Except of course that it isn't. A more accurate, if less mnemonic mnemonic, would be "A pint is a pound in the US and exactly nowhere else."
Outside of the states, we know that "A pint of pure water weighs a pound and a quarter." Because, you know, a proper pint is 20 fl oz. Not sure why you Americans have such funny little pints.
Isn't it marvelous how extensive police brutality against hundreds or thousands of peaceful protesters will get spun in the media as reasonable action against a riot of epic proportions, when in reality there were about eight yahoos who threw a couple of rocks.
But then, if one journalist actually experiences some (by recent standards very mild) police aggression, it's all of a sudden an absolute outrage. I mean, they're taxpayers and journalists, not dirty hippies or retired grannies, who should expect to be beaten for expressing their opinions...
OT, but I also love how the shots of "violent rioters" always include a guy in a gas mask throwing a tear gas canister toward a bunch of cops also wearing gas masks, and away from a crowd of people without gas masks. I mean, here's this one guy who is able to protect a bunch of people from harm because he has protective equipment they lack, and he's putting himself on the line to help them (and getting some nasty chemical burns to his hands), and it's spun like he somehow is the violent one - who shot the teargas in the first place, anyway?
This is Dave Maynor, of the infamous wireless driver bugs that may or may not have existed. He reported the bugs, and basically saw his credibility trashed in the press.
Granted his own behaviour could have been better, but as more information came out over the following year or so, it looks rather more like Apple did attack him quite unnecessarily in the press.
Yeah, Citrix is heavy on the suck alright. But we're not talking about Citrix here. We're talking about real thin clients, not software that emulates a thin-ish client running on top of a fat operating system, with the server end running on an OS that was only ever marginally designed for multi-user use.
And here I was hoping that it would be a section for games with enough of an intellectual component to be of interest to someone over 30. I'm only 29, but I'd head straight for that section...
If you RTFA carefully, you'll note they mention that Mexico has been working hard on producing an electronic version of every textbook in their primay school curriculum.
Which probably will mostly not be fascinating summer reading for the kids, but it gets the things to the point of being useful to schools. Over a year or two, the things could probably pay for themselves just in reduced book purchase costs to the state.
It's maybe illegal in the US (I'm not aware of a decision either way on whether their EULA is upholdable). On the other hand, I understand it would probably be legal in the EU - there are laws prohibiting post-sale restrictions there, so once you own a copy of the OS, any license that forbids certain uses of it is void.
I am not a lawyer, any attempt to take a slashdot posting as legal advice is highly silly
By far the most common thing is for people to misplace their phones - leave them in a restaurant, on a bus, whatever. And people being largely honest, they are quite often returned.
Now imagine if every good samaritan had to put up with the damn thing screaming, and everyone staring at them thinking "thief"... You can forget getting your phone back now! The logical course on finding a misplaced phone will be to smash the thing to smithereens now, so it can't start screaming at three AM and wake up everyone in the neighbourhood.
Of course, this will be good for the cellphone makers and telcos - people will get their phones back less, buy more replacements, and sign on to long contracts in order to save a bit of money on the phones.
If you did that nobody would be able to email from home unless they passed. As having a system turned into a bot could happen anytime this would have to be an ongoing process. I can't see how that would work in reality
You let them connect only to smtp.isp.com on port 25. smtp.isp.com has egress spam filtering. What you don't let them do is connect to any smtp servers outside of that.
smtp.isp.com has spam filtering (it doesn't have to be perfect, as a spambot is pretty noisy if you catch it at the source), and if the customer trips the spam filter, you cut off their email sending access until the problem is fixed.
I'll give you a hint so you won't have to - the whole story is about how he wasn't botting, but the WoW folks jumped to the conclusion that he had been. obviously without paying much attention to what he wrote to them.
Seriously - look at the detailed description, follow the links to the CVE entries. These are old, old vulnerabilities. I think the oldest one in there is about five or six months old.
I love Apple's products, I use Macs myself, but they really have to get their act together on security patching.
And there have been proof of concept exploits for some of these vulnerabilities published quite a while ago.
You rent a place, it is your home. The landlord does not have the right to evict you from your home:
On short notice in the middle of Winter, for any reason short of your having committed acts of violence on the landlord or fellow tenants.
Due to your having a child, even if the landlord has a beef with crying children
Due to your race, religion, sexual orientation, politics, etc.
Because you write an editorial against the landlord's favourite political party
Because you call the cops on the landlord's peeping tom son
Fundamentally, your argument stinks of elitism - it should be the right of landowners in Georgia to refuse to rent anything nicer than a tarpaper shack to black people, it's their property; it should be legal for movie theatres to exclude blacks, for business owners to have a policy against hiring blacks, for the university to refuse to admin blacks.
If the black people don't like it, they should buy their own apartment blocks, their own movie theatres, their own university. Never mind that the blacks are overwhelmingly poor, so this is a completely impossible thing for them to do.
Being poor does not make you a second-class citizen. If you don't like that, move to a country where they didn't execute their royal family two hundred years ago.
This barrier makes it very difficult and expensive for citizens and reporters in other countries to report on anything.
So, what's the excuse for the American media's failure to report on anything?
I mean, really, with all these great freedom of speech protections in law, why are the US media so often the most saturated with bullshit (not counting reports coming from the Iraqi information minister, and such)?
I've also heard of a scheme from way back when, where people would poke a hole in each floppy with a pin, and then use an installer that would format the floppies, find the destroyed sectors, and customize each copy of the program so it would check for the presence of those exact bad sectors before running.
Of course, the basic things that ship as part of the OS should be pre-signed, otherwise it would take months to have a usable system.
Incidentally, NetBSD does have this, in Trusted Exec. Not enabled by default, but it's there. I haven't looked into it, mostly because NetBSD has hardware problems on my specific setup, so I never got far into using it.
This is true to a point. It only applies if the app is launched through the APIs that the Finder uses.
Commandline apps still do not have this property - write a new shell script, compile a new command, and run it - no warning.
Assuming Mac users read the dialogues, however, it should help considerably against the simplest form of viruses, such as "click me" mass mailers. And I have the impression that Mac users do tend to read the dialogues much more than Windows users, because Macs don't spew so many useless and annoying dialogues all over the place - the default assumption is that dialogues probably contain some at least possibly useful information.
In the context of "enumerating badness" versus "enumerating goodness" it makes sense - what matters is that you have to write filters to match every kind of badness, even though you might see each kind only very rarely, but you still want to block each of the 75,000 viruses, and each of the essentially infinite number of malicious URL patterns, etc. Far easier to write a small number of filters that will be matched often, than a large number that will be matched very seldom (and hence be largely untested...)
So, from the point of view of enumerating types of goodness and badness, it's entirely true - he's not talking about bandwidth or volume of usage, but about the count of distinct categories.
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Don't forget that you have to put vehicles through the tightest turn in the town too, not just the narrowest straight stretch.
And also, put up webcams, so people can laugh at silly truckers.
Except of course that it isn't. A more accurate, if less mnemonic mnemonic, would be "A pint is a pound in the US and exactly nowhere else."
Outside of the states, we know that "A pint of pure water weighs a pound and a quarter." Because, you know, a proper pint is 20 fl oz. Not sure why you Americans have such funny little pints.
re - the first link in the parent
Isn't it marvelous how extensive police brutality against hundreds or thousands of peaceful protesters will get spun in the media as reasonable action against a riot of epic proportions, when in reality there were about eight yahoos who threw a couple of rocks.
But then, if one journalist actually experiences some (by recent standards very mild) police aggression, it's all of a sudden an absolute outrage. I mean, they're taxpayers and journalists, not dirty hippies or retired grannies, who should expect to be beaten for expressing their opinions...
OT, but I also love how the shots of "violent rioters" always include a guy in a gas mask throwing a tear gas canister toward a bunch of cops also wearing gas masks, and away from a crowd of people without gas masks. I mean, here's this one guy who is able to protect a bunch of people from harm because he has protective equipment they lack, and he's putting himself on the line to help them (and getting some nasty chemical burns to his hands), and it's spun like he somehow is the violent one - who shot the teargas in the first place, anyway?
This is Dave Maynor, of the infamous wireless driver bugs that may or may not have existed. He reported the bugs, and basically saw his credibility trashed in the press.
Granted his own behaviour could have been better, but as more information came out over the following year or so, it looks rather more like Apple did attack him quite unnecessarily in the press.
But just to agree with you, all of them had very good spoken english (if a little quiet).
Funny, I'd say speaking quietly is not exactly characteristic of an American accent.
Yeah, Citrix is heavy on the suck alright. But we're not talking about Citrix here. We're talking about real thin clients, not software that emulates a thin-ish client running on top of a fat operating system, with the server end running on an OS that was only ever marginally designed for multi-user use.
And here I was hoping that it would be a section for games with enough of an intellectual component to be of interest to someone over 30. I'm only 29, but I'd head straight for that section...
If you RTFA carefully, you'll note they mention that Mexico has been working hard on producing an electronic version of every textbook in their primay school curriculum. Which probably will mostly not be fascinating summer reading for the kids, but it gets the things to the point of being useful to schools. Over a year or two, the things could probably pay for themselves just in reduced book purchase costs to the state.
... a war on hours
It's maybe illegal in the US (I'm not aware of a decision either way on whether their EULA is upholdable). On the other hand, I understand it would probably be legal in the EU - there are laws prohibiting post-sale restrictions there, so once you own a copy of the OS, any license that forbids certain uses of it is void.
I am not a lawyer, any attempt to take a slashdot posting as legal advice is highly silly
Now imagine if every good samaritan had to put up with the damn thing screaming, and everyone staring at them thinking "thief"... You can forget getting your phone back now! The logical course on finding a misplaced phone will be to smash the thing to smithereens now, so it can't start screaming at three AM and wake up everyone in the neighbourhood.
Of course, this will be good for the cellphone makers and telcos - people will get their phones back less, buy more replacements, and sign on to long contracts in order to save a bit of money on the phones.
Fortunately, you don't have to choose - OS X is both available now, and does a better job than Vista is ever likely to...
Would have to be South. I think they only have five computers in North Korea, and only three of those have an IP stack.
I think the 16 RPM setting was just for comic value. Ever hear a 78 RPM record at 16 RPM? It's good for a laugh
You let them connect only to smtp.isp.com on port 25. smtp.isp.com has egress spam filtering. What you don't let them do is connect to any smtp servers outside of that.
smtp.isp.com has spam filtering (it doesn't have to be perfect, as a spambot is pretty noisy if you catch it at the source), and if the customer trips the spam filter, you cut off their email sending access until the problem is fixed.
Where's the Hitler reference? That was an Orwell reference, yo.
I'll give you a hint so you won't have to - the whole story is about how he wasn't botting, but the WoW folks jumped to the conclusion that he had been. obviously without paying much attention to what he wrote to them.
Seriously - look at the detailed description, follow the links to the CVE entries. These are old, old vulnerabilities. I think the oldest one in there is about five or six months old.
I love Apple's products, I use Macs myself, but they really have to get their act together on security patching.
And there have been proof of concept exploits for some of these vulnerabilities published quite a while ago.
Fundamentally, your argument stinks of elitism - it should be the right of landowners in Georgia to refuse to rent anything nicer than a tarpaper shack to black people, it's their property; it should be legal for movie theatres to exclude blacks, for business owners to have a policy against hiring blacks, for the university to refuse to admin blacks.
If the black people don't like it, they should buy their own apartment blocks, their own movie theatres, their own university. Never mind that the blacks are overwhelmingly poor, so this is a completely impossible thing for them to do.
Being poor does not make you a second-class citizen. If you don't like that, move to a country where they didn't execute their royal family two hundred years ago.
So, what's the excuse for the American media's failure to report on anything?
I mean, really, with all these great freedom of speech protections in law, why are the US media so often the most saturated with bullshit (not counting reports coming from the Iraqi information minister, and such)?
I've also heard of a scheme from way back when, where people would poke a hole in each floppy with a pin, and then use an installer that would format the floppies, find the destroyed sectors, and customize each copy of the program so it would check for the presence of those exact bad sectors before running.
Incidentally, NetBSD does have this, in Trusted Exec. Not enabled by default, but it's there. I haven't looked into it, mostly because NetBSD has hardware problems on my specific setup, so I never got far into using it.
This is true to a point. It only applies if the app is launched through the APIs that the Finder uses. Commandline apps still do not have this property - write a new shell script, compile a new command, and run it - no warning. Assuming Mac users read the dialogues, however, it should help considerably against the simplest form of viruses, such as "click me" mass mailers. And I have the impression that Mac users do tend to read the dialogues much more than Windows users, because Macs don't spew so many useless and annoying dialogues all over the place - the default assumption is that dialogues probably contain some at least possibly useful information.
So, from the point of view of enumerating types of goodness and badness, it's entirely true - he's not talking about bandwidth or volume of usage, but about the count of distinct categories.
Heck, they could use paper in place of a screen, it couldn't make CDE any less clunky