Remember the 10-limit for open TCP connections per program? They did this because viruses and malware open many TCP connections. "Hey, what about P2P?" "What's P2P?".
Wrong. They did it because of P2P and justified it by talking about malware.
ISPs would notice that sort of amount of corruption. And a lot of routers would need to be in on the secret. All in all, too many people need to be involved (loads of routers have source code available). With Skype, you can send ANY data you like to ANY IP address you like (that's how obfuscated P2P protocols work, folks) without even causing suspicion.
There would be few ways to detect NETWORK TRAFFIC which doesn't seem to belong to any process? WTF? If you're gonna get routers to forward this you're gonna need to use normal networking protocols... That means making sure no one is using that port already and so on. Skype would be useful because it has an incomprehensible distributed network protocol in which a few extra kilobytes of data transfer would easily go totally unnoticed.
There is an official Skype Firefox extension. IIRC it recognises phone numbers in web pages and makes them into links so that you can call them more easily. Skype is probably looking for it's extension.
Wine Is Not an Emulator. (OK, so that's a backronym).
An emulator, for example a Gameboy emulator, has to translate machine instructions to simulate the behaviour of the target's processor. Wine simly allows execution of x86 code on an x86 processor. It implements the win32 API, and therefore lets you run code which expects to make calls to functions of that API. So Wine more or less does the same thing the official Windows API does: provides functions which win32 applications need. This is why it is a lot faster than any emulator.
When it is slow, it is because it's way of doing things is a bit slower than Windows's way (I haven't checked, but I suspect the drawing of windows is a bit slower), or because, SHOCKINGLY, many Windows applications are, in fact, amazingly slow.
I've been looking forward to mainstream solid state drives for a long time. Especially in laptops, since the lack of moving parts presumably means no moving parts and therefore lower power consumption, longer battery life, better durability, and so on. It seems surprising that it's taken this long.
This is probably the most worthless non-Goatse-related post I have ever read on Slashdot.
Allowed by the WTO. I will mean that if Antigua did pirate US stuff, the US would not be able to get the WTO to apply any sanctions. Which is pretty much all they could do, as Antigua is not in the Us and it would be awfully hard to convince anyone that you need a new war just cause of some pirate DVDs.
Is the compiler open-source? Is anyone looking at making GCC do this? What exactly have they done to Linux to make it run on these, and is it likely that the changes will make it into the mainline kernel? Also, they don't seem to mention if they have a C++ compiler.
This meteorite was almost certainly brought in from elsewhere, mostly to show visitors what one looks like
Or maybe they tell people it's from Tunguska.. they sound sorta questionable.
And I agree the theft is not too hard. It reminds of me a case which happened here in the UK a few years ago, when thieves loaded a massive bronze sculpture onto a truck and drove off with it.
It's worth noting that the meteorite is presumably a fake or not actually from there anyway. Most scientist do not believe that any sizable piece of the meteorite from Tunguska was ever recovered and conclude that it exploded due to the heat and air pressure on it during reentry. The pattern of tree damage also suggests and airburst.
I suppose that to "methylate" in this context is to add methanol to the ethanol.
This is done to make it undrinkable in order that it can be sold without being taxed as alcohol. The purple dye and compound which makes it smell bad are added to stop people drinking it anyway. In extreme cases of alcoholism, this doesn't work. Methanol makes you go blind.
There is not any significant quantity of H2 in the air, for at least two reason: it reacts with Oxygen (suprise!), which there is a lot of, and it would tend to drift to the top of the atmosphere and escape into space (even Helium does this to some extent).
I've been to demonstrations which have been seriously misreported by mainstream media. I'm thinking of this not so much as a way to get extra eyewitness accounts of big events as as a way of correcting media which parrots government and police press releases.
I know the parent is trolling but I feel I should point out for anyone confused by this: There are Red Cross/Red Crescent organisations in many different countries. There is, for example, a British Red Cross. The ARC is a member of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies like any other.
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What is the Sumerian for "You have no chance to survive make you time"?
We need to get that on T-shirts. Black T-shirts. Just to scare non-techs.
ISPs would notice that sort of amount of corruption. And a lot of routers would need to be in on the secret. All in all, too many people need to be involved (loads of routers have source code available). With Skype, you can send ANY data you like to ANY IP address you like (that's how obfuscated P2P protocols work, folks) without even causing suspicion.
There would be few ways to detect NETWORK TRAFFIC which doesn't seem to belong to any process? WTF? If you're gonna get routers to forward this you're gonna need to use normal networking protocols... That means making sure no one is using that port already and so on. Skype would be useful because it has an incomprehensible distributed network protocol in which a few extra kilobytes of data transfer would easily go totally unnoticed.
There is an official Skype Firefox extension. IIRC it recognises phone numbers in web pages and makes them into links so that you can call them more easily. Skype is probably looking for it's extension.
*Woosh*
It was a joke. The real reason you got troll mods was for liking Microsoft, not Apple.
Sssh! Don't say you want an iPhone! They'll mod you troll!
Wine Is Not an Emulator. (OK, so that's a backronym).
An emulator, for example a Gameboy emulator, has to translate machine instructions to simulate the behaviour of the target's processor. Wine simly allows execution of x86 code on an x86 processor. It implements the win32 API, and therefore lets you run code which expects to make calls to functions of that API. So Wine more or less does the same thing the official Windows API does: provides functions which win32 applications need. This is why it is a lot faster than any emulator.
When it is slow, it is because it's way of doing things is a bit slower than Windows's way (I haven't checked, but I suspect the drawing of windows is a bit slower), or because, SHOCKINGLY, many Windows applications are, in fact, amazingly slow.
OK, to rephrase: surely the ??AA cannot afford to buy a war? They might be rich, but they're nothing next to the oil firms.
Allowed by the WTO. I will mean that if Antigua did pirate US stuff, the US would not be able to get the WTO to apply any sanctions. Which is pretty much all they could do, as Antigua is not in the Us and it would be awfully hard to convince anyone that you need a new war just cause of some pirate DVDs.
Very hard to prove the cell didn't get contaminated with drugs from the drug-filled water it's been floating in.
You have what now? Details, please!
And Cheney used birdshot. I guess buckshot in the heart would probably be fatal.
A few things jump out just skimming this:
Is the compiler open-source? Is anyone looking at making GCC do this? What exactly have they done to Linux to make it run on these, and is it likely that the changes will make it into the mainline kernel? Also, they don't seem to mention if they have a C++ compiler.
Imperial America?
And I agree the theft is not too hard. It reminds of me a case which happened here in the UK a few years ago, when thieves loaded a massive bronze sculpture onto a truck and drove off with it.
It's worth noting that the meteorite is presumably a fake or not actually from there anyway. Most scientist do not believe that any sizable piece of the meteorite from Tunguska was ever recovered and conclude that it exploded due to the heat and air pressure on it during reentry. The pattern of tree damage also suggests and airburst.
I suppose that to "methylate" in this context is to add methanol to the ethanol.
This is done to make it undrinkable in order that it can be sold without being taxed as alcohol. The purple dye and compound which makes it smell bad are added to stop people drinking it anyway. In extreme cases of alcoholism, this doesn't work. Methanol makes you go blind.
I saw people get excited about Vista.
I think they'd got bored and forgotten about it by the time it was actually released though.
There is not any significant quantity of H2 in the air, for at least two reason: it reacts with Oxygen (suprise!), which there is a lot of, and it would tend to drift to the top of the atmosphere and escape into space (even Helium does this to some extent).
I've been to demonstrations which have been seriously misreported by mainstream media. I'm thinking of this not so much as a way to get extra eyewitness accounts of big events as as a way of correcting media which parrots government and police press releases.
I know the parent is trolling but I feel I should point out for anyone confused by this: There are Red Cross/Red Crescent organisations in many different countries. There is, for example, a British Red Cross. The ARC is a member of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies like any other.
See my second post. No one should use it at all in peacetime except in the ways specified in article 53.