No building is built without any foundation, and similarly no achievement we may consider can possibly be suppoted by just one man. BSD and Linux have armies of coders, quietly hacking in the background. No man is an island. One person suggested the Ebay founder. This site is maintained daily by a regiment of web-gurus, who deserve the recognition just as much, if not more than the founder, who needs do no more than sit down and reap the rewards of an idea. We cannot simply credit a good idea, for those come often, and die just as often. We must also salute the work that goes behind it, so we must consider the dark nights spent coding the webserver and OS that supports that site. I nominate everyone that had a part in the daily wonders we all take for granted, for without them the occaisional monumental achievement is nothing. These peons are the ones we all depend on, whether we know it or not. The only people often nominated are too often the ones that already have been recognized for their achievements. We cannot allow them to go unnoticed, but there are hundreds of small footsteps that do go unnoticed. While we worship these deities, we ignore those who stand in their shadow.
Suppose this: a person finds a new DoS exploit similar to a nuke and releases the source to a program that implements the attack. Now it will be used to attack someone, but there is also the other side: without an availible exploit to test against, how can such a vulnerability be patched?
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>To bad the postulated warp drive require >unreasonable amounts of mass or the existence >negative mass. Negative mass hasn't been found >and there really isn't any reason for it to be >around.
Actually, no it doesn't. A story appeared on/. actually, stating that a few modifications to the postulated equations reduces the energy requirements by something like 63 orders of magnitude. Mass was reduced to I believe a few kilograms.
Also, if I correctly understand warp drive, the idea is that while you are limited to a speed c, you can theoretically get around it by reducing the distance you travel. The conecpt is that if you fold space, so it is curved, then the actual distance between the source and destination decreases. If you fold the two of them closer, but you travel straight (Not along the curve), you may only cover the distance at 0.1c, but you ALSO covered the distance between the source and destination in real space, so relative to real space you may be going faster than c.
Am I the only one that thinks that stupidity ought to be a valid legal argument? I mean if something just plain defies common sense is that not enough to throw out the case? I mean this shit is just plain ludicris (sp?). Hmm, if they win I'll sue em for setting a bad example to the other parents. Hmm let's see and then there's the government for letting this travesty continue this far.... hmm all that violence had to be displayed on a moniter wouldn't it? Well so now we gotta sue the moniter-makers... same thing goes for speakers... hmm was he sitting in a CHAIR when he was Quaking? Well that'll have to be taken care of.... This shit is ridiculous and you know it. The government knows it. The whole damned world knows it and yet this farse continues. Am I the only one that sees a problem with that?
It's bout time someone said all this. It is a bit philosophical but it states the problems well. Am I the only one that finds the government regulations ridiculous? Seeing as how the net spans beyond countries and states and whatever I don't think it can really be regulated... It seems as if people are attemting to force sites to be compliant with all laws in all cities and all countries and whatever, since the net can be accessed from those cities. And there's no way that a site is going to comply to all US regs, Chinese regs, Mexican regs, Spanish regs, Canadian regs, and whoever else is trying to regulate the net. It's just plain stupid. Am I the only one that thinks there is no good way to regulate the net and it should be allowed to be free of encumberance by ANY organazation, including all countries, the UN, whoever wants to screw it up?
Alright, suppose now that there is a security risk and that it is a risk to my privacy and I'm paranoid and all that. I don't really know either way, but just hypothetically, assume this. Now since Intel will release some "software program" to disable the serial #, then what do I do if I'm not using windows? Linux runs on x86. BeOS. Many *nix variants. Is Intel going to release a binary that'll run on ANY SINGLE system? There are an awful lot of differant configurations they have to worry about. Even on Linux, there's libc5 systems and glibc2 systems. You see the prob?
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No building is built without any foundation, and similarly no achievement we may consider can possibly be suppoted by just one man. BSD and Linux have armies of coders, quietly hacking in the background. No man is an island. One person suggested the Ebay founder. This site is maintained daily by a regiment of web-gurus, who deserve the recognition just as much, if not more than the founder, who needs do no more than sit down and reap the rewards of an idea. We cannot simply credit a good idea, for those come often, and die just as often. We must also salute the work that goes behind it, so we must consider the dark nights spent coding the webserver and OS that supports that site. I nominate everyone that had a part in the daily wonders we all take for granted, for without them the occaisional monumental achievement is nothing. These peons are the ones we all depend on, whether we know it or not. The only people often nominated are too often the ones that already have been recognized for their achievements. We cannot allow them to go unnoticed, but there are hundreds of small footsteps that do go unnoticed. While we worship these deities, we ignore those who stand in their shadow.
Suppose this: a person finds a new DoS exploit similar to a nuke and releases the source to a program that implements the attack. Now it will be used to attack someone, but there is also the other side: without an availible exploit to test against, how can such a vulnerability be patched?
>To bad the postulated warp drive require >unreasonable amounts of mass or the existence >negative mass. Negative mass hasn't been found >and there really isn't any reason for it to be >around.
/. actually, stating that a few modifications to the postulated equations reduces the energy requirements by something like 63 orders of magnitude. Mass was reduced to I believe a few kilograms.
Actually, no it doesn't. A story appeared on
Also, if I correctly understand warp drive, the idea is that while you are limited to a speed c, you can theoretically get around it by reducing the distance you travel. The conecpt is that if you fold space, so it is curved, then the actual distance between the source and destination decreases. If you fold the two of them closer, but you travel straight (Not along the curve), you may only cover the distance at 0.1c, but you ALSO covered the distance between the source and destination in real space, so relative to real space you may be going faster than c.
Am I the only one that thinks that stupidity ought to be a valid legal argument? I mean if something just plain defies common sense is that not enough to throw out the case? I mean this shit is just plain ludicris (sp?). Hmm, if they win I'll sue em for setting a bad example to the other parents. Hmm let's see and then there's the government for letting this travesty continue this far.... hmm all that violence had to be displayed on a moniter wouldn't it? Well so now we gotta sue the moniter-makers... same thing goes for speakers... hmm was he sitting in a CHAIR when he was Quaking? Well that'll have to be taken care of.... This shit is ridiculous and you know it. The government knows it. The whole damned world knows it and yet this farse continues. Am I the only one that sees a problem with that?
It's bout time someone said all this. It is a bit philosophical but it states the problems well. Am I the only one that finds the government regulations ridiculous? Seeing as how the net spans beyond countries and states and whatever I don't think it can really be regulated... It seems as if people are attemting to force sites to be compliant with all laws in all cities and all countries and whatever, since the net can be accessed from those cities. And there's no way that a site is going to comply to all US regs, Chinese regs, Mexican regs, Spanish regs, Canadian regs, and whoever else is trying to regulate the net. It's just plain stupid. Am I the only one that thinks there is no good way to regulate the net and it should be allowed to be free of encumberance by ANY organazation, including all countries, the UN, whoever wants to screw it up?
Alright, suppose now that there is a security risk and that it is a risk to my privacy and I'm paranoid and all that. I don't really know either way, but just hypothetically, assume this. Now since Intel will release some "software program" to disable the serial #, then what do I do if I'm not using windows? Linux runs on x86. BeOS. Many *nix variants. Is Intel going to release a binary that'll run on ANY SINGLE system? There are an awful lot of differant configurations they have to worry about. Even on Linux, there's libc5 systems and glibc2 systems. You see the prob?