One problem- MREs have between 1200 and 1600 calories per, and that's if you eat every last item, down to the non-dairy creamer.
There are two major problems with this story. "The problem has been that MREs need to have a shelf life of three years. The scientists have focused on microwaving the rations during the packaging process instead of the traditional method of boiling the contents (which alters the smell and color of eggs and cheese and makes pasta soggy)." What?!?! As one who has suffered through "Omlette With Ham" too many times, I can assure you that eggs have been on the menu. Even today there's "Buttered Noodles" and "Pasta With Alfredo Sauce." A quick check of the menu linked to shows even more pasta dishes. What it doesn't show is "Pork Chow Mein." What am I going to eat when my unit runs out of those? I still miss the "Spicy Meatballs And Rice In Tomato Sauce." Now that was a meal.
"Amazon didn't even have to resort to controversial pro forma accounting methods. It posted a net profit of $5 million, or 1 cent a share, for the quarter, using standard accounting methods."
Now those are the standard, supported by peer review, accounting methods that gave us Enron? If I had any Amazon stock, that report would make me dump it.
No, a cracker with the know-how could check a bomb filled bag as yours. Your bags get on, his bag gets on, you get on, the plane takes off. He's in the airport bar waiting for the news to give him a pat on the back. Just because you can't come up with every way to decisively exploit every security hole doesn't mean that someone else can't. Remember that the 9/11 terrorists were more educated than our airport security people need to be.
The day the baggage matching started, CNN had a guy to take a morning flight to document all this. No muss, no fuss, but his flight was cancelled because of maintainance issues. He didn't even get on the plane, the plane never went anywhere, but his bag made it to his destination. There's matching for you.
Another loophole is that you can get off at a layover and your bags will continue on their merry way. That probably means you can miss your connection but your bag will make it.
I'm sorry, I forgot that airports are at their most secure ever now, thanks to the Army National Guard!
Why should the DVD drive manufacturers stand up against anyone except their own customers? These are the wonderful folks who went along with CSS in the first place. Give it a couple months and we'll be seeing drives touted as having the "feature" of being able to "play" (not rip) "copy-protected audio CDs."
People will be lining up to buy them. When they notice that they can't rip, it'll be too late- and the only response they will get is "what, you want to pirate music? You are a bad person, I ought to report you." Makes me glad that I've already got a drive.
Several experts said they had already managed to duplicate within their research labs so-called "denial of service" attacks made possible by the Windows XP flaws. Such attacks can overwhelm Web sites and prevent their use by legitimate visitors.
Another risk, that hackers can implant rogue software on vulnerable computers, was conidered more remote because of the technical sophistication needed.
Now IANASK (script kiddie), but isn't implanting "rogue software" a critical step in getting a DDOS up and running? It'd be nice if tech journalists knew a little about what they're reporting, especially the ones who get their paychecks from MS. On the other hand, it'd be nicer if coders knew a little more about what they're doing- especially the ones who get their paychecks from MS.
Gun manufacturers can legally be sued over the actions of criminals who happen to use their products. Using the new definition of terrorism, we should be able to lock up Bill & Co. and throw away the key.
Of course, that also goes for the Linux distros that default install with everything enabled. All those helpless, rooted lusers would be giving the "I was cleaning it and didn't know it was loaded" line.
"The idea that an arbitrary naive human should be able to properly use a given tool without training or understanding is even more wrong for computing than it is for other tools (e.g. automobiles, airplanes, guns, power saws)."
-- Doug Gwyn
Spam's cost topped piracy's cost a long time ago. Spam costs real money in all the ways you mentioned. Piracy's cost is imaginary. Multiplying the retail price by the total number of copies found anywhere is a ludicrous way to calculate lost sales.
Intellectual dishonesty from Washington? FUD from Redmond? What is this world coming to?
First, I don't like subscriptions at all, but Tivo's lifetime sub costs as much as 2 years' worth of regular subs.
Second, the Tivo's a neat little toy. A couple of guys brought theirs in to our last LUG meeting- one already modded, one to mod in front of us. The ethernet card was a nice touch, as was having a bash prompt. Backing up the new box and dropping the big Maxtor in was a breeze, but he didn't want the network connection- it overrides the modem and he only has a phone jack in his living room.
I was impressed with how his viewing habits have changed, and I was impressed with the picture quality. It looked like crap- recorded on the lowest setting, getting bumped over to a laptop and shot through a projector to the wall about 10 feet away, making a nice, big image. If it looked like that on a TV I'd have laughed, but this was fine.
Anyway, www.9thtee.com is a great place for the hardware. They come highly recommended. I'll be damned if I buy a subscription box that's fscking crippleware, though.
I hadn't known that the Linux kernel was made in the US. I can see a qualm or two about sending software overseas- you know, exporting it. What I can't see is worrying that the software I'm running outside the US shouldn't have been exported from the US. Especially if that software is the Linux kernel.
Had gone to NY instead. At least there the courts take issue with folks being hit for things they did outside the country. On the other hand, why are they trying to grant 1st amendment protection to mexican citizens in Mexico? Sounds loony to me.
I'll bet 2600 is looking long and hard at this to see if it can help them even a bit. Maybe the NY courts can try to extend 1st amendment protection to US citizens in the US. That would be a pleasant reversal of the past few months' trend.
You need to look at where MS was going with being nice. If being nice removes the image, fine. If it doesn't, being able to tell the judge "we asked him very politely" will carry a lot of weight. That's something that they would need, considering that any law he might have been breaking would be a very flimsy one that would only apply to him if the court wre already convinced that he was a nasty bad hacker.
Microsoft wasn't being nice so much as being intelligent. It's a shame they don't put the formidable powers they do have into making good products. If they did, I wouldn't have had to learn half of the computer stuff I know.
The business model of forcing people to buy bad software is what is becoming irrelevant. Free, open, whatever the hell you prefer to call it is coming. These companies are advertising to the world their moral bankruptcy. Think about it for a moment.
Read the posts you reply to. Reach down, and if you find any balls, log in.
Oh, beautiful day for open source. As the big money guys make their products increasingly difficult and expensive to use, they're going to piss off Joe User, and even Joe Manager. Other options are going to look even better than they do now.
Yes, I resent having to buy Windows when I buy a box (hell, I con't even want to have to buy a monitor when I buy a box. I was still using the '98 that came with one until recently. That's irrelevant now, but if I got an XP that I don't want I'd give it or sell it in a heartbeat. Let the cops come get me. If the thought police keep it illegal then I'd keep it off of e-bay, but that's about as low as I'd keep my profile.
What we're losing sight of is that these big companies are fast becoming irrelevant. Their business model is morally bankrupt. They can only make money by forcing people to buy things that they don't want, and have to get the law to keep people from selling off the crap they didn't want to buy in the first place. This is going to be a great boost for open source. Hell, there's even a slim chance that closed source customers (hostages) might actually be helped by this. The way our judicial system has been going, very slim.
Every time I see one of these stories about how much crack our government (and by extension, the rest of us) has been smoking, I hope for a little progress.
Is the best we can hope for that the court (and the appeals court, and the appeals-appeals court, etc.) will slap some people around and throw out the patent? Can we dare hope that instead we will see some real attention given to our intellectual property system- even to the extent that Skylarov won't be a criminal anymore? This just makes me sick.
Michael Jackson is already copy protected- I won't put a pedophile on my computer.
Still, it is nice to see that they've come up with a "protection" method that pisses off non-geeks. They're the ones with the numbers that'll make returning defective merchandise really hurt.
It takes balls to pretend that they're looking out for the artists. Piracy can't come close to hurting them as much as the RIAA does every day. It doesn't even occur to them that I might want to store my music somewhere usable instead of on a shelf. Bastards.
Have you ever installed Windows on a box that already has Linux on it? It's pretty much "Disable third-party software," and secret, too; Most people I know don't know that other OSes exist, much less what dual booting is.
Their sales and marketing practices that you see sin in are as tightly integrated with their products that you like as IE is with Windows. All they do is marketing, silly. All they do is sin, too.
I suppose that it is a good thing that the FBI is working with the EU to get US law to apply in Europe, because it sort of balances out the efforts of the antitrust division to insure that US law doesn't apply in America.
The watch sounds like something George Carlin would bring with him on a day trip while he's on vacation; a third, even smaller version of his stuff.
It's a nice idea, it shows that they are thinking, but I can't see needing it more than my 3"x6" spiral notebook. At least with that I can input on the fly. The real downside to it is that a lot of people are going to have to buy it or these folks aren't going to make a second-generation, actually useful version of it.
What kind of crack are they smoking that they want to give up the ability to downgrade non-military sets? Maybe it's just to lull folks into a false sense of security.
I've never used a civilian set, and now I never want to. How the hell can anyone tolerate 100 meter accuracy? I can do better than that by looking at a map. Now it'll someday get down to 36 meters? Damn, I get pissed off when I can only get it down to 10 meters.
850hp from a non-turbo 3 liter engine is not only amazing, it will affect what gets built for us. Sorry, I just had to disagree there. Everything else you said I couldn't agree with more.
God forbid someone want to look something up during class. Not everyone surfs to look for porn- there's a hell of a lot of information out there, and being able to do research in "real time," actually during a discussion or lecture can bring a lot of value to it.
Besides, my laptop's keyboard doesn't clack. Of course, if I were a prof, I'd confiscate for the rest of the class period anything that made so much as one beep. After a couple of days, those e-tards would either learn how to use their computers, or they would learn how to not use their computers.
You call these people (and me, too, I suppose) swine because you don't like our morals, but the best argument you can come up with is "I hope you know that this will go down on your permenent record?" People taking responsibility for themselves isn't a bad thing.
If my employer deliberately behaves outside the law towards me, what obligation do I have to behave within the law to the company? My moral foundations would tell me to make my actions proportional. I won't burn the CEO's house down, but I will even the scales as well as I can.
Never let "the law" overturn reason. I don't do a lot of things, not because they're illegal, but because they're wrong. That's morals, for any swine without any of their own.
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There are two major problems with this story. "The problem has been that MREs need to have a shelf life of three years. The scientists have focused on microwaving the rations during the packaging process instead of the traditional method of boiling the contents (which alters the smell and color of eggs and cheese and makes pasta soggy)." What?!?! As one who has suffered through "Omlette With Ham" too many times, I can assure you that eggs have been on the menu. Even today there's "Buttered Noodles" and "Pasta With Alfredo Sauce." A quick check of the menu linked to shows even more pasta dishes. What it doesn't show is "Pork Chow Mein." What am I going to eat when my unit runs out of those? I still miss the "Spicy Meatballs And Rice In Tomato Sauce." Now that was a meal.
Now those are the standard, supported by peer review, accounting methods that gave us Enron? If I had any Amazon stock, that report would make me dump it.
My copy of '98 is secure. I wiped it and locked up the CD. That's the only way to make it "trustworthy."
The day the baggage matching started, CNN had a guy to take a morning flight to document all this. No muss, no fuss, but his flight was cancelled because of maintainance issues. He didn't even get on the plane, the plane never went anywhere, but his bag made it to his destination. There's matching for you.
Another loophole is that you can get off at a layover and your bags will continue on their merry way. That probably means you can miss your connection but your bag will make it.
I'm sorry, I forgot that airports are at their most secure ever now, thanks to the Army National Guard!
People will be lining up to buy them. When they notice that they can't rip, it'll be too late- and the only response they will get is "what, you want to pirate music? You are a bad person, I ought to report you." Makes me glad that I've already got a drive.
Another risk, that hackers can implant rogue software on vulnerable computers, was conidered more remote because of the technical sophistication needed.
Now IANASK (script kiddie), but isn't implanting "rogue software" a critical step in getting a DDOS up and running? It'd be nice if tech journalists knew a little about what they're reporting, especially the ones who get their paychecks from MS. On the other hand, it'd be nicer if coders knew a little more about what they're doing- especially the ones who get their paychecks from MS.
Of course, that also goes for the Linux distros that default install with everything enabled. All those helpless, rooted lusers would be giving the "I was cleaning it and didn't know it was loaded" line.
"The idea that an arbitrary naive human should be able to properly use a given tool without training or understanding is even more wrong for computing than it is for other tools (e.g. automobiles, airplanes, guns, power saws)." -- Doug Gwyn
Intellectual dishonesty from Washington? FUD from Redmond? What is this world coming to?
Second, the Tivo's a neat little toy. A couple of guys brought theirs in to our last LUG meeting- one already modded, one to mod in front of us. The ethernet card was a nice touch, as was having a bash prompt. Backing up the new box and dropping the big Maxtor in was a breeze, but he didn't want the network connection- it overrides the modem and he only has a phone jack in his living room.
I was impressed with how his viewing habits have changed, and I was impressed with the picture quality. It looked like crap- recorded on the lowest setting, getting bumped over to a laptop and shot through a projector to the wall about 10 feet away, making a nice, big image. If it looked like that on a TV I'd have laughed, but this was fine.
Anyway, www.9thtee.com is a great place for the hardware. They come highly recommended. I'll be damned if I buy a subscription box that's fscking crippleware, though.
I'll bet 2600 is looking long and hard at this to see if it can help them even a bit. Maybe the NY courts can try to extend 1st amendment protection to US citizens in the US. That would be a pleasant reversal of the past few months' trend.
Microsoft wasn't being nice so much as being intelligent. It's a shame they don't put the formidable powers they do have into making good products. If they did, I wouldn't have had to learn half of the computer stuff I know.
Read the posts you reply to. Reach down, and if you find any balls, log in.
Yes, I resent having to buy Windows when I buy a box (hell, I con't even want to have to buy a monitor when I buy a box. I was still using the '98 that came with one until recently. That's irrelevant now, but if I got an XP that I don't want I'd give it or sell it in a heartbeat. Let the cops come get me. If the thought police keep it illegal then I'd keep it off of e-bay, but that's about as low as I'd keep my profile.
What we're losing sight of is that these big companies are fast becoming irrelevant. Their business model is morally bankrupt. They can only make money by forcing people to buy things that they don't want, and have to get the law to keep people from selling off the crap they didn't want to buy in the first place. This is going to be a great boost for open source. Hell, there's even a slim chance that closed source customers (hostages) might actually be helped by this. The way our judicial system has been going, very slim.
Is the best we can hope for that the court (and the appeals court, and the appeals-appeals court, etc.) will slap some people around and throw out the patent? Can we dare hope that instead we will see some real attention given to our intellectual property system- even to the extent that Skylarov won't be a criminal anymore? This just makes me sick.
Still, it is nice to see that they've come up with a "protection" method that pisses off non-geeks. They're the ones with the numbers that'll make returning defective merchandise really hurt.
It takes balls to pretend that they're looking out for the artists. Piracy can't come close to hurting them as much as the RIAA does every day. It doesn't even occur to them that I might want to store my music somewhere usable instead of on a shelf. Bastards.
Their sales and marketing practices that you see sin in are as tightly integrated with their products that you like as IE is with Windows. All they do is marketing, silly. All they do is sin, too.
It's a nice idea, it shows that they are thinking, but I can't see needing it more than my 3"x6" spiral notebook. At least with that I can input on the fly. The real downside to it is that a lot of people are going to have to buy it or these folks aren't going to make a second-generation, actually useful version of it.
I've never used a civilian set, and now I never want to. How the hell can anyone tolerate 100 meter accuracy? I can do better than that by looking at a map. Now it'll someday get down to 36 meters? Damn, I get pissed off when I can only get it down to 10 meters.
Besides, my laptop's keyboard doesn't clack. Of course, if I were a prof, I'd confiscate for the rest of the class period anything that made so much as one beep. After a couple of days, those e-tards would either learn how to use their computers, or they would learn how to not use their computers.
Never let "the law" overturn reason. I don't do a lot of things, not because they're illegal, but because they're wrong. That's morals, for any swine without any of their own.