Any box thats been running for 1200 days (ie over 3 years!!) deserves to be hacked since the admin is obviously too lazy or just too irresponsible to have done any security patches to the machine (which would require a reboot). There is NO operating system unix or otherwise which has not found some sort of security flaw either in the kernel or in a server app in that length of time.
No I'm not american. But there won't be any evidence because sediments shift in a period of hundreds of thousands of years. Sure you can bury a flint axe in some soil and come back 5000 years later and it may well still be there , 100,000 years later? Anything could have happened to the soil strata in that time. We know humans existed that long ago but just how many human bones do you find of that age? Very very few.
Its not a joke , theres been video footage on it on the BBC TV news. If it is an April Fools then someone has `gone to a lot of trouble for something thats not even amusing.
I was taking the average age pal. Rome rose about 400 BC and died around 400AD. Whats your problem? FYI a lot of roman cities in the UK (oh , like Londinium) were built in the 1st and 2nd centuries. Trying to be a smartass when you don't know your facts just makes you look stupid.
Light is EM radiation too? Gee , thats for letting me know, I'd never have guessed. And interstellar dust will absorb wavelengths that are similar to the grain size which is why some clouds absord infrared more than visible light and x-rays go straight through. It depends where you are. Yes radio travels better in gases but if these aliens communicate between planets they could be using anything as I said since interstellar absorbtion is not relevant on the solar system (or indeed even local star group) scales.
Confused and thick. Don't they teach anything at school these days? What do you think happened at the end of the ice age when all the ice melted? This is mentioned in the article , perhaps you should try reading it before posting.
I've never understood why academia seem so intent on believing that civilization has only been around for the last 4 or 5 thousand years or so. After all, if the genetic record is correct homo sapiens have been around for a few hundred thousand years at least and I find it far harder to believe that in all that time all humans did was hunt and gather as opposed to them building cities and towns. Carving blocks of stone , building roads etc isn't rocket science and if some race had built a city 100,000 years ago VERY little of it would still be around today (Ice Ages notwithstanding). Look at how little is left of most Roman ruins and they're only 2000 years old! Though Graham Hancock may come out with a lot of BS at times , I think in this case he's spot on.
You're assuming aliens would be using radio at all and haven't discovered a far better means of communication. After all, across space almost any form of EM radiation travels as well as radio waves , they could just as easily be using light.
If you'd ever actually seen some Nazi skinheads beat the shit out of someone on the street like I have you wouldn't dream of coming up with this pathetic rhetoric. If its supposed to be serious it just shows you need to get out more and if its supposed to be tongue in cheek you need to work on your comedy act for about , oh , another 10 years.
The european Digital TV and Radion systems already use spread spectrum technology (though not frequency hopping AFAIK) and have been since they came online years ago. Time for the US to play catch up (again).
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These sorts of "MS is spying on us" articles are nothing new and to be honest everyone knows what the answer is if you don't like it - don't use a Windows OS. There is Linux and 3 versions of BSD to choose from and for the fluffies who can't handle them you can use MacOS (old or new). MS will continue to do this because A) Its not illegal and probably never will be B) 99% of users are to computer illiterate to know
what their computer is doing or simply don't care
When MS makes Office an online subscription system they'll be downloading far more than just your IP address and search text so if you don't like the MS vision of the future GET OUT NOW! You have a parachute , its called Open Source.
In favt the things had only been on sale for 4 hours but already 1 out of the 3 had crashed. Hardly a great advert for something that costs a LOT more than a PS2 or Gamecube. There is an argument that consistency is a good thing however and MS certainly seem to be following that advice!:)
Agreed there should be native binaries for it but I guess theres always the source-compile option or failing that the linux binary should run on FreeBSD.
I suggest you go read the history of the industrial revolution in europe then repost. Also read up on the history of africa and the exploitation of blacks by blacks before europeans arrived on the scene while you're at it. And why didn't they have a chance to drag themselves out of the stone age? What was stopping them before we came along?
Ah crap. Colonialism ended a hundred years ago. There was nothing stopping them going back to some sort of subsistance farming if thats what they wanted. And not all these countries were colonies anyway. Yeah , blame colonilism (read: the white man). Its the easy no brainer right-on way out and deflects criticism from the real issues.
Who cares? Its that or no job at all for them. If their countries had half decent economies it wouldn't be an issue. THEY undercut US. We didn't FORCE them to charge low prices for their work. WHat about the western workers put out of work because of that? Bet you won't be doing a fist salute for them will you mate?
Kids always protest whether it be about what mummy has given them for dinner or about some [insert right-on political agenda]. After a few years they grow up and grow out of it.
Funny , I thought it was quite an incisive piece. What is the problem you people have with this guy? Is it the standard issue teenagers having a go at someone older routine? It getting *really* old and stale these days.
Anyone who thinks that if the west hadn't got rich through the industrial revolution , and science and technology in general then the 3rd world would somehow have inherited that wealth and would all be living in some happy nirvana right now is either a fool or living in some hippy cloud somewhere south of reality. I get sick and tired of people trying to make me feel guily because I can afford a computer and some kid in africa is starving to death. Povery is caused by a combination of degradation of the enviroment, despot dictators, poor economic management, religious zealotry and plain old overpopulation. Fuck the 3rd world, its not our fault the state they're in. We dragged ourselves out of a stone age culture, they didn't. Well thats their damn problem.
But the KDE team doesn't intend to lock you in to their system by bundling konquerer because only their browser can access/run some given feature. Also mozilla dying would make no difference to them because they make no money no matter how many people use KDE.
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Any box thats been running for 1200 days (ie over 3 years!!) deserves to be hacked since the admin
is obviously too lazy or just too irresponsible to have done any security patches to the machine
(which would require a reboot). There is NO operating system unix or otherwise which has not
found some sort of security flaw either in the kernel or in a server app in that length of time.
No I'm not american. But there won't be any evidence because sediments shift in a period of
hundreds of thousands of years. Sure you can bury a flint axe in some soil and come back 5000 years
later and it may well still be there , 100,000
years later? Anything could have happened to the
soil strata in that time. We know humans existed
that long ago but just how many human bones do
you find of that age? Very very few.
As I said elsewhere , I took the average age of
roman ruins. Its shorter than type 400BC to 400Ad ok?
Funny , cos Europe is using it as we speak.
Guess your forefront isn't the same as theirs.
Its not a joke , theres been video footage on it on the BBC TV news. If it is an April Fools then
someone has `gone to a lot of trouble for something thats not even amusing.
I was taking the average age pal. Rome rose about
400 BC and died around 400AD. Whats your problem?
FYI a lot of roman cities in the UK (oh , like Londinium) were built in the 1st and 2nd centuries.
Trying to be a smartass when you don't know your facts just makes you look stupid.
Light is EM radiation too? Gee , thats for letting
me know, I'd never have guessed.
And interstellar dust will absorb wavelengths that
are similar to the grain size which is why some
clouds absord infrared more than visible light
and x-rays go straight through. It depends where
you are. Yes radio travels better in gases but
if these aliens communicate between planets they
could be using anything as I said since interstellar
absorbtion is not relevant on the solar system
(or indeed even local star group) scales.
Confused and thick.
Don't they teach anything at school these days?
What do you think happened at the end of the
ice age when all the ice melted? This is mentioned
in the article , perhaps you should try reading
it before posting.
I've never understood why academia seem so intent
on believing that civilization has only been
around
for the last 4 or 5 thousand years or so. After
all, if the genetic record is correct homo sapiens
have been around for a few hundred thousand years
at least and I find it far harder to believe that
in all that time all humans did was hunt and gather as opposed to them building cities and
towns. Carving blocks of stone , building roads
etc isn't rocket science and if some race had built
a city 100,000 years ago VERY little of it would
still be around today (Ice Ages notwithstanding).
Look at how little is left of most Roman ruins and
they're only 2000 years old!
Though Graham Hancock may come out with a lot of
BS at times , I think in this case he's spot on.
You're assuming aliens would be using radio at all and haven't discovered a far better means of
communication. After all, across space almost any form of EM radiation travels as well as radio
waves , they could just as easily be using light.
If you'd ever actually seen some Nazi skinheads beat the shit out of someone on the street like
I have you wouldn't dream of coming up with this pathetic rhetoric. If its supposed to be serious
it just shows you need to get out more and if its supposed to be tongue in cheek you need to work
on your comedy act for about , oh , another 10 years.
The european Digital TV and Radion systems already
use spread spectrum technology (though not
frequency hopping AFAIK) and have been since
they came online years ago. Time for the US to
play catch up (again).
These sorts of "MS is spying on us" articles are
nothing new and to be honest everyone knows what
the answer is if you don't like it - don't use
a Windows OS. There is Linux and 3 versions of BSD
to choose from and for the fluffies who can't handle
them you can use MacOS (old or new).
MS will continue to do this because
A) Its not illegal and probably never will be
B) 99% of users are to computer illiterate to know
what their computer is doing or simply don't care
When MS makes Office an online subscription system
they'll be downloading far more than just your
IP address and search text so if you don't like
the MS vision of the future GET OUT NOW! You have
a parachute , its called Open Source.
Wow , if its not even as capable as Windows it must suck. Buy a PS2 then you can put Linux on it :)
In favt the things had only been on sale for 4 hours but already 1 out of the 3 had crashed. :)
Hardly a great advert for something that costs a LOT more than a PS2 or Gamecube.
There is an argument that consistency is a good thing however and MS certainly seem to be following
that advice!
Agreed there should be native binaries for it but
I guess theres always the source-compile option
or failing that the linux binary should run on
FreeBSD.
I suggest you go read the history of the industrial revolution in europe then repost.
Also read up on the history of africa and the exploitation of blacks by blacks before europeans
arrived on the scene while you're at it.
And why didn't they have a chance to drag themselves out of the stone age? What was stopping them before we came along?
Ah crap. Colonialism ended a hundred years ago. There was nothing stopping them going back to
some sort of subsistance farming if thats what they wanted. And not all these countries were
colonies anyway.
Yeah , blame colonilism (read: the white man). Its the easy no brainer right-on way out and deflects criticism from the real issues.
They have the oil, we have no choice. We're not supporting them so much as they have us by the
balls.
Who cares? Its that or no job at all for them. If their countries had half decent economies it
wouldn't be an issue. THEY undercut US. We didn't FORCE them to charge low prices for their work.
WHat about the western workers put out of work because of that? Bet you won't be doing a fist
salute for them will you mate?
Kids always protest whether it be about what mummy has given them for dinner or about some
[insert right-on political agenda]. After a few years they grow up and grow out of it.
Funny , I thought it was quite an incisive piece. What is the problem you people have with this
guy? Is it the standard issue teenagers having a go at someone older routine? It getting *really*
old and stale these days.
Anyone who thinks that if the west hadn't got rich through the industrial revolution , and
science and technology in general then the 3rd world would somehow have inherited that wealth
and would all be living in some happy nirvana right now is either a fool or living in some hippy
cloud somewhere south of reality.
I get sick and tired of people trying to make me feel guily because I can afford a computer and
some kid in africa is starving to death.
Povery is caused by a combination of degradation of the enviroment, despot dictators, poor economic management, religious zealotry and plain old overpopulation.
Fuck the 3rd world, its not our fault the state they're in. We dragged ourselves out of a stone
age culture, they didn't. Well thats their damn problem.
But the KDE team doesn't intend to lock you in to
their system by bundling konquerer because only their browser can access/run some given feature. Also mozilla dying would make no difference to them
because they make no money no matter how many people use KDE.
Soon there'll be so much GUI gloop and eye candy
on top of the OS it'll need a 2Ghz P4 to run.
Congrats KDE team.