I'm not "suggesting" it. It's a known problem, down to causing significant and noteworthy earthquakes in areas that had no earthquakes of such size in entire known history.
Wrong. Resistivity of materials is not solved by switching to DC. It does have some advantages over AC but it most certainly does not eliminate the problem.
This is the devastating irony of modern nuclear power. The more we invest in it, the safer it becomes. Yet investments in nuclear power are often viewed as something that increases risk of accidents due to "more power plants".
It's a self-fulfilling prophecy as a result of it we're still running many plants built in sixties when nuclear energy generation was not even a decade old.
Afaik even Canada and Australia can't really do that. About the only country in the world that can is Iceland, because of its volcanic composition, small populace and general lack of heavy industry.
Even if you have a lot of rivers to dam up, you still need to move the electricity, meaning countries with large distances between potential dams and city centres that need lots of power are no likely going to be feasible. We simply do not have material technology that is good enough for this yet.
Hydro has a severely limited capacity based on local geography. In case of industrialized countries like Japan, pretty much anything that can be dammed has been dammed and no additional capacity is available.
Japan *may* have some luck with geothermal due to its favourable location, but I imagine they have quakes that are bad enough already, like one that killed over 30.000 people, displaced some hundreds of thousands and fucked up Fukushima etc with the tsunami it caused. So basically they're stuck with burning coal/oil/natural gas or nuclear. That or basically shutting down their society as it exists today as factories need steady power and financing their society is very dependent on production at those factories running smoothly and efficiently.
This is the same issue as with any other arbitrage. The point is that all parties agree, in writing to be bound by the arbitrage. If arbitrage finds against your opponent, you can simply go to a local court and ask to enforce the contract, which is fairly easy. Without arbitrage you'd have to argue your case in opponent's local court, which is exceptionally hard.
Essentially this appears to be an "accessible arbitrage" option. I'm doubtful that it will succeed as there are plenty of good arbitrage options already in existence.
No, he simply listed his experience with that particular culture. If you want real trouble, try doing business with chinese. And if you are REALLY masochistic, I recommend one of the smaller Asian countries or Africa.
In other words you use shady sites and/or are paranoid. Go with sandbox and safely ignore all current and future threats by simply purging your sandbox every session.
Last try for apparently total idiots or just pretentious shills (which is probably the reason for posting as AC): Block material sourced from sources that are potentially malicious using add-ons. Trust sources that are not. If paranoid, run in sandbox and do not care about the issue anyway.
Be educated then: shit doesn't happen if elements on the page designed to trigger any of the vulnerabilities do not load/render because an add-on blocks them.
As a result, you don't need to "have those fixed or be hacked". You merely need to block elements that would try to "use those unfixed issues".
P.S. And as noted above, if you're really so paranoid, just run FF in sandboxie. Who cares if the sandboxed browser gets owned if you just purge the sandbox every once in a while and make a new one when you do something that is actually doing anything sensitive.
No and no. First of all, it takes a dumbass to visit shady porn sites. It's pretty obvious that they will try to fuck with you in more ways then what meets the eye. Second there's noscript blocking most of it, alongside ghostery and adblock. Finally even up to date browsers have zero day flaws. If you fuck around with people that you know to have STDs, you'll catch something even with a condom eventually, because of breakage or because some fluids will eventually touch your glans when you take it off in a bad way. Same here, if you fish for trouble, it will eventually find you no matter how much you prepare yourself for it. On the other hand if you use smart browsing practices, you could use a much older firefox and still be safer then your dad with the latest and shittiest firefox.
Finally I do my banking online too. If my computer was completely hijacked, I could still do my online banking on it reasonably safely. Because sane banking uses one time PINs with SMS confirmations for any large transfers. Yes, I'm aware that US is a good decade behind most of the Europe on the issue, but that's not my problem.
What the fuck? South Korea, like most East-Asian countries is mostly buddhist of some kind for cultural reasons. Christians in East Asia are typically fairly fanatical types that refuse much less God-centric beliefs common to the region (i.e. most of the people who do not recognise any religion usually hold buddhist-like views of cycle of life anyway). Wikipedia counter sits at 28% for christians of two biggest denominations put together, 23% korean buddhists and 46% agnostic. Of course as noted above, most of the agnostics hold buddhist-like views on life for cultural reasons.
Problem is that SK has a lot of christians who hold extremist views, and as a result these people tend to put a lot of pressure to get their views into politics. This is the issue with most fanatics, they tend to be extremely focused on their religious agenda and forcibly pushing it onto the rest of the population while more agnostics tend to be rather uninterested in the topic.
Of course, sane plugin choices make 3.6 vulnerabilities go away, but hey, parent may actually be one of the endangered species that use firefox because of the browser itself and not plug-ins.
This is actually quite relevant. FF crew are delusional in that people actually care about their BROWSER. The selling point for FF has actually been add-ons for many years now.
Which is why so many of us are sticking with 3.6.x. Core browser, as long as it can render pages properly doesn't matter. Functionality offered by add-ons does.
Fyi, I do not reply as AC unless I have serious reason for it. Being asked for a clarification is not one of these things. As you can see from my posting history, I often argue on some pretty hot and difficult topics all under my own handle. Thanks for not assuming things and not getting some random flamer get his kicks.
On your point, you clearly state that the reason for the "false positive" was "certain techniques I used in the file, for good reasons". That's not malware detection hit - that's heuristics seeing certain properties of the file and labelling it as such. Malware detection usually hits on specific code inherent to particular malware, not methods of compression of the executable. (Obvious caveat: typically. YMMV).
I'm not trying to be the last authority here, I'm merely pointing out that some parts of your story seem to not match other parts. Perhaps you overly assumed things about scanners that weren't true?
They do not flag such files as "malware". They flag them as "heuristics found suspicious files that have properties often used in malware".
If you actually read the text that your anti-virus software outputs on your screen, this becomes very obvious. Unfortunately most people, apparently including yourself, do not read these messages and instead assume your file has been filed as malware when you're looking as a false positive hit from heuristics engine warning your about suspicious properties of your file.
Actual malware that is known is labelled very differently by most anti-virus software.
And both had nothing but gimmick games released for them. Essentially dance titles and other similar party games count for vast majority of stuff that is actually playable with these motion control schemes.
Hell, nowadays most of the "kinect compatible" games mean that you have some very limited voice command system that is generally inferior to controller-based one (example: ME3).
Not to even get into the whole "plays best with mouse and keyboard anyway" issue.
Old school games do look much better in high resolution graphics with proper post processing. I recently played Persona 4 on a PS2 and PCSX2 emulator side by side when demonstrating this to a friend who was of the same opinion as you. The difference was astounding even though the original material is exactly the same and just rendered in (much) higher resolution with a couple of post-filters applied to it on the emulator. The game simply looked much prettier, which did wonders to enjoyment of the title where artistic approach to many things counts for a lot of presentation like it does in Persona games.
Great game play is good to have, but it can only carry you so far. Presentation is equally if not more important in many cases.
"Why officer, me and me fellow gangbangers here use 'em guns for protection, as according to the law. Can't nail me for havin' some protection against them pesky tourists now can ya?"
The things you write perform and produce are not "stuff". They're information. I am telling you, as a sane human being that you in fact do not own it. You merely own a copyright to it, which is society's way of letting you control information you produce.
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30 years ago it took about 2 hours of shine to get the world's first solar airplane to have enough power to fly for 3-5 minutes.
This thing can fly during night on charge it accumulates during the day while in the air.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric_aircraft#Solar_Riser
I'm not "suggesting" it. It's a known problem, down to causing significant and noteworthy earthquakes in areas that had no earthquakes of such size in entire known history.
Wrong. Resistivity of materials is not solved by switching to DC. It does have some advantages over AC but it most certainly does not eliminate the problem.
This is the devastating irony of modern nuclear power. The more we invest in it, the safer it becomes. Yet investments in nuclear power are often viewed as something that increases risk of accidents due to "more power plants".
It's a self-fulfilling prophecy as a result of it we're still running many plants built in sixties when nuclear energy generation was not even a decade old.
Afaik even Canada and Australia can't really do that. About the only country in the world that can is Iceland, because of its volcanic composition, small populace and general lack of heavy industry.
Even if you have a lot of rivers to dam up, you still need to move the electricity, meaning countries with large distances between potential dams and city centres that need lots of power are no likely going to be feasible. We simply do not have material technology that is good enough for this yet.
Hydro has a severely limited capacity based on local geography. In case of industrialized countries like Japan, pretty much anything that can be dammed has been dammed and no additional capacity is available.
Japan *may* have some luck with geothermal due to its favourable location, but I imagine they have quakes that are bad enough already, like one that killed over 30.000 people, displaced some hundreds of thousands and fucked up Fukushima etc with the tsunami it caused. So basically they're stuck with burning coal/oil/natural gas or nuclear. That or basically shutting down their society as it exists today as factories need steady power and financing their society is very dependent on production at those factories running smoothly and efficiently.
This is the same issue as with any other arbitrage. The point is that all parties agree, in writing to be bound by the arbitrage. If arbitrage finds against your opponent, you can simply go to a local court and ask to enforce the contract, which is fairly easy. Without arbitrage you'd have to argue your case in opponent's local court, which is exceptionally hard.
Essentially this appears to be an "accessible arbitrage" option. I'm doubtful that it will succeed as there are plenty of good arbitrage options already in existence.
No, he simply listed his experience with that particular culture. If you want real trouble, try doing business with chinese. And if you are REALLY masochistic, I recommend one of the smaller Asian countries or Africa.
Not funny. Sums involved are simply from different worlds. We're looking at about five to seven orders of magnitude of difference.
In other words you use shady sites and/or are paranoid. Go with sandbox and safely ignore all current and future threats by simply purging your sandbox every session.
Last try for apparently total idiots or just pretentious shills (which is probably the reason for posting as AC): Block material sourced from sources that are potentially malicious using add-ons. Trust sources that are not. If paranoid, run in sandbox and do not care about the issue anyway.
Be educated then: shit doesn't happen if elements on the page designed to trigger any of the vulnerabilities do not load/render because an add-on blocks them.
As a result, you don't need to "have those fixed or be hacked". You merely need to block elements that would try to "use those unfixed issues".
P.S. And as noted above, if you're really so paranoid, just run FF in sandboxie. Who cares if the sandboxed browser gets owned if you just purge the sandbox every once in a while and make a new one when you do something that is actually doing anything sensitive.
No and no. First of all, it takes a dumbass to visit shady porn sites. It's pretty obvious that they will try to fuck with you in more ways then what meets the eye. Second there's noscript blocking most of it, alongside ghostery and adblock. Finally even up to date browsers have zero day flaws. If you fuck around with people that you know to have STDs, you'll catch something even with a condom eventually, because of breakage or because some fluids will eventually touch your glans when you take it off in a bad way. Same here, if you fish for trouble, it will eventually find you no matter how much you prepare yourself for it.
On the other hand if you use smart browsing practices, you could use a much older firefox and still be safer then your dad with the latest and shittiest firefox.
Finally I do my banking online too. If my computer was completely hijacked, I could still do my online banking on it reasonably safely. Because sane banking uses one time PINs with SMS confirmations for any large transfers. Yes, I'm aware that US is a good decade behind most of the Europe on the issue, but that's not my problem.
What the fuck? South Korea, like most East-Asian countries is mostly buddhist of some kind for cultural reasons. Christians in East Asia are typically fairly fanatical types that refuse much less God-centric beliefs common to the region (i.e. most of the people who do not recognise any religion usually hold buddhist-like views of cycle of life anyway). Wikipedia counter sits at 28% for christians of two biggest denominations put together, 23% korean buddhists and 46% agnostic. Of course as noted above, most of the agnostics hold buddhist-like views on life for cultural reasons.
Problem is that SK has a lot of christians who hold extremist views, and as a result these people tend to put a lot of pressure to get their views into politics. This is the issue with most fanatics, they tend to be extremely focused on their religious agenda and forcibly pushing it onto the rest of the population while more agnostics tend to be rather uninterested in the topic.
I'd be fine with 4000 vulnerabilities because with plug-ins I use, it might as well be zero. And if I'm extra paranoid, there's always sandboxie.
On the other hand, I'm not fine with shitty interface choices in ESR or add-on breakages in normal version.
Of course, sane plugin choices make 3.6 vulnerabilities go away, but hey, parent may actually be one of the endangered species that use firefox because of the browser itself and not plug-ins.
Consider upgrading that pentium 3 machine.
This is actually quite relevant. FF crew are delusional in that people actually care about their BROWSER. The selling point for FF has actually been add-ons for many years now.
Which is why so many of us are sticking with 3.6.x. Core browser, as long as it can render pages properly doesn't matter. Functionality offered by add-ons does.
I recommend shatter if that's your thing.
Fyi, I do not reply as AC unless I have serious reason for it. Being asked for a clarification is not one of these things. As you can see from my posting history, I often argue on some pretty hot and difficult topics all under my own handle. Thanks for not assuming things and not getting some random flamer get his kicks.
On your point, you clearly state that the reason for the "false positive" was "certain techniques I used in the file, for good reasons". That's not malware detection hit - that's heuristics seeing certain properties of the file and labelling it as such. Malware detection usually hits on specific code inherent to particular malware, not methods of compression of the executable.
(Obvious caveat: typically. YMMV).
I'm not trying to be the last authority here, I'm merely pointing out that some parts of your story seem to not match other parts. Perhaps you overly assumed things about scanners that weren't true?
They do not flag such files as "malware". They flag them as "heuristics found suspicious files that have properties often used in malware".
If you actually read the text that your anti-virus software outputs on your screen, this becomes very obvious. Unfortunately most people, apparently including yourself, do not read these messages and instead assume your file has been filed as malware when you're looking as a false positive hit from heuristics engine warning your about suspicious properties of your file.
Actual malware that is known is labelled very differently by most anti-virus software.
And both had nothing but gimmick games released for them. Essentially dance titles and other similar party games count for vast majority of stuff that is actually playable with these motion control schemes.
Hell, nowadays most of the "kinect compatible" games mean that you have some very limited voice command system that is generally inferior to controller-based one (example: ME3).
Not to even get into the whole "plays best with mouse and keyboard anyway" issue.
Old school games do look much better in high resolution graphics with proper post processing. I recently played Persona 4 on a PS2 and PCSX2 emulator side by side when demonstrating this to a friend who was of the same opinion as you. The difference was astounding even though the original material is exactly the same and just rendered in (much) higher resolution with a couple of post-filters applied to it on the emulator. The game simply looked much prettier, which did wonders to enjoyment of the title where artistic approach to many things counts for a lot of presentation like it does in Persona games.
Great game play is good to have, but it can only carry you so far. Presentation is equally if not more important in many cases.
"Why officer, me and me fellow gangbangers here use 'em guns for protection, as according to the law. Can't nail me for havin' some protection against them pesky tourists now can ya?"
You certainly own your "stuff".
The things you write perform and produce are not "stuff". They're information. I am telling you, as a sane human being that you in fact do not own it. You merely own a copyright to it, which is society's way of letting you control information you produce.