Very unlikely. The americans had the atomic bomb and were prepared to use it plus they could import as many fresh troops as they liked from the US mainland. The russian army however was almost dead on its feet at the fall of Berlin. It wouldn't have taken much for the allies to defeat the russians.
"As for 'vile dictator'... Europe would have been conquered completely if it was not for USSR."
You are talking about the same Stalin who sided with Hitler until Hitler made the mistake of trying to invade russia? Oh yes, we should all be grateful for stalins sense of self preservation and revenge!
The russians are very good at telling others what to do but they're not very good at being told themselves and then they start complaining and acting like spoilt school children if they have to do something they don't like (you know , like learning the native language of the country they're living in).
If the russians want to make a big deal out of those statues the estonians moved , perhaps the estonians should ask the russians - where are the statues for the estonians your government deported to siberia??
"Stalin was just undoing mistakes of his predecessors"
How is deporting thousands of people to Siberia "undoing his mistakes"? Stalin was just a ruthless vile dictator and IMO the Allies would have done well to destrou the russian army after they'd destroyed the german army at the end of the 2nd world war. Then we wouldn't have had 50 years of idiot communists in Moscow oppressing half of europe and threatening world peace.
"Being out of touch with IT just means that he has better or more important things to do than use computers; granted, a foreign concept to most of us on Slashdot, but many people in other industries get by just fine without using anything more complicated than a telephone - that's what secretaries are for."
Sorry , that might have been the case up until even 1990 , but its no longer the case now. And if you're not up to date with how a large part of modern society functions I cannot see how you can make valid judgements.
"By asking for an exact definition of a website, it does not preclude his ability as a judge to pass judgement on the case"
Of course it does. Its the same as expecting him to judge a case for a speeding driver if he doesn't know what a car is. How on earth can he make a valid decision? Even if he learns on the fly during the case it would still make me question his fitness to judge any of us since he clearly lives in a world of his own cut off from the mainstream. Christ , even my 70 year old mother knows what a website is.
"expert witness"
They're called "expert" witnesses for a reason. They're there to provide an in depth detailed opinion on something , not provide Janet & John type information for some old fossil behind the bench.
Yes , if the case was something highly technical and went into the intricacies of technology he could be forgiven. But a website is part of general culture in the UK now and I'm afraid if he doesn't know what it is then he's probably seriously out of touch with more than just the IT world. If there was some case about something illegal with cars we wouldn't expect him to know how the combustion cycle worked but we *would* expect him to know what a friggin car is else how the hell can he make any attempt at judging the case??
How much does your van weigh?? 5 tons?? Here in europe the diesel powered Ford Transit gets an average of about 30mpg and I doubt its much smaller than your Dodge. I knew american vehicles always have poor mileage but 14mpg is just a joke.
"Take guns out of modern American society and people will just beat each other to death with rolling pins."
Its a bit easier to run away from someone wielding a rolling pin than it is to dodge a bullet moving a mach 2. I think I know which scenario I'd prefer to be in.
"that they wouldn't pay for cosmetic/reconstructive surgery on that particular woman, "
Err, sorry , am I missing something - why exactly should they pay for surgery for this moron? Would you expect Ford for example to pay damages to someone if they didn't realise that driving while reading a paper was dangerous and they crashed and then the moron tries to blame it on the car? IMO McDonalds should have countersued *her* for wasting their time and money in court.
Before anyone mods me down for trolling consider this: do you really think it would be a good idea for astronauts to exist in a completely sterile enviroment for years on end? What do you think this would do for their immune systems? At the very least they'd be seriously impaired by the time they came back to earth and possibly they could even die of some common microbe that is of no concern to people with healthy immune systems. At the worst their immune system could go into auto immune disease mode and then you could well end up with your spacecraft arriving at mars with just corpses strapped in the seats.
Its easy to manually configure a network using IP4. Try doing it using IP6 with its incomprehensible 128 bit hexcode addresses. But its self configuring the IP6 proponents exclaim. Oh yeah , and thats really fullproof isn't it. Not. There always end up being manual intervention with any network topology and trying to do it with IP6 is like trying to pull teeth with a very sharp paperclip - painful and slow.
"Seems to me like they had, how would you implement plugins otherwise?. The problem is that if explorer loads these plugins (which do adhere to an interface) and they do something stupid, explorer will hang, since it is the host process. This is bad since explorer.exe on windows is responsible for running the shell."
Do what most unix programs do - fork() first. So if the child process crashes the parent process happily carries on regardless. AFAIK Windows processes couldn't do fork() , perhaps this is not longer the case. If it still the case then MS needs to seriously consider adding it in since multi threading a single process isn't the answer to everything as this situation proves.
"Furthermore by definition the responsibility of a publicly traded company is to its shareholders whose interests are represented by the Board of Trustees and to no one and nothing else. To imagine that imaginary lines on a map are of significance to corporate interest is to delude oneself about the economic structure of the world."
Sorry , but companies don't operate in some perfect economic moral vacuum as witnessed by a lot of them being forced to clear up the enviromental messes they created in the past. Governments of big countries have to power to force these companies to keep a certain number of people employed in their home country by the simple method of restricting their ability to trade in said country if they refuse.
Ok , maybe a few low level ones are , but if these execs were *really* worried about their companies balance sheet, the first thing they'd do it outsource their own oversized salaried roles (unless they think the indians et al are too stupid to do it - unlikely). Funny thing is though , this never happens. As usual hypocracy floats to the top along with the bullshit and they'll fire the people who do the real work while taking home their own 6 figure salaries and heading off down the golf course. These people should be ashamed of themselves and what they're doing. Even for the self centred spineless leeches running a large company such as IBM there should be *some* sort of moral responsibility to your country, no matter what the bleating shareholders and accountants might say.
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"first thing you did was to ignore some agreements you had with you former employer,"
How would you know? YOu think I'd be dumb enough to tell you?
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What , you think Google will have spies in every company you interview at? As soon as you've finished the interviewer will be on the hotline to Google HQ and some heavies will pick you up on the way home? Come off it. No one takes any notice of these NDAs when at other jobs aside from blatant infringements such as ripping off code or publishing company info in the press. I've signed plenty of NDAs and ignored every single one as soon as I left the companies in question.
All this crack needs is for the drive hardware to work. It matters not whether the 360 can decrypt the disk itself further down the line , all the crackers need is the raw info from the disk provided by the hacked firmware.
"The day the linux core gets BUILT-IN windowing and graphics, and I do NOT mean just xwindows or xwindows "
You really don't understand the whole point of X-Windows do you? Its a network graphics system. Ie you don't have to be on machine A to run a GUI app on machine A. Sure , now Windows has that functionality , 20 years after the event I might add , but look at the extra hassle you get with it.
Another point - linux/unix frequently gets used as a backend server system that doesn't require any sort of graphical interface. Something MS with its Windows Server 20XX line hasn't quite grasped yet. What would be the advantage of building the graphics into the kernel? I can think of plenty of disadvantages - more bloat , more potential security and stability issues , more disk space required for a basic install. And so forth.
You mean entering hex codes manually? Jeez , no thanks. But if you're really masochistic why not just do it the way they did before the keyboard and teletype came along - enter the codes via a front panel with switches for each bit in the word and an "enter" button!
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Very unlikely. The americans had the atomic bomb and were prepared to use it plus they could import as many fresh troops as they liked from the US mainland. The russian army however was almost dead on its feet at the fall of Berlin. It wouldn't have taken much for the allies to defeat the russians.
"As for 'vile dictator'... Europe would have been conquered completely if it was not for USSR."
You are talking about the same Stalin who sided with Hitler until Hitler made the mistake of trying to invade russia? Oh yes, we should all be grateful for stalins sense of self preservation and revenge!
The russians are very good at telling others what to do but they're not very good at being told themselves and then they start complaining and acting like spoilt school children if they have to do something they don't like (you know , like learning the native language of the country they're living in).
If the russians want to make a big deal out of those statues the estonians moved , perhaps the estonians should ask the russians - where are the statues for the estonians your government deported to siberia??
"Stalin was just undoing mistakes of his predecessors"
How is deporting thousands of people to Siberia "undoing his mistakes"? Stalin was just a ruthless vile dictator and IMO the Allies would have done well to destrou the russian army after they'd destroyed the german army at the end of the 2nd world war. Then we wouldn't have had 50 years of idiot communists in Moscow oppressing half of europe and threatening world peace.
Moron.
"Being out of touch with IT just means that he has better or more important things to do than use computers; granted, a foreign concept to most of us on Slashdot, but many people in other industries get by just fine without using anything more complicated than a telephone - that's what secretaries are for."
Sorry , that might have been the case up until even 1990 , but its no longer the case now. And if you're not up to date with how a large part of modern society functions I cannot see how you can make valid judgements.
"By asking for an exact definition of a website, it does not preclude his ability as a judge to pass judgement on the case"
Of course it does. Its the same as expecting him to judge a case for a speeding driver if he doesn't know what a car is. How on earth can he make a valid decision? Even if he learns on the fly during the case it would still make me question his fitness to judge any of us since he clearly lives in a world of his own cut off from the mainstream. Christ , even my 70 year old mother knows what a website is.
"expert witness"
They're called "expert" witnesses for a reason. They're there to provide an in depth detailed opinion on something , not provide Janet & John type information for some old fossil behind the bench.
Yes , if the case was something highly technical and went into the intricacies of technology he could be forgiven. But a website is part of general culture in the UK now and I'm afraid if he doesn't know what it is then he's probably seriously out of touch with more than just the IT world. If there was some case about something illegal with cars we wouldn't expect him to know how the combustion cycle worked but we *would* expect him to know what a friggin car is else how the hell can he make any attempt at judging the case??
How much does your van weigh?? 5 tons?? Here in europe the diesel powered Ford Transit gets an average of about 30mpg and I doubt its much smaller than your Dodge. I knew american vehicles always have poor mileage but 14mpg is just a joke.
"Hahaha, you also forgot to read the basic facts, and are assuming because some dummy (ie, Rush Drugbot) told you, that she was driving."
Rush who? Sorry mate, is that some yank politician or something?
"Take guns out of modern American society and people will just beat each other to death with rolling pins."
Its a bit easier to run away from someone wielding a rolling pin than it is to dodge a bullet moving a mach 2. I think I know which scenario I'd prefer to be in.
"that they wouldn't pay for cosmetic/reconstructive surgery on that particular woman, "
Err, sorry , am I missing something - why exactly should they pay for surgery for this moron? Would you expect Ford for example to pay damages to someone if they didn't realise that driving while reading a paper was dangerous and they crashed and then the moron tries to blame it on the car? IMO McDonalds should have countersued *her* for wasting their time and money in court.
"None of this means I don't feel sorry for her, by the way - I do."
I don't. I long ago got tired of having to feel sympathy for idiots. Now I just laugh.
Before anyone mods me down for trolling consider this: do you really think it would be a good idea for astronauts to exist in a completely sterile enviroment for years on end? What do you think this would do for their immune systems? At the very least they'd be seriously impaired by the time they came back to earth and possibly they could even die of some common microbe that is of no concern to people with healthy immune systems. At the worst their immune system could go into auto immune disease mode and then you could well end up with your spacecraft arriving at mars with just corpses strapped in the seats.
"You're manually configuring a network of about 40 computers and I'm the idiot. Irony, thy name is Viol8."
Oh right , so you've never had issues like we've had with IP6 autoconfig but yet you know it all and I'm the troll?
You really are a twat arn't you. Still, that somes up a lot of people on here - A grade know-nothings.
Whoa whoa, that was such a killer putdown (not) , trying to karma surf on the back of his comments. Aww , didn't work though did it?
"Type an address, a prefix length, and a gateway and go. What's so tricky about that?"
You ever tried to type in a three dozen IP6 address manually and then have to go back and find the typo? No , didn't think so. Idiot.
Its easy to manually configure a network using IP4. Try doing it using IP6 with its incomprehensible 128 bit hexcode addresses. But its self configuring the IP6 proponents exclaim. Oh yeah , and thats really fullproof isn't it. Not. There always end up being manual intervention with any network topology and trying to do it with IP6 is like trying to pull teeth with a very sharp paperclip - painful and slow.
"Seems to me like they had, how would you implement plugins otherwise?. The problem is that if explorer loads these plugins (which do adhere to an interface) and they do something stupid, explorer will hang, since it is the host process. This is bad since explorer.exe on windows is responsible for running the shell."
Do what most unix programs do - fork() first. So if the child process crashes the parent process happily carries on regardless. AFAIK Windows processes couldn't do fork() , perhaps this is not longer the case. If it still the case then MS needs to seriously consider adding it in since multi threading a single process isn't the answer to everything as this situation proves.
"Furthermore by definition the responsibility of a publicly traded company is to its shareholders whose interests are represented by the Board of Trustees and to no one and nothing else. To imagine that imaginary lines on a map are of significance to corporate interest is to delude oneself about the economic structure of the world."
Sorry , but companies don't operate in some perfect economic moral vacuum as witnessed by a lot of them being forced to clear up the enviromental messes they created in the past. Governments of big countries have to power to force these companies to keep a certain number of people employed in their home country by the simple method of restricting their ability to trade in said country if they refuse.
Ok , maybe a few low level ones are , but if these execs were *really* worried about their companies balance sheet, the first thing they'd do it outsource their own oversized salaried roles (unless they think the indians et al are too stupid to do it - unlikely). Funny thing is though , this never happens. As usual hypocracy floats to the top along with the bullshit and they'll fire the people who do the real work while taking home their own 6 figure salaries and heading off down the golf course. These people should be ashamed of themselves and what they're doing. Even for the self centred spineless leeches running a large company such as IBM there should be *some* sort of moral responsibility to your country, no matter what the bleating shareholders and accountants might say.
"first thing you did was to ignore some agreements you had with you former employer,"
How would you know? YOu think I'd be dumb enough to tell you?
What , you think Google will have spies in every company you interview at? As soon as you've finished the interviewer will be on the hotline to Google HQ and some heavies will pick you up on the way home? Come off it. No one takes any notice of these NDAs when at other jobs aside from blatant infringements such as ripping off code or publishing company info in the press. I've signed plenty of NDAs and ignored every single one as soon as I left the companies in question.
All this crack needs is for the drive hardware to work. It matters not whether the 360 can decrypt the disk itself further down the line , all the crackers need is the raw info from the disk provided by the hacked firmware.
If 21% of all the files in his filesystem suddenly went from using 512 bytes to 4MB I think he probably *would* care.
"The day the linux core gets BUILT-IN windowing and graphics, and I do NOT mean just xwindows or xwindows "
You really don't understand the whole point of X-Windows do you? Its a network graphics system. Ie you don't have to be on machine A to run a GUI app on machine A. Sure , now Windows has that functionality , 20 years after the event I might add , but look at the extra hassle you get with it.
Another point - linux/unix frequently gets used as a backend server system that doesn't require any sort of graphical interface. Something MS with its Windows Server 20XX line hasn't quite grasped yet. What would be the advantage of building the graphics into the kernel? I can think of plenty of disadvantages - more bloat , more potential security and stability issues , more disk space required for a basic install. And so forth.
Frankly , you're assertion is daft.
"not assembler, honest direct machine code"
You mean entering hex codes manually? Jeez , no thanks. But if you're really masochistic why not just do it the way they did before the keyboard and teletype came along - enter the codes via a front panel with switches for each bit in the word and an "enter" button!