The data on Hitler I heard on Discovery channel, I think - they had a documentary on Holocaust. Regarding Stalin, I've read many sources. Some of them go quite extreme, citing 60 million deaths, but most wander in the range of few million.
Anyway, the world would be better of if both of them died in infancy. Don't treat my statement that Hitler is worse as an attempt to excuse Stalin.
Stalin was killing people based on his political agenda, not on some weird racial fetish.
Jews in USSR weren't treated particularily worse by government than any other ethnic group. There was some 'grassroots' hatred (as pretty much all over Europe of that time) going back to Tzarist Russia, but not a formulated, official policy.
Hitler killed about 13 million of jews alone. And Stalin's estimate of 50 million is detached from reality, wih the Soviet population at the time around 190 million. With the figure of ~10 million I could agree, yes.
besides, i would've chose german occupation of my country over russian any day of the week
Whoops, you forgot the biggest murderer of all, Stalin. And in my opinion he was also the most evil, because he reigned not by persuasion but by terror and deception.
Sorry, but Stalin, being a bloody murderer indeed, didn't make lanterns, soap and mattresses out of human material. I think it is correct to assume that Hitler was the cruelest person of 20th century both in bodycount and in methods used.
In my experience, VoIP quality varies even with UDP, so I'd expect that TCP/IP, with its slow start and retransmission of dropped packets would give some bumpy ride.
This all is a minor nitpick though - I totally agree with your point that secure VoIP is possible and accessible to those who have need for it.
whoops, forgot the -u switch to netcat, I suppose.
Yeah.. and call me when you done wrapping UDP traffic into an SSH tunnel:)
(Speaking seriously, it can be done by e.g. wrapping UDP in Vtun with built-in encryption turned off, and then tunneling it via SSH. But that's a bit more hoops though).
Notice though that by employing such a high-latency protocol as TCP/IP, companies such as Vonage are making money on their successful VoIP implementation.
As far as I understand Vonage uses H323 family of protocols, which are UDP-based for most part.
It sounds like you may mostly be trying to evade capture by Americans.
Huh? Capture? I just wrote the damn software, back in 1998, when no one ever heard about Forgent. It's not like I planted a bomb in WTC, you know..
If, on the other hand, you are looking for some kind of moral or ethical guidance, ask yourself what the American legal system has done for your own people over time.
Well, everything is linked in this world, but implying that I should be somehow grateful to American legal system sounds a bit far-stretched. Personally, I think McDonalds has done far more for my people over time.
I wrote and maintain an opensource JPEG implementation, so am pondering about potential consequences. Am no big corporation of course, so not likely to be targeted by the extorters, but still.. What would you recommend, given that:
1. I am not a U.S. citizen; 2. The project is hosted on a service under U.S. jurisdiction (SourceForge).
Would it suffice to migrate the project to a non-US service?
I think by doing that Google is simply recognizes the status quo. Everywhere I worked, folks (who had a passion to their trade and usually were the most valuable employees) were spending some fraction of their worktime on their pet projects anyway.
Well, my point is that e.g. getting to the orbit *at all* was quite an achievement of its own, not inferior in any way to the moon trips decade later. And the engineering skill required to perform that with the economy and production capabilities of a war-devastated country was notable. Just look what it takes from X-Prize competitors to get suborbital, half century later when the tech and materials science much more advanced (sure their mission is complicated by reusability requirement, but OTOH they don't go for the orbit).
And yes, formally it was the USSR who triggered that dick-measuring contest, but it was more of a side-effect. Initially the government din't want to spend on space at all and never envisioned the PR points that Sputnik brought them later. The first satellite was Korolev's pet project (in fact, it was the dream of his life) which he done solely on his own risk. Good illustration btw on how a nerd can influence politics on the global scale, even if not intentionally.
When I think of what could have been accomplished had both countries been cooperating back then instead of competing, it almost makes me weep.
At least the cooperation is going on now, although many question the value of ISS. But I hope when deep-space manned missions will be in favor again, the experience gathered will prove its usefulness. After all, the countries come and go, but the knowledge accumulated benifits all humanity.
We could talk a long time about World War II, but I think it can be summed up by saying that Russia would have fallen without a second front
Well, it can't. USSR went through the hardships of 1941/1942, when the Western front could really come handy, but by the late 1943, the wermacht and the fascist regime were largely doomed, and many suspect that the U.S. joined mostly to salvage at least a part of Europe from the Soviet occupation.
Eastern front exceeded the western one in duration, geographic span and combat intensity. If you prefer headcount, the western front and the african campaign combined accounted for less than 10% of German combat casualities. Transfer to the Eastern front was used as a punishment for German soldiers on the Western front.
We are infinitely gratious for the American lend-lease and their effort on the Western front (which indeed likely saved hundreds of thousands of Soviet lives), but pay credit where it's due. Would you find it outrageous if I claimed that it was the USSR who defeated Japan, just because it happened to knock out the Kwantung Army? Then you understand what I feel when reading your post.
Remember, there was a reason why Charles de Gaulle said "The Second front will always remain in history as the second".
First men around the moon, first men *on* the moon: America (Apollos 8 and 11) - if anyone thinks that wasn't a win, you don't know what you are talking about - the Soviets simply couldn't match our determination and engineering)
Of course we could, a year or two later. But coming there second was pointless in a purely political contest.
And as much as I admire american achievements in space, I don't think your supercilious tone is proper. It's not like Gagarin got up there by pushing a cart.
The Soviets were first with everything that they could achieve with their outstanding R-7 booster (which was used to launch Sputnik, and evolved into the Soyuz booster still in use today). However, they had problems scaling past that in either size or complexity, and the Americans were first to do most things outside of low earth orbit
The real problem was that Korolev, the Soviet chief designer has died in 1966, and his exceptional skills and willpower that drove the early Soviet space program were gone.
To me it seems that his boss was screwing his wife, and the poor sod just wanted revenge.
(But no, I don't support his actions. Being from a once totalitarian country where millions were jailed from anonymous reports, I don't have much sympathy to whistleblowers).
As the new superior North Korean site was opened, hundreds of thousands of oppressed proletariat people of capitalistic world rushed for the only truthful information source available to them. Witness what those who immersed into refreshing spring of Juche ideas write:
"They took my job to South Korea. Screw them!"
--Peter Geek, 31
"They don't even show Boy General here!"
--Johny Underage, 13
"Beautiful haircuts of North Korean women! I feel young again!"
-- Al. D. Fart, 73 (ed. note: we believe this is a typo - people don't live that long)
Let's take a 2 megapixel image for instance. 1600x1200 = 1,920,000 pixels. An 8 inch x 10 inch print of that photo would print at a resolution of 1600/10=160 ppi (dpi) across, and 1200/8=150 ppi (dpi) down. That is low quality, approximately half of what you see in a typical magazine, and is definitely noticable.
It isn't noticeable unless you put the 8x10 as close to your eyes as a typical magazine, wich doesn't happens often. If you just put the photo on a desk, you won't see any difference over 300dpi.
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...they'll have to shoot you dead before letting to the plane, just in case.
The data on Hitler I heard on Discovery channel, I think - they had a documentary on Holocaust. Regarding Stalin, I've read many sources. Some of them go quite extreme, citing 60 million deaths, but most wander in the range of few million.
Anyway, the world would be better of if both of them died in infancy. Don't treat my statement that Hitler is worse as an attempt to excuse Stalin.
Stalin was killing people based on his political agenda, not on some weird racial fetish.
Jews in USSR weren't treated particularily worse by government than any other ethnic group. There was some 'grassroots' hatred (as pretty much all over Europe of that time) going back to Tzarist Russia, but not a formulated, official policy.
Hitler killed about 13 million of jews alone. And Stalin's estimate of 50 million is detached from reality, wih the Soviet population at the time around 190 million. With the figure of ~10 million I could agree, yes.
besides, i would've chose german occupation of my country over russian any day of the week
If you were a jew, you woduldn't.
Would anyone please think of the fish?!?!
Whoops, you forgot the biggest murderer of all, Stalin. And in my opinion he was also the most evil, because he reigned not by persuasion but by terror and deception.
Sorry, but Stalin, being a bloody murderer indeed, didn't make lanterns, soap and mattresses out of human material. I think it is correct to assume that Hitler was the cruelest person of 20th century both in bodycount and in methods used.
In my experience, VoIP quality varies even with UDP, so I'd expect that TCP/IP, with its slow start and retransmission of dropped packets would give some bumpy ride.
This all is a minor nitpick though - I totally agree with your point that secure VoIP is possible and accessible to those who have need for it.
whoops, forgot the -u switch to netcat, I suppose.
:)
Yeah.. and call me when you done wrapping UDP traffic into an SSH tunnel
(Speaking seriously, it can be done by e.g. wrapping UDP in Vtun with built-in encryption turned off, and then tunneling it via SSH. But that's a bit more hoops though).
Notice though that by employing such a high-latency protocol as TCP/IP, companies such as Vonage are making money on their successful VoIP implementation.
As far as I understand Vonage uses H323 family of protocols, which are UDP-based for most part.
Notice though that by employing such a high-latency protocol as TCP/IP you render your VoIP implementation unusable from the start.
So would you voluntarily program on a Turing Machine, with standard libraries, JIT and running in a VM?
It sounds like you may mostly be trying to evade capture by Americans.
Huh? Capture? I just wrote the damn software, back in 1998, when no one ever heard about Forgent. It's not like I planted a bomb in WTC, you know..
If, on the other hand, you are looking for some kind of moral or ethical guidance, ask yourself what the American legal system has done for your own people over time.
Well, everything is linked in this world, but implying that I should be somehow grateful to American legal system sounds a bit far-stretched. Personally, I think McDonalds has done far more for my people over time.
I wrote and maintain an opensource JPEG implementation, so am pondering about potential consequences. Am no big corporation of course, so not likely to be targeted by the extorters, but still.. What would you recommend, given that:
1. I am not a U.S. citizen;
2. The project is hosted on a service under U.S. jurisdiction (SourceForge).
Would it suffice to migrate the project to a non-US service?
I think by doing that Google is simply recognizes the status quo. Everywhere I worked, folks (who had a passion to their trade and usually were the most valuable employees) were spending some fraction of their worktime on their pet projects anyway.
Well, my point is that e.g. getting to the orbit *at all* was quite an achievement of its own, not inferior in any way to the moon trips decade later. And the engineering skill required to perform that with the economy and production capabilities of a war-devastated country was notable. Just look what it takes from X-Prize competitors to get suborbital, half century later when the tech and materials science much more advanced (sure their mission is complicated by reusability requirement, but OTOH they don't go for the orbit).
And yes, formally it was the USSR who triggered that dick-measuring contest, but it was more of a side-effect. Initially the government din't want to spend on space at all and never envisioned the PR points that Sputnik brought them later. The first satellite was Korolev's pet project (in fact, it was the dream of his life) which he done solely on his own risk. Good illustration btw on how a nerd can influence politics on the global scale, even if not intentionally.
When I think of what could have been accomplished had both countries been cooperating back then instead of competing, it almost makes me weep.
At least the cooperation is going on now, although many question the value of ISS. But I hope when deep-space manned missions will be in favor again, the experience gathered will prove its usefulness. After all, the countries come and go, but the knowledge accumulated benifits all humanity.
Cheers,
varjag.
Just FYI, lend-lease amounted for 4% of Soviet wartime production.
We could talk a long time about World War II, but I think it can be summed up by saying that Russia would have fallen without a second front
Well, it can't. USSR went through the hardships of 1941/1942, when the Western front could really come handy, but by the late 1943, the wermacht and the fascist regime were largely doomed, and many suspect that the U.S. joined mostly to salvage at least a part of Europe from the Soviet occupation.
Eastern front exceeded the western one in duration, geographic span and combat intensity. If you prefer headcount, the western front and the african campaign combined accounted for less than 10% of German combat casualities. Transfer to the Eastern front was used as a punishment for German soldiers on the Western front.
We are infinitely gratious for the American lend-lease and their effort on the Western front (which indeed likely saved hundreds of thousands of Soviet lives), but pay credit where it's due. Would you find it outrageous if I claimed that it was the USSR who defeated Japan, just because it happened to knock out the Kwantung Army? Then you understand what I feel when reading your post.
Remember, there was a reason why Charles de Gaulle said "The Second front will always remain in history as the second".
First men around the moon, first men *on* the moon: America (Apollos 8 and 11) - if anyone thinks that wasn't a win, you don't know what you are talking about - the Soviets simply couldn't match our determination and engineering)
Of course we could, a year or two later. But coming there second was pointless in a purely political contest.
And as much as I admire american achievements in space, I don't think your supercilious tone is proper. It's not like Gagarin got up there by pushing a cart.
The Soviets were first with everything that they could achieve with their outstanding R-7 booster (which was used to launch Sputnik, and evolved into the Soyuz booster still in use today). However, they had problems scaling past that in either size or complexity, and the Americans were first to do most things outside of low earth orbit
The real problem was that Korolev, the Soviet chief designer has died in 1966, and his exceptional skills and willpower that drove the early Soviet space program were gone.
Seems to me he was more of a control freak.
To me it seems that his boss was screwing his wife, and the poor sod just wanted revenge.
(But no, I don't support his actions. Being from a once totalitarian country where millions were jailed from anonymous reports, I don't have much sympathy to whistleblowers).
Stallman is quite a capable hacker, very likely more productive than you and me combined.
As the new superior North Korean site was opened, hundreds of thousands of oppressed proletariat people of capitalistic world rushed for the only truthful information source available to them. Witness what those who immersed into refreshing spring of Juche ideas write:
"They took my job to South Korea. Screw them!"
--Peter Geek, 31
"They don't even show Boy General here!"
--Johny Underage, 13
"Beautiful haircuts of North Korean women! I feel young again!"
-- Al. D. Fart, 73 (ed. note: we believe this is a typo - people don't live that long)
Now, if they only equipped politicians with detonation collars..
Let's take a 2 megapixel image for instance. 1600x1200 = 1,920,000 pixels. An 8 inch x 10 inch print of that photo would print at a resolution of 1600/10=160 ppi (dpi) across, and 1200/8=150 ppi (dpi) down. That is low quality, approximately half of what you see in a typical magazine, and is definitely noticable.
It isn't noticeable unless you put the 8x10 as close to your eyes as a typical magazine, wich doesn't happens often. If you just put the photo on a desk, you won't see any difference over 300dpi.
(And yes, I have printed 2mpix images at 8x10).
If they'll start making toilet cabin doors translucent, it will be really easy to tell when it is occupied!