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Pete's approach is simpler.

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Ignorant, not stupid. The stupid ones are the people responsible for 80 year-old grandmothers needing to keep a list of potentially dangerous file types in their heads every time they use the interwebs. (I would point out that my damn cell phone gives me 90% of the Web, including software installation, with only a tiny fraction of the risk simply because it assumes that I do not, in fact, want every program to be able to destroy the phone and asks me for permission when a process wants to peek outside of its sandbox.)

Indeed. "Want a free porn vid? Download this 100 KiB file named 'trojan.exe'!" IME dangerous unseemly sites (porn, warez, etc sites) tend to be so obviously dangerous and so utterly bizarre that I can hardly believe that people are actually at risk. There are still sites pushing dialers. Dialers! I've almost wanted to install one (in a VM, naturally) just to see what it would do.

Was it a Windows or Mac virus? AFAIK the major concern with Macs is that they can act as 'healthy carriers' for Windows malware. The Macs themselves aren't affected by the malware but can still infect Windows machines via email, shared disks, etc. If that's what happened in your case, your friend is, in a sense, correct, since his machine isn't infected.

Microsoft has tools for creating and deploying operating system images. I don't know the details.

Your hunch is correct. (As it happens NT does support deleting open files but it requires cooperation from all of the processes that have the files open and apparently the files haunt the system, rattling chains and causing mysterious "Access Denied" errors, until they're really deleted.) Incidentally, I think Cygwin uses a few registry entries to track mount points. I'm not sure if they need to be present when Cygwin starts or if it will create them.

It looks like TIF is magical: the folder is a driven by shell extension that displays the contents of the hidden subdirectories (and possibly other things). The magic apparently prevents you from browsing the underlying directory in Explorer. I don't know if there's anything you can do short of disabling the shell extension, and I don't know if that's possible. FWIW, I can see all of the hidden directories with dir /a. (Cygwin and gvim can see them, too, but I don't imagine that's too useful.)

In American terms: slightly to the left of the Socialist Workers Party. Seriously, I think they'd be considered moderate Democrats in the US.

Probably quid pro quo: Intel wanted SLI and NVIDIA wanted a QPI license so they could design chipsets compatible with Core i7. There was some concern until a few months ago that Intel was going to withhold the QPI license at least long enough to knock NVIDIA out of the first generation i7 products. (That might have been partly a response to NVIDIA's bizarre attacks on Intel's CPUs and Larrabee, though NVIDIA had a bit of trouble getting an Intel front-side bus license years ago.) (QPI = QuickPath Interconnect, the replacement for Intel's front-side bus and competitor for AMD's HyperTransport.

I don't think Intel and NVIDIA are very fond of each other.

If this is serious research, say for investment purposes, it would be a good idea to poke around the serious hardware sites (i.e., not the gaming or general tech sites). There are people who believe that NVIDIA's long-term prospects aren't great because the market is heading back toward highly-integrated and general-purpose hardware and that could give Intel and AMD an insurmountable advantage.

After Intel. Not that anyone cares about Intel's GPU market share.

OSDev Wiki. Particularly the Resources section.

Phoenix data. It looks like violent crime is slightly above the ten year average but the rate is relative stable over the last decade. (min: 9471 (2004), max: 11194 (2006), avg: 10317, last year: 11168) OTOH weapon violations are way up over the last decade. (min: 531 (2001), max: 1144 (2007), avg: 728, last year: 1144) Edit: Forgot: population grew from 1,256,353 in 1998 to 1,609,935 in 2007.

The Little Boy design wasn't tested. The Trinity 'gadget' was a plutonium implosion bomb. It doesn't need to be reliable. It doesn't even need to work since you're never going to use it.

Their bomb was more complicated than it needed to be. Little Boy was a gun-type U-235 bomb. No plutonium, no implosion mechanism, etc. It worked rather well. But people still manage to do it -- including most of the countries with covert nuclear programs.

That's the realistic option. It's not really that difficult to design and build an atomic bomb. A smart college student could do it. A couple smart college students did do it.

The next war will probably be Afghanistan (again). The war after that could be Iraq (again) or the border regions of Pakistan depending on what happens in Afghanistan. As I recall, the strategy for Iran was to promote liberalization or a (peaceful) revolution. The next Iranian presidential election is next summer and it looks like there'll be at least one liberal(ish) candidate on the ballot with a chance of winning (Karroubi or ex-president Khatami), so I imagine nothing will happen until at least late '09. Though I don't expect anything to happen at all.

Fine. The finance industry isn't the economy. Not that I think that the war has much to do with that.

Those people entered the workforce because of the war. Except the people paid to build them. *shrug*

That seems to be the latest kernel in hardy. You could (partially) switch to intrepid.

US GDP almost doubled between 1939 and 1945. I'm too tired to crunch the numbers but I think that was the most rapid growth in the last century. Edit: There was apparently similar, though much less rapid, growth in the other major powers, correlating with their military success. Edit: Incidentally, I don't think this trick would work as well with post-industrial economies. Now if we could find a way to sue Iran....

There's nothing wrong with greed. The problem is irrational greed. If the government wanted to try a 'military recovery' it could ramp up the war in Afghanistan. Afghanistan would probably need to be sorted out before an invasion of Iran anyway.

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