"Reminds me of the wackos who say cell phones should be allowed in cinemas "in case of terrorist attack"."
They've got a point though - cell phones are an excellent way of setting bombs off remotely, how else are you going to mount a terrorist attack if they're banned in cine.....oh.....hang on... Ah, I get your point now...
Well the big problem there is that they would have to sue the Knights Templar themselves, who discovered America well before Columbus whilst on the run from the Vatican. They enlisted the support of the Scottish clan Gunn, and there is a grave in Newfoundland dating to the late 1300's. He's an ancestor of mine. So that means the Templars sue the Vatican, the Native Americans sue the Templars, and everybody sues me. This could be fun....
The RIAA paid them? No chance, this is an argument FOR P2P. Whilst I'm firmly in the "downloading copyright material illegally IS theft" camp, my flatmate's band release a lot of stuff under a CC licence meaning it can be freely distributed under those terms. We're looking at P2P as am additional way to do this....and the more legitimate uses P2P has the more difficult it will be to simply block it on the grounds of piracy. It's a great bit of technology that needs as much legal, mainstream use as possible to take it out of the hands of the troublemakers and protect it for legit usage.
I think that in legal terms it's the fact that the software is pre-installed. If they just sold the hardware and it happened to be OSX compatible then there's absolutely nothing Apple could do (presuming they've not infringed any patents in the process). They're effectively reselling the OS and using it to advertise another product (the hardware). To stick with the car analogy, it'd be like selling a tiny little car with a Bugatti Veyron engine and advertising it on that basis. Bugatti would (probably quite rightly) complain that the cooling systems etc simply weren't designed to work with a small car, and the engine would probably break down, damaging their reputation in the process.
One of the Nepalese dialects has a different word for each number up to one hundred....from their point of view, and using this logic, the English speaking world is very backward indeed, we only have words for numbers up to twelve, and then we start repeating ourselves. (Linguistically fifteen=five-and-ten etc. I'm not getting into an argument about 11 and 12;))
Yup, exactly. The one to watch out for, however, is the increasing aggression of a Nazi run Germany leading to the annexation of Poland, which could very conceivably start WWIII.
Oh....hang on a second....;)
In all seriousness, and as a cynical way to get more funding, someone should point out that whilst it may not be possible to avoid a collision, you could very well change the point of impact given some warning. Imagine if Bush had the option - strike off the east coast of the US, or delay it for a few hours and hit Iran/China etc? Military application=big funding.
If I had mod points you'd get an insightful for that.
Here in the UK I got a final demand, big red letters and everything, for about £12 from N-Power, a electricity supplier. Strangely, I didn't have an account with them. Reading the small print (very carefully) revealed that it was in fact a "final chance" to pay a £12 fee and have your power supply *switched* to N-Power. It's a despicable way to operate, and seemingly becoming more common.
Yes, but you'll also have a smart-arse lawyer who's trying to undermine your credibility by using highly technical concepts. You'll certainly have to know your stuff.
The next step in the UK system would probably be a Masters (one/two year postgrad course) in forensics/computer forensics.
In that vein, what about computer forensics? It takes a good in-depth knowledge of hardware/software to preserve data sufficiently to be used in court, and it's something a bit 'different', which is always good in a job.
I run a section at a large-ish bookshop, my bit is the physical sciences. And astrology when my colleagues get confused;)
Feynman is, pound for pound ($for$) the biggest seller in the whole section. That includes urban studies. And, to be serious, Fossey, Hawking, Lovelock and Sagan. My bit doesn't include the popular science stuff (the line we draw is equations - more than two and it's my section, less and it's the equally popular Popular Science section)
The public will be drawn in by popular science books, hell, I love reading them myself, and there will always (I hope and ironically pray) be guys at the top of the field who can write non-popular but entertaining books for those who either have a bit of background in "science" in general, or want a bit more depth to their pop-sci introduction.
Science writing is alive and well. It's never going to compete with "everything else", the fiction section at work takes up a third of the shop, and rightly so. We're talking a niche product, but as a niche the quality and passion behind it is very very high. And I'm referring to both the writers and the customers.
You honour: I murdered 14 children, 8 pregnant women, six kittens and a partridge residing in some kind of fruit bearing tree. I admit it, I did it. I enjoyed it. However, you may not have me executed because it would infringe my right you continue speaking freely.
Dear America, when you make up your collective minds on the above, please get back to the rest of us. Bring cake.
This isn't free speech - it's a simple case of contempt of court. A court told him to do something. He refused. He's in contempt. Good grief Slashdot, where do I send my geek license, it's starting to embarrass me...
Hmm...I'm not an audio geek, but my flatmates make a living from music with a lot of talent and little technical knowledge. And I help them on the techie side. Suffice to say, Denon have made their brand very clear, and very un-buyable to me, and hence to a group of musicians.
Yup - how about the fact that a certain famous search engine have had their lawyers write to a good number of publishers (newspapers and magazines mainly) to stop their trademark word "Google" being used as a verb.....
*sigh*
That's the entire point. A Hoover is not any old device for sucking dust up, it's a trademark of Hoover PLC (or whoever), hence the capitalisation. Just because it's fallen into common usage doesn't allow the Acme Vacuum Cleaner Corp to sell a "Hoover" model.
The real issue here is that companies are paying to show up on competitors trademarks. As far as I'm aware, Google can show whatever results are deemed relevant - in this case, lasminute.com's gripe should really be with the rival companies who have paid to be linked with "lastminute.com" as a keyword.
Yeah, it was the same with the BBC iPlayer "hack". It went all public and they wrote around it. Sadly, we don't have a new version which allows high speed downloads to non-Windows machines.
The thing is, most people don't learn code that way. You learn to do each specific job, in this case connect to a DB and execute a MySQL command. If input sanatisation was covered here it would
a) confuse the student and
b) might be taken as "so I just need to do that here, right?
Far better to treat it as its own lesson, and cover the multiple ways this kind of attack can be used to give a better overview, rather than one limited (if obvious) case.
I'm sorry, I have trouble whenever whenever an astronomer suggests that something they found "may be much more common than we thought." One observation does not mean way more common. It jumps the gap from "purely theoretical" to "proven possible", and in the data set of the known universe really isn't enough to make any type of assertion about commonality.
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"Reminds me of the wackos who say cell phones should be allowed in cinemas "in case of terrorist attack"."
They've got a point though - cell phones are an excellent way of setting bombs off remotely, how else are you going to mount a terrorist attack if they're banned in cine.....oh.....hang on... Ah, I get your point now...
Well the big problem there is that they would have to sue the Knights Templar themselves, who discovered America well before Columbus whilst on the run from the Vatican. They enlisted the support of the Scottish clan Gunn, and there is a grave in Newfoundland dating to the late 1300's. He's an ancestor of mine. So that means the Templars sue the Vatican, the Native Americans sue the Templars, and everybody sues me. This could be fun....
The RIAA paid them? No chance, this is an argument FOR P2P. Whilst I'm firmly in the "downloading copyright material illegally IS theft" camp, my flatmate's band release a lot of stuff under a CC licence meaning it can be freely distributed under those terms. We're looking at P2P as am additional way to do this....and the more legitimate uses P2P has the more difficult it will be to simply block it on the grounds of piracy. It's a great bit of technology that needs as much legal, mainstream use as possible to take it out of the hands of the troublemakers and protect it for legit usage.
I think that in legal terms it's the fact that the software is pre-installed. If they just sold the hardware and it happened to be OSX compatible then there's absolutely nothing Apple could do (presuming they've not infringed any patents in the process). They're effectively reselling the OS and using it to advertise another product (the hardware). To stick with the car analogy, it'd be like selling a tiny little car with a Bugatti Veyron engine and advertising it on that basis. Bugatti would (probably quite rightly) complain that the cooling systems etc simply weren't designed to work with a small car, and the engine would probably break down, damaging their reputation in the process.
One of the Nepalese dialects has a different word for each number up to one hundred....from their point of view, and using this logic, the English speaking world is very backward indeed, we only have words for numbers up to twelve, and then we start repeating ourselves. (Linguistically fifteen=five-and-ten etc. I'm not getting into an argument about 11 and 12 ;))
So they're one ahead of your average /. reader, who can only count to two. One. Two. One and two. Two two's. Two two's and one....
I'm sure you see where I'm going with this. For further reading see Terry Pratchett's "Men At Arms".
Yup, in the UK backing up your own media for your own use (and *specifically* for backup) has been legal since then 5 1/4 inch floppy BBC Micro days.
Yup, exactly. The one to watch out for, however, is the increasing aggression of a Nazi run Germany leading to the annexation of Poland, which could very conceivably start WWIII.
;)
Oh....hang on a second....
In all seriousness, and as a cynical way to get more funding, someone should point out that whilst it may not be possible to avoid a collision, you could very well change the point of impact given some warning. Imagine if Bush had the option - strike off the east coast of the US, or delay it for a few hours and hit Iran/China etc? Military application=big funding.
LGM1, LGM3 and LGM5 in fact. Why no 2 or 4? Well, they were all very odd signals...
If I had mod points you'd get an insightful for that.
Here in the UK I got a final demand, big red letters and everything, for about £12 from N-Power, a electricity supplier. Strangely, I didn't have an account with them. Reading the small print (very carefully) revealed that it was in fact a "final chance" to pay a £12 fee and have your power supply *switched* to N-Power. It's a despicable way to operate, and seemingly becoming more common.
Yes, but you'll also have a smart-arse lawyer who's trying to undermine your credibility by using highly technical concepts. You'll certainly have to know your stuff.
The next step in the UK system would probably be a Masters (one/two year postgrad course) in forensics/computer forensics.
In that vein, what about computer forensics? It takes a good in-depth knowledge of hardware/software to preserve data sufficiently to be used in court, and it's something a bit 'different', which is always good in a job.
It's called IE.
I run a section at a large-ish bookshop, my bit is the physical sciences. And astrology when my colleagues get confused ;)
;)
Feynman is, pound for pound ($for$) the biggest seller in the whole section. That includes urban studies. And, to be serious, Fossey, Hawking, Lovelock and Sagan. My bit doesn't include the popular science stuff (the line we draw is equations - more than two and it's my section, less and it's the equally popular Popular Science section)
The public will be drawn in by popular science books, hell, I love reading them myself, and there will always (I hope and ironically pray) be guys at the top of the field who can write non-popular but entertaining books for those who either have a bit of background in "science" in general, or want a bit more depth to their pop-sci introduction. Science writing is alive and well. It's never going to compete with "everything else", the fiction section at work takes up a third of the shop, and rightly so. We're talking a niche product, but as a niche the quality and passion behind it is very very high. And I'm referring to both the writers and the customers.
And the booksellers....obviously
You honour: I murdered 14 children, 8 pregnant women, six kittens and a partridge residing in some kind of fruit bearing tree. I admit it, I did it. I enjoyed it. However, you may not have me executed because it would infringe my right you continue speaking freely.
Dear America, when you make up your collective minds on the above, please get back to the rest of us. Bring cake.
This isn't free speech - it's a simple case of contempt of court. A court told him to do something. He refused. He's in contempt. Good grief Slashdot, where do I send my geek license, it's starting to embarrass me...
Hmm...I'm not an audio geek, but my flatmates make a living from music with a lot of talent and little technical knowledge. And I help them on the techie side. Suffice to say, Denon have made their brand very clear, and very un-buyable to me, and hence to a group of musicians.
Yup - how about the fact that a certain famous search engine have had their lawyers write to a good number of publishers (newspapers and magazines mainly) to stop their trademark word "Google" being used as a verb.....
*sigh*
That's the entire point. A Hoover is not any old device for sucking dust up, it's a trademark of Hoover PLC (or whoever), hence the capitalisation. Just because it's fallen into common usage doesn't allow the Acme Vacuum Cleaner Corp to sell a "Hoover" model.
The real issue here is that companies are paying to show up on competitors trademarks. As far as I'm aware, Google can show whatever results are deemed relevant - in this case, lasminute.com's gripe should really be with the rival companies who have paid to be linked with "lastminute.com" as a keyword.
My donkey dick failed and my chicken loop came off. Nearly killed me. (Seriously...they're kitesurfing terms, look it up.)
Yeah, it was the same with the BBC iPlayer "hack". It went all public and they wrote around it. Sadly, we don't have a new version which allows high speed downloads to non-Windows machines.
The thing is, most people don't learn code that way. You learn to do each specific job, in this case connect to a DB and execute a MySQL command. If input sanatisation was covered here it would
a) confuse the student and
b) might be taken as "so I just need to do that here, right?
Far better to treat it as its own lesson, and cover the multiple ways this kind of attack can be used to give a better overview, rather than one limited (if obvious) case.
Slashdotted already.
In Soviet Russia Slashdot slashdots Slashdot.
I for one welcome our inkjet overlords.
In Soviet Russia printer prints printer!
Sheesh, this story has been up for minutes now, keep up, I don't want to have to do everything around here...