I have not tried this, but VMware Converter supposedly supports converting VPC images into VMware images. That would let you run them in VMware on Linux.
SCO will continue to serve its purpose for a while. When a land mine explodes, you don't consider the mine a failure because it was destroyed in the process.:)
All of which are ideal against Westernized military forces and less than ideal against dispersed irregulars, let alone dispersed irregulars with public support in our own country. BTW our total quantities of everything you mention are not nearly enough to internally control the US.
We can't even control Iraq, so what makes you think a divided government and military could easily squelch a genuinely popular domestic revolt?
Such a revolt would of course include members of the military (who ARE part of the "public"!), with their equipment. The Second Amendment ensures dispersed weaponry available to the public to support a revolt. It does not assume or imply that small arms would be the only resources available.
"In most companies, the employees are not going to be security-savy, and they will not question a potential intruder."
They do need reminding now and then even if they ARE security-savvy.
At my base, which will remain nameless, the Security Forces have a sense of humor:
They sent an NCO in a full clown suit (as in "Ronald McDonald"), wearing a backpack sprayer full of tap water, into our Military Personnel Flight area. He wandered around spraying various offices for more than a half-hour until he was challenged! They filmed it from an interior balcony and now use that example during security training classes.
Why shouldn't people enjoy some aspects of combat?
I find it interesting that many Slashdotters enjoy violent RPGs, yet are anti-war, and do not understand that enjoying REAL combat is obviously part of human nature.
"Actually, it's a lot of fun to fight. You know, it's a hell of a hoot... It's fun to shoot some people. I'll be right upfront with you, I like brawling."
Beige "works" in many settings. Anyone wanting to beige-ify their non-beige case (for example to blend with beige decor) can use common automobile vinyl dye or plastic interior paint.
"There are plenty of examples of teachers teaching or communicating inappropriately on issues such as homosexuality, abortion, drugs, and politics."
Students should record and expose them, and no teacher should say anything in class they would not have broadcast to the world. Teachers get paid to teach, not indoctrinate. The ones who don't get this should have their name and words immortalized on the web for all to see.
Kudos to Mathew LaClair, who displayed courage and very logical thinking. I'd like to see many, many more young people use technology to hold their elders and people in positions of authority accountable.
An orbiting craft can loiter. An orbiting craft can carry a veriety of ordnance to engage multiple and different types of targets. An orbiting craft can position and reposition itself for surveillance missions. An orbiting craft can stalk targets. An orbiting craft can interdict enemy satellite launches and kill ballistic and cruise missiles. Multiple stealthy orbiting craft can cluster over an enemy, then strike or wait as required. 24/7 presence over the battlefield can be a reality. CONUS basing of such swift machines can reduce the need for deployments. Killer drones are already controlled from CONUS, and this is their natural successor due to the absolute requirement to take the "high ground". Beautiful idea really.
As the user of a single camera, he is the target of harassment. It is much harder to harass a dispersed group.
If the G8 protesters had MANY cameras and covered everything, then broadcasting the results, their innocence would be proven. A "PanoptiMob", if you will. The purpose of a protest is to stand out and speak out. Footage would further that.
And if we had a better vocational school system we'd have more qualified "ditch digger" equipment operators!
College is dandy, but there are plenty of trades that pay well and offer the chance for independence as a contractor. There is still plenty of room for tradesmen to make money, but the gradual death of trade classes in high schools wastes the time of students who would excel in trades.
A "Frugal Install" (see Damn Small Linux forums for details) of your choice of live CD ISO image, with a seperate partition to save files, and a bookmarked webmail account would make things very simple.
Precisely. Note the videos of police brutality being caught on cell phone cams. Perhaps the best way to the future is not to protect privacy/anonymity, but to destroy all of it, and adapt to the new, level playing field.
"you may not have seen the crackhead who put the slug through your heart... but at least internal affairs will be able to ID him."
If Internal Affairs is involved, the crackhead is/is working for another cop, and not likely to attack a cop in a manner allowing easy (or any) photo identification!
"Just the threat would be a useful tool of terror and control."
Against clueless tinfoil-hatters who modded this up... WTF people? This is a geek forum so how dare you not have clues to how technology works?
The massive dust plume would still pose a huge environmental threat. Think Tunguska. The asteroid diversion would cost more than a nuke and be far more difficult to use. Asteroid diversion lacks an immediate launch capability. The only countries potentially capable of asteroid diversion already have nukes.
Tactical nukes are proven and using a few does not end life as we know it. (Google Map Hiroshima and Nagasaki if you have doubts.) Atmospheric testing proved limited nuclear wars are indeed practical. Not nice, but practical, and they will always be an easier alternative than bowling with asteroids.
What is the potential for nanoparticle chem warfare agents? Nanoparticles should disperse quite well, and if they get past conventional filters they could obsolete billions of dollars in NBC defenses. Is a nanoparticle dirty bomb practical?
The remarkable shittiness of Clear Channel stations and formatted radio helped drive the many (tech/geeky at first)alternatives we have today. We are in their debt for being so awful that the hole they left in the market fit satellite radio!
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I have not tried this, but VMware Converter supposedly supports converting VPC images into VMware images.
e r-30-easy-way-to-create-virtual-machines-on-your-c omputer/
That would let you run them in VMware on Linux.
http://blog.adglobe.net/2006/11/01/vmware-convert
SCO will continue to serve its purpose for a while. :)
When a land mine explodes, you don't consider the mine a failure because it was destroyed in the process.
Given the impressive mileage they got from SCO, "SCOvell" is a logical successor.
All of which are ideal against Westernized military forces and less than ideal against dispersed irregulars, let alone dispersed irregulars with public support in our own country. BTW our total quantities of everything you mention are not nearly enough to internally control the US.
We can't even control Iraq, so what makes you think a divided government and military could easily squelch a genuinely popular domestic revolt?
Such a revolt would of course include members of the military (who ARE part of the "public"!), with their equipment. The Second Amendment ensures dispersed weaponry available to the public to support a revolt. It does not assume or imply that small arms would be the only resources available.
"In most companies, the employees are not going to be security-savy, and they will not question a potential intruder."
They do need reminding now and then even if they ARE security-savvy.
At my base, which will remain nameless, the Security Forces have a sense of humor:
They sent an NCO in a full clown suit (as in "Ronald McDonald"), wearing a backpack sprayer full of tap water, into our Military Personnel Flight area. He wandered around spraying various offices for more than a half-hour until he was challenged! They filmed it from an interior balcony and now use that example during security training classes.
"It's amazing that we have this for cars, but not for guns."
Guns are necessary to embed the ability to revolt in American society. The Founders, being _real_ revolutionaries, "got" this fundamental truth.
An armed and resisting public can wear out an opponent even if they do not beat them in battle.
Why shouldn't people enjoy some aspects of combat?
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I find it interesting that many Slashdotters enjoy violent RPGs, yet are anti-war, and do not understand that enjoying REAL combat is obviously part of human nature.
"Actually, it's a lot of fun to fight. You know, it's a hell of a hoot... It's fun to shoot some people. I'll be right upfront with you, I like brawling."
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/02/03/nationa
Unless no one at Novell reads Groklaw, it is fair to say they knew exactly what they were doing when they chose to sleep with the enemy.
SCO is almost gone, long live SCOvell.
"For my windows home needs I can wait to upgrade the OS at the point where people are throwing away systems with it installed already."
Which is why I love the (upcoming) post-holiday season. Free parts and I can keep useful hardware out of the landfill.
Beige "works" in many settings.
Anyone wanting to beige-ify their non-beige case (for example to blend with beige decor) can use common automobile vinyl dye or plastic interior paint.
"There are plenty of examples of teachers teaching or communicating inappropriately on issues such as homosexuality, abortion, drugs, and politics."
Students should record and expose them, and no teacher should say anything in class they would not have broadcast to the world.
Teachers get paid to teach, not indoctrinate. The ones who don't get this should have their name and words immortalized on the web for all to see.
Kudos to Mathew LaClair, who displayed courage and very logical thinking.
I'd like to see many, many more young people use technology to hold their elders and people in positions of authority accountable.
An orbiting craft can loiter.
An orbiting craft can carry a veriety of ordnance to engage multiple and different types of targets.
An orbiting craft can position and reposition itself for surveillance missions.
An orbiting craft can stalk targets.
An orbiting craft can interdict enemy satellite launches and kill ballistic and cruise missiles.
Multiple stealthy orbiting craft can cluster over an enemy, then strike or wait as required.
24/7 presence over the battlefield can be a reality.
CONUS basing of such swift machines can reduce the need for deployments.
Killer drones are already controlled from CONUS, and this is their natural successor due to the absolute requirement to take the "high ground".
Beautiful idea really.
As the user of a single camera, he is the target of harassment. It is much harder to harass a dispersed group.
If the G8 protesters had MANY cameras and covered everything, then broadcasting the results, their innocence would be proven.
A "PanoptiMob", if you will. The purpose of a protest is to stand out and speak out. Footage would further that.
And if we had a better vocational school system we'd have more qualified "ditch digger" equipment operators!
College is dandy, but there are plenty of trades that pay well and offer the chance for independence as a contractor. There is still plenty of room for tradesmen to make money, but the gradual death of trade classes in high schools wastes the time of students who would excel in trades.
A "Frugal Install" (see Damn Small Linux forums for details) of your choice of live CD ISO image, with a seperate partition to save files, and a bookmarked webmail account would make things very simple.
Precisely. Note the videos of police brutality being caught on cell phone cams.
Perhaps the best way to the future is not to protect privacy/anonymity, but to destroy all of it, and adapt to the new, level playing field.
"you may not have seen the crackhead who put the slug through your heart... but at least internal affairs will be able to ID him."
If Internal Affairs is involved, the crackhead is/is working for another cop, and not likely to attack a cop in a manner allowing easy (or any) photo identification!
The answer to ubiquitous government cameras is ubiquitous civilian cameras.
Compare vids and keep everyone on the straight and narrow.
Many PDs require that officers authorized to use Tasers submit to a stun. Some even volonteer for a sustained jolt:
d eos.htm
http://www.orrville.com/OPD/Training%20Taser.htm
"i dare you to do it to yourself."
http://www.orrville.com/OPD/Training%20Taser%20Vi
"Just the threat would be a useful tool of terror and control."
Against clueless tinfoil-hatters who modded this up...
WTF people? This is a geek forum so how dare you not have clues to how technology works?
The massive dust plume would still pose a huge environmental threat. Think Tunguska.
The asteroid diversion would cost more than a nuke and be far more difficult to use.
Asteroid diversion lacks an immediate launch capability.
The only countries potentially capable of asteroid diversion already have nukes.
Tactical nukes are proven and using a few does not end life as we know it. (Google Map Hiroshima and Nagasaki if you have doubts.)
Atmospheric testing proved limited nuclear wars are indeed practical. Not nice, but practical, and they will always be an easier alternative than bowling with asteroids.
Depend on the gents, thweetie!
What is the potential for nanoparticle chem warfare agents?
Nanoparticles should disperse quite well, and if they get past conventional filters they could obsolete billions of dollars in NBC defenses.
Is a nanoparticle dirty bomb practical?
The remarkable shittiness of Clear Channel stations and formatted radio helped drive the many (tech/geeky at first)alternatives we have today.
We are in their debt for being so awful that the hole they left in the market fit satellite radio!
"If nobody can make money from it ..."
I wonder how much he got paid to say that.