In todays society we own very little. How many people own their house? Do you pay taxes, a mortgage? Personal property taxes? Then you don't really own it, it may be in your name, you may have a deed, but if you pay on it forever taxes included it isn't yours, because should you stop it will be taken.
Sounds like this will be a big step forward for the terrorists.
What was keeping them from using ultra light aircraft? You don't need any licensing or training to fly those. And what of R/C aircraft, you could easily build one that would take a 10 C-4 payload and fly it into an airport, a building, anywhere, even across the whitehouse lawn.
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No shame in the For Dummies series brother or sister. A few grace my shelves also. I find them useful when you dont need to sift through tons of BS to get to what you want.
The earth is only 6000 years old, not 6.5 billion.
Wanna buy a bridge? Convienently located in Manhattan.
This is blasphamy, and the fossil record is no proof of evolution. All a fossil proves is that somthing existed at one time, but no longer does.
Noah musta had one hell of a time building the Ark, between running from T-Rex and hiding from Raptors.
Free your mind, open it to thought and ideas. You may not agree with them, I don't agree with religon, yet there is truth to some of the stories, morals.
Listen I'm all about computer security. The darkside of computing is what drew me in the first place. I also believe in responsible disclosure. If they script kiddied their way into the network fine. Regardless if they did it for a paper or not, they should have been more responsible in teh disclosure of said vulnerability. Had they informed the schools Dean or technincal department, let them know what they had done and why then suggested a way for the school to fix the problem, or fix it for the school (with permission of course) then the situation might be different.
Cracking into a computer is wrong (unless you have written authorization to do so) their intent wasn't malicious, but by the lack of respect in not informing people before the article went to print that in and of itself is malicious.
They should be made examples of and sumarily expelled for their actions.
"Roger and I are obviously very worried that what we have done could jeopardise our degrees but we're happy to face up to it, however unfair we may think it is".
It sure is unfair that you are bieng punished, by "possible suspension" for commiting a crime that would land some of us in prison for at least 5 years.
Why wait? Why put sticks in the wheels of good people, who want space travel to be a fact, in hope of paradise on earth? It isn't gonna happen any time soon. Travelling in space has more good in it than trying to stop aggressors. Trying to stop aggressors creates more aggressors, as usually it's only a bunch of aggressors that wants to stop them.... (sigh) Going to space might actually work for peace!
Space travel could unify humans on earth more, like globalization has done up til now. I think we're on a good path here - space travel fits in the global picture and makes us more connected.
Parent this poster has a point, why stop them why wait. Let them search for life and resources away from Earth, perhaps then you would find the balance you were talking about when the zealots are gulping their own piss from "water reclamation machines" breathing scrubbed oxygen, and not having to shave from the mega doses of cosmic radiation.
Don't get me wrong I'm all for exploration of any type inner and outerspace. It's how we learn, and evovle.
I'm also a realist and I don't think we will see people living their entire lives off world in our lifetime.
Though with cloning I could be wrong. This is truely the area we should focus. Is it cheaper to use natural resources to build a ship to withstand radiation, not to mention put it in space or build it there, or would a genetically engineered human resistant to radiation and bred for space travel/life be more feasable?
Ammonia doesn't last long on Mars, so it must be constantly replenished - it could be active volcanoes (none yet found), or it could indicate life..." Along with the detection of methane, Mars is starting to look a lot less dead than had been supposed.
Come on SG Atlantis bieng as good as the original. I think naught.
And the villans, these wraith things. Are we really to believe these creatures who killed the ancients are stupid enough for a lesser lifeform (humans) to fool like what happens to teh Ghou'ld every week. Come on now. At least tehy were parasites.
How can you design a software that will last 200 years. Computing is making leaps and bounds annually. There is no feasable way that software written today will be useful in 20 years let alone 200. Think of the 5 1/4 floppy software. How many people here still use those programs? With CPU archetectures and memory optimizations, code written at anytime will be obsolete in a matter of years. Whose to say computers will continue to use the same hardware even? Techies have already made a switch from a single molecule, how is your code going to run on a CPU made up entirely of individual molecules as opposed to a printed ciruit?
If the site violates disability laws, then perhaps the disability activist should muster the troops and file suit against the cinema chain. I know some of you will flame this post citing it as a frivolous lawsuit, but you also need to take into account how many lawsuits have been filed in the US because someone didn't have adequate handicapped parking or a wheel chair accessible ramp, or a handicapped stall in teh restroom. I ask you if those lawsuits were frivolous. The case would never have to go to court, they could agree to drop the case should the cinema chain agree to alter it's site so that it were viewable through other browsers.
A typical door tumbler has between 5 and 6 "cuts", with each one of those cuts having some 30 different sized tumblers. One key could potentially open more than just the lock it was intended, but why go through the hassle, most door frames cant stand up to a swift kick anyway.
The virus most likely makes use of the Windows API, in such a case the virus would just have to keep an eye on the memory, when it notices a BREAKPOINT set on a certain API call (which is usually never encountered on a normal computer, unless reversing) the program exits.
There are tons of CRACKME's (small program written solely for people to crack or bypass) I have seen which look for debuggers and will exit if encountered.
My guess is that they are so confounded, that by releasing that statement labelling the coding as sloppy they hope to draw the writer out in some way. Seems they are going for his/her ego.
Because hey no coder legit or illicit wants to be thought of as a sloppy coder.
You asked if we were prepared or if we have enough time to prepare.
The real question is should we prepare?
History has proven time and again that there are plagues and famine to cull the human herd, so to speak. With the worlds population at the highest it's ever been in history, we are taxing the planet far beyond what life it can sustain. Perhaps it is time for a catastrophe of this magnatude to lower the human population.
Also evolution and history dictate that the earth moves in cycles, polar shift, the earths axis changing. Through all these changes animal life found ways to survive, they evolved or the species died out.
It is a crappy outlook that I have on the whole matter, because it could mean my genetic code dies out because it simply isn't strong enough to survive or perhaps it would. This is survival. The strongest survive and evolve or die out. I have children, and by no means would I want this to happen.
Should grains and other food sources become scarce, there are alternatives we could turn to. Insects are considered delacacies in many countries, as are rats and mice. Seeing as how there are so many people in the world a logical assumtion should food become scarce would be that we would begin to see each other as that large turkey leg from the cartoons, and cannibalism would ensue.
This is both sides of the coin. Good idea, bad idea. True it would be great, to check up to make sure your children are getting to school on time, and checking where they like to hang out. What if a pedophile got hold of a frequency list. This would make it easier for them to track a victim down to when the victim is alone.
We already know through poor security people get passwords, bank account info, and credit card numbers, who is to say the same wouldnt happen here.
And for those people who will chime in and say "Pedophile have to register on a list". Well yes they do, but only if they are convicted. What if they have not been caught, are working for the chip makers/distributers and have access to the lists already.
Never thought about the bumbles, but don't they relay info to each other through the buzzing and describe to the others where flowers are based on the suns position in the sky?
the impact on life may be significant but not catastrophic
Whose life, humankind? What about animals that rely on the earths magnetic field to migrate, or to find thier way back to centuries old mating grounds? What about elephants that travel hundreds of miles to water holes they seem to instinctively know is there? What about whales that travel from South America to Alaska to feed and raise young? I think the impact on animal life will be more severe than the impact on us.
Should a shift like this occur we could lose more species to the extinction.
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In todays society we own very little. How many people own their house? Do you pay taxes, a mortgage? Personal property taxes? Then you don't really own it, it may be in your name, you may have a deed, but if you pay on it forever taxes included it isn't yours, because should you stop it will be taken.
The only thing we own today is ourselves.
The CEDC. Center for Electronic Disease Control.
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No shame in the For Dummies series brother or sister. A few grace my shelves also. I find them useful when you dont need to sift through tons of BS to get to what you want.
Not even a mention of satelite king Cap'n Crunch.
Free your mind, open it to thought and ideas. You may not agree with them, I don't agree with religon, yet there is truth to some of the stories, morals.
Cracking into a computer is wrong (unless you have written authorization to do so) their intent wasn't malicious, but by the lack of respect in not informing people before the article went to print that in and of itself is malicious.
They should be made examples of and sumarily expelled for their actions.
It sure is unfair that you are bieng punished, by "possible suspension" for commiting a crime that would land some of us in prison for at least 5 years.
Don't get me wrong I'm all for exploration of any type inner and outerspace. It's how we learn, and evovle.
I'm also a realist and I don't think we will see people living their entire lives off world in our lifetime.
Though with cloning I could be wrong. This is truely the area we should focus.
Is it cheaper to use natural resources to build a ship to withstand radiation, not to mention put it in space or build it there, or would a genetically engineered human resistant to radiation and bred for space travel/life be more feasable?
Marinate on that awhile!
Come on SG Atlantis bieng as good as the original. I think naught.
And the villans, these wraith things. Are we really to believe these creatures who killed the ancients are stupid enough for a lesser lifeform (humans) to fool like what happens to teh Ghou'ld every week. Come on now. At least tehy were parasites.
How can you design a software that will last 200 years. Computing is making leaps and bounds annually. There is no feasable way that software written today will be useful in 20 years let alone 200. Think of the 5 1/4 floppy software. How many people here still use those programs? With CPU archetectures and memory optimizations, code written at anytime will be obsolete in a matter of years. Whose to say computers will continue to use the same hardware even? Techies have already made a switch from a single molecule, how is your code going to run on a CPU made up entirely of individual molecules as opposed to a printed ciruit?
Is this the bet he had with his college pals for a complete set of encyclopedias of the winners choice?
Mod this one up, they have a valid point.
If the site violates disability laws, then perhaps the disability activist should muster the troops and file suit against the cinema chain. I know some of you will flame this post citing it as a frivolous lawsuit, but you also need to take into account how many lawsuits have been filed in the US because someone didn't have adequate handicapped parking or a wheel chair accessible ramp, or a handicapped stall in teh restroom. I ask you if those lawsuits were frivolous. The case would never have to go to court, they could agree to drop the case should the cinema chain agree to alter it's site so that it were viewable through other browsers.
A typical door tumbler has between 5 and 6 "cuts", with each one of those cuts having some 30 different sized tumblers. One key could potentially open more than just the lock it was intended, but why go through the hassle, most door frames cant stand up to a swift kick anyway.
Have you ever read a software EULA? In it, it specifically states you agree not to reverse engineer or decompile the software in any way.
Thats not a bad point except for a few points.
1) was the software copyrighted in the first place?
2) does the end user actually agree to a EULA?
The virus most likely makes use of the Windows API, in such a case the virus would just have to keep an eye on the memory, when it notices a BREAKPOINT set on a certain API call (which is usually never encountered on a normal computer, unless reversing) the program exits.
There are tons of CRACKME's (small program written solely for people to crack or bypass) I have seen which look for debuggers and will exit if encountered.
My guess is that they are so confounded, that by releasing that statement labelling the coding as sloppy they hope to draw the writer out in some way. Seems they are going for his/her ego.
Because hey no coder legit or illicit wants to be thought of as a sloppy coder.
You asked if we were prepared or if we have enough time to prepare.
The real question is should we prepare?
History has proven time and again that there are plagues and famine to cull the human herd, so to speak. With the worlds population at the highest it's ever been in history, we are taxing the planet far beyond what life it can sustain. Perhaps it is time for a catastrophe of this magnatude to lower the human population.
Also evolution and history dictate that the earth moves in cycles, polar shift, the earths axis changing. Through all these changes animal life found ways to survive, they evolved or the species died out.
It is a crappy outlook that I have on the whole matter, because it could mean my genetic code dies out because it simply isn't strong enough to survive or perhaps it would. This is survival. The strongest survive and evolve or die out.
I have children, and by no means would I want this to happen.
Should grains and other food sources become scarce, there are alternatives we could turn to. Insects are considered delacacies in many countries, as are rats and mice. Seeing as how there are so many people in the world a logical assumtion should food become scarce would be that we would begin to see each other as that large turkey leg from the cartoons, and cannibalism would ensue.
This is both sides of the coin. Good idea, bad idea. True it would be great, to check up to make sure your children are getting to school on time, and checking where they like to hang out. What if a pedophile got hold of a frequency list. This would make it easier for them to track a victim down to when the victim is alone.
We already know through poor security people get passwords, bank account info, and credit card numbers, who is to say the same wouldnt happen here.
And for those people who will chime in and say "Pedophile have to register on a list". Well yes they do, but only if they are convicted. What if they have not been caught, are working for the chip makers/distributers and have access to the lists already.
Never thought about the bumbles, but don't they relay info to each other through the buzzing and describe to the others where flowers are based on the suns position in the sky?
Whose life, humankind? What about animals that rely on the earths magnetic field to migrate, or to find thier way back to centuries old mating grounds? What about elephants that travel hundreds of miles to water holes they seem to instinctively know is there? What about whales that travel from South America to Alaska to feed and raise young? I think the impact on animal life will be more severe than the impact on us.
Should a shift like this occur we could lose more species to the extinction.