I prefer a multi-player FPS type game... imagine an augmented reality interface where you can see the virtual turrets mounted on your hood and aim them at other cars logged into the game. You could see those cars taking damage and then eventually being "destroyed". Of course, you also have to watch your six and consider your shield levels as well. If you had passengers in the car, maybe they could man the rear guns or monitor system health and repairs...
I think I just made family road-trips much more fun...
sounds awesome, just imagine all the drivers on the highway competing to get line of sight for a good shot...
Uh, no...they're not (harder to escape from). I can show you (as can a little Google'ing) how to escape from even the stoutest of zip-cuffs in under 1 second. Doesn't mater if you're cuffed front or back. This was (and I'm certain still is) standard training for SOC, SERE and Counter Intel in the military (where I was taught) and is common knowledge (apparently not as common as I thought however). Do yourself a favor and head on over to ITS Tactical and you can see an instruction video from one of my buddies on how to properly 'pop' zip-cuffs with one fluid motion.
only problem is that law enforcement doesn't use home depot zip cuffs (primarily because these can cut into your wrists in really nasty ways if you struggle) but special models which (besides having rounded edges and being pretty expensive) are also much harder to break or shim your way out of.
What makes you think that removing the money will stop the weapons and the violence? This isn't organized crime. Money is not the motive. The motive is crazy.
Then how do you explain that economic studies on developing countries frequently show the following pattern when comparing natural resources and the number of armed conflicts:
poor: few armed conflicts
medium: lots of armed conflicts
very rich: few armed conflicts
For some discussion on possible causal relations and a literature review see Ross
There's still a lot to be added, so go ahead and donate. Sure, they've got Stravinsky's Firebird, but not The Rite of Spring. The Rite of Spring was so radical and jarring to the ears of the "more cultured representatives of society" at its 1913 premiere in Paris that the audience began yelling so loudly no one could hear the music. Eventually the scene devolved into chairs being thrown and fires set. So go ahead, throw your chairs at this new site in disgust because it doesn't agree with your notion of how the music should sound. The music that stripped away the cultured veneer of those Parisans is worth hearing, and a public domain music site that so-ruffled the feathers of the "free-as-in-beer" and "information wants to be free" slashdot crowd is worth visiting.
you forgot to mention the part about Stravinsky moving the US, selling out and creating a horribly mutilated version of the Rite of Spring...
the Rite of Spring is probably one of the pieces where a bad conductor/orchestra can cause the most damage to the music ending up with a barely bearable mess that is just "loud", so I don't really think it is the most suited piece for a project of this sort.
Well, I understood "set the world afire with flames" basically as "wildfires everywhere" not "setting the atmosphere ablaze" - and I think such an event would of course affect the atmosphere and oceans.
My point was that the oceans would absorb a lot of the heat that released by the fires (remember that ocean water has about 4x the heat capacity (per mass) of our atmosphere and there is a lot of ocean water) and form an effectively insurmountable barrier for any flames. I would be much more concerned about secondary effects like ash clouds rather than direct heat/flames.
Plus even if something did set the world afire with flames, the event would not effect the humans living on the dark side of the earth.
Why not? Is there some invisible barrier that exists at the threshold of night and day that would keep the event from spreading? It's not like we're on Mercury, where there is a solid scientific reason for why the extreme heat of the day side does not leak over into the night side.
that barrier is called an ocean and is, in fact, visible^^
record of keeping your data safe so why do you keep putting it in their hands in the first place? Honestly, if a company can't notice 50gb of sensitive data flying out of it's network it has to have a pretty high degree of incompetence.
50 GB is nothing to data traffic on a game server.
Shouldn't an IDS primarily care about the structure and contents of the packets and not so much about the raw volume of data transferred?
what most "experts" recommend is investing in stocks for the first 30-40 years of your career and then start shifting towards less volatile investments as opportunities arise during the 10-15 years before you actually need the money.
Even a 5 year window to get out of the stockmarket and into safe investments can be too short to outwait a market downturn and force you to eat nasty losses.
Yes, and I was also unfair to Hitler: he actually had a sensible social plank to his programme (not the part which involved indiscriminate torture and killing, obviously).
He just didn't have plan to finance all of this other than plundering the riches (lol) of Eastern Europe.
There's definitely something wrong causing people to have various pains and so on, but no one knows specifically what it is, so they called it fibromyalgia because that makes the person who named it, and people who use the phrase sound like they have a clue (just like SARS!) even when they don't.
The name SARS may be stupid but the syndrome is well defined and its cause understood.
Not any acute respiratory syndrome that mainfests itself suddenly is SARS but I think that is obvious.
Wayland is an attempt to remove the network transparency of X... in a world where everything is networked.
I just don't get why they are so keen to get rid off that faeture... When I was in uni (just four years ago) our department had a powerful Sun server that mostly powered the computer lab's thin clients but also allowed ssh access from the outside. Being able to log into that server via ssh with X forwarding and run Maple, Mathematica,... was awesome and saved me the expense of getting any of that software myself.
I think I get the "underappreciated" part - during the last few years the shc/fhc groupthink that labeled him as a useless cokehead grew pretty strong - but what exactly makes him a SciFi writer in your mind?
Is it a case of "game design is just like being an author - the only difference is the medium" or did he actually write anything? backstory writers that come to mind are Abraxas (of course), Gnauton, Dropbear, Greyscale, Big Dumb Object, Tony Gonzales,... but Hammerhead? I had a look at his posts and couldn't find any chronicle threads (chronicle author usually writes first post in the associated discussion thread).
Did he write some of the very early universe design or what makes you think of him as a SciFi writer?
Are you being sarcastic? The open source hardware one is a light blue semi-circle with squared off here, reminds me of the KDE logo except it's missing a bottom tooth. The open source initiative one is a green semi-circle with a dark green outline and no teeth. There is no way the two could be confused.
the issue is not that they could be confused but that they look extremely related. the similarity of the logo together with the text arrangement makes it look as if the organizations represented with these logos are related - which they are not.
it seems extremely likely that the open source hardware logo was directly inspired by the OSI logo and tries on purpose to look very similar.
Which parts of the bible? Remember, the whole first half of the bible was pre-Christian, and there is plenty in there that would not have been considered Christian by Christ at the time when he was on Earth.
That's quite a leap, afaik the biblical Christ never promotes the idea that there is "Christian" faith or set of rules that is distinct from the "Jewish" ones and the idea of "Christianity" as something distinct from Judaism is something we mostly owe to Paulus.
I don't think we have any indication that Jesus did not consider himself Jewish and would have considered any "outdated" laws and traditions "not Christian" (as opposed to "not Jewish"). What we do have is Matthew 5.17-18 which states exactly the opposite to your claim (i.e. it shows that Jesus did see himself firmly rooted within the Jewish faith and tradition, not as a splitoff.
There's a whole bunch of people who report little green men and anal probes and all sorts of shit. That doesn't make it true. Anyway I don't need to convince anyone. I've said my piece and I think I'm pretty well qualified. If you don't agree then I really don't care.
I don't see why the idea that different people die for different reasons and in different ways is so outlandish to you. When I was taught some emergency procedures I was also taught that heart attacks are often accompanied with cold sweat, chest pain and an intense feeling of panic/dread - so your experience that dying "is completely painless" seems not to be all that representative (death itself is trivially painless and you can't separate dying from the effects of whatever is killing you),
Why is it in your opinion so outlandish that in certain circumstances your oxygen-deprived brain does some funny stuff (either while shutting down or when coming back into consciousness) that it later reconstructs (trying to make sense of it based on previous experiences, cultural context,...) as your typical near-death experience?
And Valve knows how many people are gaming in Wine. It is a possibility that if they can just convert those users they could make a profit.
How so? If they are already using Steam through Wine why would they suddenly spend more money in the Valve ecosystem if you migrate them to native Steam?
Peruse steam and look at the games for Mac and that will give you at least an idea of what can be expected for Linux.
that's exactly the problem: the mac users (and I am one of them) had exactly the same hopes for Steam on mac as the Linux users have for Steam on Linux - and what did they get? a very small catalog of games many of whom are crappy Cedega/Cider "ports" (might just as well run the Windows version using Wine) or run in Dosbox.
OS X didn't become the "first-class citizen" in the gaming world everybody had hoped for and the few AAA titles that get released for Mac would have been available even without Steam (e.g. Civ V).
If that's how Steam for Linux will play out then nothing substantial will change for gaming on Linux as you will only get "ports" of all the games that run via Wine anyways and these "official" ports will often have worse performance than on vanilla Wine (due to Cider having been forked from Wine in 2002 and not being able to include any recent improvements from the LGPL Wine versions due to licensing)
Images that "autoexecute"??? The only thing that it might reference is some overflow in in whatever displays the image. But that is certainly not "steganography".
might refer to the WMF exploit - WMF literally allowed an "image" file to contain code that would be autoexecuted when the image was rendered.
However, this has obviously nothing to do with Steganography in any usual sense.
Another poster claimed that Metro AG actually also got a trademark of the class that includes computer software. No idea if they are using it or if Germany has a "use it or lose it" stance on trademark as in the US.
If you still don't use your trademark after five years since its registration have gone by it can be deleted according to German law (citation (German)).
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I prefer a multi-player FPS type game... imagine an augmented reality interface where you can see the virtual turrets mounted on your hood and aim them at other cars logged into the game. You could see those cars taking damage and then eventually being "destroyed". Of course, you also have to watch your six and consider your shield levels as well. If you had passengers in the car, maybe they could man the rear guns or monitor system health and repairs... I think I just made family road-trips much more fun...
sounds awesome, just imagine all the drivers on the highway competing to get line of sight for a good shot...
Uh, no...they're not (harder to escape from). I can show you (as can a little Google'ing) how to escape from even the stoutest of zip-cuffs in under 1 second. Doesn't mater if you're cuffed front or back. This was (and I'm certain still is) standard training for SOC, SERE and Counter Intel in the military (where I was taught) and is common knowledge (apparently not as common as I thought however). Do yourself a favor and head on over to ITS Tactical and you can see an instruction video from one of my buddies on how to properly 'pop' zip-cuffs with one fluid motion.
only problem is that law enforcement doesn't use home depot zip cuffs (primarily because these can cut into your wrists in really nasty ways if you struggle) but special models which (besides having rounded edges and being pretty expensive) are also much harder to break or shim your way out of.
What makes you think that removing the money will stop the weapons and the violence? This isn't organized crime. Money is not the motive. The motive is crazy.
Then how do you explain that economic studies on developing countries frequently show the following pattern when comparing natural resources and the number of armed conflicts:
poor: few armed conflicts
medium: lots of armed conflicts
very rich: few armed conflicts
For some discussion on possible causal relations and a literature review see Ross
That argument only comes up at trial or in a motion to suppress, and requires a brother-in-law willing to commit purgery.
"purgery" sounds interesting but the word you are looking for is "perjury"
There's still a lot to be added, so go ahead and donate. Sure, they've got Stravinsky's Firebird, but not The Rite of Spring. The Rite of Spring was so radical and jarring to the ears of the "more cultured representatives of society" at its 1913 premiere in Paris that the audience began yelling so loudly no one could hear the music. Eventually the scene devolved into chairs being thrown and fires set. So go ahead, throw your chairs at this new site in disgust because it doesn't agree with your notion of how the music should sound. The music that stripped away the cultured veneer of those Parisans is worth hearing, and a public domain music site that so-ruffled the feathers of the "free-as-in-beer" and "information wants to be free" slashdot crowd is worth visiting.
you forgot to mention the part about Stravinsky moving the US, selling out and creating a horribly mutilated version of the Rite of Spring...
the Rite of Spring is probably one of the pieces where a bad conductor/orchestra can cause the most damage to the music ending up with a barely bearable mess that is just "loud", so I don't really think it is the most suited piece for a project of this sort.
Well, I understood "set the world afire with flames" basically as "wildfires everywhere" not "setting the atmosphere ablaze" - and I think such an event would of course affect the atmosphere and oceans.
My point was that the oceans would absorb a lot of the heat that released by the fires (remember that ocean water has about 4x the heat capacity (per mass) of our atmosphere and there is a lot of ocean water) and form an effectively insurmountable barrier for any flames. I would be much more concerned about secondary effects like ash clouds rather than direct heat/flames.
Plus even if something did set the world afire with flames, the event would not effect the humans living on the dark side of the earth.
Why not? Is there some invisible barrier that exists at the threshold of night and day that would keep the event from spreading? It's not like we're on Mercury, where there is a solid scientific reason for why the extreme heat of the day side does not leak over into the night side.
that barrier is called an ocean and is, in fact, visible^^
record of keeping your data safe so why do you keep putting it in their hands in the first place? Honestly, if a company can't notice 50gb of sensitive data flying out of it's network it has to have a pretty high degree of incompetence.
50 GB is nothing to data traffic on a game server.
Shouldn't an IDS primarily care about the structure and contents of the packets and not so much about the raw volume of data transferred?
I wonder why some areas would ban sales of used mattresses?
probably old laws that were meant to reduce the spread of lice and mites
what most "experts" recommend is investing in stocks for the first 30-40 years of your career and then start shifting towards less volatile investments as opportunities arise during the 10-15 years before you actually need the money.
Even a 5 year window to get out of the stockmarket and into safe investments can be too short to outwait a market downturn and force you to eat nasty losses.
"Palida" is a traditional Bohri dish (e.g. see this recipe).
Seeing how the Bohras are an islamic sect that did originate in Yemen that reference is probably intentional-
obligatory link
Yes, and I was also unfair to Hitler: he actually had a sensible social plank to his programme (not the part which involved indiscriminate torture and killing, obviously).
He just didn't have plan to finance all of this other than plundering the riches (lol) of Eastern Europe.
should be "Not every acute respiratory syndrome that mainfests itself suddenly is SARS but I think that is obvious." of course; English is hard^^
There's definitely something wrong causing people to have various pains and so on, but no one knows specifically what it is, so they called it fibromyalgia because that makes the person who named it, and people who use the phrase sound like they have a clue (just like SARS!) even when they don't.
The name SARS may be stupid but the syndrome is well defined and its cause understood.
Not any acute respiratory syndrome that mainfests itself suddenly is SARS but I think that is obvious.
Wayland is an attempt to remove the network transparency of X... in a world where everything is networked.
I just don't get why they are so keen to get rid off that faeture... When I was in uni (just four years ago) our department had a powerful Sun server that mostly powered the computer lab's thin clients but also allowed ssh access from the outside. Being able to log into that server via ssh with X forwarding and run Maple, Mathematica, ... was awesome and saved me the expense of getting any of that software myself.
Noah Ward.
I think I get the "underappreciated" part - during the last few years the shc/fhc groupthink that labeled him as a useless cokehead grew pretty strong - but what exactly makes him a SciFi writer in your mind?
Is it a case of "game design is just like being an author - the only difference is the medium" or did he actually write anything? ... but Hammerhead? I had a look at his posts and couldn't find any chronicle threads (chronicle author usually writes first post in the associated discussion thread).
backstory writers that come to mind are Abraxas (of course), Gnauton, Dropbear, Greyscale, Big Dumb Object, Tony Gonzales,
Did he write some of the very early universe design or what makes you think of him as a SciFi writer?
Are you being sarcastic? The open source hardware one is a light blue semi-circle with squared off here, reminds me of the KDE logo except it's missing a bottom tooth. The open source initiative one is a green semi-circle with a dark green outline and no teeth. There is no way the two could be confused.
the issue is not that they could be confused but that they look extremely related. the similarity of the logo together with the text arrangement makes it look as if the organizations represented with these logos are related - which they are not.
it seems extremely likely that the open source hardware logo was directly inspired by the OSI logo and tries on purpose to look very similar.
Which parts of the bible? Remember, the whole first half of the bible was pre-Christian, and there is plenty in there that would not have been considered Christian by Christ at the time when he was on Earth.
That's quite a leap, afaik the biblical Christ never promotes the idea that there is "Christian" faith or set of rules that is distinct from the "Jewish" ones and the idea of "Christianity" as something distinct from Judaism is something we mostly owe to Paulus.
I don't think we have any indication that Jesus did not consider himself Jewish and would have considered any "outdated" laws and traditions "not Christian" (as opposed to "not Jewish"). What we do have is Matthew 5.17-18 which states exactly the opposite to your claim (i.e. it shows that Jesus did see himself firmly rooted within the Jewish faith and tradition, not as a splitoff.
There's a whole bunch of people who report little green men and anal probes and all sorts of shit. That doesn't make it true. Anyway I don't need to convince anyone. I've said my piece and I think I'm pretty well qualified. If you don't agree then I really don't care.
I don't see why the idea that different people die for different reasons and in different ways is so outlandish to you. When I was taught some emergency procedures I was also taught that heart attacks are often accompanied with cold sweat, chest pain and an intense feeling of panic/dread - so your experience that dying "is completely painless" seems not to be all that representative (death itself is trivially painless and you can't separate dying from the effects of whatever is killing you),
Why is it in your opinion so outlandish that in certain circumstances your oxygen-deprived brain does some funny stuff (either while shutting down or when coming back into consciousness) that it later reconstructs (trying to make sense of it based on previous experiences, cultural context, ...) as your typical near-death experience?
And Valve knows how many people are gaming in Wine. It is a possibility that if they can just convert those users they could make a profit.
How so? If they are already using Steam through Wine why would they suddenly spend more money in the Valve ecosystem if you migrate them to native Steam?
Peruse steam and look at the games for Mac and that will give you at least an idea of what can be expected for Linux.
that's exactly the problem: the mac users (and I am one of them) had exactly the same hopes for Steam on mac as the Linux users have for Steam on Linux - and what did they get? a very small catalog of games many of whom are crappy Cedega/Cider "ports" (might just as well run the Windows version using Wine) or run in Dosbox.
OS X didn't become the "first-class citizen" in the gaming world everybody had hoped for and the few AAA titles that get released for Mac would have been available even without Steam (e.g. Civ V).
If that's how Steam for Linux will play out then nothing substantial will change for gaming on Linux as you will only get "ports" of all the games that run via Wine anyways and these "official" ports will often have worse performance than on vanilla Wine (due to Cider having been forked from Wine in 2002 and not being able to include any recent improvements from the LGPL Wine versions due to licensing)
Images that "autoexecute"??? The only thing that it might reference is some overflow in in whatever displays the image. But that is certainly not "steganography".
might refer to the WMF exploit - WMF literally allowed an "image" file to contain code that would be autoexecuted when the image was rendered.
However, this has obviously nothing to do with Steganography in any usual sense.
As far as I know iOS is pretty secure.
as far as I know, finding an iOS exploit in the wild is one google search for "iOS jailbreak" away...
Another poster claimed that Metro AG actually also got a trademark of the class that includes computer software. No idea if they are using it or if Germany has a "use it or lose it" stance on trademark as in the US.
If you still don't use your trademark after five years since its registration have gone by it can be deleted according to German law (citation (German)).