The chemicals used as model rocket propellants are not explosives. This is probably because THEY DON'T FUCKING EXPLODE. Just because the ATF wants to CALL them "explosives" does not magically alter the laws of physics.
Model rocket propellants are much less dangerous than gasoline -- which, by the way, actually IS an explosive.
The constitution does not outline our rights, it outlines the government's powers.
Moderate parent up -- he actually understands what the Constitution does, unlike the majority of slashdotters (or the majority of senators, for that matter). The Constitution grants a limited (and specifically enumerated) set of powers to the various branches of the government, and lists specific things that the government is FORBIDDEN to do. The Constitution does not CREATE rights -- we already have them. What it is supposed to do is to prevent the Government from infringing on the rights we already have.
The problem with your first example is that you have no control over the order in which the songs are played. Some alternatives might be:
mpg123
find / -name \*.mp3 | xargs mpg123
Of course, with a little Makefile wizardy you could just:
make music
I'll second the vote for screen, although ssh is a close second. screen is indespensible if you do real work on the command line, and ssh's ability to forward arbitrary ports is just too useful for words.
It is only relatively very recently that MS put out a server that did not have to be re-booted every 24 hours!
I call bullshit. The skill of the administrator and the quality of the hardware are FAR more important factors in system stability than the operating system.
I have an NT4 PDC/fileserver which had over a year and a half continuous uptime until it went down due to a hard drive failure. I also recall a time when my Linux mail server was locking up every other day because a particular kernel build didn't want to play nice with my RAID controller.
From a systems administration standpoint, the main difference I've seen between Linux and Windows is the level of difficulty involved in setting up a stable system, and the amount of experience it takes to learn the various "gotchas" each one has. In my experience, a fresh Linux install requires less tweaking and handholding to get it into a stable state than a comperable Windows installation requires.
I bought my Palm IIIxe 4 years ago for $70. There's no reason they can't sell an identical or superior device for the same price today. I still use my IIIxe daily. I use it for note taking, to-do list, and e-books (both fiction and tech reference), plus a few games. It does everything I need without being bloated. I don't want to surf the web in meetings -- I want something to augment my memory that's more efficient than a pocket full of sticky notes.
The main feature I love about the older palms is that they run for 2+ weeks on a standard set of AAA batteries. Even if you forget to carry a spare set of batteries, you can buy a new set practically anywhere in the world. No need to worry about remembering to stick it in the charger every night. Try replacing the battery on a PocketPC -- if it's a few years old it would probably be cheaper to replace the whole unit than it would be to get a new battery.
We still gave government of the people, by the people, and for the people. It's just that the definition of "people" has been revised to "everone with a net worth over $1,000,000,000 USD". Everyone else is not a person, they are consumers and/or employees.
Come November, the people of America will decide if they want to keep Bush or not
Which people would those be? Bush's cronies and siblings who control the voting apparatus of key statse or Bush's cronies who manufacture voting machines? The fix is in. King George and his billionaire buddies won't have it any other way.
Screwing an 18-year old adult, even if you are old enough to draw social security, is not "child molestation". It might be bad taste, but it's not a crime.
More importantly: what two consenting adults do in the privacy of their bedroom is NONE OF YOUR FUCKING BUSINESS.
Similar thing happened to me twice.
First time was when I was a parking valet. Customer wanted his car, a (IIRC) grey Honda Civic. Went over to the garage, found the grey civic in the right area as indicated by the key tag, drove it back to the door. I had the customer's keys but it wasn't his grey civic that they worked on. I was really freaked out -- at first I thought the guy was trying to run some kind of a scam on me, which seemed a whole lot more likely at the time than 2 cars with identical keys.
Another time was right after I bought a Buick Regal. Went out to the parking lot at the mall and spent 5 minutes cussing trying to figure out why my keys wouldn't work before I realized that it wasn't my car but an identical one, parked one row over from mine.
That should be the job hunter's mantra. in virtually every case, you cannot trust your employer. They will screw you at any opportunity. Bonuses and stock options are vaporware until the check clears. If you assume that the raise or bonus they *promised* you isn't ever going to appear, you'll rarely be disappointed.
In my experience, the best way to get a raise is to plop an offer letter from another company down on your boss's desk and say "can you make me a better offer than this to stay here?"
I've been doing the same thing as your buddy for 3+ years, and so far, no problems.
The "services" Comcast provides are inadequate for my needs. If they can offer me unlimited IMAP accounts with daily backup, SpamAssassin + dspam, procmail filtering, and webmail on my own domain, I'll use their mail server. If they can offer me web hosting with full cgi-bin, servlet, and database access, I'll use their web server. Until then, I'll keep running my own mail and web servers.
The day they give me crap about providing my own services is the day I switch to DSL + Dish Network and encourage the rest of my family to do the same. I'm not worried -- judging from the number of NIMDA (etc) attacks I see from Comcast IPs, they aren't doing anything about people running web servers.
Video is by far the biggest problem when it comes to putting a computer in another room. There's really no cheap way to run a VGA signal an appreciable distance with any kind of quality.
Basically, you need an enterprise-grade KVM system. Systems like this aren't cheap, but they do let you run 1600x1200x24bit video over standard CAT-5 cable with no ghosting. If you've got the money (or if you can find them cheap at an auction) this is the way to go. If you don't have the money, you have to make due with VNC, X-terminals, MS Terminal Server, or similar system.
Salt is a useful commodity. There are many industrial procesess which require large quantaties of salt.
Any large northern city goes through thousands of tons of salt every time it snows, at a cost of several million dollars. 65T of salt per day is ~ 24K Tons / year. That's probably less salt than a millon-person community in New England would use in a typical winter.
I did not say that morality does not exist -- I said that morals are based on subjective values, not objective facts.
Moral arguments are, by definition, based on an appeal to authority, tradition, and/or emotion. These are all classical logical fallacies. Contrast this to ethical arguments, which are built on sound logical reasoning and as such are objective and provably correct (or provably false).
As an example, consider the following: Is the act of consentual sex between unmarried adults, in and of itself, immoral? Depends on who you ask -- religious fundamentalists would say definately yes (citing scripture as their authority), most other people would say definately not. Is it unethical? I would argue no, on the basis that does no objective (IE mesurable) physical or mental harm to the participating individuals.
Sendmail is still full of holes. Sendmail 8.11.7 was released just over a year ago (30 Mar 2003). In that year there have been no less than 5 critical bugs discovered including 2 remote root exploits and a DOS vulnerability.
I got sick of playing whack-a-mole with Sendmail's bugs and switched over to postfix in that year there has been only one bug discovered in postfix -- a DOS vulnerability. AFAIK, Postfix has NEVER had a remote root exploit.
Security is HARD to get right. Postfix was designed from the ground up with security in mind by one of the leading experts in the field of computer security, and it still occasionally has problems. OpenBSD is reviewed line-by-line for security problems by some of the most anal-retentive programmers in the world, and it still has an occasional hole. Programs like sendmail, where security is a poorly-implemented afterthought, can never be trusted.
That is a specious argument: define "moral" in objective rather than subjective terms.
What is relevant is that copyright law gives the copyright owner the right to control the production and distribution of derivitive works. Making a "no-naughty-bits" derivitive of a movie for your own use probably falls under fair use. However, as with the MP-3 debate, there's a very ill-defined border between legal fair use and illegal copyright infringement.
Directors and other artists working on a movie are usually hired by a studio or production company to make the movie. In legal terms, this makes the movie a work for hire -- copyright and creative control belong to the people who paid for it, unless they contractually gave those rights to someone else.
This just goes to show the fundamental problem with the current legal system: regardless of the merit of their position, the rich can use the courts to impose their will on the poor by killing them with legal fees.
Look at the list of job openings at Fort Meade on Dice or Monster.
If memory serves correctly, maybe 1 in 10 jobs in the Baltimore/Washington area required a clearance prior to 9/11; now it's more like 1 in 3. It's getting hard to find an IT job that's NOT national security related in this part of the country.
It's unlikely that a general release compiler (gcc, vc++, etc) would have a specific back-door for a voting system built in to it. Any backdoor of this variety would be present in any system built with that compiler
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In this case it doesn't really matter if you can trust the compiler or not -- what you want to do is ensure that the version of the software installed on deployed machines matches the audited reference copy. This can be done easily. Then you can test the hell out of the reference copy to make sure that it doesn't have any backdoors.
This doesn't assure you that the reference is 100% secure (there's no such thing), but it does give you 100% assurance that the machine you use to cast your vote is running the audited software.
What prevents any e-voting company to build binaries that have "secret conspiracy back doors" in them?
Release the makefiles along with all the details of how the release executables were built (exact details of the build platform, compiler flags, etc) -- basically all the details you need to produce an identical executable.
Calculate the MD-5 and SHA-1 hashes of the test version you built yourself. EG:
Have independent auditors perform this process on a random sample of deployed machines.
diff the checksum file for the machine being tested against the one for your reference build.
If all the hashes match, you're assured that the executables on that machine have not been tampered with.
You may not download this Software if you are located in any country (or are a national of a country) subject to a general U.S. or U.N. embargo or are deemed to be a terrorist country (i.e., Cuba,Iran, Iraq, Libya, North Korea, Sudan and Syria). Ouch! Why the patriotic license clause?
Same reason any made-in-the-USA software containing strong crypto has a similar warning -- US law prohibits the distribution of strong crypto software to "bad" countries.
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Model rocket propellants are much less dangerous than gasoline -- which, by the way, actually IS an explosive.
mpg123 find / -name \*.mp3 | xargs mpg123
Of course, with a little Makefile wizardy you could just:
:-)
make music
I'll second the vote for screen, although ssh is a close second. screen is indespensible if you do real work on the command line, and ssh's ability to forward arbitrary ports is just too useful for words.
I have an NT4 PDC/fileserver which had over a year and a half continuous uptime until it went down due to a hard drive failure. I also recall a time when my Linux mail server was locking up every other day because a particular kernel build didn't want to play nice with my RAID controller.
From a systems administration standpoint, the main difference I've seen between Linux and Windows is the level of difficulty involved in setting up a stable system, and the amount of experience it takes to learn the various "gotchas" each one has. In my experience, a fresh Linux install requires less tweaking and handholding to get it into a stable state than a comperable Windows installation requires.
IIRC, The price you pay for a newspaper goes mostly to the retailer. For a $.25 paper, the retailer is paying less than a nickle, if anything.
I bought my Palm IIIxe 4 years ago for $70. There's no reason they can't sell an identical or superior device for the same price today. I still use my IIIxe daily. I use it for note taking, to-do list, and e-books (both fiction and tech reference), plus a few games. It does everything I need without being bloated. I don't want to surf the web in meetings -- I want something to augment my memory that's more efficient than a pocket full of sticky notes.
The main feature I love about the older palms is that they run for 2+ weeks on a standard set of AAA batteries. Even if you forget to carry a spare set of batteries, you can buy a new set practically anywhere in the world. No need to worry about remembering to stick it in the charger every night. Try replacing the battery on a PocketPC -- if it's a few years old it would probably be cheaper to replace the whole unit than it would be to get a new battery.
We still gave government of the people, by the people, and for the people. It's just that the definition of "people" has been revised to "everone with a net worth over $1,000,000,000 USD". Everyone else is not a person, they are consumers and/or employees.
More importantly: what two consenting adults do in the privacy of their bedroom is NONE OF YOUR FUCKING BUSINESS.
First time was when I was a parking valet. Customer wanted his car, a (IIRC) grey Honda Civic. Went over to the garage, found the grey civic in the right area as indicated by the key tag, drove it back to the door. I had the customer's keys but it wasn't his grey civic that they worked on. I was really freaked out -- at first I thought the guy was trying to run some kind of a scam on me, which seemed a whole lot more likely at the time than 2 cars with identical keys.
Another time was right after I bought a Buick Regal. Went out to the parking lot at the mall and spent 5 minutes cussing trying to figure out why my keys wouldn't work before I realized that it wasn't my car but an identical one, parked one row over from mine.
In my experience, the best way to get a raise is to plop an offer letter from another company down on your boss's desk and say "can you make me a better offer than this to stay here?"
The "services" Comcast provides are inadequate for my needs. If they can offer me unlimited IMAP accounts with daily backup, SpamAssassin + dspam, procmail filtering, and webmail on my own domain, I'll use their mail server. If they can offer me web hosting with full cgi-bin, servlet, and database access, I'll use their web server. Until then, I'll keep running my own mail and web servers.
The day they give me crap about providing my own services is the day I switch to DSL + Dish Network and encourage the rest of my family to do the same. I'm not worried -- judging from the number of NIMDA (etc) attacks I see from Comcast IPs, they aren't doing anything about people running web servers.
Basically, you need an enterprise-grade KVM system. Systems like this aren't cheap, but they do let you run 1600x1200x24bit video over standard CAT-5 cable with no ghosting. If you've got the money (or if you can find them cheap at an auction) this is the way to go. If you don't have the money, you have to make due with VNC, X-terminals, MS Terminal Server, or similar system.
Any large northern city goes through thousands of tons of salt every time it snows, at a cost of several million dollars. 65T of salt per day is ~ 24K Tons / year. That's probably less salt than a millon-person community in New England would use in a typical winter.
Moral arguments are, by definition, based on an appeal to authority, tradition, and/or emotion. These are all classical logical fallacies. Contrast this to ethical arguments, which are built on sound logical reasoning and as such are objective and provably correct (or provably false).
As an example, consider the following: Is the act of consentual sex between unmarried adults, in and of itself, immoral? Depends on who you ask -- religious fundamentalists would say definately yes (citing scripture as their authority), most other people would say definately not. Is it unethical? I would argue no, on the basis that does no objective (IE mesurable) physical or mental harm to the participating individuals.
I got sick of playing whack-a-mole with Sendmail's bugs and switched over to postfix in that year there has been only one bug discovered in postfix -- a DOS vulnerability. AFAIK, Postfix has NEVER had a remote root exploit.
Security is HARD to get right. Postfix was designed from the ground up with security in mind by one of the leading experts in the field of computer security, and it still occasionally has problems. OpenBSD is reviewed line-by-line for security problems by some of the most anal-retentive programmers in the world, and it still has an occasional hole. Programs like sendmail, where security is a poorly-implemented afterthought, can never be trusted.
What is relevant is that copyright law gives the copyright owner the right to control the production and distribution of derivitive works. Making a "no-naughty-bits" derivitive of a movie for your own use probably falls under fair use. However, as with the MP-3 debate, there's a very ill-defined border between legal fair use and illegal copyright infringement.
Directors and other artists working on a movie are usually hired by a studio or production company to make the movie. In legal terms, this makes the movie a work for hire -- copyright and creative control belong to the people who paid for it, unless they contractually gave those rights to someone else.
The Star Wars prequels are unintentionally campy parodies of the originals that try and take themselves seriously, and don't work as a result.
"Never before in the history of mankind has there been a man in more desperate need of a blow job" -- Robin Williams in Good Morning Vietnam
This just goes to show the fundamental problem with the current legal system: regardless of the merit of their position, the rich can use the courts to impose their will on the poor by killing them with legal fees.
Look at the list of job openings at Fort Meade on Dice or Monster. If memory serves correctly, maybe 1 in 10 jobs in the Baltimore/Washington area required a clearance prior to 9/11; now it's more like 1 in 3. It's getting hard to find an IT job that's NOT national security related in this part of the country.
. In this case it doesn't really matter if you can trust the compiler or not -- what you want to do is ensure that the version of the software installed on deployed machines matches the audited reference copy. This can be done easily. Then you can test the hell out of the reference copy to make sure that it doesn't have any backdoors.
This doesn't assure you that the reference is 100% secure (there's no such thing), but it does give you 100% assurance that the machine you use to cast your vote is running the audited software.
- Release the makefiles along with all the details of how the release executables were built (exact details of the build platform, compiler flags, etc) -- basically all the details you need to produce an identical executable.
- Calculate the MD-5 and SHA-1 hashes of the test version you built yourself. EG:
- Have independent auditors perform this process on a random sample of deployed machines.
- diff the checksum file for the machine being tested against the one for your reference build.
If all the hashes match, you're assured that the executables on that machine have not been tampered with. Same reason any made-in-the-USA software containing strong crypto has a similar warning -- US law prohibits the distribution of strong crypto software to "bad" countries.No big accomplishment there... even the lamest joke can be +5 -- all it takes is 3 or 4 similarly humor-impared individuals with mod points.