Patents allow you to think you go something. Then when you become any threat to any larger BigMonopolisticCompany(TM), they will sue you for infringment of their patents.
Patents are a way of keeping the little guy little and the big guy big.
Patents are essentialy what you get at a casino. The little guy is the "customer" and the big guy is the casino. The small guy is allowed to "win" just to keep everyone happy handing over cash.
At least in Canada people get payed something close to what people get payed in US. Free trade with Canada is is on a level field. Free trade with China (aka Walmart) is not.
Please stop talking bullshit. Beta radiation (electrons) are very harmful given sufficient energy. If you have a beam of e- at 10MeV hitting your skin, you are screwed. Think about the *secondary* particles you get after the beam hits your hand!
You can trust self-serving SOBs like that more than you can trust the "god worshiping" Taliban or other right winged nuts out there (insert anyone that equates some "holy" book with morality and righteousness). No? Well, let's just stone the gays and the heretics!!
North Korea is crearly out-of-this-world. But at least it will not blow itself up just for the hell of it (or to kill the infidels!). Compared to religious freaks out there, they are the sane ones!!!
General Relativity is one of the pillars of physics (ther other being the Quantum Theory).
The impact on science is quite straightforward. as this is science. Science is about testing theories. Without that, science is just a religion.
GR predicted that Newtonian mechanics are too simplistic. This is one of the tests that verifies this. Anyway, any applications of this test are another 50 or 500 years away. Just like the applications of discovery of electrons (typing away on my electron machine).
But let's say I'm on the closest major street, which is about a five minute drive from me. I want to go to my work, which would take appoximately 10 minutes via car. It would also cost $2.50 each way, or $5 a day.
I don't understand most people - they live in a quiet, low traffic area, close to work. Then they drive to work. They drive to the gym.:P
Why not just take the bike to work?? Don't pay for the gas, or transit, or gym. (when it is not raining or snowing, for Pete's sake!!!)
I've heard of these types of parking lots being operational in places in Japan and Hong Kong for a number of years now.
Of course, if everyone just used public transit, then public transit would be faster and we could put parks in place of parking lots. But I guess it is more convenient to sit twice as long in a grid lock...
no it's not, the best system that we've been able to come up with is a mixed economy in which there exists elements from capitalism (private ownership of means of production) and elements of socialism (social security, free education/health care)
Ahh.. sounds like Canada, eh?
Public healthcare, etc... You pay half your money in taxes, but at least there is no deficits anymore. Things are stable (unlike in the country to the south of us:(
You should know that e-mail (text, unencrypted at least) is *NOT* a secure form. Almost nothing in it is exactly tracable. You are much better of trusting the From: on the snail mail than e-mail!
Only crpto signed email with trusted cert are worth anything
If we all just switched to IPv6 *now*, we would not have to worry about spammers or zombie machines. Why? Because these assholes that fill up my mailbox would not be able to find the braindead people on "dial-up" or "always-on" connections.
Futhermore, IPv6 is designed so that addresses can be rotated (new address every minute). This is a much nicer feature.
This is the only way to stop open relays - make the address space so big that nothing can find another computer, randomly at least:)
The blacklists would shrink as only people with screwed up servers with static ips would be the problem!
Why are we even looking for these and freaking out the "less informed"? This search is rather futile at this time. Even if we find a large hunk of rock heading our way, we will have NO way to do anything about it.
If we even have a 100m ball of iron heading our way at 30km/s, that ball of Iron would have the kinetic energy of ~2e19J. And since on megaton of TNT is 4.18e15J, then the ball of iron has the energy of 4500 megatons of TNT!! How the hell are we suppose to defend against that (with today's technology)??? We can't even hit the damn thing, not to mention changing its orbit!!
If the same ball of iron travels at 40km/s, then it has the energy of 18000 megatons of TNT!!
Of course, most of the crap flying around might be (is) significantly larger than that. Anyway, until we can move asteroids around at will, there is really no point in finding objects that threaten us - WE CAN'T DO ANYTHING ABOUT THEM!!!
Futhermore, more people will probably end up dead as a result of stress that these "discoveries" do to people.
I say we ignore these things until we can actually do something about them (a sign of actually be able to do something about asteroids might be when people finally have a mining operation on an asteroid. Or ability to use something better (stronger, faster, cheaper, safer:) than chemical rocket....
When at least it comes to asteroids, ignorance is bliss... for now (or next few dacedes!):)
couldn't play certain multiplayer games anymore they were basically told UDP and ICMP are depreceated protocols and they should call the game developers to have them change to tcp.
OMG!! That person must be a complete moron. I guess then they can block port 53 as well - all domain queries for their university should be using TCP anyway right?
There is a reason why we have a stateless protocol, like UDP. This is especially true for games where a packet lost is not important, but the lag caused by that loss is most definately noticable.
This isn't American and it isn't even Capitalist; it's Human
No, it is the purpose of Life. The purpose of Life in the universe is to increase entropy. Don't know why, but that is the common denominator for everything, including evolution
I'm sure that for the next Debian release you'll have a choice of 2.6.x kernel and 2.4.x kernel. 2.6.x have SATA support (better than latest 2.4 ones).
From what is happening in Debian, Sarge (currently testing) will be made stable in a few months. The current show-stopper is the installer which is now getting complete:)
Anyway, I hope we can get the release before we see Linux 2.7.x:)
That would so not work. Just look at Vietnam. 95% of all computers run pirated Windows (most of the rest, the bought software, runs on gov't computers). But MS said they will lower prices in Vietnam to compete with Linux! 95% piracy and total revenue of only a few millions...
So obviously, Only the consumer can stop windows products... by stealing them, instead of buying them. is not true. Consumers would need to do,
dd if=/dev/null of=/dev/hda
a number of times and then perform some acult rituals to put down that Beast:) lol.
Anyway, MS has enough money (~$40 billion cash) to stay afloat for another century even with no sales....:) [slash]:( [pick one]
All that is required is that each adaptor gets a key signed by the VoIP telecom company. That would be just as safe as it is with PSTN - only the telecom could be the "man in the middle".
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Patents allow you to think you go something. Then when you become any threat to any larger BigMonopolisticCompany(TM), they will sue you for infringment of their patents.
Patents are a way of keeping the little guy little and the big guy big.
Patents are essentialy what you get at a casino. The little guy is the "customer" and the big guy is the casino. The small guy is allowed to "win" just to keep everyone happy handing over cash.
You really should use 2.6.x kernel, like 2.6.5 if you wish to use SATA. 2.4.x suck with SATA.
At least in Canada people get payed something close to what people get payed in US. Free trade with Canada is is on a level field. Free trade with China (aka Walmart) is not.
Anyway, parent is ignorant not informative.
North Korea is crearly out-of-this-world. But at least it will not blow itself up just for the hell of it (or to kill the infidels!). Compared to religious freaks out there, they are the sane ones!!!
Mod me as flaimbait, I don't give a shit...
I bet brown is just itching to ship this baby!
Acceleration voltage: 50kV
So are we in the X-ray range yet? Will the drive be enclosed with lead and have a prominent sticker on it WARNING: Radiation Hazard ?
The impact on science is quite straightforward. as this is science. Science is about testing theories. Without that, science is just a religion.
GR predicted that Newtonian mechanics are too simplistic. This is one of the tests that verifies this. Anyway, any applications of this test are another 50 or 500 years away. Just like the applications of discovery of electrons (typing away on my electron machine).
I don't understand most people - they live in a quiet, low traffic area, close to work. Then they drive to work. They drive to the gym. :P
Why not just take the bike to work?? Don't pay for the gas, or transit, or gym. (when it is not raining or snowing, for Pete's sake!!!)
Of course, if everyone just used public transit, then public transit would be faster and we could put parks in place of parking lots. But I guess it is more convenient to sit twice as long in a grid lock...
Ahh.. sounds like Canada, eh?
Public healthcare, etc... You pay half your money in taxes, but at least there is no deficits anymore. Things are stable (unlike in the country to the south of us :(
You should know that e-mail (text, unencrypted at least) is *NOT* a secure form. Almost nothing in it is exactly tracable. You are much better of trusting the From: on the snail mail than e-mail!
Only crpto signed email with trusted cert are worth anything
Maybe because the US can manipulate it? If a rogue nation's army is trying to get to point A using GPS, the US might direct it to trap B instead :)
What about iptables?
I haven't heard of any exploits for
iptables -P FORWARD DROP
iptables -P INPUT DROP
iptables -A INPUT -m state --state ESTABLISHED -j ACCEPT
forever now.... and I spent $0.00
If we all just switched to IPv6 *now*, we would not have to worry about spammers or zombie machines. Why? Because these assholes that fill up my mailbox would not be able to find the braindead people on "dial-up" or "always-on" connections.
:)
Futhermore, IPv6 is designed so that addresses can be rotated (new address every minute). This is a much nicer feature.
This is the only way to stop open relays - make the address space so big that nothing can find another computer, randomly at least
The blacklists would shrink as only people with screwed up servers with static ips would be the problem!
Provider?
If we even have a 100m ball of iron heading our way at 30km/s, that ball of Iron would have the kinetic energy of ~2e19J. And since on megaton of TNT is 4.18e15J, then the ball of iron has the energy of 4500 megatons of TNT!! How the hell are we suppose to defend against that (with today's technology)??? We can't even hit the damn thing, not to mention changing its orbit!!
If the same ball of iron travels at 40km/s, then it has the energy of 18000 megatons of TNT!!
Of course, most of the crap flying around might be (is) significantly larger than that. Anyway, until we can move asteroids around at will, there is really no point in finding objects that threaten us - WE CAN'T DO ANYTHING ABOUT THEM!!!
Futhermore, more people will probably end up dead as a result of stress that these "discoveries" do to people.
I say we ignore these things until we can actually do something about them (a sign of actually be able to do something about asteroids might be when people finally have a mining operation on an asteroid. Or ability to use something better (stronger, faster, cheaper, safer :) than chemical rocket....
When at least it comes to asteroids, ignorance is bliss ... for now (or next few dacedes!) :)
OMG!! That person must be a complete moron. I guess then they can block port 53 as well - all domain queries for their university should be using TCP anyway right?
There is a reason why we have a stateless protocol, like UDP. This is especially true for games where a packet lost is not important, but the lag caused by that loss is most definately noticable.
And let us not even get started with ICMP :)
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"For her pleasure"
No, it is the purpose of Life. The purpose of Life in the universe is to increase entropy. Don't know why, but that is the common denominator for everything, including evolution
From what is happening in Debian, Sarge (currently testing) will be made stable in a few months. The current show-stopper is the installer which is now getting complete :)
Anyway, I hope we can get the release before we see Linux 2.7.x :)
So obviously, Only the consumer can stop windows products ... by stealing them, instead of buying them. is not true. Consumers would need to do,
dd if=/dev/null of=/dev/hda
a number of times and then perform some acult rituals to put down that Beast :) lol.
Anyway, MS has enough money (~$40 billion cash) to stay afloat for another century even with no sales.... :) [slash] :( [pick one]
I really would like to see the Foundation trillogy to be make into a movie. I'm sure it would beat Lord of the Rings (really! :P
But seriously, the Foundation books are some of the best stories (or possible futures?) ever writen.
It is the matrix! Run from the matrix!!! Ahhhhh..!!!!!! [SPLAT!] [hits the wall of the well padded room]
It is too bad that Internet goes over the same wires^H^H^H^H^Hfiber that your telephone calls do.
All that is required is that each adaptor gets a key signed by the VoIP telecom company. That would be just as safe as it is with PSTN - only the telecom could be the "man in the middle".