We used diesel electric submarines well into the cold war because nukes were too noisy.
A diesel electric running on its batteries is quieter than any nuke sub going. How do you think the Chinese were able to pop up in a sub in the middle of US military exercises near Taiwan and surprise the crap out of everyone?
Two types of seagoing vessels: submarines and targets.
>The article says the batteries can let it stay submerged for up to 18 hours without recharging(which subs have to surface to recharge)
... where every crackpot has a "theory" and all the others have it wrong. Where we're all being poisoned by chemtrails, where we never landed on the Moon, and where, if you have the tinfoil adjusted just so, you can stop the alien greys from tracking you and giving you anal probes in your sleep.
And where every fruitcake has an answer to the Voynich Manuscript, so a couple of pages or two of code should be "easy"
The Phelps' ultimate stated goal is not just the lawsuits. It's to "turn people away from God" and make them hate.
Shirley Phelps-Roper - "Our job is laid out," she says, in comments sprinkled with biblical references. "We are supposed to blind their eyes, stop up their ears and harden their hearts so that they cannot see, hear or understand, and be converted and receive salvation."
The best April fools jokes I've seen so far today are the Canterbury Distribution and the ThinkGeek "Apple Store" Playmobil set, and the ThinkGeek "Lightsaber Popsicle"
Just close enough to reality to catch you unawares.
"Only wimps use tape backup: real men just upload their important stuff on ftp, and let the rest of the world mirror it;)" - Torvalds, Linus (1996-07-20)
The best humor always has a grain of truth behind it. The originating post was funny on multiple levels, and insightful. It wasn't a fart joke. Rather it even brought up (sarcastically) the issue of patents, which made it funnier.
Modding insightful is justified.
*looks at your UID*
Get off my lawn. Don't tell me how to mod posts, kid.
>it doesn't have any way to make it auto-start after a reboot.
Didn't I just mention 4 different ways to start at login? Once root status is attained, there's another way - add it to the init scripts. It's not as if local privilege escalation doesn't exist.
>To expect a Windows virus to know how to rewrite a.bashrc or.login file on some random version of Linux, which might be running Gnome or might be running KDE, etc., sounds pretty far-fetched.
When I ran Bagle, it was smart enough to fetch my address book from Thunderbird and mail me from the list, which is how I found out I had been running Bagel for 10 minutes. Because Wine is smart enough to interpret the Linux file system hierarchy for Bagel.
When is the last time you checked your.bashrc for odd stuff? The windows idiots keep saying that once Linux becomes popular on the desktop, it'll be just as big a target. While they are wrong in certain respects because the statement ignores security models, it's true in a way. Adding Wine can make you "just another Windows machine."
I'm ringing an alarm bell here, buddy, and you ain't listening. A lot of people who I tell this to just simply plug their ears and cry out "BUT IT'S A WINDOWS WORM" without ever recognizing that you install a form of Windows on your computer when you install Wine. And a lot of Linux users do, to play games.
We, as a society, have chosen fines as a reasonable way to penalize businesses that do things the wrong way. It's not about "making someone whole." It's about exacting punishment to make an example for others and to motivate businesses not to do unwanted behavior.
So, what's your real problem with this? We should expect businesses to not play silly buggers with credit card information. I'm sorry if I don't shed a tear here.
>Since then, Bagle, a botnet that wasn't even on MessageLabs' top ten spam-sending botnets at the end of 2010, has taken over from Rustock as the most active spam-sending botnet this year."
Yeah, and guess what?
Bagle runs spectacularly under Wine. As in, it behaves itself quite nicely and you don't notice it until you receive mail in your mailbox that is coming from yourself.
Bagle is truly cross-platform malware.
All it needs to do is attach itself to Gnome's or KDE's startup folder or.bashrc or.login.
Any of these will do the trick, and if you've got Wine installed, your machine instantly becomes a botnet slave.
Bring a book and read. Bring playing cards. Read the newspaper. Bring a sketchpad and draw.
There was a time when cellphones didn't even exist. It's as if you think they are essential to your survival in a jury waiting room. They're not. Get over it.
E-ink is little spheres in a fluid. It's not a bloody TFT display.
It's never going to work. You can't defeat physics with code no matter what you think you can do. It's like the HFT idiots thinking they can get trades down to picoseconds.
Slashdot Mirror
The Danes have already built it.
And it's fully loaded and ready to do battle with the Swedes.
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>implying diesel electrics are noisy
We used diesel electric submarines well into the cold war because nukes were too noisy.
A diesel electric running on its batteries is quieter than any nuke sub going. How do you think the Chinese were able to pop up in a sub in the middle of US military exercises near Taiwan and surprise the crap out of everyone?
Two types of seagoing vessels: submarines and targets.
>The article says the batteries can let it stay submerged for up to 18 hours without recharging(which subs have to surface to recharge)
The Germans solved that problem 70 years ago with their snorkel: http://www.uboataces.com/snorkel.shtml
It's not rocket science.
The drawback of this submarine was the small work envelope. You couldn't go deep at all with it without being crushed like a beer can.
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... where every crackpot has a "theory" and all the others have it wrong. Where we're all being poisoned by chemtrails, where we never landed on the Moon, and where, if you have the tinfoil adjusted just so, you can stop the alien greys from tracking you and giving you anal probes in your sleep.
And where every fruitcake has an answer to the Voynich Manuscript, so a couple of pages or two of code should be "easy"
*hysterical Vincent Price laughter here*
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>It would be kind of hard to prove that,
The Phelps' ultimate stated goal is not just the lawsuits. It's to "turn people away from God" and make them hate.
The Phelps are a hate cult. QED.
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>We had a local minister burning the Koran. That does not imply that he hates anyone at all.
Really? Honestly?
Then how about I go and burn a cross in front of your house, being careful to stay on public property and have a burn permit?
You're disingenuous
> But they do not hate the dead soldiers
Yes, they actually do.
>Yet the entire world sees them as a hate group.
That's because they are, troll.
Get out.
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The best April fools jokes I've seen so far today are the Canterbury Distribution and the ThinkGeek "Apple Store" Playmobil set, and the ThinkGeek "Lightsaber Popsicle"
Just close enough to reality to catch you unawares.
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"Only wimps use tape backup: real men just upload their important stuff on ftp, and let the rest of the world mirror it ;)" - Torvalds, Linus (1996-07-20)
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And from an investor point of view, Microsoft is worth more broken up into its constituent parts than as a whole. Entire forests of deadwood.
"Lion Food" in the Jargon File is out of date. It should be Microsoft managers now.
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The best humor always has a grain of truth behind it. The originating post was funny on multiple levels, and insightful. It wasn't a fart joke. Rather it even brought up (sarcastically) the issue of patents, which made it funnier.
Modding insightful is justified.
*looks at your UID*
Get off my lawn. Don't tell me how to mod posts, kid.
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Microsoft's myopia was even evident in the Kinect - that it was a gaming only device and should "never be connected to a real computer"
They very nearly went the way of Sony in this regard, but eventually saw the light.
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Insightful is the new Funny, because Funny gets you no Karma.
This was decided years ago, by people not you.
Hope this helps.
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I think I threw up a little.
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>Is there any flavor of malfeasance or negligence that we should punish?
According to the randroid trolls on this topic, none.
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>it doesn't have any way to make it auto-start after a reboot.
Didn't I just mention 4 different ways to start at login? Once root status is attained, there's another way - add it to the init scripts. It's not as if local privilege escalation doesn't exist.
>To expect a Windows virus to know how to rewrite a .bashrc or .login file on some random version of Linux, which might be running Gnome or might be running KDE, etc., sounds pretty far-fetched.
When I ran Bagle, it was smart enough to fetch my address book from Thunderbird and mail me from the list, which is how I found out I had been running Bagel for 10 minutes. Because Wine is smart enough to interpret the Linux file system hierarchy for Bagel.
When is the last time you checked your .bashrc for odd stuff? The windows idiots keep saying that once Linux becomes popular on the desktop, it'll be just as big a target. While they are wrong in certain respects because the statement ignores security models, it's true in a way. Adding Wine can make you "just another Windows machine."
I'm ringing an alarm bell here, buddy, and you ain't listening. A lot of people who I tell this to just simply plug their ears and cry out "BUT IT'S A WINDOWS WORM" without ever recognizing that you install a form of Windows on your computer when you install Wine. And a lot of Linux users do, to play games.
Your complacency is going to be your downfall.
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We, as a society, have chosen fines as a reasonable way to penalize businesses that do things the wrong way. It's not about "making someone whole." It's about exacting punishment to make an example for others and to motivate businesses not to do unwanted behavior.
So, what's your real problem with this? We should expect businesses to not play silly buggers with credit card information. I'm sorry if I don't shed a tear here.
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>Since then, Bagle, a botnet that wasn't even on MessageLabs' top ten spam-sending botnets at the end of 2010, has taken over from Rustock as the most active spam-sending botnet this year."
Yeah, and guess what?
Bagle runs spectacularly under Wine. As in, it behaves itself quite nicely and you don't notice it until you receive mail in your mailbox that is coming from yourself.
Bagle is truly cross-platform malware.
All it needs to do is attach itself to Gnome's or KDE's startup folder or .bashrc or .login.
Any of these will do the trick, and if you've got Wine installed, your machine instantly becomes a botnet slave.
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Bring a book and read. Bring playing cards. Read the newspaper. Bring a sketchpad and draw.
There was a time when cellphones didn't even exist. It's as if you think they are essential to your survival in a jury waiting room. They're not. Get over it.
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Never. Because it's boring and it doesn't sell product.
Rail as much as you want against marketing, but if you can't sell product, especially if it's non-utilitarian, you go out of business. Fast.
And I work on the making side of things, not the sales.
This story is a non-story and not news for nerds. If you are surprised by this marketing technique, you're just the gullible person they're targeting.
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>video playback on an e-ink device
Wat. Seriously. Wat.
E-ink is little spheres in a fluid. It's not a bloody TFT display.
It's never going to work. You can't defeat physics with code no matter what you think you can do. It's like the HFT idiots thinking they can get trades down to picoseconds.
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Well, fuck, that's supposed to say cinema verite with accents but thanks to Slashdork and its complete lack of unicode, it got butchered.
So much for a geek site. Taco should eat his geek card dry with nothing to wash it down.
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This is late but...
I never even notice shaky-cam anymore because it's so overused. The first time I saw it on NYPD Blue, I couldn't watch the TV series at all.
It was there in the film to simulate cinéma vérité as was the lens flare stuff.
But if the point was to simulate cinéma vérité then JJ Abrams failed, because there is also no sound in space.
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... It was directed by J.J. Abrams and it was called "Lens Flare"
It had Leonard Nimoy in it if I recall correctly.
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Video Toaster.
On the Amiga.
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No, I think he means the Old Ones.
And they will return some day.
Web version:
http://www.fredvanlente.com/cthulhutract/pages/index.html
PDF version:
http://www.fredvanlente.com/downloads/WhyWeHere.pdf
Your only hope is suicide or to be eaten first.
ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn!
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This is late, but...
Language evolving is not inherently a good thing but ignoring the evolution of language is also not a good thing.
I raged against "irregardless" and stuff like that. That's until I found out "irregardless" is in the dictionary and thus available for scrabble.
Now to get to the rest of your post:
>angsty, contrarian, internet fucks like yourself
I love you too.
Say hello to your new status.
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