The traditional solution is to grow completely new soldiers as gun fodder - these are generally called babies. I don't see the strategic advantage in growing only partial soldiers, unless one can do it very quickly and get say a 14 day turn around on a limb, which could be better than the current 18 year production cycle...
In most parts of the world, an American stands out like a red flashing beacon in crowd. You don't need RFID to spot them. First off, they are a head and shoulders taller than most people (except in Germany!), secondly they dress funny and thirdly they are loud mouthed. Sorry, no offence intended, but that is just how it is. In order to blend in, in a foreign country, you have to live there for a few years.
What I find troubling is how blaze Windoze users are about it all. They get upset that their machine won't work once it is totally bogged down with spyware, but they don't care about the fact that some asshats were monitoring their every move on their machines for many weeks/months/years even.
Depends on what figures you look at. GDP is a very hazy figure and is pretty much grabbed out of thin air. Look at *Revenue* for a more accurate comparison between countries.
Interesting question. If you go to the CIA world book web site, you can look at the income figures for all the countries in the world. If you happen to know the names of some African states, then you will be able to determine that there are only 3 countries in Africa that have notable income levels: South Africa, Egypt and Nigeria.
Of these three, South Africa is a regional super power, responsible for about half of all African economic activity. Egypt is second, but with less than half the output of South Africa and Nigeria's economy is somewhat smaller than Egypt. The rest of Africa is so undeveloped that it can be collectively ignored.
South Africa and Egypt both have diverse economies with mining, agriculture, industry and tourism. In the rest of Africa, people basically sit in the sun and wait for the bananas to grow, or they attack each other with spears and machetes to take each other's bananas.
The difference with Nigeria is that huge revenue is generated from oil exports. There isn't really any other economic activity in Nigeria. So, what you have in Nigeria, is a little economic development - just enough to whet the appetites of many people and since there isn't anything else to do, they end up gainfully employed in crime.
Another interesting point about Africa is that if you compare the whole continent with a relatively poor European state, such as Spain, you'll note that the economic output of Spain is about 4 times more than that of all of Africa. Compared with America, the total economic output of Africa is less than that of the state of California.
The situation in most of Africa is really quite hopeless and people depend of crime to survive.
As far as I know, TrueCrypt is as good as it gets on Windoze, but bear in mind that while using it, some plain text data may find its way into temporary files and the swap file. So your data will be mostly safe, but far from perfectly safe. On Linux, it is possible to set things up with encrypted swap and home partitions which avoids this plain text leakage.
Under those circumstances, I use Puppy Linux and run it off the CDROM. Puppy loads into RAM, then frees up the CD drive, so you can save data back to it - on the same, or a different CD. It also works the same way off a USB stick. It is not just a cool toy, it actually works!
Yup, if only 0.1% of those vets would decide to go look for him, he would soon be sent back to his mother in a very large number of very small boxes...
Apart from the exciting new bugs? Uhm, well, uhhh... lemme see now... I'm sure there is something... Oh, yeah! You can turn clippy off in the newer versions of Office without having to hack the system. That alone is worth the upgrade.
Funny - my grandpa ran a construction company and did the same thing when he had to go and run some errands. One of the workers would then walk around the long way and place a coffee mug over the eye from behind.
Hmm, I hoped that I could make this horrible, buggy router useful and tried to load the Linux code, but all I get is the stupid Linksys error: "Upgrade are Failed!" (sic).
Woohoo - North America is proving to lead the high-tech way again. Give it another 5 years and we may be able to buy a Coke at a vending machine and pay by cell phone. Follow us Europe, we are right behind you...;)
Yup, we have one of the V5 models at work and it's DHCP server doesn't work properly, to name one (rather serious) problem. So, guess what I'm going to do with it tomorrow...
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The traditional solution is to grow completely new soldiers as gun fodder - these are generally called babies. I don't see the strategic advantage in growing only partial soldiers, unless one can do it very quickly and get say a 14 day turn around on a limb, which could be better than the current 18 year production cycle...
Hmm, the difference between a Canadian and an American is about 3dB, so it not too difficult to detect them...
In most parts of the world, an American stands out like a red flashing beacon in crowd. You don't need RFID to spot them. First off, they are a head and shoulders taller than most people (except in Germany!), secondly they dress funny and thirdly they are loud mouthed. Sorry, no offence intended, but that is just how it is. In order to blend in, in a foreign country, you have to live there for a few years.
What I find troubling is how blaze Windoze users are about it all. They get upset that their machine won't work once it is totally bogged down with spyware, but they don't care about the fact that some asshats were monitoring their every move on their machines for many weeks/months/years even.
Reuters reports a huge blast was detected in California - apparently this was aimed at the evil Slashdot terrorist head quarters...
I'm wondering whether these are real break-ins, or just the common crap that I am removing from Windoze machines every day?
Here you go:r table_firefox
http://portableapps.com/apps/internet/browsers/po
BTW, when I need Linux, I run Puppy Linux from a CDROM at work - friggen clueless IT folks in some places...
Don't look at GDP, it is not a hard number. Look at *Revenue*.
Spain's revenue in 2005 was about B$450. South Africa B$55. Egypt B$25. Nigeria B$20.
Sad, really.
Depends on what figures you look at. GDP is a very hazy figure and is pretty much grabbed out of thin air. Look at *Revenue* for a more accurate comparison between countries.
Interesting question. If you go to the CIA world book web site, you can look at the income figures for all the countries in the world. If you happen to know the names of some African states, then you will be able to determine that there are only 3 countries in Africa that have notable income levels: South Africa, Egypt and Nigeria.
Of these three, South Africa is a regional super power, responsible for about half of all African economic activity. Egypt is second, but with less than half the output of South Africa and Nigeria's economy is somewhat smaller than Egypt. The rest of Africa is so undeveloped that it can be collectively ignored.
South Africa and Egypt both have diverse economies with mining, agriculture, industry and tourism. In the rest of Africa, people basically sit in the sun and wait for the bananas to grow, or they attack each other with spears and machetes to take each other's bananas.
The difference with Nigeria is that huge revenue is generated from oil exports. There isn't really any other economic activity in Nigeria. So, what you have in Nigeria, is a little economic development - just enough to whet the appetites of many people and since there isn't anything else to do, they end up gainfully employed in crime.
Another interesting point about Africa is that if you compare the whole continent with a relatively poor European state, such as Spain, you'll note that the economic output of Spain is about 4 times more than that of all of Africa. Compared with America, the total economic output of Africa is less than that of the state of California.
The situation in most of Africa is really quite hopeless and people depend of crime to survive.
As far as I know, TrueCrypt is as good as it gets on Windoze, but bear in mind that while using it, some plain text data may find its way into temporary files and the swap file. So your data will be mostly safe, but far from perfectly safe. On Linux, it is possible to set things up with encrypted swap and home partitions which avoids this plain text leakage.
Under those circumstances, I use Puppy Linux and run it off the CDROM. Puppy loads into RAM, then frees up the CD drive, so you can save data back to it - on the same, or a different CD. It also works the same way off a USB stick. It is not just a cool toy, it actually works!
Yup, if only 0.1% of those vets would decide to go look for him, he would soon be sent back to his mother in a very large number of very small boxes...
Cool, then I can make lots of money installing WGA-Killer...
Apart from the exciting new bugs? Uhm, well, uhhh... lemme see now... I'm sure there is something... Oh, yeah! You can turn clippy off in the newer versions of Office without having to hack the system. That alone is worth the upgrade.
No need to upgrade - it still works just as well as it did in 1997 - and yeah, I use it too...
Hmmm, space elevators of varying sizes with all kinds of embedded electronics along their lengths...
A typical MS Windows botnet will outperform any of these machines on the SOPS (SPAM operations per second) benchmark...
Well, now that you mention it, *nobody* beats MS in distributed botnets...
Funny - my grandpa ran a construction company and did the same thing when he had to go and run some errands. One of the workers would then walk around the long way and place a coffee mug over the eye from behind.
Hmm, I hoped that I could make this horrible, buggy router useful and tried to load the Linux code, but all I get is the stupid Linksys error: "Upgrade are Failed!" (sic).
POS. Nuf sed.
Yeah, well, be easy on the kid, he went to a US public school...
Wow, MS pull out of half the world market? What have you been drinking? However, the fines are unlikely to start before Duke Vista Forever ships.
Woohoo - North America is proving to lead the high-tech way again. Give it another 5 years and we may be able to buy a Coke at a vending machine and pay by cell phone. Follow us Europe, we are right behind you... ;)
Yup, we have one of the V5 models at work and it's DHCP server doesn't work properly, to name one (rather serious) problem. So, guess what I'm going to do with it tomorrow...