For decades, foreigners wanting to enter the USA have been obliged to state whether they are terrorists or not (the ubiquitous, humorous visa waiver also asks you to state whether you plan on engaging in immoral activites, hehe) - why should resident terrorists be allowed to operate under false flag ?
Living in Oslo, Norway, I have been watching this trend for some years. The number of shops selling physical CD's is steadily decreasing - either they close or they are converted to DVD- and/or game-shops. At the same time, the number of shops selling vinyl is increasing. Every self-respecting hifi-shop has turntables on display in their windows. And who even buys CD players anymore ? Some years ago, only niche-titles got a vinyl release. Now even chart-topping big names release on vinyl. This ain't a fad.
We will all live to see the death of the music CD. The vinyl will live on, as the sole medium for physical distribution. It will serve a distinct market - people with a keen interest in music, sound/hifi and/or collecting records. For these customers, portability and convenience is not high priority. Cover art and lyric booklets are. The music industry will embrace the trend, as piracy / copying will not be an issue. Vinyl rips are too inconvenient to ever threaten digitally distributed music.
The vinyl record has outlived the CD in all respects. Some of my oldest CD's - 20-25 years old - are being refused by my CD player. While I have vinyl records from '65 that sound just as fresh today. I buy 30-40 records a year, around 4 out of 5 on vinyl; I select the titles purely based on musical merit, and buy vinyl if available. Luckily bands within the genres I prefer almost always release on vinyl.
Tritium is rare, in the sense that it makes up 1 ppm of the hydrogen in the oceans. This has however proven to be a self-sustaining solar-powered equilibrium, ie. sea water will always reorganize itself to contain 1/1000 deuterium and 1/1000000 tritium. Which means we would have to use more power than the amount of solar power absorbed by the earth's entire ocean before we would even begin to see "squandered resources". So "artificial" fusion energy is in fact indirect solar energy.
Tritium is actually one of the required components for tritium-deuterium fusion. This has a much lower ignition temperature than deuterium-deuterium fusion, which is why the latter is at a purely theoretical stage until self-sustained tritium-deuterium fusion is attained.
Well, most of the non-US world shares a different view. The WWII was practically won. Japan would have conceded anyway, given a couple of months. With their navy and air force eradicated, they wouldn't pose a threat to anyone. Time was running out, and the US command realized this was their only chance to test the bomb on a live target. Hence the bombing of Hiroshima. Lyckily for the US, the Japanese didn't surrender after that, so they got to test another design as well - on Nagasaki.
2.) When queried for the NS record for somedomain.com or somedomain.net, their DNS is required to respond with the authoritative NS. Pretending themselves to be the authoritative NS is forgery; not very hard to prove illegal. Besides, if they choose to forge the authority, they will also have to relay each-and-every A record lookup under.com and.net, as everyone else will assume they are the sole authoritative server. Or, to cache every.com and.net address in existence. They would need some serious iron & bandwidth to pull off any of these two...
If this company was Boeing or General Motors, don't you think SCO would be quite eager to tell ? And why would such a company wish not to go public about this ? I wouldn't be the least surprised if this company was Microsoft - think of it, they probably have a few Linux boxen (if they didn't have any before, they could easily deploy a couple of installations just for this trick), and they wouldn't mind at all paying a few bucks to try to give SCO's claims more credibility. Going public about it would of course nullify this.
Joe Average is an easy victim for the countless malicious trojans floating around. Visiting a straight porn site is no crime. Being deceived by messages like "Install browser enhancement (OK/Cancel)" is no crime. I have removed countless porn-related trojans from friends' PC's. If someone wants to put kiddie porn on unsuspecting victims' computers, this is no hard task. Removing a trojan when your anti virus software detects it would be the sensible thing to do. If the trojan has downloaded contraband to your PC, it will still be there, but you have removed the proof that you didn't dowload this intentionally. I would say proving intentional downloading of child porn should be pretty hard.
This is higly off-topic, and will probably hurt my karma, but... I'm a kinda Slashdot newbie and couldn't find a way to post a privat message to you. I absolutely love your sig, and wonder : where does this quote originate from ?
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I think the term "developer" says more about what qualities you should be looking for in an employee than does "coder". In large, mission-critical projects, you don't want someone that is able to crank out thousands of lines of code per day, but someone who sees both the big picture and the details. Someone who has broad experience, has done sysadmin, network admin, assembly, higher level languages, design, testing, debugging, redesign, refactoring... and still lives and breathes for his profession. Someone who started programming at an early age, has 10+ years of experience, and still has a passion for his work, is IMHO the best developer.
This is surely part of Microsoft's Secure Computing Initiative... If we can't make software more secure, at least we can decrease the public's perception that it's insecure. See no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil.
What is at stake here is the quality of the education and freedom from monopolies. In my university days (Norwegian Institute of Technology, Trondheim), we did use some proprietary software (namely SunOS and Ingres), but there was no mention of these in the curriculum. The courses were named "Compiler Technology", "Programming Languages", "Operating Systems", "Algorithms & Data structures", "Database Systems" etc.; not "Using M$ Visual C++", ".Net Web Services", "Optimizing M$ SQL Server" etc. Not once were we forced to study or use software of any given brand. Seeing how some other educational institutions are tied in to specific brands and vendors, and how this affects the quality of the education, startles me. They no longer teach IT in general; they teach "Using ". Kerala; you cannot afford to fall in this trap !!
Spam filtering in mail clients is futile. The filtered messages still consume network bandwidth, CPU cycles and storage space on the MTA's and MDA's. Almost every spam message I have ever received had forged sender addresses, and were relayed through a third party MTA. An MTA should ONLY accept messages SENT BY or DESTINED TO users in their own domains. This way the spammers would be unable to hide their identities, and shutting down the offender's accounts would be easy. IMHO, blacklisting open relays is perfectly acceptable. Heck, we should even DNS-blackhole them out of existence !
The tally of Linux security issues, in addition to remotely exploitable ones, includes each and every buffer overflow bug which could allow a non-privileged local user to get root access, even ones not known to have been exploited. For Windows, the number indicates only remotely exploitable security holes, and only the ones publicly known. Ever seen Microsoft admit there is a scurity problem before it has been heavily exploited ?
Wake up, punks ! Don't You see how ridiculous this single-minded Microsoft-bashing makes You look ? Come on, face the facts ! Win2K is a terrific desktop OS. To me it has been as stable as my Redhat 7.2 / KDE 2.2 desktop. And it has apps ! Give me apps like Cubase, FruityLoops, Photoshop (don't start screaming about Gimp, for printed media it just doesn't cut it !), 3DSMax etc on Linux, and I'll switch. But for now, Linux is way behind in the multimedia-discipline. For server tasks, though, I never use anything but Linux. Off-topic, maybe, but I couldn't help it !
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For decades, foreigners wanting to enter the USA have been obliged to state whether they are terrorists or not (the ubiquitous, humorous visa waiver also asks you to state whether you plan on engaging in immoral activites, hehe) - why should resident terrorists be allowed to operate under false flag ?
Living in Oslo, Norway, I have been watching this trend for some years. The number of shops selling physical CD's is steadily decreasing - either they close or they are converted to DVD- and/or game-shops. At the same time, the number of shops selling vinyl is increasing. Every self-respecting hifi-shop has turntables on display in their windows. And who even buys CD players anymore ? Some years ago, only niche-titles got a vinyl release. Now even chart-topping big names release on vinyl. This ain't a fad. We will all live to see the death of the music CD. The vinyl will live on, as the sole medium for physical distribution. It will serve a distinct market - people with a keen interest in music, sound/hifi and/or collecting records. For these customers, portability and convenience is not high priority. Cover art and lyric booklets are. The music industry will embrace the trend, as piracy / copying will not be an issue. Vinyl rips are too inconvenient to ever threaten digitally distributed music. The vinyl record has outlived the CD in all respects. Some of my oldest CD's - 20-25 years old - are being refused by my CD player. While I have vinyl records from '65 that sound just as fresh today. I buy 30-40 records a year, around 4 out of 5 on vinyl; I select the titles purely based on musical merit, and buy vinyl if available. Luckily bands within the genres I prefer almost always release on vinyl.
- we all know the U235 came from the German sub U-234, originally destined for Japan. If it had made it there, the japs would have had the bomb first.
- atomic-program
http://www.nationmaster.com/encyclopedia/Japanese
Tritium is rare, in the sense that it makes up 1 ppm of the hydrogen in the oceans. This has however proven to be a self-sustaining solar-powered equilibrium, ie. sea water will always reorganize itself to contain 1/1000 deuterium and 1/1000000 tritium. Which means we would have to use more power than the amount of solar power absorbed by the earth's entire ocean before we would even begin to see "squandered resources". So "artificial" fusion energy is in fact indirect solar energy.
Tritium is actually one of the required components for tritium-deuterium fusion. This has a much lower ignition temperature than deuterium-deuterium fusion, which is why the latter is at a purely theoretical stage until self-sustained tritium-deuterium fusion is attained.
Well, most of the non-US world shares a different view. The WWII was practically won. Japan would have conceded anyway, given a couple of months. With their navy and air force eradicated, they wouldn't pose a threat to anyone. Time was running out, and the US command realized this was their only chance to test the bomb on a live target. Hence the bombing of Hiroshima. Lyckily for the US, the Japanese didn't surrender after that, so they got to test another design as well - on Nagasaki.
1.) This is essentially what they have done.
.com and .net, as everyone else will assume they are the sole authoritative server. Or, to cache every .com and .net address in existence. They would need some serious iron & bandwidth to pull off any of these two ...
2.) When queried for the NS record for somedomain.com or somedomain.net, their DNS is required to respond with the authoritative NS. Pretending themselves to be the authoritative NS is forgery; not very hard to prove illegal. Besides, if they choose to forge the authority, they will also have to relay each-and-every A record lookup under
If this company was Boeing or General Motors, don't you think SCO would be quite eager to tell ? And why would such a company wish not to go public about this ? I wouldn't be the least surprised if this company was Microsoft - think of it, they probably have a few Linux boxen (if they didn't have any before, they could easily deploy a couple of installations just for this trick), and they wouldn't mind at all paying a few bucks to try to give SCO's claims more credibility. Going public about it would of course nullify this.
Joe Average is an easy victim for the countless malicious trojans floating around. Visiting a straight porn site is no crime. Being deceived by messages like "Install browser enhancement (OK/Cancel)" is no crime. I have removed countless porn-related trojans from friends' PC's. If someone wants to put kiddie porn on unsuspecting victims' computers, this is no hard task. Removing a trojan when your anti virus software detects it would be the sensible thing to do. If the trojan has downloaded contraband to your PC, it will still be there, but you have removed the proof that you didn't dowload this intentionally. I would say proving intentional downloading of child porn should be pretty hard.
This is higly off-topic, and will probably hurt my karma, but ... I'm a kinda Slashdot newbie and couldn't find a way to post a privat message to you. I absolutely love your sig, and wonder : where does this quote originate from ?
I think the term "developer" says more about what qualities you should be looking for in an employee than does "coder". In large, mission-critical projects, you don't want someone that is able to crank out thousands of lines of code per day, but someone who sees both the big picture and the details. Someone who has broad experience, has done sysadmin, network admin, assembly, higher level languages, design, testing, debugging, redesign, refactoring ... and still lives and breathes for his profession. Someone who started programming at an early age, has 10+ years of experience, and still has a passion for his work, is IMHO the best developer.
This is surely part of Microsoft's Secure Computing Initiative ... If we can't make software more secure, at least we can decrease the public's perception that it's insecure. See no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil.
MicroDrive exists in 1GB capacity; 4GB is released soon. What makes the Cornice drive better ?
So many of you people display a typical American way of thinking : The less we trust people, the less the risk of them inflicting harm upon us.
IMHO : Distrust yields low moral standards.
Trust leads to responsibility leads to integrity.
Wonder if I can still get a tourist visa after posting this ?
MS is to corporations what US is to governments ...
What is at stake here is the quality of the education and freedom from monopolies. In my university days (Norwegian Institute of Technology, Trondheim), we did use some proprietary software (namely SunOS and Ingres), but there was no mention of these in the curriculum. The courses were named "Compiler Technology", "Programming Languages", "Operating Systems", "Algorithms & Data structures", "Database Systems" etc.; not "Using M$ Visual C++", ".Net Web Services", "Optimizing M$ SQL Server" etc. Not once were we forced to study or use software of any given brand. Seeing how some other educational institutions are tied in to specific brands and vendors, and how this affects the quality of the education, startles me. They no longer teach IT in general; they teach "Using ". Kerala; you cannot afford to fall in this trap !!
Spam filtering in mail clients is futile. The filtered messages still consume network bandwidth, CPU cycles and storage space on the MTA's and MDA's. Almost every spam message I have ever received had forged sender addresses, and were relayed through a third party MTA. An MTA should ONLY accept messages SENT BY or DESTINED TO users in their own domains. This way the spammers would be unable to hide their identities, and shutting down the offender's accounts would be easy. IMHO, blacklisting open relays is perfectly acceptable. Heck, we should even DNS-blackhole them out of existence !
The tally of Linux security issues, in addition to remotely exploitable ones, includes each and every buffer overflow bug which could allow a non-privileged local user to get root access, even ones not known to have been exploited. For Windows, the number indicates only remotely exploitable security holes, and only the ones publicly known. Ever seen Microsoft admit there is a scurity problem before it has been heavily exploited ?
Wake up, punks ! Don't You see how ridiculous this single-minded Microsoft-bashing makes You look ? Come on, face the facts ! Win2K is a terrific desktop OS. To me it has been as stable as my Redhat 7.2 / KDE 2.2 desktop. And it has apps ! Give me apps like Cubase, FruityLoops, Photoshop (don't start screaming about Gimp, for printed media it just doesn't cut it !), 3DSMax etc on Linux, and I'll switch. But for now, Linux is way behind in the multimedia-discipline. For server tasks, though, I never use anything but Linux. Off-topic, maybe, but I couldn't help it !