It's also important to understand that speed varies a lot by traffic, too. If you and thousands and thousands of other people are competing for bandwidth to download the latest Ubuntu ISO the day it comes out, say, in April, using the mirrors rather than a torrent, you're probably not going to get anything close to your 'advertised speed' -- and, in fact, in some cases you may be lucky to get anything at all.
And we know how Comcast deals with P2P data -- it inserts random RSTS to 'shape' their traffic using a man-in-the-middle DoS attack.
Right. Because the Mozilla developers are sitting around, working secret. They keep their code all locked up tight and no one can see it. They don't keep a source repository online, updated hourly. They don't publicly discuss the code on any mailing lists or news groups, have a public irc channel where they discuss development, nothing! The Opera developers and everyone else are kept totally in the dark, right up until release! Why, you'd think Mozilla wasn't an open source project, but was instead developed by Microsoft!
I wish I had mod points for you, very few times have I been sent scurrying to a dictionary just to figure out what it was that I was reading. I must not have such an expansive lexicon as I once thought. Install the 'Dictionary.com word of the day' into your iGoogle page. If you had, you'd know he just used the words of the day from the last few days very successfully.:-D
Um... South Africans are South Africans. South Africa = country. Caucasian = race. African-American = An American (principally used to denote U.S. continental statehood) with a race origin from somewhere on the African continent (but usually restricted to sub-Saharan Africa). Why is a more complex question and difficult to answer without a lot of finger pointing. Except, of course, that even the term African-American isn't technically correct. Many of the enslaved peoples of the pre-Civil-War U.S. were from places in the West Indies such as Haiti.
The new technology uses cameras and projectors to beam images of the surrounding landscape onto a tank. Right. Because energy to power all those cameras and projectors would be available and abundant on a satellite likely powered only by small solar panels.
Encase it in the same material as the stealth bombers (radar) But it's not just the material that hides stealth bombers from radar, it's the shape. But perhaps making a satellite to be shaped similarly to a stealth bomber is not impossible.
Um, maybe I'm missing something obvious here, but if you have an object in low Earth orbit, it would seem to me that as long as there is line of sight to it, there's no way you can really hide it.
I just do not accept them and nobody is going to stop me because when they would realy try, it quickly would become clear that software patents do not have any real value, that the whole idea is absurd. You are currently violating my patent, 5,235,354,434,434: Method of doing business by ignoring software patents.
Of course, like I said, freak accidents are known to happen. But this seems just a wee bit too coincidental to be a freak accident. I mean, in the example you provide, I'm sure there wasn't a 500 Mbps DDoS atack, combined with a legal attack staged by infamous Hollywood shysters happening at about the same time, either.
I smell the work of international organized crime here.
Funny but, I couldn't shake the feeling that the reason conditions here on earth are so 'perfect' for life as we know it was more to do with life as we know it evolving to fit the conditions... No, no! Can't you see? Earth is incredibly rare! Too rare to be a coincidence. Nope, must've been an Intelligent Designer that created life. Probably about 6,000 years or so ago. Yep.
Heh. This new information kinda blows a hole in that theory, huh?
Now to find a way of this rock onto one of those. Just keep typing stuff like of instead of off and leaving out conjunctions like and in between rock and onto and sooner or latter someone around here is sure to get pissed off enough to help you off of this rock. Getting onto one of the others is an entirely different story.
Is it possible to overload a power supply to the point of fire from a remote location? I've heard of black hats getting into the climate control systems of certain areas and loading up the heat and frying certain parts of computers, but a power supply? There are UPSes with intelligent controllers, of course. I don't really know how easy or difficult it would be to make these cause a UPS to overload, maybe someone else here has knowledge I don't. I would hope anyone using such a controller would take proper safety precautions, such as making them inaccessible from outside the internal network, but you know how smart some people are...:)
Interesting, but not likely. WikiLeakS is already well-known and they have plenty of traffic on their site. The publisher of the leaks themselves is known and WikiLeakS is just a neutral party to this really -- they just serve up what people post.
Besides, what about the mysterious UPS fire? I find that interesting because UPSes, especially commercial grade ones installed in server rooms, typically have safety mechanisms (read: big breaker switches) in them that prevent them from overloading and catching fire. In 15 years of working in server rooms, I've never actually seen one catch fire, though I've heard of a few freak accidents.
Yeah, I mean, ordering a system from Dell is just so incredibly difficult. You call a 1-800 number and an actual human being will help you order a computer. I mean, almost nobody orders computers from Dell! No siree, Bob.
Of course it's not difficult to fix...the problem is that most users aren't going to check their DNS settings like you or I would...heck...most users don't even know what a DNS server is.
What're you talking about? I know exactly what a Dorrito's Nachos Server is. Now if only she would hurry up and bring my plate out here....
Translation: It isn't OUR fault that children can see porn on the Net, it's Google's and Yahoo's, since they don't filter search results for children. (Which is not actually entirely true in either case.)
That is what is wrong with this fucking company now, people are too busy kissing assholes for their review scores than actually saying it his it is. I can't parse the last phrase of this statement, AC. Can anyone else make out what he's saying? If you're reading this AC, please clarify.
You can thank Bush that you don't have to be skeered of no terrorists. Pffft. My not being scared of terrorists has nothing to do with Bush. In case you hadn't noticed, acts of terrorism were already plenty illegal before Bush even got into the White House, let alone 9/11. Well before all of this, we've had law enforcement and military, working at the federal, state and local levels doing their job to stop terrorists and other illegal, hostile acts of aggression. They already knew something like 9/11 could happen before it ever happened. Nobody was surprised. Trust me.
Here's the thing, man: The terrorists aren't all that organized. They couldn't possibly pull off another 9/11. Besides, do you think terrorists actually did 9/11 in the first place? If so, do you think they did it by themselves, without any help? See my first statement in this paragraph. There is no "the terrorists". There are different varying factions who are extremely busy fighting amongst themselves and everyone else, never mind the United States. Sure, occasionally an IED blows up in Iraq, or there are suicide bombers, but these aren't the coordinated act of some mighty coordinated group all orchestrated by one man named Osama Bin Laden. If you really think that, then you probably deserve what the government is doing to you. But please, don't let your ignorance affect my freedom.
The Democrats are so far out of reality to push their scare tactics of Global Warming being worse than Islamofascism. Whoo boy. Do they have you brainwashed or what? Wake up, man! The Democrats and the Republicans use the same scare tactics to get whatever it is they want. Do I believe Global Warming is bad? Yes. Do I think the models that predict all the bad stuff that Al Gore and others told us would happen are right? Who knows?They don't know for sure. But here's the thing, man: Do you want this planet to be a good place to human race to live, now and in the future? Then raping the planet of natural resources and polluting the fsck out of it because we're too worried about a few billionaires not being able to buy a new yacht next year because their stock portfolio fell a few percentage points seems like a bad idea, now doesn't it?
For myself though, I put my faith in my safety-rock Whatever makes you feel better, man. I hear there's this kat named Linus that carries around a blanket.
Joystick with DooM ][ ? A Keyboard *RULES* in DooM... Much better than any other input device (IMHO) I actually did a lot better with a Nintendo-style 'joypad' than with the keyboard. Choice of input devices in games is very much a personal decision, methinks.
A bill that would give the president more power is more important than maintaining checks and balances? Yes. It's much easier to build a theocratic state when you only have to control the President and you don't have to worry about any pesky liberals in the Legislature.
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It's also important to understand that speed varies a lot by traffic, too. If you and thousands and thousands of other people are competing for bandwidth to download the latest Ubuntu ISO the day it comes out, say, in April, using the mirrors rather than a torrent, you're probably not going to get anything close to your 'advertised speed' -- and, in fact, in some cases you may be lucky to get anything at all.
And we know how Comcast deals with P2P data -- it inserts random RSTS to 'shape' their traffic using a man-in-the-middle DoS attack.
He did. You should try a remedial English course, perhaps.
Right. Because the Mozilla developers are sitting around, working secret. They keep their code all locked up tight and no one can see it. They don't keep a source repository online, updated hourly. They don't publicly discuss the code on any mailing lists or news groups, have a public irc channel where they discuss development, nothing! The Opera developers and everyone else are kept totally in the dark, right up until release! Why, you'd think Mozilla wasn't an open source project, but was instead developed by Microsoft!
Um, maybe I'm missing something obvious here, but if you have an object in low Earth orbit, it would seem to me that as long as there is line of sight to it, there's no way you can really hide it.
Prepare to be sued.
Of course, like I said, freak accidents are known to happen. But this seems just a wee bit too coincidental to be a freak accident. I mean, in the example you provide, I'm sure there wasn't a 500 Mbps DDoS atack, combined with a legal attack staged by infamous Hollywood shysters happening at about the same time, either.
I smell the work of international organized crime here.
Heh. This new information kinda blows a hole in that theory, huh?
Interesting, but not likely. WikiLeakS is already well-known and they have plenty of traffic on their site. The publisher of the leaks themselves is known and WikiLeakS is just a neutral party to this really -- they just serve up what people post.
Besides, what about the mysterious UPS fire? I find that interesting because UPSes, especially commercial grade ones installed in server rooms, typically have safety mechanisms (read: big breaker switches) in them that prevent them from overloading and catching fire. In 15 years of working in server rooms, I've never actually seen one catch fire, though I've heard of a few freak accidents.
Yeah, I mean, ordering a system from Dell is just so incredibly difficult. You call a 1-800 number and an actual human being will help you order a computer. I mean, almost nobody orders computers from Dell! No siree, Bob.
Oh, yeah. Thanks for mentioning that. I forgot to put it in my post above. :)
Of course it's not difficult to fix...the problem is that most users aren't going to check their DNS settings like you or I would...heck...most users don't even know what a DNS server is.
What're you talking about? I know exactly what a Dorrito's Nachos Server is. Now if only she would hurry up and bring my plate out here....
Translation: It isn't OUR fault that children can see porn on the Net, it's Google's and Yahoo's, since they don't filter search results for children. (Which is not actually entirely true in either case.)
Here's the thing, man: The terrorists aren't all that organized. They couldn't possibly pull off another 9/11. Besides, do you think terrorists actually did 9/11 in the first place? If so, do you think they did it by themselves, without any help? See my first statement in this paragraph. There is no "the terrorists". There are different varying factions who are extremely busy fighting amongst themselves and everyone else, never mind the United States. Sure, occasionally an IED blows up in Iraq, or there are suicide bombers, but these aren't the coordinated act of some mighty coordinated group all orchestrated by one man named Osama Bin Laden. If you really think that, then you probably deserve what the government is doing to you. But please, don't let your ignorance affect my freedom. The Democrats are so far out of reality to push their scare tactics of Global Warming being worse than Islamofascism. Whoo boy. Do they have you brainwashed or what? Wake up, man! The Democrats and the Republicans use the same scare tactics to get whatever it is they want. Do I believe Global Warming is bad? Yes. Do I think the models that predict all the bad stuff that Al Gore and others told us would happen are right? Who knows? They don't know for sure. But here's the thing, man: Do you want this planet to be a good place to human race to live, now and in the future? Then raping the planet of natural resources and polluting the fsck out of it because we're too worried about a few billionaires not being able to buy a new yacht next year because their stock portfolio fell a few percentage points seems like a bad idea, now doesn't it?
Oooh. Truth little close to home wacko mods?
Take your mod point. Strike me down. Join me on the dark side! I got karma to burn.