True, true - I'm just enjoying stirring things up a little.
Of course, the Correlation != Causation thing applies to the original post lauding Reagan's economic achievements... so you've kinda helped me prove my point.:-p
How do 12 aircraft carriers stop box cutter wielding fanatics hijack a plane and crash it into the White House?
By killing them before they get here.
They're also pretty useful when the EU realizes they've got a situation on their hands and can't do anything about it. Former Yugoslavia, anyone?
Just curious, it's just the USA seems to be armed to the teeth with OFFENSIVE weapons...
To reuse a very overused cliche, the best defense is a good offense. When everyone else shows signs of disarming, I'll be okay with the US and her allies disarming. Until then, I'm quite happy to sit here safely.
However, a server like that *probably* isn't going to have someone sitting there checking their e-mail and running e-mail attachments containing viruses - so it's a lot harder to infect.
If you've got a million infected desktop PCs, it doesn't matter if 90% are turned off at any time - you've still got a hundred thousand zombies to use for your nefarious purposes.
Custom templates work just fine. This is a friend of mine's blog - check out the portfolio, which is entirely MT powered (in addition to the main site). Pretty nifty!
My problem with SETI is how do we know when it has failed? If there are millions of indistinguishable stones to overturn looking for treasure, and you can only overturn a thousand, is it really science?
It's impossible to see every single square mile of the Earth, but that doesn't make travelling less worthwile.
Funding based on mere beliefs in ETs or God(s) should either both or neither be funded.
We know that intelligent life can exist - we're the proof of that. We don't have any hard scientific evidence that God exists. That's a fairly major difference.
Something like an eye should take billions of years, not millions.
Even if we had to park the shuttle in orbit (or on the international space station) until a rescue could have been performed. It tires me to listen to the people that say "well, they would have run out of oxygen if they were not able to return immediately."
It tires me to listen to the people that say "Even if we had to park the shuttle in orbit (or on the international space station) until a rescue could have been performed".
Why?
Because just about every media outlet carried the followup stories about there not being enough fuel to reach the ISS orbit.:-p
I thought the popular strategy was to make sure the shuttle could dock with the ISS, and allow the astronauts to get back to earth in the soyuz module the station has.
Pity there wasn't enough fuel to reach the ISS orbit, and that the Soyuz module holds a maximum of three people.
Which, having read both articles, appears to be an error. The first article says a zero was entered as data, causing a divide by zero error - whereas the IE vulnerability is caused by entering more than 256 characters in a res:// URL in IE4. So, either the Yorktown article is inaccurate, or the buffer overrun link is in error.
"Over the past 18 months, approximately 20 versions of software have been tested at the GTSLBES."
Again, another example of selective quoting.
"The GTSLBES provides a test platform for vital main engine and electric plant control functionality while reducing the risk of conducting integration testing on board ship. Over the past 18 months, approximately 20 versions of software have been tested at the GTSLBES. It is at the GTSLBES where contractor-furnished systems (MCS, IBS, FCS, and the LAN) are integrated with government-furnished equipment (ICAS and DCQ). This is accomplished at the Navy's software support activity, (SSA). Once tested, the Navy delivers the integrated product to the waterfront."
They're not testing different versions of operating systems, they're testing different versions of the software that runs the ship's engines. Has absolutely nothing to do with Windows NT, as far as I can tell.
What exactly makes that apparent, other than the propaganda that passes for Microsoft training materials these days?
Uh, the Wired article you yourself linked to?
Furthermore, are you telling me that it is not a major problem for the United States Navy
It'd be a "major problem" if it hadn't happened during beta testing. If it'd happened in the "finished" system, then yes, it'd be a problem.
it appears to me, if you can look through the propaganda, that the navy has frozen the program
Did you even read the next sentence? "Having judged the Smart Ship a success, the Navy plans to freeze development of the Yorktown's technology infrastructure and begin deploying the technology and 'lessons learned,' on other vessels of a similar class."
In other words - they're done with the development, now it's time to put it into real use.
What other ships are currently deployed which use the "smart ship" management system?
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True, true - I'm just enjoying stirring things up a little.
:-p
Of course, the Correlation != Causation thing applies to the original post lauding Reagan's economic achievements... so you've kinda helped me prove my point.
How do 12 aircraft carriers stop box cutter wielding fanatics hijack a plane and crash it into the White House?
By killing them before they get here.
They're also pretty useful when the EU realizes they've got a situation on their hands and can't do anything about it. Former Yugoslavia, anyone?
Just curious, it's just the USA seems to be armed to the teeth with OFFENSIVE weapons...
To reuse a very overused cliche, the best defense is a good offense. When everyone else shows signs of disarming, I'll be okay with the US and her allies disarming. Until then, I'm quite happy to sit here safely.
Re:I wonder (Score:4, Funny)
:-p
by jhunsake (81920) on Friday July 11, @11:45AM (#6415475)
Heh... methinks he wasn't going for three "Funny" moderations...
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Maybe that had something to do with the Democratic president who presided over the biggest economic boom in history?
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However, a server like that *probably* isn't going to have someone sitting there checking their e-mail and running e-mail attachments containing viruses - so it's a lot harder to infect.
If you've got a million infected desktop PCs, it doesn't matter if 90% are turned off at any time - you've still got a hundred thousand zombies to use for your nefarious purposes.
Dumb comments about how awful the NYTimes registration is should be filtered.
You'd be an idiot to write something like this for Macs or Unix/Linux computers - there's far less of them.
It'd be like sending your spam e-mails to just 5% of people - not very effective.
MoveableType generates static pages for you, so the actual blog entries are stored as HTML pages.
If you've got suexec working you don't need to meddle with file permissions, otherwise it is indeed necessary to do so.
Custom templates work just fine. This is a friend of mine's blog - check out the portfolio, which is entirely MT powered (in addition to the main site). Pretty nifty!
My problem with SETI is how do we know when it has failed? If there are millions of indistinguishable stones to overturn looking for treasure, and you can only overturn a thousand, is it really science?
It's impossible to see every single square mile of the Earth, but that doesn't make travelling less worthwile.
Funding based on mere beliefs in ETs or God(s) should either both or neither be funded.
We know that intelligent life can exist - we're the proof of that. We don't have any hard scientific evidence that God exists. That's a fairly major difference.
Something like an eye should take billions of years, not millions.
Source, please?
Yeah, it might be cool to discover life elsewhere, but ya need to prioritize.
Personally, I feel you're the one who needs to prioritize - putting the national debt ahead of finding intelligent life?
Please don't mod it up, and read this instead.
Even if we had to park the shuttle in orbit (or on the international space station) until a rescue could have been performed. It tires me to listen to the people that say "well, they would have run out of oxygen if they were not able to return immediately."
:-p
It tires me to listen to the people that say "Even if we had to park the shuttle in orbit (or on the international space station) until a rescue could have been performed".
Why?
Because just about every media outlet carried the followup stories about there not being enough fuel to reach the ISS orbit.
I thought the popular strategy was to make sure the shuttle could dock with the ISS, and allow the astronauts to get back to earth in the soyuz module the station has.
Pity there wasn't enough fuel to reach the ISS orbit, and that the Soyuz module holds a maximum of three people.
Yes, there's a difference, but they're both secure - which means Outlook Express can be used securely.
The difference here, though, is that Microsoft uses similar things themselves - EULAs, agreements prior to downloading things off Microsoft.com, etc.
If Microsoft says that the click-through "license" isn't valid, they open up their own similar licenses to the same thing.
Heh... defacing RIAA?
Not too dificult, considering that until recently their administration page was unpassworded! [cache]
Unfortunately, someone posted it to Slashdot, FARK, etc. instead of keeping it secret so devious tricks could be done.
D'oh.
That'd be absolutely horrific for those of us who pay for our bandwidth.
I didn't know they had internet access at Federal pound-me-in-the-ass prison...
Are conjugal visits allowed?
How hard is it for the NYTimes and Google to realize that a lot of "partner=GOOGLE" links aren't coming from Google, and build in a referrer check?
Honestly, it takes 30 seconds to put in some (fake!) info and you're all set. No hassle, and no need to whine every time there's a NYT article posted.
Apple doesn't have a Linux version of Quicktime.
Microsoft calls Linux "a cancer" and actively tries to prevent it from existing.
Yet you say...
Apple is about as Linux friendly as MS is
???
Have fun with the full body cavity searches!
*waves*
"Jaws" is the name of a character in one of the older Bond movies (don't remember which) who had immensely powerful steel jaws and teeth...
first google result for "jaws bond"
It references an IE 4 flaw.
Which, having read both articles, appears to be an error. The first article says a zero was entered as data, causing a divide by zero error - whereas the IE vulnerability is caused by entering more than 256 characters in a res:// URL in IE4. So, either the Yorktown article is inaccurate, or the buffer overrun link is in error.
"Over the past 18 months, approximately 20 versions of software have been tested at the GTSLBES."
Again, another example of selective quoting.
"The GTSLBES provides a test platform for vital main engine and electric plant control functionality while reducing the risk of conducting integration testing on board ship. Over the past 18 months, approximately 20 versions of software have been tested at the GTSLBES. It is at the GTSLBES where contractor-furnished systems (MCS, IBS, FCS, and the LAN) are integrated with government-furnished equipment (ICAS and DCQ). This is accomplished at the Navy's software support activity, (SSA). Once tested, the Navy delivers the integrated product to the waterfront."
They're not testing different versions of operating systems, they're testing different versions of the software that runs the ship's engines. Has absolutely nothing to do with Windows NT, as far as I can tell.
What exactly makes that apparent, other than the propaganda that passes for Microsoft training materials these days?
Uh, the Wired article you yourself linked to?
Furthermore, are you telling me that it is not a major problem for the United States Navy
It'd be a "major problem" if it hadn't happened during beta testing. If it'd happened in the "finished" system, then yes, it'd be a problem.
it appears to me, if you can look through the propaganda, that the navy has frozen the program
Did you even read the next sentence? "Having judged the Smart Ship a success, the Navy plans to freeze development of the Yorktown's technology infrastructure and begin deploying the technology and 'lessons learned,' on other vessels of a similar class."
In other words - they're done with the development, now it's time to put it into real use.
What other ships are currently deployed which use the "smart ship" management system?
Smart Ship has not faded awayâ"like all innovative technology it's become the standard for today's cruisers. Installation of the second production Smart Ship system aboard USS Monterey (CG 61) was recently completed with a successful sea trial. Installation aboard the first West Coast Smart Ship, USS Mobile Bay (CG 53) began November 1. That's as of November, 2000 - I suspect more have been converted since then.
the only thing more childish is arguing with someone you've marked as a foe.
I believe you've already illustrated why I've got you marked as a foe. Doesn't mean I can't argue with you.