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Are you trolling? Deepest point in ocean is about 10,000 meter. Maybe even 11 or 12, don't remember. Radius of Earth is quite a bit more, unless ofcourse you are one of those flat-earth believers.
Just an idea... Might I sue them, if somehow I suffer damages if the internet is brought on its knees via this leak? Like if my hypothetical online shop went bellyup as a result of a major hack of millions of XP machines? I never installed XP, so I didn't agree to anything. IANAA (American), but let's assume that I am:)
"... that this backdoor would not be found for at least 2 years after this Bin Laden thing blows over!!"
I hear you.. However, this ofcourse is just the obvious leak that was supposed to be found real quick. The Official FBI Approved Backdoor (OFAB) will not be found until two years after Bin Laden is blown up:)
Actually this is for me a big reason to use free software. Especially so because I earn my money in closed source software. Illegal use of software wasn't that big an issue for me when I was a teen, but now i'm a bit more concerned with the moral aspects of stealing someones work.
I try to point friends to freely available software as much as I can, thereby slowly trying to win them over to the Open Source community. It ain't much, but i'd like to think that every little bit helps..
It's funny allright. However there is an explanation that 5 years ago this was less feasible.
Earlier we used to be suspicious only of very small executable attachments. Often that would be a virus. If someone mailed you a large executable attachment it would probably be a legitimate file.
However after all the legitimate funny files that are sent to friends (you know, those cartoon like programs, or sheep floating on your desktop) nobody is surprised anymore about a rather large attachment.
There have been so many 'harmless' funnyfiles that people don't believe you anymore when you say "never open executable files!". Not to mention the fact that it's allways "safe, because a friend sent it to me". Oh well...
The apollo project is doable, but I doubt anybody would want to fly on it. Man would that thing smell bad.
That has not kept them from flying it before, the smell aboard the Apollo capsules was reportedly quite bad. Three guys locked up in a very, very small room with no real useful way to clean either themselves or their clothes... But I'm sure that in your example the guys would have gladly jumped in the capsule just to get away from 170 million smelly Americans, if only for a few days:-)
Yeah, you are right ofcourse. I just tried to show the absurdity of comparing those numbers. Just try to think how you would feed those 23 million, how many more you would need to dispose of the digged up mud, how to avoid "traffic jams" of people walking with shovels and inadvertantly hitting each other with them. Oh, and sanitary conditions? Scary...:-)
Anyway, the Panama canal killed enough workers originally. When contemplating the magnitude and grandeur of such a giant project we should remember that a lot of lives were lost in the creation of it. Come to think of it, this may even support your point.
But not that amazing. It just means that if 23 million people each spend one hour digging, the Panama canal could have been finished in less then a month. There would be some elbowing ofcourse, and maybe Panama would have sunk by itself with al those people standing in spot...
The point is, if you choose the statistics that you compare to carefully, you can make anything seem amazing. Compare hours spent playing solitaire to hours spent while brushing teeth, and suddenly he numbers don't seem so amazing anymore.
It is possible to build labyrinths of internal directories that eventually become too deep to navigate via the mouse.
So, it is possible that you might forget once in a while, where you put something? Big deal, same thing happens in the real world. There I have, next to my desktop, a closet. And a floor. And a briefcase. And a toolbox. And more. And that tiny jumper I need to put my harddisk in slave-mode might be in a box, or in a small plastic bag, or on the floor. And that bag might be in another bag, or in a box, or under a pile of papers. And that container might be in the toolbox, or on the floor, or on the desktop. Come to think of it, didn't I throw away that jumper a couple of weeks ago?
A mouse (or cat) might traverse the mess around my real-life desktop, but it certainly is a labyrinth... Now, where did I put that harddisk?:-)
This is a really interesting view on the training-issue. I think the non-technical people in our company would fit your description. However I think they might complain that all those funny.exe's they receive via email don't work...:/ Key would be to have technical support people that are proficient(sp?) enough in linux to set things up solidly.
Aaah... the blackbird. One of the sexiest aircraft ever built. Anyway, some people say the SR-71 would never have been decomissioned if there wasn't something new to replace it... But maybe it was just a budgetcut that killed the blackbird.
Oh, and you are refering to UBL, you maybe thinking of that incident where Mullah Omar was found by an "asset", but the chain of command was to complex to authorise a weapons release on the van he was in quickly enough. But I could be wrong.
Although, didn't the USSR have a long range bomber like the B52 that was a turboprop?
Yes. The have (had?) the Tu-95/142, NATO codename Bear heavy bomber. They used to be intercepted over the northsea all the time by aircraft from the squadron where I served.
a propeller plane that could go stratospheric and insanely fast.
Thanks, I'll take a look. The names WiredX and WeirdX confused me for a few seconds though. WiredX seems to be a commercial version while WeirdX (derived from WiredX-lite) is GPL. It looks great, if the installation proves easier then cygwin then maybe this is the way to go.
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Are you trolling? Deepest point in ocean is about 10 ,000 meter. Maybe even 11 or 12, don't remember. Radius of Earth is quite a bit more, unless ofcourse you are one of those flat-earth believers.
Just an idea... Might I sue them, if somehow I suffer damages if the internet is brought on its knees via this leak? Like if my hypothetical online shop went bellyup as a result of a major hack of millions of XP machines? I never installed XP, so I didn't agree to anything. IANAA (American), but let's assume that I am :)
I hear you.. However, this ofcourse is just the obvious leak that was supposed to be found real quick. The Official FBI Approved Backdoor (OFAB) will not be found until two years after Bin Laden is blown up :)
to e-mail me, please remove all yourclothes
viezerik... :P
Actually this is for me a big reason to use free software. Especially so because I earn my money in closed source software. Illegal use of software wasn't that big an issue for me when I was a teen, but now i'm a bit more concerned with the moral aspects of stealing someones work.
I try to point friends to freely available software as much as I can, thereby slowly trying to win them over to the Open Source community. It ain't much, but i'd like to think that every little bit helps..
It's funny allright. However there is an explanation that 5 years ago this was less feasible.
Earlier we used to be suspicious only of very small executable attachments. Often that would be a virus. If someone mailed you a large executable attachment it would probably be a legitimate file. However after all the legitimate funny files that are sent to friends (you know, those cartoon like programs, or sheep floating on your desktop) nobody is surprised anymore about a rather large attachment.
There have been so many 'harmless' funnyfiles that people don't believe you anymore when you say "never open executable files!". Not to mention the fact that it's allways "safe, because a friend sent it to me". Oh well...
You will have a baby?
:-P
Comparing arbitrary statistics is stupid, but not that stupid. I mean, you didn't really believe that Schwarzenegger movie, right?
That has not kept them from flying it before, the smell aboard the Apollo capsules was reportedly quite bad. Three guys locked up in a very, very small room with no real useful way to clean either themselves or their clothes... But I'm sure that in your example the guys would have gladly jumped in the capsule just to get away from 170 million smelly Americans, if only for a few days :-)
Yeah, you are right ofcourse. I just tried to show the absurdity of comparing those numbers. Just try to think how you would feed those 23 million, how many more you would need to dispose of the digged up mud, how to avoid "traffic jams" of people walking with shovels and inadvertantly hitting each other with them. Oh, and sanitary conditions? Scary... :-)
Anyway, the Panama canal killed enough workers originally. When contemplating the magnitude and grandeur of such a giant project we should remember that a lot of lives were lost in the creation of it. Come to think of it, this may even support your point.
But not that amazing. It just means that if 23 million people each spend one hour digging, the Panama canal could have been finished in less then a month. There would be some elbowing ofcourse, and maybe Panama would have sunk by itself with al those people standing in spot...
The point is, if you choose the statistics that you compare to carefully, you can make anything seem amazing. Compare hours spent playing solitaire to hours spent while brushing teeth, and suddenly he numbers don't seem so amazing anymore.
It's al just FUD to cover up the Magic Lantern introduction. Really.
So, it is possible that you might forget once in a while, where you put something? Big deal, same thing happens in the real world. There I have, next to my desktop, a closet. And a floor. And a briefcase. And a toolbox. And more. And that tiny jumper I need to put my harddisk in slave-mode might be in a box, or in a small plastic bag, or on the floor. And that bag might be in another bag, or in a box, or under a pile of papers. And that container might be in the toolbox, or on the floor, or on the desktop. Come to think of it, didn't I throw away that jumper a couple of weeks ago?
:-)
A mouse (or cat) might traverse the mess around my real-life desktop, but it certainly is a labyrinth... Now, where did I put that harddisk?
This is a really interesting view on the training-issue. I think the non-technical people in our company would fit your description. However I think they might complain that all those funny .exe's they receive via email don't work... :/ Key would be to have technical support people that are proficient(sp?) enough in linux to set things up solidly.
LOL... I would've linked to images.google.com if that were my intention, 'though.. :-)
Oh damn... this thread is now officially over!
Oh, and you are refering to UBL, you maybe thinking of that incident where Mullah Omar was found by an "asset", but the chain of command was to complex to authorise a weapons release on the van he was in quickly enough. But I could be wrong.
Yes. The have (had?) the Tu-95 /142, NATO codename Bear heavy bomber. They used to be intercepted over the northsea all the time by aircraft from the squadron where I served.
a propeller plane that could go stratospheric and insanely fast.
It also was insanely loud :-)
First Duplicate Story EVER?
The top of the page says "Hobbies gone wrong...". Nuff said :-)
get a seperate electronic paper section on /. ?
I've read the article you linked to. Can you post any updates on what happened to you afterwards?
You may have a point there.. After all, the nipple is the only real intuitive interface :-)
:)
Actually, I can think of one other, but I'll keep slashdot clean
Right. I'd never get of my spawnspot with thousands of players in quake2 instagib :-)
I mean... Osama wars???
was that the cd's were available earlier than expected, according to this message from Theo at the OpenBSD Journal.
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... OpenBSD :-)
Btw, the headlines from this site are available as a slashbox, just check the box in your
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Thanks, I'll take a look. The names WiredX and WeirdX confused me for a few seconds though. WiredX seems to be a commercial version while WeirdX (derived from WiredX-lite) is GPL. It looks great, if the installation proves easier then cygwin then maybe this is the way to go.