The effect of giving the Windows source code to China seems to have been that people in China used it to break into Google and tens of other major corporations.
Come again?
You mean Google is running on Microsoft Windows' code ???
No, I ain't trying to be funny. I just can not put the 2 and 2 together.
Having Windows code is one thing, cracking Google is another thing altogether.
They also require satellite capability so that removes the issue of terrorists, unless a state is ready to provide an access to their military satellites.
Do you know that countries ranging from Pakistan to Indonesia to Saudi Arabia to Malaysia to Libya to Iran to Bahrain all have their own satellites orbiting above?
What is there to stop them from lending a hand to the terrorists?
Couple with the fact that these rogue countries can always pretend that they know nothing about how their own satellites being used by the terrorists.
Some of the above listed countries have helped the terrorists by giving military training, teaching the terrorists how to handle explosive, making bombs, et cetera.
There are even documented cases where countries like Malaysia trained the terrorists in secret army bases deep inside their thick tropical jungle.
But, as usual, they have categorically denied any knowledge of the link between their military personnel with the terrorists.
Nobody can do anything to those rogue countries, certainly not UN, which has enlisted Malaysia in deploying "peace keeper troops" patroling the border in between Lebanon and Israel - with full knowledge that the Malaysian's so-called "peace keeper troops" would give aid to the Hizballah and other splinter mujahhedin groups which launch attacks on Israel's civilian population.
To lend a hand to the terrorists by giving them access to their satellites is even easier, with much deadly consequences.
In a perfect society, yes. But these idiots will see low sales and say "SEE? PIRATE'S SAPPIN MAH SALES!" And then they'll use that to justify even more restrictive DRM in future launches.
So... in a totally imperfect society, that game with an even more restrictive DRM will see its sale tanked even more, and they will yell "SEE? EVEN MORE PIRATES'S SAPPIN MAH SALES!"... rinse... repeat... until there is a game no one would buy.
And the company kaput. Killed by "phantom pirates".
Why not? Unless it has a new kind of radar stealth technology it should be somewhat easy to track since it's launch time is know and a orbit is somewhat easy to propagate.
Of course X-37B can be tracked, just like any satellite.:)
The thing is, X-37B is used as a "missile carrier", not the bomb itself.
So let's say US wants to strike Venezuela the X-37B doesn't have to go to Venezuela. It can launch or "drop" the missile over the Pacific ocean or Atlantic ocean or even over the African continent and the missile, with the help of GPS, would seek out a way to strike Venezuela thousands of miles away.
But of course the Pentagon can choose to manuever the X-37B right over Venezuela and aim the missile straight down, point blank.
IF Apple buys ARM, they can't just go in and start charging more to the competition since they rely on these chips for their mobile hardware.
I beg to differ.
They can always do this - having a "super version" of a chip that only Apple can use, the rest will get to enjoy the "crippled version" of the same chip - lower speed, less embedded RAM, less feature, wasting more power, et cetera.
For those of you that are unaware, the concern among Muslims about depicting Muhammad is based on a few hadith that warn against doing so to prevent idolatry. The worry is that any depiction could become the focus of worship, and the depiction itself could take the place of what it represents.
For those of you that are unaware, Mohammad himself is a fuckturd and his followers are even more fuckturds.
Speaking as an ex-Muslim I know. And that is why I left Islam.
No way I am going to waste my life following the teachings of a bunch of fuckturds.
Unlike the great job Phillip / Sony team did for the CD, they have led a big let down on the LCD.
Sony didn't even want to go LCD - they thought LCD TV is just a temporary fad !
And Phillips? They pulled out of the LCD business (production side) altogether and sold their 50% shares to LG of Korea.
Which resulted in the Koreans (Samsung and LG) became the de-facto leaders of LCD manufacturing business and there were no competition for couple of years.
With no competition there was no urge of improvement. All the Koreans were doing was building larger and larger plants to produce larger and larger panels, while still giving us UTTER CRAP in terms of resolutions.
It took them like 5 years before they even gave us the HD 720i resolution, 3 more years before the 1080i resolution and another 3 more years before HD 1080p became available !
And the Japanese aren't making progress either. Toshiba / Sharp / Panasonic were all very late into LCD. Instead of concentrating on LCD, the Japanese were exploring other options and they wasted almost half a decade before realize that LCD is the way to go.
For Muslims Mohammad isn't "a guy", he is their most sacred prophet.
For this ex-Muslim, that Mohammad is a nutcase.
That Mohammad went hiding in a cave, and when he came out, he told everyone that an angel met him there, and declared to him that he has become the "new prophet".
In modern world, that Mohammad will either be ignored, or thrown into a mental asylum.
I became a Muslim since my parents were Muslims. I was born into Islam.
However I chose to get out of that fanatical cult since I can't fanthom wasting my entire life - the life granted by God himself - following the teachings of a fucking fruitcase.
I know, I know, this message gonna be mod to oblivion, again.
"A region can be removed from the mergeable state through the MADV_UNMERGEABLE parameter (which immediately un-merges any merged pages from that region). Note that removing a region of pages through madvise can result in an EAGAIN error, as the operation could run out of memory during the un-merge process, potentially leading to even greater trouble (out-of-memory conditions)."
KSM *will* overcommit the memory as it is designed to do so. And please also be mindful that Murphy's Law always tends to hit when you least suspect it.
Listening to music and chewing gum are both things that dont really need your attention. Music comes from the heaphones weather or not you pay attention to it and chewing gum is a simple up - down motion that you make hundreds of times every day that does not really need attention either.
Posting to slashdot is the only thing that requires some amount of thinking.
Hmmm.... hmmmmmmmm....
Listening to music and chewing gum are both things that dont really need your attention.
Lemme see...
Music comes from the heaphones weather or not you pay attention to it
But... but... I need to pay attention to the BEATS so I can shake my head and shake my leg according to the BEATS !
You don't expect my body movement different from the music beat, do you?
and chewing gum is a simple up - down motion that you make hundreds of times every day that does not really need attention either.
Dunno about you, but if I chew without paying attention I might end up chewing my tongue or my lips or...
Painful, man !
Posting to slashdot is the only thing that requires some amount of thinking.
I hate to be the one to tell you this... but while looking at your code I think I stumbled on the reason you may feel like you're "stuck in the same old same old" these days. Every tasks ends with Goto 10. You should see a flowchart about that.
Keen observation !
Next time I'll use "goto 10" for the first task, "goto 11" for the second task, and so on.
Yes, you are chewing gum while listening to music and posting to Slashdot. How is this multitasking and not slacking?
Task 1: Chewing gum.
10 Chew Gum 20 Goto 10
Task 2: Listening to music
10 Hear Music 20 Shake head 30 Hymn a little bit 40 Shake leg 50 Goto 10
Task 3: Typing to Slashdot
10 Think of words to type 20 Search for the spelling of the word 30 Lift fingers 40 Use right fingers to hit the right keys 50 Eye look at screen 60 Check for typos 70 Check for grammar mistake 80 Goto 10
Slashdot Mirror
The effect of giving the Windows source code to China seems to have been that people in China used it to break into Google and tens of other major corporations.
Come again?
You mean Google is running on Microsoft Windows' code ???
No, I ain't trying to be funny. I just can not put the 2 and 2 together.
Having Windows code is one thing, cracking Google is another thing altogether.
Apparently those running the ISP - presumably geeks - know how to interpret the laws better than those who wrote the laws themselves.
They also require satellite capability so that removes the issue of terrorists, unless a state is ready to provide an access to their military satellites.
Do you know that countries ranging from Pakistan to Indonesia to Saudi Arabia to Malaysia to Libya to Iran to Bahrain all have their own satellites orbiting above?
What is there to stop them from lending a hand to the terrorists?
Couple with the fact that these rogue countries can always pretend that they know nothing about how their own satellites being used by the terrorists.
Some of the above listed countries have helped the terrorists by giving military training, teaching the terrorists how to handle explosive, making bombs, et cetera.
There are even documented cases where countries like Malaysia trained the terrorists in secret army bases deep inside their thick tropical jungle.
But, as usual, they have categorically denied any knowledge of the link between their military personnel with the terrorists.
Nobody can do anything to those rogue countries, certainly not UN, which has enlisted Malaysia in deploying "peace keeper troops" patroling the border in between Lebanon and Israel - with full knowledge that the Malaysian's so-called "peace keeper troops" would give aid to the Hizballah and other splinter mujahhedin groups which launch attacks on Israel's civilian population.
To lend a hand to the terrorists by giving them access to their satellites is even easier, with much deadly consequences.
I ain't engine expert nor volcanologist nor geologist, but I'd rather think more than twice before pouring sand into my car's engine.
Suffice to say that if my car engine dies, only the engine conks, the rest of my car don't break up in pieces.
But if an airplane's engines die, it'll crash, and everyone inside the plane gonna die with it.
That old British hippie is getting way too greedy.
... with some black canvas?
The Persians used carpets, not canvas, you insensitive clot !
Uhhh, the USA, France, Britain, Russia and China can already drop a nuclear bomb on anyone, anywhere on earth, within about 10 minutes.
10 minutes ??
Twenty years ago, I was running a 21" Viewsonic CRT 2560x1920. Now, their best 22" monitor (not TV, monitor) boasts only 1680x1050.
I am writing this on a computer with CRT. A 22" CRT with, you guess it, 2560 X 1920 resolution.
Reason is simple - I need the pixels to do perper CAD/CAM.
PS. I do feel your pain.
In a perfect society, yes. But these idiots will see low sales and say "SEE? PIRATE'S SAPPIN MAH SALES!" And then they'll use that to justify even more restrictive DRM in future launches.
So ... in a totally imperfect society, that game with an even more restrictive DRM will see its sale tanked even more, and they will yell "SEE? EVEN MORE PIRATES'S SAPPIN MAH SALES!" ... rinse ... repeat ... until there is a game no one would buy.
And the company kaput. Killed by "phantom pirates".
Why not? Unless it has a new kind of radar stealth technology it should be somewhat easy to track since it's launch time is know and a orbit is somewhat easy to propagate.
Of course X-37B can be tracked, just like any satellite. :)
The thing is, X-37B is used as a "missile carrier", not the bomb itself.
So let's say US wants to strike Venezuela the X-37B doesn't have to go to Venezuela. It can launch or "drop" the missile over the Pacific ocean or Atlantic ocean or even over the African continent and the missile, with the help of GPS, would seek out a way to strike Venezuela thousands of miles away.
But of course the Pentagon can choose to manuever the X-37B right over Venezuela and aim the missile straight down, point blank.
X-37 is, like the shuttle, meant to soft-land and be re-used
Not only that. Since it's unmanned space vehicle, it's designed to stay in orbit for as long as 300 days.
Which means, within that 300-day envelop, it can travel to any spot on earth in a 2-hour time frame to deliver a neuclear strike.
While existing ICBM definitely can achieve that task, they may be intercepted by anti-ICBM weapons that are already being deployed.
However, there is not that easy intercept the X-37B since it's on orbit all the time.
At least, not yet.
I heard that one of the mission for X-37B is to enable the Pentagon a within 2 hour attack vehicle anywhere on earth.
Which means, with X-37B, the United States of America can bomb anyone anywhere within a 2-hour envelop.
Including a nuclear strike.
Hmm...
ARM was founded by Apple and Acorn (of BBC Micro fame). During the 90s when Apple was in danger of going bust it sold off its stake in ARM.
Aha !
John Sculley ! Blame it all on John Sculley !!
But then, remember the NeXT inc ?
IF Apple buys ARM, they can't just go in and start charging more to the competition since they rely on these chips for their mobile hardware.
I beg to differ.
They can always do this - having a "super version" of a chip that only Apple can use, the rest will get to enjoy the "crippled version" of the same chip - lower speed, less embedded RAM, less feature, wasting more power, et cetera.
For those of you that are unaware, the concern among Muslims about depicting Muhammad is based on a few hadith that warn against doing so to prevent idolatry. The worry is that any depiction could become the focus of worship, and the depiction itself could take the place of what it represents.
For those of you that are unaware, Mohammad himself is a fuckturd and his followers are even more fuckturds.
Speaking as an ex-Muslim I know. And that is why I left Islam.
No way I am going to waste my life following the teachings of a bunch of fuckturds.
Do you know what causes the regression?
Phillip and Sony !
Unlike the great job Phillip / Sony team did for the CD, they have led a big let down on the LCD.
Sony didn't even want to go LCD - they thought LCD TV is just a temporary fad !
And Phillips? They pulled out of the LCD business (production side) altogether and sold their 50% shares to LG of Korea.
Which resulted in the Koreans (Samsung and LG) became the de-facto leaders of LCD manufacturing business and there were no competition for couple of years.
With no competition there was no urge of improvement. All the Koreans were doing was building larger and larger plants to produce larger and larger panels, while still giving us UTTER CRAP in terms of resolutions.
It took them like 5 years before they even gave us the HD 720i resolution, 3 more years before the 1080i resolution and another 3 more years before HD 1080p became available !
And the Japanese aren't making progress either. Toshiba / Sharp / Panasonic were all very late into LCD. Instead of concentrating on LCD, the Japanese were exploring other options and they wasted almost half a decade before realize that LCD is the way to go.
No, I don't hate lawyers.
I hate vultures disguised as lawyers.
For Muslims Mohammad isn't "a guy", he is their most sacred prophet.
For this ex-Muslim, that Mohammad is a nutcase.
That Mohammad went hiding in a cave, and when he came out, he told everyone that an angel met him there, and declared to him that he has become the "new prophet".
In modern world, that Mohammad will either be ignored, or thrown into a mental asylum.
I became a Muslim since my parents were Muslims. I was born into Islam.
However I chose to get out of that fanatical cult since I can't fanthom wasting my entire life - the life granted by God himself - following the teachings of a fucking fruitcase.
I know, I know, this message gonna be mod to oblivion, again.
The use of KSM isn't without risk:
"A region can be removed from the mergeable state through the MADV_UNMERGEABLE parameter (which immediately un-merges any merged pages from that region). Note that removing a region of pages through madvise can result in an EAGAIN error, as the operation could run out of memory during the un-merge process, potentially leading to even greater trouble (out-of-memory conditions). "
KSM *will* overcommit the memory as it is designed to do so. And please also be mindful that Murphy's Law always tends to hit when you least suspect it.
60 Check for typos
70 Check for grammar mistake
Some of us is not so fsusy.
I did make mistakes even with the error trapping codes !
Hymn, or hum a little bit?
Urgent notice to self: Typo checking function crashed !
The eyeball function needs thorough debugging !
Listening to music and chewing gum are both things that dont really need your attention. Music comes from the heaphones weather or not you pay attention to it and chewing gum is a simple up - down motion that you make hundreds of times every day that does not really need attention either.
Posting to slashdot is the only thing that requires some amount of thinking.
Hmmm.... hmmmmmmmm....
Listening to music and chewing gum are both things that dont really need your attention.
Lemme see ...
Music comes from the heaphones weather or not you pay attention to it
But... but... I need to pay attention to the BEATS so I can shake my head and shake my leg according to the BEATS !
You don't expect my body movement different from the music beat, do you?
and chewing gum is a simple up - down motion that you make hundreds of times every day that does not really need attention either.
Dunno about you, but if I chew without paying attention I might end up chewing my tongue or my lips or ...
Painful, man !
Posting to slashdot is the only thing that requires some amount of thinking.
Wait till you see I use the "gosub" command ! Muahahahaha !
I hate to be the one to tell you this ... but while looking at your code I think I stumbled on the reason you may feel like you're "stuck in the same old same old" these days. Every tasks ends with Goto 10. You should see a flowchart about that.
Keen observation !
Next time I'll use "goto 10" for the first task, "goto 11" for the second task, and so on.
Note to self: Need variety.
Isn't your last task really two tasks in one? I mean what're your left fingers doing eh??
Ahem, a delicate observation. Of course, it could mean you used your right (as opposed to wrong) fingers, but who knows what a slashdotter means
Mea Culpa.
Should have used the word "correct" instead of the word "right".
Sorry !
Yes, you are chewing gum while listening to music and posting to Slashdot.
How is this multitasking and not slacking?
Task 1: Chewing gum.
10 Chew Gum
20 Goto 10
Task 2: Listening to music
10 Hear Music
20 Shake head
30 Hymn a little bit
40 Shake leg
50 Goto 10
Task 3: Typing to Slashdot
10 Think of words to type
20 Search for the spelling of the word
30 Lift fingers
40 Use right fingers to hit the right keys
50 Eye look at screen
60 Check for typos
70 Check for grammar mistake
80 Goto 10
If that's not multitask, what is?