Interesting. The long-term goals of most contributors include a future Linux. Microsoft's contribution must be seen with another long term goal; namely the destruction or making obsolete of same kernel.
Most contributions are mutually beneficient, but not those of someone whose aim is to obliterate rather than cooperate. Luckily, the license should protect it. Cross your fingers for a free and democratic future.
For those too young to remember, I can recommend "Accidental Empires". Gives a nice overview from a personal acquintance of Bill Gates.
Here's what MS rules at: machiavellian business strategy and building a following using re-branding of existing concepts and methods (much like a cult).
People who use Windows usually can't help it (either from not knowing the alternatives, or work situation. Most Apple users are wilfully ignorant, however.
Platter forensics a hoax? Today, yes. Yesterday? No.
Drive technology has changed. I seem to recall that it was the old non-S.M.A.R.T able drives that were subject to (successful) platter forensics. Long time ago =! Hoax.
I'm currently building my own multi-solution. Beige box solution is the way to go.
My game rig/media server/work station is a fast AMD Phenom with 1 150GB 10K rpm OS disk, and then four 2TB disks in RAID 6 as "storage".
Eventually, I'll separate the boxes into one Amusement machine and another for media player/storage. I have CAT6A cables in the walls here.
The storage disks are backed up over the network to my 4 disk Netgear NAS with "RAID X" (~6). I'm thinking 3 times a week.
PC and NAS are on UPS, so I hope to get a 2nd NAS placed at my brother's house (in turn for some storage space at my place) for redundancy with monthly backups.
Just a tidbit of info here. In the industry, the assignment of the 4G name requires 1Gbit/s; but playing on people's perceptions that we should expect 4G now, a lot of companies brand what is inside known as 3.9G as 4G. While competitors adapt same practice, court cases are built slowly. Both 3.9 and 4G is LTE ( though diff freq). 3.9G is ~20Mbit/s if I'm not mistaken.
AFAIK (only secondhand info) only South Korea has true 4G.
Couldn't be bothered to fact check, as it doesn't really interest me.
Enigma Systems Services. This is Hans, how may I help you?
Hello Günther!
Oh yes, I understand. Not to worry though, I think we can find a solution. First, would you be so kind as to look underneath your Enigma device for your serial number.. Yes. Should be like a swastika circle with the Eagle above. 'Nazi Inside', right, that's the one! Now, there's a number right next to it after S/N, could you read it up to me, Günther?
Thanks, let me just look you up in the filing cabinet here... Ah!I can see you're a premium member. Still under Third Reich warranty!
Okay. Now. Did you spill any beverage on the Enigma? No? No coffee or tea? Happens a lot on our U-boats.
Alright. If you can turn it so the eagle looks away from you. No no, don't you look away, Günther. IT must look away from you. Yeah?.. No..? Alright. If you hold it using the left hand on the handle marked LINKS and the right hand on the handle marked RIGHT. Okay? Great! Now tilt the little Nazi bird away from you. Yes, away.
You should hear a sound like a pin drop on a marble floor. No, just imagine a pin- Forget the floor, Günther, just let me know if you hear anything.
Oh, you did? Like two pins clicking together? Sounds about right.
Now I want you to enter a new PIN into the device. No, not an actual pin, but a PIN code, four digits. Yeah, typical "Allied Forces" Could be anything. Eins, zwei, drei, vier, not really that important.
Then try typing your secret message into the machine again. You don't have to read it out to me, Günther. Remember it's a secret haha
No? No green flag? Okay.. But no red flag either?
Alright. It just means that it has to be rebooted. We have solved the problem, you heard the pin click, but we need to reboot the Enigma so that the firmware changes can come into effect. Yes, yes, exactly.
You know how to reboot, it Günther? Yes, just strap on your best pair of boots and kick it a few times. Then it should work like before. Thanks, and the same to you. Remember, only the best for our favourite war criminals, haha. Yeah. Thanks! Have a nice war! Auf wiedersehen!
Don't worry, Hollywood will make snappy green screen remakes with busty actors trying to talk like in the fairy tales, and Cristopher Reeves, looking sternly at people, places AND objects. Gonna be great! Make a million dollars! ???
Profit!
Tricky illusion that always accompany the proposition of a sequence of events: start & beginning. The human mind connects the dots,regardless of reality. go read Hume now, children.
Consider, for instance, lol cats and pedo bears. Two distinct mammals that have perplexed the likes of sir Attenborough for many office hours.
Testing the waters, we also have dramatic animals (it all began with a hamster), and the turtle kid. The latter a new breed of furry, that may prove more nuisance than entertainment.
Seriously, it sounds like the beginning of a zombie movie.
As a philosopher, I don't understand that they are not called biomoralists. Seems to me their (undisclosed/unconscious?) Ethics are already established.
Further, this does not address the fundamental issues, but tries to find an easy shortcut (akin to jamming all the volcanoes in the world to slow the temp rise).
I just don't understand the reasoning of those that say furthet exploration is so damaging.
Who cares?
The painting was made for our perusal, not to secretly safekeep behind a 2nd wall. It would be saying the painting has some intrinsic value, that would still exist even when the world had been overrun by zombies.
If we uncover the painting we have the means to protect it, And make copies, to extend human knowledge.
And here I thought we were actually going to get to meet the guy. Can you imagine some 20,000 slashdotters forming a queue, each with his own "In Soviet Russia" or "I, for one" joke? Gives me goose bumps.
TFA is alright, I guess. I don't see why no one mentions The Ancient Greeks or Moses for that matter. Tablets must be public domain by now..
So they will send an army of sci-fi nerds, who'll be making cinematic sound effects for every thing they (we) do, unil Earth cuts them (us) off, reducing the world's populus and the world's collective intelligence to just the right amount for survival. ??? PROFIT!
Slashdot Mirror
The old saying goes: it looks like armrd conflict, it walks like armed conflict, it quacks like armed conflict. It probably is a war.
But then we'd have to give War on Terror (1984), War on Drugs, War on Full-Frontal Nudity aso. a new set of names. Like domestic policy.
Americans use war like arabs use jihad. Populisticly.
Interesting. The long-term goals of most contributors include a future Linux. Microsoft's contribution must be seen with another long term goal; namely the destruction or making obsolete of same kernel.
Most contributions are mutually beneficient, but not those of someone whose aim is to obliterate rather than cooperate.
Luckily, the license should protect it. Cross your fingers for a free and democratic future.
For those too young to remember, I can recommend "Accidental Empires". Gives a nice overview from a personal acquintance of Bill Gates.
Here's what MS rules at: machiavellian business strategy and building a following using re-branding of existing concepts and methods (much like a cult).
People who use Windows usually can't help it (either from not knowing the alternatives, or work situation. Most Apple users are wilfully ignorant, however.
Platter forensics a hoax?
Today, yes. Yesterday? No.
Drive technology has changed. I seem to recall that it was the old non-S.M.A.R.T able drives that were subject to (successful) platter forensics. Long time ago =! Hoax.
A name that no one can pronounce!
- How's your FOSS project doing? :)
- xcxcczgfhkklngs! Is a huge success!
I seem to recall a teaching software called Blue Button, that was featured on FLOSS Weekly. Not sure if it went both ways tho.
Friend of mine just had to reinstall his laptop, using my help of course., and backup disks.
From a 120GB disk, 45GB was porn he didn't even watch. Kept the "favorites" folder: ~1.2GB.
I'm currently building my own multi-solution. Beige box solution is the way to go.
My game rig/media server/work station is a fast AMD Phenom with 1 150GB 10K rpm OS disk, and then four 2TB disks in RAID 6 as "storage".
Eventually, I'll separate the boxes into one Amusement machine and another for media player/storage. I have CAT6A cables in the walls here.
The storage disks are backed up over the network to my 4 disk Netgear NAS with "RAID X" (~6). I'm thinking 3 times a week.
PC and NAS are on UPS, so I hope to get a 2nd NAS placed at my brother's house (in turn for some storage space at my place) for redundancy with monthly backups.
Just a tidbit of info here. In the industry, the assignment of the 4G name requires 1Gbit/s; but playing on people's perceptions that we should expect 4G now, a lot of companies brand what is inside known as 3.9G as 4G. While competitors adapt same practice, court cases are built slowly. Both 3.9 and 4G is LTE ( though diff freq). 3.9G is ~20Mbit/s if I'm not mistaken.
AFAIK (only secondhand info) only South Korea has true 4G.
Couldn't be bothered to fact check, as it doesn't really interest me.
It's what kept YOU alive when you were a smelling, ingrateful bag of isht, stupid :-)
We're pre-tracing oue steps towards the ending of the Foundation novels..
Enigma Systems Services. This is Hans, how may I help you?
Hello Günther!
Oh yes, I understand. Not to worry though, I think we can find a solution.
First, would you be so kind as to look underneath your Enigma device for your serial number..
Yes.
Should be like a swastika circle with the Eagle above.
'Nazi Inside', right, that's the one!
Now, there's a number right next to it after S/N, could you read it up to me, Günther?
Thanks, let me just look you up in the filing cabinet here... Ah!I can see you're a premium member. Still under Third Reich warranty!
Okay. Now. Did you spill any beverage on the Enigma?
No? No coffee or tea?
Happens a lot on our U-boats.
Alright. If you can turn it so the eagle looks away from you.
No no, don't you look away, Günther. IT must look away from you.
Yeah?.. No..?
Alright. If you hold it using the left hand on the handle marked LINKS and the right hand on the handle marked RIGHT.
Okay? Great!
Now tilt the little Nazi bird away from you. Yes, away.
You should hear a sound like a pin drop on a marble floor.
No, just imagine a pin-
Forget the floor, Günther, just let me know if you hear anything.
Oh, you did? Like two pins clicking together? Sounds about right.
Now I want you to enter a new PIN into the device.
No, not an actual pin, but a PIN code, four digits.
Yeah, typical "Allied Forces"
Could be anything. Eins, zwei, drei, vier, not really that important.
Then try typing your secret message into the machine again.
You don't have to read it out to me, Günther. Remember it's a secret haha
No? No green flag?
Okay.. But no red flag either?
Alright. It just means that it has to be rebooted. We have solved the problem, you heard the pin click, but we need to reboot the Enigma so that the firmware changes can come into effect. Yes, yes, exactly.
You know how to reboot, it Günther?
Yes, just strap on your best pair of boots and kick it a few times. Then it should work like before.
Thanks, and the same to you. Remember, only the best for our favourite war criminals, haha.
Yeah. Thanks!
Have a nice war! Auf wiedersehen!
... hammer?
You don't remember 1980's smash hit "I'm swelling into you, baby "?
It was swell!
Hush, now. They've got eyes everywhere.
Where's the deterrent?
Try greed.
Don't worry, Hollywood will make snappy green screen remakes with busty actors trying to talk like in the fairy tales, and Cristopher Reeves, looking sternly at people, places AND objects.
Gonna be great!
Make a million dollars!
???
Profit!
Tricky illusion that always accompany the proposition of a sequence of events: start & beginning. The human mind connects the dots,regardless of reality.
go read Hume now, children.
Consider, for instance, lol cats and pedo bears. Two distinct mammals that have perplexed the likes of sir Attenborough for many office hours.
Testing the waters, we also have dramatic animals (it all began with a hamster), and the turtle kid. The latter a new breed of furry, that may prove more nuisance than entertainment.
You are making absolute, complete sense, sir.
We don't like your kind 'round here.
Seriously, it sounds like the beginning of a zombie movie.
As a philosopher, I don't understand that they are not called biomoralists. Seems to me their (undisclosed/unconscious?) Ethics are already established.
Further, this does not address the fundamental issues, but tries to find an easy shortcut (akin to jamming all the volcanoes in the world to slow the temp rise).
I just don't understand the reasoning of those that say furthet exploration is so damaging.
Who cares?
The painting was made for our perusal, not to secretly safekeep behind a 2nd wall. It would be saying the painting has some intrinsic value, that would still exist even when the world had been overrun by zombies.
If we uncover the painting we have the means to protect it, And make copies, to extend human knowledge.
And here I thought we were actually going to get to meet the guy. Can you imagine some 20,000 slashdotters forming a queue, each with his own "In Soviet Russia" or "I, for one" joke?
Gives me goose bumps.
TFA is alright, I guess. I don't see why no one mentions The Ancient Greeks or Moses for that matter. Tablets must be public domain by now..
So they will send an army of sci-fi nerds, who'll be making cinematic sound effects for every thing they (we) do, unil Earth cuts them (us) off, reducing the world's populus and the world's collective intelligence to just the right amount for survival. ??? PROFIT!
Renember. In space, no one can hear you BEEP.
... it's Java!