Does this not highlight a major problem with the system?
The UK has a NI number which is kinda similar, used for taxes, pensions etc. but you sure as hell can't pretend to be someone just by knowing that and a name.
That's a shame, since they're based on ones used in things like trains. It's possible to go through a train window easily with one of the emergency hammers, all I can see different in a car is you have less swinging distance (Even though the ones on trains work with a 30cm/12" swing).
As for the railgun, if a car window can deflect things launched from railguns it's doing a bloody good job. A small one a group of us built at college put the shot through a plywood wall.
You got that wrong. It should have read "properly configured corporate network", and not had the "based on linux".
A properly configured Windows network can be just as secure as a properly configured Linux network. Possibly more so, since 99.9% of things are forced to 'just work' with group policies.
Likewise, a piss-poorly configured Linux network is just as insecure as a piss-poorly configured Windows network. Possibly more so, sice 99.9% of things have a million options, all of which have the possibility of doing arcane things to the filesystem.
I'm not a big MSFT fan, it just gets to me when I see people going "Linux is uber-kewl and can beat everything in Windows!" when for things such as corporate networks it is on a par with (if not less effective overall than) Windows. Admin dependant, of course.
8_yr_old_nude_rape.mpg is going straight to hell as soon as it appears in the listings. If it is being shared as Cool_Rap_Video_274.mpg and it turns out to be the rape of naked 8 year olds, then it's going straight to hell.
Low enough score with enough moderations, it just drops off the network and the checksum is banned.
911, 999 or 112 (depending on your location) are all (iirc) legally required to be dialable from any phone, any time, free of cost. As far as i'm aware this also covers things like keypad locks and pin codes for phones, so even if the phone is 'locked' it will be able to dial.
I also recall somewhere hearing it will work without a SIM, and the phone/networks will do their best to gat a connection up. Anyone confirm/deny this (NOT by ringing to see if it works)?
What I said was that fluorescent bulbs don't rely on heat to generate the light (as with incandescent bulbs), instead the heat is a by-product as opposed to an essential part of generating the light.
Still, if the on-board navigator suddenly realises there's a car hurtling towards it the wrong way down the M1 straddling the hard-shoulder and the inside lane (Yes, I've seen it happen) then how is it going to know to speed up/slow down in order to move clear of the car on its outside, then merge with traffic in the middle lane without causing a major pile-up.
If everything knows what everything else is doing, all is good. Until then it's a big problem.
Alternatively, what happens if there's something on the road needing avoiding? A human can tell where a deer is going to go (within reason), a Ford Fiesta has all the clue of a small lump of sponge.
If this does prove to be a problem (which I sincerely doubt) what's to stop the P2P just double-hashing everything? if you can generate a file the same size which collides in MD5 *and* SHA1 then you deserve to be able to run P2P into the ground.
ActiveX all I can suggest is use IE or don't use ActiveX...
User friendly can be dealt with by an IE theme. Aside from that I think Firefox has a damn good UI, what specific issues did you come up with?
Centralised support I agree with you on, but if your netadmins use Firefox on their machines don't you have a techie base right there?
As for the abuse, well. Let the kids play. If the school's proxy server isn't up to scratch at blocking the 'bad' pages then you can't blame it on the browser. Maybe it will help to highlight the fact that you just cannot censor the internet (.nyud.net:8090 bypasses all my school's content filters)
The trouble with automating ground first is you'd need to interface automatic cars with idiots on manual. If everything was automated and knew where everything else was and what it was doing, then fine. Personally I'm not too keen on the idea of trying to merge with automated traffic.
Ahh... sorry, I forgot that the US single-handedly saved the known universe, a lone American won the Battle of Britain, and that every single event in both world wars comprised entirely of American troops. Hollywood lies.
Anyway, I never said the US was ruling the world, merely that no other nation (to my knowledge) currently believes that there are WMD (I still have seen no evidence) hidden in every 3rd world country, the US system of democracy is perfect, and that Japan and Korea pose massive threats to world security. Korea possibly, but Japan? Come on.
The US was responsible for a lot of the origins of WW2, giving in to mostly french (but some british) demands for the Treaty of Versailles then led to serious economic turmoil in Germany. US loans helped, but then the Wall Street Crash called the loans back in and sent Germany into a downward spiral leading to WW2.
Calling the UK "your fucking little nation" does not do great things for the overall impression of US citizens. Our "shitty little democracy" has been around for a hell of a lot longer than the US's half-baked attempt, and your billions of dollars of help? Really? I thought Germany was forced to pay it all (Check the history).
I don't actually know what the US is doing right now with regards to protecting Europe. 'Son of Star Wars'? Yeah, thought so.
Taking care of "some stupid 3rd world dictator", whilst still being a good thing, is technically illegal. You went in because of weapons of mass destruction (And some of the UK followed, along with stragglers from everywhere else) and so far I have seen a sum total of zero evidence. Not zero weapons, zero *evidence*.
Endangering my life... lets think. Keeping the world's largest stock of nuclear warheads for 'peaceful' reasons? Perhaps generating the largest amount of pollution in the world (per $ of GDP, so you can't play "but the US is a big place" arguments).
What so fucking bad are you doing that deserves that sort of bullshit? Thinking you saved the entire world from itself and it is the God-given duty of the mighty US of A to protect all that is honourable, free and democratic in this world!
Think about it for a second.
Nice pancakes though, I'll give you that.
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Ah, now crap in the tray I *can* agree with you on. Mine has all of 8 icons (on a double-width bar) which leaves plenty of space for the rest.
If I wanted something which just looked damn good, I'd want a Mac. If I want something to be simple, I'd go CLI.
XP does what I need, and does it well. Sorry linux fanboys, but I've tried all three systems and XP wins for my needs (gaming/workstation). The server downstairs runs Fedora (And gets admin over SSH with Putty), and we don't have a Mac (But a mini is on order...)
From what I hear Longhorn will chew up 32gb quite happily...
That aside, I can see serious uses for up to 4gb in the power user/gamer scenario. I have 2gb, and frequently have to dip into pagefile when playing games because they just uncompress *everything* into RAM. Means I can get some nice load times on HL2 tho.
If someone can make a wireless device and access the net over it, and it looks sufficiently like a TI-85 to not be noticed, then I'd give them the pass.
The trouble is, the people who install Spyware will *still* allow the application to access the net, because they will just click "OK" or "Yes" to get their UberCoolDownloadHelperSearchNavigatorBar to work.
The trouble with this is you'd need two TCP stacks running concurrently, more if you plan on overlapping 3 or 4 networks. Network interfaces in my experience aren't too happy with being told they need to use multiple stacks for the same protocol.
Nope, marketing have a point here. The colour of light does affect your mood, why do you think hospitals concentrate on the cleanest light they can for operating theatres and general wards, whereas maternity wards have warmer lighting?
Starbucks use warm lighting because it makes you want to stay there, especially if it's raining outside.
Most incandescent bulbs are 'warmer' than most flourescent for things which matter. I think this is due to the fact they actually rely on heat to generate the light.
However, as with all things, you can get flourescent tubes which have a really warming glow, and the halogen bulbs in my room have a much cleaner light than ordinary bulbs.
Additionally, they don't have mains flicker. When I went to the US the flicker from flourescent tubes drove me insane (in the UK they flicker at 50Hz, what is it in the states?).
You can't pin this down to XP though - only the software not written to comprehend the NX bit. A new (well thought out) security feature comes along, and MS enable it by default. If a load of applications stop working because of something below the OS level (The NX bit is on the processor, correct me if I'm wrong) then it's the fault of the apps.
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I agree with you on this - the Windows interface does what it needs to without irritating doodads. If I wanted my screen to be full of gagues, monitors, icons, times, weather notifiers, scales, buttons, fish, alerts and text inputs then I'd use Linux. As it is, I quite like my XP shell. It has minimise, fullscreen/restore and close buttons for each window, a bar of running programs, some handy links, a 'main menu', and the time.
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Does this not highlight a major problem with the system?
The UK has a NI number which is kinda similar, used for taxes, pensions etc. but you sure as hell can't pretend to be someone just by knowing that and a name.
That's a shame, since they're based on ones used in things like trains. It's possible to go through a train window easily with one of the emergency hammers, all I can see different in a car is you have less swinging distance (Even though the ones on trains work with a 30cm/12" swing).
As for the railgun, if a car window can deflect things launched from railguns it's doing a bloody good job. A small one a group of us built at college put the shot through a plywood wall.
I have just had the strongest sense of deja-vu when reading that comment...
You got that wrong. It should have read "properly configured corporate network", and not had the "based on linux".
A properly configured Windows network can be just as secure as a properly configured Linux network. Possibly more so, since 99.9% of things are forced to 'just work' with group policies.
Likewise, a piss-poorly configured Linux network is just as insecure as a piss-poorly configured Windows network. Possibly more so, sice 99.9% of things have a million options, all of which have the possibility of doing arcane things to the filesystem.
I'm not a big MSFT fan, it just gets to me when I see people going "Linux is uber-kewl and can beat everything in Windows!" when for things such as corporate networks it is on a par with (if not less effective overall than) Windows. Admin dependant, of course.
peer moderate it.
8_yr_old_nude_rape.mpg is going straight to hell as soon as it appears in the listings. If it is being shared as Cool_Rap_Video_274.mpg and it turns out to be the rape of naked 8 year olds, then it's going straight to hell.
Low enough score with enough moderations, it just drops off the network and the checksum is banned.
911, 999 or 112 (depending on your location) are all (iirc) legally required to be dialable from any phone, any time, free of cost. As far as i'm aware this also covers things like keypad locks and pin codes for phones, so even if the phone is 'locked' it will be able to dial.
I also recall somewhere hearing it will work without a SIM, and the phone/networks will do their best to gat a connection up. Anyone confirm/deny this (NOT by ringing to see if it works)?
Our bleeding obvious award goes to...
What I said was that fluorescent bulbs don't rely on heat to generate the light (as with incandescent bulbs), instead the heat is a by-product as opposed to an essential part of generating the light.
Still, if the on-board navigator suddenly realises there's a car hurtling towards it the wrong way down the M1 straddling the hard-shoulder and the inside lane (Yes, I've seen it happen) then how is it going to know to speed up/slow down in order to move clear of the car on its outside, then merge with traffic in the middle lane without causing a major pile-up.
If everything knows what everything else is doing, all is good. Until then it's a big problem.
Alternatively, what happens if there's something on the road needing avoiding? A human can tell where a deer is going to go (within reason), a Ford Fiesta has all the clue of a small lump of sponge.
If this does prove to be a problem (which I sincerely doubt) what's to stop the P2P just double-hashing everything? if you can generate a file the same size which collides in MD5 *and* SHA1 then you deserve to be able to run P2P into the ground.
ActiveX all I can suggest is use IE or don't use ActiveX...
User friendly can be dealt with by an IE theme. Aside from that I think Firefox has a damn good UI, what specific issues did you come up with?
Centralised support I agree with you on, but if your netadmins use Firefox on their machines don't you have a techie base right there?
As for the abuse, well. Let the kids play. If the school's proxy server isn't up to scratch at blocking the 'bad' pages then you can't blame it on the browser. Maybe it will help to highlight the fact that you just cannot censor the internet (.nyud.net:8090 bypasses all my school's content filters)
The trouble with automating ground first is you'd need to interface automatic cars with idiots on manual. If everything was automated and knew where everything else was and what it was doing, then fine. Personally I'm not too keen on the idea of trying to merge with automated traffic.
Well, the USAF *think* they can shoot Gallileo out of the sky, but think about it. What do the missiles use to guide themselves.
GPS.
What is Gallileo?
A GPS system.
Go figure.
Ahh... sorry, I forgot that the US single-handedly saved the known universe, a lone American won the Battle of Britain, and that every single event in both world wars comprised entirely of American troops. Hollywood lies.
Anyway, I never said the US was ruling the world, merely that no other nation (to my knowledge) currently believes that there are WMD (I still have seen no evidence) hidden in every 3rd world country, the US system of democracy is perfect, and that Japan and Korea pose massive threats to world security. Korea possibly, but Japan? Come on.
The US was responsible for a lot of the origins of WW2, giving in to mostly french (but some british) demands for the Treaty of Versailles then led to serious economic turmoil in Germany. US loans helped, but then the Wall Street Crash called the loans back in and sent Germany into a downward spiral leading to WW2.
Calling the UK "your fucking little nation" does not do great things for the overall impression of US citizens. Our "shitty little democracy" has been around for a hell of a lot longer than the US's half-baked attempt, and your billions of dollars of help? Really? I thought Germany was forced to pay it all (Check the history).
I don't actually know what the US is doing right now with regards to protecting Europe. 'Son of Star Wars'? Yeah, thought so.
Taking care of "some stupid 3rd world dictator", whilst still being a good thing, is technically illegal. You went in because of weapons of mass destruction (And some of the UK followed, along with stragglers from everywhere else) and so far I have seen a sum total of zero evidence. Not zero weapons, zero *evidence*.
Endangering my life... lets think. Keeping the world's largest stock of nuclear warheads for 'peaceful' reasons? Perhaps generating the largest amount of pollution in the world (per $ of GDP, so you can't play "but the US is a big place" arguments).
What so fucking bad are you doing that deserves that sort of bullshit? Thinking you saved the entire world from itself and it is the God-given duty of the mighty US of A to protect all that is honourable, free and democratic in this world!
Think about it for a second.
Nice pancakes though, I'll give you that.
Ah, now crap in the tray I *can* agree with you on. Mine has all of 8 icons (on a double-width bar) which leaves plenty of space for the rest.
If I wanted something which just looked damn good, I'd want a Mac. If I want something to be simple, I'd go CLI.
XP does what I need, and does it well. Sorry linux fanboys, but I've tried all three systems and XP wins for my needs (gaming/workstation). The server downstairs runs Fedora (And gets admin over SSH with Putty), and we don't have a Mac (But a mini is on order...)
From what I hear Longhorn will chew up 32gb quite happily...
That aside, I can see serious uses for up to 4gb in the power user/gamer scenario. I have 2gb, and frequently have to dip into pagefile when playing games because they just uncompress *everything* into RAM. Means I can get some nice load times on HL2 tho.
I see we have a batch of new moderators. Parent is not Troll, parent is at best Off-Topic, and even that's pushing it.
If someone can make a wireless device and access the net over it, and it looks sufficiently like a TI-85 to not be noticed, then I'd give them the pass.
The trouble is, the people who install Spyware will *still* allow the application to access the net, because they will just click "OK" or "Yes" to get their UberCoolDownloadHelperSearchNavigatorBar to work.
The trouble with this is you'd need two TCP stacks running concurrently, more if you plan on overlapping 3 or 4 networks. Network interfaces in my experience aren't too happy with being told they need to use multiple stacks for the same protocol.
Nope, marketing have a point here. The colour of light does affect your mood, why do you think hospitals concentrate on the cleanest light they can for operating theatres and general wards, whereas maternity wards have warmer lighting?
Starbucks use warm lighting because it makes you want to stay there, especially if it's raining outside.
Same with my box, until I replaced it with a far nicer green one.
Most incandescent bulbs are 'warmer' than most flourescent for things which matter. I think this is due to the fact they actually rely on heat to generate the light.
However, as with all things, you can get flourescent tubes which have a really warming glow, and the halogen bulbs in my room have a much cleaner light than ordinary bulbs.
Additionally, they don't have mains flicker. When I went to the US the flicker from flourescent tubes drove me insane (in the UK they flicker at 50Hz, what is it in the states?).
You can't pin this down to XP though - only the software not written to comprehend the NX bit. A new (well thought out) security feature comes along, and MS enable it by default. If a load of applications stop working because of something below the OS level (The NX bit is on the processor, correct me if I'm wrong) then it's the fault of the apps.
We obey the laws of thermodynamics in this house.
I agree with you on this - the Windows interface does what it needs to without irritating doodads. If I wanted my screen to be full of gagues, monitors, icons, times, weather notifiers, scales, buttons, fish, alerts and text inputs then I'd use Linux. As it is, I quite like my XP shell. It has minimise, fullscreen/restore and close buttons for each window, a bar of running programs, some handy links, a 'main menu', and the time.