In my early UNIX sysadmin career when I was learning the ropes, I was admonished by my boss when he realised I was using vim instead of vi. His reasoning as far as I could gather was that vi is universal and vim isn't and that I might "learn bad habits" by using vim and "become unstuck" if I ever needed to config a machine that doesn't have vim installed.
I don't see a problem using whatever editor you like, so long as you can remember enough ed commands to get by.
But if most behave, a few have a huge incentive to misbehave.
They key is to increase the penalties for misbehaving so that there is no incentive
You are assuming that most people make rational decisions when deciding if some thing is "worth the risk". If you try and compensate for a low risk of getting caught by increasing the punishment then people will just think that they will never get caught. Its called "personal positive bias", similar to the way people play in the lottery even though it isn't strictly speaking "worth it".
Why doesn't she want to leave him? If its for religions reasons, talk (in confidence) to cleric of her religion (whatever it is). If its because of the children, you should go and talk to a counselor and find out what is really best. I doubt either of these people will think its best that she stays, and they might be able to convince her to act.
I feal sorry for you, but more so then for your friend.
Hmm, sounds like as AS/400 system. Guess what I was just working on? (like 5 minutes ago)
You were trained badly. Or rather, you weren't trained at all. Sure you can move the curser all over the screen, but hitting TAB (or the key that looks like it) would move you to the start of the next field. There was even a reverse tab, that would move you to the start of the previous field (it was a separate key, not SHIFT-TAB like you have to use if you are on a PC keyboard).
About 5 years ago I was a call centre operator for a fast food delivery service, and it used an AS/400 back end. 200 operators with green screen terminals, with a call time target of 55 seconds. We found out most of the tricks, there was even a key that cleared the filed from the current position to the end.
There were some quirks to the as/400 (now called iSeries by IBM), but they aren't that different to a regular computer once you understand how they work. Trouble is, by the sounds of it there was know one who knew anything to teach you.
It doesn't take a genius to see that releasing a DVD onto the market before the movie is a risky thing to do without region encoding.
It'll likely disappear in any case: the reasons to do this are disappearing, and mainly because of the threat of Kazaa piracy rather than DVD modding.
I though the original idea of staggering releases was to re-use the film "prints" used to show the film. They can release in the US, and when the movie starts to die down they can ship the used prints overseas and use them when for the release in that country.
Digital projection for theaters is starting to come in, but it will be a little while before they can replace all the film projectors.
Joe British Consumer any good because the *AVERAGE* DVD consumer doesn't have a region-free DVD player
A quick check will show you that most of the low price DVD players on sale in Australia are region (and Macrovision) free. I don't think the panasonic or Sony players are , but for most people why would you pay three times the price? I would think that most people who have region free players don't even know it.
I've been thinking of getting into photography, but want to stay with 35mm film instead of going digital. Used 35mm SLRs seem to be the best bet, but which ones should I seriously consider?
This is going off topic, but are you sure you should be thinking of getting a camera now? Photography is much more then the equipment.
Personally I have a Nikon F60, about 5 years old and now since superseded. Don't get me wrong, I like my camera, and I pretty much use most of the features, and even wish for features it doesn't have (oh for a depth of field preview!). But I have to admit that my skills as a photographer don't match the quality of the camera, not by a long shot.
If you want to get into photography, just start taking photos. Doesn't matter what sort of camera, even if you use those disposable cameras, just take the photos. When you get them back, look at them objectively and figure out how you could have done better. If you can honestly say that aperture control (for dept of field), or a filter, or a larger zoom, or whatever feature would have made a big difference, go out and buy that camera. But if you are like me the single biggest thing you can do to improve your photos is learn composition.
Of course if all you want is a geek toy so you can play with three or four lenses and a couple of dozen different filters and talk about F-stops and colour saturation, go knock yourself out. Personally my aim is to produce good-looking photos, and the reason I can't do this consistently isn't the equipment I'm using.
OK, I am making a calculate d guess here , but I may be wrong.
Your not wrong, just not all right
If I am not wrong these days, the password is stored in MD5 hash. And since hash value is theoretically irreversible, it can be stored in plain text
It should be irreversible, but by definition it must be "forwardable". I can take every possible password, hash it, and compare the result. If they match, I have figured out the password without reversing the hash function.
This was always possible by exploiting week passwords, but it is feasible to guess all alpha-numeric passwords (a-z,A-Z,0-9 total of 62 characters). An eight character password has 62^8 combinations, (218,340,105,584,896 approx 2.1 x 10^14). Now this is a large number, but do-able on PC hardware. Now there are no more then 256^8 possible values for an eight character password (18,446,744,073,709,551,616 approx 1.8 x 10^20). I don't know if this is do-able on a desktop (yet) but no matter how theoretically impossible it is to reverse a hash, it doesn't stop someone from throwing a dictionary (or a random number generator) at it.
Of course, almost all passwords out there don't contain non-printable characters, so if you a really trying to guess a password you would try more likely passwords first.
However, if you have wire running into your house, you can still pick up and dial 911--even without service!
So we have our emergency land-line phone--for free. Now we are using VoIP for everything else.
So the local telco has to provide a 911 service for you, but cannot collect any revenue from you to pay for it.
Sure, they are not notice one person doing this, but what happens when half the population switched to VOIP? Telco goes bust, and no-one gets a 911 service, government has to step in and either provide it by raising taxes, or force VOIP providers (or ISPs) to either provide it or pay for it.
Can't the government just stay off these new industries long enough for them to get started?
Why let them get started if you are going to force them to go under anyway? Besides, the FCC could decide to regulate it but set a timetable for phasing in any fees and regulations.
This would be better for the VOIP providers as they will be able to plan for the future, rather then waiting for the crunch and having it imposed with no warning. They know that in X years they will have to start paying Y per call, or that if they have over Z subscribers they will have to provide their own 911 service. Put that into their buisness plan and develop a sustainable buisness model, rather then hoping no one notices what they are doing.
I hear you on the FBI thing. But consider: somewhere a just-not-worth-the-taxpayer's-money line has to be drawn. The FBI is seriously understaffed
But how do you cost a crime? If you lose $500 from a stolen Credit Card, well, it's hard to justify a months worth of police time to track down the cuplrit.
But if say 1,000 people were each defrauded of $500, that half a million dollars obtained illegaly. But each complaint is only $500, too small to be investigated.
What was the disease that they hoped to dig up from the frozen Norwegians? That disease had an incredibly high mortality rate, it essentially burned itself out.
It was flu. The flu of 1919 killed more people then WW1, which had just preceded it. It was a variety of the common flu.
A disease that kills all of its hosts is UNSUCCESSFUL as it then has no where to live. The purpose of a virus is not to kill its hosts but to live its own life and reproduce. The most successful virus is one that lives alongside its host.
Anthrax being a notable exception. It relies on its host dying in order to spread its spores into the ground. I think Ebola is similar, or at least it can spread when the bodies of victims go through the local funeral rights.
I can't think of any others of the top of my head, but I don't even have a particular interest in the field.
It's also worth noting that humans have a habit of changing the results of natural selection. Think of common crops, wheat or maize. Would they be nearly as prolific if humans were not constantly intervening to help kill of competition, and to spread the seed around for them? Just because a trait isn't beneficial in nature doesn't mean that human intervention can't change that.
Always remember that the Israelis out-kill the Arabs almost 3 to 1 (last time I checked). Of course bombing a whole apartment block as part of an assassination isn't terrorism, because it was committed by a government.
Or how about using a helicopter to fire rockets into a car carrying a three-year-old child?
Don't get me wrong, I certainly don't condone the killing of civilians, in fact in general I don't condone killing at all. But neither side in this conflict is in the right, and the sooner people realise this the better.
I'm sorry that I don't know where to find a link to this, but it really happened a few years ago.
In one of the states of Australia the MP's pay increases were linked to the general public service. If the public service got a 3% raise, the polititians automaticaly got the same. In this way they didn't have to vote themselves any pay rises.
One year the public sector union managed to secure a big pay increase. I can't remember exactly how much but it was between 2-3 times the normal yearly ammount. The economy wasn't great, and the MPs didn't want to look like they were getting big pay increases when the rest of the economy was tanking. So they actualy had to vote to not get a pay rise that year.
It cost you money to go to hospital? Your living in the wrong country. I know the public hospital system in Australia gets knocked a bit, but after an emergency room visit I ended up spening the night in hospital for "observation" and it didn't cost me a cent.
Sure no one likes paying tax, but somethings need to be universal.
Given the state of US Laws (copyright for 95+ years, DMCA, Patriot act, Guantanamo bay, Florida) I'm glad of that.
I agree there needs to be a better international legal framework, but mainly so this woman could have had some other way of getting the money she claims she was owed without resorting to extortion.
This story doesn't mention if she was really owed the money or not, is this woman just trying to grab some money she isn't entitled to, or is she trying to get money that she is owed and probably needs to live off?
Seriously, this is the age of the Internet, why is everyone so fused with national borders. Why should being in different countries matter more then being in different states?
The US government has an effectively miniscule power to censor. An "expose" on censorship in the US is really an indictment of the media - a media which is generally considered to have a slant to the left.
The trouble with characterising "left" vs. "right" is that most people disagree as to where the centre is. I have a hard time trying to think of any US mass media outlet being described as "left wing", so that tells you where I sit.
Try reading some of the works by Noam Chomsky. You might not agree with his politics, but his work on the mass media is compelling. Unfortunately a lot of people write him of as a conspiracy theorist, which he is not. He does not say that the government controls the mass media, in in fact he uses examples where the media takes the opposite line to the government.
Most people jumped on the "Iraq" bandwagon, including the media. More people are going to watch Oprah saying that we have to go to Iraq to fight terrorists. How many people would tune into a PBS docco on the real reason Bin Laden wants to fight America, expecialy if it isn't 100% compliment of the US government. Now people realise how much Iraq is going to cost, both in terms of lives and money. It isn't just Saddam loyalists that hate the Yanks, even the people who wanted the invasion seem to want the US to leave. Even in this day of the internet do you know where to go to find out what is really happening in Iraq, or do you go to NYT, CNN, BBC etc?
There may not technically be censorship in the western world, but there are limits on what is considered to be "news", and this controls what 90% of the population know.
* I didn't watch this, so I'm paraphrasing some who did.
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Scuse me? Extradition treaty with a "government" that only two other governments in the world recognized? I'm thinking a formal request was made through reasonable diplomatic channels (probably through Pakistan). Beyond that, what do you expect us to have done when dealing with a government that was not recognized as legitimate?
Ok, looking up your history your not the rabid fanatic I thought you were already. You seem to understand that fanaticism can come in multiple favours.
Firstly, the US did not have normal relations with the Taliban, but they were prepared to deal with then on other issues.
http://edition.cnn.com/2001/US/05/17/us.afghanis ta n.aid/index.html
There is a lot of different opinions about this on the web, but most centre around drug production.
I have issue with the invasion of Afghanistan. This is my POV, and you may have seen different reports. I also do not trust the US government, I'm not a fanatical conspiracy theorist, but the current search for weapons of mass destruction in Iraq does prove that at least some of the scare stories we were told were not true. I don't want to get sidetracked with Iraq here, time will tell who was right.
What I saw happen was the US suffered a tragedy. Lots (approx 3000) of people died. The US then said "Osama did it", and to the Taliban "give him to us, or else". The Taliban said "you haven't proved he did it" and then the US hit them over the head with a very big stick. Lots of people died, but they were not American so that's OK. (Calm down, see below where I justify this comment).
Why should the Taliban have arrested Osama and hand him over to the US? If a friendly government like the UK had said "person X committed this crime in our country" what would have happened? The US government would arrest Mr. X, and there would be a court hearing, where the UK government would present evidence that person X had committed a crime. This is the step that was missing.
I'm not saying the Taliban would have extradited him if evidence was presented, but you should at least exhaust other options before you start killing people. I mean, why even ask first? Why not attack on general principal? If you present evidence and they ignore it, then you can go ahead and use force.
Also bare in mind that I accept that I am in the minority on this issue. See my Sig, I am thankful that I still live in a democracy (and that it is not the US). I also have my personal opinions on right and wrong, and pretty much everything that has happened in Afghanistan in the last 40 years falls into the "wrong" category, US (and allies) actions included.
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This was a deliberately provocative comment, but I don't consider it a troll. I'm not trying to annoy you, just make you think. Do you know the answer to any of the following questions? Do you have any idea how many people died in Afghanistan? I know the US and other allies suffered very few casualties, but how many Afghani's died? Did you hear about the wedding party that was attacked by US aircraft? In what state is Afghanistan now? Do you know much about US foreign policy? Do you know who the Northern Alliance are?
You might know the answers to these questions, but many people don't, because the media shows people what interests them. A US soldier dying is worth about ac much time on the evening news as a hundred people dying in an earthquake. Its work a lot more time that a dozen villagers being killed in Algeria. I'm not saying that there is some huge conspiracy in the media, only that this is what people are interested in. Why should you care more that Israeli soldiers have killed a US citizen then you would when they kill a Palestinian child? What does that say about the average person?
refused to give up their leadership even after the attacks of 9/11?
I'm sorry, I don't remember seeing a report that they actualy made a formal request. I know they asked for him, but did they present any evidence to the extradition hearing? Maybe you can provide me with a link?
(Yes, I know I'm saying bye bye kara by saying this, but sometimes the truth is unpopular.)
Maybe the car should have a radar at the back as well, taking into account what will happen if it suddenly brakes. A predictive system should probably turn on the brake lights (although no actual braking is taking place) just in case it really needs to break soon right after.
While rearwards facing sensor might be usefull, it does worry me.
I am not responcible for keeping a safe distance from the person behind . I should be able to stop suddenly with know warning, and if they hit me its their fault for not allowing for that. Think about a situation where you suddely lose vision (the windshield smashes etc). I am going to stop as quickly as possible while trying to keep in my lane. If some one rams up the back of my it is their fault. While I'm not one of those stupid idiots that think "its not my fault so I'll just let them run into me" what would happen if I ram into $500,000 car because my car didn't want to break because their was a $2,000 old car sitting too close behind me.
1. Some dork cuts you off on the freeway and steps on gas. You don't want or need to break even though the idiot is only 20 feet in front of you..
Umm, in that situation you should be breaking. It is trivial for a computer to work out "object 20ft ahead, relative speed +10mph, impact in XX milliseconds" and decide what is a safe distance, and then slow down until you reach that distance. After all, that car pulled in front of you, how do you know some other person isn't going to pull in front of him, but this time forcing him to hit the brakes.
2. Wet pavement, your friend is tail-gating you. Now you neighbourâ(TM)s cat runs across the street. You would rather run over the stupid thing (and remove stupidity from the gene pool as an added benefit) than get rear-ended by your friend.
If any "friend" were tail-gating me I would be slowing down (to a walking pace) until they get off my arse. Besides, would a cat be large enough to trigger this? The other scenario is if a person steps out. In a poorly lit street the radar could possibly detect a person waring dark clothing before you could. I donâ(TM)t want a car accident, but Iâ(TM)d rather be in one then run another person down.
3. You are merging into a tight spot on the freeway. If you push the breaks, you are likely to "clip" the car in front of which you are trying to merge.
If you are merging at a safe speed then this won't be a worry. This thing will have relative speed to work on, not just distance. From that it could easily calculate "time to impact". If you are pushing into a space at a speed that means you would hit in half a second you are an idiot and an accident waiting to happen. What is your reaction time? 120ms? 240ms? thatâ(TM)s not including the time it takes to actually slow down.
4. Some dork didn't bother looking when merging/fell asleep/whatever-else and is drifting into your lane on the freeway. Behind you is a semi truck. The only way (besides honking) to avoid a collision is to downshift into second gear and step on gas even though the car in front of you is closer than 300 feet.
Umm, wtf? If a car pulls in front of you it will start to slow down. You point your nose into another lane and the car is no longer in front of you. Now you can step on the gas all you like.
5. Your example of the left-lane turn is very good too. It's a classic "looks like a head-on" scenario.
Again, time to impact. If you are turning across traffic (remember that Japan drives on the left) hopefully you are doing so at a reasonable speed, and slowing down to boot.
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We're still working with Von Newman machines, with (roughly) the same architecture that Charles Babbage described around 1850.
Any architecture that has seperate a seperate Instruction and Data cache is not really a Von Newman machine. The differences are small, but computers have been pushing the limits of what Von Newman described for some time now.
Is that true? Always assumed it followed the same model as airtime, with no distinction between outgoing and incoming.
I've only heard about the airtime payment model in the US, although some one is bound to tell me that it is uesd elsewhere. In Australia, where the article is from, the Caller (and Sender) almost always pays. I don't pay for SMSs I read, only those I send. Same for calls, I don't pay if some one calls me, they pay for that.
I think hot swap has more to do with the raid controller than the drives themselves. Of course, the physics of it have some to do with the enclosure as well, but push comes to shove, one can open up a running machine and unscrew a hard drive, it's just not as much fun as just releasing a latch and pulling on a lever.
Sure opening the case and using a screwdriver isn't as much fun, but its also risky. With a proper enclosure there is much less change you are going to stuff something up. Thats why servers that support hot-swap PCI have little doors in the case, so there is less chace you will drop a sccrewdriver onto the CPU:-)
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And I'm dead serious.
You are assuming that most people make rational decisions when deciding if some thing is "worth the risk". If you try and compensate for a low risk of getting caught by increasing the punishment then people will just think that they will never get caught. Its called "personal positive bias", similar to the way people play in the lottery even though it isn't strictly speaking "worth it".
I'm 26. Is that old in IT now?
Why doesn't she want to leave him? If its for religions reasons, talk (in confidence) to cleric of her religion (whatever it is). If its because of the children, you should go and talk to a counselor and find out what is really best. I doubt either of these people will think its best that she stays, and they might be able to convince her to act.
I feal sorry for you, but more so then for your friend.
Hmm, sounds like as AS/400 system. Guess what I was just working on? (like 5 minutes ago)
You were trained badly. Or rather, you weren't trained at all. Sure you can move the curser all over the screen, but hitting TAB (or the key that looks like it) would move you to the start of the next field. There was even a reverse tab, that would move you to the start of the previous field (it was a separate key, not SHIFT-TAB like you have to use if you are on a PC keyboard).
About 5 years ago I was a call centre operator for a fast food delivery service, and it used an AS/400 back end. 200 operators with green screen terminals, with a call time target of 55 seconds. We found out most of the tricks, there was even a key that cleared the filed from the current position to the end.
There were some quirks to the as/400 (now called iSeries by IBM), but they aren't that different to a regular computer once you understand how they work. Trouble is, by the sounds of it there was know one who knew anything to teach you.
Digital projection for theaters is starting to come in, but it will be a little while before they can replace all the film projectors.
A quick check will show you that most of the low price DVD players on sale in Australia are region (and Macrovision) free. I don't think the panasonic or Sony players are , but for most people why would you pay three times the price? I would think that most people who have region free players don't even know it.
Personally I have a Nikon F60, about 5 years old and now since superseded. Don't get me wrong, I like my camera, and I pretty much use most of the features, and even wish for features it doesn't have (oh for a depth of field preview!). But I have to admit that my skills as a photographer don't match the quality of the camera, not by a long shot.
If you want to get into photography, just start taking photos. Doesn't matter what sort of camera, even if you use those disposable cameras, just take the photos. When you get them back, look at them objectively and figure out how you could have done better. If you can honestly say that aperture control (for dept of field), or a filter, or a larger zoom, or whatever feature would have made a big difference, go out and buy that camera. But if you are like me the single biggest thing you can do to improve your photos is learn composition.
Of course if all you want is a geek toy so you can play with three or four lenses and a couple of dozen different filters and talk about F-stops and colour saturation, go knock yourself out. Personally my aim is to produce good-looking photos, and the reason I can't do this consistently isn't the equipment I'm using.
It should be irreversible, but by definition it must be "forwardable". I can take every possible password, hash it, and compare the result. If they match, I have figured out the password without reversing the hash function.
This was always possible by exploiting week passwords, but it is feasible to guess all alpha-numeric passwords (a-z,A-Z,0-9 total of 62 characters). An eight character password has 62^8 combinations, (218,340,105,584,896 approx 2.1 x 10^14). Now this is a large number, but do-able on PC hardware. Now there are no more then 256^8 possible values for an eight character password (18,446,744,073,709,551,616 approx 1.8 x 10^20). I don't know if this is do-able on a desktop (yet) but no matter how theoretically impossible it is to reverse a hash, it doesn't stop someone from throwing a dictionary (or a random number generator) at it.
Of course, almost all passwords out there don't contain non-printable characters, so if you a really trying to guess a password you would try more likely passwords first.
Why let them get started if you are going to force them to go under anyway? Besides, the FCC could decide to regulate it but set a timetable for phasing in any fees and regulations.Sure, they are not notice one person doing this, but what happens when half the population switched to VOIP? Telco goes bust, and no-one gets a 911 service, government has to step in and either provide it by raising taxes, or force VOIP providers (or ISPs) to either provide it or pay for it.
This would be better for the VOIP providers as they will be able to plan for the future, rather then waiting for the crunch and having it imposed with no warning. They know that in X years they will have to start paying Y per call, or that if they have over Z subscribers they will have to provide their own 911 service. Put that into their buisness plan and develop a sustainable buisness model, rather then hoping no one notices what they are doing.
But how do you cost a crime? If you lose $500 from a stolen Credit Card, well, it's hard to justify a months worth of police time to track down the cuplrit.
But if say 1,000 people were each defrauded of $500, that half a million dollars obtained illegaly. But each complaint is only $500, too small to be investigated.
Makes you think, doesn't it.
It was flu. The flu of 1919 killed more people then WW1, which had just preceded it. It was a variety of the common flu.
Anthrax being a notable exception. It relies on its host dying in order to spread its spores into the ground. I think Ebola is similar, or at least it can spread when the bodies of victims go through the local funeral rights.
I can't think of any others of the top of my head, but I don't even have a particular interest in the field.
It's also worth noting that humans have a habit of changing the results of natural selection. Think of common crops, wheat or maize. Would they be nearly as prolific if humans were not constantly intervening to help kill of competition, and to spread the seed around for them? Just because a trait isn't beneficial in nature doesn't mean that human intervention can't change that.
Always remember that the Israelis out-kill the Arabs almost 3 to 1 (last time I checked). Of course bombing a whole apartment block as part of an assassination isn't terrorism, because it was committed by a government.
Or how about using a helicopter to fire rockets into a car carrying a three-year-old child?
Don't get me wrong, I certainly don't condone the killing of civilians, in fact in general I don't condone killing at all. But neither side in this conflict is in the right, and the sooner people realise this the better.
I'm sorry that I don't know where to find a link to this, but it really happened a few years ago.
In one of the states of Australia the MP's pay increases were linked to the general public service. If the public service got a 3% raise, the polititians automaticaly got the same. In this way they didn't have to vote themselves any pay rises.
One year the public sector union managed to secure a big pay increase. I can't remember exactly how much but it was between 2-3 times the normal yearly ammount. The economy wasn't great, and the MPs didn't want to look like they were getting big pay increases when the rest of the economy was tanking. So they actualy had to vote to not get a pay rise that year.
It cost you money to go to hospital? Your living in the wrong country. I know the public hospital system in Australia gets knocked a bit, but after an emergency room visit I ended up spening the night in hospital for "observation" and it didn't cost me a cent.
Sure no one likes paying tax, but somethings need to be universal.
Given the state of US Laws (copyright for 95+ years, DMCA, Patriot act, Guantanamo bay, Florida) I'm glad of that.
I agree there needs to be a better international legal framework, but mainly so this woman could have had some other way of getting the money she claims she was owed without resorting to extortion.
This story doesn't mention if she was really owed the money or not, is this woman just trying to grab some money she isn't entitled to, or is she trying to get money that she is owed and probably needs to live off?
Seriously, this is the age of the Internet, why is everyone so fused with national borders. Why should being in different countries matter more then being in different states?
The trouble with characterising "left" vs. "right" is that most people disagree as to where the centre is. I have a hard time trying to think of any US mass media outlet being described as "left wing", so that tells you where I sit.
Try reading some of the works by Noam Chomsky. You might not agree with his politics, but his work on the mass media is compelling. Unfortunately a lot of people write him of as a conspiracy theorist, which he is not. He does not say that the government controls the mass media, in in fact he uses examples where the media takes the opposite line to the government.
Most people jumped on the "Iraq" bandwagon, including the media. More people are going to watch Oprah saying that we have to go to Iraq to fight terrorists. How many people would tune into a PBS docco on the real reason Bin Laden wants to fight America, expecialy if it isn't 100% compliment of the US government. Now people realise how much Iraq is going to cost, both in terms of lives and money. It isn't just Saddam loyalists that hate the Yanks, even the people who wanted the invasion seem to want the US to leave. Even in this day of the internet do you know where to go to find out what is really happening in Iraq, or do you go to NYT, CNN, BBC etc?
There may not technically be censorship in the western world, but there are limits on what is considered to be "news", and this controls what 90% of the population know.
* I didn't watch this, so I'm paraphrasing some who did.
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Ok, looking up your history your not the rabid fanatic I thought you were already. You seem to understand that fanaticism can come in multiple favours.
Firstly, the US did not have normal relations with the Taliban, but they were prepared to deal with then on other issues.
http://edition.cnn.com/2001/US/05/17/us.afghani
There is a lot of different opinions about this on the web, but most centre around drug production.
http://www.robertscheer.com/1_natcolumn/01_colu
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2001/
http://opioids.com/afghanistan/pr
I have issue with the invasion of Afghanistan. This is my POV, and you may have seen different reports. I also do not trust the US government, I'm not a fanatical conspiracy theorist, but the current search for weapons of mass destruction in Iraq does prove that at least some of the scare stories we were told were not true. I don't want to get sidetracked with Iraq here, time will tell who was right.
What I saw happen was the US suffered a tragedy. Lots (approx 3000) of people died. The US then said "Osama did it", and to the Taliban "give him to us, or else". The Taliban said "you haven't proved he did it" and then the US hit them over the head with a very big stick. Lots of people died, but they were not American so that's OK. (Calm down, see below where I justify this comment).
Why should the Taliban have arrested Osama and hand him over to the US? If a friendly government like the UK had said "person X committed this crime in our country" what would have happened? The US government would arrest Mr. X, and there would be a court hearing, where the UK government would present evidence that person X had committed a crime. This is the step that was missing.
I'm not saying the Taliban would have extradited him if evidence was presented, but you should at least exhaust other options before you start killing people. I mean, why even ask first? Why not attack on general principal? If you present evidence and they ignore it, then you can go ahead and use force.
Also bare in mind that I accept that I am in the minority on this issue. See my Sig, I am thankful that I still live in a democracy (and that it is not the US). I also have my personal opinions on right and wrong, and pretty much everything that has happened in Afghanistan in the last 40 years falls into the "wrong" category, US (and allies) actions included.
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This was a deliberately provocative comment, but I don't consider it a troll. I'm not trying to annoy you, just make you think. Do you know the answer to any of the following questions? Do you have any idea how many people died in Afghanistan? I know the US and other allies suffered very few casualties, but how many Afghani's died? Did you hear about the wedding party that was attacked by US aircraft? In what state is Afghanistan now? Do you know much about US foreign policy? Do you know who the Northern Alliance are?
You might know the answers to these questions, but many people don't, because the media shows people what interests them. A US soldier dying is worth about ac much time on the evening news as a hundred people dying in an earthquake. Its work a lot more time that a dozen villagers being killed in Algeria. I'm not saying that there is some huge conspiracy in the media, only that this is what people are interested in. Why should you care more that Israeli soldiers have killed a US citizen then you would when they kill a Palestinian child? What does that say about the average person?
just to be pedantic, s390 is zSeries (mainframe), iSeries is the jumped up name for the AS/400,
I'm sorry, I don't remember seeing a report that they actualy made a formal request. I know they asked for him, but did they present any evidence to the extradition hearing? Maybe you can provide me with a link?
(Yes, I know I'm saying bye bye kara by saying this, but sometimes the truth is unpopular.)
While rearwards facing sensor might be usefull, it does worry me.
I am not responcible for keeping a safe distance from the person behind . I should be able to stop suddenly with know warning, and if they hit me its their fault for not allowing for that. Think about a situation where you suddely lose vision (the windshield smashes etc). I am going to stop as quickly as possible while trying to keep in my lane. If some one rams up the back of my it is their fault. While I'm not one of those stupid idiots that think "its not my fault so I'll just let them run into me" what would happen if I ram into $500,000 car because my car didn't want to break because their was a $2,000 old car sitting too close behind me.
Owen.
Umm, in that situation you should be breaking. It is trivial for a computer to work out "object 20ft ahead, relative speed +10mph, impact in XX milliseconds" and decide what is a safe distance, and then slow down until you reach that distance. After all, that car pulled in front of you, how do you know some other person isn't going to pull in front of him, but this time forcing him to hit the brakes.
If any "friend" were tail-gating me I would be slowing down (to a walking pace) until they get off my arse. Besides, would a cat be large enough to trigger this? The other scenario is if a person steps out. In a poorly lit street the radar could possibly detect a person waring dark clothing before you could. I donâ(TM)t want a car accident, but Iâ(TM)d rather be in one then run another person down.
If you are merging at a safe speed then this won't be a worry. This thing will have relative speed to work on, not just distance. From that it could easily calculate "time to impact". If you are pushing into a space at a speed that means you would hit in half a second you are an idiot and an accident waiting to happen. What is your reaction time? 120ms? 240ms? thatâ(TM)s not including the time it takes to actually slow down.
Umm, wtf? If a car pulls in front of you it will start to slow down. You point your nose into another lane and the car is no longer in front of you. Now you can step on the gas all you like.
Again, time to impact. If you are turning across traffic (remember that Japan drives on the left) hopefully you are doing so at a reasonable speed, and slowing down to boot.
Any architecture that has seperate a seperate Instruction and Data cache is not really a Von Newman machine. The differences are small, but computers have been pushing the limits of what Von Newman described for some time now.
I've only heard about the airtime payment model in the US, although some one is bound to tell me that it is uesd elsewhere.
In Australia, where the article is from, the Caller (and Sender) almost always pays. I don't pay for SMSs I read, only those I send. Same for calls, I don't pay if some one calls me, they pay for that.
Sure opening the case and using a screwdriver isn't as much fun, but its also risky. With a proper enclosure there is much less change you are going to stuff something up. Thats why servers that support hot-swap PCI have little doors in the case, so there is less chace you will drop a sccrewdriver onto the CPU