On the one hand you have a Sherrif that locks up people if they look at him funny. On the other hand you have a scheming web-designer that tries to rip-off the Sherrif's department.
Sounds like a movie remake of the Dukes of Hazzard to me. Well, after the Avengers, Charlies Angels and Starsky and Hutch what would you expect? Have the Duke boys solve the dispute, add car chases to taste and you have a working script.
Very funny. With 32k on board, your one time pad can only transmit/receive say, 30k of information (well you'd need one or two K of code to actually do the work) Not to mention that you'd need a different pad for every one of these things, and the machine on the other end needs copies of all the pads for the machines it communicates with.
30k is not much. It's a handful of/. posts. So using OTP's would e highly impractical.
As others have pointed out, you can indeed install Knoppix on a harddisk. Beware however that you will get a Debian Unstable system. This can sometimes lead to problems when doing apt-get upgrade (like apt suddenly deciding all by itself that KDE and all that depends on it really needs to be removed --that's why they call it unstable I guess)
If you're looking for the stability of Debian, do a "real" netinstall of the current stable version. If you want the cool new toys, then Knoppix is the easiest way to install a Debian that doesn't lag two years behind the other distros.
If you asked Horace (around 10 BC or so) or Ovid (around the same), they would not have understood the differences in sexuality that we now classify as being different. The same with violence.
You'd be surprised what Horace and Ovid would understand. If you actually read letters from ancient Greece or from Rome, you will recognise much of the problems of today. Overcrowthing, noisy neighbours, lawlessnes and foreigners with strange ideas were as common back then as they are now.
The most famous of these "sayings by the ancients" is this piece
"Our youth now love luxury. They have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for their elders, and love chatter in places of exercise. They no longer rise when elders enter the room. They contradict their parents, chatter before company, gobble up their food, and tyrannize their teachers."
Is an old translation (but the only one I could find quickly by Googling) of something allegedly said by Socrates in the 4th century BC, as recorded by Plato.
You're absolutely right. However, sloppy journalism is just as bad. A statement like:
it "makes unsubstantiated, misleading, or misinformed statements about copyright law."
needs to be clarified. A competent journalist would ask further, demanding to know which statements are considered unsubstantiated misinformed or misleading. Without clarification this is just an opinion from one source and considering the phrasing of the rest of the comment, probably a biased source.
I remember it clearly, but only because I live near the tower, and because I suspected at the time (wrongly as it turned out) that the guy was one of the crazier customers who frequented the electronics store where I used to work.
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1. the molecules don't 'know' whether there is a vacuum or not. They just feel an electrostatic force due to each other's proximity.
2. temperature and heat are two different things.
3. The boiling point is the temperature at which the vapour pressure of the liquid equals the ambient pressure. When a liquid reaches boiling point, evaporation goes much faster (since it can occur throughout the liquid not just at the surface which leads to great heat loss, which means that the temperature cannot rise any further. So at lower pressures, the boiling point is lower.)
4. It's saturday and sunny out (at least around here it is), so instead of arguing about physics, it's far more fun to go outside.
I'm sorry but evaporation always leads to heat loss. If you evaporate a fixed number of grammes of a given liquid, you lose a fixed number of joules. This heat comes from the breaking of vanderwaals forces between molecules, not from acting against ambient pressure.
(tinfoil hat time) Who says they didn't? It's not like you and I are able go up there and check. This mannequin is nothing more than a cover story.
Wait for the first astronaut to return screaming: "People! mannequin is people!"
Or maybe not. However, in the late 1950's they used to use real corpses instead of crash test dummies in simulated car accidents. (Since you can't make a good dummy if you don't know how a real body reacts) It's the logical thing to do, even if it isn't the most socially acceptable.
if you breathe 100% oxygen, you'd still have to have about 1/5th of an atmosphere of gas in your lungs to function properly (since the human body is designed for ~20% oxygen @ 1atm) you may be able to go a little lower than that but that's still an awful lot of pressure to contain, unless you start breathing liquids, which AFAIK has only been tested at high pressures, but might equally provide advantages at near vacuum.
The other problem would be evaporation. Your sweat would boil off in a vacuum, which would leave you extremely cold and with very dry skin.
And if you're in space, prepare yourself for the ultimate in sunburn.
Needless to say, I won't be volunteering for tests.
The whole point of the article is that it's absolute. All speech is protected. Only protecting 'acceptable speech' is a waste of time, since that doesn't need protection. If you commit a crime an talk about it, you should only be prosecuted for the crime itself, not for you talking about it. If you don't like what's being said, use your own free speech to oppose it.
As far as responsability of the author for deeds by others influenced by the author? I think the first responsability lies with the person committing the crime. Everybody is ultimately responsible for their own deeds. To use the excuse that someone who has no economic or physical power to over you, told you to do it, is extremely weak. Even weaker than the 'just following orders' defense. It's still you who committed the crime. To deny your own personal responsibility is to deny your own humanity.
These are high standards to live up to , but being free is hard work. Anyone who tells you differently, is selling an inferior product.
Article 19. Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers.
Which sounds to me like an endorsement of an internet free of censorship.
In practice, most countries violate at least one of these articles.
Surveillance cameras are essential in solving crimes.
Surveillance cameras may be helpful in solving crimes, but they are hardly essential. Or do you seriously suggest that before the introduction of CCTV no crimes were solved?
And you call yourself a computer expert? Everybody knows that accepting cookies is a security risk. How do you know that your family doesn't use those cookies to track your eating habits?
Great game. If you're into retrogaming, you can find it on Ian Bell's Elite page (in the Elite archives) While David Braben has been milking the Elite name for a long time (and generally being an ass about it), Elite's co-creator Ian Bell is cool with people downloading and playing the game.
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It would be a shame is Microsoft would go for a proprietary system. Especially since an Open Alternative already exists.
On the one hand you have a Sherrif that locks up people if they look at him funny. On the other hand you have a scheming web-designer that tries to rip-off the Sherrif's department.
Sounds like a movie remake of the Dukes of Hazzard to me. Well, after the Avengers, Charlies Angels and Starsky and Hutch what would you expect? Have the Duke boys solve the dispute, add car chases to taste and you have a working script.
Come on. Many of us have been following the whole sordid affair from the first mutterings about licence issues by Caldera well over two years ago.
It would be a shame to walk away now that the whole stinking mess is finally being dragged to the surface.
Very funny. With 32k on board, your one time pad can only transmit/receive say, 30k of information (well you'd need one or two K of code to actually do the work) Not to mention that you'd need a different pad for every one of these things, and the machine on the other end needs copies of all the pads for the machines it communicates with.
/. posts. So using OTP's would e highly impractical.
30k is not much. It's a handful of
As others have pointed out, you can indeed install Knoppix on a harddisk. Beware however that you will get a Debian Unstable system. This can sometimes lead to problems when doing apt-get upgrade (like apt suddenly deciding all by itself that KDE and all that depends on it really needs to be removed --that's why they call it unstable I guess)
If you're looking for the stability of Debian, do a "real" netinstall of the current stable version. If you want the cool new toys, then Knoppix is the easiest way to install a Debian that doesn't lag two years behind the other distros.
If you asked Horace (around 10 BC or so) or Ovid (around the same), they would not have understood the differences in sexuality that we now classify as being different. The same with violence.
You'd be surprised what Horace and Ovid would understand. If you actually read letters from ancient Greece or from Rome, you will recognise much of the problems of today. Overcrowthing, noisy neighbours, lawlessnes and foreigners with strange ideas were as common back then as they are now.
The most famous of these "sayings by the ancients" is this piece
"Our youth now love luxury. They have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for their elders, and love chatter in places of exercise. They no longer rise when elders enter the room. They contradict their parents, chatter before company, gobble up their food, and tyrannize their teachers."
Is an old translation (but the only one I could find quickly by Googling) of something allegedly said by Socrates in the 4th century BC, as recorded by Plato.
Sloppy scholarship helps no one.
You're absolutely right. However, sloppy journalism is just as bad. A statement like:
it "makes unsubstantiated, misleading, or misinformed statements about copyright law."
needs to be clarified. A competent journalist would ask further, demanding to know which statements are considered unsubstantiated misinformed or misleading. Without clarification this is just an opinion from one source and considering the phrasing of the rest of the comment, probably a biased source.
I remember it clearly, but only because I live near the tower, and because I suspected at the time (wrongly as it turned out) that the guy was one of the crazier customers who frequented the electronics store where I used to work.
There is an episode 7? why was I not told about this? I bet it's called "The Ewoks Take Manhattan"
sing along everybody: "Someday we'll find out, the Jedi connection, Chewbacca, Han Solo and meeeeeee!!!!"
Dear sir, a recent audit of your slashdot activities dicovered the following weaknesses:
1 - You didn't state whether you are or are not a lawyer, which is essential for the proper functioning of this organisation.
2- Throughout the slashdot community, it is considered acceptable practice not to RTFA. excuses made include, but are not limited to: "not wanting to add to the slashdot effect", "everybody does it" and "FP! OMFG! ROTFLMAO!" This kind of laxity needs to be remedied if this organisation is to remain competitive in today's hostile economic climate.
Our team suggest, outsourcing the posting of comments to emerging Asian markets.
PS. Your bill for this consultation will arrive ASAP.
You really need to learn some physics.
Some points to consider:
1. the molecules don't 'know' whether there is a vacuum or not. They just feel an electrostatic force due to each other's proximity.
2. temperature and heat are two different things.
3. The boiling point is the temperature at which the vapour pressure of the liquid equals the ambient pressure.
When a liquid reaches boiling point, evaporation goes much faster (since it can occur throughout the liquid not just at the surface which leads to great heat loss, which means that the temperature cannot rise any further. So at lower pressures, the boiling point is lower.)
4. It's saturday and sunny out (at least around here it is), so instead of arguing about physics, it's far more fun to go outside.
I meant to say that the heat goes into the breaking of Vanderwaals forces.
I'm sorry but evaporation always leads to heat loss. If you evaporate a fixed number of grammes of a given liquid, you lose a fixed number of joules. This heat comes from the breaking of vanderwaals forces between molecules, not from acting against ambient pressure.
(tinfoil hat time)
Who says they didn't? It's not like you and I are able go up there and check. This mannequin is nothing more than a cover story.
Wait for the first astronaut to return screaming: "People! mannequin is people!"
Or maybe not. However, in the late 1950's they used to use real corpses instead of crash test dummies in simulated car accidents. (Since you can't make a good dummy if you don't know how a real body reacts) It's the logical thing to do, even if it isn't the most socially acceptable.
if you breathe 100% oxygen, you'd still have to have about 1/5th of an atmosphere of gas in your lungs to function properly (since the human body is designed for ~20% oxygen @ 1atm) you may be able to go a little lower than that but that's still an awful lot of pressure to contain, unless you start breathing liquids, which AFAIK has only been tested at high pressures, but might equally provide advantages at near vacuum .
The other problem would be evaporation. Your sweat would boil off in a vacuum, which would leave you extremely cold and with very dry skin.
And if you're in space, prepare yourself for the ultimate in sunburn.
Needless to say, I won't be volunteering for tests.
Because all the big distributions allow you to install LaTeX..
The whole point of the article is that it's absolute. All speech is protected. Only protecting 'acceptable speech' is a waste of time, since that doesn't need protection. If you commit a crime an talk about it, you should only be prosecuted for the crime itself, not for you talking about it.
If you don't like what's being said, use your own free speech to oppose it.
As far as responsability of the author for deeds by others influenced by the author? I think the first responsability lies with the person committing the crime. Everybody is ultimately responsible for their own deeds. To use the excuse that someone who has no economic or physical power to over you, told you to do it, is extremely weak. Even weaker than the 'just following orders' defense. It's still you who committed the crime. To deny your own personal responsibility is to deny your own humanity.
These are high standards to live up to , but being free is hard work. Anyone who tells you differently, is selling an inferior product.
UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Which sounds to me like an endorsement of an internet free of censorship.
In practice, most countries violate at least one of these articles.
They don't do business that way
That's because they're making huge amounts of money the regular way. As soon as they fall on hard times, they'll be suing left,right and center.
Oh no! Just had this mental image of an aging Steve Ballmer shouting:
"LITIGATORS LITIGATORS LITIGATORS LITIGATORS!"
Brrrr!
first attempt at rhyming perl
#!/usr/bin/perl
print "fit for a duke or an earl";
while(10 == 5)
{print"This code is alive!";}
# and if that will not fly,
try {system "ls"} or die;
(OK so I cheated a little, see if you can do better)
Surveillance cameras are essential in solving crimes.
Surveillance cameras may be helpful in solving crimes, but they are hardly essential. Or do you seriously suggest that before the introduction of CCTV no crimes were solved?
I'd rather have a box crashed than a box rooted. But maybe I'm just funny that way.
And you call yourself a computer expert? Everybody knows that accepting cookies is a security risk. How do you know that your family doesn't use those cookies to track your eating habits?
Lets try this...
...yeah you are right. That is totally unbiased reporting.
p_millipede is the creator of the infamous BSD is Dying troll.
there is no proof, of course, but I like saying that it is true.
Great game. If you're into retrogaming, you can find it on Ian Bell's Elite page (in the Elite archives) While David Braben has been milking the Elite name for a long time (and generally being an ass about it), Elite's co-creator Ian Bell is cool with people downloading and playing the game.