And we are looking back 8000 years from today, since light took us 8,000 years to get to us. It will take another 8,000 years for a gamma blast to get to us. Something tells me were out of harms way.
My god, man, think of the children! Someone please think of the children!
Oh yes, I for one prefer NaCl (table salt) over H2SO4 (Sulfuric Acid) cause I like making Clorine Gas with Drain cleaner as by products
Thanks for letting everyone know Einstein, now they are going to make salt illegal because "only terrorists use salt, for making chemical weapons". Now what the hell am I going to put on popcorn, Sulfuric Acid? And don't even THINK about taking one of those little salt packages on an airplane!
Third, the attorneys who pressed this action should be disbarred
What about attorneys that represent people who committed crimes? That is even worse, should we disbar them as well? Perhaps we just pass a new law that applies to all lawsuits and criminal cases that says"
"Winning attorney gets to stay an attorney. Losing attorney must be disbarred"
That will teach the sorry bastids. After all, almost every attorney should be assumed evil and that only the "good guys" deserve an attorney. If we just get rid of all the attorney's that represent the bad guys, the world will be a better place. Right? Doesn't that sound fair?
Your 3mbit home bandwidth is theoretical BURST speed. The two T1s are guaranteed 1.54mbit each. Business DOES get more bandwidth, as in, 100% of what is promised, 99.99% of the time. If 6 people are downloading torrents on your block at the same time, you aren't going to be getting that 3mbit 50% of the time.
Also, T1s have 1.54mbit up AND 1.54mbit down, at the same time. Your cable has.25mbit up, or pay extra to get.5mbit up, max BURST speed. If you compare ping times (particularly how consistant the pings are) then you will also see a difference. 25ms vs 35ms-50ms doesn't sound like much, but it is still more consistant, and has less latency. It also means more headshots if you like gaming.
I'd agrue that it's NOT a whole different ballgame. Both are consumers paying for access.
And you would be showing that you don't know anything about internet access. Business class access comes with a guarantee of throughput, a guarantee of uptime (typically 4 nines, or 99.99% uptime) and a different level of service. Otherwise, we wouldn't be paying $850 a month for 3mbit/3mbit service (two bonded T1s), when 6mbit service is only $50 for homes.
Residential service doesn't cover fully saturating the available bandwidth because it is shared: I can saturate my T1s all I want. Residential doesn't require 2 or 3 year service contracts, but business class often does. Residential service doesn't guarantee to get your internet access back up in 60 minutes or less, even if they have to come string new copper or fiber, but they do on mine. Residential Terms of Service are NOT the same as business class in any shape, form or fashion. The fact that there may be limits on a lower grade of service (residential) shouldn't come as a surprise considering how cheap it is compared to business class.
Yes, that sucks, that is the breaks. If you don't like the limits, you can always go get business class service in your home. Then you don't have to worry about any limitations.
Um, it means you can copy the LICENSE and change it as long as you change the name. You don't have to change the name of software under the license. Any similar license just can't have the same name. duh.
I'm just going to bed, and it will no doubt be fixed by the time I wake up.
Since most of my boxen don't have "users" that can shell in other than me (the DNS server, firewall, webserver) I will just wait for the next kernel upgrade (a week maybe) and not worry. Same with desktops.
The existence of this bug is a failure on Linux's part.
Don't even get me started on Windows bugs (like image rendering...) that persisted for years unfixed. At least this wasn't known. If you want to rag about Linux, don't forget that Linus has never left a security bug in the kernel because it was 'obscure' or out of laziness. While MS is a better now, they wrote the book on ignoring securing in the 90s.
Guess what: software will always have bugs. Because Linux has a sane permissions system (user space vs. kernel space), it won't affect the vast majority of users or expose them to risks, or at worst, for a day or two.
You can always license it under the WTFPL, whose terms are quite simple: -------- DO WHAT THE FUCK YOU WANT TO PUBLIC LICENSE Version 2, December 2004
Copyright (C) 2004 Sam Hocevar 14 rue de Plaisance, 75014 Paris, France Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim or modified copies of this license document, and changing it is allowed as long as the name is changed.
DO WHAT THE FUCK YOU WANT TO PUBLIC LICENSE TERMS AND CONDITIONS FOR COPYING, DISTRIBUTION AND MODIFICATION
0. You just DO WHAT THE FUCK YOU WANT TO. --------
I would say that is a relatively free license, and it satisfies your scenario, if it really *is* a problem.
I doubt it. If anything, we would want Iran to have 100% free and uncensored access for all citizens.
So, your assertion about the good intentions of the USA towards the populace of Iran is unsupported
No where in that comment did I say the USA had good or bad intentions. Besides, either way, it is beneficial to America. You assume you know my intentions or my "politics", but you don't.
Like it or not, that is the entire intent of the 2nd Amendment of the U.S. Constitution. And this is why a few thousand nut jobs out in Montana and other sparsely populated areas are tolorated by 'normal people'.
During the Cold War, I always said "yea, let them drop a million troops in rural America and see how many die before the military can even arrive on the scene". There is currently more guns in the civilian population of the United States than citizens by a reasonable margin. You literally can't build enough robots to do the job. Maybe in a single location, or a few inner cities, but only in small condensed areas like that. The vast bulk of the country is where all the guns are.
People talk about how the 2nd Amendment doesn't apply in today's world, and to me, it seems exactly as applicable as it was in the 1700s.
And I hate this argument. You assume that a civilian organization would discover/invent the same things a military organization will, and it just ain't so. For maximum discovery, we need both. It is amazing what side discoveries you come up with when you are looking for the most efficient ways to kill people. One of them is the internet.
Or setup each computer with a static local IP and static DNS server, in addition to WEP, etc. Something I have been doing for years. Not very hard to find a DNS server near you to use, such as the ISP's. You can even read it off the router's setup page if you must.
Or install Spybot: Search & Destroy, and use advanced mode. It is pretty easy to change all your startup progs, without actually deleting them. Oh, and it scans for spyware, too.;)
This is *exactly* why I wish moderators could moderate the actual Slashdot article. Not digg style free for all, but I would used one of my mod points (dont have today) to push it off the front page into the "another stupid article that the slashdot editors didn't look at very well" pile. Getting more of those in the last year...
So, if the car runs hot, it will cause a radiator line to slip off, which in turn will cause the head gaskets to crack, but other than that, its a great car?
I'm really not trying to be a smart ass, but you have to admit, that is lowering the bar a bit. At least when it comes to ranking the car as "reliable".
Quite why you want your users to fear you, I don't know:P
Fear is a good tool to keep users from doing dumb things. They keep downloading "apps" when they look at porn at the office? Installing games with spyware? Let it crash, be down for two days, give reason as "spyware from downloading porn" if their boss asks. Nothing like good old fashioned fear to reduce the IT workload. Otherwise, users don't care because if it crashes, it only causes extra work for you, not them.
I think that is the key to remember: The OS can only protect a computer that someone isn't siting in front of. I can re/boot in single user mode and do anything I want to a Linux box, if I am sitting in front of it. If you have access to physcially TOUCH any computer, you can hack it, and likely no amount of operating system or other software can change that. Even disabling floppy, USB and CDROM wont' stop me from pulling the battery or jumping a jumper to reset the password. (with laptops, your mileage may vary)
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My god, man, think of the children! Someone please think of the children!
If these rays cool the planet, and Global Warming warms the planet, we should stay a nice luke-warm and be fine, right?
Except for the searing ultraviolet from a lack of ozone, I would say you are about spot on.
Oh yes, I for one prefer NaCl (table salt) over H2SO4 (Sulfuric Acid) cause I like making Clorine Gas with Drain cleaner as by products
Thanks for letting everyone know Einstein, now they are going to make salt illegal because "only terrorists use salt, for making chemical weapons". Now what the hell am I going to put on popcorn, Sulfuric Acid? And don't even THINK about taking one of those little salt packages on an airplane!
I name most of my servers after 'toons, such as Strongbad and Spongebob.
Then again, an add compain about how you can get "Freaky with our operating system" might be a bit much.
Third, the attorneys who pressed this action should be disbarred
What about attorneys that represent people who committed crimes? That is even worse, should we disbar them as well? Perhaps we just pass a new law that applies to all lawsuits and criminal cases that says"
"Winning attorney gets to stay an attorney. Losing attorney must be disbarred"
That will teach the sorry bastids. After all, almost every attorney should be assumed evil and that only the "good guys" deserve an attorney. If we just get rid of all the attorney's that represent the bad guys, the world will be a better place. Right? Doesn't that sound fair?
Your 3mbit home bandwidth is theoretical BURST speed. The two T1s are guaranteed 1.54mbit each. Business DOES get more bandwidth, as in, 100% of what is promised, 99.99% of the time. If 6 people are downloading torrents on your block at the same time, you aren't going to be getting that 3mbit 50% of the time.
.25mbit up, or pay extra to get .5mbit up, max BURST speed. If you compare ping times (particularly how consistant the pings are) then you will also see a difference. 25ms vs 35ms-50ms doesn't sound like much, but it is still more consistant, and has less latency. It also means more headshots if you like gaming.
Also, T1s have 1.54mbit up AND 1.54mbit down, at the same time. Your cable has
I'd agrue that it's NOT a whole different ballgame. Both are consumers paying for access.
And you would be showing that you don't know anything about internet access. Business class access comes with a guarantee of throughput, a guarantee of uptime (typically 4 nines, or 99.99% uptime) and a different level of service. Otherwise, we wouldn't be paying $850 a month for 3mbit/3mbit service (two bonded T1s), when 6mbit service is only $50 for homes.
Residential service doesn't cover fully saturating the available bandwidth because it is shared: I can saturate my T1s all I want. Residential doesn't require 2 or 3 year service contracts, but business class often does. Residential service doesn't guarantee to get your internet access back up in 60 minutes or less, even if they have to come string new copper or fiber, but they do on mine. Residential Terms of Service are NOT the same as business class in any shape, form or fashion. The fact that there may be limits on a lower grade of service (residential) shouldn't come as a surprise considering how cheap it is compared to business class.
Yes, that sucks, that is the breaks. If you don't like the limits, you can always go get business class service in your home. Then you don't have to worry about any limitations.
Um, it means you can copy the LICENSE and change it as long as you change the name. You don't have to change the name of software under the license. Any similar license just can't have the same name. duh.
I'm just going to bed, and it will no doubt be fixed by the time I wake up.
Since most of my boxen don't have "users" that can shell in other than me (the DNS server, firewall, webserver) I will just wait for the next kernel upgrade (a week maybe) and not worry. Same with desktops.
The existence of this bug is a failure on Linux's part.
Don't even get me started on Windows bugs (like image rendering...) that persisted for years unfixed. At least this wasn't known. If you want to rag about Linux, don't forget that Linus has never left a security bug in the kernel because it was 'obscure' or out of laziness. While MS is a better now, they wrote the book on ignoring securing in the 90s.
Guess what: software will always have bugs. Because Linux has a sane permissions system (user space vs. kernel space), it won't affect the vast majority of users or expose them to risks, or at worst, for a day or two.
You can always license it under the WTFPL, whose terms are quite simple:
--------
DO WHAT THE FUCK YOU WANT TO PUBLIC LICENSE
Version 2, December 2004
Copyright (C) 2004 Sam Hocevar
14 rue de Plaisance, 75014 Paris, France
Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim or modified
copies of this license document, and changing it is allowed as long
as the name is changed.
DO WHAT THE FUCK YOU WANT TO PUBLIC LICENSE
TERMS AND CONDITIONS FOR COPYING, DISTRIBUTION AND MODIFICATION
0. You just DO WHAT THE FUCK YOU WANT TO.
--------
I would say that is a relatively free license, and it satisfies your scenario, if it really *is* a problem.
I doubt it. If anything, we would want Iran to have 100% free and uncensored access for all citizens.
So, your assertion about the good intentions of the USA towards the populace of Iran is unsupported
No where in that comment did I say the USA had good or bad intentions. Besides, either way, it is beneficial to America. You assume you know my intentions or my "politics", but you don't.
I doubt it. If anything, we would want Iran to have 100% free and uncensored access for all citizens.
Information just wants to be free. Unfortunately, freedom comes with a Cat5 cable.
Could the LAN actually be nearing the end of its lifecycle?
Yes. All computers in the future will be stand alone and the Interweb will be shut down.
Somewhat interesting article, stupid summary question.
Every idiot knows that the best system ever was the TurboGrafx-16.
However, I am not sure what the non-idiots think.
Like it or not, that is the entire intent of the 2nd Amendment of the U.S. Constitution. And this is why a few thousand nut jobs out in Montana and other sparsely populated areas are tolorated by 'normal people'.
During the Cold War, I always said "yea, let them drop a million troops in rural America and see how many die before the military can even arrive on the scene". There is currently more guns in the civilian population of the United States than citizens by a reasonable margin. You literally can't build enough robots to do the job. Maybe in a single location, or a few inner cities, but only in small condensed areas like that. The vast bulk of the country is where all the guns are.
People talk about how the 2nd Amendment doesn't apply in today's world, and to me, it seems exactly as applicable as it was in the 1700s.
And I hate this argument. You assume that a civilian organization would discover/invent the same things a military organization will, and it just ain't so. For maximum discovery, we need both. It is amazing what side discoveries you come up with when you are looking for the most efficient ways to kill people. One of them is the internet.
In order to earn that +5 you have been graced with, care to actually link to the example of "its already happened"? Thanks.
what you propose is the way the system works now
Are you implying the system works now?
Or setup each computer with a static local IP and static DNS server, in addition to WEP, etc. Something I have been doing for years. Not very hard to find a DNS server near you to use, such as the ISP's. You can even read it off the router's setup page if you must.
And no, I am not a boy who pharms.
Or install Spybot: Search & Destroy, and use advanced mode. It is pretty easy to change all your startup progs, without actually deleting them. Oh, and it scans for spyware, too. ;)
This is *exactly* why I wish moderators could moderate the actual Slashdot article. Not digg style free for all, but I would used one of my mod points (dont have today) to push it off the front page into the "another stupid article that the slashdot editors didn't look at very well" pile. Getting more of those in the last year...
So, if the car runs hot, it will cause a radiator line to slip off, which in turn will cause the head gaskets to crack, but other than that, its a great car?
I'm really not trying to be a smart ass, but you have to admit, that is lowering the bar a bit. At least when it comes to ranking the car as "reliable".
Quite why you want your users to fear you, I don't know :P
Fear is a good tool to keep users from doing dumb things. They keep downloading "apps" when they look at porn at the office? Installing games with spyware? Let it crash, be down for two days, give reason as "spyware from downloading porn" if their boss asks. Nothing like good old fashioned fear to reduce the IT workload. Otherwise, users don't care because if it crashes, it only causes extra work for you, not them.
I think that is the key to remember: The OS can only protect a computer that someone isn't siting in front of. I can re/boot in single user mode and do anything I want to a Linux box, if I am sitting in front of it. If you have access to physcially TOUCH any computer, you can hack it, and likely no amount of operating system or other software can change that. Even disabling floppy, USB and CDROM wont' stop me from pulling the battery or jumping a jumper to reset the password. (with laptops, your mileage may vary)