Mark Cappel writes: "LinuxWorld columnist Nick Petreley has a few choice words for for the open source community in "Open source
programmers stink at error handling. Do you think commercial software handles errors better?"
Does he have any choice words for for lack of proofreading?
(note also the unclosed double-quote)
I remember in 2nd grade the local police came around to the schools and fingerprinted all of the children "for the child's safety". I wonder where those fingerprints are now...
Tom's Hardware states that the new package does include a thermal diode. There's no more discussion than that, but I figure if you're too lazy to even read the article you won't take the time to find out how the thermal diode is implemented either.
What exactly are you basing this conclusion ("Email don't do dick") on?
I have emailed my Senators and Representative in the past, and have received replies from all of them. Both Senators replied with an intelligent response, and the Representative sent a return email. None of the responses were "form letter" type.
Apparently a great number of reports have been released linking this or that person to the terrorist attacks; I just wish I could see one of them.
In war situations like this, it's a little hard to put faith in your leaders when they won't tell you what they know. I'm just feeling a little sheepish, I suppose.
Your description of the situation is quite vague. Without knowing what the javascript was really doing, it's impossible to know if this would be an "unethical" approach for a reputable site.
Sounds ripe for a conspiracy theory - I wonder if the US military has a payload too?:)
More likely they just let the remainder of the rocket fall back to earth and burn up in the atmosphere, much like the main fuel tank for the space shuttle.
So, if I read this properly, the remoteness of the location is a bonus for expendable vehicles which may drop parts.
You're thinking two-dimensionally -- you need to take into account that the rocket will take an orbital path around a spinning object.
Take a gander at the flight path of the rocket and you'll see what areas of the planet will be passed over. It flies down the Pacific coast, around the southern tip of South America, and then back up and around the east coast of Africa. From there it does fly over the continent of Russia before continuing down over the middle of the Pacific, but of course any problems with the launch are going to be far past at that point. You really couldn't hope for a better flight path.
You can start by converting the web server to run Linux or FreeBSD - it's currently running IIS/4.0. The beauty of it is that there's basically all static content on the site, and the dynamic pages that exist now (like the donation form) don't actually work correctly anyway (they don't check to make sure you filled out anything before you proceed:).
Graham Cluley, senior technology consultant at security firm Sophos, is concerned that a mass move to alternative Web server software would cause more disruption than sticking with Microsoft IIS and patching it. "Code Red was less about the vulnerability of IIS, as all software has bugs, but more about system administrators ignoring the warnings that came well in advance of Code Red," said Cluley.
"The average person in the street doesn't need to worry, as they would have to be specifically targeted," said Graham Cluley, an Internet security expert with antivirus firm Sophos.
Always nice to have a few staunch supporters ready to jump to your defense:)
The objective during the Gulf War isn't as clear cut as you described -- not only was the goal to remove Iraq from Kuwait, but the US was also just waiting for the opportunity to knock down the Iraqi military, not to mention get the chance to slow down their nuclear research.
Also... what's with all the buzz about increased airline security? These hijackers could have used *anything* and accomplished their mission. They did not have big, scary guns or deadly weapons. They had tiny sharp objects, and the threat of a bomb.
My personal opinion is that all airline passengers should be allowed to bring a handgun on board -- then let's see someone try to hijack an airplane!
I'm told their games group is very good (Age of Empires)..
Age of Empires was written by Ensemble Studios; Microsoft was just the publisher. IMHO your example only demonstrates the barriers to entry for smaller companies in that they are forced to band with a larger distributor in order to get their product into market.
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XP has been out for, what, a month now? How many times has it crashed in that time?
Compared to the > year uptimes of Linux, I'm not even sure how you're able to describe XP as having any sort of decent uptime whatsoever.
- Mark Cappel writes: "LinuxWorld columnist Nick Petreley has a few choice words for for the open source community in "Open source
programmers stink at error handling. Do you think commercial software handles errors better?"
Does he have any choice words for for lack of proofreading? (note also the unclosed double-quote)- A well run national ID program would prevent this
A well run airport and airline security system would preventI remember in 2nd grade the local police came around to the schools and fingerprinted all of the children "for the child's safety". I wonder where those fingerprints are now...
The first watch was just a one-only prototype. This is the first we've seen of their plans for a production model.
Open mouth, insert foot.
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- As we all know, optical fibers build the (cronically overloaded) backbone of our beloved Net.
If it's overloaded by cron, couldn't we just kill the cron daemon?Tom's Hardware states that the new package does include a thermal diode. There's no more discussion than that, but I figure if you're too lazy to even read the article you won't take the time to find out how the thermal diode is implemented either.
What exactly are you basing this conclusion ("Email don't do dick") on?
I have emailed my Senators and Representative in the past, and have received replies from all of them. Both Senators replied with an intelligent response, and the Representative sent a return email. None of the responses were "form letter" type.
Apparently a great number of reports have been released linking this or that person to the terrorist attacks; I just wish I could see one of them.
In war situations like this, it's a little hard to put faith in your leaders when they won't tell you what they know. I'm just feeling a little sheepish, I suppose.
Your description of the situation is quite vague. Without knowing what the javascript was really doing, it's impossible to know if this would be an "unethical" approach for a reputable site.
Sounds ripe for a conspiracy theory - I wonder if the US military has a payload too? :)
More likely they just let the remainder of the rocket fall back to earth and burn up in the atmosphere, much like the main fuel tank for the space shuttle.
Well, what with all the Perestroika I figured they deserved it ;)
:)
Point taken. My bad
- So, if I read this properly, the remoteness of the location is a bonus for expendable vehicles which may drop parts.
You're thinking two-dimensionally -- you need to take into account that the rocket will take an orbital path around a spinning object.Take a gander at the flight path of the rocket and you'll see what areas of the planet will be passed over. It flies down the Pacific coast, around the southern tip of South America, and then back up and around the east coast of Africa. From there it does fly over the continent of Russia before continuing down over the middle of the Pacific, but of course any problems with the launch are going to be far past at that point. You really couldn't hope for a better flight path.
You can start by converting the web server to run Linux or FreeBSD - it's currently running IIS/4.0. The beauty of it is that there's basically all static content on the site, and the dynamic pages that exist now (like the donation form) don't actually work correctly anyway (they don't check to make sure you filled out anything before you proceed :).
Hmm... where do I remember him from?
Always nice to have a few staunch supporters ready to jump to your defense
I'll bet that once the server gets slashdotted it will go down counter-clockwise.
The objective during the Gulf War isn't as clear cut as you described -- not only was the goal to remove Iraq from Kuwait, but the US was also just waiting for the opportunity to knock down the Iraqi military, not to mention get the chance to slow down their nuclear research.
...and of course, there was the oil...
My personal opinion is that all airline passengers should be allowed to bring a handgun on board -- then let's see someone try to hijack an airplane!
I'm told their games group is very good (Age of Empires)..
Age of Empires was written by Ensemble Studios; Microsoft was just the publisher. IMHO your example only demonstrates the barriers to entry for smaller companies in that they are forced to band with a larger distributor in order to get their product into market.
Who made that requirement? The publisher?
- It's cheap and quick, like the content.
Geez no need to bash the pr0nstars.Is this really a problem? Are birds that prone to flying into windmills?
Not such a good time to suggest construction of a twin for one of the world's tallest buildings right now.
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