Considering the two repairs to your laptop have been produced by dropping it, my humble submission would be that a padded bag would have been the best money you could spend.
It's not whether those individuals voted or not.. it's that there's no way to go back and check whether they did or not. There's no way for people doing a recount to go and look for the equivalent of "hanging chads" and such.
The article even addresses that, it's fine if someone doesn't want to vote. It is NOT fine that there is no way to go back and identify the voter's intent.
That's definetly not a shot of a unix desktop, because it fails the unwritten rule where every desktop shot must have an IRC session open somewhere, with the author commenting on what he's doing.;)
Talk about a classic example of looking a gift horse in the mouth.
You're getting this information for FREE. It hurts you not at all to have such a 'stupid' license, because previously, you didn't have the information at all. By every imaginable definition of the concept, you have more available to you now than you did previously.
You have no justification for being so bitter. In this era of jealously defended "intellectual property", ANYONE giving anything away deserves commendation.. not derision.
because that would introduce the worry that small fries wouldn't even bother to go to court if there was any doubt in their mind they could lose, because they couldn't afford it.
The guy with the bigger wallet could just threatan to run the costs up so high that it's not worth the risk.. and basically bring us full circle to where we are now.
In other words the problem is trickier than that.
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Your logic is sound, but having useless source code is going to be better than NO source code.
Worst comes to worst you can take the code and outsorce it to some indian company to do something with it.;)
heh learn something every day, didn't even think of that.
Load up that guy's link again and take off my glasses (granted I have to damn near paste my nose to the screen to read it but that's not the point here) much of my difficulty focusing goes away.
It's still there a bit, but it's much less pronounced.
What I find especially straining is the default colors for ls --color, at least under fairly recent linux distros.
Compressed files get a bold red, directories get a slightly dimmer blue. I use a black background on my xterms, and I've found that when I try to read a directory that has a lot of both I'm constantly having to refocus when I go between blue and red areas.
It's annoying enough that on any new machine the first thing I do is change my alias for ls to no colors.:p
I wonder if this is something that could be considered a genetic defect of some sort, or does everyone react that way to blue/red?
Due to some oddities in the purchasing orders for new hardware this year, it ended up that some of us unix guys were tasked with hauling new windows boxes around the workplace for people. We weren't expected to set them up, just unpack, plug em in, and turn em on. Ignorant of how vulnerable windows boxen are, we did just that, doing the silly clicky crap that any OEM relase makes you do, and walked off.
Within ten minutes, the traffic sniffers the security team has up were getting alarms caused by the machines we had set up and their ports got blackholed in about 15 minutes. One of the machines was already being used as a spam relay, the rest all had whatever viruses are still floating around.
Was quite an eye opener, I'd thought those viruses were over and done with and weren't a cause for concern anymore. Made me wonder how much bandwidth is being wasted that we don't even acknowledge. Spam is easy because it generates email.. but there's this underlying background noise sucking up bandwidth that you don't even see.
Course us "unix guys" had a good laugh over it, patting ourselves on the back in true bigot fashion over how secure unices are. But later that afternoon the nfs server that serves our home directories puked it's guts up so it put us in our place pretty quick.
> hollywood is too liberal/ too gun crazy, when the truth is of course more complex
as a natural born citizen of the US, I think it's pretty safe for me to say that no it's not more complex, and that in fact, hollywood actually IS gun crazy.;)
If you define "liberal" as "lots of boobs and sex", then yes, hollywood is too liberal as well.
Half the fun of these foot icon stories is reading the posts from people who totaly missed it. My favorite is a post further down that read "you all do realize this is a fabrication right?"
Well shit, I never noticed until you said something!
Mods aren't that quick, next time I advise completely draining any subtlety out of your humor by including inane "" tags or an overabundance of smileys. Subtlety is old hat anyways, I think the british invented it and every upstanding US citizen knows they haven't done anything funny since the holy grail.
They're so busy modding comments, you see. They don't have time to detect humor unless you tell them that is indeed what it is.
> It's a little scary, though, that the east Asian countries are developing their own track of OSes > with which we in the west may have to learn to deal.
Man, that's a good thing. It's the competition microsoft always pays lip service to but never really deals with.
I think if a powerful OS started filtering into the states from the east, nothing better could happen to our "western" systems. If the new system truly is an improvement, it will force us to adapt or die.
The lure of a small fully functional PC that's easily totable (granted this one isn't really pocket sized but it's still quite portable) and can plug into a full size keyboard/monitor kiosk type thing is definetly there. For me anyways.
Granted the current world doesn't have the infastructure for this sort of thing but if it took off, I think it would be awesome to have a fully configured machine to my tastes available wherever I went.
Even if it was just a gateway to accessing my real machine at home, it would have value because I would have every bit of software I'd need to get to my stuff.
well I was trying to be silly in my post but yeah it's got a lot of complications to it. You not only have to account for the earth's rotation (don't wanna appear over the middle of the ocean), the earth orbiting the sun, the sun circling the galaxy, and the galaxy moving through the universe.
You'd need a hell of a lot more computing than you could fit into a delorean's dashboard anyways. Assuming the universe has a fixed coordinate system.;)
It's just as possible that time travel discovery would be synonymous with travelling at light speed, which I think einstein's theories account for anyways.
They're all several trillion miles ahead of the solar system's travel through the universe, beacuse while they nailed down the bit about time travel, they completely forgot to include a coordinate system so they'd actually show up on earth.
So rather they ended up in space exactly where the earth was when they pressed "go" on their time machine.
It's complications like that that make me wonder if time travel hasn't already been invented, it's just the poor guy sent himself into a deadly vacuum.
I did a map like that a ways back, but populated it with those rocket launching cyberdemons instead. I had to have been around 14 at the time so to my still developing sense of balance obviously the best bet was to put a LOT of them in there.
The halls surrounding the square were too small for the demons to fit into, so the map ended up being a test of cat and mouse trying to pick them off from the shadows.
Probably be a pretty stupid map these days (well it was probably stupid back then too) but I still have sharp memories of those thumping footsteps chasing me down and can't remember having more fun in an FPS.
Some of the cheats that were out too that caused monsters to spawn unlimited were a great trip too, mowing down entire armies with the gatling gun.
> wish that I had enough commitment to make something even a tenth as big as some of those:
Not a commitment issue so much as a money one.:p
LEGO bricks are not cheap, doing things like this (and not recycling the peices into other projects) has to be one of the more expensive hobbies you could pick.
A 2 second google search reported a price of $40 for a box of 500 bricks, and it was one of those random color/piece collection. $40 times the 100+ floors the WTC had?
> When in fact the graphics card is usefull only about as long as the processor, so they might as > well be built in.
Fortuneatley, you're wrong. I suppose the statement is true if one only feels complete when they're living on the cutting edge, but of late, graphics hardware has been aging MUCH faster than the main processors.
I've got a 1ghz or so machine at home and since I've bought it it's seen three new video cards, and is still holding up well. I have concerns I'll be able to tackle behemoths like HL2 or Doom2, but for the time being I can still play modern titles well. I was surprised to find how well Halo and the Deus Ex2 demo run on my supposedly "obsolete" hardware.
If I was bound to still using an early geforce2 yes I'd be having some issues. But as I was able to upgrade the video card seperatley I got a lot more mileage out of the base system.
> or at least computers that are open to the public without a login.
Not likely. As soon as said machine accepts user input (via the thumb drive or whatever the future equivalent will be) it will be in risk of being compromised.
Obviously it won't mean much for the machine itself since it's source media is read only, but if it's internet connected at all, said hacker has an instant platform for all manners of villanry.
A cool idea yes, but not without some hurdles to get past.;)
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heh, metallica currently has the top honor for "litigious bastards".
I'm not sure who deserves it more.. maybe we can let SCO have "stunted crackheads"? A quick check says that's free.
> Best money I ever spent.
Considering the two repairs to your laptop have been produced by dropping it, my humble submission would be that a padded bag would have been the best money you could spend.
You're missing the point.
It's not whether those individuals voted or not.. it's that there's no way to go back and check whether they did or not. There's no way for people doing a recount to go and look for the equivalent of "hanging chads" and such.
The article even addresses that, it's fine if someone doesn't want to vote. It is NOT fine that there is no way to go back and identify the voter's intent.
> should I, Joe Schmoe SysAdmin be afraid of the script kiddies yet?
As soon as an exploit is publicised, yes you should.
Since it's a local exploit it's not as bad as it could be, but I guarantee you if a rootkit didn't already exist, once is being worked on now.
If you trust all your open services to not execute foreign code you can probably doze a bit, but that's walking on a razor's edge.
That's definetly not a shot of a unix desktop, because it fails the unwritten rule where every desktop shot must have an IRC session open somewhere, with the author commenting on what he's doing. ;)
Talk about a classic example of looking a gift horse in the mouth.
You're getting this information for FREE. It hurts you not at all to have such a 'stupid' license, because previously, you didn't have the information at all. By every imaginable definition of the concept, you have more available to you now than you did previously.
You have no justification for being so bitter. In this era of jealously defended "intellectual property", ANYONE giving anything away deserves commendation.. not derision.
I think you set the two images too far apart, I have trouble "locking" the two images into the third ghost image in the middle.
Bring 'em closer an inch or so and it's much easier.
because that would introduce the worry that small fries wouldn't even bother to go to court if there was any doubt in their mind they could lose, because they couldn't afford it.
The guy with the bigger wallet could just threatan to run the costs up so high that it's not worth the risk.. and basically bring us full circle to where we are now.
In other words the problem is trickier than that.
Your logic is sound, but having useless source code is going to be better than NO source code.
;)
Worst comes to worst you can take the code and outsorce it to some indian company to do something with it.
heh learn something every day, didn't even think of that.
Load up that guy's link again and take off my glasses (granted I have to damn near paste my nose to the screen to read it but that's not the point here) much of my difficulty focusing goes away.
It's still there a bit, but it's much less pronounced.
Hah, posting that link was cruel.
I still feel crosseyed.
What I find especially straining is the default colors for ls --color, at least under fairly recent linux distros.
:p
Compressed files get a bold red, directories get a slightly dimmer blue. I use a black background on my xterms, and I've found that when I try to read a directory that has a lot of both I'm constantly having to refocus when I go between blue and red areas.
It's annoying enough that on any new machine the first thing I do is change my alias for ls to no colors.
I wonder if this is something that could be considered a genetic defect of some sort, or does everyone react that way to blue/red?
Try first ten minutes.
Due to some oddities in the purchasing orders for new hardware this year, it ended up that some of us unix guys were tasked with hauling new windows boxes around the workplace for people. We weren't expected to set them up, just unpack, plug em in, and turn em on. Ignorant of how vulnerable windows boxen are, we did just that, doing the silly clicky crap that any OEM relase makes you do, and walked off.
Within ten minutes, the traffic sniffers the security team has up were getting alarms caused by the machines we had set up and their ports got blackholed in about 15 minutes. One of the machines was already being used as a spam relay, the rest all had whatever viruses are still floating around.
Was quite an eye opener, I'd thought those viruses were over and done with and weren't a cause for concern anymore. Made me wonder how much bandwidth is being wasted that we don't even acknowledge. Spam is easy because it generates email.. but there's this underlying background noise sucking up bandwidth that you don't even see.
Course us "unix guys" had a good laugh over it, patting ourselves on the back in true bigot fashion over how secure unices are. But later that afternoon the nfs server that serves our home directories puked it's guts up so it put us in our place pretty quick.
> hollywood is too liberal/ too gun crazy, when the truth is of course more complex
;)
as a natural born citizen of the US, I think it's pretty safe for me to say that no it's not more complex, and that in fact, hollywood actually IS gun crazy.
If you define "liberal" as "lots of boobs and sex", then yes, hollywood is too liberal as well.
dude, don't spoil it. :)
Half the fun of these foot icon stories is reading the posts from people who totaly missed it. My favorite is a post further down that read "you all do realize this is a fabrication right?"
Well shit, I never noticed until you said something!
Mods aren't that quick, next time I advise completely draining any subtlety out of your humor by including inane "" tags or an overabundance of smileys. Subtlety is old hat anyways, I think the british invented it and every upstanding US citizen knows they haven't done anything funny since the holy grail.
They're so busy modding comments, you see. They don't have time to detect humor unless you tell them that is indeed what it is.
> It's a little scary, though, that the east Asian countries are developing their own track of OSes
> with which we in the west may have to learn to deal.
Man, that's a good thing. It's the competition microsoft always pays lip service to but never really deals with.
I think if a powerful OS started filtering into the states from the east, nothing better could happen to our "western" systems. If the new system truly is an improvement, it will force us to adapt or die.
I quite disagree.
The lure of a small fully functional PC that's easily totable (granted this one isn't really pocket sized but it's still quite portable) and can plug into a full size keyboard/monitor kiosk type thing is definetly there. For me anyways.
Granted the current world doesn't have the infastructure for this sort of thing but if it took off, I think it would be awesome to have a fully configured machine to my tastes available wherever I went.
Even if it was just a gateway to accessing my real machine at home, it would have value because I would have every bit of software I'd need to get to my stuff.
well I was trying to be silly in my post but yeah it's got a lot of complications to it. You not only have to account for the earth's rotation (don't wanna appear over the middle of the ocean), the earth orbiting the sun, the sun circling the galaxy, and the galaxy moving through the universe.
;)
You'd need a hell of a lot more computing than you could fit into a delorean's dashboard anyways. Assuming the universe has a fixed coordinate system.
It's just as possible that time travel discovery would be synonymous with travelling at light speed, which I think einstein's theories account for anyways.
They're all several trillion miles ahead of the solar system's travel through the universe, beacuse while they nailed down the bit about time travel, they completely forgot to include a coordinate system so they'd actually show up on earth.
So rather they ended up in space exactly where the earth was when they pressed "go" on their time machine.
It's complications like that that make me wonder if time travel hasn't already been invented, it's just the poor guy sent himself into a deadly vacuum.
there's one nerd metric that has yet to break into the mainstream (to most, trinity using ssh exploits was just 2 seconds of gobbledygook): unix.
As long as windows is the number one OS, unix will remain firmly under control of the REAL nerds.
I did a map like that a ways back, but populated it with those rocket launching cyberdemons instead. I had to have been around 14 at the time so to my still developing sense of balance obviously the best bet was to put a LOT of them in there.
The halls surrounding the square were too small for the demons to fit into, so the map ended up being a test of cat and mouse trying to pick them off from the shadows.
Probably be a pretty stupid map these days (well it was probably stupid back then too) but I still have sharp memories of those thumping footsteps chasing me down and can't remember having more fun in an FPS.
Some of the cheats that were out too that caused monsters to spawn unlimited were a great trip too, mowing down entire armies with the gatling gun.
> wish that I had enough commitment to make something even a tenth as big as some of those :
:p
Not a commitment issue so much as a money one.
LEGO bricks are not cheap, doing things like this (and not recycling the peices into other projects) has to be one of the more expensive hobbies you could pick.
A 2 second google search reported a price of $40 for a box of 500 bricks, and it was one of those random color/piece collection. $40 times the 100+ floors the WTC had?
That's a lot of disposable income.
> When in fact the graphics card is usefull only about as long as the processor, so they might as
> well be built in.
Fortuneatley, you're wrong. I suppose the statement is true if one only feels complete when they're living on the cutting edge, but of late, graphics hardware has been aging MUCH faster than the main processors.
I've got a 1ghz or so machine at home and since I've bought it it's seen three new video cards, and is still holding up well. I have concerns I'll be able to tackle behemoths like HL2 or Doom2, but for the time being I can still play modern titles well. I was surprised to find how well Halo and the Deus Ex2 demo run on my supposedly "obsolete" hardware.
If I was bound to still using an early geforce2 yes I'd be having some issues. But as I was able to upgrade the video card seperatley I got a lot more mileage out of the base system.
> or at least computers that are open to the public without a login.
;)
Not likely. As soon as said machine accepts user input (via the thumb drive or whatever the future equivalent will be) it will be in risk of being compromised.
Obviously it won't mean much for the machine itself since it's source media is read only, but if it's internet connected at all, said hacker has an instant platform for all manners of villanry.
A cool idea yes, but not without some hurdles to get past.