Probably a holdover from the days of 300 MB hard drives, when you didn't really have the luxury of installing multiple text editors. Or just a nerdy version of that stupid Ford vs. Chevy game that the teenage redneck boys like to play.
First: plate movement produces earthquakes, which would definitely have been noticed so close to shore. Second: the breaks didn't all occur in the same area. Some were near Alexandria, some were at the mouth of the Persian Gulf, 2000 km away. There's definitely something weird going on.
Then, following a pre-agreed signal, they all simultaneously open their trench coats and show everybody a confusing web GUI full of rounded corners and running on top of a proprietary plug-in.
Apple does make high-end AV software, and they've been doing it for a while. (No, I'm NOT talking about iMovie.)
This was definitely a major fuck-up, but I doubt it was intentional. What would be the point? If AfterEffects on MacOS stops working, the users won't switch to Motion, they'll switch to AfterEffects on Windows.
Exactly. If I recall, he was mainly talking about the fact that low-level system concepts aren't being taught. Java was only incidental to the argument, but the/. summary made it seem like another stupid language flamewar. Java is a high-level language: of course you won't be using it to write kernel code.
Actually, even in the US, what sort of penalties could you possibly face for "moving operations out of the country"? You'd get a massive tax break to entice you to move operations back in?
The caveat is, if you want to study a French author then you'd better learn French. But learning French will otherwise do you no good whatever in Kansas, and if you ever move to France or BC then you can learn French. Ideally, you should learn French before moving to France. It'll make things much easier both for you and for the French people.
And most software doesn't need to muck about at kernel level. On-demand virus scanners probably do however. McAfee doesn't make virus scanners for Linux, so this is a moot point.
They're blowing a lot of smoke, but it's obvious what happened. They got caught using GPL code improperly, and now they're trying to spin it as some sort of conspiracy by Stallman's commie minions, instead of their own stupid mistake.
At least Windows won't freeze up utterly when it can't ping a share; OS X did that regularly. That's been fixed already. I don't remember when, but I haven't seen it happen in a long time. (Yeah, it was really annoying.)
Rove? This predates Rove. In the 72 election, before the NH primary, people were getting calls at 3 AM from someone claiming to represent the Harlem Voters for Muskie, telling them what a fine job he was doing to "help the black man". These calls were (much) later tied to the Nixon campaign. Their logic was, Muskie was the Democrat most likely to win the general election, so they were doing whatever they could to hurt him in the primaries. Crude, but it worked. And this is just one that they didn't manage to hide... makes you wonder how much shit like this goes on that you never find out about.
Acquiring a botnet isn't something you do casually. Whoever was behind this was pretty damn motivated, and had some non-trivial resources at his disposal. It makes no sense for the Ron Paul campaign to do it. Or for any of the Democrats to do it. So who's left? And what are their possible motives?
Underground, the temperature is pretty much the same year-round. In that particular place, this happens to be -3 C. Which I assume is not cold enough to preserve the seeds, otherwise they wouldn't need the additional cooling.
I'm not sure if Freenet has any copyrighted works on it being distributed illegally I'd be very surprised if it didn't.
the RIAA, MPAA, and MAFIAA can basically sue you on the sole premise that the files are available on your computer Ah, but that's the thing about Freenet: the file storage is distributed, anonymized and encrypted, so you don't even know what's on your own machine at any given moment. Sure, they can prove that you're running a Freenet node, but that's about it.
I tried Freenet a few years ago, because it sounded like a good idea. In practice I found it to be mostly unusable. From what I've heard since then, they haven't made any significant improvements, so I haven't bothered to check it out again.
In Putin's Russia, they seize dissidents. In Soviet Russia, they shoot dissidents. Not quite there yet, guys. Where have you been? Putin's been killing dissidents for a long time. Ever heard of Anna Politkovskaya?
Wasn't there some case recently where the RAM contents of some server were subpoenaed in a court case? No, there wasn't. That was just a really misleading Slashdot summary. Assuming we're actually talking about the same thing.
Sorry, but the Xerox story sounds like bullshit. Where did the machine store all that data? You're potentially talking about hundreds of thousands image files. They didn't have 512MB Flash memory chips in those days (I assume you're talking 70's or 80's - certainly before '89). A tape drive the size of a suitcase would have been pretty conspicuous.
It's also seems fishy that much sensitive information (of relevance to a foreign government) could be obtained from randomly putting trojans on hard drives... Isn't it possible that this was an unintentional infection from some disk-handling or testing machine along the line? How do you know it was random? Let's say they have a specific target in mind, and they know what sort of hard drives the target uses, and which supplier he gets them from. They infect a whole container load of disks which is bound for that supplier. Whoops, they overdid it - now some unrelated hacker wound up with one of those things, noticed the shenanigans and published them on the net.
Although the second scenario (the boring one) is a lot more likely.
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Probably a holdover from the days of 300 MB hard drives, when you didn't really have the luxury of installing multiple text editors. Or just a nerdy version of that stupid Ford vs. Chevy game that the teenage redneck boys like to play.
First: plate movement produces earthquakes, which would definitely have been noticed so close to shore. Second: the breaks didn't all occur in the same area. Some were near Alexandria, some were at the mouth of the Persian Gulf, 2000 km away. There's definitely something weird going on.
Then, following a pre-agreed signal, they all simultaneously open their trench coats and show everybody a confusing web GUI full of rounded corners and running on top of a proprietary plug-in.
Apple does make high-end AV software, and they've been doing it for a while. (No, I'm NOT talking about iMovie.)
This was definitely a major fuck-up, but I doubt it was intentional. What would be the point? If AfterEffects on MacOS stops working, the users won't switch to Motion, they'll switch to AfterEffects on Windows.
Exactly. If I recall, he was mainly talking about the fact that low-level system concepts aren't being taught. Java was only incidental to the argument, but the /. summary made it seem like another stupid language flamewar. Java is a high-level language: of course you won't be using it to write kernel code.
They're blowing a lot of smoke, but it's obvious what happened. They got caught using GPL code improperly, and now they're trying to spin it as some sort of conspiracy by Stallman's commie minions, instead of their own stupid mistake.
Just be glad they've never heard of Sun hardware.
OK, everyone does it, it's a perfectly legitimate activity. So why were they trying to keep this a secret?
You're thinking of Clarence Thomas.
Rove? This predates Rove. In the 72 election, before the NH primary, people were getting calls at 3 AM from someone claiming to represent the Harlem Voters for Muskie, telling them what a fine job he was doing to "help the black man". These calls were (much) later tied to the Nixon campaign. Their logic was, Muskie was the Democrat most likely to win the general election, so they were doing whatever they could to hurt him in the primaries. Crude, but it worked. And this is just one that they didn't manage to hide... makes you wonder how much shit like this goes on that you never find out about.
Acquiring a botnet isn't something you do casually. Whoever was behind this was pretty damn motivated, and had some non-trivial resources at his disposal. It makes no sense for the Ron Paul campaign to do it. Or for any of the Democrats to do it. So who's left? And what are their possible motives?
I think Ron Paul is a fucking nutjob, by the way.
Underground, the temperature is pretty much the same year-round. In that particular place, this happens to be -3 C. Which I assume is not cold enough to preserve the seeds, otherwise they wouldn't need the additional cooling.
It's above the Polar Circle. There's no sun for several months at a time.
Well, I sure as hell didn't know. Where can I buy one?
I tried Freenet a few years ago, because it sounded like a good idea. In practice I found it to be mostly unusable. From what I've heard since then, they haven't made any significant improvements, so I haven't bothered to check it out again.
They subcontract the assembly to a plant in China. Remember kids, don't lick the lawyer or you'll get lead poisoning just like the ancient Romans.
In Soviet Russia, they shoot dissidents.
Not quite there yet, guys. Where have you been? Putin's been killing dissidents for a long time. Ever heard of Anna Politkovskaya?
"Rhonda...have you no shame! keep the briefcase closed, for chrissake! all your documents are falling out!" - Frank Zappa
OK, thanks. I was stuck thinking in terms of digital storage; doing something like this with a miniature film camera does sound a lot more plausible.
Sorry, but the Xerox story sounds like bullshit. Where did the machine store all that data? You're potentially talking about hundreds of thousands image files. They didn't have 512MB Flash memory chips in those days (I assume you're talking 70's or 80's - certainly before '89). A tape drive the size of a suitcase would have been pretty conspicuous.
Although the second scenario (the boring one) is a lot more likely.