Jebus...can we leave the OS wars out of it? Just this once?
From the line you quoted, it sounds like they had physical access to the machine to do the copying. Any and every OS will fall if you have the thing in your hands.
I don't care if my neighbor is pulling down midget latex whipping gross porn next door - thats an adult in their private home and I shouldn't have a say in what happens behind their closed door.
'Some' people would have a problem with paying for their neighbor to do that.
Should everyone with respiratory problems sue their cities due to pollution? Already in the works
"Some Seoul residents with respiratory ailments such as asthma are planning to sue Korea's central government, the Seoul metropolitan government and automobile makers for damages from air pollution."
and
"California filed suit against the world's largest carmakers on Wednesday, charging that greenhouse gases from their vehicles have cost the state millions of dollars."
That's where the 'good laywer' bit comes in. Especially if the government posts critical information online. Weather, tax information, crisis information, etc.
And it would be argued that dial-up is 'good enough' for that. Broadband not required.
Linux solitaire(AisleRiot) has everything from Agnes to Zebra! not 'just' spider, Klondike, and free cell... which windows implements through three separate executables?!? for simple card games?!? you need 3 game engines to play cards?!?! crazy man crazy...
And the inverse to that is: Several small, individual, standalone files that do one thing each and do it well, vs one bloated monolithic pile o crap that tries to do everything.
if he's not already running circles around everyone I fail to see the advantage,
He's not running circles around everyone else, because the rest of his body isn't up to it. What if we put cybernetic legs on the current second or third place dude? Might he then be the world record holder, solely because of the artificial legs?
My newest pc was bought/built in 2003. Your oldest machine is newer than my newest desktop. My newest laptop is an 800 Sony Vaio (1999 or 2000).
And I haven't found anything I need to do that can't be done with these boxes. Ripping DVD's, development, the occasional Quake, etc etc. I'll prob get something new this year, but if your oldest is 4 yrs old...you're in the top 2%.
You think the Air Force is dumb enough to use their own computers to download porn?
The 'Air Force'? No. Idiot individual members? Yes.
14 yrs ago, we had an E-4 busted for having 100mb of porn on his work PC. 11 yrs ago, we had an entire office reprimanded for having a 'not illegal in the US but illegal in Saudi Arabia' screensaver on the office PC's.
Granted, its a lot harder now, because individual machines, and the network, are a locked down a lot more. But idiots will still bring stuff in from home on a DVD or USB stick.
Anyone with any real computer skills is not going to be wasting their time working for the military or the government when they can get a real job with real pay anywhere else.
Oh please. Your contention that anyone who works for the government is only there because they were too clueless to get a 'real' job, with 'real pay'?
YGBSM.
I defy you to apply for, and get accepted for, a job at the CIA or NSA. Or any one of a number of other TLAs. Don't take it...just apply.
(don't be too hurt when they laugh)
Read your contract. Does it not say that they have the right to terminate you if you overuse the network?
Who said they were overusing? One Linux distro via P2P per month is throttled the same as 24/7/365 pirated movie downloading. It appears they are throttling on the means, not the content or quantity.
Sure, all of that could be automated.. a lot of what you've said have already been automated for cars.
It's already automated for a lot of aircraft. And pilots still do an eyeball handson walkaround because you can't just stop when something breaks, even after the computer told you it was OK.
You don't need a luxury-car-level suspension; you're not going to be using this thing daily for trips to the grocery store or for six hours of driving on the Interstate for a business trip.
I don't mean luxury car level. Just mid 90's Geo Metro level. FAR heavier/smoother than a typical light aircraft landing gear, because it's built for a different environment.
Seriously. Ride down to the end of runway in any light plane. Now do the same in any car. Feel the difference. Built for different things. Why is the aircraft hauling around the needless crap that goes into a car?
Car, boat, sub, aircraft. Any combination of those doesn't really work. Not anytime soon, anyway.
How so? The 'airplane' has to haul around all the crap that makes a car. Bumpers, door guards, drivetrain, suspension, etc, etc.
Yes, an aircraft landing gear has to handle quite large impacts. But the ride quality to the end of runway is NOT acceptable for actual driving. Put a car level suspension in a light aircraft and you'll have to remove at least 2 passengers.
The 'car' has to haul around those bigass wings.
There was that design of two propellers turning in opposite directions with opposed angles, so as to create a blowing air column that takes the "flying saucer" off the ground.
Two words. Gas mileage. Show me any verticle fan craft, carrying 4 adults, that gets anywhere near the gas mileage of any normal car on the road.
Using engine power to hold the craft up is the antithesis of obtaining reasonable mileage.
Now add a gyroscope to that and a second safety thing and a third, so it's impossible to get it upside-down
Hand-waving those hard parts away doesn't make it any easier.
For any type of non-airport ops, we need 6" precision in a heavy crosswind. Why 6"? That's what you do in your car in a parking lot. Not getting upside down is only part of the problem. You have to come down sometime.
Maintenance. A LOT of cars on the road are spectacularly badly maintained. Do you want those same clowns flying overhead, ready to break down?
I lived in Cincinnati at that time, and followed the case quite closely. You know why he died? 350lbs, bad heart, PCP and crack. In the part of the video that is almost never shown, he was seen attacking the cops, who were backing up. They tried pepper spray, to no avail. Eventually they got to wailing in with the nightsticks, and he still wouldn't stop fighting back. Eventually, they got him under control, but by then he was probably well on the way to dying. To much excitement for his system to handle.
Yes he died. No, he shouldn't have. But if he had run down the street in that condition, he would have also died.
FTA:
"Deborah Mash, a professor of neurology at the University of Miami, describes the symptoms of the condition:
"Someone who's disproportionately large, extremely agitated, threatening violence, talking incoherently, tearing off clothes, and it takes four or five officers to get the attention of that individual and bring him out of harm's way â" that's excited delirium." "
Firstly there is the problem is safty [aeronautics.ru]
That crash had zero to do with the problems associated with supersonic airliners. It ran over a piece that fell off another jet, blew a tire, and things escalated from there.
'[Network administrator Daniel] Stefyn said he was "pleasantly surprised" to discover that the Kubuntu desktops ran some applications faster with Linux than when they ran on Windows.
Is this supposed to be some glorious revelation?
Ok, so some run faster on Linux than on Windows. That also means some run faster on Windows than on Linux.
If what you propose were true, a pin balanced on its end would always fall over to the east as well, as would a perfectly symmetrical tree, or a falling skyscraper.
Go ahead...balance a pin on its end. If you can do that, it will be affected far more by breezes in the room than by the earths rotation. A perfectly symmetrical tree? No such thing. Falling skyscraper? Again, no such thing as a perfectly symmetrical collapse.
The far end of the space elevator is in fact moving quite a bit faster than the anchor point on the surface. It would stay vertical because of the tension from the counterweight at the far end. In the event of a break, the bottom would still move at the same speed, but the upper reaches would be subject to wind resistance, presumably slowing that end down. Hence wrappage. WILL it do that? Who knows. But it is a possibility.
Why would it suddenly, magically lose that momentum, were it severed from its counterweight?
If you twirl a string with a rock at the end, it will stay straight. Remove the rock at the end, and it won't.
Skyscrapers today sway in the wind. Unless this thing is built strong enough to stand on its own (massively huge at the base), a break WILL cause it to fall.
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Jebus...can we leave the OS wars out of it? Just this once?
From the line you quoted, it sounds like they had physical access to the machine to do the copying. Any and every OS will fall if you have the thing in your hands.
Last time I tried it, I had it for about 2 weeks. 75% of my calls were dropped, and 100% of calls when I was driving.
Good. Maybe you should thank them.
I don't care if my neighbor is pulling down midget latex whipping gross porn next door - thats an adult in their private home and I shouldn't have a say in what happens behind their closed door.
'Some' people would have a problem with paying for their neighbor to do that.
That's because US immigration policy is more rational.
True, but you don't often hear that.
You can get into the US if you have a job offer.
Or just walk across the border.
Why yes...I'm talking to my kid who is waiting in line at another ride. You have a problem with that?
Kiss my ass.
"Some Seoul residents with respiratory ailments such as asthma are planning to sue Korea's central government, the Seoul metropolitan government and automobile makers for damages from air pollution."
and
"California filed suit against the world's largest carmakers on Wednesday, charging that greenhouse gases from their vehicles have cost the state millions of dollars."
And it would be argued that dial-up is 'good enough' for that. Broadband not required.
Linux solitaire(AisleRiot) has everything from Agnes to Zebra! not 'just' spider, Klondike, and free cell... which windows implements through three separate executables?!? for simple card games?!? you need 3 game engines to play cards?!?! crazy man crazy...
And the inverse to that is:
Several small, individual, standalone files that do one thing each and do it well, vs one bloated monolithic pile o crap that tries to do everything.
if he's not already running circles around everyone I fail to see the advantage,
He's not running circles around everyone else, because the rest of his body isn't up to it.
What if we put cybernetic legs on the current second or third place dude? Might he then be the world record holder, solely because of the artificial legs?
My oldest comp. is a 4 yr. old Thinkpad T30
My newest pc was bought/built in 2003. Your oldest machine is newer than my newest desktop. My newest laptop is an 800 Sony Vaio (1999 or 2000).
And I haven't found anything I need to do that can't be done with these boxes. Ripping DVD's, development, the occasional Quake, etc etc.
I'll prob get something new this year, but if your oldest is 4 yrs old...you're in the top 2%.
You think the Air Force is dumb enough to use their own computers to download porn?
The 'Air Force'? No. Idiot individual members? Yes.
14 yrs ago, we had an E-4 busted for having 100mb of porn on his work PC. 11 yrs ago, we had an entire office reprimanded for having a 'not illegal in the US but illegal in Saudi Arabia' screensaver on the office PC's.
Granted, its a lot harder now, because individual machines, and the network, are a locked down a lot more. But idiots will still bring stuff in from home on a DVD or USB stick.
Anyone with any real computer skills is not going to be wasting their time working for the military or the government when they can get a real job with real pay anywhere else.
Oh please. Your contention that anyone who works for the government is only there because they were too clueless to get a 'real' job, with 'real pay'?
YGBSM.
I defy you to apply for, and get accepted for, a job at the CIA or NSA. Or any one of a number of other TLAs. Don't take it...just apply.
(don't be too hurt when they laugh)
The Air Force's notion of a covert op is bombing someone using a stealth bomber.
Oh ye of little clue.
Read your contract. Does it not say that they have the right to terminate you if you overuse the network?
Who said they were overusing? One Linux distro via P2P per month is throttled the same as 24/7/365 pirated movie downloading.
It appears they are throttling on the means, not the content or quantity.
Moller claims to get about 18 mpg on ethanol with his M400 volantor
Moller also claims to have a functional 'flying car'.
Sure, all of that could be automated.. a lot of what you've said have already been automated for cars.
It's already automated for a lot of aircraft. And pilots still do an eyeball handson walkaround because you can't just stop when something breaks, even after the computer told you it was OK.
You don't need a luxury-car-level suspension; you're not going to be using this thing daily for trips to the grocery store or for six hours of driving on the Interstate for a business trip.
I don't mean luxury car level. Just mid 90's Geo Metro level. FAR heavier/smoother than a typical light aircraft landing gear, because it's built for a different environment.
Seriously. Ride down to the end of runway in any light plane. Now do the same in any car. Feel the difference.
Built for different things. Why is the aircraft hauling around the needless crap that goes into a car?
Car, boat, sub, aircraft. Any combination of those doesn't really work. Not anytime soon, anyway.
1. A "drivable airplane" makes sense.
How so? The 'airplane' has to haul around all the crap that makes a car. Bumpers, door guards, drivetrain, suspension, etc, etc. Yes, an aircraft landing gear has to handle quite large impacts. But the ride quality to the end of runway is NOT acceptable for actual driving. Put a car level suspension in a light aircraft and you'll have to remove at least 2 passengers.
The 'car' has to haul around those bigass wings.
There was that design of two propellers turning in opposite directions with opposed angles, so as to create a blowing air column that takes the "flying saucer" off the ground.
Two words. Gas mileage. Show me any verticle fan craft, carrying 4 adults, that gets anywhere near the gas mileage of any normal car on the road.
Using engine power to hold the craft up is the antithesis of obtaining reasonable mileage.
Now add a gyroscope to that and a second safety thing and a third, so it's impossible to get it upside-down
Hand-waving those hard parts away doesn't make it any easier.
For any type of non-airport ops, we need 6" precision in a heavy crosswind. Why 6"? That's what you do in your car in a parking lot. Not getting upside down is only part of the problem. You have to come down sometime.
Maintenance. A LOT of cars on the road are spectacularly badly maintained. Do you want those same clowns flying overhead, ready to break down?
Take, for example, this one [npr.org]
I lived in Cincinnati at that time, and followed the case quite closely. You know why he died? 350lbs, bad heart, PCP and crack.
In the part of the video that is almost never shown, he was seen attacking the cops, who were backing up. They tried pepper spray, to no avail.
Eventually they got to wailing in with the nightsticks, and he still wouldn't stop fighting back. Eventually, they got him under control, but by then he was probably well on the way to dying. To much excitement for his system to handle.
Yes he died. No, he shouldn't have. But if he had run down the street in that condition, he would have also died.
FTA:
"Deborah Mash, a professor of neurology at the University of Miami, describes the symptoms of the condition:
"Someone who's disproportionately large, extremely agitated, threatening violence, talking incoherently, tearing off clothes, and it takes four or five officers to get the attention of that individual and bring him out of harm's way â" that's excited delirium." "
Firstly there is the problem is safty [aeronautics.ru]
That crash had zero to do with the problems associated with supersonic airliners. It ran over a piece that fell off another jet, blew a tire, and things escalated from there.
Fuel, sound, and money are the issues.
Or when the netmob mistakenly posts the wrong info, and some innocent gets hundreds of threatening phone calls, or worse.
'[Network administrator Daniel] Stefyn said he was "pleasantly surprised" to discover that the Kubuntu desktops ran some applications faster with Linux than when they ran on Windows.
Is this supposed to be some glorious revelation? Ok, so some run faster on Linux than on Windows. That also means some run faster on Windows than on Linux.
If what you propose were true, a pin balanced on its end would always fall over to the east as well, as would a perfectly symmetrical tree, or a falling skyscraper.
Go ahead...balance a pin on its end. If you can do that, it will be affected far more by breezes in the room than by the earths rotation.
A perfectly symmetrical tree? No such thing.
Falling skyscraper? Again, no such thing as a perfectly symmetrical collapse.
The far end of the space elevator is in fact moving quite a bit faster than the anchor point on the surface. It would stay vertical because of the tension from the counterweight at the far end. In the event of a break, the bottom would still move at the same speed, but the upper reaches would be subject to wind resistance, presumably slowing that end down. Hence wrappage. WILL it do that? Who knows. But it is a possibility.
Why would it suddenly, magically lose that momentum, were it severed from its counterweight?
If you twirl a string with a rock at the end, it will stay straight. Remove the rock at the end, and it won't.
Skyscrapers today sway in the wind. Unless this thing is built strong enough to stand on its own (massively huge at the base), a break WILL cause it to fall.
Notice that the "Exposure" filter that they claim "Made you Look" actually made you look at how racist the tool is, they made her coloured from white.
Oh please. They took a washed out photo (all too common), and put some color/saturation into it. Look at the water and scrubgrass.