I am againts it simply because the global warming makes my country - Russia - more suitable for life. Every degree of warming converts a lot of Russian (And Canadian, too!) ice desert into arable land and saves a lot of money spent for heating our dwellings.
And the global warming lets me grow watermelons, too!
You need not heavy-lift but heavy-land capacity of Shuttle. All other requirements (for the ISS project, I mean) can be satisfied with disposable rockets such as Russian Proton or Sea Launch Zenit or a lot of US rockets.
And BTW do you know why European ATV will dock the Russian side of ISS? Europeans simply use the Russian docking technology. I always wonder why America is the world automation leader but shuttles both dock and land manually while Russian ships dock automatically and Buran landed automatically.
Firstly, the Green movement should be stopped, and instead of screaming "The nuclear waste is THE threat to humanity" we must invent a wise way to operate with it.
For instance, here in Russia are a lot of retired nuclear submarines rotting [LOCATION CENSORED]. And here in [LOCATION CENSORED] is a big nuclear fuel recycling plant that is almost bankrupt. We can clean the waste if we either pay to the plant (we have no money for it) or let it import the waste and process it. But the GreenPeace of Russia is going to do everything to stop the import and so let the submarines release our home-made waste to our seas and to the fish we eat.
In Georgia (I mean a Caucasian country, not US state) the background radiation is 10 times higher due to uranium deposits and height (so cosmic rays penetrate the atmosphere more easily). But Georgia had the fame of republic of USSR where people live longest.
You may remember that during a launch of Cassini there also was an environmental scandal because it has isotope power sources aboard.
And only then we can think about anything more efficient than disposable chemical rockets.
No, it cannot. When the drive writes the reordered data and the power fail occurs you have no power to query the drive any more. So my point is still valid.
Typical tricks include reordering requests to take advantage of disk postition information that the CPU doesn't know about.
It means that the file processor cannot be sure that the older data may be lost but the newer ones are written. If so, it may destroy the Lazy Writes feature (In FreeBSD) and/or journaling file systems and require either UPS or FSCK. Both are the burden.
When I'm burning CDs on my IDE-based CD burner, it chews up nearly all my system resources on my puny 1.8GHz processor. But on my old 486DX2/66MHz system, with 5 SCSI disks (no RAID) and SCSI CDROM, I could have all these lit up without any drain to my system. Do I miss those days or what.
You miss. When your new shiny P-IV transfers data to your CD-R via the program channel it's busy and your system monitor shows it. When your 486 transfers data via DMA the DMA holds the system bus and the processor STILL cannot do anything useful. (It can do something in cache, but the first cache miss will halt it). If there is a backround task it will be halted by bus arbitration but the system monitor will still show that the processor is busy with it 100%.
It means that either you have a full set of specifications for the TCPA chip so that you can trust the TCPA-based encryption routines, or you cannot review the routines but still use them. The first is highly improbable, the second is highly unwise.
The Jews have brought that one down on themselves.
Please be informed that Hebron pogrom was made by Arabs in 1920-s, well before Sabra, Shatila and creation of Israel. After the pogrom, Jews didn't live in Hebron until 1970-th.
Please also be informed that during 1949-1967, there were a lot of Arabs and Arab willages in Israel - and NO JEW AT ALL in Haza and Western Bank. AFAIR Jews in Saudi Arabia - 0, in Iraq - about 50, in Yemen - 0, in Afghanistan - 2.
And the last: Search "banu kuraiza" and "hudna" in Google and ask yourself: Will you make any treaty with the people whose sacred book treates such treaty as nonnecessary to filfill?
you idiots inflamed the middle east, undoing our carefully planned strategy (ever heard of that, you fucking tacticians?) to defang islam,
USA also thought once upon a time that Osama bin Laden can be used as a controllable weapon against Russians in Afghanistan, then against Yugos in Kosovo.
Don't even think that islam can be defanged by anything except force. Creation of the worldwide Taliban is a part of it's scripture and you can do nothing with it. And moreover, the main flaw of European democracy is that it gave Moslems all the civil rights without assimilating them to their cultural community. As a result, any European politician will do anything that pleases Osama bin Laden or lose Moslem votes. Look at www.rodina.org.il for more info (Sorry, Russian and Hebrew only)
Let us imagine that we Russians have some disease you told of and we want a bio-Armageddon. Almost any bacterial infections are easily killed with Ciprofloxacin (Including anthrax and bubonic plague). Virii remain as a veapon but you have seen the epidemy of SARS with hundreds of dead, not even thousands (The medical measures were efficient enough). If some rogue state uses something similar to SARS as a weapon - it will kill much less people than H-bomb, and will be much more dangerous to produce.
Now imagine that Osama bin Laden wants to do the same. You cannot produce as much virii as bacteria. You may grow tons of anthrax on suitable media which you can easily buy, but to grow virii you must grow the suitable host cell culture first. You cannot do it sitting in hiding in Afghanistan.
If aliens invade, the only chance to survive will be not killing them all but acquiring their own propulsion technology and turning it against them. Without the interstellar transport the Humankind is doomed independently of existence of aliens.
Luke Skywalker has shown that killing a Death Star is much cheaper than it's building. And we Russians have a lot of rusty 5-angled asymmetric nuts to be sent suborbitally against any Death Star we dislike. Suborbitally because the Russian ensigns (praporshchiks) have drunk half of rocket fuel from 3-rd stages.
Wrong. The TARGET mark is ALREADY on foreheads. Look here. This picture was shot during a music concert in Belgrad in 1999. Look here too. And don't forget that US army and Osama bin Laden were on the same side of Yugo barricades. Aren't USA going to warm another snakes on their breasts?
Just imagine living in Soviet Russia where the Kinesis costs your yearly income, must be ordered abroad with bank and customs problem and, moreover, cannot be cloned by famous Soviet hackers due to curved PCB. I have no idea how to clone it except making a sculpted board from glass-filled car epoxy and mounting keys with discrete wires.
And it does not do anything with kybd/mouse switching.
BAT as divined by Doug Engelbart has a big disadvantage: You operate it with your left hand while mousing with the right one (Or else you use your right hand for both tasks with speed loss). You use only one hand dividing your speed in two. The alternative may be a 2-handed BAT-like device (mouse inside) since in 14-button configuration you can devote keys to the most used letters and chord only remaining letters. It may give you additional comfort but not the additional speed. Additional speed may be obtained by using the steno machine paradigm and by doubling the number of keys in a Chordite fashion. You may even place a row of keys above the hand and use your extensor muscles to press them up.
Alphagrip made a good job excluding a hunt-and peck and dedicating keys to fingers but it IMHO still requires quite precise movements (pressing up and down with index fingers).
Of course, there is a retraining process. I can afford it since the hunt and peck method used in usual keyboards is both highly inefficient and unavoidable. You may keep your hands over F and J on a mini keyboard like typewriter or Happy Hacking Keyboard but the more keys and mice the worse.
most common words alternate between right and left hands when typing.
And it actually makes a barrier for hi-speed typing - due to differential delays in neural system the text becomes nonerdabael, oops, nonreadable. There is about 6 msec delay when thoughts move between the hemispheres. Look for steno machines in order to avoid it.
The Russian ARVID line of VHS backup devices was in use during 90-s and used the standard VCRs. Arvid 1010 wrote 1 GByte per tape, 1020 - 2 GBytes, 1052 - 3.5 GBytes. I own 1020 and 1052.
They were very reliable and robust to tape failures due to the powerful error correction. But it's physically impossible to write more than 4 GBytes per tape without intervention to the VCR (I personally checked it since I wanted to make a clone with much higher capacity). So the tens-gigabyte HDDs killed the Arvid.
I have read about the similar US devices but they had much less capacity than Arvid.
windows media player Useful when nothing more is at hand. directx Didn't need it except in situations when some game asks for it. I classify it as driver. various drivers Parts of Windows proper and so not considered to be "other than Windows" IIS Replaceable with Apache. At least, I see no need to erase BSD and install Windows in order to use it. windows scripting host Part of Windows itself. internet explorer Crappy shell with lot of holes; part of Windows itself; an instrument for squashing competition. imagion.. IE with real DOM support What's it? or how about 100,000 volunteers hunting vulnerabilities? Are they a MS product?:-) outlook express All my friends use BAT instead. They know what they do. visual studio and all it's bits Nice if you know what you must do (Read: Have paid for the MSDN access), useless in other circumstances where the fossilized part 2 of Unix man, vi and cc are useful. regclean Part of Windows itself; an instrument to remove troubles that simply should not occur with the proper design. microsoft management console Part of Windows itself. source safe Have no idea what's it? msn messenger What is it? The M$ dependent ICQ/MICQ/LICQ/KICQ replacement? remeber the desktop toys?
It may evolve into a computer where all the OS is within the BIOS as in palmtops.
I hate such untercomputers but they will be quite nice in applications where there are crowds of Luddite users that know their salaries don't depend (or depend inversely - it's Russia!) on their computer skills and so they refuse to learn anything. I hate such users. I admin a network of 30 such users, so such computers would save me a lot of problems.
ask our russian hacker friends how did they manage when KGB had similar powers.
Here were no modems and no PC before about 1990, the computer culture was based on mainframes, minicomputers, drum printers and on transport of 1/2 inch tapes. And the last peak of KGB powers was before 1985, during Andropov's rule.
The law requires the Russian ISP's to have a wiretap device and the police to obtain a permit and to pay for the wiretap, and the second law requires the ISP to deny any request for wiretap without a duly permit. I fully agree with this. Really, the police presses the ISP to have the wiretap always operational, fully paid by ISP and fully controlled by police, without any chance for ISP to check the compliance to the permit. As a result, the ISP install the wiretap, keep it disabled and challenge the police in court making a Russia-wide scandal and banner campaign.
www.libertarium.ru/libertarium/sorm_bsc for more info (In Russian, sorry) and
www.libertarium.ru/libertarium/l_sormbaners_inde x for banners.
Really, this scandal is 4 years old and already became a history.
President's Decree No. 344 prohibits crypto but does not provide any sanctions for it's use so it's void.
Moreover, you may find the UPS that has some [EXPLETIVE] timer that does not allow it to perform more than 15 minutes. I've seen such a UPS and could not find where in [EXPLETIVE] the [EXPLETIVE] timer is and how to disable it.
Use only selections of chemicals that have a constant number of ones. Then, any code that has more than this number is a collision. See the Official Phreaker's manual for 2-of-6 code.
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I am againts it simply because the global warming makes my country - Russia - more suitable for life. Every degree of warming converts a lot of Russian (And Canadian, too!) ice desert into arable land and saves a lot of money spent for heating our dwellings.
And the global warming lets me grow watermelons, too!
You need not heavy-lift but heavy-land capacity of Shuttle. All other requirements (for the ISS project, I mean) can be satisfied with disposable rockets such as Russian Proton or Sea Launch Zenit or a lot of US rockets.
And BTW do you know why European ATV will dock the Russian side of ISS? Europeans simply use the Russian docking technology. I always wonder why America is the world automation leader but shuttles both dock and land manually while Russian ships dock automatically and Buran landed automatically.
Oops, I mentioned nu-cu-lur. Mod down -5: Evil.
Firstly, the Green movement should be stopped, and instead of screaming "The nuclear waste is THE threat to humanity" we must invent a wise way to operate with it.
For instance, here in Russia are a lot of retired nuclear submarines rotting [LOCATION CENSORED]. And here in [LOCATION CENSORED] is a big nuclear fuel recycling plant that is almost bankrupt. We can clean the waste if we either pay to the plant (we have no money for it) or let it import the waste and process it. But the GreenPeace of Russia is going to do everything to stop the import and so let the submarines release our home-made waste to our seas and to the fish we eat.
In Georgia (I mean a Caucasian country, not US state) the background radiation is 10 times higher due to uranium deposits and height (so cosmic rays penetrate the atmosphere more easily). But Georgia had the fame of republic of USSR where people live longest.
You may remember that during a launch of Cassini there also was an environmental scandal because it has isotope power sources aboard.
And only then we can think about anything more efficient than disposable chemical rockets.
No, it cannot. When the drive writes the reordered data and the power fail occurs you have no power to query the drive any more. So my point is still valid.
Typical tricks include reordering requests to take advantage of disk postition information that the CPU doesn't know about.
It means that the file processor cannot be sure that the older data may be lost but the newer ones are written. If so, it may destroy the Lazy Writes feature (In FreeBSD) and/or journaling file systems and require either UPS or FSCK. Both are the burden.
When I'm burning CDs on my IDE-based CD burner, it chews up nearly all my system resources on my puny 1.8GHz processor. But on my old 486DX2/66MHz system, with 5 SCSI disks (no RAID) and SCSI CDROM, I could have all these lit up without any drain to my system. Do I miss those days or what.
You miss. When your new shiny P-IV transfers data to your CD-R via the program channel it's busy and your system monitor shows it. When your 486 transfers data via DMA the DMA holds the system bus and the processor STILL cannot do anything useful. (It can do something in cache, but the first cache miss will halt it). If there is a backround task it will be halted by bus arbitration but the system monitor will still show that the processor is busy with it 100%.
It means that either you have a full set of specifications for the TCPA chip so that you can trust the TCPA-based encryption routines, or you cannot review the routines but still use them. The first is highly improbable, the second is highly unwise.
Please be informed that Hebron pogrom was made by Arabs in 1920-s, well before Sabra, Shatila and creation of Israel. After the pogrom, Jews didn't live in Hebron until 1970-th.
Please also be informed that during 1949-1967, there were a lot of Arabs and Arab willages in Israel - and NO JEW AT ALL in Haza and Western Bank. AFAIR Jews in Saudi Arabia - 0, in Iraq - about 50, in Yemen - 0, in Afghanistan - 2.
And the last:
Search "banu kuraiza" and "hudna" in Google and ask yourself: Will you make any treaty with the people whose sacred book treates such treaty as nonnecessary to filfill?
USA also thought once upon a time that Osama bin Laden can be used as a controllable weapon against Russians in Afghanistan, then against Yugos in Kosovo.
Don't even think that islam can be defanged by anything except force. Creation of the worldwide Taliban is a part of it's scripture and you can do nothing with it. And moreover, the main flaw of European democracy is that it gave Moslems all the civil rights without assimilating them to their cultural community. As a result, any European politician will do anything that pleases Osama bin Laden or lose Moslem votes.
Look at www.rodina.org.il for more info (Sorry, Russian and Hebrew only)
Let us imagine that we Russians have some disease you told of and we want a bio-Armageddon. Almost any bacterial infections are easily killed with Ciprofloxacin (Including anthrax and bubonic plague). Virii remain as a veapon but you have seen the epidemy of SARS with hundreds of dead, not even thousands (The medical measures were efficient enough). If some rogue state uses something similar to SARS as a weapon - it will kill much less people than H-bomb, and will be much more dangerous to produce.
Now imagine that Osama bin Laden wants to do the same. You cannot produce as much virii as bacteria. You may grow tons of anthrax on suitable media which you can easily buy, but to grow virii you must grow the suitable host cell culture first. You cannot do it sitting in hiding in Afghanistan.
If aliens invade, the only chance to survive will be not killing them all but acquiring their own propulsion technology and turning it against them. Without the interstellar transport the Humankind is doomed independently of existence of aliens.
Use the Asymmetric Force, Ivan!
Luke Skywalker has shown that killing a Death Star is much cheaper than it's building. And we Russians have a lot of rusty 5-angled asymmetric nuts to be sent suborbitally against any Death Star we dislike. Suborbitally because the Russian ensigns (praporshchiks) have drunk half of rocket fuel from 3-rd stages.
Wrong. The TARGET mark is ALREADY on foreheads. Look here.
This picture was shot during a music concert in Belgrad in 1999. Look
here
too. And don't forget that US army and Osama bin Laden were on the same side of Yugo barricades. Aren't USA going to warm another snakes on their breasts?
Just imagine living in Soviet Russia where the Kinesis costs your yearly income, must be ordered abroad with bank and customs problem and, moreover, cannot be cloned by famous Soviet hackers due to curved PCB. I have no idea how to clone it except making a sculpted board from glass-filled car epoxy and mounting keys with discrete wires.
And it does not do anything with kybd/mouse switching.
BAT as divined by Doug Engelbart has a big disadvantage: You operate it with your left hand while mousing with the right one (Or else you use your right hand for both tasks with speed loss). You use only one hand dividing your speed in two. The alternative may be a 2-handed BAT-like device (mouse inside) since in 14-button configuration you can devote keys to the most used letters and chord only remaining letters. It may give you additional comfort but not the additional speed. Additional speed may be obtained by using the steno machine paradigm and by doubling the number of keys in a Chordite fashion. You may even place a row of keys above the hand and use your extensor muscles to press them up.
Alphagrip made a good job excluding a hunt-and peck and dedicating keys to fingers but it IMHO still requires quite precise movements (pressing up and down with index fingers).
Of course, there is a retraining process. I can afford it since the hunt and peck method used in usual keyboards is both highly inefficient and unavoidable. You may keep your hands over F and J on a mini keyboard like typewriter or Happy Hacking Keyboard but the more keys and mice the worse.
And it actually makes a barrier for hi-speed typing - due to differential delays in neural system the text becomes nonerdabael, oops, nonreadable. There is about 6 msec delay when thoughts move between the hemispheres. Look for steno machines in order to avoid it.
The Russian ARVID line of VHS backup devices was in use during 90-s and used the standard VCRs. Arvid 1010 wrote 1 GByte per tape, 1020 - 2 GBytes, 1052 - 3.5 GBytes. I own 1020 and 1052.
They were very reliable and robust to tape failures due to the powerful error correction. But it's physically impossible to write more than 4 GBytes per tape without intervention to the VCR (I personally checked it since I wanted to make a clone with much higher capacity). So the tens-gigabyte HDDs killed the Arvid.
I have read about the similar US devices but they had much less capacity than Arvid.
Use silica gel as a desiccant. Or, if silica gel is not available, use rice instead. Dry it in an oven before use.
So the next people to sue will be NASA (That is studying the antigravity, too) and George Lucas (the Star Wars imperial speeder bike)? ;-)
windows media player :-)
Useful when nothing more is at hand.
directx
Didn't need it except in situations when some game asks for it. I classify it as driver.
various drivers
Parts of Windows proper and so not considered to be "other than Windows"
IIS
Replaceable with Apache. At least, I see no need to erase BSD and install Windows in order to use it.
windows scripting host
Part of Windows itself.
internet explorer
Crappy shell with lot of holes; part of Windows itself; an instrument for squashing competition.
imagion.. IE with real DOM support
What's it?
or how about 100,000 volunteers hunting vulnerabilities?
Are they a MS product?
outlook express
All my friends use BAT instead. They know what they do.
visual studio and all it's bits
Nice if you know what you must do (Read: Have paid for the MSDN access), useless in other circumstances where the fossilized part 2 of Unix man, vi and cc are useful.
regclean
Part of Windows itself; an instrument to remove troubles that simply should not occur with the proper design.
microsoft management console
Part of Windows itself.
source safe
Have no idea what's it?
msn messenger
What is it? The M$ dependent ICQ/MICQ/LICQ/KICQ replacement?
remeber the desktop toys?
Oh, now I know that m$ is the toy-only platform.
It may evolve into a computer where all the OS is within the BIOS as in palmtops.
I hate such untercomputers but they will be quite nice in applications where there are crowds of Luddite users that know their salaries don't depend (or depend inversely - it's Russia!) on their computer skills and so they refuse to learn anything. I hate such users. I admin a network of 30 such users, so such computers would save me a lot of problems.
ask our russian hacker friends how did they manage when KGB had similar powers.
Here were no modems and no PC before about 1990, the computer culture was based on mainframes, minicomputers, drum printers and on transport of 1/2 inch tapes. And the last peak of KGB powers was before 1985, during Andropov's rule.
The law requires the Russian ISP's to have a wiretap device and the police to obtain a permit and to pay for the wiretap, and the second law requires the ISP to deny any request for wiretap without a duly permit. I fully agree with this. Really, the police presses the ISP to have the wiretap always operational, fully paid by ISP and fully controlled by police, without any chance for ISP to check the compliance to the permit. As a result, the ISP install the wiretap, keep it disabled and challenge the police in court making a Russia-wide scandal and banner campaign.
e x for banners.
www.libertarium.ru/libertarium/sorm_bsc for more info (In Russian, sorry) and
www.libertarium.ru/libertarium/l_sormbaners_ind
Really, this scandal is 4 years old and already became a history.
President's Decree No. 344 prohibits crypto but does not provide any sanctions for it's use so it's void.
Moreover, you may find the UPS that has some [EXPLETIVE] timer that does not allow it to perform more than 15 minutes. I've seen such a UPS and could not find where in [EXPLETIVE] the [EXPLETIVE] timer is and how to disable it.
Use only selections of chemicals that have a constant number of ones. Then, any code that has more than this number is a collision. See the Official Phreaker's manual for 2-of-6 code.