"Although there is no money in Amazon's community banana stands"
That's ridiculous. There's always money in the banana stand.
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I think you missed the sarcasm/irony of the original post... If I really felt that those systems were untrustworthy/useless/etc., why would I care about modding?
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I'm shocked to think Monster doesn't have a limit on the # of resumes an account is able to d/l per some time period. (week/month/quarter). I don't know what that number is, but I'm thinking closer to "100" than "1.6 million". And didn't they run some cumulative activity reports once in a while to learn which accounts are the most active? And to what IP's the requests are being served? At the least, you'll know who your biggest customers are (or at least the ones who are taxing your servers) and where the data is going. At best, you'll spot problems like this breech as it is happening at stop it.
Technically, we don't know that this isn't the case. Look at the article again:
Symantec said the log-ins were used to harvest user names, e-mail addresses, home addresses and phone numbers, which were uploaded to a remote web server.
The stolen data could be used to send phishing and spam e-mails.
"This remote server held over 1.6 million entries with personal information belonging to several hundred thousands of candidates, mainly based in the US, who had posted their resumes to the Monster.com website," reported Symantec.
Correct me if I'm mistaken, but the article doesn't say anything about how many resumes were stolen or how the breach was discovered. The server had 1.6 million resumes available, but for all we know the program downloaded 200 of them before hitting a maximum download quota. I'm not saying that that's necessarily what happened; I'm just saying that we don't really know what happened without more information.
Check out the data they've gathered. They've already detected sailors fighting in a dance hall, and they believe they've found evidence of a lawman beating up the wrong guy.
Still, in large software projects or ones that might be maintained for years, it's best to avoid it entirely. You never know when the size of the array or size of the data will be carelessly changed, especially when the project is collaborative. It might seem like overkill in some cases -- such as when one line directly folows another as in your example -- but it certainly doesn't hurt to avoid strcpy.
Settle down, already. My initial reply didn't insult, accuse, or attack you in any way: It just stated a fact. My second reply was a bit more frustrated, but it didn't stoop to insults or name-calling. If you want to lower yourself to that over a simple miscommunication, that's your problem.
Yes, they exist: in a limited, badly supported, underfinanced form. Did you RTFA?
Yes, I read the article, and this is a legitimate complaint, but that wasn't the complaint that you made. Did you read your own comment?
Complaining that something is badly supported and complaining that something doesn't exist aren't the same thing, and my telepathy isn't strong enough to pick up what you meant to say.
The United States Supreme Court in Campbell v. Acuff-Rose Music, Inc. (1994) stated in no uncertain terms that a parody as a form of criticism or comment could be fair use of a copyrighted work. Oh, Pretty Woman is a rock ballad written by Roy Orbison and William Dees. Luther Campbell and his musical rapper group, 2 Live Crew, wrote a rap song entitled Pretty Woman that had substantial similarities to the Orbison/Dees song. 2 Live Crew attempted to obtain permission for their parody from Acuff-Rose, the publisher of Oh, Pretty Woman, but were refused permission. 2 Live Crew then proceeded without permission to release their rap song and accorded Orbison/Dees with authorial credit and listed Acuff-Rose as the publisher. Acuff-Rose then brought a lawsuit, which at the trial court level ruled in favor of 2 Live Crew based upon its fair use parody defense. This decision was reversed on appeal when the Sixth Circuit ruled against the fair use parody defense because of the commercial nature of the 2 Live Crew rendition and the presumption of market harm that the rap rendition might cause for the Orbison/Dees song. The Sixth Circuit's decision was then appealed to the Supreme Court. The Supreme Court accepted 2 Live Crew's song as a parody because the rap song mimicked the original to achieve its message and because it "reasonably could be perceived as commenting on the original [Oh, Pretty Woman] or criticizing it, to some degree." The Court then had to decide whether a parody such as Pretty Woman could claim protection from copyright infringement liability under the scope of the fair use doctrine.
See the full article for far more detail on this in both this case and more general situations.
Open-sourcing an original song might make sense, but I'm not sure about a parody. Even though parody is protected under the first amendment, Al generally gets permission and credits the writers of the original music (or words for his polkas), which makes me wonder if they get a small cut of it.
Not really. If you're moving at the speed of light your time scales to nothing and all velocities are equivalent, including 0 and c.
My understanding has always been that the basic principle to relativity is that all frames of reference are equally valid, regardless of velocity. If you're in a spaceship then that is your frame of reference and from your perspective moving at 0 velocity. Light moves at velocity c from your frame of reference. However, to an observer that sees you moving at the speed of light, the photon on your ship sees it travelling at W = (v + w) / (1 + vw/c^2) where v is your velocity (c) and w is the photon's velocity (also c) meaning W = (c + c) / (1 + cc/c^2) = 2c/(1 + 1) = 2c/2 = c. In other words, even if you appear to be moving at the speed of light to an observer, your frame of reference is still valid, and you still see light moving at the speed of light compared to you. Of course, the time dilation is so severe (t' = t/(1-v^2/c^2)^0.5 = t/(1-c^2/c^2)^0.5 = t/(1-1)^0.5 = t/0 = undefined or infinite) that you appear not to be experiencing time to your observer. Of course, this is only fair since he appears to be moving at the speed of light from your perspective and does not appear to be experiencing time either.
Of course, I'm not an actual physicist, so take this with a grain of salt.
Same here, I'm probably more full of it that you are.
I'm not a physicist either, but I did stay in a Holiday Inn Express last night.
A good idea, but it doesn't fix the problem of printing in frames. True, you can select "This frame only" in the dialog, but this is awkward (especially for new users), since you have to make sure the frame you want is the active one first. Adding this to the context menu for frames would make this far simpler.
Speaking for myself, I'd probably average at least once a week, frequently more. Usually bank transfers, driving directions, etc., but any variety of things. (Intersting articles to read away from my computer, song lyrics I want to put with a CD, etc.)
it's under file - print.
That was my first thought too, but real-world applications include printing pop-up windows (without having previously memorized the key combination) or printing in a full-screen or kiosk mode. More commonly, printing a frame is far more natural through right-clicking rather than making sure the frame is the active one before going to the "Print" dialog. As far as customization goes, doesn't it make more sense to design for the users who don't know how to add/remove/customize these things? The advanced users could remove it if it irritated them, but really, how is this less basic than "View Background Image"?
I was thinking something along the same lines. Most pages tend to have a few people who regularly revisit and repair them... What if pages (or even categories) were assigned a group of two or three "page managers" who have to review changes before they're committed?
It sounds like a huge project to elect these... But what if they started by picking the top three or four non-anonymous posters for a particular article (and possibly the article's creator), and then provided a way of requesting that a manager be added, deleted, or replaced? (Of course, there would have to be a way for the managers to accept, lest all of them had wandered off, never to edit Wikipedia again.) It would probably be messy for a little while things got started, but it might be able to work long-term.
(All of these are paraphrased:)
"And there was this horrible sound like... DING!"
"Dr. Fred is all tied up in red tape... Literally!"
"The hundred-dollar guy... I like the sound of that!"
"Who's Mike Cords and why does he need to be tied down?"
"Oh, yeah, I forgot... He's incredibly evil, isn't he?"
"How does a tentacle use a bowling ball?"
"You must be the homeliest homo-sapien I've ever seen!"
"Isn't it hard for a tentacle to get into that bean bag?" "Getting in is easy... It's getting out that's the hard part."
"I could use [the hamster] in the band. You know, we could, like, bite its head off or something..."
"I've never tested it on people before!"
"I only chop down cherry trees. Family tradition, you know."
"I guess I should just kill myself then!"
"Yoo-hoo... Mister tentacle guy!"
"'George says everyone should have a vacuum cleaner in the basement.'" (Hancock reading what he believes to be a suggestion for the Constitution.)
"Excuse, me mister..." "Mister Hammer of the Gods?" "Hey, I've read that book!"
"1976. 1985. Oooh... 1967!"
"How about we make [the U.S. flag] just like the British flag, but upside down to cheese 'em off?"
"And then what?"
"And then what?"
"And then what?"
BTW, why was the parent modded "Troll"? Did he offend someone who dislikes these games?
I still love the SCUMM games like Maniac Mansion, Day of the Tentacle, and Sam & Max Hit the Road. The multiple-endings idea in particular in particular was brilliant (even though that aspect was limited to Maniac Mansion). It ticked me off when I couldn't get them to play on XP... (Even with 98, I had to "reboot in DOS mode" and pull a few other tricks to get them to play.)
The great thing is, with ScummVM, you can play them on Linux, Windows, Mac, BeOS, and even a Palm or Pocket PC! I just recently re-played Day of the Tentacle on my Treo. Worked great, except for some sound problems. It does take a bit of configuration to get it going on some systems, but it's well worth it.
You do have to have the original CD or floppies that the games came on, so make sure that you dig those out before you bother with the install... but once you dig those out, you'll be microwaving hamsters in no time!
I'd have to say that misspellings and grammatical errors eat away at the credibility of anything that I'm reading, Slashdot comments included. However, I do recognize that a lot of times people who know better will slip and either simply press the wrong key or transpose words in their mind, but will recognize the error when it is pointed out. (I've had more than one e-mail where someone has quoted my original message, and I'll cringe at an error that I made that they may not have even noticed.)
I do believe that it's important for people to be able to recognize their errors like this, and this means paying attention, and, as some others have suggested, reading. Not just reading on the Internet, where proofreading is often given low priority (sometimes even for respectable journals), but reading print, including books, magazines, etc.
One particularly great guide is Paul Brians' "Common Errors of English Usage", available online at http://www.wsu.edu/~brians/errors/ or in print at Amazon.com. It shows, not only improper usage, but many instances of proper usage that are incorrectly assailed by would-be nitpickers.
Personally, I'm trying to fight a one-man war to restore the proper usage of "where're/where are" in plural items... ("Where're the kids" -- not "where's the kids".) Drives me crazy every time I hear this one, and twice as crazy every time I find myself using it.
Oh, and for anyone planing to nitpick my use of periods outside of quotation marks: It's British practice; I just happen to prefer it over the American practice. Don't worry: I'm sure an actual error slipped through somewhere.;-)
Slashdot Mirror
"Legal where?"
Post says "How is your country balancing the need." So the "where" is "wherever you are."
If you need something more specific than that, I'll have to wait till Slashdot gives me that location data I paid them for.
... as in "destroy them"!
...
Destroy them!
"Although there is no money in Amazon's community banana stands"
That's ridiculous. There's always money in the banana stand.
I think you missed the sarcasm/irony of the original post... If I really felt that those systems were untrustworthy/useless/etc., why would I care about modding?
(Please mod this comment up.)
I mean, isn't this what Mr. Fusion is for?
Technically, we don't know that this isn't the case. Look at the article again:
Correct me if I'm mistaken, but the article doesn't say anything about how many resumes were stolen or how the breach was discovered. The server had 1.6 million resumes available, but for all we know the program downloaded 200 of them before hitting a maximum download quota. I'm not saying that that's necessarily what happened; I'm just saying that we don't really know what happened without more information.
Check out the data they've gathered. They've already detected sailors fighting in a dance hall, and they believe they've found evidence of a lawman beating up the wrong guy.
Still, in large software projects or ones that might be maintained for years, it's best to avoid it entirely. You never know when the size of the array or size of the data will be carelessly changed, especially when the project is collaborative. It might seem like overkill in some cases -- such as when one line directly folows another as in your example -- but it certainly doesn't hurt to avoid strcpy.
#define BUF_SIZE 6
char buf[BUF_SIZE];
strmcpy(buf, "hello", BUF_SIZE);
Settle down, already. My initial reply didn't insult, accuse, or attack you in any way: It just stated a fact. My second reply was a bit more frustrated, but it didn't stoop to insults or name-calling. If you want to lower yourself to that over a simple miscommunication, that's your problem.
And that's all I have to say about that...
Complaining that something is badly supported and complaining that something doesn't exist aren't the same thing, and my telepathy isn't strong enough to pick up what you meant to say.
These have existed for years:
http://www.w3.org/People/Raggett/tidy/
http://validator.w3.org/
http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/
All of these are front-page links at w3.org.
Is not!
Open-sourcing an original song might make sense, but I'm not sure about a parody. Even though parody is protected under the first amendment, Al generally gets permission and credits the writers of the original music (or words for his polkas), which makes me wonder if they get a small cut of it.
My understanding has always been that the basic principle to relativity is that all frames of reference are equally valid, regardless of velocity. If you're in a spaceship then that is your frame of reference and from your perspective moving at 0 velocity. Light moves at velocity c from your frame of reference. However, to an observer that sees you moving at the speed of light, the photon on your ship sees it travelling at W = (v + w) / (1 + vw/c^2) where v is your velocity (c) and w is the photon's velocity (also c) meaning W = (c + c) / (1 + cc/c^2) = 2c/(1 + 1) = 2c/2 = c. In other words, even if you appear to be moving at the speed of light to an observer, your frame of reference is still valid, and you still see light moving at the speed of light compared to you. Of course, the time dilation is so severe (t' = t/(1-v^2/c^2)^0.5 = t/(1-c^2/c^2)^0.5 = t/(1-1)^0.5 = t/0 = undefined or infinite) that you appear not to be experiencing time to your observer. Of course, this is only fair since he appears to be moving at the speed of light from your perspective and does not appear to be experiencing time either.
I'm not a physicist either, but I did stay in a Holiday Inn Express last night.
What's that?
A good idea, but it doesn't fix the problem of printing in frames. True, you can select "This frame only" in the dialog, but this is awkward (especially for new users), since you have to make sure the frame you want is the active one first. Adding this to the context menu for frames would make this far simpler.
Seriouly, how often do you print?
Speaking for myself, I'd probably average at least once a week, frequently more. Usually bank transfers, driving directions, etc., but any variety of things. (Intersting articles to read away from my computer, song lyrics I want to put with a CD, etc.)
it's under file - print.
That was my first thought too, but real-world applications include printing pop-up windows (without having previously memorized the key combination) or printing in a full-screen or kiosk mode. More commonly, printing a frame is far more natural through right-clicking rather than making sure the frame is the active one before going to the "Print" dialog. As far as customization goes, doesn't it make more sense to design for the users who don't know how to add/remove/customize these things? The advanced users could remove it if it irritated them, but really, how is this less basic than "View Background Image"?
I was thinking something along the same lines. Most pages tend to have a few people who regularly revisit and repair them... What if pages (or even categories) were assigned a group of two or three "page managers" who have to review changes before they're committed? It sounds like a huge project to elect these... But what if they started by picking the top three or four non-anonymous posters for a particular article (and possibly the article's creator), and then provided a way of requesting that a manager be added, deleted, or replaced? (Of course, there would have to be a way for the managers to accept, lest all of them had wandered off, never to edit Wikipedia again.) It would probably be messy for a little while things got started, but it might be able to work long-term.
(All of these are paraphrased:)
"And there was this horrible sound like... DING!"
"Dr. Fred is all tied up in red tape... Literally!"
"The hundred-dollar guy... I like the sound of that!"
"Who's Mike Cords and why does he need to be tied down?"
"Oh, yeah, I forgot... He's incredibly evil, isn't he?"
"How does a tentacle use a bowling ball?"
"You must be the homeliest homo-sapien I've ever seen!"
"Isn't it hard for a tentacle to get into that bean bag?" "Getting in is easy... It's getting out that's the hard part."
"I could use [the hamster] in the band. You know, we could, like, bite its head off or something..."
"I've never tested it on people before!"
"I only chop down cherry trees. Family tradition, you know."
"I guess I should just kill myself then!"
"Yoo-hoo... Mister tentacle guy!"
"'George says everyone should have a vacuum cleaner in the basement.'" (Hancock reading what he believes to be a suggestion for the Constitution.)
"Excuse, me mister..." "Mister Hammer of the Gods?" "Hey, I've read that book!"
"1976. 1985. Oooh... 1967!"
"How about we make [the U.S. flag] just like the British flag, but upside down to cheese 'em off?"
"And then what?"
"And then what?"
"And then what?"
BTW, why was the parent modded "Troll"? Did he offend someone who dislikes these games?
I still love the SCUMM games like Maniac Mansion, Day of the Tentacle, and Sam & Max Hit the Road. The multiple-endings idea in particular in particular was brilliant (even though that aspect was limited to Maniac Mansion). It ticked me off when I couldn't get them to play on XP... (Even with 98, I had to "reboot in DOS mode" and pull a few other tricks to get them to play.)
The great thing is, with ScummVM, you can play them on Linux, Windows, Mac, BeOS, and even a Palm or Pocket PC! I just recently re-played Day of the Tentacle on my Treo. Worked great, except for some sound problems. It does take a bit of configuration to get it going on some systems, but it's well worth it.
You do have to have the original CD or floppies that the games came on, so make sure that you dig those out before you bother with the install... but once you dig those out, you'll be microwaving hamsters in no time!
I'd have to say that misspellings and grammatical errors eat away at the credibility of anything that I'm reading, Slashdot comments included. However, I do recognize that a lot of times people who know better will slip and either simply press the wrong key or transpose words in their mind, but will recognize the error when it is pointed out. (I've had more than one e-mail where someone has quoted my original message, and I'll cringe at an error that I made that they may not have even noticed.)
I do believe that it's important for people to be able to recognize their errors like this, and this means paying attention, and, as some others have suggested, reading. Not just reading on the Internet, where proofreading is often given low priority (sometimes even for respectable journals), but reading print, including books, magazines, etc.
One particularly great guide is Paul Brians' "Common Errors of English Usage", available online at http://www.wsu.edu/~brians/errors/ or in print at Amazon.com. It shows, not only improper usage, but many instances of proper usage that are incorrectly assailed by would-be nitpickers.
Personally, I'm trying to fight a one-man war to restore the proper usage of "where're/where are" in plural items... ("Where're the kids" -- not "where's the kids".) Drives me crazy every time I hear this one, and twice as crazy every time I find myself using it.
Oh, and for anyone planing to nitpick my use of periods outside of quotation marks: It's British practice; I just happen to prefer it over the American practice. Don't worry: I'm sure an actual error slipped through somewhere. ;-)