The CD player thing is interesting. If such things really are dangerous to aircraft systems, they should really ban laptops too at least ones like mine with CD players in them.
I may be wrong, but don't you need a small nuclear device to create an EMP. If one of those was activated on a plane, I suspect that instrument failure would no longer be an issue.
If somebody came up with a non-nuclear device for deliberately interferring with flight systems, it would rapidly become illegal to take anything on the plane that could potentially be such a device. You'd find that all your electrical items will have to be packed separately so that they could be placed in a special shielded part of the cargo hold.
Well I did preview it and it looked OK so that was good enough for me although technically a mistake since I was using HTML mode.
However, even latin-1 does not have the complete range of characters in use by all writing systems based on the Latin alphabet and you're totally screwed if you want to preserve the Iliad or the Bible (to pick two random texts) in the original. Also, to do bold and italics etc you need some sort of markup - so it might as well be XML or HTML.
You should e-mail back to the inspector saying (politely) "please send me the report in a format I can read". His copy of Office is sure to be able to save documents in older word formats.
Even better - from everybody's point of view - would be to use PDF. I can think of two good security reasons for using this: 1) less chance of infecting his customers with a virus, 2) less chance of old theoretically deleted text still hanging about hidden in the document.
There is another old saying "If you plan to throw one away, you'll end up throwing two away". If you go in with the mentality "oh well v1 doesn't matter because we're going to scrap it" it'll be so poor that v2 will be only a little better than where v1 should have been.
All code from all programmers should be reviewed by other people. Even code from really good programmers can benefit from this process since they sometimes get "too close" to the problem and miss things that would be obvious to an outsider. Less good programmers also benefit as code reviews are frequently a learning experience.
If a programmer's ego is too big to let them submit to having their code reviewed they should be fired anyway.
Chinese is the language spoken from BIRTH by the most people
Wow! When my nephew was born, he couldn't speak any languages at all. He's already two, and he's only just getting the hang of English. How come Chinese babies are all so brainy?
Only if you're surfing the net with superuser privileges in which case you deserve everything that happens to you.
Anyway, everything can be sorted by using your own forwarding DNS server with the said domains in it and using your firewall to block DNS packets from any computer on your net except the DNS server.
If I received a message with the subject line "forgot your screensaver password? hackit anyway" I'd bin it without looking at the text because it looks like spam.
Using ASCII presupposes that all the important texts you want to preserve are in American English. Since a fair amount of the important pieces of literature come from mainland Europe (actually even the British £ sign isn't in ASCII), it is clearly not up to the job and should be replaced.
Further, authors often use devices like italics or bold to add emphasis to their work and nowadays even completely different fonts and typefaces. Translating these works to ASCII with no markup actually destroys some of the information in the original works.
I'm not an enthusiastic fan of XML - too many people advocate it as a silver bullet - but this this sort of thing seems to be an ideal application.
I use it every day. With the current patch level (10.1.3) it's not slow (any more so than any other OS X app) and it's not buggy - well I've not seen any.
It is so obvious that patents have stopped such great operating systems like Linux and BSD, and various OSS software like OpenOffice, KDE, GNOME, GIMP, and various other GNU software and other OSS from grabbing market share.
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Question everything
It's not obvious to me. Has there been one case where any of the above products have been in the dock for violating a patent?
I agree in general that this guy's reputation does not make his point invalid, but I can't resist bringing up this soapbox about Infinity and the Universe. It's totally hysterical. Among other things, it refutes Einstein's theory of relativity and the law of conservation of energy. It's got absolutely nothing whatsoever to do with the topic in hand, but if you have a basic knowledge of physics or mathematics, it's a great laugh.
No, actually it was their inability to port from DOS to Win 3.x that screwed them. Even when they did, the first Win version was obviously just a veneer over the old DOS core. In particular, the printer support was a disaster. It still had the old WP drivers in and you could bypass the thoughtfully provided Windows print subsystem.
Lotus 123 was killed off (partly) by not having a timely Win95 version.
And please donâ(TM)t post about Windows95 having a 16bit Mutext. This is not a flame war of OS relgion. We all know that when running 16bit applications, the 16bit mutext in Win95 would also be cooperative. However when running only 32bit (WIN32) applications, it was fully preemptive.
Unfortunately, the GDI was 98% the same as the GDI in Win 3.11 which meant it was a Win16 thing and needed the mutex because it was not reentrant. This means that any win16 application that locked up would apparently make the OS lock up too. The Win16 app would freeze while holding the mutex. As each of the other apps (win16 or win32) tried to grab the mutex to draw something on the screen they would apparently freeze too. Your OS then had the appearence of being totally frozen, but it could be recovered by ctrl-alt-deling and killing the frozen app.
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The CD player thing is interesting. If such things really are dangerous to aircraft systems, they should really ban laptops too at least ones like mine with CD players in them.
That's slightly better than the controls deciding the plane shouldn't be *above* -8,000 feet.
I may be wrong, but don't you need a small nuclear device to create an EMP. If one of those was activated on a plane, I suspect that instrument failure would no longer be an issue.
If somebody came up with a non-nuclear device for deliberately interferring with flight systems, it would rapidly become illegal to take anything on the plane that could potentially be such a device. You'd find that all your electrical items will have to be packed separately so that they could be placed in a special shielded part of the cargo hold.
Well I did preview it and it looked OK so that was good enough for me although technically a mistake since I was using HTML mode.
However, even latin-1 does not have the complete range of characters in use by all writing systems based on the Latin alphabet and you're totally screwed if you want to preserve the Iliad or the Bible (to pick two random texts) in the original. Also, to do bold and italics etc you need some sort of markup - so it might as well be XML or HTML.
Put three records in then.
Once is happenstance
Twice is coincidence
Three times is enemy action.
(Goldfinger)
Why are you letting beginners write SQL to access your live database without any testing on your test system?
Do you think it costs SuSE nothing to shrink wrap Linux and make it all nice for the customers?
You should e-mail back to the inspector saying (politely) "please send me the report in a format I can read". His copy of Office is sure to be able to save documents in older word formats.
Even better - from everybody's point of view - would be to use PDF. I can think of two good security reasons for using this:
1) less chance of infecting his customers with a virus,
2) less chance of old theoretically deleted text still hanging about hidden in the document.
There is another old saying "If you plan to throw one away, you'll end up throwing two away". If you go in with the mentality "oh well v1 doesn't matter because we're going to scrap it" it'll be so poor that v2 will be only a little better than where v1 should have been.
All code from all programmers should be reviewed by other people. Even code from really good programmers can benefit from this process since they sometimes get "too close" to the problem and miss things that would be obvious to an outsider. Less good programmers also benefit as code reviews are frequently a learning experience.
If a programmer's ego is too big to let them submit to having their code reviewed they should be fired anyway.
Chinese is the language spoken from BIRTH by the most people
Wow! When my nephew was born, he couldn't speak any languages at all. He's already two, and he's only just getting the hang of English. How come Chinese babies are all so brainy?
Only if you're surfing the net with superuser privileges in which case you deserve everything that happens to you.
Anyway, everything can be sorted by using your own forwarding DNS server with the said domains in it and using your firewall to block DNS packets from any computer on your net except the DNS server.
My user on my Mac OSX box is in the admin goup and it appears to have full read/write access to the Applications folder.
I've just renamed the textedit application without having to type in a password of any sort.
If I received a message with the subject line "forgot your screensaver password? hackit anyway" I'd bin it without looking at the text because it looks like spam.
Using ASCII presupposes that all the important texts you want to preserve are in American English. Since a fair amount of the important pieces of literature come from mainland Europe (actually even the British £ sign isn't in ASCII), it is clearly not up to the job and should be replaced.
Further, authors often use devices like italics or bold to add emphasis to their work and nowadays even completely different fonts and typefaces. Translating these works to ASCII with no markup actually destroys some of the information in the original works.
I'm not an enthusiastic fan of XML - too many people advocate it as a silver bullet - but this this sort of thing seems to be an ideal application.
Oops, the first line should read
"cd mozilla_profile_directory"
cdn d
grep "@" abook.mab | some_script_to_clean_up_and_mail_to_addresses_fou
Of course you've got to get the user to run an executable or script that you send them, but that's a matter of social engineering.
I use it every day. With the current patch level (10.1.3) it's not slow (any more so than any other OS X app) and it's not buggy - well I've not seen any.
0-> 0 -> 0 -> 0
1 -> (1!)! ->1! -> 1
2 -> (2!!)!! -> 2!! -> 2
3 -> (3!!!)!!! -> approx 2.6 E+1746!!! -> ????
The SDK is not the compiler.
It's not obvious to me. Has there been one case where any of the above products have been in the dock for violating a patent?
I agree in general that this guy's reputation does not make his point invalid, but I can't resist bringing up this soapbox about Infinity and the Universe. It's totally hysterical. Among other things, it refutes Einstein's theory of relativity and the law of conservation of energy. It's got absolutely nothing whatsoever to do with the topic in hand, but if you have a basic knowledge of physics or mathematics, it's a great laugh.
No, actually it was their inability to port from DOS to Win 3.x that screwed them. Even when they did, the first Win version was obviously just a veneer over the old DOS core. In particular, the printer support was a disaster. It still had the old WP drivers in and you could bypass the thoughtfully provided Windows print subsystem.
Lotus 123 was killed off (partly) by not having a timely Win95 version.
Sorry, can't resist:
And please donâ(TM)t post about Windows95 having a 16bit Mutext. This is not a flame war of OS relgion. We all know that when running 16bit applications, the 16bit mutext in Win95 would also be cooperative. However when running only 32bit (WIN32) applications, it was fully preemptive.
Unfortunately, the GDI was 98% the same as the GDI in Win 3.11 which meant it was a Win16 thing and needed the mutex because it was not reentrant. This means that any win16 application that locked up would apparently make the OS lock up too. The Win16 app would freeze while holding the mutex. As each of the other apps (win16 or win32) tried to grab the mutex to draw something on the screen they would apparently freeze too. Your OS then had the appearence of being totally frozen, but it could be recovered by ctrl-alt-deling and killing the frozen app.
This link has the best introduction to mapping and GPS I have ever read.