Why is this overrated? Article proudly announces "100% undetectable". Well, I just gave an example of how it could be detected, so the article is wrong.
A teacher could probably be fired for badmouthing students on his blog, while a student should not be expelled for similarly disparaging remarks about his teachers. Why is that? Teachers can legally change professions. Students cannot legally quit school. Teachers are generally held to a higher standard of conduct and they should be.
He's not asking for any special protection because he's blogging rather than engaging in other forms of speech. He just wants the protections granted to speech in any medium. And it looks like he's not getting these protections.
When a student makes statements that are (1) outside school hours, (2) off school property, (3) not associated with any school activities, then yes, the student has a great deal of liberty as to what he can say and do. Correspondingly, the administrators have very little say in what he can do in such circumstances. The notion of avoiding "disruption" is unlikely to fly here either. If they can control criticisms of the school in an environment completely outside of school authority, then they can pretty much dictate anything that students do.
A threat must be direct and immediate for it to fall outside of first amendment restrictions. His "threats" are vague, indirect, and unlikely to result in any real consequences.
XML is easier to program with and debug. When things go wrong, and they always do eventually, it's really nice to be able to just open up the failing object in a text editor rather than having to piece it apart in a hex editor or relying on a tool specialized for that format that could introduce its own problems.
I have a degree in math and CS and I hardly ever use anything I learned in math for software development. Maybe simple sums and if things are getting really advanced I'll divide by the number of elements for an average. For that matter, I rarely use anything I learned in CS either, past the sophomore year anyway.
The vast majority of software, at least that I've come across, is just moving data around. Certainly, more complex software development exists, such as in the financial services sector. And we rarely have to get into the details of how complex data structures work because we always rely on libraries. Again, I'm sure there are exceptions, but from what I've seen of the work I've come across and that has been done by other developers I know, little is used of school knowledge.
That said, development isn't easy either. You have to be able to pick up new and weird APIs fairly quickly and find creative ways around asinine constraints. I'm just not seeing much in the way of school knowledge used though.
Add hidden variables to submission forms that change everyday. This will force the bot software to do pagescraping for your specific webforum, which probably isn't worth their time. They will go to the easier targets first.
But if they are defeating captcha, there is probably someone who just sits there manually spamming forums through anonymous proxies. The amount of money that can be made by doing this spamming is probably enough to pay people with lower standards of living to just do it manually. And if that's so, there's just no way to get around it. I started logging how many bots the captcha and hidden variables were catching, and it was tons. Still, I get spammers. Just not nearly as many.
That's not what I get when I put those URLs in the form provided. Of course, it's possible someone in the military is customizing the filter. What I get:
The proper norm for language is communication. If the norms can be loosened with no loss to communication, then all the better. I am also in favor of changing norms to be more orthogonal, such as putting the ending quote before the period at the end of a sentence. Why do it the other way? Because you learned it in English class? At any point we can question what makes the existing rules of grammar so great. Tradition and custom are weak reasons for continuing to break orthogonality.
Though this may not apply to you, I find it amusing that so many that are sticklers for English rules also highly value Shakespeare's writing. Shakespeare abused the already loose rules of English that applied at the time.
Freedom of speech is not the same as a right to hide sources. I don't think "freedom from divulging sources engaged in illegal activities" really counts as freedom of speech. Sure you can say anything you want, but that doesn't necessarily give you the right to hide illegal activities.
The people making this report have a different idea of what free press is than here. Many of those countries at the top would jail anyone who ran a Nazi or otherwise racist publication. In the US, you have the right to free speech not just when it's popular, but even if it's not.
Next, applications? I'm not sure how they'll deal with developer machines, but then again, that problem should apply for drivers too. It's not really a slippery slope. They've been doing it on the xbox for years, after all. It's not so much the money as the control they have to vet everything that can run on their system.
I never realized before why URLs wouldn't show up in the status bar on fark. After reading your comment, though, I allowed javascript to change the status bar and the issue was fixed. I think in the case of fark they aren't trying to be sneaky so much as user-friendly. The redirect URLs are unreadable because of the URL-encoding of the link destination. I don't particularly care that fark knows when I click an external link from their site, but I do enjoy the ability to see a readable URL by hovering over links with the mouse.
You don't drive piles in manhattan, shit just bottoms out on rock so fast it hurts. Spread footings, caissons with rock sockets, that's what you use.
It must depend where you are in Manhattan. When I worked in the financial district a neighboring 50 story building under construction required weeks of driving I-beams into the ground vertically. The ceaseless bangs of each...successive...pound are pretty difficult to forget. The beams must have been at least 50 ft each.
it's amazing you guys delude yourself into believing you can seriously compete with one of the largest corporations in the world.
Who is "we"? IBM, Novell, Red Hat? It's not david v. goliath anymore. Many very large corporations want to humble Microsoft. Being able to leverage its OS is a serious advantage these corporations would rather it didn't have.
just because you can bang out some obscure computer code, or deal with archaic unix-like systems, doesn't mean you're qualified to make business decisions, nor act like gods.
Well that's where Gates got his start anyway.
do you think people give a fuck about "free" software, when it's five years too old, has 25% functionality, no real commercial support, and impossible to use?
Even if these accusations were true, you have to remember that DOS/Windows took a while to catch up with its contemporaries. But people didn't care. They wanted cheap and functional. Turning to today, if MS has to compete on price with linux they lose.
Well I'm one of those "strawmen" I guess, but I still see no weight in the original poster's argument. Why should I have to create popular works to have a valid position against copyright? Part of the reason I don't spend countless hours creating a tomb of words is because I don't believe in copyright protection. Even if I did create something of worth, I could not sleep well at night if I made my living off of royalties.
The original poster is trying to twist this debate around into a false dichotomy between forcing authors to collect royalties against their will, and allowing them to do so if they choose. The third and correct choice is to eliminate copyright.
Why would I be against copyright (and patents)? There are many reasons, I'll name a few. It goes against the spirit of capitalism, allowing corporations to put barriers around competition. It inflates the value of items beyond what they need be. It's unnecessary. If copyright ceased to exist society would still function just fine. The artists are already getting screwed. Most artists chase dreams of becoming rich, but very few even make enough to live off of. For the vast majority of artists, then, nothing would change. As someone else pointed out in this thread, there is a surfeit of works being created.
As my Representative [...snip...] on Thursday, November 3rd, 2005.
My chief worry is that the universal restrictions proposed by the content makers will cripple the use of home electronics and computers. In order to enforce "digital rights", proposals such as the "ANALOG CONTENT SECURITY PRESERVATION ACT OF 2005" will require any hardware or software without certain restrictions to be outlawed. However, such built in restrictions are fundamentally opposed to "open source" operating systems that have been gaining popularity in recent years. In an open operating system, restrictions can easily be removed by anyone, and so the free open software contributed by thousands worldwide will become illegal under the proposals suggested by the content providers.
I happen to be a user and supporter of such operating systems, and have already long been under the shadow of legislation pushed through by the MPAA and RIAA. For example, I have no legal means of playing DVDs under the operating system I choose to use. Software has been written and published that allows me to play DVDs, but due to the DMCA is illegal in the US. So I must go without. This is bad enough, but the proposed legislation would make all software created by volunteers and released without restrictions to become illegal.
The RIAA and MPAA make it seem that the only ones who would want unfettered access to the working of their hardware and software are pirates. This is untrue. Those programming free and open software that is unrestricted by its nature would suddenly have their work outlawed, despite having previously broken no laws. I urge you to oppose such unreasonable restrictions on my behalf. Thank you.
I know it sounds crazy, but if space is really at a premium, some places might want to consider water cooling their racks. Create one long set of tubing and water blocks that snakes through each blade, use a high GPM water pump, and get that radiator right in front of the AC unit. Or create a water resistant radiator/fan setup and put it outside. It might be hotter outside than inside, but it should still be more efficient than an AC since ACs effectively create heat gradients with the help of electricity. I imagine getting the whole setup outside would make it more efficient, though I don't know enough about thermodynamics to be sure.
I use this same example when making a point about sequences. When someone gives a bunch of numbers and asks "What comes next in the sequence?" my answer is "Anything I want. All sequences are underdetermined." To think otherwise is to miss an important fact about induction.
Anyway, the answer is 34 because they are all subways stop in Manhattan. Next would be 34, and then 14.
It's enough two keep a dual CPU rig cool, and is indeed quite silent. Of course, the effect will be ruined if your motherboard has a chipset fan, which are inevitably noisy. Most PCIEx boards have their chipset right under the video card, making water block placement problematic. I found a waterblock that fit, but I had to fashion my own fastener to give the video card room to fit in the slot. If anyone is interested, here are some pics of my own setup, back when the choices were blue or blue.
I should also mention that the reserator is highly sensitive to room temperature changes. If the room increases temp by a few degrees celcius, so will your water.
One thing I really like about onslaught is that long range movement is delegated to vehicles. CTF turned into 20 teleporters streaking every which way and that just took the fun out of it. They now have vehicle CTF, but I think it still allows teleporters.
I know it's Unreal Tournament, and so it doesn't have to be realistic, but teleporters are solving a problem that doesn't exist anymore with vehicles available.
For Linux, the emu10k1 (SB Live!, Audigy) chip is one of the few that supports hardware mixing out of the box. Until linux apps all standardize on the same sound server, or until the kernel starts doing its own mixing, this will be a huge selling point.
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Why is this overrated? Article proudly announces "100% undetectable". Well, I just gave an example of how it could be detected, so the article is wrong.
Can't you just take the hard drive out, mount it from another computer, and see all the malicious DLLs the rootkit was trying to hide from you?
A teacher could probably be fired for badmouthing students on his blog, while a student should not be expelled for similarly disparaging remarks about his teachers. Why is that? Teachers can legally change professions. Students cannot legally quit school. Teachers are generally held to a higher standard of conduct and they should be.
He's not asking for any special protection because he's blogging rather than engaging in other forms of speech. He just wants the protections granted to speech in any medium. And it looks like he's not getting these protections.
When a student makes statements that are (1) outside school hours, (2) off school property, (3) not associated with any school activities, then yes, the student has a great deal of liberty as to what he can say and do. Correspondingly, the administrators have very little say in what he can do in such circumstances. The notion of avoiding "disruption" is unlikely to fly here either. If they can control criticisms of the school in an environment completely outside of school authority, then they can pretty much dictate anything that students do.
A threat must be direct and immediate for it to fall outside of first amendment restrictions. His "threats" are vague, indirect, and unlikely to result in any real consequences.
XML is easier to program with and debug. When things go wrong, and they always do eventually, it's really nice to be able to just open up the failing object in a text editor rather than having to piece it apart in a hex editor or relying on a tool specialized for that format that could introduce its own problems.
I have a degree in math and CS and I hardly ever use anything I learned in math for software development. Maybe simple sums and if things are getting really advanced I'll divide by the number of elements for an average. For that matter, I rarely use anything I learned in CS either, past the sophomore year anyway.
The vast majority of software, at least that I've come across, is just moving data around. Certainly, more complex software development exists, such as in the financial services sector. And we rarely have to get into the details of how complex data structures work because we always rely on libraries. Again, I'm sure there are exceptions, but from what I've seen of the work I've come across and that has been done by other developers I know, little is used of school knowledge.
That said, development isn't easy either. You have to be able to pick up new and weird APIs fairly quickly and find creative ways around asinine constraints. I'm just not seeing much in the way of school knowledge used though.
But to be fair that was nearly three years ago.
Add hidden variables to submission forms that change everyday. This will force the bot software to do pagescraping for your specific webforum, which probably isn't worth their time. They will go to the easier targets first.
But if they are defeating captcha, there is probably someone who just sits there manually spamming forums through anonymous proxies. The amount of money that can be made by doing this spamming is probably enough to pay people with lower standards of living to just do it manually. And if that's so, there's just no way to get around it. I started logging how many bots the captcha and hidden variables were catching, and it was tons. Still, I get spammers. Just not nearly as many.
Because peanuts can kill those with allergies. I don't think stumbling across a pornographic website can have quite the same effect.
That's not what I get when I put those URLs in the form provided. Of course, it's possible someone in the military is customizing the filter. What I get:
URL1: HTTP://WWW.BILLOREILLY.COM
V4 - Entertainment/Recreation/Hobbies, Politics/Opinion
3.x Premier - Entertainment, Politics/Religion
URL2: HTTP://WWW.AIRAMERICARADIO.COM
V4 - General News
3.x Premier - Gen. News
URL3: HTTP://WWW.RUSHLIMBAUGH.COM
V4 - Politics/Opinion
3.x Premier - Politics/Religion
URL4: HTTP://WWW.ALFRANKENSHOW.COM
V4 - Not Categorized
3.x Premier - Not Categorized
URL5: HTTP://WWW.LIDDYSHOW.US
V4 - Provocative Attire, Politics/Opinion, Weapons
3.x Premier - Politics/Religion, Mature
URL1: HTTP://WWW.DONANDMIKEWEBSITE.COM
V4 - Entertainment/Recreation/Hobbies, Profanity
3.x Premier - Entertainment, Mature
The proper norm for language is communication. If the norms can be loosened with no loss to communication, then all the better. I am also in favor of changing norms to be more orthogonal, such as putting the ending quote before the period at the end of a sentence. Why do it the other way? Because you learned it in English class? At any point we can question what makes the existing rules of grammar so great. Tradition and custom are weak reasons for continuing to break orthogonality.
Though this may not apply to you, I find it amusing that so many that are sticklers for English rules also highly value Shakespeare's writing. Shakespeare abused the already loose rules of English that applied at the time.
Freedom of speech is not the same as a right to hide sources. I don't think "freedom from divulging sources engaged in illegal activities" really counts as freedom of speech. Sure you can say anything you want, but that doesn't necessarily give you the right to hide illegal activities.
The people making this report have a different idea of what free press is than here. Many of those countries at the top would jail anyone who ran a Nazi or otherwise racist publication. In the US, you have the right to free speech not just when it's popular, but even if it's not.
Next, applications? I'm not sure how they'll deal with developer machines, but then again, that problem should apply for drivers too. It's not really a slippery slope. They've been doing it on the xbox for years, after all. It's not so much the money as the control they have to vet everything that can run on their system.
I never realized before why URLs wouldn't show up in the status bar on fark. After reading your comment, though, I allowed javascript to change the status bar and the issue was fixed. I think in the case of fark they aren't trying to be sneaky so much as user-friendly. The redirect URLs are unreadable because of the URL-encoding of the link destination. I don't particularly care that fark knows when I click an external link from their site, but I do enjoy the ability to see a readable URL by hovering over links with the mouse.
Actually I hear that brothels in Nevada give kickbacks to cabbies from Vegas. So this wouldn't be entirely new.
You don't drive piles in manhattan, shit just bottoms out on rock so fast it hurts. Spread footings, caissons with rock sockets, that's what you use.
It must depend where you are in Manhattan. When I worked in the financial district a neighboring 50 story building under construction required weeks of driving I-beams into the ground vertically. The ceaseless bangs of each...successive...pound are pretty difficult to forget. The beams must have been at least 50 ft each.
it's amazing you guys delude yourself into believing you can seriously compete with one of the largest corporations in the world.
Who is "we"? IBM, Novell, Red Hat? It's not david v. goliath anymore. Many very large corporations want to humble Microsoft. Being able to leverage its OS is a serious advantage these corporations would rather it didn't have.
just because you can bang out some obscure computer code, or deal with archaic unix-like systems, doesn't mean you're qualified to make business decisions, nor act like gods.
Well that's where Gates got his start anyway.
do you think people give a fuck about "free" software, when it's five years too old, has 25% functionality, no real commercial support, and impossible to use?
Even if these accusations were true, you have to remember that DOS/Windows took a while to catch up with its contemporaries. But people didn't care. They wanted cheap and functional. Turning to today, if MS has to compete on price with linux they lose.
Well I'm one of those "strawmen" I guess, but I still see no weight in the original poster's argument. Why should I have to create popular works to have a valid position against copyright? Part of the reason I don't spend countless hours creating a tomb of words is because I don't believe in copyright protection. Even if I did create something of worth, I could not sleep well at night if I made my living off of royalties.
The original poster is trying to twist this debate around into a false dichotomy between forcing authors to collect royalties against their will, and allowing them to do so if they choose. The third and correct choice is to eliminate copyright.
Why would I be against copyright (and patents)? There are many reasons, I'll name a few. It goes against the spirit of capitalism, allowing corporations to put barriers around competition. It inflates the value of items beyond what they need be. It's unnecessary. If copyright ceased to exist society would still function just fine. The artists are already getting screwed. Most artists chase dreams of becoming rich, but very few even make enough to live off of. For the vast majority of artists, then, nothing would change. As someone else pointed out in this thread, there is a surfeit of works being created.
I know it sounds crazy, but if space is really at a premium, some places might want to consider water cooling their racks. Create one long set of tubing and water blocks that snakes through each blade, use a high GPM water pump, and get that radiator right in front of the AC unit. Or create a water resistant radiator/fan setup and put it outside. It might be hotter outside than inside, but it should still be more efficient than an AC since ACs effectively create heat gradients with the help of electricity. I imagine getting the whole setup outside would make it more efficient, though I don't know enough about thermodynamics to be sure.
I use this same example when making a point about sequences. When someone gives a bunch of numbers and asks "What comes next in the sequence?" my answer is "Anything I want. All sequences are underdetermined." To think otherwise is to miss an important fact about induction.
Anyway, the answer is 34 because they are all subways stop in Manhattan. Next would be 34, and then 14.
It's enough two keep a dual CPU rig cool, and is indeed quite silent. Of course, the effect will be ruined if your motherboard has a chipset fan, which are inevitably noisy. Most PCIEx boards have their chipset right under the video card, making water block placement problematic. I found a waterblock that fit, but I had to fashion my own fastener to give the video card room to fit in the slot. If anyone is interested, here are some pics of my own setup, back when the choices were blue or blue.
I should also mention that the reserator is highly sensitive to room temperature changes. If the room increases temp by a few degrees celcius, so will your water.
One thing I really like about onslaught is that long range movement is delegated to vehicles. CTF turned into 20 teleporters streaking every which way and that just took the fun out of it. They now have vehicle CTF, but I think it still allows teleporters.
I know it's Unreal Tournament, and so it doesn't have to be realistic, but teleporters are solving a problem that doesn't exist anymore with vehicles available.
For Linux, the emu10k1 (SB Live!, Audigy) chip is one of the few that supports hardware mixing out of the box. Until linux apps all standardize on the same sound server, or until the kernel starts doing its own mixing, this will be a huge selling point.