That, though, is a design flaw common to everything that doesn't use a microkernel. Even linux suffers from this problem, despite the continuing efforts of microkernel enthusiasts. Some day I'd like to see a mainstream OS with a kernel that can't be crashed by a driver, because I want to look back on this as the "bad old days".
Only the US (acknowledged torturer, massive human rights abuser) has the legal protections (memos penned by John Yoo) to ensure that free speech (Yahoo releases personal info to Chinese internet police, subject of info executed) remains in full force on the Internet. Rah rah! U! S! A! U! S! A! At this point, we could hand control of the Internet to Hitler, and not have any moral standing to criticize him.
Uhm, a remote-controlled flying bomb ain't even close to a surveillance UAV. I suspect you missed the point by, oh, a LOT. And yes, I already have a plane that can manage a few hundred meters altitude. Rigging it to explode would be trivial.
But for $1000, you can have one hell of a claymore if you give up the Tom Clancy plot. Just have someone carry a briefcase somewhere and leave it.
If you don't know the difference between a $150 toy and a $25k mil-spec surveillance uav, how do you manage to scrape up the braincells long enough to even log into slashdot? Look at the model you linked. Top speed somewhere around a slow jog, runtime of (charitably) 15 minutes, and a payload capacity of around an ounce. There's a world of difference between a boat and an airplane, specifically in that your vehicles only have to be watertight and minimally buoyant. Oh, and then there's that thing about boats having only one control surface. It's got to be easy testing your rig when a failure means you go in circles, versus screaming vertically into a smoking pile of rubble. $25k is probably quite inflated, but most military hardware is. Testing for battlefield ruggedness isn't free, and making something easy enough for a Marine to handle costs a lot. But, I really would like to see your attempt at a self-navigating, gps-equipped, tri-camera (with encrypted feeds over FHSS) sub-six-foot surveillance water- or air-craft that goes 60mph for more than an hour. If you can do it for under $10k, you could probably have your pick of any job you want in the UAV industry.
Or, for the TL;DR crowd: Yes, you ARE talking out of your ass.
Why're you anonymous? Keith Olbermann has $10k for a charity of your choice! All you have to do is endure the same religiously appropriate treatment the detainees underwent. That's all you gotta do. And it's not even torture, it's just a little water on the face!
Clearly the only solution is to let the attackers keep hammering away without any countermeasures.
No, really, I mean it. What you do is force everybody to have a 5-10 sec delay on login. Immediately, your hacker's ability to bruteforce your system drops by at least an order of magnitude.
I like how you dodge the entire point of, well, pretty much everything I've said and reply with a childish "you're not the boss of me!" You're not offensive, you're amusing. I add offensive people to my foes list. Go ahead and check, it doesn't include you. You may be covered by the 1st Amendment, but that doesn't mean you should exercise that particular right constantly. You have no reason to be a paranoid fool, and the thing you're being paranoid about is the tiniest shred of an iceberg, and like everyone else you have an easy tool to destroy the iceberg.
So I'll repeat myself, why are you crying? What do you have to hide that your browser history would reveal?
Are you an anti-PRC Chinese guy? Are you an Iranian? Are you the anti-islamic Syrian dame? Are you one of the UK journalists who had to have an American do their job for them in the recent illicit expenses scandal?
No? Then shut up. I'm gonna take a guess: You live in the USA, you have a membership at Stormfront, and you would have voted for Bush twice, except the first time he ran you were too young. Please respond with more angry invective, you're amusing me.
Parent is a pathologically paranoid moron. Nobody cares about his pristine collection of 1970's-era hairy man porn. He would rather we all be forced to give up a prime feature of every mainstream browser, just so that he can feel better about himself. It's pathetic, really. This is the condition of the modern-day conservative.
I have to say, though, your past posts promoting eugenics and applauding military-sponsored rape really do put your paranoia in perspective.
Everybody on here needs to grow up. You're whining and crying about your browser keeping a history of your browsing. That's been an accepted feature for over a decade. Only now, you've got a porn mode so it doesn't keep a history. That's new. Why are you wanking fools whining about a browser cache now? Are you seriously crying that a file on your computer might have a screenshot of where you've been on the web? Really? I've got a hint for you: NOBODY CARES ABOUT YOUR DONKEY PORN.
Don't bother responding, I've already answered your objections: "Oh, but Geekboy, I live in a totalitarian regime, and I'm a freedom activist! They monitor everything I do!" Your browser history is the absolute last place the KGB is gonna look for information. They'll talk to your neighbors, your boss, your parents, and probably drag you in for interrogation before they even consider looking in your history. "Oh, but Geekboy, I just love looking at little kids! It's not sexual at all, it just makes me happy!" Do like pedophiles have done since the middle ages: become a priest. Get it off the internet, those parents' groups and TV shows are really annoying. Also, same thing as in the KGB. Even if they don't catch you in an actual sting, they'll grab your stacks of CDs and piles of imported manga way before they give a rats ass about your browser.
Now mod me down, and prove you're all pathologically paranoid morons.
He's addicted to being a pirate. He's too far gone to be saved...all you can do is sandbag around his computer. But when the replica cannon arrives via UPS, I suggest you leave.
Accented characters are a part of English. This is a geek website, but who the hell wants to muck up their prose with identities? I could fix this crap in only a few hours: The editor should convert selected characters to their html identities when the message is posted. There's a reasonable line between encouraging conversations in korean and supporting the whole of your native language.
Way to miss the point, pornologist. In a free market, ANY mechanic would work on ANY car he/she felt like figuring out. We have a government-enforced monopoly on any car with a computer in it, thanks to the DMCA and similar laws. That's not freedom; that's not capitalism, that's corporatism.
I know almost nothing about data compression beyond the readme for pkzip. Are there really enough learned patterns in a video stream that would make a >1% difference in filesize if compressed in independent chunks? As far as I can reason it out, independent chunks would act like you'd just inserted an extra keyframe at the splitpoints.
WRONG, son. A stupid person is somebody without any desire to learn. Nothing's wrong with their hardware, but the firmware's in ROM. A stupid person is the one that asks her doctor whether she should stop smoking--at 8 months pregnant. Stupid people give high-interest loans to pathologically unfit buyers, then wonder why they have so many defaulted loans. A stupid person is one who asks the cop to hold his beer while he digs for a drivers license. Stupid people voted for Bush twice, listen to Alex Jones religiously, and think the gays are going to sodomize their children. A stupid person takes Anonymous seriously. Stupid people are offended by Bill Engval's "Here's Your Sign" routine because they think he's making fun of them personally. Stupid people earnestly read and write comments on Youtube. As Ron White famously said, "Stupid is foh-EVAH."
Oh, and stupid people don't recognize that they're stupid, but probably will respond angrily to this post without even reading all of it. Please foe me if I just pissed you off. You're one of them.
OS X 10.2 Ah-hah, right. You're using an OS that was EOL'ed in 2003, and expecting it to run modern software? That's like complaining Windows 95 won't run IE 8. If you want to run modern software, you need a modern OS. I don't try to play Warcraft on OS/2 Warp, do you get my meaning?
Also, as a non-trolling response, have you tried oldversion.com? You could almost certainly find a version of flash that's supported on 10.2, or a less-antique version of Safari. That, or watch eBay. I'd bet Tiger shows up there infrequently.
This is a "Creation Research Institute" talking point. In actual fact, carbon dating is able to give the ages of formerly living materials up to about 60,000 years old. Any older, and the C-14 that the method relies on will have completely decayed. No material has ever been carbon dated as "millions of years old". I know of several hoaxes involving artifacts supposedly excavated from coal-mines and the like, for example the London Hammer. This is almost certainly what you refer to. The keepers of these ersatz fossils have never permitted them to be dated or thoroughly examined by actual scientists. Draw your own conclusions about somebody refusing to allow their claims to be tested.
Print is only technically traceable. Your local PD will not have access to a database that links the inkjet patterns to your name. If, in fact, such a mythical database even exists (doubtful, requires competence from the government and honesty from corporations), it is not a simple matter to perform a lookup. GP's suggestion is near perfect.
I have an iPhone. I also have an OpenBSD firewall, a Debian FTP/NFS/SMB server, a LAMP server running on a toaster, a Hackintosh, and a spare system with Windows 7 on it. I guess now I'll have to get a social life or something. This not being a geek thing is going to screw up my schedule.
Why does anybody who attacks Doctorow about anything hide behind the Anonymous label? Are you all terrified he'll descend from the skies in his hot-air balloon and blog at you? Ooooh, scary.
The important point, which I don't think the GP illustrated clearly, was this: The founding fathers had just left a country deeply steeped in religion. They specifically wanted a country where religion didn't affect the government at all. "Congress shall make no law..." is a direct response to the (iirc) Anglican church that was essentially controlled by the king. Anyone with any sense will not claim that the US was intended to be a christian nation, as that is an absolute falsehood.
And as for your actual post, here's this:
I do not believe in the creed professed by the Jewish church, by the Roman church, by the Greek church, by the Turkish church, by the Protestant church, nor by any church that I know of...Each of those churches accuse the other of unbelief; and for my own part, I disbelieve them all." -- Thomas Paine
"Twenty times in the course of my late reading, have I been upon the point of breaking out, "This would be the best of all possible worlds, if there were no religion in it!" -- John Adams "Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprise. During almost fifteen centuries has the legal establishment of Christianity been on trial. What have been its fruits? More or less in all places, pride and indolence in the Clergy, ignorance and servility in the laity, in both, superstition, bigotry and persecution." -- James Madison "The government of the United States is not in any sense founded on the Christian religion." -- The 1797 United States Senate, in a treaty signed with Tripoli
They absolutely were not nearly-all protestant. Most of them were, at the most, Deist, with a few being what would now be called Atheists. Please learn your own history.
You're not running legacy code written by a contracting team who disbanded 4 years ago. You're not running the latest crufty hack on a codebase that was originally ported from CP/M by a group of five coders with 2 GEDs among them ll. You're not running billing software written in COBOL on a custom interpreter that was first launched on an 80286 with 512KB of RAM and a greenscreen. XP Mode is not for you. XP Mode is for companies that can't afford to rewrite all of their business software in six months. Rest assured, (almost) all of your games and shareware crap will still work natively in windows 7.
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That, though, is a design flaw common to everything that doesn't use a microkernel. Even linux suffers from this problem, despite the continuing efforts of microkernel enthusiasts. Some day I'd like to see a mainstream OS with a kernel that can't be crashed by a driver, because I want to look back on this as the "bad old days".
Only the US (acknowledged torturer, massive human rights abuser) has the legal protections (memos penned by John Yoo) to ensure that free speech (Yahoo releases personal info to Chinese internet police, subject of info executed) remains in full force on the Internet.
Rah rah! U! S! A! U! S! A!
At this point, we could hand control of the Internet to Hitler, and not have any moral standing to criticize him.
Uhm, a remote-controlled flying bomb ain't even close to a surveillance UAV. I suspect you missed the point by, oh, a LOT. And yes, I already have a plane that can manage a few hundred meters altitude. Rigging it to explode would be trivial.
But for $1000, you can have one hell of a claymore if you give up the Tom Clancy plot. Just have someone carry a briefcase somewhere and leave it.
If you don't know the difference between a $150 toy and a $25k mil-spec surveillance uav, how do you manage to scrape up the braincells long enough to even log into slashdot? Look at the model you linked. Top speed somewhere around a slow jog, runtime of (charitably) 15 minutes, and a payload capacity of around an ounce. There's a world of difference between a boat and an airplane, specifically in that your vehicles only have to be watertight and minimally buoyant. Oh, and then there's that thing about boats having only one control surface. It's got to be easy testing your rig when a failure means you go in circles, versus screaming vertically into a smoking pile of rubble.
$25k is probably quite inflated, but most military hardware is. Testing for battlefield ruggedness isn't free, and making something easy enough for a Marine to handle costs a lot. But, I really would like to see your attempt at a self-navigating, gps-equipped, tri-camera (with encrypted feeds over FHSS) sub-six-foot surveillance water- or air-craft that goes 60mph for more than an hour. If you can do it for under $10k, you could probably have your pick of any job you want in the UAV industry.
Or, for the TL;DR crowd: Yes, you ARE talking out of your ass.
Who would buy a 5,000 year calendar if it's only got 3 years left in it? That's such a waste of money. I'll wait and buy the 2012-7138 version.
Why're you anonymous?
Keith Olbermann has $10k for a charity of your choice! All you have to do is endure the same religiously appropriate treatment the detainees underwent. That's all you gotta do. And it's not even torture, it's just a little water on the face!
Clearly the only solution is to let the attackers keep hammering away without any countermeasures.
No, really, I mean it. What you do is force everybody to have a 5-10 sec delay on login. Immediately, your hacker's ability to bruteforce your system drops by at least an order of magnitude.
I like how you dodge the entire point of, well, pretty much everything I've said and reply with a childish "you're not the boss of me!" You're not offensive, you're amusing. I add offensive people to my foes list. Go ahead and check, it doesn't include you. You may be covered by the 1st Amendment, but that doesn't mean you should exercise that particular right constantly. You have no reason to be a paranoid fool, and the thing you're being paranoid about is the tiniest shred of an iceberg, and like everyone else you have an easy tool to destroy the iceberg.
So I'll repeat myself, why are you crying? What do you have to hide that your browser history would reveal?
Are you an anti-PRC Chinese guy?
Are you an Iranian?
Are you the anti-islamic Syrian dame?
Are you one of the UK journalists who had to have an American do their job for them in the recent illicit expenses scandal?
No? Then shut up.
I'm gonna take a guess: You live in the USA, you have a membership at Stormfront, and you would have voted for Bush twice, except the first time he ran you were too young. Please respond with more angry invective, you're amusing me.
Parent is a pathologically paranoid moron. Nobody cares about his pristine collection of 1970's-era hairy man porn. He would rather we all be forced to give up a prime feature of every mainstream browser, just so that he can feel better about himself. It's pathetic, really. This is the condition of the modern-day conservative.
I have to say, though, your past posts promoting eugenics and applauding military-sponsored rape really do put your paranoia in perspective.
Everybody on here needs to grow up. You're whining and crying about your browser keeping a history of your browsing. That's been an accepted feature for over a decade. Only now, you've got a porn mode so it doesn't keep a history. That's new. Why are you wanking fools whining about a browser cache now? Are you seriously crying that a file on your computer might have a screenshot of where you've been on the web? Really? I've got a hint for you: NOBODY CARES ABOUT YOUR DONKEY PORN.
Don't bother responding, I've already answered your objections:
"Oh, but Geekboy, I live in a totalitarian regime, and I'm a freedom activist! They monitor everything I do!" Your browser history is the absolute last place the KGB is gonna look for information. They'll talk to your neighbors, your boss, your parents, and probably drag you in for interrogation before they even consider looking in your history.
"Oh, but Geekboy, I just love looking at little kids! It's not sexual at all, it just makes me happy!" Do like pedophiles have done since the middle ages: become a priest. Get it off the internet, those parents' groups and TV shows are really annoying. Also, same thing as in the KGB. Even if they don't catch you in an actual sting, they'll grab your stacks of CDs and piles of imported manga way before they give a rats ass about your browser.
Now mod me down, and prove you're all pathologically paranoid morons.
He's addicted to being a pirate. He's too far gone to be saved...all you can do is sandbag around his computer. But when the replica cannon arrives via UPS, I suggest you leave.
Accented characters are a part of English. This is a geek website, but who the hell wants to muck up their prose with identities? I could fix this crap in only a few hours: The editor should convert selected characters to their html identities when the message is posted. There's a reasonable line between encouraging conversations in korean and supporting the whole of your native language.
Way to miss the point, pornologist. In a free market, ANY mechanic would work on ANY car he/she felt like figuring out. We have a government-enforced monopoly on any car with a computer in it, thanks to the DMCA and similar laws. That's not freedom; that's not capitalism, that's corporatism.
Right, right. That poser. Everybody knows real geeks have to hit ctrl-alt-meta-super-F6 to save their documents.
I know almost nothing about data compression beyond the readme for pkzip. Are there really enough learned patterns in a video stream that would make a >1% difference in filesize if compressed in independent chunks? As far as I can reason it out, independent chunks would act like you'd just inserted an extra keyframe at the splitpoints.
WRONG, son. A stupid person is somebody without any desire to learn. Nothing's wrong with their hardware, but the firmware's in ROM.
A stupid person is the one that asks her doctor whether she should stop smoking--at 8 months pregnant. Stupid people give high-interest loans to pathologically unfit buyers, then wonder why they have so many defaulted loans. A stupid person is one who asks the cop to hold his beer while he digs for a drivers license. Stupid people voted for Bush twice, listen to Alex Jones religiously, and think the gays are going to sodomize their children. A stupid person takes Anonymous seriously. Stupid people are offended by Bill Engval's "Here's Your Sign" routine because they think he's making fun of them personally. Stupid people earnestly read and write comments on Youtube.
As Ron White famously said, "Stupid is foh-EVAH."
Oh, and stupid people don't recognize that they're stupid, but probably will respond angrily to this post without even reading all of it. Please foe me if I just pissed you off. You're one of them.
OS X 10.2
Ah-hah, right. You're using an OS that was EOL'ed in 2003, and expecting it to run modern software? That's like complaining Windows 95 won't run IE 8. If you want to run modern software, you need a modern OS. I don't try to play Warcraft on OS/2 Warp, do you get my meaning?
Also, as a non-trolling response, have you tried oldversion.com? You could almost certainly find a version of flash that's supported on 10.2, or a less-antique version of Safari. That, or watch eBay. I'd bet Tiger shows up there infrequently.
This is a "Creation Research Institute" talking point.
In actual fact, carbon dating is able to give the ages of formerly living materials up to about 60,000 years old. Any older, and the C-14 that the method relies on will have completely decayed. No material has ever been carbon dated as "millions of years old". I know of several hoaxes involving artifacts supposedly excavated from coal-mines and the like, for example the London Hammer. This is almost certainly what you refer to. The keepers of these ersatz fossils have never permitted them to be dated or thoroughly examined by actual scientists. Draw your own conclusions about somebody refusing to allow their claims to be tested.
Print is only technically traceable. Your local PD will not have access to a database that links the inkjet patterns to your name. If, in fact, such a mythical database even exists (doubtful, requires competence from the government and honesty from corporations), it is not a simple matter to perform a lookup. GP's suggestion is near perfect.
I have an iPhone. I also have an OpenBSD firewall, a Debian FTP/NFS/SMB server, a LAMP server running on a toaster, a Hackintosh, and a spare system with Windows 7 on it. I guess now I'll have to get a social life or something. This not being a geek thing is going to screw up my schedule.
Why does anybody who attacks Doctorow about anything hide behind the Anonymous label? Are you all terrified he'll descend from the skies in his hot-air balloon and blog at you? Ooooh, scary.
Stop drooling on your keyboard and look for the punctuation keys.
Also, yes. Everybody knows you saw Moore's film. Good for you. Want a bran cookie now?
The important point, which I don't think the GP illustrated clearly, was this:
The founding fathers had just left a country deeply steeped in religion. They specifically wanted a country where religion didn't affect the government at all. "Congress shall make no law..." is a direct response to the (iirc) Anglican church that was essentially controlled by the king. Anyone with any sense will not claim that the US was intended to be a christian nation, as that is an absolute falsehood.
And as for your actual post, here's this:
They absolutely were not nearly-all protestant. Most of them were, at the most, Deist, with a few being what would now be called Atheists. Please learn your own history.
You're not running legacy code written by a contracting team who disbanded 4 years ago. You're not running the latest crufty hack on a codebase that was originally ported from CP/M by a group of five coders with 2 GEDs among them ll. You're not running billing software written in COBOL on a custom interpreter that was first launched on an 80286 with 512KB of RAM and a greenscreen. XP Mode is not for you. XP Mode is for companies that can't afford to rewrite all of their business software in six months. Rest assured, (almost) all of your games and shareware crap will still work natively in windows 7.