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Your DNA just might have an interesting adventure there.

http://archive.org/details/Cat_Women_of_the_Moon

I haven't heard of this technique actually being used in the wild, but it's enough of a threat to be included in the standard security training everyone has to take for at least a few Fortune 500 companies -- it's why some companies (and the U.S. military, I think) may disable USB ports. Trying to get at potential targets through standard attack vectors may not be effective, so if you have a financial backer this may present a promising attack vector that greedy targets may enable. The book "Security Engineering" cites this web site (had to find via archive.org) where a consulting company found out people inserted the USB sticks under slightly different circumstances: http://web.archive.org/web/20090621014856/http://www.vnunet.com/computing/news/2173365/uk-firms-naive-usb-stick

The main in C and C++ differ.
The main in C in hosted environments has been either
int main(void) { /*...*/ } or
int main(int argc, char *argv[]) { /*...*/ }
since at least the C89 standard.
http://web.archive.org/web/20050207005628/http://dev.unicals.com/papers/c89-draft.html#2.1.2
C99/C11 Section 5.1.2.2.1
For freestanding environments the standard states that the name and type of the function called at program startup are implementation-defined.
So, yes void main() would be perfectly valid C if the freestanding environment requires it that way.
Obviously gcc doesn't have to support it or any freestanding environment.
I didn't imply it had to, I merely stated that gcc complains about one incorrect main in a hosted environment but not about another in a hosted environment.

The main in C++ in freestanding environments is, again, implementation-defined.
In hosted environments the main shall have a return type of int but its type is implementation-defined.
Any implementation must at least support
int main() { /*...*/ } and
int main(int argc, char *argv[]) { /*...*/ }
Has been like that since the C++98 standard, section 3.6.1.

In C int f(void) is a function with no parameters returning an int,
int f() is a function with no parameter specification returning an int.
They are not the same and should not be treated as such.

So, what we have is GCC supporting the standard, but whose implementation differs from other compilers. The devs made the choice to not support void main and that's perfectly fine. Nearly everybody who declares main as void are doing so in a hosted environment, and warnings/errors and completely justified.

No. What we have is gcc failing to support the most basic part of the C standard, rendering its -W flags at least questionable.
If it can't warn about an improper main, what else is it failing at?
All I really wanted to point out is that using some code and a compiler is no way to verify the standard.
I used main as an example because the OP wrote int main() in his "verification".

Dude this is Slashdot. Frankly I would rather see stories like this then all the political crap that they are pushing these days. I suggest that you take a look back to the good old days.
http://web.archive.org/web/19990125103314/http://www.slashdot.org/
And http://web.archive.org/web/19981111190256/http://slashdot.org/
For examples of the roots of Slashdot. Oh and you have got to love this.
"Booker writes "So IBM announces a 25 gig hard drive... does the world need this yet? Unless this is in a RAID, would you really want to trust 25 gigs on a single drive? What would you use this for? 400+ hours of MP3s comes to mind... " "
As I sit with a 32 gig microSD card in my phone... Have we become jaded to the wonders around us?

Dude this is Slashdot. Frankly I would rather see stories like this then all the political crap that they are pushing these days. I suggest that you take a look back to the good old days.
http://web.archive.org/web/19990125103314/http://www.slashdot.org/
And http://web.archive.org/web/19981111190256/http://slashdot.org/
For examples of the roots of Slashdot. Oh and you have got to love this.
"Booker writes "So IBM announces a 25 gig hard drive... does the world need this yet? Unless this is in a RAID, would you really want to trust 25 gigs on a single drive? What would you use this for? 400+ hours of MP3s comes to mind... " "
As I sit with a 32 gig microSD card in my phone... Have we become jaded to the wonders around us?

Most of the commenters here will twist this story into how the US is somehow evil, and drone on (pun intended) about how the US and West governments and/or corporations and/or political systems are what's wrong with the world, when in reality, people are suffering and dying under actual tyranny and oppression.

Like in Syria.

It's about time Wikileaks lived up to its initial stated mission of "exposing oppressive regimes in Asia, the former Soviet bloc, Sub-Saharan Africa and the Middle East," instead of becoming an anti-US pulpit for a self-righteous egomaniac who has openly said if he was asked to choose between "advocate"/"activist" and "journalist", he would choose "advocate", and who answered "I'm too busy ending two wars," in response to a reporter asking for clarity on an issue.

(And no, this doesn't mean the US and West are all-perfect or all-wise — what it means is that people need to get out of their bizarro world and get some perspective on things. A clue wouldn't hurt, either.)

Anyway already TV signals have gone out many light years, and they were theoretically copyrighted.

Some, like the sci-fi show from the early 50's Tales of Tomorrow, are now public domain and have bounced back to Earth landing at archive.org

http://archive.org/search.php?query=Tales%20of%20Tomorrow%20AND%20collection%3Atelevision

Yes, it would take a cost effective solution. Perhaps a hot air balloon helped by a volcano below?

We made need to study tech from the past. Things were cheap then. But what to study first?

Expired sci-fi...?

http://archive.org/details/Cat_Women_of_the_Moon

I've got karma to burn

On Slashdot, saying that pretty much guarantees you'll be modded up to +5, no matter what else you said.

O RLY?

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On Slashdot, saying that pretty much guarantees you'll be modded up to +5, no matter what else you said.

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An interesting discussion of Arp and his ideas can be found here:

http://web.archive.org/web/20041222050621/http://www.badastronomy.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?t=17067

Yes, the public has been ignored, research even ordered destroyed when it didn't support the pre-determined outcome.

The story
http://web.archive.org/web/20090123153744/http://www.boston.com/news/nation/washington/articles/2006/09/18/senator_says_media_study_suppressed/

The suppressed report
http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DOC-267448A1.pdf

Some PBS coverage
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xEoKXKUnLsY
PBS transcript
http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/11162007/transcript5.html?print
more PBS info
http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/11162007/profile2.html
Info related to Providence Equity (where a former FCC chair went)
www.sungarddx.com/pdf/Data_Exchange_Fundraising.pdf

Loud commercials have been addressed before. If the ad agency has used aggressive audio processing, and uses less energy at bass frequencies, the station actually needs special equipment to sense the higher average energy and compensate. The peak voltage value can be the same with a large difference in loudness.

To those that think so-called market forces make things good, explain why we've now got those half-hour infomercials, 18+ minutes of ads an hour instead of 9 to 11, and far less depth and diversity in news coverage. The same former FCC chair that Bill Moyers talks about taking a job at a major communications-oriented venture capital group has since become head of the cable-tv industry group that pushed for the Comcast/NBC/Universal merger. Cable companies don't want broadcast tv to be excellent.

Per my subject-line - It's obvious you did that to my post here http://apple.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=2937419&cid=40441449

"Hmm. Without a proper hosts file, this seems pointless." - by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 25, @03:38PM (#40442927)

Hmmm - you also obviously don't READ VERY WELL, do you? My security guides for Windows list that as a MAINSTAY POINT...

E.G.-> My personal hosts file has 1,791,965 KNOWN BAD SITES/SERVERS/HOSTS-DOMAINS BLOCKED OFF IN IT, currently...

(Such as botnet C&C servers, rogue DNS servers, infected adbanners & adbanners in general, spam/phish linked servers-sites, & malware serving sites + malscripted ones are blocked off in it - specifically).

APK

P.S.=> Above all else though - your following my posts around and downmoderating them? Didn't stop my security guide from reaching this status worldwide:

The most viewed, highly rated guide online for Windows security there really is which came from the fact I also created the 1st guide for securing Windows, highly rated @ NEOWIN (as far back as 1998-2001) here:

http://www.neowin.net/news/apk-a-to-z-internet-speedup--security-text

& from as far back as 1997 -> http://web.archive.org/web/20020205091023/www.ntcompatible.com/article1.shtml which Neowin above picked up on & rated very highly.

That has evolved more currently, into the MOST viewed & highly rated one there is for years now since 2008 online in the 1st URL link above...

Which has well over 500,000++ views online (actually MORE, but 1 site with 75,000 views of it went offline/out-of-business) & it's been made either:

---

1.) An Essential Guide
2.) 5-5 star rated
3.) A "sticky-pinned" thread
4.) Most viewed in the category it's in (usually security)
5.) Got me PAID by winning a contest @ PCPitStop (quite unexpectedly - I was only posting it for the good of all, & yes, "the Lord works in mysterious ways", it even got me PAID -> http://techtalk.pcpitstop.com/2007/09/04/pc-pitstop-winners/ (see January 2008))

---

Across 15-20 or so sites I posted it on back in 2008... & here is the IMPORTANT part, in some sample testimonials to the "layered security" methodology efficacy:

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That achieved results like the ones I requoted in my original post you quite obviously down-moderated for NO JUSTIFIABLE REASON... apkbfor years now since 2008 online in the 1st URL link above...

Will moderators pick our afterlives?

http://archive.org/details/night_of_the_living_dead

http://archive.org/download/The_Killer_Shrews/The_Killer_Shrews_512kb.mp4

Will moderators pick our afterlives?

http://archive.org/details/night_of_the_living_dead

http://archive.org/download/The_Killer_Shrews/The_Killer_Shrews_512kb.mp4

Gas filled balloons perhaps? It sounds like a plot for a movie.

http://archive.org/details/Danger_on_the_Air_movie
(free view or DL, from 1938)

If I remember correctly, SAP is currently the world's most respected reference implementation of Alan Perlis' Epigram 54.

What about TRAC?

Is there any other language where integer arithmetic is implied to be better because it is "more general" in the official language manuals?

The use of integers alone in TRAC arithmetic might seem to be a serious restriction on the capabilities of the language. On the contrary, it makes the TRAC arithmetic capabilities more general, since the four primitives can be used to construct many different kinds of representations for numerical quantities.

http://web.archive.org/web/20050319002316/http://www.tracfoundation.org/trac64/docs/T64man15-16.pdf

Not mention, rockets don't even work in a vacuum! I read it in the NYT!

It took me exactly 2 minutes to find (part of) the source code of said program...

http://web.archive.org/web/20080821182640/http://www.antiphorm.com/software/latest/AntiPhormLite1_33.dba

How is this really different than me archiving something I like that isn't around anymore

In such a case, you aren't redistributing.

or hell the internet archive (archive.org)

The Wayback Machine obeys robots.txt.

All those pictures in the article, did you take them? Or are you just presenting them accredited to the photographer.

Used under an explicit license, I'll assume for the sake of argument.

BTW, quote from Dave Haynie (who posts here occasionally. Originally a C64 engineer but moved on to the Amiga group and later chipset design work):

And while ads might have helped, additional interfacing with Marketing might not have done much in those days. Amiga engineers were better in touch with the buyers than Marketing. Because most of us WERE the target market - we were making our own new toy, within the financial limits accorded.

That's what's missing from modern computing.

Ubuntu is about cornering the desktop and tablet market.

Mac OS X / iOS is about "user experience" and purity.

Windows is about controlling the market and adding the features users are demanding.

Android is about keeping mobile devices open.

Who's sitting down any more and saying "The computer we're going to build is the one I want to use"?

While we're at it, we should probably backup the internet too. You'd think someone would have done it by now, in case it crashes, but I can't find any record of anyone doing it.

Internet Archive

http://archive.org/

Here, these should do the job:

http://www.pacinst.org/topics/integrity_of_science/case_studies/hummer_vs_prius.pdf

http://web.archive.org/web/20070714131759/http://www.rmi.org/images/PDFs/Transportation/T07-01_DustToDust.pdf

Why on earth would you want a high resolution display?

Everyone knows 100ppi is the optimum resolution for both text and images

Of the concept I illustrated here of most used = most attacked on ANY computing platform -> http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=2899979&cid=40255631

(Which, from the malware maker/botnet herder's "point-of-view" MAKES TONS OF SENSE... To I.E.-> Expend more efforts where the greatest amount of returns will come from, & that is where the MOST "easy-meat noob" users are to be victimized (the most used OS platforms)).

* You can say what you wish, but it proves my point for me, easily, & with a CONCRETE undeniable example...

APK

P.S.=>

"these problem don't occur in gnu/linux (as opposed to android/linux) for a number of reasons" - by lister king of smeg (2481612) on Friday June 08, @11:51AM (#40258177)

Well, I can say (and show testimonials of it too, not just say it) the SAME about Windows NT-based OS, once "security-hardened" above the DEFAULT configuration (which I've been doing guides online for users since oh, 1997 onwards):

To "immunize" a Windows system, I effectively use the principles in "layered security" possibles!

http://www.bing.com/search?q=%22HOW+TO+SECURE+Windows+2000%2FXP%22&go=&form=QBRE

I.E./E.G.-> I have done so since 1997-1998 with the most viewed, highly rated guide online for Windows security there really is which came from the fact I also created the 1st guide for securing Windows, highly rated @ NEOWIN (as far back as 1998-2001) here:

http://www.neowin.net/news/apk-a-to-z-internet-speedup--security-text

& from as far back as 1997 -> http://web.archive.org/web/20020205091023/www.ntcompatible.com/article1.shtml which Neowin above picked up on & rated very highly.

That has evolved more currently, into the MOST viewed & highly rated one there is for years now since 2008 online in the 1st URL link above...

Which has well over 500,000++ views online (actually MORE, but 1 site with 75,000 views of it went offline/out-of-business) & it's been made either:

---

1.) An Essential Guide
2.) 5-5 star rated
3.) A "sticky-pinned" thread
4.) Most viewed in the category it's in (usually security)
5.) Got me PAID by winning a contest @ PCPitStop (quite unexpectedly - I was only posting it for the good of all, & yes, "the Lord works in mysterious ways", it even got me PAID -> http://techtalk.pcpitstop.com/2007/09/04/pc-pitstop-winners/ (see January 2008))

---

Across 15-20 or so sites I posted it on back in 2008... & here is the IMPORTANT part, in some sample testimonials to the "layered security" methodology efficacy:

---

SOME QUOTED TESTIMONIALS TO THE EFFECTIVENESS OF SAID LAYERED SECURITY GUIDE I AUTHORED:

http://www.xtremepccentral.com/forums/showthread.php?s=672ebdf47af75a0c5b0d9e7278be305f&t=28430&page=2

"I recently, months ago when you finally got this guide done, had authorization to try this on simple work station for kids. My client, who paid me an ungodly amount of money to do this, has been PROBLEM FREE FOR MONTHS! I haven't even had a follow up call which is unusual." - THRONKA, user of my guide @ XTremePcCentral

AND

"APK, thanks for such a great guide. This would, and should, be an inspiration to such security measures. Also, the pc that has "tweaks": IS STILL GOING! NO PROBLEMS!" -

"No operating system is 'unassailable'. " - by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 06, @09:32AM (#40231439)

See subject & I absolutely am (for now @ least vs. this particular threat, via 4 methods (patch by MS, custom hosts file blocking of "flame"'s C&C servers that are known, & security hardening my system + the OS I use)):

PROOF? Ok!

http://www.net-security.org/malware_news.php?id=2138

Flame's massive C&C infrastructure revealed - Posted on 05.06.2012:

PERTINENT QUOTE/EXCERPT:

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"It's interesting to mention that these machines mostly run Windows XP and Windows 7 32 bit, but none of them run Windows 7 64 bit, which seems impervious against this and most other malware."

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* Especially when "security-hardened" as I have done for Windows NT-based systems since the early 1990's:

http://www.bing.com/search?q=%22HOW+TO+SECURE+Windows+2000%2FXP%22&go=&qs=ns&form=QBLH

RESULTS OF SUCH SYSTEM SECURITY HARDENING BY TESTIMONIAL OVER 1 YEAR BY A USER OF MY GUIDES FOR SECURITY:

To "immunize" a Windows system, I effectively use the principles in "layered security" possibles!

http://www.bing.com/search?q=%22HOW+TO+SECURE+Windows+2000%2FXP%22&go=&form=QBRE

I.E./E.G.-> I have done so since 1997-1998 with the most viewed, highly rated guide online for Windows security there really is which came from the fact I also created the 1st guide for securing Windows, highly rated @ NEOWIN (as far back as 1998-2001) here:

http://www.neowin.net/news/apk-a-to-z-internet-speedup--security-text

& from as far back as 1997 -> http://web.archive.org/web/20020205091023/www.ntcompatible.com/article1.shtml which Neowin above picked up on & rated very highly.

That has evolved more currently, into the MOST viewed & highly rated one there is for years now since 2008 online in the 1st URL link above...

Which has well over 500,000++ views online (actually MORE, but 1 site with 75,000 views of it went offline/out-of-business) & it's been made either:

---

1.) An Essential Guide
2.) 5-5 star rated
3.) A "sticky-pinned" thread
4.) Most viewed in the category it's in (usually security)
5.) Got me PAID by winning a contest @ PCPitStop (quite unexpectedly - I was only posting it for the good of all, & yes, "the Lord works in mysterious ways", it even got me PAID -> http://techtalk.pcpitstop.com/2007/09/04/pc-pitstop-winners/ (see January 2008))

---

Across 15-20 or so sites I posted it on back in 2008... & here is the IMPORTANT part, in some sample testimonials to the "layered security" methodology efficacy:

---

SOME QUOTED TESTIMONIALS TO THE EFFECTIVENESS OF SAID LAYERED SECURITY GUIDE I AUTHORED:

http://www.xtremepccentral.com/forums/showthread.php?s=672ebdf47af75a0c5b0d9e7278be305f&t=28430&page=2

"I recently, months ago when you finally got this guide done, had authorization to try this on simple work station for kids. My client, who paid me an ungodly amount of money to do this, has been PROBLEM FREE FOR MONTHS! I haven't even had a follow up call which is unusual." - THRONKA, user of my guide @ XTremePcCentral

AND

You'd think that cutting down the reproduction and stocking costs of a book would free up money for other tasks, but in fact what happens is that editing, design and promotion become an opportunity for cutting what is now a more significant proportion of expenses.

Right. That's what happened to newspapers. Newspaper production used to require a huge labor force. Look at all those people. 67 linotypes! A room full of proofreaders to catch typesetting errors. Hundreds of people moving paper around, making printing plates, loading them onto presses, running the presses, handling the printed newspapers. Compared to the army needed to print the papers, the reporting staff was tiny, a small expense. The reporting and editing staff, the composing room, and the printing plant were all in the same building. Any separation would slow things down, and the competition would "scoop" them.

Now compare a modern large newspaper plant. There are people around, but not many. There's essentially no direct labor. All paper and plate handling is mechanized. The files to be printed are created elsewhere and come in over a data connection. The printed newspapers leave in big trucks. Many different papers are printed in the same plant. The plant is far from the reporting and editorial staff, and is run by a separate corporation from the "newspaper".

So, to newspaper management, reporters are now the big labor cost, the first thing to cut.

My friend and I were just discussing this very thing last night over beer. There needs to be an open source multitrack audio container format that supports DAW settings and operations. I suggested he talk to the engineers at Reaper

http://reaper.fm/

and CC the archivists at the Internet Archive

http://archive.org/details/audio

ProTools

  - Works only with other Pro Tools stuff

  - Ridiculously overpriced and lacking features compared to every single other piece of pro and semi-pro DAW software.

.

You forgot:
- produces files that largely act as pointers to independent audio files.

The .WAV files are all right there for you to use in whatever tool you like.

Indeed the examiner cited a whole bunch of prior art, including:

PRwire; "Matchmaker.com Creates Business Development Unit for Gift Sales"; Jan. 20, 2000: pp. 1 and 2. cited by examiner .
"GiftCardSwapping.com"; http://web.archive.org/web/20070520051410/http://www.giftcardswapping.com- /; Sunday, May 20, 2007; p. 1. cited by examiner .
"Gift Card Exchange, Buy Gift Card, Discount Gift Cards, Cash Gift Card Swap"; http://web.archive.org/web/20080724163511/http:giftcardrescue.com/- ; Apr. 12, 2008-Jul. 11, 2011; pp. 1-3. cited by examiner .
"CBLS.www.cbls.com.(World Web Watch)."; Advanced Materials & Processes, v160, n6; Jun. 2002; p. 1. cited by examiner .
"Eugene Science"; Edgar Online; May 23, 2006; pp. 1-5. cited by examiner .
Mathieu, Elizabeth; "Opinion: Delaware: An unparalleled home for your trust"; Private Asset Management, v5, n20; Oct. 5, 1998; pp. 1 and 2. cited by examiner .
US Fed News Service, Including US State News;"Publication No. WO/2009/109949 Published on Sep. 11, Assigned to France Telecom for Electronic Gifting System (American Inventor)"; Sep. 15, 2009; p. 1. cited by examiner

There a whole load more patent documents listed in the patent as prior art.

Anyways, if sued I would probably just request a re-exam by the office, its only a couple of thousand bucks.

Indeed the examiner cited a whole bunch of prior art, including:

PRwire; "Matchmaker.com Creates Business Development Unit for Gift Sales"; Jan. 20, 2000: pp. 1 and 2. cited by examiner .
"GiftCardSwapping.com"; http://web.archive.org/web/20070520051410/http://www.giftcardswapping.com- /; Sunday, May 20, 2007; p. 1. cited by examiner .
"Gift Card Exchange, Buy Gift Card, Discount Gift Cards, Cash Gift Card Swap"; http://web.archive.org/web/20080724163511/http:giftcardrescue.com/- ; Apr. 12, 2008-Jul. 11, 2011; pp. 1-3. cited by examiner .
"CBLS.www.cbls.com.(World Web Watch)."; Advanced Materials & Processes, v160, n6; Jun. 2002; p. 1. cited by examiner .
"Eugene Science"; Edgar Online; May 23, 2006; pp. 1-5. cited by examiner .
Mathieu, Elizabeth; "Opinion: Delaware: An unparalleled home for your trust"; Private Asset Management, v5, n20; Oct. 5, 1998; pp. 1 and 2. cited by examiner .
US Fed News Service, Including US State News;"Publication No. WO/2009/109949 Published on Sep. 11, Assigned to France Telecom for Electronic Gifting System (American Inventor)"; Sep. 15, 2009; p. 1. cited by examiner

There a whole load more patent documents listed in the patent as prior art.

Anyways, if sued I would probably just request a re-exam by the office, its only a couple of thousand bucks.

As often seems to be the case with these news articles about teenage prodigies, this has been overhyped. It turns out that what he did is not new and is not a complete solution to the problem.
Parker, Am J Phys 45 (1977) 606 has a summary of the preexisting results. The expression immediately after equation 23 is the constant of the motion that Ray rediscovered.

A reddit user has a nice simple derivation: http://redd.it/u74no (Note that there is an error because he claims to have proved it in general, but it's only valid when v (the vertical velocity) is positive.)

For more on the history of the problem:

Synge and Griffith, Principles of Mechanics, p.~154 http://archive.org/details/principlesofmech031468mbp

Whittaker, A treatise on the analytical dynamics of particles and rigid bodies, p.~229 http://archive.org/details/treatisanalytdyn00whitrich

According to Whittaker this was first done by D'Alembert in 1744.

As often seems to be the case with these news articles about teenage prodigies, this has been overhyped. It turns out that what he did is not new and is not a complete solution to the problem.
Parker, Am J Phys 45 (1977) 606 has a summary of the preexisting results. The expression immediately after equation 23 is the constant of the motion that Ray rediscovered.

A reddit user has a nice simple derivation: http://redd.it/u74no (Note that there is an error because he claims to have proved it in general, but it's only valid when v (the vertical velocity) is positive.)

For more on the history of the problem:

Synge and Griffith, Principles of Mechanics, p.~154 http://archive.org/details/principlesofmech031468mbp

Whittaker, A treatise on the analytical dynamics of particles and rigid bodies, p.~229 http://archive.org/details/treatisanalytdyn00whitrich

According to Whittaker this was first done by D'Alembert in 1744.

The first obstacle is, of course, legal. As the knights of U.S. feudalism, corporate lawyers have a penchant for finding ways of stomping out innovation and diversity in any way possible. In the case of videotex, the attempt is to keep feudal control of information by making videotex system ownership imply liability for information transmitted over it. For example, if a libelous communication takes place, corporate lawyers for the plaintiff will bring suit against the carrier rather than the individual responsible for the communication. The rationalizations for this clearly unreasonable and contrived position are quite numerous. Without a common carrier status, the carrier will be treading on virgin ground legally and thus be unprotected by precedent. Indeed, the stakes are high enough that the competitor could easily afford to fabricate an event ideal for the purposes of such a suit. This means the first legal precedent could be in favor of holding the carrier responsible for the communications transmitted over its network, thus forcing (or giving an excuse for) the carrier to inspect, edit and censor all communications except, perhaps, simple person-to-person or "electronic mail". This, in turn, would put editorial control right back in the hands of the feudalists. Potential carriers' own lawyers are already hard at work worrying everyone about such a suit. They would like to win the battle against diversity before it begins. This is unlikely because videotex is still driven by technology and therefore by pioneers.

The question then becomes: How do we best protect against such "legal" tactics? The answer seems to be an early emphasis on secure identification of the source of communications so that there can be no question as to the individual responsible. This would preempt an attempt to hold the carrier liable. Anonymous communications, like Delphi conferencing, could even be supported as long as some individual would be willing to attach his/her name to the communication before distributing it. This would be similar, legally, to a "letters to the editor" column where a writer remains anonymous. Another measure could be to require that only individuals of legal age be allowed to author publishable communications. Yet another measure could be to require anyone who wishes to write and publish information on the network to put in writing, in an agreement separate from the standard customer agreement, that they are liable for any and all communications originating under their name on the network. This would preempt the "stolen password" excuse for holding the carrier liable.

One must bear in mind that this was back when private companies still had a shot at establishing the network effect now realized by the Internet.

For kernels tweaked into "laptop mode" this may be different, but for stock modern Linux the maximum time delay for disk cache writes is 30+5=35 seconds, not hours.

Yes, laptop_mode is exactly the scenario to which I refer when I say "hours". That's of course where the syncs are the most expensive, as well. I ran into this don't fear the fsync discussion on the topic years ago, but it seems that the original site is dead.

From the Wayback Machine:

At a news conference after the board meeting, Schilling said he’s been negotiating exclusively with Rhode Island for the last four months, and denied any intent to play one state off another. “This is a partnership,” he said. Under the terms of the deal, the state will issue $75 million in bonds, which would be purchased by private investors. 38 Studios is responsible for repaying the money, but if it can’t, the state would be responsible.

Regardless of who approached whom, Mr. Shilling was clearly willing to enter into a government-guaranteed loan, and spent several months securing the deal. If I'm mischaracterizing Mr. Shillings' political beliefs, I'm happy to be directed to a more thorough examination of his beliefs.

That said, given Mr. Shilling's political background and positions, I would indeed be surprised to learn he believes that government should take an active role in funding and guaranteeing loans to private enterprise, on principle.

Nearly 9 years ago, ./ reported about IP over bongo drums already, featuring double the data rate.
http://slashdot.org/story/03/09/27/175242/tcpip-over-bongo-drums

As the original page is offlne since years, here's archive.org:
http://web.archive.org/web/20031230015730/http://eagle.auc.ca/~dreid/

Myplay.com back in 1999 was offering a digital music locker online.
http://web.archive.org/web/20000510123618/http://www.myplay.com/

my.mp3.com borrowed large parts of the myplay design but instead of uploading they used their CD verification system which was judged to be illegal, then.... later mr Robertson copied myplay's entire feature set for mp3tunes.

Up until the mid-1990s, it was pretty rare for a movie to hit the magical $100-million mark. Then, Disney animated features started doing that pretty regularly, and after that, most big-budget films started hitting that mark pretty consistently as well.

In 2002, Spider-Man became the first movie to hit $100 million in its opening weekend. Ten years later (almost to the day) The Avengers became the first movie to hit TWO hundred million dollars on its opening weekend, and one short week later, Wikipedia tells me that its box office grosses are THREE QUARTERS OF A BILLION FUCKING DOLLARS.

Tell me, again, how piracy is hurting the industry?

There have been many serious attempts to do engineering projects in metric units

Start with the Eiffel tower and go on from there.
I hate to get personal here, but after reading such silly drivel as the above I really think you've got to get out a bit more and observe what is going on around you before making such a wild and incredibly stupid claim on a site which is actually populated by engineers and scientists.

Um, wow. I see you feel strongly about this. Though the tone of your posting makes me think maybe you are trolling, but I will assume that you have simply misunderstood what I was saying.

The Eiffel tower was built in France, so it is not an example of an engineering project in the United States. Remember, I was talking about why the US engineering and building trades have not switched to metric units.

I do not think I am as uninformed as you claim. I am confortable with both measurement systems and fully appreciate the value of base-ten units. I did not claim that the (international) metric system was intrinsically inferior or that the (enormous) cost of finishing the conversion in the US would not be worth paying. I mearly claimed that it is unlikely to happen (in the engineering and building trades) in the forseeable future.

My statements are based both on 1) press reports such as this one: http://web.archive.org/web/20040824125823/http://kennebecjournal.mainetoday.com/news/local/868607.shtml, 2) at least one account I read by an engineer who had participated in US projects in SI units before his firm went back to "standard" units, 3) my person knowledge of US building material dimensions, and 4) my personal experiments in measuring US building materials in meters.

I doesn't seem that anyone was claiming that MIT were the first, but as long as we're looking at prior art: the first Tetris-on-a-builiding was done by electrical engineering students in Delft, the Netherlands, all the way back in 1995, as you can see on this archived webpage. Futhermore, students at Brown University did it in 2000 (BBC article here). Both prior projects, but not Blinkenlights, are mentioned in an article about the MIT project here. It seems to me that each of these projects has something the others didn't, so no need to be competive about it - it's all in good fun.

"Security-By-Obscurity" - lack of users = lack of attacks. Android proves otherwise though, especially for Linux variants, where it is "king of the smartphone world", OS-wise, & is being attacked rampantly.

* So, IS it possible for Windows users to NOT see infestations?

Sure, with a bit of education & good easy to use tools to help them thru it, such as CIS Tool ( http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9018362/CIS_tool_aims_to_help_federal_agencies_check_Windows_security_settings ) &/or guides like this one I did in 2007 onwards (& I've been doing them since 1997):

http://www.bing.com/search?q=%22HOW+TO+SECURE+Windows+2000%2FXP%22&go=&qs=ns&form=QBLH

("Layered-Security"/"Defense-in-Depth" is 'the way', & the best thing we have going vs. today's "malware-ridden-world" online... & yes, it actually works (alongside showing users who are NOT "technical computer gurus" or "security pros" some basic ideas/concepts to be aware of to help them help themselves via this concept...)

In fact, here's a quoted example of a fellow who applied it to his OWN systems, AND THOSE OF HIS CLIENTS (+ the results for over a year long period on that account):

To "immunize" a Windows system, I effectively use the principles in "layered security" possibles, per the link above!

I.E./E.G.-> I have done so since 1997-1998 with the most viewed, highly rated guide online for Windows security there really is which came from the fact I also created the 1st guide for securing Windows, highly rated @ NEOWIN (as far back as 1998-2001) here:

http://www.neowin.net/news/apk-a-to-z-internet-speedup--security-text

& from as far back as 1997 -> http://web.archive.org/web/20020205091023/www.ntcompatible.com/article1.shtml which Neowin above picked up on & rated very highly.

That has evolved more currently, into the MOST viewed & highly rated one there is for years now since 2008 online in the 1st URL link above...

Which has well over 500,000++ views online (actually MORE, but 1 site with 75,000 views of it went offline/out-of-business) & it's been made either:

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1.) An Essential Guide
2.) 5-5 star rated
3.) A "sticky-pinned" thread
4.) Most viewed in the category it's in (usually security)
5.) Got me PAID by winning a contest @ PCPitStop (quite unexpectedly - I was only posting it for the good of all, & yes, "the Lord works in mysterious ways", it even got me PAID -> http://techtalk.pcpitstop.com/2007/09/04/pc-pitstop-winners/ (see January 2008))

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Across 15-20 or so sites I posted it on back in 2008... & here is the IMPORTANT part, in some sample testimonials to the "layered security" methodology efficacy:

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SOME QUOTED TESTIMONIALS TO THE EFFECTIVENESS OF SAID LAYERED SECURITY GUIDE I AUTHORED:

http://www.xtremepccentral.com/forums/showthread.php?s=672ebdf47af75a0c5b0d9e7278be305f&t=28430&page=2

"I recently, months ago when you finally got this guide done, had authorization to try this on simple work station for kids. My client, who paid me an ungodly amount of money to do this, has been PROBLEM FREE FOR MONTHS! I haven't even had a follow up call which is unusual." - THRONKA, user of my guide @ XTremePcCentral

AND

"APK, thanks

Now you linked to the daily mail, otherwise know as the daily hate. To show the bias read its article on the survey versus this one and you will see the hate filled anger the daily mail is going for.

The headline of the daily mail article is

Almost a quarter of Muslims believe 7/7 was justified

but the question asked in the survey was

To what extent do you agree that the July bombings were justified because of British support for the war on terror?

(To which 11% strongly agreed, 11% tended to agree, with it saying all agree was 22%. I don't know where they got the 24% I think maybe channel 4 shifted the figures slightly for some reason).

Now as you can see the question is not as the title of the article suggests, "Do you believe the July bombings are justified?" but "...were justified because of British support for the war on terror?".

This is really badly worded, I can read it to mean did the bombers justify it because of the British support for the war on terror, in which case I would also agree with this statement. I'm not saying everyone who read the question interpreted it that way but I'm sure some did.

On doing a little reading around this study, I found this blog and specifically this comment, that reflects my views on it, I'll the relevant part below

Posted by: Bernard Bumner Author Profile Page | October 7, 2009 5:53 AM

If, on the other hand, you are using this to support your case:

To what extent do you agree that the July bombings were justified because of British support for the war on terror?

22% All Agree

Then I would have to say that I don't really understand the question - the bombers certainly justified their unjust actions by reference to British support fo the war on terror.

It is an ambiguous question. I suspect that many people were expressing support for the bombers, but I cannot reasonably conclude that it is all of that 22% of respondents, and in the absence of properly published methodology and data, I certainly wouldn't extrapolate this to represent British Muslims as a whole.

Actually, the presentation of that survey data is rather worrying, because it conflates (via proximity) the 7/7 bombings (the qeustion above) with what could easily be benign insight into social discord; 13% of respondents agreeing that,

I can understand why young British Muslims might want to carry out suiceide [sic] operations

At the same time, offering up the absolutely meaningless:

It is acceptable for religious or political groups to use violence

(Which only 9% agree with, and tends to cast further doubt on the idea that 22% agree with the actions of the 7/7 bombers).

It be blunt, it is not well-presented data, and is therefore difficult to draw conclusions from.

On other matters: I'm not sure why anybody on this thread would assume that anti-semite, Holocaust denier, and convicted racist Nick Griffin is not a racist leader of a racist political party.

There used to be a great document at http://www.amanwithapencil.com/adobe.html that detailed the situation in 2007 for the UK. Thankfully, there's archive.org

http://web.archive.org/web/20100702205054/http://www.amanwithapencil.com/adobe.html

Adobe even replied to some inquiries, and you can see some of their excuses in:
http://web.archive.org/web/20100526120202/http://www.amanwithapencil.com/adobe_spin.html

The UK, just as Australia and Europe, were - and still are (at one point it was even cheaper to get the boxed version than to get the download version) - basically being screwed over (and good luck checking that - their various international websites make it a pain in the ass to compare pricing) and the only reason for this is that the market will pay anyway.
Why? Because 1. It's Adobe's products. If you have an interest in them, you're probably in an industry where you have little choice, so you'd probably pay twice the price and limit yourself to some grumbling on twitter, and 2. you probably earn the price of these products back on just a handful of jobs, after which you'd only have to worry about the upgrade pricing.

It's one market I wouldn't mind Apple upsetting, not one bit.

There used to be a great document at http://www.amanwithapencil.com/adobe.html that detailed the situation in 2007 for the UK. Thankfully, there's archive.org

http://web.archive.org/web/20100702205054/http://www.amanwithapencil.com/adobe.html

Adobe even replied to some inquiries, and you can see some of their excuses in:
http://web.archive.org/web/20100526120202/http://www.amanwithapencil.com/adobe_spin.html

The UK, just as Australia and Europe, were - and still are (at one point it was even cheaper to get the boxed version than to get the download version) - basically being screwed over (and good luck checking that - their various international websites make it a pain in the ass to compare pricing) and the only reason for this is that the market will pay anyway.
Why? Because 1. It's Adobe's products. If you have an interest in them, you're probably in an industry where you have little choice, so you'd probably pay twice the price and limit yourself to some grumbling on twitter, and 2. you probably earn the price of these products back on just a handful of jobs, after which you'd only have to worry about the upgrade pricing.

It's one market I wouldn't mind Apple upsetting, not one bit.

"If people had understood how patents would be granted when most of today's ideas were invented, and had taken out patents, the industry would be at a complete standstill today. " --Bill Gates

It's a shame you can't see how ridiculous your statements appear.

I've cited numerous examples to support my stance. You've cited none :)

Here's one. You obviously didn't look very hard.

:) You must've looked really hard to find a document that apparently was published 15 years ago! Have the claims changed in newer documents with newer data perhaps? They seem to quote the 1995 IPCC report correctly. Even so, not even an old document supports your claim:

Page 14: "The small amount of warming that occurred during the past century"

Are you trolling?

You keep claiming that, but it's not true.

It's a shame you can't see how ridiculous your statements appear.

Really? Where do they (and others they pay pocket change) say that? I can't find it in any of their publications.

Here's one. You obviously didn't look very hard.