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I'll bet book publishers can't wait to get ahold of this stuff. Then they can bring in (joy!) digital rights management, so if you buy a normal looking book, you can only read it for two weeks before you have to "renew" your licence.
I mostly agree with you, but I'd like to know a couple of things:
1) Name an "honest" country- i.e. one that has the ability to make such weapons and chooses not to (I suppose Canada is one, for nukes);
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2) Name a treaty (either military or environmental) that the US has signed that it's obeyed.
This is not meant as flamebait. I'm seriously curious what sort of answers people can come up with.
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Aww, too bad, because you're right.:-)
Re:Purely defensive??????? I dont think so....
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What they've been using it for mostly is for optics and antennae. A blind tank is pretty useless, and easy to sneak up on with more conventional (read: cheaper) weapons.
I'd rather get a false vulnerable warning than a false not-vulnerable warning though. Besides, you know whether you've patched it or not.
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Here's a six year old report on blinding weapons of the US military.
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There's an international treaty that the US has actually signed (wonder of wonders!) against using lasers on people. I tend to doubt it'll be followed in practice though, when "our" forces are involved.
I remember taking a tour of the school in fourth grade, and my teacher taking the class down to the boiler room, where she mentioned gigajoules. I always thought that was a funny word.
I like the "bob" suggestion. Only they could spell it in Welsh, like "Cwghlqhgm," but pronounced "bob." Or maybe that's pronounced "rhine-doll." I don't know, my Welsh is worse than my Dutch.
Funny how the downward slope just happens to coincide with when they switched from Linux and Solaris to W2K. Well, maybe they're getting the bugs out. Or something.
Was he responsible for all the holes in Microsoft code over the years? No? But you're going to hold him to that because... Or was that just another random MS flame? How do you figure you know anything about what this guy can or cannot do?
The bloatware charge is and always has been bogus. People don't seem to understand that the value of a 3 year old PC is $150 and so there is no particular reason why Microsoft should limit a $100/$200 O/S so that it can run under the constraints of that machine.
Because people don't buy OLD computers to run new operating systems, they buy NEW ones. And NEW computers are not $150. So not only do you have to shell out another $200 for a bloated OS, you have to spend 2000 bucks for a system that'll run it.
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I'll bet book publishers can't wait to get ahold of this stuff. Then they can bring in (joy!) digital rights management, so if you buy a normal looking book, you can only read it for two weeks before you have to "renew" your licence.
Carrying both? Priceless...
Man's laughter is funny, manslaughter is not.
I mostly agree with you, but I'd like to know a couple of things:
1) Name an "honest" country- i.e. one that has the ability to make such weapons and chooses not to (I suppose Canada is one, for nukes);
and
2) Name a treaty (either military or environmental) that the US has signed that it's obeyed.
This is not meant as flamebait. I'm seriously curious what sort of answers people can come up with.
Aww, too bad, because you're right. :-)
What they've been using it for mostly is for optics and antennae. A blind tank is pretty useless, and easy to sneak up on with more conventional (read: cheaper) weapons.
How about this?
Scrabble letters. I threw the vowels back though.
I'd rather get a false vulnerable warning than a false not-vulnerable warning though. Besides, you know whether you've patched it or not.
Here's a six year old report on blinding weapons of the US military.
There's an international treaty that the US has actually signed (wonder of wonders!) against using lasers on people. I tend to doubt it'll be followed in practice though, when "our" forces are involved.
Yup. The US Navy did tests like that with dolphins. Dolphins are smarter than dogs. While they're still alive, anyway.
I remember taking a tour of the school in fourth grade, and my teacher taking the class down to the boiler room, where she mentioned gigajoules. I always thought that was a funny word.
I like the "bob" suggestion. Only they could spell it in Welsh, like "Cwghlqhgm," but pronounced "bob." Or maybe that's pronounced "rhine-doll." I don't know, my Welsh is worse than my Dutch.
Funny how the downward slope just happens to coincide with when they switched from Linux and Solaris to W2K. Well, maybe they're getting the bugs out. Or something.
Was he responsible for all the holes in Microsoft code over the years? No? But you're going to hold him to that because... Or was that just another random MS flame? How do you figure you know anything about what this guy can or cannot do?
How are you going to exploit it if it's not started, genius? And even if you do start it, it's a local hole.
You could, but it's illegal. Whatever that means to you.
The bloatware charge is and always has been bogus. People don't seem to understand that the value of a 3 year old PC is $150 and so there is no particular reason why Microsoft should limit a $100/$200 O/S so that it can run under the constraints of that machine.
Because people don't buy OLD computers to run new operating systems, they buy NEW ones. And NEW computers are not $150. So not only do you have to shell out another $200 for a bloated OS, you have to spend 2000 bucks for a system that'll run it.
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[Unix;common] To expand special characters in a wildcarded name, or the act of so doing (the action is also called `globbing').
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The following things need to happen still:
Yeah, but he got 8 out of 11, and she didn't vote for herself either. :-)
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Well, that about covers it...
Why? It was the flammable fabric that burned.
It's actually Telsa Gwynne. Close though. :)