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Most of the critical infrastructure stuff is air-gapped from the Net (that is, they are completely separate from it, and not connected, not even indirectly), and rightfully so. So any job would have to be an inside job by a sleeper agent or something.
But it might be easier for terrorists to take out something (physically) like the root DNS servers, or a major point like MAE East/West -- it may not cause the apocalypse, but that will still screw things up majorly for the world... the Internet does have lots of single points of failure, believe it or not.
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Aren't all mission critical infrastructure stuff like defense, air traffic, power, etc. supposed to have "air-gaps"? Ie, they are physically separate and completely inaccessible from the Internet and other public nets. I thought it was standard security practice, or am I wrong.
It's hard to believe that anyone would put something important accessible online, but then you never know... are people really that dumb???!
I guess you object to libraries keeping copies of all those old books that the author doesn't "like" anymore either, too?
There needs to be some sort of archive, make it free or payware, I don't care(as long as it is not a commercial company that controls it) of the web, like the Library of Congress does for books, like LexisNexis does for printed media.
It's called preserving history, the main medium of this page is digital bits, and ironically, it's the most transient compared to all past media.
Those who fail to learn about the past are doomed to repeat it...
I'm really not surprised to be reading about this and wouldn't put it past those Chinese to do it. Anyhow, I'm an American businessman in the import-export business, so as you might guess, my frequent travels take me to many places around the world, on every continent.
I wanted to share my experience in the "great" country of China.
So, I was in Shenzhen China last December for about a week on business. A bit of background: Shenzhen, like Hong Kong and a few other places, is a "Special Economic Zone" that the Chinese government set up to try and give foreigners the illusion that China really ISN'T a drab, decaying fascist state that's economically languishing behind the rest of the world. Here, rules are relaxed and capitalism is encouraged, not surppressed. Well, let me tell you this, if this is China's best, then I'd hate to see the worst.
Anyways, when I stepped off the train from Hong Kong (which was no paradise itself, as that place has gone down the shitter since the Brits left) I was shocked. The whole place smelled like a combination of vomit and dog shit that had been left out in the sun for a day or so. And it was probably BECAUSE there was vomit and dog shit all over. I almost retched, and I've certainly been in some sketchy places in my travels but NOTHING like this.
People spit everywhere. Trash litters the streets. I found myself looking DOWNWARD much more than looking FORWARD when I walked.
Noise pollution is endemic. It doesn't help that their infernal language consists of abrupt rapid fire tones that is a cacophony for any human ear to bear. How do they speak and listen to that shit without going crazy all day long is beyond me.
Anyways, Chinamen stink -- literally. There is no concept of personal hygiene whatsoever. Meetings with even top officials were hourlong sessions of having to endure hot sweaty bodies and rancid breath eminating from mouths missing a few teeth. Geez, at least use deodorant for crying out loud.
The hypocrisy, corruption, and double-standards from the highest levels of government on over are the norm at the same time China opens up to the world. Foreigners get charged as much as five times for transportation, lodging, food, and everything else.
Traffic is horrible. Rules are non-existent except for at traffic lights: red means to go fast, green means to go REALLY REALLY fast.
The Chinese people themselve are pretty apathetic and everyone just wants to get out of that hell hole, so you see smuggling rings shipping people out hidden in truck beds and ships, all too often with tragic results.
The whole country, in my assessment is a lost case. Even the cheap labor can be found in Southeast Asia or Mexico. Same goes for pirated stuff -- SE Asia and Eastern Europe will keep on churning them out.
Anyways, the one redeeming quality were the girls. I paid 100 yuan (about $12 US) for a great fuck, with a 16 year old who seemed quite new and "unblemished" if you get my drift. Boy, was she tight, made all the right noises, sucked and fucked all night long and let me cum all over her. Much better than even the vaunted Thai whores, and worlds apart from anything in Las Vegas or in Europe. Best bargain I have EVER found in my life!
So yeah, screw the hell hole that's China. It's a lost cause of a country suspsended by a hollow facade of so-called new capitalism that's just show more than anything.
Combining all three or four colors (cyan, magenta, yellow, sometimes even black) in one physical cartridge unit, so that when one color runs out, you HAVE to replace the others, even though they may be perfectly full still!
It's pretty much the norm, I've noticed in the inkjet world.
Auto mechanic : Mechanical engineer Microwaving frozen meal : Chef creating own dishes from scratch
etc, etc.
IT is a offshoot BUSINESS field, CS is offshoot of MATHEMATICS, IT people are generally glorified academic PHBs, having no real in-depth CS knowledge. Maybe C or Java programming, basic sort/search algorithms at best.
I'm not familiar with Fontographer or its exact function, but it seems, from his writing, that 'Fontographer' lets you change the bits just like his 'embed' program -- he just wrote it to avoid going into the full Fontographer program just to change some simple bits...
So shouldn't they go after Fontographer as well?
Similar to how most/all "professional" DAT/CD recorders will ignore any copy protection bits on a audio stream... are those DMCA violations too?
You're all forgetting a little something called the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle.
There will always be non-determinism on the atomic/quantum level involved because of it, and makes it impossible to fully simulate and predict effects with *100% certainty( since you don't know how the atoms are going to behave, wrt their position, and momentum.
* Both have/had a bloodthirsty leader * Both forcefully took new territories that were not theirs. * Both have killed millions of a specific ethnic group. Jews for Hitler, Palestinians for Sharon.
Ironic how Israel has become just like those "atheists" that persecuted their people fifty years ago.
Organized religion must be thrown out. It's clear that throughout history, religion has been at the root of so much death and destruction, from the Crusades in the Middle Ages to the terrorist attacks of September 11.
It coulds minds with ridiculous myths, untruths, fosters intolerance, and narrow-mindedness that have no place in today's 21st century technological, multifaceted society.
Ban organized religion, not only US, but worldwide -- it's what's holding back progress in places like Africa, the Middle East, India, and so much more.
Just like forced slavery and child labor, religion is an antiquated relic of the past that must be eradicated in the world, a scourge that hobbles the progress of the human race, like a ball and shackle.
Can't be all that difficult in this economic climate. As I understand it, they are parasites who use the distribution method of paying the file-swapping networks $ to carry their programs... well, where are the spyware companies getting the $ from -- is their ad revenue really enough to sustain them?!
I'm hoping not, and that therefore, they will soon wither and die, just another dot-com casulaty.
Isn't all the really critical stuff (defense, space, air traffic, telecom, power, finance, etc) all air-gapped? Meaning, they're PHYSICALLY disconnected from the Internet or other public networks.
Maybe I'm naive, but I don't see how short of a "deep plant" to get an agent "inside" in a position of responsibility, very good social engineering or physical sabotage/attacks, hackers (from any part of the world) could cause REAL crippling damage (more than just defacing web sites or destroying non-critical servers).
I'm really not surprised to be reading about this and wouldn't put it past those Chinese to do it. Anyhow, I'm an American businessman in the import-export business, so as you might guess, my frequent travels take me to many places around the world, on every continent.
I wanted to share my experience in the "great" country of China.
So, I was in Shenzhen China last December for about a week on business. A bit of background: Shenzhen, like Hong Kong and a few other places, is a "Special Economic Zone" that the Chinese government set up to try and give foreigners the illusion that China really ISN'T a drab, decaying fascist state that's economically languishing behind the rest of the world. Here, rules are relaxed and capitalism is encouraged, not surppressed. Well, let me tell you this, if this is China's best, then I'd hate to see the worst.
Anyways, when I stepped off the train from Hong Kong (which was no paradise itself, as that place has gone down the shitter since the Brits left) I was shocked. The whole place smelled like a combination of vomit and dog shit that had been left out in the sun for a day or so. And it was probably BECAUSE there was vomit and dog shit all over. I almost retched, and I've certainly been in some sketchy places in my travels but NOTHING like this.
People spit everywhere. Trash litters the streets. I found myself looking DOWNWARD much more than looking FORWARD when I walked.
Noise pollution is endemic. It doesn't help that their infernal language consists of abrupt rapid fire tones that is a cacophony for any human ear to bear. How do they speak and listen to that shit without going crazy all day long is beyond me.
Anyways, Chinamen stink -- literally. There is no concept of personal hygiene whatsoever. Meetings with even top officials were hourlong sessions of having to endure hot sweaty bodies and rancid breath eminating from mouths missing a few teeth. Geez, at least use deodorant for crying out loud.
The hypocrisy, corruption, and double-standards from the highest levels of government on over are the norm at the same time China opens up to the world. Foreigners get charged as much as five times for transportation, lodging, food, and everything else.
Traffic is horrible. Rules are non-existent except for at traffic lights: red means to go fast, green means to go REALLY REALLY fast.
The Chinese people themselve are pretty apathetic and everyone just wants to get out of that hell hole, so you see smuggling rings shipping people out hidden in truck beds and ships, all too often with tragic results.
The whole country, in my assessment is a lost case. Even the cheap labor can be found in Southeast Asia or Mexico. Same goes for pirated stuff -- SE Asia and Eastern Europe will keep on churning them out.
Anyways, the one redeeming quality were the girls. I paid 100 yuan (about $12 US) for a great fuck, with a 16 year old who seemed quite new and "unblemished" if you get my drift. Boy, was she tight, made all the right noises, sucked and fucked all night long and let me cum all over her. Much better than even the vaunted Thai whores, and worlds apart from anything in Las Vegas or in Europe. Best bargain I have EVER found in my life!
So yeah, screw the hell hole that's China. I'd say nuke the entire damn place and put that whole society out of its misery, and let another country rise up from the ashes, if I were in Bush's seat -- were it not for the girls.
The article summary is wrong. IRIX was used for frontend modelling. But Shrek WAS rendered finally on Linux -- indeed Shrek was distinctive as it was the first major full-length film to be totally rendered on Linux.
Linux was used for the final rendering of Shrek, etc, but SGI was still used for the modelling and animation. Now, even that will be Linux (using Maya for Linux, and PDI's own tools)
I appreciate companies taking a stance like this. However, I get a lot of spam for such programs, and not only due to their spamming practices, I think the programs themselves are sleazy because you can do the exact same thing with freeware, see http://www.doom9.net/ for the details and all you need.
Toyota has had their Prius since 1997 in Japan, and 2000 in the US. Honda is just catching up (the Insight is more of a speciality car, I think -- only 2 seats, very cramped, so not as practical as the Prius or this Civic hybrid)
The FAA expressely prohibits "Black box" (CVR/FDR) data from being used in any legal enforcement action. It is only accessible for accident investigation and safety purposes. In other words, an airline can't legally snoop the data and decide to fire you the pilot just because you did something wrong. Only if there was an accident, and the NTSB, using that data after the fact, proves your fault, then only in that case, the data plays a role in any discipline action.
One can only imagine that they will make such a policy for cars, hopefully!
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Most of the critical infrastructure stuff is air-gapped from the Net (that is, they are completely separate from it, and not connected, not even indirectly), and rightfully so. So any job would have to be an inside job by a sleeper agent or something.
But it might be easier for terrorists to take out something (physically) like the root DNS servers, or a major point like MAE East/West -- it may not cause the apocalypse, but that will still screw things up majorly for the world... the Internet does have lots of single points of failure, believe it or not.
Aren't all mission critical infrastructure stuff like defense, air traffic, power, etc. supposed to have "air-gaps"? Ie, they are physically separate and completely inaccessible from the Internet and other public nets. I thought it was standard security practice, or am I wrong.
It's hard to believe that anyone would put something important accessible online, but then you never know... are people really that dumb???!
I guess you object to libraries keeping copies of all those old books that the author doesn't "like" anymore either, too?
There needs to be some sort of archive, make it free or payware, I don't care(as long as it is not a commercial company that controls it) of the web, like the Library of Congress does for books, like LexisNexis does for printed media.
It's called preserving history, the main medium of this page is digital bits, and ironically, it's the most transient compared to all past media.
Those who fail to learn about the past are doomed to repeat it...
I'm really not surprised to be reading about this and wouldn't put it past those Chinese to do it. Anyhow, I'm an American businessman in the import-export business, so as you might guess, my frequent travels take me to many places around the world, on every continent.
I wanted to share my experience in the "great" country of China.
So, I was in Shenzhen China last December for about a week on business. A bit of background: Shenzhen, like Hong Kong and a few other places, is a "Special Economic Zone" that the Chinese government set up to try and give foreigners the illusion that China really ISN'T a drab, decaying fascist state that's economically languishing behind the rest of the world. Here, rules are relaxed and capitalism is encouraged, not surppressed. Well, let me tell you this, if this is China's best, then I'd hate to see the worst.
Anyways, when I stepped off the train from Hong Kong (which was no paradise itself, as that place has gone down the shitter since the Brits left) I was shocked. The whole place smelled like a combination of vomit and dog shit that had been left out in the sun for a day or so. And it was probably BECAUSE there was vomit and dog shit all over. I almost retched, and I've certainly been in some sketchy places in my travels but NOTHING like this.
People spit everywhere. Trash litters the streets. I found myself looking DOWNWARD much more than looking FORWARD when I walked.
Noise pollution is endemic. It doesn't help that their infernal language consists of abrupt rapid fire tones that is a cacophony for any human ear to bear. How do they speak and listen to that shit without going crazy all day long is beyond me.
Anyways, Chinamen stink -- literally. There is no concept of personal hygiene whatsoever. Meetings with even top officials were hourlong sessions of having to endure hot sweaty bodies and rancid breath eminating from mouths missing a few teeth. Geez, at least use deodorant for crying out loud.
The hypocrisy, corruption, and double-standards from the highest levels of government on over are the norm at the same time China opens up to the world. Foreigners get charged as much as five times for transportation, lodging, food, and everything else.
Traffic is horrible. Rules are non-existent except for at traffic lights: red means to go fast, green means to go REALLY REALLY fast.
The Chinese people themselve are pretty apathetic and everyone just wants to get out of that hell hole, so you see smuggling rings shipping people out hidden in truck beds and ships, all too often with tragic results.
The whole country, in my assessment is a lost case. Even the cheap labor can be found in Southeast Asia or Mexico. Same goes for pirated stuff -- SE Asia and Eastern Europe will keep on churning them out.
Anyways, the one redeeming quality were the girls. I paid 100 yuan (about $12 US) for a great fuck, with a 16 year old who seemed quite new and "unblemished" if you get my drift. Boy, was she tight, made all the right noises, sucked and fucked all night long and let me cum all over her. Much better than even the vaunted Thai whores, and worlds apart from anything in Las Vegas or in Europe. Best bargain I have EVER found in my life!
So yeah, screw the hell hole that's China. It's a lost cause of a country suspsended by a hollow facade of so-called new capitalism that's just show more than anything.
Like Captain Kirk in Star Trek: Generations.
Combining all three or four colors (cyan, magenta, yellow, sometimes even black) in one physical cartridge unit, so that when one color runs out, you HAVE to replace the others, even though they may be perfectly full still!
It's pretty much the norm, I've noticed in the inkjet world.
No, Renderman running on IRIX.
whereas, I routinely got 153 kbps with Ricochet, often exceeding 200 kbpx. I wish they would soon come back!
Hmmm, might be interesting if they allowed both platforms to access it -- cross platform, worldwide play... nice.
IT person : CS person is like
Auto mechanic : Mechanical engineer
Microwaving frozen meal : Chef creating own dishes from scratch
etc, etc.
IT is a offshoot BUSINESS field, CS is offshoot of MATHEMATICS, IT people are generally glorified academic PHBs, having no real in-depth CS knowledge. Maybe C or Java programming, basic sort/search algorithms at best.
I'm not familiar with Fontographer or its exact function, but it seems, from his writing, that 'Fontographer' lets you change the bits just like his 'embed' program -- he just wrote it to avoid going into the full Fontographer program just to change some simple bits...
So shouldn't they go after Fontographer as well?
Similar to how most/all "professional" DAT/CD recorders will ignore any copy protection bits on a audio stream... are those DMCA violations too?
Check what IP the lawyer uses.
:-)
Use a Apache rewrite rule to serve up a version of the web page without the link to the program, for the lawyer's subnet.
Solved.
You're all forgetting a little something called the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle.
There will always be non-determinism on the atomic/quantum level involved because of it, and makes it impossible to fully simulate and predict effects with *100% certainty( since you don't know how the atoms are going to behave, wrt their position, and momentum.
The GameCube uses a variant of the PowerPC processor, named "Gekko", and IBM was responsible for R&D on that as well.
IBM -- mercenaries of the gaming world?
Look at Israel, certainly a NON atheist regime:
* Both have/had a bloodthirsty leader
* Both forcefully took new territories that were not theirs.
* Both have killed millions of a specific ethnic group. Jews for Hitler, Palestinians for Sharon.
Ironic how Israel has become just like those "atheists" that persecuted their people fifty years ago.
Organized religion must be thrown out. It's clear that throughout history, religion has been at the root of so much death and destruction, from the Crusades in the Middle Ages to the terrorist attacks of September 11.
It coulds minds with ridiculous myths, untruths, fosters intolerance, and narrow-mindedness that have no place in today's 21st century technological, multifaceted society.
Ban organized religion, not only US, but worldwide -- it's what's holding back progress in places like Africa, the Middle East, India, and so much more.
Just like forced slavery and child labor, religion is an antiquated relic of the past that must be eradicated in the world, a scourge that hobbles the progress of the human race, like a ball and shackle.
Can't be all that difficult in this economic climate. As I understand it, they are parasites who use the distribution method of paying the file-swapping networks $ to carry their programs... well, where are the spyware companies getting the $ from -- is their ad revenue really enough to sustain them?!
I'm hoping not, and that therefore, they will soon wither and die, just another dot-com casulaty.
Isn't all the really critical stuff (defense, space, air traffic, telecom, power, finance, etc) all air-gapped? Meaning, they're PHYSICALLY disconnected from the Internet or other public networks.
Maybe I'm naive, but I don't see how short of a "deep plant" to get an agent "inside" in a position of responsibility, very good social engineering or physical sabotage/attacks, hackers (from any part of the world) could cause REAL crippling damage (more than just defacing web sites or destroying non-critical servers).
I'm really not surprised to be reading about this and wouldn't put it past those Chinese to do it. Anyhow, I'm an American businessman in the import-export business, so as you might guess, my frequent travels take me to many places around the world, on every continent.
I wanted to share my experience in the "great" country of China.
So, I was in Shenzhen China last December for about a week on business. A bit of background: Shenzhen, like Hong Kong and a few other places, is a "Special Economic Zone" that the Chinese government set up to try and give foreigners the illusion that China really ISN'T a drab, decaying fascist state that's economically languishing behind the rest of the world. Here, rules are relaxed and capitalism is encouraged, not surppressed. Well, let me tell you this, if this is China's best, then I'd hate to see the worst.
Anyways, when I stepped off the train from Hong Kong (which was no paradise itself, as that place has gone down the shitter since the Brits left) I was shocked. The whole place smelled like a combination of vomit and dog shit that had been left out in the sun for a day or so. And it was probably BECAUSE there was vomit and dog shit all over. I almost retched, and I've certainly been in some sketchy places in my travels but NOTHING like this.
People spit everywhere. Trash litters the streets. I found myself looking DOWNWARD much more than looking FORWARD when I walked.
Noise pollution is endemic. It doesn't help that their infernal language consists of abrupt rapid fire tones that is a cacophony for any human ear to bear. How do they speak and listen to that shit without going crazy all day long is beyond me.
Anyways, Chinamen stink -- literally. There is no concept of personal hygiene whatsoever. Meetings with even top officials were hourlong sessions of having to endure hot sweaty bodies and rancid breath eminating from mouths missing a few teeth. Geez, at least use deodorant for crying out loud.
The hypocrisy, corruption, and double-standards from the highest levels of government on over are the norm at the same time China opens up to the world. Foreigners get charged as much as five times for transportation, lodging, food, and everything else.
Traffic is horrible. Rules are non-existent except for at traffic lights: red means to go fast, green means to go REALLY REALLY fast.
The Chinese people themselve are pretty apathetic and everyone just wants to get out of that hell hole, so you see smuggling rings shipping people out hidden in truck beds and ships, all too often with tragic results.
The whole country, in my assessment is a lost case. Even the cheap labor can be found in Southeast Asia or Mexico. Same goes for pirated stuff -- SE Asia and Eastern Europe will keep on churning them out.
Anyways, the one redeeming quality were the girls. I paid 100 yuan (about $12 US) for a great fuck, with a 16 year old who seemed quite new and "unblemished" if you get my drift. Boy, was she tight, made all the right noises, sucked and fucked all night long and let me cum all over her. Much better than even the vaunted Thai whores, and worlds apart from anything in Las Vegas or in Europe. Best bargain I have EVER found in my life!
So yeah, screw the hell hole that's China. I'd say nuke the entire damn place and put that whole society out of its misery, and let another country rise up from the ashes, if I were in Bush's seat -- were it not for the girls.
The article summary is wrong. IRIX was used for frontend modelling. But Shrek WAS rendered finally on Linux -- indeed Shrek was distinctive as it was the first major full-length film to be totally rendered on Linux.
Linux was used for the final rendering of Shrek, etc, but SGI was still used for the modelling and animation. Now, even that will be Linux (using Maya for Linux, and PDI's own tools)
I appreciate companies taking a stance like this. However, I get a lot of spam for such programs, and not only due to their spamming practices, I think the programs themselves are sleazy because you can do the exact same thing with freeware, see http://www.doom9.net/ for the details and all you need.
Toyota has had their Prius since 1997 in Japan, and 2000 in the US. Honda is just catching up (the Insight is more of a speciality car, I think -- only 2 seats, very cramped, so not as practical as the Prius or this Civic hybrid)
Also, there was a Solaris version as well.
The FAA expressely prohibits "Black box" (CVR/FDR) data from being used in any legal enforcement action. It is only accessible for accident investigation and safety purposes. In other words, an airline can't legally snoop the data and decide to fire you the pilot just because you did something wrong. Only if there was an accident, and the NTSB, using that data after the fact, proves your fault, then only in that case, the data plays a role in any discipline action.
One can only imagine that they will make such a policy for cars, hopefully!