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You honestly believe that the moon is twenty-five pentillion billion miles away from Earth, and that a rickety old spaceship normally travels about 3 to 4 times the speed of light
They were doomed from the start, due to tiles falling off:
D'humain troupeau neuf seront mis à part,
De iugement & conseil separez: Leur sort sera divisé en depart,
Kappa, Thita, Lambda mors bannis esgarez.
From the human flock nine will be sent away,
Separated from control and advice Their fate will be sealed on departure
K-Th-L make a error; the dead banished
Here's what Nostradmus has to say about the shuttle catastrophe (Quatrain 1,81):
D'humain troupeau neuf seront mis à part,
De iugement & conseil separez:
Kappa, Thita, Lambda mors bannis esgarez.
From the human flock nine will be sent away,
Separated from control and advice
Their fate will be sealed on departure
K-Th-L make a error; the dead banished
The third line hints at the heat-tile theory (the damage which ultimately caused the catastrophe happened on start)
The number in the first line is off (there were 7 astronauts, not 9), but maybe the tragedy might also impact those people that are still on ISS?
The second line is interesting: it seems to indicate that the astronauts were badly advised (NASA downplayed the damage, and thus no visual inspection and repair was performed while the shuttle was in orbit). It could also hint at a failure of information systems, which worsened the catastrophe.
[3] Then I lifted up mine eyes, and saw, and, behold, there stood before the river a ram which had two horns: and the two horns were high; but one was higher than the other, and the higher came up last.
[4] I saw the ram pushing westward, and northward, and southward; so that no beasts might stand before him, neither was there any that could deliver out of his hand; but he did according to his will, and became great.
[5] And as I was considering, behold, an he goat came from the west on the face of the whole earth, and touched not the ground: and the goat had a notable horn between his eyes.
[6] And he came to the ram that had two horns, which I had there seen standing before the river, and ran unto him in the fury of his power.
[7] And I saw him come close unto the ram, and he was moved with choler against him, and smote the ram, and brake his two horns: and there was no power in the ram to stand before him, but he cast him down to the ground, and stamped upon him: and there was none that could deliver the ram out of his hand.
[8] Therefore the he goat waxed very great: and when he was strong, the great horn was broken; and for it came up four notable ones toward the four winds of heaven.
[9] And out of one of them came forth a little horn, which waxed exceeding great, toward the south, and toward the east, and toward the pleasant land.
[10] And it waxed great, even to the host of heaven; and it cast down some of the host and of the stars to the ground, and stamped upon them.
And the whole earth was of one language, and of one speech.
And it came to pass, as they journeyed from the east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar; and they dwelt there.
And they said one to another, Go to, let us make brick, and burn them throughly. And they had brick for stone, and slime had they for morter.
And they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.
And the LORD came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men builded.
And the LORD said, Behold, the people is one, and they have all one language; and this they begin to do: and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do.
Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech.
So the LORD scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth: and they left off to build the city.
Therefore is the name of it called Babel; because the LORD did there confound the language of all the earth: and from thence did the LORD scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth.
Yes, that's right, that last verse is Genesis 11.9...
The sky will burn at forty-five degrees latitude,
Fire approaches the great new city [New York]
Immediately a huge, scattered flame leaps up
When they want to have verification from the Normans [French].
There are still about 100.000 vulnerable (and by now... infected) machines out there. Many are home machines connected via cable or DSL, whose owners may not even know that they run a web server. Another big contingent are countries such as China, Korea, Taiwan, where traditionally they take a more relaxed view about security.
Code Red could be a good launch platform for some other nastyness. Make it multiple phase. First propagate under cover of Code Red. Then, after a set time (say, 24 hours) change phase, and use a different propagation medium (email, another exploit, whatever) and toss away Phase I code. The benefit: a much larger launching platform for the actual virus! And if Phase I code is cleaned away well enough, nobody will be able to understand where the virus suddenly came from, out of nowhere.
The Code Red background noise could serve as cover for a much nastyer worm to be released.
Consider the following scenario: a new worn, let's call it Code Blue, exploits the same security hole as Code Red. However, rather than attacking randomly any IP address, it would first just sit there and wait. As soon as it got a probe from the original Code Red (which statistically happens about 3 times per hour), it would "fight back" by infecting the attacking machine and replacing Red with Blue. The newly infected machine would behave similarly.
After about 11 hours of propagation, the new worm would have infected a significant percentage of the vulnerable machines, without revealing its presence in an obvious way. It would only attack machines which are known vulnerable (and hence probably badly maintained), and probability of anybody noticing would be incredibly small. Then after, some twenty hours, it would start to do some fun stuff...
> Don't rush them... a few hours if they need it might be a better judgement of what kind of attention to detail, accuracy, etc.
But if you do, tell them in advance. They may have other interviews in the afternoon, or they may only have taken off the morning in their currently job...
> DO NOT HIRE FSCKING JOB HUNTERS (i will not repeat this one)
Hey, if the candidate sent you his resume and is showing up for the interview, he is by definition a job hunter, isn't he? Or what do you mean?
> To build anything small enough yet powerful enough to self-replicate as well as do something (non)useful, it would necessarily have to cross the threshold of life, or at least straddle it in the same way viruses do.
Great! So instead of worrying about Code Red shutting down the Internet, we'll have to worry about Code Green turning the whole planet into a giant puddle of mud...
Yeah, and probably the reason how CODE RED slowed down your project was not by infecting your computer (you don't run IIS, do you?), but rather by keeping you hooked to Slashdot to follow the news of its spread...;-)
Hey, even after the dot-bomb crash of 2000, the software engineer's job market is still roaring. Just look around, I'm certain there are enough Linux-friendly employers in your area too.
Or even better: whether Adobe could sue the lawyer's firm for having used their name without permission. If the Illustrator trademark is dubious, the Adobe mark certainly isn't, and it is quite clearcut that this Abmahnung has damaged Adobe's reputation.
If I were Kai-Uwe, I'd attempt to quickly work out a deal with Adobe (in order to get official permission to use the name), and then draw Adobe's lawyer's attention to the fact that there is some dubious German law firm acting on Adobe's behalf without Adobe's permission. Could be fun to watch...
Or maybe, just "Nazi practices", in the sense of "encouraging denunciation". Actually, this even goes one step further than just denunciation: the "denunciator" gets to perform the execution part of the punishment as well, and can help himself to the reward...
In which mentality is it considered ehtical that a lawyer who has no mandate from the injured party, goes out, and randomly demands cash from third parties? In other places, this is called extortion. Looks like this law needs some serious Vergangenheitsbewältigung.
Plans are in the works to duplicate the experiment using linen, hemp and other materials common to ancient Egypt.
And which kind of use do our "scientists" plan for these materials? Given their theories, one has to wonder whether they'll really use the hemp to make a kite...
> The radiation from the sun cannot get any stronger during an eclipse than it is normally. It is perfectly safe to glance up directly at the sun for a brief moment, just don't stare at the damn thing!
Then why did the powers that be make such a fuss about the issue during the 1999 eclipse in Europe? Why did they produce tons of funny-looking eclipse-goggles and spend millions in sensibilization campaigns, if there was no danger?
The way I heard it is that the natural blink reflex of the eye is triggered by overall luminosity, whereas damage comes from luminosity concentrated on one point. Partially obscured sun means less visible surface of it, and hence less overall luminosity. The protecting blink reflex is not triggered, the iris stays wide open, but the small parts of the sun that stay visible still have the same luminosity per surface. No problem during totality though.
Slashdot Mirror
3 to 4 times? No, eighteen!
Leur sort sera divisé en depart,
Their fate was sealed on departure, but they were not informed about their destiny by mission control...
The third line hints at the heat-tile theory (the damage which ultimately caused the catastrophe happened on start)
The number in the first line is off (there were 7 astronauts, not 9), but maybe the tragedy might also impact those people that are still on ISS?
The second line is interesting: it seems to indicate that the astronauts were badly advised (NASA downplayed the damage, and thus no visual inspection and repair was performed while the shuttle was in orbit). It could also hint at a failure of information systems, which worsened the catastrophe.
[3] Then I lifted up mine eyes, and saw, and, behold, there stood before the river a ram which had two horns: and the two horns were high; but one was higher than the other, and the higher came up last.
[4] I saw the ram pushing westward, and northward, and southward; so that no beasts might stand before him, neither was there any that could deliver out of his hand; but he did according to his will, and became great.
[5] And as I was considering, behold, an he goat came from the west on the face of the whole earth, and touched not the ground: and the goat had a notable horn between his eyes.
[6] And he came to the ram that had two horns, which I had there seen standing before the river, and ran unto him in the fury of his power.
[7] And I saw him come close unto the ram, and he was moved with choler against him, and smote the ram, and brake his two horns: and there was no power in the ram to stand before him, but he cast him down to the ground, and stamped upon him: and there was none that could deliver the ram out of his hand.
[8] Therefore the he goat waxed very great: and when he was strong, the great horn was broken; and for it came up four notable ones toward the four winds of heaven.
[9] And out of one of them came forth a little horn, which waxed exceeding great, toward the south, and toward the east, and toward the pleasant land.
[10] And it waxed great, even to the host of heaven; and it cast down some of the host and of the stars to the ground, and stamped upon them.
- And the whole earth was of one language, and of one speech.
- And it came to pass, as they journeyed from the east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar; and they dwelt there.
- And they said one to another, Go to, let us make brick, and burn them throughly. And they had brick for stone, and slime had they for morter.
- And they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.
- And the LORD came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men builded.
- And the LORD said, Behold, the people is one, and they have all one language; and this they begin to do: and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do.
- Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech.
- So the LORD scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth: and they left off to build the city.
- Therefore is the name of it called Babel; because the LORD did there confound the language of all the earth: and from thence did the LORD scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth.
Yes, that's right, that last verse is Genesis 11.9...I've heard rumors of seven planes having been hijacked. Which leaves 4 more to go...
The sky will burn at forty-five degrees latitude,
Fire approaches the great new city [New York]
Immediately a huge, scattered flame leaps up
When they want to have verification from the Normans [French].
Unless you are well connected, you get ping times around 200ms or above, which introduces noticeable lag.
The only reason why they didn't sell any books about it was because it could be said in three words: dodge a moose
Code Red could be a good launch platform for some other nastyness. Make it multiple phase. First propagate under cover of Code Red. Then, after a set time (say, 24 hours) change phase, and use a different propagation medium (email, another exploit, whatever) and toss away Phase I code. The benefit: a much larger launching platform for the actual virus! And if Phase I code is cleaned away well enough, nobody will be able to understand where the virus suddenly came from, out of nowhere.
Consider the following scenario: a new worn, let's call it Code Blue, exploits the same security hole as Code Red. However, rather than attacking randomly any IP address, it would first just sit there and wait. As soon as it got a probe from the original Code Red (which statistically happens about 3 times per hour), it would "fight back" by infecting the attacking machine and replacing Red with Blue. The newly infected machine would behave similarly.
After about 11 hours of propagation, the new worm would have infected a significant percentage of the vulnerable machines, without revealing its presence in an obvious way. It would only attack machines which are known vulnerable (and hence probably badly maintained), and probability of anybody noticing would be incredibly small. Then after, some twenty hours, it would start to do some fun stuff...
Just go on with your rant, just go on. However, please know that you won't kontour. OSS is stronger than that.
But if you do, tell them in advance. They may have other interviews in the afternoon, or they may only have taken off the morning in their currently job...
> DO NOT HIRE FSCKING JOB HUNTERS (i will not repeat this one)
Hey, if the candidate sent you his resume and is showing up for the interview, he is by definition a job hunter, isn't he? Or what do you mean?
Great! So instead of worrying about Code Red shutting down the Internet, we'll have to worry about Code Green turning the whole planet into a giant puddle of mud...
Yeah, and probably the reason how CODE RED slowed down your project was not by infecting your computer (you don't run IIS, do you?), but rather by keeping you hooked to Slashdot to follow the news of its spread... ;-)
Hey, even after the dot-bomb crash of 2000, the software engineer's job market is still roaring. Just look around, I'm certain there are enough Linux-friendly employers in your area too.
Maybe they are trying to get kde.org slashdotted by all the people trying to mirror killustrator before it is too late...
If I were Kai-Uwe, I'd attempt to quickly work out a deal with Adobe (in order to get official permission to use the name), and then draw Adobe's lawyer's attention to the fact that there is some dubious German law firm acting on Adobe's behalf without Adobe's permission. Could be fun to watch...
In which mentality is it considered ehtical that a lawyer who has no mandate from the injured party, goes out, and randomly demands cash from third parties? In other places, this is called extortion. Looks like this law needs some serious Vergangenheitsbewältigung.
Not necessary. She quit by herself... *duck*
Black, like the eclipsed Sun. But beware of the red influence of Mars....
Then why did the powers that be make such a fuss about the issue during the 1999 eclipse in Europe? Why did they produce tons of funny-looking eclipse-goggles and spend millions in sensibilization campaigns, if there was no danger?
The way I heard it is that the natural blink reflex of the eye is triggered by overall luminosity, whereas damage comes from luminosity concentrated on one point. Partially obscured sun means less visible surface of it, and hence less overall luminosity. The protecting blink reflex is not triggered, the iris stays wide open, but the small parts of the sun that stay visible still have the same luminosity per surface. No problem during totality though.