I'll stick with online media. It was either today ot yesterday that major news media agreed to stop airing video tapes of bin Laden. Sure, I don't agree with the guy, but we defintely should hear both sides of the story. Oh wait, then maybe American's won't feel so great about what their government has done in the past. Sure we should support our system, but that doesn't mean do it blindly.
Give me options or give me death. If I don't have options, I don't have freedom. Therefore, this is equivalent to give me liberty or give me death. This should be our new battle cry against those who oppose freedom of speech and liberty (although someone can probably think of a better way to put it).
Even when the "net" is wrong, because there is a decentralization of news coverage, you ae assured to give multiple angles on a piece, and only when you have evaluated an issue from all side can you form a reasonable opinion about what's going on. The first thing to go during war is the Truth, but we really needed is the arguments, so we can come to our own Truths.
In the 1940's the gov't didn't have the kind of technology that we do know. What George Orwell invisioned was a future with advanced technology that we have now for monitoring "inapproptiate behavior."
Also, George Orwell never said that a translation like this would happen over night. In fact, that would be impossible as long as we have people who are very enthusiastic about their rights. It will take genertations to get them out of the gene pool. But the threat of terrorist attacks on the US, on it's own soil (If Russia had tried to invade the US, we would have been in the same situation, but only magnified by 100), has made the transition process a little easier. You won't wake up tomorrow with Big Brother watching your every move. It will come incrementally over time, so you don't even notice the transition.
"Freedom is like a rope made of several strands.
Weaken or remove one strand, and the rope is
weakened... There are bad people in the world,
ever watchful for opportunities to seize dominance
over others. For good people to stand idly by is
to welcome the erosion and eventual collapse of
all our freedoms." David F. Linowes
At the point where all freedoms are up for grabs, so is everything America stands for and is embeded in the Constiution. These crisis brings us incrementally closer to more rights losses, many of which are covert in the eyes of average Americans. If we want to protect are freedom, we must act now and set a precedent: under no circumstances will we give up our rights for utilitarian ends.
"As such, Jedi Knight is not officially recognised as a religion."
For whatever reason, the article starts off with the complete opposite statement. The point is that a lot of people are putting down Jedi for their religion because they want to mess with the British government. I can't believe this got posted on slashdot.
Okay, I'm following the idea of why a census would be useful for analyzing racial inequality, sexism, poverty, etc. But how does religion fit into this? I don't know a lot about laws in Britain (yes, I'm an uncultured, closed-minded American), but what exactly is the purpose of the Census in Britain? I can't think of a good reason, unless they used it to determine how the religious make-up is changing from year to year.
Maybe this is why everyone puts down "Jedi Knight" - no one cares.
I don't think this will happen. Atleast not for OS X. It could become kind of hairy for tech support if ur grandma starts to recompile kernels. If there are updates to the Mac Kernel, you'll probably only be able to do it through software update.
Now if you just mean Darwin, sure you could upgrade that to your liking, but I think just upgrading Darwin with OS X on top could potentially break things in OS X (we'll never know, it's closed source).
In geometry, orthogonal just means perpendicular. But, according to searchStorage: "In computer terminology, something - such as a programming language or a data object - is orthogonal if it can be used without consideration as to how its use will affect something else. " So, the light waves are mutually orthogonal (they are data objects in this case), but I'm not exactly sure how to apply the definition to exactly what the scientists are doing with fiber optic cables.
I think it would be easier for them to keep a secure OS if they had hundreds of independent, free contractors working on the OS and there isn't some monopolistic company controlling the OS while coding buggy software that is easy to hack.
If a person who wants to do in the gov't finds a bug, I bet some non-antigov't people in the open source community will be able to find the same thing.
Considering that their email serves are called ux1 through ux13 at the U of I, I'd assume they are HP-UX servers. The webmal server is running NT 4.0 (according to netcraft).
Now if only the public labs were running a varient of Unix, we'd be set (OS X may come in the near future, but until Office runs on any other *nix, the PCs will pretty much always be running windows).
Yeah, and I have tested this drug called a "placebo," and it seems to cure all my illnesses! I haven't actually tried the drug on anything except for the common cold, but I guess I can infer that it will work great on expelling all types of crap from my system. Therefore I conclude the placebo drug will cure all diseases.
I think the idea is that you can have both OSes running at the same time without rebooting. The other idea (and why it's so fast) is that it's not emulation of hardware. That will always be slower than if it was on PPC.
Chicken sandwich is not very complex. A better example would be if HP started releasing their calculators, and they looked EXACTLY like TI's on the outside, but on the inside they were completely different. That could cause huge amounts of customer confusion.
It's not like you can patent the circle, but if you develop a multidimensional implementation of a mechanical device that utilizes circles, you've got something to claim IP over.
They're not patening a static color set, but a dynamic look and feel which only applies to an OS. You can take picturers of OS X and post it all over your car, your wall, etc, but NOT ON ANOTHER OS. Because the OS has nothing do with ur car, it can't lead to customer confusion. On the other hand, pasting it ontop of windows very well could.
If Ford made a car that looked exactly like a Honda except for the entirior mechanics, they'd get sued and rightfully so.
If you can get the same look and feel of OS X on a windows or linux machine via a theme, why on earth would the OS X look and feel (i,e, Aqua) be a deciding reason to use OS X?
Because theu did this retroactively. They let microsoft get away with several GUI rip offs for a couple of years, and then when apple went to the courts when they thought microsoft had gone too far, it was already too late to do anything about that. Now they're making sure they protcted their IP early and often.
I found a bug in NSImage that makes deallocating objects across the Objc-Java bridge fail, and I doubt I'll get a t-shirt. When he filed a bug report, apple make no cliam of repaying people for their free services. I don't think Linus sends people cash or free Tux Dolls when they make fixes to the kernel.
I am kind of peeved at apple not allowing themes. Maybe they're just holding back on their own theming system for sometime before Macrh 23rd of next year. I guess they're philosophy makes sense: they want people to look at a Mac OS X machine and know for sure that it's a Mac OS X machine. Plus, if it's a theming system not from apple, future updates could hose the system over (The move from 10.0.4 to 10.1 to one.rsrc file and split it into two, for instance).
Here's what most terrorists do. Atleast this is what I've heard/seen done by past terrorists:
1. They take hostages
2. They kill people
3. They make demands
4. They invoke terror in their victims
In no way do these "hackers" fit the description of a terrorist except for maybe #4. These are generally just people who find a whole in security and take advantage of it. They can be really annoying, and people who make these types of viruses should be tried for damages, but I don't think they fit the desciption of a terrorist.
But more important, I think Ashcroft isn't talking about virys writing hackers, but any type of hacker. Essentially, if you mess with a system at all, then you're a terrorist accroding to Ashcroft.
Boy, my parents must be disappointed in me now, rasing a terrorist..
I bet this has nothing to do with the effects budget, and everything to do with not scrutinizing the work for inconsistencies with prior works. I don't think the same people are doing Star Trek that were 30 years ago, so it's really easy for obvious details to be forgotten. It happens all the time in series, such as Transformers the cartoon. It's kind of frustrating, although it causes a lot of interesting discussions (such as how Optimus Primes' trailer can disappear and reappear magically: some think transformers have some "container" in subspace where they can store stuff).
The blood is pink; just watch the opening few minutes of Star Trek 6 (I think it was 6; it's the one where Kirk get's framed for killing Klingons).
Where are the links? I have never even heard about Star Trek:Enterprise. I use to love Star Trek: The Next Generation (in fact, in a TV song identification contest, I guessed it's theme song from the first couple seconds of rumbling). Since then I haven't been impressed by the Star Trek series. So does anyone have any information (aka links) that explain what Michael is talking about?
Not the best solution, but as the article says, there aren't a lot of virsuses for the mac for this reason. So one thing that can make your servers more secure is to use a more obscure OS and know it really well.
One other note: I thought a majority of web servers run a varient of linux. So because they have the market share, wouldn't hackers attack them more? I just think it's harder to attack something that is open source because so many bugs can can be found by the community and fixed by the community, while bugs for IIS can rarely be fixed by the community.
Plus a lot of people just hate microsoft in general.
Imagine if you had to buy a machintosh to run OS X and an IBM-compatible to run Windos. Oh wait (minus emulation), you do. Imagine if their was competition between two different competiting standards for videos (VHS vs beta).
Imagine there's no Heaven
It's easy if you try
No Hell below us
Above us, only sky
Imagine all the people
Sharing all the world
You may say I'm a dreamer
But I'm not the only one
I hope someday you'll join us
And the world will live as one
-John Lenon
I bet you could hack one of these things to instead of playing music to encoding to mp3 or ogg right on your hardrive. On normal radios, this is kind of pointless because the sound quality is so poor, but on fully digital music, this could be sweet. Hmmm, maybe that's what we'll have to start doing: hacking the hardware to be able export digital music, like CD's and such, to software. Mayeb I should switch from Math-Edu to CompE so I could make a bundle setting up something like this.
I remember when Bush kept talking about our economy being on the path to a recession several months ago. It sent chills down my spine everytime he said it. What kept the boom economy of the 90's going was what Alan Greenspan called "Irrational Exuberance" - people where so confident in the economy that they invested more than any economic indicator would have shown.
But now, if we start talking about out economy in a negative manner, we're settings us up for "Irrational Fear," where people think the economy is worse than it really is and pull lots of money out. Just the word recession can get stock holders antsy.
One of the main reasons that several business are now having problems is that a lot of people are holding onto more of their money instead of spending it and putting these people to work. Recession -> hold onto money -> more job cuts -> more recession -> hold onto more money ->...
I don't have to remind programmers what happens to their apps when they get stuck in infinite loops...
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I'll stick with online media. It was either today ot yesterday that major news media agreed to stop airing video tapes of bin Laden. Sure, I don't agree with the guy, but we defintely should hear both sides of the story. Oh wait, then maybe American's won't feel so great about what their government has done in the past. Sure we should support our system, but that doesn't mean do it blindly.
Give me options or give me death. If I don't have options, I don't have freedom. Therefore, this is equivalent to give me liberty or give me death. This should be our new battle cry against those who oppose freedom of speech and liberty (although someone can probably think of a better way to put it).
Even when the "net" is wrong, because there is a decentralization of news coverage, you ae assured to give multiple angles on a piece, and only when you have evaluated an issue from all side can you form a reasonable opinion about what's going on. The first thing to go during war is the Truth, but we really needed is the arguments, so we can come to our own Truths.
F-bacher
In the 1940's the gov't didn't have the kind of technology that we do know. What George Orwell invisioned was a future with advanced technology that we have now for monitoring "inapproptiate behavior."
Also, George Orwell never said that a translation like this would happen over night. In fact, that would be impossible as long as we have people who are very enthusiastic about their rights. It will take genertations to get them out of the gene pool. But the threat of terrorist attacks on the US, on it's own soil (If Russia had tried to invade the US, we would have been in the same situation, but only magnified by 100), has made the transition process a little easier. You won't wake up tomorrow with Big Brother watching your every move. It will come incrementally over time, so you don't even notice the transition.
F-bacher
"Freedom is like a rope made of several strands.
Weaken or remove one strand, and the rope is
weakened... There are bad people in the world,
ever watchful for opportunities to seize dominance
over others. For good people to stand idly by is
to welcome the erosion and eventual collapse of
all our freedoms." David F. Linowes
At the point where all freedoms are up for grabs, so is everything America stands for and is embeded in the Constiution. These crisis brings us incrementally closer to more rights losses, many of which are covert in the eyes of average Americans. If we want to protect are freedom, we must act now and set a precedent: under no circumstances will we give up our rights for utilitarian ends.
F-bacher
"As such, Jedi Knight is not officially recognised as a religion."
For whatever reason, the article starts off with the complete opposite statement. The point is that a lot of people are putting down Jedi for their religion because they want to mess with the British government. I can't believe this got posted on slashdot.
F-bacher
Okay, I'm following the idea of why a census would be useful for analyzing racial inequality, sexism, poverty, etc. But how does religion fit into this? I don't know a lot about laws in Britain (yes, I'm an uncultured, closed-minded American), but what exactly is the purpose of the Census in Britain? I can't think of a good reason, unless they used it to determine how the religious make-up is changing from year to year.
Maybe this is why everyone puts down "Jedi Knight" - no one cares.
F-bacher
n/t
I don't think this will happen. Atleast not for OS X. It could become kind of hairy for tech support if ur grandma starts to recompile kernels. If there are updates to the Mac Kernel, you'll probably only be able to do it through software update.
Now if you just mean Darwin, sure you could upgrade that to your liking, but I think just upgrading Darwin with OS X on top could potentially break things in OS X (we'll never know, it's closed source).
F-bacher
In geometry, orthogonal just means perpendicular. But, according to searchStorage: "In computer terminology, something - such as a programming language or a data object - is orthogonal if it can be used without consideration as to how its use will affect something else. " So, the light waves are mutually orthogonal (they are data objects in this case), but I'm not exactly sure how to apply the definition to exactly what the scientists are doing with fiber optic cables.
F-bacher
I think it would be easier for them to keep a secure OS if they had hundreds of independent, free contractors working on the OS and there isn't some monopolistic company controlling the OS while coding buggy software that is easy to hack.
If a person who wants to do in the gov't finds a bug, I bet some non-antigov't people in the open source community will be able to find the same thing.
F-bacher
Considering that their email serves are called ux1 through ux13 at the U of I, I'd assume they are HP-UX servers. The webmal server is running NT 4.0 (according to netcraft).
Now if only the public labs were running a varient of Unix, we'd be set (OS X may come in the near future, but until Office runs on any other *nix, the PCs will pretty much always be running windows).
F-bacher
Yeah, and I have tested this drug called a "placebo," and it seems to cure all my illnesses! I haven't actually tried the drug on anything except for the common cold, but I guess I can infer that it will work great on expelling all types of crap from my system. Therefore I conclude the placebo drug will cure all diseases.
F-bacher
I think the idea is that you can have both OSes running at the same time without rebooting. The other idea (and why it's so fast) is that it's not emulation of hardware. That will always be slower than if it was on PPC.
F-bacher
Chicken sandwich is not very complex. A better example would be if HP started releasing their calculators, and they looked EXACTLY like TI's on the outside, but on the inside they were completely different. That could cause huge amounts of customer confusion.
It's not like you can patent the circle, but if you develop a multidimensional implementation of a mechanical device that utilizes circles, you've got something to claim IP over.
F-bacher
They're not patening a static color set, but a dynamic look and feel which only applies to an OS. You can take picturers of OS X and post it all over your car, your wall, etc, but NOT ON ANOTHER OS. Because the OS has nothing do with ur car, it can't lead to customer confusion. On the other hand, pasting it ontop of windows very well could.
If Ford made a car that looked exactly like a Honda except for the entirior mechanics, they'd get sued and rightfully so.
F-bacher
If you can get the same look and feel of OS X on a windows or linux machine via a theme, why on earth would the OS X look and feel (i,e, Aqua) be a deciding reason to use OS X?
F-bacher
Because theu did this retroactively. They let microsoft get away with several GUI rip offs for a couple of years, and then when apple went to the courts when they thought microsoft had gone too far, it was already too late to do anything about that. Now they're making sure they protcted their IP early and often.
Good business strategy: learn from past mistakes.
F-bacher
I found a bug in NSImage that makes deallocating objects across the Objc-Java bridge fail, and I doubt I'll get a t-shirt. When he filed a bug report, apple make no cliam of repaying people for their free services. I don't think Linus sends people cash or free Tux Dolls when they make fixes to the kernel.
.rsrc file and split it into two, for instance).
I am kind of peeved at apple not allowing themes. Maybe they're just holding back on their own theming system for sometime before Macrh 23rd of next year. I guess they're philosophy makes sense: they want people to look at a Mac OS X machine and know for sure that it's a Mac OS X machine. Plus, if it's a theming system not from apple, future updates could hose the system over (The move from 10.0.4 to 10.1 to one
F-bacher
Here's what most terrorists do. Atleast this is what I've heard/seen done by past terrorists:
1. They take hostages
2. They kill people
3. They make demands
4. They invoke terror in their victims
In no way do these "hackers" fit the description of a terrorist except for maybe #4. These are generally just people who find a whole in security and take advantage of it. They can be really annoying, and people who make these types of viruses should be tried for damages, but I don't think they fit the desciption of a terrorist.
But more important, I think Ashcroft isn't talking about virys writing hackers, but any type of hacker. Essentially, if you mess with a system at all, then you're a terrorist accroding to Ashcroft.
Boy, my parents must be disappointed in me now, rasing a terrorist..
F-bacher
I bet this has nothing to do with the effects budget, and everything to do with not scrutinizing the work for inconsistencies with prior works. I don't think the same people are doing Star Trek that were 30 years ago, so it's really easy for obvious details to be forgotten. It happens all the time in series, such as Transformers the cartoon. It's kind of frustrating, although it causes a lot of interesting discussions (such as how Optimus Primes' trailer can disappear and reappear magically: some think transformers have some "container" in subspace where they can store stuff).
The blood is pink; just watch the opening few minutes of Star Trek 6 (I think it was 6; it's the one where Kirk get's framed for killing Klingons).
F-bacher
A quick google search led me to this site.
F-bacher
Where are the links? I have never even heard about Star Trek:Enterprise. I use to love Star Trek: The Next Generation (in fact, in a TV song identification contest, I guessed it's theme song from the first couple seconds of rumbling). Since then I haven't been impressed by the Star Trek series. So does anyone have any information (aka links) that explain what Michael is talking about?
F-bacher
Not the best solution, but as the article says, there aren't a lot of virsuses for the mac for this reason. So one thing that can make your servers more secure is to use a more obscure OS and know it really well.
One other note: I thought a majority of web servers run a varient of linux. So because they have the market share, wouldn't hackers attack them more? I just think it's harder to attack something that is open source because so many bugs can can be found by the community and fixed by the community, while bugs for IIS can rarely be fixed by the community.
Plus a lot of people just hate microsoft in general.
F-bacher
Imagine if you had to buy a machintosh to run OS X and an IBM-compatible to run Windos. Oh wait (minus emulation), you do. Imagine if their was competition between two different competiting standards for videos (VHS vs beta).
Imagine there's no Heaven
It's easy if you try
No Hell below us
Above us, only sky
Imagine all the people
Sharing all the world
You may say I'm a dreamer
But I'm not the only one
I hope someday you'll join us
And the world will live as one
-John Lenon
F-bacher
I bet you could hack one of these things to instead of playing music to encoding to mp3 or ogg right on your hardrive. On normal radios, this is kind of pointless because the sound quality is so poor, but on fully digital music, this could be sweet. Hmmm, maybe that's what we'll have to start doing: hacking the hardware to be able export digital music, like CD's and such, to software. Mayeb I should switch from Math-Edu to CompE so I could make a bundle setting up something like this.
F-bacher
I remember when Bush kept talking about our economy being on the path to a recession several months ago. It sent chills down my spine everytime he said it. What kept the boom economy of the 90's going was what Alan Greenspan called "Irrational Exuberance" - people where so confident in the economy that they invested more than any economic indicator would have shown.
...
But now, if we start talking about out economy in a negative manner, we're settings us up for "Irrational Fear," where people think the economy is worse than it really is and pull lots of money out. Just the word recession can get stock holders antsy.
One of the main reasons that several business are now having problems is that a lot of people are holding onto more of their money instead of spending it and putting these people to work. Recession -> hold onto money -> more job cuts -> more recession -> hold onto more money ->
I don't have to remind programmers what happens to their apps when they get stuck in infinite loops...
F-bacher