>One of the best features is that it was abandoned around 2010, so it is perfectly stable with no code thrash. Just keeps working the same, year after year, except when I add a plugin for a sort option or something.
I love abandoned code. It has no bugs; only errata.
Finally, someone who feels the same way I do. I like to find an application that isn't constantly being updated needlessly and is "abandoned". I build my own stuff into it, improve it as I see fit, harden it so it's secure, and never worry about some craptastic new release breaking shit and removing or mangling features I rely on.
And no, I'm not being sarcastic. Like you say, it just keeps working the same, year after year. What's not to like about that?
You fucking cunts at Microsoft just can't help screwing shit up, can you?
I don't want some craptastic "social-messaging and sharing" platform, I just want to make some fucking video calls to a few people.
You shitbags from Microsoft should all die in a fire.
I swear, if I had an orbital weapons platform, Redmond would be burnt off the face of the Earth with a concentrated energy beam and the churning pit of molten magma that I'd turn their campus into wouldn't cool down for 100 years.
They aren't real useful for most typical Air Force roles.
Exactly.
And they're probably a lot less useful today than they were 50 years ago, given the advances in weapons technology. Otherwise, they'd be using them, as would every other military force.
If you really are talking about war fare, then I suggest to imagine a Airship that has weapons to fire back, or like in WWI is actually an air craft carrier.
Well, if armed airships are such a practical idea, why isn't anyone in the world using them? Why doesn't every country have a fleet of armed airships?
The answer is because airships are little more than big, slow, vulnerable targets compared to any other modern air combat platform.
That would poke a line of holes through one set of ballonets. Depending on the design of the ballonets, it may or or may not destroy the ones it hits.
Dude, an A-10 gun run on an airship would practically turn it into confetti. It's extreme overkill and it would do more than just cause "leaks".
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Yeah, 1000 pounds of high explosive will do a number on pretty much anything short of a reinforced bunker.
50 pounds of explosives would do the trick, and probably a lot less. I honestly can't think of a current issue missile that could be fired at an airship that wouldn't result in an instant kill shot.
I think airships are cool, but there's no denying that they're big, fat targets lumbering their way around in the sky. Shit, you could probably bring one down with a mortar round if it was low enough.
Actually airships are not fragile at all but super resilient.
Perhaps for very small values of "resilient". An A-10 would take any airship out with a 0.5 second burst, more than that would just be overkill. In fact, any modern fighter jet would shred an airship before it even knew it was under attack. Guns, missiles, they'd all make quick work of a reinforced balloon.
However against a modern missile they probably stand no big chance either.
"Probably"? Show me an airship that will withstand even the smallest current-issue missile. I'll wait.
There's no form of overcurrent protection anywhere? Not even a fuse?
There is over-current protection specified according to FAA/CFR requirements, but in this case it's likely that a sustained slightly over-spec load condition caused point-heating and eventual ignition of surrounding components and/or the component container, allowing a fire to grow to the tipping point.
Spikes are easy to protect against, but sustained low-level over-current conditions can be tricky to handle.
Lol, this is similar to what Howard Hughes did, pouring tons of money into building a giant-ass albatross of a plane that no one wanted or could afford. Hughes' monster plane was the the Spruce Goose, which flew precisely once before being retired.
"Writing this data repeatedly and at high speeds causes errors in the SSD"
Why is this allowed to happen? Why isn't the write speed limited if abusing it can cause errors? How can this be an allowed operation? Since the drive is under complete control of its own firmware, why is this operation allowed to proceed or even take place?
"an attacker's exploit code causes the SSD to perform a large number of read operations in a very short time, which causes a phenomenon of "read disturb errors," that alters the SSD ability to read data from nearby cells, even long after the attack stops"
As above, why is this even allowed to occur?
I'm no expert on SSD functionality, so I'm baffled why the drive would be permitted to do this in the first place. Can someone explain this to me?
"John L. Steele, a Chicago lawyer who pled guilty to perjury, fraud and money laundering resulting from alleged 'honeypot' schemes, has just been disbarred by an Illinois court."
Great, but what took so long?
I'd have been happier if he served some serious prison time, but this is better than nothing.
"Earlier this year, Chipotle announced that the their payment processing system was hacked."
Jesus fuckin' christ, will shit ever end? Is there one god damn business that can secure their shit to keep their customer's information safe?
I am SO glad that I never ate at Chipotle, but that's just down to pure luck more than anything else. If I had, and my credit card info had been hacked, I would pissed off beyond beyond all reason.
Fucking clowns. After you hear about the 1,000th data breach you start to realize that none of these fucking companies give a shit about security. They couldn't program their way out of a wet paper bag with a chainsaw in each hand. For fuck's sake.
I rarely use the web on my phone, but it's damn handy to be able to do so if I want. As for a camera, yes, my digital camera takes great photos, but I have to admit, so does my phone. In the end I'd rather carry one device rather than three, but the main thing is that I control what it does and when.
So far the battery on my S5 lasts for several days because I have all the unnecessary crap turned off. But those things are there if I need them, and that's kind of cool. The only downside (for me) is that it's not as rugged as a flip phone. A good case can help mitigate that somewhat.
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Oh mother fucker, if you have 45,000 open bugs that's clearly wrong.
It's so far past "wrong" they need to invent a new word for it.
If your application has 45,000 open bugs I'd have a hard time understanding how it could even run or stay open long enough to click a button.
>One of the best features is that it was abandoned around 2010, so it is perfectly stable with no code thrash. Just keeps working the same, year after year, except when I add a plugin for a sort option or something.
I love abandoned code. It has no bugs; only errata.
Finally, someone who feels the same way I do. I like to find an application that isn't constantly being updated needlessly and is "abandoned". I build my own stuff into it, improve it as I see fit, harden it so it's secure, and never worry about some craptastic new release breaking shit and removing or mangling features I rely on.
And no, I'm not being sarcastic. Like you say, it just keeps working the same, year after year. What's not to like about that?
You fucking cunts at Microsoft just can't help screwing shit up, can you?
I don't want some craptastic "social-messaging and sharing" platform, I just want to make some fucking video calls to a few people.
You shitbags from Microsoft should all die in a fire.
I swear, if I had an orbital weapons platform, Redmond would be burnt off the face of the Earth with a concentrated energy beam and the churning pit of molten magma that I'd turn their campus into wouldn't cool down for 100 years.
If you buy a movie on a disk can you make an mp4 and put it on your phone?
Absolutely. Ask me how I know.
They aren't real useful for most typical Air Force roles.
Exactly.
And they're probably a lot less useful today than they were 50 years ago, given the advances in weapons technology. Otherwise, they'd be using them, as would every other military force.
And a gattling gun of the A10 (or the machine gubs of the Fxx) nearly does not harm an Airship at all, unless it hits a beam
Oh well then I guess there's nothing to worry about. As long as nothing shoots at it then there's no problem!
But what if they aim for the gondola or the engines? Uh-oh.
Seriously, do you really think an F-15/F-16/F-18 couldn't shoot one of these things down?
And if they're so great, why isn't every air force fielding them?
This isn't a military aircraft
Exactly. I rest my case.
If you really are talking about war fare, then I suggest to imagine a Airship that has weapons to fire back, or like in WWI is actually an air craft carrier.
Well, if armed airships are such a practical idea, why isn't anyone in the world using them? Why doesn't every country have a fleet of armed airships?
The answer is because airships are little more than big, slow, vulnerable targets compared to any other modern air combat platform.
That would poke a line of holes through one set of ballonets. Depending on the design of the ballonets, it may or or may not destroy the ones it hits.
Dude, an A-10 gun run on an airship would practically turn it into confetti. It's extreme overkill and it would do more than just cause "leaks".
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Yeah, 1000 pounds of high explosive will do a number on pretty much anything short of a reinforced bunker.
50 pounds of explosives would do the trick, and probably a lot less. I honestly can't think of a current issue missile that could be fired at an airship that wouldn't result in an instant kill shot.
I think airships are cool, but there's no denying that they're big, fat targets lumbering their way around in the sky. Shit, you could probably bring one down with a mortar round if it was low enough.
I really don't think anybody would plan on attacking this thing
That's kind of shortsighted. No one thought anybody would plan on attacking the World Trade Centers, or crowds in France, or nightclubs, etc.
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other than maybe a muslim terrorist, and at best they'd be carrying an rpg.
Really? Have you seen the shit these fuckers are carrying these days? Perhaps you should brush on current events. They're well beyond the "RPG" stage.
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Either way, just stay out of the regions that they have any political influence in and you'll be fine.
Wow, that's a brilliant fucking plan. Do you know more than all the generals too, or did you get this bit of wisdom from the Discovery Channel?
Not quite so funny anymore is it?
Who said it was "funny"?
With proper compartmentalization, they can take some hits and keep flying.
Hits from what? The weapons on any modern air-combat platform will quickly turn an airship into a ground-level memorial site.
A-10 versus an airship? Airship loses.
F-15, F-16, F-18, F-22 against an airship? Airship loses.
Apache against an airship? Airship loses.
Actually I'm not sure what you could attack an airship with that wouldn't succeed. BB gun, maybe?
Depends on what you fill them with...
Well I suppose if they were filled with concrete they'd have a fighting chance, but getting them into the air would be a challenge, no?
Actually airships are not fragile at all but super resilient.
Perhaps for very small values of "resilient". An A-10 would take any airship out with a 0.5 second burst, more than that would just be overkill. In fact, any modern fighter jet would shred an airship before it even knew it was under attack. Guns, missiles, they'd all make quick work of a reinforced balloon.
However against a modern missile they probably stand no big chance either.
"Probably"? Show me an airship that will withstand even the smallest current-issue missile. I'll wait.
It'll fit, and I this is kind of a cool idea. It's putting/building the PC into the battery instead of putting/building a battery into the PC.
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There's no form of overcurrent protection anywhere? Not even a fuse?
There is over-current protection specified according to FAA/CFR requirements, but in this case it's likely that a sustained slightly over-spec load condition caused point-heating and eventual ignition of surrounding components and/or the component container, allowing a fire to grow to the tipping point.
Spikes are easy to protect against, but sustained low-level over-current conditions can be tricky to handle.
Airships can deliver from point A to point Z without stopping anywhere in between.
Or a hostile force. They're big, ultra-fragile, slow-moving targets....basically every fighter pilot's wet dream.
Brilliant!
I'd sell him the vacuum at a big discount because I know he'll need a lot of it.
Lol, this is similar to what Howard Hughes did, pouring tons of money into building a giant-ass albatross of a plane that no one wanted or could afford. Hughes' monster plane was the the Spruce Goose, which flew precisely once before being retired.
"Writing this data repeatedly and at high speeds causes errors in the SSD"
Why is this allowed to happen? Why isn't the write speed limited if abusing it can cause errors? How can this be an allowed operation? Since the drive is under complete control of its own firmware, why is this operation allowed to proceed or even take place?
"an attacker's exploit code causes the SSD to perform a large number of read operations in a very short time, which causes a phenomenon of "read disturb errors," that alters the SSD ability to read data from nearby cells, even long after the attack stops"
As above, why is this even allowed to occur?
I'm no expert on SSD functionality, so I'm baffled why the drive would be permitted to do this in the first place. Can someone explain this to me?
He's still going to prison, he just hasn't been sentenced yet.
I nominate this for the "Feel Good" story of the week.
"John L. Steele, a Chicago lawyer who pled guilty to perjury, fraud and money laundering resulting from alleged 'honeypot' schemes, has just been disbarred by an Illinois court."
Great, but what took so long?
I'd have been happier if he served some serious prison time, but this is better than nothing.
"Earlier this year, Chipotle announced that the their payment processing system was hacked."
Jesus fuckin' christ, will shit ever end? Is there one god damn business that can secure their shit to keep their customer's information safe?
I am SO glad that I never ate at Chipotle, but that's just down to pure luck more than anything else. If I had, and my credit card info had been hacked, I would pissed off beyond beyond all reason.
Fucking clowns. After you hear about the 1,000th data breach you start to realize that none of these fucking companies give a shit about security. They couldn't program their way out of a wet paper bag with a chainsaw in each hand. For fuck's sake.
Next time I checked facebook on my laptop, I was getting motorbike clothing ads.
As an Adblock user, I'm not sure what you mean by "ads".
I rarely use the web on my phone, but it's damn handy to be able to do so if I want. As for a camera, yes, my digital camera takes great photos, but I have to admit, so does my phone. In the end I'd rather carry one device rather than three, but the main thing is that I control what it does and when.
So far the battery on my S5 lasts for several days because I have all the unnecessary crap turned off. But those things are there if I need them, and that's kind of cool. The only downside (for me) is that it's not as rugged as a flip phone. A good case can help mitigate that somewhat.