Official media paints a picture of good citizens and bad insurgents. This report contradicts that, suggesting that violence is tolerated as understandable, even among the opposition. Even more sacreligious, the report suggests that insurgents are scattered and independent, making decisions based on community sentiment, not organised cells with leaders that can be surgically struck-out.
It's information in the face of disinformation. Not embarassing in itself, but embarassing in the sense that it contradicts what they've been telling us. Remember, please, that censorship is not targetted at the thinking man, but at Joe Sixpack. Mr. Sixpack watches Fox news, drinks Bud Light, drives a Ford, and gets unhappy when the government seems complicated.
Just avoid the password request altogether, by using plain ordinary rm without the -rf keyword. The smart way to do it is to delete by levels and leave the directories.
First, sorry, Iran hasn't that sort of potential. The region isn't dense enough to make "the bomb" all that important out there. In the end it'll be a land assault, and we've already seen just how well that works in the Middle East.
A police officer inspecting a suspect's hard-drive is viewing child pornography, for at least a little while. While the drive is in police possession, the government is in possession of illegal child pornography.
If someone put his hand in a box of mystery objects at a carnival and happened to pull out a murder weapon, would he be arrested?
If someone downloads images at random, is he liable for what he finds? Would anyone try to prosecute him if he were?
Any user who owns a computer can pick up a little knowledge. They can watch carefully next time their geek friend helps them with something, they can ask their geek friends about things and remember what the answer was... maybe read a littls/. now and then. Whatever. There are many many ways to gain some knowledge. People do not do that, and GP sees M$ as a culprit in that paradigm. I agree.
It's not that M$ is bad for allowing anyone to use a computer, but they're letting everyone down by acting like you can use it indefinitely without learning anything about it. From a moral standpoint, they should have focused not on the idea that Joe Sixpack can use it, but that Joe Sixpack can learn to use it.
I think there's something wrong with your Vista...
*cough* I wouldn't buy an OS that could go that wrong, even if it were a one-in-a-hundred chance. My luck is pretty bad. Also, funny how we're so quick to assume that Vista's gone wrong, eh? Sounds like this copy went all shades of broken in under an hour.
I hate to be a n00b, but won't T-Cell count restore itself after HIV leaves the system? I was under the impression that T-Cell are generated constantly, and the count only falls when attrition exceeds generation due to HIV becoming too numerous. Maybe there's more to it then that...
Also, doesn't this all seem a little too simple? Sticking antibodies to it sounds great, but isn't it necessary to actually disable the virus? Seems like if you stuck a protein to it without disabling it, whichever cell tries to actually destroy it would just get victimized.
barring one detail: every time I've heard somebody talk about bouncing off another box, they mention China. It's just sort of an assumed thing. Proxies and zombienets are in China. So if you're going to launch an attack and you can choose from anywhere in the world...
Besides, you're quite right about the hostility under all the smiles. Part of that hostility is that no way in hell is the Chinese government going to happily allow investigations of somebody else's zombienet within their borders. I suspect that people know this.
I dunno about trashing the computers quite so fast... I listen to a good jot of trance, and I have a very strong emotional connection to it. I'll probably be listening to these tracks for years.
The difference is the way that that computer music is done. The music I listen to has a certain flavour to it that you can't quite put a finger on. Something unique about an individual synth maybe, or the way something is mixed. That's what keeps it seperate from pop: DJs working their own synths and handling all the mix, usually freehand. It puts the human element back into it, knowing that there's some freehand there. It's not just a drum-machine and a lead knocking down the same groove for three minutes.
Nothing takes 500ms with lower-end Cisco hardware. Seriously, you need a login that complicated, get it going and go do something else for a while. Ever seen a 2600 series try to update the Ios? 5mB Ios image over 100mbps full duplex and a high-speed NIC / AUI trasciever at either end. Twenty minutes. Granted they're still using tftp, but still, that is ridiculous overhead to pull down five meg and load it into flash.
Networking hardware tends to be like that. Just because SSH works great between you and your server, or even between you and your shiny enterprise switch, does not make it a good sollution for small businesses, schools, and anyone else getting shafted by their hardware provider.
Seriously, Cisco and HP will just tear your wallet out through your heart if you don't buy high-grade equipment. We've got a switch we're working on at this here school site that's been spontaneously dumping its cache every time it hits 30% usage. Now, it's clear enough nobody configured it that way, and none of our five technicians has managed to fix it yet. Speedbump, maybe?
If HP will speedbump (or misconfigure) a switch in a way that shuts down the entire network for an hour every morning, wouldn't they also be willing to speedbump ssh? Wouldn't Cisco be willing too?
Bureaucracy is one of the things that come to mind. That's really bad over here.
US has that too, especially the school system. Our schools are required by law to contract everything to whoever puts in the lowest bid. The result is that nothing ever works, from the lawn sprinklers to the climate control. Our district in particular has something approaching ten thousand clients accessing the internet through 3.0 MBps. I kid you not.
Another thing that is really depressing compared to other countries is the loads of post-WW2 architecture that is ugly and dominates lots of the cities.
Is that really at all significant, compared to the creepy cookie-cutter quality of the suburbs? In my hometown, we've got hundreds of homes, all in the same floor plan, all in beige stucco, all right next to each other.
Another thing that really bugs me is the germans and their car crazyness.
SUVs and fullsize pickups are rapidly creeping up on 50% of our driving population. I hate waiting at a traffic light with nothing to see out my front and rear windows but bumpers. I mean that literally. And I drive a BMW. German car craziness as a symbol is literally smashed into jagged shrapnel by these disgusting American behemoths.
Sounds to me like you've got the same subset of problems, but a longer list of redeeming qualities.
Exactly right. And since that is the hard part, and doing hard stuff takes CPU cycles and doesn't always work right, it's a lot nicer to have the memory free and un-allocated for when it's needed. This kind of memory usage we see here is wasteful, because everything the OS thinks of to use the RAM for could be made a lot smaller. The measure of how good your OS is at launching and running big applications at will is whether all those processes are sufficiently compact to not vomit data all over the RAM.
This cap shows 30MB free. Vista has puked inside the computer, then urinated.
I'm a senior in High School. This sounds odd, but seriously, go get yourself a used TI-85. They're dirt cheap on EBay, and they aren't normally very popular for a couple of reasons: slower processor and out of production.
However: they're easier to program and have a nicer menu system than any I've seen out today. Also, since they're an older design, they're built a good shot tougher. Mine has lasted about twenty years so far, and it's still working perfectly despite the horrendous abuse to which it has been subjected.
The weirdest thing about it is, the slower processor has saved my butt several times. When it flings graphs out at you as fast as you can type equations, you get a lot less time to think. Watching it trace that line nice and slow allows you to graphically verify your equation in your head, rather than just glance at it and say "yep, looks about right."
Yeah, it lacks the bells and whistles of other calculators. But it gets the job done, keeps the menu options helpful and inconspicuous, and will probably withstand more neglect and impact than your textbook. Besides, the price is definitely right.
Regarding Fix Permissions, I had to use it after installing my cheap HP All-In-One. That driver put its fingers in so many protected pies I got a flurry of warning flags after the post-install reboot. Every time I unplug the device (I work on a laptop) it breaks something else.
Personally, I plan to stick with Apple products because they aren't holding hands with HP. I've been burned by HP twice now, and yeah, I'm bitter about it. I know plenty of people burned by Dell and Gateway and SOny as well. As an ethical issue, I don't want to give money to a company in bed with that kind of hardware manufacturer.
On the other side, the speedbumps in my iBook piss me off a little. I've hacked them out, but the hacks themselves have slowed the computer slightly and made my tablet buggy. Even with the quirks introduced by firmware-level hacking, I still can't think of a laptop I'd rather have for $1k. But I can still wish it weren't locked up.
Might Vista be better than Tiger? Will Vista SP1 (coming soon we can be sure) prove better than Leopard? I think probably not, but I also don't care. I'll continue using Apple products because I like their style.
Except that titanium is only vaguely magnetic and a poor conductor. You'd have to wrap each payload in a big iron slug, so for every ton of titanium you throw, you're also throwing a ton of not-valuable-enough-to-mine-on-the-moon iron. You'll need a bigger gun, and you'll need to replace the rails more often.
Moon orbit really is a lot easier to break, so how about a space elevator? It's a daunting project here on This-Island-Earth, but with less strain and a shallower orbit path for the anchor, it seems like a nice alternative. Plentiful solar energy to power the climbers, and all you have to do to send ore back to Earth is take it up and let go at the right time.
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Official media paints a picture of good citizens and bad insurgents. This report contradicts that, suggesting that violence is tolerated as understandable, even among the opposition. Even more sacreligious, the report suggests that insurgents are scattered and independent, making decisions based on community sentiment, not organised cells with leaders that can be surgically struck-out.
It's information in the face of disinformation. Not embarassing in itself, but embarassing in the sense that it contradicts what they've been telling us. Remember, please, that censorship is not targetted at the thinking man, but at Joe Sixpack. Mr. Sixpack watches Fox news, drinks Bud Light, drives a Ford, and gets unhappy when the government seems complicated.
Ya know, even encrypted networks are pretty hackable. Couldn't one protect themselves, legally speaking, simply by owning a wireless network?
Just avoid the password request altogether, by using plain ordinary rm without the -rf keyword. The smart way to do it is to delete by levels and leave the directories.
/* /*/* /*/*/* ...etc.
rm
rm
rm
Way to go.
My Mac is already patched.
Sorry, but I don't need the weirding module.
I don't think they'll let you through the door with a conceiled hook-shot.
First, sorry, Iran hasn't that sort of potential. The region isn't dense enough to make "the bomb" all that important out there. In the end it'll be a land assault, and we've already seen just how well that works in the Middle East.
Second, I invoke Godwin's Law on your post.
A police officer inspecting a suspect's hard-drive is viewing child pornography, for at least a little while. While the drive is in police possession, the government is in possession of illegal child pornography.
If someone put his hand in a box of mystery objects at a carnival and happened to pull out a murder weapon, would he be arrested?
If someone downloads images at random, is he liable for what he finds? Would anyone try to prosecute him if he were?
Nuh uh. You missed the point.
/. now and then. Whatever. There are many many ways to gain some knowledge. People do not do that, and GP sees M$ as a culprit in that paradigm. I agree.
Any user who owns a computer can pick up a little knowledge. They can watch carefully next time their geek friend helps them with something, they can ask their geek friends about things and remember what the answer was... maybe read a littls
It's not that M$ is bad for allowing anyone to use a computer, but they're letting everyone down by acting like you can use it indefinitely without learning anything about it. From a moral standpoint, they should have focused not on the idea that Joe Sixpack can use it, but that Joe Sixpack can learn to use it.
I think there's something wrong with your Vista...
*cough* I wouldn't buy an OS that could go that wrong, even if it were a one-in-a-hundred chance. My luck is pretty bad. Also, funny how we're so quick to assume that Vista's gone wrong, eh? Sounds like this copy went all shades of broken in under an hour.
I hate to be a n00b, but won't T-Cell count restore itself after HIV leaves the system? I was under the impression that T-Cell are generated constantly, and the count only falls when attrition exceeds generation due to HIV becoming too numerous. Maybe there's more to it then that...
Also, doesn't this all seem a little too simple? Sticking antibodies to it sounds great, but isn't it necessary to actually disable the virus? Seems like if you stuck a protein to it without disabling it, whichever cell tries to actually destroy it would just get victimized.
barring one detail: every time I've heard somebody talk about bouncing off another box, they mention China. It's just sort of an assumed thing. Proxies and zombienets are in China. So if you're going to launch an attack and you can choose from anywhere in the world... Besides, you're quite right about the hostility under all the smiles. Part of that hostility is that no way in hell is the Chinese government going to happily allow investigations of somebody else's zombienet within their borders. I suspect that people know this.
Speaking of learning from mistakes, note that this has not been modded up.
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I dunno about trashing the computers quite so fast... I listen to a good jot of trance, and I have a very strong emotional connection to it. I'll probably be listening to these tracks for years.
The difference is the way that that computer music is done. The music I listen to has a certain flavour to it that you can't quite put a finger on. Something unique about an individual synth maybe, or the way something is mixed. That's what keeps it seperate from pop: DJs working their own synths and handling all the mix, usually freehand. It puts the human element back into it, knowing that there's some freehand there. It's not just a drum-machine and a lead knocking down the same groove for three minutes.
if (motive != "TAKE OVER THE WORLD"){
giantShinyBeowulfCluster.task = motive;
giantShinyBeowulfCluster.mainScreen.turnOn (1);
}
else{
giantShinyBeowulfCluster.dDos (sender);
}
Nothing takes 500ms with lower-end Cisco hardware. Seriously, you need a login that complicated, get it going and go do something else for a while. Ever seen a 2600 series try to update the Ios? 5mB Ios image over 100mbps full duplex and a high-speed NIC / AUI trasciever at either end. Twenty minutes. Granted they're still using tftp, but still, that is ridiculous overhead to pull down five meg and load it into flash.
Networking hardware tends to be like that. Just because SSH works great between you and your server, or even between you and your shiny enterprise switch, does not make it a good sollution for small businesses, schools, and anyone else getting shafted by their hardware provider.
Seriously, Cisco and HP will just tear your wallet out through your heart if you don't buy high-grade equipment. We've got a switch we're working on at this here school site that's been spontaneously dumping its cache every time it hits 30% usage. Now, it's clear enough nobody configured it that way, and none of our five technicians has managed to fix it yet. Speedbump, maybe?
If HP will speedbump (or misconfigure) a switch in a way that shuts down the entire network for an hour every morning, wouldn't they also be willing to speedbump ssh? Wouldn't Cisco be willing too?
whoah whoah whoah!
Imagine a self-hovering puck, and then imagine playing airhockey on any smooth surface.
Now imagine how much money that idea is worth.
Bureaucracy is one of the things that come to mind. That's really bad over here.
US has that too, especially the school system. Our schools are required by law to contract everything to whoever puts in the lowest bid. The result is that nothing ever works, from the lawn sprinklers to the climate control. Our district in particular has something approaching ten thousand clients accessing the internet through 3.0 MBps. I kid you not.
Another thing that is really depressing compared to other countries is the loads of post-WW2 architecture that is ugly and dominates lots of the cities.
Is that really at all significant, compared to the creepy cookie-cutter quality of the suburbs? In my hometown, we've got hundreds of homes, all in the same floor plan, all in beige stucco, all right next to each other.
Another thing that really bugs me is the germans and their car crazyness.
SUVs and fullsize pickups are rapidly creeping up on 50% of our driving population. I hate waiting at a traffic light with nothing to see out my front and rear windows but bumpers. I mean that literally. And I drive a BMW. German car craziness as a symbol is literally smashed into jagged shrapnel by these disgusting American behemoths.
Sounds to me like you've got the same subset of problems, but a longer list of redeeming qualities.
My Mac requires a keyword before accepting voice commands. Does Vista do this? If not, I'd call it a vulnerability, albeit a minor one.
Maybe they should ask the user for a keyword without offering a default? But how many people would use "computer" anyway?
Exactly right. And since that is the hard part, and doing hard stuff takes CPU cycles and doesn't always work right, it's a lot nicer to have the memory free and un-allocated for when it's needed. This kind of memory usage we see here is wasteful, because everything the OS thinks of to use the RAM for could be made a lot smaller. The measure of how good your OS is at launching and running big applications at will is whether all those processes are sufficiently compact to not vomit data all over the RAM.
This cap shows 30MB free. Vista has puked inside the computer, then urinated.
I'm a senior in High School. This sounds odd, but seriously, go get yourself a used TI-85. They're dirt cheap on EBay, and they aren't normally very popular for a couple of reasons: slower processor and out of production.
However: they're easier to program and have a nicer menu system than any I've seen out today. Also, since they're an older design, they're built a good shot tougher. Mine has lasted about twenty years so far, and it's still working perfectly despite the horrendous abuse to which it has been subjected.
The weirdest thing about it is, the slower processor has saved my butt several times. When it flings graphs out at you as fast as you can type equations, you get a lot less time to think. Watching it trace that line nice and slow allows you to graphically verify your equation in your head, rather than just glance at it and say "yep, looks about right."
Yeah, it lacks the bells and whistles of other calculators. But it gets the job done, keeps the menu options helpful and inconspicuous, and will probably withstand more neglect and impact than your textbook. Besides, the price is definitely right.
Regarding Fix Permissions, I had to use it after installing my cheap HP All-In-One. That driver put its fingers in so many protected pies I got a flurry of warning flags after the post-install reboot. Every time I unplug the device (I work on a laptop) it breaks something else.
Personally, I plan to stick with Apple products because they aren't holding hands with HP. I've been burned by HP twice now, and yeah, I'm bitter about it. I know plenty of people burned by Dell and Gateway and SOny as well. As an ethical issue, I don't want to give money to a company in bed with that kind of hardware manufacturer.
On the other side, the speedbumps in my iBook piss me off a little. I've hacked them out, but the hacks themselves have slowed the computer slightly and made my tablet buggy. Even with the quirks introduced by firmware-level hacking, I still can't think of a laptop I'd rather have for $1k. But I can still wish it weren't locked up.
Might Vista be better than Tiger? Will Vista SP1 (coming soon we can be sure) prove better than Leopard? I think probably not, but I also don't care. I'll continue using Apple products because I like their style.
Except that titanium is only vaguely magnetic and a poor conductor. You'd have to wrap each payload in a big iron slug, so for every ton of titanium you throw, you're also throwing a ton of not-valuable-enough-to-mine-on-the-moon iron. You'll need a bigger gun, and you'll need to replace the rails more often.
Moon orbit really is a lot easier to break, so how about a space elevator? It's a daunting project here on This-Island-Earth, but with less strain and a shallower orbit path for the anchor, it seems like a nice alternative. Plentiful solar energy to power the climbers, and all you have to do to send ore back to Earth is take it up and let go at the right time.
no one blames MSFT for bugs in Lotus Notes.
Lotus Notes has not been removed from exhistence yet. In a way, I think this is everyone's fault.