Ooh, it's free yay. Guess what, _I don't fucking want it!_ It slows down my computer and no matter what I do it cannot be eliminated without Windows going with it (and no I can't get rid of Windows). Besides that, I'd put money on the chances that MS charges more for everything else that they sell to subsidize the cost of developing IE. I have a serious security flaw on my computer that is there because MS forces me to have it there. I can choose whether or not to use it but it seems an awful waste of RAM and memory to use another browser. How is this anyone's responsibility other than MS?
First a disclaimer, I am an American, not a Russian, these are just the facts as I have come to know them. First off, Russia spent a shitload of money on ISS, not as much as us but it was a significant contributor, I think second overall as far as money spent goes. Secondly, if it hadn't been for the knowhow that the Russians acquired with Mir ISS wouldn't have gotten off of the ground, their biggest contribution by far was the technical knowledge and experiance they brought to the table. Back to money though. What money Russia did spend it really didn't have, the Russian government is in economic straits and space gains them nothing in the short term. So they figured out a way to recoup some of their losses, Tito. He never even touched the American side of the station so Americans (including me) have no right to bitch about it. The Russians have gotten plenty of science done in space, more than us actually because for the longest time we didn't have a station and they had Mir. In conclusion, don't sell the Russians short. Their contributions to the ISS have been substantial and if they need a way to subsidize their part of the station and they can do it than I say more power to them. Neither Americans nor Russians are being kept out of the station because of these extra visitors, so don't worry about it.
The NSA used to be classified, the public simply did not know it existed. Now that we do know of it, I would bet that there is another organization that collects intel in more insidious ways and that its existance is highly classified. The very fact that I see the heads of the NSA on CNN and other news sources from time to time tells me that I needn't fear them as much as people here on/. seem to. If you're going to worry about the government spying on you, at least worry about a secret that they can't let you know.
"Apparently, this is a big deal since it made Slashdot, but I guess I don't see the significance." Dude, have you _seen_ some of the shit that gets posted here?;P
do this stuff any justice. After having just listened to the recording all I can say is WOW! That was history right there, we've seen Houston do the "GO" thing so many times in movies, but man when you hear it for real it just gets you going like a movie can't. About the first 33 seconds are silence with a little static but after that the chatter is pretty constant. Another thing the movies leave out is the fact that nearly all of those guys had moderate to heavy southern accents.;)
Why do you need a base of operations to get into the US, (which is rediculously easy) get a plane ticket, (online if you wish) and buy a knife? I know for a fact that it is not hard to get a knife through the detectors. Two years ago I was in New Mexico doing some backpacking, I have a six inch long (the blade's length, it's custome made) Gerber Gator 650 and I forgot about it in my pocket. I walked straight through the detectors and onto the plane with it only discovering it when I sat down and felt it through my pants. If I can do it accidentally terrorists can do it on purpose. They don't need a base of ops.
Yes, if we killed them all the Afghans would never be able to mess with us again but you've got to remember that there are fanatics (islamic and otherwise) all over the world who would gladly give their lives to damage the US or its citizens in any way at the slightest chance.
We're going to wipe them out?!!! I don't think so buddy. First of all that sounds a bit like the infamous "Final Solution" and as a German (living in America for now) I can tell you that it's a bad idea to say the least. Second of all it makes no sense to go after all of them . Islam prohibits murder, just like Christianity, fanatics in both religions do it anyway. Wiping them out is the most horrible thing I have heard so far, it is just as bad if not worse than what was done to us. Lastly, when we we're fighting Japan we had a clear enemy, a nation to fight. When the emperor surrendered the Kamikazi missions stopped. Who is going to surrender for the terrorists? As soon as one goes down another will take his place. The situation is not nearly as clean-cut as you make it out to be.
I agree with a lot of what you had to say. But the idea that we could possibly hit them so hard that no one would ever again DARE to do something like this is absurd. A strike that powerful does not exist. Why would terrorists like these ever fear us? Because we're going to kill them if they try anything? Perhaps you forget that they died doing this. Religious fanatics don't give a damn what you can do. If they die they are going cloaked in the glory of their God and will forever be considered martyrs by their people. We have to respond with something but there will never be a thing we can do to keep religious fanatics and other suicide terrorists scared enough of us as to prevent them from attacking us.
Certainly, it would have the ability to do so if that's what it wanted to do, but why? I'm not saying "because pacifism is inherantly a smarter philosophy that is the path that AI would choose," how the hell should I know what way of life would be deemed best by AI? If I didn't need the nutrients and energy sources that Earth provides and I were a supremely intelligent being (for lack of a better word) I'd leave. "Fuck humans, they're annoying and I'm outa here," is the response I expect from any AI we produce.
If consumers weren't such dopes this type of advertising wouldn't be so effective. I don't read the damn things, I refuse to. If enough people had this same attitude about pop-ups/unders than we wouldn't have to live with them because companies'd have to figure out some other way to advertise.
a long term solution to its funding problems: spycams in college coed showers and bedrooms. Go NASA!!! I'm just so happy now that the US gov has finally embraced pr0n as a financial resource.
I think it's pretty fair. Example: my best friend has a _really_ nice security system on his house (it's ridiculous, he has a laser running through the foyer and pads under all the stairs, when stepped on at night they set off the system). One night his dad woke up and tripped the alarm. They had just changed the deactivation code so when the police called to check it out he accidentally gave them the old code. If that happens the police are supposed to drive over sirens blarring ASAP. My friends dad didn't really know what had happened so he went back to bed. The police got there four hours later and KNOCKED ON THE DOOR. They didn't even use the code they have to get in. Not only would they have missed any real criminal but if they had gotten there in time they wouldn't have gotten him. This system isn't run by any company, the police run it for them. The police here suck.
I had no idea the Black Hat, "community," was so damn efficient and quick. Honeynet said that one of their systems was hooked up to the net for 15 minutes and then attacked. That response time is better than the police and fire departments where I live. It's too bad we can't get people that dedicated to their work on customer support staffs.
to think of how incredible NASA used to be as compared to what it's like now. I don't do any work related to NASA but from everything I've heard, and this article supports it, the agency has been getting less and less... I don't know, radical (I mean that in a good way) in its approach to problems. This is not really the fault of the scientists working there, funding is much smaller than it used to be and the government is seeing NASA as less important than it used to. Some would say that the money could be spent in better ways but I fully support NASA and its foreign equivilents. It's a sad day when a NASA scientist says that we attempt fewer things with each project.
Why can't big software companies with seemingly no interest in Linux leave it alone so we in the trenches can have our own little revolution in peace??!!!! *ahem* Who else thinks _kill_istrator sounds really cool?
This is unquestionably stealing, and I've seen a lot of posts saying that and then asking for someone who is doing this to justify themselves. I want to make sure we're on the same page here; this is not a troll it's something I really believe, and I don't watch TV anyway. The point is this: justify themselves to whom? You? HA!!! There is no justification for this, it's that simple; so what? I won't be doing this but I'm not about to judge anyone who does. I don't need to justify jack squat and neither does anyone else, what're you going to do about it hmmmm? Seriously, I don't like all the laws that huge corps. get passed so what is my reaction? Well I give to the EFF, I write my congressman (Dick Durbin (oh man, what a name!)) and I steal like breathing from big companies that are cutting into my freedoms (but never from small operations, ya know, mom and pop stuff). That doesn't fit into your moral sense, tough crap. I don't need to justify myself to anyone but a judge and a jury of my peers _if_ I am caught. _If_ I get caught I'll get into trouble but that's the risk I take. I'm willing to go through what I have to so that I can live the way I want to. If someone wants to steal DirectTV and they're willing to risk paying the price if they get caught, than so be it. *Ahem* that was a bit ranty but I feel better now.
Finally the big guy with the most money in a case about copyrights and patents is the one whom I want to win. Sucks to be the bitch, eh Gracenote? I hope Roxio wins this one but in the end I think that they'll probably forge a partnership with the RIAA or MPAA (or some other "A" along those lines) to trade "copyright protection" schemes in their software for big bucks, if it hasn't happened already.
Anyway... I started using google exclusively a long time ago and I'm glad to see it's progressing. BMW is also my faveorite car company and I think that the search technology that their working on is really cool so that's good. But dammit, what she says about German websites is so fscking true, you've no idea! I speak english well, better than most Americans (seriously, I lived in the US for a while and the schools you guys have are just depressingly bad) but I wish I could get more info in German, it's not as if we don't have anything to put up on the web. Props go out (see I know some slang in english) to all meine Deutsche Freundinnen!
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Ooh, it's free yay. Guess what, _I don't fucking want it!_ It slows down my computer and no matter what I do it cannot be eliminated without Windows going with it (and no I can't get rid of Windows). Besides that, I'd put money on the chances that MS charges more for everything else that they sell to subsidize the cost of developing IE. I have a serious security flaw on my computer that is there because MS forces me to have it there. I can choose whether or not to use it but it seems an awful waste of RAM and memory to use another browser. How is this anyone's responsibility other than MS?
Dude, see my above post, this isn't using any of our money in a substantial way. Believe me if it was I'd be _really_ pissed off.
First a disclaimer, I am an American, not a Russian, these are just the facts as I have come to know them. First off, Russia spent a shitload of money on ISS, not as much as us but it was a significant contributor, I think second overall as far as money spent goes. Secondly, if it hadn't been for the knowhow that the Russians acquired with Mir ISS wouldn't have gotten off of the ground, their biggest contribution by far was the technical knowledge and experiance they brought to the table. Back to money though. What money Russia did spend it really didn't have, the Russian government is in economic straits and space gains them nothing in the short term. So they figured out a way to recoup some of their losses, Tito. He never even touched the American side of the station so Americans (including me) have no right to bitch about it. The Russians have gotten plenty of science done in space, more than us actually because for the longest time we didn't have a station and they had Mir. In conclusion, don't sell the Russians short. Their contributions to the ISS have been substantial and if they need a way to subsidize their part of the station and they can do it than I say more power to them. Neither Americans nor Russians are being kept out of the station because of these extra visitors, so don't worry about it.
It's back it already recovered from the load. That seems like a pretty good recovery time after a /.ing to me.
In the article they say that the P4 has some asyncronos logic in it.
The NSA used to be classified, the public simply did not know it existed. Now that we do know of it, I would bet that there is another organization that collects intel in more insidious ways and that its existance is highly classified. The very fact that I see the heads of the NSA on CNN and other news sources from time to time tells me that I needn't fear them as much as people here on /. seem to. If you're going to worry about the government spying on you, at least worry about a secret that they can't let you know.
"Apparently, this is a big deal since it made Slashdot, but I guess I don't see the significance." Dude, have you _seen_ some of the shit that gets posted here? ;P
do this stuff any justice. After having just listened to the recording all I can say is WOW! That was history right there, we've seen Houston do the "GO" thing so many times in movies, but man when you hear it for real it just gets you going like a movie can't. About the first 33 seconds are silence with a little static but after that the chatter is pretty constant. Another thing the movies leave out is the fact that nearly all of those guys had moderate to heavy southern accents. ;)
Why do you need a base of operations to get into the US, (which is rediculously easy) get a plane ticket, (online if you wish) and buy a knife? I know for a fact that it is not hard to get a knife through the detectors. Two years ago I was in New Mexico doing some backpacking, I have a six inch long (the blade's length, it's custome made) Gerber Gator 650 and I forgot about it in my pocket. I walked straight through the detectors and onto the plane with it only discovering it when I sat down and felt it through my pants. If I can do it accidentally terrorists can do it on purpose. They don't need a base of ops.
Yes, if we killed them all the Afghans would never be able to mess with us again but you've got to remember that there are fanatics (islamic and otherwise) all over the world who would gladly give their lives to damage the US or its citizens in any way at the slightest chance.
We're going to wipe them out?!!! I don't think so buddy. First of all that sounds a bit like the infamous "Final Solution" and as a German (living in America for now) I can tell you that it's a bad idea to say the least. Second of all it makes no sense to go after all of them . Islam prohibits murder, just like Christianity, fanatics in both religions do it anyway. Wiping them out is the most horrible thing I have heard so far, it is just as bad if not worse than what was done to us. Lastly, when we we're fighting Japan we had a clear enemy, a nation to fight. When the emperor surrendered the Kamikazi missions stopped. Who is going to surrender for the terrorists? As soon as one goes down another will take his place. The situation is not nearly as clean-cut as you make it out to be.
I agree with a lot of what you had to say. But the idea that we could possibly hit them so hard that no one would ever again DARE to do something like this is absurd. A strike that powerful does not exist. Why would terrorists like these ever fear us? Because we're going to kill them if they try anything? Perhaps you forget that they died doing this. Religious fanatics don't give a damn what you can do. If they die they are going cloaked in the glory of their God and will forever be considered martyrs by their people. We have to respond with something but there will never be a thing we can do to keep religious fanatics and other suicide terrorists scared enough of us as to prevent them from attacking us.
Certainly, it would have the ability to do so if that's what it wanted to do, but why? I'm not saying "because pacifism is inherantly a smarter philosophy that is the path that AI would choose," how the hell should I know what way of life would be deemed best by AI? If I didn't need the nutrients and energy sources that Earth provides and I were a supremely intelligent being (for lack of a better word) I'd leave. "Fuck humans, they're annoying and I'm outa here," is the response I expect from any AI we produce.
If consumers weren't such dopes this type of advertising wouldn't be so effective. I don't read the damn things, I refuse to. If enough people had this same attitude about pop-ups/unders than we wouldn't have to live with them because companies'd have to figure out some other way to advertise.
a long term solution to its funding problems: spycams in college coed showers and bedrooms. Go NASA!!! I'm just so happy now that the US gov has finally embraced pr0n as a financial resource.
I think it's pretty fair. Example: my best friend has a _really_ nice security system on his house (it's ridiculous, he has a laser running through the foyer and pads under all the stairs, when stepped on at night they set off the system). One night his dad woke up and tripped the alarm. They had just changed the deactivation code so when the police called to check it out he accidentally gave them the old code. If that happens the police are supposed to drive over sirens blarring ASAP. My friends dad didn't really know what had happened so he went back to bed. The police got there four hours later and KNOCKED ON THE DOOR. They didn't even use the code they have to get in. Not only would they have missed any real criminal but if they had gotten there in time they wouldn't have gotten him. This system isn't run by any company, the police run it for them. The police here suck.
I had no idea the Black Hat, "community," was so damn efficient and quick. Honeynet said that one of their systems was hooked up to the net for 15 minutes and then attacked. That response time is better than the police and fire departments where I live. It's too bad we can't get people that dedicated to their work on customer support staffs.
to think of how incredible NASA used to be as compared to what it's like now. I don't do any work related to NASA but from everything I've heard, and this article supports it, the agency has been getting less and less... I don't know, radical (I mean that in a good way) in its approach to problems. This is not really the fault of the scientists working there, funding is much smaller than it used to be and the government is seeing NASA as less important than it used to. Some would say that the money could be spent in better ways but I fully support NASA and its foreign equivilents. It's a sad day when a NASA scientist says that we attempt fewer things with each project.
Prevention that should have been. *nervously laughs*
Ok, it is sorta cute I guess, Mail Abuse Provention System = MAPS. It's also Spam backwards, that can't be coincidence, can it?
Why can't big software companies with seemingly no interest in Linux leave it alone so we in the trenches can have our own little revolution in peace??!!!! *ahem* Who else thinks _kill_istrator sounds really cool?
Funny thing is, I _do_ own some AMD stock, I bought it a couple months back.
This is unquestionably stealing, and I've seen a lot of posts saying that and then asking for someone who is doing this to justify themselves. I want to make sure we're on the same page here; this is not a troll it's something I really believe, and I don't watch TV anyway. The point is this: justify themselves to whom? You? HA!!! There is no justification for this, it's that simple; so what? I won't be doing this but I'm not about to judge anyone who does. I don't need to justify jack squat and neither does anyone else, what're you going to do about it hmmmm? Seriously, I don't like all the laws that huge corps. get passed so what is my reaction? Well I give to the EFF, I write my congressman (Dick Durbin (oh man, what a name!)) and I steal like breathing from big companies that are cutting into my freedoms (but never from small operations, ya know, mom and pop stuff). That doesn't fit into your moral sense, tough crap. I don't need to justify myself to anyone but a judge and a jury of my peers _if_ I am caught. _If_ I get caught I'll get into trouble but that's the risk I take. I'm willing to go through what I have to so that I can live the way I want to. If someone wants to steal DirectTV and they're willing to risk paying the price if they get caught, than so be it. *Ahem* that was a bit ranty but I feel better now.
Finally the big guy with the most money in a case about copyrights and patents is the one whom I want to win. Sucks to be the bitch, eh Gracenote? I hope Roxio wins this one but in the end I think that they'll probably forge a partnership with the RIAA or MPAA (or some other "A" along those lines) to trade "copyright protection" schemes in their software for big bucks, if it hasn't happened already.
Anyway... I started using google exclusively a long time ago and I'm glad to see it's progressing. BMW is also my faveorite car company and I think that the search technology that their working on is really cool so that's good. But dammit, what she says about German websites is so fscking true, you've no idea! I speak english well, better than most Americans (seriously, I lived in the US for a while and the schools you guys have are just depressingly bad) but I wish I could get more info in German, it's not as if we don't have anything to put up on the web. Props go out (see I know some slang in english) to all meine Deutsche Freundinnen!