What if we took matters into our own hands by all getting HAM radio sets and patching through an encrypted stream? It could be like, the geek's anonymous communication system for the postmodern world.
The only way to track you would be to visually notice the HAM Radio license plates and two-meter antenna stuck to your hatchback. What could be less suspicious!
Judging from the release date and completion level of Vista I suspect every MS hacker's cubicle has been provided with a mini-fridge full of the stuff.
Also, each can probably has a $20 bill rubber-banded to it - providing a $100 per hour bonus for the average programmer.
Stupid tax-and-spend liberals. The wise Republican party has proven that borrow-and-spend is the way to go. I mean, why tax for things now when you can jack people with it who aren't even born yet . . . . . .
String-matching algorithms are very fast, and on a modern system probably much faster than DNS. (Plus, the bandwidth you save from not downloading whatever hunk of flashing garbage is on the menu is probably worth more than a few cycles regardless.)
A 2001-era Gateway Solo 5300. I've replaced the keyboard twice (one worn out, one garden hose), the CD drive (grinding and not working), and the cpu fan.
It actually ran hot but fine with the fan dead, I just figured it'd be best if it had a working one. Try that with one of these P4-based machines and you'd be scraping molten plastic off your desk.
I for one have never had even the slightest concern about temperature with my old 800 P3 laptop, its small battery, or the power brick. These new laptops, driven by the new CPUs use an absolutely ludicrous amount of power. I have no intention of buying a new unit until someone can sell me something that runs cooler and doesn't have a battery bigger than my lawnmower's.
(Of course, it probably helps that with the kind of work I do I can farm my heavy computational loads out to my dual Xeon over ssh.)
That's exactly what I was thinking when I first heard about these. Forget frame rates, I want to know what the chances are of getting Fluent to use something like this for a three-dimensional, compressible gas-flow simulation (with heat transfer.)
After all, there are only so many P4s you can throw at a problem in a public computer lab before people start whining about "wanting to do their homework!". Undergrads . . . . . .
That's easy to do, but it takes time to do right. The trick is to build yourself a reputation for being, basically, a stereotypical mad scientist: brilliant, somewhat nuts, and slightly reckless.
I know that my students believe I could kill them. (Either intentionally with some sort of robot, or accidentally by having some sort of superconducting lightning-laser experiment go awry.)
Wrong. They don't have their shit together enough to make sense of the data they have. They certianly have their shit together enough to illegally collect vast amounts of data.
Massive, constitution-burning corporate handouts are EXACTLY what the government is good at. That and going after small targets since they can't catch who they're really after . . . . .
The dead giveaway for full of crap, at least in my mind, is claiming that it will compress encrypted data. It's always been my understanding that encrypted data appears as a cryptographically random jumble of bits.
No pattern == no compression. Compressing random data is the CS equivilent of the perpetual motion machine . . . . . .
"Only troublemakers with something to hide encrypt their communications! Take his computer! Return it in six months with a cracked motherboard and no hard drive! That'll teach him a lesson . . . .."
"Should we get a warrant?"
"Fuck no! Do you want to do all that paperwork?"
And so, the smartass nerd loses to the corrupt bureaucrats. This has been another episode of Postmodern Democracy. Tune in next week when a cleared suspect gets beaten and detained for reporting a crime! (Oh wait, that was last week . . . )
-You don't need to melt a truss, you just need to soften it. If it softens the geometry changes and the strength drops.
-I don't know what the ends were on the floor trusses, but a sagging truss will put them in tension. I doubt they were designed for this.
-Heat shielding doesn't stand up too well to an exploding airplane.
-The design in question is not typical of steel buildings, which tend to be latticed structures rather than tubes.
Note that it's the floor collapsing that starts the process. A load-bearing exoskeleton is an inherently unstable design prevented from buckling only by the floors forcing it to stay aligned.
As you say, no warping was observed before collapse. It was the internal structure that failed before the collapse. As soon as the external structure drifted out of alignment it was over. Instantaneously. This is how buckling behaves.
(Oh, and this guy isn't much of a scientist. "Nobody has a good idea what happened. IT MUST HAVE BEEN THERMITE!" Typical crackpot paper . . . . . . )
(Science aside, how the hell could a deliberate demolition be pulled off without anyone finding out before or finding actual evidence after? Such things take rather a lot of setup to pull off.)
If you have unfettered access to the network in question no need for direct sabotage or ISP intervention. A little ARP spoofing and an "unreliable" connection, combined with some appropriate "fuck it, want to go to the bar?" comments could probably work.;)
World Trade Center building 7 fell in exactly the same exactly symmetrical way as WTC 1 and 2, and it was NOT hit by an airplane. ALL the collapses looked like controlled demolitions. See the news footage in the movie Loose Change. It is a work in progress, but already very informative.
Why is there always one of these?
Okay, I'll preface this by saying that I'm a leftist, and hate the Bush administration as much as anyone, but there WERE NO FUCKING EXPLOSIVES IN THE TOWERS.
They fell like controlled demolitions because controlled demolitions are implosions. What do you think happens when you heat and soften the trusses on an exoskelital building?
(I'll tell you because you obviously don't know.) The trusses sag and fail causing the outside, load bearing members buckle without their lateral stabilization, the top falls, and the whole thing comes crashing inward.
It's the fire, not the impact that caused the real damage, and if I remember rightly number seven was heavily fire damaged as well. Next time try a little science before breaking out the crackpot conspiricy theories please. There are plenty of legitimate reasons to hate the Bush administration that don't make you look like a nut.
"Since EVERY SINGLE VOTER who uses these machines is a potential hacker looking to alter election results, why is Diebold so concerned?"
Did you sleep through ALL of yor cynicism classes? Diebold is throwing a fit to discourage anyone from snooping around in the guts of their voting machines.
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What if we took matters into our own hands by all getting HAM radio sets and patching through an encrypted stream? It could be like, the geek's anonymous communication system for the postmodern world.
The only way to track you would be to visually notice the HAM Radio license plates and two-meter antenna stuck to your hatchback. What could be less suspicious!
Judging from the release date and completion level of Vista I suspect every MS hacker's cubicle has been provided with a mini-fridge full of the stuff.
Also, each can probably has a $20 bill rubber-banded to it - providing a $100 per hour bonus for the average programmer.
Stupid tax-and-spend liberals. The wise Republican party has proven that borrow-and-spend is the way to go. I mean, why tax for things now when you can jack people with it who aren't even born yet . . . . . .
Finally! My tax dollars doing something productive!
Do they support rsync over ssh?
String-matching algorithms are very fast, and on a modern system probably much faster than DNS. (Plus, the bandwidth you save from not downloading whatever hunk of flashing garbage is on the menu is probably worth more than a few cycles regardless.)
I think the criticism probably stems from the fact that they're so bad at catching them and cause so much "collateral damage" . . . . . .
There's something wrong with your statement. Look for it. Something about "no denying." ;)
Yeah! We've had rootkits since . . . . . well, about as long as we've had root! Your retarded spawn of DOS and an art school is late to the party.
Better late than never though I suppose . . . . .
A 2001-era Gateway Solo 5300. I've replaced the keyboard twice (one worn out, one garden hose), the CD drive (grinding and not working), and the cpu fan.
It actually ran hot but fine with the fan dead, I just figured it'd be best if it had a working one. Try that with one of these P4-based machines and you'd be scraping molten plastic off your desk.
I for one have never had even the slightest concern about temperature with my old 800 P3 laptop, its small battery, or the power brick. These new laptops, driven by the new CPUs use an absolutely ludicrous amount of power. I have no intention of buying a new unit until someone can sell me something that runs cooler and doesn't have a battery bigger than my lawnmower's.
(Of course, it probably helps that with the kind of work I do I can farm my heavy computational loads out to my dual Xeon over ssh.)
That's exactly what I was thinking when I first heard about these. Forget frame rates, I want to know what the chances are of getting Fluent to use something like this for a three-dimensional, compressible gas-flow simulation (with heat transfer.)
After all, there are only so many P4s you can throw at a problem in a public computer lab before people start whining about "wanting to do their homework!". Undergrads . . . . . .
That's easy to do, but it takes time to do right. The trick is to build yourself a reputation for being, basically, a stereotypical mad scientist: brilliant, somewhat nuts, and slightly reckless.
I know that my students believe I could kill them. (Either intentionally with some sort of robot, or accidentally by having some sort of superconducting lightning-laser experiment go awry.)
NZ is sort of like Amiga OS (or perhaps I should say *BSD? ^_~)... secure and free mostly by obfuscation and isolation =^_^=.
And also by not pissing anyone off. When's the last time New Zealand started a war, or joined in for that matter? Do you even have armed forces?
Really you're somewhat like Canada. Considered "mostly harmless" compared to your big, insane, belligerent neighbor and left alone.
Ha! 1.5/768 through SBC^H^H^HAT&T^H^H^H^Hthe NSA for $40 a month! I win shittymas!
You don't get it, do you? This is Earth. The land of the stupid.
Double fixed! (America just happens to be one of the places where it's socially encouraged to be an idiot AND the place that has all the guns.)
Three cars per quarter? I don't get it. How much is that in Eiffel Towers per square millicubit?
Wrong. They don't have their shit together enough to make sense of the data they have. They certianly have their shit together enough to illegally collect vast amounts of data.
Massive, constitution-burning corporate handouts are EXACTLY what the government is good at. That and going after small targets since they can't catch who they're really after . . . . .
The dead giveaway for full of crap, at least in my mind, is claiming that it will compress encrypted data. It's always been my understanding that encrypted data appears as a cryptographically random jumble of bits.
No pattern == no compression. Compressing random data is the CS equivilent of the perpetual motion machine . . . . . .
"Only troublemakers with something to hide encrypt their communications! Take his computer! Return it in six months with a cracked motherboard and no hard drive! That'll teach him a lesson . . . . ."
"Should we get a warrant?"
"Fuck no! Do you want to do all that paperwork?"
And so, the smartass nerd loses to the corrupt bureaucrats. This has been another episode of Postmodern Democracy. Tune in next week when a cleared suspect gets beaten and detained for reporting a crime! (Oh wait, that was last week . . . )
-You don't need to melt a truss, you just need to soften it. If it softens the geometry changes and the strength drops.
-I don't know what the ends were on the floor trusses, but a sagging truss will put them in tension. I doubt they were designed for this.
-Heat shielding doesn't stand up too well to an exploding airplane.
-The design in question is not typical of steel buildings, which tend to be latticed structures rather than tubes.
Note that it's the floor collapsing that starts the process. A load-bearing exoskeleton is an inherently unstable design prevented from buckling only by the floors forcing it to stay aligned.
As you say, no warping was observed before collapse. It was the internal structure that failed before the collapse. As soon as the external structure drifted out of alignment it was over. Instantaneously. This is how buckling behaves.
(Oh, and this guy isn't much of a scientist. "Nobody has a good idea what happened. IT MUST HAVE BEEN THERMITE!" Typical crackpot paper . . . . . . )
(Science aside, how the hell could a deliberate demolition be pulled off without anyone finding out before or finding actual evidence after? Such things take rather a lot of setup to pull off.)
If you have unfettered access to the network in question no need for direct sabotage or ISP intervention. A little ARP spoofing and an "unreliable" connection, combined with some appropriate "fuck it, want to go to the bar?" comments could probably work. ;)
World Trade Center building 7 fell in exactly the same exactly symmetrical way as WTC 1 and 2, and it was NOT hit by an airplane. ALL the collapses looked like controlled demolitions. See the news footage in the movie Loose Change. It is a work in progress, but already very informative.
Why is there always one of these?
Okay, I'll preface this by saying that I'm a leftist, and hate the Bush administration as much as anyone, but there WERE NO FUCKING EXPLOSIVES IN THE TOWERS.
They fell like controlled demolitions because controlled demolitions are implosions. What do you think happens when you heat and soften the trusses on an exoskelital building?
(I'll tell you because you obviously don't know.) The trusses sag and fail causing the outside, load bearing members buckle without their lateral stabilization, the top falls, and the whole thing comes crashing inward.
It's the fire, not the impact that caused the real damage, and if I remember rightly number seven was heavily fire damaged as well. Next time try a little science before breaking out the crackpot conspiricy theories please. There are plenty of legitimate reasons to hate the Bush administration that don't make you look like a nut.
"Since EVERY SINGLE VOTER who uses these machines is a potential hacker looking to alter election results, why is Diebold so concerned?"
Did you sleep through ALL of yor cynicism classes? Diebold is throwing a fit to discourage anyone from snooping around in the guts of their voting machines.
Someone might, y'know, find something. . . . . . . .
Have you ever run XP on something with those specs?
I mean, it works and all. (If you define a 10 minute boot cycle and 15 seconds to get file properties as "working.")
Using the computer this way is about as exciting as watching an elderly couple parallel-park a motorhome.