I hope to God the Soviets were more sensible than that." They weren't.
And nuclear weapons are sensible then?
Once initiated, the counterattack would be controlled by so-called command missiles. Hidden in hardened silos designed to withstand the massive blast and electromagnetic pulses of a nuclear explosion, these missiles would launch first and then radio down coded orders to whatever Soviet weapons had survived the first strike. At that point, the machines will have taken over the war.
So the whole "Doomsday Machine" thing was an automated system based on ground sensors to launch the missiles in case US attacks.
I still wonder were alive in this world after all the shit humans have pulled off... Wonder whats next.
We released a revised prototype on September 20, 2009. This revised prototype, which distributes keys across both the Vuze DHT and OpenDHT, invalidates this attack.
But does this *really* invalidate this type of attack? It seems it just adds another p2p protocol on it, and it would still be as vulnerable as before. Only difference seems to be that the current tool just doesn't work at the moment. Approach would still be the same.
In my opinion Vanish didn't really serve any purpose.
- As we all know (and what MPAA/RIIA hate), once you've got hold of the data you cannot "vanish" it. It's really easy to save a copy of it.
- If you wanted encryption with public/private keys, theres PGP and other solutions to do it.
So the only thing Vanish added was the impossible-to-archieve vanishing of data.
Along with that it distributes your secret content all over the p2p network, where one machine can act as thousands of clients like to article says. I'd rather skip that and send the message directly and tell the other party to delete it, because vanishing doens't work if both parties dont do it.
South Korea (the one with Seoul)
Americans really dont know the difference between North and South Korea without explaining it further?
Porn DEFINITELY needs more truth and less fiction. There are good reasons why this should be the case, not the least of which is how the ability to enjoy one's mate is hampered by artificial and unrealistic "ideals" being portrayed. People are riddled with imperfections.
Actually atleast for me this made me hate the "normal", unrealistic porn which was the only one available as my teenage years from tv. Growth to hate it, and "the girl next door" type porn and the clips on tube sites work a lot better.
This assumes that women were looking at the porn.
Women do look porn, some of them regularly masturbate to it too. Lots of them have atleast tried.
My girlfriend also wanted to look it together once, but the annoying part is to find a clip that works for both, so it was forgotten pretty quickly on the background.
It might be a little annoying reading a porn magazine which has the text "'the photo was altered in order to modify the appearance of a person." thrown all over it.
But does this apply to persons only? I hope we'd finally get to know the truth about McDonalds hamburgers. Or can we count them as persons?
It doesn't necessarily have to be ridiculous sensationalism however. Lots of people read slashdot for the comments, ie. what other people think, what more information they can give to the subject or make funny jokes.
There are also news sites that tend to give more information about the subject, or actually add valid opinions and analysis to it. If its quality, I can easily pay for it. I wouldn't however pay for sensationalism, I keep away from such sites already.
You have to satisfy more people and in doing so you become more bloated.
So is this why I became so fat? And I thought it was all the food and beers. Damn those girls!
But when its open source, it's easier to think that maybe I cant be bothered to look at this now, someone else can do it. When its proprietary software and you get the assignment to look at it, you pretty much have to do it.
So your argument basically is that you want something physical? That's a little bit hard with digital content.
Now instead of talking about not getting the physical paper, you could had said that instead of buying single news stories, you'd would rather buy a subscription to the paper. I would if the price was right, I wouldn't mind paying $1-5 dollars a month to some of the sites I have in my rss reader. This is even more true for news sites that are my work or hobby related, which I have special interest to. Frankly, lots of sites would be dropped too, and the first ones to go would be the generic every-day news sites.
However, I think the normal newspapers will stick around for long time still. Lots of people still like to read the actual newspaper. But it will probably go over time to more electronic format, even if you read it from the like of eBooks reader or so, when young people grow and older people that have got used to their habits go.
"Okay, so the summary of this is that you expect that 12 per cent to be back to where it should be next year, and you expect someone else to come up with a plan to do it," joked Bottomley. "That's open source."
That is also the problem. Everyone adds pieces and eventually it starts to become a mess. Then someone else should fix it.
If the content is premium content, something that I know is more valuable or interesting than elsewhere, then I have no problem paying for it. This is the reason people for pay for Wall Street Journal and the likes too - they get more out of it and the writers are specialized in the area.
For everyday news, no. I want opinions and better writing than just simply telling the news.
Nothing can go wrong!
That is what the Google talk in the summary was about, they we're going to use ships as datacenters that float in the ocean.
I can't image Saltwater not eating the hell out of all the piping.
Yeah, thats the real problem. I hope we discover such metal soon so we can get boats and ships in the oceans too.
Thats the case with hamburgers and hot dogs and other traditional american food too.
They aren't trusting the clients just for fun. Current technology has to put lots of things on the client so it works good. I surely hope this will, and probably does, change in the future but currently it's not applicable.
Nope. They are obviously all generated on server-side, so theres no cd key generators. However, there are lots of malware that claim to be "WoW cd key generators" that just steal accounts for their owners.
However it seems like theres lots of interest and activity in private space flights currently:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_private_spaceflight_companies
Interesting article about them
Several other small private aerospace companies not competing for Ansari X Prize are also making news. According to Aviation Week, Bigelow Aerospace, who are developing inflatable space modules, plan to announce shortly the creation of yet another prize competition, this one for $50 million, called Americaâ(TM)s Space Prize that will go to whoever develops a spacecraft that will service their inflatable space modules.
And yet another company, Space Exploration Technologies Corporation (SpaceX), plan to launch their first partly reusable rocket Falcon 1 early next year. In developing their space program, SpaceX has created new technology, which they claim allows them to reduce the cost of launch four times lower than their nearest competitor and increase reliability.
This along with Tickets On Sale In Sweden For Space Tourism, Starting In 2012.
When you get rid of the real experts, who is going to figure out the new stuff?
The masterminds on Slashdot.
On an unrelated note, where can I sign up to be first man to be send to Mars again?
The interesting thing now, as the "space race" seems to be ending with usa, is who will take the lead with space exploration. chinese, russians or private companies?
I wouldn't accept a rootkit from my bank to do my online banking, why the hell would I accept a rootkit for playing a freaking video game?
I hope you understand the technical differences between online banking and an online multiplayer game. Because of latency, internet connections, servers still not as capable and so on, its still not possible to let the server control process everything. For example player movements are not send to the server, but only their x,y coordinates. Then server doesn't need to calculate everything, but client can handle it. On the other hand, server can still make some calculations based on movement speed (I think I read WoW allows up to 1.40x "too much speed" because it could be from latency, anything over that and player is cheating).
Only hackproof* way is for the server actually process keyboard and mouse commands and send the image back to client ( New Service Aims To Replace Consoles With Cloud Gaming ), but that still has a lots of problems (and then there would be crying about "I bought this software, why cant I actually have it?!?!?")
Currently the only good system is to make antivirus like signature scans for public hacks that get updated by the MMO team and doing basic checks on the server. Now this wont stop all the hacks, but it will stop "casual hacking" and those players who are hacking just to ruin others game.
What does requiring an user account and illegitimate copies have to do with an *anticheat* program?
I hope they work with GameGuard to make their system less invasive. Some anticheat protection is needed in online games, just to stop the kiddies getting hacks and ruining the game for every one. Those who make private hacks will always know their way around, but on the other hand they also know how to use them and wont ruin the game for everyone (for leveling or fishing or whatever - but they wont be running around killing people with hacks for fun, because they know that'll get them banned by gamemasters).