It's stupid anyway, after all (1) virgins are crap lays and (2) 72 virgins isn't going to last that long, then they'll all be, err, non-virgins. More of a ten-week-sex-fest than an eternity (maybe a bit longer if you take a few days off). Or one-week if it's 7 virgins.
Mind you, it'd still be fun, so long as I could come back afterwards. Maybe I need to invent Islamic-Jihad-Buddhism.
I'm not sure this post makes any sense - and I've been awake for hours. Perhaps I am drunk.
...ever woken up still drunk? I remember doing so after my mate Frank's stag do. Got downstairs, drank some water, out of the house to Fulham High Road to a coffeeshop, bought coffee and a Sunday paper, sat down and realised that (a) I couldn't read and (b) I forgot shoes.
No, the WMF problem is an incredibly silly code insertion technique that was designed in - deliberately allowing the image to embed its own arbitrary code - in the days when anything on a machine was deliberately put their by the user and could arguably be trusted. There's no buffer overflow or anything here - just a windows object which is insecure by design.
This kind of code shows how little windows was designed with networking in mind. It wasn't a problem in 1985, but still working that way 20 years later shows how Windows still includes horribly insecure legacy code that should have been revisited if they were serious about 'secure by design'.
They asked for (a) and were given (b) and then went and did (a) anyway. That simply must be wrong and this dissenting judge is clearly wrong. Ihave no axe to grind, but his opinion appears to overrule the entire basis of getting a warrant.
Wow. I'd say it's not a feature, or a design flaw, it's actually a designed in back door to execute arbitrary code contained within the WMF object.
It proves the point so many of us have observed: Friends don't let friends put Windows on networks. Its 'trust everything' design should have been revisited at the same time as MS built their first network stack.
I like your thinking. The resolution of your disagreement with t'other chap is that *I* am always stationary in my own reference frame. It's everything else that gets faster/heavier.
...and there was me originally thinking it was joke accounting practice along the lines of 'get the mark to market and fleece the poor fuck'. Blimey, I learned something on/.!
I don't think the GP thought iTMS downloads were DRM free - just that all DRM is anti-user and makes the user more likely to think "fuck it, I'll download it".
I don't think they could *licence* FairPlay anyway, cos it's a server based system: it wouldn't be like licencing a standard, more like a web service, or otherwise all 'fair use' would go out of the window and Urge would only let you d/l to one iPod. Not what we the public want!
Switzerland has the lowest violent crime rate and murder rate of any industrialized nation, and have the absolute highest private ownership of firearms in the industrialized world (basicly, nearly all able bodied men have full access to military style weapons).
Swiss military weapons aren't privately owned. Oddly enough, they belong to the government which issues them.
It's also an immensely bad idea to use them for anything other than civil defence, including defence of your own home IIRC. When the next inspection shows they were used, you'll go straight to jail.
He doesn't understand that the Swiss weapons aren't privately owned. Oddly enough, they belong to the government which issues them.
It's also an immensely bad idea to use them for anything other than civil defence, including defence of your own home IIRC.
So you're right, he's a dick. Now I have to c&p and edit this into a reply to the OP. I love calling people a dick on/., it always helps pass my day;-)
...provided my job definition includes "Justin may use four letter words in communication with anyone he believes to be a shill for a large corporation".
...but the stuff about the rocket-fuel skin is now pretty well debunked.
Solid rocket fuel burns very slowly, generating massive, hot exhaust gases (think of the size of a rocket booster and how long it takes to get into orbit). The Hindenburg burnt from end to end in under a minute.
The yellow flame effect was caused by the burning hydrogen heating the envelope, not the envelope itself burning.
Try this research paper about that debunks the rocket fuel theory in great detail, with burn rates of reproductions of the Hindenburg envelope built and coated to the original design.
...your entire post is interesting and I'm enjoying it, then you go and use the phrase 'very real' which so far I have only ever heard used by marketeers and politicians, who don't seem to understand that there just can't be a 'partially real' problem;-)
Other than that, convincing, ta. I shall go and find a demo of The Ribbon.
I had time over Christmas to chat to a few people, make sure I had got the right end of the stick. Some of was over port after midnight on New Year's Eve - hope yours was as much fun!
I do not accept that speciation is the result of 'macro-evolution', just evolution. In your example, sympatrism (never knew the correct word for it, but very familiar with the idea) does not require any thing more than ordinary genetic drift and selection pressure - ie evolution.
Suppose, with these mythical octopuses, there are five gene shifts that lengthen arms, and another five that shorten them. Our starting octopuses have evolved to have some of each and thus have medium-length arms which is most useful at present. So, when the world changes and short or long arms are useful, those creatures with a bias to one or other form will do better and breed more. From that moment, evolution will cause speciation simply because those who have inherited all longs or all shorts (or close) will do better and thus in-breeds (long or short) of each nominal group will do better than out-breeds / cross-breeds (medium length arms). Different genetic drift in each group will eventually do the rest to the point where the two groups cannot interbreed successfully.
There is evidence for this in that *many* plants can breed out-of-species and produce fertile (but crap) plants. Similarly in animals, although I think these are mostly infertile in the larger species.
There is no macro-evolution vs micro-evolution. Just evolution. Speed of change, possibly leading to speciation, is a function of selection pressure. When there's more pressure, there's more rapid change - of the same kind.
Indeed. Agreed. My (professional) biologist friends tend to refer to speciation rather than macroevolution though (this may be a Brit thing or there may be some distinction which escapes me), and in my experience the first people to introduce the supposed difference in any given debate are always creationists.
When I used the term IDers, I really meant all believers in all forms of creationism, as I think they are actually the same (as demonstrated by the discovery in the Dover trial that the phrase 'scientific creationism' had been search-and-replaced with 'intelligent design' during one draft of 'Pandas'!).
Justin.
Microsoft didn't abuse their monopoly with Windows Server systems.
I hate to tell you, but the EU disagrees with you. And in Europe, it's their ball.
AIUI, the complaint is along the lines of closely tying MS client software to MS server software to MS Operating Systems, thus using the desktop dominance to drive server sales. This is monopoly abuse.
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Please can we have a 'blatant liar' mod for use in situations such as the parent post.
Thanks,
Justin.
Hmm. I remember upgrading from Win 98 to Win 2000, and I don't recall a 2039% improvement. Maybe I got a dodgy copy.
Justin.
Mind you, it'd still be fun, so long as I could come back afterwards. Maybe I need to invent Islamic-Jihad-Buddhism.
I'm not sure this post makes any sense - and I've been awake for hours. Perhaps I am drunk.
Justin.
...ever woken up still drunk? I remember doing so after my mate Frank's stag do. Got downstairs, drank some water, out of the house to Fulham High Road to a coffeeshop, bought coffee and a Sunday paper, sat down and realised that (a) I couldn't read and (b) I forgot shoes.
Justin.
No, the WMF problem is an incredibly silly code insertion technique that was designed in - deliberately allowing the image to embed its own arbitrary code - in the days when anything on a machine was deliberately put their by the user and could arguably be trusted. There's no buffer overflow or anything here - just a windows object which is insecure by design.
This kind of code shows how little windows was designed with networking in mind. It wasn't a problem in 1985, but still working that way 20 years later shows how Windows still includes horribly insecure legacy code that should have been revisited if they were serious about 'secure by design'.
Justin.
I've read (quickly) the report...
They asked for (a) and were given (b) and then went and did (a) anyway. That simply must be wrong and this dissenting judge is clearly wrong. Ihave no axe to grind, but his opinion appears to overrule the entire basis of getting a warrant.
J.
HAL: "I am putting myself to the fullest possible use, which is all I think that any conscious entity can ever hope to do. "
Wow. I'd say it's not a feature, or a design flaw, it's actually a designed in back door to execute arbitrary code contained within the WMF object.
It proves the point so many of us have observed: Friends don't let friends put Windows on networks. Its 'trust everything' design should have been revisited at the same time as MS built their first network stack.
Justin.
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Justin.
I like your thinking. The resolution of your disagreement with t'other chap is that *I* am always stationary in my own reference frame. It's everything else that gets faster/heavier.
;-)
Love the line 'Feynman thinks...' btw
Cheers,
Justin.
...and there was me originally thinking it was joke accounting practice along the lines of 'get the mark to market and fleece the poor fuck'. Blimey, I learned something on /.!
J.
I don't think the GP thought iTMS downloads were DRM free - just that all DRM is anti-user and makes the user more likely to think "fuck it, I'll download it".
I don't think they could *licence* FairPlay anyway, cos it's a server based system: it wouldn't be like licencing a standard, more like a web service, or otherwise all 'fair use' would go out of the window and Urge would only let you d/l to one iPod. Not what we the public want!
Justin.
Such a pity the OP idiot was anonymous and will prolly never read your comment.
;-)
Still, cracked me up
J.
I'm not trying to be an arse, but FYI, a foetus is 8 weeks old - that's quite clearly a human! These are embryos, a little bundle of cells.
;-)
People think of the two quite differently (for good reason, I think).
Cheers,
J.
Going to be a dad in June
It'll never work...
Justin.
It's also an immensely bad idea to use them for anything other than civil defence, including defence of your own home IIRC. When the next inspection shows they were used, you'll go straight to jail.
Switzerland also has public schools btw.
J.
He doesn't understand that the Swiss weapons aren't privately owned. Oddly enough, they belong to the government which issues them.
/., it always helps pass my day ;-)
It's also an immensely bad idea to use them for anything other than civil defence, including defence of your own home IIRC.
So you're right, he's a dick. Now I have to c&p and edit this into a reply to the OP. I love calling people a dick on
J.
...provided my job definition includes "Justin may use four letter words in communication with anyone he believes to be a shill for a large corporation".
Justin.
Lessee, thirty-odd years old, unmarried, unemployed...
Is this a trick question?
Justin.
Solid rocket fuel burns very slowly, generating massive, hot exhaust gases (think of the size of a rocket booster and how long it takes to get into orbit). The Hindenburg burnt from end to end in under a minute.
The yellow flame effect was caused by the burning hydrogen heating the envelope, not the envelope itself burning.
Try this research paper about that debunks the rocket fuel theory in great detail, with burn rates of reproductions of the Hindenburg envelope built and coated to the original design.
Cheers,
Justin.
...your entire post is interesting and I'm enjoying it, then you go and use the phrase 'very real' which so far I have only ever heard used by marketeers and politicians, who don't seem to understand that there just can't be a 'partially real' problem ;-)
Other than that, convincing, ta. I shall go and find a demo of The Ribbon.
Cheers,
Justin.
I had time over Christmas to chat to a few people, make sure I had got the right end of the stick. Some of was over port after midnight on New Year's Eve - hope yours was as much fun!
I do not accept that speciation is the result of 'macro-evolution', just evolution. In your example, sympatrism (never knew the correct word for it, but very familiar with the idea) does not require any thing more than ordinary genetic drift and selection pressure - ie evolution.
Suppose, with these mythical octopuses, there are five gene shifts that lengthen arms, and another five that shorten them. Our starting octopuses have evolved to have some of each and thus have medium-length arms which is most useful at present. So, when the world changes and short or long arms are useful, those creatures with a bias to one or other form will do better and breed more. From that moment, evolution will cause speciation simply because those who have inherited all longs or all shorts (or close) will do better and thus in-breeds (long or short) of each nominal group will do better than out-breeds / cross-breeds (medium length arms). Different genetic drift in each group will eventually do the rest to the point where the two groups cannot interbreed successfully.
There is evidence for this in that *many* plants can breed out-of-species and produce fertile (but crap) plants. Similarly in animals, although I think these are mostly infertile in the larger species.
There is no macro-evolution vs micro-evolution. Just evolution. Speed of change, possibly leading to speciation, is a function of selection pressure. When there's more pressure, there's more rapid change - of the same kind.
Justin.
God you're a prick. I said 'about half a billion' and accidentally include Turkey, so you entitle a post 'Wrong' to correct me by 10%.
Whew, I meet some wankers but you are a special case.
Justin.
When I used the term IDers, I really meant all believers in all forms of creationism, as I think they are actually the same (as demonstrated by the discovery in the Dover trial that the phrase 'scientific creationism' had been search-and-replaced with 'intelligent design' during one draft of 'Pandas'!). Justin.
I hate to tell you, but the EU disagrees with you. And in Europe, it's their ball.
AIUI, the complaint is along the lines of closely tying MS client software to MS server software to MS Operating Systems, thus using the desktop dominance to drive server sales. This is monopoly abuse.
After that, your entire post is op-ed.
Justin.