As an norwegian i'm supposed to know a lot about our legal system, so I should try to explain why and how it differs from the US system.
First: Norway, is a small country with far less crime than USA pr. innhabitant. This makes it possible for convicted to appeal their case, and for the prosecutors to apeal the case without creating chaos because of too many cases in the highest court instances. In US, which have a much more crime, the number of appeals, from both sides, would have crippled the system.
I would say that there is a fair number of "checks and balances" in the Norwegian Court System. The prosecutors can't allways appeal, because of limited budget, they can't afford it if _all_ of their cases would go to the next court instance. And, apealing all the cases would in some way reducing their right to apeal as a special power the prosecutors have.
On the other hand: The prosecuted, in this case Jon Johansen, is covered by the state, as *all the cost of having a lawyer is paid by the state*.
And in contrast to "some other countries", you don't get only those lawyers which failed to get a better paid job. After what I have heard, the "quality" of the public lawyers in USA ain't that good. You can choose any lawyer you wan't and the goverment pays. The problem is rather that some of the good lawyers are quite busy. So the problem of losing all your money because an appeal isn't that problematic. But of course there is always an uncertainty with an apeal.
Among proffesionals in the Norwegian systems i think most people think that the risk of convicting an innocent person is far smaller than in Norway compared to USA.
And the implications from convicting someone falsely is far smaller than US because of not so hard "punishment".
Compared to US, Norways maximum sentence is 21 years behind bars. And most murders get away with 10-15 years, probation after 6-10.
Economic crime have maximum 15 years if I remember right. And I can't remember anyone getting more than 8 years (!)(i think is was some kind of organized bankfraud).
So I Jon is found guilty, he won't get more than 1 year. Maximum. As for damages or expenses he have to cover or pay back; I doubt he would get more than $10000.
I reckon that there is some US centric views on this topic. But in a hypotetical situation I would have choosen too stand in front on the Norwegian legal system, rather than the US legal system, double jeopardy or not.
[Double jeopardy or not, it aint no good if you are innocently convicted for manslaughter and sentenced to death.(or 300 years behind bars)]
[BTW. In Norway the police can hold you for 24 hours. You have the right to call a lawyer. After 24 hours they have to let you go or "framstille" (hold you in front of a judge) for a judge and have a kind of probable cause or some sort of evidence. Hard to explain in English this stuff.]
My English stinks. Partly because I have been awake for 42 hours. (Stupid boss in a stupid system.) So my apologies to you all.
...the "No information" message has not been there since Win2kSP3 came out.
And accidentaly this fals together with the change in EULA: If you install Service Pack 3 for Windows 2000 you have to agree on the same restrictive EULA as for Windows XP. And as we all know, because of security conserns you have to do that.
It looks like MS adapted a "we reserve us the right to screw you" attitude as official customer policy with that release.
I still consider Windows XP an expensive, restrictively licensed downgrade to Windows 2000.
Although I do agree on your general oppinion on the restrictive license following the Windows XP End User License Agreement there is more to the story:
If you install Service Pack 3 for Windows 2000 you have to agree on the same EULA as for Windows XP. And as we all know, because of security conserns you have to do that. This really pisses me off. After all, when you install your OS of choice, for example win4k ultra edition, Microsoft should not force their customers into accepting the next license agreement.
I guess it's diffrent for Smithsonian Folkways Recordings since they prob. have relativly small volumes of each cd, while the big RIAA labeels produce thousands of each cd.
For Smithsonian Folkways Recordings one lost customer is more valuable than one customer is for Sony.
OK, let's say that a big university like MIT implemnts Microsoft Windows Shiny and Secure Palladium Edition 2005. Not only on a workstation, but on _all_ computers; libray computers, dorms, workstations, servers etc. Then all documents produced inside MIT will become Microsoft DRM enabled. All the papers, tests, research and publications. Right?
Year 2050. MIT want out. Whatever reason they have; they need to get out: The cost of the system is to high or the system don't work according to the promised specification. Actually the reason they have, don't matter. Maybe Penguin OS v69 has become The OS.It's irrellevant. They want out; and they want it now!
Now what? Well, for starters just about everything people have done the last 45 years is _potentially_ lost forever unless they manage to get a deal with Microsoft. All the fileformats are MS Propretary DRM Palladium Edition and can't be read on their new and shiny OS and they would have to deal with the relatives of former employes who "own" information produced on MIT.
A floppy disk _should_ last for a hole semester, with an exception for extremly eager students and those who compile stuff on floppies. But the last 15 years the quality of floppies have degraded. Before you could buy a floppy and actually expect it to work for years. Can't do that today. Degrading quality on the media is something that also has affected CD-R the last years.
Cut support cost? Maybe, but learnig people to boot from cd's and several different USB devices will take some time.
Both sogamed.com, esreality.com and clanbase.com have _tons_ of gamedemos and movies from Quake1-3, Counterstrike, Unreal etc. SoGamed alone prob. have 60GB wit cs-demos... It's all legal. It's free as in beer.
But if you want something almost everyone wants on DC++ hubs you could check out IRC. -->Download mIRC connect to EFnet or Undernet. -->Join a channel with bots that offer movies, games and albums. -->Watch your harddisk fill. It's not legal. It's still free.
[Legal disclaimer: I do NOT encourage copyright infringement or any other illegal actions bla bla bla.]
had a storry on this: http://www.southwestern.edu/~millerc/e&m/ But the most interessting stuff is that if you scroll down to the bottom of the page you will find a link to a Government Report: [H.A.S.C. No. 106-31] ELECTROMAGNETIC PULSE THREATS TO U.S. MILITARY AND CIVILIAN INFRASTRUCTURE
HEARING BEFORE THE MILITARY RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT SUBCOMMITTEE OF THE COMMITTEE ON ARMED SERVICES HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ONE HUNDRED SIXTH CONGRESS FIRST SESSION HEARING HELD OCTOBER 7, 1999
I guess this is stuff someone forgot to pull of the net...
If Joe-user sees some VeriSign, or maybe also Thawte "stuff" most people just click ok, because they _know_ it's not some kind of scam.
If Joe-user gets a "FREE Certificate. v0.5beta" from some kind of business, he won't do the transaction. If I were a struggling webshop, i would go with VeriSign. It's sad, but that is just how it is right now.
Yep, i do agree with the above, to justify a big shift from the underlying NT/Win2k technology to Linux there have to bee a significant economical upside for Microsoft. There is no such thing. If MS was in finacial problems or had problems with the cashflow they would have had too save money by cutting developmental cost. But after all their problem is that they have too much money and don't know where too use them.
Quoted from the article: And for Microsoft, it offers that delectable prospect of selling Microsoft Office for Linux by inserting a bit of middleware to interface its apps with other windowing systems, again without having to adhere to the GPL.
And why would they want that. It is the *combination* Win OS and MS Office that is their "killer app" as a company. Most companies need Word, Excel and Powerpoint, not Explorer/IE Explorer. That's why they buy Win2k. If they in the future can use MS Office an Red Hat XX Microsoft have a problem. Microsoft separating MS Office from MS WinOS would be like Gilette stopping selling blades.
#1 Well, the girlfriend analogy/quoestion is difficault to answer as it would be a matter of trust between to people. But if US have gathered information with some kind of secret weapon that they don't wan't to disclose, why don't they just tip of the UN inspectors instead of releasing the information themself?
#2 I do agree that trade matters alot and always had, and the Iraq "case" is directly or inderectly influencing millions of people. But even if we discussed this for days, we prob. wouldn't agree with each other. You mean that trade (and some other Iraq actions) would justify and attack, I don't.
Also see that post that is replying to the same post as I am now. Evaen though he is posting as an AC, he actually has a point.
I'm not defending them. And i do agree that a DOS against root dns serveres are stupid.
However i don't think labelling them terrorist is correct. If we knew that they were doing it because of some more or less justified political cause, and where specifically attacking US- dns servers because they are located in USA, I mean it would be correct. But for all we know it's "just" some angry teenager with more than normal insight in how the Internet is organized.
Even though it is an attack on national/international infrastructure everyone would have "labelled" it as crime before Sept. 11.
#1 I do agree that i'ts difficault to get a balanced media wiew on the USA vs. Iraq case. However, related to Allied intelligence and access to the solid information: _If_, USA had some evidence about Iraq producing WMD; why dont they release it?
And don't give me that crap about protecting their "sources" inside Iraq. I'm sure that if CIA wanted to evacuate some "scientist" and their famillie(s) from inside Iraq to an US supporting country in the region it could have been done.
#2 I'm educated enough to know there are more to the conflict than GW Bush having a problem with S.H. Quoted from you: "This eventually effects us all as it could provide a chain reaction of rising inflation should those trade routes be disrupted. Inflation that outpaces income growth will widen the gap between the "haves" and the "have nots" which could potentially unbalance countries with existing unrest."
The logic of attacking Iraq because the trade routes in the region could be disrupted because of instability in Iraq is plain stupid. I'm sorry, but when you speak about the "stability of the trade in the region", it sounds like official Amarican propaganda. Even if instability inside Iraq could lead to an economic downturn in Saudia Arabia and then political and economical chaos there, disrupting the oil supply and causing the oil price to skyrocket above 50$ a barrel and then cause an the US economy into reccesion; it's doestn't justify a "preemtive strike" on Iraq. Just to say it rude: Even if all the countries in the region agreed for some reason that they should _never_ again sell oil to US(that wont happen), it would not justify an attack on Iraq.
Reduced trade in a region should not be used in an argument to attack a country. Even if their leader is evil as Satan himself an the problem is real.
16kB is def. not much space. When we are talking about small demos you should check out the ".fr-08:.the.product" -demo from farbrausch consumer consulting. It's 64kB, and its really amazing. It's beyond me how they managed to cramp down 16 minutes(!) into 64kB.
quoted from their web: "how much graphics, sound and program code can be stored in 64kbytes? when.fr-08.the.product was released at christmas 2000, it made a convincing statement by showing seven completely different 3d scenes with 16 minutes of realtime synthesized music."
If you look at the graphic illustration on the IAO site you will se a interesting entity called "Corporate Memory" witch feeds the system with data (togheter with the entities "Transactional Data", "Biomethric Data" and "Intel Data") The first thing i asscoiate with "Corporate Memory" is customer profiles. Ergo; this system institues a collabaration with the big corporations; Wal-Mart, MS, Visa, Banks, Airlines etc.
From the IAO site about TIA: "can automatically queue analysts based on partial pattern matches and has patterns that cover 90% of all previously known foreign terrorist attacks"
Ergo it will work if someone travels from Saudia Arabia to US, start taking flying lessons and then buys airline tickets to NY or buying fertilizers. But if someone buys a warhead in some former Russian repiblic, ships it (with a non-US transport company) via Hong Kong togheter with hardware from China to California and then create a mayhem, the system will not work.
[Legal disclaimer: I have no intensions of doing something like that. ]**
This system is plain stupid an it will *never* work against a terrorist with a working brain. Im not an expert in data-mining, but i have heard that it *is* difficault. And most corporations use static data from a couple of databases to create simple customer profiles. This system, TIA, is trying to catch a moving target and the predict future behavior. And if someone really want to avoid getting stamped as an terrorist, they wont follow the patterns that the system expects a terrorist to follow.
More info from the Pentagon briefing: http://www.politechbot.com/p-04186.html
**People probably need to start inserting these to avoid getting their own profile in this system... -
[quote] Someone needs to publish that link about the place in India that takes apart oil tankers. Big Karma boost in that [/quote]
You would prob. think im a Karma whore, but the "place in India"; Alang is really a terrible story on how a the "world economy" and "the lifestyle of the western world" can affect a place. My guess is that this chinese town will end up just like Alang. Everyone is condeming it, but nobody are willing to do anything serious about the problem.
Article in BBC: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/crossi ng_con tinents/317229.stm
Greenpeace: http://www.greenpeaceweb.org/shipbr eak/whatis.asp [actually i dont like GP because of all the FUD, but in this case they shold get some credit]
Article written by Mark Moxon: http://www.moxon.net/india/alang.html
Gov. info from India http://164.100.32.5/hpcreport/ and http:/ /164.100.32.5/hpcreport/vol3c.htm and http://164 .100.32.5/hpcreport/chapter_3.htm#Observ ations%20of%20the%20HPC%20on%20the%20visit%20at%20 Alang:
As the poster before me mentioned Anandtech did a test where they compared Athlon MP vs. Xeons. Both in single and dual setups. This test; Database Server CPU Comparison: Athlon MP vs. Hyper Threading Xeon cand be found here:
http://www.anandtech.com/IT/showdoc.html?i=1606
Its actually one of the better tests that they have done. They use their own databases to test the performance; the webDB, the adDb and the forumDB. The smart thing about doing this is that the databases have diffrent characteristics:
-the webDB: lots of selects(reads)
-the adDB: some selects more stored procedures
-the forumDB: selects,inserts and updates
After reading this test in April, i wouldnt actually jump on to the conclusion that Hyertreading is a meaningfull "desktop- feature" if you look at price/performance.
Actually, i think ist a bit overhyped.
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Yes, it is a problem with 14 years old people that think they own the world. Buts that not only a part of the game CS, but more like a general problem with 14 years old people. The Counter.Strike community is maturing and the skill level its higher than evver before. The problem with cheats is an evergoing battle between cheatmakers and those who make tools trying to get them. Whois having the "upper hand" goes in waves as both realease new versions. The anti-cheat people have released Punkbuster, Jedi, CSGuard, Cheating Death and latest the official Valve Anti Cheat, VAC. Note that it took Valve almost 3 years before they recognized the problem, but until them there were allways someone else who made the anti- cheat software. [a special thanks to Olo who made and maintained the CSGuard untill the makers of OCG, a well nown aimbot gave up] These tools have banned _thousands_ of WONids. The server i play on have actually a banlist with 17000+ id's from all over the world. Although cheaters can get a new key and continue playing most of them leave the server alone. In the latest year cheating has been reduced drastically. If you stick to servers who have admins who now what they are doing, you'll be fine.
Most of the people I have talked to agree that the problem with _whining_ players who thinks everyody is cheating is a far bigger problem... No offens, but those who dont play that much, as the Anonymous Coward in this tread, fail too see that its possible to become incredible skilled in hitting others players heads. After all some people play CS full time; 10 hours a day, 6 days a week. I recomend that you take the trip to www.sogamed.com and download some demos so you can see by your self. Or you can go to esreality.com, they have both demos and movies from the latest CPL event. -------
Ok an USPS-administered email system established in the early 70's would probably handle a _large_ part of US citicens and buisnesses mail. Hotmail prob. would exist at all. Having one adress for life sure sounds tempting, but think about it.
-Would it be free [as in free of charge, not the RMS way..]? Prob. not. They _charge_ for postal services. You could argument about the fact that it doesnt cost extra if you send one mail trought the "high-tech" 1980 centrally-administered national email service, but thry would have started bragging about the cost of the (here it come) infrastructure (the word of the 90`) and, of course, building services for the future (aka: -We need more money to get this shit working)
Ok people singning up and everyone is happy, until: 11/9... The terrorist living their lives in USA learning to fly and acting completly normal also have USPS-administered email... They crash into Twin Towers. What would have happend then to the _centrally_-administered national email servic? Oh yeah, you now and I know. Surveilance. Its being done today trought a system called Echelon and probably other systems. Search slashdot or google and see. But todays system with a lot of different ISP and mail services are very difficault to track and "get the full picture".
Ok im not an US citizen so maybe it is different. But changing the wiew on the email service and this system, witch have served us all well in many years (apart from the spam), because off some dotcoms/telecoms going bust and rather wanting a central mailserver is just insane.
And by the way: From an USPS goverment employe: -You want to use PGP on this USPS-administered email? Are you terrorist?
Norwegian hardware site http://hardware.no [norwegian text only] is reporting that the database file [dBase IV] has been made available for download at:
http://www.produktivdata.com/download/dbase.zip [2.9 MB]
Some tips:
-Social engineering has been tested so dont spam his relatives or the Ivar Aasen tunet museum
-The password might contain the norwegian letters æ, ø, and å (possible not correctly shown on _your_ screen) so brute force or a dictionary approach might not be succsessful..
The solution/password can be sent to aasentunet.no (no im not putting their email out at slashdot)
Good luck
Slashdot Mirror
First: Norway, is a small country with far less crime than USA pr. innhabitant. This makes it possible for convicted to appeal their case, and for the prosecutors to apeal the case without creating chaos because of too many cases in the highest court instances. In US, which have a much more crime, the number of appeals, from both sides, would have crippled the system.
I would say that there is a fair number of "checks and balances" in the Norwegian Court System. The prosecutors can't allways appeal, because of limited budget, they can't afford it if _all_ of their cases would go to the next court instance. And, apealing all the cases would in some way reducing their right to apeal as a special power the prosecutors have.
On the other hand: The prosecuted, in this case Jon Johansen, is covered by the state, as *all the cost of having a lawyer is paid by the state*. And in contrast to "some other countries", you don't get only those lawyers which failed to get a better paid job. After what I have heard, the "quality" of the public lawyers in USA ain't that good. You can choose any lawyer you wan't and the goverment pays. The problem is rather that some of the good lawyers are quite busy. So the problem of losing all your money because an appeal isn't that problematic. But of course there is always an uncertainty with an apeal.
Among proffesionals in the Norwegian systems i think most people think that the risk of convicting an innocent person is far smaller than in Norway compared to USA. And the implications from convicting someone falsely is far smaller than US because of not so hard "punishment".
Compared to US, Norways maximum sentence is 21 years behind bars. And most murders get away with 10-15 years, probation after 6-10. Economic crime have maximum 15 years if I remember right. And I can't remember anyone getting more than 8 years (!)(i think is was some kind of organized bankfraud). So I Jon is found guilty, he won't get more than 1 year. Maximum. As for damages or expenses he have to cover or pay back; I doubt he would get more than $10000.
I reckon that there is some US centric views on this topic. But in a hypotetical situation I would have choosen too stand in front on the Norwegian legal system, rather than the US legal system, double jeopardy or not.
[Double jeopardy or not, it aint no good if you are innocently convicted for manslaughter and sentenced to death.(or 300 years behind bars)]
[BTW. In Norway the police can hold you for 24 hours. You have the right to call a lawyer. After 24 hours they have to let you go or "framstille" (hold you in front of a judge) for a judge and have a kind of probable cause or some sort of evidence. Hard to explain in English this stuff.]
My English stinks. Partly because I have been awake for 42 hours. (Stupid boss in a stupid system.) So my apologies to you all.
It looks like MS adapted a "we reserve us the right to screw you" attitude as official customer policy with that release.
Although I do agree on your general oppinion on the restrictive license following the Windows XP End User License Agreement there is more to the story:
If you install Service Pack 3 for Windows 2000 you have to agree on the same EULA as for Windows XP. And as we all know, because of security conserns you have to do that.
This really pisses me off. After all, when you install your OS of choice, for example win4k ultra edition, Microsoft should not force their customers into accepting the next license agreement.
I guess it's diffrent for Smithsonian Folkways Recordings since they prob. have relativly small volumes of each cd, while the big RIAA labeels produce thousands of each cd.
For Smithsonian Folkways Recordings one lost customer is more valuable than one customer is for Sony.
Press release:
Slashdot founder CmdTaco, issued a statement about his er.. frequent use of the slashdot frontpage:
-The last hours I have used zero minutes reading the frontpage.
OK, let's say that a big university like MIT implemnts Microsoft Windows Shiny and Secure Palladium Edition 2005. Not only on a workstation, but on _all_ computers; libray computers, dorms, workstations, servers etc.
Then all documents produced inside MIT will become Microsoft DRM enabled. All the papers, tests, research and publications. Right?
Year 2050. MIT want out. Whatever reason they have; they need to get out: The cost of the system is to high or the system don't work according to the promised specification.
Actually the reason they have, don't matter. Maybe Penguin OS v69 has become The OS.It's irrellevant. They want out; and they want it now!
Now what?
Well, for starters just about everything people have done the last 45 years is _potentially_ lost forever unless they manage to get a deal with Microsoft.
All the fileformats are MS Propretary DRM Palladium Edition and can't be read on their new and shiny OS and they would have to deal with the relatives of former employes who "own" information produced on MIT.
What a mess. Such a waste.
A floppy disk _should_ last for a hole semester, with an exception for extremly eager students and those who compile stuff on floppies.
But the last 15 years the quality of floppies have degraded. Before you could buy a floppy and actually expect it to work for years. Can't do that today. Degrading quality on the media is something that also has affected CD-R the last years.
Cut support cost?
Maybe, but learnig people to boot from cd's and several different USB devices will take some time.
Both sogamed.com, esreality.com and clanbase.com have _tons_ of gamedemos and movies from Quake1-3, Counterstrike, Unreal etc.
SoGamed alone prob. have 60GB wit cs-demos...
It's all legal.
It's free as in beer.
But if you want something almost everyone wants on DC++ hubs you could check out IRC.
-->Download mIRC connect to EFnet or Undernet.
-->Join a channel with bots that offer movies, games and albums.
-->Watch your harddisk fill.
It's not legal.
It's still free.
[Legal disclaimer: I do NOT encourage copyright infringement or any other illegal actions bla bla bla.]
had a storry on this:
http://www.southwestern.edu/~millerc/e&m/
But the most interessting stuff is that if you scroll down to the bottom of the page you will find a link to a Government Report:
[H.A.S.C. No. 106-31]
ELECTROMAGNETIC PULSE THREATS TO U.S. MILITARY AND CIVILIAN INFRASTRUCTURE
HEARING
BEFORE THE
MILITARY RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT SUBCOMMITTEE
OF THE
COMMITTEE ON ARMED SERVICES
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
ONE HUNDRED SIXTH CONGRESS
FIRST SESSION
HEARING HELD
OCTOBER 7, 1999
I guess this is stuff someone forgot to pull of the net...
I agree with the above poster. Mod him up..
If Joe-user sees some VeriSign, or maybe also Thawte "stuff" most people just click ok, because they _know_ it's not some kind of scam.
If Joe-user gets a "FREE Certificate. v0.5beta" from some kind of business, he won't do the transaction.
If I were a struggling webshop, i would go with VeriSign. It's sad, but that is just how it is right now.
Also known as Oslo Tingrett. It's the "lowest" of three court systems.
He prob. had to do the same that everyone else is doing each time they are back from vaccation:-->
Delete spam. Tons of spam.
Yep, i do agree with the above, to justify a big shift from the underlying NT/Win2k technology to Linux there have to bee a significant economical upside for Microsoft. There is no such thing.
/. rant about my bad english]
If MS was in finacial problems or had problems with the cashflow they would have had too save money by cutting developmental cost.
But after all their problem is that they have too much money and don't know where too use them.
Quoted from the article:
And for Microsoft, it offers that delectable prospect of selling Microsoft Office for Linux by inserting a bit of middleware to interface its apps with other windowing systems, again without having to adhere to the GPL.
And why would they want that. It is the *combination* Win OS and MS Office that is their "killer app" as a company. Most companies need Word, Excel and Powerpoint, not Explorer/IE Explorer. That's why they buy Win2k. If they in the future can use MS Office an Red Hat XX Microsoft have a problem.
Microsoft separating MS Office from MS WinOS would be like Gilette stopping selling blades.
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#1 Well, the girlfriend analogy/quoestion is difficault to answer as it would be a matter of trust between to people.
But if US have gathered information with some kind of secret weapon that they don't wan't to disclose, why don't they just tip of the UN inspectors instead of releasing the information themself?
#2 I do agree that trade matters alot and always had, and the Iraq "case" is directly or inderectly influencing millions of people.
But even if we discussed this for days, we prob. wouldn't agree with each other. You mean that trade (and some other Iraq actions) would justify and attack, I don't.
Also see that post that is replying to the same post as I am now. Evaen though he is posting as an AC, he actually has a point.
[sorry for my bad English]
I'm not defending them. And i do agree that a DOS against root dns serveres are stupid.
However i don't think labelling them terrorist is correct. If we knew that they were doing it because of some more or less justified political cause, and where specifically attacking US- dns servers because they are located in USA, I mean it would be correct.
But for all we know it's "just" some angry teenager with more than normal insight in how the Internet is organized.
Even though it is an attack on national/international infrastructure everyone would have "labelled" it as crime before Sept. 11.
Well, it looks like atleast someone bought the propaganda about hackers/crackers being terrorists...
#1 I do agree that i'ts difficault to get a balanced media wiew on the USA vs. Iraq case. However, related to Allied intelligence and access to the solid information: _If_, USA had some evidence about Iraq producing WMD; why dont they release it?
And don't give me that crap about protecting their "sources" inside Iraq. I'm sure that if CIA wanted to evacuate some "scientist" and their famillie(s) from inside Iraq to an US supporting country in the region it could have been done.
#2 I'm educated enough to know there are more to the conflict than GW Bush having a problem with S.H.
Quoted from you:
"This eventually effects us all as it could provide a chain reaction of rising inflation should those trade routes be disrupted. Inflation that outpaces income growth will widen the gap between the "haves" and the "have nots" which could potentially unbalance countries with existing unrest."
The logic of attacking Iraq because the trade routes in the region could be disrupted because of instability in Iraq is plain stupid.
I'm sorry, but when you speak about the "stability of the trade in the region", it sounds like official Amarican propaganda.
Even if instability inside Iraq could lead to an economic downturn in Saudia Arabia and then political and economical chaos there, disrupting the oil supply and causing the oil price to skyrocket above 50$ a barrel and then cause an the US economy into reccesion; it's doestn't justify a "preemtive strike" on Iraq. Just to say it rude: Even if all the countries in the region agreed for some reason that they should _never_ again sell oil to US(that wont happen), it would not justify an attack on Iraq.
Reduced trade in a region should not be used in an argument to attack a country. Even if their leader is evil as Satan himself an the problem is real.
16kB is def. not much space. When we are talking about small demos you should check out the ".fr-08: .the .product" -demo from farbrausch consumer consulting. It's 64kB, and its really amazing.
.fr-08 .the .product was released at christmas 2000, it made a convincing statement by showing seven completely different 3d scenes with 16 minutes of realtime synthesized music."
It's beyond me how they managed to cramp down 16 minutes(!) into 64kB.
quoted from their web:
"how much graphics, sound and program code can be stored in 64kbytes? when
http://theproduct.de/
You need an P2-350MHz, 128MB RAM and DirectX
If you look at the graphic illustration on the IAO site you will se a interesting entity called "Corporate Memory" witch feeds the system with data (togheter with the entities "Transactional Data", "Biomethric Data" and "Intel Data") The first thing i asscoiate with "Corporate Memory" is customer profiles. Ergo; this system institues a collabaration with the big corporations; Wal-Mart, MS, Visa, Banks, Airlines etc.
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From the IAO site about TIA:
"can automatically queue analysts based on partial pattern matches and has patterns that cover 90% of all previously known foreign terrorist attacks"
Ergo it will work if someone travels from Saudia Arabia to US, start taking flying lessons and then buys airline tickets to NY or buying fertilizers.
But if someone buys a warhead in some former Russian repiblic, ships it (with a non-US transport company) via Hong Kong togheter with hardware from China to California and then create a mayhem, the system will not work.
[Legal disclaimer: I have no intensions of doing something like that. ]**
This system is plain stupid an it will *never* work against a terrorist with a working brain.
Im not an expert in data-mining, but i have heard that it *is* difficault. And most corporations use static data from a couple of databases to create simple customer profiles. This system, TIA, is trying to catch a moving target and the predict future behavior. And if someone really want to avoid getting stamped as an terrorist, they wont follow the patterns that the system expects a terrorist to follow.
More info from the Pentagon briefing:
http://www.politechbot.com/p-04186.htm
**People probably need to start inserting these to avoid getting their own profile in this system...
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Someone needs to publish that link about the place in India that takes apart oil tankers. Big Karma boost in that
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You would prob. think im a Karma whore, but the "place in India"; Alang is really a terrible story on how a the "world economy" and "the lifestyle of the western world" can affect a place. My guess is that this chinese town will end up just like Alang. Everyone is condeming it, but nobody are willing to do anything serious about the problem.
Article in BBC:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/cross
Greenpeace:
http://www.greenpeaceweb.org/shipb
[actually i dont like GP because of all the FUD, but in this case they shold get some credit]
Article written by Mark Moxon:
http://www.moxon.net/india/alang.html
Gov. info from India
http://164.100.32.5/hpcreport/
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Pics:
http://www.pictobank.com/photoluc/alang3
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Of course, this is slashdot.
Serious. You havent you seen many "love- stories" about Microsoft and Nintendo here latly have you?
As the poster before me mentioned Anandtech did a test where they compared Athlon MP vs. Xeons. Both in single and dual setups. This test; Database Server CPU Comparison: Athlon MP vs. Hyper Threading Xeon cand be found here: http://www.anandtech.com/IT/showdoc.html?i=1606 Its actually one of the better tests that they have done. They use their own databases to test the performance; the webDB, the adDb and the forumDB. The smart thing about doing this is that the databases have diffrent characteristics: -the webDB: lots of selects(reads) -the adDB: some selects more stored procedures -the forumDB: selects,inserts and updates After reading this test in April, i wouldnt actually jump on to the conclusion that Hyertreading is a meaningfull "desktop- feature" if you look at price/performance. Actually, i think ist a bit overhyped. -
Yes, it is a problem with 14 years old people that think they own the world. Buts that not only a part of the game CS, but more like a general problem with 14 years old people. The Counter.Strike community is maturing and the skill level its higher than evver before.
The problem with cheats is an evergoing battle between cheatmakers and those who make tools trying to get them. Whois having the "upper hand" goes in waves as both realease new versions. The anti-cheat people have released Punkbuster, Jedi, CSGuard, Cheating Death and latest the official Valve Anti Cheat, VAC.
Note that it took Valve almost 3 years before they recognized the problem, but until them there were allways someone else who made the anti- cheat software. [a special thanks to Olo who made and maintained the CSGuard untill the makers of OCG, a well nown aimbot gave up] These tools have banned _thousands_ of WONids. The server i play on have actually a banlist with 17000+ id's from all over the world. Although cheaters can get a new key and continue playing most of them leave the server alone. In the latest year cheating has been reduced drastically. If you stick to servers who have admins who now what they are doing, you'll be fine.
Most of the people I have talked to agree that the problem with _whining_ players who thinks everyody is cheating is a far bigger problem... No offens, but those who dont play that much, as the Anonymous Coward in this tread, fail too see that its possible to become incredible skilled in hitting others players heads. After all some people play CS full time; 10 hours a day, 6 days a week.
I recomend that you take the trip to www.sogamed.com and download some demos so you can see by your self. Or you can go to esreality.com, they have both demos and movies from the latest CPL event.
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Ok an USPS-administered email system established in the early 70's would probably handle a _large_ part of US citicens and buisnesses mail. Hotmail prob. would exist at all. Having one adress for life sure sounds tempting, but think about it.
-Would it be free [as in free of charge, not the RMS way..]? Prob. not. They _charge_ for postal services. You could argument about the fact that it doesnt cost extra if you send one mail trought the "high-tech" 1980 centrally-administered national email service, but thry would have started bragging about the cost of the (here it come) infrastructure (the word of the 90`) and, of course, building services for the future (aka: -We need more money to get this shit working)
Ok people singning up and everyone is happy, until: 11/9... The terrorist living their lives in USA learning to fly and acting completly normal also have USPS-administered email...
They crash into Twin Towers.
What would have happend then to the _centrally_-administered national email servic?
Oh yeah, you now and I know. Surveilance.
Its being done today trought a system called Echelon and probably other systems. Search slashdot or google and see. But todays system with a lot of different ISP and mail services are very difficault to track and "get the full picture".
Ok im not an US citizen so maybe it is different.
But changing the wiew on the email service and this system, witch have served us all well in many years (apart from the spam), because off some dotcoms/telecoms going bust and rather wanting a central mailserver is just insane.
And by the way: From an USPS goverment employe: -You want to use PGP on this USPS-administered email? Are you terrorist?
(Sorry my baaad english)
Norwegian hardware site http://hardware.no [norwegian text only] is reporting that the database file [dBase IV] has been made available for download at: http://www.produktivdata.com/download/dbase.zip [2.9 MB] Some tips: -Social engineering has been tested so dont spam his relatives or the Ivar Aasen tunet museum -The password might contain the norwegian letters æ, ø, and å (possible not correctly shown on _your_ screen) so brute force or a dictionary approach might not be succsessful.. The solution/password can be sent to aasentunet.no (no im not putting their email out at slashdot) Good luck