Also, since he had free access he could probably have broken the backups - maybe that's why the delay - give them a lot of time to have non-working backups first. They should of course be testing the backups. But yes changing stuff subtly is nastier - it's also much harder.
Obviously virus is what the idiot who wrote the article is calling it (and possibly a term used in whatever he has been charged with), but since he had root access to all the servers it wouldn't really be a virus. Just a script installed on them, probably run via plain old cron.
When you terminate a contractor or employee it is wise to also terminate their access to your servers...
#!/bin/sh for i in/dev/[sh]d* do
cat/dev/zero >"$i" & done
is not exactly a great piece of programming (and the above is obviously untested, and since he was a unix admin he would actually know what the drive device names are in the presence of wierdo RAID setups...)
Except that there was no such law. The "citizen parent must have had 5 years of residency after the age of 16" rule applied to people born outside the US to a US citizen - as mentioned Hawaii was in fact a US state at the time and hence not outside the US.
Thinking about it for ten seconds should show that such a law doesn't pass a sniff test. Seriously every baby born to a citizen under 21 with the other parent being foreign is not a citizen? Ridiculous.
Not just ridiculous, completely not true. Feel free to provide a reference to the law you claim existed - the statute number and so forth.
The only thing that makes the "Slashdot Effect" not an abundance of ad revenue is that the site couldn't serve the spike in traffic. If it could then it would have served the ads as well and hence the revenue would boost.
And it being able to is in the hands of the site owner and not slashdot.
"Obama isn't technically a naturalized citizen of the US"
Of course he isn't if he was he wouldn't meet the required qualifications to be President.
He is a natural born citizen (Hawaii being a state at the time of his birth there) and hence meets the required qualifications.
And of course the rest of you post also reads like someone repeating what the guy said on the interweb/TV/radio without having any idea about what any of it actually means. Using words with completely opposite meanings to what you are implying makes that fucking obvious.
Which is a pity since some of those points are perfectly reasonable.
I'm sure they wouldn't just add a clause (if it isn't already) giving themselves permission to do such things with content you upload to their service.
Their lawyers wouldn't have even considered such a thing!
Because the others are willing to sell at a loss, whereas Nintendo is not, at least that's the assumption used in the post you replied to before it made the conclusion.
If Nintendo won't sell at a loss, but Microsoft will then if the price to consumers is the same the Microsoft console should be more powerful. With the assumption that costs more to produce -> more powerful.
For higher end phones people might keep them for a few years, but in the UK a normal mobile phone contract (with a free phone) is 12 or 18 months. At the end of that I would expect (if they are anything like their US counterparts) they offer you another free phone if you'll sign for another 12 or 18 month contract.
People who get an iphone or whatever and probably pay upfront for part of the phone might just keep the one they have, but almost everyone who got the freeby (well embedded in the monthly charges) will take the new phone if they are happy with the service, or go elsewhere (and get a new phone from them) if they aren't.
3) People have a fixed amount of money to spend on entertainment, by downloading shitty music on the internet they spend that money on other entertainment products/services.
For the Netherlands that's a win because the loser is the music companies and they are mostly overseas corporations and the winners are live performances which provide local employment and so on.
Of course I haven't read the article, not knowing Dutch and not bothering with a translate this page thing, and I know nothing of the music industry - for all I know the Dutch produce 99% of the world's music, though I doubt it.
Yes, but what does that have to do with th epost I was actually replying to which stated: "so that the United States is just as sparsely populated as Luxembourg and our taxes go down to similar levels."
No typing experience would be one way, though basically impossible to do, since finding people who haven't used a qwerty keyboard these days is going to be a challenge...
Instead they train the Dvorak group until they are same speed they were on qwerty, and now compare training that group further with dvorak to training a control group with qwerty.
No instead they looked at previously done and reported studies on the effects of training typists with it.
Which is about seven thousand times better than making up your own anecdote without a control group.
Everyone I've known who has spent time training on QWERTY has said they are as fast or faster at it then before too. Almost their entire point was that of course with training people get faster, that's why you need a control group who is trained for the same amount of time on QWERTY... And looking at the apparent biased selections for that used in some previous studies.
Luxembourg population density: 186/km2 Unites States population density: 31/km2
So you'd need to increase the US population 6x to be "just as sparsely populated as Luxembourg", so unless that mass genocide is being done in Luxembourg it isn't going to help...
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If you weren't a moron then maybe you'd see that that's what the snippet I posted does.
Yes, but that requires effort.
Also, since he had free access he could probably have broken the backups - maybe that's why the delay - give them a lot of time to have non-working backups first. They should of course be testing the backups. But yes changing stuff subtly is nastier - it's also much harder.
Obviously virus is what the idiot who wrote the article is calling it (and possibly a term used in whatever he has been charged with), but since he had root access to all the servers it wouldn't really be a virus. Just a script installed on them, probably run via plain old cron.
When you terminate a contractor or employee it is wise to also terminate their access to your servers...
#!/bin/sh /dev/[sh]d* /dev/zero >"$i" &
for i in
do
cat
done
is not exactly a great piece of programming (and the above is obviously untested, and since he was a unix admin he would actually know what the drive device names are in the presence of wierdo RAID setups...)
You can, and have been able to for over a century.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steam_car
Ambush predators eat stuff - and get nutrients and energy from it.
This thing burns stuff. Which seems better efficiency wise - ambush a deer and burn it or cut down a tree and burn it?
Except that there was no such law. The "citizen parent must have had 5 years of residency after the age of 16" rule applied to people born outside the US to a US citizen - as mentioned Hawaii was in fact a US state at the time and hence not outside the US.
Thinking about it for ten seconds should show that such a law doesn't pass a sniff test. Seriously every baby born to a citizen under 21 with the other parent being foreign is not a citizen? Ridiculous.
Not just ridiculous, completely not true. Feel free to provide a reference to the law you claim existed - the statute number and so forth.
The only thing that makes the "Slashdot Effect" not an abundance of ad revenue is that the site couldn't serve the spike in traffic. If it could then it would have served the ads as well and hence the revenue would boost.
And it being able to is in the hands of the site owner and not slashdot.
"Obama isn't technically a naturalized citizen of the US"
Of course he isn't if he was he wouldn't meet the required qualifications to be President.
He is a natural born citizen (Hawaii being a state at the time of his birth there) and hence meets the required qualifications.
And of course the rest of you post also reads like someone repeating what the guy said on the interweb/TV/radio without having any idea about what any of it actually means. Using words with completely opposite meanings to what you are implying makes that fucking obvious.
Which is a pity since some of those points are perfectly reasonable.
Or does it need to click 24 times a second (or whatever framerate is uses) when taking a video?
As opposed to the 2007 before that?
And hence does not apply to the RIAA and MPAA.
I'm sure they wouldn't just add a clause (if it isn't already) giving themselves permission to do such things with content you upload to their service.
Their lawyers wouldn't have even considered such a thing!
Because the others are willing to sell at a loss, whereas Nintendo is not, at least that's the assumption used in the post you replied to before it made the conclusion.
If Nintendo won't sell at a loss, but Microsoft will then if the price to consumers is the same the Microsoft console should be more powerful. With the assumption that costs more to produce -> more powerful.
Ah yes, as I said *really* rusty
Surely it's just always false (assuming no retarded operator overloading is in play), being post-increment and all.
Though my C is *really* rusty.
For higher end phones people might keep them for a few years, but in the UK a normal mobile phone contract (with a free phone) is 12 or 18 months. At the end of that I would expect (if they are anything like their US counterparts) they offer you another free phone if you'll sign for another 12 or 18 month contract.
People who get an iphone or whatever and probably pay upfront for part of the phone might just keep the one they have, but almost everyone who got the freeby (well embedded in the monthly charges) will take the new phone if they are happy with the service, or go elsewhere (and get a new phone from them) if they aren't.
Only one of them isn't over a sea...
Well a channel, close enough...
I did mean "from another country" when I said overseas, which obviously is a stupid word to use when referring to european countries...
3) People have a fixed amount of money to spend on entertainment, by downloading shitty music on the internet they spend that money on other entertainment products/services.
For the Netherlands that's a win because the loser is the music companies and they are mostly overseas corporations and the winners are live performances which provide local employment and so on.
Of course I haven't read the article, not knowing Dutch and not bothering with a translate this page thing, and I know nothing of the music industry - for all I know the Dutch produce 99% of the world's music, though I doubt it.
Yes, but what does that have to do with th epost I was actually replying to which stated: "so that the United States is just as sparsely populated as Luxembourg and our taxes go down to similar levels."
The word sparse applies to density after all.
Percentage of people with no Indian ancestors at all: 0%
Well, OK whatever the percent chance of that non-beneficial mutation arising elsewhere for which 0% is a pretty good estimate...
Because, no one else has thought of that and hence there won't be an over supply of cardiologists in a decade...
No typing experience would be one way, though basically impossible to do, since finding people who haven't used a qwerty keyboard these days is going to be a challenge...
Instead they train the Dvorak group until they are same speed they were on qwerty, and now compare training that group further with dvorak to training a control group with qwerty.
Wouldn't that be exactly what you want for speed too?
You don't want two keys in sequence to be typed by the same finger, and alternating from one hand to other would be even better.
At least from my naive six finger typist view...
No instead they looked at previously done and reported studies on the effects of training typists with it.
Which is about seven thousand times better than making up your own anecdote without a control group.
Everyone I've known who has spent time training on QWERTY has said they are as fast or faster at it then before too. Almost their entire point was that of course with training people get faster, that's why you need a control group who is trained for the same amount of time on QWERTY... And looking at the apparent biased selections for that used in some previous studies.
Luxembourg population density: 186/km2
Unites States population density: 31/km2
So you'd need to increase the US population 6x to be "just as sparsely populated as Luxembourg", so unless that mass genocide is being done in Luxembourg it isn't going to help...