Re:How many 3rd world countries has he been to?
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China isn't the third world. What gave you that idea? The world classifications come more from political alignment in the cold-war. In that respect, China is very much "Second World", but they hold an large amount of economic power.
Giving out first-world encyclopedia can be culturally harmful to third-world countries. It would be very interesting, if they did have access, to see what information they would add or whether they would even be interested in adding anything.
Browsing through Secunia's Site doesn't reveal too much regarding the report mentioned in the article. The links to the vendor's security pages do show that Apple, Suse, and others list vulnerabilities and security issues for products not developed by the particular company. Apple lists Apache, OpenSSH, rsync, and others. Since most Linux and BSD operating systems report security vulnerabilities in third party applications. Thus listing Suse and Redhat as having 48 and 50 vulnerabilities respectively 57 of them are probably the same vulnerabilities.
In my experience Microsoft only lists security vulnerabilities for their own products. With the methods used in these statistics vulnerabilities and the open source community are probably overcounted many many times over.
The Nanking Massacre was awful. 300,000 people killed over a couple weeks, women of all ages raped and murdered. There are reports of two japanese officers having a race to see how many lined up civilians they could decapitate in a given period of time.
Japan invaded Manchuria after Japan blew up part of their own railroad and blamed it on the Chinese (Japan, and many others had concessions occupied in China). I hope that we aren't doing something similar (as far as picking fights, not the Nanking Massacre). I have heard rumors that we have fabricated some of the weapons evidence, I have no idea how valid they are.
Bush's speech declaring war was vague and jumped around a lot. I thought that the part asking Iraqis not to set their oil wells on fire was a little sketchy if not indicative of other intentions in the war. I feel like we aren't being told everything to make a very good judgement on what is happening.
I thought that was an odd statement in the article.
Intuition outside of basic biological functions has to be built upon. I read a quote from a fortune file that was "the only intuitive interface is the nipple". I don't remember who to attribute it to.
I wonder what the source for the user intuition is.
I wonder if DVT is related to the law requiring truckers and buses to take a 15 minute rest stop every 5 or 6 hours (I don't remember the exact period of time, I heard it from a charter bus driver a while ago.)
The article says that the man would sit at his desk for up to 18 hours a day. Perhaps we can try to convince employers to allow chair racing in the hallways.
I saw Spirited away at a local independent theater and I thought it was very well good. It is written for a younger audience than Princess Mononoke, but I thought it was just as enjoyable. They did a very good job with the english dub, at least as well as with Mononoke.
for a 5.25" drive
angular velocity = 10 000 rpm * 2 pi = 62 832 rad/s
62 832 rad/s = v / 0.0635 m (0.635 m = ~2.5 in for the radius of the 5.25 drive platter)
v = 3990 m/s = ~8925 mph
for a 3.5" drive
62 832 rad/s = v / 0.0381 m (0.0381 m = ~1.5in)
v = 2393 m/s = ~5355 mph
so the 3.5:5.25 ratio for the speed of the particles on the outter edge of the disk is around 1:1.67
that doesn't seem like much but there's a %463 increase in the kinetic energy of the platters flying around ( assuming the 5.25" platters are 1" longer that the 3.5").
my math could be wrong (I'm figuring the integral from 0 to the radius 1/2 * (62 832 * r) ^2 * 2 pi dr).
If I figured that right (going on highschool calculus here, further education comming in a few months) then I'm not sure I'd want something like that spinning around next to me. Imagine if a platter shattered by some freak accident. If the computer fell over or moved significantly the angluar momentum could do some weirdness to the hard drives.
You can copy the encrypted files around all you want, you only need DeCSS to view them. The people who would pirate them in large quantities (somewhere in asia) will buy a dvd press, then they can read off the data, and put it on a master in its encrypted form, stamp out several thousand copies, and anyone can use it as they would a standard dvd. There are other methods out there for pulling the movie off of the disc into a viewable form besides DeCSS, I think one of them is a hack in powerdvd or something like that. There are several other ways that you could do it as well, looping the output from a decoder card into a capture card would probably work well.
DeCSS enables you to watch what you have purchased(assuming you're the law abiding type). It doesn't create any sort of gaping hole in their perfect protection scheme. Without DeCSS we wouldn't be able to watch DVD's under any non-windows OS.
Many parts of the electromagnetic spectrum aren't very good for you, or other living organisms. If EVERYONE were using microwave there would probably be a decrease in the bird population, and trees might start dying, more people would get cancer (if we still used lead paint and stayed indoors we might be ok).
Sunspots would cause some interesting interference (everybody remember sunspots?)
Also think of the lag, going from wireless to hardwire isn't terrible, but going from wireless to wireless to wireless to wireless to wireless...and then back again could get ugly.
As far as getting into other's signals and messing with them: its harder to do it when you don't have direct access to the signal, but if its wireless you could certainly get someone elses downstream traffic, upstream would probably require you to be in between them and their tower (or whatever). As for other problems, someone could start broadcasting noise on every frequency they cared to, and it would probably be a harder to find them if there are others trying to use the same frequencies at the same time.
IPs are and issue but think of what happens if we ever run out of MAC addresses? (probably won't happen too soon, but if we're looking very far in the future....)
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China isn't the third world. What gave you that idea? The world classifications come more from political alignment in the cold-war. In that respect, China is very much "Second World", but they hold an large amount of economic power.
Giving out first-world encyclopedia can be culturally harmful to third-world countries. It would be very interesting, if they did have access, to see what information they would add or whether they would even be interested in adding anything.
Browsing through Secunia's Site doesn't reveal too much regarding the report mentioned in the article. The links to the vendor's security pages do show that Apple, Suse, and others list vulnerabilities and security issues for products not developed by the particular company. Apple lists Apache, OpenSSH, rsync, and others. Since most Linux and BSD operating systems report security vulnerabilities in third party applications. Thus listing Suse and Redhat as having 48 and 50 vulnerabilities respectively 57 of them are probably the same vulnerabilities.
In my experience Microsoft only lists security vulnerabilities for their own products. With the methods used in these statistics vulnerabilities and the open source community are probably overcounted many many times over.
Secunia is probably just trying to get attention.
The Nanking Massacre was awful. 300,000 people killed over a couple weeks, women of all ages raped and murdered. There are reports of two japanese officers having a race to see how many lined up civilians they could decapitate in a given period of time.
Japan invaded Manchuria after Japan blew up part of their own railroad and blamed it on the Chinese (Japan, and many others had concessions occupied in China). I hope that we aren't doing something similar (as far as picking fights, not the Nanking Massacre). I have heard rumors that we have fabricated some of the weapons evidence, I have no idea how valid they are.
Bush's speech declaring war was vague and jumped around a lot. I thought that the part asking Iraqis not to set their oil wells on fire was a little sketchy if not indicative of other intentions in the war. I feel like we aren't being told everything to make a very good judgement on what is happening.
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I thought that was an odd statement in the article.
Intuition outside of basic biological functions has to be built upon. I read a quote from a fortune file that was "the only intuitive interface is the nipple". I don't remember who to attribute it to.
I wonder what the source for the user intuition is.
I wonder if DVT is related to the law requiring truckers and buses to take a 15 minute rest stop every 5 or 6 hours (I don't remember the exact period of time, I heard it from a charter bus driver a while ago.)
The article says that the man would sit at his desk for up to 18 hours a day. Perhaps we can try to convince employers to allow chair racing in the hallways.
I saw Spirited away at a local independent theater and I thought it was very well good. It is written for a younger audience than Princess Mononoke, but I thought it was just as enjoyable. They did a very good job with the english dub, at least as well as with Mononoke.
angular velocity = v/r
for a 5.25" drive
angular velocity = 10 000 rpm * 2 pi = 62 832 rad/s
62 832 rad/s = v / 0.0635 m (0.635 m = ~2.5 in for the radius of the 5.25 drive platter)
v = 3990 m/s = ~8925 mph
for a 3.5" drive
62 832 rad/s = v / 0.0381 m (0.0381 m = ~1.5in)
v = 2393 m/s = ~5355 mph
so the 3.5:5.25 ratio for the speed of the particles on the outter edge of the disk is around 1:1.67
that doesn't seem like much but there's a %463 increase in the kinetic energy of the platters flying around ( assuming the 5.25" platters are 1" longer that the 3.5").
my math could be wrong (I'm figuring the integral from 0 to the radius 1/2 * (62 832 * r) ^2 * 2 pi dr).
If I figured that right (going on highschool calculus here, further education comming in a few months) then I'm not sure I'd want something like that spinning around next to me. Imagine if a platter shattered by some freak accident. If the computer fell over or moved significantly the angluar momentum could do some weirdness to the hard drives.
You can copy the encrypted files around all you want, you only need DeCSS to view them. The people who would pirate them in large quantities (somewhere in asia) will buy a dvd press, then they can read off the data, and put it on a master in its encrypted form, stamp out several thousand copies, and anyone can use it as they would a standard dvd. There are other methods out there for pulling the movie off of the disc into a viewable form besides DeCSS, I think one of them is a hack in powerdvd or something like that. There are several other ways that you could do it as well, looping the output from a decoder card into a capture card would probably work well. DeCSS enables you to watch what you have purchased(assuming you're the law abiding type). It doesn't create any sort of gaping hole in their perfect protection scheme. Without DeCSS we wouldn't be able to watch DVD's under any non-windows OS.
Many parts of the electromagnetic spectrum aren't very good for you, or other living organisms. If EVERYONE were using microwave there would probably be a decrease in the bird population, and trees might start dying, more people would get cancer (if we still used lead paint and stayed indoors we might be ok). Sunspots would cause some interesting interference (everybody remember sunspots?) Also think of the lag, going from wireless to hardwire isn't terrible, but going from wireless to wireless to wireless to wireless to wireless...and then back again could get ugly. As far as getting into other's signals and messing with them: its harder to do it when you don't have direct access to the signal, but if its wireless you could certainly get someone elses downstream traffic, upstream would probably require you to be in between them and their tower (or whatever). As for other problems, someone could start broadcasting noise on every frequency they cared to, and it would probably be a harder to find them if there are others trying to use the same frequencies at the same time. IPs are and issue but think of what happens if we ever run out of MAC addresses? (probably won't happen too soon, but if we're looking very far in the future....)