Yes, that's possible. But 10,000 monkeys banging on typewrites *could* have come up with Shakespear, and it didn't happen.
I could see it being feasible if the code was simply a couple of lines wrong, but writing entire device drivers that look that much alike is going to be too far against odds.
"If using encryption becomes criminal, only criminals will use encryption."
Let's have a little perspective check here. If using solid, uncompromised encryption becomes illegal, how does this stop terrorists from using it? Gee, I guess terrorists best upgrade so the government has a backdoor to their communication. They wouldn't want to do anything illegal, now would they?
The nanog list has had tons of posts from people willing to lend a hand in networking and communications. Check http://nanog.org/mailinglist.html for the list archive. Contact info for a lot of people that want to help out can be found there.
NEW YORK (CNN) -- Terrorists struck the United States Tuesday morning in harrowing, widespread attacks that included at least three commercial jet crashes into significant buildings.
In the first attack, a plane hit the north tower of the World Trade Center in Manhattan shortly before 9 a.m., followed by another plane into the second tower about 20 minutes later. Both towers later collapsed.
American Airlines Boeing 767 that had been hijacked after take-off from Boston. American Airlines told CNN that it lost two planes in "tragic accidents," one leaving Boston with 81 passengers and 11 crew aboard, and the second leaving Washington Dulles airport with 58 passengers and six crew aboard. Both planes were en route to Los Angeles
About an hour later, a plane crashed into the Pentagon in Washington, part of which later collapsed.
Sources say a second plane was heading toward the Pentagon; F-16 jets were in the air monitoring it.
The Pentagon, the White House, the State Department, the Justice Department, the Capitol, the CIA and all other government buildings in Washington evacuated.
In the first ever national ground stop of aircraft, all flights nationwide have been stopped at their departure airports.
All international flights were diverted to Canada.
Israel has evacuated all its missions around the world.
President Bush cancelled an appearance in Florida to return to Washington, calling the crashes "apparent terrorist attacks" and "a national tragedy."
In Chicago, the Sears Tower was evacuated; United Nations in New York evacuated.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta was evacuated.
The New York Port Authority said it had closed all bridges and tunnels into the city.
New York's Bellevue Hospital was designated command central for handling the catastrophe. Several hospitals have already reported receiving victims with burns and head injuries.
Large plane crashed 80 miles south of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, but it was unknown if this crash was connected to terrorist attacks.
U.S. stock markets were closed after the New York attacks.
There was news that Windows XP will not ship with any native support for Java. Certainly, a user could add Java support him/herself, but how many users are going to take initiative to do so?
With hundreds of thousands of copies of an OS that won't do Java, that will have a very deep impact on developers. It doesn't do much good to make software that nobody can run.
Granted, many a Java developer's projects are meant for *nix environments, which is just one more pro for the side of good. But I wonder how XPs lack of Java support will affect the number of Java developers.
Apparently, controlled substances are much easier to come by in Indiana. Yes, they are. There's plenty of growing room.
Do all the people with teeth out here intimidate you? I don't particularly like to be nipped. Some people are into that.
Or is it the genetic diversity (AKA family trees with BRANCHES)? Ah, yet another unfortunate soul who puts too much time and effort into irrational generalizations. You're thinking Kentucky.
Maybe the traditional fallback - earthquakes, oh no! Well, if earthquakes kill people, that just leaves less for me to do.
Or all the homosexuals, who somehow find straight, toothless, fat midwesterners strangely attractive? Now this comment is truly disturbing. For a reason I don't suppose I'll ever comprehend, you assume that since I'm from Indiana, you can put down homosexuality in an attempt to get a rise from me. If you'd really done your homework, you'd find the city I am from boasts the highest percentage of GLBTs in this part of the country, second only to a California city. Frankly, I'm apauled you'd have the indecency to degrade people for the sake of rebutting a simple joke. Shame.
Or is it that suspenders aren't hip out here? Suspenders are hip everywhere.
Maybe it's the constant good weather? Yes, that must be it. Thanks for bringing that to my attention.
Oh wait a minute, odds are you have never been here. Hmm. Interesting assumption. Or perhaps my little joke is justified, in that I have been there and have found many many more places that I prefered. You poor unintellectual donkey.
-WetDog
Someone watched "The Last Starfighter" one too many times. It would seem the idea came straight from the classic space film, where our hero was completely lost, meandering through a sea of various space creatures until someone pinned the translator on him. Instantly, he could be understood by everyone. It was amusing that everyone's lips moved along with the translated words they were speaking.
-WetDog
"I didn't say it was your fault. I said I was going to blame it on you."
poised for a disaster many engineers inside the program were all but certain would happen.
Certain would happen? Gimme a break. The article makes it sound like going up in a cardboard box duck taped to a firecracker would be safer. It isn't as though they weren't concerned about safety. If you send people into space, you're going to be careful, but you can't catch every problem every time.
If anything [as morbid as it may sound], Challenger prompted a surge in security for every mission that followed, and probably saved more lives in the process.
-WetDog
"I didn't say it was your fault. I said I was going to blame it on
you."
"... voice recognition system... two LCD touch screens... real-time trip status information... on-line trivia game... retrieve pictures from the family's Internet-enabled home security camera..."
Does it come with power windows, or is that extra?
-WetDog
"I didn't say it was your fault. I said I was going to blame it on
you."
"Your ISP has the right to anything they want to to the files you store on their server."
I think it's more a question of sysadmin ethics. Just because you can doesn't mean you should. Sure, root can rea d your e-mail, but what purpose does it serve?
Consider this. The only initiative that a hosting company could have to remove someone else's content would be to protect the integrity of the system. A virus could be removed if it could spread to the system. Spam accounts can be removed because it could cause them to be blacklisted which would interupt normal e-mail flow. Can someone provide a case for mp3's? Even more specifically, legal mp3's? What if mp3's weren't even the target; if a web company is removing anything ending in.zip because it could contain pirated software, would that cause the same reaction? I doubt it; everyone would be on the side of the user.
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Yes, that's possible. But 10,000 monkeys banging on typewrites *could* have come up with Shakespear, and it didn't happen.
I could see it being feasible if the code was simply a couple of lines wrong, but writing entire device drivers that look that much alike is going to be too far against odds.
"If using encryption becomes criminal, only criminals will use encryption."
Let's have a little perspective check here. If using solid, uncompromised encryption becomes illegal, how does this stop terrorists from using it? Gee, I guess terrorists best upgrade so the government has a backdoor to their communication. They wouldn't want to do anything illegal, now would they?
-WetDog
The nanog list has had tons of posts from people willing to lend a hand in networking and communications. Check http://nanog.org/mailinglist.html for the list archive. Contact info for a lot of people that want to help out can be found there.
-WetDog
NEW YORK (CNN) -- Terrorists struck the United States Tuesday morning in harrowing, widespread attacks that included at least three commercial jet crashes into significant buildings.
In the first attack, a plane hit the north tower of the World Trade Center in Manhattan shortly before 9 a.m., followed by another plane into the second tower about 20 minutes later. Both towers later collapsed.
American Airlines Boeing 767 that had been hijacked after take-off from Boston. American Airlines told CNN that it lost two planes in "tragic accidents," one leaving Boston with 81 passengers and 11 crew aboard, and the second leaving Washington Dulles airport with 58 passengers and six crew aboard. Both planes were en route to Los Angeles
About an hour later, a plane crashed into the Pentagon in Washington, part of which later collapsed.
Sources say a second plane was heading toward the Pentagon; F-16 jets were in the air monitoring it.
The Pentagon, the White House, the State Department, the Justice Department, the Capitol, the CIA and all other government buildings in Washington evacuated.
In the first ever national ground stop of aircraft, all flights nationwide have been stopped at their departure airports.
All international flights were diverted to Canada.
Israel has evacuated all its missions around the world.
President Bush cancelled an appearance in Florida to return to Washington, calling the crashes "apparent terrorist attacks" and "a national tragedy."
In Chicago, the Sears Tower was evacuated; United Nations in New York evacuated.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta was evacuated.
The New York Port Authority said it had closed all bridges and tunnels into the city.
New York's Bellevue Hospital was designated command central for handling the catastrophe. Several hospitals have already reported receiving victims with burns and head injuries.
Large plane crashed 80 miles south of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, but it was unknown if this crash was connected to terrorist attacks.
U.S. stock markets were closed after the New York attacks.
There was news that Windows XP will not ship with any native support for Java. Certainly, a user could add Java support him/herself, but how many users are going to take initiative to do so?
With hundreds of thousands of copies of an OS that won't do Java, that will have a very deep impact on developers. It doesn't do much good to make software that nobody can run.
Granted, many a Java developer's projects are meant for *nix environments, which is just one more pro for the side of good. But I wonder how XPs lack of Java support will affect the number of Java developers.
-WetDog
Sure, WiseNut can speak a few languages, but Google is still the only search engine with Pig Latin!
Apparently, controlled substances are much easier to come by in Indiana.
Yes, they are. There's plenty of growing room.
Do all the people with teeth out here intimidate you?
I don't particularly like to be nipped. Some people are into that.
Or is it the genetic diversity (AKA family trees with BRANCHES)?
Ah, yet another unfortunate soul who puts too much time and effort into irrational generalizations. You're thinking Kentucky.
Maybe the traditional fallback - earthquakes, oh no!
Well, if earthquakes kill people, that just leaves less for me to do.
Or all the homosexuals, who somehow find straight, toothless, fat midwesterners strangely attractive?
Now this comment is truly disturbing. For a reason I don't suppose I'll ever comprehend, you assume that since I'm from Indiana, you can put down homosexuality in an attempt to get a rise from me. If you'd really done your homework, you'd find the city I am from boasts the highest percentage of GLBTs in this part of the country, second only to a California city. Frankly, I'm apauled you'd have the indecency to degrade people for the sake of rebutting a simple joke. Shame.
Or is it that suspenders aren't hip out here?
Suspenders are hip everywhere.
Maybe it's the constant good weather?
Yes, that must be it. Thanks for bringing that to my attention.
Oh wait a minute, odds are you have never been here.
Hmm. Interesting assumption. Or perhaps my little joke is justified, in that I have been there and have found many many more places that I prefered. You poor unintellectual donkey. -WetDog
Isn't not being able to leave California like being in jail? fp?
If you haven't already gone blind from surfing for too much pr0n,
you certainly will by looking directly into your connection.
Of course, my laser pointer has been able to communicate for years: . . . - - - . . .
-WetDog
Here's some info on Sun's site:
http://store.sun.com/catalog/doc/BrowsePage.jhtml? cid=60357
Someone watched "The Last Starfighter" one too many times. It would seem the idea came straight from the classic space film, where our hero was completely lost, meandering through a sea of various space creatures until someone pinned the translator on him. Instantly, he could be understood by everyone. It was amusing that everyone's lips moved along with the translated words they were speaking.
-WetDog
"I didn't say it was your fault. I said I was going to blame it on you."
poised for a disaster many engineers inside the program were all but certain would happen.
Certain would happen? Gimme a break. The article makes it sound like going up in a cardboard box duck taped to a firecracker would be safer. It isn't as though they weren't concerned about safety. If you send people into space, you're going to be careful, but you can't catch every problem every time.
If anything [as morbid as it may sound], Challenger prompted a surge in security for every mission that followed, and probably saved more lives in the process.
-WetDog
"I didn't say it was your fault. I said I was going to blame it on you."
"... voice recognition system... two LCD touch screens... real-time trip status information... on-line trivia game... retrieve pictures from the family's Internet-enabled home security camera..."
Does it come with power windows, or is that extra?
-WetDog
"I didn't say it was your fault. I said I was going to blame it on you."
"Your ISP has the right to anything they want to to the files you store on their server."
I think it's more a question of sysadmin ethics. Just because you can doesn't mean you should. Sure, root can rea d your e-mail, but what purpose does it serve?
Consider this. The only initiative that a hosting company could have to remove someone else's content would be to protect the integrity of the system. A virus could be removed if it could spread to the system. Spam accounts can be removed because it could cause them to be blacklisted which would interupt normal e-mail flow. Can someone provide a case for mp3's? Even more specifically, legal mp3's? What if mp3's weren't even the target; if a web company is removing anything ending in .zip because it could contain pirated software, would that cause the same reaction? I doubt it; everyone would be on the side of the user.