Huge chunks of any Linux distribution is GPL, and since the QT GUI toolkit is GPL as well, what's your problem?
Would you say that if a distribution was released with a GPLed libc? The current favourite one is LGPLed, which enables none GPLed applications to be included or run on that OS with less overhead.
Why does there always have to be innovation? Dell is Walmart - stack it high, sell it cheap and make profits in the process, wheres the need for innovation in that? Let others spend the money to do that, when theyve perfected what the market wants, you step it and do it a billion times with better margins.
All property rights are artificial rights granted and given by the government. Oh sorry, did you think those laws forbidding someone from taking your car while you were in the supermarket were god given and created? Nope. The only inherent rights you have are the ones you can protect yourself, using your fists or other implements - everything else, including property, is protected for you by the government and the law.
You mean the tons of yellow-cake discovered in Iraq?
The UN knew the yellow cake was there, it was under UN seal at the time and most of it disappeared after the invasion due to US failing to provide security for the area. Where did it go? Locals stole the barrels it was contained in and dumped the yellow cake. US troops refused UN access to this site for many months after the invasion.
Or the sarin-filled artillery shells the terrorists were using against the Iraqi people?
All of the shells thus recovered were in such a state of decay and lack of numbers that it has been determined that they are holdovers from 1980s stocks and not actually anything significant.
What about the mobile weapons lab?
Disproved by inspectors later on. No evidence of chemical production were found in the vehicles announced as labs.
Or the buried MiG fighters?
What about them? Everyone knew Iraq had MiG fighters, and burying them ruined them - they werent coocooned or protected. They would never fly again.
Or the satellite photos of Russian trucks leaving key installations known to house WMDs for Syria before the invasion?
This is a new one, I have never ever heard this one - wheres the evidence? Wheres the photos? Wheres the outcry?
Noone disputed that Iraq *had* WMD at one point in the past, it was whether they *CURRENTLY* had them and *CURRENTLY* was working toward stocks or new versions. And so far all the evidence has been that no they werent.
Ive actually spent a lot of time down in Burlington - its pretty easy to get into and several parts have housed private companies before.
Corsham (about 3 miles from me at the moment) is actually home to quite a few massive bunker complexes, including Spring Quarry, Box Tunnel, Monks Park Quarry, Rudloe Manor , Monkton Farleigh and they are all interconnected while maintained (or not) as seperate facilities. Good site for this.
Can someone honestly explain to me what is 'sham' about not supporting older versions of an OS? Even with XP in the frame, Windows 98 is 7 years old, SE is 6 years old and thats quite an age for software, especially when you consider that most browser stats put anything older than XP into the same minority percentage as none IE browsers. People need to realise that while they may make the choice to stick with older software, the world around them moves on and is unaffected by their personal choice.
Actually, the encryption used by Soviet agents in the post war period was the standard one time pad system, which is one of hte best methods out there even to this day. Yes, some traffic was broken into during a British project codenamed Venona, but this was due to the Soviets reusing onetime pads on two or more different channels which enabled crossmatching to happen. Venona however only ever broke into around 1% of encrypts captured, and even the vast majority of those were only broken to the tune of a single word. The Soviets changed all onetime pads to unique pairs in 1952 and all traffic after then has never been broken into.
The vast majority of data from the traffic came from traffic analysis. As I said before, the number of groupings put out to a single crytonom enabled analysts to determine what type of spy he was, whether he was running other spies or rings, whether he was a legal or illegal, who he belonged to and more. This enabled MI5 to put forward a case for the expulsion of around 200 russian agents and diplomats who were found to have been engaged in clandestine operations. The statistics that the traffic analysis came up with was confirmed when a high level soviet defected so it proved the worth of the project.
VOIP can be tunnled to that it loooks like any other encrypted traffic. Are the feds going to start block:443 traffic because I may be tunneling my weekly call to my mom in the traffic?
And thats where traffic analysis comes in. Port 443 traffic usually consists of a lot of individual connections that remain open for a few seconds at most, with fairly significant breaks between page fetches. When your encypted VoIP session uses that port, its going to be either one continuous connection, or a lot of connections over a period of time with no break - traffic analysis would show that your connections dont match the usual makeup that 443 traffic generates.
Port 22 for SSH would be a better bet, but its not as widespread as 443 and the data rate is rather low on average, so again it would probably be fairly easy to discern when its being used for alternative reasons. I can already tell when something is transferred over scp or X11 forwarding over ssh, even if I cant tell what it is.
Im not saying that its easy or whatever, but dont kid yourself that you can just switch ports and hide amongst the traffic because you can tell a lot from the traffic itself. A HELL of a lot of information was descerned from Soviet radio broadcasts to spies in the western world between 1945 and 1970, even tho those broadcasts were encrypted - the traffic groups told MI5 exactly what type of spy the traffic was for (GRU, KGB, singleton etc) and how many other spies he was running. MI5 was able to estimate that tehre was 400 spies active in the UK during the 1950s that hadnt been discovered previously, and that figure was later confirmed by a defector.
MI5 developed this in the 1950s, and called it Special Facilities. All it required at the start was a modification to the phone - a single washer, and the phone could be used as a surveillence device. Later versions enabled activation using high frequency radio waves to activate the telephones microphone and required no modification to the phone itself.
Survellience was also carried out against embassy cypher machines using unshielded telephone cables picking up eletromagnetic emissions from the cypher machines, in many cases enabling the reading of both the en clair message and the cypher material.
None of this was admissable in a UK court. Phone tap evidence still isnt.
None of these are sold in the UK, and only Sky has their own box which is linked to their subscription service. A second hand Tivo and subscription from when they were sold in the UK can run to many hundreds of pounds on Ebay, much more than a WMC system.
Why is this sort of comment always very near the top of slashdot comments in all stories to do with a P2P user being convicted of copyright infringement? Wheres the comments denouncing the act of copyright infringement that took place? This person broke some laws and is being punished for it, and the top thing on slashdot is how to avoid being caught. Wonderful.
It was the X-33 VenturStar and was cancelled in 2001 due to performance issues. They couldnt get the composite fuel tanks to work correctly and a nonecomposite version was too heavy.
Peer to Peer applications can be sold or used for both legal and illegal purposes, ethical and unethical purposes. Same goes for word processors. Webservers. Ftp servers. Linux. Anything. Why should we concern ourselves with whether one particular subset of products are being used for ethical or unethical purposes? We shouldnt restrict these companies at all, what we should do is raise the concerns to a public level and let the individual decide if they want to do business with these companies in any form. The western world is after all a capitalist one.
Yes, British Airways 747 caught in a ash cloud from an erupting volcano. Glided for 14 minutes after its engines failed due to ash ingestion. Restarted fine after exiting the ash cloud, but had a hairy landing due to sandblasting on the windscreen.
Cement doesnt come from Portland, its just named Portland cement because the effect it was used to create was that of well used stone from Portland in the Victorian times. Here endeth the history lesson.
Airbus is likewise trying to get EU funding for the 350 (which is a 787 clone), but it is illegal per a deal that clinton cut (basically allow Airbus one last gov. funded, but then no more). What is interesting is that Airbus is still getting subsidies even though they (and american gov.) say otherwise. Roughly, we acted tough for the last 5 years, but the EU gov. is still subsidizing it via low-key approachs. But you we are now proclaiming a victory (kind of like Sadaam proclaiming that he won against us).
This is completely wrong. The US and the EU agreed in 1992 (the Trans Atlantic Aerospace Agreement) that launch aid was limited to 33% of hte projects cost, funded at Government borrowing rate + 1% and was capped relative to the manufacturers gross income at any one time. Airbus has simply been using LEGAL funding under that agreement (which was available to all manufacturers on both sides of the Atlantic). Noone has claimed that Airbus hasnt received loans from the EU governments.
On October 6th, 2004 the US withdrew from this agreement but it contains a 12 month termination clause, allowing the EU to offer funding for the A350 program. EADS, the main Airbus shareholder, has already said that it will forgoe launch aid on the A350 and fund it entirely inhouse.
Its happened quite a few times. Air Transat Flight 236 ran out of fuel over the atlantic ocean, and the pilots managed to glide the aircraft (with 306 passengers and crew) to a successful unpowered touchdown in the Azores. This incident holds the record for the longest glide by a widebodied aircraft (19 minutes or 120KM). Aircraft do not 'drop like rocks'.
You do realise that they dont just remove the warhead, duct tape the payload to the top and launch it, dont you? These laucnhers are stripped down and overhauled before they are used. Besides, if you see my earlier post, it looks to be a computer problem involving stage separation rather than a mechanical failure.
Looks like it was another controller foulup that stopped a command from being issued to shut down stage 1 and seperate the upper stack, and causing a reentry of the entire package.
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Huge chunks of any Linux distribution is GPL, and since the QT GUI toolkit is GPL as well, what's your problem?
Would you say that if a distribution was released with a GPLed libc? The current favourite one is LGPLed, which enables none GPLed applications to be included or run on that OS with less overhead.
This situation is very very similiar.
Its a Athlon dual core vs. the new intel dual core (i.e. not the P4 line).
The Pentium D 820 is P4 core based. Same line, just an evolution.
Why does there always have to be innovation? Dell is Walmart - stack it high, sell it cheap and make profits in the process, wheres the need for innovation in that? Let others spend the money to do that, when theyve perfected what the market wants, you step it and do it a billion times with better margins.
And the GPL becomes a usage license. Leave my output alone.
All property rights are artificial rights granted and given by the government. Oh sorry, did you think those laws forbidding someone from taking your car while you were in the supermarket were god given and created? Nope. The only inherent rights you have are the ones you can protect yourself, using your fists or other implements - everything else, including property, is protected for you by the government and the law.
You mean the tons of yellow-cake discovered in Iraq?
The UN knew the yellow cake was there, it was under UN seal at the time and most of it disappeared after the invasion due to US failing to provide security for the area. Where did it go? Locals stole the barrels it was contained in and dumped the yellow cake. US troops refused UN access to this site for many months after the invasion.
Or the sarin-filled artillery shells the terrorists were using against the Iraqi people?
All of the shells thus recovered were in such a state of decay and lack of numbers that it has been determined that they are holdovers from 1980s stocks and not actually anything significant.
What about the mobile weapons lab?
Disproved by inspectors later on. No evidence of chemical production were found in the vehicles announced as labs.
Or the buried MiG fighters?
What about them? Everyone knew Iraq had MiG fighters, and burying them ruined them - they werent coocooned or protected. They would never fly again.
Or the satellite photos of Russian trucks leaving key installations known to house WMDs for Syria before the invasion?
This is a new one, I have never ever heard this one - wheres the evidence? Wheres the photos? Wheres the outcry?
Noone disputed that Iraq *had* WMD at one point in the past, it was whether they *CURRENTLY* had them and *CURRENTLY* was working toward stocks or new versions. And so far all the evidence has been that no they werent.
Ive actually spent a lot of time down in Burlington - its pretty easy to get into and several parts have housed private companies before.
Corsham (about 3 miles from me at the moment) is actually home to quite a few massive bunker complexes, including Spring Quarry, Box Tunnel, Monks Park Quarry, Rudloe Manor , Monkton Farleigh and they are all interconnected while maintained (or not) as seperate facilities. Good site for this.
Can someone honestly explain to me what is 'sham' about not supporting older versions of an OS? Even with XP in the frame, Windows 98 is 7 years old, SE is 6 years old and thats quite an age for software, especially when you consider that most browser stats put anything older than XP into the same minority percentage as none IE browsers. People need to realise that while they may make the choice to stick with older software, the world around them moves on and is unaffected by their personal choice.
Actually, the encryption used by Soviet agents in the post war period was the standard one time pad system, which is one of hte best methods out there even to this day. Yes, some traffic was broken into during a British project codenamed Venona, but this was due to the Soviets reusing onetime pads on two or more different channels which enabled crossmatching to happen. Venona however only ever broke into around 1% of encrypts captured, and even the vast majority of those were only broken to the tune of a single word. The Soviets changed all onetime pads to unique pairs in 1952 and all traffic after then has never been broken into.
The vast majority of data from the traffic came from traffic analysis. As I said before, the number of groupings put out to a single crytonom enabled analysts to determine what type of spy he was, whether he was running other spies or rings, whether he was a legal or illegal, who he belonged to and more. This enabled MI5 to put forward a case for the expulsion of around 200 russian agents and diplomats who were found to have been engaged in clandestine operations. The statistics that the traffic analysis came up with was confirmed when a high level soviet defected so it proved the worth of the project.
VOIP can be tunnled to that it loooks like any other encrypted traffic. Are the feds going to start block :443 traffic because I may be tunneling my weekly call to my mom in the traffic?
And thats where traffic analysis comes in. Port 443 traffic usually consists of a lot of individual connections that remain open for a few seconds at most, with fairly significant breaks between page fetches. When your encypted VoIP session uses that port, its going to be either one continuous connection, or a lot of connections over a period of time with no break - traffic analysis would show that your connections dont match the usual makeup that 443 traffic generates.
Port 22 for SSH would be a better bet, but its not as widespread as 443 and the data rate is rather low on average, so again it would probably be fairly easy to discern when its being used for alternative reasons. I can already tell when something is transferred over scp or X11 forwarding over ssh, even if I cant tell what it is.
Im not saying that its easy or whatever, but dont kid yourself that you can just switch ports and hide amongst the traffic because you can tell a lot from the traffic itself. A HELL of a lot of information was descerned from Soviet radio broadcasts to spies in the western world between 1945 and 1970, even tho those broadcasts were encrypted - the traffic groups told MI5 exactly what type of spy the traffic was for (GRU, KGB, singleton etc) and how many other spies he was running. MI5 was able to estimate that tehre was 400 spies active in the UK during the 1950s that hadnt been discovered previously, and that figure was later confirmed by a defector.
MI5 developed this in the 1950s, and called it Special Facilities. All it required at the start was a modification to the phone - a single washer, and the phone could be used as a surveillence device. Later versions enabled activation using high frequency radio waves to activate the telephones microphone and required no modification to the phone itself.
Survellience was also carried out against embassy cypher machines using unshielded telephone cables picking up eletromagnetic emissions from the cypher machines, in many cases enabling the reading of both the en clair message and the cypher material.
None of this was admissable in a UK court. Phone tap evidence still isnt.
None of these are sold in the UK, and only Sky has their own box which is linked to their subscription service. A second hand Tivo and subscription from when they were sold in the UK can run to many hundreds of pounds on Ebay, much more than a WMC system.
So they should just give up?
Why is this sort of comment always very near the top of slashdot comments in all stories to do with a P2P user being convicted of copyright infringement? Wheres the comments denouncing the act of copyright infringement that took place? This person broke some laws and is being punished for it, and the top thing on slashdot is how to avoid being caught. Wonderful.
It was the X-33 VenturStar and was cancelled in 2001 due to performance issues. They couldnt get the composite fuel tanks to work correctly and a nonecomposite version was too heavy.
The autons were in London, as was Roses home. The London Eye gives it away! The Gas creatures were also in London.
And the website blindly accepted the resultant request back with no issues. This was a website problem regardless of what happened elsewhere.
Peer to Peer applications can be sold or used for both legal and illegal purposes, ethical and unethical purposes. Same goes for word processors. Webservers. Ftp servers. Linux. Anything. Why should we concern ourselves with whether one particular subset of products are being used for ethical or unethical purposes? We shouldnt restrict these companies at all, what we should do is raise the concerns to a public level and let the individual decide if they want to do business with these companies in any form. The western world is after all a capitalist one.
Yes, British Airways 747 caught in a ash cloud from an erupting volcano. Glided for 14 minutes after its engines failed due to ash ingestion. Restarted fine after exiting the ash cloud, but had a hairy landing due to sandblasting on the windscreen.
Cement doesnt come from Portland, its just named Portland cement because the effect it was used to create was that of well used stone from Portland in the Victorian times. Here endeth the history lesson.
- 1970 - DC-9 ditches near St Maarten, out of 63 on board, 23 die and the rest survived.
- 1996 - Ethipian Airways 767 hijacked, runs out of fuel off the coast of the Comoros and ditches, 117 die out of 165.
Thats just two, there are many incidents dating back years.Airbus is likewise trying to get EU funding for the 350 (which is a 787 clone), but it is illegal per a deal that clinton cut (basically allow Airbus one last gov. funded, but then no more). What is interesting is that Airbus is still getting subsidies even though they (and american gov.) say otherwise. Roughly, we acted tough for the last 5 years, but the EU gov. is still subsidizing it via low-key approachs. But you we are now proclaiming a victory (kind of like Sadaam proclaiming that he won against us).
This is completely wrong. The US and the EU agreed in 1992 (the Trans Atlantic Aerospace Agreement) that launch aid was limited to 33% of hte projects cost, funded at Government borrowing rate + 1% and was capped relative to the manufacturers gross income at any one time. Airbus has simply been using LEGAL funding under that agreement (which was available to all manufacturers on both sides of the Atlantic). Noone has claimed that Airbus hasnt received loans from the EU governments.
On October 6th, 2004 the US withdrew from this agreement but it contains a 12 month termination clause, allowing the EU to offer funding for the A350 program. EADS, the main Airbus shareholder, has already said that it will forgoe launch aid on the A350 and fund it entirely inhouse.
And the XB-70 was cancelled for budget reasons. So no, I dont think it was doable even on a military budget :)
Its happened quite a few times. Air Transat Flight 236 ran out of fuel over the atlantic ocean, and the pilots managed to glide the aircraft (with 306 passengers and crew) to a successful unpowered touchdown in the Azores. This incident holds the record for the longest glide by a widebodied aircraft (19 minutes or 120KM). Aircraft do not 'drop like rocks'.
You do realise that they dont just remove the warhead, duct tape the payload to the top and launch it, dont you? These laucnhers are stripped down and overhauled before they are used. Besides, if you see my earlier post, it looks to be a computer problem involving stage separation rather than a mechanical failure.
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Looks like it was another controller foulup that stopped a command from being issued to shut down stage 1 and seperate the upper stack, and causing a reentry of the entire package.