That's what you'll remember about a documentary you saw 25 years ago -- it was the fastest PDP10, not the fastest computer. And some of the cells were hand painted, not all of them. I stand corrected and edumacated.
Then the most powerful computer in the world, and they had to rent time on it because they couldn't afford to buy one. And it didn't actually render the final cells -- it created line drawings which then had to be hand painted by human animators. This is why people got so excited about Tron; it looked like something far ahead of its time.
I remember a piece linked here where a couple of morons immersed a computer in the stuff and cooled it with liquid nitrogen, oblivious to the fact that liquid nitrogen was cold enough to freeze the stuff. I was thinking "one small room air conditioner..." Apparently the miniaturized and practical version of that is what TFA is, although I say that as conjecture since I haven't read TFA.
If you read the fine print a work isn't supposed to be modified after being granted ISBN; if you make edits it's supposed to become a new edition. (In traditional print, after all, this would be an expensive process.) Lulu used to be a bit lenient about that for things like typo corrections but I think they've become a bit pickier if you have global distribution.
I didn't actively solicit edit suggestions, but I think it's a fundamental rule of nature that if you put something on the internet with a typo, someone will find it and point it out. Many eyes make all bugs shallow and all that. I was surprised at how many were found, considering I'd been sitting on the MS for eight years and had had several very literate people read it critically.
This is pretty much how I released MOPI. After putting it online I received hundreds of editing suggestions, many of which I incorporated into the MS. As a result there are only a couple of typos in the printed version, which I'm leaving in because I'd have to get a new ISBN to fix them.
I didn't use a CC license though the one I drafted for myself is pretty similar. In particular I insisted on reserving print rights for myself. CC seems a bit more intent on making information free than reserving the possibility of future conventional publication.
As other comments have noted, what makes a botnet powerful is its distributed nature, harnessing the bandwidth of hundreds of ISP's. A "botnet" limited to dot-mil space is no more a "botnet" than any big ol' single computer with a fat pipe to the backbone.
...would it be illegal to take anti-botnet measures, such as running rootkit revealer on your own machine and wiping the infection? Or would that get you swimming lessons at Gitmo?
XP has the whole backward-compatibility thing going which is both their big strength and the albatross around their neck. In particular, I expect the big draw is running your standard non-hobbled version of MS Office so you can read the files sent to you by other people running it that nothing else can read. And unlike Linux, CE has no mechanism for even trying to run standard Windows apps under emulation.
It's Asperger's, which actually is on the "autistic scale." I also had such a coworker, though fortunately one very subordinate to me in the company hierarchy. He could be annoying as hell, but also absolutely reliable about certain things. To this day it's clear he has no idea why other people react to him the way we do, but he's found another position where he's appreciated for what he can do and tolerated for the trouble he causes because he's willing to give them the former for a rather low salary. So far he's solved the "lonely" problem by patronizing strip clubs.
...from this distance and with this technique, Venus would qualify as "a planet like Earth." It would truly suck to be the person who hiked 50 light-years to find that out.
The late stages of rocky planet formation are now known to be extremely violent, involving collisions of mars-sized bodies in the final accretion of a body the size of Earth or Venus. The exact collision vector can have a huge impact on the final body's rotational inertia, and can even heave a planet-sized hunk of debris like our own Moon into orbit.
Your "fix" still leaves open the possibility that Anon is simply trolling Co$ by using their own reputation against them. I frankly hate both groups and fap over the fantasy that they will destroy one another, but the RL outcome is unlikely to be so appealing.
I notice a number of folks here are convinced that these attacks are Co$ trying to discredit Anon. I wonder how many have wondered if it's Anon trying to discredit Co$ because they know that in geek circles Co$ is automatically blamed for anything like this that they're anywhere near.
It's widely believed among people who study such things that NK attempted a plutonium gun bomb, which requires an extremely high assembly speed; the Manhattan Project guys decided it was basically impossible, and NK may have proven them right.
It shows that seeking numerical answers to questions of meaning is itself the problem. Digits, like a four and a two, can no more do it than a string of digits could represent the poetry of Shakespeare.
I guess this guy has never seen the shirt that says "It's all ones and zeroes." Or heard of ASCII.
Testing for CPU chips is already quite time consuming and authentication wouldn't add much to it. If this is for lower level crap like USB-flash interface chips then not so much.
It's not that the cops are busy with the prank, it's that the cops think they are walking into a violently dangerous situation and conduct themselves accordingly, placing the innocent victims in real danger. It sucks about him being blind but not as much as it would suck to wake up at 2 AM because a bunch of goons have smashed your windows and invaded your home, grab your gun and attempt to defend yourself, and get shot by the cops for your trouble. I have zero sympathy and hope his stay in the pen is as much fun as his pranks are.
Since the VLA is in the desert you can see the dishes from a long way off. A REALLY long way. Like 30 miles. From far away they look really cute, like little HO scale radio dishes. And as you drive toward them they get bigger and bigger and bigger and bigger and bigger. They have one (a spare I think) they keep near the visitor's center at the end of a little walk, and standing under it you can look out and see all the other little HO-scale radio dishes and then look UP UP UP at the one you're standing under, which makes you feel about the size of an ant, and you realize hoe fricken huge the whole thing is.
You're strongly advised against that because you're also not allowed to lock your luggage any more, and the strong possibility of it getting stolen. Ship overnight insured, or just take your data on a key drive and use a computer that's already there when you land.
If this keeps up I'll just bring my data on a USB key drive, and if they start searching or seizing those I'll hide it inside something innocuous. Lots of jobs I don't even take my computer any more because I just use my customer's computer.
And I'm pretty sure you don't get your airfare back. And you probably get on a list that makes sure it will happen every single time you ever try to fly again in the future. The stupid thing here is she did everything they asked, and they still stole her laptop. I can't see any rationalization for that.
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That's what you'll remember about a documentary you saw 25 years ago -- it was the fastest PDP10, not the fastest computer. And some of the cells were hand painted, not all of them. I stand corrected and edumacated.
Then the most powerful computer in the world, and they had to rent time on it because they couldn't afford to buy one. And it didn't actually render the final cells -- it created line drawings which then had to be hand painted by human animators. This is why people got so excited about Tron; it looked like something far ahead of its time.
I remember a piece linked here where a couple of morons immersed a computer in the stuff and cooled it with liquid nitrogen, oblivious to the fact that liquid nitrogen was cold enough to freeze the stuff. I was thinking "one small room air conditioner..." Apparently the miniaturized and practical version of that is what TFA is, although I say that as conjecture since I haven't read TFA.
Currently the ISS spends about half its time in the Earth's shadow. The Moon is only in the Earth's shadow during lunar eclipses.
We can't endanger the Executive after all by making him do something that might cause himself to pass out, leaving us without effective leadership.
I didn't actively solicit edit suggestions, but I think it's a fundamental rule of nature that if you put something on the internet with a typo, someone will find it and point it out. Many eyes make all bugs shallow and all that. I was surprised at how many were found, considering I'd been sitting on the MS for eight years and had had several very literate people read it critically.
I didn't use a CC license though the one I drafted for myself is pretty similar. In particular I insisted on reserving print rights for myself. CC seems a bit more intent on making information free than reserving the possibility of future conventional publication.
As other comments have noted, what makes a botnet powerful is its distributed nature, harnessing the bandwidth of hundreds of ISP's. A "botnet" limited to dot-mil space is no more a "botnet" than any big ol' single computer with a fat pipe to the backbone.
...would it be illegal to take anti-botnet measures, such as running rootkit revealer on your own machine and wiping the infection? Or would that get you swimming lessons at Gitmo?
...disease pathogens. Oh wait...
XP has the whole backward-compatibility thing going which is both their big strength and the albatross around their neck. In particular, I expect the big draw is running your standard non-hobbled version of MS Office so you can read the files sent to you by other people running it that nothing else can read. And unlike Linux, CE has no mechanism for even trying to run standard Windows apps under emulation.
It's Asperger's, which actually is on the "autistic scale." I also had such a coworker, though fortunately one very subordinate to me in the company hierarchy. He could be annoying as hell, but also absolutely reliable about certain things. To this day it's clear he has no idea why other people react to him the way we do, but he's found another position where he's appreciated for what he can do and tolerated for the trouble he causes because he's willing to give them the former for a rather low salary. So far he's solved the "lonely" problem by patronizing strip clubs.
...from this distance and with this technique, Venus would qualify as "a planet like Earth." It would truly suck to be the person who hiked 50 light-years to find that out.
The late stages of rocky planet formation are now known to be extremely violent, involving collisions of mars-sized bodies in the final accretion of a body the size of Earth or Venus. The exact collision vector can have a huge impact on the final body's rotational inertia, and can even heave a planet-sized hunk of debris like our own Moon into orbit.
Your "fix" still leaves open the possibility that Anon is simply trolling Co$ by using their own reputation against them. I frankly hate both groups and fap over the fantasy that they will destroy one another, but the RL outcome is unlikely to be so appealing.
I notice a number of folks here are convinced that these attacks are Co$ trying to discredit Anon. I wonder how many have wondered if it's Anon trying to discredit Co$ because they know that in geek circles Co$ is automatically blamed for anything like this that they're anywhere near.
It's widely believed among people who study such things that NK attempted a plutonium gun bomb, which requires an extremely high assembly speed; the Manhattan Project guys decided it was basically impossible, and NK may have proven them right.
Testing for CPU chips is already quite time consuming and authentication wouldn't add much to it. If this is for lower level crap like USB-flash interface chips then not so much.
It's not that the cops are busy with the prank, it's that the cops think they are walking into a violently dangerous situation and conduct themselves accordingly, placing the innocent victims in real danger. It sucks about him being blind but not as much as it would suck to wake up at 2 AM because a bunch of goons have smashed your windows and invaded your home, grab your gun and attempt to defend yourself, and get shot by the cops for your trouble. I have zero sympathy and hope his stay in the pen is as much fun as his pranks are.
Since the VLA is in the desert you can see the dishes from a long way off. A REALLY long way. Like 30 miles. From far away they look really cute, like little HO scale radio dishes. And as you drive toward them they get bigger and bigger and bigger and bigger and bigger. They have one (a spare I think) they keep near the visitor's center at the end of a little walk, and standing under it you can look out and see all the other little HO-scale radio dishes and then look UP UP UP at the one you're standing under, which makes you feel about the size of an ant, and you realize hoe fricken huge the whole thing is.
As the distant star passes across the background, the way it is lensed reveals the structure of the nearby system.
You're strongly advised against that because you're also not allowed to lock your luggage any more, and the strong possibility of it getting stolen. Ship overnight insured, or just take your data on a key drive and use a computer that's already there when you land.
If this keeps up I'll just bring my data on a USB key drive, and if they start searching or seizing those I'll hide it inside something innocuous. Lots of jobs I don't even take my computer any more because I just use my customer's computer.
And I'm pretty sure you don't get your airfare back. And you probably get on a list that makes sure it will happen every single time you ever try to fly again in the future. The stupid thing here is she did everything they asked, and they still stole her laptop. I can't see any rationalization for that.