That's not what I was saying. I was in no way implying that Palladium is equivalent to Nazisim.
However, in a similiar fashion if you say you aren't interested in opposing Palladium just because currently it is optional, then when the day comes that enough people are using it and it's made mandatory it will be too late to do anything about it.
AFAIK, MS is only going to make Palladium optional to begin with because they know they couldn't get away with forcing it on everyone all at once. Do you know otherwise? I could be mistaken on this.
The truth is, there is only the present and time does not pass.
How come you left Einstein of your list of crackpot scientists? What you are saying contradicts his idea of time dilation. It also appears to contradict his ideas on the relativity of simultaneity.
Also, considering that his ideas on this have been proven experimentally, how does your theory hold up in light of the available evidence? I don't see any experimental evidence listed on your page. I think some corroborating evidence would defiantly be warranted given the certitude of your statements.
Do you have any references to any credible physicists who agree with your ideas? I don't want to sound too rude, but that page comes across as something written by a Crackpot Scientist himself who is angry about being continuously ignored by the mainstream scientific community. Some external references would certainly help your case, or at least a reference to your own academic credential. Please do reply, otherwise I will be resigned to dismissing you as a crank.
Except we've only had the technology for spaceflight for about 50 years, whereas an alien civilization would have had such technology for millions of years (it seems very unlikely that an alien civilization would develop spaceflight technology at exactly the same time as us!).
Consider that the entire livable surface of Earth was covered by humans many thousands of years ago. Within a few million years, that should be the case for the entire galaxy. If other intelligent species existed, wouldn't the have done the same thing before?
This is of course assuming that wide spread space colonization is even technically possible, or practical. No one knows for sure, but I have my doubts.
It may very well be that humans will never stray far from our home star due to the immense technilogical barriers and resource requirements for any such mass exodus. Sure in our Star Trek/Star Wars fantasies galatic colonization is common place but that is a long, long way from reality.
Also, I'd bet that the human race self destructs before it ever reaches the point of interstellar travel. Maybe there's a chance that ET will be much wiser that us, but I wouldn't count on it. Regardless, your points are all good. Since this is all just speculation I'm not saying you're wrong. I guess we'll just have to wait a couple megayears to see who is right!
But if intelligent life exists elsewhere, why hasn't it colonized our solar system millions of years ago?
Since when did colonization of our solar system become the yardstick for intelligence? We haven't even done that and we are positioned better for it than any other life forms out there.
Just one little interesting tidbit i noticed that is getting kind of lost in the noise: Did anyone else notice the little note on the Jaguar page? Apparently the 10.2 developer tools use GCC 3.1!
Not terribly interesting considering that Apple released the dev tools with GCC3 a couple months ago.
The name of the song is Korobeiniki. This I know only because the band Ozma (who have a thing for all that is Russian) did a version of that classic folk tune (available here at mp3.com)
And yeah, they are the same guys who did the Natalie Portman song too for any who remember that:)
As the AC said, redirects won't work, because the worms need to actively follow them. However, an Alias will work!
I have some set up on my server to redirect the worms to a counter that is displayed on my front page:)
Just do something similiar to this: AliasMatch/.*cmd.exe.* worm_counter.shtml AliasMatch/.*root.exe.* worm_counter.shtml AliasMatch/default.ida.* worm_counter.shtml
It's so sad that beaurocracy and politics can turn such an ambitious and potentialy invaluable project into a bloated and overpriced monster literally floating about with no real goals.
Surely there must be at least some neat technological spinoffs from the design and construction of the ISS.
Just look at what the United States accomplished in the first 5 or 10 years of our space program..... then since the early 80's we haven't done crap. Granted that it helped to be in the cold war and have someone to compete against. IT seems without that pressure that the US isn't interested in making the needed investment and dedication to really push space exploration.
So, does that mean we won't see any real major advances in space exploration until Bin Laden decideds he needs a training camp on mars where the US can't touch it?
And what makes you think the shuttle has the computing power of a P90? I find it hard to believe that NASA hasn't upgraded the computer system in the shuttle. And if they haven't, it's probably because they haven't needed to.
This is true. i seem to recall just a few years ago NASA finished upgrading the computer systems on all the shuttles. Cockpit displays are all now digital instead of analogue and i'm sure the necessairy upgrades to all the other sytems were made as well.
Here is a reference to some of the upgrades. I'm sure better information about it is out there somewhere.
This is sincere curiosity: What in your opinion is the justification for the ISS then?
I am a big supporter of NASA and space research and what not so I have never opposed the ISS, but I always assumed that it would be a scientific platform.
And when most all the music that is released comes on the copy protected format, then you are either giving in, or going without most music.
Unfortunatly, most of the copy protected cd's have trouble playing in computer and car players. Those are all I have for reading CD's, so even if I wanted to give in, I would still be without most of my music.
This is good news though. I would definatly vote for this guy if I could.
But to be on the safe side, the company's lawyer advises that "while we encourage links to the Dallas Morning News site, we must request that they all go to the homepage of the site, and not directly to any interior content. If needed, you can provide with your link info on how to find the specific article of interest once they are on the homepage. We trust that this clarifies our position."
I suppose that's not too unreasonable a request.
Today Dallas Morning News is running a fascinationg article on [fascinating topic]. The article can be reached from their home page by pasting the following URL into your location field...
I would push the button, hell I would do it for free. This doesn't really make me unmoral/immoral / or EVIL as everybody is up in arms about, it makes me apathetic or uncaring.
In fact it does make you unmoral, immoral and EVIL. Your mistake is drawing a distinction between that and being apathetic or uncaring. They are equivalent.
Probably a lot more people would. I would not push the button in the hypothetical situation for a million dollars, but I would be more likely to push the random button on the street.
The reason? Credibility. If some one offers you a million dollars, that's a lot of money. I wouldn't doubt that the button could potential do what it says. However a random button on the street is different. It provides no reason to believe that it would do what it says it would, so it would not be an ethical dilemma. If I pushed the button I would do it confidently believing that no one was actually going to die.
That was defiantly my favorite episode of the Twilight Zone. But I have to disagree with your reasoning, it was both a great story and a great ethical test.
It is obvious that the victims are chosen from the group of previous button pushers. If that were not the case than the story sucks, there is not twist.
However, it is also a good ethical test because the potential pushers have no reason to believe that there will be any direct negative consequences to themselves if they push the button. They are not informed of that until after their choice is made.
in fact iTunes has a startup item called iTuneshelper, and since you upgrade its parent app, a reboot is required in order to enable it, at start-up...
That should only require you to log out and back in, not reboot.
The nidump command is definatly a real concern. There was much talk about it on the Darwin Developer list awhile back. In short, they are aware of the problem and want to fix it, however it is not a trivial problem to fix for various reasons.
The fact that classic runs setuid as root I can't blame them for. Classic is to run programs that haven't been ported to OS X, so they operate on the assumption that their is no such thing as permissions in their environment. It would probably cause problems for many programs if this changed.
If you are serious about security, don't run classic. If you have to run a classic app, than OS X is still at least as secure as OS 9, you're only other option.
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That's not what I was saying. I was in no way implying that Palladium is equivalent to Nazisim.
However, in a similiar fashion if you say you aren't interested in opposing Palladium just because currently it is optional, then when the day comes that enough people are using it and it's made mandatory it will be too late to do anything about it.
AFAIK, MS is only going to make Palladium optional to begin with because they know they couldn't get away with forcing it on everyone all at once. Do you know otherwise? I could be mistaken on this.
Also, considering that his ideas on this have been proven experimentally, how does your theory hold up in light of the available evidence? I don't see any experimental evidence listed on your page. I think some corroborating evidence would defiantly be warranted given the certitude of your statements.
Do you have any references to any credible physicists who agree with your ideas? I don't want to sound too rude, but that page comes across as something written by a Crackpot Scientist himself who is angry about being continuously ignored by the mainstream scientific community. Some external references would certainly help your case, or at least a reference to your own academic credential. Please do reply, otherwise I will be resigned to dismissing you as a crank.
This is of course assuming that wide spread space colonization is even technically possible, or practical. No one knows for sure, but I have my doubts.
It may very well be that humans will never stray far from our home star due to the immense technilogical barriers and resource requirements for any such mass exodus. Sure in our Star Trek/Star Wars fantasies galatic colonization is common place but that is a long, long way from reality.
Also, I'd bet that the human race self destructs before it ever reaches the point of interstellar travel. Maybe there's a chance that ET will be much wiser that us, but I wouldn't count on it. Regardless, your points are all good. Since this is all just speculation I'm not saying you're wrong. I guess we'll just have to wait a couple megayears to see who is right!
Since when did colonization of our solar system become the yardstick for intelligence? We haven't even done that and we are positioned better for it than any other life forms out there.
That's all terribly interesting I'm sure. However, all the poster was asking is why they didn't use the official astronomical designation for our sun.
All those other names were used by someone at sometime, but Sol is used by us today.
PNG's are way the hell bigger
Don't be silly. eMTv still has dozens of hours of reality tv programming.
Who modded this a troll?
It's interesting or insightful or something, definatly not a troll.
The name of the song is Korobeiniki. This I know only because the band Ozma (who have a thing for all that is Russian) did a version of that classic folk tune (available here at mp3.com)
:)
And yeah, they are the same guys who did the Natalie Portman song too for any who remember that
As the AC said, redirects won't work, because the worms need to actively follow them. However, an Alias will work!
:)
/.*cmd.exe.* worm_counter.shtml /.*root.exe.* worm_counter.shtml /default.ida.* worm_counter.shtml
I have some set up on my server to redirect the worms to a counter that is displayed on my front page
Just do something similiar to this:
AliasMatch
AliasMatch
AliasMatch
It's so sad that beaurocracy and politics can turn such an ambitious and potentialy invaluable project into a bloated and overpriced monster literally floating about with no real goals.
Surely there must be at least some neat technological spinoffs from the design and construction of the ISS.
So, does that mean we won't see any real major advances in space exploration until Bin Laden decideds he needs a training camp on mars where the US can't touch it?
This is true. i seem to recall just a few years ago NASA finished upgrading the computer systems on all the shuttles. Cockpit displays are all now digital instead of analogue and i'm sure the necessairy upgrades to all the other sytems were made as well.
Here is a reference to some of the upgrades. I'm sure better information about it is out there somewhere.
This is sincere curiosity: What in your opinion is the justification for the ISS then?
I am a big supporter of NASA and space research and what not so I have never opposed the ISS, but I always assumed that it would be a scientific platform.
This is good news though. I would definatly vote for this guy if I could.
I suppose that's not too unreasonable a request.
Today Dallas Morning News is running a fascinationg article on [fascinating topic]. The article can be reached from their home page by pasting the following URL into your location field...
In fact it does make you unmoral, immoral and EVIL. Your mistake is drawing a distinction between that and being apathetic or uncaring. They are equivalent.
Probably a lot more people would. I would not push the button in the hypothetical situation for a million dollars, but I would be more likely to push the random button on the street.
The reason? Credibility. If some one offers you a million dollars, that's a lot of money. I wouldn't doubt that the button could potential do what it says. However a random button on the street is different. It provides no reason to believe that it would do what it says it would, so it would not be an ethical dilemma. If I pushed the button I would do it confidently believing that no one was actually going to die.
That was defiantly my favorite episode of the Twilight Zone. But I have to disagree with your reasoning, it was both a great story and a great ethical test.
It is obvious that the victims are chosen from the group of previous button pushers. If that were not the case than the story sucks, there is not twist.
However, it is also a good ethical test because the potential pushers have no reason to believe that there will be any direct negative consequences to themselves if they push the button. They are not informed of that until after their choice is made.
That should only require you to log out and back in, not reboot.
The nidump command is definatly a real concern. There was much talk about it on the Darwin Developer list awhile back. In short, they are aware of the problem and want to fix it, however it is not a trivial problem to fix for various reasons.
The fact that classic runs setuid as root I can't blame them for. Classic is to run programs that haven't been ported to OS X, so they operate on the assumption that their is no such thing as permissions in their environment. It would probably cause problems for many programs if this changed.
If you are serious about security, don't run classic. If you have to run a classic app, than OS X is still at least as secure as OS 9, you're only other option.