As far as I was taught, plagiarism means "copying verbatim" the *entire work* without giving a citation to the original author... he didn't copy verbatim, there *are* differences... albeit you have to look bloody hard to find them.
It's the difference between doing CTRL-C, CTRL-V and rewriting something very similar, but in your own words. The first is plagiarism, the second is not.
Otherwise you might as well accuse Tolkein of "plagiarising" Norse mythology.
Perhaps you could try doing things the old-fashioned way ?
i.e. actually saving up *first* for that house / car / appliances you want, instead of just joining the "me first, me now, credit, credit, credit" crowd running up debt and then moaning about it when you lose your job ?
But by your reasoning, the offspring of these imbeciles should be written off as fodder for whomever might exploit them because obviously they chose their parents.
Actually I can't see where I said anything remotely like that.
No one knows how to be a parent, there's no manual, you learn it as you go along. But like anything else, a big dose of common sense helps. Kids need supervision and guidance, and once you're confident they can handle something, then you let them go it alone.
But delegating all responsibility to the government because the parents are morons is not the way to do it. How about some education campaigns *for parents*, instead of trying to wrap the entire world in cotton wool ?
Like it or not, one of the biggest duties of a parent is to take responsibility for their child. That includes making sure they aren't hanging around in dodgy places, either in RL or in cyberspace.
Yes, like OpenDNS is *any* better behaved in that respect ?
Have a look at the "Refine Your Search" options on the right. The first few are probably valid alternative suggestions based on the spelling... but the last 7 are blatant Click-Thru revenue generators.
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So seems like *everyone* is basically evil, and it's just a case of "better the devil you know".
As a parent, I believe I have a right to determine who "mentors" my child.
Yes, exactly, it should be fucking YOU !!!
But instead, you plonk little Tommy or Tina in front of the PC, unsupervised, unprepared, and then complain about potential bad outside influences, neglecting your parental duties until the government takes over the responsibility YOU couldn't handle.
I don't know about you, but just about every old person I've known has reached a point somewhere or other where they have said "I'm ready to go, I'm tired, I've had enough".
Now I'm not advocating euthenasia or anything so extreme, but with age comes degeneration, both physical and mental, and for a lot of people, they are prisoners in their own bodeis, wracked with pain and only their daily cocktail of pills keep them functioning even to a limited degree.
But hell yes, Mr 23-Year-Old-I-Know-It-All thinks we should all "live forever". Wait till you've experience an elderly releative with Alzheimers who gets confused and frustrated because they can't remember what they were doing 5 minutes ago... or takes an hour to get up because every joint is locked in pain.
Look, the guy is holed up in a cave with a couple of goats in the middle of Nowhere, Pakistan (And still the US can't find him, but that's another lol). He has to send a runner with a cassette tape 500km to the Al Jazeera office every time he has a new fatwa to issue.
It's not like he's going to be updating his Facebook status very often.
Osama has updated his profile : Today I feel like crushing infidels. Fahid commented on Osama's post : lol habibi. Ahmed likes this. Mohammad pokes Osama. Osama has been busy in the kitchen and has cooked too many Kung Pao Chicken. Help him out on Cafe World. Osama has been downgraded to level 1 in Habbo Hotel, because he keeps blowing up his buildings (sorry, it slipped out).
As for the rest of the world, the signal to noise ratio is just too great for the Feebs to glean anything useful. Christ, I only have family and a few close friends on my FB, but the amount of drivel they post is unreal.
I'm on the bus going to town. I'm at town. I saw blah blah in town. Where ? At the coffee shop. I nearly said hello, but thought I'd tweet you instead. and so on, and so on...
typing *.cm instead of.cm is as simple as having an key that gets stuck ccasinally and nt nticing the typ. All it takes is a keybard that needs a good cleaning and a user that isn't paying enough attentin.
No, I'm not saying that at all, though I can see how you might interpret it that way.
Sorry, my attempt at summarizing your post might have been too glib.
The default install of any modern Linux distro includes access to a series of trusted repositories. Those repositories contain huge libraries of software that have been vetted out by the repository owners.
So we have to assume that the repository is safe, and the owner is savvy.
It's also VERY easy to install software from those repositories. And I'd venture to guess that there is a solution for about 90% of the things that your average user would ever want to do sitting in the repository, generally a half-dozen solutions.
And for the other 10% the user is *just* as exposed as any other OS user. Likewise, your 90% of things is based on the current, limited set of *nix* users who tend to do limited things. I'd like to bet a large subset are into coding, and install things like perl, php, ruby etc. The traditional packages that people download are well established and maintained with a good history and behaviour. As the system becomes more mainstream, more bad things will creep in.
I know on *my* previous attempt with Ubuntu, (yes I do keep trying every year to believe), I got stuck on finding a decent software for my TV card that would allow playback and recording simultaneously (without wanting to install 100 packages including MySQL, servers, clients and all sorts of gubbins)... MythTV, I'm looking at you. Once that chore passed the 12 hour mark still with no success, I gave up on Ubuntu again, and will maybe take another look in 2010.
And, unlike the current mess in the commercial world where Acrobat, Flash, Google Earth, your video drivers, etc either have to have their own updaters or you have to remember to check for updates manually, ALL of your installed software is kept up to date constantly with the latest security patches using a central updater. It is possible to get bad software on those repositories, but it's a smaller risk than going to random websites and installing software one at a time.
And it's very easy to keep all of your software at the latest, most secure versions.
Something like Windows Update, which we all know never goes wrong and bangs out bad paches that Black Screen your PC etc. There *are* a lot of times, I don't WANT Adobe pushing the latest 94MB update on me automatically, but when I do, going to their website is not that much of a chore.
Nethertheless, in the Windows world, they could never manage a repository for third-party software... there's simply too much stuff, and once they attempted any "vetting" of potential malware etc, they'd be up to their ears in lawsuits and accusations of being anti-competitive.
If you want to add a repository to do something different, it's relatively trivial, but is an extra step. Once that additional repository is installed and trusted, any software installed from that repository is also updated as soon as the author comes out with a new update. It is possible to find and add bad repositories, but again it's harder than installing one-offs.
Again with this "automatic trust" of A N Other repository... if *nix ever got a decent market share, how long do you think it'll be before "bad" repositories become the norm. Look at what happenned to the eMule / eDonkey search servers... for every good server, there was 20 bad ones pumping out malware.
The advantage of a repository model is that the user's default behavior (and the easiest way to do things) is directed toward the safest method for installing.
As the users become smart enough to handle installing software manually, they'll also have a better chance of understanding what they are doing.
Obviously, it's not a perfect solution. It's a significant iteration toward security, not a total guarantee of security.
If "God" wouldn't allow us to view the collisions, why did he allow us to climb down out of the trees and walk on two legs at all ?
Why I don't believe in "God", compact version.
You know we had a massive tropical storm here a couple of months ago, 8 to 10 foot of water outside, ground floor of the house completely flooded. As we were sat on the roof watching the water starting to recede, my neighbour said to me, "Thank God we're all safe". I replied, "Who the fuck you think sent us all the water ?".
I wouldn't say the entire registry, but it would be damned handy to know if *any* program was trying to add a startup vector, be it via the HKCU and HKLM run, runonce, runservice etc...
It would also prevent every damn progam adding it's own "auto-updater" systray widget grrrr...
It would also alleviate a lot of virus problems if the user was at least told "hey, program x wants to startup when you start your computer, are you sure you want to allow this ?".
Okay, but doesn't that strike you as a bit shortsighted ?
By focusing on improving just one aspect of "safety", i.e. launch, it simply means they have a better chance of getting into space, but the same lousy odds of exploding on re-entry ?
Shooting people into space in a glorified tin can should be a science they have mastered after 100+ missions... they managed to get a man on the moon in 11 tries back in the 70s.
So how about we create a tiny stirling engine and put it at the end of two gold plated cone shapes, one inside the other with a tiny tapering distance between them, and for good measure, enclosed in a vacuum ?
Wouldn't this allow the incoming light source to be trapped on 3 dimensions and focused down to a concentrated point ? Sure we couldn't see the rainbow any more, but the "light leakage" concerns would seem to be covered, and by the comments above, the only place the light could "go to" would be 100% into the heat collector end of the sitrling engine.
Multiply this up by thousands in an array, and you might have the next "solar collector" design.
No, my comment has been "cool-for-saled"... it's the Rickrolling of 2009.
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And it was you who said "has thousands of useful programs on it, which I use daily". Use, implying actively working with the program, not merely having it open and sitting the the background doing nothing.
Sure, you can have 25 applications open, but the human attention span is geared to be able to focus on the contents of one window at a time. Two at most if you count eyes and ears multitasking, but even then if you are *really* listening to a songm you will find it hard to *really* be reading also, and vice versa.
So sure, have a music player window running (audio), and be reading the contents of whatever other window (visual). It really doesn't invalidate my claim, merely gives you 86.4 seconds of suck instead of 43.2
Hey you just doubled Linux's productivity, congrats !
Ergo, you use each program on average for 43.2 seconds. Is this because they *all* suck, or you simply have the attention span of a concussed duckling ?
Black holes have been trapping light since the Big Bang (or "shortly afterwards" anyway, in cosmic terms).
I think God has prior art on that one. Once man can also trap gravity, strong and weak electromagnetic forces and time, I'll concede to your assertion.
Every time the light bounces off of whatever you have contained it in, it will lose a bit of energy. Since it's traveling at the speed of light, you'll have enormous numbers of bounces per second and they'll quickly sap all of the energy away from the beam
Interesting theory, but where does this energy go ? Is it converted to sound, heat, mass, or some other form ? It doesn't simply disappear, unless Albert Einstein was drunk when he postulated the theory of relativity !
And if we could completely "sap all the energy" away from the beam, wouldn't this imply we could create 100% effecient solar cells ?
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As far as I was taught, plagiarism means "copying verbatim" the *entire work* without giving a citation to the original author ... he didn't copy verbatim, there *are* differences ... albeit you have to look bloody hard to find them.
It's the difference between doing CTRL-C, CTRL-V and rewriting something very similar, but in your own words. The first is plagiarism, the second is not.
Otherwise you might as well accuse Tolkein of "plagiarising" Norse mythology.
Perhaps you could try doing things the old-fashioned way ?
i.e. actually saving up *first* for that house / car / appliances you want, instead of just joining the "me first, me now, credit, credit, credit" crowd running up debt and then moaning about it when you lose your job ?
But by your reasoning, the offspring of these imbeciles should be written off as fodder for whomever might exploit them because obviously they chose their parents.
Actually I can't see where I said anything remotely like that.
No one knows how to be a parent, there's no manual, you learn it as you go along. But like anything else, a big dose of common sense helps. Kids need supervision and guidance, and once you're confident they can handle something, then you let them go it alone.
But delegating all responsibility to the government because the parents are morons is not the way to do it. How about some education campaigns *for parents*, instead of trying to wrap the entire world in cotton wool ?
Like it or not, one of the biggest duties of a parent is to take responsibility for their child. That includes making sure they aren't hanging around in dodgy places, either in RL or in cyberspace.
What Do *I* Look For In a Conference?
The exit to the buffet / bar.
Yes, like OpenDNS is *any* better behaved in that respect ?
Have a look at the "Refine Your Search" options on the right. The first few are probably valid alternative suggestions based on the spelling ... but the last 7 are blatant Click-Thru revenue generators.
Was Fio
Was AIO
Was Fji
Homes for Sale
Apartments
Dating Services
Chat Rooms
Airline Tickets
Travel Guides
Las Vegas
So seems like *everyone* is basically evil, and it's just a case of "better the devil you know".
Pizza, isn't that simply "food delivered by car" ?
As a parent, I believe I have a right to determine who "mentors" my child.
Yes, exactly, it should be fucking YOU !!!
But instead, you plonk little Tommy or Tina in front of the PC, unsupervised, unprepared, and then complain about potential bad outside influences, neglecting your parental duties until the government takes over the responsibility YOU couldn't handle.
Oooh, so naive.
I don't know about you, but just about every old person I've known has reached a point somewhere or other where they have said "I'm ready to go, I'm tired, I've had enough".
Now I'm not advocating euthenasia or anything so extreme, but with age comes degeneration, both physical and mental, and for a lot of people, they are prisoners in their own bodeis, wracked with pain and only their daily cocktail of pills keep them functioning even to a limited degree.
But hell yes, Mr 23-Year-Old-I-Know-It-All thinks we should all "live forever". Wait till you've experience an elderly releative with Alzheimers who gets confused and frustrated because they can't remember what they were doing 5 minutes ago ... or takes an hour to get up because every joint is locked in pain.
Look, the guy is holed up in a cave with a couple of goats in the middle of Nowhere, Pakistan (And still the US can't find him, but that's another lol). He has to send a runner with a cassette tape 500km to the Al Jazeera office every time he has a new fatwa to issue.
It's not like he's going to be updating his Facebook status very often.
Osama has updated his profile : Today I feel like crushing infidels.
Fahid commented on Osama's post : lol habibi.
Ahmed likes this.
Mohammad pokes Osama.
Osama has been busy in the kitchen and has cooked too many Kung Pao Chicken. Help him out on Cafe World.
Osama has been downgraded to level 1 in Habbo Hotel, because he keeps blowing up his buildings (sorry, it slipped out).
As for the rest of the world, the signal to noise ratio is just too great for the Feebs to glean anything useful. Christ, I only have family and a few close friends on my FB, but the amount of drivel they post is unreal.
I'm on the bus going to town. ...
I'm at town.
I saw blah blah in town.
Where ?
At the coffee shop.
I nearly said hello, but thought I'd tweet you instead.
and so on, and so on
typing *.cm instead of .cm is as simple as having an key that gets stuck ccasinally and nt nticing the typ. All it takes is a keybard that needs a good cleaning and a user that isn't paying enough attentin.
FTFY ;-)
No, I'm not saying that at all, though I can see how you might interpret it that way.
Sorry, my attempt at summarizing your post might have been too glib.
The default install of any modern Linux distro includes access to a series of trusted repositories. Those repositories contain huge libraries of software that have been vetted out by the repository owners.
So we have to assume that the repository is safe, and the owner is savvy.
It's also VERY easy to install software from those repositories. And I'd venture to guess that there is a solution for about 90% of the things that your average user would ever want to do sitting in the repository, generally a half-dozen solutions.
And for the other 10% the user is *just* as exposed as any other OS user. Likewise, your 90% of things is based on the current, limited set of *nix* users who tend to do limited things. I'd like to bet a large subset are into coding, and install things like perl, php, ruby etc. The traditional packages that people download are well established and maintained with a good history and behaviour. As the system becomes more mainstream, more bad things will creep in.
I know on *my* previous attempt with Ubuntu, (yes I do keep trying every year to believe), I got stuck on finding a decent software for my TV card that would allow playback and recording simultaneously (without wanting to install 100 packages including MySQL, servers, clients and all sorts of gubbins) ... MythTV, I'm looking at you. Once that chore passed the 12 hour mark still with no success, I gave up on Ubuntu again, and will maybe take another look in 2010.
And, unlike the current mess in the commercial world where Acrobat, Flash, Google Earth, your video drivers, etc either have to have their own updaters or you have to remember to check for updates manually, ALL of your installed software is kept up to date constantly with the latest security patches using a central updater. It is possible to get bad software on those repositories, but it's a smaller risk than going to random websites and installing software one at a time.
And it's very easy to keep all of your software at the latest, most secure versions.
Something like Windows Update, which we all know never goes wrong and bangs out bad paches that Black Screen your PC etc. There *are* a lot of times, I don't WANT Adobe pushing the latest 94MB update on me automatically, but when I do, going to their website is not that much of a chore.
Nethertheless, in the Windows world, they could never manage a repository for third-party software ... there's simply too much stuff, and once they attempted any "vetting" of potential malware etc, they'd be up to their ears in lawsuits and accusations of being anti-competitive.
If you want to add a repository to do something different, it's relatively trivial, but is an extra step. Once that additional repository is installed and trusted, any software installed from that repository is also updated as soon as the author comes out with a new update. It is possible to find and add bad repositories, but again it's harder than installing one-offs.
Again with this "automatic trust" of A N Other repository ... if *nix ever got a decent market share, how long do you think it'll be before "bad" repositories become the norm. Look at what happenned to the eMule / eDonkey search servers ... for every good server, there was 20 bad ones pumping out malware.
The advantage of a repository model is that the user's default behavior (and the easiest way to do things) is directed toward the safest method for installing.
As the users become smart enough to handle installing software manually, they'll also have a better chance of understanding what they are doing.
Obviously, it's not a perfect solution. It's a significant iteration toward security, not a total guarantee of security.
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If "God" wouldn't allow us to view the collisions, why did he allow us to climb down out of the trees and walk on two legs at all ?
Why I don't believe in "God", compact version.
You know we had a massive tropical storm here a couple of months ago, 8 to 10 foot of water outside, ground floor of the house completely flooded. As we were sat on the roof watching the water starting to recede, my neighbour said to me, "Thank God we're all safe". I replied, "Who the fuck you think sent us all the water ?".
So your basic "security" model for *nix is that "the users are more savvy, and won't do stupid stuff" ?
(Something similar to the Apple security model, which is "the users aren't allowed to do stupid stuff because Steve says so").
Now welcome to the real world, where idiot-proofing a system just leads to more determined idiots.
I wouldn't say the entire registry, but it would be damned handy to know if *any* program was trying to add a startup vector, be it via the HKCU and HKLM run, runonce, runservice etc ...
It would also prevent every damn progam adding it's own "auto-updater" systray widget grrrr ...
It would also alleviate a lot of virus problems if the user was at least told "hey, program x wants to startup when you start your computer, are you sure you want to allow this ?".
Whereas most Americans wouldn't know if a bus had driven through theirs !
Yes, but you probably don't want to know *which* parts !
Like anything "useful" these days, it involves stem cells.
So there'll be plenty of room in the anti stem cell research groups for all the disowned Vegetarians and PETA members.
Okay, but doesn't that strike you as a bit shortsighted ?
By focusing on improving just one aspect of "safety", i.e. launch, it simply means they have a better chance of getting into space, but the same lousy odds of exploding on re-entry ?
Shooting people into space in a glorified tin can should be a science they have mastered after 100+ missions ... they managed to get a man on the moon in 11 tries back in the 70s.
According to the almighty Google, there have been 134 missions, 2 of which have resulted in fatal explosions (one on take off and one on re-entry).
2:134 = 1:67 ... or are they "tweaking" the figures based on number of astronauts dead / alive over the whole shuttle history ?
As long as you're happy with heat as output
So how about we create a tiny stirling engine and put it at the end of two gold plated cone shapes, one inside the other with a tiny tapering distance between them, and for good measure, enclosed in a vacuum ?
Wouldn't this allow the incoming light source to be trapped on 3 dimensions and focused down to a concentrated point ? Sure we couldn't see the rainbow any more, but the "light leakage" concerns would seem to be covered, and by the comments above, the only place the light could "go to" would be 100% into the heat collector end of the sitrling engine.
Multiply this up by thousands in an array, and you might have the next "solar collector" design.
No, my comment has been "cool-for-saled" ... it's the Rickrolling of 2009.
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You will notice that I said *use* and NOT *run*.
And it was you who said "has thousands of useful programs on it, which I use daily". Use, implying actively working with the program, not merely having it open and sitting the the background doing nothing.
Sure, you can have 25 applications open, but the human attention span is geared to be able to focus on the contents of one window at a time. Two at most if you count eyes and ears multitasking, but even then if you are *really* listening to a songm you will find it hard to *really* be reading also, and vice versa.
So sure, have a music player window running (audio), and be reading the contents of whatever other window (visual). It really doesn't invalidate my claim, merely gives you 86.4 seconds of suck instead of 43.2
Hey you just doubled Linux's productivity, congrats !
Thousand(s) implies at least two thousand.
Ergo, you use each program on average for 43.2 seconds. Is this because they *all* suck, or you simply have the attention span of a concussed duckling ?
Black holes have been trapping light since the Big Bang (or "shortly afterwards" anyway, in cosmic terms).
I think God has prior art on that one. Once man can also trap gravity, strong and weak electromagnetic forces and time, I'll concede to your assertion.
Every time the light bounces off of whatever you have contained it in, it will lose a bit of energy. Since it's traveling at the speed of light, you'll have enormous numbers of bounces per second and they'll quickly sap all of the energy away from the beam
Interesting theory, but where does this energy go ? Is it converted to sound, heat, mass, or some other form ? It doesn't simply disappear, unless Albert Einstein was drunk when he postulated the theory of relativity !
And if we could completely "sap all the energy" away from the beam, wouldn't this imply we could create 100% effecient solar cells ?