In any case, selling >90 million customer records to spammers is not a minor incident. You'd get fired even if you had been elected the employee of the year just a week before. Unless you could convince your employer of your innocence.
Now, if your/etc/shadow or/etc/master.passwd are world readable, you've got an issue...
Nowadays, most of these passwords are crypted, so an attacker could only use them for an offline dictionary attack. This, of course, may give him a great opportunity for finding out weak passwords.
We're not talking NBA- or NFL-muscular here. This kid may grow so much musculature that he will have trouble walking in a straight line later on. Physical handicaps are seldomly ever a "chick magnet".
I wish I could magically patch in linux kernel 2.6 drivers into L4 or gnumach but I'm just a hobbyist and I'm just happy to be able to compile and get the stuff to run. We non-CS major's are at somewhat of a disadvantage I think when it comes to kernel hacking.
I surmise that the FSF won't even allow you to do that. They want the copyright for GNU code, so even though the HURD is GPL, too, they will not accept Linux code. You would have to start a separate "Drivers for HURD" project or something like that.
Let's face it, IM is not rocket science. The basic functionality is easy to code, and, unsurprisingly, there are already tons of open source clients out there. The cost per user to operate a server is minimal, too, which means: Anyone who's trying to charge you money (or for all that matters force you to receive advertisements) for basic IM services, is attempting to rip you off. If you want to make use of functionality in AIM or MSN Messenger or Yahoo! Messenger which open source clients cannot offer, then you'll be using their official clients anyway. If not, you have two options: Cave in to their extortion, or switch to an open protocol like Jabber.
Btw, that's one reason why many companies want TCPA. It would give them an unhackable way of enforcing a particular client.
is that Mozilla is much more usable on many sites with the keyboard alone, than links and elinks. Find-as-you-type and, for example, the ability to open links in new tabs using Ctrl+Enter (must be set in prefs) can make life with the keyboard so much easier and faster.
There are multiple console interfaces to a running XMMS process, but I think they're putting the cart before the horse. Once you quit your KDE/GNOME/whatever session, the music will stop playing, since the XMMS process will be terminated. Plus, you may not want to have the GUI around in memory when you don't need it.
The mpd approach is better since you do not need X, plus it's easier to use over a network. Modularity is king.
The first of these guns will use relatively limited magnetic energy (100 MJ), but if you do suddenly introduce a large resistance into the circuit of a charged electromagnet (e.g. by severing the conductors), you get a hefty sudden discharge, and potentially an explosion from vaporizing material. At several GJ of stored energy, this would certainly be less than funny. But then consider that your gun is only vulnerable shortly before it fires. An ammo room is always vulnerable.
If the draft contains propaganda BS like "intellectual property", I'd be happy to vote against it. But they don't plan to actually ask the German voter - after all, shouldn't such trivialities be left to our repress^Hentatives? It's sad, but the EU is on the best way of becoming the second-best democracy money can buy, and it's even sadder that some of the pillars of corporate welfare will find their way into its constitution.
So I'm sorry to break this to my american fellow geeks but the greatest nation of the world can produce as many railguns as it can/wants, the second law of thermodynamics has predicted its downfall upon its conception 300 years ago.
Please do not abuse the 2nd law of thermodynamics like this. I'm sorry for being a nitpicker, but it's sad that there are people (creationists) who take this kind of "generalization" of the 2nd law seriously.
A Snickers bar has more than one Megajoule worth of (metabolically) usable energy. A 30kg projectile travelling at Mach 7.5 has about 92 Megajoules of kinetic energy, or 80.5 Snickers. Actually, you may note that this is far less than you'd expect from a "killer weapon" like this... for comparison, one ton of TNT can release more than 4 Gigajoules of energy.
Please do not respond to this post with pseudo-legal or pseudo-Socialist rants. This is a VERY SIMPLE CONTRACTUAL ISSUE. If you don't agree to the contract, don't buy the music.
The only contract you agree to when buying a CD, is a sales contract with your music store regarding the CD as a physical medium. Maybe you should get a clue about copyright and contractual law before calling other people names?
Correct, but when you buy a CD, you make a contract with the music store, and it involves nothing but the sale of the physical medium. There is no hidden contract with the RIAA, or a "usage license". Acquire a legal copy of some music in any way whatsoever, and you have the implied right to play it as often as you want, for all eternity, period. The RIAA cannot revoke this right since they didn't give it to you in the first. It's inherent to you, and no law states otherwise.
The problem with depleted uranium rods isn't that they're radioactive. They're actually nowhere _near_ being dangerous enough because of radiation. The problem is each hit produces kilos of toxic dust.
Yes and no. Toxicity is a major problem, and that's why US governmental talk about the supposed lack of radioactivity is so hypocritical. In 1845, a British sea expedition under Captain Sir John Franklin set out for the Arctic region and never returned. They found 3 graves of seamen from the expedition 5 years later, and a Canadian forensic expert had their deep-frozen bodies exhumed in 1984. As it turned out, all three died of lead poisoning, probably from lead diffusing into their canned food (now here's a good reason why they don't store food in lead cans any more). Natural lead is practically non radioactive (the only naturally occuring radioactive isotope is Pb-204, which has an insanely long half-life of more than 140 quadrillion years). But it's a toxic heavy metal, just like uranium and plutonium.
But radioactivity is an additional problem in uranium. All uranium isotopes are radioactive, and they happen to be alpha radiators (those emit helium nucleuses). Alpha radiation is in biological terms by far the most dangerous kind of radiation, although its range is extremely limited. The effective range is about 10cm (4 inches) in air, and a single sheet of paper will block it almost entirely. It cannot even penetrate a human's horny skin well, let alone clothing. However, there's a problem: If it enters your body, e.g. if you inhale dust, or drink uranium-poisoned water, the uranium atoms get directly next to or into your cells. And this is where alpha radiation can wreak havoc, resulting in greatly increased risk of cancer, and birth defects in the next generation. Before you can wrap a sheet of paper around every DNA strand in your body, alpha radiators are not harmless!
Long story short: When Rumsfeld and his buddies say that uranium is safe because it's depleted (meaning its half-life is about 4 billion years), they are lying. It is dangerous. You don't want to have it in your body.
In Eraser they claimed that these guns fired bullets at speed of light. Since this would mean that the projectile has infinite momentum and thus the recoil would be infinite, let's say they reached only 90% of speed of light (c). A projectile with a rest mass of 5g would have a mass of 11.5g at 90% c, and a momentum of 0.0115kg * 90% * 299792458 m/s (i.e. c) = ca. 3.1 million Newtonseconds. Let's assume that the recoil (identical to the projectile's momentum) would push Arnold back at no more than 10 meters per second. Then Arnie would have to have a mass of no less than 3.1 Meganewtonseconds / 10 m/s = 310 metric tons. I conclude that either the movie was a tiny bit unrealistic, or Schwarzenegger is somewhat heavier than I assumed.
Rest energy is rest mass times speed of light squared (E0=m0 * c^2). Rest mass is the mass of the body at rest (in the reference frame). At these velocities, the Newtonian formula for kinetic energy becomes too inaccurate, and you have to use the formula from (Special) Relativity Theory, which is E(kin)=(m - m0) * c^2, where m is the observed mass and m0 is the rest mass. Actually, m=m0/sqrt(1-(v/c)^2), so you get:
E(kin)=(1/sqrt(1-(v/c)^2) - 1) * m0 * c^2
The Newtonian formula E(kin)=1/2 * m0 * v^2 is actually a good approximation for velocities v much smaller than the speed of light c. U c?:) The relativistic kinetic energy grows much faster than the Newtonian one the closer you get to speed of light. Approaching speed of light, it goes off towards infinity, which means that only particles with zero rest mass can actually travel at speed of light (e.g. photons), otherwise they would have infinite mass and thus make for some nice black holes.;)
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In any case, selling >90 million customer records to spammers is not a minor incident. You'd get fired even if you had been elected the employee of the year just a week before. Unless you could convince your employer of your innocence.
On another note: Anyone want to hire an aspiring writer? Seriously, $8.47/hr is still better than the $0/hr I'm making now. Please! ::sniff::
Well, zero dollars per hour isn't much, but what if you work overtime?
Now, if your /etc/shadow or /etc/master.passwd are world readable, you've got an issue...
Nowadays, most of these passwords are crypted, so an attacker could only use them for an offline dictionary attack. This, of course, may give him a great opportunity for finding out weak passwords.
We're not talking NBA- or NFL-muscular here. This kid may grow so much musculature that he will have trouble walking in a straight line later on. Physical handicaps are seldomly ever a "chick magnet".
Oh sure... your girlfriend's a geek. Had you said an astronaut, a supermodel, or a submarine commander - I would've believed you. But a geek? No way.
What exactly is wrong about Gentoo's package management?
Landover Baptist is for real, hellbound splinter in the eyes of our true Lord.
Whatever you say...
I wish I could magically patch in linux kernel 2.6 drivers into L4 or gnumach but I'm just a hobbyist and I'm just happy to be able to compile and get the stuff to run. We non-CS major's are at somewhat of a disadvantage I think when it comes to kernel hacking.
I surmise that the FSF won't even allow you to do that. They want the copyright for GNU code, so even though the HURD is GPL, too, they will not accept Linux code. You would have to start a separate "Drivers for HURD" project or something like that.
Let's face it, IM is not rocket science. The basic functionality is easy to code, and, unsurprisingly, there are already tons of open source clients out there. The cost per user to operate a server is minimal, too, which means: Anyone who's trying to charge you money (or for all that matters force you to receive advertisements) for basic IM services, is attempting to rip you off. If you want to make use of functionality in AIM or MSN Messenger or Yahoo! Messenger which open source clients cannot offer, then you'll be using their official clients anyway. If not, you have two options: Cave in to their extortion, or switch to an open protocol like Jabber.
Btw, that's one reason why many companies want TCPA. It would give them an unhackable way of enforcing a particular client.
Can't even send the output to a different file than ~/nohup.out. I prefer using a redirect and disown -h.
is that Mozilla is much more usable on many sites with the keyboard alone, than links and elinks. Find-as-you-type and, for example, the ability to open links in new tabs using Ctrl+Enter (must be set in prefs) can make life with the keyboard so much easier and faster.
There are multiple console interfaces to a running XMMS process, but I think they're putting the cart before the horse. Once you quit your KDE/GNOME/whatever session, the music will stop playing, since the XMMS process will be terminated. Plus, you may not want to have the GUI around in memory when you don't need it.
The mpd approach is better since you do not need X, plus it's easier to use over a network. Modularity is king.
Otherwise, it will choke on filenames with spaces (and some other characters).
Being in posession of MP3 copies of music you have licensed copies of is covered by fair use, regardless of the source of those copies.
Not in Germany after the MI bought a new copyright law last fall, and since it's so DCMAish, I doubt that US law is any different.
The first of these guns will use relatively limited magnetic energy (100 MJ), but if you do suddenly introduce a large resistance into the circuit of a charged electromagnet (e.g. by severing the conductors), you get a hefty sudden discharge, and potentially an explosion from vaporizing material. At several GJ of stored energy, this would certainly be less than funny. But then consider that your gun is only vulnerable shortly before it fires. An ammo room is always vulnerable.
However, I have yet to speak to anyone who *likes* Microsoft the company, apart from a few people I've crossed paths with who "used to work there".
"There are people who don't like capitalism, and people who don't like PCs. But there's no one who likes the PC who doesn't like Microsoft."
If the draft contains propaganda BS like "intellectual property", I'd be happy to vote against it. But they don't plan to actually ask the German voter - after all, shouldn't such trivialities be left to our repress^Hentatives? It's sad, but the EU is on the best way of becoming the second-best democracy money can buy, and it's even sadder that some of the pillars of corporate welfare will find their way into its constitution.
So I'm sorry to break this to my american fellow geeks but the greatest nation of the world can produce as many railguns as it can/wants, the second law of thermodynamics has predicted its downfall upon its conception 300 years ago.
Please do not abuse the 2nd law of thermodynamics like this. I'm sorry for being a nitpicker, but it's sad that there are people (creationists) who take this kind of "generalization" of the 2nd law seriously.
A Snickers bar has more than one Megajoule worth of (metabolically) usable energy. A 30kg projectile travelling at Mach 7.5 has about 92 Megajoules of kinetic energy, or 80.5 Snickers. Actually, you may note that this is far less than you'd expect from a "killer weapon" like this... for comparison, one ton of TNT can release more than 4 Gigajoules of energy.
Please do not respond to this post with pseudo-legal or pseudo-Socialist rants. This is a VERY SIMPLE CONTRACTUAL ISSUE. If you don't agree to the contract, don't buy the music.
The only contract you agree to when buying a CD, is a sales contract with your music store regarding the CD as a physical medium. Maybe you should get a clue about copyright and contractual law before calling other people names?
Correct, but when you buy a CD, you make a contract with the music store, and it involves nothing but the sale of the physical medium. There is no hidden contract with the RIAA, or a "usage license". Acquire a legal copy of some music in any way whatsoever, and you have the implied right to play it as often as you want, for all eternity, period. The RIAA cannot revoke this right since they didn't give it to you in the first. It's inherent to you, and no law states otherwise.
The problem with depleted uranium rods isn't that they're radioactive. They're actually nowhere _near_ being dangerous enough because of radiation. The problem is each hit produces kilos of toxic dust.
Yes and no. Toxicity is a major problem, and that's why US governmental talk about the supposed lack of radioactivity is so hypocritical. In 1845, a British sea expedition under Captain Sir John Franklin set out for the Arctic region and never returned. They found 3 graves of seamen from the expedition 5 years later, and a Canadian forensic expert had their deep-frozen bodies exhumed in 1984. As it turned out, all three died of lead poisoning, probably from lead diffusing into their canned food (now here's a good reason why they don't store food in lead cans any more). Natural lead is practically non radioactive (the only naturally occuring radioactive isotope is Pb-204, which has an insanely long half-life of more than 140 quadrillion years). But it's a toxic heavy metal, just like uranium and plutonium.
But radioactivity is an additional problem in uranium. All uranium isotopes are radioactive, and they happen to be alpha radiators (those emit helium nucleuses). Alpha radiation is in biological terms by far the most dangerous kind of radiation, although its range is extremely limited. The effective range is about 10cm (4 inches) in air, and a single sheet of paper will block it almost entirely. It cannot even penetrate a human's horny skin well, let alone clothing. However, there's a problem: If it enters your body, e.g. if you inhale dust, or drink uranium-poisoned water, the uranium atoms get directly next to or into your cells. And this is where alpha radiation can wreak havoc, resulting in greatly increased risk of cancer, and birth defects in the next generation. Before you can wrap a sheet of paper around every DNA strand in your body, alpha radiators are not harmless!
Long story short: When Rumsfeld and his buddies say that uranium is safe because it's depleted (meaning its half-life is about 4 billion years), they are lying. It is dangerous. You don't want to have it in your body.
In Eraser they claimed that these guns fired bullets at speed of light. Since this would mean that the projectile has infinite momentum and thus the recoil would be infinite, let's say they reached only 90% of speed of light (c). A projectile with a rest mass of 5g would have a mass of 11.5g at 90% c, and a momentum of 0.0115kg * 90% * 299792458 m/s (i.e. c) = ca. 3.1 million Newtonseconds. Let's assume that the recoil (identical to the projectile's momentum) would push Arnold back at no more than 10 meters per second. Then Arnie would have to have a mass of no less than 3.1 Meganewtonseconds / 10 m/s = 310 metric tons. I conclude that either the movie was a tiny bit unrealistic, or Schwarzenegger is somewhat heavier than I assumed.
Rest energy is rest mass times speed of light squared (E0=m0 * c^2). Rest mass is the mass of the body at rest (in the reference frame). At these velocities, the Newtonian formula for kinetic energy becomes too inaccurate, and you have to use the formula from (Special) Relativity Theory, which is E(kin)=(m - m0) * c^2, where m is the observed mass and m0 is the rest mass. Actually, m=m0/sqrt(1-(v/c)^2), so you get:
E(kin)=(1/sqrt(1-(v/c)^2) - 1) * m0 * c^2
The Newtonian formula E(kin)=1/2 * m0 * v^2 is actually a good approximation for velocities v much smaller than the speed of light c. U c? :) The relativistic kinetic energy grows much faster than the Newtonian one the closer you get to speed of light. Approaching speed of light, it goes off towards infinity, which means that only particles with zero rest mass can actually travel at speed of light (e.g. photons), otherwise they would have infinite mass and thus make for some nice black holes. ;)
sqrt means square root; More explanations can be found on Wikipedia
TCP is built on top of UDP/IP
It's not. Both TCP and UDP are built on IP, but mutually independent.