I would suggest that you read any of the accounts of the early space program, particularly the debacle of the first launch of Mercury-Atlas 1. NASA's real engineers put people into space using a lot of "a wing and prayer" techniques. As for duct tape, Apollo 13 would never had made it home without it. It was integral to the jury rigged adapter to fit the CM Lithium Hydroxide canisters into the LM system, since the "real engineers" hadn't bothered to spec the same carts for both systems, despite the fact that the LM Lifeboat was in fact a recognized mission mode. Tom Kelly's pretty hard on himself for that decision in his book on moon lander development.
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The Russians have used a similar design for one of their naval helicopters for years. They've had a lot of problems with it, though. The stacked rotors require a lot more maintenance than a traditional helo.
That wooshing sound you just heard? That was my point flying over your head. I wasn't talking about the death penalty per se, I was talking about mob "justice". It isn't just, no matter what the economic profile of the mob is.
For a musical take on the whole idea, try listening to Won't Get Fooled Again.
Not until the 35-disk set with all three movies, including the Director's Cut, the Producer's Cut, and the Gaffer's cut comes out will I even consider buying a LOTR DVD set. If I really decide I need to see it again, there's always NetFlix.
He'd do better in a Comp. Architecture class, or reading some of Hannibal's stuff over at arstechnica. He's got a knack for explaining modern processors. Of course, neither the PPC or x86 architectures are really purely RISC or CISC anymore, either.
It starts with one, but everybody seems to have a different "one" that needs it. Pretty soon the killing is out of control and the people yearn for order again. Then in rides the man on the white horse to provide it. It's happened so many times now that the story's getting a bit old.
Remember what happened to Robespierre after he lopped the heads off of all the "deserving" aristocrats, my friend, before you start walking down that path. That path leads directly to dictatorship. (Cue picture of short Corscican with "La Marseillaise" playing behind it.)
We had anarchy ij the airwaves and it spawned the FCC. When Titanic went down there were all kinds of problems getting survivor lists and rescue information out because the Marconi Company refused to adopt any standards and held that the government had no role in setting any.
The bill creating the FCC was a direct outcome of the hearings where Mr. Marconi got reamed by the Senate.
Ob Trivia: Titanic was also the first vessel to use SOS to signal distress. It interspersed it with the old CQD (Come Quick, Danger). I believe the switch came about because SOS is simpler to send than CQD.
I would feel a lot better if the people like Gates and McNealy and Ellison who keep telling us to "get over" this privacy hangup would put up a public web site with their medical and tax records. After all, they only need to worry if they have nothing to hide.
Since you seem to feel the same way, why don't you add your records to the site? I'm sure someone here has enough spare server space to find a temporary home for the info until the three individuals mentioned above can find their checkbooks.
It looks like the MD5 that caught the problem was located on the FreeBSD ports server. The bad guys would have had to compromise an entirely different box, run by different admins and using a different OS to change the MD5 in this case.
This looks like a strong argument for locating the checksums elsewhere, or for GPG signing tarballs instead of MD5 checksums. I've always looked at MD5 as more useful for spotting accidental corruption than intentional.
I think the problem here may be with the word that's used. Like it or not, the term "peering" implies an equivalance in traffic. We all know that such an equivalance simply doesn't exist. There are far more areas outside North America that want in than vice versa.
Even your example works only for a dial up provider in the First World. What does E-bay care if a farmer outside of Bangladore can't get to their site? His annual income doesn't equal the reserve price on a Welcome Back Kotter lunchbox!
If you're saying that this isn't fair, you're right, but I'm still looking for the rulebook that states life is fair in the first place.
hopefully I get points for not speaking out of ignorance
Actually, in some way, that was what I was trying to say, while at the same time being pissed as hell about the profit uber alles attitude of the poster and the entire DMCA bullcrap. Actually, I did better than I usually do. When my emotional side and my intellectual side get into an argument, I usually end up eating a lot of shoe leather.
I just wish people would stop believing that any company exists for any reason other than to increase the wealth of its shareholders. Sorry folks, this is just the American way.
I don't think it's HP, the Company, that the parent post is addressed to. It's addressed to Bruce Perens, the Man. It's time for him to make a statement, one way or the other. I'd be very interested in what he has to say about this, and I'm reserving judgement until he does speak, or allows a long enough period of silence to speak for him.
Did they also ban The Illiad and The Odyssey? How about Les Miserables? Once you open that can of worms, things can get, well, messy.
I seem to recall the Bible being available in my high school library, along with a copy of the Book of Mormon that looked like it had never been checked out. I don't recall a copy of the Koran, but I know the Bhagavata Gita (sp?) was there.
Or, as someone pointed out above, scripting languages. I wonder if Ms. Rosen can be replaced by a small shell script, hopefully with STDOUT and STDERR both redirected to/dev/null?
I just check out the synopsys of a game, download the demo, and that's it, because I know I can't rely on what game journalists say about the game before its released.
Amen. Game magazine / website "journalism" is below the level of the Weekly World News. I think I saw that Gamespot is starting to charge for downloads of demos now, so maybe they've caught on to this as well.
Back before I had broadband, I used to subscribe to PC Gamer. I'd pitch the rag and try the stuff that looked interesting on the CD.
Why do you think they've been unknown in the West (including Japan and Australia) for centuries?
Let's not be hyperbolic here.
famine n.
A drastic, wide-reaching food shortage.
A drastic shortage; a dearth.
Severe hunger; starvation.
Archaic. Extreme appetite.
The Dust Bowl adequately fits definition one, and happened in 1930. The food situation in Western Europe in 1945 also qualifies. I also believe the Irish Potato Famine is less than a "couple of centuries" ago.
plague n.
A highly infectious, usually fatal, epidemic disease; a pestilence.
A highly fatal infectious disease that is caused by the bacterium Yersinia (syn. Pasturella) pestis, is transmitted primarily by the bite of a rat flea, and occurs in bubonic, pneumonic, and septicemic forms.
This event in 1918 seems to qualify for definition one. Definition 2 remains endemic in the Southwestern US today. It is also a periodic problem in the world's largest democracy.
DDOSing them will very simple. All we need to do is to try to force them to think logically, a la Captain Kirk with the super-brain computer. The hamster wheels that pass for neurons in their heads will seize up.
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I would suggest that you read any of the accounts of the early space program, particularly the debacle of the first launch of Mercury-Atlas 1. NASA's real engineers put people into space using a lot of "a wing and prayer" techniques. As for duct tape, Apollo 13 would never had made it home without it. It was integral to the jury rigged adapter to fit the CM Lithium Hydroxide canisters into the LM system, since the "real engineers" hadn't bothered to spec the same carts for both systems, despite the fact that the LM Lifeboat was in fact a recognized mission mode. Tom Kelly's pretty hard on himself for that decision in his book on moon lander development.
The Russians have used a similar design for one of their naval helicopters for years. They've had a lot of problems with it, though. The stacked rotors require a lot more maintenance than a traditional helo.
For a musical take on the whole idea, try listening to Won't Get Fooled Again.
Not until the 35-disk set with all three movies, including the Director's Cut, the Producer's Cut, and the Gaffer's cut comes out will I even consider buying a LOTR DVD set. If I really decide I need to see it again, there's always NetFlix.
He'd do better in a Comp. Architecture class, or reading some of Hannibal's stuff over at arstechnica. He's got a knack for explaining modern processors. Of course, neither the PPC or x86 architectures are really purely RISC or CISC anymore, either.
It starts with one, but everybody seems to have a different "one" that needs it. Pretty soon the killing is out of control and the people yearn for order again. Then in rides the man on the white horse to provide it. It's happened so many times now that the story's getting a bit old.
Remember what happened to Robespierre after he lopped the heads off of all the "deserving" aristocrats, my friend, before you start walking down that path. That path leads directly to dictatorship. (Cue picture of short Corscican with "La Marseillaise" playing behind it.)
The bill creating the FCC was a direct outcome of the hearings where Mr. Marconi got reamed by the Senate.
Ob Trivia: Titanic was also the first vessel to use SOS to signal distress. It interspersed it with the old CQD (Come Quick, Danger). I believe the switch came about because SOS is simpler to send than CQD.
On the other hand, I'd take smorgasbord of the beer any time. The CAMRA folks deserve a Nobel Prize or something.
My local mega grocery store gets tons of Spam from Hormel. Oh... Wait... Nevermind!
Is anybody else sick and tired of the misuse of the word terrorism? I mean next we'll be hearing that Athlete's Foot is a form of fungal terrorism.
Hint. Billy G has yet to order anyone killed. When it comes to bad guy status, he's strictly middle-of-the-pack.
Hmmm... I hope that comment doesn't fire up his competitive side.
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That's where we keep the temporary table space for users we don't like. Can't get punchcard systems anymore dammit.
Of course, I meant that they have nothing to worry about if they have nothing to hide. Grrr.... Need more coffee!
Since you seem to feel the same way, why don't you add your records to the site? I'm sure someone here has enough spare server space to find a temporary home for the info until the three individuals mentioned above can find their checkbooks.
This looks like a strong argument for locating the checksums elsewhere, or for GPG signing tarballs instead of MD5 checksums. I've always looked at MD5 as more useful for spotting accidental corruption than intentional.
Even your example works only for a dial up provider in the First World. What does E-bay care if a farmer outside of Bangladore can't get to their site? His annual income doesn't equal the reserve price on a Welcome Back Kotter lunchbox!
If you're saying that this isn't fair, you're right, but I'm still looking for the rulebook that states life is fair in the first place.
Actually, in some way, that was what I was trying to say, while at the same time being pissed as hell about the profit uber alles attitude of the poster and the entire DMCA bullcrap. Actually, I did better than I usually do. When my emotional side and my intellectual side get into an argument, I usually end up eating a lot of shoe leather.
At any rate, I await more news.
I don't think it's HP, the Company, that the parent post is addressed to. It's addressed to Bruce Perens, the Man. It's time for him to make a statement, one way or the other. I'd be very interested in what he has to say about this, and I'm reserving judgement until he does speak, or allows a long enough period of silence to speak for him.
Sorry, it's just the human way.
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I seem to recall the Bible being available in my high school library, along with a copy of the Book of Mormon that looked like it had never been checked out. I don't recall a copy of the Koran, but I know the Bhagavata Gita (sp?) was there.
Or, as someone pointed out above, scripting languages. I wonder if Ms. Rosen can be replaced by a small shell script, hopefully with STDOUT and STDERR both redirected to /dev/null?
Amen. Game magazine / website "journalism" is below the level of the Weekly World News. I think I saw that Gamespot is starting to charge for downloads of demos now, so maybe they've caught on to this as well.
Back before I had broadband, I used to subscribe to PC Gamer. I'd pitch the rag and try the stuff that looked interesting on the CD.
Let's not be hyperbolic here.
The Dust Bowl adequately fits definition one, and happened in 1930. The food situation in Western Europe in 1945 also qualifies. I also believe the Irish Potato Famine is less than a "couple of centuries" ago. This event in 1918 seems to qualify for definition one. Definition 2 remains endemic in the Southwestern US today. It is also a periodic problem in the world's largest democracy.DDOSing them will very simple. All we need to do is to try to force them to think logically, a la Captain Kirk with the super-brain computer. The hamster wheels that pass for neurons in their heads will seize up.