By the way, the deflection of light approaching near a gravity source, and being bent, is bent a lot more than if it were "falling" towards the gravity.
The deflection of a star's light, ala Einstein, as it passes very near the sun, is a lot more than if the photons "fell" towards the star while near it. Thus that "interpretation" is not an accurate one.
*If* Hawking radiation is true (*and* black holes exist, of course!) then you will need a black hole of about 1 cm before it eats up the Earth faster than it evaporates, at least according to numbers quoted in Moving Mars? I think? Sci-fi authors love the math.
The question about this is: does the evaporation actually happen? If not, or if it's much less than calculated, then a tiny black hole may not evaporate at all, and would thus eventually consume the Earth.
> It seems a bit surprising to me that this study shows that only 15% of > vulnerabilities are in IE.
This is because your theory is basically, "Microsoft evil and sloppy and lazy."
My theory, which I have literally been downmodded for, is that IE was targetted because it was far and away the most popular. Hence hackers, primarily people wanting to compromize your computer for spam or bot purposes, had the most to gain.
Now Firefox, if I recall, has just passed IE on the browser share market. Hence it's catching more and more attention.
So, as Dilbert might say, are you going to admit that you are wrong and bow to my intellectual superiority, or are you going to actively rewrite history in your mind and claim you thought this up all by yourself?
> Total butt-kisser thinks he is helping the situation by claiming Windows is like > MacOSX so that there will be no reason to switch. Actual look-and-feel sucks > shit, so his comment is misleading. MS fanboys try to claim Win7 is actually > better in 3.. 2.. 1..
No, geeked MS employee speaks truth on the minds of the actual programmers, then lawyers jump in and say, no way in hell is this an attempt to copy Apple's copyrighted look and feel, not no way, not no how.
MS keeps Apple alive to keep (noticeable) competition to avoid government monopoly charges (remember that MS pumped several hundred million into Apple a decade ago, pre iPod, when it almost went under?) Their contract with Apple that allows them access to "significant aspects" of Apple's look and feel (which Apple signed lest Microsoft yank Apple versions of Office products, way back when) is gold for Microsoft in defending their We're-no-monopoly! claims.
So this employee's truthful, if loud, mouth, screws with that entire multi-hundred-billion dollar crystal house.
I recall the official Colecovision newsletter when I was a teen. One "issue" (there weren't very many) talked about the Donkey Kong sequel, or maybe DK itself, don't remember. Anyway, there was a sticker covering up a block of words. Under the sticker, which I peeled, was "It tells the King Kong story...", where King Kong is still copyrighted.
So lawyers are skilled at saying things with a straight face for reasons that have nothing to do with anything other than money.
A more accurate observation for hypernerds would be, "How do you even know what pussy smells like? Maybe it smells like fish because the guy who programmed it had no idea and that's the default smell or something and bit shift of two and radix and..."
> 'The bird dropped some bread on a section of outdoor machinery...'
Foreman: Uh, Joe, you work in that area. Do you know how this bagel piece got in there? It's gonna cost us a lotta money.
Joe: No, not me man. It must have been a bird and not me throwing away a piece I didn't wanna eat, uhh, not that I ate a bagel anywhere near that area, or outside here at all, I mean, or even inside.
> When the system failed, it caused all signals to default to stand-alone operation,
Here I thought it was gonna be some stupid design flaw only exposed when the system broke down, but defaulting to stand-alone behavior when the controlling master system breaks down is the proper thing to do at that point.
It's interesting how said efficiency allows for fewer roads and lanes than otherwise would be needed to handle that much flow.
> Why would they (service personnel) want hacked modems?
It's legitimate for a company to buy (what they think are) illegally-produced and sold goods for the purpose of helping to prove that the goods are, indeed, what they think they are, and that they are for sale.
Companies doing "brand name protection", looking for knockoffs, do this all the time.
Don't know if this is the case here, but that's one possibility.
> a redesign of the popular BitTorrent client uTorrent allows clients to detect network > congestion and automatically adjust the transfer rates, eliminating the interference > with other Internet-enabled applications' traffic.
Can this guy fix the Seti@home cuda application to allow it to work nicely with 3D games, while he's at it?
The two options you get are "aways use it" and "use it after 3 minutes of the card being idle". The first is pointless if you play a 3D game, and the second doesn't recognize starting a 3D game and bailing out to let the game own the card.
So I have to keep it off all the time, which defeats the purpose.
What they need is something that recognized a game is using the 3D card, and to the exit out of using the cuda. That's not one of the options, though.
If we're still worried about oil in 10,000 years, we're a big Fail on technological development.
> Toyota has created two flower species that absorb nitrogen oxides and take heat > out of the atmosphere.
Ok, enough fun and games and disasterbation. We do not necessarily want to do this, because if we overdo it, we will induce another ice age. That will actually kill billions, especially if it comes on in a few years, as is current theory when such things begin.
Opposed to this is global warming, which involves people moving away from the sea over the course of many decades or several centuries, and that's pretty much it.
While bad, it's no way near as bad as a new ice age. So please think twice before trying to cure your pimples by injecting bloodstream with chlorine.
Why should wind turbines be different from anything else? The US can engineer it just fine, but then why not ship manufacturing overseas where it'll be cheaper, much like cars, TVs, clothes, and just about everything else?
Governments pretend to glom onto new technologies, saying we'll be the ones to build it. No we won't. We may develop it, but they can build it cheaper in many other places. Therefore politicians who pretend otherwise are just blowing hot air.
Why wouldn't money flee to where it has a greater rate of return (and no politicians bleating about how evil and greedy you are and how much you need to be taxed?)
Since it isn't "you" killing the civilians, just an FPS perspective of one of the terrorists, I'm betting they'll re-cam the scene so you don't have the FPS perspective.
Scammers and thieves aside, do you think the CIA, FBI, and whoever, don't have servers deliberately placed on the input and output routes to Tor and similar and then match them up? Even if you-to-Tor is 100% encrypted and unbreakable, they can still build up a statistical chronal and rough size relationship between you and the Tor-to-destination side.
> "...may lead to findings that Microsoft owes the state more than $1 billion in taxes, > interest, and penalties."
...or Microsoft can actually just move it's operations down to Nevada or somewhere else. "What say you, Washington? How bad do you want these so-called taxes we owe?"
Some developers are idiots, too, let's be frank, regardless of Microsoft.
I recall installing the drivers for a new ATI 3D card several years ago on my computer. The ATI install software (a custom tool, I presume) choked. Several attempts failed.
Eventually I figured out it was because I did not have.NET installed. Ummmmm, ok. First, it's BS that you should need it for either driver or driver installer. That's a throwback to the MFC distributable, only worse. But worse was the ATI installer did not bother to detect if a major thing like.NET was not installed, then warn you about it and/or give you the option, or at least an online pointer, to install it.
I haven't faced such a POS in installation software since...since...I haven't felt a force like that since...since installing X-Wing vs. TIE fighter and trying to do the online group version. 4 hours of installations and reboots and hair pulling and pleading later, I figured out, on my own, that Lucas Arts online service was using all kinds of funky BS that only worked with Internet Explorer, and not Netscape, even though Netscape was the lion's share still at the time.
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By the way, the deflection of light approaching near a gravity source, and being bent, is bent a lot more than if it were "falling" towards the gravity.
The deflection of a star's light, ala Einstein, as it passes very near the sun, is a lot more than if the photons "fell" towards the star while near it. Thus that "interpretation" is not an accurate one.
*If* Hawking radiation is true (*and* black holes exist, of course!) then you will need a black hole of about 1 cm before it eats up the Earth faster than it evaporates, at least according to numbers quoted in Moving Mars? I think? Sci-fi authors love the math.
The question about this is: does the evaporation actually happen? If not, or if it's much less than calculated, then a tiny black hole may not evaporate at all, and would thus eventually consume the Earth.
> It seems a bit surprising to me that this study shows that only 15% of
> vulnerabilities are in IE.
This is because your theory is basically, "Microsoft evil and sloppy and lazy."
My theory, which I have literally been downmodded for, is that IE was targetted because it was far and away the most popular. Hence hackers, primarily people wanting to compromize your computer for spam or bot purposes, had the most to gain.
Now Firefox, if I recall, has just passed IE on the browser share market. Hence it's catching more and more attention.
So, as Dilbert might say, are you going to admit that you are wrong and bow to my intellectual superiority, or are you going to actively rewrite history in your mind and claim you thought this up all by yourself?
To answer the inevitable question: 3Com, huh?
3Com made tape, so they got into backup tapes, then hardware and floppies and crap, and never looked back.
I still will not freaking touch WeatherBug, even though apparently it's gone legit.
> Total butt-kisser thinks he is helping the situation by claiming Windows is like
> MacOSX so that there will be no reason to switch. Actual look-and-feel sucks
> shit, so his comment is misleading. MS fanboys try to claim Win7 is actually
> better in 3.. 2.. 1..
No, geeked MS employee speaks truth on the minds of the actual programmers, then lawyers jump in and say, no way in hell is this an attempt to copy Apple's copyrighted look and feel, not no way, not no how.
MS keeps Apple alive to keep (noticeable) competition to avoid government monopoly charges (remember that MS pumped several hundred million into Apple a decade ago, pre iPod, when it almost went under?) Their contract with Apple that allows them access to "significant aspects" of Apple's look and feel (which Apple signed lest Microsoft yank Apple versions of Office products, way back when) is gold for Microsoft in defending their We're-no-monopoly! claims.
So this employee's truthful, if loud, mouth, screws with that entire multi-hundred-billion dollar crystal house.
I recall the official Colecovision newsletter when I was a teen. One "issue" (there weren't very many) talked about the Donkey Kong sequel, or maybe DK itself, don't remember. Anyway, there was a sticker covering up a block of words. Under the sticker, which I peeled, was "It tells the King Kong story...", where King Kong is still copyrighted.
So lawyers are skilled at saying things with a straight face for reasons that have nothing to do with anything other than money.
A more accurate observation for hypernerds would be, "How do you even know what pussy smells like? Maybe it smells like fish because the guy who programmed it had no idea and that's the default smell or something and bit shift of two and radix and..."
It's stupid that a company can remotely think to claim a common word as their domain and nobody else can do this!
Oh, wait. It's the little guy doing this, and the giant corporation is the one with problems over it. Nevermind.
> 'The bird dropped some bread on a section of outdoor machinery...'
Foreman: Uh, Joe, you work in that area. Do you know how this bagel piece got in there? It's gonna cost us a lotta money.
Joe: No, not me man. It must have been a bird and not me throwing away a piece I didn't wanna eat, uhh, not that I ate a bagel anywhere near that area, or outside here at all, I mean, or even inside.
> When the system failed, it caused all signals to default to stand-alone operation,
Here I thought it was gonna be some stupid design flaw only exposed when the system broke down, but defaulting to stand-alone behavior when the controlling master system breaks down is the proper thing to do at that point.
It's interesting how said efficiency allows for fewer roads and lanes than otherwise would be needed to handle that much flow.
> I suspect the ones that are illegal have the potential to work.
You must not know government very well.
> Why would they (service personnel) want hacked modems?
It's legitimate for a company to buy (what they think are) illegally-produced and sold goods for the purpose of helping to prove that the goods are, indeed, what they think they are, and that they are for sale.
Companies doing "brand name protection", looking for knockoffs, do this all the time.
Don't know if this is the case here, but that's one possibility.
> a redesign of the popular BitTorrent client uTorrent allows clients to detect network
> congestion and automatically adjust the transfer rates, eliminating the interference
> with other Internet-enabled applications' traffic.
Can this guy fix the Seti@home cuda application to allow it to work nicely with 3D games, while he's at it?
The two options you get are "aways use it" and "use it after 3 minutes of the card being idle". The first is pointless if you play a 3D game, and the second doesn't recognize starting a 3D game and bailing out to let the game own the card.
So I have to keep it off all the time, which defeats the purpose.
What they need is something that recognized a game is using the 3D card, and to the exit out of using the cuda. That's not one of the options, though.
If we're still worried about oil in 10,000 years, we're a big Fail on technological development.
> Toyota has created two flower species that absorb nitrogen oxides and take heat
> out of the atmosphere.
Ok, enough fun and games and disasterbation. We do not necessarily want to do this, because if we overdo it, we will induce another ice age. That will actually kill billions, especially if it comes on in a few years, as is current theory when such things begin.
Opposed to this is global warming, which involves people moving away from the sea over the course of many decades or several centuries, and that's pretty much it.
While bad, it's no way near as bad as a new ice age. So please think twice before trying to cure your pimples by injecting bloodstream with chlorine.
Why should wind turbines be different from anything else? The US can engineer it just fine, but then why not ship manufacturing overseas where it'll be cheaper, much like cars, TVs, clothes, and just about everything else?
Governments pretend to glom onto new technologies, saying we'll be the ones to build it. No we won't. We may develop it, but they can build it cheaper in many other places. Therefore politicians who pretend otherwise are just blowing hot air.
Why wouldn't money flee to where it has a greater rate of return (and no politicians bleating about how evil and greedy you are and how much you need to be taxed?)
Since it isn't "you" killing the civilians, just an FPS perspective of one of the terrorists, I'm betting they'll re-cam the scene so you don't have the FPS perspective.
Hehe, now that's retro bush!
It's a good thing the West is putting in kills switches in the crap we sell to these dictatorships.
Oh, the horror!
> "The French branch of the Church of Scientology was convicted
> of fraud and fined nearly $900,000 on Tuesday by a Paris court.
Wow, that's about three full courses all the way through OT 9, as of 2006, about $380,000 for a full course.
This is true.
Scammers and thieves aside, do you think the CIA, FBI, and whoever, don't have servers deliberately placed on the input and output routes to Tor and similar and then match them up? Even if you-to-Tor is 100% encrypted and unbreakable, they can still build up a statistical chronal and rough size relationship between you and the Tor-to-destination side.
Politicians can.
"What good is this internets thing?"
"Sir, in 20 years, you'll be taxing it."
So isn't it the doctors' fault for prescribing the expensive, new drug instead of the perfectly fine, old, generic drug?
There may be a flaw in this situation, but it sure isn't the drug companies trying to earn money.
Exactly.
> "...may lead to findings that Microsoft owes the state more than $1 billion in taxes,
> interest, and penalties."
Some developers are idiots, too, let's be frank, regardless of Microsoft.
I recall installing the drivers for a new ATI 3D card several years ago on my computer. The ATI install software (a custom tool, I presume) choked. Several attempts failed.
Eventually I figured out it was because I did not have .NET installed. Ummmmm, ok. First, it's BS that you should need it for either driver or driver installer. That's a throwback to the MFC distributable, only worse. But worse was the ATI installer did not bother to detect if a major thing like .NET was not installed, then warn you about it and/or give you the option, or at least an online pointer, to install it.
I haven't faced such a POS in installation software since...since...I haven't felt a force like that since...since installing X-Wing vs. TIE fighter and trying to do the online group version. 4 hours of installations and reboots and hair pulling and pleading later, I figured out, on my own, that Lucas Arts online service was using all kinds of funky BS that only worked with Internet Explorer, and not Netscape, even though Netscape was the lion's share still at the time.
Good god, what idiots at Lucas Arts.
Governments eliminating, at its discretion, groups that influence it, or are merely perceived to, hasn't worked out too well historically.
Some of the more insane among us suggest this is actually the core problem with human history.