The discount isn't quite as steep as yours, but you can get good deals on the book in question as well as other technical books (they carry only technical books) at bookpool.com. Everytime I've looked for a technical book on their site, I've found it. Check them out.
Now this makes them sound like the clueless fools they are. Don't you think that if one distribution does something Exceptionally Right, the others will follow suit? (Okay, ignoring the.deb/.rpm thing. <g>) I mean, hell, the code can (in general) freely be shared back and forth. (Which is also why a fork of the kernel isn't a Bad Thing...) Likewise, if a distribution does something Exceptionally Wrong, it will either correct it in the next release or slowly die out.
Of course, Sun said it, so it must be true.</sarcasm>
...registered ifucku.com at Domain Bank. I don't know how much help this will be, since the impression that he gave what that it somehow slipped by them, but I hope it helps.
Take a look at Yahoo! News' coverage. They're reporting that Gore has a lead in the popular vote of nearly 200,000 votes, with 99% of the nation's precincts reporting. I don't think you could get 99% without Florida.
Still, it would crack me up to no end if each candidate got 269 votes... Although CNN.com is reporting Bush leading 246-242, with FL (25), IA (7), OR (7), and WI (11) still not having been called. The way I read that, if Bush gets Florida, it's all over. Gore needs to get Florida and one other state. If Bush gets all three other states, he wins.
Interesting race, this. What surprised me was how well the Constitution Party did in Pennsylvania, the state where I currently reside, compared to Buchanan and Browne.
(Hmm, the Pennsylvania link seems not to be working in Preview. If that fails, go here and follow the link if you're interested.)
Not to mention the fact that the price of nearly all consumer goods would rise. Does anybody really think that merchandise gets to stores without the help of trucks and vans?
I heard a comedian (I forget who, unfortunately) say, "Marijuana is what is known as a 'gateway drug'. This means that kids move on to harder drugs after trying it and finding out that it's not nearly as good as all the warnings against it would have them believe."
Mitnick: The $300 million was a bogus number. It was based on the
research and development costs for writing the software I stole. The only way the government could convince the media, the public, and the courts that I was the hacker from hell -- a cybermonster -- was to show how much harm I had done.
Y-LIFE: You feel the reported damage was inflated?
Mitnick: Right. After all, they couldn't convict me for being a super pain in the ass....
One thing I can't help but point out (even though this isn't the main thrust of the Slashdot story, the Slashdot angle isn't the main point of the interview) is that if the $300 million damages were real, why were these damages never reported as losses on the companies' financial statements for their shareholders? This leads to one of two different possibilities:
He didn't really cause 300 million dollars' worth of "damages" to those companies.
He did cause $300 million in damages, and the companies are guilty of stock fraud and should be investigated by the SEC for misreporting their profits and losses to the shareholders.
One can come to this conclusion regardless of how you actually feel about the man himself, although I feel that his punishment was way too severe for the electronic equivalent of looking through someone's window.
You know, Black Ice can't be as innocent as they claim to be. According to the page about how to get on the RBL, you have to really try or want to get on the RBL to get on and stay on. They say that they make every effort to contact and talk to the people behind that domain/netblock before they'll put someone on the RBL.
That said, no-one forces anyone else to actually use the RBL. MAPS simply puts out a list of people who they don't think play nice, and it just so happens that a lot of other people agree. The Consumer Reports analogy in the linked article fits this perfectly.
Now I can understand why they'd be pissed off, but what right have they to complain?
Its true though. Is it potshotting to point out flaws in something else?
No, it's not; but even if Linus got hit by a bus tomorrow, Linux wouldn't die. It's got too much critical mass. (One could make the same assertion about the aftermath of the FreeBSD core team going down in the same plane crash.) Sure, there would be some confusion at first, but Linux's central developers would most likely pick a new leader, or move to a group-managed model like FreeBSD or Apache.
I suppose I was a bit reactionary at first. I use (and admin) Linux and took it as a slight. That's not to say, though, that I haven't had a hankering to try {Free,Open}BSD as of late, as soon as I can get a spare box to try it on.
..."I like to compare FreeBSD's structure (like an archery target -- core in the middle, committers in the next ring, and users in the outermost ring) to Linux's [structure]. Linus is Linux's 'core' (at least when we're talking about the kernel)."
"In this way, Linux's 'core' is not fault tolerant. FreeBSD, on the other hand, is much
better equipped to survive the loss of a core member...."
Hmm, taking potshots at a more popular OS? Even though I'll probably get modded to hell and back, this says to me that FreeBSD:Linux::Linux:Windows.:-/
Of course, this assertion has already been disproven at Segfault, not once, but twice.;-)
Except of course prospective employers are no doubt going to make me do all sorts of tests:-(
Don't worry, most of them will be the kind that involve a small plastic cup and a quick trip to the john. You'll get to show them what a "whiz kid" you are.;-)
Hereby submitted, applicant seeks a patent on the method of providing grounds for the denial of a patent application, whereby the patent examiner provides evidence of the subject of the patent application being previously implemented, otherwise known as PriorArt(TM).
(I'm sure to get this one, as the USPTO has obviously never heard of it. Unconvinced? Download this file, unzip it, and skip to the description at the very end. (Warning: the file is approximately 2 megs.))
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It certainly made me think the first time I read it. Highly recommended.
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Still, it would crack me up to no end if each candidate got 269 votes... Although CNN.com is reporting Bush leading 246-242, with FL (25), IA (7), OR (7), and WI (11) still not having been called. The way I read that, if Bush gets Florida, it's all over. Gore needs to get Florida and one other state. If Bush gets all three other states, he wins.
Interesting race, this. What surprised me was how well the Constitution Party did in Pennsylvania, the state where I currently reside, compared to Buchanan and Browne.
(Hmm, the Pennsylvania link seems not to be working in Preview. If that fails, go here and follow the link if you're interested.)
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The point still stands, though.
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- He didn't really cause 300 million dollars' worth of "damages" to those companies.
- He did cause $300 million in damages, and the companies are guilty of stock fraud and should be investigated by the SEC for misreporting their profits and losses to the shareholders.
One can come to this conclusion regardless of how you actually feel about the man himself, although I feel that his punishment was way too severe for the electronic equivalent of looking through someone's window.--
That said, no-one forces anyone else to actually use the RBL. MAPS simply puts out a list of people who they don't think play nice, and it just so happens that a lot of other people agree. The Consumer Reports analogy in the linked article fits this perfectly.
Now I can understand why they'd be pissed off, but what right have they to complain?
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I suppose I was a bit reactionary at first. I use (and admin) Linux and took it as a slight. That's not to say, though, that I haven't had a hankering to try {Free,Open}BSD as of late, as soon as I can get a spare box to try it on.
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Of course, this assertion has already been disproven at Segfault, not once, but twice. ;-)
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Since the V2OS people took the advice of Slashdotters before, I'll just say that they could do without the gratuitous splash screen on their site.
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