I watched an interesting documentary about global warming on ABC (Autralian ABC, not US commercial channel) that highlighted a little known experiment called pan evaporation (sorry, can't remember said doco's name)
It basically highlighted the fact that the energy from the sun reaching earth is diminishing due to the fact that it is the sun's rays that causes water to evaporate from a large pan in the sun. i.e. less solar energy=less water evaporation.
The hypothesis was that increased cloud cover and more airborne soot/dust particles were blocking out more solar radiation than in previous generations. This hypothesis was proven correct when the evaporation rates normally taken each day were compared with the rates taken when air traffic was shut down over the US after the WTC/Pentagon attacks.
On those days, there were no aircraft steam/vapour trails in the sky due to no aircraft and this caused a large increase in the amount of solar radiation reaching the earth's surface over the US and hence, more water evaporating from evaporation pans in the US.
Now, I'm no climate expert, but if global temperatures are rising, but with less solar radiation reaching the earth, this basically tells us that what we've been predicting about global climate change has been missing a key factor that we should be taking very seriously. All plants get their energy from the sun's energy and less energy can only mean less crop yield which farmers across the globe are already starting to discover
The internet does let you do this. Feel free to buy your HP ink from the US and take advantage of the strength of the euro. Just don't expect said ink to do too much in your shiny new HP paperweight.
Sorry, maybe a little too much cynicism in this post
Antitrust legislation exists to protect society from the capitalists...
Well, we all know just how effective the antitrust legislation is at present, don't we? IMHO, I don't think it's worth the paper it passed through the houses on.
One could be described as a terrorist if he were to trigger an electromagnetic pulse device in New York City or another electronic-financial district around the world. An E-M pulse would have zero direct civilian casualties, but the consequences of such a device would destroy countless lives in the resulting economic meltdown. IF this were to ever happen, the person(s) responsible have not murdered a soul, however, they have brought the state that they are fighting to it's knees in one fell swoop. Would you call this person a terrorist?
I know it was funny, but that EULA was about as readable as a real EULA from microsoft. Can you imagine the grocery store chaos if that document was attached to every single one of these apples?
There is a common misconception by a lot of people that greenbacks are backed up by gold reserves. I know this, you know this, and now everyone reading this thread knows this. I'm not a conspiracy nut, I'm just concerned that the U.S. govt lets a company claim to be a part of the govt. when it's merely working for the govt. If you had a company that outsourced its IT needs, would you let that IT company claim to be part of your company? I don't think so.
I know that's what the fed's site says, but dig around on google about the history of the federal reserve. Look at the entire history of U.S. money for that matter, even going back to the days of 'colonial scrip' money, when the U.S. colonies tried to break free from the British central bank's crippling system. You will be surprised at what you find. Also check out the new 'Liberty dollars' at www.norfed.org
I've been studying this subject for about a year now and trust me, there is nothing federal about the federal reserve. It is a private company that is an agency of the government. It is never audited and entirely accountable to no-one, not even the president. In fact, there are almost no reserves either. Your money is backed by paper alone. There is no gold locked up that your greenbacks are supposed to represent. The fed's system is based on fractional reserve banking - another interesting topic for you to check out.
A good place to start is at www.norfed.org/html/jimart.asp (Sorry about no hypertext. I'm too lazy:) If you still don't believe me, that's fine, but at least check it out and let me know. It can't hurt to find out some of the inner workings of your economy. I've got stacks of articles on this topic thatI can email to you if you want. Drop me a line if you're interested.
Actually, the money is owned by the U.S. Federal Reserve. The money is out on loan to you fromm the Fed (which happens to be a private company, there is nothing federal about it at all) The fed loans the money to the government at interest and the government distributes it. That's why the U.S. is now at $5 trillon debt. It has borrowed too heavily from the fed and cannot pay it back.
If you don't believe me that the fed is a private company, check where it's listed in the phone book. It's not under government, it's in the business section.
I don't like this idea. I mean the first movie was great, the second, so-so, and the third was rubbish. Does this mean that the current XP is as good as it gets and it's all downhill from here???
Get your shit together. He-3 has 3 neutrons. Regular He has 2 neutrons and I am unaware if helium with one neutron exists in nature or if it is even possible to achieve. Atomic masses buddy - H is 1 because of only one proton and He is 4 because of 2 protons and 2 neutrons.
I think I just proved myself to be a geek with that info:)
Well personally, i would find that killing a monster on a computer screen would be far less detrimental to a child's menatlity than killing a fellow human being. You say that you are a christian? Well, how can you say that killing your fellow man be better than destroying the legions of lucifer? I don't want to start bringing out quotes from the bible, as you probably already own a bible yourself, but grom your post, you have a rather warped sense of mroality and christian values.
Well, I don't know what you've done to your system, but all I have to do is go to the 'go' menu and select 'go to folder' and then type in/etc. the GUI is protected only as far as the user's knowledge of the system.
I can also easily change the owner of said folder by clicking onto column view and then viewing the info of/etc and changing the owner from system to me. The admin password to enable this is MY password, not root's.
As I said earlier, the system is protected as far as the user's knowledge of the system. From the looks of things, your system is protected just fine.:P
To be really fair, OSX starts you off as your 'power user' by default and leaves your 'administrator account' disabled. You can still do everything that root can do, and as McDutchie said, it's a graphical sudo.
That probably sounds strange seeing as OSX calls you an administrator, but OSX has no 'power user'. I have heard of 'power user' before, is it a windows term?
I personally think this is a fantastic idea. It not only validates the idea of downloading tracks for Canada (albeit in an indirect way), but it also screws over the recording labels from issuing lawsuits to 12-year old children in Canada. I don't quite know how this benefits artists, but surely a system based on the top40 for canada could be used as a method for compensation. If only more countries in the world had Canada's approach to civil liberties...
Use VideoLan Client. It plays all your crappy windows media formats and it's open source! It works on just about any platform. About all it doesn't play is realmedia.
But who wants to use these garbage formats anyway. Stick with a standard format like MPG or DIVX or something. You might even want to try one of those scary open formats too!
This is, itself, a form of steganography. You are hiding questionable content inside a perfectly innocent looking system file. Of course, anyone with a clue as to how an NT based OS is structured, would immediately pick this up and become suspicious. If I found a second syskrnl32.dll file on a system under my watch, one being larger than the other, I'd be immediately quarantining or deleting it thinking it was the latest windows virus. The main problem with steg over crypt is that it looks innocent can be looked over by it's intended target
Umm.. yeah. That is a bad thing. If you want to have a wireless network, you should be aware of the risks involved with it. It's just as bad as people who don't patch buggy operating systems (I'm not bringing ANY company names in to this!). Your wireless network should have at least some sort of protection. Even if it's 40-bit WEP. It's like leaving your front door open and then expecting a burglar not to enter. If you do have a password at least and then you can claim that the person illegally broke into your network, but leaving the door wide open is asking for trouble
I wonder what would happen if IBM did buy out SCO. This could place an entirely new perspective on things. IBM would then own the UNIX code base and this whole mess would then be over. IBM would then have a rock solid platform to develop which would have the clout to knock King Bill off his throne. Apple already has deals with IBM for processors, why not throw software into the mix as well.
OTOH, IBM could always go down the same legal path as SCO and attempt to kill off linux, or amalgamte it into the Sys V base. Then, after extinguishing the Microsoft threat (like they've always wanted to do), IBM would be the largest hardware/OS manufacturer around.
I've been wondering when someone was going to try this for quite a while. "Dumping", selling a product below cost in order to force your competitors out of business, is illegal for good reasons. It seems like a motivated attorney could pretty easily make a case that any company who is putting substantial investment into software that is distributed for free is dumping, and trying to kill a competitor.
If linus cloned minix, linux would be just as unuseable as minix (Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think minix gets it's name from being a mini-unix). Linus cloned Unix to give himself an OS that had more power than minix, which he was using at the time.
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I watched an interesting documentary about global warming on ABC (Autralian ABC, not US commercial channel) that highlighted a little known experiment called pan evaporation (sorry, can't remember said doco's name)
It basically highlighted the fact that the energy from the sun reaching earth is diminishing due to the fact that it is the sun's rays that causes water to evaporate from a large pan in the sun. i.e. less solar energy=less water evaporation.
The hypothesis was that increased cloud cover and more airborne soot/dust particles were blocking out more solar radiation than in previous generations. This hypothesis was proven correct when the evaporation rates normally taken each day were compared with the rates taken when air traffic was shut down over the US after the WTC/Pentagon attacks.
On those days, there were no aircraft steam/vapour trails in the sky due to no aircraft and this caused a large increase in the amount of solar radiation reaching the earth's surface over the US and hence, more water evaporating from evaporation pans in the US.
Now, I'm no climate expert, but if global temperatures are rising, but with less solar radiation reaching the earth, this basically tells us that what we've been predicting about global climate change has been missing a key factor that we should be taking very seriously. All plants get their energy from the sun's energy and less energy can only mean less crop yield which farmers across the globe are already starting to discover
The internet does let you do this. Feel free to buy your HP ink from the US and take advantage of the strength of the euro. Just don't expect said ink to do too much in your shiny new HP paperweight.
Sorry, maybe a little too much cynicism in this post
Antitrust legislation exists to protect society from the capitalists...
Well, we all know just how effective the antitrust legislation is at present, don't we? IMHO, I don't think it's worth the paper it passed through the houses on.
One could be described as a terrorist if he were to trigger an electromagnetic pulse device in New York City or another electronic-financial district around the world. An E-M pulse would have zero direct civilian casualties, but the consequences of such a device would destroy countless lives in the resulting economic meltdown. IF this were to ever happen, the person(s) responsible have not murdered a soul, however, they have brought the state that they are fighting to it's knees in one fell swoop. Would you call this person a terrorist?
I know it was funny, but that EULA was about as readable as a real EULA from microsoft. Can you imagine the grocery store chaos if that document was attached to every single one of these apples?
There is a common misconception by a lot of people that greenbacks are backed up by gold reserves. I know this, you know this, and now everyone reading this thread knows this. I'm not a conspiracy nut, I'm just concerned that the U.S. govt lets a company claim to be a part of the govt. when it's merely working for the govt. If you had a company that outsourced its IT needs, would you let that IT company claim to be part of your company? I don't think so.
I know that's what the fed's site says, but dig around on google about the history of the federal reserve. Look at the entire history of U.S. money for that matter, even going back to the days of 'colonial scrip' money, when the U.S. colonies tried to break free from the British central bank's crippling system. You will be surprised at what you find. Also check out the new 'Liberty dollars' at www.norfed.org
:) If you still don't believe me, that's fine, but at least check it out and let me know. It can't hurt to find out some of the inner workings of your economy. I've got stacks of articles on this topic thatI can email to you if you want. Drop me a line if you're interested.
I've been studying this subject for about a year now and trust me, there is nothing federal about the federal reserve. It is a private company that is an agency of the government. It is never audited and entirely accountable to no-one, not even the president. In fact, there are almost no reserves either. Your money is backed by paper alone. There is no gold locked up that your greenbacks are supposed to represent. The fed's system is based on fractional reserve banking - another interesting topic for you to check out.
A good place to start is at www.norfed.org/html/jimart.asp (Sorry about no hypertext. I'm too lazy
Happy reading!
Actually, the money is owned by the U.S. Federal Reserve. The money is out on loan to you fromm the Fed (which happens to be a private company, there is nothing federal about it at all) The fed loans the money to the government at interest and the government distributes it. That's why the U.S. is now at $5 trillon debt. It has borrowed too heavily from the fed and cannot pay it back.
If you don't believe me that the fed is a private company, check where it's listed in the phone book. It's not under government, it's in the business section.
I don't like this idea. I mean the first movie was great, the second, so-so, and the third was rubbish. Does this mean that the current XP is as good as it gets and it's all downhill from here???
Get your shit together. He-3 has 3 neutrons. Regular He has 2 neutrons and I am unaware if helium with one neutron exists in nature or if it is even possible to achieve. Atomic masses buddy - H is 1 because of only one proton and He is 4 because of 2 protons and 2 neutrons.
:)
I think I just proved myself to be a geek with that info
Yes, I know I wrote 'grom' instead of 'from'. I don't know if it was a typo of my subconscious being hooked on orcs in wc3
Well personally, i would find that killing a monster on a computer screen would be far less detrimental to a child's menatlity than killing a fellow human being. You say that you are a christian? Well, how can you say that killing your fellow man be better than destroying the legions of lucifer? I don't want to start bringing out quotes from the bible, as you probably already own a bible yourself, but grom your post, you have a rather warped sense of mroality and christian values.
Well, I don't know what you've done to your system, but all I have to do is go to the 'go' menu and select 'go to folder' and then type in /etc. the GUI is protected only as far as the user's knowledge of the system.
/etc and changing the owner from system to me. The admin password to enable this is MY password, not root's.
:P
I can also easily change the owner of said folder by clicking onto column view and then viewing the info of
As I said earlier, the system is protected as far as the user's knowledge of the system. From the looks of things, your system is protected just fine.
To be really fair, OSX starts you off as your 'power user' by default and leaves your 'administrator account' disabled. You can still do everything that root can do, and as McDutchie said, it's a graphical sudo.
That probably sounds strange seeing as OSX calls you an administrator, but OSX has no 'power user'. I have heard of 'power user' before, is it a windows term?
I personally think this is a fantastic idea. It not only validates the idea of downloading tracks for Canada (albeit in an indirect way), but it also screws over the recording labels from issuing lawsuits to 12-year old children in Canada. I don't quite know how this benefits artists, but surely a system based on the top40 for canada could be used as a method for compensation. If only more countries in the world had Canada's approach to civil liberties...
perhaps we should start looking for said bug???
Use VideoLan Client. It plays all your crappy windows media formats and it's open source! It works on just about any platform. About all it doesn't play is realmedia.
But who wants to use these garbage formats anyway. Stick with a standard format like MPG or DIVX or something. You might even want to try one of those scary open formats too!
This is, itself, a form of steganography. You are hiding questionable content inside a perfectly innocent looking system file. Of course, anyone with a clue as to how an NT based OS is structured, would immediately pick this up and become suspicious. If I found a second syskrnl32.dll file on a system under my watch, one being larger than the other, I'd be immediately quarantining or deleting it thinking it was the latest windows virus. The main problem with steg over crypt is that it looks innocent can be looked over by it's intended target
Umm.. yeah. That is a bad thing. If you want to have a wireless network, you should be aware of the risks involved with it. It's just as bad as people who don't patch buggy operating systems (I'm not bringing ANY company names in to this!). Your wireless network should have at least some sort of protection. Even if it's 40-bit WEP. It's like leaving your front door open and then expecting a burglar not to enter. If you do have a password at least and then you can claim that the person illegally broke into your network, but leaving the door wide open is asking for trouble
...someone should just buy you out.
I wonder what would happen if IBM did buy out SCO. This could place an entirely new perspective on things. IBM would then own the UNIX code base and this whole mess would then be over. IBM would then have a rock solid platform to develop which would have the clout to knock King Bill off his throne. Apple already has deals with IBM for processors, why not throw software into the mix as well.
OTOH, IBM could always go down the same legal path as SCO and attempt to kill off linux, or amalgamte it into the Sys V base. Then, after extinguishing the Microsoft threat (like they've always wanted to do), IBM would be the largest hardware/OS manufacturer around.
Now, where did I put my tinfoil hat???
I don't care what race of Orcs they dream up - no Orc is cunning enough to take over the Shire.
Orgrim Doomhammer of the Blackrock clan would pose a good challenge to your theory
I've been wondering when someone was going to try this for quite a while. "Dumping", selling a product below cost in order to force your competitors out of business, is illegal for good reasons. It seems like a motivated attorney could pretty easily make a case that any company who is putting substantial investment into software that is distributed for free is dumping, and trying to kill a competitor.
Quiet, you fool!!!
You are talking about Kilobits, and Megabits, not Kilobytes and Megabytes. There is a difference.
Actually, yes I did. It explained things quite well. Did you read the article???
If linus cloned minix, linux would be just as unuseable as minix (Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think minix gets it's name from being a mini-unix). Linus cloned Unix to give himself an OS that had more power than minix, which he was using at the time.