With this many IP addresses, there's no reason why every connection can't be given 255 (or more) IPs. For example, I connect with my cable modem. Where's the hurt in giving me 255 IPs to use? If this is the standard, filtering shouldn't be any problem. And say I've got 10 computers on a LAN. Rather than use a NAT, I can simply assign every machine their own IP
Thats part of the point. The smallest range that can be given out and certain things till work is a/64, which is more IP addresses than you ever need. Basically, with that you never need to give anything on your lan an IP address because, using radvd, each device assigns itself an ip address using the prefix (as given out by the radvd server, as well as a default route) and tacks on its own MAC address to the end, creating a unique IPv6 address (unless you are using ubercheap nics which have a single MAC for multiple cards, which was never supposed to happen).
Thus everyone under an ISP will be getting more IPs than they will ever use, theoretically. The only issue is that IPv6 addresses are not designed to be movable between ISPs, so you cannot take your/64 with you. This is because it is designed to be easily routed, using the first 64bits of the address.
Well, all I can say is this: No I didnt vote for my UN representative, but I did partake in the vote for the current government, and THAT is who is being represented, and myself by proxy.
You do seem to be a reasonable person (and i have noticed that neither of us have resorted to name calling or insults yet, does that mean we have transcended slashdot?), so if you want to discuss this further, please do email me. I could do with an informed and educated discussion partner for once in a while.
Its up to you, the email address is RichardPrice at Coldfire dot cx.
The Soviet Union was an oppresive anti-human totalitarian regime that committed a series of atrocities against both its own citizens and other nations
The US was jsut as oppressive and anti-human as the USSR, it just happened to do it via puppet regimes and in the name of acting-against-communism. The US hated the Soviet way of life, and the communist stance, and THAT is why the USSR hated the US, because it felt threatened. Make no mistake, I do not deny that communism is far worse than capitalism, but we are not talking about that here, we are talking about what went on in the Cuban missile crisis.
Because of its nature, its actions to oppose the U.S. were untenable. Because of its own nature, U.S. actions to oppose the USSR were tenable.
No, hostile actions by one government to another are never ever EVER justified. Yes the soviets did bad things, but damn, the US and most of the western world did bad things too. Only it did them in the name of good.
not that many Europeans seem to have any sense of gratitude for the sacrifices the U.S. made three times in the 20th century to save Europe from the vile leaders and philosophies it spawned
I will take this moment to point out that I do personally feel gratitude for what the americans of the 1940s did for us, but there is no way you can continue to use that good will for ever. The US has done enough in the past 50 years to gain a bad name for itself.
Oh and I might add that the US made us europeans pay for everything we purchased off of the US in WW1 and WW2. We are still paying off war loans now. Infact, you only entered into the european conflict in WW2 because Germany declared war on you, thus making the hard decision for the US. Up until that point, the most you did was allow your destroyers to escort american convoys to Ireland (and even then, you had made agreements with the german ambassador that the convoys would be brightly marked as american and would not fall prey to Uboat attacks, and they didnt, at least not until germany declared war on the US).
But, now that they're fat and happy, Europeans seems to think that the U.S. was as much of an oppressor as the Soviets. If they doubt what they owe to the U.S., let them go to Buchenwald and Auschwitz.
We are far from fat and happy. You try being fought over for 50 years, it gives quite a strain on you. We have paid for what we owe to the US, and we have no need to roll over like puppy dogs every time the US wants to do something. If the US thinks its any better than the Soviet Union, or any other non-nazi (I will not ever compare someone to a nazi, they were evil and should be learnt from) oppressive state, then please send your school kids on a trip to Guatanamo Bay and Camp Charlie (formerly Camp X-ray). Then tell me that you are not oppressive, if you were then why are these people being kept in conditions which not only violate international law, but the laws of your own freedom-is-everything land.
Every terrorist that the UK has bought to justice (Lockerbie bombings - mainly US dead, and a good portion of a scottish town - tried in a civilian court of law, with council and guidance, and sentanced by that court of law to serve time in a civilian prison) (IRA terrorists - killed many hundreds of British troops, and killed many thousands of Northern Ireland citizens - tried, convicted and sentanced by a civilian court of law, and serve their time in civilian prisons) has been done so through using the civilian justice system, is the US civilian justice system not up to the match or something?
I will also take this time to point out that the US demanded (and got, unfortunately) immunity for its peace keeping troops in a UN Bill which held member nations UN troops responsible in an International court of law for acts of genocide or war crimes they commit. If the US is so squeeky clean then why did it require this immunity? Surely its troops do no wrong? And why, while holding so many f
The missiles installed by the Soviets in Cuba were no sham. They carries nuclear warheads and could reach much of the eastern U.
Never said they werent. I jsut said that the reason for them being there wasnt what everyone thought they were.
There is no reason why the U.S. should have acquiesced to this threat simply because the U.S. has similar weapons stationed in Turkey. The fovernment of the U.S., and every other country, has a moral obligation to do what is necessary to protect its citizens. Kennedy would have defaulted on his moral responsibilities and merited impeachment if he didn't act to remove those missiles.
No there isnt any reason, but why wasnt the international world so outraged by teh US missiles in turkey? Oh sorry, thats because the UN was a sham back then, and pretty much still is. It was controlled by the US and those countries that had a vested interest in placating the US, and you can tell that when the US doesnt get its own way it has a hissy fit (see the latest Iraq war and the french and german opposition).
Military competitions like the Cold War aren't about "playing fair"; they're about winning
Precisely, the US had the wool pulled over their eyes, and the Soviets got away with a 5 year lead in ICBM technology. That won them enough to be able to pull missiles out of Cuba and still feel safe, and also had the added bonus of having the US remove missiles from Turkey, and promise not to invade cuba. Why then didnt the Soviets balance things and stop their ICBM program? Because they had what the US was developing, so why should they have given it up? As you stated, alls fair in love and war.
(Getting your history from talk radio these day?)
No, im getting my information from research on the subject, with military conflicts being a personal interest of mine. I read books, you know, those things kept in book stores, or libraries. They predate the internet you know, and quite often are the best source to look for information.
My information comes from 100 hours or more of cross referencing, looking (with an interpreter) at files within the soviet registry in Moscow, looking at documents within the US library of congress, and other places, including talking to people who took part in the sham on both sides. The US didnt have the lead they thought, the Cuban missile crisis was a stage managed sham to fool the US into beleiving they had the technological lead, and it worked.
God knows, the US have used the same type of thing in the past to do the same, and go further. The vietnam conflict? The US got involved in a military way when the North attacked a US patrol boat. Except the boat in question wasnt even in the same area at the time, and it has been admitted that it was a ruse to get Congress to agree to putting troops onto the ground.
Heh, the Cuban Missile Crisis eh? Yes, good old story that. The Russians actually pretty much stagemanaged it, and in any case you could say they were justified in placing missiles in cuba, as the US had missiles in Turkey, pretty much the same distance away.
The Russians needed the Cuban missile crisis to convince the US that they had no viable ICBMs or long range missiles, only short range ones capable of hitting the US mainland from places like Cuba.
US intelligence backed this up and confirmed that the Russians had no long range capability. Boy, how wrong they were! The Russians had better Long Range capability than the US, and the "intelligence" that the CIA etc were gathering was stage managed stuff from the russians (Stuff like dummy impact craters being made in test rangesshowing missiles wildly off target, more than the needed gyroscopes in the missiles, jsut to make the operatives think they were needed and lower tech than the US ones.).
In all, the Soviets won the cuban missile crisis. They convinced the US that they had no long range capability, while at the same time constructing an agreement that the US would not support an invasion of cuba, bonus! The US realised they had been had when the first satilites went up for a look sometime thereafter, and saw the real test ranges with the suprising accurate impact craters, but they couldnt do anything at that point.
The cuban missile crisis was all a big sham, stage managed on both sides to their own agendas.
To say certain regimes have no right to exist does not mean that anyone has a carte blanche to remove those regimes.
Plus it was built from (allegedly) stolen plans to the concorde.
This is a common urban myth. While the russians did steal the concordes plans, and the two planes came out similar, they are actually totally different aircraft. The design of the two is different, and both teams came up with different solutions to the problems involved.
Interesting story tho: The French became aware that a russian was trying to bribe a french official to provide them with tyre rubber scrappings from the runway where the concorde was being flight tested. The french decided to have some fun, and had some chemists come up with a substance not far from silly putty but firmer. They had this official hand it over, and apparently the russians spent months trying to use this substance for their own aircraft (not specifically the TU-144, as it was already flying).
There is a problem with this in the UK tho, and its fairly well hidden.
If you transfer your number to another providor, and expect calls to your phone from the same network to be cheaper (eg, orange to orange is usually cheap etc) then you may be suprised.
Some providors treat these numbers as external to their network, even tho you are on one of their billing plans and make calls via their network. This means that callers to your phone from the same network will get charged higher rates as if they were calling a different network (eg orange to tmobile).
This is because the portability within the UK is more of a fudge than anything else, and the numbers are not actually transfered between networks, the providors just have to allow another network to use it.
Seriously?! Well, I have never beleived that a company would do the "open source thing" like this before, mucho kudos to you people, you certainly changed my mind about you Bruce.
The only "moving through" is from our main DB to our replicated slave reader DBs, but they are typically only 0 to 1 seconds behind reality, so that's not an issue.
Ahh finally a place to ask this, I have noticed something strange that I have up until now, put down to out of sync databases. Periodically I view the front page of slashdot and get a list of articles in different sections in the boxes i have chosen (Developers and Ask Slashdot), and then I can refresh the page and some of the newer stories in the lists will disappear, only to come back at random intervals. This will continue to happen for about 30 minutes until they remain.
I have tried this from different locations, ISPs and with and without caches in place. It still happens:/
Yup. That's the only thing P2P is good for: downloading copyrighted files. Certainly no one like me would use it to share GPLed software.
Somehow I'm sure Icarus cares not about that distinction.
Guns. Some people enjoy them as a hobby. They also have illegal uses, but the guns themselves are not illegal. Except, do they allow them on the campus?
Since when has a company never covered its ass if it could? Do you really think MS had a plan in mind when it purchased the license? Hell no, for all it knew SCO could have gone on to claim the BSD code as well, so they covered their backs by buying a license.
No, instead it gave itself enough flexibility in the language to do what it wanted to do "within the law."
The problem with that view tho, especially as it seems that it is the one that the US and the UK followed anyway, is that it was a UN resolution, bought by UN members. This in no means gives a member nation permission to go running off and do what they want to uphold it. No, it requires the UN to act for any actions laid out in the resolutions to be deemed legal and within international law.
What the UN did was akin to a judge making a judgement, and what the UK and US did was akin to a lynch mob carrying out the actions of that judgement, instead of the police or the authorities.
Yes, the UN was not acting at the time, but what evidence was there to say that the UN wouldnt have acted somehow in the near future, similarly or not? Did it require an illegitimate action by third parties? No. The fact that the UK and US did this, whether or not in good faith, worries me that a precident has been set.
Does this potential precident give China authority to liberate the prisoners of Guatanamo Bay? Does it? Maybe, maybe not.
In this "civilized" world, nations do NOT attack other nations unless in self defence. And there is no way that this can be called self defense. More people die in your "War on Drugs" and homelessness everyday than in threats propagated by these nations, look closer to home please.
watched Jay Leno for a while and he just wouldn't quit with jokes about the space station mir and how it was falling apart.
I hate it when people do this! Yes, Mir was falling apart, but it was nearly 10 years over its designed life (I think, tho it may have been 14, not quite sure). It was growing in ways that were never intended when designed, it had new modules that were never in its origional plan. It housed many more crews than intended, it had multiple systems upgrades that had to be done onsite.
It was TRUELY a good peice of space kit, seriously. It went where the designers never intended it to go: International Relation Builder.
I actually tried the steak thing while doing Science at college level. It works.
We used a standard sized sirloin steak, in a glass bowl and a litre of normal Coke, left it covered in a normal 22 deg c room over the weekend, and on monday morning all that was left was some really icky coke and scum on the surface.
Sometimes it pays to try out some of this stuff, if you can. This was cheap and simple to try, so I tried it. Oh and all this was before I was even on the Internet.
Thats the CIA ( Foreign aspect only, not allowed to gather intelligence domestically).
FBI is domestic.
NSA is anything it damn well pleases. I dont know if it was closed, but there was a loophole in the lawsthat set it up which basically said that no laws applied to the NSA unless they specifically mention the NSA within the law. NSA is both domestic and foreign, and can cover anything from terrorism to lil old granny ripping off the IRS if its bored one day.
I know what you mean, but i wasnt even using the suspend function, i jsut enabled APM for the automatic power off at the end of a shutdown. The mouse cursor was going crazy, and in the end i decided that I couldnt live with it, but also i couldnt live with no auto shutdown.
The latter scheme seemed dubious; the chain-letter like WARNING on the machine, and the insertion sensors on card slots I can't see allowing something jammed that far into them. Plus this was at a gas station deep in suburbia where hanging around the ATM would be suspicious, and where the ATM was in a corner making its use a complete screen of the keyboard.
This scam is called the lebanese loop, and involves installing a thin bit of wire into the card slot, which jams the card in there. This of course stops the ATM from actually doing anything, but a kind gentleman behind you suggests that maybe you should input your PIN a second time. While he is shoulder surfing. This of course doesnt work, and the ATM refuses to give your card back, mainly because it actually cant:)
Then you give up, wander into the bank to complain, and he has extracted your card (easy if you know how with these things) and run off to another ATM in the locality to quickly drain your account of everything he can get.
This scam has been ran a number of times in my town, and people keep getting caught out, even tho there are now massive warnings on the ATMs.
I enabled APM on my laptop (IBM thinkpad r31) after running gentoo for about 3 weeks. Up until that time i hadnt wanted to recompile the kernel.
After booting for the first time with APM activated, the mouse cursor in any window manager would, randomly and several times a session, jump to the top right hand corner of the screen, and open random menus or close random windows.
Very very annoying. I gave up after a while and unfortunatly went back to windows (I was enjoying my first X windows install for 3 years). If anyone knows of a fix for this, id gladly reinstall and try stuff:)
Don't get me started on Dreamweaver. It produces lousy code. For a start, it has "trendy" lower case tags. Caps are there for a reason
Capitals are not there for a reason, and they go against the xhtml1.0 standard. Use uppercase tags and you are breaking the standards that so many people on slashdot want you to adhere to.
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With this many IP addresses, there's no reason why every connection can't be given 255 (or more) IPs. For example, I connect with my cable modem. Where's the hurt in giving me 255 IPs to use? If this is the standard, filtering shouldn't be any problem. And say I've got 10 computers on a LAN. Rather than use a NAT, I can simply assign every machine their own IP
Thats part of the point. The smallest range that can be given out and certain things till work is a /64, which is more IP addresses than you ever need. Basically, with that you never need to give anything on your lan an IP address because, using radvd, each device assigns itself an ip address using the prefix (as given out by the radvd server, as well as a default route) and tacks on its own MAC address to the end, creating a unique IPv6 address (unless you are using ubercheap nics which have a single MAC for multiple cards, which was never supposed to happen).
Thus everyone under an ISP will be getting more IPs than they will ever use, theoretically. The only issue is that IPv6 addresses are not designed to be movable between ISPs, so you cannot take your /64 with you. This is because it is designed to be easily routed, using the first 64bits of the address.
Well, all I can say is this: No I didnt vote for my UN representative, but I did partake in the vote for the current government, and THAT is who is being represented, and myself by proxy.
You do seem to be a reasonable person (and i have noticed that neither of us have resorted to name calling or insults yet, does that mean we have transcended slashdot?), so if you want to discuss this further, please do email me. I could do with an informed and educated discussion partner for once in a while.
Its up to you, the email address is RichardPrice at Coldfire dot cx.
The Soviet Union was an oppresive anti-human totalitarian regime that committed a series of atrocities against both its own citizens and other nations
The US was jsut as oppressive and anti-human as the USSR, it just happened to do it via puppet regimes and in the name of acting-against-communism. The US hated the Soviet way of life, and the communist stance, and THAT is why the USSR hated the US, because it felt threatened. Make no mistake, I do not deny that communism is far worse than capitalism, but we are not talking about that here, we are talking about what went on in the Cuban missile crisis.
Because of its nature, its actions to oppose the U.S. were untenable. Because of its own nature, U.S. actions to oppose the USSR were tenable.
No, hostile actions by one government to another are never ever EVER justified. Yes the soviets did bad things, but damn, the US and most of the western world did bad things too. Only it did them in the name of good.
not that many Europeans seem to have any sense of gratitude for the sacrifices the U.S. made three times in the 20th century to save Europe from the vile leaders and philosophies it spawned
I will take this moment to point out that I do personally feel gratitude for what the americans of the 1940s did for us, but there is no way you can continue to use that good will for ever. The US has done enough in the past 50 years to gain a bad name for itself.
Oh and I might add that the US made us europeans pay for everything we purchased off of the US in WW1 and WW2. We are still paying off war loans now. Infact, you only entered into the european conflict in WW2 because Germany declared war on you, thus making the hard decision for the US. Up until that point, the most you did was allow your destroyers to escort american convoys to Ireland (and even then, you had made agreements with the german ambassador that the convoys would be brightly marked as american and would not fall prey to Uboat attacks, and they didnt, at least not until germany declared war on the US).
But, now that they're fat and happy, Europeans seems to think that the U.S. was as much of an oppressor as the Soviets. If they doubt what they owe to the U.S., let them go to Buchenwald and Auschwitz.
We are far from fat and happy. You try being fought over for 50 years, it gives quite a strain on you. We have paid for what we owe to the US, and we have no need to roll over like puppy dogs every time the US wants to do something. If the US thinks its any better than the Soviet Union, or any other non-nazi (I will not ever compare someone to a nazi, they were evil and should be learnt from) oppressive state, then please send your school kids on a trip to Guatanamo Bay and Camp Charlie (formerly Camp X-ray). Then tell me that you are not oppressive, if you were then why are these people being kept in conditions which not only violate international law, but the laws of your own freedom-is-everything land.
Every terrorist that the UK has bought to justice (Lockerbie bombings - mainly US dead, and a good portion of a scottish town - tried in a civilian court of law, with council and guidance, and sentanced by that court of law to serve time in a civilian prison) (IRA terrorists - killed many hundreds of British troops, and killed many thousands of Northern Ireland citizens - tried, convicted and sentanced by a civilian court of law, and serve their time in civilian prisons) has been done so through using the civilian justice system, is the US civilian justice system not up to the match or something?
I will also take this time to point out that the US demanded (and got, unfortunately) immunity for its peace keeping troops in a UN Bill which held member nations UN troops responsible in an International court of law for acts of genocide or war crimes they commit. If the US is so squeeky clean then why did it require this immunity? Surely its troops do no wrong? And why, while holding so many f
The missiles installed by the Soviets in Cuba were no sham. They carries nuclear warheads and could reach much of the eastern U.
Never said they werent. I jsut said that the reason for them being there wasnt what everyone thought they were.
There is no reason why the U.S. should have acquiesced to this threat simply because the U.S. has similar weapons stationed in Turkey. The fovernment of the U.S., and every other country, has a moral obligation to do what is necessary to protect its citizens. Kennedy would have defaulted on his moral responsibilities and merited impeachment if he didn't act to remove those missiles.
No there isnt any reason, but why wasnt the international world so outraged by teh US missiles in turkey? Oh sorry, thats because the UN was a sham back then, and pretty much still is. It was controlled by the US and those countries that had a vested interest in placating the US, and you can tell that when the US doesnt get its own way it has a hissy fit (see the latest Iraq war and the french and german opposition).
Military competitions like the Cold War aren't about "playing fair"; they're about winning
Precisely, the US had the wool pulled over their eyes, and the Soviets got away with a 5 year lead in ICBM technology. That won them enough to be able to pull missiles out of Cuba and still feel safe, and also had the added bonus of having the US remove missiles from Turkey, and promise not to invade cuba. Why then didnt the Soviets balance things and stop their ICBM program? Because they had what the US was developing, so why should they have given it up? As you stated, alls fair in love and war.
(Getting your history from talk radio these day?)
No, im getting my information from research on the subject, with military conflicts being a personal interest of mine. I read books, you know, those things kept in book stores, or libraries. They predate the internet you know, and quite often are the best source to look for information.
My information comes from 100 hours or more of cross referencing, looking (with an interpreter) at files within the soviet registry in Moscow, looking at documents within the US library of congress, and other places, including talking to people who took part in the sham on both sides. The US didnt have the lead they thought, the Cuban missile crisis was a stage managed sham to fool the US into beleiving they had the technological lead, and it worked.
God knows, the US have used the same type of thing in the past to do the same, and go further. The vietnam conflict? The US got involved in a military way when the North attacked a US patrol boat. Except the boat in question wasnt even in the same area at the time, and it has been admitted that it was a ruse to get Congress to agree to putting troops onto the ground.
Heh, the Cuban Missile Crisis eh? Yes, good old story that. The Russians actually pretty much stagemanaged it, and in any case you could say they were justified in placing missiles in cuba, as the US had missiles in Turkey, pretty much the same distance away.
The Russians needed the Cuban missile crisis to convince the US that they had no viable ICBMs or long range missiles, only short range ones capable of hitting the US mainland from places like Cuba.
US intelligence backed this up and confirmed that the Russians had no long range capability. Boy, how wrong they were! The Russians had better Long Range capability than the US, and the "intelligence" that the CIA etc were gathering was stage managed stuff from the russians (Stuff like dummy impact craters being made in test rangesshowing missiles wildly off target, more than the needed gyroscopes in the missiles, jsut to make the operatives think they were needed and lower tech than the US ones.).
In all, the Soviets won the cuban missile crisis. They convinced the US that they had no long range capability, while at the same time constructing an agreement that the US would not support an invasion of cuba, bonus! The US realised they had been had when the first satilites went up for a look sometime thereafter, and saw the real test ranges with the suprising accurate impact craters, but they couldnt do anything at that point.
The cuban missile crisis was all a big sham, stage managed on both sides to their own agendas.
To say certain regimes have no right to exist does not mean that anyone has a carte blanche to remove those regimes.
Plus it was built from (allegedly) stolen plans to the concorde.
This is a common urban myth. While the russians did steal the concordes plans, and the two planes came out similar, they are actually totally different aircraft. The design of the two is different, and both teams came up with different solutions to the problems involved.
Interesting story tho: The French became aware that a russian was trying to bribe a french official to provide them with tyre rubber scrappings from the runway where the concorde was being flight tested. The french decided to have some fun, and had some chemists come up with a substance not far from silly putty but firmer. They had this official hand it over, and apparently the russians spent months trying to use this substance for their own aircraft (not specifically the TU-144, as it was already flying).
There is a problem with this in the UK tho, and its fairly well hidden.
If you transfer your number to another providor, and expect calls to your phone from the same network to be cheaper (eg, orange to orange is usually cheap etc) then you may be suprised.
Some providors treat these numbers as external to their network, even tho you are on one of their billing plans and make calls via their network. This means that callers to your phone from the same network will get charged higher rates as if they were calling a different network (eg orange to tmobile).
This is because the portability within the UK is more of a fudge than anything else, and the numbers are not actually transfered between networks, the providors just have to allow another network to use it.
Should they also compile everything for Windows for free too?
Not at all, im willing to pay. When did i say i wasnt?
Including the Windows version? I keep trying it and then going back to other commercial packages because the interface is so damn auwful.
Seriously?! Well, I have never beleived that a company would do the "open source thing" like this before, mucho kudos to you people, you certainly changed my mind about you Bruce.
The only "moving through" is from our main DB to our replicated slave reader DBs, but they are typically only 0 to 1 seconds behind reality, so that's not an issue.
Ahh finally a place to ask this, I have noticed something strange that I have up until now, put down to out of sync databases. Periodically I view the front page of slashdot and get a list of articles in different sections in the boxes i have chosen (Developers and Ask Slashdot), and then I can refresh the page and some of the newer stories in the lists will disappear, only to come back at random intervals. This will continue to happen for about 30 minutes until they remain.
I have tried this from different locations, ISPs and with and without caches in place. It still happens :/
Can you shed any light on this?
Any idea of the author or title of this one? Sounds interesting, worth a read!
Yup. That's the only thing P2P is good for: downloading copyrighted files. Certainly no one like me would use it to share GPLed software. Somehow I'm sure Icarus cares not about that distinction.
Guns. Some people enjoy them as a hobby. They also have illegal uses, but the guns themselves are not illegal. Except, do they allow them on the campus?
Since when has a company never covered its ass if it could? Do you really think MS had a plan in mind when it purchased the license? Hell no, for all it knew SCO could have gone on to claim the BSD code as well, so they covered their backs by buying a license.
Use telnet with s/keys :)
Yes, they can still monitor the connection and potentially hijack it, but still.....
No, instead it gave itself enough flexibility in the language to do what it wanted to do "within the law."
The problem with that view tho, especially as it seems that it is the one that the US and the UK followed anyway, is that it was a UN resolution, bought by UN members. This in no means gives a member nation permission to go running off and do what they want to uphold it. No, it requires the UN to act for any actions laid out in the resolutions to be deemed legal and within international law.
What the UN did was akin to a judge making a judgement, and what the UK and US did was akin to a lynch mob carrying out the actions of that judgement, instead of the police or the authorities.
Yes, the UN was not acting at the time, but what evidence was there to say that the UN wouldnt have acted somehow in the near future, similarly or not? Did it require an illegitimate action by third parties? No. The fact that the UK and US did this, whether or not in good faith, worries me that a precident has been set.
Does this potential precident give China authority to liberate the prisoners of Guatanamo Bay? Does it? Maybe, maybe not.
In this "civilized" world, nations do NOT attack other nations unless in self defence. And there is no way that this can be called self defense. More people die in your "War on Drugs" and homelessness everyday than in threats propagated by these nations, look closer to home please.
watched Jay Leno for a while and he just wouldn't quit with jokes about the space station mir and how it was falling apart.
I hate it when people do this! Yes, Mir was falling apart, but it was nearly 10 years over its designed life (I think, tho it may have been 14, not quite sure). It was growing in ways that were never intended when designed, it had new modules that were never in its origional plan. It housed many more crews than intended, it had multiple systems upgrades that had to be done onsite.
It was TRUELY a good peice of space kit, seriously. It went where the designers never intended it to go: International Relation Builder.
I actually tried the steak thing while doing Science at college level. It works.
We used a standard sized sirloin steak, in a glass bowl and a litre of normal Coke, left it covered in a normal 22 deg c room over the weekend, and on monday morning all that was left was some really icky coke and scum on the surface.
Sometimes it pays to try out some of this stuff, if you can. This was cheap and simple to try, so I tried it. Oh and all this was before I was even on the Internet.
Anything in quantity is a poison. Hell you can die from drinking too much water.
Yes flouride is a poison, but it is also good for you in small doses, the kind of dose that they put in drinking water.
Thats the CIA ( Foreign aspect only, not allowed to gather intelligence domestically).
FBI is domestic.
NSA is anything it damn well pleases. I dont know if it was closed, but there was a loophole in the lawsthat set it up which basically said that no laws applied to the NSA unless they specifically mention the NSA within the law. NSA is both domestic and foreign, and can cover anything from terrorism to lil old granny ripping off the IRS if its bored one day.
I know what you mean, but i wasnt even using the suspend function, i jsut enabled APM for the automatic power off at the end of a shutdown. The mouse cursor was going crazy, and in the end i decided that I couldnt live with it, but also i couldnt live with no auto shutdown.
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The latter scheme seemed dubious; the chain-letter like WARNING on the machine, and the insertion sensors on card slots I can't see allowing something jammed that far into them. Plus this was at a gas station deep in suburbia where hanging around the ATM would be suspicious, and where the ATM was in a corner making its use a complete screen of the keyboard.
This scam is called the lebanese loop, and involves installing a thin bit of wire into the card slot, which jams the card in there. This of course stops the ATM from actually doing anything, but a kind gentleman behind you suggests that maybe you should input your PIN a second time. While he is shoulder surfing. This of course doesnt work, and the ATM refuses to give your card back, mainly because it actually cant :)
Then you give up, wander into the bank to complain, and he has extracted your card (easy if you know how with these things) and run off to another ATM in the locality to quickly drain your account of everything he can get.
This scam has been ran a number of times in my town, and people keep getting caught out, even tho there are now massive warnings on the ATMs.
I enabled APM on my laptop (IBM thinkpad r31) after running gentoo for about 3 weeks. Up until that time i hadnt wanted to recompile the kernel.
:)
After booting for the first time with APM activated, the mouse cursor in any window manager would, randomly and several times a session, jump to the top right hand corner of the screen, and open random menus or close random windows.
Very very annoying. I gave up after a while and unfortunatly went back to windows (I was enjoying my first X windows install for 3 years). If anyone knows of a fix for this, id gladly reinstall and try stuff
Don't get me started on Dreamweaver. It produces lousy code. For a start, it has "trendy" lower case tags. Caps are there for a reason
Capitals are not there for a reason, and they go against the xhtml1.0 standard. Use uppercase tags and you are breaking the standards that so many people on slashdot want you to adhere to.