The ideas like temporal reverse engineering, the sandwich maker, and reprogramming the computer so even it wouldn't believe it had been reprogrammed were pretty clever.
The temporal reverse engineering is extremely clever. Almost infinitely so.
But reprogramming a computer so even it wouldn't believe it had been reprogrammed? Obviously it had to be told in an interesting way, but this is no different from a rootkit.
OK, I googled for "hatcher's index". the only hit besides this page states:
This quote will probably only make sense to my gun-nut brother, but I thought it was cool:
What's the Hatcher's Index of a projectile weighing fifty-thousand grains moving at 400 fps?
Well Jeff? How does that compare with, oh, say, that wackball.50 you got?
I'm really convinced that these are legitimate units sanctioned by an international body.
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Anyone who deals with firearms and reloading.
I agree we should return to the olden days when every field of science or engineering had its own completely independent set of units. All this metric junk is part of a conspiracy to destroy our culture.
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how lame is this "What's the Hatcher's Index of a projectile weighing fifty-thousand grains moving at 400 fps?"
Who uses units like that?
"Yes, I'd like to send this letter to the Prussian consulate in Siam by aeromail. Am I too late for the 4:30 autogyro?"
Wouldn't this cause horrible brain damage? I mean, to a mammal, seeing as how we actually use our brains for most stuff. And, you know, the giant, like alien-sized, magnetic field.
How big a magnet would you need to use as a weapon, anyway?
This debunks the claim that "A video clip shows a NASA studio-produced 'outtake' of the first moon landing.". It does not provide any evidence of the moon landing being real.
I used to think the moon landing was real, but I now consider it unproven. It has been the tactics of those who insist it is real, who argue without giving any shred of evidence, that put the doubt in my mind.
So a telescope on the Moon would also be Earth-based? That must be what the conspiracy theorists mean when they say that the US hasn't been to the Moon...
Can you provide some evidence for the moon landing that does not rely on the honesty of a government that has a strong history of lying to suit its purposes?
Those boards are more than twice as expensive as the cheapest full enclosure (with case and power supply) you can find! This reinforces what I said. Why would the board be so much more expensive? Does anyone sell just the board for a reasonable price? A reasonable price would be cheaper than buying the same board as part of an enclosure. (I thought this would be obvious but I guess not)
bc is pretty damned nice for day-to-day use. I do all of my simple calculations with bc (except the things I do with dc, I do those with dc).
Both have a user interface not meant for humans. They don't even support readline! Neither supports bitwise operations nor raising a number to a non-integral power.
They are less useful than a standard scientific calculator.
Why is it that this is the best solution for my $1000 machine to emulate a $100 machine? Is there really an unfulfilled demand for a good software calculator?
So. the SysRq key is disabled because it can be used (remotely) to do bad things, like an unclean shutdown,
So you're saying that this is a massive security hole on every one of Sun's Sparc machines that has gone unnoticed all these years, as it has the same problem.
In my state (NY) it is even illegal to sign items as, say, "$1.08 including tax."
I thought this was just shops being sneaky. In the US, everyone is sneaky about it because the next guy is. I guess it's not too shocking to see the law force something so evil.
Things are so much better in Europe, when you know how much something will cost in a store by just looking at the price tag. (Unless you can calculate a 9.625% sales tax in yor head).
Avionics software is supposed to be way ahead of your everyday software package in terms of reliability,
According to who? Most people who are familiar with it state that it is just a reliable as most software. It doesn't cause frequent disasters because there are always mechanical or manual backup systems.
You couldn't even have a cell-phone on in this room because it would significantly mess up the measured RF/MF fields.
You're talking about specialized lab equipment meant to measure extremely small RF signals, and interference with devices designed to send out RF signals that are likely 1000 to a million times stronger.
Do you really think that this is a relevant comparison to using a portable dictionary on an airplane?
Obviously you haven't used a 2.4GHz phone near a wireless router. Interference happens even with very modern devices, and these planes are from decades ago...
You're talking about two devices that use the same frequency for wireless communication. The article is about two devices interfering that were not designed to do any sort of wireless communication at all. Do you really not see the difference?
See my other reply to someone asking this, it's not the cockput that's the issue...it's the wiring looms that run all over the aircraft that end up acting like RF antennas.
And the people who designed the plane were so reckless as to have a long run of unshielded wire that would cause a dangerous situation if it picked up interference? And the information isn't even available to find out whether this is true? And if it is true, no one thinks it is a serious problem?
The likelyhood of these claims being true has been analysed.
As of now we don't know whether these are deliberate lies or if the media is so ignorant as to call the $5/minute phones on airplanes "cellphones".
Isn't this the best evidence that airplanes are not in fact this fragile? If an attack were so trivial, it would have already happened. A device the size of an ipod could emit a million times more RF than an ipod does, if it were designed to do so.
Obviously, statements like this are a blatant lie:
On another occasion in 1996, a Boeing 767 pitched and dropped 120 metres before pilots recovered control. A passenger using an electronic dictionary was asked to turn it off, and the plane's systems returned to normal.
Although I'm sure that the liars would defend it by stating that they never said that the dictionary was -responsible- for the incident. But who's telling the lies here, and what is their motive? It must be at such a level that the people in charge of airline security know the truth, or they would not allow any electronic device of any kind onto a plane.
Is it all just an attempt to sell us their in-flight distractions so that we don't bring our own?
Has anyone masured the RF output of trivial devices such an an ipod or a digital camera? How about a laptop? Someone here must have a spectrum analyser..
A serial console (make sure you enable the magic sysrq key! for some reason RedHat disables it by default) is an essential tool for any Linux server you care about. If you don't have the money for a console server, just plug servers into each other.
If your machine crashes without a panic message, however, you're out of luck. Wait until crash dumps are available - I'm surprised this isn't a 2.6 feature. Until we get crash dumps that work 99% of the time (like on Sparc-Solaris), Linux will continue to suck. At least it sucks less than the alternatives.
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The temporal reverse engineering is extremely clever. Almost infinitely so.
But reprogramming a computer so even it wouldn't believe it had been reprogrammed? Obviously it had to be told in an interesting way, but this is no different from a rootkit.
This quote will probably only make sense to my gun-nut brother, but I thought it was cool:
What's the Hatcher's Index of a projectile weighing fifty-thousand grains moving at 400 fps?
Well Jeff? How does that compare with, oh, say, that wackball .50 you got?
I'm really convinced that these are legitimate units sanctioned by an international body.
I agree we should return to the olden days when every field of science or engineering had its own completely independent set of units. All this metric junk is part of a conspiracy to destroy our culture.
how lame is this "What's the Hatcher's Index of a projectile weighing fifty-thousand grains moving at 400 fps?"
Who uses units like that?
"Yes, I'd like to send this letter to the Prussian consulate in Siam by aeromail. Am I too late for the 4:30 autogyro?"
Obviously, current tax rates are too high. The last 100 years has brought tax rates vastly greater than at any point in history.
Does anyone make estimates on what portion of our tax money goes to absolute waste, kickbacks, bribes, and war?
Wouldn't this cause horrible brain damage? I mean, to a mammal, seeing as how we actually use our brains for most stuff. And, you know, the giant, like alien-sized, magnetic field.
How big a magnet would you need to use as a weapon, anyway?
This debunks the claim that "A video clip shows a NASA studio-produced 'outtake' of the first moon landing.". It does not provide any evidence of the moon landing being real.
I used to think the moon landing was real, but I now consider it unproven. It has been the tactics of those who insist it is real, who argue without giving any shred of evidence, that put the doubt in my mind.
Can you provide some evidence for the moon landing that does not rely on the honesty of a government that has a strong history of lying to suit its purposes?
I don't understand, why are people complaining? Just use jabber.
Those boards are more than twice as expensive as the cheapest full enclosure (with case and power supply) you can find! This reinforces what I said. Why would the board be so much more expensive? Does anyone sell just the board for a reasonable price? A reasonable price would be cheaper than buying the same board as part of an enclosure. (I thought this would be obvious but I guess not)
Both have a user interface not meant for humans. They don't even support readline! Neither supports bitwise operations nor raising a number to a non-integral power.
They are less useful than a standard scientific calculator.
Why is it that this is the best solution for my $1000 machine to emulate a $100 machine? Is there really an unfulfilled demand for a good software calculator?
does one exist?
Unfortunately, you could buy a full system for the cost of the four-bay enclosure, gaining higher performance at the same price.
Does anyone know where to get a firewire-ide adaptor or a multi-drive firewire enclosure for a fair price?
So you're saying that this is a massive security hole on every one of Sun's Sparc machines that has gone unnoticed all these years, as it has the same problem.
Is there any platform where this actually happens?
I thought this was just shops being sneaky. In the US, everyone is sneaky about it because the next guy is. I guess it's not too shocking to see the law force something so evil.
Things are so much better in Europe, when you know how much something will cost in a store by just looking at the price tag. (Unless you can calculate a 9.625% sales tax in yor head).
Are you insane? This is the OLD OLD AMPS bagphones.
According to who? Most people who are familiar with it state that it is just a reliable as most software. It doesn't cause frequent disasters because there are always mechanical or manual backup systems.
You're talking about specialized lab equipment meant to measure extremely small RF signals, and interference with devices designed to send out RF signals that are likely 1000 to a million times stronger.
Do you really think that this is a relevant comparison to using a portable dictionary on an airplane?
You're talking about two devices that use the same frequency for wireless communication. The article is about two devices interfering that were not designed to do any sort of wireless communication at all. Do you really not see the difference?
And the people who designed the plane were so reckless as to have a long run of unshielded wire that would cause a dangerous situation if it picked up interference? And the information isn't even available to find out whether this is true? And if it is true, no one thinks it is a serious problem?
The likelyhood of these claims being true has been analysed. As of now we don't know whether these are deliberate lies or if the media is so ignorant as to call the $5/minute phones on airplanes "cellphones".
Isn't this the best evidence that airplanes are not in fact this fragile? If an attack were so trivial, it would have already happened. A device the size of an ipod could emit a million times more RF than an ipod does, if it were designed to do so.
On another occasion in 1996, a Boeing 767 pitched and dropped 120 metres before pilots recovered control. A passenger using an electronic dictionary was asked to turn it off, and the plane's systems returned to normal.
Although I'm sure that the liars would defend it by stating that they never said that the dictionary was -responsible- for the incident. But who's telling the lies here, and what is their motive? It must be at such a level that the people in charge of airline security know the truth, or they would not allow any electronic device of any kind onto a plane.
Is it all just an attempt to sell us their in-flight distractions so that we don't bring our own?
Has anyone masured the RF output of trivial devices such an an ipod or a digital camera? How about a laptop? Someone here must have a spectrum analyser..
A serial console (make sure you enable the magic sysrq key! for some reason RedHat disables it by default) is an essential tool for any Linux server you care about. If you don't have the money for a console server, just plug servers into each other.
If your machine crashes without a panic message, however, you're out of luck. Wait until crash dumps are available - I'm surprised this isn't a 2.6 feature. Until we get crash dumps that work 99% of the time (like on Sparc-Solaris), Linux will continue to suck. At least it sucks less than the alternatives.