It's nothing more than window-dressing.
The US has imposed tariffs against NZ lamb and NZ steel in recent times. The lamb tariff has been slapped down by the WTO as illegal, despite the US ITC ruling that it was legit. The steel tariff is currently being appealed and it's expected that it will also be smacked down.
It makes me laugh to see "US" and "free trade" in the same sentence, unless they're there as an example of incompatible terms.
Someone's been spending a bit too much time in Amsterdam.
Also, how will they guarantee that the money goes to the artists and not back into the pockets of the European equivalent of RIAA? What's that? They won't? Gee, what a surprise.
I think that the most shocking story that could possibly be posted on/. with regard to RIAA and the recording industry would be one about how RIAA is disbursing to the artists some of the money they're pulling in from Canada's "piracy tax".
These "piracy taxes" are the stuff of the wet dreams of all the RIAA goons. They get money for nothing (and probably their chicks for free), without any collection costs, and with no right-of-reply on the part of the people who buy CDs for *gasp* backing up data.
Yeah. Even Pentium-class machines were getting a bit too fast.
My family got a P120 with 16MB (oh yes what a power-house), and seeing what you'd achieved was getting pretty hard without a very, very complex machine.
Shareware is about due for a resurgence.
And whatever happened to "The Incredible Machine"? That game rocked. Simple concept, but great in terms of developing analytical and problem-solving skills - My younger brothers and their friends (all in the eight to 12 age range at the time) were seriously hooked.
These days most of the games that keep kids that age entertained are FPS (violent) or massive multi-player (not good if you don't have a 'net connection (and, yes, there are people out there who don't)). The rise of shareware could actually see a second coming of educational games that aren't actually designed as educational.
Pretty close, yeah.
Someone's altar was described as 30 cubits around and 10 cubits across, and as being a circle.
Of course a cubit was a pretty imprecise measurement (distance from elbow to tip of little finger, IIRC), and they didn't have the benefit of laser tools to ensure perfect circularity.
As you say, God probably figured that zero DP was quite accurate enough for a non-scholarly recounting:)
And you're only joking.
In 1879 the Indiana House of Representatives unanimously passed a bill that redefined the area of a circle and the value of Pi. Luckily the bill died in the State Senate, or y'all might have real problems with things like highway interchanges
But I'm not surprised at the lack of ethics in the Asian Consumer market, it's an ugly business world over there.
Gee, you wouldn't be a racist would you? Note that the chair of the USB forum is from Intel (Yank company) and Micro$oft (Yank company) is also on the forum.
Given that the USB forum made the decision, blaming asians for it is nothing less than unveiled racism - Of course, no Yank company would ever indulge in such fraudulent behaviour.
there sure were a large number of glaring errors.
1) NT4 (certainly from SP3) allows you to make partition alterations without a reboot. Even 2K requires a reboot for alterations to the boot partition, however.
2) 2K doesn't dispense with the drive letter concept, despite the implication in the article that this is the case. That you can mount partitions under folders doesn't change this.
3) You can specify the cluster size when formatting a drive under NT4.
Also, has anyone actually come across a data centre that is making use of multi-hundred-TB NTFS volumes?
And, will Longhorn finally do away with the whole drive letter concept?
It's like a failed poker player trying to pull off the biggest bluff in history, when everyone knows he's only got a pair
Yeah, a pair of clubs, the two and the three. He's also got a four and a five of diamonds, and the seven of spades. ie: His hand is worthless unless he finds that everyone else also has a "High Card" hand.
IBM are holding five hearts - The ones from 10 through to ace.
Yeah, but you can't blame them.
A licence that gives you absolute control is the true definition of free. The GPL is actually pretty restrictive when you get down to it.
The consumer is given a choice in the matter? Where're you living? Because where I live, the consumer pays the sticker price and that's the end of the story.
Either the consumer pays, or they go without. Their willingness to pay never comes into it, other than whether or not they want the music on a format they can use - Lots of people don't have tape players anymore, certainly not in cars or that they can carry around with them.
Very interesting indeed.
Few things are more damaging than the words from the enemy camp. In this case, though, I'm a little confused. Plamondon is supposedly a former MS employee, but he writes in the present tense. Is he just confused about his loyalties, or is he actually an MS plant? (Yeah, I know that MS employees are vegetables:P)
That material is volatile, to say the least. He basically admits to what everyone knows: MS wants to achieve nothing less than total domination of everything with a CPU - They probably even want to run your wristwatch. Obviously the DoJ suit meant nothing (we already knew this, but it's nice to get confirmation), and it was business-as-usual in the FUD capital of the world.
It's actually nowhere near as insane as you make out.
Fine, breaking into web radio broadcasts is pretty tough, but breaking into websites and altering them isn't terribly difficult for a skilled technician. Nation states tend to have access to such people, in numbers great enough to be able to take on all the foremost sites in a single raid.
Don't under-estimate the resources of a nation and their ability to find people who're very good at breaking into websites.
There's also the option of getting people who have access onto the routers controlling traffic to those sites. Redirection is so much easier.
In January 2003, the SQL Slammer worm disrupted 13,000 ATMs on the Bank of America's network. But before it happened, you couldn't have found a security expert who understood that those systems were dependent on that vulnerability.
Now, was it not the case that it was the network load, rather than the worm, that caused these problems?
It was contemporary knowledge that ATMs use(d?) dedicated networks, primarily to protect against intrusion. If ATM traffic is now being routed across the 'net, VPN'd or not, the possibilities are endless.
As for "cyber terrorism" being a bullshit term, not entirely. Fine, loss of ATMs or e-mail won't panic most people (unless you're in the middle of a multi-billion-dollar, must-happen-now deal that's being conducted through e-mail), but you can do things through the 'net that will result in public disorder. A coordinated effort to modify the sites of all major news organisations could easily start a mass panic if the "right" message was presented - Even more so if web radio broadcasts were also tampered with to back the news sites.
This is/. The chances of it being intentional (or of the original poster understanding what you just said) are roughly equal to SCO's chances of winning this case - ie: Somewhere between zero and two-thirds of five-eighths of a very, very small number.
I'm not really sure why a fireman would want a pump that would tear apart hoses, and men if the hoses held, and buildings if the men held.
Bigger pump equates to higher volume. Higher volume equates to more hoses off one pump. Who said anything about greater branch pressure?
Also, with a bigger pump you can pour more water out of an aerial appliance because your head losses don't consume as much of the total volume.
Huh? How easy is it to acquire new IP address space?
According to this story, it's not at all difficult to "acquire" (note the inverted commas) new space.
As for closing 'net access down totally, I can't quite see it, eh. At the international level carriers don't put provisions in their contracts about what traffic you can send, provided you don't try and harm their network. The breach of contract suit against any carrier who tried that one on would be short, sharp, and decidedly unpleasant for the carrier.
Damn that's a lot of water.
I could see this thing being used for stuff like bomb disposal - Rather than shooting that suspicious package, drench it at high pressure and totally screw the electronics.
Oh, and fire fighters would be getting some kind of a hard-on at the thought of being able to use a pump that size - The pump must be able to pump huge volumes (several multiples of the delivered volume) of water if it's able to get enough pressure behind the water to break up concrete.
Nope - one county is enough - provided they have a big enough stockpile of Cruise missiles.
Nah, Shrub's too busy trying to work out how he can parlay his experience invading third world countries into a degree from a prestigious, accredited university - I mean, those spammers wouldn't lie would they?
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The US has imposed tariffs against NZ lamb and NZ steel in recent times. The lamb tariff has been slapped down by the WTO as illegal, despite the US ITC ruling that it was legit. The steel tariff is currently being appealed and it's expected that it will also be smacked down.
It makes me laugh to see "US" and "free trade" in the same sentence, unless they're there as an example of incompatible terms.
Also, how will they guarantee that the money goes to the artists and not back into the pockets of the European equivalent of RIAA? What's that? They won't? Gee, what a surprise.
I think that the most shocking story that could possibly be posted on
These "piracy taxes" are the stuff of the wet dreams of all the RIAA goons. They get money for nothing (and probably their chicks for free), without any collection costs, and with no right-of-reply on the part of the people who buy CDs for *gasp* backing up data.
And the bill made it to the State Senate, according to more than one account.
My family got a P120 with 16MB (oh yes what a power-house), and seeing what you'd achieved was getting pretty hard without a very, very complex machine.
And whatever happened to "The Incredible Machine"? That game rocked. Simple concept, but great in terms of developing analytical and problem-solving skills - My younger brothers and their friends (all in the eight to 12 age range at the time) were seriously hooked.
These days most of the games that keep kids that age entertained are FPS (violent) or massive multi-player (not good if you don't have a 'net connection (and, yes, there are people out there who don't)). The rise of shareware could actually see a second coming of educational games that aren't actually designed as educational.
Someone's altar was described as 30 cubits around and 10 cubits across, and as being a circle.
Of course a cubit was a pretty imprecise measurement (distance from elbow to tip of little finger, IIRC), and they didn't have the benefit of laser tools to ensure perfect circularity.
As you say, God probably figured that zero DP was quite accurate enough for a non-scholarly recounting :)
ARGH
That should've been 1897.
In 1879 the Indiana House of Representatives unanimously passed a bill that redefined the area of a circle and the value of Pi. Luckily the bill died in the State Senate, or y'all might have real problems with things like highway interchanges
Given that the USB forum made the decision, blaming asians for it is nothing less than unveiled racism - Of course, no Yank company would ever indulge in such fraudulent behaviour.
1) NT4 (certainly from SP3) allows you to make partition alterations without a reboot. Even 2K requires a reboot for alterations to the boot partition, however.
2) 2K doesn't dispense with the drive letter concept, despite the implication in the article that this is the case. That you can mount partitions under folders doesn't change this.
3) You can specify the cluster size when formatting a drive under NT4.
Also, has anyone actually come across a data centre that is making use of multi-hundred-TB NTFS volumes?
And, will Longhorn finally do away with the whole drive letter concept?
IBM are holding five hearts - The ones from 10 through to ace.
A licence that gives you absolute control is the true definition of free. The GPL is actually pretty restrictive when you get down to it.
Either the consumer pays, or they go without. Their willingness to pay never comes into it, other than whether or not they want the music on a format they can use - Lots of people don't have tape players anymore, certainly not in cars or that they can carry around with them.
Few things are more damaging than the words from the enemy camp. In this case, though, I'm a little confused. Plamondon is supposedly a former MS employee, but he writes in the present tense. Is he just confused about his loyalties, or is he actually an MS plant? (Yeah, I know that MS employees are vegetables
That material is volatile, to say the least. He basically admits to what everyone knows: MS wants to achieve nothing less than total domination of everything with a CPU - They probably even want to run your wristwatch. Obviously the DoJ suit meant nothing (we already knew this, but it's nice to get confirmation), and it was business-as-usual in the FUD capital of the world.
Fine, breaking into web radio broadcasts is pretty tough, but breaking into websites and altering them isn't terribly difficult for a skilled technician. Nation states tend to have access to such people, in numbers great enough to be able to take on all the foremost sites in a single raid.
Don't under-estimate the resources of a nation and their ability to find people who're very good at breaking into websites.
There's also the option of getting people who have access onto the routers controlling traffic to those sites. Redirection is so much easier.
It was contemporary knowledge that ATMs use(d?) dedicated networks, primarily to protect against intrusion. If ATM traffic is now being routed across the 'net, VPN'd or not, the possibilities are endless.
As for "cyber terrorism" being a bullshit term, not entirely. Fine, loss of ATMs or e-mail won't panic most people (unless you're in the middle of a multi-billion-dollar, must-happen-now deal that's being conducted through e-mail), but you can do things through the 'net that will result in public disorder. A coordinated effort to modify the sites of all major news organisations could easily start a mass panic if the "right" message was presented - Even more so if web radio broadcasts were also tampered with to back the news sites.
Also, with a bigger pump you can pour more water out of an aerial appliance because your head losses don't consume as much of the total volume.
As for closing 'net access down totally, I can't quite see it, eh. At the international level carriers don't put provisions in their contracts about what traffic you can send, provided you don't try and harm their network. The breach of contract suit against any carrier who tried that one on would be short, sharp, and decidedly unpleasant for the carrier.
I could see this thing being used for stuff like bomb disposal - Rather than shooting that suspicious package, drench it at high pressure and totally screw the electronics.
Oh, and fire fighters would be getting some kind of a hard-on at the thought of being able to use a pump that size - The pump must be able to pump huge volumes (several multiples of the delivered volume) of water if it's able to get enough pressure behind the water to break up concrete.