You assume they have the foresight required to see the music revolution. They do not, otherwise they would probably be pursuing different means of dealing with the mp3 phenomenon.
People often talk about Ender's Game and the related sequels. Ender's Game is my favorite Card book. In fact, it's probably the top book of all time, but if I were to pick a second favorite Orson Scott Card book, I would choose Lost Boys. Lost Boys is about a computer programmer in the 80's whose son is having all sorts of problems telling lies, misbehaving, and so forth. The book seems completely normal, but still fascinating, but it's not normal at all. It has an ending that grips you and slaps you across the face like the ending of Ender's Game. I recommend it.
As technology progresses, we find better more efficient ways of taking care of the necessities of life. We set out to improve the quality of living so that we can accomplish more and have more time left over. So what do we do with this time? We start getting paranoid and monitoring each other to make sure nobody does anything we don't want them to do. If you ask me, this is a bit counterproductive, and an excellent example of how mankind can waste huge amounts of productivity if it wants to.
It would be a significant undertaking, but I think it would really improve the quality of Slashdot if stories on the mainpage could somehow be ordered in a thread form. News stories discuss the real world, and the real world is a chain of events. Slashdot, as a news site, should reflect this natural organization. It would allow people to better control what they want to read about. If someone is interested in the Microsoft trial, they could follow the entire thread. If someone is sick of hearing about Mitnick, they could drop his thread.
An internet-based language will succeed about as well as the metric system in America... If you thought people seemed overly reluctant to learn a new form of measuring distances and such, try to get them to learn a whole new language.
So... I go to his site, and he sends me to a random website that has nothing to do with anything I'm interested in. Don't they usually call websites like this "Altavista"?
I can say Nike sucks without violating their trademark. I can also write a newspaper article that says Nike spams, and sell that. Similarly, I can write a list of people that spam, including Nike, and sell that. It doesn't try to change the meaning of Nike, so it's not a trademark violation.
The GPL does not "Modify" an implied warranty or disclaimer, it simply states that there is no warranty. To modify would be to change it after the release.
Does anyone else find it a little disconcerting when a site starts out with "Welcome Slashdot Readers" and then tries to sell something? Personally, I do consider this story news, but I don't much care for the idea of sites viewing Slashdot news stories as an advertisement portal.
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Hypothetically, if every single Slashdot user boycotts UCITA software, most likely no one will give a damn. We're a huge crowd of people, but in the software market we are insignificant. The answer to "What can we do?" is not "Don't buy UCITA software."
What we need to do is find an effective means of persuading the rest of the software purchasing community, and yes, that means clueless consumers, that UCITA software is evil. I hate to quote from Mein Kampf here, but we need simple slogans that simple people can understand that we can get people to repeat over and over again.
There are a number of examples of people convicted of computer crime who turn around and become leading experts in computer security, providing irreplaceable services to the rest of the computer industry. I really don't see what the rest of the world gains by telling someone like that, "No, you can't talk about computers".
When President McKinnley was attending Allegheny College (Pennsylvania) in the mid 1800's, as a prank he stuck a cow up in the bell tower of Bentley Hall, the first building at Allegheny College. The administration eventually had the cow taken down and sold to a local butcher. McKinnley's fate was a little less severe, he got caught for it and ended up getting in a lot of trouble, but then later became president, so now the story is retold with a little pride. It has become a classic piece of Allegheny Lore.
A good book to read for those interested in this topic is "Wrinkles in Time" by, I think, George Smoot. It describes in novel form his work with Cobe (one of these background radiation imaging research project). He carries the story through working with Nasa, launching weatherballoons, even to antarctica. The novel is interspersed with well described information about the theories behind background radiation, the origins of the universe, and what the images they discovered really mean.
If you screw up your fmtString, you will get bad output, but that's all. This isn't dangerous, just annoying. What you could have brought up is:
sprintf(dest, fmtString, a, b, c);
Here, however, libsafe could not help anyway, because I really doubt they've found a way to make a library that can determine how much you really want to store in dest before overwriting something important nearby on your data segment, such as a function pointer, etc.
I'm well aware of the halting problem. I went back to reread my post to make sure it wasn't worded as stupidly as you said, and it wasn't. I am not referring to solving the halting problem, and if I were attempting to even present a close approximate solution that can sometimes solve the halting problem, perl wouldn't be my first choice for such. No, what I said was "these known bad calls". There are a number of things that are clearly stupid to use in a program which a simple grep would catch, that end up in some open source programs and a lot of commercial products.
Well, he registered this thing in 1993. I should hope no lawyer could come around and say he all of the sudden can't sell a site that he's had for that long.
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We've had a tool that protects open source programs from calling known bad calls for some time now. It's called grep. Grep your code for bad calls, find them, fix them, then don't waste 4 metric tons of overhead running all your software with a wrapper.
The ideal solution would be to make a tiny little perl script that pattern matched code for all these known bad calls, and then printed out the file, line number, and reason why the call is known to be bad.
NASA isn't that good at running a conspiracy then.:) The Hubble had it's problems. I trust you remember the "Ooo, look, we just put up this great new telescope, now look at the... uh... damn... why is the picture so fuzzy?"
> Ok, but wouldn't it be better if violent people didn't have the benefit of simulator > training before they went on actual killing sprees?
As part of martial arts, I have trained in defending myself against an armed aggressor when I am unarmed. If I am ever in such a situation, I will pray that the aggressor has learned everything he knows from video games or from watching violent TV/movies. Video games and movies teach people very ineffective habits. It turns out that the things that look the coolest are not the most effective.
So no, I wouldn't consider video games top rate training at all. Playing video games teaches you how to play video games, or in the case of the marine doom training, how to work in a team. If anything, they will develop logical skills, not assassination skills.
> Interestingly, they also propose that software developers have a "right to develop > compatible software." Of course, my right to make my software compatible implies > your obligation to document your software and protocols so that I can make my > software compatible.
The MPAA isn't going to like this concept. It would mean open source DVD players in France would be a "right" rather than an illegal reverse engineered hack that can turn children who program into criminals.
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You assume they have the foresight required to see the music revolution. They do not, otherwise they would probably be pursuing different means of dealing with the mp3 phenomenon.
People often talk about Ender's Game and the related sequels. Ender's Game is my favorite Card book. In fact, it's probably the top book of all time, but if I were to pick a second favorite Orson Scott Card book, I would choose Lost Boys. Lost Boys is about a computer programmer in the 80's whose son is having all sorts of problems telling lies, misbehaving, and so forth. The book seems completely normal, but still fascinating, but it's not normal at all. It has an ending that grips you and slaps you across the face like the ending of Ender's Game. I recommend it.
Where can I get a Beowulf Wallet of these things?
As technology progresses, we find better more efficient ways of taking care of the necessities of life. We set out to improve the quality of living so that we can accomplish more and have more time left over. So what do we do with this time? We start getting paranoid and monitoring each other to make sure nobody does anything we don't want them to do. If you ask me, this is a bit counterproductive, and an excellent example of how mankind can waste huge amounts of productivity if it wants to.
It would be a significant undertaking, but I think it would really improve the quality of Slashdot if stories on the mainpage could somehow be ordered in a thread form. News stories discuss the real world, and the real world is a chain of events. Slashdot, as a news site, should reflect this natural organization. It would allow people to better control what they want to read about. If someone is interested in the Microsoft trial, they could follow the entire thread. If someone is sick of hearing about Mitnick, they could drop his thread.
An internet-based language will succeed about as well as the metric system in America... If you thought people seemed overly reluctant to learn a new form of measuring distances and such, try to get them to learn a whole new language.
So... I go to his site, and he sends me to a random website that has nothing to do with anything I'm interested in. Don't they usually call websites like this "Altavista"?
I can say Nike sucks without violating their trademark. I can also write a newspaper article that says Nike spams, and sell that. Similarly, I can write a list of people that spam, including Nike, and sell that. It doesn't try to change the meaning of Nike, so it's not a trademark violation.
The GPL does not "Modify" an implied warranty or disclaimer, it simply states that there is no warranty. To modify would be to change it after the release.
Does anyone else find it a little disconcerting when a site starts out with "Welcome Slashdot Readers" and then tries to sell something? Personally, I do consider this story news, but I don't much care for the idea of sites viewing Slashdot news stories as an advertisement portal.
Hypothetically, if every single Slashdot user boycotts UCITA software, most likely no one will give a damn. We're a huge crowd of people, but in the software market we are insignificant. The answer to "What can we do?" is not "Don't buy UCITA software."
What we need to do is find an effective means of persuading the rest of the software purchasing community, and yes, that means clueless consumers, that UCITA software is evil. I hate to quote from Mein Kampf here, but we need simple slogans that simple people can understand that we can get people to repeat over and over again.
There are a number of examples of people convicted of computer crime who turn around and become leading experts in computer security, providing irreplaceable services to the rest of the computer industry. I really don't see what the rest of the world gains by telling someone like that, "No, you can't talk about computers".
When President McKinnley was attending Allegheny College (Pennsylvania) in the mid 1800's, as a prank he stuck a cow up in the bell tower of Bentley Hall, the first building at Allegheny College. The administration eventually had the cow taken down and sold to a local butcher. McKinnley's fate was a little less severe, he got caught for it and ended up getting in a lot of trouble, but then later became president, so now the story is retold with a little pride. It has become a classic piece of Allegheny Lore.
Wouldn't something more positively oriented like "linuxvariety.org" be more along the lines of what people are looking for?
> Hahahaha oh, I see. So vi can now insert rows into MySQL tables, eh? :-)
Ah, uhm, well, uh, maybe I used emacs then. It was really dark, I couldn't see...
> Virus in a computer game? We must surreptitiously imply that it might affect the entire Internet!
Clearly you know nothing about computers! Everyone knows this happened on X-files with that hot S&M digital chick with the sword.
Woohoo! I'm the first one to gain root access! I posted this by hand using vi!
A good book to read for those interested in this topic is "Wrinkles in Time" by, I think, George Smoot. It describes in novel form his work with Cobe (one of these background radiation imaging research project). He carries the story through working with Nasa, launching weatherballoons, even to antarctica. The novel is interspersed with well described information about the theories behind background radiation, the origins of the universe, and what the images they discovered really mean.
I recomend it.
printf(fmtString, a, b, c);
If you screw up your fmtString, you will get bad output, but that's all. This isn't dangerous, just annoying. What you could have brought up is:
sprintf(dest, fmtString, a, b, c);
Here, however, libsafe could not help anyway, because I really doubt they've found a way to make a library that can determine how much you really want to store in dest before overwriting something important nearby on your data segment, such as a function pointer, etc.
I'm well aware of the halting problem. I went back to reread my post to make sure it wasn't worded as stupidly as you said, and it wasn't. I am not referring to solving the halting problem, and if I were attempting to even present a close approximate solution that can sometimes solve the halting problem, perl wouldn't be my first choice for such. No, what I said was "these known bad calls". There are a number of things that are clearly stupid to use in a program which a simple grep would catch, that end up in some open source programs and a lot of commercial products.
Well, he registered this thing in 1993. I should hope no lawyer could come around and say he all of the sudden can't sell a site that he's had for that long.
Registrant:
unix.com inc. (UNIX-DOM)
218 Cherokee Road
Hendersonville, TN 37075
Domain Name: UNIX.COM
Administrative Contact, Technical Contact, Zone Contact:
Bass, Tim (TB7)
....
Record last updated on 04-Jan-1997.
Record expires on 19-Nov-2000.
Record created on 18-Nov-1993.
Database last updated on 23-Apr-2000 20:00:32 EDT.
Domain servers in listed order:
NS.SILKROAD.COM 198.133.151.18
NS.CAIS.COM 205.177.10.10
We've had a tool that protects open source programs from calling known bad calls for some time now. It's called grep. Grep your code for bad calls, find them, fix them, then don't waste 4 metric tons of overhead running all your software with a wrapper.
The ideal solution would be to make a tiny little perl script that pattern matched code for all these known bad calls, and then printed out the file, line number, and reason why the call is known to be bad.
NASA isn't that good at running a conspiracy then. :) The Hubble had it's problems. I trust you remember the "Ooo, look, we just put up this great new telescope, now look at the... uh... damn... why is the picture so fuzzy?"
> Ok, but wouldn't it be better if violent people didn't have the benefit of simulator
> training before they went on actual killing sprees?
As part of martial arts, I have trained in defending myself against an armed aggressor when I am unarmed. If I am ever in such a situation, I will pray that the aggressor has learned everything he knows from video games or from watching violent TV/movies. Video games and movies teach people very ineffective habits. It turns out that the things that look the coolest are not the most effective.
So no, I wouldn't consider video games top rate training at all. Playing video games teaches you how to play video games, or in the case of the marine doom training, how to work in a team. If anything, they will develop logical skills, not assassination skills.
> Interestingly, they also propose that software developers have a "right to develop
> compatible software." Of course, my right to make my software compatible implies
> your obligation to document your software and protocols so that I can make my
> software compatible.
The MPAA isn't going to like this concept. It would mean open source DVD players in France would be a "right" rather than an illegal reverse engineered hack that can turn children who program into criminals.