Hands down, the brightest was Tony Stark, creating himself a mini emp device that generated enough electricity to power a small city, but also with enough mg force to stop that metal splinter from slipping into his heart, then you have all the suits over the years he worked on, of which war machine was the most prominent.
Sure, you can build bombs or this or that...but when you travel a multitude of different types of creations....of which from what I saw in the movie even included captain americas shield if that was just a preview, although we know stark was not responsible for it in the comics.
I thought the major ISPs firstly would use only government or privately owned land, not someone's backyard, and then if that was the case, as some people do want to bury treasure, have kids that dig or have people that want to put in swimming pools, that they would think of this and maybe put special PVC to cover the lines....as they are on some one else's property and not the ISP's....no?
Anyone have some secrets they might want to share about this...I was thinking about getting into it, dont know if it is properly established yet as a framework...
This is another/. news worthy story, cmdtaco asleep at the wheel again...if you need editors tat badly, I am game for it...but you will only get pure geekspeak columns, and none of this crap.
If I can remember my hash password, and use THAT as my password from now on, they are just as screwed....shows people placed in political positions never have computer knowledge needed to make up the laws.
Really, they bury unshielded copper wires in the ground of someone's backyard now....sounds more like someone dropped the ball with installations and then want to pin it on some elderly lady. If an elderly lady has enough force to cut through a thick shielded trunk of a wire with a shovel, then guess what, it definitely wasn't installed or built right, but then again, they do not have a lot of money there, and probably cut corners everywhere.
I want to know, did something happen that the government wants to shut down all internet website.....is this like a getting ready for something type move....like some reason why they do not want to be stuck with websites all together....??? If anyone has links or info on why this would be their move...please share.
If they want this to take off, they would approach facebook and gmail and offer them some sort of deal for making this happen using their social network as a base to catapult this thing forward.....
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Wow, what a lot of rubbish you need to spew out of that small mind of yours.....if only you knew the evils of which man is capable.....I see we have not experienced first hand again that possibility....or to think that the US is the only country in the world...of course there could be ships out there leaving the port of India, of which is barely monitored, and of which the tracking number of a few containers is the only clue as to knowing what those containers might hold, and that coming from another country then the US such as (enter nuclear capable country here).....
Really, you really think the US is all powerful to know everything about every container that is out there on all these boats that do not belong to them, maybe once the enter US water border they can undergo extensive follow through, but until then there is not much the US can do in international waters....
I guess you like sounding smart when you aren't, maybe as much as I like sounding paranoid about such human possibilities.....but then again, this post was only about possibilities, of using a vulnerability in a system, and not fact or proof, which you would need for such accusations.....do you have any experience in importing and exporting of goods across countries? Please speak up now or forever hold your piece (pun intended) ~!
I understand what you say, and would agree this is the best view one could have for a proper reason for things to disappear, but we all know as soon as a vulnerability is found in any system, it is exploited...I am just stating that this could be used to dispose of special materials that could end up contaminating the ocean....ie - nuclear waste.
First, what of the seats, will they have protective covering, to avoid those red spots every woman has to have once a month....
Second, as a full hot blooded male, I have to wonder, is there such a thing as illegal chair use.....that material could leave some in an aroused state for the day, depending how they move and brush up against it....so when they are approaching blast off, how is their code going to look...... if (Cat.Meow = true) then Door.Open = True; Me.CallCatsName(); Me.LetCatOuut(); Me.CloseDdddoor(); Me.RUB(); Me.RUB(); ME.RUBBB(); Me...... end if
Third, what is the advantage or disadvantage to this, let the bosses who own the company see the goods, there is absolutely no use in this activity....it would be more of a disadvantage then an advantage, as code would suffer,.....
but then again, I see this for what it is....smoke screen, the real job is that there are cameras on each computer top.....and they are being streamed and women working there will get paid on how long those cameras stay on for....giving the looker a peeping tom sort of feel, like he caught someone working in the nude (as if at home??)
Well, let's say you are the captain of a ship and need to make extra cash cus they just don't pay you that much, and lets say some said company is willing to pay xxx amount of dollars, to drop a shipping container on purpose containing yyy garbage in it....could be toxic or not, but in the end, it costs less to make it appear like an accident and that we end up leaving the garbage at the bottom of the sea, because, if it would happen to be say IMPORTANT STUFF THAT A COMPANY OWNS OR PERSONAL BELONGINGS, we would have heard about this a long time ago, and they would have already devised a way to avoid dropping that important cargo overboard, especially with all the technology we have today, this could be avoided, the fact it is only coming out now and barely even mentioned as something that everyone is up in arms over (can you imagine Walmart, your customer is waiting for their goods, and your deadline is approaching and you hear they dropped your container on the bottom of the sea....it would not get swept under any rug....we would all hear about it)
So I wonder if this is just another ploy to get us to accept, "hey sometimes containers drop overboard" we then accept said scenario.... then scenario happens even more frequently by accident (wink,wink) and no one knows any better, that we now have an extra place for all human garbage....and that only in 15 years will we discover the truth, and have to deal with a massive clean up......
Many would think I might have an overactive imagination....but with all the supposed smoke screens today, how could we not have seen the BP oil (scam i call it) accident, that could have been prevented had there been xxx.... or how could someone fool the whole stock exchange and make 50 billion disappear.... or how could such a disaster happen in haiti, and that 1 year after we all pledged to help them, they still have yet to get the help they need....and not so much as a peep in our news about this fact....
smoke screen, smoke screen, smoke screen...... So why do I think like I do about such things, because I have been trained by our governments to think outside the box to see the real truth....most of the time.
>the scientists at UCLA had no intention of curing baldness. Originally, theirs was in fact a study aimed at reducing the harmful affects of chronic stress.
I guess maybe this proves that it is related, stress makes men go bald, maybe because of the augmented neurons firing when they deal with a stressful situation....
I got to say, I agree 1000% with this...if the industry stopped making a big deal about it, and invested in making a better version to avoid piracy, that would solve the problem there.
If a door maker, makes cheap doors that people can just punch and break, does that mean that the problem is people punching and breaking doors down, and robbing you of your house and possessions....or really is it the door manufacturer's fault for making flimsy doors....i never once heard a door maker say...
>"god dang, that's another one this week,...if only people would not punch doors and break them, we would have a more stable product securing people's houses."
So why is it ok for all these other companies to always blame others....I am not saying it is right for someone to steal....but the definition of stealing is bound to physical objects...when everything we talk about is virtual it becomes a big grey area..... so fix the problem by coming out with a steel door, instead of balsa wood....add deadbolts to your door, instead of just changing the small door lock....why cant they come up with a better system for music, movies, software, instead of blaming the people that are doing what comes naturally, finding a way to save money.....if they can, they will.....
I understand where he is going with this, but it is just another reason to raise taxes, and make the poor poorer.... People that eat junk food, are not your rich b*tch bmw driving stock brokers.....they are the lower paid salary workers doing that construction job, where they might have to rely on fast food to make ends meet (you know how often I was glad McDonalds offered the 2 burgers for a buck deal back in the day when I had a job out in the middle of nowhere doing construction....).
Instead of taxing the poor for wanting cheap food that makes them sick.....tax the restaurants for only making bad food, those that make good food, get a break...so if all of a sudden a 5 meal at mcdonalds is some yogurt fruits yam, and a slice of chicken, you do not get such an obese population (as 10 % of population make 90% of all the money...so that means 90% of population are poor) and that would lower the health care costs for obesity....the only reason why mcdonalds is the way it is is profit, if it became more profitable to serve good food then bad food, guess what...no one would suffer.
I went to the store for a bottle of water, and for a small 591 ml water with flavor , it was 1.99....right next to it a diet pepsi 2l bottle was 2.39....so for just an extra 40 cents, i get not only 4 times the volume, but i also get more flavored drink.
The problem is not the people, or population, but more what the government makes available to them.
Seriously, if smoking is so bad for you, then guess what place it on the same list as cocaine....it might be extreme as most smokers reading this will think, but once everyone accepted that smoking was as criminal as cocaine, then we would have less people doing it.... I am tryign to make a point only, I do not think smoking is as ugly as cocaine, but I think the government is going about this all wrong.
CmdrTaco has become a boob noob. He used to see through all the posted BS, and really single out the real geek important stuff...but I think/. has become too big to single out just those types of stories where us geeks would really appreciate, as he has a now much bigger audience he has to cater to.
Gone is the/. of yesterday, and gone are the stories that would let us know how to build robots in our basements, or how to create our own bio diesel fuel, or how someone came up with a special way of putting 50gb of data unto one sheet of paper (8*11).....I have been a/. reader for a long time, and I have to say this is the worst its ever been....
Is it really his fault, of course not, he can not even wipe his own *ss without asking first his board if he can do so, he used to back in the day be able to....but now I guess the size of/. has left him with no power, and a very disrupted view on what is important to a uber geek.
I still find the odd story worth reading, but usually just do the headlines....i think now my ratio for reading is 2 reads for every 10 headline skim.
It is sad to hear your story, it really is, we have no war here in canada, and i find that should you be able to live like us here, your views might be different, we tend to think of just, stop fighting, you need 2 to tango, etc...etc....and of course it is always different when you are actually in the middle of it all.
We supposedly only had 1 day of no war on this globe in all human history.....and some feuds have been around for a very long time (thousands of years)....so what do we do.....kill off anyone that would raise a gun in hatred or anger...????
It makes it sound like he built himself a bomb, where as he was the first to properly document making a bomb, which is a big difference, because I am sure there are still things missing, that you would only know once you created one, like how many times you can wipe your nose, before it starts to bleed because you forgot said protection to handle plutonium etc....
I guess, this is one of those stories that propagates itself (who sent it out there...the feds?)...to the point that it peaks interest in the right people that you want to catch and log, and then follow for your terrorist paper trail.......anyways, I don't think it is such an accomplishment, the accomplishment would be how to get the materials needed seeing as they are all being monitored.
I sort of understand the need for a certain level of money to maintain the image needed for our politicians to keep the american image clean, you do not want to send our politicans to these banquets to meet ambassadors of different countries, in cheap 600$ suits....I know most do not understand what the level is i talk about, but ask any politician that could be blackmailed for info, money, position of his seat in the house....they need body guards, they need protection, they need a reinforced limo, sometimes....well, anyways, I know we all hate them (me included) when we hear of the major scams they push on us, but if he can prove that 150k a year is not enough to be able to continue his image needed to bring home the bacon from other countries, or make good impressions with other politicians, then i guess what do we even give them seats for...or elect them for....I have yet to see a jeans day in the house of commons, or even any sort of shorts and sandals look, sort of common sense to me....
there was an old post on/. from way back about the equator getting thicker in the middle because the polar ice caps were melting and all the water was accumulating towards the middle, (like a skipping rope, when you tighten the ends, more centrifugal force applies towards the middle)....i guess this is the beginning of the next ice age...
To me its just another religion like scientology that takes itself seriously and all that.... I say if they pay their taxes, then let them do what they want, unless they try to do harm to to others but themselves.... if they stick the the laws we are all bound by, then who cares?
When you plainly describe it this way, I agree with you exactly on what you say, however.... here is what really happens in an insurance company (experience working at 3 diff.)
Person X is insured by company Y
Person X has made claims r, s, t, etc.
Company Y sees the claims, realizes that based on statistics, person X may be progressing to condition Z.
Condition Z is preventable, managable if treated early....but not knowing how late they are Company Y makes the Person X premiums for next year almost impossible to pay, and forces them to stop being covered.
With THIS model company Y saves money earlier and without all the extra cost of paper trails and investigation so that , person X now has to go somewhere else and start new, usually will hit a brick wall because at some point, Condition Z wont be touched with a 10 foot pole by any company.
Company Y continues collecting its insurance premium for all its other clients no problem.
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But he was the one to make it work and improve no the design to actual usage and past prototyping
Hands down, the brightest was Tony Stark, creating himself a mini emp device that generated enough electricity to power a small city, but also with enough mg force to stop that metal splinter from slipping into his heart, then you have all the suits over the years he worked on, of which war machine was the most prominent.
Sure, you can build bombs or this or that...but when you travel a multitude of different types of creations....of which from what I saw in the movie even included captain americas shield if that was just a preview, although we know stark was not responsible for it in the comics.
I thought the major ISPs firstly would use only government or privately owned land, not someone's backyard, and then if that was the case, as some people do want to bury treasure, have kids that dig or have people that want to put in swimming pools, that they would think of this and maybe put special PVC to cover the lines ....as they are on some one else's property and not the ISP's....no?
Anyone have some secrets they might want to share about this ...I was thinking about getting into it, dont know if it is properly established yet as a framework...
This is another /. news worthy story, cmdtaco asleep at the wheel again...if you need editors tat badly, I am game for it...but you will only get pure geekspeak columns, and none of this crap.
If I can remember my hash password, and use THAT as my password from now on, they are just as screwed....shows people placed in political positions never have computer knowledge needed to make up the laws.
Really, they bury unshielded copper wires in the ground of someone's backyard now....sounds more like someone dropped the ball with installations and then want to pin it on some elderly lady. If an elderly lady has enough force to cut through a thick shielded trunk of a wire
with a shovel, then guess what, it definitely wasn't installed or built right, but then again, they do not have a lot of money there, and probably cut corners everywhere.
I want to know, did something happen that the government wants to shut down all internet website.....is this like a getting ready for something type move....like some reason why they do not want to be stuck with websites all together....???
If anyone has links or info on why this would be their move...please share.
If they want this to take off, they would approach facebook and gmail and offer them some sort of deal for making this happen using their social network as a base to catapult this thing forward.....
wow you again, you must be following my posts immensely.....i guess you like me....wow I have a fan....following me like a little lap dog....cool, ok here is one for you....
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Wow, what a lot of rubbish you need to spew out of that small mind of yours.....if only you knew the evils of which man is capable.....I see we have not experienced first hand again that possibility....or to think that the US is the only country in the world...of course there could be ships out there leaving the port of India, of which is barely monitored, and of which the tracking number of a few containers is the only clue as to knowing what those containers might hold, and that coming from another country then the US such as (enter nuclear capable country here).....
Really, you really think the US is all powerful to know everything about every container that is out there on all these boats that do not belong to them, maybe once the enter US water border they can undergo extensive follow through, but until then there is not much the US can do in international waters....
I guess you like sounding smart when you aren't, maybe as much as I like sounding paranoid about such human possibilities.....but then again, this post was only about possibilities, of using a vulnerability in a system, and not fact or proof, which you would need for such accusations.....do you have any experience in importing and exporting of goods across countries? Please speak up now or forever hold your piece (pun intended) ~!
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I understand what you say, and would agree this is the best view one could have for a proper reason for things to disappear, but we all know as soon as a vulnerability is found in any system, it is exploited...I am just stating that this could be used to dispose of special materials that could end up contaminating the ocean....ie - nuclear waste.
First, what of the seats, will they have protective covering, to avoid those red spots every woman has to have once a month....
Second, as a full hot blooded male, I have to wonder, is there such a thing as illegal chair use.....that material could leave some in an aroused state for the day, depending how they move and brush up against it....so when they are approaching blast off, how is their code going to look...... if (Cat.Meow = true) then Door.Open = True; Me.CallCatsName(); Me.LetCatOuut(); Me.CloseDdddoor(); Me.RUB(); Me.RUB(); ME.RUBBB(); Me...... end if
Third, what is the advantage or disadvantage to this, let the bosses who own the company see the goods, there is absolutely no use in this activity ....it would be more of a disadvantage then an advantage, as code would suffer,.....
but then again, I see this for what it is....smoke screen, the real job is that there are cameras on each computer top.....and they are being streamed and women working there will get paid on how long those cameras stay on for....giving the looker a peeping tom sort of feel, like he caught someone working in the nude (as if at home??)
Well, let's say you are the captain of a ship and need to make extra cash cus they just don't pay you that much, and lets say some said company is willing to pay xxx amount of dollars, to drop a shipping container on purpose containing yyy garbage in it....could be toxic or not, but in the end, it costs less to make it appear like an accident and that we end up leaving the garbage at the bottom of the sea, because, if it would happen to be say IMPORTANT STUFF THAT A COMPANY OWNS OR PERSONAL BELONGINGS, we would have heard about this a long time ago, and they would have already devised a way to avoid dropping that important cargo overboard, especially with all the technology we have today, this could be avoided, the fact it is only coming out now and barely even mentioned as something
that everyone is up in arms over (can you imagine Walmart, your customer is waiting for their goods, and your deadline is approaching and you hear they dropped your container on the bottom of the sea....it would not get swept under any rug....we would all hear about it)
So I wonder if this is just another ploy to get us to accept, "hey sometimes containers drop overboard"
we then accept said scenario....
then scenario happens even more frequently by accident (wink,wink)
and no one knows any better, that we now have an extra place for all human garbage....and that only in 15 years will we discover the truth, and have to deal with a massive clean up......
Many would think I might have an overactive imagination....but with all the supposed smoke screens today, how could we not have seen the BP oil (scam i call it) accident, that could have been prevented had there been xxx.... ....and not so much as a peep in our news about this fact....
or how could someone fool the whole stock exchange and make 50 billion disappear....
or how could such a disaster happen in haiti, and that 1 year after we all pledged to help them,
they still have yet to get the help they need
smoke screen, smoke screen, smoke screen......
So why do I think like I do about such things, because I have been trained by our governments to think outside the box to see the real truth....most of the time.
>the scientists at UCLA had no intention of curing baldness. Originally, theirs was in fact a study aimed at reducing the harmful affects of chronic stress.
I guess maybe this proves that it is related, stress makes men go bald, maybe because of the augmented neurons firing when they deal with a stressful situation....
I got to say, I agree 1000% with this...if the industry stopped making a big deal about it, and invested in making a better version to avoid piracy, that would solve the problem there.
If a door maker, makes cheap doors that people can just punch and break, does that mean that the problem is people punching and breaking doors down, and robbing you of your house and possessions....or really is it the door manufacturer's fault for making flimsy doors....i never once heard a door maker say...
>"god dang, that's another one this week, ...if only people would not punch doors and break them, we would have a more stable product securing people's houses."
So why is it ok for all these other companies to always blame others....I am not saying it is right for someone to steal....but the definition of stealing is bound to physical objects...when everything we talk about is virtual it becomes a big grey area.....
so fix the problem by coming out with a steel door, instead of balsa wood....add deadbolts to your door, instead of just changing the small door lock....why cant they come up with a better system for music, movies, software, instead of blaming the people that are doing what comes naturally, finding a way to save money.....if they can, they will.....
I understand where he is going with this, but it is just another reason to raise taxes, and make the poor poorer....
People that eat junk food, are not your rich b*tch bmw driving stock brokers.....they are the lower paid salary workers doing that construction job, where they might have to rely on fast food to make ends meet (you know how often I was glad McDonalds offered the 2 burgers for a buck deal back in the day when I had a job out in the middle of nowhere doing construction....).
Instead of taxing the poor for wanting cheap food that makes them sick.....tax the restaurants for only making bad food, those that make good food, get a break...so if all of a sudden a 5 meal at mcdonalds is some yogurt fruits yam, and a slice of chicken, you do not get such an obese population (as 10 % of population make 90% of all the money...so that means 90% of population are poor) ...no one would suffer.
and that would lower the health care costs for obesity....the only reason why mcdonalds is the way it is is profit, if it became more profitable to serve good food then bad food, guess what
I went to the store for a bottle of water, and for a small 591 ml water with flavor , it was 1.99....right next to it a diet pepsi 2l bottle was 2.39....so for just an extra 40 cents, i get not only 4 times the volume, but i also get more flavored drink.
The problem is not the people, or population, but more what the government makes available to them.
Seriously, if smoking is so bad for you, then guess what place it on the same list as cocaine....it might be extreme as most smokers reading this will think, but once everyone accepted that smoking was as criminal as cocaine, then we would have less people doing it....
I am tryign to make a point only, I do not think smoking is as ugly as cocaine, but I think the government is going about this all wrong.
CmdrTaco has become a boob noob. He used to see through all the posted BS, and really single out the real geek important stuff...but I think /. has become too big to single out just those types of stories where us geeks would really appreciate, as he has a now much bigger audience he has to cater to.
Gone is the /. of yesterday, and gone are the stories that would let us know how to build robots in our basements, or how to create our own bio diesel fuel, or how someone came up with a special way of putting 50gb of data unto one sheet of paper (8*11).....I have been a /. reader for a long time, and I have to say this is the worst its ever been....
Is it really his fault, of course not, he can not even wipe his own *ss without asking first his board if he can do so, he used to back in the day be able to....but now I guess the size of /. has left him with no power, and a very disrupted view on what is important to a uber geek.
I still find the odd story worth reading, but usually just do the headlines....i think now my ratio for reading is 2 reads for every 10 headline skim.
It is sad to hear your story, it really is, we have no war here in canada, and i find that should you be able to live like us here, your views might be different, we tend to think of just, stop fighting, you need 2 to tango, etc...etc....and of course it is always different when you are actually in the middle of it all.
We supposedly only had 1 day of no war on this globe in all human history.....and some feuds have been around for a very long time (thousands of years)....so what do we do.....kill off anyone that would raise a gun in hatred or anger...????
It makes it sound like he built himself a bomb, where as he was the first to properly document making a bomb, which is a big difference, because I am sure there are still things missing, that you would only know once you created one, like how many times you can wipe your nose, before it starts to bleed because you forgot said protection to handle plutonium etc....
I guess, this is one of those stories that propagates itself (who sent it out there...the feds?)...to the point that it peaks interest in the right people that you want to catch and log, and then follow for your terrorist paper trail.......anyways, I don't think it is such an accomplishment, the accomplishment would be how to get the materials needed seeing as they are all being monitored.
I sort of understand the need for a certain level of money to maintain the image needed for our politicians to keep the american image clean, you do not want to send our politicans to these banquets to meet ambassadors of different countries, in cheap 600$ suits....I know most do not understand what the level is i talk about, but ask any politician that could be blackmailed for info, money, position of his seat in the house....they need body guards, they need protection, they need a reinforced limo, sometimes....well, anyways, I know we all hate them (me included) when we hear of the major scams they push on us, but if he can prove that 150k a year is not enough to be able to continue his image needed to bring home the bacon from other countries, or make good impressions with other politicians, then i guess what do we even give them seats for...or elect them for....I have yet to see a jeans day in the house of commons, or even any sort of shorts and sandals look, sort of common sense to me....
there was an old post on /. from way back about the equator getting thicker in the middle because the polar ice caps were melting and all the water was accumulating towards the middle, (like a skipping rope, when you tighten the ends, more centrifugal force applies towards the middle)....i guess this is the beginning of the next ice age...
To me its just another religion like scientology that takes itself seriously and all that....
I say if they pay their taxes, then let them do what they want, unless they try to do harm to to others but themselves....
if they stick the the laws we are all bound by, then who cares?
But does it contain melamine?
When you plainly describe it this way, I agree with you exactly on what you say, however....
here is what really happens in an insurance company (experience working at 3 diff.)
Person X is insured by company Y
Person X has made claims r, s, t, etc.
Company Y sees the claims, realizes that based on statistics, person X may be progressing to condition Z.
Condition Z is preventable, managable if treated early....but not knowing how late they are Company Y makes the Person X premiums for next year almost impossible to pay, and forces them to stop being covered.
With THIS model company Y saves money earlier and without all the extra cost of paper trails and investigation so that , person X now has to go somewhere else and start new, usually will hit a brick wall because at some point, Condition Z wont be touched with a 10 foot pole by any company.
Company Y continues collecting its insurance premium for all its other clients no problem.
This is a real life scenario , pretty bad ey?