Lackland AFB is where the Air Force trains its K9's. All branches of the service train handlers there at a school run by the DoD.
A K9 trained (and accepted) for such a roll doesn't "fear" quite as much as you would expect. People fear for themselves, dogs fear for their handlers (which 99 times out of 100 means they wouldn't run.) You'd probably have more robots down for mechanical failures than you would have a real dog that abandons its handler.
Dogs do die, and it is hard on the handlers (Been there, done that). An upside is, a wounded soldier would now have a protector with him (for whatever that might be worth.)
However, climbing mountains with packs of gear on isn't going to be a dogs forte. On top of that, instead of a robot lugging batteries, you now have a handler and dog loaded down with water. That's why current MWD teams never have their animals packing any gear. It increases weight, which increases the amount of water they need.
There is an almost immediate drop on the point of limited return in that regard.
(Now time to show a little love to Ringo 274D. 12 years of faithful service to his country, including the invasion of Panama. What a great dog.)
Nah... The old coupon was 5 for $5. The new coupon is 5 for $7.
You'd think they'd look at it like that, but they don't. Instead that look at it all scowling and pissed... across the counter... and the poor guy holding the coupon...
All the kids that took CS to become "Hackers" found out that it was often a very less than honorable profession. Since their underinflated ego didn't like the name "programmer", they started to lift the term hacker and replace it with cracker.
Those of us that were there, and awake during the late 70's and early 80's know exactly what a "hacker" is.
Can anyone get the PX-708A to work with FreeBSD?
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I had to order one (under protest) for our FreeBSD guys, all the while insisting the Pioneer was a better drive.
The Plextor wouldn't work *AT ALL* under BSD. Works like a champ under Windows though.
The Pioneer works like a champ under both.
(Also, is this news? I ordered this thing over a month ago... slow news day at/.?)
Works fine for Windows XP. The only time I've gotten bizarre errors is the last shut down was "dirty". Restart, Error Check, and ghost after the reboot.
I've also used DD from a linux boot disk. It takes forever, but used to handle imaging some drives that older versions of Ghost (pre 6.0) would choke on.
I tinkered with Acronis, but didn't care much for the limitations. (I'd like to be able to image a drive connected via USB with another OS image. Acronis only seemed concerned with its system drive, and nothing else.)
(Off topic: pretty much any USB key can be made bootable if you image it with an existing bootable partition. Having to shut down and do this through DOS gets to be a pain. I was hoping Acronis would allow me to take a DOS6 partition and copy it to any number of USB keys connected to the system.) If anyone has any thoughts on that one, I'd love to hear them.
Sorry, but if you're old school enough, a hacker WAS someone that tinkered with shit to figure out how it worked....
AND THEY BROKE INTO OTHER PEOPLE COMPUTERS TO DO SO. (Or were known to from time to time.)
So quit your fucking bitching about how "Hackers and Crackers get confused". The reason the names are confused is because people thought being called a "programmer" wasn't cool enough, "Hacker" had a nice ring to it, and they didn't have the balls (or tits) to become a real one themselves. So they started a campaign to hijack the name, pinning "cracker" on the name of anyone that broke their code. (It's feature, not a bug.)
Too bad "Pirate" didn't have a nicer ring to it, otherwise you'd be bitching about "The Pirates of the Carribean" and how they stole the name from you and planted it on someone nefarious.
If more "hackers" worked at Microsoft, they wouldn't have the security issues that are going on now. Instead, we have a bunch of feel good, wannabe hackers, spending all their time whining that "hacker means programmer"!
Lester Proud to be a hacker, back when it meant something.
I removed it using Add/Remove twice, the second time it actually removed it from the list, but the program was still there, with registry entries tied in.
N-Case and My Search appear to be linked somehow. N-Case managed to install on my system without me saying "Yes" to any installers. I haven't quite figured out how that happened yet.
Even after using their "remove" feature, Ad-Aware found it running in the background.
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None of these people were censored.
Just because you can say something, there is no God given right to force someone to help you do it.
If I write a script, submit it to CBS, and they say "NO", was my right to free speech violated?
I thought that was just a joke.
I could have sworn each was knocked down due to a terrorist attack.
40 years later, you would still see bumper stickers saying "Remember Pearl Harbor".
2 and a half years after our generation experiences something similar, the press is already re-writing it as an engineering flaw.
And considering the first page to show up in the GOOGLE search is at NASA.GOV, we aren't doing a very good job of keepng this quiet. :-)
Trademark now, save court costs later.
That article was also previously covered on /.
:-)
Coming up next: YESTERDAY'S WEATHER! Stay tuned.
A couple of additional thoughts.
Lackland AFB is where the Air Force trains its K9's. All branches of the service train handlers there at a school run by the DoD.
A K9 trained (and accepted) for such a roll doesn't "fear" quite as much as you would expect. People fear for themselves, dogs fear for their handlers (which 99 times out of 100 means they wouldn't run.) You'd probably have more robots down for mechanical failures than you would have a real dog that abandons its handler.
Dogs do die, and it is hard on the handlers (Been there, done that). An upside is, a wounded soldier would now have a protector with him (for whatever that might be worth.)
However, climbing mountains with packs of gear on isn't going to be a dogs forte. On top of that, instead of a robot lugging batteries, you now have a handler and dog loaded down with water. That's why current MWD teams never have their animals packing any gear. It increases weight, which increases the amount of water they need.
There is an almost immediate drop on the point of limited return in that regard.
(Now time to show a little love to Ringo 274D. 12 years of faithful service to his country, including the invasion of Panama. What a great dog.)
would then be the cheap alternative.
Nah... The old coupon was 5 for $5. The new coupon is 5 for $7.
You'd think they'd look at it like that, but they don't. Instead that look at it all scowling and pissed... across the counter... and the poor guy holding the coupon...
The batting cage that I frequent with the kids hates the fact their web-coupon (with no expiration date) is still stored in the Wayback.
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I think they might agree with "infamous".
Without a doubt, the best I think I've ever seen.
Thanks for the food for thought.
I figured he had been reduced to selling dime bags.
And that is exactly what hackers did.
Then came the early 90's.
All the kids that took CS to become "Hackers" found out that it was often a very less than honorable profession. Since their underinflated ego didn't like the name "programmer", they started to lift the term hacker and replace it with cracker.
Those of us that were there, and awake during the late 70's and early 80's know exactly what a "hacker" is.
I had to order one (under protest) for our FreeBSD guys, all the while insisting the Pioneer was a better drive.
/.?)
The Plextor wouldn't work *AT ALL* under BSD. Works like a champ under Windows though.
The Pioneer works like a champ under both.
(Also, is this news? I ordered this thing over a month ago... slow news day at
Again, you draw me in. (In my defense, I just watched 4 and 5 on Saturday after about a 5 year break.)
Luke says "If you're saying that coming here was a bad idea, I'm beginning to agree with you."
That is a bit of a paraphrase, but it clearly suggests he is infering R2's speech, not understanding it.
C3PO was his interpreter. In the X-Wing, Luke had to read what he was saying from a screen in the cockpit.
I feel all dirty and nerd-like for posting this. I hope you are happy.
Will our next bought of "News for Nerds" be Kate Moss weighing in on Open Source?
(Pun intended.)
Works fine for Windows XP. The only time I've gotten bizarre errors is the last shut down was "dirty". Restart, Error Check, and ghost after the reboot.
I've also used DD from a linux boot disk. It takes forever, but used to handle imaging some drives that older versions of Ghost (pre 6.0) would choke on.
I tinkered with Acronis, but didn't care much for the limitations. (I'd like to be able to image a drive connected via USB with another OS image. Acronis only seemed concerned with its system drive, and nothing else.)
(Off topic: pretty much any USB key can be made bootable if you image it with an existing bootable partition. Having to shut down and do this through DOS gets to be a pain. I was hoping Acronis would allow me to take a DOS6 partition and copy it to any number of USB keys connected to the system.) If anyone has any thoughts on that one, I'd love to hear them.
Next down, Star Wars.
The Matrix was an incredible movie. Too bad its good name has now been sullied by two crappy sequels. (I saw it this morning.)
If we can forget Highlander II, which should be able to recover from this as well.
Sorry, but if you're old school enough, a hacker WAS someone that tinkered with shit to figure out how it worked....
AND THEY BROKE INTO OTHER PEOPLE COMPUTERS TO DO SO. (Or were known to from time to time.)
So quit your fucking bitching about how "Hackers and Crackers get confused". The reason the names are confused is because people thought being called a "programmer" wasn't cool enough, "Hacker" had a nice ring to it, and they didn't have the balls (or tits) to become a real one themselves. So they started a campaign to hijack the name, pinning "cracker" on the name of anyone that broke their code. (It's feature, not a bug.)
Too bad "Pirate" didn't have a nicer ring to it, otherwise you'd be bitching about "The Pirates of the Carribean" and how they stole the name from you and planted it on someone nefarious.
If more "hackers" worked at Microsoft, they wouldn't have the security issues that are going on now. Instead, we have a bunch of feel good, wannabe hackers, spending all their time whining that "hacker means programmer"!
Lester
Proud to be a hacker, back when it meant something.
With 8 systems you should have time to toss one of them out the window.
Followed by your porno mag collection, Star Trek video tapes, and cloth baggie full of multi-side die.
Windows "Robocopy" will automatically check and compare file dates for you.
Run Ad-Aware, it is most likely still there.
I removed it using Add/Remove twice, the second time it actually removed it from the list, but the program was still there, with registry entries tied in.
>> Can windows even handle seven indpendant video outputs at once?
Yes.
N-Case and My Search appear to be linked somehow. N-Case managed to install on my system without me saying "Yes" to any installers. I haven't quite figured out how that happened yet.
Even after using their "remove" feature, Ad-Aware found it running in the background.
That smacks of trojan, if you ask me.