The article fails to mention much about the Katyusha ("Little Katie"). It's a 60 year old rocket platform used by the Soviets in the second world war, later redesigned by the Israelis after they captured some Arab Katyushas during the Six Day War. These things aren't accurate worth a damn in comparison to modern rockets - the Germans had much better 50 years ago.:P Supposedly we're about to start testing this laser on captured SCUD missiles from Iraq. It's still going to be some time before this is going to be any much use in defending Taiwan.
Keep in mind that when the EU's largest economy and most populated country objects to something they're bound to get their opinions out. The opposition countries (Germany, Belgium, Denmark and Slovak) have over a hundred million citizens. I'm sure there's a couple of loud geeks and lawyers in there somewhere.
I'm pretty sure that most copies of pirated XP floating around (the keyless corporate versions) will let users install everything but service packs. I don't know a lick about international piracy, but I imagine it's the same software.
Nintendo still has a library of older games a lot of us grew up on that they can rerelease. Nostalgia is propping them up and maintaining their competitiveness, which I find pretty funny. Who cares if the Sony hardware beats out the next generation Nintendo handheld? That much more advanced Sony handheld won't be able to run N64 games.:P
Our Nintendo rep claims that the next gen Gameboy will be able to run Gamecube discs, btw. I don't buy it for a second, but... yeah. It WOULD be absolutely amazing.
Look buddy, this isn't a laughing matter.
Starbucks locations with wireless access points would be torn with the chaos of obnoxious PowerBook owners complaining to cute barristas who would subject the internet to even more Livejournal and blog whining.
Every thing is foreign at some point - even the pagan cults surrounding Stonehedge probably draw from older pagan cults who appeared and developed outside of Europe;)
Yeah, and those pagans all came from Africa.:P
Isn't this a little irrelevant for geeks? Any nerd worth his ill fitting clothing has his system secured enough that no one will find his pr0n when he kicks the bucket. I would hope that basic security preventing a thief from getting information from a stolen laptop would prevent mothers from coming across the hidden cache of Tiffany Teen videos.
I demand that the internet remain safe for children looking for pictures of our valiant leader in his college days when they google image search "cheerleader bush!" Won't somebody think of the children?!?!?!11
Is it just me or did the landers totally disappear from all major news sources? I haven't caught mention of them on CNN, BBC and the like in quite a while. Did the government stop spending the money on press releases when they failed to take heat off of the administration and/or capture public attention?
I'm sure there's dozens of nerd household tips already and all, but I periodically toss my vinyl internal shower curtain in the washing machine and run it on hot cycle two or three times, taking it out and uncoiling it in between washes as the curtain tends to get all wound up in the machine. I don't know how much energy really goes into making the curtain (and how that compares to the amount of water and electricity being used), so I don't know if it's actually efficient to prolong the life of $4.99 curtains like this... but a few cents in water and detergent works for my budget.
Isn't the reaction to this a little knee jerk? I'm curious as to whether or not this info will be given out for civil cases (say, a divorce related to adultery or the like). If this information is just used to nail drivers on a suspended license, idiots without insurance or criminals with warrants I welcome it.
I don't feel that the idiots falling for fraud is the problem. It's the thousands of U.S. taxpayer dollars that flush down the drain each day paying for this crap.
I worked for one of the internet relay companies for a year and a half. The nature of the service really prevents a lot of options that seem common sense to techies unfamiliar with the ADA (Americans with Disabilities Act). The internet service needs to emulate the anonymous call setup - no logins, IDs, etc., unless you want to profile yourself or use spell dialing. Registration isn't allowed. The services can (but often don't) block IP ranges, but I think we all know how easy that is to get around. Using a proxy with a dial up connection from Africa makes the service incredibly slow.. so they are prone to drop out, although a lot of fraud callers will keep up 10 conversations at one time. Their strategy is making hundreds of calls and eventually one gullible American is going to fall for the scam. One successful $5,000 fraud a week is a lot more than they could make there. These calls are NOT going to stop as long as there are internet relay services.
The big relay companies make money of each call even if they're fradulent, so they have no incentive to block the service other than to stop the tide of bad press and quitting employees. It's a wonderful service for the deaf and speech disabled (TTY phone technology is a joke), but I think it's a matter of opinion as to whether or not it's worth the flood of American taxpayer dollars going down the drain to pay for fraud.
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The article fails to mention much about the Katyusha ("Little Katie"). It's a 60 year old rocket platform used by the Soviets in the second world war, later redesigned by the Israelis after they captured some Arab Katyushas during the Six Day War. These things aren't accurate worth a damn in comparison to modern rockets - the Germans had much better 50 years ago. :P Supposedly we're about to start testing this laser on captured SCUD missiles from Iraq. It's still going to be some time before this is going to be any much use in defending Taiwan.
Keep in mind that when the EU's largest economy and most populated country objects to something they're bound to get their opinions out. The opposition countries (Germany, Belgium, Denmark and Slovak) have over a hundred million citizens. I'm sure there's a couple of loud geeks and lawyers in there somewhere.
I'm pretty sure that most copies of pirated XP floating around (the keyless corporate versions) will let users install everything but service packs. I don't know a lick about international piracy, but I imagine it's the same software.
Nintendo still has a library of older games a lot of us grew up on that they can rerelease. Nostalgia is propping them up and maintaining their competitiveness, which I find pretty funny. Who cares if the Sony hardware beats out the next generation Nintendo handheld? That much more advanced Sony handheld won't be able to run N64 games. :P
Our Nintendo rep claims that the next gen Gameboy will be able to run Gamecube discs, btw. I don't buy it for a second, but... yeah. It WOULD be absolutely amazing.
Look buddy, this isn't a laughing matter. Starbucks locations with wireless access points would be torn with the chaos of obnoxious PowerBook owners complaining to cute barristas who would subject the internet to even more Livejournal and blog whining.
Perhaps this is the day that Sealand and its' armored canoes have been waiting for...
Every thing is foreign at some point - even the pagan cults surrounding Stonehedge probably draw from older pagan cults who appeared and developed outside of Europe ;)
Yeah, and those pagans all came from Africa. :P
Isn't this a little irrelevant for geeks? Any nerd worth his ill fitting clothing has his system secured enough that no one will find his pr0n when he kicks the bucket. I would hope that basic security preventing a thief from getting information from a stolen laptop would prevent mothers from coming across the hidden cache of Tiffany Teen videos.
I demand that the internet remain safe for children looking for pictures of our valiant leader in his college days when they google image search "cheerleader bush!" Won't somebody think of the children?!?!?!11
Is it just me or did the landers totally disappear from all major news sources? I haven't caught mention of them on CNN, BBC and the like in quite a while. Did the government stop spending the money on press releases when they failed to take heat off of the administration and/or capture public attention?
I'm sure there's dozens of nerd household tips already and all, but I periodically toss my vinyl internal shower curtain in the washing machine and run it on hot cycle two or three times, taking it out and uncoiling it in between washes as the curtain tends to get all wound up in the machine. I don't know how much energy really goes into making the curtain (and how that compares to the amount of water and electricity being used), so I don't know if it's actually efficient to prolong the life of $4.99 curtains like this... but a few cents in water and detergent works for my budget.
Is there a way to mod an entire story down for being flame-bait? :P
Isn't the reaction to this a little knee jerk? I'm curious as to whether or not this info will be given out for civil cases (say, a divorce related to adultery or the like). If this information is just used to nail drivers on a suspended license, idiots without insurance or criminals with warrants I welcome it.
http://www.uh.edu/engines/epi311.htm - a really strange helicopter/blimp combination from the US.
I'm pretty sure that a Japanese sub also attempted to fire artillery at some kind of (petrol?) refinery in the northwest. They missed.
I don't feel that the idiots falling for fraud is the problem. It's the thousands of U.S. taxpayer dollars that flush down the drain each day paying for this crap.
I worked for one of the internet relay companies for a year and a half. The nature of the service really prevents a lot of options that seem common sense to techies unfamiliar with the ADA (Americans with Disabilities Act). The internet service needs to emulate the anonymous call setup - no logins, IDs, etc., unless you want to profile yourself or use spell dialing. Registration isn't allowed. The services can (but often don't) block IP ranges, but I think we all know how easy that is to get around. Using a proxy with a dial up connection from Africa makes the service incredibly slow.. so they are prone to drop out, although a lot of fraud callers will keep up 10 conversations at one time. Their strategy is making hundreds of calls and eventually one gullible American is going to fall for the scam. One successful $5,000 fraud a week is a lot more than they could make there. These calls are NOT going to stop as long as there are internet relay services. The big relay companies make money of each call even if they're fradulent, so they have no incentive to block the service other than to stop the tide of bad press and quitting employees. It's a wonderful service for the deaf and speech disabled (TTY phone technology is a joke), but I think it's a matter of opinion as to whether or not it's worth the flood of American taxpayer dollars going down the drain to pay for fraud.