I mean if someone was to go into their server room with a hatchet and some butane...
A hatchet and some butane? What an obscure choice. Did you just look around your room to see what was there? I mean, some things that would make sense:
A sledge hammer and some diesel fuel.
An axe and some ethanol.
A pipe wrench and some JP4.
A baseball bat and some gasoline.
A light saber and some isopropyl butanol.
A piece of DOM mild steel pipe and some xylene.
A pair of wire cutters and red fuming nitric acid.
A pomegranete and two fingers of Jack Daniels.
But a hatchet and some butane?
Yeah, someone will mod me offtopic, but what a losiferous topic. "News flash: lots of people play Massive Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Games!". Uh, yeah, otherwise they'd be called JAFGOWDTSDs: "Just A Few Geeks Online With Digital Twenty Sided Dice". Oh, other news flash people actually pay to play games! Wow! Amazing.
Hmmm, HiTechnic says gyro "will be available soon" and the Lego blog says "I haven't received the gyro sensor yet, so I've got a light sensor standing in for it in the picture, but the mechanicals are pretty much in place.". Vaporware. Cool idea, but nothing more than a cool idea at this point.
What will be interesting in all this is the complete stupidity that will follow. I work for an embedded systems contract design house. We tried to get some samples of the single chip gyros, what a royal pain! It seems somebody out there is terrified that "tear-ists" will buy the chips and build evil cruise missiles and such. Why did we try to get the parts? Because one of the guys needed to replace one in a $100 RC helicopter. So for now you can buy the helo, buy the Lego add-on, but forget about getting the gyros themselves unless you can prove you're not sellin' them to the KLF or whatever liberation front dujour. How long before some congressional idiot ("but I repeat myself" - Mark Twain) sees this and decides us lowly regular folks have no use for these devices at all?
Obviously Mr. A. Coward has very little understanding of the situation that led to that famous document, nor the attitudes towards corporations expressed by some of its authors.
Keep in mind the first act of rebellion of the colonies was not an attack on government vessels, but rather corporate property, namely the ships of the British East India Company (the concept of "charter" is what we would today call "articles of incorporation"). An attack on corporate assets due to the (at least perceived) immoral profits generated due to corrupt government policies.
After those early, and apparently forgotten, actions, gentlemen such as Thomas Jefferson stated: "I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our moneyed corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial by strength, and bid defiance to the laws of our country"
governments and corporations around the world are making a concerted effort to dismantle the open internet and replace it with a regulated and regulable one that will allow them to impose an 'architecture of control.'
I suggest you read the various opinions of Thomas Jefferson, his inspirations, and his contemporaries.
It is always about control; it always will be. Some love "creative destruction", most fear it. Just to throw out another quote, fear is indeed a mind-killer. It makes some think rude moon aliens are bombs, others that any freedom is a threat.
I hate to sound so negative, but someone show me where corporations and governments have actually colluded for more freedom, rather than less.
No wider that two human hairs, the machine is intended to swim through arteries and the digestive tract
Trinity: We think you're bugged.... Try and relax.... Come on. Come on.
Switch: It's on the move.
Trinity: Shit.
Switch: You're going to loose it.
Trinity: No I'm not. Clear.
Neo: Jesus Christ, that thing's real?
When the last time this system would have saved an aircraft?
While TFA states "No passenger plane has ever been downed by a shoulder-fired missile outside of a combat zone", that's a bit of disinformation by ommitance. I mean, their definition of "combat zone" would have to include "places that have some internal strife but are still normally considered safe to fly passenger planes".
Read that again "no passenger plane has ever been downed by a shoulder-fired missile outside of a combat zone". What's a passenger plane doing in a combat zone in the first place? Or perhaps the author is using a wide brush to paint "combat zone" to whine about how unreal this threat is...
Let's see:
* September 3, 1978
An Air Rhodesia Viscount passenger airliner crash landed after being hit by a MANPADS fired by Zimbabwe Peoples Revolution Army rebels. Four crew members and 32 of the 54 passengers were killed in the crash. 10 survivors were shot to death afterwards.
* December 19, 1988
Two Douglas DC-7 spray aircraft, chartered by the U.S. Agency for International Development to eradicate locusts, en route from Senegal to Morocco, were struck by MANPADS fired by POLISARIO rebels in the Western Sahara. One DC-7 crashed killing all 5 crew members. The other DC-7 landed safely in Morocco.
* April 6, 1994
A Dassault Mystere-Falcon 50 executive jet carrying the Presidents of Rwanda and Burundi and its French flight crew was shot down over Kigali, killing all aboard and sparking massive ethnic violence and regional conflict.
* October 10, 1998
A Boeing 727 airliner was downed over the Democratic Republic of the Congo by Tutsi rebels, killing 40.
* December 26, 1998
A United Nations-chartered Lockheed C-130 Hercules transport was shot down over Angola by UNITA rebels, killing 14.
* January 2, 1999
A United Nations Lockheed C-130 Hercules transport was shot down over Angola by UNITA rebels, killing 9.
* November 28, 2002
Terrorists fired two MANPADS at an Arkia Airlines Boeing 757- 300 with 271 passengers and crew as it took off from Mombasa, Kenya. Both missiles missed.
* November 22, 2003
A DHL Airbus A-300 cargo jet transporting mail in Iraq was struck and damaged by a MANPADS. Though hit in the left fuel tank, the plane was able to return to Baghdad airport and land safely.
That's just shoulder fired systems.
All in all, anti-aircraft missiles are the number one cause of fatal airliner crashes. No other single cause is responsible for as many fatalities aboard civilian airliners. Oh sure "weather", "pilot error", but those are broad definitions. "Anti-aircraft missile" is pretty specific, so you guys can whine and attack, but the reality is yes indeed it is a threat. And when it comes to airliners, any threat is a 'real' threat. Think about it, you're talking about a mode of travel with a tiny percentage of fatal incidents. Any cause of a fatal incident, from the rare "hijacked and flown into a building (9/11)" to "mistake riveting cracked aft pressure bulkhead (JAL 747)" is statstically significant.
And when you add it all up, anti-aircraft missiles are the number one cause of death aboard civilian airliners.
Step back from the keyboard. Take a deep breath. Research. Think.
Sad that whoever wrote TFA isn't a real Lego person. Otherwise he'd know the correct terminology isn't "stud" but "bump". Kids never say "I need a six studded block", rather a "six-bump".
Two or more sensors are attached around the edges of the surface. These pinpoint the position of a finger, or another touching object, by tracking minute vibrations.
Very cool idea, I wonder how well it deals with ambient mechanical noise? Just think, you set down your coffee cup and a mysterious message appears telling you to "follow the white rabbit" or perhaps some indecipherable gibberish like "411 uR b42e R 0wnz3rd" or something.
Is how quick you figured out what the problem was. If this were some huge corporate entity, the PHBs would still be running around trying to set up meetings upon meetings...I think the answer to all technical problems is smart people with little to no be bureaucracy.
The amazing power of the microprocessor has become the "magic" of the 21st century. Security threat from terrorists? Make face recognizing, profiling, data sniffing software. Problems with elections? We need electronic voting!
While the concept of a truly programmable tool is an amazing and powerful thing, we have to remember that some tools are just not right for some jobs.
It has always seemed to me that Godel implies that 1) computers aren't great for security/intelligence work, and 2) computers aren't so hot as voting systems either. With logical systems you're faced with complete OR consistent, but not both...
More people have died in the 20th century from car accidents than have died from both murders and war combined.
Whoops, wrong. The primary cause of death in the 20th century, some 200 million plus, was murder at the hands of one's own government. From Armenians to Jews, Russians to Chinese, Cambodia and all sorts of ugliness in Africa, murder of civilians by the state was the number one cause of death.
It kind of is the opposite of the point of TFA; when something really truly horrible happens intentionally, we try to block it out, forget it.
Now on to the preceived versus real: swimming pools kill far more children in America than firearms. Actually when you limit the definition of "children" to those under 13, or even those under 18 (Handgun Control Inc's definition of a "child" includes those up to 23), the number of children killed by firearms, whether intentionally or accidentally is very small indeed, again, much less than those killed by swimming pools. Yet every Disneyified sell-out suburbian fracking toaster for a brain conformophile wants a swimming pool, but is scared of guns.
Yeah, but any replacement won't focus on "safeguards against spam attacks" but rather "let's toss net neutrality out the window and figure out how to make a buck".
That's my fear, not that the current system can't be replaced but that "special interests" will make sure that any replacement favors the big guy. That opens up some scary cans o' worms...
No, I'm afraid it's going to take people, lots of people, in the streets, being decidedly ill-behaved if we're going to keep this nation anything like the beautiful experiment that the Founding Fathers produced. If the principles of the Enlightenment are going to survive, we're going to have to act the way the heroes who created this country acted: badly. Civil disobedience and mass demonstrations, general strikes and boycotts. There's going to be some fighting before this power-grab by the Authoritarian Right who have masked themselves as "Conservatives" will end.
Only problem is you're gonna have a hard time being "ill-behaved" since all those who mask themselves as "liberals" have done their best to disarm you.
Accurate democratic elections easily outweigh the need of any company providing voting software to keep their software secret.
How dare you say anything is more important than the efficiency of the great and almighty Free Market! Nothing, I mean absoluely nothing is more important corporate profits!
Sarcasm aside, this is just another path the neo-con "free market" types have taken us on. One market under g-d.
Support our troops? I would if I could, but these days it seems we can only support our mercenaries...
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A hatchet and some butane? What an obscure choice. Did you just look around your room to see what was there? I mean, some things that would make sense:
But a hatchet and some butane?
Yeah, someone will mod me offtopic, but what a losiferous topic. "News flash: lots of people play Massive Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Games!". Uh, yeah, otherwise they'd be called JAFGOWDTSDs: "Just A Few Geeks Online With Digital Twenty Sided Dice". Oh, other news flash people actually pay to play games! Wow! Amazing.
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It was supposed to be "funny".
Refer to any and all future firmware bugs as "anomalies".
Hmmm, HiTechnic says gyro "will be available soon" and the Lego blog says "I haven't received the gyro sensor yet, so I've got a light sensor standing in for it in the picture, but the mechanicals are pretty much in place.". Vaporware. Cool idea, but nothing more than a cool idea at this point.
What will be interesting in all this is the complete stupidity that will follow. I work for an embedded systems contract design house. We tried to get some samples of the single chip gyros, what a royal pain! It seems somebody out there is terrified that "tear-ists" will buy the chips and build evil cruise missiles and such. Why did we try to get the parts? Because one of the guys needed to replace one in a $100 RC helicopter. So for now you can buy the helo, buy the Lego add-on, but forget about getting the gyros themselves unless you can prove you're not sellin' them to the KLF or whatever liberation front dujour. How long before some congressional idiot ("but I repeat myself" - Mark Twain) sees this and decides us lowly regular folks have no use for these devices at all?
Like beer, eh?
"Black Hat's Jeff Moss says they're standing by their speaker."
You go DT, I mean, um, Jeff.
Obviously Mr. A. Coward has very little understanding of the situation that led to that famous document, nor the attitudes towards corporations expressed by some of its authors.
Keep in mind the first act of rebellion of the colonies was not an attack on government vessels, but rather corporate property, namely the ships of the British East India Company (the concept of "charter" is what we would today call "articles of incorporation"). An attack on corporate assets due to the (at least perceived) immoral profits generated due to corrupt government policies.
After those early, and apparently forgotten, actions, gentlemen such as Thomas Jefferson stated: "I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our moneyed corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial by strength, and bid defiance to the laws of our country"
It is always about control; it always will be. Some love "creative destruction", most fear it. Just to throw out another quote, fear is indeed a mind-killer. It makes some think rude moon aliens are bombs, others that any freedom is a threat.
I hate to sound so negative, but someone show me where corporations and governments have actually colluded for more freedom, rather than less.
While TFA states "No passenger plane has ever been downed by a shoulder-fired missile outside of a combat zone", that's a bit of disinformation by ommitance. I mean, their definition of "combat zone" would have to include "places that have some internal strife but are still normally considered safe to fly passenger planes".
Read that again "no passenger plane has ever been downed by a shoulder-fired missile outside of a combat zone". What's a passenger plane doing in a combat zone in the first place? Or perhaps the author is using a wide brush to paint "combat zone" to whine about how unreal this threat is...
Let's see:
That's just shoulder fired systems.
All in all, anti-aircraft missiles are the number one cause of fatal airliner crashes. No other single cause is responsible for as many fatalities aboard civilian airliners. Oh sure "weather", "pilot error", but those are broad definitions. "Anti-aircraft missile" is pretty specific, so you guys can whine and attack, but the reality is yes indeed it is a threat. And when it comes to airliners, any threat is a 'real' threat. Think about it, you're talking about a mode of travel with a tiny percentage of fatal incidents. Any cause of a fatal incident, from the rare "hijacked and flown into a building (9/11)" to "mistake riveting cracked aft pressure bulkhead (JAL 747)" is statstically significant.
And when you add it all up, anti-aircraft missiles are the number one cause of death aboard civilian airliners.
Step back from the keyboard. Take a deep breath. Research. Think.
Sad that whoever wrote TFA isn't a real Lego person. Otherwise he'd know the correct terminology isn't "stud" but "bump". Kids never say "I need a six studded block", rather a "six-bump".
Very cool idea, I wonder how well it deals with ambient mechanical noise? Just think, you set down your coffee cup and a mysterious message appears telling you to "follow the white rabbit" or perhaps some indecipherable gibberish like "411 uR b42e R 0wnz3rd" or something.
but then for only $200k, I guess that's to be expected.
NEW_YEAR_CHECK
.366, NYC_200
.365, NYC_EXIT
.1
.3, NYC_EXIT
BTFSC YEAR_FLAGS, fLEAP_YEAR
GOTO NYC_100
CRLJE CURRENT_DAY,
NYC_100
CRLJNE CURRENT_DAY,
BCF YEAR_FLAGS, fLEAP_YEAR
NYC_200
MOVLF CURRENT_DAY,
INCF YEAR, F
INCF LEAP_YEAR_COUNT, F
CRLJNE LEAP_YEAR_COUNT,
CLRF LEAP_YEAR_COUNT
BSF YEAR_FLAGS, fLEAP_YEAR
NYC_EXIT
RET
The comments are left to the student as an exercise.
Sounds more like a job for engineers. Perhaps they just meant Boffins in general?
Is how quick you figured out what the problem was. If this were some huge corporate entity, the PHBs would still be running around trying to set up meetings upon meetings...I think the answer to all technical problems is smart people with little to no be bureaucracy.
"From some reason my Earl Grey's a bit darker today..."
The amazing power of the microprocessor has become the "magic" of the 21st century. Security threat from terrorists? Make face recognizing, profiling, data sniffing software. Problems with elections? We need electronic voting!
While the concept of a truly programmable tool is an amazing and powerful thing, we have to remember that some tools are just not right for some jobs.
It has always seemed to me that Godel implies that 1) computers aren't great for security/intelligence work, and 2) computers aren't so hot as voting systems either. With logical systems you're faced with complete OR consistent, but not both...
Whoops, wrong. The primary cause of death in the 20th century, some 200 million plus, was murder at the hands of one's own government. From Armenians to Jews, Russians to Chinese, Cambodia and all sorts of ugliness in Africa, murder of civilians by the state was the number one cause of death.
It kind of is the opposite of the point of TFA; when something really truly horrible happens intentionally, we try to block it out, forget it.
Now on to the preceived versus real: swimming pools kill far more children in America than firearms. Actually when you limit the definition of "children" to those under 13, or even those under 18 (Handgun Control Inc's definition of a "child" includes those up to 23), the number of children killed by firearms, whether intentionally or accidentally is very small indeed, again, much less than those killed by swimming pools. Yet every Disneyified sell-out suburbian fracking toaster for a brain conformophile wants a swimming pool, but is scared of guns.
Yeah, but any replacement won't focus on "safeguards against spam attacks" but rather "let's toss net neutrality out the window and figure out how to make a buck". That's my fear, not that the current system can't be replaced but that "special interests" will make sure that any replacement favors the big guy. That opens up some scary cans o' worms...
How dare you say anything is more important than the efficiency of the great and almighty Free Market! Nothing, I mean absoluely nothing is more important corporate profits!
Sarcasm aside, this is just another path the neo-con "free market" types have taken us on. One market under g-d.
Support our troops? I would if I could, but these days it seems we can only support our mercenaries...