They had a electric motor to run the back wheels. Then they attached a standard auto generator to the front wheels. The rear wheels pushed the front ones, which ran the generatoe, which recharged the battery, which ran the rear wheels. They found one generator wasn't enough to keep the batteries charged, so they added three more. Tesing in progress, needs more investors.
Wondering if MicroSoft builds in bugs which allows them to announce the fix, then ship an update which changes the EULA. Just need to supply enough bugs to handle the number of EULA changes expected. Obviously, they expect to change it frequently.
What we need is a way to make the spamming useless to businesses who try it. Get someone to write a program (similiar to the ones used to generate the spam) that will respond to the spam messages that have on-line ordering with thousands of bogus orders. I'm sure there are enough sites that would allow these to be routed through their servers to really make it hard to filter them out. Then let the businesses try to find the one or two legitimate orders mixed in with the thousands of bogus orders they receive. How long would they continue to use spamming services?
This risk factor is somewhat mitigated in commercial software, where the distribution is typically through CDs and other trusted media.
CD's being a trusted media assumes that it is impossible to put a virus on a CD, however, Microsoft (among others) have sent out CD's with virus on them. Just because it uses a different media than the internet doesn't mean it is any safer.
At least with open source, you have a chance of someone spotting malicious code. With binary code, you probably won't know it's there until it does something nasty, and maybe not even then.
I'd guess that the planes use a spread-spectrum for frequency jumping communication system (signal is sent over a large frequency band). To co-opt the signal would require you to know just how the frequencies are being used, as well as all the information about the encryption on top of that.
Jamming works by putting enough power (noise) at the communication frequency to hide it in the noise. Spread spectrum requires a lot more power to succussfully jam, because you must pump power across enough of the band to hide most of the signal.
Many years back, I worked for a company that ordered a replacement drive for their PDP-11. This was before these tiny drives available now. The RA81 drive weighed at least 100lbs, and was usually shipped on a pallet. Driver made it right to the curb, but when the he pulled it off his truck, he dropped it about 3' to the ground. He looked around him, and not seeing us through the windows, loaded it on a hand-truck and acted as if nothing happened. We didn't even bother unpacking it.
I sometimes work with a company that overhauls snowmobile engines. They received one engine that had been packed using that foam insulation you can get in spray cans (not wrapped in anything, such as plastic, beforehand). Took them several days to clean the foam off/out of it.
Is anyone else getting tired of the Redmond beast posting completely off-topic drivel everywhere? I know they have lots of money to waste, but don't they have anything better to do with it (like fix bugs) than trying to encourge more people to hate them with their silly tactics?
There are "scanner" traps that start up a session and just drops it (not telling the scanner) which ties it up until the scanner softare times out.
How about writing something for these spambots using a special web server that slowly responds to it's requests (sends out a small packet every 10 seconds) so it won't time out and won't consume much cpu time, and just feeds it a line or two lines of junk with each packet. Have it randomly generate a never ending supply of useless information to keep the spambot happy. While it's busy with the useless site, it's not bothering other people nor is it getting any real addresses.
Actually, what you call an American bias here is more of a Digital Equipment bias. The main author, Robert Supnik, was once a VP at DEC, and has used his connections to get enough stuff made available to make the emulators useful (like operating systems, languages, etc). If you want to see more non-US emulators included, get busy and write them. The documentation, software, and user experience is going to be much easier for you to find, being in the country they were built in, than they would be to an American. Robert already has enough work on the emulators he is developing right now to keep him busy for a long time.
Yet another stupid Ultra-Liberal idea. Let's all buy Saddam Hussein a computer so that he can develop nuclear weapons to use against me.
Since these countries have decided that they can afford to have a nuclear bomb development group, then they should spend the required amount of money to build/buy their own computer system. If they can't afford it, then they shouldn't be doing development in the first place. Nuclear bombs are difficult and expensive to maintain properly, and if they don't have the money to do it properly, they shouldn't do it at all. I don't think I'd feel good about my country buying Iraq a computer system of this stature for their nuclear bomb program so that they can develop weapons to use against me.
What do you do when your tcp/ip stack expires? You won't be able to download any upgrades because you need ftp access to download the upgrade, which needs the tcp/ip stack.
Most of the establishments that don't give you a choice are (or were) owned by the Pepsi or Coke parent company. For example, Pizza Hutt was owned by Pepsico, and only sold Pepsi. I don't believe that there is any law that states that Pepsi must sell Coke.
Columbus wasn't the first to discover America, he was the last. The previous groups may have built a building or two, but soon abandoned it (due to nasty natives, and poor contacts with their homeland). The previous discovery's were quickly forgotten, but after Columbus's discovery, the ship building technology had reached a point that the journey was safe enough for regular contact to be maintained. Add to that the fact that the native population was being decimated by disease and thus weren't as much a problem as they were before. Nobody needed to discover it yet again.
Actually, when Columbus "discovered" America, there was a substantial population already there. However, shortly after his visit, disease quickly decimated the existing natives and wiped out as much as 90% of the original population. Future expiditions had a much reduced native population to deal with.
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It even has the original Elvis music box in it!
Now I'll have to have my astrology chart redone. You finally get good events coming your way, and then "bampf", they throw a new moon at you.
They had a electric motor to run the back wheels. Then they attached a standard auto generator to the front wheels. The rear wheels pushed the front ones, which ran the generatoe, which recharged the battery, which ran the rear wheels. They found one generator wasn't enough to keep the batteries charged, so they added three more. Tesing in progress, needs more investors.
Will I be able to play my PS2 games on it?
Would someone doing a rain dance during surgery be charged with attempted murder?
Wondering if MicroSoft builds in bugs which allows them to announce the fix, then ship an update which changes the EULA. Just need to supply enough bugs to handle the number of EULA changes expected. Obviously, they expect to change it frequently.
What we need is a way to make the spamming useless to businesses who try it. Get someone to write a program (similiar to the ones used to generate the spam) that will respond to the spam messages that have on-line ordering with thousands of bogus orders. I'm sure there are enough sites that would allow these to be routed through their servers to really make it hard to filter them out. Then let the businesses try to find the one or two legitimate orders mixed in with the thousands of bogus orders they receive. How long would they continue to use spamming services?
Shoplifting: every now and then, you get what you don't pay for.
Prostitues: every now and then, you get what you don't pay for.
napster: every now and then, you get what you don't pay for.
Thousands of little robots, striving to be free.
This risk factor is somewhat mitigated in commercial software, where the distribution is typically through CDs and other trusted media.
CD's being a trusted media assumes that it is impossible to put a virus on a CD, however, Microsoft (among others) have sent out CD's with virus on them. Just because it uses a different media than the internet doesn't mean it is any safer.
At least with open source, you have a chance of someone spotting malicious code. With binary code, you probably won't know it's there until it does something nasty, and maybe not even then.
Do not waste resources and add to global warming by running your CPU with that useless CETI!
Here is the new proverb: Keep the whale off your cpu!
I'd guess that the planes use a spread-spectrum for frequency jumping communication system (signal is sent over a large frequency band). To co-opt the signal would require you to know just how the frequencies are being used, as well as all the information about the encryption on top of that.
Jamming works by putting enough power (noise) at the communication frequency to hide it in the noise. Spread spectrum requires a lot more power to succussfully jam, because you must pump power across enough of the band to hide most of the signal.
Many years back, I worked for a company that ordered a replacement drive for their PDP-11. This was before these tiny drives available now. The RA81 drive weighed at least 100lbs, and was usually shipped on a pallet. Driver made it right to the curb, but when the he pulled it off his truck, he dropped it about 3' to the ground. He looked around him, and not seeing us through the windows, loaded it on a hand-truck and acted as if nothing happened. We didn't even bother unpacking it.
I sometimes work with a company that overhauls snowmobile engines. They received one engine that had been packed using that foam insulation you can get in spray cans (not wrapped in anything, such as plastic, beforehand). Took them several days to clean the foam off/out of it.
This is a good reason why some people should not be allowed in porn films...
Everyone's going to be asking them "Does it run Word?"
Is anyone else getting tired of the Redmond beast posting completely off-topic drivel everywhere? I know they have lots of money to waste, but don't they have anything better to do with it (like fix bugs) than trying to encourge more people to hate them with their silly tactics?
There are "scanner" traps that start up a session and just drops it (not telling the scanner) which ties it up until the scanner softare times out.
How about writing something for these spambots using a special web server that slowly responds to it's requests (sends out a small packet every 10 seconds) so it won't time out and won't consume much cpu time, and just feeds it a line or two lines of junk with each packet. Have it randomly generate a never ending supply of useless information to keep the spambot happy. While it's busy with the useless site, it's not bothering other people nor is it getting any real addresses.
Actually, what you call an American bias here is more of a Digital Equipment bias. The main author, Robert Supnik, was once a VP at DEC, and has used his connections to get enough stuff made available to make the emulators useful (like operating systems, languages, etc). If you want to see more non-US emulators included, get busy and write them. The documentation, software, and user experience is going to be much easier for you to find, being in the country they were built in, than they would be to an American. Robert already has enough work on the emulators he is developing right now to keep him busy for a long time.
Yet another stupid Ultra-Liberal idea. Let's all buy Saddam Hussein a computer so that he can develop nuclear weapons to use against me.
Since these countries have decided that they can afford to have a nuclear bomb development group, then they should spend the required amount of money to build/buy their own computer system. If they can't afford it, then they shouldn't be doing development in the first place. Nuclear bombs are difficult and expensive to maintain properly, and if they don't have the money to do it properly, they shouldn't do it at all. I don't think I'd feel good about my country buying Iraq a computer system of this stature for their nuclear bomb program so that they can develop weapons to use against me.
What do you do when your tcp/ip stack expires? You won't be able to download any upgrades because you need ftp access to download the upgrade, which needs the tcp/ip stack.
Most of the establishments that don't give you a choice are (or were) owned by the Pepsi or Coke parent company. For example, Pizza Hutt was owned by Pepsico, and only sold Pepsi. I don't believe that there is any law that states that Pepsi must sell Coke.
Columbus wasn't the first to discover America, he was the last. The previous groups may have built a building or two, but soon abandoned it (due to nasty natives, and poor contacts with their homeland). The previous discovery's were quickly forgotten, but after Columbus's discovery, the ship building technology had reached a point that the journey was safe enough for regular contact to be maintained. Add to that the fact that the native population was being decimated by disease and thus weren't as much a problem as they were before. Nobody needed to discover it yet again.
Actually, when Columbus "discovered" America, there was a substantial population already there. However, shortly after his visit, disease quickly decimated the existing natives and wiped out as much as 90% of the original population. Future expiditions had a much reduced native population to deal with.
What's a sping, and why are you loading them in my folder?