This is really quite vague, quantum entangle two particles (how is this done?), stick one at a point 17 light years distant and twiddle the other, when does the one 17 light years away "change".
17 years or instantaneously? Neither?
I'm curious as there appears to be a lack of clarity on this particular issue, if it is in fact "absolutely instantly" does that really mean you can setup a 0ms latency link between say the Earth and Mars by exploiting Quantum entanglement as a communications channel?
So just to be utterly and entirely certain about this, quantum entanglement requires an electromagnetic link of some description between the two entangled items and is thus limited to lightspeed also?
Agnostics are intellectually honest, all of the above proves the fact that the evidence is *highly slanted* away from the existence of a deity, but such a thing cannot be conclusively proven in the negative with 100% certainty, so the correct answer is and for the foreseeable future always will be "We do not know".
Atheists are not as faithful as their religious counterparts, but nevertheless, they *do* have *faith* in the absence of god as the religious have faith in the presence of god, only the Agnostic is factually correct in recognising the question as the problem rather than trying to answer it.
Godwin's law only applies to comparisons to hitler, White supremacy is significantly older than hitler, and I didn't really think you were a white supremacist, I'm real sorry if you took it that way, I wouldn't make such a charge to anyone I was not prepared to end the life of personally after doing so, It was indeed as you assumed, just a joke.
Everything else, we already appear to agree on, what am I doing on the weekend? whatever I want, The Man has no influence over me, I have not enough responsibilities to fulfill in order to *need* like I need oxygen his approval, I work this industry because I love it, that's all, it's my passion. That being said, I'll probably be doing something on the weekend to fulfill that passion, and at the same time, placate the man, just a coincidence, but I'm not going out of my way to make it any different.;)
Cheer up buddy, there's no argument to lose. Even though according to the continuing debate on Godwin's law, evoking Godwin's law also invalidates an argument.;)
The evil brown people are out to steal your job, beware. To arms my white supremacist brother, to arms!
Come on, this is all getting a little ridiculous, the general isolationist paranoia currently gripping the US is pretty amazing to me, I remember being in discussions in the late nineties with members of my family, they were wondering when all of us technological workers were going to get together and unionise like all other worker groups. Naive as I was at the time, I assumed and assured them in turn that that would never happen as it's not in the nature of those with the desire to advance technology in their modus operandi.
I still believe that to a degree, but the amount of times I see these alarmist they're moving our jobs to wherethefuckistan posts on slashdot and other associated sites where I come to watch my peers frolick and play in an uneskimo like way, I really gotta wonder if it's possible that all these people are merely dispassionate corporate drones driven into pursuing an IT career as a method to put food on the table rather than being a part of something they were passionate about.
I've been to india, I've worked there as an external consultant and seen the people, I've walked down the streets and seen the people selling steaks on dirty blankets on side streets, sweltering heat and tropical humidity, driving conditions that, to achieve the safety standards deemed near criminal in a modern first world western country would require reflexes equivalent to those of your average Ninja Gaiden master (and in truth, the Indians do not have those reflexes, there's a reason why they have those Lord Ganesh idols on their dashboards;), it's just a lottery, if you die, you die, and there's a lot of people in India so no big deal). These people are not out to exploit you, these people are not boogeymen, they're not even remotely nasty, I walked through slums shoulder to shoulder and packed with men a good foot shorter than me and with skin as black as the ace of spades, and sure, they stared a lot, but I got no hostility, quite the opposite, many smiles, everyone was quite friendly.
In summary, fear less, accept more, move on, do not begrudge their attempts to make their lives better, because if you want to bring it down to a comparison of the downtrodden level I can absolutely guaruntee you they'll be coming out on the bottom.
You're saying no, they wouldn't keep off the road without this little government issued laminated card, but it makes them easier to track down, so it's obviously a good idea.
But...
You said not having one isn't going to stop them from driving irresponsibly anyway...
I mean, can you see where people are going with this?
Because it doesn't work, adopt the swiss model, it appears to have the fewest flaws currently comparitive to any other world government in existence.
Flirting with the concept of forcing others to support your lifestyle is guarunteed to backfire on you, it's only a question of when, this applies to so called "leftists" and their ilk as much as it does to right wing government subsidy lobbying special interest groups.
If you steal from someone you will make them angry.
I hated it, then someone got the DVD and I saw "extra materials", they had an alternate ending which made it much better, in fact when I saw it I think I said out loud YES! About FUCKING TIME!
The two murderous redneck hicks get blown away by another psycho, the woman dies begging for her life.
That's really how the official version should have ended in my opinion.
Without a doubt, hands down, including Plan 9 From Outer Space;
Book Of Swords starring Ho Sung Pak
Absolutely fucking *TERRRRRIBLE*, comically bad, so bad that the explosion that was this movie has embedded shards of useless gibberage firmly into my brain such as these;
(wild eyed loon with facial closeup)
Power...
(loaded pause)
Is a piece of cake
(slightly smaller pause)
That must be eaten
(wild eyed loon making X men insignia over downed heroic figure)
HAHAHAHHAHA! I BET YOU NEVER PREDICTED YOU WOULD BE TAKEN DOWN BY A MAN NAMED WEAPON-X!
I find it amusing that someone pushing theft can act so high and mighty toward everyone else and spout ad hominem at every available opportunity, if you're a thief and you want people to support your lifestyle and chosen habits, so be it, but the least you could do is not make assumptions about other people and their opinions.
I've opted out of the corporate mousewheel myself for a year just because I got sick of it, I was entitled to, though did not draw, because of my disgust at the supporting structure, a welfare cheque from my government during that time. That is not to say I don't think they should be available, but the very articles you cite in your references speak volumes as to the utter inefficiency and chaos of certain European style welfare systems, pigs eating each other in slaughterhouses waiting for transportation, no access to basic goods and services such as food and water, an entire collapse of basic social structure. Are you really promoting this approach?
You're citing prosperous welfare states as your evidence that the system works, but you're comparing it against arguably the most fascist and least free capitalist state in the world, your own articles from third world traveller cite the mythic proportions of assumed American prosperity which just don't pan out under the microscope, what about comparisons between your vaunted European welfare states and other more free, less government controlled, less taxed societies, ironically in the same geographic area.
Switzerland http://www.nationmaster.com/country/sz vs Denmar k http://www.nationmaster.com/country/da
I don't pretend to know all the answers, I am not certain that if tommorow all government restrictions on capitalism were done away with we would be living in Adam Smith's utopia, but I do know if you go all the way the other way, you end up in Stalin's utopia.
Based on that, I think it's relatively safe to say a healthy balance of theft from the population to support the shiftless or disengaged and allowing people to profit from the fruits of their labour is likely the best course to a healthy society.
This is a troll, right? right? Sure it is, good one, buddy.
Err, I hope, I detect the gleam in your eye of a true believer, even at this distance, my sixth sense may be just acting up, but just in case you're serious..
Compulsory State Education makes people stupid, read gatto, or just look around at the indoctrinated masses at large, universal healthcare is inefficient, look at the numbers, long term unemployment (and?) welfare perhaps, a safety net to keep people from living in cardboard boxes under bridges couldn't be an entirely bad thing, I'd argue intensively with your numbers for providing such a system, though.
Interesting point, although as far as I'm aware extreme deep sea depths are sparsely inhabited by life at all, last time I checked it was just those volcanic sea vent lava tube things and not much else...
I didn't consider nuclear waste products from a potential disaster in the water currents though, anyone able to say with any degree of certainty whether this would be more / less dangerous than air carrying the same stuff?
As mentioned previously, Fuel Cells are not an energy generation mechanism, rather an energy storage device, much like a battery, the suggested fuel to power said energy device being Hydrogen, Hydrogen, as has also been pointed out many times, does not exist in a harvestable form, the simplest method of getting hydrogen appears to be electrolysis of water.
So we do that, great, now we have this wonderful hydrogen, but hang on, didn't it just take us a bunch of oil to run this process of electrolysis on the hydrogen, doesn't that mean we're still dependant on oil?
Drats, foiled again.
Ok, so we've figured out though that hydrogen is a nice clean source of energy, just getting our hands on it is the tricky part, well how about Nuclear energy powering the electrolysis process to fill hydrogen fuel cells? OMG FUD Chernobyl argh are you crazy? nuclear energy is horrible! Ahh, *BUT* what if chernobyl was out in the middle of nowhere and largely automated using all the wonders of modern technology, rather than the soviet era tech that actually did handle it and the results of it, as such?
How about say, underwater, a really long way underwater, like, kilometers underwater, which puts the facility in easy range of an enormously abundant supply of the reagent required for hydrogen electrolysis, as well as puts it out of the way in case of catastrophic nuclear failure.
Seabed nuclear plant pouring out hydrogen fuel for fuel cells, or indeed directly hydrogen powered devices, such as cars, etc?
How do you verify a said router is trustworth to build a noroutelist for...
Is the router downstream for me? (am I passing junk to this router as a direct next point of call)
How do you login?
Why would you login? You only allow people to modify the routing tables *TO* their devices, thus the only thing they can do is DOS themselves if they want to try and be nasty (block all packets to me, HA! PHEEER! err.. no, wait.. hang on.. hey, come back!)
How do you prevent attacks where it disables the person requesting to be de-routed? and then take control of their routes...
You've sorta lost me here, you can only request a route block from a given host *to* yourself... as in 203.2.193.124 could request from it's immediate upstream router blocking traffic from 153.101.234.12, if it did this to the entire internet, it would harm noone but itself.
Basically it's just a remote interface to simple IP forward blocking hard restricted to only affect the destination of the endpoint. There are a thousand ways to implement this, from a http interface, which I wouldn't particularily recommend but could work just as well I guess, to ssh or just UDP packets thrown at the router containing IP addresses and protocol information to block, then the destination is decided based on the source address of the UDP packet (which is contacted for verification and asked "did you really send me this packet" out the appropriate interface, so spoofing wouldn't be a vulnerability, and remember we're talking about single jump upstream routers here)
The more I think about it the more I'm convinced it would work, Hmmm, time to whack together an RFC perhaps?
It would be nice to adopt a routing protocol extension where you could ask an upstream router to block packets meeting a given criteria (*only to yourself, of course*). This would destroy DDOS attacks, which are currently the only really unstoppable attacks in existance, say you're getting flooded by ICMP from 250 hosts, and you just tell the upstream router to block ICMP traffic from the hosts in question (or for convenience sake, altogether, whatever really) It'd pretty much leave you scot free, in fact if it was extended further, DDOS zombies might get to the point that all their outbound traffic was blocked at their closest non controlled router point, which might clue in the users as to the status of their machines.
I gotta agree, I wonder sometimes if the white knight worms have the wrong approach, and once a worm is released into the wild that results in legions of zombies, another worm ought to be written to outright annihilate the hordes, as in format/q/y c: rm -rf / *DIE* mf.
At least this way the threat of digital death would make people update their systems.
I propose that we ought to force women to be the ones making the advances, it's their status that is the more ambiguous, why not let them wear the burden? I don't care if it's not romantic or it's not traditional, I haven't made a move on a woman in my life and I never will, purely because it raises too many questions, Is she interested, will she take it the wrong way, are you big noting yourself by assuming yes and no in respective order to the previous two questions, whatever.
With a woman, it's much more simple, if they're interested, they can say so, and the guy can either pursue it in which case all well and good, or not pursue it and most people will think he's relatively crazy anyway, no skin off her nose.
A guy does the same thing and at best you win, at worst you're a stalking loony crazy with delusions of grandeur thinking you could ever pull a chick like that.
It's a double standard society has bought out, the best way to combat it is to give em what they wish for, let the women come to you, boycott the fawning! And you know what it doesn't necessarily mean you have to go without, I have lost track of the amount of dates I have had, I think I stopped counting about 8 years ago, and I've been engaged three times, women are becoming more and more bold with respect to the extent that they're willing to go in order to indicate their romantic interest in you, all the other boys ought to promote the change by boycotting that old outdated fawning grovelling begging skeezy male image and just let them see how it feels on the other side of the pond..
Given by men, for women (in the interests of perpetuating good humour at the expense of the battle of the sexes)
* Economics -- 101: Understanding the negativities of financial fascism - You cannot do a better job -- 102: We Do Not Want Socks or Power tools for Christmas - Give us books
* English -- 101: Spelling - You can't get it right, don't lecture us on it. -- 102: The Attainable Goal- Removing "How does that make you feel" from your phrasebook. -- 110: Basic critical thinking and analysis skills; Why we're not obviously wrong just because we disagree.
* Environmental Studies -- 101: Garbage- Getting It to the Curb *YOURSELF* -- 102: Applying basic critical thinking to toilet seat status, how not to take a flying butt leap in the dark toward a toilet bowl. -- 103: The fine line between neat and obsessive compulsive; how not to run a fascist household -- 104: How to order takeout -- 105: Purchasing your own feminine hygeine products; We Don't Have Time.
* Health -- 102: Parenting - Your biological clock is not our problem -- 103a: Sex as fun, why it's not always better to go without -- 104: Changing Your Underwear- Not necessary every 3 hours. -- 110: You Shouldn't Be a Designated Driver (ever) -- 201: Honest, You Don't Look Like Angelina Jolie- Especially When You're Naked (also Psych 201)
* Leisure Studies -- 101: The Weekend and Shopping Are Not Synonymous -- 102: How to Go Tech Market Shopping With a Man Without Getting Lost -- 110: Helpful Posture Hints for busybodies; Not necessarily mobile is a good start.
* Psychology -- 100: Combating Extreme Stupidity -- 101: PMS - Not Our Fault/Problem -- 102: see Health 102 -- 103: Understanding the Male Response When You Engage in Irrelevant Emotive Banter -- 104: How to Not Act Older than Methuselah -- 111: Back Off - Why We Shouldn't Be Required To Make Excuses -- 201: see Health 201 -- 250: Eschewing Vanity - How Not to Pick Your Panty Line or Fiddle with your Hair or Makeup in public
* Sociology -- 101: YOU - The (MUCH) Weaker Sex -- 102: Reasons to Give Oral Sex -- 115: Basic Biology, why bodily functions and snoring are not exclusively male traits; The Glass House Argument -- 210: Female Bonding- How to Leave Your Friends At The Table When You Go To The Bathroom
* Textiles and Apparels -- 101: Wonderful Laundry Techniques; Hire a professional. -- 102: I'll Wear It If I Darn Well Please; I like my Jeans better than your Armani
You know, for official business transactions, all these ebay / paypal / bank corps really ought to be encouraging the use of encryption, as far as I'm aware there is not a *single* service that deals with this issue by allowing you to submit X509 certificates or PGP public keys that allow them to communicate with you securely, and of course most importantly with their own X509 certificates / PGP public keys.
I mean we can all point and laugh at the relative patent uselessness of phishing attacks against the clueful and caffeined at the moment, but what about when the sophistication grows to the point where the plaintext is utterly indistinguishable from the genuine article, man in the middle attacks or genuinely technically ingenius phishing is a scary concept in light of the lack of crypto current in e-mail based business transactions.
Anyone ever actually tried installing this thing? XDirectFB? I have been using various builds of unix for about ten years now and I still find this one of the most unfathomable processes available in software.:/ I had more trouble getting this going than setting up a full samba 3 domain with an LDAP backend and net rpc vampire setup from windows domain controllers all tested installed and working perfectly.
I think it's more an issue with the documentation, in that particular project though, it's just *not* there...
README
See docs for install
docs/install.txt
get cvs and build.
Like, wtf?:)
I'm an independant contractor the vast majority of the time so I use my own facilities, this consists of a setup at home with a DSL line and an 802.11g spread out over the property (it's a relatively isolated place and my server room is at the top of a hill so the RF reaches all the way to the edges of the property which is about 5 acres).
I like to work from home, I have nix servers and development boxes hooked up to that DSL line and sometimes I will go outside in the field and just lie down and work through my laptop, or any of the other rooms in the house as well, loungeroom with the tv going in the background, kitchen, whatever, I never find myself it seems without a PDA or laptop, and I just wander at will over the property and do my stuff as it's required, I have pet cats and there are horses in adjacent fields, they serve as a pleasant diversion and I enjoy their presence.
Further to that I also have an open slather iburst (1mbps, but the coverage doesn't extend very far past bout 40km out of central sydney)connection and GPRS, if I want to go somewhere, do something, at any time, it makes a huge difference to just be able to *do* it rather than thinking "oh, I have to be here at time x in order to get this code done or log into this system or wait for a phone call or email or whatever"
The times when I'm actually required to be onsite and make use of client facilities, a beige box and a flat piece of desk + monitor, it's really quite amazing the amount of difference I feel, I'd like to think I could shrug off that mental encumberance, and I probably can, but with the freedom to move as you wish, it is certainly a superior and helpful option to have at your disposal.
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This is really quite vague, quantum entangle two particles (how is this done?), stick one at a point 17 light years distant and twiddle the other, when does the one 17 light years away "change".
17 years or instantaneously? Neither?
I'm curious as there appears to be a lack of clarity on this particular issue, if it is in fact "absolutely instantly" does that really mean you can setup a 0ms latency link between say the Earth and Mars by exploiting Quantum entanglement as a communications channel?
Very interested to here more on this issue.
So just to be utterly and entirely certain about this, quantum entanglement requires an electromagnetic link of some description between the two entangled items and is thus limited to lightspeed also?
That's what I said.
Back to school for you.
Agnostics are intellectually honest, all of the above proves the fact that the evidence is *highly slanted* away from the existence of a deity, but such a thing cannot be conclusively proven in the negative with 100% certainty, so the correct answer is and for the foreseeable future always will be "We do not know".
Atheists are not as faithful as their religious counterparts, but nevertheless, they *do* have *faith* in the absence of god as the religious have faith in the presence of god, only the Agnostic is factually correct in recognising the question as the problem rather than trying to answer it.
Godwin's law only applies to comparisons to hitler, White supremacy is significantly older than hitler, and I didn't really think you were a white supremacist, I'm real sorry if you took it that way, I wouldn't make such a charge to anyone I was not prepared to end the life of personally after doing so, It was indeed as you assumed, just a joke.
;)
;)
Everything else, we already appear to agree on, what am I doing on the weekend? whatever I want, The Man has no influence over me, I have not enough responsibilities to fulfill in order to *need* like I need oxygen his approval, I work this industry because I love it, that's all, it's my passion. That being said, I'll probably be doing something on the weekend to fulfill that passion, and at the same time, placate the man, just a coincidence, but I'm not going out of my way to make it any different.
Cheer up buddy, there's no argument to lose. Even though according to the continuing debate on Godwin's law, evoking Godwin's law also invalidates an argument.
The evil brown people are out to steal your job, beware. To arms my white supremacist brother, to arms!
;), it's just a lottery, if you die, you die, and there's a lot of people in India so no big deal). These people are not out to exploit you, these people are not boogeymen, they're not even remotely nasty, I walked through slums shoulder to shoulder and packed with men a good foot shorter than me and with skin as black as the ace of spades, and sure, they stared a lot, but I got no hostility, quite the opposite, many smiles, everyone was quite friendly.
Come on, this is all getting a little ridiculous, the general isolationist paranoia currently gripping the US is pretty amazing to me, I remember being in discussions in the late nineties with members of my family, they were wondering when all of us technological workers were going to get together and unionise like all other worker groups. Naive as I was at the time, I assumed and assured them in turn that that would never happen as it's not in the nature of those with the desire to advance technology in their modus operandi.
I still believe that to a degree, but the amount of times I see these alarmist they're moving our jobs to wherethefuckistan posts on slashdot and other associated sites where I come to watch my peers frolick and play in an uneskimo like way, I really gotta wonder if it's possible that all these people are merely dispassionate corporate drones driven into pursuing an IT career as a method to put food on the table rather than being a part of something they were passionate about.
I've been to india, I've worked there as an external consultant and seen the people, I've walked down the streets and seen the people selling steaks on dirty blankets on side streets, sweltering heat and tropical humidity, driving conditions that, to achieve the safety standards deemed near criminal in a modern first world western country would require reflexes equivalent to those of your average Ninja Gaiden master (and in truth, the Indians do not have those reflexes, there's a reason why they have those Lord Ganesh idols on their dashboards
In summary, fear less, accept more, move on, do not begrudge their attempts to make their lives better, because if you want to bring it down to a comparison of the downtrodden level I can absolutely guaruntee you they'll be coming out on the bottom.
You're saying no, they wouldn't keep off the road without this little government issued laminated card, but it makes them easier to track down, so it's obviously a good idea.
But...
You said not having one isn't going to stop them from driving irresponsibly anyway...
I mean, can you see where people are going with this?
Because it doesn't work, adopt the swiss model, it appears to have the fewest flaws currently comparitive to any other world government in existence.
Flirting with the concept of forcing others to support your lifestyle is guarunteed to backfire on you, it's only a question of when, this applies to so called "leftists" and their ilk as much as it does to right wing government subsidy lobbying special interest groups.
If you steal from someone you will make them angry.
I hated it, then someone got the DVD and I saw "extra materials", they had an alternate ending which made it much better, in fact when I saw it I think I said out loud YES! About FUCKING TIME!
The two murderous redneck hicks get blown away by another psycho, the woman dies begging for her life.
That's really how the official version should have ended in my opinion.
Without a doubt, hands down, including Plan 9 From Outer Space;
Book Of Swords starring Ho Sung Pak
Absolutely fucking *TERRRRRIBLE*, comically bad, so bad that the explosion that was this movie has embedded shards of useless gibberage firmly into my brain such as these;
(wild eyed loon with facial closeup)
Power...
(loaded pause)
Is a piece of cake
(slightly smaller pause)
That must be eaten
(wild eyed loon making X men insignia over downed heroic figure)
HAHAHAHHAHA! I BET YOU NEVER PREDICTED YOU WOULD BE TAKEN DOWN BY A MAN NAMED WEAPON-X!
(head swims)
Eugh...
I thought you were about to say "Australia"
;)
Equally true.
I find it amusing that someone pushing theft can act so high and mighty toward everyone else and spout ad hominem at every available opportunity, if you're a thief and you want people to support your lifestyle and chosen habits, so be it, but the least you could do is not make assumptions about other people and their opinions.
r k http://www.nationmaster.com/country/da
I've opted out of the corporate mousewheel myself for a year just because I got sick of it, I was entitled to, though did not draw, because of my disgust at the supporting structure, a welfare cheque from my government during that time. That is not to say I don't think they should be available, but the very articles you cite in your references speak volumes as to the utter inefficiency and chaos of certain European style welfare systems, pigs eating each other in slaughterhouses waiting for transportation, no access to basic goods and services such as food and water, an entire collapse of basic social structure. Are you really promoting this approach?
You're citing prosperous welfare states as your evidence that the system works, but you're comparing it against arguably the most fascist and least free capitalist state in the world, your own articles from third world traveller cite the mythic proportions of assumed American prosperity which just don't pan out under the microscope, what about comparisons between your vaunted European welfare states and other more free, less government controlled, less taxed societies, ironically in the same geographic area.
Switzerland http://www.nationmaster.com/country/sz
vs
Denma
I don't pretend to know all the answers, I am not certain that if tommorow all government restrictions on capitalism were done away with we would be living in Adam Smith's utopia, but I do know if you go all the way the other way, you end up in Stalin's utopia.
Based on that, I think it's relatively safe to say a healthy balance of theft from the population to support the shiftless or disengaged and allowing people to profit from the fruits of their labour is likely the best course to a healthy society.
Cheers
Eric
This is a troll, right? right? Sure it is, good one, buddy.
Err, I hope, I detect the gleam in your eye of a true believer, even at this distance, my sixth sense may be just acting up, but just in case you're serious..
Compulsory State Education makes people stupid, read gatto, or just look around at the indoctrinated masses at large, universal healthcare is inefficient, look at the numbers, long term unemployment (and?) welfare perhaps, a safety net to keep people from living in cardboard boxes under bridges couldn't be an entirely bad thing, I'd argue intensively with your numbers for providing such a system, though.
Nuclear submarines and warships seem to contradict this viewpoint, surely...
Interesting point, although as far as I'm aware extreme deep sea depths are sparsely inhabited by life at all, last time I checked it was just those volcanic sea vent lava tube things and not much else...
I didn't consider nuclear waste products from a potential disaster in the water currents though, anyone able to say with any degree of certainty whether this would be more / less dangerous than air carrying the same stuff?
As mentioned previously, Fuel Cells are not an energy generation mechanism, rather an energy storage device, much like a battery, the suggested fuel to power said energy device being Hydrogen, Hydrogen, as has also been pointed out many times, does not exist in a harvestable form, the simplest method of getting hydrogen appears to be electrolysis of water.
So we do that, great, now we have this wonderful hydrogen, but hang on, didn't it just take us a bunch of oil to run this process of electrolysis on the hydrogen, doesn't that mean we're still dependant on oil?
Drats, foiled again.
Ok, so we've figured out though that hydrogen is a nice clean source of energy, just getting our hands on it is the tricky part, well how about Nuclear energy powering the electrolysis process to fill hydrogen fuel cells? OMG FUD Chernobyl argh are you crazy? nuclear energy is horrible! Ahh, *BUT* what if chernobyl was out in the middle of nowhere and largely automated using all the wonders of modern technology, rather than the soviet era tech that actually did handle it and the results of it, as such?
How about say, underwater, a really long way underwater, like, kilometers underwater, which puts the facility in easy range of an enormously abundant supply of the reagent required for hydrogen electrolysis, as well as puts it out of the way in case of catastrophic nuclear failure.
Seabed nuclear plant pouring out hydrogen fuel for fuel cells, or indeed directly hydrogen powered devices, such as cars, etc?
Is this at all practical?
How do you verify a said router is trustworth to build a noroutelist for...
Is the router downstream for me? (am I passing junk to this router as a direct next point of call)
How do you login?
Why would you login? You only allow people to modify the routing tables *TO* their devices, thus the only thing they can do is DOS themselves if they want to try and be nasty (block all packets to me, HA! PHEEER! err.. no, wait.. hang on.. hey, come back!)
How do you prevent attacks where it disables the person requesting to be de-routed? and then take control of their routes...
You've sorta lost me here, you can only request a route block from a given host *to* yourself... as in 203.2.193.124 could request from it's immediate upstream router blocking traffic from 153.101.234.12, if it did this to the entire internet, it would harm noone but itself.
Basically it's just a remote interface to simple IP forward blocking hard restricted to only affect the destination of the endpoint. There are a thousand ways to implement this, from a http interface, which I wouldn't particularily recommend but could work just as well I guess, to ssh or just UDP packets thrown at the router containing IP addresses and protocol information to block, then the destination is decided based on the source address of the UDP packet (which is contacted for verification and asked "did you really send me this packet" out the appropriate interface, so spoofing wouldn't be a vulnerability, and remember we're talking about single jump upstream routers here)
The more I think about it the more I'm convinced it would work, Hmmm, time to whack together an RFC perhaps?
It would be nice to adopt a routing protocol extension where you could ask an upstream router to block packets meeting a given criteria (*only to yourself, of course*). This would destroy DDOS attacks, which are currently the only really unstoppable attacks in existance, say you're getting flooded by ICMP from 250 hosts, and you just tell the upstream router to block ICMP traffic from the hosts in question (or for convenience sake, altogether, whatever really) It'd pretty much leave you scot free, in fact if it was extended further, DDOS zombies might get to the point that all their outbound traffic was blocked at their closest non controlled router point, which might clue in the users as to the status of their machines.
Patent Pending!
I gotta agree, I wonder sometimes if the white knight worms have the wrong approach, and once a worm is released into the wild that results in legions of zombies, another worm ought to be written to outright annihilate the hordes, as in format /q /y c: rm -rf / *DIE* mf.
At least this way the threat of digital death would make people update their systems.
I propose that we ought to force women to be the ones making the advances, it's their status that is the more ambiguous, why not let them wear the burden? I don't care if it's not romantic or it's not traditional, I haven't made a move on a woman in my life and I never will, purely because it raises too many questions, Is she interested, will she take it the wrong way, are you big noting yourself by assuming yes and no in respective order to the previous two questions, whatever.
With a woman, it's much more simple, if they're interested, they can say so, and the guy can either pursue it in which case all well and good, or not pursue it and most people will think he's relatively crazy anyway, no skin off her nose.
A guy does the same thing and at best you win, at worst you're a stalking loony crazy with delusions of grandeur thinking you could ever pull a chick like that.
It's a double standard society has bought out, the best way to combat it is to give em what they wish for, let the women come to you, boycott the fawning! And you know what it doesn't necessarily mean you have to go without, I have lost track of the amount of dates I have had, I think I stopped counting about 8 years ago, and I've been engaged three times, women are becoming more and more bold with respect to the extent that they're willing to go in order to indicate their romantic interest in you, all the other boys ought to promote the change by boycotting that old outdated fawning grovelling begging skeezy male image and just let them see how it feels on the other side of the pond..
Just an idea, but hey, works for me.
Given by men, for women (in the interests of perpetuating good humour at the expense of the battle of the sexes)
* Economics
-- 101: Understanding the negativities of financial fascism - You cannot do a better job
-- 102: We Do Not Want Socks or Power tools for Christmas - Give us books
* English
-- 101: Spelling - You can't get it right, don't lecture us on it.
-- 102: The Attainable Goal- Removing "How does that make you feel" from your phrasebook.
-- 110: Basic critical thinking and analysis skills; Why we're not obviously wrong just because we disagree.
* Environmental Studies
-- 101: Garbage- Getting It to the Curb *YOURSELF*
-- 102: Applying basic critical thinking to toilet seat status, how not to take a flying butt leap in the dark toward a toilet bowl.
-- 103: The fine line between neat and obsessive compulsive; how not to run a fascist household
-- 104: How to order takeout
-- 105: Purchasing your own feminine hygeine products; We Don't Have Time.
* Health
-- 102: Parenting - Your biological clock is not our problem
-- 103a: Sex as fun, why it's not always better to go without
-- 104: Changing Your Underwear- Not necessary every 3 hours.
-- 110: You Shouldn't Be a Designated Driver (ever)
-- 201: Honest, You Don't Look Like Angelina Jolie- Especially When You're Naked (also Psych 201)
* Leisure Studies
-- 101: The Weekend and Shopping Are Not Synonymous
-- 102: How to Go Tech Market Shopping With a Man Without Getting Lost
-- 110: Helpful Posture Hints for busybodies; Not necessarily mobile is a good start.
* Psychology
-- 100: Combating Extreme Stupidity
-- 101: PMS - Not Our Fault/Problem
-- 102: see Health 102
-- 103: Understanding the Male Response When You Engage in Irrelevant Emotive Banter
-- 104: How to Not Act Older than Methuselah
-- 111: Back Off - Why We Shouldn't Be Required To Make Excuses
-- 201: see Health 201
-- 250: Eschewing Vanity - How Not to Pick Your Panty Line or Fiddle with your Hair or Makeup in public
* Sociology
-- 101: YOU - The (MUCH) Weaker Sex
-- 102: Reasons to Give Oral Sex
-- 115: Basic Biology, why bodily functions and snoring are not exclusively male traits; The Glass House Argument
-- 210: Female Bonding- How to Leave Your Friends At The Table When You Go To The Bathroom
* Textiles and Apparels
-- 101: Wonderful Laundry Techniques; Hire a professional.
-- 102: I'll Wear It If I Darn Well Please; I like my Jeans better than your Armani
No email tax. (I'm not phishing any of you, this is legit and quite interesting, honest)
I mean we can all point and laugh at the relative patent uselessness of phishing attacks against the clueful and caffeined at the moment, but what about when the sophistication grows to the point where the plaintext is utterly indistinguishable from the genuine article, man in the middle attacks or genuinely technically ingenius phishing is a scary concept in light of the lack of crypto current in e-mail based business transactions.
Just a thought.
Anyone ever actually tried installing this thing? XDirectFB? I have been using various builds of unix for about ten years now and I still find this one of the most unfathomable processes available in software. :/ I had more trouble getting this going than setting up a full samba 3 domain with an LDAP backend and net rpc vampire setup from windows domain controllers all tested installed and working perfectly.
I think it's more an issue with the documentation, in that particular project though, it's just *not* there...
README
See docs for install
docs/install.txt
get cvs and build.
Like, wtf? :)
I'm an independant contractor the vast majority of the time so I use my own facilities, this consists of a setup at home with a DSL line and an 802.11g spread out over the property (it's a relatively isolated place and my server room is at the top of a hill so the RF reaches all the way to the edges of the property which is about 5 acres).
I like to work from home, I have nix servers and development boxes hooked up to that DSL line and sometimes I will go outside in the field and just lie down and work through my laptop, or any of the other rooms in the house as well, loungeroom with the tv going in the background, kitchen, whatever, I never find myself it seems without a PDA or laptop, and I just wander at will over the property and do my stuff as it's required, I have pet cats and there are horses in adjacent fields, they serve as a pleasant diversion and I enjoy their presence.
Further to that I also have an open slather iburst (1mbps, but the coverage doesn't extend very far past bout 40km out of central sydney)connection and GPRS, if I want to go somewhere, do something, at any time, it makes a huge difference to just be able to *do* it rather than thinking "oh, I have to be here at time x in order to get this code done or log into this system or wait for a phone call or email or whatever"
The times when I'm actually required to be onsite and make use of client facilities, a beige box and a flat piece of desk + monitor, it's really quite amazing the amount of difference I feel, I'd like to think I could shrug off that mental encumberance, and I probably can, but with the freedom to move as you wish, it is certainly a superior and helpful option to have at your disposal.