FreeBSD default install doesn't have any holes, but that's because it doesn't have any services running. If you plan to actually use the box for something, you must enable services and open potential holes.
Also, doesn't anybody remember last week's OpenSSH security hole? As far as I know it still isn't fixed. To prove how well the open source bazaar model works, they didn't tell what the problem was but instead told people to upgrade to newest incomplete version. Which still has the bug.
A friend (who works at SSH Communications and should know something about the stuff) told that OpenSSH has also had their share of security problems in the past but they've fixed them quietly whenever they could (not that SSH or F-Secure were all clean).
They were ahead of time, again. Nowadays most processor manyfacturers announce some number of MIPS that is lots more than any practical code will ever obtain.
It is already marked. Even if all structures on the ground were destroyed and all the people that ever knew the location were killed, the digging and filling of mine shafts would change the seismic properties of the ground so that a geologist would find the site easily.
That case had already been considered by the people who wrote the report. They didn't think anybody could use the waste as weapon but rather to make the area unlivable for everybody (think Saddam Hussein and burning oil wells)
Had you actually read the article, you would see that the plan is to tell as clearly as possible what is under there. In the actual document they said that the in the first warning structures there would be not only 'keep out' message in seven languages (space left to add new languages) but also some information about the site. It would say that the place is believed to be completely safe as long as you don't dig or drill the ground. And it would say that for more information you'll just have to enter the building inside the area.
The main information room (actually five identical rooms, one on surface, four buried in different depths) would then contain exact information about what is buried there and where it is, including the floor plan of the WIPP facility. For those who don't know about our current calendar system, there would be star charts that tell when the site was constructed and when its radioactivity is at the level of natural uranium ore. Also there would be a map of other nuclear waste sites where you should find documentation to confirm this one. And if that doesn't tell you what is down there, there would be a chart of the periodic system with samples of the non-precious elements (precious elements would get stolen and give hints that there are other things to steal too) and marks that would tell which ones the waste contains.
Most of the more advanced information would be only in English and maybe Spanish. The authors believe that isn't much a problem as there probably will be scholars that can read English around for a long time (think about the volume of archived material from these days). Also, there are instructions to rewrite the material if English becomes hard to understand. The star charts and maps should stay readable though the language changes.
See? No need to dig there. You can get all the information from the surface.
I don't know how much your university demands from PhD dissertations, but the even the girl who thought Darth Vader and Xena are the same person came up with more convincing arguments.
Starting from the geography, Shire might be middle England, but only if you cut it off the map and pasted it to north Germany. Maybe Bree is London in disguise. Interpreting Gondor and Rohan as Austria and Hungary is a good one, it fits both geography (though east and west flipped) and society. But then there's Moria, those mountains and Isengard, that are quite random and the rest of Europe including powers such as France and Russia is simply gone without a trace. And although Mordor is in the right corner of the map and the shape is almost there (although if you want to, you can see a similar half-circle of mountains at Rumania and Bulgaria), but the capital is certainly in the wrong place.
And Orcish language and character set don't resemble Turkish that much, as I recall the orcs too dumb to learn Black Language and speaking bad Westron instead. The picture of Orcs as filthy and cruel people fits easily just any foreign nation a given nation has fought. Just replace curved blades with Kalashnikovs, Molotov Cocktails or just anything foreign.
I don't deny that there is racism present, but, hey, this is fantasy. If you don't have absolutely bad people, you can't have heroes. And this isn't reality, this is escape from reality.
One should avoid the C version if possible. The ones who wrote it had very little idea about what C is about, they used simply as fortran-like structures as possible. As the most ridiculous example, all their arrays begin from index 1 and they have done their custom version of malloc() to accomplish this. You'll have to rewrite anything you copy from this book.
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Yep. I'm still waiting for The Doors to have a show near my town.
Considering what some music-related logos look like, it will be really bad...
Nah, saying something bad about RIAA is always insightful, no matter what the main subject was.
How would you exactly use a SOM to solve this kind of problem?
Also, doesn't anybody remember last week's OpenSSH security hole? As far as I know it still isn't fixed. To prove how well the open source bazaar model works, they didn't tell what the problem was but instead told people to upgrade to newest incomplete version. Which still has the bug.
A friend (who works at SSH Communications and should know something about the stuff) told that OpenSSH has also had their share of security problems in the past but they've fixed them quietly whenever they could (not that SSH or F-Secure were all clean).
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They were ahead of time, again. Nowadays most processor manyfacturers announce some number of MIPS that is lots more than any practical code will ever obtain.
It is already marked. Even if all structures on the ground were destroyed and all the people that ever knew the location were killed, the digging and filling of mine shafts would change the seismic properties of the ground so that a geologist would find the site easily.
That case had already been considered by the people who wrote the report. They didn't think anybody could use the waste as weapon but rather to make the area unlivable for everybody (think Saddam Hussein and burning oil wells)
Had you actually read the article, you would see that the plan is to tell as clearly as possible what is under there. In the actual document they said that the in the first warning structures there would be not only 'keep out' message in seven languages (space left to add new languages) but also some information about the site. It would say that the place is believed to be completely safe as long as you don't dig or drill the ground. And it would say that for more information you'll just have to enter the building inside the area.
The main information room (actually five identical rooms, one on surface, four buried in different depths) would then contain exact information about what is buried there and where it is, including the floor plan of the WIPP facility. For those who don't know about our current calendar system, there would be star charts that tell when the site was constructed and when its radioactivity is at the level of natural uranium ore. Also there would be a map of other nuclear waste sites where you should find documentation to confirm this one. And if that doesn't tell you what is down there, there would be a chart of the periodic system with samples of the non-precious elements (precious elements would get stolen and give hints that there are other things to steal too) and marks that would tell which ones the waste contains.
Most of the more advanced information would be only in English and maybe Spanish. The authors believe that isn't much a problem as there probably will be scholars that can read English around for a long time (think about the volume of archived material from these days). Also, there are instructions to rewrite the material if English becomes hard to understand. The star charts and maps should stay readable though the language changes.
See? No need to dig there. You can get all the information from the surface.
I don't know how much your university demands from PhD dissertations, but the even the girl who thought Darth Vader and Xena are the same person came up with more convincing arguments.
Starting from the geography, Shire might be middle England, but only if you cut it off the map and pasted it to north Germany. Maybe Bree is London in disguise. Interpreting Gondor and Rohan as Austria and Hungary is a good one, it fits both geography (though east and west flipped) and society. But then there's Moria, those mountains and Isengard, that are quite random and the rest of Europe including powers such as France and Russia is simply gone without a trace. And although Mordor is in the right corner of the map and the shape is almost there (although if you want to, you can see a similar half-circle of mountains at Rumania and Bulgaria), but the capital is certainly in the wrong place.
And Orcish language and character set don't resemble Turkish that much, as I recall the orcs too dumb to learn Black Language and speaking bad Westron instead. The picture of Orcs as filthy and cruel people fits easily just any foreign nation a given nation has fought. Just replace curved blades with Kalashnikovs, Molotov Cocktails or just anything foreign.
I don't deny that there is racism present, but, hey, this is fantasy. If you don't have absolutely bad people, you can't have heroes. And this isn't reality, this is escape from reality.
One should avoid the C version if possible. The ones who wrote it had very little idea about what C is about, they used simply as fortran-like structures as possible. As the most ridiculous example, all their arrays begin from index 1 and they have done their custom version of malloc() to accomplish this. You'll have to rewrite anything you copy from this book.