I believe that last one says, something about crying out for "Help" "Help", or calling out for "Security!" -- What language is this -- seems vaguely familiar... almost like when Dance Dance Revolution moves scroll up the screen, and I think: Holly Hell -- These Brainfuck coders have some messed up concepts of fun!
What you describe hasn't been my experience. I see TWO orders of magnitude more bugs reported by Microsoft's QA than by external parties (in the field of compiler development). I guess end-users just aren't interested in _____
Halt Give me the source code. Then, and only then, can you make such a comparison... I do care, but I just thought it was a bug somewhere else in my project that I hadn't ironed out... With open source compilers (such as LLVM and GCC/G++), I can check the source and SEE if my hunch is correct or not -- it is rarely, but sometimes is a compiler bug -- Screw your half-assed attempt at comparing black-box to white-box bug analysis.
Additionally, Quit you tard! GTFO our compiler! YOU are the F*Ing problem If this is what you really think!
What if, instead of Microsoft sponsoring bounties for bugs in Microsoft code, we all just started a pool ourselves to fund a bounty for Microsoft coders?
It doesn't cost that much, surely someone must know a guy who knows a guy?
Clearly, since we can't fix the bugs ourselves, the most efficient solution is to make sure no more bugs can be introduced... Let's end the problem at it's source!
Is it just me, or did somebody dump a box of fortune cookies in the QOTD?
Somebody should dump more often
Verbal Laxative... Go! (For posteriority's sake)
Try the Moo Shu Pork. It is especially good today.
Try to get all of your posthumous medals in advance.
Try to have as good a life as you can under the circumstances.
Try to relax and enjoy the crisis. -- Ashleigh Brilliant
Try to value useful qualities in one who loves you.
Tuesday After Lunch is the cosmic time of the week.
Tuesday is the Wednesday of the rest of your life.
What happened last night can happen again.
While you recently had your problems on the run, they've regrouped and are making another attack.
Write yourself a threatening letter and pen a defiant reply.
You are a bundle of energy, always on the go.
You are a fluke of the universe; you have no right to be here.
You are a very redundant person, that's what kind of person you are.
You are always busy.
You are as I am with You.
You are capable of planning your future.
You are confused; but this is your normal state.
You are deeply attached to your friends and acquaintances.
You are destined to become the commandant of the fighting men of the department of transportation.
You are dishonest, but never to the point of hurting a friend.
You are fairminded, just and loving.
You are farsighted, a good planner, an ardent lover, and a faithful friend.
You are fighting for survival in your own sweet and gentle way.
You are going to have a new love affair.
You are magnetic in your bearing.
You are not dead yet. But watch for further reports.
You are number 6! Who is number one?
You are only young once, but you can stay immature indefinitely.
You are scrupulously honest, frank, and straightforward. Therefore you have few friends.
You are sick, twisted and perverted. I like that in a person.
You are so boring that when I see you my feet go to sleep.
You are standing on my toes.
You are taking yourself far too seriously.
You are the only person to ever get this message.
You are wise, witty, and wonderful, but you spend too much time reading this sort of trash.
You attempt things that you do not even plan because of your extreme stupidity.
You can create your own opportunities this week. Blackmail a senior executive.
You can do very well in speculation where land or anything to do with dirt is concerned.
You can rent this space for only $5 a week.
You could live a better life, if you had a better mind and a better body.
You definitely intend to start living sometime soon.
You dialed 5483.
You display the wonderful traits of charm and courtesy.
You don't become a failure until you're satisfied with being one.
You enjoy the company of other people.
You feel a whole lot more like you do now than you did when you used to.
You fill a much-needed gap.
You get along very well with everyone except animals and people.
You had some happiness once, but your parents moved away, and you had to leave it behind.
You have a deep appreciation of the arts and music.
You have a deep interest in all that is artistic.
You have a reputation for being thoroughly reliable and trustworthy. A pity that it's totally undeserved.
You have a strong appeal for members of the opposite sex.
You have a strong appeal for members of your own sex.
You have a strong desire for a home and your family interests come first.
You have a truly strong individuality.
You have a will that can be influenced by all with whom you come in contact.
You have an ability to sense and know higher truth.
You have an ambitious nature and may make a name for yourself.
You have an unusual equipment for success. Be sure to use it properly.
You have an unusual magnetic personality. D
Dell made the computers that people downloaded Limewire from CNET.
Cisco routed the packets.
Kingston made the RAM.
Seagate made the hard drives that stored it.
Sue the Musicians that made the music that allowed itself to be infringed!
Ah, reductio ad absurdum, proving one again that no one is not to blame.
Limewire has non-infringing uses, therefore, CNET shouldn't be liable for distributing it.
MOD PARENT UP.
When the Movie Industry sued Sony, Sony was allowed to continue producing BetaMax cassettes and recorders because of the mere POSSIBILITY that they could be used for non infringing purposes!
Let's face it -- BetaMax was designed to allow recording of live TV and dual cassette dubbing models were designed to copy movies, but they also had the possibility of being used for non-infringing purposes.
The same logic (and case-law) should be applied to PirateBay, BitTorrent, Limewire, and (ironically) Sony PS3 DRM firmware hacks.
Please, USPS, I have begged and pleaded with you to stop delivering SPAM -- I have signed up for online bill pay for all of my services, and turned my mailbox into a Planter!
I pay for a P.O. box that I give out to friends and relatives, but I could just as easily pay another more expensive and less SPAM friendly mail service for the odd letter I need delivered (I'd wager that it would be cheaper than the P.O. box).
I don't need double mail, and I don't use USPS for parcels -- I don't want or need mail at home, stop adverts in my variegated ivy! It's not a mailbox anymore!
Save the gasoline, and skip my driveway! Perhaps If I could opt-out somehow, it would save some USPS money? If not, GO DIE, I don't need you anymore, and I'll be happy when the junk mail stops showing up on my doorstep (and littering my yard thanks to the wind). Alternatively, please stop littering or hire delivery personnel that can read -- There is a sign on the waste bin near the entry way: "Place mail here", (Why will you not?) -- I would get fined If I did to someone else's yard what you do to mine...
Please Google, et al. for the sake of the environment and my sanity, let the dead-tree SPAM system get blocked by the very effective filter mechanism of supply and demand.
It's a great analogy because ISPs can be people too...
So again: Huh? Why is a rental car agency liable for an accident caused by one of its renters? Obviously if the rental car agency was negligent in the maintenance of one of its vehicles and that negligence led to the accident, they might be liable — but not simply if their customer did something reckless over which they had no control (which would be analogous to an ISP subscriber committing a copyright infringement that the ISP didn't know about).
Wheels screeching to a FULL STOP!
I have 8 computers, house parties, my GF and I work opposite (day/night) shifts, and we have friends over constantly... Additionally, since I need a BIG FAT Pipe, but only occasionally, Each of my two neighbors pitch in with me to buy Internet access -- I give them the WIFI key & screaming fast Wireless N access for cheaper than they can get it from AT&T or Comcast. I have no idea who else they let use our Internet connection!
Reductio ad absurdum... GO!
If MY friends or neighbors did something reckless over which I had no control (which would be analogous to an ISP subscriber committing a copyright infringement that the ISP didn't know about).
DONE IP addresses do not represent people, they represent a fucking Internet Connection, YOU DOLT!
$your_argument =~ s/ISP/ISP Subscriber/; goto TOP://LOGIC FAILURE. Oh, that's right, you're not a coder, you're a Mathematician that has no concept of interpolation (let me introduce you to Grey. It's both black & white).
Routers exist.
Foolish fool, now you see the folly of your folly!
Even 1 could be enough for ruling to stop competitive company products being sold.
If companies would be smart and really being sure that other company is abusing their patent, then they would show just the ones what are needed.
Now they throw almost everything what they get even close to that case and judges and assistant specialists are bored to death. Companies believe that the amount of abusive [accusations] means the judge (or jury) sees how bad the accused is and it can not be a false.
What competing smart-phone does Oracle sell? Does Google sell Android? nope... How would Oracle make sure that Google is "abusing" their Java patents? Are not both Java and Davlik both free as in beer? Patents stifle innovation, and harm business, even open source software can't escape the gaping maw of the patent trolls... It's as plain as day to anyone who can whip out "hello world". IMO, the judge shouldn't stop there, continue reducing the triable software patents until the most reasonable number of applicable software patents is reached...
Honestly, I write software, and I do have competitors, but I welcome their competition -- I would never dream of suing them with every patent I have... although, it would be sort of interesting in court:
"You see! They're infringing EVERY PATENT I HAVE!" "Just how many is that?"
"Well... Zero, but by my calculations that means the monetary damages should be INFINITE!"
It is possible to not patent anything, and still sell software and services. My customers fund the development of new features, instead of me constantly re-licensing old code -- I get paid to do work, not produce encryption keys -- It costs less to produce and purchase the software and, IMO, it's much more fair.
I need less middle men, therefore I can take a larger percentage of the profit even if the total is less & I like it this way.
That's too bad, because ID really just wants you to mod it, and sell your mod as the next CoD... Kind of like the current generations of CoD, and many games (including BRINK) already do.
So this "game" is really more of a tech demo + limited GDK (game dev kit) to get people interested in licensing the engine for their own, much more innovative & fun games? Face it, ID's new bread & butter isn't making games, it's licensing the engine -- Hence all the "MegaTexture" and other such technical hype -- It's a flipping abstraction layer for texture coordinates & attributes -- Hell, even my Tetris clone has one of those, and is more extensible (bump-maps, electro-magnetic maps, particle emitting maps, temperature maps, combustibility maps, various sound maps (crush, overheat, chill, collide), etc) The number of METAtextures properties are not written in stone (like IDs are), their complexity is limited only by the speed of the CPU / GPU & amount of available memory / storage -- in fact, I call them Extensible-MetaTextures, and they can be described in XML...heh) -- However, only ID has the "MegaTexture" trade mark...
To me, RAGE is targeted at studios, not players.
Since Romero left, ID has just been pumping out engines to license with less and less content each iteration, but at least some decent competitive multi-player support -- now RAGE doesn't even have that... (Ergo, You can license ID Tech 5, and you won't be faced with users comparing the new features of your multi-player online franchise (CoD) as rehashes of RAGE. (Unlike how Heretic was a fun rehash of Doom, CoD6 won't be perceived as a re-hash of RAGE.)
P.S. I call them ID not "id" because that's how they introduced themselves to me in Commander Keen (Apogee scrolls up screen, then an uppercase "ID software" attribution appears)... First impressions stick even when they're no-longer relevant -- Sort of similar to how ID is still considered to be innovative because they have been very much so in the past... Even if they built a platformer again I wouldn't be interested, the guys that made Keen fun have long since left the building.
You can make a Linux executable quite easily using a similar trick to the Windows executable version. Just cat a shell script that tries to run itself as a JAR file with an actual JAR file.
Sorry -- the shell script needs permissions to run. No Execute Bit Set.
Additionally, All of my applications -- Especially Java (iced tea), runs as a user of the same name & group. So, EG: my Java App called JOGL-BlockDrop is run as jogl-bd and only has access to jogl-bd or jogl-bd-perm grouped files, and that group is not allowed to make UDP or TCP connections (I give per application / group access to my network via iptables).
Note: The BlockDrop.jar file can't automatically add files to the jogl-bd-perm under my setup, so even if the shell script could execute, it wouldn't have the same permissions that I've granted the original program.
I tried doing a similar setup on windows, but it was a mess, and I never got it working right -- Esp. For Java!
As expected: window's firewall treats all Java apps as the same app by default; Allow one Java.jar Internet access and they all have it. One Java app I saw used a proprietary installer to allow the firewall integration on windows to work, but I've not seen many java programs distributed using such features. To say nothing of a cross-platform solution; Which, I suppose you can provide yourself with Java's security / permission framework -- But I don't trust it, I use the OS security framework -- a bug in the Java stack could bypass the Java permission framework's restrictions.
Expecting an untrusted app to behave itself is like trusting rats to guard your cheese reserves... Fortunately with Linux & other Unix ( or other Posix complying OSs) per app security / permissions is easy to accomplish.
They build my bridges, fix my roads, fund companies who provide power and water, make sure that water is clean and drinkable, police the streets, protect the people. Government does some good things. It's mostly local and state government, but it's still government.
I'm not sure about you, but where I live (Houston), my LOCAL Government does all those good things -- the FEDERAL Government is off making secret copyright laws behind my back (ACTA), wasting shit-tons of money enforcing Civil copyright complains without due process (ICE takedowns) and in TFA's case, overstepping their legal authority with the assumption that they can (because they will soon pass a law giving them those rights if they face resistance) -- good call Moz Devs, now, if only our congress & senate would read and uphold the constitution too -- esp. the whole "congress shall make no law" part, and other such amendments.
The first amendment doesn't give you the right to violate all laws.
Likewise: Copyright has no right to violate my first amendment rights. Have you read the Constitution? search for the phrase "congress shall make no law", then read up and get back to me...
Additionally: Three words, PEER TO PEER. This is really how the entire Internet works: at the packet level, we're all peers & there is no "client" or "server" (that's application level thinking); Ergo, taking down servers can also mean taking down clients, and until it does, and you have a workable solution to the Streisand Effect, bans will do nothing but piss people off and cause more of whatever behavior triggered the ban in the first place. (We're all servers).
In short: damage from censorship will always be routed around until instant-bans of all information holding parties is possible and in practice. However, once that happens, there are much bigger problems to deal with, eg: FIRST AMENDMENT RIGHTS.
I can encode any information as a rather large decimal (base 10) number, numbers can't be patented or copyrighted. In fact, I've even written a program that encodes and decodes in such a way (arbitrary bit-length & radix integer math) -- It's terribly inefficient in decimal mode; in Hexadecimal (base 16) it's blazingly fast, but it doubles the output size... You can avoid the size bloat by encoding & decoding your NUMBERS in base 2 --- Oh, wait binary numbers are what's claimed as infringing copyright. (How is this not a 1st amendment issue?)
The great thing about math is that adding some large number, then subtracting it later yields the exact same origin number, and numbers can be represented in any base but still remain equivalent. XOR, multiplication, division & subtraction are all also reverse-able. My big-math package doesn't blink twice when you tell it to add the fractional component of PI to say, a Be-Dulls.MP3 file, minding the input's significant digits when limiting output... Subtraction of the same yields the original information...
Should I be prohibited from distributing PI's remainder + some arbitrary value? Isn't that a substantial transformation, and doesn't the resulting output rely much more heavily on my addition and transformation than the original? If I'm prohibited from distributing such a number in totality, can I be prevented from distributing individual bits or digits one at a time a few times per day via twitter? Surely a small fraction of decimal digits transformed to be unusable for the original data's purpose is not a copyright infringement, it's fair use, and would be a violation of my 1st amendment right to restrict me in such a way -- All digits can be represented as some be-dulls.mp3 byte + or - some other digit...
Surely breaking the info up and transmitting it + (PI-3) renders it a separate work, no-longer coverable by copyright... You can't copyright a single word, ergo a single bit is even less subject to copyright (if not, I claim Zero! -- no monopoly here!).
How large of a piece of data is a copyrightable? 4 bits? Surely not, 1024 bytes? 1500 bytes? Surely not, in terms of a song this is just a fraction of a second of music, clearly a fair-use.
So, If I'm allowed to distribute 1500 bytes at a time, and transformed by an arbitrary integer math operation, what's to say I can't also claim fair use on each 1500 byte SSL XORed Internet packet?
AT WHAT POINT DOES MY FREEDOM OF SPEECH END? To say that copyrights do not limit freedom of speech is moronic at best -- That's exactly what copyrights do; Perhaps they were never intended to do so -- In that case, let's reform or obliterate the offensive laws. Pehaps you don't see what's going on in the summary? The government is trying to get people to restrict the freedom of speech rights of others voluntarily, because they have no legal authority to do so
Why did you leave a position as a "star programmer" to move into network administration? Why restart at the bottom of the ladder?
I assumed that by "Star Programmer" they meant that they were programmers at Star Programming.
As for reasons to switch jobs -- The appearance of their home-page should tell you enough about Star Programmers to remove any doubt why one would want to jump ship even if it means starting over in a dubious network admin's position that requires frequently rebuilding the entire network -- note: unlimited budget == embezzlement opportunity (not for you, for the accountant that's adding 20 bucks to each PO line item you submit).
On a more serious note: I'm sick and tired of these hypothetical "ask-slashdot" articles -- People do have Real World, answerable questions -- let's get to those, not this BS "If I had unlimited resources and a lab to build any kind of network and didn't know shit, where should I start/b/?^H^H^H^H Slashdot?"
Either you have an excellent memory or you're reusing the same password on multiple sites. If you're a mere mortal, like me, and you don't want to reuse a few passwords over and over again, you need a password manager.
Or, If you're a code like me, you wrote a javascript:sha1( salt + get_master_pw() + host );bookmarklet which enables you to use the same password everywhere, but generate a site specific hash that you enter into the PW field.
Note: I would use someone else's PW hasher plugin, but I can re-code my own system from scratch in any URL bar, text editor, command shell or programming language to re-gain access to my codes in a worst case scenario...
Last time I checked, having 8 multi-purpose cores did not a super computer make.
Last time I checked, structuring your sentence in an old-timey way does not a better point make.
Damn, nice burn man, my point is totally irrelevant now thanks to your pointing out of the sentence structure which could be improved. I suppose using not one but two ellipses completely obliterated any worth my statements might have held...
Seriously, "the world's most affordable supercomputer" what drivel is this?
Last time I checked, having 8 multi-purpose cores did not a super computer make.
I'll grant that the PS3 is an affordable supercomputer component, but it's no more "super" than my rack of 8 core servers -- In fact, in terms of flops it's no where close to my server rack's combined processing power...
Considering that the PS3 is only a possible component in a super computer, and the fact that there are many cheaper components with which to build a super (cluster) computer I call bullshit on both "world's most affordable" and "supercomputer" claims -- That is, unless the PS3 now comes with dual identities, one of which is a crime fighting vigilante by night...
If the router is missing, how will you know whether it is actually turned on or if it's still off? Or are they implying that the antanae will be raised? (giggity)
<BradCoop> hm. I've lost my router.. literally _lost_. it responds to ping, it works completely, I just can't figure out where in my incriminating evidence stash it is.
Next thing you know they'll be questioning if everything was well at home, and the frequency that he put on his robe and wizard hat...
Cary police investigators have theorized that Brad Cooper, an engineer in Voice over Internet Protocol, had the expertise and ability to use the router to stage a remote call from his home phone to his cellphone
That's an awfully complex way of doing it. You could accomplish the same thing with a simple modem. I'm disinclined to believe the prosecutions simply because any phone engineer would not need a router.
This is precicely why I hope I'm never a murder suspect... I've fixed each of my friends and family's computers more than once, several times they've seen me quickly "hack" past their forgotten Windows, Linux, and router passwords (LMHash overwrite / Orphcrack, root diagnostic mode + passwd, or known default passwords / weak WEP respectively, nothing fancy). I actually stopped fixing a few peoples systems after they hinted that I may have been to blame for their machines exhibiting "suspicious" behavior months after I re-installed their OS due to malware infections (It's just more malware, idiots).
Sadly, I know my less tech savvy friends and family regard computer literate folks as magical neck-bearded tech-wizards (well, at the very least they see me that way, and have no problem believing any BS TV / Movie "hacking" demonstrations).
Prosecutors would have a field day, "This Hacker had the expertise and ability to break any security measures the victim may have had on their computers, networks and smart-phones. He could have easily installed a Trojan Horse Virus into the victim's computer and cell phones that made it seem like they were still alive and Tweeting the mundane details of their bowel movements, when in fact he had already destroyed their minds Lawn-Mower-Man style, and was in the process of disposing of their bodies in cyberspace."
"Mr. Cortex, Is it not true that you in fact own a T-Shirt printed with the phrase: I am The One? -- Clearly this is an admission of guilt, a cry for help. You are the one responsible, may god have mercy on your soul..."
No, no, it is indeed a cloud: Thin, wispy and ephemeral.
Not to mention The Cloud is dangerous!
One time, "The Cloud" corrupted a few files on my server, toasted my dev machine's hard drive (couldn't even re-install!) made several monitors explode, and split the tree outside my home-office completely in two; Flying chunks of bark shattered my windows... to say nothing of the horror that became of the decorative landscape lighting that foolishly linked the outside to my main electrical system, may it rest in pieces.
The ironic thing is that I had a lightning rod installed; I thought I was safe from The Cloud, but The Cloud decided that my, now deceased, 200ft pine tree was a better target of opportunity.
The Cloud is a scary concept -- Super charged flying electrical batteries, always looming overhead, unpredictably destroying their targets with tremendous power, and surgical precision. Hell, the terror of witnessing such an event has permanently emotionally scarred my dog -- She has a prescription for Valium now because she hyperventilates and continuously shakes for hours at the mere sound of distant thunder...
My psyche is not unscathed either: I have to take a tranquilizer whenever I hear the words: "To The Cloud"
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I believe that last one says, something about crying out for "Help" "Help", or calling out for "Security!" -- What language is this -- seems vaguely familiar... almost like when Dance Dance Revolution moves scroll up the screen, and I think: Holly Hell -- These Brainfuck coders have some messed up concepts of fun!
What you describe hasn't been my experience. I see TWO orders of magnitude more bugs reported by Microsoft's QA than by external parties (in the field of compiler development). I guess end-users just aren't interested in _____
Halt Give me the source code. Then, and only then, can you make such a comparison... I do care, but I just thought it was a bug somewhere else in my project that I hadn't ironed out... With open source compilers (such as LLVM and GCC/G++), I can check the source and SEE if my hunch is correct or not -- it is rarely, but sometimes is a compiler bug -- Screw your half-assed attempt at comparing black-box to white-box bug analysis.
Additionally, Quit you tard! GTFO our compiler! YOU are the F*Ing problem If this is what you really think!
The Six Dumbest Ideas in Computer Security
No no... It's not a dumb Idea, well, not initially anyway, but you got it wrong, it's: Penetrate the patch.
The problems arise if you keep at it for long enough...
What if, instead of Microsoft sponsoring bounties for bugs in Microsoft code, we all just started a pool ourselves to fund a bounty for Microsoft coders?
It doesn't cost that much, surely someone must know a guy who knows a guy?
Clearly, since we can't fix the bugs ourselves, the most efficient solution is to make sure no more bugs can be introduced... Let's end the problem at it's source!
Is it just me, or did somebody dump a box of fortune cookies in the QOTD?
Somebody should dump more often
Verbal Laxative... Go!
(For posteriority's sake)
Try the Moo Shu Pork. It is especially good today.
Try to get all of your posthumous medals in advance.
Try to have as good a life as you can under the circumstances.
Try to relax and enjoy the crisis. -- Ashleigh Brilliant
Try to value useful qualities in one who loves you.
Tuesday After Lunch is the cosmic time of the week.
Tuesday is the Wednesday of the rest of your life.
What happened last night can happen again.
While you recently had your problems on the run, they've regrouped and are making another attack.
Write yourself a threatening letter and pen a defiant reply.
You are a bundle of energy, always on the go.
You are a fluke of the universe; you have no right to be here.
You are a very redundant person, that's what kind of person you are.
You are always busy.
You are as I am with You.
You are capable of planning your future.
You are confused; but this is your normal state.
You are deeply attached to your friends and acquaintances.
You are destined to become the commandant of the fighting men of the department of transportation.
You are dishonest, but never to the point of hurting a friend.
You are fairminded, just and loving.
You are farsighted, a good planner, an ardent lover, and a faithful friend.
You are fighting for survival in your own sweet and gentle way.
You are going to have a new love affair.
You are magnetic in your bearing.
You are not dead yet. But watch for further reports.
You are number 6! Who is number one?
You are only young once, but you can stay immature indefinitely.
You are scrupulously honest, frank, and straightforward. Therefore you have few friends.
You are sick, twisted and perverted. I like that in a person.
You are so boring that when I see you my feet go to sleep.
You are standing on my toes.
You are taking yourself far too seriously.
You are the only person to ever get this message.
You are wise, witty, and wonderful, but you spend too much time reading this sort of trash.
You attempt things that you do not even plan because of your extreme stupidity.
You can create your own opportunities this week. Blackmail a senior executive.
You can do very well in speculation where land or anything to do with dirt is concerned.
You can rent this space for only $5 a week.
You could live a better life, if you had a better mind and a better body.
You definitely intend to start living sometime soon.
You dialed 5483.
You display the wonderful traits of charm and courtesy.
You don't become a failure until you're satisfied with being one.
You enjoy the company of other people.
You feel a whole lot more like you do now than you did when you used to.
You fill a much-needed gap.
You get along very well with everyone except animals and people.
You had some happiness once, but your parents moved away, and you had to leave it behind.
You have a deep appreciation of the arts and music.
You have a deep interest in all that is artistic.
You have a reputation for being thoroughly reliable and trustworthy. A pity that it's totally undeserved.
You have a strong appeal for members of the opposite sex.
You have a strong appeal for members of your own sex.
You have a strong desire for a home and your family interests come first.
You have a truly strong individuality.
You have a will that can be influenced by all with whom you come in contact.
You have an ability to sense and know higher truth.
You have an ambitious nature and may make a name for yourself.
You have an unusual equipment for success. Be sure to use it properly.
You have an unusual magnetic personality. D
Dell made the computers that people downloaded Limewire from CNET. Cisco routed the packets. Kingston made the RAM. Seagate made the hard drives that stored it.
Sue the Musicians that made the music that allowed itself to be infringed!
Ah, reductio ad absurdum, proving one again that no one is not to blame.
Limewire has non-infringing uses, therefore, CNET shouldn't be liable for distributing it.
MOD PARENT UP.
When the Movie Industry sued Sony, Sony was allowed to continue producing BetaMax cassettes and recorders because of the mere POSSIBILITY that they could be used for non infringing purposes!
Let's face it -- BetaMax was designed to allow recording of live TV and dual cassette dubbing models were designed to copy movies, but they also had the possibility of being used for non-infringing purposes.
The same logic (and case-law) should be applied to PirateBay, BitTorrent, Limewire, and (ironically) Sony PS3 DRM firmware hacks.
Please, USPS, I have begged and pleaded with you to stop delivering SPAM -- I have signed up for online bill pay for all of my services, and turned my mailbox into a Planter!
I pay for a P.O. box that I give out to friends and relatives, but I could just as easily pay another more expensive and less SPAM friendly mail service for the odd letter I need delivered (I'd wager that it would be cheaper than the P.O. box).
I don't need double mail, and I don't use USPS for parcels -- I don't want or need mail at home, stop adverts in my variegated ivy! It's not a mailbox anymore!
Save the gasoline, and skip my driveway! Perhaps If I could opt-out somehow, it would save some USPS money? If not, GO DIE, I don't need you anymore, and I'll be happy when the junk mail stops showing up on my doorstep (and littering my yard thanks to the wind). Alternatively, please stop littering or hire delivery personnel that can read -- There is a sign on the waste bin near the entry way: "Place mail here", (Why will you not?) -- I would get fined If I did to someone else's yard what you do to mine...
Please Google, et al. for the sake of the environment and my sanity, let the dead-tree SPAM system get blocked by the very effective filter mechanism of supply and demand.
So again: Huh? Why is a rental car agency liable for an accident caused by one of its renters? Obviously if the rental car agency was negligent in the maintenance of one of its vehicles and that negligence led to the accident, they might be liable — but not simply if their customer did something reckless over which they had no control (which would be analogous to an ISP subscriber committing a copyright infringement that the ISP didn't know about).
Wheels screeching to a FULL STOP!
I have 8 computers, house parties, my GF and I work opposite (day/night) shifts, and we have friends over constantly... Additionally, since I need a BIG FAT Pipe, but only occasionally, Each of my two neighbors pitch in with me to buy Internet access -- I give them the WIFI key & screaming fast Wireless N access for cheaper than they can get it from AT&T or Comcast. I have no idea who else they let use our Internet connection!
Reductio ad absurdum... GO!
If MY friends or neighbors did something reckless over which I had no control (which would be analogous to an ISP subscriber committing a copyright infringement that the ISP didn't know about).
DONE //LOGIC FAILURE.
IP addresses do not represent people, they represent a fucking Internet Connection, YOU DOLT!
$your_argument =~ s/ISP/ISP Subscriber/; goto TOP:
Oh, that's right, you're not a coder, you're a Mathematician that has no concept of interpolation (let me introduce you to Grey. It's both black & white).
Routers exist.
Foolish fool, now you see the folly of your folly!
Even 1 could be enough for ruling to stop competitive company products being sold.
If companies would be smart and really being sure that other company is abusing their patent, then they would show just the ones what are needed. Now they throw almost everything what they get even close to that case and judges and assistant specialists are bored to death. Companies believe that the amount of abusive [accusations] means the judge (or jury) sees how bad the accused is and it can not be a false.
What competing smart-phone does Oracle sell? Does Google sell Android? nope... How would Oracle make sure that Google is "abusing" their Java patents? Are not both Java and Davlik both free as in beer? Patents stifle innovation, and harm business, even open source software can't escape the gaping maw of the patent trolls... It's as plain as day to anyone who can whip out "hello world". IMO, the judge shouldn't stop there, continue reducing the triable software patents until the most reasonable number of applicable software patents is reached...
Honestly, I write software, and I do have competitors, but I welcome their competition -- I would never dream of suing them with every patent I have... although, it would be sort of interesting in court:
"You see! They're infringing EVERY PATENT I HAVE!"
"Just how many is that?"
"Well... Zero, but by my calculations that means the monetary damages should be INFINITE!"
It is possible to not patent anything, and still sell software and services. My customers fund the development of new features, instead of me constantly re-licensing old code -- I get paid to do work, not produce encryption keys -- It costs less to produce and purchase the software and, IMO, it's much more fair.
I need less middle men, therefore I can take a larger percentage of the profit even if the total is less & I like it this way.
I don't want to mod it, I want to play!
That's too bad, because ID really just wants you to mod it, and sell your mod as the next CoD... Kind of like the current generations of CoD, and many games (including BRINK) already do.
So this "game" is really more of a tech demo + limited GDK (game dev kit) to get people interested in licensing the engine for their own, much more innovative & fun games? Face it, ID's new bread & butter isn't making games, it's licensing the engine -- Hence all the "MegaTexture" and other such technical hype -- It's a flipping abstraction layer for texture coordinates & attributes -- Hell, even my Tetris clone has one of those, and is more extensible (bump-maps, electro-magnetic maps, particle emitting maps, temperature maps, combustibility maps, various sound maps (crush, overheat, chill, collide), etc) The number of METAtextures properties are not written in stone (like IDs are), their complexity is limited only by the speed of the CPU / GPU & amount of available memory / storage -- in fact, I call them Extensible-MetaTextures, and they can be described in XML...heh) -- However, only ID has the "MegaTexture" trade mark...
To me, RAGE is targeted at studios, not players.
Since Romero left, ID has just been pumping out engines to license with less and less content each iteration, but at least some decent competitive multi-player support -- now RAGE doesn't even have that... (Ergo, You can license ID Tech 5, and you won't be faced with users comparing the new features of your multi-player online franchise (CoD) as rehashes of RAGE. (Unlike how Heretic was a fun rehash of Doom, CoD6 won't be perceived as a re-hash of RAGE.)
P.S. I call them ID not "id" because that's how they introduced themselves to me in Commander Keen (Apogee scrolls up screen, then an uppercase "ID software" attribution appears)... First impressions stick even when they're no-longer relevant -- Sort of similar to how ID is still considered to be innovative because they have been very much so in the past... Even if they built a platformer again I wouldn't be interested, the guys that made Keen fun have long since left the building.
You can make a Linux executable quite easily using a similar trick to the Windows executable version. Just cat a shell script that tries to run itself as a JAR file with an actual JAR file.
Sorry -- the shell script needs permissions to run. No Execute Bit Set.
Additionally, All of my applications -- Especially Java (iced tea), runs as a user of the same name & group. So, EG: my Java App called JOGL-BlockDrop is run as jogl-bd and only has access to jogl-bd or jogl-bd-perm grouped files, and that group is not allowed to make UDP or TCP connections (I give per application / group access to my network via iptables).
Note: The BlockDrop .jar file can't automatically add files to the jogl-bd-perm under my setup, so even if the shell script could execute, it wouldn't have the same permissions that I've granted the original program.
I tried doing a similar setup on windows, but it was a mess, and I never got it working right -- Esp. For Java!
As expected: window's firewall treats all Java apps as the same app by default; Allow one Java .jar Internet access and they all have it. One Java app I saw used a proprietary installer to allow the firewall integration on windows to work, but I've not seen many java programs distributed using such features. To say nothing of a cross-platform solution; Which, I suppose you can provide yourself with Java's security / permission framework -- But I don't trust it, I use the OS security framework -- a bug in the Java stack could bypass the Java permission framework's restrictions.
Expecting an untrusted app to behave itself is like trusting rats to guard your cheese reserves... Fortunately with Linux & other Unix ( or other Posix complying OSs) per app security / permissions is easy to accomplish.
They build my bridges, fix my roads, fund companies who provide power and water, make sure that water is clean and drinkable, police the streets, protect the people. Government does some good things. It's mostly local and state government, but it's still government.
I'm not sure about you, but where I live (Houston), my LOCAL Government does all those good things -- the FEDERAL Government is off making secret copyright laws behind my back (ACTA), wasting shit-tons of money enforcing Civil copyright complains without due process (ICE takedowns) and in TFA's case, overstepping their legal authority with the assumption that they can (because they will soon pass a law giving them those rights if they face resistance) -- good call Moz Devs, now, if only our congress & senate would read and uphold the constitution too -- esp. the whole "congress shall make no law" part, and other such amendments.
Becaue Pakistan hiding Bin Laden is less important than Joey age 17 getting fondled. Lights Out.
Another piece elsewhere profiled a 3 year Seattle infiltration case for big dollars that really didn't do much.
We seriously need to shake up Big Gov, but it's getting harder.
It's getting harder because Big Gov is thinking about the little children more now than ever.
The first amendment doesn't give you the right to violate all laws.
Likewise: Copyright has no right to violate my first amendment rights. Have you read the Constitution? search for the phrase "congress shall make no law", then read up and get back to me...
Additionally: Three words, PEER TO PEER. This is really how the entire Internet works: at the packet level, we're all peers & there is no "client" or "server" (that's application level thinking); Ergo, taking down servers can also mean taking down clients, and until it does, and you have a workable solution to the Streisand Effect, bans will do nothing but piss people off and cause more of whatever behavior triggered the ban in the first place. (We're all servers).
In short: damage from censorship will always be routed around until instant-bans of all information holding parties is possible and in practice. However, once that happens, there are much bigger problems to deal with, eg: FIRST AMENDMENT RIGHTS.
I can encode any information as a rather large decimal (base 10) number, numbers can't be patented or copyrighted. In fact, I've even written a program that encodes and decodes in such a way (arbitrary bit-length & radix integer math) -- It's terribly inefficient in decimal mode; in Hexadecimal (base 16) it's blazingly fast, but it doubles the output size... You can avoid the size bloat by encoding & decoding your NUMBERS in base 2 --- Oh, wait binary numbers are what's claimed as infringing copyright. (How is this not a 1st amendment issue?)
The great thing about math is that adding some large number, then subtracting it later yields the exact same origin number, and numbers can be represented in any base but still remain equivalent. XOR, multiplication, division & subtraction are all also reverse-able. My big-math package doesn't blink twice when you tell it to add the fractional component of PI to say, a Be-Dulls.MP3 file, minding the input's significant digits when limiting output... Subtraction of the same yields the original information...
Should I be prohibited from distributing PI's remainder + some arbitrary value? Isn't that a substantial transformation, and doesn't the resulting output rely much more heavily on my addition and transformation than the original? If I'm prohibited from distributing such a number in totality, can I be prevented from distributing individual bits or digits one at a time a few times per day via twitter? Surely a small fraction of decimal digits transformed to be unusable for the original data's purpose is not a copyright infringement, it's fair use, and would be a violation of my 1st amendment right to restrict me in such a way -- All digits can be represented as some be-dulls.mp3 byte + or - some other digit...
Surely breaking the info up and transmitting it + (PI-3) renders it a separate work, no-longer coverable by copyright... You can't copyright a single word, ergo a single bit is even less subject to copyright (if not, I claim Zero! -- no monopoly here!).
How large of a piece of data is a copyrightable? 4 bits? Surely not, 1024 bytes? 1500 bytes? Surely not, in terms of a song this is just a fraction of a second of music, clearly a fair-use.
So, If I'm allowed to distribute 1500 bytes at a time, and transformed by an arbitrary integer math operation, what's to say I can't also claim fair use on each 1500 byte SSL XORed Internet packet?
AT WHAT POINT DOES MY FREEDOM OF SPEECH END?
To say that copyrights do not limit freedom of speech is moronic at best -- That's exactly what copyrights do; Perhaps they were never intended to do so -- In that case, let's reform or obliterate the offensive laws. Pehaps you don't see what's going on in the summary? The government is trying to get people to restrict the freedom of speech rights of others voluntarily, because they have no legal authority to do so
And what did it look like?
And how many times did it have to get the hose before it put the lotion on its skin?
Why did you leave a position as a "star programmer" to move into network administration? Why restart at the bottom of the ladder?
I assumed that by "Star Programmer" they meant that they were programmers at Star Programming.
As for reasons to switch jobs -- The appearance of their home-page should tell you enough about Star Programmers to remove any doubt why one would want to jump ship even if it means starting over in a dubious network admin's position that requires frequently rebuilding the entire network -- note: unlimited budget == embezzlement opportunity (not for you, for the accountant that's adding 20 bucks to each PO line item you submit).
On a more serious note: I'm sick and tired of these hypothetical "ask-slashdot" articles -- People do have Real World, answerable questions -- let's get to those, not this BS "If I had unlimited resources and a lab to build any kind of network and didn't know shit, where should I start /b/?^H^H^H^H Slashdot?"
Either you have an excellent memory or you're reusing the same password on multiple sites. If you're a mere mortal, like me, and you don't want to reuse a few passwords over and over again, you need a password manager.
Or, If you're a code like me, you wrote a javascript:sha1( salt + get_master_pw() + host ); bookmarklet which enables you to use the same password everywhere, but generate a site specific hash that you enter into the PW field.
Note: I would use someone else's PW hasher plugin, but I can re-code my own system from scratch in any URL bar, text editor, command shell or programming language to re-gain access to my codes in a worst case scenario...
Last time I checked, having 8 multi-purpose cores did not a super computer make.
Last time I checked, structuring your sentence in an old-timey way does not a better point make.
Damn, nice burn man, my point is totally irrelevant now thanks to your pointing out of the sentence structure which could be improved. I suppose using not one but two ellipses completely obliterated any worth my statements might have held...
Seriously, "the world's most affordable supercomputer" what drivel is this?
Last time I checked, having 8 multi-purpose cores did not a super computer make.
I'll grant that the PS3 is an affordable supercomputer component, but it's no more "super" than my rack of 8 core servers -- In fact, in terms of flops it's no where close to my server rack's combined processing power...
Considering that the PS3 is only a possible component in a super computer, and the fact that there are many cheaper components with which to build a super (cluster) computer I call bullshit on both "world's most affordable" and " supercomputer" claims -- That is, unless the PS3 now comes with dual identities, one of which is a crime fighting vigilante by night...
You can pick your friends and
you can pick your nose,
but you can't pick your friend's nose...
Only now, You can!
From the looks of it -- You can even pick your friend's nose with your nose.
If the router is missing, how will you know whether it is actually turned on or if it's still off? Or are they implying that the antanae will be raised? (giggity)
Apparently this isn't the first time something like this has happened:
<BradCoop> hm. I've lost my router.. literally _lost_. it responds to ping, it works completely, I just can't figure out where in my incriminating evidence stash it is.
Next thing you know they'll be questioning if everything was well at home, and the frequency that he put on his robe and wizard hat...
Cary police investigators have theorized that Brad Cooper, an engineer in Voice over Internet Protocol, had the expertise and ability to use the router to stage a remote call from his home phone to his cellphone
That's an awfully complex way of doing it. You could accomplish the same thing with a simple modem. I'm disinclined to believe the prosecutions simply because any phone engineer would not need a router.
This is precicely why I hope I'm never a murder suspect... I've fixed each of my friends and family's computers more than once, several times they've seen me quickly "hack" past their forgotten Windows, Linux, and router passwords (LMHash overwrite / Orphcrack, root diagnostic mode + passwd, or known default passwords / weak WEP respectively, nothing fancy). I actually stopped fixing a few peoples systems after they hinted that I may have been to blame for their machines exhibiting "suspicious" behavior months after I re-installed their OS due to malware infections (It's just more malware, idiots).
Sadly, I know my less tech savvy friends and family regard computer literate folks as magical neck-bearded tech-wizards (well, at the very least they see me that way, and have no problem believing any BS TV / Movie "hacking" demonstrations).
Prosecutors would have a field day, "This Hacker had the expertise and ability to break any security measures the victim may have had on their computers, networks and smart-phones. He could have easily installed a Trojan Horse Virus into the victim's computer and cell phones that made it seem like they were still alive and Tweeting the mundane details of their bowel movements, when in fact he had already destroyed their minds Lawn-Mower-Man style, and was in the process of disposing of their bodies in cyberspace."
"Mr. Cortex, Is it not true that you in fact own a T-Shirt printed with the phrase: I am The One? -- Clearly this is an admission of guilt, a cry for help. You are the one responsible, may god have mercy on your soul..."
I call bullshit... I find it hard to believe that people only like to be told what they want to hear.
No, no, it is indeed a cloud: Thin, wispy and ephemeral.
Not to mention The Cloud is dangerous!
One time, "The Cloud" corrupted a few files on my server, toasted my dev machine's hard drive (couldn't even re-install!) made several monitors explode, and split the tree outside my home-office completely in two; Flying chunks of bark shattered my windows... to say nothing of the horror that became of the decorative landscape lighting that foolishly linked the outside to my main electrical system, may it rest in pieces.
The ironic thing is that I had a lightning rod installed; I thought I was safe from The Cloud, but The Cloud decided that my, now deceased, 200ft pine tree was a better target of opportunity.
The Cloud is a scary concept -- Super charged flying electrical batteries, always looming overhead, unpredictably destroying their targets with tremendous power, and surgical precision. Hell, the terror of witnessing such an event has permanently emotionally scarred my dog -- She has a prescription for Valium now because she hyperventilates and continuously shakes for hours at the mere sound of distant thunder...
My psyche is not unscathed either: I have to take a tranquilizer whenever I hear the words: "To The Cloud"