As far as mindless big budget entertainment goes, I'll take Emmerich over Michael Bay or Jerry Bruckheimer (esp. when paired). Just immagine any movie by Emmerich remade by those guys.
His colleague was _sued_ (by a crank) based on released FOIA data. It might explain a certain reluctance to disclose data to known trolls.
A crank who has yet to release his code that gives results that supposedly shows that everybody else's code is wrong. Gee, don't you wish this were a two-way street?
I, for one, really do want this. When these things are finally road-legal to drive themselves, the problem of getting home after a night out without paying an arm and a leg for a taxi is solved.
Pachauri was pushed as the head of the IPCC by none other than Dubya and his cronies, so he could discredit the IPCC. Why do you think one of the many Climategate Emails that never gets quoted is this little gem? http://www.eastangliaemails.com/emails.php?eid=270
I'd say that's pretty much a given. What's worse, being effectively paralyzed with no means of communication at all (until now) for years and years, or starving to death for a few weeks? Sounds horrible either way.
So now imagine what it is like being innocent on death row.
According to the U.S. government's Energy Information Administration, while Afghanistan's estimated oil reserves are relatively modest, "with perhaps up to 100 million barrels," the country's natural gas reserves are far more substantial. As northern Afghanistan is a "southward extension of Central Asia's highly prolific, natural gas-prone Amu Darya Basin," Afghanistan "has proven, probable and possible natural gas reserves of about 5 trillion cubic feet." ...
Ironically, during the 1979-1988 Soviet occupation of the country, extensive Soviet exploration produced superb geological maps and reports that listed more than 1,400 mineral outcroppings, along with about 70 commercially viable deposits even under the grotesquely inefficient Soviet economic system.
The Soviet Union subsequently committed more than $650 million for resource exploration and development in Afghanistan, with proposed projects including an oil refinery capable of producing a half-million tons per annum, as well as a smelting complex for the Ainak deposit that was to have produced 1.5 million tons of copper per year.
In the wake of the Soviet withdrawal a subsequent World Bank analysis projected that the Ainak copper production alone could eventually capture as much as 2 percent of the annual world market. The country is also blessed with massive coal deposits, one of which, the Hajigak iron deposit, in the Hindu Kush mountain range west of Kabul, is assessed as one of the largest high-grade deposits in the world.
The funny thing is: never before have people in industrial nations spend so much money to get kids than today - sometimes years of artificial inseminations, costing a couple of hundred dollar each. Often resulting in multituplets.
Well, that has more to do with the Nokia results than the iPad, you highly intelligent AC. Or rather their weird claims about marketshare, mixing "strong demand for high-end smartphones" with an increased share in all handsets. Which of course must mean that Apple is doomed Yeah, the market has already forgotten that Apple doubled their sales of iPhones compared to last years quarter.
Jailbroken versus Factory iPhones
Jailbroken phones are much easier to work with than factory phones. The main
difference is that the jailbroken phone disables code signing. This allows for the running
of arbitrary third party, unsigned, applications. Such applications include a shell, sshd,
gdb, python, etc. It is no wonder that researchers prefer to work on jailbroken phones.
After all, besides the code signing, there appears to be no real distinctive difference
between the jailbroken and factory phones. However, this is not the case.
Many researchers, including one of the authors of this paper, have given talks where
their results tacitly relied on the fact a phone was jailbroken. This is because, by
disabling the code signing requirements, it doesnt just change what programs may be
executed, but it fundamentally changes the way the memory page protections work. As
we discussed, at this point, it is not clear how to write to a page and then make that
page executable on a factory phone. While there may be a clever way to accomplish
this, at the present time, any discussion of shellcode with regards to the iPhone implies
the phone is jailbroken. This includes payloads that return into mprotect to set page
permissions for their shellcode. If you attempt to mprotect a page which has previously
had data written to it on a factory iPhone, the mprotect will fail with a return value of -1
and errno set to “Permission Denied”.
Yeah, we get it, Charlie Miller is a genius when he wins pwn2own, but an idiot when he points out he found numerous exploitable holes in jailbroken iPhones that are not in pristine iPhones.
According to security expert Charlie Miller, jailbroken iPhones are more vulnerable than non-jailbroken
And Charlie Miller should know what he is talking about. After all, he is credited for uncovering the security issue that spawned the first Google Android update, and he did manage to break the Apple developed Safari browser in about 10 seconds and this year’s PWN2OWN competition. While jailbreaking the device is a great way to use the iPhone’s full potential, it also means that you remove all the security protections that Apple built into the device’s software. You will be able to install 3rd party app and other software applications that are not distributed via the iTunes Store, but you will also leave your device wide open to all sorts of attacks.
Given the large footprint of the iPhone, HTML/CSS/Javascript is the only "alternate app" hole they haven't closed/quote>
Errm, it's the "app hole" they wanted people to use in the first place - isn't it funny that more and more people do now?
They are. H.264 is not open enough to be shipped with a FLOSS product that is playing strictly by the rules. The question is why Apple and Microsoft are not supporting open standards, because Theora support is in Chrome and pre-release versions of Opera.
Because better the devil you know. They know there's not going to be any more people asking for extra fees for H.264 - Theora simply isn't deep enough in the water for the subs to prepare their torpedos.
You mean like the fact that the climate was warmer during the Medieval Warm than it is now? Like the fact that the glaciers aren't shrinking as fast as the alarmists are claiming? Like the fact that sea level rise isn't something new, but has been going on for thousands of years? Which of these facts have been proven wrong?
A) is not a fact - that's a guess on "they grew wine in Southern England then" - and they grow wine further north now so that absolutely proves nothing. B) So you admit that almost all of the glaciers are shrinking fast, just the ones in the Himalaya won't be gone by 2035. C) So? The expected major rise wasn't even predicted for now, so what would that "fact" prove? That you make "facts" up about the predictions? At least you didn't bring up "facts" that your fellows still preach, like "volcanos produce more CO2 than humans", or "there's a correlation between sun cycle length and temperature".
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So Gore is a hypocrite for putting his money where his heart was years ago? For investing money? Evil Communist!
If you start out by assuming your conclusions, then cherry-pick your data, it's amazing what you can "prove."
So you admit that's what you "sceptics" do.
As far as mindless big budget entertainment goes, I'll take Emmerich over Michael Bay or Jerry Bruckheimer (esp. when paired). Just immagine any movie by Emmerich remade by those guys.
By the sounds of it, the original script would have made a nice little indy film.
Or at least a decent Outer Limits episode.
About the only thing the book had in common with the movie was the title.
And the themes: The three laws; the ways in which these laws can be, unexpectedly, harmful (the point of about half of the stories in the book)
And next you will tell us Se7en was based on the Bible.
I can see how this would end very badly on a wet track.
Well, I'm pretty sure Porsche hasn't tested this at all... Nor have they asked Williams how their F1 cars handled in rain. [/sarcasm]
His colleague was _sued_ (by a crank) based on released FOIA data. It might explain a certain reluctance to disclose data to known trolls.
A crank who has yet to release his code that gives results that supposedly shows that everybody else's code is wrong. Gee, don't you wish this were a two-way street?
I, for one, really do want this. When these things are finally road-legal to drive themselves, the problem of getting home after a night out without paying an arm and a leg for a taxi is solved.
Only if your home is on Pikes Peak.
Pachauri was pushed as the head of the IPCC by none other than Dubya and his cronies, so he could discredit the IPCC. Why do you think one of the many Climategate Emails that never gets quoted is this little gem? http://www.eastangliaemails.com/emails.php?eid=270
I'd say that's pretty much a given. What's worse, being effectively paralyzed with no means of communication at all (until now) for years and years, or starving to death for a few weeks? Sounds horrible either way.
So now imagine what it is like being innocent on death row.
According to the U.S. government's Energy Information Administration, while Afghanistan's estimated oil reserves are relatively modest, "with perhaps up to 100 million barrels," the country's natural gas reserves are far more substantial. As northern Afghanistan is a "southward extension of Central Asia's highly prolific, natural gas-prone Amu Darya Basin," Afghanistan "has proven, probable and possible natural gas reserves of about 5 trillion cubic feet."
...
Ironically, during the 1979-1988 Soviet occupation of the country, extensive Soviet exploration produced superb geological maps and reports that listed more than 1,400 mineral outcroppings, along with about 70 commercially viable deposits even under the grotesquely inefficient Soviet economic system.
The Soviet Union subsequently committed more than $650 million for resource exploration and development in Afghanistan, with proposed projects including an oil refinery capable of producing a half-million tons per annum, as well as a smelting complex for the Ainak deposit that was to have produced 1.5 million tons of copper per year.
In the wake of the Soviet withdrawal a subsequent World Bank analysis projected that the Ainak copper production alone could eventually capture as much as 2 percent of the annual world market. The country is also blessed with massive coal deposits, one of which, the Hajigak iron deposit, in the Hindu Kush mountain range west of Kabul, is assessed as one of the largest high-grade deposits in the world.
The funny thing is: never before have people in industrial nations spend so much money to get kids than today - sometimes years of artificial inseminations, costing a couple of hundred dollar each. Often resulting in multituplets.
Ahh I see, so you're a "pull my finger" type of guy.
Are you going to admit that you're wrong you fucking idiot?
Trading under $200.
Thanks for playing (poorly).
Well, that has more to do with the Nokia results than the iPad, you highly intelligent AC. Or rather their weird claims about marketshare, mixing "strong demand for high-end smartphones" with an increased share in all handsets. Which of course must mean that Apple is doomed Yeah, the market has already forgotten that Apple doubled their sales of iPhones compared to last years quarter.
Jailbroken versus Factory iPhones Jailbroken phones are much easier to work with than factory phones. The main difference is that the jailbroken phone disables code signing. This allows for the running of arbitrary third party, unsigned, applications. Such applications include a shell, sshd, gdb, python, etc. It is no wonder that researchers prefer to work on jailbroken phones. After all, besides the code signing, there appears to be no real distinctive difference between the jailbroken and factory phones. However, this is not the case.
Many researchers, including one of the authors of this paper, have given talks where their results tacitly relied on the fact a phone was jailbroken. This is because, by disabling the code signing requirements, it doesnt just change what programs may be executed, but it fundamentally changes the way the memory page protections work. As we discussed, at this point, it is not clear how to write to a page and then make that page executable on a factory phone. While there may be a clever way to accomplish this, at the present time, any discussion of shellcode with regards to the iPhone implies the phone is jailbroken. This includes payloads that return into mprotect to set page permissions for their shellcode. If you attempt to mprotect a page which has previously had data written to it on a factory iPhone, the mprotect will fail with a return value of -1 and errno set to “Permission Denied”.
Yeah, we get it, Charlie Miller is a genius when he wins pwn2own, but an idiot when he points out he found numerous exploitable holes in jailbroken iPhones that are not in pristine iPhones.
Now if only Ma Bell had her tubes tied when she was younger...
Tubular Bell?
According to security expert Charlie Miller, jailbroken iPhones are more vulnerable than non-jailbroken And Charlie Miller should know what he is talking about. After all, he is credited for uncovering the security issue that spawned the first Google Android update, and he did manage to break the Apple developed Safari browser in about 10 seconds and this year’s PWN2OWN competition. While jailbreaking the device is a great way to use the iPhone’s full potential, it also means that you remove all the security protections that Apple built into the device’s software. You will be able to install 3rd party app and other software applications that are not distributed via the iTunes Store, but you will also leave your device wide open to all sorts of attacks.
+2.04 (0.99%) - thanks for playing
So let me get this straight: No one is complaining about this, except for the people who are?
No, no one is complaining about this, except for the people who wouldn't buy one even if it did play Flash.
Given the large footprint of the iPhone, HTML/CSS/Javascript is the only "alternate app" hole they haven't closed/quote> Errm, it's the "app hole" they wanted people to use in the first place - isn't it funny that more and more people do now?
And before you complain: compare the maps - don't blindly believewhat your high priest Watts preaches you.
They are. H.264 is not open enough to be shipped with a FLOSS product that is playing strictly by the rules. The question is why Apple and Microsoft are not supporting open standards, because Theora support is in Chrome and pre-release versions of Opera.
Because better the devil you know. They know there's not going to be any more people asking for extra fees for H.264 - Theora simply isn't deep enough in the water for the subs to prepare their torpedos.
You mean like the fact that the climate was warmer during the Medieval Warm than it is now? Like the fact that the glaciers aren't shrinking as fast as the alarmists are claiming? Like the fact that sea level rise isn't something new, but has been going on for thousands of years? Which of these facts have been proven wrong?
A) is not a fact - that's a guess on "they grew wine in Southern England then" - and they grow wine further north now so that absolutely proves nothing. B) So you admit that almost all of the glaciers are shrinking fast, just the ones in the Himalaya won't be gone by 2035. C) So? The expected major rise wasn't even predicted for now, so what would that "fact" prove? That you make "facts" up about the predictions? At least you didn't bring up "facts" that your fellows still preach, like "volcanos produce more CO2 than humans", or "there's a correlation between sun cycle length and temperature".
So what about the other glaciers? Predicted answer: there are no other glaciers!