No. But I am saying a knee to the balls, a finger to an eye, pepper spray to the face, any and all of those things are even better than the one with the smoking gun and a dead Anyone at Anyone's feet.
Also FYI the Bomb was used against the Japanese not the Germans. The Germans had already lost, and the Japanese were already losing.
It's obvious to me that no one can convince you that a gun is bad, but please remember a gun is designed for one purpose, to Kill! Not to defend. All a gun society achieves is a greater number of gun homicides, and accidental gun deaths. I very much doubt America has less rapes, and violent crimes because people 'protect' themselves with a gun, and anyone who claims otherwise is living in a fantasy world.
For some reason this post reminded me of that bugs bunny episode where bugs and Elmer Fudd run backwards and forwards threatening each other with bigger and bigger guns until eventually bugs runs back in a wedding dress and they both get married.
So I think the moral to this story is if you want to deter someone from mugging you, the answer isn't a gun, but cross dressing.
I also have a serious point to the parent. Sure firing a gun in self defense is self defense. But then using a nuclear weapon is also a great way to end a war. But that doesn't make it right.
All of that is assuming that time is a single linear "piece of string" so if you travell back in time and change something you effectivly cut the string and everything that existed after that point disapears including yourself.
But if time was more like a branch you could travel back in time along your branch, change something and create a new branch that time travels along. You still exist because you travelled back along one branch, but the flow now travels down a new branch instead of your original branch. Therefore there are no paradoxes, and everyone is happy.
If time travel is possible I really cannot imagine the universe being so fragile as to instantly destroy itself if a paradox occurs.
You would not use any of the standard encryption systems currently used on the internet to send information using quantum cryptography. If you had a quantum cryptography system you would return to an old system called the One Time Pad, which is impossible to break using any method including a brute force attack.
This method was actually used by business and the military (and is probably still used by the miltary) before the development of public key encryption systems. The reason why it can't be used over the internet is because the same key is used to encrypt and decrypt. But by using the quantum cryptography method it is possible to send a key to the recipient and know that no one else has intercepted it.
what blows my mind is those that use the DB column name in a webform to be passed.. Oh nice. select from that drop down item_number and simply change it to start playing corrupt the database games.
I can only see that being a major problem if the programmer is using the form field name to get the field name for the sql statement.
So $SQL = "UPDATE table SET field_name='{$_REQUEST['field_name']}' WHERE primary_key='{$_REQUEST['primary_key']}'"; Should be fine. Even if the hacker does start changing the form field names it won't change the SQL statement except making field_name=''
Did you read the article? Just so you don't strain yourself here is the appropriate part.
'Whedon said the pic will be released under the title "Serenity" to give it some distance from the TV version. "It was important that people understand that the movie isn't the series," he said. "The movie is bigger, more epic than anything you can do in a series."
To that end, he said he went out of his way while penning the "Serenity" script to make sure that it is accessible to audiences who never tuned into "Firefly."
"You're not going to bring people into a movie if you're explaining all the time what happened before," Whedon said.'
If a person using linux (first time user or not) is trying to do something, but has problems and gets unbelievably frustrated at the stupidity of what should be a trivial matter, finally snaps, and has a rant, then the automatic response is "Well why don't you do something to fix it?"
Why should he? He is the user. The software is supposed to be FOR THE USER. It's is not the users responsibility to fix the software. He probably has better things to do with his time. He almost certianly as better things to do then spend hours trying to do something as minor as set up a printer.
This guy got frustrated and decided to vent his annoyance. So what! It doesn't make what he said any less relevant. It doesn't mean that there isn't a SERIOUS problem with the usability of some basic core features of linux. It does not mean we should all just dismiss him as a raving loony.
We should all wake up to ourselves and realise that linux and open source is not the holy grail that we make it out to be. It's cracked and flawed, and in some places in need of some serious renovation.
We have been in contact with Rob from iGames trying to promote Savage as much as possible here in Australia. Although it has been difficult as the game hasn't been released in the stores yet.
You obviously know a lot more about this than I do.
I know that you can't "fly" up to space, I'm not an idiot. I do understand some of the principles of flight.
However, what I do not understand is why can't you fly up as high as you can go and then "take off". Surely the amount of fuel you would use to reach escape velocity would be much less that way. It's my understanding that half the fuel is used up before you even escape the atmosphere.
Also I would be interested to hear about Scramjets.
And please, don't come back at me with more maths. I won't read it because it doesn't interest and is quite meaningless to a person who doesn't work in the field. Talk to me in theory and I could listen to you for hours.
There are other, cheaper, ways to get people to and from orbit. We've been able to do that, safely, for more than 40 years. Since we know how to do that, we ought to concentrate on going someplace in space (where wings are pointless, obviously) rather than some useless technical chimera like the orbital space plane.
The problem is that current rocket designs are NOT cost effective. The only reason a rocket was ever used in the first place was becuase there were lots of rocket scientists left over from WW2, and now we are stuck in a "rocket is the only way to space" mentality.
To get a space shuttle even to the same height as a commericial 747 costs millions of dollars in fuel. How can that be cost effective? The idea behind the space plane is you will be able to fly up to space using only a fraction of the fuel, and hence a fraction of the cost.
All I am saying is they probably have more (and different) facts than you do. And yet you want to discriminate against them based on your own biased opinion.
Oh yes very mature. Lets just dismiss them out of hand before they have a chance to give their side of the story.
This sort of discrimination is still pretty childish. You are discriminating against them based on ethics. Don't you think they might have the same ethics you have?
The employees of SCO are in a completely different situation to all the rest of us. They are actually closer to the action, and their view of everything is different to ours. The information that they have been given by their employers may make the actions of SCO appear to be ethical and right. Whether it is or not isn't up to you or me, or anyone except the courts.
If you want another example of this think about the World Wars. I am sure that the German people believed that what they were doing was right. But that doesn't mean that they were all unethical psychopathic bastards.
Or maybe it's to make CD's more competative with DVD's. I don't know what it's like in the US, but here in Australia a CD costs around $30. A DVD also costs around $30-$35. Why buy a CD when you can get a DVD for only a couple dollars more?
What you need to do is download Firebird, and Thunderbird.
They were both created to work on the speed and bloat. They are both stand alone applications, and both faster than Mozilla. Firebird is fast enough that it starts up almost as fast as IE for me.
I use them both as my browser and email client 100%. Yes there are a couple bugs still, but nothing really major.
Eventually they are going to take over from the Mozilla suite.
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None of that is really inovation. It's more polish, and tweaks on existing ideas
I would like to know why he thinks this will make them bring back the deal.
They probably think they have hit a gold mine after the bill they will send him.
No. But I am saying a knee to the balls, a finger to an eye, pepper spray to the face, any and all of those things are even better than the one with the smoking gun and a dead Anyone at Anyone's feet.
Also FYI the Bomb was used against the Japanese not the Germans. The Germans had already lost, and the Japanese were already losing.
It's obvious to me that no one can convince you that a gun is bad, but please remember a gun is designed for one purpose, to Kill! Not to defend. All a gun society achieves is a greater number of gun homicides, and accidental gun deaths. I very much doubt America has less rapes, and violent crimes because people 'protect' themselves with a gun, and anyone who claims otherwise is living in a fantasy world.
For some reason this post reminded me of that bugs bunny episode where bugs and Elmer Fudd run backwards and forwards threatening each other with bigger and bigger guns until eventually bugs runs back in a wedding dress and they both get married.
So I think the moral to this story is if you want to deter someone from mugging you, the answer isn't a gun, but cross dressing.
I also have a serious point to the parent. Sure firing a gun in self defense is self defense. But then using a nuclear weapon is also a great way to end a war. But that doesn't make it right.
All of that is assuming that time is a single linear "piece of string" so if you travell back in time and change something you effectivly cut the string and everything that existed after that point disapears including yourself.
But if time was more like a branch you could travel back in time along your branch, change something and create a new branch that time travels along. You still exist because you travelled back along one branch, but the flow now travels down a new branch instead of your original branch. Therefore there are no paradoxes, and everyone is happy.
If time travel is possible I really cannot imagine the universe being so fragile as to instantly destroy itself if a paradox occurs.
At least, thats how I view it.
I have the same T-Shirt and live in Australia.
I get quite a few strange looks from people who probably think I am anti kangaroo or something.
You would not use any of the standard encryption systems currently used on the internet to send information using quantum cryptography. If you had a quantum cryptography system you would return to an old system called the One Time Pad, which is impossible to break using any method including a brute force attack.
This method was actually used by business and the military (and is probably still used by the miltary) before the development of public key encryption systems. The reason why it can't be used over the internet is because the same key is used to encrypt and decrypt. But by using the quantum cryptography method it is possible to send a key to the recipient and know that no one else has intercepted it.
I can only see that being a major problem if the programmer is using the form field name to get the field name for the sql statement.
So $SQL = "UPDATE table SET field_name='{$_REQUEST['field_name']}' WHERE primary_key='{$_REQUEST['primary_key']}'"; Should be fine. Even if the hacker does start changing the form field names it won't change the SQL statement except making field_name=''
Did you read the article? Just so you don't strain yourself here is the appropriate part.
'Whedon said the pic will be released under the title "Serenity" to give it some distance from the TV version. "It was important that people understand that the movie isn't the series," he said. "The movie is bigger, more epic than anything you can do in a series."
To that end, he said he went out of his way while penning the "Serenity" script to make sure that it is accessible to audiences who never tuned into "Firefly."
"You're not going to bring people into a movie if you're explaining all the time what happened before," Whedon said.'
This is what annoys me about some linux people.
If a person using linux (first time user or not) is trying to do something, but has problems and gets unbelievably frustrated at the stupidity of what should be a trivial matter, finally snaps, and has a rant, then the automatic response is "Well why don't you do something to fix it?"
Why should he? He is the user. The software is supposed to be FOR THE USER. It's is not the users responsibility to fix the software. He probably has better things to do with his time. He almost certianly as better things to do then spend hours trying to do something as minor as set up a printer.
This guy got frustrated and decided to vent his annoyance. So what! It doesn't make what he said any less relevant. It doesn't mean that there isn't a SERIOUS problem with the usability of some basic core features of linux. It does not mean we should all just dismiss him as a raving loony.
We should all wake up to ourselves and realise that linux and open source is not the holy grail that we make it out to be. It's cracked and flawed, and in some places in need of some serious renovation.
Thats a shame.
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We have been in contact with Rob from iGames trying to promote Savage as much as possible here in Australia. Although it has been difficult as the game hasn't been released in the stores yet.
http://www.ozforcesforums.com/forumdisplay.php?
Good luck with your new job. And keep us in mind when your next game is released
Ex-Employee??? What happened?
What we have just witnessed is Open Source at work.
I think all of you should be careful. SCO will be claiming you stole the code from their own DarlBot.
I live in Australia, and while I do think voting is important, I do not agree that it should be compulsary.
Forcing a person to vote isn't very democratic.
You obviously know a lot more about this than I do.
I know that you can't "fly" up to space, I'm not an idiot. I do understand some of the principles of flight.
However, what I do not understand is why can't you fly up as high as you can go and then "take off". Surely the amount of fuel you would use to reach escape velocity would be much less that way. It's my understanding that half the fuel is used up before you even escape the atmosphere.
Also I would be interested to hear about Scramjets.
And please, don't come back at me with more maths. I won't read it because it doesn't interest and is quite meaningless to a person who doesn't work in the field. Talk to me in theory and I could listen to you for hours.
The problem is that current rocket designs are NOT cost effective. The only reason a rocket was ever used in the first place was becuase there were lots of rocket scientists left over from WW2, and now we are stuck in a "rocket is the only way to space" mentality.
To get a space shuttle even to the same height as a commericial 747 costs millions of dollars in fuel. How can that be cost effective? The idea behind the space plane is you will be able to fly up to space using only a fraction of the fuel, and hence a fraction of the cost.
And what does "Pass the tachyon beam through the deflector array" mean?
"Women are like Voltron ... the more you can hook up, the better it gets!"
All I am saying is they probably have more (and different) facts than you do. And yet you want to discriminate against them based on your own biased opinion.
Oh yes very mature. Lets just dismiss them out of hand before they have a chance to give their side of the story.
This sort of discrimination is still pretty childish. You are discriminating against them based on ethics. Don't you think they might have the same ethics you have?
The employees of SCO are in a completely different situation to all the rest of us. They are actually closer to the action, and their view of everything is different to ours. The information that they have been given by their employers may make the actions of SCO appear to be ethical and right. Whether it is or not isn't up to you or me, or anyone except the courts.
If you want another example of this think about the World Wars. I am sure that the German people believed that what they were doing was right. But that doesn't mean that they were all unethical psychopathic bastards.
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Oh dear. Even reading laughter is infectious
Or maybe it's to make CD's more competative with DVD's. I don't know what it's like in the US, but here in Australia a CD costs around $30. A DVD also costs around $30-$35. Why buy a CD when you can get a DVD for only a couple dollars more?
You can still use the -turbo option with Firebird.
However it isn't really supported as one of the goals of Firebird is to optimise it's startup times so that this sort of feature isn't needed.
What you need to do is download Firebird, and Thunderbird.
They were both created to work on the speed and bloat. They are both stand alone applications, and both faster than Mozilla. Firebird is fast enough that it starts up almost as fast as IE for me.
I use them both as my browser and email client 100%. Yes there are a couple bugs still, but nothing really major.
Eventually they are going to take over from the Mozilla suite.
Netscape/AOL is no longer supporting Mozilla, but Mozilla still exists.
The Mozilla Foundation has been set up to manage the project. It's a non profit organisation so you can make a donation to them if you wish.
Also a lot of the developers who worked for Netscape and on the Mozilla project are continuing to work on mozilla still.