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Yeah I shocked myself with a stun gun once and it just hurt, didn't do anything really. Though with the jacket I would assume that would be enough, to cause you to jerk back. A prolonged shock, such as what one would get from trying to wrestle somebody down or remove the jacket, would be more deterring. But a simple shock would be enough to deter somebody I would think. It would freak me out!
Heh, well, the fact that the founding fathers were rich might have had something to do with the slave labor (african slave labor) to work their farms and large estates. Indentured servitude, slave labor, no women's rights... Hmmm, yes, highly ethical behavior. Or perhaps, they just needed a place with no laws and no political infrastructure in order to make up their own system that just so happened to coincide with their land-baron lifestyles. American capitalist imperialism is based on the ethics and morals of those men. Railroad tycoons, plantation owners, oil barons, ceo's. We are certainly successful, but who ever said ethics had anything to do with it? Actually, it takes exceedingly rich and UNethical tyrants to create the quick success that American has seen.
Idiotic stories? Just watch the friggin bombings being telecast to the entire world.
I have never heard a story about american soldiers walking into a town and killing children with small arms fire, in this war at any rate. But I can certainly watch the bombs going off and know that we are slaughtering innocents. Err.... Freeing them.
Yeah actually thats a pretty good idea because its a total slap in the face to their anti-gpl FUD. Winning an open source award... I think I just heard ESR's heart explode...
Yeah they won the Open Source Excellence award for Best System Ingegration Software (Services for Unix 3.0)
I didn't know SFU was Open Source. I dont think it is as a matter of fact. Plus it sucks. Hmmm..
Re:We are behind the rest of the world on this one
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I think you are still missing the point. Honestly, do you really see a market for making money letting people play games in a room you pay for, without them paying anything? I know somebody who owns and operates a business like this, however they simply charge per hour for the machines they have. They are big beefy machines, and 2 bucks an hour is a lot easier for most folks then trooping their own pc to some strip mall for nothing more then some table space and a net connection. Why in the world would a teenager do that? (they are the primary market.)
What would you provide on top of the space they can't get at home? The whole point is to pay a low price, hang out with some people and play net games. Bringing in pc's would be a nightmare, waste much time, you'd have to hassle with users configurations, worry about the security of somebodies box plugging into your lan, etc. etc. Its not a viable business plan at all.
The way these things make money is easy, and they do make money. You rent a space in a commercial building, such as a strip mall. Buy a bunch of kick ass machines (20-30 of them). You provide a nice infrastructure (network at 100mb at the minimum, why not just go gigabit while your at it.) Have some nice desks, nice comfy chairs, headphones, and a groovy monitor. You give them soda's and snacks, and charge like 2-3 bucks an hour. Have a fast net connection. Heck, I'd even have the machines simply sitting in a rack in the back. Host events, etc. Very similar to your idea but no home pc's. In fact that would be very much DISallowed. This way, you have all your machines configured, and can image them every night to clean out any crap left over by the 3l33t kidz using them. Its rather simple, just takes some capital (around $50-100,000) to start up and a good location. The kids will come if everything is right, and shell out a lot of money. And on top of that, its cheaper then the old format - arcades, which means more time spent in your location, which turns into more money. As a kid I could easily drop $20 in an hour at an arcade.
Apple isn't a monopoly is any sense, unless you count the market for mac's as an actual seperate market from personal computers in general. Apple is not even close to a market leader. Microsoft is the actualy monopoly, and Apple is simple another victim of that monopoly. BTW nobody even mentioned that somehow being a monopoly is "illegal" so I dont think your post is redundant at all, it simply doesn't apply. Also, being legal, and being ethical/moral, are two different things. In regard to the original thought though, apple is far far far from being a monopoly. Not even close.
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Yeah but can you REALLY guarantee them that you will be around in 12 months? If you've been around for 10 years, they might have faith in that track record alone. Otherwise, it truly is a risk. Its a catch 22. The only way to prove you will be here in 12 months to have been there before. The only way to have been there before is to get customers to trust you will be there again, etc.
It takes time and thats about all. I dont care how ingenious your business plan is, how incredible the product, those do not make longevity a given. Only longevity makes longevity a given.
I've done work in this regard and what happened to faulty hardware that needed to be replaced was hilarious. So, usually, you ship back dead hardware when you need a new harddrive, etc. These are major accounts so they have quick turnaround on these things, and they had this lengthy procedure for sending out any material like this. For your typical harddrive, they would: wipe the disk with various data dumps, ie. write all 1's, all 0's, random noice, rinse repeat a few thousand times. Then, degauss the harddrive in a huge magnetic enclosure. After that, we start to really wipe data. Open the hard drive, remove the platters. Grind them platters with a sander and dispose of the dust. Then, drill several large holes through the platter. Then melt the thing in an oven so all the plastic is nice and runny and let it cool off. Then ship the whole messy pile back to the manufacturer and ask for a replacement. So, while the pc roach motel is kinda true, hardware DOES leave classified areas at times. Just not in any shape to ever have any data recovered from them. Takes a couple of days to wipe a drive to security's satisfaction.
Its just like being a lawyer or doctor. People you know will tend to ask questions about what they know you are an expert in. Its just the nature of being an expert at something, anything really.
A good debugger/disassembler is invaluable in finding obscure bugs. No amount of knowledge of your code and its structure can help you if a system call mangled a stack in a subtle way, especially with cumulative effects of buggy functions that have very very subtle bugs. Unless you are writting embedded code or something that doesn't rely on other code (an os, libs, etc.) you will never have a total view of what is going on. Debugging tools can help pinpoint generally where trouble is, and then it is up to the programmer and his detailed knowledge of the code to figure out what exactly is being affected and by what.
There is no right/wrong answer because "debugging" is such a vague term as well. Use all the tools available to you, and arrogance is not one of those. Nobody has perfect understanding of the internal intricacies of software running on top of an operating system running on top of a cpu.
The best way to beat a bug is to be knowledgable enough to use the right tool, at the right time, to find the correct cause of trouble. That could be anything from a cable tester, to a disassembler, to a coffee break, to another human being.
I still don't believe that the average person in the middle east really cares at all whether or not you can go buy a bear, for instance. They don't want that in their country, but thats a different story. I find it hard to fathom that they want to kill americans because they have the freedom to do things they cannot. The thin line here is the difference between what an american citizen can do in his day to day life, and the will of america to force the rest of the world to adopt that lifestyle. Its not our lifestyle that riles up other nations, its our desire to have them except it in their own countries. And its really non of our business. If it was, then why dont we stop being hypocrites and enforce our will on everybody equally. Are arabs free in Isreal? Are Somali's free in Somalia? So on and so on.
Nobody wants to kill you because you can freely go buy a porn magazine. They want to hurt the bringer of what they see as decadence and evil into their own lands. Its a subtle but huge difference. One that is ignored in the "you will never stop our way of life" propoganda spewed by the mouths of our leaders.
Not to mention they overwhelmingly closer to home facts of our attrocities in their own countries. Supporting and arming the Saudi royal family. Supporting civil war in Afghanistan. Supporting Iraq, then bombing them when they step on our toes. Supporting Isreal, etc etc. Those are things they are faced with every single day. Not you being able to go watch Spiderman uncensored. But your tax dollars going to pay for the methods and means to cause much anguish in their own home towns. If your child was maimed by a US made mine, that would upset you a lot more then your being against alcohol. Do you want to see the citizens of countries where child pornography is legal die in horrendous terrorist acts? Its morally against everything we believe here, yet we dont have militia groups planning terror attacks on them. Yet if those countries were actively attacking your children, you would do something about it, with whatever means you had available. Make no mistake about it, people in many middle eastern nations feel they are at war with us. Not for our way of life, but for our intrusive invasion of their own lives.
Ummm... Iraq DID take over a "nation" next to them (if you can call a corporate monarchy with no citizens rights a nation). They DID use biological weapons on the kurds. They bombed Isreal as well, though not with bio weapons.
And your point is? That is the Iraqi government. That is not a 20 year old idealist willing to sacrifice his own life to further a cause. Do you think the average Iraqi civilian supports the Iraqi government? No. But they still hate you as an american. For good reason. The west CREATED the Iraqi government, armed it, trained it and kept a blind eye on it, WHEN IT SERVED THE NEEDS OF THE WEST.
Oh, and have you ever heard of the Shah of Iran? Ever heard of Saudi Arabia? Ever heard of East Timor? Ever heard of.... oh, thats right, the US doesn't support terrorism.
BTW, the Saudi regime is the most brutal and violent so-called government is the middle east. Public beheading anyone? For masturbating?
Yeah, we do need to take steps to make sure the next smoking gun isn't a mushroom cloud. One we create over an impoverished middle eastern nation to make YOU feel safe.
Why would ANYBODY hate americans because we are "free"? What does that have to do with their lives in their part of the world? Thats a truly twisted tale the government has pursued with great relish. "Terrorists" hate america and its people because we kill, bomb and maim their citizens in the pursuit of "freedom." You honestly think an arab in Iran hates you because you can choose your religion? No, he hates you because you payed, in taxes and votes, for the people who supported the Shah, who support the "freedom fighters" who killed his family in his own country, who support murderous regimes to preserve your gasoline prices. THATS what "terrorists" hate. (Now I'll patiently await the goon squads to show up for "supporting" terrorism....)
This is nothing new. Where I grew up, and this was during the mid 80's, police routinely took pictures and names of potential criminals, and kept a file on them. Whenever they stopped a group of young people (potential gang members) they would take pictures of all of us (speaking from personal experience) and take our names. After that, each time we were harassed, another tick was made in the file and you slowly became a very well known person to all the police, without ever having committed a crime. I've seen the cops break out a huge binder with all kinds of info on people who were never criminals, they just hung out in "bad" neighborhoods and with "possible" gang members. I was on that list for years and probably still am. The cops knew my name, my parents names, tattoos I had, my nickname, had my photo, knew my friends names, where I hung out, and on and on...
Replace every occurance of "Evercrack" in your reply with "Heroin" or "Cocaine" and the same reads true. Its not WHAT a person is addicted to, its how they relate to it. A normal person could use heroin for 15 years and never become addicted nor have major issues in their life if they did so with a little moderation. Same with cocaine, alcohol, cigarettes, Everquest, etc. Everquest in itself is harmless. So are lots of things. Addicts are addicts, you can't control that.
ASCII White is a general purpose simulation cluster with many many uses. It currently simulates various elements of our nuclear stockpile including weapon aging and detonation. But that is only the particular simulation being run on the cluster. It can simulate virtually anything that can be simulated on a very powerfull platform, *that* is the cool part. Its a very powerfull computer. And wait until the next version... 30 tflops, currently being worked on, and which will run Linux. Talk about a beowulf cluster.
Carmack has access to all the same tools for simluation that NASA, Los Alamos, etc. have. The simulation software is not developed anymore by nasa (nastran, dytran, other such sims) but by companies specializing in this software. He doesn't need to code that up, its already been done with millions of man hours put into these kind of sims. He's a smart guy, but nobody (including NASA) is going to reinvent the wheel these days. This is a well known, well developed discipline. He can just buy the software and hire a few engineers and physicists to perform the sims.
There is no such thing as a classification of a cult. All religions could be labelled as cults, there is no more validity to catholicism then there is to scientology. The government should stay out of religion all together, which includes protecting their copywrited religion works. Thats why scientology is bad, not what they believe but how they go about protecting that belief. They treat it as a pure business when it should be treated as a faith, if they are to receive the tax benefits of a religious organization.
I know a bit about scientologists beliefs and I do find it hard to fathom how it is a religion. Its psuedo-psychological crap which at the early stages is totally focused on your ability to interact with other people. The religious stuff only comes much later when you start paying really big bucks to learn about the aliens in your head. Whatever, its wacky, but not really religious in my opinion. Its just silly psychology invented out of thin air by Hubbard, with no real scientific background. They do have pretty effective study techniques though, they take learning very seriously and have really hardcore methods for pounding information into your head.
Actually I do believe that a nuclear device cannot detonate "accidentally." A deteriorated device would have no chance of actually exploding, though it might leak or perhaps some of the explosive could go off and cause all kinds of nuclear fallout, but it wouldn't be a nuclear blast. These are such precise machines that to effect a true nuclear explosion requires extreme perfection in the mechanism. A child with a screwdriver could demolish a nuclear weapon. You could attach 50lbs of C4 to a nuclear device and destroy it without any nuclear reaction. Though a nuclear blast probably wouldn't be as devastating as a blown up device because of all the radiation. A plutonium nugget scattered into the atmosphere could wipe out a large portion of the east coast, for instance.
The actual location of the A root server will not be shown to visitors nor the building itself but another "NOC", most likely the corporate NOC. Still looks impressive but is not the one mentioned in the article. Its a corporate gathering if I'm not mistaken.
There are many good articles on how to do this. Check @Stake and securityfocus. In essence, a typical buffer overflow is discovered by hammering away at software until you can reproduce a bug, by making the software crash. You then reproduce this crash using a debugger such as softice, trace the stack and figure out just what is going on memory. You then craft your input strings to hijaak the registers to point to a different location to begin executing code.
A good example is: http://www.atstake.com/research/reports/wprasbuf.h tml
Its a simple exploit of RASMAN.EXE and takes you through step by step how an exploit is discovered, researched and ultimately exploited. Its an interesting subject to say the least, but not for the faint of heart. Brush up on your assembly!
Thats what I want to see. All these case mods going around, why hasn't anybody made a lego pc case yet? Seems a natural fit. That would be really cool, if somebody else did it;-)
People hate Osama because they were told to. How the hell do YOU know the intricacies of something of that magnitude? He's the new boogey man of the year. But go ahead, be distracted, I mean we wouldn't want you to be thinking about our economy or our worldwide weapons sales or our global support of terrorism (err... freedom fighters) Leftist? Heh. People like you don't make me sick, you make me sad. But, of course, CNN is the oracle of truth. Wouldn't want you to be questioning things like Enron now would we.
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Yeah I shocked myself with a stun gun once and it just hurt, didn't do anything really. Though with the jacket I would assume that would be enough, to cause you to jerk back. A prolonged shock, such as what one would get from trying to wrestle somebody down or remove the jacket, would be more deterring. But a simple shock would be enough to deter somebody I would think. It would freak me out!
Heh, well, the fact that the founding fathers were rich might have had something to do with the slave labor (african slave labor) to work their farms and large estates. Indentured servitude, slave labor, no women's rights... Hmmm, yes, highly ethical behavior. Or perhaps, they just needed a place with no laws and no political infrastructure in order to make up their own system that just so happened to coincide with their land-baron lifestyles. American capitalist imperialism is based on the ethics and morals of those men. Railroad tycoons, plantation owners, oil barons, ceo's. We are certainly successful, but who ever said ethics had anything to do with it? Actually, it takes exceedingly rich and UNethical tyrants to create the quick success that American has seen.
Idiotic stories? Just watch the friggin bombings being telecast to the entire world.
I have never heard a story about american soldiers walking into a town and killing children with small arms fire, in this war at any rate. But I can certainly watch the bombs going off and know that we are slaughtering innocents. Err.... Freeing them.
Yeah actually thats a pretty good idea because its a total slap in the face to their anti-gpl FUD. Winning an open source award... I think I just heard ESR's heart explode...
Yeah they won the Open Source Excellence award for Best System Ingegration Software (Services for Unix 3.0)
I didn't know SFU was Open Source. I dont think it is as a matter of fact. Plus it sucks. Hmmm..
I think you are still missing the point. Honestly, do you really see a market for making money letting people play games in a room you pay for, without them paying anything? I know somebody who owns and operates a business like this, however they simply charge per hour for the machines they have. They are big beefy machines, and 2 bucks an hour is a lot easier for most folks then trooping their own pc to some strip mall for nothing more then some table space and a net connection. Why in the world would a teenager do that? (they are the primary market.)
What would you provide on top of the space they can't get at home? The whole point is to pay a low price, hang out with some people and play net games. Bringing in pc's would be a nightmare, waste much time, you'd have to hassle with users configurations, worry about the security of somebodies box plugging into your lan, etc. etc. Its not a viable business plan at all.
The way these things make money is easy, and they do make money. You rent a space in a commercial building, such as a strip mall. Buy a bunch of kick ass machines (20-30 of them). You provide a nice infrastructure (network at 100mb at the minimum, why not just go gigabit while your at it.) Have some nice desks, nice comfy chairs, headphones, and a groovy monitor. You give them soda's and snacks, and charge like 2-3 bucks an hour. Have a fast net connection. Heck, I'd even have the machines simply sitting in a rack in the back. Host events, etc. Very similar to your idea but no home pc's. In fact that would be very much DISallowed. This way, you have all your machines configured, and can image them every night to clean out any crap left over by the 3l33t kidz using them. Its rather simple, just takes some capital (around $50-100,000) to start up and a good location. The kids will come if everything is right, and shell out a lot of money. And on top of that, its cheaper then the old format - arcades, which means more time spent in your location, which turns into more money. As a kid I could easily drop $20 in an hour at an arcade.
Apple isn't a monopoly is any sense, unless you count the market for mac's as an actual seperate market from personal computers in general. Apple is not even close to a market leader. Microsoft is the actualy monopoly, and Apple is simple another victim of that monopoly. BTW nobody even mentioned that somehow being a monopoly is "illegal" so I dont think your post is redundant at all, it simply doesn't apply. Also, being legal, and being ethical/moral, are two different things. In regard to the original thought though, apple is far far far from being a monopoly. Not even close.
Yeah but can you REALLY guarantee them that you will be around in 12 months? If you've been around for 10 years, they might have faith in that track record alone. Otherwise, it truly is a risk. Its a catch 22. The only way to prove you will be here in 12 months to have been there before. The only way to have been there before is to get customers to trust you will be there again, etc.
It takes time and thats about all. I dont care how ingenious your business plan is, how incredible the product, those do not make longevity a given. Only longevity makes longevity a given.
I've done work in this regard and what happened to faulty hardware that needed to be replaced was hilarious. So, usually, you ship back dead hardware when you need a new harddrive, etc. These are major accounts so they have quick turnaround on these things, and they had this lengthy procedure for sending out any material like this. For your typical harddrive, they would: wipe the disk with various data dumps, ie. write all 1's, all 0's, random noice, rinse repeat a few thousand times. Then, degauss the harddrive in a huge magnetic enclosure. After that, we start to really wipe data. Open the hard drive, remove the platters. Grind them platters with a sander and dispose of the dust. Then, drill several large holes through the platter. Then melt the thing in an oven so all the plastic is nice and runny and let it cool off. Then ship the whole messy pile back to the manufacturer and ask for a replacement. So, while the pc roach motel is kinda true, hardware DOES leave classified areas at times. Just not in any shape to ever have any data recovered from them. Takes a couple of days to wipe a drive to security's satisfaction.
Its just like being a lawyer or doctor. People you know will tend to ask questions about what they know you are an expert in. Its just the nature of being an expert at something, anything really.
A good debugger/disassembler is invaluable in finding obscure bugs. No amount of knowledge of your code and its structure can help you if a system call mangled a stack in a subtle way, especially with cumulative effects of buggy functions that have very very subtle bugs. Unless you are writting embedded code or something that doesn't rely on other code (an os, libs, etc.) you will never have a total view of what is going on. Debugging tools can help pinpoint generally where trouble is, and then it is up to the programmer and his detailed knowledge of the code to figure out what exactly is being affected and by what.
There is no right/wrong answer because "debugging" is such a vague term as well. Use all the tools available to you, and arrogance is not one of those. Nobody has perfect understanding of the internal intricacies of software running on top of an operating system running on top of a cpu.
The best way to beat a bug is to be knowledgable enough to use the right tool, at the right time, to find the correct cause of trouble. That could be anything from a cable tester, to a disassembler, to a coffee break, to another human being.
I still don't believe that the average person in the middle east really cares at all whether or not you can go buy a bear, for instance. They don't want that in their country, but thats a different story. I find it hard to fathom that they want to kill americans because they have the freedom to do things they cannot. The thin line here is the difference between what an american citizen can do in his day to day life, and the will of america to force the rest of the world to adopt that lifestyle. Its not our lifestyle that riles up other nations, its our desire to have them except it in their own countries. And its really non of our business. If it was, then why dont we stop being hypocrites and enforce our will on everybody equally. Are arabs free in Isreal? Are Somali's free in Somalia? So on and so on.
Nobody wants to kill you because you can freely go buy a porn magazine. They want to hurt the bringer of what they see as decadence and evil into their own lands. Its a subtle but huge difference. One that is ignored in the "you will never stop our way of life" propoganda spewed by the mouths of our leaders.
Not to mention they overwhelmingly closer to home facts of our attrocities in their own countries. Supporting and arming the Saudi royal family. Supporting civil war in Afghanistan. Supporting Iraq, then bombing them when they step on our toes. Supporting Isreal, etc etc. Those are things they are faced with every single day. Not you being able to go watch Spiderman uncensored. But your tax dollars going to pay for the methods and means to cause much anguish in their own home towns. If your child was maimed by a US made mine, that would upset you a lot more then your being against alcohol. Do you want to see the citizens of countries where child pornography is legal die in horrendous terrorist acts? Its morally against everything we believe here, yet we dont have militia groups planning terror attacks on them. Yet if those countries were actively attacking your children, you would do something about it, with whatever means you had available. Make no mistake about it, people in many middle eastern nations feel they are at war with us. Not for our way of life, but for our intrusive invasion of their own lives.
Ummm... Iraq DID take over a "nation" next to them (if you can call a corporate monarchy with no citizens rights a nation). They DID use biological weapons on the kurds. They bombed Isreal as well, though not with bio weapons.
And your point is? That is the Iraqi government. That is not a 20 year old idealist willing to sacrifice his own life to further a cause. Do you think the average Iraqi civilian supports the Iraqi government? No. But they still hate you as an american. For good reason. The west CREATED the Iraqi government, armed it, trained it and kept a blind eye on it, WHEN IT SERVED THE NEEDS OF THE WEST.
Oh, and have you ever heard of the Shah of Iran? Ever heard of Saudi Arabia? Ever heard of East Timor? Ever heard of.... oh, thats right, the US doesn't support terrorism.
BTW, the Saudi regime is the most brutal and violent so-called government is the middle east. Public beheading anyone? For masturbating?
Yeah, we do need to take steps to make sure the next smoking gun isn't a mushroom cloud. One we create over an impoverished middle eastern nation to make YOU feel safe.
Why would ANYBODY hate americans because we are "free"? What does that have to do with their lives in their part of the world? Thats a truly twisted tale the government has pursued with great relish. "Terrorists" hate america and its people because we kill, bomb and maim their citizens in the pursuit of "freedom." You honestly think an arab in Iran hates you because you can choose your religion? No, he hates you because you payed, in taxes and votes, for the people who supported the Shah, who support the "freedom fighters" who killed his family in his own country, who support murderous regimes to preserve your gasoline prices. THATS what "terrorists" hate. (Now I'll patiently await the goon squads to show up for "supporting" terrorism....)
This is nothing new. Where I grew up, and this was during the mid 80's, police routinely took pictures and names of potential criminals, and kept a file on them. Whenever they stopped a group of young people (potential gang members) they would take pictures of all of us (speaking from personal experience) and take our names. After that, each time we were harassed, another tick was made in the file and you slowly became a very well known person to all the police, without ever having committed a crime. I've seen the cops break out a huge binder with all kinds of info on people who were never criminals, they just hung out in "bad" neighborhoods and with "possible" gang members. I was on that list for years and probably still am. The cops knew my name, my parents names, tattoos I had, my nickname, had my photo, knew my friends names, where I hung out, and on and on...
Freedom is great, isn't it?
Replace every occurance of "Evercrack" in your reply with "Heroin" or "Cocaine" and the same reads true. Its not WHAT a person is addicted to, its how they relate to it. A normal person could use heroin for 15 years and never become addicted nor have major issues in their life if they did so with a little moderation. Same with cocaine, alcohol, cigarettes, Everquest, etc. Everquest in itself is harmless. So are lots of things. Addicts are addicts, you can't control that.
But then you couldn't use cell phones in the building... I know where I work that would freak the hell out of the salesmen.
ASCII White is a general purpose simulation cluster with many many uses. It currently simulates various elements of our nuclear stockpile including weapon aging and detonation. But that is only the particular simulation being run on the cluster. It can simulate virtually anything that can be simulated on a very powerfull platform, *that* is the cool part. Its a very powerfull computer. And wait until the next version... 30 tflops, currently being worked on, and which will run Linux. Talk about a beowulf cluster.
Carmack has access to all the same tools for simluation that NASA, Los Alamos, etc. have. The simulation software is not developed anymore by nasa (nastran, dytran, other such sims) but by companies specializing in this software. He doesn't need to code that up, its already been done with millions of man hours put into these kind of sims. He's a smart guy, but nobody (including NASA) is going to reinvent the wheel these days. This is a well known, well developed discipline. He can just buy the software and hire a few engineers and physicists to perform the sims.
There is no such thing as a classification of a cult. All religions could be labelled as cults, there is no more validity to catholicism then there is to scientology. The government should stay out of religion all together, which includes protecting their copywrited religion works. Thats why scientology is bad, not what they believe but how they go about protecting that belief. They treat it as a pure business when it should be treated as a faith, if they are to receive the tax benefits of a religious organization.
I know a bit about scientologists beliefs and I do find it hard to fathom how it is a religion. Its psuedo-psychological crap which at the early stages is totally focused on your ability to interact with other people. The religious stuff only comes much later when you start paying really big bucks to learn about the aliens in your head. Whatever, its wacky, but not really religious in my opinion. Its just silly psychology invented out of thin air by Hubbard, with no real scientific background. They do have pretty effective study techniques though, they take learning very seriously and have really hardcore methods for pounding information into your head.
Actually I do believe that a nuclear device cannot detonate "accidentally." A deteriorated device would have no chance of actually exploding, though it might leak or perhaps some of the explosive could go off and cause all kinds of nuclear fallout, but it wouldn't be a nuclear blast. These are such precise machines that to effect a true nuclear explosion requires extreme perfection in the mechanism. A child with a screwdriver could demolish a nuclear weapon. You could attach 50lbs of C4 to a nuclear device and destroy it without any nuclear reaction. Though a nuclear blast probably wouldn't be as devastating as a blown up device because of all the radiation. A plutonium nugget scattered into the atmosphere could wipe out a large portion of the east coast, for instance.
The actual location of the A root server will not be shown to visitors nor the building itself but another "NOC", most likely the corporate NOC. Still looks impressive but is not the one mentioned in the article. Its a corporate gathering if I'm not mistaken.
There are many good articles on how to do this. Check @Stake and securityfocus. In essence, a typical buffer overflow is discovered by hammering away at software until you can reproduce a bug, by making the software crash. You then reproduce this crash using a debugger such as softice, trace the stack and figure out just what is going on memory. You then craft your input strings to hijaak the registers to point to a different location to begin executing code.
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A good example is: http://www.atstake.com/research/reports/wprasbuf.
Its a simple exploit of RASMAN.EXE and takes you through step by step how an exploit is discovered, researched and ultimately exploited. Its an interesting subject to say the least, but not for the faint of heart. Brush up on your assembly!
Thats what I want to see. All these case mods going around, why hasn't anybody made a lego pc case yet? Seems a natural fit. That would be really cool, if somebody else did it
People hate Osama because they were told to. How the hell do YOU know the intricacies of something of that magnitude? He's the new boogey man of the year. But go ahead, be distracted, I mean we wouldn't want you to be thinking about our economy or our worldwide weapons sales or our global support of terrorism (err... freedom fighters) Leftist? Heh. People like you don't make me sick, you make me sad. But, of course, CNN is the oracle of truth. Wouldn't want you to be questioning things like Enron now would we.