If they truly made a mistake I would wonder if the mp3 player would really function at all then. I would think it would constantly crash trying to access memory it didn't have.
this is an inherited survival trait from when it was important to see predators and distinguish ripe from almost-ripe. How can you tell when your predator is ripe?
Someone should create a robot that can automatically de-mine your gmail account. Who knows how many penis pill pushers might accidentally step on one and resort to using their worthless products in desperation!?
You sir are already a lost soul I'm afraid. I played the game for about 10 days out of my 14 day trial and I have no idea what you're even talking about.
I concur. If you asked Joe Schmoe if he knew what a super computer was he'd probably tell you Windows Vista, which would be close, except he'd leave out the words "anything that can run".
Many of the programs that turn a host into a zombie also scan it for bank information and other types of stored information as well as keylogging. The potential for disaster is enormous.
That was a poor rhetorical question. My point is, underwater pressure, or water currents that just so happened to coincide with ships dragging anchors over 3 other cables in the same area, seems to me to be BS.
It's a bit ironic to say that Americans are the only bit of the free world when they're restricted from even traveling to Cuba. Yet Europeans are free to travel as they please.
It's interesting to note your links to the "numerous experts" state right off the bat "Most telecommunications experts and cable operators say that sabotage seems unlikely, but no one knows what damaged the cables or whether the incidents were related." and also that it was suspicious, even though cables are cut on average once every 3 days.
The thing that was suspicious was that the cables that were cut were nearly the sole providers of access to the region. It's almost incredible that there's nearly 0 redundancy built in, and that if a couple cables provide access to an entire region of the world, and the average "cut rate" is once every 3 days, that this blew up into such a big issue. If this is such a non-issue, then why were these countries so upset about it?
I couldn't find the original articles about the russians, aside from a few others that said they were running a 10 - 12 day naval and air force exercise in both the black sea and the northern pacific. But here's just one of many articles stating Egypt's stance on the matter. Press Association
This isn't new. I know I've talked about this previously in an online discussion, though perhaps not on Slashdot.
After moving to Houston from a small town in South Dakota, and having to drive 2 hours to work and 2 hours home each day, with the inevitable traffic jam, I learned very well and very quickly how traffic is affected by each and every driver. I began buffering between the car ahead of me and the car behind and noticed that traffic started moving in a much more relaxed way, easing from the stop-go-stop pattern in both directions (moreso behind than ahead), and seeming to flow much more smoothly. Instead of watching the car directly ahead of me, I constantly scanned the car(s) ahead of him, not just in my lane, but others as well, for signs of slowing or stopping, and would slow accordingly. I would use the buffer I had created to slow towards a stop if necessary, or to wait for the car ahead to pick up speed again, letting my buffer increase and thus smoothing out the traffic. The cars behind me had no choice but to follow my lead, and traffic was smoothed out nicely.
I surely wasn't the only one doing this, and it was easy to tell, watching lane by lane, who the good drivers were, from who the piss-poor drivers were. The people that have no concept of courtesy, or have the attention span of a 2 year old are the greatest cause for concern in heavy traffic in my opinion.
I agree completely. The Colombian government was actually participating with Chavez and France to get those hostages released by the FARC and were making good headway, when out of nowhere the US sent in a delegation to meet with the president. Next thing you know Chavez is kicked out and Ecuador gets bombed. Now there are troops lining up in both Ecuador and Venezuela, and Brazil is calling for public apologies to Ecuador from Colombia. The whole region is now being engulfed in a dispute that seemingly stemmed from US intervention over what appeared to be a large step forward in negotiations with one of the greatest unruly powers in Colombia.
I can't begin to imagine what it is the US has invested in Colombia that would have necessitated Colombia's sudden change of heart.
The cable cuts effectively stopped banking activity in more than 4 middle eastern countries, due to the severe shortage of bandwidth available for the millions of transactions processed daily. If you don't think the cables were cut, why do you think Russia held "exercises" immediately afterwards in the Pacific near Alaska with jet fighters, submarines, and a carrier group, which just happened to cover their undersea cables? The timing was just too coincidental with the opening of the oil stock market.
The Russians obviously saw the very real potential that the cables were cut. There hasn't been an explanation as to how the cables mysteriously broken, especially the one running in a no-boat, camera covered zone near Egypt, who also publicly stated after examining the damage, that the cables were obviously 'cut' and not accidentally severed.
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If they truly made a mistake I would wonder if the mp3 player would really function at all then. I would think it would constantly crash trying to access memory it didn't have.
One of the very few times a car analogy wasn't the first choice on slashdot.
I'm one such product and I don't believe the old notion that America is the land of the free, fighting for everything good and honorable in the world.
The Internet is changing things quickly.
But he was trying to explain this to people who don't know much about computers... obviously!
Actually they do care. The verified e-mail lists are worth a LOT more than the unverified 5 million fluff lists. Especially with the advent of RBLs.
Someone should create a robot that can automatically de-mine your gmail account. Who knows how many penis pill pushers might accidentally step on one and resort to using their worthless products in desperation!?
You sir are already a lost soul I'm afraid. I played the game for about 10 days out of my 14 day trial and I have no idea what you're even talking about.
Scary!
I concur. If you asked Joe Schmoe if he knew what a super computer was he'd probably tell you Windows Vista, which would be close, except he'd leave out the words "anything that can run".
Liberal Arts degree perhaps?
My monitor is on a 9300K color setting. No wonder my room is always so much hotter than the rest of the house.
If only I had mod points...
I got a good chuckle out of your reply, along with the parent being modded +5 insightful.
I could see a new reality tv show being started from just grabbing peoples' recorded activities and sending them $5 in the mail.
No you're right... but I must've accidentally hit reply to your comment instead of the one I intended to.
My bad.
You are 100% right.
I'm wondering why there's no submission of documented evidence to wikileaks yet...
Many of the programs that turn a host into a zombie also scan it for bank information and other types of stored information as well as keylogging. The potential for disaster is enormous.
That was a poor rhetorical question. My point is, underwater pressure, or water currents that just so happened to coincide with ships dragging anchors over 3 other cables in the same area, seems to me to be BS.
It's a bit ironic to say that Americans are the only bit of the free world when they're restricted from even traveling to Cuba. Yet Europeans are free to travel as they please.
How else do you define a 'cut' when there are no ships in the area?
Agreed. This is just rampant ill-informed paranoia.
It's interesting to note your links to the "numerous experts" state right off the bat "Most telecommunications experts and cable operators say that sabotage seems unlikely, but no one knows what damaged the cables or whether the incidents were related." and also that it was suspicious, even though cables are cut on average once every 3 days.
The thing that was suspicious was that the cables that were cut were nearly the sole providers of access to the region. It's almost incredible that there's nearly 0 redundancy built in, and that if a couple cables provide access to an entire region of the world, and the average "cut rate" is once every 3 days, that this blew up into such a big issue. If this is such a non-issue, then why were these countries so upset about it?
I couldn't find the original articles about the russians, aside from a few others that said they were running a 10 - 12 day naval and air force exercise in both the black sea and the northern pacific. But here's just one of many articles stating Egypt's stance on the matter. Press Association
This isn't new. I know I've talked about this previously in an online discussion, though perhaps not on Slashdot.
After moving to Houston from a small town in South Dakota, and having to drive 2 hours to work and 2 hours home each day, with the inevitable traffic jam, I learned very well and very quickly how traffic is affected by each and every driver. I began buffering between the car ahead of me and the car behind and noticed that traffic started moving in a much more relaxed way, easing from the stop-go-stop pattern in both directions (moreso behind than ahead), and seeming to flow much more smoothly. Instead of watching the car directly ahead of me, I constantly scanned the car(s) ahead of him, not just in my lane, but others as well, for signs of slowing or stopping, and would slow accordingly. I would use the buffer I had created to slow towards a stop if necessary, or to wait for the car ahead to pick up speed again, letting my buffer increase and thus smoothing out the traffic. The cars behind me had no choice but to follow my lead, and traffic was smoothed out nicely.
I surely wasn't the only one doing this, and it was easy to tell, watching lane by lane, who the good drivers were, from who the piss-poor drivers were. The people that have no concept of courtesy, or have the attention span of a 2 year old are the greatest cause for concern in heavy traffic in my opinion.
I agree completely. The Colombian government was actually participating with Chavez and France to get those hostages released by the FARC and were making good headway, when out of nowhere the US sent in a delegation to meet with the president. Next thing you know Chavez is kicked out and Ecuador gets bombed. Now there are troops lining up in both Ecuador and Venezuela, and Brazil is calling for public apologies to Ecuador from Colombia. The whole region is now being engulfed in a dispute that seemingly stemmed from US intervention over what appeared to be a large step forward in negotiations with one of the greatest unruly powers in Colombia.
I can't begin to imagine what it is the US has invested in Colombia that would have necessitated Colombia's sudden change of heart.
The cable cuts effectively stopped banking activity in more than 4 middle eastern countries, due to the severe shortage of bandwidth available for the millions of transactions processed daily. If you don't think the cables were cut, why do you think Russia held "exercises" immediately afterwards in the Pacific near Alaska with jet fighters, submarines, and a carrier group, which just happened to cover their undersea cables? The timing was just too coincidental with the opening of the oil stock market.
The Russians obviously saw the very real potential that the cables were cut. There hasn't been an explanation as to how the cables mysteriously broken, especially the one running in a no-boat, camera covered zone near Egypt, who also publicly stated after examining the damage, that the cables were obviously 'cut' and not accidentally severed.