Plutonium can go into other devices. The 'new owner' of this item would probably work on getting a smaller device up and running than refurb this one (its 12 feet long for crying out loud, hardly portable material there).
Shes 12 feet long and weighs in at 7600 pounds. I think shes one of those old ones that were physically large:) Seriously, nukes have shrunk so much in the past 50 years that you now have the terrifying possibility of a B-52 being able to carpet bomb an area using dozens of nuclear weapons, whereas they were origionally designed to carry two or three.
You can actually follow the entire evolution of several branches right there, with actual code. This is whats so cool about Opensource, you can actually go and do this sort of thing when they want you to. Yes this isnt a Linux example, but it would be good to show the actual derivation that goes on when projects share codebases, and how easy it is to track when it actually happens.
Actually, asking around here (I work for a vehicle management company) the tax is exactly the same as petrol tax, sorry for my mistake earlier. The reason they dont have the tax placed on the goods at point of sale is that these converted engines work jsut as well off of filtered vegetable oil as acquired from the back door of a takeaway shop (filtered to remove the floating food matter etc) and vegetable oil off the shell has a greater use as cooking oil. Therefor the best method is to rely on end users declaring usage to the IR. You are right in that pretty much noones heard of it, but in the same vein pretty much noones heard of converting cars to run off of vegetable oil. Theres a much greater uptake of converting to LNP, and if you ask those people then they also know that they need to pay a fuel tax.
The idea of a fuel tax in the UK is two fold, firstly to lessen the impact on the environment, and to a greater extent to discourage car usage on UK roads. Note that fuel tax does NOT apply to diesel fuel if that fuel is to be used for generators or farm machinery. The fuel used for that purpose is purchase from specialist suppliers, is 30% of the price of forecourt diesel and is also coloured with a dye to prevent untaxed usage in road vehicles (not that ive ever heard of a spot check for it - its supposed to be a permanent dye that MOT centers then check the engine for I think).
If you use Vegetable oil for motoring purposes, IE converted diesel engine to run on it (kits are about £300 with little loss of power to the engine), you are supposed to declare to the Inland Revenue the amount of oil used for this purpose and they will come back to you with a tax amount. The tax isnt as bad as petrol, but it more than doubles the price of a vegetable oil litre.
They arent just there for the lower price the euro brings, most people I know visit France because they put less tax on cigarettes and alcohol than the UK does, and quite a few trucking firms I know about register and tax their vehicles in France or Belgium, because UK taxes are horrendous. Basically the UK government is bleeding the taxpayer dry. (greater than 70% of the price of petrol goes to the government, this is the reason we pay 80p a litre - or $6 a gallon - supposidly to make us use our nongreen cars less. And guess what? Convert your car to run on vegetable oil, which is a hell of a lot environmentally friendly, and you still have to pay that tax.)
The US has, since WW2, always sought first strike capability. Otherwise, you explain the F-117 and the B-2. They exist for one sole purpose - first strike capability.
Yes, in that situation, the AV companies will quickly find it, but not before its done enough damage. And with all likelyhood, it would jsut point to another rooted host that will act as the conduit for the payload. What if the malware grabs its instructions from IRC? How about a file off of a p2p network? Programmers can get creative when needed:)
And of course theres always the threat of blackmail against the AV companies. 'You remove my controlling host, Im going to give it three failed contact attempts and then Im going to start deleting stuff'. The simple matter of the fact is that we can go backward and forward all day, theres no easy solution. The AV companies come up with something, the malware coders just do one better. (God I hope noone writes a zombie that does get its instructions off of a p2p network, Id feel auwful).
If you place copyrighted works in an area that others can get access to, without the copyright owners permission or other exclusion under the US copyright law, then you are commiting the act of unlawful distribution, which is covered under copyright infringement. If you dont want to risk prosecution, then dont commit illegal acts, simple enough. Its illegal to upload copyrighted files that you do not have permission to distribute EVEN IF YOU OWN THE ITEM. By the very act of making it available, you are infringing on copyright. Libraries are a special item, covered under various exclusions, and more so by the fact that only one person can borrow an item from a library at a time.
That handy copyright.gov link comes in handy yet again. Lets see the relevent FAQ item, shall we?
Is it legal to download works from peer-to-peer networks and if not, what is the penalty for doing so?
Uploading or downloading works protected by copyright without the authority of the copyright owner is an infringement of the copyright owner's exclusive rights of reproduction and/or distribution. Anyone found to have infringed a copyrighted work may be liable for statutory damages up to $30,000 for each work infringed and, if willful infringement is proven by the copyright owner, that amount may be increased up to $150, 000 for each work infringed. In addition, an infringer of a work may also be liable for the attorney's fees incurred by the copyright owner to enforce his or her rights.
And which Napster decision would that be? Everything Ive googled for has been that Napster was slapped down like a bitch for any movement of copyrighted material on its network, upload or download.
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But guess what? Lets see EXACTLY what the US Copyright Office has to say about the matter, eh?:
Is it legal to download works from peer-to-peer networks and if not, what is the penalty for doing so?
Uploading or downloading works protected by copyright without the authority of the copyright owner is an infringement of the copyright owner's exclusive rights of reproduction and/or distribution. Anyone found to have infringed a copyrighted work may be liable for statutory damages up to $30,000 for each work infringed and, if willful infringement is proven by the copyright owner, that amount may be increased up to $150, 000 for each work infringed. In addition, an infringer of a work may also be liable for the attorney's fees incurred by the copyright owner to enforce his or her rights.
Because for the RIAA, proving downloading is a lot harder than proving uploading. PRetty much the only way for the RIAA to prove downloading is to catch the user downloading hte file, and the best way to do that is offer the file themselves. Whoa, whole new can of worms and potentially grey legal areas.
Catching uploaders is as easy as seeing what they are sharing and ensure its copyrighted material that the RIAA owns. Bingo, a nice lot of evidence that didnt take a lot of work.
Downloading is illegal. Uploading is illegal. The ease of proof is the difference in lawsuits brought for these actions.
The reason the RIAA has managed to drown out the voices touting legal uses is possibly because illegal use of p2p has also drowned out legal use. When I log onto kazaa with a certain track in mind, if that tracks RIAA owned, then Im liable to find 100+ users sharing it, but if its a freely distributable track then Im lucky if i find 1 or 2 people sharing it.
Really the only p2p network that can truely tout a large legal userbase is Bittorrent, as its caught on with Linux Distributers and other such companies, but in the most part the vast experience you get is usage for illegal goods. Legal usage of P2P networks is much like a straight guy in a gay bar. Hes there for the drink and the music, but damn if he isnt in the minority.
Doesnt matter, the 'spam application' could create an outbound connection to the spammer, and get its payload that way. Unless the firewall blocks all outgoing connections, and thats a pretty interesting thing to do on a linux box, the firewall wont matter.
If the spams outgoing, you dont NEED to run anything on a privileged port, and standard user access will do. So long as the rooted system accepts mail in, even on a non standard port that you can configure your master host to connect to, then it can happily spam everyone else. The mailserver doesnt need to talk FROM port 25.
I actually get zero noticable latency on either landline or skype, and Im talking to someone on the far side of canada. Its interesting that you get noticable latency, but then wasnt there recent talk on here about the limits of bandwidth that Australia has?
I just started using Skype to talk to my girlfriend in Canada (Im in the UK), and I have to say that everything is painlessly easy to use. Installed and setup an account at either end within 5 minutes of the software download, no firewall reconfiguration, and call success first time. It Just Worked (tm).
Yes, having the thing attached to the PC all the time is a downside, but you cant have everything. For me it saves huge phonebills, so Im willing to put up with having to sit at my PC while im using it (like I wouldnt anyway, I have a webcam:) Try it, thats all I can recommend.
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Plutonium can go into other devices. The 'new owner' of this item would probably work on getting a smaller device up and running than refurb this one (its 12 feet long for crying out loud, hardly portable material there).
Shes 12 feet long and weighs in at 7600 pounds. I think shes one of those old ones that were physically large :) Seriously, nukes have shrunk so much in the past 50 years that you now have the terrifying possibility of a B-52 being able to carpet bomb an area using dozens of nuclear weapons, whereas they were origionally designed to carry two or three.
The plutoniums the hardest part to source.
Yes, because thats happened with Opera.
You can actually follow the entire evolution of several branches right there, with actual code. This is whats so cool about Opensource, you can actually go and do this sort of thing when they want you to. Yes this isnt a Linux example, but it would be good to show the actual derivation that goes on when projects share codebases, and how easy it is to track when it actually happens.
Actually, asking around here (I work for a vehicle management company) the tax is exactly the same as petrol tax, sorry for my mistake earlier. The reason they dont have the tax placed on the goods at point of sale is that these converted engines work jsut as well off of filtered vegetable oil as acquired from the back door of a takeaway shop (filtered to remove the floating food matter etc) and vegetable oil off the shell has a greater use as cooking oil. Therefor the best method is to rely on end users declaring usage to the IR. You are right in that pretty much noones heard of it, but in the same vein pretty much noones heard of converting cars to run off of vegetable oil. Theres a much greater uptake of converting to LNP, and if you ask those people then they also know that they need to pay a fuel tax.
The idea of a fuel tax in the UK is two fold, firstly to lessen the impact on the environment, and to a greater extent to discourage car usage on UK roads. Note that fuel tax does NOT apply to diesel fuel if that fuel is to be used for generators or farm machinery. The fuel used for that purpose is purchase from specialist suppliers, is 30% of the price of forecourt diesel and is also coloured with a dye to prevent untaxed usage in road vehicles (not that ive ever heard of a spot check for it - its supposed to be a permanent dye that MOT centers then check the engine for I think).
If you use Vegetable oil for motoring purposes, IE converted diesel engine to run on it (kits are about £300 with little loss of power to the engine), you are supposed to declare to the Inland Revenue the amount of oil used for this purpose and they will come back to you with a tax amount. The tax isnt as bad as petrol, but it more than doubles the price of a vegetable oil litre.
Like lephors being taken to a far away island to die together, gnome has joined with BSD.
They arent just there for the lower price the euro brings, most people I know visit France because they put less tax on cigarettes and alcohol than the UK does, and quite a few trucking firms I know about register and tax their vehicles in France or Belgium, because UK taxes are horrendous. Basically the UK government is bleeding the taxpayer dry. (greater than 70% of the price of petrol goes to the government, this is the reason we pay 80p a litre - or $6 a gallon - supposidly to make us use our nongreen cars less. And guess what? Convert your car to run on vegetable oil, which is a hell of a lot environmentally friendly, and you still have to pay that tax.)
Im getting it here. Same as all previous versions.
Name one empire that stretched from the western shores of Europe back around to the Western shores of Europe.
Easy. The British Empire.
The US has, since WW2, always sought first strike capability. Otherwise, you explain the F-117 and the B-2. They exist for one sole purpose - first strike capability.
Yes, in that situation, the AV companies will quickly find it, but not before its done enough damage. And with all likelyhood, it would jsut point to another rooted host that will act as the conduit for the payload. What if the malware grabs its instructions from IRC? How about a file off of a p2p network? Programmers can get creative when needed :)
And of course theres always the threat of blackmail against the AV companies. 'You remove my controlling host, Im going to give it three failed contact attempts and then Im going to start deleting stuff'. The simple matter of the fact is that we can go backward and forward all day, theres no easy solution. The AV companies come up with something, the malware coders just do one better. (God I hope noone writes a zombie that does get its instructions off of a p2p network, Id feel auwful).
That handy copyright.gov link comes in handy yet again. Lets see the relevent FAQ item, shall we?
Sources:
But guess what? Lets see EXACTLY what the US Copyright Office has to say about the matter, eh?:
And you want a link for that? Sure, here it is.
Because for the RIAA, proving downloading is a lot harder than proving uploading. PRetty much the only way for the RIAA to prove downloading is to catch the user downloading hte file, and the best way to do that is offer the file themselves. Whoa, whole new can of worms and potentially grey legal areas.
Catching uploaders is as easy as seeing what they are sharing and ensure its copyrighted material that the RIAA owns. Bingo, a nice lot of evidence that didnt take a lot of work.
Downloading is illegal. Uploading is illegal. The ease of proof is the difference in lawsuits brought for these actions.
The reason the RIAA has managed to drown out the voices touting legal uses is possibly because illegal use of p2p has also drowned out legal use. When I log onto kazaa with a certain track in mind, if that tracks RIAA owned, then Im liable to find 100+ users sharing it, but if its a freely distributable track then Im lucky if i find 1 or 2 people sharing it.
Really the only p2p network that can truely tout a large legal userbase is Bittorrent, as its caught on with Linux Distributers and other such companies, but in the most part the vast experience you get is usage for illegal goods. Legal usage of P2P networks is much like a straight guy in a gay bar. Hes there for the drink and the music, but damn if he isnt in the minority.
Doesnt matter, the 'spam application' could create an outbound connection to the spammer, and get its payload that way. Unless the firewall blocks all outgoing connections, and thats a pretty interesting thing to do on a linux box, the firewall wont matter.
If the spams outgoing, you dont NEED to run anything on a privileged port, and standard user access will do. So long as the rooted system accepts mail in, even on a non standard port that you can configure your master host to connect to, then it can happily spam everyone else. The mailserver doesnt need to talk FROM port 25.
According to this page it seems to already be available.
Already happens. Infact its a standard in modern CCTV systems of any size.
Start planning your own funeral then :)
- Hold suspects on terrorism charges for long periods of time or indefinately without trial
- Present secret evidence to the court, without the defendant or the public knowing what that evidence was or even that it was presented
Sources: Secret Courts and Detention LawI actually get zero noticable latency on either landline or skype, and Im talking to someone on the far side of canada. Its interesting that you get noticable latency, but then wasnt there recent talk on here about the limits of bandwidth that Australia has?
I just started using Skype to talk to my girlfriend in Canada (Im in the UK), and I have to say that everything is painlessly easy to use. Installed and setup an account at either end within 5 minutes of the software download, no firewall reconfiguration, and call success first time. It Just Worked (tm).
:) Try it, thats all I can recommend.
Yes, having the thing attached to the PC all the time is a downside, but you cant have everything. For me it saves huge phonebills, so Im willing to put up with having to sit at my PC while im using it (like I wouldnt anyway, I have a webcam