There are plenty of new viruses out there all the time. There is plenty of attention to the nastiness out there, which is good for the market. So some company would tweak their tool so it adds a tiny bit to the general insecure situation.
They'd have to arrange for internal secrecy so few people get to know the issue.
They're ready to take a hit when the next guy does a comparative batch test for viruses and declares their product unsafe.
They can't leave a paper/email trail so you can find out about the bad intent. Or a trail in the sourcetree.
They have to watch out extra for disgruntled ex-employees who want to get even.
It would complicate jobs unnecessarily. And the shareholders would not agree. No good intentions implied.
It could pay more to hype the existing security issues. If it's possible to add to the existing hype.
This buried transcript showing what really happened is yet another proof that the powers that be rewrite history to create the myths that suit them.
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I think of the Gary Larson cartoon where God participates in a game show, and leads with an outrageous 15000 points against the current champion,who hasn't even scored yet.
Success can show in the absence of stories. The more boring the story, the better!
Q: So you switched to Mozilla? A: What? Q: Have you switched to using a web browser called Mozilla? A: Ah. Yes, I use the Mozilla web browser. Q: Was the transition a success? A: What transition? Q: the transition to Mozilla. Did it go well? A: I don't really remember. In fact , I have trouble recalling when exactly we switched. Q: Did you have problems changing? A: I guess not. Probably I would recall if there were problems. Q: But you didn't notice? A: Not that I recall. But maybe if you ask around, you'll find somebody who did.
What do you want to sell, that the new program is better? Or that you don't remember anything about the new program?
Ollander would be more fun. Which makes me think they missed quite an opportunity. With some research, they could have insulted all the nationalities of the world in a single combobox.
A combo with longwinded flowery descriptions would be nice too.
From memory, i think the trick is not that smaller bombs suffice, but rather that in the atmosphere(contrary to in vacuum) , the intensity of radiation does not just follow an inverse square root rule. There is an additional exponential attenuation. Light and UV will reach far, but heat and gamma rays will not. So the proportions of all the components vary a lot depending on the distance. Because neutron bomb has high neutron radiation, which has a long reach, it becomes possible to detonate the bomb high enough so that other components become relatively small and damage to infrastructure is limited.
I would consider damage to infrastructure to be sort-of-kind-of-proportional to the amount of dust swept up. And i suspect the amount of second hand radiation that is created is also related to the amount of dust swept up. Meaning, air is not good at creating second hand radioactivity. But I'm guessing..
The optimal choice of compression is not important. Does it matter if one format takes twice as much place as another format? 100 pages will fit on a CD.
Scanning time : if a few thousand * 20 seconds is acceptable, then i wouldn't bother too much about that either.
OCR: only consider it for indexing typed pages, if at all.
I'm not sure your example shows they're right leaning. Government friendly maybe.
I'll give another example of government friendliness. I recall that there a CNN internal memo from the Afghanistan war was leaked . It said that war images should be sandwiched in short flashes of 9/11 scenes. This is a classic technique to help people look at the war pictures 'in the right way'. That is unacceptable behaviour for journalists.
Later on, I saw the same happen with the Iraq war. Again short flashes of 9/11 scenes. Now that was weird.
A percentage of fired shells does not explode. Depending on the model. You can be sure there are plenty of fired shells lying around loaded with chemical weapons. Usually degraded , with reduced potency.
Even unused shells from the war with Iran will have little potency.
And mustard gas, well, maybe they should check if it's not from the British in WWI. Mustard gas only became a forbidden weapon afterwards. Yeah I know, technical violation of rules. But in practice, amounts matter.
When you have Rumsfeld doing his "I wouldn't be so sure" shtick(he's not making false claims, see? ), he's saying "we have a window to start speculating here. Use it." The next day Safire in the NYTimes already made the possibility into a fact.
Properly usage meaning everybody line up for your shot of sarin? The last attempt to kill many people was in a japanese metro. 11 dead. It's not easy to kill many people with chemical weapons. Though it's sure possible to make many people ill for a long time.
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in that case, we shouldn't forget the corollary: What looks like stupidity from one point of view may make perfect sense from another point of view.
Maybe not too smart either.
There are plenty of new viruses out there all the time. There is plenty of attention to the nastiness out there, which is good for the market. So some company would tweak their tool so it adds a tiny bit to the general insecure situation.
They'd have to arrange for internal secrecy so few people get to know the issue.
They're ready to take a hit when the next guy does a comparative batch test for viruses and declares their product unsafe.
They can't leave a paper/email trail so you can find out about the bad intent. Or a trail in the sourcetree.
They have to watch out extra for disgruntled ex-employees who want to get even.
It would complicate jobs unnecessarily. And the shareholders would not agree. No good intentions implied.
It could pay more to hype the existing security issues. If it's possible to add to the existing hype.
What, i have to write text in this field too?
good old plain summaries.
there are no stupid people. Only very smart people conspiring to make you believe they're dumb.
This buried transcript showing what really happened is yet another proof that the powers that be rewrite history to create the myths that suit them.
I think of the Gary Larson cartoon where God participates in a game show, and leads with an outrageous 15000 points against the current champion ,who hasn't even scored yet.
Success can show in the absence of stories. The more boring the story, the better!
Q: So you switched to Mozilla?
A: What?
Q: Have you switched to using a web browser called Mozilla?
A: Ah. Yes, I use the Mozilla web browser.
Q: Was the transition a success?
A: What transition?
Q: the transition to Mozilla. Did it go well?
A: I don't really remember. In fact , I have trouble recalling when exactly we switched.
Q: Did you have problems changing?
A: I guess not. Probably I would recall if there were problems.
Q: But you didn't notice?
A: Not that I recall. But maybe if you ask around, you'll find somebody who did.
What do you want to sell, that the new program is better? Or that you don't remember anything about the new program?
Reminder: if you slashdot a country with humans, it's called massive immigration
Ollander would be more fun. Which makes me think they missed quite an opportunity. With some research, they could have insulted all the nationalities of the world in a single combobox.
A combo with longwinded flowery descriptions would be nice too.
From memory, i think the trick is not that smaller bombs suffice, but rather that in the atmosphere(contrary to in vacuum) , the intensity of radiation does not just follow an inverse square root rule. There is an additional exponential attenuation. Light and UV will reach far, but heat and gamma rays will not. So the proportions of all the components vary a lot depending on the distance.
Because neutron bomb has high neutron radiation, which has a long reach,
it becomes possible to detonate the bomb high enough so that other components become relatively small and damage to infrastructure is limited.
I would consider damage to infrastructure to be sort-of-kind-of-proportional to the amount of dust swept up. And i suspect the amount of second hand radiation that is created is also related to the amount of dust swept up. Meaning, air is not good at creating second hand radioactivity. But I'm guessing..
a lot of it anyway. There isn't that much direct latin influence.
,justement, hériter.
In your phrase, candidates for french are:
actuellement, langage, autres, baser
And mr nextlevel:
Patriotique, cité, langage, république,ennemi, trahison, respectable, honorable, punir, acte, assurer, condoner.
Of course we should be talking about old , and Norman, french. There's your way out...
Ugh, i ment he came up with it as an excuse. But it was a dead end anyway. So the Gropenfuhrer gets off the hook today :)
Typical. It didn't occur to him to make up an excuse. He should just have told them he was a porn actor. Save his face.
Gee, must have been tough on him at Yale. They probably called him Curly.
"Okay, whose hair ended up in my soup? Guess there's one guy here who is not to blame, HAR, HAR, HAR!"
insinuate that the president of the United States wears a wig! ..W is for wig?
said the guy playing russian roulette.
Any resemblance to any existing person is pure coincidence...
Because I changed all their names.
The article ended up here through dumb luck.
"somebody" is Strategic Air Command, which is high enough. So they eliminated a security margin without telling anyone.
The second part describes how some other guys were/are also removing constraints following their own judgement. This time it's in using the 'small print' on the role of the president
McNamara was sec. of defense during the Cuba crisis. In 2002 he stated that dumb luck played an important role in avoiding nuclear war.
Or maybe it was God's help . Quick! Name a president!
1. make sure you use a good sheet feeder.
2. that's all.
The optimal choice of compression is not important. Does it matter if one format takes twice as much place as another format? 100 pages will fit on a CD.
Scanning time : if a few thousand * 20 seconds is acceptable, then i wouldn't bother too much about that either.
OCR: only consider it for indexing typed pages, if at all.
I thought the Columbine movie was about American fear and insecurity. And I thought he presented a good case.
I'm not sure your example shows they're right leaning. Government friendly maybe.
I'll give another example of government friendliness. I recall that there a CNN internal memo from the Afghanistan war was leaked . It said that war images should be sandwiched in short flashes of 9/11 scenes. This is a classic technique to help people look at the war pictures 'in the right way'. That is unacceptable behaviour for journalists.
Later on, I saw the same happen with the Iraq war. Again short flashes of 9/11 scenes. Now that was weird.
A percentage of fired shells does not explode. Depending on the model. You can be sure there are plenty of fired shells lying around loaded with chemical weapons. Usually degraded , with reduced potency.
Even unused shells from the war with Iran will have little potency.
And mustard gas, well, maybe they should check if it's not from the British in WWI. Mustard gas only became a forbidden weapon afterwards. Yeah I know, technical violation of rules. But in practice, amounts matter.
When you have Rumsfeld doing his "I wouldn't be so sure" shtick(he's not making false claims, see? ), he's saying "we have a window to start speculating here. Use it." The next day Safire in the NYTimes already made the possibility into a fact.
Properly usage meaning everybody line up for your shot of sarin? The last attempt to kill many people was in a japanese metro. 11 dead. It's not easy to kill many people with chemical weapons. Though it's sure possible to make many people ill for a long time.