It was a human error only in that the Soviet authorities ever allowed this reactor design to be built and fuelled.
It was not an error, it was a conscious decision. If I remember correctly, RBMK reactors have design that allows exchange of fuel rods without shutting down the reactor. Weapon-grade plutonium is almost-pure isotope 239, isotope 240 (which is what 239 turns into when staying in the reactor for too long) doesn't produce neutrons during fission, so the resulting bombushka has less boom for the same bucks. Shutdown of the reactor is easy to see even from the space (eg. drop in the temperature of the cooling towers) and shutdown intervals of the plants are carefully monitored. Reactor that doesn't require observable shutdown to refuel, and thus allows unmonitored shortening of the refueling intervals, is a big military advantage; as another advantage, the RBMK construction was fairly simple and easy to build.
Then the day D came, a snafu escalated to a fubar, and the rest is a well-known story.
You can also use a boot floppy or CD with a suitable rescue distro of Linux and use dd_rescue to do the dirty job of copying the disk. Used it successfully with multiple old drives displaying various degrees of damage. (Their images are now stored on DVDs, mounted as loop devices when I need to access some of the ancient data. In addition, I have a log of the bad sectors from the disks, which together with the images of the filesystems could allow making a list of what files are affected by the damage.)
Yes, that's correct, it is a continent. A continent full of various countries, many of them suitably small, with officials suitably for sale and dollar/euro having nicely high value adjusted to cost-of-living and position suitably equatorial.
Just a matter of money. Pick the right country with cheaply bribe-able officials. Africa sounds good, the added advantage of some parts is their position suitably close to the equator.
I suggest that the best approach is for you to simply stay out of the technology, and go back to something older.
To what? Hightech is what I can do the best and enjoy the most.
Otherwise, you simply support and re-inforce a disfunctional society.
I just want to continue doing that without being harassed by lawyers. I care about The Society about as much as it cares about me.
I'm being harsh, but society isn't made a better place by cowering to the bullies or support their dysfunctions.
That's true - but I don't want to improve the society, just to enforce a niche where the mentioned society with all its dysfunctions and bullying doesn't have enough power to annoy me nor others for playing with hightech toys and publishing about it. Opting out of the conflict, fighting lawyers with mathematics instead of with lawyers.
... where sourcedomain is the name of the domain from which the email originated.
Considering the ease with which the mail origin can be forged, this scheme is ripe to cause some serious collateral damage. I am routinely getting bounces to spams nobody from my domain sent (according to both the content and the headers). If misaddressed complaints get added to this, I'll thank you very much.
If I am not doing anything wrong, action groups will support me.
And what if not? Are you willing to put yours and your family's resources in stake? Are there no negative impacts of being in the center of a lawsuit from the side of banks and prospective employers? Who will reimburse you and your family for the time wasted with the paperwork and courts, for the associated stress and hassle?
I'm sorry you're such a wimp that you let these big organisations get to you even though you're clearly innocent - it only goes to reaffirm their power and convince them they can keep on bullying.
I'm sorry I don't live up to your expectation. I am sorry I prefer camouflage and stealthiness over open fight. I am sorry I bet on technical solutions instead on lining the lawyers' pockets some more. I am sorry I am not sharing your fighting-the-windmills ideals.
Now there's a dumb idea: "don't stand up for your rights if your not doing anything wrong, go and hide under cover".
Practical issues. Hiding under cover is cheaper in terms of time, money, and annoyance factor than lawyers and courts, even if you can prove you weren't doing anything wrong. How many hours of your lawyer's services can you afford?
Wondering how good the challenge-response algorithm is. A long-range reader under your hotel bed could potentially have a good chance to bruteforce your key while you're sleeping.
But in no way is it legal to have a 'caller-id' of the email clients installed?
There are other blackholes, not only Spamcop - their results can be combined together. The spammers can't sue every one of them, nor they have access to all the jurisdiction. The global nature of the Net, that serves their emailthrowing activities so well, can act against them too. We can also set up a specific blackhole in a non-US jurisdiction that would list only the litigious ones (which makes it very specific, highly reliable and suitable as a supplement for the "legal" blackholes, who then can avoid entering legal fights with no adverse impact for their customers).
It's the equivelent of somone bossing me around on my own computer telling me I can't install a popup blocker.
Ignore him and install the blocker. Then, depending on your mood and penalties for disobedience, either keep quiet about it, or show him the finger.
people that do shit like this claiming "academic interest" are full of it. at the end of the day, you don't build someting like this unless you intend on using it.
If you'd ever know how many virus and worm related projects are written but not released "in the wild", you'd maybe talk different way. Self-replicating code is one of the more interesting areas of network-related programming. I remember writing code to defeat heuristics in virus scanners about a decade ago; it was a success (the essence was hooking timer interrupt and running a loop that was overwritten from the interrupt, and then couple more tricks) and was never released, nor intended to.
If you never did anything for pure academic interest, I am sorry for you.
If anitmatter has the same amount of energy as matter, and energy cannot be created or destoryed, then perhaps there is a way to turn matter into antimatter without expending much energy to do so?
It's unlikely this is possible (the conservation of charge, energy, and several other variables), but you can convert energy to matter/antimatter. There is some effect when a photon of high enough energy interacts with the field around an atom nucleus, and its energy is converted to an electron-positron pair.
Don't be so hard on him. He, in his depths of philosophy, forgets that it's the military/cryptography research that laid the foundations of computing applications, that it's the attempt to make better military radars that led to first transistors, that the scientists he despises so much are the ones he should thank for the technology he is now using as a medium for criticizing them.
And no, I can't think of a good reason for pirates being supplied with free upgrades.
"And no, I can't think of a good reason to provide vaccination to illegal immigrants." - and then let them run rampant between the "legal" population and spread germs. Makes sense maybe in law enforcement perspective, but not from epidemiological point of view.
Considering the impact of worms to even organizations of the size of Eurpoean Commission (or eg. airlines, to pick an example that isn't a bunch of never-do-well parasites, at least not that much), it can even be a question of national-security grade.
It does raise barriers to software development, though, the tearing down of which is part of what free software has been all about. So it's not an ideal solution, but it's workable.
It is NOT workable. Why I the admin/developer/end-user should need some third party to say what software I can and cannot run? Why I should need some entity to tell me that I have to pay them to sign my own code so I would be allowed to run it? Why shouldn't I be able to design my own media player, or to take a FPGA and a couple DACs and making my own sound card? What is the purpose of the computers - being a tool for the people, or making sure some rich suit'n'tie bastards can become even more rich without having to do any real work?
If this system takes off, it becomes just another disincentive for being legal and law-obedient citizen.
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It was not an error, it was a conscious decision. If I remember correctly, RBMK reactors have design that allows exchange of fuel rods without shutting down the reactor. Weapon-grade plutonium is almost-pure isotope 239, isotope 240 (which is what 239 turns into when staying in the reactor for too long) doesn't produce neutrons during fission, so the resulting bombushka has less boom for the same bucks. Shutdown of the reactor is easy to see even from the space (eg. drop in the temperature of the cooling towers) and shutdown intervals of the plants are carefully monitored. Reactor that doesn't require observable shutdown to refuel, and thus allows unmonitored shortening of the refueling intervals, is a big military advantage; as another advantage, the RBMK construction was fairly simple and easy to build.
Then the day D came, a snafu escalated to a fubar, and the rest is a well-known story.
You can also use a boot floppy or CD with a suitable rescue distro of Linux and use dd_rescue to do the dirty job of copying the disk. Used it successfully with multiple old drives displaying various degrees of damage. (Their images are now stored on DVDs, mounted as loop devices when I need to access some of the ancient data. In addition, I have a log of the bad sectors from the disks, which together with the images of the filesystems could allow making a list of what files are affected by the damage.)
Yes, that's correct, it is a continent. A continent full of various countries, many of them suitably small, with officials suitably for sale and dollar/euro having nicely high value adjusted to cost-of-living and position suitably equatorial.
Just a matter of money. Pick the right country with cheaply bribe-able officials. Africa sounds good, the added advantage of some parts is their position suitably close to the equator.
To what? Hightech is what I can do the best and enjoy the most.
Otherwise, you simply support and re-inforce a disfunctional society.
I just want to continue doing that without being harassed by lawyers. I care about The Society about as much as it cares about me.
I'm being harsh, but society isn't made a better place by cowering to the bullies or support their dysfunctions.
That's true - but I don't want to improve the society, just to enforce a niche where the mentioned society with all its dysfunctions and bullying doesn't have enough power to annoy me nor others for playing with hightech toys and publishing about it. Opting out of the conflict, fighting lawyers with mathematics instead of with lawyers.
Considering the ease with which the mail origin can be forged, this scheme is ripe to cause some serious collateral damage. I am routinely getting bounces to spams nobody from my domain sent (according to both the content and the headers). If misaddressed complaints get added to this, I'll thank you very much.
And what if not? Are you willing to put yours and your family's resources in stake? Are there no negative impacts of being in the center of a lawsuit from the side of banks and prospective employers? Who will reimburse you and your family for the time wasted with the paperwork and courts, for the associated stress and hassle?
I'm sorry you're such a wimp that you let these big organisations get to you even though you're clearly innocent - it only goes to reaffirm their power and convince them they can keep on bullying.
I'm sorry I don't live up to your expectation. I am sorry I prefer camouflage and stealthiness over open fight. I am sorry I bet on technical solutions instead on lining the lawyers' pockets some more. I am sorry I am not sharing your fighting-the-windmills ideals.
Practical issues. Hiding under cover is cheaper in terms of time, money, and annoyance factor than lawyers and courts, even if you can prove you weren't doing anything wrong. How many hours of your lawyer's services can you afford?
One word: Wrapster.
All you need for such decisions is a manager with a suit and tie and no clue. Being in the alcohol-serving business is optional.
Wondering how good the challenge-response algorithm is. A long-range reader under your hotel bed could potentially have a good chance to bruteforce your key while you're sleeping.
Yes. One place produces poorly written crashy bloatware with unusable user documentation and bad localizations, the other is from India.
There are other blackholes, not only Spamcop - their results can be combined together. The spammers can't sue every one of them, nor they have access to all the jurisdiction. The global nature of the Net, that serves their emailthrowing activities so well, can act against them too. We can also set up a specific blackhole in a non-US jurisdiction that would list only the litigious ones (which makes it very specific, highly reliable and suitable as a supplement for the "legal" blackholes, who then can avoid entering legal fights with no adverse impact for their customers).
It's the equivelent of somone bossing me around on my own computer telling me I can't install a popup blocker.
Ignore him and install the blocker. Then, depending on your mood and penalties for disobedience, either keep quiet about it, or show him the finger.
He said Bangalore, not Redmond.
What happens if you just refuse to produce the key, provably and irrevocably destroy the key when the lawyers come, or fake an equipment "accident"?
Too late. The tax man already took it.
If you'd ever know how many virus and worm related projects are written but not released "in the wild", you'd maybe talk different way. Self-replicating code is one of the more interesting areas of network-related programming. I remember writing code to defeat heuristics in virus scanners about a decade ago; it was a success (the essence was hooking timer interrupt and running a loop that was overwritten from the interrupt, and then couple more tricks) and was never released, nor intended to.
If you never did anything for pure academic interest, I am sorry for you.
It's unlikely this is possible (the conservation of charge, energy, and several other variables), but you can convert energy to matter/antimatter. There is some effect when a photon of high enough energy interacts with the field around an atom nucleus, and its energy is converted to an electron-positron pair.
A Beowulf cluster of those!
Don't be so hard on him. He, in his depths of philosophy, forgets that it's the military/cryptography research that laid the foundations of computing applications, that it's the attempt to make better military radars that led to first transistors, that the scientists he despises so much are the ones he should thank for the technology he is now using as a medium for criticizing them.
"And no, I can't think of a good reason to provide vaccination to illegal immigrants." - and then let them run rampant between the "legal" population and spread germs. Makes sense maybe in law enforcement perspective, but not from epidemiological point of view.
Considering the impact of worms to even organizations of the size of Eurpoean Commission (or eg. airlines, to pick an example that isn't a bunch of never-do-well parasites, at least not that much), it can even be a question of national-security grade.
Laptops are difficult to build from off-the-shelf parts. :(
Just put the updates to Bittorrent-style distribution network. Then their own bandwidth costs go close enough to zero.
It is NOT workable. Why I the admin/developer/end-user should need some third party to say what software I can and cannot run? Why I should need some entity to tell me that I have to pay them to sign my own code so I would be allowed to run it? Why shouldn't I be able to design my own media player, or to take a FPGA and a couple DACs and making my own sound card? What is the purpose of the computers - being a tool for the people, or making sure some rich suit'n'tie bastards can become even more rich without having to do any real work?
If this system takes off, it becomes just another disincentive for being legal and law-obedient citizen.
By that logic, the phone company has the right to limit what I talk about on the phone. Would that be right?