well, that makes me feel better! I don't have 250gb of just music, but I'm getting there. I've got both VMware and VPC images too, a rack with four PC's on it...I guess that makes me in the 1% or the 1% of the 1%?
Your right, they do not use lasers. They are actually particle guns, and fire "bolts" of plasma. That's why you can see them, and why the lightsaber (which is also magnetically shaped plasma) can deflect them. They would cause far more damage than a laser, since the bolts have mass and are still moving at a high percentage of light-speed. The real noise they would make would probably be akin to a sonic boom, since you are accelerating matter far beyond the sound barrier (only applicable inside an atmosphere though)
As to the sound "problem"...this has always bothered me too. Scenes from "space" (ie, outside of a ship) should be completely silent. I can't even think of a movie (other than Gravity) that did this correctly. Anything outside an atmosphere would be silent...and on another planet things would sound differently due to the different make-up and density of their atmosphere!
One thing I just thought of, it would make a Terminator-style AI launch impossible...unless the AI first injected code into the floppies, then waited for them to be loaded into the various ICBM silos...
But really you would only need 5-10 ICBM's with multiple warheads as a surprise to knock us out long enough to finish us off with drones...so maybe a handful of subs could be hacked (or probably all of them if an AI could get into one). The only real thing Skynet needs right now is ground forces, some type of general worker-bot to take the human's place in places that aren't automated yet.
in high school I did that to one of my friends Wizardry 5.25 floppies on purpose. He wouldn't shut up about his character, everyone was getting annoyed...so I picked up the disk and said "oh, I can defeat them" and mangled it. The teacher wasn't happy, but I think he too found it funny....that was 1990-91.
I'll bet that somewhere in the DoD network is a very small manufacturing system for new disks...it would be pretty easy to just buy i off the market back in the 1980-90's. There is no way you could even store those old disks for 20+ years, even if they where blank. Perhaps they can still get the magnetic film inside of them made, and they just make their own sleeve, and replace the floppies as needed. There is probably a warehouse of old, electronically cleaned and hardened floppies and PC's just for these silos...since if done right the physical electronics should stay ready-to-go in a properly controlled environment.
maybe we should print out the petition, wrap it around a brick, and throw it through our rep's front windows. Hard to ignore that, and you only need 1 person per state. I'll bet within 24 hours it would be all over the news world-wide...
I live in Oklahoma...maybe you've heard the term "Sooners"...it should be called "Cheaters", as it's the name of the people who went out early, staked good claims, then miraculously "found them" first...the ironic part is these Sooners where mostly law enforcement, rail road people, etc...people who abused their position and cheated to get the best land. Sound familiar?
I just love that we have so adopted the term, chanting it at games and having it on official documents at times...especially marketing stuff. "We're a state full of line jumpers and cheats! If you are too, you'll fit right in!"
true...per the NSA everyone is a "foreigner", since somewhere they have done some type of electronic access that might have eventually crossed outside of the US. Per their logic, if anything that can be remotely tied to you has ever crossed any international routers, then every single electronic signal you have ever sent is now open for recording, auditing, and data mining!
same reason there aren't any arrests yet for the massive fraud, illegally transference of contracts, falsified documents, etc in the "housing bubble" debacle. Those who make the gold make the rules.
I think they are referring to the Native American inhabitants, even though none of them had a coast-to-coast civilization, and never called themselves the US.
Here in Tulsa, OK we dream of having a semi-efficient public transport system. All we have are a bunch of buses that require at least 2-3 hours to get anywhere, that's including waiting at the various "bus stops", most of which have nothing more than a bench (no overhead shelter)...which really sucks since in the summer it gets 110F and in the winter we often have negative wind chill. I suppose you could always call a cab and wait for 3-4 hours too...and the nearest "store" is a convenience gas-station, the nearest actual grocery store is two miles if you could cut through the neighborhood (but you can't because they are almost all fenced 4x4 around entire blocks), so it's really a six-mile total walk...and we have a serious lack of sidewalks - most of that walking would be through tall-ish grass full of ticks.
LOL...tell that to National Grid, who runs a huge chuck of the NE USA's power, owned by a UK company, and has outsourced everything possible to Wipro or whomever...
indeed, WiPro originally was a vegetable oil manufacturer, and stands for Western India Products Limited. I've dealt with them many times via supporting clients while working support at HP. Once you can get past the Indian's odd "your a stupid American" attitude (which usually I can't blame them!) they are mostly competent. In my situation, most of their "issues" and "failures" actually result from too-restricted access to various systems their trying to work on, crappy equipment their forced to use by their clients...for example one programmer I was trying to help had an ANCIENT laptop that our mutual client said had to be used for any work; he couldn't use his own (or even WiPro's) equipment but was forced to try and do some SQL dev on a D600...he needed software that our client didn't provide but was completely restricted to installing anything outside of NetIQ-pushed software packages on it. I felt for him...he even said he had an MSDN subscription and all the apps he needed but would be fired if he installed anything outside on it.
I know that at my company we don't "restart servers" as much as re-deploy another VM instance, switch all trafrfic to that, then kill the old VM. Yet sometimes it is over a year between reboots of the actual ESX servers themselves, as they are sometimes hosting dozens of VM's on a single box.
There was another person who looked at it before the commit, apparently they also missed it. So apparently a better code reviewing policy is also needed here.
Exactly! Everyone can get to the source, the whole point of OSS is that the companies themselves can (and should, from a risk-analysis point) be reviewing all the code too before implementation...it's along the lines "you get what you pay for" yet at least here everyone is given the chance to see exactly what's being run (as opposed to pre-compiled apps). IMHO, this really isn't an OpenSSL issue as much as a failing of due diligence by all the companies using it. The admin's excuse of "well, we don't actually know what the code says" fails here, and anyone over the past two years could have reviewed it themselves and fixed this! Maybe this will spur corps to actually review code of critical infrastructure when it's avalible as part of corp policy from now on, perhaps the insurance companies who do "Errors and Omissions" policies will start forcing corps to do that; kinda surprised that this isn't already a standard policy, as code review of OSS is one of it's main strengths and if your company doesn't do it then their missing out on one of the biggest assets of using OSS.
some clues might be buried in there somewhere, but until Snowden's "cache" is publicly released we'll never actually know...but I'm guessing The Guardian et al are currently combing through the archive looking for some references.
luckily for me, even though I work for HP, we are in a bomb-proof building built to survive the Cold War nukes...the original SABRE home, so that sounds like job security to me.
The Baghdad Battery tends to disagree with your statement...it was invented somewhere around 250BC to 400AD, and was probably used for electroplating jewelry. But they didn't really understand what they had made...but still, we had made a very simple battery work way before Newton.
thus why I make any member of my family who "gets ill" go out into the woods for no less than 14 days to purify themselves. After 16 days if they haven't returned we set the woods on fire to finalize the purification, per the commandments of Ahura Mazda.
lol, right! You can't "game" most modern slot machines...their not even actual "slot machines" anymore, most of them are Windowz boxes running the games. I've seen many of them bluescreen before LOL...
According to Neil Tyson on Cosmos, he said ghosts DO exist. He was, of course. referring to Hubble's father telling Hubble that the stars in the sky are sometimes ghosts, as we see a star when it's actually long-gone. Well, I think it was actually Patrick Stewart's voice...so that makes it even MORE real, as Captain Pickard would never lie to us!/sarcasm
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well, that makes me feel better! I don't have 250gb of just music, but I'm getting there. I've got both VMware and VPC images too, a rack with four PC's on it...I guess that makes me in the 1% or the 1% of the 1%?
Your right, they do not use lasers. They are actually particle guns, and fire "bolts" of plasma. That's why you can see them, and why the lightsaber (which is also magnetically shaped plasma) can deflect them. They would cause far more damage than a laser, since the bolts have mass and are still moving at a high percentage of light-speed. The real noise they would make would probably be akin to a sonic boom, since you are accelerating matter far beyond the sound barrier (only applicable inside an atmosphere though) As to the sound "problem"...this has always bothered me too. Scenes from "space" (ie, outside of a ship) should be completely silent. I can't even think of a movie (other than Gravity) that did this correctly. Anything outside an atmosphere would be silent...and on another planet things would sound differently due to the different make-up and density of their atmosphere!
One thing I just thought of, it would make a Terminator-style AI launch impossible...unless the AI first injected code into the floppies, then waited for them to be loaded into the various ICBM silos...
But really you would only need 5-10 ICBM's with multiple warheads as a surprise to knock us out long enough to finish us off with drones...so maybe a handful of subs could be hacked (or probably all of them if an AI could get into one). The only real thing Skynet needs right now is ground forces, some type of general worker-bot to take the human's place in places that aren't automated yet.
in high school I did that to one of my friends Wizardry 5.25 floppies on purpose. He wouldn't shut up about his character, everyone was getting annoyed...so I picked up the disk and said "oh, I can defeat them" and mangled it. The teacher wasn't happy, but I think he too found it funny....that was 1990-91.
I'll bet that somewhere in the DoD network is a very small manufacturing system for new disks...it would be pretty easy to just buy i off the market back in the 1980-90's. There is no way you could even store those old disks for 20+ years, even if they where blank. Perhaps they can still get the magnetic film inside of them made, and they just make their own sleeve, and replace the floppies as needed. There is probably a warehouse of old, electronically cleaned and hardened floppies and PC's just for these silos...since if done right the physical electronics should stay ready-to-go in a properly controlled environment.
maybe we should print out the petition, wrap it around a brick, and throw it through our rep's front windows. Hard to ignore that, and you only need 1 person per state. I'll bet within 24 hours it would be all over the news world-wide...
I live in Oklahoma...maybe you've heard the term "Sooners"...it should be called "Cheaters", as it's the name of the people who went out early, staked good claims, then miraculously "found them" first...the ironic part is these Sooners where mostly law enforcement, rail road people, etc...people who abused their position and cheated to get the best land. Sound familiar?
I just love that we have so adopted the term, chanting it at games and having it on official documents at times...especially marketing stuff. "We're a state full of line jumpers and cheats! If you are too, you'll fit right in!"
true...per the NSA everyone is a "foreigner", since somewhere they have done some type of electronic access that might have eventually crossed outside of the US. Per their logic, if anything that can be remotely tied to you has ever crossed any international routers, then every single electronic signal you have ever sent is now open for recording, auditing, and data mining!
same reason there aren't any arrests yet for the massive fraud, illegally transference of contracts, falsified documents, etc in the "housing bubble" debacle. Those who make the gold make the rules.
I think they are referring to the Native American inhabitants, even though none of them had a coast-to-coast civilization, and never called themselves the US.
Here in Tulsa, OK we dream of having a semi-efficient public transport system. All we have are a bunch of buses that require at least 2-3 hours to get anywhere, that's including waiting at the various "bus stops", most of which have nothing more than a bench (no overhead shelter)...which really sucks since in the summer it gets 110F and in the winter we often have negative wind chill. I suppose you could always call a cab and wait for 3-4 hours too...and the nearest "store" is a convenience gas-station, the nearest actual grocery store is two miles if you could cut through the neighborhood (but you can't because they are almost all fenced 4x4 around entire blocks), so it's really a six-mile total walk...and we have a serious lack of sidewalks - most of that walking would be through tall-ish grass full of ticks.
LOL...tell that to National Grid, who runs a huge chuck of the NE USA's power, owned by a UK company, and has outsourced everything possible to Wipro or whomever...
John Titor, is that you?
indeed, WiPro originally was a vegetable oil manufacturer, and stands for Western India Products Limited. I've dealt with them many times via supporting clients while working support at HP. Once you can get past the Indian's odd "your a stupid American" attitude (which usually I can't blame them!) they are mostly competent. In my situation, most of their "issues" and "failures" actually result from too-restricted access to various systems their trying to work on, crappy equipment their forced to use by their clients...for example one programmer I was trying to help had an ANCIENT laptop that our mutual client said had to be used for any work; he couldn't use his own (or even WiPro's) equipment but was forced to try and do some SQL dev on a D600...he needed software that our client didn't provide but was completely restricted to installing anything outside of NetIQ-pushed software packages on it. I felt for him...he even said he had an MSDN subscription and all the apps he needed but would be fired if he installed anything outside on it.
I know that at my company we don't "restart servers" as much as re-deploy another VM instance, switch all trafrfic to that, then kill the old VM. Yet sometimes it is over a year between reboots of the actual ESX servers themselves, as they are sometimes hosting dozens of VM's on a single box.
There was another person who looked at it before the commit, apparently they also missed it. So apparently a better code reviewing policy is also needed here.
Exactly! Everyone can get to the source, the whole point of OSS is that the companies themselves can (and should, from a risk-analysis point) be reviewing all the code too before implementation...it's along the lines "you get what you pay for" yet at least here everyone is given the chance to see exactly what's being run (as opposed to pre-compiled apps). IMHO, this really isn't an OpenSSL issue as much as a failing of due diligence by all the companies using it. The admin's excuse of "well, we don't actually know what the code says" fails here, and anyone over the past two years could have reviewed it themselves and fixed this! Maybe this will spur corps to actually review code of critical infrastructure when it's avalible as part of corp policy from now on, perhaps the insurance companies who do "Errors and Omissions" policies will start forcing corps to do that; kinda surprised that this isn't already a standard policy, as code review of OSS is one of it's main strengths and if your company doesn't do it then their missing out on one of the biggest assets of using OSS.
some clues might be buried in there somewhere, but until Snowden's "cache" is publicly released we'll never actually know...but I'm guessing The Guardian et al are currently combing through the archive looking for some references.
lol...Maybe he was sent a stack of cash with a USB flashdrive and a note "You know what needs to be done. Love, NSA"
luckily for me, even though I work for HP, we are in a bomb-proof building built to survive the Cold War nukes...the original SABRE home, so that sounds like job security to me.
The Baghdad Battery tends to disagree with your statement...it was invented somewhere around 250BC to 400AD, and was probably used for electroplating jewelry. But they didn't really understand what they had made...but still, we had made a very simple battery work way before Newton.
thus why I make any member of my family who "gets ill" go out into the woods for no less than 14 days to purify themselves. After 16 days if they haven't returned we set the woods on fire to finalize the purification, per the commandments of Ahura Mazda.
lol, right! You can't "game" most modern slot machines...their not even actual "slot machines" anymore, most of them are Windowz boxes running the games. I've seen many of them bluescreen before LOL...
According to Neil Tyson on Cosmos, he said ghosts DO exist. He was, of course. referring to Hubble's father telling Hubble that the stars in the sky are sometimes ghosts, as we see a star when it's actually long-gone. Well, I think it was actually Patrick Stewart's voice...so that makes it even MORE real, as Captain Pickard would never lie to us! /sarcasm
Just because your NOT paranormal doesn't mean ghosts aren't following you.
FTFY