Then it would zero itself out too? Or if it didn't then it might be a little obvious which files are virus related since they will be the only ones left.
It's "Magneto". The name comes from his power to manipulate magnetic fields, which makes him quite powerful as you can imagine (for example, he can throw cars and other heavy metal objects around with ease.)
I don't know what US station you were listening to, but I live in MA in the US and the radio stations here that I have heard play that song (I believe it's called "Stan") leave that verse in. Granted they still cut out all the cursing and whatnot but you can at least still get the meaning of the song.
For the record I usually hear the song on WFNX. You can listen over the web if you want...
Methinks they are not actually reading the discussion to get context for the moderation. If you don't like how it's going go to slashdot.org/metamod.pl and do it yourself...
Well, I don't know. The paperclip is just an animated version of a early 1900's era technology (the bent metal paperclip.) Arguably it is just a digitized version of an old non-microsoft technology. Also his general lack of helpfulness had already been invented by tech support lines many years before he came out.
And as for bob, he was similarly just a digitized smiley face logo who also implemented the standard tech support unhelpful/stupid type behaviors. I think both of these are just further examples of Microsoft embracing and extending other people's ideas.
I would like to see a list of 10 computer products not based off of already existing work, PERIOD. I can think of one or two that came out of Xerox PARC (GUI, laser printer which is arguably based on already-existing printers). And also whoever invented the spreadsheet, etc. But coming up with 10 totally original products is rather challenging even when one removes the microsoft condition.
yes, John Stuart Mill (no s on his name but not a biggie this time heh) was one of the leading proponents of utilitarian philosophy. He felt that what was moral was that which would create the greatest happiness for the greatest number. If you want to go off on a long off topic thread I could tell you all about how many problems there are with utilitarianism but suffice to say it is a rather poor philosophy to live by:)
I don't actually know if his views were at all influenced by Paine though. My knowledge of Paine is admittedly very thin and I always tend to think of him a just a patriot and not much of a philosopher.
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I agree with you that it would be foolish to call oneself a programmer without knowing some of the more basic things, and your anology about seeing a car which you have not encountered before is quite good. To that end I am planning on learning some assembly next year and also some scheme to buff up my algo skills.
I still think though that when new people are learning it would be much better to start them off with more OO stuff and less low level coding. OO forces them to think about exactly what problem they are trying to solve before they can even apply a design pattern or anything, and a good conception of the problem is perhaps one of the most important prerequisites for writing a good program. Also, with OO and a relatively easy language like java new people are less likely to get bogged down in memory registers and pointers and will spend more time actually learning to write good software. Once they have some kind of grounding harder and more low-level concepts can be introduced.
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This to some degree depends on your definition of a "good" program. I learned on java and I don't know anything about memory registers etc. (and even my concept of pointers is weak since java doesn't have them, but I digress.) Anyway, I would argue that in today's world a good knowledge of OOP, especially design patterns and inheritance, will allow one to write much "better" programs much more quickly than someone who knows memory inside and out but doesn't know OOP and thus ends up duplicating code all over the place. By better I mean more extensible and less buggy, if not always faster. And I can in fact do complexity analysis on algorithms believe it or not, so don't assume just cause people know objects that they have missed all the basics:) Frankly though, I would much rather know objects than complexity analysis or memory because they are a lot more useful...
If you can really distribute a pad or whatever anonymously to start with then I don't see the point of using this system. If you are really anonymous you can't be tracked anyway so why make it harder for everyone to read the information?
Drvspace.exe would not come up unless you only had windows installed for a month. Read my post again I suggested limiting the search to recent times only so that the windows installed files would not come up.
As for being a "defensive MS supporter" I don't feel as though that really describes me. I am not a linux/BSD zealot which maybe means you mistook me for an MS booster. I just wonder why you feel the need to put "espcially on windows" on your apparently mis-informed post claiming it was not possible to search for something random...if that makes me a defensive MS supporter then so be it I guess I am guilty as charged.
According to the articles I read, the file almost always resides in the Windows directory and is approximately 370k in size. Finding this file using windows find is a trivial exercise. Just search for *.exe and limit the search to only files of 350k or more and that were created in the past, say, month. There are barely any.exe's which are installed in the windows directory which meet all of those criteria so if anything pops up you will know to be suspicious. ROTFL indeed...make sure you know what you are talking about...
Most of this is right on. The real reason the political system is so polluted by money is because we as citizens have allowed it to become that way. Politicians need the money to run ads. The ads are needed to convince voters to vote for the politician in question, obviously. The reason the ads are so effective is because no one can be bothered to keep up with the issues facing the country on their own, so they watch everyone's ads and decided who to vote for (if they vote at all) based on that. If people actually cared enough to be inform themselves and not rely on politicians spening corporate money to do so, there would be much less need for campaign finance reform etc. because campaign ads would be much less effective. This would rob the corporations and other "special interests" of most of their political clout. They are not the ones acutally voting and electing these politicians, YOU ARE. They have the influence they have because citizens neglected to use it back when they still had it. I fully believe that we generally deserve the government we get because it ultimately comes down to public participation in government (or lack thereof).
From a purely technical point of view, it does not make sense to have the OS do anything but enable communication between the apps and the hardware. This will, in the end, allow a more flexible and powerful system than an OS which tightly integrates lots of features. Similar to any other program with a fundamentally good design, a good OS will allow the user to swap in and out components at will to give them the most effecient, streamlined, and powerful OS possible.
Maybe you should get yourself an ID and log in and then you too can have moderator points and save us all from this horrbile blight of bad moderation which is apparently afflicting the site. It's not so hard to do. But I hesitate to listen to the complaints about moderation of anyone who does not participate in it themselves...
Let me preface this by saying I am not a lawyer, though I am thinking of studying to become one...
May I point out section 12 of the WIPO Copyright treaty:
Article 12 Obligations concerning Rights Management Information
Contracting Parties shall provide adequate and effective legal remedies against any person knowingly performing any of the following acts knowing, or with respect to civil remedies having reasonable grounds to know, that it will induce, enable, facilitate or conceal an infringement of any right covered by this Treaty or the Berne Convention:
to remove or alter any electronic rights management information without authority;
to distribute, import for distribution, broadcast or communicate to the public, without authority, works or copies of works knowing that electronic rights management information has been removed or altered without authority.
As used in this Article, "rights management information" means information which identifies the work, the author of the work, the owner of any right in the work, or information about the terms and conditions of use of the work, and any numbers or codes that represent such information, when any of these items of information is attached to a copy of a work or appears in connection with the communication of a work to the public.
This section prohibits removing or otherwise tampering with any rights management information, which includes "information about the terms and conditions of use of the work, and any numbers or codes that represent such information..."
While it is questionable whether this section expressly requires signatories to implement DMCA like access controls, it is easy to see how it could be interpreted as such. The MPAA would probably argue that CSS falls under part 2 of the section I posted. The part about "numbers or codes" would appear to give them a sort of loophole. US law may be a bit stricter than required, but not much.
The ambiguity affects not only the U.S. DMCA, but many other countries as well. Most people, even those who should know better, appear to not understand the fact that the DMCA exists only because of the WIPO Copyright treaty. The DMCA merely implements that treaty in US law. Here is the list of countries which had signed the treaty as of the end of may:
Argentina, Austria, Belarus, Belgium, Bolivia, Burkina Faso, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Croatia, Denmark, Ecuador, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Ghana, Greece, Hungary, Indonesia, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Kyrgyzstan, Luxembourg, Mexico, Monaco, Mongolia, Namibia, Netherlands, Nigeria, Panama, Portugal, Republic of Moldova, Romania, Senegal, Slovakia, Slovenia, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Togo, United Kingdom, United States of America, Uruguay, Venezuela, European Communities (51).
All of these countries either have or will have DMCA like laws with the same problems as ours. This is an even bigger mess than most people realize. Go to the WIPO site to read the treaty and lots of other info about it. Be warned a lot of the stuff is only availible in MS Word format though...
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Of course, piracy is not the only claim the DeCSS opponents are making. They also claim DeCSS was created illegally. This is, to my knowledge, bull, as it was created outside the jurisdiction of DMCA...
DMCA is not the issue here, the WIPO is. The DMCA was passed to implement the WIPO Copyright treaty which was signed by the united states way back in 1996. The DMCA just implements the treaty's provisions in the United States. 51 countries have signed the treaty as of the end of May. Here they are (since on the WIPO site the list is only availible as a word document, and I wouldn't want to put you folks through that):
Argentina, Austria, Belarus, Belgium, Bolivia, Burkina Faso, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Croatia, Denmark, Ecuador, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Ghana, Greece, Hungary, Indonesia, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Kyrgyzstan, Luxembourg, Mexico, Monaco, Mongolia, Namibia, Netherlands, Nigeria, Panama, Portugal, Republic of Moldova, Romania, Senegal, Slovakia, Slovenia, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Togo, United Kingdom, United States of America, Uruguay, Venezuela, European Communities (51).
Yes, you will notice norway is not yet on this list, meaning DeCSS was probably created legally. However, all of those other countries mentioned either already have or will soon have DMCA like laws. Don't think just because you don't live in the U.S. you are safe from this sort of thing. It's coming to a country near you...
If you had read the article a bit closer, it takes this into account. The authors suggest that the work could be held in some sort of escrow by a trusted third party to avoid creators ripping off their fans. Even if there is no third party involved, any creator who reneges on their agreement will have killed their own career, as no one will donate money to them the next time they want to release something.
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Then it would zero itself out too? Or if it didn't then it might be a little obvious which files are virus related since they will be the only ones left.
It's "Magneto". The name comes from his power to manipulate magnetic fields, which makes him quite powerful as you can imagine (for example, he can throw cars and other heavy metal objects around with ease.)
Of course I may be giving him too much credit...
For the record I usually hear the song on WFNX. You can listen over the web if you want...
Methinks they are not actually reading the discussion to get context for the moderation. If you don't like how it's going go to slashdot.org/metamod.pl and do it yourself...
Well, I don't know. The paperclip is just an animated version of a early 1900's era technology (the bent metal paperclip.) Arguably it is just a digitized version of an old non-microsoft technology. Also his general lack of helpfulness had already been invented by tech support lines many years before he came out.
And as for bob, he was similarly just a digitized smiley face logo who also implemented the standard tech support unhelpful/stupid type behaviors. I think both of these are just further examples of Microsoft embracing and extending other people's ideas.
-/sarcasm-
I would like to see a list of 10 computer products not based off of already existing work, PERIOD. I can think of one or two that came out of Xerox PARC (GUI, laser printer which is arguably based on already-existing printers). And also whoever invented the spreadsheet, etc. But coming up with 10 totally original products is rather challenging even when one removes the microsoft condition.
Or, the more obvious idea, the submitter missed it the first time around...
I don't actually know if his views were at all influenced by Paine though. My knowledge of Paine is admittedly very thin and I always tend to think of him a just a patriot and not much of a philosopher.
I still think though that when new people are learning it would be much better to start them off with more OO stuff and less low level coding. OO forces them to think about exactly what problem they are trying to solve before they can even apply a design pattern or anything, and a good conception of the problem is perhaps one of the most important prerequisites for writing a good program. Also, with OO and a relatively easy language like java new people are less likely to get bogged down in memory registers and pointers and will spend more time actually learning to write good software. Once they have some kind of grounding harder and more low-level concepts can be introduced.
This to some degree depends on your definition of a "good" program. I learned on java and I don't know anything about memory registers etc. (and even my concept of pointers is weak since java doesn't have them, but I digress.) Anyway, I would argue that in today's world a good knowledge of OOP, especially design patterns and inheritance, will allow one to write much "better" programs much more quickly than someone who knows memory inside and out but doesn't know OOP and thus ends up duplicating code all over the place. By better I mean more extensible and less buggy, if not always faster. And I can in fact do complexity analysis on algorithms believe it or not, so don't assume just cause people know objects that they have missed all the basics :) Frankly though, I would much rather know objects than complexity analysis or memory because they are a lot more useful...
Have you by any chance spent any time in the "heart of the microsoft campus" or are you just parroting what everyone else tells you?
If you can really distribute a pad or whatever anonymously to start with then I don't see the point of using this system. If you are really anonymous you can't be tracked anyway so why make it harder for everyone to read the information?
That ruled. I would mod you up but I have no points at the moment...
And HERE is an HTML version if .pdf's annoy you :)
As for being a "defensive MS supporter" I don't feel as though that really describes me. I am not a linux/BSD zealot which maybe means you mistook me for an MS booster. I just wonder why you feel the need to put "espcially on windows" on your apparently mis-informed post claiming it was not possible to search for something random...if that makes me a defensive MS supporter then so be it I guess I am guilty as charged.
According to the articles I read, the file almost always resides in the Windows directory and is approximately 370k in size. Finding this file using windows find is a trivial exercise. Just search for *.exe and limit the search to only files of 350k or more and that were created in the past, say, month. There are barely any .exe's which are installed in the windows directory which meet all of those criteria so if anything pops up you will know to be suspicious. ROTFL indeed...make sure you know what you are talking about...
Most of this is right on. The real reason the political system is so polluted by money is because we as citizens have allowed it to become that way. Politicians need the money to run ads. The ads are needed to convince voters to vote for the politician in question, obviously. The reason the ads are so effective is because no one can be bothered to keep up with the issues facing the country on their own, so they watch everyone's ads and decided who to vote for (if they vote at all) based on that. If people actually cared enough to be inform themselves and not rely on politicians spening corporate money to do so, there would be much less need for campaign finance reform etc. because campaign ads would be much less effective. This would rob the corporations and other "special interests" of most of their political clout. They are not the ones acutally voting and electing these politicians, YOU ARE. They have the influence they have because citizens neglected to use it back when they still had it. I fully believe that we generally deserve the government we get because it ultimately comes down to public participation in government (or lack thereof).
From a purely technical point of view, it does not make sense to have the OS do anything but enable communication between the apps and the hardware. This will, in the end, allow a more flexible and powerful system than an OS which tightly integrates lots of features. Similar to any other program with a fundamentally good design, a good OS will allow the user to swap in and out components at will to give them the most effecient, streamlined, and powerful OS possible.
Maybe you should get yourself an ID and log in and then you too can have moderator points and save us all from this horrbile blight of bad moderation which is apparently afflicting the site. It's not so hard to do. But I hesitate to listen to the complaints about moderation of anyone who does not participate in it themselves...
They're coded in silicon, unless the makers of the machine have allied themselves with Dow Corning or something... :)
May I point out section 12 of the WIPO Copyright treaty:
Article 12 Obligations concerning Rights Management Information
This section prohibits removing or otherwise tampering with any rights management information, which includes "information about the terms and conditions of use of the work, and any numbers or codes that represent such information..."
While it is questionable whether this section expressly requires signatories to implement DMCA like access controls, it is easy to see how it could be interpreted as such. The MPAA would probably argue that CSS falls under part 2 of the section I posted. The part about "numbers or codes" would appear to give them a sort of loophole. US law may be a bit stricter than required, but not much.
Argentina, Austria, Belarus, Belgium, Bolivia, Burkina Faso, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Croatia, Denmark, Ecuador, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Ghana, Greece, Hungary, Indonesia, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Kyrgyzstan, Luxembourg, Mexico, Monaco, Mongolia, Namibia, Netherlands, Nigeria, Panama, Portugal, Republic of Moldova, Romania, Senegal, Slovakia, Slovenia, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Togo, United Kingdom, United States of America, Uruguay, Venezuela, European Communities (51).
All of these countries either have or will have DMCA like laws with the same problems as ours. This is an even bigger mess than most people realize. Go to the WIPO site to read the treaty and lots of other info about it. Be warned a lot of the stuff is only availible in MS Word format though...
DMCA is not the issue here, the WIPO is. The DMCA was passed to implement the WIPO Copyright treaty which was signed by the united states way back in 1996. The DMCA just implements the treaty's provisions in the United States. 51 countries have signed the treaty as of the end of May. Here they are (since on the WIPO site the list is only availible as a word document, and I wouldn't want to put you folks through that):
Argentina, Austria, Belarus, Belgium, Bolivia, Burkina Faso, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Croatia, Denmark, Ecuador, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Ghana, Greece, Hungary, Indonesia, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Kyrgyzstan, Luxembourg, Mexico, Monaco, Mongolia, Namibia, Netherlands, Nigeria, Panama, Portugal, Republic of Moldova, Romania, Senegal, Slovakia, Slovenia, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Togo, United Kingdom, United States of America, Uruguay, Venezuela, European Communities (51).
Yes, you will notice norway is not yet on this list, meaning DeCSS was probably created legally. However, all of those other countries mentioned either already have or will soon have DMCA like laws. Don't think just because you don't live in the U.S. you are safe from this sort of thing. It's coming to a country near you...
If you had read the article a bit closer, it takes this into account. The authors suggest that the work could be held in some sort of escrow by a trusted third party to avoid creators ripping off their fans. Even if there is no third party involved, any creator who reneges on their agreement will have killed their own career, as no one will donate money to them the next time they want to release something.