That's why it's silly for people like Neil Armstrong to posit that private industry will do it first with government "assistance." It'll only happen as a scientific endeavor until the technology is developed enough for someone to monetize trips to Mars (how that would ever happen in the remotely near future is beyond me).
It's only logical that the media outlets will protect their parents' interests. One example, years ago I was watching John McEnroe's defunct news show on CNBC (?) where he interviewed Robert Kennedy, Jr., a big environmentalist. The conversation took an unexpected turn and RKJr dropped a note about GE, NBC's parent corporation and their poor environmental practices. McEnroe shushed him and the show immediately cut to commercial. When they came back from the break, RKJr was nowhere to be seen.
Years ago I watched a crazy book signing on CSPAN by a layman who basically just sat and watched NYC rats and talked about their behavior. The great thing about it was his frantic "WTF has this guy been snorting?" enthusiasm about rats mixed with pretty insightful observations from a guy spending his nights sitting in trash-filled alley. If you ever catch it on one Saturday afternoon, give it a chance.
My favorite observation was his comments on societal memory. Even after major infrastructural or architectural changes to the city, rats still seemed to follow paths dictated by long-gone geographical features like rivers and hills. He also noted that humans do the same as well! When a prominent street corner building was razed and turned into a paved expanse, pedestrians would still circumnavigate the outline of the building.
Classic Friedmannite failure. Post Soviet Union, the Free Marketeers went in and got them to follow the IMF/WTO playbook on "developing" a nation. That entails cutting taxes on the rich, eliminating social commitments, and selling off government assets. You end up with a wealth transfer to the top, and government with only one tool in its toolkit (the military) to deal with domestic strife, organized crime where government no longer can protect the people, and a whole lot of mega-rich bureaucrats who took the bribes to sell of government assets at cut-rate prices.
Miinor annoyance with the newer episodes. Kari used to be the hot geek girl, now she always seems to be pressing the sex pot thing; posing and flaunting it quite a bit. Seems too forced to me.
I've seen the guys they bring in do some wacky stuff. One guy wanted to see if you could blow out a single window on an airliner fuselage and ended up using enough explosive to almost bisect the plane.
Referring to previous poster...welcome to AmeriCa (C=corporate owned)! Our country grew into a world power with regulations on business and now we're heading back to 1929 by repealing them all because of the theorists who think government only exists to wage wars and cut taxes on big business.
And, heaven forbid she ever becomes a political "problem". You can be sure that any negative iota of information gleaned from scanning her communications will find its way to a media outlet.
I just about abandoned network TV about 15 years ago and I used to be teased mercilessly for being a gamer while everyone else was sitting on their couch watching crappy TV shows. Now, the general public is partaking in the much better entertainment options online. I bet half the time my TV is on is just for background noise when I'm doing something else.
Send the home addresses of stay-at-home wives of bankers to sexual predators getting out of jail. Since obviously 2 wrongs make a right, might as well go all out.
Using ProfilesDirectory to redirect folders to a drive other than the system volume blocks upgrades. Using ProfilesDirectory to point to a directory that is not the system volume will block SKU upgrades and upgrades to future versions of Windows. For example if you use Windows Vista Home Premium with ProfilesDirectory set to D:\, you will not be able to upgrade to Windows Vista Ultimate or to the next version of Windows. The servicing stack does not handle cross-volume transactions, and it blocks upgrades.
I was under the impression that there are places in Windows source where the path is still hardcoded and Windows updates won't recognize the new location. So, you can do it, but it's not stable.
I was all set to buy a new laptop with the OS mounted on the SSD and a second HDD for mass storage. The obvious solution to me would've been to map the user directories to the HDD for file storage. Not a problem with Linux of course, but you can't do this with Windows! Can't recall the details, but there's some path info hard-coded somewhere that prevents you from moving your "My Documents" folder to a different drive. I never saw any workaround that didn't feel like a hack that would cause problems later.
I was watching an episode of Locked Up Abroad and laughing at some 3rd world country that took about a year to put the antagonist to trial while he sat in jail. So, in what version of Gestapo America is 1 1/2 years OK?
I'm guessing you're a hacker apologist? After an intrusion there are resources that have to be redirected to find out what access the intruder got; there's downtime hardware, there's the cost of the investigation e.g. flying inspectors out to Romania if needed.
No harm-no foul rules only count on non-critical systems. Most admins don't take intrusions as an "academic act of altruism granted to them by white hats."
The privacy raping is putrid. I simply don't trust them, but I still have to wait until either another contract change (how about Slashdot post the article in time next go around?) or until April to sever all ties. I went Android because it seemed to have more favorable developer sales contracts, but I'll deal with the Apple sandbox to not have my contact info monetized.
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hehe I just watched Taken. Pretty decent and better than I expected.
That's why it's silly for people like Neil Armstrong to posit that private industry will do it first with government "assistance." It'll only happen as a scientific endeavor until the technology is developed enough for someone to monetize trips to Mars (how that would ever happen in the remotely near future is beyond me).
It's only logical that the media outlets will protect their parents' interests. One example, years ago I was watching John McEnroe's defunct news show on CNBC (?) where he interviewed Robert Kennedy, Jr., a big environmentalist. The conversation took an unexpected turn and RKJr dropped a note about GE, NBC's parent corporation and their poor environmental practices. McEnroe shushed him and the show immediately cut to commercial. When they came back from the break, RKJr was nowhere to be seen.
Years ago I watched a crazy book signing on CSPAN by a layman who basically just sat and watched NYC rats and talked about their behavior. The great thing about it was his frantic "WTF has this guy been snorting?" enthusiasm about rats mixed with pretty insightful observations from a guy spending his nights sitting in trash-filled alley. If you ever catch it on one Saturday afternoon, give it a chance.
My favorite observation was his comments on societal memory. Even after major infrastructural or architectural changes to the city, rats still seemed to follow paths dictated by long-gone geographical features like rivers and hills. He also noted that humans do the same as well! When a prominent street corner building was razed and turned into a paved expanse, pedestrians would still circumnavigate the outline of the building.
Believed to depict a woman placing her cold-ass feet on the back of a male sleeping on the same cot.
I'm with you on this one. Don't a lot of researchers give their assistants first-billing?
Classic Friedmannite failure. Post Soviet Union, the Free Marketeers went in and got them to follow the IMF/WTO playbook on "developing" a nation. That entails cutting taxes on the rich, eliminating social commitments, and selling off government assets. You end up with a wealth transfer to the top, and government with only one tool in its toolkit (the military) to deal with domestic strife, organized crime where government no longer can protect the people, and a whole lot of mega-rich bureaucrats who took the bribes to sell of government assets at cut-rate prices.
Miinor annoyance with the newer episodes. Kari used to be the hot geek girl, now she always seems to be pressing the sex pot thing; posing and flaunting it quite a bit. Seems too forced to me.
I know where you're going with this, and "no" she's never going to go out with you.
I've seen the guys they bring in do some wacky stuff. One guy wanted to see if you could blow out a single window on an airliner fuselage and ended up using enough explosive to almost bisect the plane.
Referring to previous poster...welcome to AmeriCa (C=corporate owned)! Our country grew into a world power with regulations on business and now we're heading back to 1929 by repealing them all because of the theorists who think government only exists to wage wars and cut taxes on big business.
No, we'll just let 3rd world peasants mine it for us.
Florida motorist uses his motorcycle 80% of the time over his car.
And, heaven forbid she ever becomes a political "problem". You can be sure that any negative iota of information gleaned from scanning her communications will find its way to a media outlet.
You must be new to this country. Around here, if it's not sustained by a profit motive then it's communist and stupid.
I just about abandoned network TV about 15 years ago and I used to be teased mercilessly for being a gamer while everyone else was sitting on their couch watching crappy TV shows. Now, the general public is partaking in the much better entertainment options online. I bet half the time my TV is on is just for background noise when I'm doing something else.
Send the home addresses of stay-at-home wives of bankers to sexual predators getting out of jail. Since obviously 2 wrongs make a right, might as well go all out.
Using ProfilesDirectory to redirect folders to a drive other than the system volume blocks upgrades. Using ProfilesDirectory to point to a directory that is not the system volume will block SKU upgrades and upgrades to future versions of Windows. For example if you use Windows Vista Home Premium with ProfilesDirectory set to D:\, you will not be able to upgrade to Windows Vista Ultimate or to the next version of Windows. The servicing stack does not handle cross-volume transactions, and it blocks upgrades.
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/949977
I was under the impression that there are places in Windows source where the path is still hardcoded and Windows updates won't recognize the new location. So, you can do it, but it's not stable.
I was all set to buy a new laptop with the OS mounted on the SSD and a second HDD for mass storage. The obvious solution to me would've been to map the user directories to the HDD for file storage. Not a problem with Linux of course, but you can't do this with Windows! Can't recall the details, but there's some path info hard-coded somewhere that prevents you from moving your "My Documents" folder to a different drive. I never saw any workaround that didn't feel like a hack that would cause problems later.
how about a probe of china currency rigging?
I was watching an episode of Locked Up Abroad and laughing at some 3rd world country that took about a year to put the antagonist to trial while he sat in jail. So, in what version of Gestapo America is 1 1/2 years OK?
I'm guessing you're a hacker apologist? After an intrusion there are resources that have to be redirected to find out what access the intruder got; there's downtime hardware, there's the cost of the investigation e.g. flying inspectors out to Romania if needed.
No harm-no foul rules only count on non-critical systems. Most admins don't take intrusions as an "academic act of altruism granted to them by white hats."
The privacy raping is putrid. I simply don't trust them, but I still have to wait until either another contract change (how about Slashdot post the article in time next go around?) or until April to sever all ties. I went Android because it seemed to have more favorable developer sales contracts, but I'll deal with the Apple sandbox to not have my contact info monetized.
So, you must be one of those pinkos for regulating Business. Let the Free Market decide what we drink!