This newsgroup article describes what happened to one of Ralsky's associates in China when someone complained, included the message "thank you for your support of Falun Gong" in the complaint, and CC'd it to someone in the Chinese government.
Not going to work well. From what I've seen, our basic plan is to destroy the enemy's communications first from the air. That includes all the command facilities, infrastructure such as telephone, power, roads, bridges, and airports. It includes the information gathering sensors like radars.
So, now that the enemy has been flopped over and reamed out with a roto-rooter, how are they going to coordinate enough of these EMP bomb explosions to be able to stop a force of a quarter-million soldiers, hundreds of tanks, thousands of artillery pieces, and the entire USAF who BTW gained complete air superiority 12 years ago and never gave it up?
EMP munitions are not a magic weapon, and a bunch of snipers cannot win a war. Even in Star Wars a bunch of Jedi can't win a war.
If the original maintainers come back and raise a stink you can tell them to screw off. It's not polite to give people permission to take the source and fork it, and then to complain when people do just that.
unison - I keep my desktop, server, and laptop synchronized over SSL connections. Like rsync, it sends minimal changes to keep source trees up to date. I can sync over a gig in my home directories in much less than a minute unless I dumped a whole bunch of new stuff on there.
Just gotta say that in anything that flies, boring is considered a good thing. Excitement can mean something is going very wrong.
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And the plane landed in a bunch of mesquite trees. The thing is designed to hit the landing gear, with a lot of resulting damage to the airplane, but none to the passengers. The trees popped a few holes in the composite, but did little structural damage. It should be easily repairable to fly another day.
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The wings don't flap. The fan is a long tubular structure that rotates.
Think of a squirrel cage fan the size and shape of a paper towel tube. It's in the front of the wing and rotates so the top is pushing air backwards. At the back side of the rotating fan is a triangular wedge that fills out the airfoil shape.
Where was the bomb detonated? At ground level? I would expect a lot of things to keep working in that case.
EMP pulses are generated by high altitude bursts that send a shitload of charged particles into the ionosphere. That gob of electrons in the upper atmosphere is what generates the EMP pulse.
Good thing too. Nuclear weapons in space might someday be used to turn it into a sterile environment filled with deadly radiation which would be unsurvivable to anyone not wearing a special protective suit.
That pocket change isn't pure metal either. In every nickel in your pocket, I wouldn't be surprised to find more than a trace amount of iron. A big magnetic field would attract that.
It's not a troll, and it's not offtopic. That article has existed on the internet for a long time, written by someone who was as horrified by the use of virii as I'm sure most of us are.
And it's definitely not offtopic. The word that the article is about is right in the main article.
Anyway, I noticed that you used the word "trolls" in your article above. That would be "trollii".:-)
Yes, it was GEOS that I was thinking of. AOL software ran on MS-DOS with a GEOS graphical interface. This is before they ported it to Windows after version 3.0 came out.
GEOS ran on the PC's as well as those other computers.
Did the French Minitel actually sell anything? That would be some prior art. And did the original CompuServe actually sell anything? Also prior art. I also seem to remember being able to buy flowers on AOL 1.0 with it's funky interface (what was that called again? GEOS?) on top of MS-DOS in 1988. Definitely prior art.
No, an accident would NOT suck. You know why people were concerned? Because they were MORONS. It's not a flame, it's the truth. The nuclear fuel in Cassini is in a form that renders it harmless in case of an accident. If any pieces entered the atmosphere AND survived to reach the ground AND landed on dirt, not in the sea, they would have been easily found and picked up. Some people were actually speculating that a reentry event would kill everyone on the planet, which is just stupid. Sorry, no other word for it. Stupid is the one that fits the best.
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This newsgroup article describes what happened to one of Ralsky's associates in China when someone complained, included the message "thank you for your support of Falun Gong" in the complaint, and CC'd it to someone in the Chinese government.
Not going to work well. From what I've seen, our basic plan is to destroy the enemy's communications first from the air. That includes all the command facilities, infrastructure such as telephone, power, roads, bridges, and airports. It includes the information gathering sensors like radars.
So, now that the enemy has been flopped over and reamed out with a roto-rooter, how are they going to coordinate enough of these EMP bomb explosions to be able to stop a force of a quarter-million soldiers, hundreds of tanks, thousands of artillery pieces, and the entire USAF who BTW gained complete air superiority 12 years ago and never gave it up?
EMP munitions are not a magic weapon, and a bunch of snipers cannot win a war. Even in Star Wars a bunch of Jedi can't win a war.
You misunderstand him. He didn't say 'A' kinds of people in the world, he said '10' kinds of people in the world. Listen up!
When you are working on your computer and you've got something important going on, make sure you always mount a scratch monkey.
If the original maintainers come back and raise a stink you can tell them to screw off. It's not polite to give people permission to take the source and fork it, and then to complain when people do just that.
Not possible. Unison will not do that. Have you tried the program? I just type "unison". Not much to screw up there.
(But I do keep a copy on CD both at work at home, encrypted.)
We are porting specialists. We move anything to anything.
www.sector7.com
I don't care what it does, but it'd better be a blue pill.
Better than rsync:
unison - I keep my desktop, server, and laptop synchronized over SSL connections. Like rsync, it sends minimal changes to keep source trees up to date. I can sync over a gig in my home directories in much less than a minute unless I dumped a whole bunch of new stuff on there.
http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/unison/
gliding an airplane seems "boring".
Just gotta say that in anything that flies, boring is considered a good thing. Excitement can mean something is going very wrong.
And the plane landed in a bunch of mesquite trees. The thing is designed to hit the landing gear, with a lot of resulting damage to the airplane, but none to the passengers. The trees popped a few holes in the composite, but did little structural damage. It should be easily repairable to fly another day.
The wings don't flap. The fan is a long tubular structure that rotates.
Think of a squirrel cage fan the size and shape of a paper towel tube. It's in the front of the wing and rotates so the top is pushing air backwards. At the back side of the rotating fan is a triangular wedge that fills out the airfoil shape.
No point in keeping your backups any further away than your most remote customer. If the customers are gone, you don't need the backups.
Where was the bomb detonated? At ground level? I would expect a lot of things to keep working in that case.
EMP pulses are generated by high altitude bursts that send a shitload of charged particles into the ionosphere. That gob of electrons in the upper atmosphere is what generates the EMP pulse.
Good thing too. Nuclear weapons in space might someday be used to turn it into a sterile environment filled with deadly radiation which would be unsurvivable to anyone not wearing a special protective suit.
That pocket change isn't pure metal either. In every nickel in your pocket, I wouldn't be surprised to find more than a trace amount of iron. A big magnetic field would attract that.
I'm not fat, I'm big boned!
It's not a troll, and it's not offtopic. That article has existed on the internet for a long time, written by someone who was as horrified by the use of virii as I'm sure most of us are.
:-)
And it's definitely not offtopic. The word that the article is about is right in the main article.
Anyway, I noticed that you used the word "trolls" in your article above. That would be "trollii".
Yes, it was GEOS that I was thinking of. AOL software ran on MS-DOS with a GEOS graphical interface. This is before they ported it to Windows after version 3.0 came out.
GEOS ran on the PC's as well as those other computers.
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That would work except he'd also need transparent aluminum springs.
Did the French Minitel actually sell anything? That would be some prior art. And did the original CompuServe actually sell anything? Also prior art. I also seem to remember being able to buy flowers on AOL 1.0 with it's funky interface (what was that called again? GEOS?) on top of MS-DOS in 1988. Definitely prior art.
OK, you're right. It would suck - but differently than I was thinking.
I have no idea. Maybe you could find a used one. Take a look at comp.sys.transputer.
No, an accident would NOT suck. You know why people were concerned? Because they were MORONS. It's not a flame, it's the truth. The nuclear fuel in Cassini is in a form that renders it harmless in case of an accident. If any pieces entered the atmosphere AND survived to reach the ground AND landed on dirt, not in the sea, they would have been easily found and picked up. Some people were actually speculating that a reentry event would kill everyone on the planet, which is just stupid. Sorry, no other word for it. Stupid is the one that fits the best.