There's a little problem with 100 million people killed by communism - total number is several orders of magnitude lower. Authors of this site were smoking crack.
The most funny thing of your post is the "orders of magnitude" thing. What do you mean by several? Three? More?
I would be laughing if the subject wasn't the memory of dead people.
In fact, the 100 million number is quite accurate actually.
You may check this site http://users.erols.com/mwhite28/warstat1.htm you'll find the numbers of the victims of wars and despotisms all around the world during the past century.
Anyway, a real History course is highly recommended, otherwise STFU and don't play with dead people. It's sick.
> If they start defacing websites for just a cartoon, imagine what they will do if it was a offending movie/act: take whole
> servers and backbones down? Oh the horror.
It's a sick joke, as Theo van Gogh, a film director, was killed on November 2, 2004 because of a recent movie that criticized Islam.
(Sorry, that shitty wiki article is the best I found. What a shame.)
LOts of people complain about the HAL, while it is a feature. Really. Those Atheros-based cards are just antennas, with no firmware. The closed source of the drivers basically filters transmissions with forbidden frequencies or excessive (by law) power. It will allow you to transmit everything else. This means you can do interesting things with packets and access points since you don't have to respect the protocol because of the firmware (eg wait for a reply), as it doesn't exist.
I have to admit I haven't looked into it enough until now, but I will surely as I have a bit of spare time. Maybe someone has more experience...
That's typical of Italy (in news a couple o days ago), to make laws that are not enforceable.
Usually that's because the one that actually wrote it doesn't know a shit about the matter.
Joe user: What's this I see? I have to enter my password to play a music CD? Oh no biggy, its just a music CD. What harm could it do?
You got your point.
Anyway, you should notice that there's a great difference beetwen the Windows rootkit that installs without you letting you know about it, because Win XP Home has all users by default with admin privileges, and OsX in which you have to type in your admin password.
"rate yourself on a scale of 1-10 on how good you are with computers, and we'll adjust the system alerts accordingly"...
Think what a hell would become the customer support: everytime something happens the system may respond to the user in 10 different ways.
And if a user logs into another mac (at Internet café, library, university etc..), she well have to know if it's configured for dummies or super-geeks or whatever. I may even add that as she gets used to her mac she will want to try to step to the next level, but the user has to learn again how the system behaves. And so on.
It has been proposed more than once, but I doubt it will be ever implemented, as it is a usability nightmare.
This is just in the last years: in fact, before 1996, when a man was executed the family had to pay for the bullet. Nowadays it's probably not worth to have them pay, since burocracy costs are higher than the cost of the bullet.
As reference, see http://www.tibet.ca/en/wtnarchive/1994/3/27_3.html.
No, and it's not because of the Great Chinese firewall, since, guess what, there's no Apple music store in China. I wonder, would they filter it if it was available? Probably they would becouse of its "anti-socialist" culture.
However, the filtering system can be bypassed - inserting an ampersand (&) into the HPPT GET request, such as "search?&q=cache", allowed access to Google's cache. [...] The filtering mechanism appears specifically designed to target Google's cache, since caches of other popular search engines, such as Yahoo!, worked properly. from http://www.opennetinitiative.net/studies/china/
This is probably the way the extension works: it inserts a ampersand. As others said it will be probably fixed soon, sadly. As pointed out in the article, Chinese people should anyway try Yahoo cache, when that will be blocked too, some other new search engine or cache mirror, and so on.
In Italy it's pretty efficient too. We have a register in which you have to ask to be included if you wish to recive advertisement phone calls. Obviously none signs in except a few that really enjoy those call.
At the beginning call centers tried to have everyone added to the register and then you had to ask to be removed if you wished. In this way the law would have been uneffective. But their effort did not succed and now a lot of them are closing down.
I've not recived one of those annoying calls for more than a year, and I'm really pleased about it.
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In the end, "we see [the Linux desktop] as a customer-driven activity. If customers want it, well, Dell will give it to them."
This sums up the interview quite well: if you pay enough, they'll give you whaterver you want.
Nothing else to see here, move along.
There's a little problem with 100 million people killed by communism - total number is several orders of magnitude lower. Authors of this site were smoking crack.
The most funny thing of your post is the "orders of magnitude" thing. What do you mean by several? Three? More?
I would be laughing if the subject wasn't the memory of dead people.
In fact, the 100 million number is quite accurate actually.
You may check this site http://users.erols.com/mwhite28/warstat1.htm you'll find the numbers of the victims of wars and despotisms all around the world during the past century.
Anyway, a real History course is highly recommended, otherwise STFU and don't play with dead people. It's sick.
> If they start defacing websites for just a cartoon, imagine what they will do if it was a offending movie/act: take whole
> servers and backbones down? Oh the horror.
It's a sick joke, as Theo van Gogh, a film director, was killed on November 2, 2004 because of a recent movie that criticized Islam.
(Sorry, that shitty wiki article is the best I found. What a shame.)
I have a D-Link too (G650) and works real fine.
Some will argue that the HAL (firmware blob)...
LOts of people complain about the HAL, while it is a feature. Really. Those Atheros-based cards are just antennas, with no firmware. The closed source of the drivers basically filters transmissions with forbidden frequencies or excessive (by law) power. It will allow you to transmit everything else. This means you can do interesting things with packets and access points since you don't have to respect the protocol because of the firmware (eg wait for a reply), as it doesn't exist.
I have to admit I haven't looked into it enough until now, but I will surely as I have a bit of spare time. Maybe someone has more experience...
Surely, it will be quite annoying if you have to reboot both simultaneously.
That's typical of Italy (in news a couple o days ago), to make laws that are not enforceable.
Usually that's because the one that actually wrote it doesn't know a shit about the matter.
who will be the first to go to jail for running a p2p client?
I hope it will be US Attorney General Alberto Gonzales's daughter. THAT would be real fun.
Joe user: What's this I see? I have to enter my password to play a music CD? Oh no biggy, its just a music CD. What harm could it do?
You got your point.
Anyway, you should notice that there's a great difference beetwen the Windows rootkit that installs without you letting you know about it, because Win XP Home has all users by default with admin privileges, and OsX in which you have to type in your admin password.
"rate yourself on a scale of 1-10 on how good you are with computers, and we'll adjust the system alerts accordingly"...
Think what a hell would become the customer support: everytime something happens the system may respond to the user in 10 different ways.
And if a user logs into another mac (at Internet café, library, university etc..), she well have to know if it's configured for dummies or super-geeks or whatever. I may even add that as she gets used to her mac she will want to try to step to the next level, but the user has to learn again how the system behaves.
And so on.
It has been proposed more than once, but I doubt it will be ever implemented, as it is a usability nightmare.
a request for administration rights Oh, yeah I love to have to be root to play a CD...
he will grow up to be socially retarded.
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Well, he already reads
At the end of the day, when university is empty, you can check on the map if someone forgot his computer. I guess you could get 5-10 pc a year.
Bullets are cheap, and the CCP knows it.
l .
This is just in the last years: in fact, before 1996, when a man was executed the family had to pay for the bullet. Nowadays it's probably not worth to have them pay, since burocracy costs are higher than the cost of the bullet. As reference, see http://www.tibet.ca/en/wtnarchive/1994/3/27_3.htm
No, and it's not because of the Great Chinese firewall, since, guess what, there's no Apple music store in China. I wonder, would they filter it if it was available? Probably they would becouse of its "anti-socialist" culture.
However, the filtering system can be bypassed - inserting an ampersand (&) into the HPPT GET request, such as "search?&q=cache", allowed access to Google's cache.
[...]
The filtering mechanism appears specifically designed to target Google's cache, since caches of other popular search engines, such as Yahoo!, worked properly. from http://www.opennetinitiative.net/studies/china/
This is probably the way the extension works: it inserts a ampersand. As others said it will be probably fixed soon, sadly. As pointed out in the article, Chinese people should anyway try Yahoo cache, when that will be blocked too, some other new search engine or cache mirror, and so on.
Freedom of information is a human right.
In Italy it's pretty efficient too. We have a register in which you have to ask to be included if you wish to recive advertisement phone calls. Obviously none signs in except a few that really enjoy those call.
At the beginning call centers tried to have everyone added to the register and then you had to ask to be removed if you wished. In this way the law would have been uneffective. But their effort did not succed and now a lot of them are closing down.
I've not recived one of those annoying calls for more than a year, and I'm really pleased about it.
I have read the OsX guide a year ago and everything was written there seemed obvious to me. (ie usual "Don't use rsh, use ssh" stuff or similar).
Anyway, not a bad guide for beginners (as it's supposed to be).
Well, actual technology has a maximum bandwidth of 10-100Ghz... How do you elaborate such a quick signal?
The main reasons why White LEDs are still not ready for general purpose lighting are:
Low CRI (Color Rendering Index) that means bad illumination compared to incandescent
Low temperature of operation (120-150C max)
Most electronic design that include hi power LEDs (such as LUXEON http://lumileds.com/) need to take in account hheat transfer.