Uh, from the posted correspondence, how sure are you that the perp isn't an example of the "regular people" you are talking about?
Perhaps the regular people are no longer willing to represent the best interests of their constituents, and erm are just amoral, selfish, greedy and stupid people?
If everyone told Dell, HP etc forget Vista just preload XP then we might be able to weaken the MS monopoly.
Once the API stays static for long enough, WINE etc can start getting more and more compatible, then MS could end up like a BIOS manufacturer, or like Intel when they tried to sell the Itanic vs AMD's 64 bit x86.
If the API gets hijacked from the hands of MS, stuff like games might run on OSX, Linux and Windows without modification.
It is in the interest of MS to keep changing the API. Not too much and not too fast - like boiling a frog.
There are Swiss movements that aren't that expensive, so someone might have used one to make your replica. e.g. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ETA_movement (the ETA site is flash;) ).
I think you can get a non-fake Tissot automatic with sapphire glass for about USD150.
Maybe not as famous as Rolex.
I wouldn't be surprised if Rolex uses movements from a less famous 3rd party for some of their watches.
Q: How many free market economists does it take to change a light bulb?
A: Free market economists don't change light bulbs. They sit in the dark waiting for Adam Smith's invisible hand to do it.
As for authoritarian governments.
Seems you can have democratically elected authoritarian governments. At least the western media does like to call a number of democratically elected governments authoritarian.
Such governments aren't that bad if they are actually interested in improving things in the country. Could be better than regularly switching between one of two parties, where both aren't interested in improving the state of their country.
Being regularly given a chance to pick one out of a hand of preselected cards by The Magician isn't that wonderful. I suppose it's good to let the audience participate in the show. Makes them happy and is good entertainment.
Well dogs (at least some) can be trained to detect cancer from scent.
And also detect whether landmines are in an area from air samples collected from various areas and shipped to where the dog is.
Some can even smell corpses that are deep underwater, from sniffing over the water on a boat.
If there's actually a scent there's a good chance the dog can detect it.
I think the problems usually are:
1) Figuring out how to explain to the dog what you want. It's like a blind man trying to get a sighted person to find something when they both don't really speak the same language. An untrained dog could be thinking "uh follow which trail? There are 300 arthropod trails, 40 rodent trails, 25 cat trails, 10 dog trails ( 3 hot bitches too ), 5 human trails". A trained dog probably knows better - the humans are more likely to want the dog to follow human trails. Even if you give the dog a sample object with a scent to follow - it could have lots of different scents on it.
Maybe it's because he knows (from his logs) his teenage daughters are spending hours downloading music, and he's worried that with the crackdowns etc they'll stop and start doing other things instead;).
An annoying thing I found with openoffice's version of powerpoint was I couldn't get it to display a presentation on the 2nd monitor (actually the projector). It insists on being on the 1st.
So it was save as.ppt, and powerpoint viewer time...
I had lots of probs with Open Office during the early days - formatting just wouldn't stick - reminded me of Lotus Word Pro in the late 90s - slow crappy half baked software. The more recent versions seem to be a lot better. Still slow, but less crappy.
Follow up? That's not what the US president said to justify his war.
Chemical gas in Iraq is a threat to the USA? They were merrily using chemical gas on people in that area in the 80's and they were a "friend" of the USA then. The US knew they had WMD because the US sold WMD to Iraq. Go check it yourself. Doh.
Anyway, Iraq got pretty much disarmed after the 1st Gulf War, maybe not 100% but close enough.
If you're listening, the majority of the people outside the USA thought the US Gov was lying about WMD, and were more inclined to believe Hans Blix. So much so that the US decided to skip the whole UN "show" (yeah it's a show[1], but that the US skipped it said a lot).
As for the US elections, don't waste time trying to convince me that they are fine. US people should do something about that Diebold crap. Spending billions on "democracy" in Iraq, and can't afford decent voting systems at home? Very "strange".
I guess the USA prefers "managed democracies" at home and elsewhere (e.g. the Palestine elections weren't good enough for the US;) ) maybe not in the style of Putin, but "managed" nonetheless.
"When he starts affecting the lives of people outside of his country--war and genocide being two awfully clear ways a ruler can do that--other countries will make their decisions about intervention"
I guess we in the other countries should do something about the good old US of A then eh?
Attacking Iraq that was NO threat to them, without the approval of the rest of the world, AND lying and making up "evidence".
Perhaps we should also send observers to ensure that the US elections are fair and aren't rigged.
Maybe Putin is a scumbag, but people should check whether the people behind Kasparov are worse. Is the cure worse than the disease?
"I'm a terrorist, I try to get on the plane using MY GENUINE credentials, just like the ones who flew into the WTC".
So maybe the they should start adding a "good/evil" field to passports to make it easier to stop evil people from getting on the plane.
Ah, but that might stop a few CEOs and politicians from flying! Maybe even a lawyer or two;). Think of the poor ones who can't afford their own planes...
So maybe they need a "I will harm my fellow passengers" field.
But that might stop a few presidents from flying! Maybe even vice presidents too;).
How about a simple "Terrorist Y/N"?
Ah, yes PERFECT right?
Another thing:
why would anyone try the exact same thing nowadays? Previously the standard procedure was the terrorist would take the plane somewhere, and if the right things were done, the passengers get to live. But the rules of the game have been changed.
Nowadays, if you announce you are a terrorist, maybe half the passengers on board will jump you at any opportunity and be willing to die trying. I doubt even holding a kid/girl hostage would work now. Heck if passengers succeed in restraining you, you might learn a few things about terror in the sky, and plastic forks;).
So as long as you reduce the odds of bombs getting on the plane and unauthorized people to the cockpit, you've reduced the risk significantly.
Maybe we should start classifying adulterers as sex offenders too?
So someone who steals a magazine (or an online porn account) for the purpose of getting a sexual thrill should be classified as a sex offender?
Oh is it only because the victim felt violated? What if a mugger looks "strangely" at a lady after taking her purse and other valuables (ID, camera phone etc) but lets her go, and she feels violated? Should the mugger be classified as a sex offender too?
Or what if the mugger got a sexual thrill out of her photos?
Sure motive is important, but I think people should be a bit careful before they start creating the Ministry of Thoughtcrime.
Actually, living in some small country in Asia, I'm not that worried about who leads Russia.
Realistically speaking - the potential/existing impact of the USA on other countries is far greater than that of Russia. And as time goes by it the potential for negative impact seems to be increasing to uncomfortable levels.
So the potential for US elections to be diebolded concerns me. The bulk of the citizens not being bothered about that concerns me even more.
The Putin 80% popularity poll might be even more credible than the US elections.
The article talks about _efficiency_ as if it's the most important thing: "Adopt 10 good habits that improve your UNIX® command line efficiency "
Once you have a human manually sending commandlines to a shell, efficiency is far from the most important goal. Correctness and robustness are more important.
If you are doing the same thing very often, write a _correct_ and _robust_ program to do it, then you can get the program to be more efficient.
What next- an article on top 10 "good" programming habits, which just lists the fastest ways to type different stuff in vi or emacs? Or end up being just a bunch of one-liners?
You don't need clever for Unix commandline. You need paranoid. Make backups but work so you won't need them.
Typing backslash to have extra long command lines? Don't you guys make typos?
Here are my tips:
Don't type complex commandlines into the shell directly. Copy them to a text editor first (that's what the GUI is for;) ), edit, check, then make sure you know how to copy and paste stuff correctly;). Only then paste the commandline to the shell... When the commandline starts to look very complex, you may wish to consider writing a script instead.
Consider that many keyboards put the backslash or pipe rather close to the Enter key, this means if you slip (or someone nudges you) you could prematurely terminate the commandline. Depending on how you do things, this could be not a big problem or it could be a catastrophe ( e.g. you end up running an SQL UPDATE without a where clause;) ). If you are typing the command to a text editor first, this is less likely to be a problem.
The tip about not using cat is stupid. If you use cat, it is easier to reedit the command line to repipe the file output to some other command instead. e.g. cat file | head, then up arrow replace head with grep or strings | head, or whatever.
To those who use "<", using "<" to read files is asking for trouble, because "<" and ">" are next to each other and you could be very unhappy if you used ">" instead of "<". So make it a habit of NOT using "<" at all.
Basically, when you use the Unix (or SQL) commandline, always be paranoid. Yes, don't move the tar file before untarring, but don't do it the suggested way either. Change to the directory you want to unpack the file to first, then ls -al to see if it's really the right directory;). Then only use filename completion for tar -xvf <path to tar file> to untar. This way if you screw up you are less likely to mess up the wrong directories.
When you are using tar, always keep in mind that with the US and UK keyboard layouts the x and the c keys are next to each other and mean rather different things;).
Try not to do rm -rf <long path name>. cd to the directory first. Then do the rm -rf with filename completion. That way the dreaded rm -rf / is less likely to happen.
If you are using bash and you like to use ctrl-r, don't assume you'll get the command you are thinking of. Look and confirm before you press enter;).
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Of sending George W Bush on a one way trip to Mars? ;)
Uh, from the posted correspondence, how sure are you that the perp isn't an example of the "regular people" you are talking about?
Perhaps the regular people are no longer willing to represent the best interests of their constituents, and erm are just amoral, selfish, greedy and stupid people?
If only more people would just stick with XP.
If everyone told Dell, HP etc forget Vista just preload XP then we might be able to weaken the MS monopoly.
Once the API stays static for long enough, WINE etc can start getting more and more compatible, then MS could end up like a BIOS manufacturer, or like Intel when they tried to sell the Itanic vs AMD's 64 bit x86.
If the API gets hijacked from the hands of MS, stuff like games might run on OSX, Linux and Windows without modification.
It is in the interest of MS to keep changing the API. Not too much and not too fast - like boiling a frog.
There are Swiss movements that aren't that expensive, so someone might have used one to make your replica. e.g. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ETA_movement (the ETA site is flash ;) ).
I think you can get a non-fake Tissot automatic with sapphire glass for about USD150.
Maybe not as famous as Rolex.
I wouldn't be surprised if Rolex uses movements from a less famous 3rd party for some of their watches.
I dunno. Maybe she was trying to get your attention... ;)
Q: How many free market economists does it take to change a light bulb?
A: Free market economists don't change light bulbs. They sit in the dark waiting for Adam Smith's invisible hand to do it.
As for authoritarian governments.
Seems you can have democratically elected authoritarian governments. At least the western media does like to call a number of democratically elected governments authoritarian.
Such governments aren't that bad if they are actually interested in improving things in the country. Could be better than regularly switching between one of two parties, where both aren't interested in improving the state of their country.
Being regularly given a chance to pick one out of a hand of preselected cards by The Magician isn't that wonderful. I suppose it's good to let the audience participate in the show. Makes them happy and is good entertainment.
So she doesn't mind you seeing her "not quite fully dressed"?
Hmmm...
scoff is correct.
http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=scoff
scarf is slang.
Well dogs (at least some) can be trained to detect cancer from scent.
And also detect whether landmines are in an area from air samples collected from various areas and shipped to where the dog is.
Some can even smell corpses that are deep underwater, from sniffing over the water on a boat.
If there's actually a scent there's a good chance the dog can detect it.
I think the problems usually are:
1) Figuring out how to explain to the dog what you want. It's like a blind man trying to get a sighted person to find something when they both don't really speak the same language. An untrained dog could be thinking "uh follow which trail? There are 300 arthropod trails, 40 rodent trails, 25 cat trails, 10 dog trails ( 3 hot bitches too ), 5 human trails". A trained dog probably knows better - the humans are more likely to want the dog to follow human trails. Even if you give the dog a sample object with a scent to follow - it could have lots of different scents on it.
2) The dog gets bored/tired after a while.
Maybe it's because he knows (from his logs) his teenage daughters are spending hours downloading music, and he's worried that with the crackdowns etc they'll stop and start doing other things instead ;).
Assuming your son is not adopted, does he say "Yes _dad_" to that?
;)
He have any uncles?
"businesses don't vote, people do"
;).
Unless they diebold an election
An annoying thing I found with openoffice's version of powerpoint was I couldn't get it to display a presentation on the 2nd monitor (actually the projector). It insists on being on the 1st.
.ppt, and powerpoint viewer time...
So it was save as
I had lots of probs with Open Office during the early days - formatting just wouldn't stick - reminded me of Lotus Word Pro in the late 90s - slow crappy half baked software. The more recent versions seem to be a lot better. Still slow, but less crappy.
Follow up? That's not what the US president said to justify his war.
;) ) maybe not in the style of Putin, but "managed" nonetheless.
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Chemical gas in Iraq is a threat to the USA? They were merrily using chemical gas on people in that area in the 80's and they were a "friend" of the USA then. The US knew they had WMD because the US sold WMD to Iraq. Go check it yourself. Doh.
Anyway, Iraq got pretty much disarmed after the 1st Gulf War, maybe not 100% but close enough.
If you're listening, the majority of the people outside the USA thought the US Gov was lying about WMD, and were more inclined to believe Hans Blix. So much so that the US decided to skip the whole UN "show" (yeah it's a show[1], but that the US skipped it said a lot).
As for the US elections, don't waste time trying to convince me that they are fine. US people should do something about that Diebold crap. Spending billions on "democracy" in Iraq, and can't afford decent voting systems at home? Very "strange".
I guess the USA prefers "managed democracies" at home and elsewhere (e.g. the Palestine elections weren't good enough for the US
[1] http://www.globalpolicy.org/security/membship/vet
Your skull stayed the about same size right? So what shrunk? ;)
BTW the cabbies had some other part of their brain shrink, go look it up.
"When he starts affecting the lives of people outside of his country--war and genocide being two awfully clear ways a ruler can do that--other countries will make their decisions about intervention"
I guess we in the other countries should do something about the good old US of A then eh?
Attacking Iraq that was NO threat to them, without the approval of the rest of the world, AND lying and making up "evidence".
Perhaps we should also send observers to ensure that the US elections are fair and aren't rigged.
Maybe Putin is a scumbag, but people should check whether the people behind Kasparov are worse. Is the cure worse than the disease?
I think it goes this way:
;). Think of the poor ones who can't afford their own planes...
;).
;).
"I'm a terrorist, I try to get on the plane using MY GENUINE credentials, just like the ones who flew into the WTC".
So maybe the they should start adding a "good/evil" field to passports to make it easier to stop evil people from getting on the plane.
Ah, but that might stop a few CEOs and politicians from flying! Maybe even a lawyer or two
So maybe they need a "I will harm my fellow passengers" field.
But that might stop a few presidents from flying! Maybe even vice presidents too
How about a simple "Terrorist Y/N"?
Ah, yes PERFECT right?
Another thing:
why would anyone try the exact same thing nowadays? Previously the standard procedure was the terrorist would take the plane somewhere, and if the right things were done, the passengers get to live. But the rules of the game have been changed.
Nowadays, if you announce you are a terrorist, maybe half the passengers on board will jump you at any opportunity and be willing to die trying. I doubt even holding a kid/girl hostage would work now. Heck if passengers succeed in restraining you, you might learn a few things about terror in the sky, and plastic forks
So as long as you reduce the odds of bombs getting on the plane and unauthorized people to the cockpit, you've reduced the risk significantly.
Maybe we should start classifying adulterers as sex offenders too?
So someone who steals a magazine (or an online porn account) for the purpose of getting a sexual thrill should be classified as a sex offender?
Oh is it only because the victim felt violated? What if a mugger looks "strangely" at a lady after taking her purse and other valuables (ID, camera phone etc) but lets her go, and she feels violated? Should the mugger be classified as a sex offender too?
Or what if the mugger got a sexual thrill out of her photos?
Sure motive is important, but I think people should be a bit careful before they start creating the Ministry of Thoughtcrime.
Actually, living in some small country in Asia, I'm not that worried about who leads Russia.
Realistically speaking - the potential/existing impact of the USA on other countries is far greater than that of Russia. And as time goes by it the potential for negative impact seems to be increasing to uncomfortable levels.
So the potential for US elections to be diebolded concerns me. The bulk of the citizens not being bothered about that concerns me even more.
The Putin 80% popularity poll might be even more credible than the US elections.
The other interesting is the nerves are involved. So how are they involved in the disease? Locally or the signals have to travel elsewhere?
After all many people say pain is in the mind. So how much of it really is in the mind now?
Ouch... I must have done that before, can't remember tho. Or maybe I've seen people do it :p.
:).
;)
;).
I think someone should come up with a typo friendly ">>"
Anyway, I'd prefer learning clever tricks to do unix commandline stuff safer.
Ever got the sinking feeling of realizing you now have an extra 1GB space on your filesystem?
I heard a story of a product called star. A customer was told over the phone that the very simple uninstall procedure was rm -rf star
There was a fair bit of distress when it was realized that the uninstall process was taking longer than expected
Hmmm, I wonder what the uninstall procedure is like for that popular open source PBX software... Hehe.
I suggest not ever using < for that. It's next to > , and the shell is likely to allow the command if you accidentally use one instead of the other
;)
I'm guessing it's not funny when you use > when you intended to use < .
I don't recall ever making that mistake yet, but that's probably because I rarely use < to read files.
The article talks about _efficiency_ as if it's the most important thing: "Adopt 10 good habits that improve your UNIX® command line efficiency "
Once you have a human manually sending commandlines to a shell, efficiency is far from the most important goal. Correctness and robustness are more important.
If you are doing the same thing very often, write a _correct_ and _robust_ program to do it, then you can get the program to be more efficient.
What next- an article on top 10 "good" programming habits, which just lists the fastest ways to type different stuff in vi or emacs? Or end up being just a bunch of one-liners?
Sheesh.
They seem to just be tips for being "clever".
;) ), edit, check, then make sure you know how to copy and paste stuff correctly ;). Only then paste the commandline to the shell... When the commandline starts to look very complex, you may wish to consider writing a script instead.
;) ). If you are typing the command to a text editor first, this is less likely to be a problem.
;). Then only use filename completion for tar -xvf <path to tar file> to untar. This way if you screw up you are less likely to mess up the wrong directories.
;).
;).
You don't need clever for Unix commandline. You need paranoid. Make backups but work so you won't need them.
Typing backslash to have extra long command lines? Don't you guys make typos?
Here are my tips:
Don't type complex commandlines into the shell directly. Copy them to a text editor first (that's what the GUI is for
Consider that many keyboards put the backslash or pipe rather close to the Enter key, this means if you slip (or someone nudges you) you could prematurely terminate the commandline. Depending on how you do things, this could be not a big problem or it could be a catastrophe ( e.g. you end up running an SQL UPDATE without a where clause
The tip about not using cat is stupid. If you use cat, it is easier to reedit the command line to repipe the file output to some other command instead. e.g. cat file | head, then up arrow replace head with grep or strings | head, or whatever.
To those who use "<", using "<" to read files is asking for trouble, because "<" and ">" are next to each other and you could be very unhappy if you used ">" instead of "<". So make it a habit of NOT using "<" at all.
Basically, when you use the Unix (or SQL) commandline, always be paranoid. Yes, don't move the tar file before untarring, but don't do it the suggested way either. Change to the directory you want to unpack the file to first, then ls -al to see if it's really the right directory
When you are using tar, always keep in mind that with the US and UK keyboard layouts the x and the c keys are next to each other and mean rather different things
Try not to do rm -rf <long path name>. cd to the directory first. Then do the rm -rf with filename completion. That way the dreaded rm -rf / is less likely to happen.
If you are using bash and you like to use ctrl-r, don't assume you'll get the command you are thinking of. Look and confirm before you press enter
Protect the precious children from evil adults.
;).
Then send them to war once they get a bit older