I've used this "reverse exploit" and it works... this is a lot faster than waiting for the head scratching to end at the Ububtu launchpad. Is there anyway to get this link into the main post?...?
Here's another way to look at it using the bridge example. If an engineer 50 years ago built a bridge to support the horse and buggy, not knowing that the invention of the modern-day car was on the horizon, he cannot be held accountable for the bridge's collapse under the weight of multiple vehicles. To use your example in a modern context, the engineer would perceive the limitation of the bridge design and impose a mandatory weight limit on the bridge to the back calculated minimum design load the bridge can handle. But more likely, that bride would be demolished and replaced with a shining new cable stayed concrete bridge.
Engineers have accountability, "software engineers" do not... Look at MS for example... don't see em' court for fucking up the Airports terminal display...
Wow is this guy serious? Oh, it so happens, I have an extra $100 million over here, yes take that and by some wires... and I'll be waiting in line at the unemployment office.
There is one defense against that, though. Cash. Personally I only purchase things with cash except for online stuff. Even online I try to avoid using anything other than a visa giftcard. Think again bub. Once you hand over you cash, the cash that has RFID chips built into it that has traked your most previous transaction from the other store or you ATM, it is put into a special scanning bin that if possible collects your DNA and a finger print. Combined with your image from the surveillance camera you are marked and entered into a database and watched for further activity.
This supposed system uses drivers license information, so hand them your passport (you have a passport right?). I'm willing to bet this "system" isn't set up for passports (yet).
Just in case you wanted to know what a solar mass is, wikipedia has it as the mass equivelent to our sun or "about two nonillion kilograms or about 332,950 times the mass of the Earth". The only other question I have relates to the following quote:
... In addition, the geometry of the two Einstein rings allowed the team to measure the mass of the middle galaxy precisely to be a value of 1 billion solar masses... What the hell kind of "precision" is that?
I had something cleaver an witty to say about "production ready IPv6 networking stack" note for the BSD 4.0 release, but it has escaped me. Thus, I'll let others do that for me...
I'm so glad that there are "users" (of the internets?) looking out for me. That is one less thing for me to take of my worry list, however the following still remain:
Probably just a matter of time before an emergency requires a quick call to 911 that gets blocked by this illegal tactic. What? You mean before cell phones there were no emergencies that required someone calling 911? Please...
I very often have problems with any sort of sessions (SSH, VPN, etc.) staying up for long periods of time because the underlying line level reliability is so poor. I can watch my cable modem logs and see many resets, timeouts, etc.
I too have problems with my Comcast "connection" like that described in the quote, so much so that I've had to resort to using GNU screen all the time.
I actually phoned comcast and got to an "elevated level" response that basically meant a "technician" was going to come over to my house and , as far as I can tell, check to see if I connected everything right. WTF! The first thing the techie will say is "we don't support x" where x is any number of things: Linux, Firefox, custom built computer, room lighting levels, who the f-knows. Maybe I could follow that technician into the Comcast server/data center, tell him to f-off, and see what's going on with my connection to my house.
Hopefully this person charges using visa/mastercard. Every purchase you make, VISA/mastercard insures you get what you purchased and you can get your money back if you weren't satisfied wit you purchase. Just read the fine print for you membership agreement and you'll see what your options are when you dispute the purchase that you make with the vendor.
Creationism vs Science is always an interesting exercise in frustration (for me at least). I know a individual who calibrates and maintains certain testing gauges with radioactive sources. I went to a trainig seminar in which he was discussing the radioactive half-life etc. of radioactive sources, the usual basic chemistry spiel. Then he confided to us all that he was a creationist and that he really doesn't believe the the radioactive decay is not more than 6000 years old for any given substance due to the "fact" that the earth is not older than 6000 years old according to him even though he had told us that the half-life for certain sources he was talking about exceeded well beyond 6000 years.
I tried to argue that if you had material half derived from the decayed original radioactive source and that the other remaining radioactive half has a half-life of 6000 years, then the original piece of material must be 12000 years old. Of course that argument fell on deaf ears, just like the other argument I proposed on the age of the sedimentary layering found in the Grand Canyon exposed from downcutting erosion by the Colorado River, which also took a certain rate to cut through ("with most of the downcutting occurring in the last two million years," according to the wikipedia entry). No matter what the rational argument was, no counter argument was offered or even justified.
Granted creationism is based on religious faith rather than evidence acquired through experiment and observation, it cannot be evaluated by the scientific method. The two "ideologies," if you will, are incompatible as the scientific discipline does not attempt to address issues of supernatural intervention in natural phenomena. Thus we are reduced to a scientific consensus rejecting any attempt to teach creationism as science and visa versa. The classic example of this ideology incompatibility is the creation-evolution belief/theory.
If a potential terrorist, or hell anyone else who would be normally barred from entering the USofA wanted to enter the country, I believe it would be easy. Just fly to Mexico and jump the fence, or just walk across where there is no fence. Or fly to Canada and paddle a sea kayak from Victoria to Port Angeles. Or, again walk across anywhere along the US-Canada border. This no fly list is useless unless our neighboring countries have a similar entry denial process.
The wolfram site is slashdotted but this link for the article in nature is not.
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I don't want to start a holy war here, but what is the deal with you _____ fanatics? I've been sitting here at my freelance gig in front of a _____ (a _____ w/_____ gigs of RAM) for about 20 minutes now while it attempts to copy a 17 Meg file from one folder on the hard drive to another folder. 20 minutes. At home, on my ancient _____ running _____, which by all standards should be a lot slower than this _____, the same operation would take about 2 minutes. If that.
In addition, during this file transfer, _____ will not work. And everything else has ground to a halt. Even _____ is straining to keep up as I type this.
I won't bore you with the laundry list of other problems that I've encountered while working on various _____'s, but suffice it to say there have been many, not the least of which is I've never seen a _____ that has run faster than its _____ counterpart, despite the _____'s same chip architecture. My _____ with _____ megs of ram runs faster than this _____ mhz machine at times. From a productivity standpoint, I don't get how people can claim that _____ is a superior operating system.
_____ lovers, flame me if you'd like, but I'd rather hear some intelligent reasons why anyone would choose to use _____ over other faster, cheaper, more stable systems.
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I've used this "reverse exploit" and it works... this is a lot faster than waiting for the head scratching to end at the Ububtu launchpad. Is there anyway to get this link into the main post?...?
... if it runs Linux?
Engineers have accountability, "software engineers" do not... Look at MS for example... don't see em' court for fucking up the Airports terminal display...
Wow is this guy serious? Oh, it so happens, I have an extra $100 million over here, yes take that and by some wires... and I'll be waiting in line at the unemployment office.
hahaha... someone on here is real funny...
This supposed system uses drivers license information, so hand them your passport (you have a passport right?). I'm willing to bet this "system" isn't set up for passports (yet).
... In addition, the geometry of the two Einstein rings allowed the team to measure the mass of the middle galaxy precisely to be a value of 1 billion solar masses... What the hell kind of "precision" is that?I had something cleaver an witty to say about "production ready IPv6 networking stack" note for the BSD 4.0 release, but it has escaped me. Thus, I'll let others do that for me...
1. Global warming impacts
2. Poverty in my country
3. Iraq war
4. Profit?
I hate how this site always loads up whenever I access certain sites....
I too have problems with my Comcast "connection" like that described in the quote, so much so that I've had to resort to using GNU screen all the time.
I actually phoned comcast and got to an "elevated level" response that basically meant a "technician" was going to come over to my house and , as far as I can tell, check to see if I connected everything right. WTF! The first thing the techie will say is "we don't support x" where x is any number of things: Linux, Firefox, custom built computer, room lighting levels, who the f-knows. Maybe I could follow that technician into the Comcast server/data center, tell him to f-off, and see what's going on with my connection to my house.
Hopefully this person charges using visa/mastercard. Every purchase you make, VISA/mastercard insures you get what you purchased and you can get your money back if you weren't satisfied wit you purchase. Just read the fine print for you membership agreement and you'll see what your options are when you dispute the purchase that you make with the vendor.
Just get cygwin, it not that much of a hassle to intall...
Wikipedia has a brief entry regarding the age of the earth both in scientific and religious points of view.
I tried to argue that if you had material half derived from the decayed original radioactive source and that the other remaining radioactive half has a half-life of 6000 years, then the original piece of material must be 12000 years old. Of course that argument fell on deaf ears, just like the other argument I proposed on the age of the sedimentary layering found in the Grand Canyon exposed from downcutting erosion by the Colorado River, which also took a certain rate to cut through ("with most of the downcutting occurring in the last two million years," according to the wikipedia entry). No matter what the rational argument was, no counter argument was offered or even justified.
Granted creationism is based on religious faith rather than evidence acquired through experiment and observation, it cannot be evaluated by the scientific method. The two "ideologies," if you will, are incompatible as the scientific discipline does not attempt to address issues of supernatural intervention in natural phenomena. Thus we are reduced to a scientific consensus rejecting any attempt to teach creationism as science and visa versa. The classic example of this ideology incompatibility is the creation-evolution belief/theory.
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If a potential terrorist, or hell anyone else who would be normally barred from entering the USofA wanted to enter the country, I believe it would be easy. Just fly to Mexico and jump the fence, or just walk across where there is no fence. Or fly to Canada and paddle a sea kayak from Victoria to Port Angeles. Or, again walk across anywhere along the US-Canada border. This no fly list is useless unless our neighboring countries have a similar entry denial process.
I thought this was already done before by the USofA...
The wolfram site is slashdotted but this link for the article in nature is not.
I don't want to start a holy war here, but what is the deal with you _____ fanatics? I've been sitting here at my freelance gig in front of a _____ (a _____ w/_____ gigs of RAM) for about 20 minutes now while it attempts to copy a 17 Meg file from one folder on the hard drive to another folder. 20 minutes. At home, on my ancient _____ running _____, which by all standards should be a lot slower than this _____, the same operation would take about 2 minutes. If that. In addition, during this file transfer, _____ will not work. And everything else has ground to a halt. Even _____ is straining to keep up as I type this. I won't bore you with the laundry list of other problems that I've encountered while working on various _____'s, but suffice it to say there have been many, not the least of which is I've never seen a _____ that has run faster than its _____ counterpart, despite the _____'s same chip architecture. My _____ with _____ megs of ram runs faster than this _____ mhz machine at times. From a productivity standpoint, I don't get how people can claim that _____ is a superior operating system. _____ lovers, flame me if you'd like, but I'd rather hear some intelligent reasons why anyone would choose to use _____ over other faster, cheaper, more stable systems.
Corporate and educational licenses don't have the activation in pre XP SP2 editions.
Just imagine how much beer you could have bought with $300. You could be using QDOS, and you wouldn't have noticed the difference...