The great thing about capitalism is that if think this is a good idea for the technology you can make a play at being one of the first ones to market with the product.
Until someone patents it and starts stealing all his innovation with the big bludgeon of the law. You need some combination of lawyer money and defensive patents to actually create anything in this world.
They do contribute quite a bit of userland upstream; just based on bug reports I've filed. I don't see why it's their obligation to work on the kernel, rather than just focusing on what they do well.
I'd argue that's not bullshit, it's a minor mistake. My understanding of history is shattered if I mistake that one year difference. If that one fact were important enough to matter, surely one would read more than one source anyway, and Wikipedia at that!
I'm glad my professors didn't see it that way. To be fair, I usually used wikipeida as you suggest: read it, read the references, cite them, but I cite wikipedia as well and always did fine.
It was most useful in science, math, and engineering classes for quick fact lookups in class.
I don't know, my professors regularly referenced wikipedia as supplemental reading. The more open minded/younger generations are starting to accept that it's a damn good reference at an encyclopedia level. Of course any kind of real paper requires a lot more depth, but it's a good place to start.
I've also had ones who just stubbornly ruled it out and refused to discuss it. But at least they had the common sense to make this policy clear in advance, rather than marking students down for it.
Yes, there is trash on wikipedia. If you can't separate bullshit from truth with reasonable accuracy, you have bigger problems than your coursework.
One of my professors would give us seven page numbers for every reference to a page he made and every problem he assigned...one for each of the seven versions of the course text. Obviously this is more than a little effort to put in, and we appreciated it. This guy did NOT like the textbook racket.
Many of us like online textbooks because they're free, but I still see quite a few of my classmates purchasing books (SiCP is a great example). Given that ebooks are available free whether or not legally, this may not be a bad idea.
HOWEVER: I imagine doing the online route will make it far harder to get published.
Um...are you referring to a physical attack? No unencrypted machine is even remotely resistant to that.
This particular vulnerability probably affects ubuntu (depending on the mmap status; certain default settings can actually prevent this), but I'm speaking generally.
Because we fix it instead of hushing it up until it becomes fairly well known and then waiting a month to fix it.
That said, it's nice to see the occasional vuln in Linux. Helps shut up the fanbois and keep everybody sharp. Because while under many eyes, all bugs are shallow, that only works if the eyes are actually looking.
Yes, hardened windows is reasonably secure. After you spend an hour or two installing all the third party software and configuration settings you need to prevent being owned in under five minutes. Or you can just install Ubuntu.
And on ANY operating system, you need to accept that a user having local execution privs means that every now and then they'll have a chance to root you with a 0day. Whether it's weekly on Windows or monthly on Linux, 0days happen and there's nothing you can do about it.
1) Encryption without identification is like locking your message in an unbreakable safe then handing the key to the first stranger you see along with the box and asking him to give it to your friend Bob. 2) SSL is full of TONS of complicated shit related to authentication but not encryption. Its purpose is both, or it is poorly designed. Perhaps both.
Dumping them into bins of "offender" then treating them all the same is always going to be a serious problem, no matter where we draw the interbin dividing lines.
Keeping children safe is well and good but these people have rights too, and once they've served their time (if there is, in fact, any time to serve for their "offense") they need to be protected from undue abuse.
* Finding a weekend job could be difficult in the exact amount desired * You can play EVE whenever * You enjoy playing more than you would enjoy working.
Me, I prefer to contribute to the economy, but to each his own.
The problem is that so-called piracy rates have no basis in fact. They count any lost sale as piracy, based on what the game "ought" to have sold. Boycotting and pirating have the same effect really.
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Reminds me of [insert city with reputation for poorly run transit system\]!
The great thing about capitalism is that if think this is a good idea for the technology you can make a play at being one of the first ones to market with the product.
Until someone patents it and starts stealing all his innovation with the big bludgeon of the law. You need some combination of lawyer money and defensive patents to actually create anything in this world.
17. Microsoft?
18. Satan himself
They do contribute quite a bit of userland upstream; just based on bug reports I've filed. I don't see why it's their obligation to work on the kernel, rather than just focusing on what they do well.
I'd argue that's not bullshit, it's a minor mistake. My understanding of history is shattered if I mistake that one year difference. If that one fact were important enough to matter, surely one would read more than one source anyway, and Wikipedia at that!
I'm glad my professors didn't see it that way. To be fair, I usually used wikipeida as you suggest: read it, read the references, cite them, but I cite wikipedia as well and always did fine.
It was most useful in science, math, and engineering classes for quick fact lookups in class.
I don't know, my professors regularly referenced wikipedia as supplemental reading. The more open minded/younger generations are starting to accept that it's a damn good reference at an encyclopedia level. Of course any kind of real paper requires a lot more depth, but it's a good place to start.
I've also had ones who just stubbornly ruled it out and refused to discuss it. But at least they had the common sense to make this policy clear in advance, rather than marking students down for it.
Yes, there is trash on wikipedia. If you can't separate bullshit from truth with reasonable accuracy, you have bigger problems than your coursework.
One of my professors would give us seven page numbers for every reference to a page he made and every problem he assigned...one for each of the seven versions of the course text. Obviously this is more than a little effort to put in, and we appreciated it. This guy did NOT like the textbook racket.
Many of us like online textbooks because they're free, but I still see quite a few of my classmates purchasing books (SiCP is a great example). Given that ebooks are available free whether or not legally, this may not be a bad idea.
HOWEVER: I imagine doing the online route will make it far harder to get published.
lots of alternatives.
As long as they ask politely, I don't see why you'd mind.
Because we fix it instead of hushing it up until it becomes fairly well known and then waiting a month to fix it.
Um...are you referring to a physical attack? No unencrypted machine is even remotely resistant to that.
This particular vulnerability probably affects ubuntu (depending on the mmap status; certain default settings can actually prevent this), but I'm speaking generally.
Because we fix it instead of hushing it up until it becomes fairly well known and then waiting a month to fix it.
That said, it's nice to see the occasional vuln in Linux. Helps shut up the fanbois and keep everybody sharp. Because while under many eyes, all bugs are shallow, that only works if the eyes are actually looking.
Yes, hardened windows is reasonably secure. After you spend an hour or two installing all the third party software and configuration settings you need to prevent being owned in under five minutes. Or you can just install Ubuntu.
And on ANY operating system, you need to accept that a user having local execution privs means that every now and then they'll have a chance to root you with a 0day. Whether it's weekly on Windows or monthly on Linux, 0days happen and there's nothing you can do about it.
1) Encryption without identification is like locking your message in an unbreakable safe then handing the key to the first stranger you see along with the box and asking him to give it to your friend Bob.
2) SSL is full of TONS of complicated shit related to authentication but not encryption. Its purpose is both, or it is poorly designed. Perhaps both.
Dumping them into bins of "offender" then treating them all the same is always going to be a serious problem, no matter where we draw the interbin dividing lines.
Keeping children safe is well and good but these people have rights too, and once they've served their time (if there is, in fact, any time to serve for their "offense") they need to be protected from undue abuse.
The argument is that:
* Finding a weekend job could be difficult in the exact amount desired
* You can play EVE whenever
* You enjoy playing more than you would enjoy working.
Me, I prefer to contribute to the economy, but to each his own.
Moving of the earth brings harms and fears,
Men reckon what it did and meant.
But trepidation of the spheres,
though greater far, are innocent.
Come on, you're messing with their opiates! If anything will cause them to riot it would be something like that.
The first word is always free!
Dude, have you *seen* Stargate?
If your requirements list includes the phrase "Microsoft Office" I'd argue that doesn't exactly count as looking at options either.
And in strange aeons, even death may die.
The problem is that so-called piracy rates have no basis in fact. They count any lost sale as piracy, based on what the game "ought" to have sold. Boycotting and pirating have the same effect really.