Uh huh. And when you quit going to church, how many tens of thousands of dollars did your former congregation threaten to sue you for? How many non-disclosure agreements did you have to sign on your way out the door?
Oh, and how many of your family members did they order never to speak to you again under threat of excommunication and other punishments?
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Yet these anarchists did--and left a golf ball with a circle-A on it as a calling card.
Anarchists that blow shit up really get on my nerves. If you give your opponent the appearance of moral superiority, then your opponent wins the hearts and minds of those who consider themselves morally superior.
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It's a class thing. Bowling strikes me as somewhat more proletarian that golf, Tiger Woods's recent "breakthrough" notwithstanding.
Both sports, however, provide a wonderful opportunity to get drunk on beer with one's friends.
Is it okay for me to destroy your computer? It should be, because it's an act of self-defense against your poisonous opinions.
Unless you are a troll, I am appalled at your suggestion that violence is an acceptable way of "curing" a non-violent problem. I can't imagine giving dignity to your suggestion that it's okay to kill and injure and vandalize in "self-defense". If you truly believe what you're writing, you are a dangerous and irrational person.
SUVs serve a purpose, but not inside a city. If you want to get the 90% of them that are being used as oversized cars off the roads they don't belong on, set it up so all vehicles registered inside a city/suburb complex must meet very stringent pollution/consumption standards or pay a very heavy tax for the privilege.
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Who the hell calls their terrorist group the "Anarchist Golfing Association"?
I mean, what the hell kind of anarchist golfs? "Say, Moonchild, what say we get in a quick nine before we torch that Land Rover dealership?" I guess you have to have a hobby outside of blowing stuff up.
But I've got to agree that grass is a bad idea. There are dozens of better ways to fight erosion, that don't require you to use massive quantities of poison and fertilizer. In the town I grew up in, there was a pond at the bottom of a large hill. The hill was covered with nice houses with nice beautifully manicured lawns. One spring a lengthy rainstorm sent runoff from all these lawns downhill into the pond. A day later, all the fish were dead--poisoned by all that fertilizer and insecticide. Eventually fishing in the pond was banned; what fish remained were incredibly toxic.
The moral of the story is that just because one or two people doing a thing is harmless doesn't mean the thing remains harmless when done by a hundred thousand people.
PAM 0.72 will let you use asterisks but will ding you on all-asterisks if you're using pam_cracklib.so (too primitive).
Some Unices have problems with certain characters, such as the octothorpe. You can put one in your passwd, but/bin/login uses a very primitive terminal profile under which # translates into a backspace, which means you can't enter the character at login time, effectively locking you out of the system. This problem exists in HP-UX at least as recently as 10.2.
A good habit after resetting one's password is to telnet localhost and try it on for size. This has kept me from losing the root account at least once--on an HP-UX box where I'd tried to use a hashmark in the new pw.
You forgot seek-time vs. no-seek-time and fragmentation-affects-access-time vs. doesn't.
Also, a filesystem written for a solid-state disk can be substantially simpler because it doesn't have to take into account the physical realities of a spinning disk--you don't have to agonize over ordering writes to different parts of the disk; you just shovel it out and forget it.
You can add journaling information and other integrity stuff if you feel like it. But you don't have to worry about where it goes.
Slashdot is not short of self-proclaimed experts spouting their ill-informed opinions as it is.
I'm afraid that's exactly what Slashdot is. It's frustrating digging through the junk to get to the information. And the Funny flag has been an excuse to do one's karma whoring by being a smartass rather than an intelligent contributor to discussion.
I read a story online by a guy doing down-and-back runs at the Flats on a modified GSXR-750. The old guy running the radar told him, "When you do your turn-around, don't sit up too soon." It seems that out at the Flats, it's kind of easy to lose perspective on how fast you're going. So a lot of guys doing speed runs on their bikes finish their "out" run and what do they do? The same thing they after breaking eighty on some random boulevard--roll off the throttle and sit up. The problem is that if you sit up at 180 MPH, you get sucked off the bike and you find out two things: (1) how abrasion-resistant your pants are, and (2)how far your bike will roll with nobody on the back. Assuming your ass hasn't been sanded off, you're going to have to walk well over a mile to retrieve your bike. I'm guessing a lost-rider switch is a wise investment.
Part of the reason the military is toying with this design is the fuel. The entire U.S. military land force is standardized on a single fuel--JP-8 diesel, which this beast's turbine will gladly consume. Every vehicle in the U.S. Army and Marine Corps that either rolls or flies uses JP-8.
The Marines even bought a bunch of KLR-650 duel sports and had them modified to run on diesel fuel. Horsepower was cut in half, but torque went from 40 lbs-ft at 5500 rpm to 46@3k. Interesting article in the 3/2001 ish of Rider magazine. I'd take a stock KLR over this funktastic diesel dirt bike, but they're both out of the question---my inseam is just under 30 in.
Under ten? Good thing, too; that's about how long one can stay on the thing before needing a chiropractor. I like Motorcycle Online's description of the GSX-R family's ergos: "The face-down, ass-up riding position is better suited for one's first day in prison than the operation of a motorcycle."
I'll take the R1, thank you. Or a CBR929RR. Why? Because there are probably a hundred people in the entire world who can ride well enough to explore the razor-thin difference between an R1 and a GSX-R, and live to tell about it. Out here in the real world, I want a bike that won't tankslap out of the first pothole it encounters. I also want a bike that's slightly more comfortable than a Spanish Inquisition torture rack.
I know how you feel, man. Just yesterday afternoon I was browsing the sci-fi section at a neighborhood, independent bookstore, and I glanced hopefully among the "A"s to see if Adams had published anything new. He hadn't, so I grabbed A Canticle for Leibowitz instead. Oh--and a random Spider Robinson novel, because I haven't read anything by him yet.
Imagine coming home disappointed because there wasn't a new Adams book and finding out there wasn't going to be one at all, ever. I'm so bummed.
The Earth program was irrevocably screwed up when the Golg. colonized Earth, more or less wiping out the cavemen.
Just because Arthur in particular didn't have the right answer does not mean the program was trash. The Golgofrinchams weren't a contaminant--they were a patch to a buggy application! Don't you remember how frustrated the "caveman" was? He had reached a computational bottleneck and was unable to proceed any further. He passed a parameter off to Arthur (a component of the new routine) and stalked off into the woods, probably to become extinct.
Just because Arthur had the wrong question doesn't mean that a Golgofrincham couldn't produce the correct question once they were fully integrated into the Earth application. Arthur had the wrong question because (a) he was part of a routine that was evaluating a computational dead end; (b)the correct question is unhavable, and (c) he's a schnook. If he weren't a shnook, the Trilogy would not have been nearly as enjoyable.
Besides, I'm sure you read the fourth book in the trilogy, and all that business with Fenchurch? About her having the solution and all of a sudden it getting wiped out by the universe? The stuff from the preface to the first book? How a girl in a cafe got it right, and this time nobody would have to get nailed to anything?
The reason that airplanes and (some) racecars and some navy ships use gas-turbines for power generation is that gas turbines have a
superior power/weight ratio compared to pistion engines.
Actually, the biggest advantage that internal combustion engines have (aside from mechanical simplicity) is a wide power band. Many IC engines produce eighty percent of their maximum torque over eighty percent of their RPM range, which makes them tremendously useful in, for example, stop-and-go traffic. Turbines, though, tend to have very narrow power ranges, staying very low until you reach 0.9*max(constantRPM), where they rise rapidly until you exceed max(constantRPM). They don't spool up and down very efficiently, and it is so difficult to attain fine control that many applications simply use clutches and waste gates to blow excess energy off to/dev/null.
So turbines are best suited for constant speeds and constant loads, like you will find in transport aircraft. Indeed, they do have high P/W ratios and they do run on a wider range of fuels, which is why the U.S. Army uses them in their main battle tanks.
But if you want to see a truly twisted misapplication of gas turbine technology, check out this motorcycle.
A defense contractor once had the source code to a sensitive data analysis package broken because they transmitted an encrypted version of it across a public network. The attackers broke it because the file name ended in.l, so they assumed it was a LISP application and that the last 64 characters were closing parentheses (or 62 parentheses followed by a CRLF). They made a known-plaintext attack against the last block, extracted the key and used it to decode the remaining blocks.
The pilot turns his head and the turret moves with him
Actually the gun turret points where the gunner is looking, not the pilot. The pilot does have a positionally-sensitive helmet as well; it is used to display enhanced terrain views.
More than likely a registered letter stating "You are hereby prohibited in entering any store or other property owned or managed by FubarCo, its successors or subsidiaries for a period of one hundred years starting at the date of this letter" suffices as prior notice.
A store, restaurant, or other such establishment is considered "public" in U.S. common law; as such, you are welcome to enter and remain on lawful business unless you are instructed (a) to leave, or (b) not to enter in the first place. If you enter or remain on a property you have been instructed to vacate or not to enter, you are committing "criminal trespass", as some states refer to it. See O.C.G. 16-7-21(b)(2) for a typical example.
It was very good strategy--sometimes you have to lose a battle in order to win a war. By rolling over when the RIAA threatened him, he made the RIAA show their true colors in a documentable, admissible-as-evidence way.
NONONONO! Scientology is a made-up religion based on bad science fiction by a guy out to make a buck, but Jediism is based on, um, this movie that, um, goes in space, and there's these action figures you can buy from, um, LucasFilms, and George Lucas lives on this, like, compound out in California, and..
If it wasn't a religion, it was sure as hell a cult, if such a distinction can be made: It relied heavily on symbolism and iconography. It appropriated entire mythologies, and what it didn't steal, it made up from the whole cloth. It attempted to become a part of every aspect of life. It had rituals and ceremonies. It had a strong group identity. It had a charismatic, megalomaniac leader. It had a cabal. It had tremedous emotional appeal and used it to cause its followers to believe things no sane man could possibly believe. It whipped up hatred of non-beleivers and non-members and frenzied passion for belief and membership. It destroyed outsiders. It demanded fanatical obedience. It embraced doublethink. It brainwashed. It had thought police.
Despite its near-total destruction, it still has small pockets of fanatical, violent adherents.
It meets every standard of cultism I have ever heard. But if my smartassed grandfather is right that a religion is just a cult with an army, it was very nearly the most successful religion to come out of the Western world.
So, do you mind if I exploit a loophole here? The question was what would happen if all microprocessors were destroyed. The first microprocessor wasn't built until about 1970; there were plenty of big-transistor and core-memory machines around before then. And the paper tape and punch cards were very common storage media. So all you need is a generator build before 1975 or so and a computer built before 1970 or so and a programmer born before 1950 or so and OBTW back in those days the manuals were printed on paper so they're still intact...
Junk yards are chock full of point-ignition gasoline engines, so transportation could start happening before too long. And as long as I'm exploiting loopholes, you said "microprocessor" and not IC, and from 1970 to about 1985, most "electronic ignitions", including fuel injection controllers, were based on circuit boards that featured very thick traces and no chips of any kind. A lot of those cars and trucks and busses are still going strong.
My biggest concern is that the cities may starve to death within a few weeks if it takes that long to get food coming back in.
Water, gas and electric I'm not so worried about--even though power plants are computer controlled, the computers are just there to coordinate the throwing of great big switches and those can be thrown by people. The lights would be on and the water would be flowing and the refrigerator just might keep running too. The furnace, though, is another story.
After the humanitarian disaster of riot and starvation, whoever's left has another huge hurdle to overcome: the world's communications infrastructure is now complete trash and untrashing it will take an amazingly long time, but ghod willing, "they" would settle on some standards this time around.
Speaking of humanitarian disasters, I don't know how well the third world will survive all this. If the nations in question aren't very dependent on outside food, they will probably manage better than the modern world, because their infrastructure, including communications, are still based on non-microprocessor technology. So they'll still have phones, and radio, and drivable vehicles. Most of the medicines they need are ones that are pretty easy to make, like polio vaccine and antibiotics.
As for us programmers, the vast majority of us will have to get real jobs, because ubiquitous computing will be another twenty years away.
P.S. I hope you have cash and a gun, because your bank account's fucked. Then again, your credit card balance is back to zero as well. It will be interesting to see who the new rich and powerful are now that all the virtual-representation money has disappeared.
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Oh, and how many of your family members did they order never to speak to you again under threat of excommunication and other punishments?
Anarchists that blow shit up really get on my nerves. If you give your opponent the appearance of moral superiority, then your opponent wins the hearts and minds of those who consider themselves morally superior.
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Both sports, however, provide a wonderful opportunity to get drunk on beer with one's friends.
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Unless you are a troll, I am appalled at your suggestion that violence is an acceptable way of "curing" a non-violent problem. I can't imagine giving dignity to your suggestion that it's okay to kill and injure and vandalize in "self-defense". If you truly believe what you're writing, you are a dangerous and irrational person.
SUVs serve a purpose, but not inside a city. If you want to get the 90% of them that are being used as oversized cars off the roads they don't belong on, set it up so all vehicles registered inside a city/suburb complex must meet very stringent pollution/consumption standards or pay a very heavy tax for the privilege.
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I mean, what the hell kind of anarchist golfs? "Say, Moonchild, what say we get in a quick nine before we torch that Land Rover dealership?" I guess you have to have a hobby outside of blowing stuff up.
But I've got to agree that grass is a bad idea. There are dozens of better ways to fight erosion, that don't require you to use massive quantities of poison and fertilizer. In the town I grew up in, there was a pond at the bottom of a large hill. The hill was covered with nice houses with nice beautifully manicured lawns. One spring a lengthy rainstorm sent runoff from all these lawns downhill into the pond. A day later, all the fish were dead--poisoned by all that fertilizer and insecticide. Eventually fishing in the pond was banned; what fish remained were incredibly toxic.
The moral of the story is that just because one or two people doing a thing is harmless doesn't mean the thing remains harmless when done by a hundred thousand people.
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Some Unices have problems with certain characters, such as the octothorpe. You can put one in your passwd, but /bin/login uses a very primitive terminal profile under which # translates into a backspace, which means you can't enter the character at login time, effectively locking you out of the system. This problem exists in HP-UX at least as recently as 10.2.
A good habit after resetting one's password is to telnet localhost and try it on for size. This has kept me from losing the root account at least once--on an HP-UX box where I'd tried to use a hashmark in the new pw.
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Also, a filesystem written for a solid-state disk can be substantially simpler because it doesn't have to take into account the physical realities of a spinning disk--you don't have to agonize over ordering writes to different parts of the disk; you just shovel it out and forget it.
You can add journaling information and other integrity stuff if you feel like it. But you don't have to worry about where it goes.
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I read a story online by a guy doing down-and-back runs at the Flats on a modified GSXR-750. The old guy running the radar told him, "When you do your turn-around, don't sit up too soon." It seems that out at the Flats, it's kind of easy to lose perspective on how fast you're going. So a lot of guys doing speed runs on their bikes finish their "out" run and what do they do? The same thing they after breaking eighty on some random boulevard--roll off the throttle and sit up. The problem is that if you sit up at 180 MPH, you get sucked off the bike and you find out two things: (1) how abrasion-resistant your pants are, and (2)how far your bike will roll with nobody on the back. Assuming your ass hasn't been sanded off, you're going to have to walk well over a mile to retrieve your bike. I'm guessing a lost-rider switch is a wise investment.
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The Marines even bought a bunch of KLR-650 duel sports and had them modified to run on diesel fuel. Horsepower was cut in half, but torque went from 40 lbs-ft at 5500 rpm to 46@3k. Interesting article in the 3/2001 ish of Rider magazine. I'd take a stock KLR over this funktastic diesel dirt bike, but they're both out of the question---my inseam is just under 30 in.
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In other words, if you buy a Viper and spend $60,000 more on it, it's almost as fast off the line as a stock Suzuki Hayabusa?
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I'll take the R1, thank you. Or a CBR929RR. Why? Because there are probably a hundred people in the entire world who can ride well enough to explore the razor-thin difference between an R1 and a GSX-R, and live to tell about it. Out here in the real world, I want a bike that won't tankslap out of the first pothole it encounters. I also want a bike that's slightly more comfortable than a Spanish Inquisition torture rack.
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Imagine coming home disappointed because there wasn't a new Adams book and finding out there wasn't going to be one at all, ever. I'm so bummed.
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Just because Arthur had the wrong question doesn't mean that a Golgofrincham couldn't produce the correct question once they were fully integrated into the Earth application. Arthur had the wrong question because (a) he was part of a routine that was evaluating a computational dead end; (b)the correct question is unhavable, and (c) he's a schnook. If he weren't a shnook, the Trilogy would not have been nearly as enjoyable.
Besides, I'm sure you read the fourth book in the trilogy, and all that business with Fenchurch? About her having the solution and all of a sudden it getting wiped out by the universe? The stuff from the preface to the first book? How a girl in a cafe got it right, and this time nobody would have to get nailed to anything?
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So turbines are best suited for constant speeds and constant loads, like you will find in transport aircraft. Indeed, they do have high P/W ratios and they do run on a wider range of fuels, which is why the U.S. Army uses them in their main battle tanks.
But if you want to see a truly twisted misapplication of gas turbine technology, check out this motorcycle.
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A defense contractor once had the source code to a sensitive data analysis package broken because they transmitted an encrypted version of it across a public network. The attackers broke it because the file name ended in .l, so they assumed it was a LISP application and that the last 64 characters were closing parentheses (or 62 parentheses followed by a CRLF). They made a known-plaintext attack against the last block, extracted the key and used it to decode the remaining blocks.
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The terrible that they'll figure out which part of the cute clerks I'm looking at, and now they'll have the words "Drink Pepsi" on their nipples.
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And now, the chipping-away can begin.
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"Yo quiero--" WHAM.
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Despite its near-total destruction, it still has small pockets of fanatical, violent adherents.
It meets every standard of cultism I have ever heard. But if my smartassed grandfather is right that a religion is just a cult with an army, it was very nearly the most successful religion to come out of the Western world.
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Junk yards are chock full of point-ignition gasoline engines, so transportation could start happening before too long. And as long as I'm exploiting loopholes, you said "microprocessor" and not IC, and from 1970 to about 1985, most "electronic ignitions", including fuel injection controllers, were based on circuit boards that featured very thick traces and no chips of any kind. A lot of those cars and trucks and busses are still going strong.
My biggest concern is that the cities may starve to death within a few weeks if it takes that long to get food coming back in.
Water, gas and electric I'm not so worried about--even though power plants are computer controlled, the computers are just there to coordinate the throwing of great big switches and those can be thrown by people. The lights would be on and the water would be flowing and the refrigerator just might keep running too. The furnace, though, is another story.
After the humanitarian disaster of riot and starvation, whoever's left has another huge hurdle to overcome: the world's communications infrastructure is now complete trash and untrashing it will take an amazingly long time, but ghod willing, "they" would settle on some standards this time around.
Speaking of humanitarian disasters, I don't know how well the third world will survive all this. If the nations in question aren't very dependent on outside food, they will probably manage better than the modern world, because their infrastructure, including communications, are still based on non-microprocessor technology. So they'll still have phones, and radio, and drivable vehicles. Most of the medicines they need are ones that are pretty easy to make, like polio vaccine and antibiotics.
As for us programmers, the vast majority of us will have to get real jobs, because ubiquitous computing will be another twenty years away.
P.S. I hope you have cash and a gun, because your bank account's fucked. Then again, your credit card balance is back to zero as well. It will be interesting to see who the new rich and powerful are now that all the virtual-representation money has disappeared.
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