So, what about the Catholic church back in the days when the bible wasn't available to the masses, and sins could be expunged with an appropriately sized donation to the local diocese?
They were in the wrong and they lost about half of their followers because of it. The church is not infallible, God is infallible.
Or are you suggesting that the government can do no wrong? I firmly believe that in a free and democratic society that the members of that society have a duty to act morally regardless of what the authorities (elected into office or not!) tell them to do.
Or to put it another way:
Now, if anyone needs to be killed, then somebody has to be making the everyday decisions on who lives and who dies and enforcing them. Governments are the most natural pick for that, if only because they are — by design — charged with national security.
Thus any moralists (and the anyone that helps them) are to be prosecuted with the prosecutors having only to prove their involvement in saving lives. They could counter by proving, that the particular saving of a life was justified, but the burden of proof is on them...
That's why I find wavelet based techniques much more elegant (such as the JPEG-2000 algorithms). You conserve the low frequency information across the entire image rather than just at certain block boundaries. It's a little more computationally intensive, but the improvements in both PSNR (objective) and human viewpoint (subjective) for the same bitrate make it well worthwhile. Plus with an encoder you only have to encode with some basic profile (leaving out much of the tiling and precinct logic) so overall it should be simple enough to get onto a chip in a camera. The other bonus is the JPEG-2000 spec has a provision for lossless encoding. Then you could just transcode it to whatever you want with minimal data loss and artifacts. I honestly don't know why it isn't used more often...
If re-running the program without doing clean-up will corrupt the database you had damn well better prevent them from doing that. If you *know* that ignoring an error will cause database corruption then you have a very serious bug in your program that needs to be fixed before a user even has a chance to touch it.
Every day I have to fire up a Microsoft Access database program to clock in.
Sorry, but after reading that far I couldn't see the rest through the tears of laughter. But thanks for brightening up my Monday.
Yeah. If we had a time management system based on an Access database, I would be clocked in every day from now until 2050 without ever having to run the program a second time.
Honestly white paint would make more sense. You get similar reflectivity but with undirected scattering. Since you don't really care where the energy goes (and it's probably better if it disperses instead of redirecting right to the ground over your country) it makes more sense strategically and economically to go for the simple solution.
Admittedly, you'd have to come up with something military grade to protect against weapons like this (even 5% or so on standard white paint may be too high), but I really don't think a mirrored surface is going to come away as the superior solution in any case.
Furthermore, mirrors aren't perfectly reflective. Even a few percent absorption would quickly destroy the substrate you are using and open up the missile's guts to destruction. You would have this problem with white paint too, but I suspect it would be cheaper to develop a 99.999% reflective paint than a 99.999% reflective mirror.
The new corporate versions of Win7 have the option to phone home only once (via MAK) or have a centralized server that the clients connect to only phone home once in a while (KMS), but AFAIK there's no longer an enterprise scheme that doesn't phone home at all.
KMS is only supposed to require re-activation every 6 months. Specifically because business laptops may very well be off of the network for several weeks at a time.
If it legally can't have an internet connection then it's most likely part of a company large enough to have volume license keys which would allow you to use a MAK that you activate *once* over the phone and never mess with it again. They specifically bring up a similar scenario in their disconnected environment activations document.
I guess you could hypothetically point it to a box on the 'net, but why on earth would you? The whole point of rolling your own WSUS server is having control over exactly what happens on your box (many medium and larger sized businesses do this for patch management). If you're just turning around and pointing to a WSUS box managed by someone else what have you gained?
But in order to work the KMS server needs 20 computers connected to it before it's considered "valid", and further the KMS server has to be "Microsoft approved" for the activation to be valid. You're still going to have a key *on the KMS server* that Microsoft can check against, and if it isn't on the approved list, *bam* invalid. You'd basically be proxying the authentication and not gaining anything (if it worked) that wouldn't be more easily done by just hacking Win7 itself to begin with.
The problem with Win7 in the enterprise is that even if you do run your own license server (KMS is what they call it) it will periodically "phone home" and make sure that Microsoft still thinks it's okay for it to be a KMS. It's a very weird scheme to me. I generally prefer their MAK setup where the computer contacts Microsoft once for validation, but I'm beginning to wonder if that licensing scheme is actually going to end up with the computer re-validating every few months too...
Okay...automating a hardware hack, I guess I'll take a stab at it...
In the year 2525 you find out about a hardware workaround for a security measure and download the plans for nanobots to implement it. You dump this into your replicator overnight and wait for the bots to be produced. You program in the address of your neighbors house and release the nanobots into the wild. They patiently manufacture dissolving chemicals and rust remover to break into the chip in question and unlock your neighbors secrets. Success! You now have access to 500 petabytes of holo-porn!
Compared to what Brian Herbert had already done to disgrace the Herbert estate, the SciFi network mini-series was like dropping a firecracker on Hiroshima.
Exactly. Further, any future remake of the Dune movie that does not include a scene with Paul Atreides rallying the Fremen and screaming out "Long live the fighters!" does not deserve to be called a Dune remake. And that's just one of many brilliantly memorable scenes from the Lynch version.
I'm also of the opinion that Sting should be brought in to play Fayd Rautha in any remake, even if it's just splicing in footage from the original movie. Talk about brilliant casting.
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So, what about the Catholic church back in the days when the bible wasn't available to the masses, and sins could be expunged with an appropriately sized donation to the local diocese?
They were in the wrong and they lost about half of their followers because of it. The church is not infallible, God is infallible.
Or are you suggesting that the government can do no wrong? I firmly believe that in a free and democratic society that the members of that society have a duty to act morally regardless of what the authorities (elected into office or not!) tell them to do.
Or to put it another way:
Now, if anyone needs to be killed, then somebody has to be making the everyday decisions on who lives and who dies and enforcing them. Governments are the most natural pick for that, if only because they are — by design — charged with national security.
Thus any moralists (and the anyone that helps them) are to be prosecuted with the prosecutors having only to prove their involvement in saving lives. They could counter by proving, that the particular saving of a life was justified, but the burden of proof is on them...
The problem is that trains need people on board who in general want to breath, spoiled brats they are.
Submit a bug report, we'll fix it in version 2.
If you RTFM it tells you all about that.
If your signing key is on the same device that you're signing stuff for then you're doing it wrong.
That's why I find wavelet based techniques much more elegant (such as the JPEG-2000 algorithms). You conserve the low frequency information across the entire image rather than just at certain block boundaries. It's a little more computationally intensive, but the improvements in both PSNR (objective) and human viewpoint (subjective) for the same bitrate make it well worthwhile. Plus with an encoder you only have to encode with some basic profile (leaving out much of the tiling and precinct logic) so overall it should be simple enough to get onto a chip in a camera. The other bonus is the JPEG-2000 spec has a provision for lossless encoding. Then you could just transcode it to whatever you want with minimal data loss and artifacts. I honestly don't know why it isn't used more often...
If re-running the program without doing clean-up will corrupt the database you had damn well better prevent them from doing that. If you *know* that ignoring an error will cause database corruption then you have a very serious bug in your program that needs to be fixed before a user even has a chance to touch it.
Every day I have to fire up a Microsoft Access database program to clock in.
Sorry, but after reading that far I couldn't see the rest through the tears of laughter. But thanks for brightening up my Monday.
Yeah. If we had a time management system based on an Access database, I would be clocked in every day from now until 2050 without ever having to run the program a second time.
So, when will the US be giving back the Statue of Liberty?
As soon as you go back under the subjugation of Germany.
Honestly white paint would make more sense. You get similar reflectivity but with undirected scattering. Since you don't really care where the energy goes (and it's probably better if it disperses instead of redirecting right to the ground over your country) it makes more sense strategically and economically to go for the simple solution.
Admittedly, you'd have to come up with something military grade to protect against weapons like this (even 5% or so on standard white paint may be too high), but I really don't think a mirrored surface is going to come away as the superior solution in any case.
Furthermore, mirrors aren't perfectly reflective. Even a few percent absorption would quickly destroy the substrate you are using and open up the missile's guts to destruction. You would have this problem with white paint too, but I suspect it would be cheaper to develop a 99.999% reflective paint than a 99.999% reflective mirror.
The new corporate versions of Win7 have the option to phone home only once (via MAK) or have a centralized server that the clients connect to only phone home once in a while (KMS), but AFAIK there's no longer an enterprise scheme that doesn't phone home at all.
KMS is only supposed to require re-activation every 6 months. Specifically because business laptops may very well be off of the network for several weeks at a time.
If it legally can't have an internet connection then it's most likely part of a company large enough to have volume license keys which would allow you to use a MAK that you activate *once* over the phone and never mess with it again. They specifically bring up a similar scenario in their disconnected environment activations document.
I guess you could hypothetically point it to a box on the 'net, but why on earth would you? The whole point of rolling your own WSUS server is having control over exactly what happens on your box (many medium and larger sized businesses do this for patch management). If you're just turning around and pointing to a WSUS box managed by someone else what have you gained?
When does DirectX release new versions?
Bi-monthly. It says as much on the download page.
But in order to work the KMS server needs 20 computers connected to it before it's considered "valid", and further the KMS server has to be "Microsoft approved" for the activation to be valid. You're still going to have a key *on the KMS server* that Microsoft can check against, and if it isn't on the approved list, *bam* invalid. You'd basically be proxying the authentication and not gaining anything (if it worked) that wouldn't be more easily done by just hacking Win7 itself to begin with.
The problem with Win7 in the enterprise is that even if you do run your own license server (KMS is what they call it) it will periodically "phone home" and make sure that Microsoft still thinks it's okay for it to be a KMS. It's a very weird scheme to me. I generally prefer their MAK setup where the computer contacts Microsoft once for validation, but I'm beginning to wonder if that licensing scheme is actually going to end up with the computer re-validating every few months too...
Okay...automating a hardware hack, I guess I'll take a stab at it...
In the year 2525 you find out about a hardware workaround for a security measure and download the plans for nanobots to implement it. You dump this into your replicator overnight and wait for the bots to be produced. You program in the address of your neighbors house and release the nanobots into the wild. They patiently manufacture dissolving chemicals and rust remover to break into the chip in question and unlock your neighbors secrets. Success! You now have access to 500 petabytes of holo-porn!
Or if Chuck Norris actually *did* endorse it then they better build up infrastructure for the dump trucks full of money about to be delivered to them.
Also, if I were a Chinese hacker, I would be surrendering now just to be safe.
Which is like having insomnia and avoiding caffeine before bed while you're smoking crack rocks.
Why didn't Microsoft disable running DOS apps by default?
In the 64-bit versions of Windows Server/Vista/7 (which are gaining wide adoption) there is no longer support for running old 16-bit dos/win3.1 apps.
With some work it's still possible with something like DosBox, but that's a third party application.
Compared to what Brian Herbert had already done to disgrace the Herbert estate, the SciFi network mini-series was like dropping a firecracker on Hiroshima.
Exactly. Further, any future remake of the Dune movie that does not include a scene with Paul Atreides rallying the Fremen and screaming out "Long live the fighters!" does not deserve to be called a Dune remake. And that's just one of many brilliantly memorable scenes from the Lynch version.
I'm also of the opinion that Sting should be brought in to play Fayd Rautha in any remake, even if it's just splicing in footage from the original movie. Talk about brilliant casting.
I wish to nominate Snow Crash to that list. It was rather like Terry Pratchet and William Gibson got thrown in a blender and out popped that story.
Plus Hiro Protagonist is the greatest name for a main character in the history of literature.
In a real fight, the person willing to die will win.
Or they will die. But sometimes even that is preferable to years of torment.