Yes. I was glad the US Government did surveillance and internment during WWII. That's why there were very few successful attacks in the United States by the German government. Maybe if the European contries had thought about such things in 1935, there would have been no WWII or Holocaust. Think about that, when the next hijacked airplane might aim for your office building.
He might be referring to 'Mirror, Mirror' in the Original series, one of the best early Treks with Spock sporting a beard and Sulu and Checkov totally and gleefully bad in the Mirror Universe. Also, there was an episode in Next Generation where almost an infinite number of Enterprises meet in some Nexus of alternate universes. I forget the details on that one though.
After reading many of the comments on NSA research of security on Linux and Windows 2000, it amazed me the level of paranoia of many of the posters. Let's get real folks! All this research has come about because of the hacks and DoS attacks of commercial and institional computers and servers. The reason NSA chose Linux to test their codes was because it was open. If you notice they also supplied a series of recommendations for security on Windows 2000 systems. Since they couldn't alter Windows source, that was all they could do.
I would guess for the all-out hacker geek, this NSA compile on their system, probably would cause paranoia (like some invisible eye looking back at you !! ha! ha!) But probably wouldn't have any other power you imagine it has. As for anyone else, it wouldn't hurt to at least study their implementations.
"Paranoia strikes deep
Into your life it will creep
It starts when you're always afraid
You step out of line, the man come
and take you away"
It was more that Linux was open and they could actually write testable code into the OS. If you noticed in the main NSA security page, they also provided a series of recommendations for security on Windows 2000. Since they couldn't tamper with Windows code, that was all they could do.
Also, for those people all paranoid about all this, remember it was because of the national security issues that resulted from systems and web servers attacked by Denial of Service, hackers and the Chinese, that caused Congress and NSA to study the problem.
I agree. This movie could have been the most explosive. You would think after the creation and failure of the dinosaur theme parks, that the third movie would be 'kick-butt' time.
Scientists would realize the dangers this Jurassic ecology would have on the rest of the world's ecosystem and decide its time to wipe it out.
I would have liked this movie to have been an all-out invasion of the island by US Armed Forces and completely wipe it out. Talk about special effects! Wow! I think it would have been the best of the three movies if they went in that direction.
Instead, they give us a 90 minute rehash of the first two movies. (A system fails. In this case the plane. You are dropped in their midst. Then: Run, baby, Run!!)
It seems that through most of the Earth's history we had Ice Sheets that covered Canada and Russia and kept most of the now moderate climates cold. Recent studies seem to suggest that civilization grows when the climate get warm and the ice sheets retreat. If human beings can end all Ice Ages as long as we are here, would that be such a bad thing?
You are so right. It's not going to happen. My 300 mhz AMD with Win98 runs fine. My DVD movies play fine. My games run ok. My internet connection and browser are fast enough. I believe thats probably true for most people.
Until some other breakthrough in technology occurs, like 64 bit processing, there is no reason to jump.
What I would love to do is dump Windows altogether and jump to Linux purely for economical reasons. That might happen in a few years for many people when they come up with an attractive an easy to install desktop. I believe it might happen in Europe or the Third World first, where getting cheaper PCs to the masses will be a priority.
The internet is not free and neither is the information being shared. Even the simplest server farm and technical talent to run it costs tens of thousands of dollars. Scale that up to a library or museum website and that can go up to a half million dollars to archive everything. Now think of all the websites shutdown in the last year, for lack of money, and think of all the information forever lost because of that. Don't idealize this digital era. After all, who can guarantee that 500 years from now that anyone will run the servers? At least with books we have a record of the ideas being presented.
If people think that dangers from radiation are overstated, check out this Three Mile Island Accident website. It includes pictures of the mutations that occurred to plants and animals downwind of the accident. Some of the mutations included deformed and two-headed cows, 4 legged spiders, 5 leaved clovers, gigantic dandelions (that one scares me), and maple leaves without symmetry and chlorophyll. The farmer who presented the twoheaded calf, himself later died of thyroid cancer.
In every vision of any space station I've heard about, it was always assumed that tourism would be part of that vision. If space has gotten too expensive for governments, then it's time to move aside and let commercial interests do it. And right now, that's what they are trying to do. There are some companies trying to reduce payload cost and design space hotels, to the point it may only cost $10,000 to $20k for such a trip per person.
It seems strange, here we are in 2001 and yet both space agencies are relying on outdated expensive technologies to carry people to space. Where's the space plane? There has been no developments in space travel technology since the 1970s. If things were as slow in computer technology, we'd all still be using PDP11s at work and AppleIIs or Commodore 64s at home.
The irony is the module will be Russian. And again, as they were with the first paying space tourist, NASA is "concerned" that the new people will be in the way. Isn't it time that NASA wake up and acknowledge the commercial and tourist aspects of space and space stations?
I agree with you. I think Microsoft has finally overstepped.
This plus the silly idea they have, that legions of gamers are going to jump to their overpriced, uncreative X-box.
No reason to go to XP, except for a more stable OS. So, I won't go the the next Windows until 64 bit becomes the standard for PCs, and they come up with their Windows XX64. (Maybe by then Linux will be ready for the masses or MACs Unix will prove to be a better solution. They may even decide to make their OS run on Intel/AMD Boxes!)
Come on guys! Who cares about Galatica? The real story is the next series of Star Trek is in production. Called Enterprise, the series will take place many years after First Contact but just before the creation of the Federation, before Christopher Pike and Kirk.
Good Point. I too have an AMD K-6 at 300 mhz. My brother has a k7 Athlon at 650 mhz and I don't see that much difference. Future apps will be fatter and gobble up that clockspeed. I keep saying: Clockspeed is not the issue. Peripherals, memory speed, hard drive access. All these things are still slow. Speed up the bottlenecks there and maybe we will have faster computers.
"PostgreSQL, which is well-regarded in the open source community, will be positioned by Red Hat for small and midsize businesses. Sources said that Red Hat will continue to encourage large enterprise customers to use Oracle Corp.'s Oracle and IBM's DB2 products."
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I enjoyed the Voyager series, certainly more then DS9, but the last episode was disappointing.
It began with what might have really happened afer such a long voyage. Crewmen and friends dead, others wounded. A saddened and seasoned Janeway and crew, because of those losses and the battles it took to get home. So I thought the writers had shown courage and the two hours would explore how that happened.
Instead we get the wishful thinking syndrome, the thing we go through when we suffer real losses in our lives. What would we have done to change those failures and losses. And of course we don't have time travel to repair our losses and they probably won't in the future.
Still have my K6 300Mhz with 128Meg and petite 4 Gig HD . It gets the job done, for internet, for office apps, and most games. Only add-on was a DVD-Rom and REALMAGIC PCI board which gets the job done for DVD movies.
Do I want the fastest out there? Yes, I do. But I tell you. I saw 600mhz and 850 mhz
Athlons running and except for games, increased clock speed increased nothing much else. Windoes still takes forever to load. Office apps didn't jump to attention, and I wanted to hook up a hand crank to jack up the internet download speed. So obviously, there is something else needed to get PCs up to the next speed level, and clock speed isn't it. How about get front/side bus speeds up and harddrive data transfer up and how about that 133
-SDRAM? Shouldn't it be equal or almost equal to CPU speed? And finally the 56k modem. Sorry to say most of us still use it and will continue to until DSL or cable internet prices come down AND ACTUALLY BECOMES AVAILABLE!!! So although some people got the fancy 1 or 1+ gigahertz clockers, my question is; really?? or is it just a marketing scheme. I haven't seen the difference. My 1966 Mustang far surpassed the car Ford calls Mustang now.
Why do we have this vitriole toward Microsoft? Is is because Microsoft has become a monopoly from computer languages to OS? Or is it because they attempt to enter, copy or buyout every aspect of the computer business, from email servers (Hotmail), ISP (MSN), Instant Messaging (Hailstorm), internet appliances (WebTV and their other product with Compaq), Internet browsing (IE), databases (SQL), internet commerce (.NET) and now even gaming?
Or is it because when they attempt to copy or buyout something it comes out poorly. Some examples: their GUI versus Apples'; early Netscape versus early IE; Hotmail server problems and slow access; MSNs failure to take market share; and of course the failure to create an more open operating system to make it easier for product developers. Then after they get their market share they change the rules. Some examples: Visual Basic 7 will be totally incompatible with earlier versions so pre-VB7 programs will have to be rewritten to compile on it. And of course, Microsofts plan to charge subscription or leases for software upgrades. Those are some of the reasons we need to say HAHA. We hope XBox fails. We don't want Microsoft to take over another part of this amazing technology.
I do and I agree. After all, its not only the CPU that gets hot, but memory and videocard and other PCI cards and the motherboard. So I just use a window fan in front of my open box. It puts a larger volume of cooling air over the whole box. It cools not only the CPU but the whole package. (I think by about 20 or 30 degrees, but I'm not sure.)
My system would constantly lockup and I researched all the possible software/hardware conflicts and could find nothing. Finally, I notice the lockup occurred after the computer ran a few hours or if my room got hot. So I pulled off the case, put my window fan by it and it hasn't lockuped since.
Although I'm happy it solved the problem, it's sort of scary that in the future with everfaster CPUs, Video Cards, Front/Side Busses, etc., the problem will only worsen. I wonder how many PC problems people encounter are not bugs or conflicts, but just heat.
My system would constantly lockup and I researched all the possible software/hardware conflicts and could find nothing. Finally, I notice the lockup occurred after the computer ran a few hours or if my room got hot.
So I pulled off the case, put my window fan by it and it hasn't lockuped since.
Although I'm happy it solved the problem, it's sort of scary that in the future with everfaster CPUs, Video Cards, Front/Side Busses, this problem will only worsen. I wonder how many PC problems people encounter are not bugs or conflicts, but just heat.
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Yes. I was glad the US Government did surveillance and internment during WWII. That's why there were very few successful attacks in the United States by the German government. Maybe if the European contries had thought about such things in 1935, there would have been no WWII or Holocaust. Think about that, when the next hijacked airplane might aim for your office building.
He might be referring to 'Mirror, Mirror' in the Original series, one of the best early Treks with Spock sporting a beard and Sulu and Checkov totally and gleefully bad in the Mirror Universe. Also, there was an episode in Next Generation where almost an infinite number of Enterprises meet in some Nexus of alternate universes. I forget the details on that one though.
I would guess for the all-out hacker geek, this NSA compile on their system, probably would cause paranoia (like some invisible eye looking back at you !! ha! ha!) But probably wouldn't have any other power you imagine it has. As for anyone else, it wouldn't hurt to at least study their implementations.
"Paranoia strikes deep
Into your life it will creep
It starts when you're always afraid
You step out of line, the man come
and take you away"
-- Stephen Stills, "For What It's Worth"
Also, for those people all paranoid about all this, remember it was because of the national security issues that resulted from systems and web servers attacked by Denial of Service, hackers and the Chinese, that caused Congress and NSA to study the problem.
LOL! Excellent. They ought to give an award for the funniest post of the day. Yours would win hands down. Because it was funny with a lot of truth.
I would have liked this movie to have been an all-out invasion of the island by US Armed Forces and completely wipe it out. Talk about special effects! Wow! I think it would have been the best of the three movies if they went in that direction.
Instead, they give us a 90 minute rehash of the first two movies. (A system fails. In this case the plane. You are dropped in their midst. Then: Run, baby, Run!!)
It seems that through most of the Earth's history we had Ice Sheets that covered Canada and Russia and kept most of the now moderate climates cold. Recent studies seem to suggest that civilization grows when the climate get warm and the ice sheets retreat. If human beings can end all Ice Ages as long as we are here, would that be such a bad thing?
Until some other breakthrough in technology occurs, like 64 bit processing, there is no reason to jump.
What I would love to do is dump Windows altogether and jump to Linux purely for economical reasons. That might happen in a few years for many people when they come up with an attractive an easy to install desktop. I believe it might happen in Europe or the Third World first, where getting cheaper PCs to the masses will be a priority.
The internet is not free and neither is the information being shared. Even the simplest server farm and technical talent to run it costs tens of thousands of dollars. Scale that up to a library or museum website and that can go up to a half million dollars to archive everything. Now think of all the websites shutdown in the last year, for lack of money, and think of all the information forever lost because of that. Don't idealize this digital era. After all, who can guarantee that 500 years from now that anyone will run the servers? At least with books we have a record of the ideas being presented.
Most of Marvel's characters got their changes by radiation.
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It seems strange, here we are in 2001 and yet both space agencies are relying on outdated expensive technologies to carry people to space. Where's the space plane? There has been no developments in space travel technology since the 1970s. If things were as slow in computer technology, we'd all still be using PDP11s at work and AppleIIs or Commodore 64s at home.
The irony is the module will be Russian. And again, as they were with the first paying space tourist, NASA is "concerned" that the new people will be in the way. Isn't it time that NASA wake up and acknowledge the commercial and tourist aspects of space and space stations?
This plus the silly idea they have, that legions of gamers are going to jump to their overpriced, uncreative X-box.
No reason to go to XP, except for a more stable OS. So, I won't go the the next Windows until 64 bit becomes the standard for PCs, and they come up with their Windows XX64. (Maybe by then Linux will be ready for the masses or MACs Unix will prove to be a better solution. They may even decide to make their OS run on Intel/AMD Boxes!)
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Good Point. I too have an AMD K-6 at 300 mhz. My brother has a k7 Athlon at 650 mhz and I don't see that much difference. Future apps will be fatter and gobble up that clockspeed. I keep saying: Clockspeed is not the issue. Peripherals, memory speed, hard drive access. All these things are still slow. Speed up the bottlenecks there and maybe we will have faster computers.
Huh?
http://news.excite.com/news/zd/010620/15/red-hat-d atabase
"PostgreSQL, which is well-regarded in the open source community, will be positioned by Red Hat for small and midsize businesses. Sources said that Red Hat will continue to encourage large enterprise customers to use Oracle Corp.'s Oracle and IBM's DB2 products."
Huh?
It began with what might have really happened afer such a long voyage. Crewmen and friends dead, others wounded. A saddened and seasoned Janeway and crew, because of those losses and the battles it took to get home. So I thought the writers had shown courage and the two hours would explore how that happened.
Instead we get the wishful thinking syndrome, the thing we go through when we suffer real losses in our lives. What would we have done to change those failures and losses. And of course we don't have time travel to repair our losses and they probably won't in the future.
Do I want the fastest out there? Yes, I do. But I tell you. I saw 600mhz and 850 mhz Athlons running and except for games, increased clock speed increased nothing much else. Windoes still takes forever to load. Office apps didn't jump to attention, and I wanted to hook up a hand crank to jack up the internet download speed. So obviously, there is something else needed to get PCs up to the next speed level, and clock speed isn't it. How about get front/side bus speeds up and harddrive data transfer up and how about that 133 -SDRAM? Shouldn't it be equal or almost equal to CPU speed? And finally the 56k modem. Sorry to say most of us still use it and will continue to until DSL or cable internet prices come down AND ACTUALLY BECOMES AVAILABLE!!! So although some people got the fancy 1 or 1+ gigahertz clockers, my question is; really?? or is it just a marketing scheme. I haven't seen the difference. My 1966 Mustang far surpassed the car Ford calls Mustang now.
Or is it because when they attempt to copy or buyout something it comes out poorly. Some examples: their GUI versus Apples'; early Netscape versus early IE; Hotmail server problems and slow access; MSNs failure to take market share; and of course the failure to create an more open operating system to make it easier for product developers. Then after they get their market share they change the rules. Some examples: Visual Basic 7 will be totally incompatible with earlier versions so pre-VB7 programs will have to be rewritten to compile on it. And of course, Microsofts plan to charge subscription or leases for software upgrades. Those are some of the reasons we need to say HAHA. We hope XBox fails. We don't want Microsoft to take over another part of this amazing technology.
I do and I agree. After all, its not only the CPU that gets hot, but memory and videocard and other PCI cards and the motherboard. So I just use a window fan in front of my open box. It puts a larger volume of cooling air over the whole box. It cools not only the CPU but the whole package. (I think by about 20 or 30 degrees, but I'm not sure.)
Although I'm happy it solved the problem, it's sort of scary that in the future with everfaster CPUs, Video Cards, Front/Side Busses, etc., the problem will only worsen. I wonder how many PC problems people encounter are not bugs or conflicts, but just heat.
Although I'm happy it solved the problem, it's sort of scary that in the future with everfaster CPUs, Video Cards, Front/Side Busses, this problem will only worsen. I wonder how many PC problems people encounter are not bugs or conflicts, but just heat.