Some of my guild have on occasion mused about switching faction, still under the "grass in greener" assumption that the opposing side has less asshats or are better at pvp.
Be warned, the asshats are everywhere.
Oh noes! We all know that all alliance players are 14 year old ninja-looting griefers while us horde players are all mature, outstanding intellectuals with a good set of social skills and lots of humor. That's why I spent 3 years grinding anything from flowers, deviate fish (Yarr!) and whipper roots, while the long-eared low-level elves I killed while grinding said consumables tried to get past level 30. And then said elves would make forum posts, complaining about immature horde players! How immature!:-)
Now with the terrain following radar, this isn't a situation a pilot would be wanting to override the computer on. well, unless the plane nose dives and the computer proves/indicates it is unreliable. Then you have a choice, let the computer crash you or let the pilot attempt to not crash you. Only with Boeing is that possible, with airbus, regardless of the situation, the computer takes precedence.
A well trained pilot would know when to trust the computers and when not to.
Generally, it is quite common in accidents that pilots lose what is referred to as situational awareness, ie they have no clue what is up or down. It is also quite common in those cases that the pilot is not self-aware of the fact that he/she has no such awareness. In any such situation, letting a pilot override a fully working computer can be fatal, quickly. You can also enter a state of Vertigo (or reversed if in a moving plane), as was the likely cause of Flash Airlines Flight 604
A good example of this is the Aeroflot Flight 593 crash where pilots were struggling to "regain" control of their aircraft, constantly overriding the corrective measures taking by the flight control system. The investigation shows that if they would just have let go of the controls for a short period of time, the plane would have automatically regained a controlled flight path.
The investigation also falsifies your statement that a pilot cannot override the computers in an airbus. (perhaps there are models where this is true, but your general statement is false)
Except that MMO is not an 'addiction' . . . it is a 'habit.' His friend will go through no withdrawal if his account expired tomorrow.
I see that you've obviously never been really into a game...
You have never been addicted to a MMO I hear.
I remember a few times when my internet connection went down, I got really frustrated I couldn't keep grinding instances, gold or consumables (WoW). I just desperately needed to get back online, and as soon as the connection was back up, it was like a blessing.
For me, I essentially got bored of the game, and when I realised I was spending all this time playing a game that I didn't even enjoy, I quit. I probably couldn't have quit unless I got bored of it, since I would have romantisised about the gaming while doing other things, wanting to go back to playing WoW.
It can be just as much of an addiction as many other things.
Why are critical systems not protected by a one inch air gap between the NIC and cable from remote exploit?
I'm honestly not sure. I work with ATC, although not in the US. The systems I have installed (Europe and Asia) have all been closed systems, there are very few physical connection between the servers and software working on radar- and flight data, and any equipment used to communicate externally.
Almost all communication is done via VCCS equipment (radio etc), so the controllers have screens with radar- and flight data, and separate screens and terminals for external data, such as flight plan processing terminals.
But since the US is large, and one authority is in charge of it all, I guess they saw the need for interconnectivity. Still, many things don't need to be interconnected anyway, and the networks are often easily fragmented so that the few systems being exposed to public networks are isolated from the important ones.
One thing I've never had any luck at... Going against my boss. Whatever else he may be... Regardless of what everyone on Slashdot says... He's the boss.
Are you trying to insinuate that there is a credability problem with referring your mission-critical decision to an "Anonymous Coward" post on slashdot?
I've spent many hours debugging things that ended up being poor quality TP connectors, but I've also saved countless more hours producing them myself compared to running to the store everytime.
For any permanent installation, go for the molded cables. For anything thats temporary, just pick whatever cable is closest.
And you're not guaranteed to be free of problems just because you buy expensive stuff, I've had problems with Dell PowerEdge switches and factory-made, properly molded STP cables, the RJ45 plug was simply too small and the copper pins didnt connect every time. Really odd, we had to throw away a whole box of STP patch cables for that reason.
Yep, the PS3 does play far from everything. Lots of WMV files, and some downloaded divx/xvid, in particular those not with standard audio streams, it simply refuses to play.
I've that seen MPG4/AAC in AVI containers rarely works for instance.
-- And no longer will you have to use UPnP media servers like TVersity that transcode video, severely reducing quality and cause unnecessary CPU load on the server. -- So how are you going to stream to the PS3? The PS3 is a UPnP client, of course you have to provide UPnP services. That has nothing to do with the transcoding.
They they state: -- The Playstation 3 streams through UPnP. --
So, now you do use UPnP.
And sure it is convenient to have this built-in, but why would that use less resources than a 3rd party server? The job has to be done anyway...
Its a nice feature, especially if they can get transcoding to work smoothly in conjunction with pausing, stopping, searching backwards and forwards in files. Otherwise the new PS3 feature to get 1 minute snapshots to browse back and forth in episodes will not work very well.
From what I can see from the format list, they don't do transcoding anyway, they just provide UPnP streaming, and it is way too rough when it says "YES/OK" for XVid/DivX. That depends not on the container, but what is contained in them. Some DivX files I have are not encoded with standard mp3 sound, hence they are not playable without transcoding to begin with.
In any case: - Journalists can take pictures of anything they see, so why shouldn't I (not sure if a screenshot would pass the same test)
The freedom of press would include you as well, as long as you are using the pictures for journalistic purposes, ie publishing them in a journalistic (news)paper or something similar.
If you try to take a picture of, say Bill Gates, you are allowed to do so. What mattes then is what you do with the picture. Keep it for yourself? Fine. Give it to your friends? Fine. Sell it to a newspaper? Fine. Sell it on ebay? NOT Fine.
Same goes for certain buildings that are being "copyrighted". The Eiffel tower for instance, you are allowed to take pictures of it in daytime and sell them for whatever purpose you want. But the light show during night time is copyrighted, and you are no longer allowed to sell it, make posters out of your picture and sell it, etc.
Basically, you can do whatever you want, as far as you are not making money out of it. Unless you are a journalist, then you can do even a little more.
Both stealing time and stealing a girlfriend means taking a _limited resource_ from someone. Making a copy of software is not the same, it does not affect any existing item. That is why it is not stealing / theft, but copyright violations.
I'm looking for a well written and researched piece that can tell me why TPB and other such sites are good for society, not some crap "I just want stuff for free" argument.
It is not that sites like TPB is good for society. It is that a society that bans a site like TPM is bad for the citizens.
Take the Mohammad Cartoons as an example. Yes, it may be offensive, but disallowing a newspaper to publish a cartoon, and having the whole of EU pass legislation to prevent the "ridiculement" of religions, is just a bloody outrage.
Freedom of speech is way more important to humankind than the ability to squeeze every little dollar out of Britney Spears latest album. This does not make copyright infrigment _right_, but thats another story.
Right now, they _are_ criminals. That was decided by the court, which has the power to make that decision.
And sure, the name itself implies that they want the site to be used to "pirate" things. But the interesting thing is that the court apparently dont understand the consequences of this ruling.
Who do you think has made the most money out of sites like these? The site owners, or the broadband providers? Sweden has one of the worlds highest broadband penetration rates in the world, and financial analysts have deemed that the ISP industry will collapse because people wont pay 600SEK / month for 20Mbit/20Mbit, but rather take the 99SEK for 512/256 or something.
Essentially, the whole broadband industry has been making money on this for years now, and now they must be fair game. They _obviously_ knows what is sent over their linese (since they sometimes even throttle bittorrent traffic etc).
Maybe this was the best that could happen, because now the laws have to be rewritten so that they make sense again. If you cannot prosecute a phone company for someone making a "bad" phone call, or the postal service for someone sending a "bad" packet, why should broadband providers be responsible? And if they are not to be, this is becoming very fishy...
Both parties have already made statements that they will appeal if lost, even before the verdict came. This was the first level of Swedish legal system, now it will progress upp to "HovrÃtten", and from that very likely to the Supreme Court.
This case really has to go all the way given that it is the first case of its type, and that a prejudicating ruling must be available for the future.
Today I learned that, by vectoring two aircraft so that their paths cross at some point, they will instantly be sucked into the same spot and explode outside the White House. Somehow they even managed to disable the onboard TCAS system, being a closed system thats quite impressive!
All this of course made possible by the "CPI device" that can bypass the one and only firewall that the whole US has to protect ALL its critical infrastructure.
It can also jam radio waves from hundreds of miles away between different aircraft, from hundreds of kilometers away. I think Jack Bauer is in for trouble this time!
You need a pair of headphones with a "remote control" device on them to use it.
Apple designed it like this so that you can put the player away, so you dont have to pull it out of your pocket to change songs, volume up/down pause etc.
The same goes for many mobile phones, the Sony PSP, if you want to provide extra functionality outside the 2 channel sound, you have to do something extra.
President-elect or not.. I for one would like to see how this is going to be realized:
Obama and Biden will secure all loose nuclear materials in the world within four years.
I mean.. huh? Seriously? Why don't they invent an infinity machine, create world peace and stop femine while they are at it?
Or does "secure" mean invade? There are 10+ old USSR-republics, along with China, Pakistan, Iran et al countries with access to nuclear materials. How on earth is this going to happen in four years?
As Napoleon once said: "History is a set of lies agreed upon"
I mean, a page describing how Jesus ascended into heaven after being buried. Is that truthful? I guess one billion people would say it is.
Quite often, truth is just what most people think. Burning witches in the dark ages was fine, because we _knew_ they were witches.
This seems like some guy who just woke up after believing some dude was going to send him one million dollars, and now he wants the internet to be all "truthful".
Yea, and this also brings some interesting light to the issue with "If you have nothing to hide, why don't you want to provide us with your [biometrics|passport|id|*]" argument.
Refusing to give away address, email, phones, SSID along with fingerprints is almost considered a crime in itself right now, since if you are not planning on terrorist activities, you don't have anything to hide, have you!?
But here, perfectly innocent people suddenly have all their personal information spread to criminal groups or whoever end up being the buyer of this information.
Quite likely it did work at the time of FAT, SAT, Shadow operation and when going into live operation.
If it breaks down later on is another issue, that's not possible to test for beforehand. Isn't that pretty obvious? It is like testing a car to see if it will ever be in an accident. You sir, are the drunk one:)
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I always thought that was the name of the guy who built Data. Wasn't it? Dr. Noone Young Sung?
Doctor Noonien Soong
Some of my guild have on occasion mused about switching faction, still under the "grass in greener" assumption that the opposing side has less asshats or are better at pvp.
Be warned, the asshats are everywhere.
Oh noes! We all know that all alliance players are 14 year old ninja-looting griefers while us horde players are all mature, outstanding intellectuals with a good set of social skills and lots of humor. That's why I spent 3 years grinding anything from flowers, deviate fish (Yarr!) and whipper roots, while the long-eared low-level elves I killed while grinding said consumables tried to get past level 30. And then said elves would make forum posts, complaining about immature horde players! How immature! :-)
Now with the terrain following radar, this isn't a situation a pilot would be wanting to override the computer on. well, unless the plane nose dives and the computer proves/indicates it is unreliable. Then you have a choice, let the computer crash you or let the pilot attempt to not crash you. Only with Boeing is that possible, with airbus, regardless of the situation, the computer takes precedence.
A well trained pilot would know when to trust the computers and when not to.
Generally, it is quite common in accidents that pilots lose what is referred to as situational awareness, ie they have no clue what is up or down. It is also quite common in those cases that the pilot is not self-aware of the fact that he/she has no such awareness. In any such situation, letting a pilot override a fully working computer can be fatal, quickly. You can also enter a state of Vertigo (or reversed if in a moving plane), as was the likely cause of Flash Airlines Flight 604
A good example of this is the Aeroflot Flight 593 crash where pilots were struggling to "regain" control of their aircraft, constantly overriding the corrective measures taking by the flight control system. The investigation shows that if they would just have let go of the controls for a short period of time, the plane would have automatically regained a controlled flight path.
The investigation also falsifies your statement that a pilot cannot override the computers in an airbus. (perhaps there are models where this is true, but your general statement is false)
Except that MMO is not an 'addiction' . . . it is a 'habit.' His friend will go through no withdrawal if his account expired tomorrow.
I see that you've obviously never been really into a game...
You have never been addicted to a MMO I hear.
I remember a few times when my internet connection went down, I got really frustrated I couldn't keep grinding instances, gold or consumables (WoW). I just desperately needed to get back online, and as soon as the connection was back up, it was like a blessing.
For me, I essentially got bored of the game, and when I realised I was spending all this time playing a game that I didn't even enjoy, I quit. I probably couldn't have quit unless I got bored of it, since I would have romantisised about the gaming while doing other things, wanting to go back to playing WoW.
It can be just as much of an addiction as many other things.
They might get the current build of the game, though.
I sure know which out of the two I'd want if I was Take Two!
12 million dollars, or vaporware?
Hm, which one to pick?...
Why are critical systems not protected by a one inch air gap between the NIC and cable from remote exploit?
I'm honestly not sure. I work with ATC, although not in the US. The systems I have installed (Europe and Asia) have all been closed systems, there are very few physical connection between the servers and software working on radar- and flight data, and any equipment used to communicate externally.
Almost all communication is done via VCCS equipment (radio etc), so the controllers have screens with radar- and flight data, and separate screens and terminals for external data, such as flight plan processing terminals.
But since the US is large, and one authority is in charge of it all, I guess they saw the need for interconnectivity. Still, many things don't need to be interconnected anyway, and the networks are often easily fragmented so that the few systems being exposed to public networks are isolated from the important ones.
One thing I've never had any luck at... Going against my boss. Whatever else he may be... Regardless of what everyone on Slashdot says... He's the boss.
Are you trying to insinuate that there is a credability problem with referring your mission-critical decision to an "Anonymous Coward" post on slashdot?
I've spent many hours debugging things that ended up being poor quality TP connectors, but I've also saved countless more hours producing them myself compared to running to the store everytime.
For any permanent installation, go for the molded cables. For anything thats temporary, just pick whatever cable is closest.
And you're not guaranteed to be free of problems just because you buy expensive stuff, I've had problems with Dell PowerEdge switches and factory-made, properly molded STP cables, the RJ45 plug was simply too small and the copper pins didnt connect every time. Really odd, we had to throw away a whole box of STP patch cables for that reason.
Yep, the PS3 does play far from everything. Lots of WMV files, and some downloaded divx/xvid, in particular those not with standard audio streams, it simply refuses to play.
I've that seen MPG4/AAC in AVI containers rarely works for instance.
Or do you mean on your console of choice? One can't install additional codecs on either off them?
Yes, I meant on my PS3. And I cannot install codecs on that one apparently, so I'm stuck doing playbacks on the few formats it does support.
Hence the need for transcoding.
It looks like it cannot make up its mind:
--
And no longer will you have to use UPnP media servers like TVersity that transcode video, severely reducing quality and cause unnecessary CPU load on the server.
--
So how are you going to stream to the PS3? The PS3 is a UPnP client, of course you have to provide UPnP services. That has nothing to do with the transcoding.
They they state:
--
The Playstation 3 streams through UPnP.
--
So, now you do use UPnP.
And sure it is convenient to have this built-in, but why would that use less resources than a 3rd party server? The job has to be done anyway...
Its a nice feature, especially if they can get transcoding to work smoothly in conjunction with pausing, stopping, searching backwards and forwards in files. Otherwise the new PS3 feature to get 1 minute snapshots to browse back and forth in episodes will not work very well.
From what I can see from the format list, they don't do transcoding anyway, they just provide UPnP streaming, and it is way too rough when it says "YES/OK" for XVid/DivX. That depends not on the container, but what is contained in them. Some DivX files I have are not encoded with standard mp3 sound, hence they are not playable without transcoding to begin with.
In any case:
- Journalists can take pictures of anything they see, so why shouldn't I (not sure if a screenshot would pass the same test)
The freedom of press would include you as well, as long as you are using the pictures for journalistic purposes, ie publishing them in a journalistic (news)paper or something similar.
If you try to take a picture of, say Bill Gates, you are allowed to do so. What mattes then is what you do with the picture. Keep it for yourself? Fine. Give it to your friends? Fine. Sell it to a newspaper? Fine. Sell it on ebay? NOT Fine.
Same goes for certain buildings that are being "copyrighted". The Eiffel tower for instance, you are allowed to take pictures of it in daytime and sell them for whatever purpose you want. But the light show during night time is copyrighted, and you are no longer allowed to sell it, make posters out of your picture and sell it, etc.
Basically, you can do whatever you want, as far as you are not making money out of it. Unless you are a journalist, then you can do even a little more.
Both stealing time and stealing a girlfriend means taking a _limited resource_ from someone. Making a copy of software is not the same, it does not affect any existing item. That is why it is not stealing / theft, but copyright violations.
I'm looking for a well written and researched piece that can tell me why TPB and other such sites are good for society, not some crap "I just want stuff for free" argument.
It is not that sites like TPB is good for society. It is that a society that bans a site like TPM is bad for the citizens.
Take the Mohammad Cartoons as an example. Yes, it may be offensive, but disallowing a newspaper to publish a cartoon, and having the whole of EU pass legislation to prevent the "ridiculement" of religions, is just a bloody outrage.
Freedom of speech is way more important to humankind than the ability to squeeze every little dollar out of Britney Spears latest album. This does not make copyright infrigment _right_, but thats another story.
Right now, they _are_ criminals. That was decided by the court, which has the power to make that decision.
And sure, the name itself implies that they want the site to be used to "pirate" things. But the interesting thing is that the court apparently dont understand the consequences of this ruling.
Who do you think has made the most money out of sites like these? The site owners, or the broadband providers? Sweden has one of the worlds highest broadband penetration rates in the world, and financial analysts have deemed that the ISP industry will collapse because people wont pay 600SEK / month for 20Mbit/20Mbit, but rather take the 99SEK for 512/256 or something.
Essentially, the whole broadband industry has been making money on this for years now, and now they must be fair game. They _obviously_ knows what is sent over their linese (since they sometimes even throttle bittorrent traffic etc).
Maybe this was the best that could happen, because now the laws have to be rewritten so that they make sense again. If you cannot prosecute a phone company for someone making a "bad" phone call, or the postal service for someone sending a "bad" packet, why should broadband providers be responsible? And if they are not to be, this is becoming very fishy...
Both parties have already made statements that they will appeal if lost, even before the verdict came. This was the first level of Swedish legal system, now it will progress upp to "HovrÃtten", and from that very likely to the Supreme Court.
This case really has to go all the way given that it is the first case of its type, and that a prejudicating ruling must be available for the future.
Yes, you can learn a lot of things from 24!
Today I learned that, by vectoring two aircraft so that their paths cross at some point, they will instantly be sucked into the same spot and explode outside the White House. Somehow they even managed to disable the onboard TCAS system, being a closed system thats quite impressive!
All this of course made possible by the "CPI device" that can bypass the one and only firewall that the whole US has to protect ALL its critical infrastructure.
It can also jam radio waves from hundreds of miles away between different aircraft, from hundreds of kilometers away. I think Jack Bauer is in for trouble this time!
Why is _everyone_ missing the point? :-)
The iPod Shuffle DOES NOT HAVE ANY BUTTONS ON IT!
You need a pair of headphones with a "remote control" device on them to use it.
Apple designed it like this so that you can put the player away, so you dont have to pull it out of your pocket to change songs, volume up/down pause etc.
The same goes for many mobile phones, the Sony PSP, if you want to provide extra functionality outside the 2 channel sound, you have to do something extra.
Huh? :-)
A "T1" connection is quite slow by todays standards, capping out at around 1.5Mbps.
So first of all you never had any 11 Mbps through it, and secondly you never would want one today.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Signal_1
QFT!
Interestingly enough, the website has changed the text to:
Barack Obama will lead a global effort to secure all nuclear weapons materials at vulnerable sites within four years -
Guess they couldnt live up to the old statement. But Obama promised "Change", so here it is ...
President-elect or not.. I for one would like to see how this is going to be realized:
Obama and Biden will secure all loose nuclear materials in the world within four years.
I mean.. huh? Seriously? Why don't they invent an infinity machine, create world peace and stop femine while they are at it?
Or does "secure" mean invade? There are 10+ old USSR-republics, along with China, Pakistan, Iran et al countries with access to nuclear materials. How on earth is this going to happen in four years?
Well, according to who? ;-)
Who's truth?
As Napoleon once said: "History is a set of lies agreed upon"
I mean, a page describing how Jesus ascended into heaven after being buried. Is that truthful? I guess one billion people would say it is.
Quite often, truth is just what most people think. Burning witches in the dark ages was fine, because we _knew_ they were witches.
This seems like some guy who just woke up after believing some dude was going to send him one million dollars, and now he wants the internet to be all "truthful".
Yea, and this also brings some interesting light to the issue with "If you have nothing to hide, why don't you want to provide us with your [biometrics|passport|id|*]" argument.
Refusing to give away address, email, phones, SSID along with fingerprints is almost considered a crime in itself right now, since if you are not planning on terrorist activities, you don't have anything to hide, have you!?
But here, perfectly innocent people suddenly have all their personal information spread to criminal groups or whoever end up being the buyer of this information.
Scary stuff...
Quite likely it did work at the time of FAT, SAT, Shadow operation and when going into live operation.
If it breaks down later on is another issue, that's not possible to test for beforehand. Isn't that pretty obvious? It is like testing a car to see if it will ever be in an accident. You sir, are the drunk one :)