the next logical step would be to only allow guns that can't be fired at police officers. not really technically difficult, police would only have to wear some sort of radio beacon, and the gun would refuse to fire in the direction of such a beacon.
the military would of cource also be issued such radio beacons.
now fast forward a few years; some president has decided that he doesn't care what the people thinks, and takes control of the country even though he didn't get the majority of the votes in an election. bit by bit he starts to take away the rights of the people. within the first few years, you can't even talk about a security bug is common software without risking arrest. a few years after this, he may start sending the army after the rest of his opposition, and thay will be unable to protect themself due to the gun control laws inplemented a few years earlier.
the following poen comes to mind:
First they came for the Jews
and I did not speak out -- because I was not a Jew.
Then they came for the communists
and I did not speak out -- because I was not a communist.
Then they came for the trade unionists
and I did not speak out -- because I was not a trade unionist.
Then they came for me --
and by then there was no one left to speak out for me.
(Ring, Ring)
Hello. Hello? Can you hear me now? I said can you here me now? Hang on.
maybe it's just time that even the american phone companies figured out that GSM is the way to go?
i've travled around Europe for a long time (ch, it, fr, be, de, nl, uk, dk, se and no), and i don't think i've ever lost my connection once. now, with GPRS, it even gives you a decent data link (40 ~kbit/s).
may no be what you'r looking for, but gives a lot of insight into different ways of dealing with this (prosesses, thread etc) problem. from Dan Kegel The C10K problem
It's time for web servers to handle ten thousand clients simultaneously, don't you think? After all, the web is a big place now.
And computers are big, too. You can buy a 1000MHz machine with 2 gigabytes of RAM and an 1000Mbit/sec Ethernet card for $1500 or so. Let's see - at 20000 clients, that's 500KHz, 100Kbytes, and 50Kbits/sec per client. It shouldn't take any more horsepower than that to take four kilobytes from the disk and send them to the network once a second for each of twenty thousand clients. (That works out to $0.08 per client, by the way. Those $100/client licensing fees some operating systems charge are starting to look a little heavy!) So hardware is no longer the bottleneck.
yeah, you're probably right. i was trying to be funny actually, but i think it's safe to say that that didn't work out. thanks for the effort anyway, at least you posted a followup. the only other feedback i got was a (-1) overrated moderation...
that's like calling an elephant a cat for convenience. it's just plain wrong. the convenient name is 'X', the proper name is 'The X Windowing System'. 'x windows' is a sure sign someone doesn't know what he's talking about.
XFoil -
XFOIL is an interactive program for the design and analysis of subsonic isolated airfoils.
It consists of a collection of menu-driven routines which perform various useful functions
NASG Airfoil Database -
This database includes airfoil specification(contour,thickness ratio and etc.) and performance(lift,drag and moment) data widely.
Aircraft Design Software Review - This page originated from a paper given at the ASEE Annual Conference, Sunday, June 25, 1995, Anaheim, CA (Gary Slater, session chairman: Software and Multimedia). It has been updated for design class use.
CompuFoil - CompuFoil is the industry standard in airfoil modification and plotting software. Used by SIG, Estes Industries, Midwest Models, Hobbico, House of Balsa, HobbyHangar, Great Planes Models, R&R Products, CR Aircraft, DJAeroTech, The Electric Jet Factory, NASA, West Point, dozens of schools, colleges, universities and discriminating R/C modelers around the world. CompuFoil runs on Windows 95, 98, and ME. It will also run on WindowsXP/2000, and Macintosh computers (with a PC emulator), but these two require a custom setup program stub file..
There's a lot more, but this should give you an idea. Use google to find more (this may be a good place to start:-)
Aerodynamics is a huge field, and i doubt you'll ever get far enough to build your own plane, but if you're anything like me you'll have a lot of fun trying.
i'm quite fed up with this thread. for some reason you refuse to understand that i don't give a fuck about your bans. all i was trying to do was point out a silver lining for the person posing the original question.
that beeing said, your signature (below) sums up my feelings about these wide bans quite nicely.
--
-Merrow "For every action, there is an unequal and opposite overreaction."
Why doesn't the US let anyone that wants enter their country? Isn't that _unfair_?
does the us deny entry for *all* norwegian just because *some* of us are idiots?
Why doesn't Canada let anyone that wants enter their country? Isn't that _unfair_?
does canada deny entry for *all* norwegian just because *some* of us are idiots?
Why doesn't Norway let anyone that wants enter their country (well, we almost do *sigh*)? Isn't that unfair?
does norway deny entry for *all* americans just because *some* of them are idiots?
i could go on, but i think most people see where i'm going.
based on your comments on this story, i used to think you probably just a bit immature. reading the comment above i now see that you're just plain stupid!
IRC is a priviledge, not a right. If you're having problems getting onto IRC, its YOUR problem, nobody elses. Maybe its elitist, in my eyes - you don't have a _right_ to join any channel, any network, nor a _right_ to join any channel. Its a priviledge, and it may be revoked for whatever reason those that run the channel finds appropriate. Wheter YOU find it appropriate is quite irrelevant.
You are of course correct, but once again you completely missed my point. I don't mind if channel operators ban online.no or sympatico.ca. I don't mind if they ban all Norwegians or all Canadians. Hell, for all I care they can start banning black people and muslims. But in my view, this demonstrates a degree of narrowmindedness (and in the later examples even racism) that I don't accept. So it doesn't bother be that I'm banned on these channels. I'm quite sure I wouldn't enjoy the company in any forum where such criterion are used for excluding people. And this was what I was trying to get across in my original post. Never mind that you're not allowed into #linux, you can find much better company elsewhere...
As long as norwegian kiddiots act as they do, and the same goes for the canadian kiddiots, one cannot expect channel operators to take heed of one or two good seeds among the thousands of bad ones.
It would seem that your definition of idiot is even broader then mine. Based on the above paragraph it seems you place about 99.9% of Internet users in this category. And you're a ChanOp on #norge? (for our international readers: norge is Norwegian for Norway).
If you are that desperate to join a certain channel, buy yourself a server somewhere, or get a shell-account from a friend - so that you can bounce of that and onto the IRC-network of your choice. One moment though - make sure that friend of yours is a _Friend_ and not someone that allows everybody to get accounts on his box - or that IP is sure to be banned from several channels as soon as the first kiddie appears.
This is elitist crap. Not everyone has the possibility to get an account on another computer, not everyone has the opportunity to pick and choose their ISP. Me, i work in the industry, and would have no problems finding a host that would allow me access, but you're missing the point...
Oh, and "shut up a few noisemakers".. are you aware of what amount of noise a "few noisemakers" can generate? And are you aware that EFNet just supports 25bans per channel? And that a single floodnet often is far more than 25 flood-klients?
I think a have a fairly good idea about how much noise a "few" noisemakers can generate, yes! My point is that this is (to me) a completely unacceptable approach for controlling noise. On my list of really bad ideas, it's right up there with reducing SPAM by blocking all mail from Korea and China.
Now, how would you solve that problem? Please, do explain, in detail.
I really don't care enough about this to apply by brain to that problem. All I was saying was that I'd rather not hang out on a channel where thinks that blocking ~70% of all Norwegians is an acceptable solution to the noise control problem.
or at least it used to be. that covers quite a few hundred thousand norwegian uses as well (adsl, isdn and modem). i also tried messaging ops to find out what was going on, and never got a response. in the end i just figured; fuck it! do i really want to be on a channel with people willing to gag half a nation (online/telenor is the biggest norwegian isp) just to shut up a few noicemakers? my advice is to find yourself a channel with less braindead operators. shouldn't be hard:-)
That's no good. This way you'd have to download all the data on every device every time there's a change. You can't search encrypted data, you can't update encrypted data and you can't delta sync encrypted data. I for one wouldn't what to download my entire address book (at cell phone rates) every time I needed to lookup a number on my phone.
let's hope Sony has the good sense to release enough information for someone to be able to write a Linux driver for this one. i'm still hoping for a driver for my CMR-PC2.
sorry, but i didn't read your comment... just saw this one and figured the question would come up. don't suppose you have any insights into why people have started codenaming in swedish lately?
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the next logical step would be to only allow guns that can't be fired at police officers. not really technically difficult, police would only have to wear some sort of radio beacon, and the gun would refuse to fire in the direction of such a beacon.
the military would of cource also be issued such radio beacons.
now fast forward a few years; some president has decided that he doesn't care what the people thinks, and takes control of the country even though he didn't get the majority of the votes in an election. bit by bit he starts to take away the rights of the people. within the first few years, you can't even talk about a security bug is common software without risking arrest. a few years after this, he may start sending the army after the rest of his opposition, and thay will be unable to protect themself due to the gun control laws inplemented a few years earlier.
the following poen comes to mind:
maybe it's just time that even the american phone companies figured out that GSM is the way to go?
i've travled around Europe for a long time (ch, it, fr, be, de, nl, uk, dk, se and no), and i don't think i've ever lost my connection once. now, with GPRS, it even gives you a decent data link (40 ~kbit/s).
may no be what you'r looking for, but gives a lot of insight into different ways of dealing with this (prosesses, thread etc) problem. from Dan Kegel The C10K problem
yeah, you're probably right. i was trying to be funny actually, but i think it's safe to say that that didn't work out. thanks for the effort anyway, at least you posted a followup. the only other feedback i got was a (-1) overrated moderation...
that's like calling an elephant a cat for convenience. it's just plain wrong. the convenient name is 'X', the proper name is 'The X Windowing System'. 'x windows' is a sure sign someone doesn't know what he's talking about.
No, that's X or "The X Windowing System". I asked about x windows...
There's a lot more, but this should give you an idea. Use google to find more (this may be a good place to start :-)
Aerodynamics is a huge field, and i doubt you'll ever get far enough to build your own plane, but if you're anything like me you'll have a lot of fun trying.
Good luck!
... is X Windows?
that beeing said, your signature (below) sums up my feelings about these wide bans quite nicely.
i could go on, but i think most people see where i'm going.
based on your comments on this story, i used to think you probably just a bit immature. reading the comment above i now see that you're just plain stupid!
or at least it used to be. that covers quite a few hundred thousand norwegian uses as well (adsl, isdn and modem). i also tried messaging ops to find out what was going on, and never got a response. in the end i just figured; fuck it! do i really want to be on a channel with people willing to gag half a nation (online/telenor is the biggest norwegian isp) just to shut up a few noicemakers? my advice is to find yourself a channel with less braindead operators. shouldn't be hard :-)
That's no good. This way you'd have to download all the data on every device every time there's a change. You can't search encrypted data, you can't update encrypted data and you can't delta sync encrypted data. I for one wouldn't what to download my entire address book (at cell phone rates) every time I needed to lookup a number on my phone.
i've been doing this for about a year now. can even remember where i read about it for the first time...
let's hope Sony has the good sense to release enough information for someone to be able to write a Linux driver for this one. i'm still hoping for a driver for my CMR-PC2.
this site already broke the story. the slashdot editors should check it out sometime...
Linux iptables HOWTO
How to Build a FreeBSD-STABLE Firewall with IPFILTER
The OpenBSD Packet Filter HOWTO
check out slashdot.org before you post a story.
have a look at this. i'm not saying the f22 does this, but the concept is not ridiculous!
...just imagine visiting some far-away place, sending of a picture of a street-sign for translating, and getting back "beware the polar bears"!
it's just GSM 900/1800, so i guess you americans will just have to wait...
sorry, but i didn't read your comment... just saw this one and figured the question would come up. don't suppose you have any insights into why people have started codenaming in swedish lately?
I bastun bor vi allihopa = we all live in the sauna (it's swedish)