So for the price of what Wall street caused US government to pay, you could get a space elevator for each country in the world (almost - the smallest ones will have to share ofcourse)
It is unlikely that nowadays any government is going to use the army to destroy opposition. More likely it will be the police. When the constitution was written the idea of police was rather unclear and it was essentially the army that enforced the law (atleast the british law enforcement in US) during the war.
In a rebellion in the US, it will be very difficult to use the army against the local people. If we assume that the militia need to be able to overthrow the government, then they need to be atleast allowed to own the same arms that the police carry. This also gives an easy way of determining where the cut-offs for "arms", "heavy artillery" and "WMD" are
Though an unfortunate side effect would be a situation like in New Orleans, where the cops were outgunned by the populace until the military got there.
Another difference is that Office live is Windows only. It works with Mozilla, but locks out Linux If the message is correct, the tool does not work on OS X either
I have no idea what functionality in a web based app gets blocked due to the browser running on an unsupported platform!
I don't know about the level of involvement, but I found the last Google filing with SEC pretty odd . I have no clue why Google would want to vote for censorship!
I doubt anyone is going to send Elephants over the alps to conquer Switzerland. More likely a couple of missiles ought to quickly end the war.
In case of Germany (or any of the major NATO members) declaring war, just an announcement of war should bring Swiss to their knees without firing a single bullet. It is just that it would hurt the other country economically as much as it hurts the swiss due to them being seen as a European bully.
There are estimates that over $400 B of African wealth has been stashed away in Switzerland.
To do some crude calculations let us assume that this money is invested at the growth rate of the country. Swiss GDP grows at 2.85% while the interest rates paid on the deposit is 1.85%. This would indicate that Switzerland makes $400 Million in profit every year just on money from Africa. Thats about the GDP of Pakistan!
Africa is extremely corrupt, but also very poor. The rest of the world should contribute atleast thrice that (think Russia , South America, India and South East Asia)..
So I think you underestimate how much money swiss make by hiding the "corrupt money" and how important it is for the economy
Plus it doesn't tear up your CPU at night
The article is thin on details, but I think this might kill your network instead of killing your CPU.
The idea here is to detect subtle movements of the laptop (which are small enough to not need shutting the laptop down). Apparently whenever the accelerometer senses a motion it will communicate to a central server within a second. Imagine using one of these in the train or a bus...the laptop would be constantly pinging the server. A quake of magnitude 4 is not going to feel any stronger than the movement of a train
In other words this guy most likely found a security bug in Safari, but instead of reporting it directly, made an exploit and waited for a hacking contest to get a monetary benefit out of it. A real hero.
The blog says that he is a security evaluator - so finding bugs is part of his job. He also reported it anonymously to Apple and did not disclose it publically. I don't think making another 10K bucks out of it somehow makes him evil as long as he did no additional harm to the public (Showing Apple as less secure is not harm in my opinion) . Finding bugs is a good thing and having an incentive to find bugs is even better. Otherwise we'll have to condemn the whole symantec and grisoft teams for finding bugs and making a living based on that,
Thats a great suggestion.. a minor nitpick..
"msiexec/qn/i Qucktime.msi " will run the msi with no UI at all.. replacing "/qn" with "/qb!" will do the same install with a limited UI. Atleast that way there is some indication that an install is in progress.
Apparently US legal system is a bit messy. Eventhough the federal government has to obey the treaties, according to the supreme court, States do not have to obey all treaties.
Not justifying the US actions here, but occasionally foreign courts refuse to obey US courts - I agree that disobeying US court orders (whose opinions are valid through bilateral treaties) is slightly different from WTO obligations, but I think in general we can safely say that international law is not always smooth
I am fairly certain you are trolling or seriously misinformed .
I used to work for a major hardware company and we used to have a CD that we shipped along with our servers that was used to install the OS. We always at a minimum provided support for current + previous major release of OS ( RH 3 & RH4 and Win2k3 + W2k3 SP1 for example). We never, absolutely never had to carry a driver to get a linux operating system working. It always worked out of the box.
Windows on the other hand was a mess, they added iSCSI support 6 months after linux did , SATA support 8-9 months after the current version of linux did. The CD we we made had to boot, copy this driver to HDD for windows to pick it up so that the OS could install. This is on a card that all the x86 server vendors used - Windows would not install by itself out of the box.
If MSFT is so bad at server support even when pushed by IBM, Dell and HP, I have no clue how you managed to have trouble free installs all the time.
I don't know the status in the last 2 years, but my guess is that Adaptec card support still sucks on windows compared to linux. So probably does any of the network card support with any teaming or other related feature support
I am not sure labour is actually a big factor
In Goa, India I have seen companies mine Iron ore and ship it to Japan. Japan makes steel and sells it around the world (including shipping back to India).
Now considering that Iron ore is just dirt, and that all of it needs to go 1/3 the way around the world and then processed by "expensive" japanese workers, it appears that Japan does have some great technology.
We don't have cow-whales breeding in our town yet, but dolphin-cows are a menace around here. I would'nt mind if they did whatever they did in private, but this public indecency has to shop. All this cavorting and interspecies breeding can do no good, I tell you. Look at this picture . Have you ever seen anything so wrong? A poor little cow corrupted by a cruel fish
Of all the animals you had to pick from you went with cows and whales?
I don't know why they picked cows, but Japan has a very good reason to pick whales. They are pretty much the only country in the world that engages in whaling and "scientific research" is the only excuse that Japan has to continue this. Oh and "tradition" - never mind the fact that Japanese whale-eating "tradition" was really a byproduct of food shortages after second world war...
I agree with your assertion that Netscape/Mozilla floundered for a few years
But I certainly would'nt say that they "did'nt care" . Netscape (the company) was essentially getting squeezed illegaly by Microsoft and had bigger problems to worry about, this went on till they gave up and gave whatever remained to the community. I'd say they did care based on their decision of opening the product up.
And about Mozilla I'd say they care too, because all the while that Microsoft sat idle, Mozilla managed to form an organization, develop a community and release a browser that captured double digit marketshare.
then I think something is seriously wrong with your config.
I am running on Ubuntu (Gutsy 7.1) with flash player on both Netscape and Mozilla browsers. This is on a machine with an Intel Core2 Duo 1.66 Ghz. I can play more than one simultaneous video, fast forward as needed and even use the Desktop cube effect with 4 desktops with no problems at all. Only problem I have seen is that Flash (and hence the browser,usually Netscape) crashes when the website is slow to respond.
In fact I think Flash on Ubuntu works better with jumping around the segments of video better than the windows version.
That's true.
But Galileo did have the threat of being persecuted like Bruno and Copernicus though... And the times were'nt as bad as you make it out to be. It was a time of rapid change, Newton was born at the time of death of Galileo for example..
Well if this is being litigated in India, it is bound to be much more trouble for Mattel
Indian courts can (and sometimes do) make the loser pay. On the other hand if Mattel wins, they are most likely to get a very limited amount (Indian courts have rarely made individuals go bankrupt).
This means that (just like any other foreign company with offices in the US) the non-american company falls under the restrictions just like any other american-based business. Not too hard to understand, right?
Well thats the irony of it. Cuba confiscates property registered in Cuba but owned by Americans. America embargoes Cuba for 40+ years. Now US confiscates property of Europeans but which happened to be registered in USA ??
There is clearly a difference in the size of property confiscated, but you do realize that it is commonly accepted that a country can almost always do what they want to do to property registered in that country right? Usually investors call this sovereign risk (term made famous when Russia refused to pay back their debt in the 90s)...
See that is the thing. Most people broke their Gameboys in the first 5 years or so. Maybe 5% of them remain after 20 years and all those 5% post positive comments about it, while the other 95 % ignore the story or dont post
An experiment is what we need. The british TV show top gear did one with a Toyota pick up truck ( Youtube video here ). They took the truck, banged it into trees and walls, drowned it in the sea, banged it with a huge iron ball, poured petrol over it and set it on fire and it kept running. So they took it up a 10 storey building and demolished the building. The axle was broken but the truck still ran. Now that is what I'd call indestructible.
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So for the price of what Wall street caused US government to pay, you could get a space elevator for each country in the world (almost - the smallest ones will have to share ofcourse)
It is unlikely that nowadays any government is going to use the army to destroy opposition. More likely it will be the police. When the constitution was written the idea of police was rather unclear and it was essentially the army that enforced the law (atleast the british law enforcement in US) during the war.
In a rebellion in the US, it will be very difficult to use the army against the local people. If we assume that the militia need to be able to overthrow the government, then they need to be atleast allowed to own the same arms that the police carry. This also gives an easy way of determining where the cut-offs for "arms", "heavy artillery" and "WMD" are
Though an unfortunate side effect would be a situation like in New Orleans, where the cops were outgunned by the populace until the military got there.
Another difference is that Office live is Windows only. It works with Mozilla, but locks out Linux If the message is correct, the tool does not work on OS X either
I have no idea what functionality in a web based app gets blocked due to the browser running on an unsupported platform!
I don't know about the level of involvement, but I found the last Google filing with SEC pretty odd . I have no clue why Google would want to vote for censorship!
I doubt anyone is going to send Elephants over the alps to conquer Switzerland. More likely a couple of missiles ought to quickly end the war.
In case of Germany (or any of the major NATO members) declaring war, just an announcement of war should bring Swiss to their knees without firing a single bullet. It is just that it would hurt the other country economically as much as it hurts the swiss due to them being seen as a European bully.
There are estimates that over $400 B of African wealth has been stashed away in Switzerland.
To do some crude calculations let us assume that this money is invested at the growth rate of the country. Swiss GDP grows at 2.85% while the interest rates paid on the deposit is 1.85%. This would indicate that Switzerland makes $400 Million in profit every year just on money from Africa. Thats about the GDP of Pakistan!
Africa is extremely corrupt, but also very poor. The rest of the world should contribute atleast thrice that (think Russia , South America, India and South East Asia)..
So I think you underestimate how much money swiss make by hiding the "corrupt money" and how important it is for the economy
The article is thin on details, but I think this might kill your network instead of killing your CPU.
The idea here is to detect subtle movements of the laptop (which are small enough to not need shutting the laptop down). Apparently whenever the accelerometer senses a motion it will communicate to a central server within a second. Imagine using one of these in the train or a bus...the laptop would be constantly pinging the server. A quake of magnitude 4 is not going to feel any stronger than the movement of a train
In other words this guy most likely found a security bug in Safari, but instead of reporting it directly, made an exploit and waited for a hacking contest to get a monetary benefit out of it. A real hero.
The blog says that he is a security evaluator - so finding bugs is part of his job. He also reported it anonymously to Apple and did not disclose it publically. I don't think making another 10K bucks out of it somehow makes him evil as long as he did no additional harm to the public (Showing Apple as less secure is not harm in my opinion) . Finding bugs is a good thing and having an incentive to find bugs is even better. Otherwise we'll have to condemn the whole symantec and grisoft teams for finding bugs and making a living based on that,
Thats a great suggestion .. a minor nitpick .. /qn /i Qucktime.msi " will run the msi with no UI at all.. replacing "/qn" with "/qb!" will do the same install with a limited UI. Atleast that way there is some indication that an install is in progress.
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Apparently US legal system is a bit messy. Eventhough the federal government has to obey the treaties, according to the supreme court, States do not have to obey all treaties.
Not justifying the US actions here, but occasionally foreign courts refuse to obey US courts - I agree that disobeying US court orders (whose opinions are valid through bilateral treaties) is slightly different from WTO obligations, but I think in general we can safely say that international law is not always smooth
I am fairly certain you are trolling or seriously misinformed .
I used to work for a major hardware company and we used to have a CD that we shipped along with our servers that was used to install the OS. We always at a minimum provided support for current + previous major release of OS ( RH 3 & RH4 and Win2k3 + W2k3 SP1 for example). We never, absolutely never had to carry a driver to get a linux operating system working. It always worked out of the box.
Windows on the other hand was a mess, they added iSCSI support 6 months after linux did , SATA support 8-9 months after the current version of linux did. The CD we we made had to boot, copy this driver to HDD for windows to pick it up so that the OS could install. This is on a card that all the x86 server vendors used - Windows would not install by itself out of the box.
If MSFT is so bad at server support even when pushed by IBM, Dell and HP, I have no clue how you managed to have trouble free installs all the time. I don't know the status in the last 2 years, but my guess is that Adaptec card support still sucks on windows compared to linux. So probably does any of the network card support with any teaming or other related feature support
What about this then ? ... the link contains a video of rather gruesome wrestling... )
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They said 4 year old. Not 14
I am not sure labour is actually a big factor
In Goa, India I have seen companies mine Iron ore and ship it to Japan. Japan makes steel and sells it around the world (including shipping back to India).
Now considering that Iron ore is just dirt, and that all of it needs to go 1/3 the way around the world and then processed by "expensive" japanese workers, it appears that Japan does have some great technology.
Indeed! The first one-and-a-half person to be born would challenge the foundations of arithmetic.
We don't have cow-whales breeding in our town yet, but dolphin-cows are a menace around here. I would'nt mind if they did whatever they did in private, but this public indecency has to shop. All this cavorting and interspecies breeding can do no good, I tell you. Look at this picture . Have you ever seen anything so wrong? A poor little cow corrupted by a cruel fish
I don't know why they picked cows, but Japan has a very good reason to pick whales. They are pretty much the only country in the world that engages in whaling and "scientific research" is the only excuse that Japan has to continue this. Oh and "tradition" - never mind the fact that Japanese whale-eating "tradition" was really a byproduct of food shortages after second world war...
I agree with your assertion that Netscape/Mozilla floundered for a few years
But I certainly would'nt say that they "did'nt care" . Netscape (the company) was essentially getting squeezed illegaly by Microsoft and had bigger problems to worry about, this went on till they gave up and gave whatever remained to the community. I'd say they did care based on their decision of opening the product up.
And about Mozilla I'd say they care too, because all the while that Microsoft sat idle, Mozilla managed to form an organization, develop a community and release a browser that captured double digit marketshare.
then I think something is seriously wrong with your config.
I am running on Ubuntu (Gutsy 7.1) with flash player on both Netscape and Mozilla browsers. This is on a machine with an Intel Core2 Duo 1.66 Ghz. I can play more than one simultaneous video, fast forward as needed and even use the Desktop cube effect with 4 desktops with no problems at all. Only problem I have seen is that Flash (and hence the browser,usually Netscape) crashes when the website is slow to respond.
In fact I think Flash on Ubuntu works better with jumping around the segments of video better than the windows version.
That's true.
But Galileo did have the threat of being persecuted like Bruno and Copernicus though... And the times were'nt as bad as you make it out to be. It was a time of rapid change, Newton was born at the time of death of Galileo for example..
Well if this is being litigated in India, it is bound to be much more trouble for Mattel
Indian courts can (and sometimes do) make the loser pay. On the other hand if Mattel wins, they are most likely to get a very limited amount (Indian courts have rarely made individuals go bankrupt).
This means that (just like any other foreign company with offices in the US) the non-american company falls under the restrictions just like any other american-based business. Not too hard to understand, right?
Well thats the irony of it. Cuba confiscates property registered in Cuba but owned by Americans. America embargoes Cuba for 40+ years. Now US confiscates property of Europeans but which happened to be registered in USA ??
There is clearly a difference in the size of property confiscated, but you do realize that it is commonly accepted that a country can almost always do what they want to do to property registered in that country right? Usually investors call this sovereign risk (term made famous when Russia refused to pay back their debt in the 90s)...
is worth exactly zero
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See that is the thing. Most people broke their Gameboys in the first 5 years or so. Maybe 5% of them remain after 20 years and all those 5% post positive comments about it, while the other 95 % ignore the story or dont post
An experiment is what we need. The british TV show top gear did one with a Toyota pick up truck ( Youtube video here ). They took the truck, banged it into trees and walls, drowned it in the sea, banged it with a huge iron ball, poured petrol over it and set it on fire and it kept running. So they took it up a 10 storey building and demolished the building. The axle was broken but the truck still ran. Now that is what I'd call indestructible.