Are you saying banks should not loan money to people that want to loan money? They simply offered, and I don't think the bank told them they could miss a payment or two.
Wether you lend from a bank or a mobster, you should know that it's a bad idea to lend money if you can't pay it back.
The problem is not the bank providing the loan but the American fondness for paying off a debt with another debt. Maxing out a credit card to make a mortgage payment only delays the problem.
Aside from that, actually making any amount of money is hard under a reasonably-social government.
Anything you earn is taxed first as pay, then as wealthfare and then as sales tax. Oddly enough, as your salary increases, so does your tax percentage and you don't really make any more money. (some people act surprised when I tell them I have a decent-paying IT job, but still don't get much more -per hour- than someone working in a supermarket.)
On the off-chance that you can save enough money to but a house, you'll even have to pay taxes simply for owning the house.
Having become the 'de facto evil overlord of the software world', he is trying to show the world that he really does mean well. Most of the others don't have to buy karma, because they keep out of the news.
Well, cancer needs a better marketing team and a better lawyer. The whole thing is just a side-effect of bit-errors in human DNA. These may have been caused by radiation, inbreeding,
sunbathing, chemical imbalance or a dozen other reasons.
BTW, did you know that 1 in 200 cases of breast cancer occurs inside a MAN?
So you assume this technology has not been developed already? With the current state of facial recognition and on-line banking records, movement of anyone van be traced with relative ease.
The only thing keeping this in check is the fact that they can't legally use this technology unless you're on a terror watch list.
I think it will be enough to just hold onto the footage for about a week, instead of full real-time monitoring. The trick is that the authorities will need to create a claim/complaint system where citizens can request the footage for later use.
Especially footage of any ticket or arrest.
A Friend of mine has been abused by police (hungry police dog) and taken to the station for defending themselves. When they came by the next day to lodge a complaint the record of the incedient was 'lost'.
ehm do you mean the 'fc' (File Compare) command that comes with windows, by any chance?
If you need more, you might want to download a Windows version of 'diff', hte standard UN*X tool for this sort of thing. It's available at: http://unxutils.sourceforge.net/
Just copy diff.exe from the zipfile to c:\windows and you're set to go.
Once, you've enjoyed 'diff', you might want to look into 'find' in the same Zipfile. Example: find c:\ -ctime -2 This will report all files that have been created within the last 2 days
Actually, you can see the current HD Traffic status on their website for free. The reason you need to pay for HD traffic on your tomtom is because it includes a 24x7 GPRS connection. Mobile Data packages in NL tend to cost around â10 a month and so does HD traffic, surprise! The added advantage of HD Traffic is that it uses a modem built into your Tomtom, so you are free to use your mobile phone for other things. (unlike earlier versions of Tomtom Traffic).
At least it's shorter than: wc -l foo/* bar/* |awk '{print $2,$1}' |sort |awk '{print $2,$1}' Although this can be useful for processing things like Postfix logs.
From that I have seen, Linux man pages were mostly a reference guide. If you actually wanted to learn something, you'd go looking for a HOWTO. Unfortunately, I haven't heard from TLDP in years...
Actually, that's the way I used to tell the 60-year-old secretary how to SSH into the (Linux) server to re-set someone's password (she had 'sudo smbpasswd'). This was usually done over the phone from the middle of b*mf*ck Nowhereland (usually on vacation) Keep in mind that the last thing she ever did on a commandline was on Novell 3.x.
Then again, I've had someone run a post-hole digger through the company uplink in the parking lot. http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/afiSSjbIudPphXsY9Y7W7A Straight through the cables, leaving a nice 6" gap. It sure was easy digging through that nice, soft ground there... That was a rather unplanned visit to a Home Depot at 4pm on a friday afternoon...
The fd0 comes from the BIOS and not the O/S If you tell the BIOS there is a fd0, it will simply report its existence to the O/S. The O/S will simply assume there is no disk in there.
I wonder how telnetd can claim port 23 without being setuid root... Otherwise, finding it might take some, ehm, research. *sniff* "You smell that?" *sniff*
*nix: [ALT]-[F2] [x][t][e][r][m][Enter] [/][s][b][i][n][/][i][f][c][o][n][f][i][g][Enter] That's about as simple as I can make it. YMMV, depending on distro used.
Yes, the PS3 decodes BD in software (they used it as an example of parallel processing on the Cell). Unfortunately, the PS3 runs -either- Linux -or- the BD decoding program (inside its own O/S). This makes tracing the BD program from inside Linux impossible.
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Are you saying banks should not loan money to people that want to loan money?
They simply offered, and I don't think the bank told them they could miss a payment or two.
Wether you lend from a bank or a mobster, you should know that it's a bad idea to lend money if you can't pay it back.
The problem is not the bank providing the loan but the American fondness for paying off a debt with another debt.
Maxing out a credit card to make a mortgage payment only delays the problem.
No-one said the aliens were men...
Aside from that, actually making any amount of money is hard under a reasonably-social government.
Anything you earn is taxed first as pay, then as wealthfare and then as sales tax.
Oddly enough, as your salary increases, so does your tax percentage and you don't really make any more money. (some people act surprised when I tell them I have a decent-paying IT job, but still don't get much more -per hour- than someone working in a supermarket.)
On the off-chance that you can save enough money to but a house, you'll even have to pay taxes simply for owning the house.
Having become the 'de facto evil overlord of the software world', he is trying to show the world that he really does mean well.
Most of the others don't have to buy karma, because they keep out of the news.
Well, cancer needs a better marketing team and a better lawyer.
The whole thing is just a side-effect of bit-errors in human DNA.
These may have been caused by radiation, inbreeding,
sunbathing, chemical imbalance or a dozen other reasons.
BTW, did you know that 1 in 200 cases of breast cancer occurs inside a MAN?
So you assume this technology has not been developed already?
With the current state of facial recognition and on-line banking records, movement of anyone van be traced with relative ease.
The only thing keeping this in check is the fact that they can't legally use this technology unless you're on a terror watch list.
I think it will be enough to just hold onto the footage for about a week, instead of full real-time monitoring.
The trick is that the authorities will need to create a claim/complaint system where citizens can request the footage for later use.
Especially footage of any ticket or arrest.
A Friend of mine has been abused by police (hungry police dog) and taken to the station for defending themselves. When they came by the next day to lodge a complaint the record of the incedient was 'lost'.
A more interesting article:
http://klindianministry.blogspot.com/2007/06/how-companies-got-their-name.html
iForOne, that sounds to me like a Mac Wedding Chapel...
ehm do you mean the 'fc' (File Compare) command that comes with windows, by any chance?
If you need more, you might want to download a Windows version of 'diff', hte standard UN*X tool for this sort of thing.
It's available at:
http://unxutils.sourceforge.net/
Just copy diff.exe from the zipfile to c:\windows and you're set to go.
Example: diff c:\oldregistry.reg c:\newregistry.reg
Once, you've enjoyed 'diff', you might want to look into 'find' in the same Zipfile.
Example: find c:\ -ctime -2
This will report all files that have been created within the last 2 days
Enjoy!
The Japanese have an entire game genre dedicated to building social interaction. :-)
The end-goal might not be what you're looking for, though
Try this:
echo hello | passwd --stdin
Free root?
You might want to save passwd before doing this, though ;-)
Actually, you can see the current HD Traffic status on their website for free.
The reason you need to pay for HD traffic on your tomtom is because it includes a 24x7 GPRS connection.
Mobile Data packages in NL tend to cost around â10 a month and so does HD traffic, surprise!
The added advantage of HD Traffic is that it uses a modem built into your Tomtom, so you are free to use your mobile phone for other things.
(unlike earlier versions of Tomtom Traffic).
Oh, and two more tricks for awk:
$NF (number of fields), points to last variable in line
$NR (number of rows, gives current line #)
Try looking up BEGIN and END for more fun stuff with AWK!
At least it's shorter than:
wc -l foo/* bar/* |awk '{print $2,$1}' |sort |awk '{print $2,$1}'
Although this can be useful for processing things like Postfix logs.
From that I have seen, Linux man pages were mostly a reference guide.
If you actually wanted to learn something, you'd go looking for a HOWTO.
Unfortunately, I haven't heard from TLDP in years...
Hint: take a look in /usr/share/doc
Uhm, with GNU find, you can use:
find . -type f -ls
Actually, that's the way I used to tell the 60-year-old secretary how to SSH into the (Linux) server to re-set someone's password (she had 'sudo smbpasswd').
This was usually done over the phone from the middle of b*mf*ck Nowhereland (usually on vacation)
Keep in mind that the last thing she ever did on a commandline was on Novell 3.x.
Then again, I've had someone run a post-hole digger through the company uplink in the parking lot.
http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/afiSSjbIudPphXsY9Y7W7A
Straight through the cables, leaving a nice 6" gap.
It sure was easy digging through that nice, soft ground there...
That was a rather unplanned visit to a Home Depot at 4pm on a friday afternoon...
After discarding HP/UX, all I can think os if Tru64 and SCO.
I haven't seen either of them being used in years, though...
You'll love this one:
find . |grep -e foo -e bar
It will return the combined results of foo and bar!
(I wish I knew about this when I was young, took a lot of joining and sorting earlier)
The fd0 comes from the BIOS and not the O/S
If you tell the BIOS there is a fd0, it will simply report its existence to the O/S.
The O/S will simply assume there is no disk in there.
I know this may not be what you're looking for but I use:
dmesg |grep [shf]d
usually just the 'grep sd', though.
Also useful: /dev/sda' will spin down /dev/sda, savin gpower and noise.
from http://www.nslu2-linux.org/wiki/FAQ/SpinDownUSBHarddisks
'sg_start -S
It even works on (most) USB disks!
I wonder how telnetd can claim port 23 without being setuid root...
Otherwise, finding it might take some, ehm, research.
*sniff* "You smell that?" *sniff*
Windows:
[Windows]=[R]
[c][m][d][Enter]
[i][p][c][o][n][f][i][g][Enter]
*nix:
[ALT]-[F2]
[x][t][e][r][m][Enter]
[/][s][b][i][n][/][i][f][c][o][n][f][i][g][Enter]
That's about as simple as I can make it.
YMMV, depending on distro used.
Yes, the PS3 decodes BD in software (they used it as an example of parallel processing on the Cell).
Unfortunately, the PS3 runs -either- Linux -or- the BD decoding program (inside its own O/S).
This makes tracing the BD program from inside Linux impossible.
Ooh, I didn't think of that!
Only happened to me once, it was a colleague's PC.
No, really!