They'll need it - they have no Launch Escape System, so if an engine blows up, or there's a fire or something, they're pretty much dead.
As a brit, I'm hoping that StarChaser will win, but we're definitely behind Scaled.
.. Not least because Scaled has bought the prize (they've spent more than 10m already) and StarChaser is waiting for funding!
However, if you've already done the work and put the effort in and learnt the material, and what you learnt is of the quality required, surely you shouldn't have to rewrite it?
An analogy: I learn about osmosis in reception class, write an investigation on it. I then have to do the very same thing for high school - I already know the material, so surely I qualify for the grade?
Sure you haven't done the work on this course, but you have done it.
Also, because developers often release updates very frequently, bugs get fixed very quickly. You don't get Microsoft Windows XP.6.5-1.358, now, do you?
This of course may change if Linux "goes mainstream" as developers start being more concerned that users don't want to get updates every two minutes
Still, the use of update system like up2date mean that this happens relatively painlessly.
Perhaps, though, a patch based system similar to CVS would be a better idea, so as to minimize download times and bandwidth usage.
Unfortunately, it's a feature, as the siblings explained.
However, if the flash isn't inline, as it were - I.E. the page is a flash animation (a la H*R) then you can navigate to the.swf file, and grab back the juicy menus.
I agree, the lack of a "pause" feature is incredibly annoying.
The point being that designing TCP/IP is not very akin to logging on to/.!
Sure, it's a flexible scale, there's nothing wrong with pointing out how far its been flexed!
Because they'll do what, brand it the spawn of the devil?!
Maybe surprising, but most christians are not witch-burners, and the luddites a) are the minority and b) have their own reasons.
If you went to a church to you really think they're all praying that nuclear fusion never happens, or do you think that they're praying for the victims of chernobyl?
Or maybe it was a sick joke, but to be honest, I don't think branding the whole of a religion anti-useful is a good way of life.
An interesting (and possibly ilegal) experiment, would be to set up a messageboard + password DB such as this, then send a survey around. The survey would ask users what online banking and shopping they do + where they do it.
Try and hijack their account, with either their username and password, or with modifications of them.
*plots*
I wonder whether a good method of getting passphrases is with an AI conversation bot. You ask it a question, and it devises a password based on its response. Either that or just use the initials of the phrase they typed. This way, you could actually SET the users password to something secure.
I suppose, though, you'd get a lot of people whose passwords were "WyLMbiIWg?" - from "Would you like me better if I was gay?"
This would probably count as a malicious, if innovative, DDoS attack.
Although we're not sending malicious packets, we're still making an organised, coordinated attempt to bring the place down, which is probably illegal.
Well, as long as the hackers code properly in windows, and release everything as OSS, what's the problem?
I don't believe the Windows API is essentially "bad..."
However, when saying that, you should take into account the following:
How many times have you turned around and been SURE that you just saw someone you know, only to call to them, have them turn round and ask, "who the f*** are you?!"
So you see, humans aren't all that foolproof at face matching. The only reason they're half-decent is because they're brought up with faces (neural net approach, anyone?) hence why it asian/japanese faces can often all look basically the same to a westerner.
Along with that - think of a cartoon character. Seems likely that you won't be thinking of someone with a photorealistic face, and yet you'll probably be able to recognise it as a face. In fact, anything 3 splodges arranged in a triangle can be interpreted as a face by the human brain.
The challenge is then extracting more data: whether it's a cartoon, a 3D rendered face, a sculpture an actual face.
Then again, if this happens, you can pretty easily navigate to your firefox's user directory and remove the offensive piece of code in question.
This might be a bit much for Joan Average, but it's better than MS, where I don't even know how to do it!
I heard about this before the article - to be technical, a DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service) attack.
Basically, there was a big article about a techie whose company got DDoSed, and he then went on a mish to find out who did it and how. Very interesting read - dissecting the worm, an' all.
Having said that, if an admin followed the instructions on a Linux install (not Linspire, mind), then they would have been running as an unprivileged user.
Therefore, the damage would've been quite limited - sure it could've hosed the guy's home directory and stuff he'd been working on, his preferences, etc. But it wouldn't have taken out vital operating system stuff.
Except really, Red Hat comes with far more software than windows - you already have a decent set of office apps, e-mail, web browsing, CD Ripping, p2p, ftp, media player, instant messaging... All on the CDs.
The thing is, those who don't want it, DON'T INSTALL IT!
You don't want WMP - tough s*** - it's there to stay. You don't want XMMS - byebye!
Does it sit around doing word processing and surfing, or do you program, play games, surf, write emails, install huge amounts of software and download all the updates?
This is the type of thing I use my computer for - and Windows seems to have got rather clogged up by it all. If it can't cope with a "power user," I can't cope with it.
Of course, most people aren't power users, but I am, and so Linux is great for me:)
If I have to boot to Windows for some horrible reason, there is a *significant* speed decrease. I also have an AMD 2800 - quite enough, thanks. A 128 Mb Graphics card, 512 Mb of RAM - and windows STILL struggles.
I recently upgraded my machine, and guess which OS decided it had a new mouse, router, motherboard, etc? That's right, Windows did. (I gave it a new CPU) It destroyed my network settings, whilst Linux just carried on, but a lot faster.
So for those who complain that Linux doesn't support hardware as well as windows - you've been proved wrong. Games developers seriously need to think about this, because Linux is overtaking windows - fast.
"People starve because the plains areas of Africa are deserts, where rainfall cannot be a certainty. Farming there can be quite successful, but they need wells and equipment, technical know-how, and educated people"
This is very true, and actually this is the type of aid I am advocating (evidently I didn't make this clear). The "World Vision" Charity has good examples of what we should be doing - you send money to the charity, which is then used to buy, for example, a well in a village, or a fruit tree, or some goats which will provide milk, meat and more goats.
I know of the ills associated with monetary or raw material aid - corrupt governments all to often siphon off a significant amount of it, and it disappears to some mysterious place...
Aid should follow the principle, "Give a man a fish, he is fed for a day. Teach a man to fish, he is fed for his life."
"Why is France and Canada not required to give in one year what the USA gives in one month?"
There is obviously a size/wealth difference between the USA and France, and all countries should be aiding others according to what they have, not according to how well people know them.
That all said, there is a lot we're doing very, very wrong. When "Aid" is given with strings attached, it is not aid at all. For example, there have been instances where farmers are given free GM crops to sow in their third world countries. "Great" you think. These crops have been genetically modified so that they produce no seeds, meaning that the farmer must then purchase more seeds the next year. Often these "gifts" are given with contracts saying that farmers must purchase all subsequent seed from the aider - at a price.
This is obviously not aid at all, but a cold example of capitalism at its worst - making money at the expense of those who hardly have any already.
In a US specific case, the government were offering subsidies to its own cotton farmers, while those in third world countries had to lower prices to compete.
The WTO has members from many countries, but often those who are hit worst by unfair trading laws are third world countries who cannot send delegates. In this way, third world countries cannot defend themselves against the cruelty offered by rich nations.
So you see, there are many things we, as developed countries need to fix with ourselves, as well as developing countries needing to fix corruption, etc.
It's worth noting that this is not merely a US problem, although it often gets the most publicity - Jubilee 2000 was a campaign in the UK to end debts for third world countries.
I'm sure they could find something more durable and less expensive than lego to hold their machines together.
Mind, if they just replaced their existing kit with the alien lego, they'd get the advantages of alien technology for about 50 per go.
Incidentally, you have one lego brick, two lego bricks, one piece of lego, two pieces of lego and some lego. Lego does not refer to the individual pieces. (You can't correctly say "a lego")
To be honest, I think you're reading too much into it... notice he also said "boxen."
-en is generally plural in German, and s is nowhere near n on the keyboard. I think perhaps there was a translation error...
Unfortunately, you are correct that there are massive problems with human nature, and in my opinion, these NEED correcting.
I wonder whether Tobin Taxes would work (I'm sceptical)
I'm slightly dubious with regard to working on all of them, but it is unrealistic to believe that we will drop all space exploration efforts in favour of something for which we have no short-term gains or pretty pictures!
Certainly a compromise is a good idea, seeing as we're unlikely to get anything better.
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As a brit, I'm hoping that StarChaser will win, but we're definitely behind Scaled.
That's the point - security guards are paid to keep security.
They're likely to be older and therefore more responsible.
An analogy: I learn about osmosis in reception class, write an investigation on it. I then have to do the very same thing for high school - I already know the material, so surely I qualify for the grade?
Sure you haven't done the work on this course, but you have done it.
This of course may change if Linux "goes mainstream" as developers start being more concerned that users don't want to get updates every two minutes
Still, the use of update system like up2date mean that this happens relatively painlessly.
Perhaps, though, a patch based system similar to CVS would be a better idea, so as to minimize download times and bandwidth usage.
However, if the flash isn't inline, as it were - I.E. the page is a flash animation (a la H*R) then you can navigate to the
I agree, the lack of a "pause" feature is incredibly annoying.
*cough* Note the "not really"
The point being that designing TCP/IP is not very akin to logging on to /.!
Sure, it's a flexible scale, there's nothing wrong with pointing out how far its been flexed!
Maybe surprising, but most christians are not witch-burners, and the luddites a) are the minority and b) have their own reasons.
If you went to a church to you really think they're all praying that nuclear fusion never happens, or do you think that they're praying for the victims of chernobyl?
Or maybe it was a sick joke, but to be honest, I don't think branding the whole of a religion anti-useful is a good way of life.
Try and hijack their account, with either their username and password, or with modifications of them.
*plots*
I wonder whether a good method of getting passphrases is with an AI conversation bot. You ask it a question, and it devises a password based on its response. Either that or just use the initials of the phrase they typed. This way, you could actually SET the users password to something secure.
I suppose, though, you'd get a lot of people whose passwords were "WyLMbiIWg?" - from "Would you like me better if I was gay?"
The key is "tabloid." Nothing more needs saying.
Although we're not sending malicious packets, we're still making an organised, coordinated attempt to bring the place down, which is probably illegal.
Fun, all the same...
General summary: "plog" is a pointless buzzword to make open source sound new, when OSS and the thing plog describes have been around for ages.
Extensions will yield all the calendar crap that Outlook has, although I never used it in either OE or Evolution.
Also, Thunderbird looks damn good...
Well, as long as the hackers code properly in windows, and release everything as OSS, what's the problem?
I don't believe the Windows API is essentially "bad..."
How many times have you turned around and been SURE that you just saw someone you know, only to call to them, have them turn round and ask, "who the f*** are you?!"
So you see, humans aren't all that foolproof at face matching. The only reason they're half-decent is because they're brought up with faces (neural net approach, anyone?) hence why it asian/japanese faces can often all look basically the same to a westerner.
Along with that - think of a cartoon character. Seems likely that you won't be thinking of someone with a photorealistic face, and yet you'll probably be able to recognise it as a face. In fact, anything 3 splodges arranged in a triangle can be interpreted as a face by the human brain.
The challenge is then extracting more data: whether it's a cartoon, a 3D rendered face, a sculpture an actual face.
Then again, if this happens, you can pretty easily navigate to your firefox's user directory and remove the offensive piece of code in question.
This might be a bit much for Joan Average, but it's better than MS, where I don't even know how to do it!
Basically, there was a big article about a techie whose company got DDoSed, and he then went on a mish to find out who did it and how. Very interesting read - dissecting the worm, an' all.
Having said that, if an admin followed the instructions on a Linux install (not Linspire, mind), then they would have been running as an unprivileged user.
Therefore, the damage would've been quite limited - sure it could've hosed the guy's home directory and stuff he'd been working on, his preferences, etc. But it wouldn't have taken out vital operating system stuff.
The thing is, those who don't want it, DON'T INSTALL IT!
You don't want WMP - tough s*** - it's there to stay. You don't want XMMS - byebye!
Does it sit around doing word processing and surfing, or do you program, play games, surf, write emails, install huge amounts of software and download all the updates?
This is the type of thing I use my computer for - and Windows seems to have got rather clogged up by it all. If it can't cope with a "power user," I can't cope with it.
Of course, most people aren't power users, but I am, and so Linux is great for me :)
I recently upgraded my machine, and guess which OS decided it had a new mouse, router, motherboard, etc? That's right, Windows did. (I gave it a new CPU) It destroyed my network settings, whilst Linux just carried on, but a lot faster.
So for those who complain that Linux doesn't support hardware as well as windows - you've been proved wrong. Games developers seriously need to think about this, because Linux is overtaking windows - fast.
This is very true, and actually this is the type of aid I am advocating (evidently I didn't make this clear). The "World Vision" Charity has good examples of what we should be doing - you send money to the charity, which is then used to buy, for example, a well in a village, or a fruit tree, or some goats which will provide milk, meat and more goats.
I know of the ills associated with monetary or raw material aid - corrupt governments all to often siphon off a significant amount of it, and it disappears to some mysterious place...
Aid should follow the principle, "Give a man a fish, he is fed for a day. Teach a man to fish, he is fed for his life."
"Why is France and Canada not required to give in one year what the USA gives in one month?"
There is obviously a size/wealth difference between the USA and France, and all countries should be aiding others according to what they have, not according to how well people know them.
That all said, there is a lot we're doing very, very wrong. When "Aid" is given with strings attached, it is not aid at all. For example, there have been instances where farmers are given free GM crops to sow in their third world countries. "Great" you think. These crops have been genetically modified so that they produce no seeds, meaning that the farmer must then purchase more seeds the next year. Often these "gifts" are given with contracts saying that farmers must purchase all subsequent seed from the aider - at a price.
This is obviously not aid at all, but a cold example of capitalism at its worst - making money at the expense of those who hardly have any already.
In a US specific case, the government were offering subsidies to its own cotton farmers, while those in third world countries had to lower prices to compete.
The WTO has members from many countries, but often those who are hit worst by unfair trading laws are third world countries who cannot send delegates. In this way, third world countries cannot defend themselves against the cruelty offered by rich nations.
So you see, there are many things we, as developed countries need to fix with ourselves, as well as developing countries needing to fix corruption, etc.
It's worth noting that this is not merely a US problem, although it often gets the most publicity - Jubilee 2000 was a campaign in the UK to end debts for third world countries.
Mind, if they just replaced their existing kit with the alien lego, they'd get the advantages of alien technology for about 50 per go.
Incidentally, you have one lego brick, two lego bricks, one piece of lego, two pieces of lego and some lego. Lego does not refer to the individual pieces. (You can't correctly say "a lego")
To be honest, I think you're reading too much into it... notice he also said "boxen."
-en is generally plural in German, and s is nowhere near n on the keyboard. I think perhaps there was a translation error...
I wonder whether Tobin Taxes would work (I'm sceptical)
I'm slightly dubious with regard to working on all of them, but it is unrealistic to believe that we will drop all space exploration efforts in favour of something for which we have no short-term gains or pretty pictures!
Certainly a compromise is a good idea, seeing as we're unlikely to get anything better.