In Hiroshima, there were about a dozen or so US POWs held in Hiroshima castle at the time of the bombing. US Intelligence was very much aware of that fact.
However, we did not bomb Hiroshima for the purpose of killing "our own people" -- it was a unavoidable side effect.
Many of these Asian countries are part of the axis of evil, and will stop at nothing to destroy everything good the West stands for. I urge all geeks to be responsible and not let their efforts unwittingly aid terrorism or the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction. Thank you.
What's to prevent someone from buying a gun in another state? And it does nothing for preventing gun crime. All it does is maybe prevent kids from finding their parents' guns and killing themselves, and the solution to THAT is responsible, diligent parenting.
Well, I suppose if they are going into an all-digital format, "Electronic News" will finally be electronic! Ha!
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The Sims Online allows and even encourages polygamy, adultery, and other vile practices. You can flirt, kiss, and propose to happily married women or men with impunity. My fellow Americans, I urge you to stand up against such wholesale mockery and savagery of our family values that have made America what it is today. Down with the Sims!
Even worse than long legalese disclaimers/EULAs is when web sites put them in a @#$@#$@# text field widget!
Text fields are intended for USER INPUT, not for the purposes of displaying text. Is there a reason why they couldn't have just put the text as regular HTML text on the page?
Is it to inconvenience users by forcing them to click frequently, and thus discouraging them even more from reading it?
There's a difference here between economical and political systems. China, increasingly since the eraly 1980s, has been a capitalist market-driven economy in many areas, no different than the US. At the same time, China still has a Communist government and a socialist political system.
This is a movie PREVIEW, and normally security is indeed stricter at such events, just like here in the US.
Yet, once the movie hits the theaters as a actual release to the masses, forget about "security". Heck, we don't even have such "security" here in the US. And most pirate jobs are inside ones (the guy in the projection booth himself is the one doing the camcorder recording). With the corruption in China, one can only expect such things to be even more prevalent. And once a single copy gets out, that's all it takes.
Much of the spam is relayed through open-relay overseas servers that don't log their originating hosts in Received headers. Such relaying is not only obfuscation, but theft of services as well, and I strongly encourage any anti-spam law to explicitly bar this practice of using insecure third-party relays, as well as forging headers.
what are you talking about? GSM 900 *IS* used pretty much everywhere in the world. The only GSM 1800 only networks are in scattered places in India, as I recall.
Doesn't the PS just use a basic MIPS R3000-derived processor? The MIPS instruction set is not exactly a trade secret.
If the disassembler was a generic one that just dumped the MIPS instructions out, and otherwise did not use Sony intellectual property, I don't see how Sony could have a legal leg to stand on?
It would be to freely release Bleem source code and contribute it to the public, or at least one of the many open-source PS emulation projects, since none of the open-source ones out there are in any sort of viable state now, for the most part.
Special XBOX development units are used that will run unsigned code -- but they are only available to developers, and giving one out to others outside your company/group is a BIG breach of the Microsoft NDA.
Sorry if this is ignorant, as I'm not a Mac guy, but what is the purpose of Fink? It seems like it's a means of porting UNIX apps to OS X?
But isn't OS X BSD UNIX itself? Just with a nice GUI, some additional APIs and some compatibility/API layers for MacOS apps, lying on top of the BSD UNIX subsystem/MACH kernel?
It's not difficult to get a nameserver backup and running, and the volume of data maintained by the root server is nothing in quantity compared to, for instance,.com.
The main problem is that all the second-level servers have fixed pointers (usually hard-coded, I believe, in text files) to the root servers.
Assuming some form of robust authentication could be worked out, this could be a killer app for IP multicast, where, if a root server goes down, once the replacement comes back up, the IP of that server gets instantly disseminated to all secondary level (or maybe even even futher down) nameservers around the world rather than manual notification (or however it works now), so that downtime would be minimal.
There are 13 root servers in the world, I believe. Their locations are well known. Yes, they are well secured, but still, if terrorsts want to more or less shut down the ENTIRE NET from the point of view of end users, they'd just have to take out the root servers and presto!
Is there any other critical network as vulrenable as the Internet? Telephone, Electricity, Water, etc... they are all much more harder and less vulrenable than the Net in terms of their architecture.
Don't some of the root servers, or at least their datacenters, handle the gTLDs as well (.com,.net,.org,.edu)? That makes matters even worse.
With the Net no longer a academic resource, but mission critical for business today, I'm surprised that only NOW people are starting to find that this COULD be a single point of failure for the Internet.
Just how much data IS 144 petabytes? It's hard to visualize it off the top of one's head, but this link may help to give you perspective at the sheer enormity of the amount:
Anyone have a link to technical details? Sorry, I'm not a Mac person so I don't follow Mac news usually. Nevertheless, It seems quite strange that such a major bug slipped past QA!
The Intel X86 has traditionally been a CISC architecture, so clock speed has been more important for the Pentium, and much work has been put into clock speed. The Alpha has always been RISC, and also, has more advanced pipelining, to get their CPI down, so pure clock speed has not been such a priority for performance improvement as it has been on the Intels.
YES, it will have region protection for the games and the DVDs, BUT every electronics company making game consoles or DVDs have always made it possible to hack the regional protection -- DELIBRATELY. They know that the importers of games and movies are their most hardcore fans that are willing to spend $$$, and often evangelize the new releases to their peers and thus, one of the most important demographics, albeit a small one to keep happy.
So, every game system and DVD player has had a hack out there, which is relatively easy to find out, so that the companies can prevent the "casual" consumer from importing, but still, allow the real l33t hard core gamers/otaku to get their Japanese hardware and then, use it to play American games/DVDs with relatively little effort for them.
Since Japan is on the NTSC video system, same as the US, there shouldn't be any incompatibilities. Also, Japan uses 100v power, which will still work with US 110v power.
I believe they have ported the Sims to MacOS X already. Given the UNIX foundation of MacOS X, how easy would it be to use THAT port as a start for the Linux version, rather than working directly off the Windows version?
(Or how about other games... if there's a MacOS X version out, shouldn't they use that to do Linux/UNIX porting, since Mac OS X is UNIX?)
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In Hiroshima, there were about a dozen or so US POWs held in Hiroshima castle at the time of the bombing. US Intelligence was very much aware of that fact.
However, we did not bomb Hiroshima for the purpose of killing "our own people" -- it was a unavoidable side effect.
Many of these Asian countries are part of the axis of evil, and will stop at nothing to destroy everything good the West stands for. I urge all geeks to be responsible and not let their efforts unwittingly aid terrorism or the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction. Thank you.
What's to prevent someone from buying a gun in another state? And it does nothing for preventing gun crime. All it does is maybe prevent kids from finding their parents' guns and killing themselves, and the solution to THAT is responsible, diligent parenting.
Well, I suppose if they are going into an all-digital format, "Electronic News" will finally be electronic! Ha!
The Sims Online allows and even encourages polygamy, adultery, and other vile practices. You can flirt, kiss, and propose to happily married women or men with impunity. My fellow Americans, I urge you to stand up against such wholesale mockery and savagery of our family values that have made America what it is today. Down with the Sims!
Even worse than long legalese disclaimers/EULAs is when web sites put them in a @#$@#$@# text field widget!
Text fields are intended for USER INPUT, not for the purposes of displaying text. Is there a reason why they couldn't have just put the text as regular HTML text on the page?
Is it to inconvenience users by forcing them to click frequently, and thus discouraging them even more from reading it?
There's a difference here between economical and political systems. China, increasingly since the eraly 1980s, has been a capitalist market-driven economy in many areas, no different than the US. At the same time, China still has a Communist government and a socialist political system.
This is a movie PREVIEW, and normally security is indeed stricter at such events, just like here in the US.
Yet, once the movie hits the theaters as a actual release to the masses, forget about "security". Heck, we don't even have such "security" here in the US. And most pirate jobs are inside ones (the guy in the projection booth himself is the one doing the camcorder recording). With the corruption in China, one can only expect such things to be even more prevalent. And once a single copy gets out, that's all it takes.
Much of the spam is relayed through open-relay overseas servers that don't log their originating hosts in Received headers. Such relaying is not only obfuscation, but theft of services as well, and I strongly encourage any anti-spam law to explicitly bar this practice of using insecure third-party relays, as well as forging headers.
what are you talking about? GSM 900 *IS* used pretty much everywhere in the world. The only GSM 1800 only networks are in scattered places in India, as I recall.
Doesn't the PS just use a basic MIPS R3000-derived processor? The MIPS instruction set is not exactly a trade secret.
If the disassembler was a generic one that just dumped the MIPS instructions out, and otherwise did not use Sony intellectual property, I don't see how Sony could have a legal leg to stand on?
It would be to freely release Bleem source code and contribute it to the public, or at least one of the many open-source PS emulation projects, since none of the open-source ones out there are in any sort of viable state now, for the most part.
Special XBOX development units are used that will run unsigned code -- but they are only available to developers, and giving one out to others outside your company/group is a BIG breach of the Microsoft NDA.
Is that the new sound system from Lucasfilm or something?
Sorry if this is ignorant, as I'm not a Mac guy, but what is the purpose of Fink? It seems like it's a means of porting UNIX apps to OS X?
But isn't OS X BSD UNIX itself? Just with a nice GUI, some additional APIs and some compatibility/API layers for MacOS apps, lying on top of the BSD UNIX subsystem/MACH kernel?
Dago or wop?
It's not difficult to get a nameserver backup and running, and the volume of data maintained by the root server is nothing in quantity compared to, for instance, .com.
The main problem is that all the second-level servers have fixed pointers (usually hard-coded, I believe, in text files) to the root servers.
Assuming some form of robust authentication could be worked out, this could be a killer app for IP multicast, where, if a root server goes down, once the replacement comes back up, the IP of that server gets instantly disseminated to all secondary level (or maybe even even futher down) nameservers around the world rather than manual notification (or however it works now), so that downtime would be minimal.
Sound viable?
There are 13 root servers in the world, I believe. Their locations are well known. Yes, they are well secured, but still, if terrorsts want to more or less shut down the ENTIRE NET from the point of view of end users, they'd just have to take out the root servers and presto!
.net, .org, .edu)? That makes matters even worse.
Is there any other critical network as vulrenable as the Internet? Telephone, Electricity, Water, etc... they are all much more harder and less vulrenable than the Net in terms of their architecture.
Don't some of the root servers, or at least their datacenters, handle the gTLDs as well (.com,
With the Net no longer a academic resource, but mission critical for business today, I'm surprised that only NOW people are starting to find that this COULD be a single point of failure for the Internet.
What are the root servers for the .biz domain? Are they using the same root servers as the existing gTLDs like .com, .net., .org, .edu, or their own?
http://www.cacr.caltech.edu/~roy/dataquan/
Anyone have a link to technical details? Sorry, I'm not a Mac person so I don't follow Mac news usually. Nevertheless, It seems quite strange that such a major bug slipped past QA!
The Intel X86 has traditionally been a CISC architecture, so clock speed has been more important for the Pentium, and much work has been put into clock speed. The Alpha has always been RISC, and also, has more advanced pipelining, to get their CPI down, so pure clock speed has not been such a priority for performance improvement as it has been on the Intels.
Now if they would only open-source/GPL RenderMan, I'd be a very happy man!
YES, it will have region protection for the games and the DVDs, BUT every electronics company making game consoles or DVDs have always made it possible to hack the regional protection -- DELIBRATELY. They know that the importers of games and movies are their most hardcore fans that are willing to spend $$$, and often evangelize the new releases to their peers and thus, one of the most important demographics, albeit a small one to keep happy.
So, every game system and DVD player has had a hack out there, which is relatively easy to find out, so that the companies can prevent the "casual" consumer from importing, but still, allow the real l33t hard core gamers/otaku to get their Japanese hardware and then, use it to play American games/DVDs with relatively little effort for them.
Since Japan is on the NTSC video system, same as the US, there shouldn't be any incompatibilities. Also, Japan uses 100v power, which will still work with US 110v power.
(Or how about other games... if there's a MacOS X version out, shouldn't they use that to do Linux/UNIX porting, since Mac OS X is UNIX?)