Maybe they can't think of anything someone could do?
I actually considered this for one of my projects, but didn't because (a) by the time I heard about it on slashdot they'd already picked all the projects, and (b) I normally only accept code from people who've proved their ability first... letting a student have free reign is damn scary.
IMDB us useless as a resource.. anyone can edit it, and they frequently do. I wouldn't read anything into stuff written there, any more than I do slashdot.
Davros would be too fanwanky to appear really.. RTD so far hasn't used any characters from the previous series (except the Daleks). The hot favourites at the moment are the Metaltron or the other bloke he chucked out of the tardis with the entire Satellite 5 database in his head.
David Tennent is in this weeks episode according to Radio Times (which *is* accurate). If the regeneration isn't happening until christmas then it could well be another watcher.
He was going to switch anyway and just wanted a pretext.
Writing a question like that in the code is commonplace - you'd probably find the same in openbsd. It's a note from one developer to another.. 'this works but I think it could be done better, take a look at it sometime'.
Heck, I write comments like that in my *own* code sometimes just to remind me to come back to it when there's time or other code has been changed to do it in a better way.
Telling management that the code is outdated and you need to rewrite is the hardest thing in the world.. I'm glad I (mostly) work for myself now.
I had one manager nod, even call a meeting designing the 'new' structure, planning how long it would take, etc.. then 2 days later call us all stupid to our faces for even suggesting it (denying that the meeting that we'd all been at had actually happened, or that he'd *ever* been in favour of change).
6 months later the company lost a 6 figure contract because the pile of crap they hadn't changed couldn't keep up any more.
You don't get upset when someone points out a bug in your code?
I know I do... I don't get angry as such (except with myself). I'll occasionally go into denial 'it works for everyone else.. must be something special about your system!'... still at the end of the day it needs fixing even if it's stupid and I should have caught it earlier.
It's hard to work on code all day every day and not have a certain amount of emotional investment in it. How you react to that is a measure of maturity.. I'm not so sure it's a good measure of how 'good' an engineer you are. Your code should do that.
(f/x: looks at code) umm... OTOH maybe measuring purely by code isn't such a good idea...
a flaw in NTFS, even if the code is working exactly as it is supposed to
bzzzt. Wrong.
Security must be multilayered. *assume* the information you're getting is full of crap and defend accordingly.
If NTFS can be spoofed by trusting some other subsysten the there *is* a bug in NTFS.
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oil comes from fossilized plant matter pressurized over millions of years. the moon never supported life, therefore, no oil.
Actually that's far from certain, and a number of scientists now believe that oil is not in fact a fossil fuel.
What that says about the possibility of oil on the moon I don't know... I'm not well up on the theory and whether it actually requires living matter or not (TBH I mostly know about it from slashdot!).
For the most part you can remove the problem. Block *all* executable attachments and scripts at the mailserver. If they want to send an executable, then need to zip it. In my experience users have no trouble understanding that.
This works extremely well (kept a couple of places I was at virus free for years without any other effort) but lately viruses have started hiding themselves in zip files.
Since things like Norton and McAfee are often behind the curve with their virus definitions there's still a small risk from those zipped viruses.. it's a small risk but it's there.
At one place I worked all the machines were installed with slipstreamed 'corpfiles' hacked versions to avoid this. We had licenses for all the machines, but reactivating 10 times a week got old very fast (especially for the test machines, which were rebuilt in different configurations and reimaged constantly).
So, to sum up... we already saw this in the 80's. And you see where it evolved to?.. it evolved into the console market today, where there are 3 or 4 competing 'platforms' and your PS2 games won't run on the XBox.
I wouldn't go back to the old days when you had to push a trolley around a supermarket and carry 15 heavy bags home.. Nooooo way.
Every month I get everything I need right to my door. Since I get most of the same things each month it only takes a few minutes the edit the previous months' order and make any changes.
I still like to wander around meatspace occasionally looking at items worth buying, but since I can get most stuff cheaper on the internet I generally don't bother.
Good compilers won't inline when compiled debug for this reason...
If you put things like that into a header file it really screws up Visual Studio though.. it hangs for about 5 minutes then brings up a 'which one of these 50,000 invocations of this function do you want to step into becuase I duhhh forgot' dialog.
PSP is still only available in the US an Japan, and from what I hear even then in limited numbers.
Meanwhile the DS has been available worldwide since January, and the shelves are full of them. Unless the PSP is a *hell* of a lot better than the DS it really isn't going to make any traction in the rest of the world now... that's a big market to be throwing away.
Unsurprisingly I've never seen any PSP software (the US software wouldn't work anyway... Sony love region-locking their stuff..) so it's a no brainer software wise.
Indeed I was a bit shocked reading that... if the US freedom of speach laws allow someone to say *anything* then surely they become self defeating.. some opinions are judged by society to be too disgusting to own.
Some kinds of speech are banned in most countries - incitement to riot, incitement to religious hatred. Other kinds make crimes worse... if you shout something racist then beat someone up that's a racially motivated crime (uber long prison sentence) but if you do it quietly that's just mugging (6 months if you're unlucky).
I'm sure if someone started preaching from a pulpit about how it was every christians duty to kill the president he'd find himself in a urine soaked cell in gitmo within a couple of hours, even in the US.
You can't put libraries inside an OSX app without ugly hacks manually updating LD_LIBRARY_PATH, and if you have multiple executables to run that isn't going to work.. for proper installation they need to go in/usr/lib or/usr/local/lib, with your binary in/usr/bin just like any other applicaiton/
The idea of using directories as apps was done years ago in with RiscOS. It only works for very simple applications with one entrypoint, but if you have a larger application it just doesn't work to do that - you need a proper installer.
That's why if you install most Apple programs they don't in fact use the drag/drop metaphor at all - they install to fixed places on the hard disk like any other installer.
apt is a killer feature because it's the best installation system out therem and does a great job.
Windows has about 50 competing ones, and no central repository to get libraries etc. so you end up having to search all over the net for the runtimes.
OSX only has on 'sort of' installer, but doesn't support uninstall which makes it kinda useless. It has exactly the same library issues as any other OS. It is after all just Unix with a GUI. (try running an app compiled under gcc4 on osx 10.3 for example... they renamed libstdc++ and it's not available as a package, so you have to find a copy, download it, su then put it into the system manually... not so user friendly.).
Debian mostly does that, but you probably have to update a bit more often than the stable releases.
I only ever install debian when first setting up a machine. All the rest of the time it gets periodically updated via apt.. don't even need to reboot.
You can make windows last a year? Wow... I'm averaging 3 months and that's even not using outlook or IE and having all the AV/Anti-scumware stuff available running every night.
Less, actually. It was to shrink the commission slighly and give the Parliament more power to veto stupid ideas.
With the parliament actually having teeth rather than being a nod in the general direction of democracy, the national governments complained because they might have some of their more stupid ideas overruled - they're more used to controlling the commission and getting things done that way.
It's this last point which had some of the anti-EU types up in arms... they'd rather an unelected commission than a parliament with power.
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Maybe they can't think of anything someone could do?
I actually considered this for one of my projects, but didn't because (a) by the time I heard about it on slashdot they'd already picked all the projects, and (b) I normally only accept code from people who've proved their ability first... letting a student have free reign is damn scary.
IMDB us useless as a resource.. anyone can edit it, and they frequently do. I wouldn't read anything into stuff written there, any more than I do slashdot.
Davros would be too fanwanky to appear really.. RTD so far hasn't used any characters from the previous series (except the Daleks). The hot favourites at the moment are the Metaltron or the other bloke he chucked out of the tardis with the entire Satellite 5 database in his head.
David Tennent is in this weeks episode according to Radio Times (which *is* accurate). If the regeneration isn't happening until christmas then it could well be another watcher.
He was going to switch anyway and just wanted a pretext.
Writing a question like that in the code is commonplace - you'd probably find the same in openbsd. It's a note from one developer to another.. 'this works but I think it could be done better, take a look at it sometime'.
Heck, I write comments like that in my *own* code sometimes just to remind me to come back to it when there's time or other code has been changed to do it in a better way.
Given that the link is broken... I think they'd get off! :)
20 hours in prison?
Heck, I'll call it a day of..
Telling management that the code is outdated and you need to rewrite is the hardest thing in the world.. I'm glad I (mostly) work for myself now.
I had one manager nod, even call a meeting designing the 'new' structure, planning how long it would take, etc.. then 2 days later call us all stupid to our faces for even suggesting it (denying that the meeting that we'd all been at had actually happened, or that he'd *ever* been in favour of change).
6 months later the company lost a 6 figure contract because the pile of crap they hadn't changed couldn't keep up any more.
You don't get upset when someone points out a bug in your code?
I know I do... I don't get angry as such (except with myself). I'll occasionally go into denial 'it works for everyone else.. must be something special about your system!'... still at the end of the day it needs fixing even if it's stupid and I should have caught it earlier.
It's hard to work on code all day every day and not have a certain amount of emotional investment in it. How you react to that is a measure of maturity.. I'm not so sure it's a good measure of how 'good' an engineer you are. Your code should do that.
(f/x: looks at code) umm... OTOH maybe measuring purely by code isn't such a good idea...
a flaw in NTFS, even if the code is working exactly as it is supposed to
bzzzt. Wrong.
Security must be multilayered. *assume* the information you're getting is full of crap and defend accordingly.
If NTFS can be spoofed by trusting some other subsysten the there *is* a bug in NTFS.
oil comes from fossilized plant matter pressurized over millions of years. the moon never supported life, therefore, no oil.
Actually that's far from certain, and a number of scientists now believe that oil is not in fact a fossil fuel.
What that says about the possibility of oil on the moon I don't know... I'm not well up on the theory and whether it actually requires living matter or not (TBH I mostly know about it from slashdot!).
For the most part you can remove the problem. Block *all* executable attachments and scripts at the mailserver. If they want to send an executable, then need to zip it. In my experience users have no trouble understanding that.
This works extremely well (kept a couple of places I was at virus free for years without any other effort) but lately viruses have started hiding themselves in zip files.
Since things like Norton and McAfee are often behind the curve with their virus definitions there's still a small risk from those zipped viruses.. it's a small risk but it's there.
**Cause this is /. - I know he can't run again
Can't he? So even if you got a really great president (I'm not saying Clinton was, before people start flaming) he can never be reelected?
That's kinda sad...
At one place I worked all the machines were installed with slipstreamed 'corpfiles' hacked versions to avoid this. We had licenses for all the machines, but reactivating 10 times a week got old very fast (especially for the test machines, which were rebuilt in different configurations and reimaged constantly).
It is possible to buy DVD players that'll convert on the fly, but they tend to be expensive or have lousy video quality in the conversion.
I call bullshit. MPEG is MPEG.
I've watched almost nothing but Region 1 DVDs on my PAL player with *zero* picture degradation.
It was cheap too.
So, to sum up... we already saw this in the 80's. And you see where it evolved to? .. it evolved into the console market today, where there are 3 or 4 competing 'platforms' and your PS2 games won't run on the XBox.
I don't call that a nightmare.. I call it choice.
No need to a podcast to stay audio.
.mov files.
I can well imagine a future version of ipodder/itunes which allows you to podcast
I wouldn't go back to the old days when you had to push a trolley around a supermarket and carry 15 heavy bags home.. Nooooo way.
Every month I get everything I need right to my door. Since I get most of the same things each month it only takes a few minutes the edit the previous months' order and make any changes.
I still like to wander around meatspace occasionally looking at items worth buying, but since I can get most stuff cheaper on the internet I generally don't bother.
Good compilers won't inline when compiled debug for this reason...
If you put things like that into a header file it really screws up Visual Studio though.. it hangs for about 5 minutes then brings up a 'which one of these 50,000 invocations of this function do you want to step into becuase I duhhh forgot' dialog.
Heck, even debian might release an amd64 official port one day (give 'em time though it's only been 2 years since every other linux vendor did it).
Anyone realeasing after that must *really* be behind the curve!
They're doing a damned good job of killing it..
PSP is still only available in the US an Japan, and from what I hear even then in limited numbers.
Meanwhile the DS has been available worldwide since January, and the shelves are full of them. Unless the PSP is a *hell* of a lot better than the DS it really isn't going to make any traction in the rest of the world now... that's a big market to be throwing away.
Unsurprisingly I've never seen any PSP software (the US software wouldn't work anyway... Sony love region-locking their stuff..) so it's a no brainer software wise.
Indeed I was a bit shocked reading that... if the US freedom of speach laws allow someone to say *anything* then surely they become self defeating.. some opinions are judged by society to be too disgusting to own.
Some kinds of speech are banned in most countries - incitement to riot, incitement to religious hatred. Other kinds make crimes worse... if you shout something racist then beat someone up that's a racially motivated crime (uber long prison sentence) but if you do it quietly that's just mugging (6 months if you're unlucky).
I'm sure if someone started preaching from a pulpit about how it was every christians duty to kill the president he'd find himself in a urine soaked cell in gitmo within a couple of hours, even in the US.
Only in the US though. In most of the world the itrip is strictly illegal (be careful if you're visiting over here).
You can't put libraries inside an OSX app without ugly hacks manually updating LD_LIBRARY_PATH, and if you have multiple executables to run that isn't going to work.. for proper installation they need to go in /usr/lib or /usr/local/lib, with your binary in /usr/bin just like any other applicaiton/
The idea of using directories as apps was done years ago in with RiscOS. It only works for very simple applications with one entrypoint, but if you have a larger application it just doesn't work to do that - you need a proper installer.
That's why if you install most Apple programs they don't in fact use the drag/drop metaphor at all - they install to fixed places on the hard disk like any other installer.
apt is a killer feature because it's the best installation system out therem and does a great job.
Windows has about 50 competing ones, and no central repository to get libraries etc. so you end up having to search all over the net for the runtimes.
OSX only has on 'sort of' installer, but doesn't support uninstall which makes it kinda useless. It has exactly the same library issues as any other OS. It is after all just Unix with a GUI. (try running an app compiled under gcc4 on osx 10.3 for example... they renamed libstdc++ and it's not available as a package, so you have to find a copy, download it, su then put it into the system manually... not so user friendly.).
Debian mostly does that, but you probably have to update a bit more often than the stable releases.
I only ever install debian when first setting up a machine. All the rest of the time it gets periodically updated via apt.. don't even need to reboot.
You can make windows last a year? Wow... I'm averaging 3 months and that's even not using outlook or IE and having all the AV/Anti-scumware stuff available running every night.
Less, actually. It was to shrink the commission slighly and give the Parliament more power to veto stupid ideas.
With the parliament actually having teeth rather than being a nod in the general direction of democracy, the national governments complained because they might have some of their more stupid ideas overruled - they're more used to controlling the commission and getting things done that way.
It's this last point which had some of the anti-EU types up in arms... they'd rather an unelected commission than a parliament with power.