You're talking about two different things - developing for PC is hard because the hardware varies from person to person. Developing for Cell is hard is because you have to do a lot of manual tweaks to eke out every bit of performance because the architecture/compiler is too immature to do it for you. If you have a stable platform based on a stable and well known architecture, you should have far fewer problems. Anyhow, most game programming is going to GPU these days, with only things like data structures and AI on CPU (and I know someone who implemented A* in CUDA [I think], so maybe even AI's days are numbered).
Which is minor compared to the second red scare (1947-1957). Some of the holdover from the second red scare was kind of amusing to find out when the Freedom of Information Act allowed access to FBI files and we found out merely checking out certain library books got you on the FBI watch list (anything communist or related to ex-dictators like Hitler).
I would suspect that is the case. A tune is nearly impossible to copyright, so it should be easy to fight, especially if there are no lyrics. It is much easier to copyright a tune you've written down on paper than one that is just recorded.
I was in college before you and was emailing like crazy within weeks of starting. I also had parents that were too cheap to buy a second line, so I had to run my BBS after hours (it lasted about 6 months before I gave up, having to manually switch it on ever evening and off every morning).
Phone phreaking in the traditional sense was largely broken by the mid 1980s and came from a whistle that came from a Captain Crunch box, and was later a bunch of colored boxes that reproduced multiple tones that replaced the single tone long distance signal. Hacked (generated fake cards billed to a fake address) and stolen credit cards were the way of the late 1980s-1990s after the phone companies killed multi-frequency. I was not part of the credit fraud scene, but did build the last generation of phreaking boxes before they changed the hardware at the CLEC.
I did BBS's about 1983-4 through 1988 or so, and then lacked time for it (music, car, girls, job... those things took priority).
The coolest thing I remember was a chain of modems connecting from Chicago to Minneapolis to avoid long distance charges by having people with two lines at the border where there was overlap. They tried to do Chicago to LA as well, but I think they failed to connect in the middle
I think you mean Flash Gordon... Flesh Gordon was a pornographic spoof of Flash Gordon. I remember watching that back to back with Andy Warhol's Frankenstein and Andy Warhol's Dracula when I worked for a video distributor (seriously - we had to verify the quality of the video tapes, and while it sounds fun and some of it was, I'd probably pass on the hardcore gay porn - it also wasn't an idle job, we also were adding security tags to new videos at the same time). Wild stuff, probably better with lots of LSD.
I was surprised, as I agree, Sucker Punch wasn't nearly as bad as the critics made it out to be. It wasn't a great movie by any means, but certainly better than the 1/2 out of 4 stars the local critic gave - I'd have given it 2 stars - average mindless comic-book entertainment, and that same critic gave 1 star to Dragonball Z, which was worse. Of the rest of those, only Inception really was best picture quality, IMO; District 9 kinda fell into typical sci-fi/action movie tropes by the end (incidentally, I recall Roger Ebert saying something along those lines, as well).
Personally, I don't think Avatar deserved an Oscar, as I thought the plot was a lame rehash of Ewoks vs empire, but with giant smurfs vs the evil humans (because humans are mindless evil creatures unless they become giant blue smurf hippies). OTOH, the Hurt Locker didn't deserve to win as parts of it were as much fantasy as Avatar - I think it won either on a "support our troop" vote in a weak field of candidates. I've seen all the movies up for that year except An Education and none of them I felt was deserving of best picture. It was kind of like 2007 when No Country for Old Men won - I didn't feel like that movie deserved to win, but none of the others were deserving, either (I did predict it would win).
That doesn't help - because Canadian copyright law does not match US copyright law, Canadians are violating US copyright law with what they call "public domain," and not changing their laws to match ours makes them evil slimy bastards that owe our publishers lots of money. The only recourse is to have all the countries in the world change their copyright law to match US copyright law, and yeah, that just isn't going to happen, nor should it, because that is stepping on each countries sovereign rights. Incidentally, most countries have pretty much the same copyright law as Canada (life + 50 years is the most common, life + 70 years second most common - here is a picture)
Technically, neither men or women are necessary, as we can already propagate the species through artificial wombs and if they can't get a sperm and egg donation, cloning. Some people have ethical issues with that, though, so we've kept such technology for stuff like keeping rare species of shark from extinction.
I kinda disagree about the social part - my wife has hundreds of shallow friends, and one really good friend, and I have a few tight knit friends and very few others because I tend to stay tight or cut the rope. The only reason I have been in touch with some of these "shallow friends" at all was they found me on Facebook or Google+ and such. I think it really has to do with personality and possibly culture, but my mom and dad were similar (my wife's parents were not - both were extroverts like her).
Sadly, the same thing happened at my university in the US. Here it seems to be school policy, at my school it was department policy. My favorite and most motivating teacher as an undergrad got canned under this policy. My second favorite teacher only survived because of his patents and pending patents were bringing in massive amounts of money, and the 4 worst teachers I ever had are still teaching today (I was going to say 6, but I just checked the department listing and #5 has since retired). If I had one thing to say to undergrads, it is AVOID RESEARCH INSTITUTIONS LIKE THE PLAGUE. They're probably fine for graduate and post-graduate work, but they really suck for undergraduate work. On the plus side, I only did about half of my undergrad work there, and most was before the purge.
That brings up a good point - I mean, as soon as we became self-aware, we probably asked ourselves why are we here and eventually grandpa made up a story to entertain us, or maybe mess with Junior's mind, and at some point that story became fact.
The word magical brings up a good point - do you believe in magic, as in the I can hex you or give you the evil eye or turn you into a toad kind? If you do, you have faith in magic. The problem with faith is it is difficult to prove something doesn't exist because there is no proof that it existed in the first place. We can scientifically say there is no proof that magic exists, but the faithful say something like how would you build the pyramids without magic - prove it with your "science" - it is not possible to cut and move blocks that heavy with technology of that era, no matter how much you try and prove it - show me - I want to see you do it without magic - we can barely do it with modern technology. And look at the hieroglyphs - they show a guy lifting the blocks with a magic wand - that is proof that they used magic. Hundreds of people moving giant stone blocks on logs, hah - don't make me laugh, the logistics are impossible, not to mention logs just wouldn't cut it. It was just 1 guy, with one magic wand - I have proof, I've seen the hieroglyph.
You wouldn't really need the rigor of astronaut training because you gradually go up, not get shot into space at high G forces. Some training would certainly be useful, but you wouldn't need to, say, take the vomit comet several times to get ready.
I would expect the ultimate goal of building a space elevator would be to build a space station, and not a tiny one like the ones we have today - possibly one with a permanent habitat and artificial gravity.
Yeah - I was expecting some sort of expected lifting power. The concept originally was to do it to lift heavy payloads into orbit cheaply. The elevator costs a fortune to build, but once built is can be run very economically. I also think if humans are serious about space exploration, it is essential to have one, if only for the pollution control alone because Ammonium Perchlorate rocket fuel is horrible for the ozone layer.
Personally, I don't think Oracle has a chance of winning because Android uses java on the back-end and it is just a reimplementation of the Java SDK targeting smartphones. However, I am starting to think the purpose of this lawsuit is less about money on the front end and more about locking Android onto java backend by threatening Google with patent infringement if they change the backend to not be java based. The reason I think this is because rumor has it that Oracle has massively jacked up the cost of bundling java with applications (I don't know what it was before, but it is no longer allowed at my company, so we're talking about ditching it), and so if I were Google, I'd consider a different backend.
So while Oracle may make money off of the patent lawsuit or may not, they are using it more to tell Google they're on the hook and can't get off. It's a dirty money grab on Oracle's part, but that is why Larry Ellison has 28 billion himself (not even counting his company's fortune) and Sun Microsystems went bankrupt.
But it will be bot vs bot. Humans will be obsolete and, if involved, mopped up in the cleanup part of the battle. The bots won't even be built by the humans, they will be designed and manufactured by other bots. The bots can be superior just by being able to survive 300G dodging without becoming a pile of wet goo (unless an inertial compensator is created, but so far that is more fi than sci).
OTOH, the bots may be smart enough to know they are outmatched and just suicide or run and let the other bots destroy the humans. Either way, the humans that winning side wanted dead will be dead. Plus the bots won't have any qualms about genocide, and will just cut down any humans attempting to surrender, so cleanup is nice and complete (unless they're AI powered, in which case anything goes).
Yeah, I was going to say most people have a serious misunderstanding about lasers vs smoke and mirrors because all they've ever seen is the low power kind that get refracted or reflected. Shoot a nice high powered laser into smoke and that smoke is going to vaporize just like if it hit a target it was meant to destroy, and probably won't even be affected much in the process. As for mirrors, they may give a bit of protection, especially vs certain frequencies, but not long, as you said, because they are not perfect reflectors - they will eventually heat up and melt. Metamaterials (the stuff you use for cloaking) have a similar problem to mirrors, as they also work best at certain frequencies. The real fun would be antimatter weaponry. For instance, I don't imagine a mirror will last long vs an anti-proton beam, though I don't know if such a beam would be easily to create (and anything outside basic quantum theory is beyond the science I've had, so I'm speculating).
The other problem with mirrors is they tend to break, and reflective surfaces prone to scuffing. You could scuff them with some kind of a heat absorbing bonding agent (from a bomb or missile blast nearby - like anti-aircraft artillery) and then heat that with the laser until the mirror melts.. or you can just have the shrapnel try and penetrate (but if the skin is made to absorb micro-meteorites, you may not have much luck).
Personally, I don't see humans in space combat, ever, unless it is in the next 30 years or so, because we won't be good enough. Machines will conduct any combat with lethal accuracy and unpredictable, high G-force dodging, and kill off the slow, predictable human ships at the end if not during the battle. With all hope, the machines we develop for our side are better than the machines developed for the enemy side or we are toast (and I'm not even going to broach traitorous AIs - we'll have to hope that never happens). The only hope humans have of surviving combat with machines is a perfect cloaking and sniping.
I'd think the Hazmat 7 Radioactive would give them away, unless the government is somehow excluded from that.
Heh, hazmat - I remember grading hazmat trucker papers (a temp job) and one guy got a 2/100. 20 questions (40 points, 2 each) were True/False - how the f*ck do you get a TWO on that test?! I got 78/100 (a passing grade) when I took the test for giggles, since I had to sit in the room watching the class for cheaters anyway - and I hadn't been to any of the class lectures.
I've had better luck finding rootkits with bitdefender and kaspersky than Hiren, but taking a look at their page it looks like they've shored up the rootkit detection (MalwareBytes is pretty good at that - didn't have any luck with rootkitrevealer when I tried it, though - it failed to detect a rootkit that bitdefender found, and I knew the machine was rootkitted as well as the rootkit name - I also pulled off 3 yet unidentified virus variants off of that box and submitted them, and they began appearing in antivirus software within 2 days). I also have my trick of finding rootkits while windows is running, as most don't hide file complete (usually I find a registry entry with HijackThis and then go to the location and start typing in the name and hit tab - if I see the file but don't see it if I just do dir filename, I know I'm working with a rootkit and probably not an ordinary virus). I prefer to have antivirus software remove viruses and rootkits, but can do it by hand if necessary (would rather have it magically go away rather than poking around system files for hours to see what all it corrupted).
That is if you need to have accountability, such as selling or providing to a customer (this would be the latter - IT provides for its "customers" which are end users to them) but I think our developers use notepad++ for editing files more than any other program, so there are exceptions, and let's face it - if that tool breaks, there's always notepad. It is on our site license approved software download page even (for free and commercial tools we have a site license to download and self install), so it has passed through upper management and legal, but I'll admit the one there is an old GPL-2 licensed version - I don't know if it hasn't been updated because of legal concerns about GPL-3 or they just haven't gotten around to it, though (I know GPL-3 libraries are forbidden, but not sure about apps).
In the case of HijackThis you are responsible for your own accountability, since it doesn't remove anything unless you tell it to, and a good IT person will back up the registry before making any changes to it (and know what is and is not a legit program).
actually, I'd think it would benefit Apple more than Microsoft Steve Jobs pre-death said he "wants to go thermonuclear on Android" Android runs using Java on Linux SCO owns some interest in UNIX (apparently) and claims to own Linux and is suing for $699-2798 for a license an Android phone even starting at $699 is already D.O.A. because you can buy a friggin' iPad for that Apple has the second largest marketshare for smartphones behind Android, so has the most to win - Microsoft has a measly 2%. ergo an SCO win is a win for Apple, though it would benefit Microsoft as well... until Apple sues them into the ground for swipe to unlock and other copied features...
You mean God with a big G because god with a little g implies there is more than one, and we seem to be talking about Christianity by the subject.
And it is easy to explain - Satan changed the records to disprove God. I mean, heck, he did that with the dinosaurs and cave men and stuff, why not birth records?
I'm just quoting what the Jehovah's Witnesses told me - it seems anything that proves an error in the Bible can be disproved by Satan's meddling.
Well if you trust Bible thumpers, he gave us free will, and one of the downsides of free will is you get to make bad choices and good choices. If you put it in terms of jelly doughnuts or a tasteless fiber bar, you make the same sort of choice - one is better for you and one the one you may crave.
The problem I have with the Christian Bible is it says some things I feel are morally really bad are actually good. Question 1. Bob brutally rapes and beats Carol to an inch of he life, but she manages to pull through. His punishment is: a) imprisonment b) death by stoning c) he must marry Carol
and the correct answer is: c.
Americans were outraged when that happened in Iraq, but they are just following the Qur'an, which has the same source.
Question 2. Joe divorces his wife Lisa and marries the widow Irina while Lisa still lives. According to the Bible, this is a) OK b) is adultery and both Joe and Irina should be executed by stoning c) is OK because Irina is a widow.
Correct answer is: b. Joe is still married in God's eyes and therefore has committed adultery.
Question 3: The widow Sasha has sex with the unmarried Grog. They need to a) marry or be executed for adultery b) it is OK as long as Sasha doesn't get pregnant c) it is OK as long as Grog doesn't have sex with any other women.
The correct answer is b, though there is some ambiguity (it is more like 'b' as long as Grog doesn't get caught and Sasha doesn't turn him in and Sasha doesn't take any money for the service).
Many have both - but passing the hat makes more money.
Something I learned playing bars from other bar band veterans - first you take a jar (or hat) and put a few dollars in it (a 5 spot or 10 spot if you can), then (preferably) have someone go around with the jar asking for tips for the band, but passing is acceptable if not (just make sure the jar moves around the room). A passed jar always makes more money than a stationary jar and if someone is holding it and asking, you make even more (I actually came up with the trick of hiring an audience member to stump for our band - preferably someone beautiful and outgoing and a friend if possible, and it worked so well we made it a practice).
I'd feel safe burying one in my backyard, but not a conventional reactor, just an MSR. Google has expressed interest in putting them near their data centers, as well.
Too bad SFRs are getting a lot more industry attention. Not that SFRs are bad (unless you think Bill Gates backing one is a good reason), they just aren't as safe - Sodium burns in air, explodes in water, and is slightly radioactive. SFRs are one of the simplest reactor designs, more similar to existing reactors than something like LFTR, and can burn nuclear waste nearly completely, so they have some advantages. Oh, and prototypes are being built anywhere but America for the same reason a LFTR won't be built here - NRC fuel reprocessing rules to prevent proliferation make it nearly impossible.
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You're talking about two different things - developing for PC is hard because the hardware varies from person to person. Developing for Cell is hard is because you have to do a lot of manual tweaks to eke out every bit of performance because the architecture/compiler is too immature to do it for you. If you have a stable platform based on a stable and well known architecture, you should have far fewer problems. Anyhow, most game programming is going to GPU these days, with only things like data structures and AI on CPU (and I know someone who implemented A* in CUDA [I think], so maybe even AI's days are numbered).
Which is minor compared to the second red scare (1947-1957). Some of the holdover from the second red scare was kind of amusing to find out when the Freedom of Information Act allowed access to FBI files and we found out merely checking out certain library books got you on the FBI watch list (anything communist or related to ex-dictators like Hitler).
So did Chancellor Hitler.
I would suspect that is the case. A tune is nearly impossible to copyright, so it should be easy to fight, especially if there are no lyrics. It is much easier to copyright a tune you've written down on paper than one that is just recorded.
I was in college before you and was emailing like crazy within weeks of starting. I also had parents that were too cheap to buy a second line, so I had to run my BBS after hours (it lasted about 6 months before I gave up, having to manually switch it on ever evening and off every morning).
Phone phreaking in the traditional sense was largely broken by the mid 1980s and came from a whistle that came from a Captain Crunch box, and was later a bunch of colored boxes that reproduced multiple tones that replaced the single tone long distance signal. Hacked (generated fake cards billed to a fake address) and stolen credit cards were the way of the late 1980s-1990s after the phone companies killed multi-frequency. I was not part of the credit fraud scene, but did build the last generation of phreaking boxes before they changed the hardware at the CLEC.
I did BBS's about 1983-4 through 1988 or so, and then lacked time for it (music, car, girls, job... those things took priority).
The coolest thing I remember was a chain of modems connecting from Chicago to Minneapolis to avoid long distance charges by having people with two lines at the border where there was overlap. They tried to do Chicago to LA as well, but I think they failed to connect in the middle
I think you mean Flash Gordon... Flesh Gordon was a pornographic spoof of Flash Gordon. I remember watching that back to back with Andy Warhol's Frankenstein and Andy Warhol's Dracula when I worked for a video distributor (seriously - we had to verify the quality of the video tapes, and while it sounds fun and some of it was, I'd probably pass on the hardcore gay porn - it also wasn't an idle job, we also were adding security tags to new videos at the same time). Wild stuff, probably better with lots of LSD.
I was surprised, as I agree, Sucker Punch wasn't nearly as bad as the critics made it out to be. It wasn't a great movie by any means, but certainly better than the 1/2 out of 4 stars the local critic gave - I'd have given it 2 stars - average mindless comic-book entertainment, and that same critic gave 1 star to Dragonball Z, which was worse. Of the rest of those, only Inception really was best picture quality, IMO; District 9 kinda fell into typical sci-fi/action movie tropes by the end (incidentally, I recall Roger Ebert saying something along those lines, as well).
Personally, I don't think Avatar deserved an Oscar, as I thought the plot was a lame rehash of Ewoks vs empire, but with giant smurfs vs the evil humans (because humans are mindless evil creatures unless they become giant blue smurf hippies). OTOH, the Hurt Locker didn't deserve to win as parts of it were as much fantasy as Avatar - I think it won either on a "support our troop" vote in a weak field of candidates. I've seen all the movies up for that year except An Education and none of them I felt was deserving of best picture. It was kind of like 2007 when No Country for Old Men won - I didn't feel like that movie deserved to win, but none of the others were deserving, either (I did predict it would win).
That doesn't help - because Canadian copyright law does not match US copyright law, Canadians are violating US copyright law with what they call "public domain," and not changing their laws to match ours makes them evil slimy bastards that owe our publishers lots of money. The only recourse is to have all the countries in the world change their copyright law to match US copyright law, and yeah, that just isn't going to happen, nor should it, because that is stepping on each countries sovereign rights. Incidentally, most countries have pretty much the same copyright law as Canada (life + 50 years is the most common, life + 70 years second most common - here is a picture)
Technically, neither men or women are necessary, as we can already propagate the species through artificial wombs and if they can't get a sperm and egg donation, cloning. Some people have ethical issues with that, though, so we've kept such technology for stuff like keeping rare species of shark from extinction.
I kinda disagree about the social part - my wife has hundreds of shallow friends, and one really good friend, and I have a few tight knit friends and very few others because I tend to stay tight or cut the rope. The only reason I have been in touch with some of these "shallow friends" at all was they found me on Facebook or Google+ and such. I think it really has to do with personality and possibly culture, but my mom and dad were similar (my wife's parents were not - both were extroverts like her).
Sadly, the same thing happened at my university in the US. Here it seems to be school policy, at my school it was department policy. My favorite and most motivating teacher as an undergrad got canned under this policy. My second favorite teacher only survived because of his patents and pending patents were bringing in massive amounts of money, and the 4 worst teachers I ever had are still teaching today (I was going to say 6, but I just checked the department listing and #5 has since retired). If I had one thing to say to undergrads, it is AVOID RESEARCH INSTITUTIONS LIKE THE PLAGUE. They're probably fine for graduate and post-graduate work, but they really suck for undergraduate work. On the plus side, I only did about half of my undergrad work there, and most was before the purge.
Actually, times a'changin' there. I work on a product that crunches a CAD model into part thumbnails for realtime viewing on the server.
That brings up a good point - I mean, as soon as we became self-aware, we probably asked ourselves why are we here and eventually grandpa made up a story to entertain us, or maybe mess with Junior's mind, and at some point that story became fact.
The word magical brings up a good point - do you believe in magic, as in the I can hex you or give you the evil eye or turn you into a toad kind? If you do, you have faith in magic. The problem with faith is it is difficult to prove something doesn't exist because there is no proof that it existed in the first place. We can scientifically say there is no proof that magic exists, but the faithful say something like how would you build the pyramids without magic - prove it with your "science" - it is not possible to cut and move blocks that heavy with technology of that era, no matter how much you try and prove it - show me - I want to see you do it without magic - we can barely do it with modern technology. And look at the hieroglyphs - they show a guy lifting the blocks with a magic wand - that is proof that they used magic. Hundreds of people moving giant stone blocks on logs, hah - don't make me laugh, the logistics are impossible, not to mention logs just wouldn't cut it. It was just 1 guy, with one magic wand - I have proof, I've seen the hieroglyph.
You wouldn't really need the rigor of astronaut training because you gradually go up, not get shot into space at high G forces. Some training would certainly be useful, but you wouldn't need to, say, take the vomit comet several times to get ready.
I would expect the ultimate goal of building a space elevator would be to build a space station, and not a tiny one like the ones we have today - possibly one with a permanent habitat and artificial gravity.
Yeah - I was expecting some sort of expected lifting power. The concept originally was to do it to lift heavy payloads into orbit cheaply. The elevator costs a fortune to build, but once built is can be run very economically. I also think if humans are serious about space exploration, it is essential to have one, if only for the pollution control alone because Ammonium Perchlorate rocket fuel is horrible for the ozone layer.
Personally, I don't think Oracle has a chance of winning because Android uses java on the back-end and it is just a reimplementation of the Java SDK targeting smartphones. However, I am starting to think the purpose of this lawsuit is less about money on the front end and more about locking Android onto java backend by threatening Google with patent infringement if they change the backend to not be java based. The reason I think this is because rumor has it that Oracle has massively jacked up the cost of bundling java with applications (I don't know what it was before, but it is no longer allowed at my company, so we're talking about ditching it), and so if I were Google, I'd consider a different backend.
So while Oracle may make money off of the patent lawsuit or may not, they are using it more to tell Google they're on the hook and can't get off. It's a dirty money grab on Oracle's part, but that is why Larry Ellison has 28 billion himself (not even counting his company's fortune) and Sun Microsystems went bankrupt.
But it will be bot vs bot. Humans will be obsolete and, if involved, mopped up in the cleanup part of the battle. The bots won't even be built by the humans, they will be designed and manufactured by other bots. The bots can be superior just by being able to survive 300G dodging without becoming a pile of wet goo (unless an inertial compensator is created, but so far that is more fi than sci).
OTOH, the bots may be smart enough to know they are outmatched and just suicide or run and let the other bots destroy the humans. Either way, the humans that winning side wanted dead will be dead. Plus the bots won't have any qualms about genocide, and will just cut down any humans attempting to surrender, so cleanup is nice and complete (unless they're AI powered, in which case anything goes).
Yeah, I was going to say most people have a serious misunderstanding about lasers vs smoke and mirrors because all they've ever seen is the low power kind that get refracted or reflected. Shoot a nice high powered laser into smoke and that smoke is going to vaporize just like if it hit a target it was meant to destroy, and probably won't even be affected much in the process. As for mirrors, they may give a bit of protection, especially vs certain frequencies, but not long, as you said, because they are not perfect reflectors - they will eventually heat up and melt. Metamaterials (the stuff you use for cloaking) have a similar problem to mirrors, as they also work best at certain frequencies. The real fun would be antimatter weaponry. For instance, I don't imagine a mirror will last long vs an anti-proton beam, though I don't know if such a beam would be easily to create (and anything outside basic quantum theory is beyond the science I've had, so I'm speculating).
The other problem with mirrors is they tend to break, and reflective surfaces prone to scuffing. You could scuff them with some kind of a heat absorbing bonding agent (from a bomb or missile blast nearby - like anti-aircraft artillery) and then heat that with the laser until the mirror melts.. or you can just have the shrapnel try and penetrate (but if the skin is made to absorb micro-meteorites, you may not have much luck).
Personally, I don't see humans in space combat, ever, unless it is in the next 30 years or so, because we won't be good enough. Machines will conduct any combat with lethal accuracy and unpredictable, high G-force dodging, and kill off the slow, predictable human ships at the end if not during the battle. With all hope, the machines we develop for our side are better than the machines developed for the enemy side or we are toast (and I'm not even going to broach traitorous AIs - we'll have to hope that never happens). The only hope humans have of surviving combat with machines is a perfect cloaking and sniping.
I'd think the Hazmat 7 Radioactive would give them away, unless the government is somehow excluded from that.
Heh, hazmat - I remember grading hazmat trucker papers (a temp job) and one guy got a 2/100. 20 questions (40 points, 2 each) were True/False - how the f*ck do you get a TWO on that test?! I got 78/100 (a passing grade) when I took the test for giggles, since I had to sit in the room watching the class for cheaters anyway - and I hadn't been to any of the class lectures.
there are a bunch here
http://livecdlist.com/purpose/windows-antivirus
I've had better luck finding rootkits with bitdefender and kaspersky than Hiren, but taking a look at their page it looks like they've shored up the rootkit detection (MalwareBytes is pretty good at that - didn't have any luck with rootkitrevealer when I tried it, though - it failed to detect a rootkit that bitdefender found, and I knew the machine was rootkitted as well as the rootkit name - I also pulled off 3 yet unidentified virus variants off of that box and submitted them, and they began appearing in antivirus software within 2 days). I also have my trick of finding rootkits while windows is running, as most don't hide file complete (usually I find a registry entry with HijackThis and then go to the location and start typing in the name and hit tab - if I see the file but don't see it if I just do dir filename, I know I'm working with a rootkit and probably not an ordinary virus). I prefer to have antivirus software remove viruses and rootkits, but can do it by hand if necessary (would rather have it magically go away rather than poking around system files for hours to see what all it corrupted).
That is if you need to have accountability, such as selling or providing to a customer (this would be the latter - IT provides for its "customers" which are end users to them) but I think our developers use notepad++ for editing files more than any other program, so there are exceptions, and let's face it - if that tool breaks, there's always notepad. It is on our site license approved software download page even (for free and commercial tools we have a site license to download and self install), so it has passed through upper management and legal, but I'll admit the one there is an old GPL-2 licensed version - I don't know if it hasn't been updated because of legal concerns about GPL-3 or they just haven't gotten around to it, though (I know GPL-3 libraries are forbidden, but not sure about apps).
In the case of HijackThis you are responsible for your own accountability, since it doesn't remove anything unless you tell it to, and a good IT person will back up the registry before making any changes to it (and know what is and is not a legit program).
actually, I'd think it would benefit Apple more than Microsoft
Steve Jobs pre-death said he "wants to go thermonuclear on Android"
Android runs using Java on Linux
SCO owns some interest in UNIX (apparently) and claims to own Linux and is suing for $699-2798 for a license
an Android phone even starting at $699 is already D.O.A. because you can buy a friggin' iPad for that
Apple has the second largest marketshare for smartphones behind Android, so has the most to win - Microsoft has a measly 2%.
ergo an SCO win is a win for Apple, though it would benefit Microsoft as well... until Apple sues them into the ground for swipe to unlock and other copied features...
You mean God with a big G because god with a little g implies there is more than one, and we seem to be talking about Christianity by the subject.
And it is easy to explain - Satan changed the records to disprove God. I mean, heck, he did that with the dinosaurs and cave men and stuff, why not birth records?
I'm just quoting what the Jehovah's Witnesses told me - it seems anything that proves an error in the Bible can be disproved by Satan's meddling.
Well if you trust Bible thumpers, he gave us free will, and one of the downsides of free will is you get to make bad choices and good choices. If you put it in terms of jelly doughnuts or a tasteless fiber bar, you make the same sort of choice - one is better for you and one the one you may crave.
The problem I have with the Christian Bible is it says some things I feel are morally really bad are actually good.
Question 1.
Bob brutally rapes and beats Carol to an inch of he life, but she manages to pull through. His punishment is:
a) imprisonment
b) death by stoning
c) he must marry Carol
and the correct answer is: c.
Americans were outraged when that happened in Iraq, but they are just following the Qur'an, which has the same source.
Question 2.
Joe divorces his wife Lisa and marries the widow Irina while Lisa still lives. According to the Bible, this is
a) OK
b) is adultery and both Joe and Irina should be executed by stoning
c) is OK because Irina is a widow.
Correct answer is: b. Joe is still married in God's eyes and therefore has committed adultery.
Question 3:
The widow Sasha has sex with the unmarried Grog. They need to
a) marry or be executed for adultery
b) it is OK as long as Sasha doesn't get pregnant
c) it is OK as long as Grog doesn't have sex with any other women.
The correct answer is b, though there is some ambiguity (it is more like 'b' as long as Grog doesn't get caught and Sasha doesn't turn him in and Sasha doesn't take any money for the service).
Many have both - but passing the hat makes more money.
Something I learned playing bars from other bar band veterans - first you take a jar (or hat) and put a few dollars in it (a 5 spot or 10 spot if you can), then (preferably) have someone go around with the jar asking for tips for the band, but passing is acceptable if not (just make sure the jar moves around the room). A passed jar always makes more money than a stationary jar and if someone is holding it and asking, you make even more (I actually came up with the trick of hiring an audience member to stump for our band - preferably someone beautiful and outgoing and a friend if possible, and it worked so well we made it a practice).
I'd feel safe burying one in my backyard, but not a conventional reactor, just an MSR. Google has expressed interest in putting them near their data centers, as well.
Too bad SFRs are getting a lot more industry attention. Not that SFRs are bad (unless you think Bill Gates backing one is a good reason), they just aren't as safe - Sodium burns in air, explodes in water, and is slightly radioactive. SFRs are one of the simplest reactor designs, more similar to existing reactors than something like LFTR, and can burn nuclear waste nearly completely, so they have some advantages. Oh, and prototypes are being built anywhere but America for the same reason a LFTR won't be built here - NRC fuel reprocessing rules to prevent proliferation make it nearly impossible.