When did you last tip the cashier in Walmart? Why is her service worth less than the guy who brought you a sandwich? (She probably did more work ringing up and bagging your purchases than the guy did carrying a sandwich from the kitchen to your table.)
Why the google doodad would talk about hamburgers when asked to define a straightforward word in relatively common use is beyond my understanding. Had they provided a correct answer (and not a hamburger advertisement) this would not have been an issue.
Everything old is new again. A lot of DOS programs had a problem when someone tried to multitask them under something like DESQview or DoubleDOS since they were written to be run on a single-tasking computer and they would go into a tight loop when waiting for input from the keyboard (or modem, or whatever):
They used a tight getch() loop or something similar to keep re-reading the keyboard buffer until something showed up. And this would crank the CPU usage to 100%. Not a problem on a single-tasking DOS computer, but when you multitask it, issues obviously arise.
Programs like Tame (and a few others) were invented to control the keyboard polling interval and keep these programs from eating the whole computer when they are running in a multitasking environment.
My understanding of the logic behind attempting to force him to provide the passwords is that he won't be giving the government anything that they don't already know or have.
That being the case, why do the need the passwords at all? If they already "know everything", then they can proceed with their prosecution. If they don't have everything that they need to proceed without the passwords, then they obviously don't know everything.
I live in a town of 5000 people and while the local weekly newspaper has shrunk somewhat over the past 20-odd years that I've been here, it's still loaded with advertising, mostly for local businesses. I'd say there's about a 50/50 mix of editorial content vs advertising in that paper. I have no idea how they manage that; they do have a full-time advertising sales guy who runs around town flogging it.
It's getting harder and harder to purchase a computer that doesn't come with Windows (unless you get a custom build from the corner computer store) and it's almost impossible to get a laptop.
And if you bite the bullet and pay the Windows tax to get a computer, it's almost impossible to get to a real bios so you can install something else on it. Windows Boot Manager, anyone? (Shudder)
I would love to be able to zip into Staples and buy this week's on-sale laptop off the shelf and know that will work with Linux. But it can't be done.
I like Firefox since it isn't a mystery box like Chrome. I use a bunch of plugins like adblock, too. I've never really looked into alternative browsers since Firefox just kind of showed up along with an operating system installation some years back and hey, this works well so good enough for me.
Since I run Centos I don't imagine there's any rush to change to anything else in the near future, but what's the best non-intrusive web browser to use that isn't going to try to take over my life or computer?
elinks works for some things but it's not very pretty and doesn't work with numerous modern websites.
"The force will keep the numbers on file until the murder is solved, officers said at a news conference on Wednesday.
Investigators will also consider calling the numbers of people who don't respond voluntarily, but they would be required to obtain another court order to do so."
Thumbnails are stored in your home directory, in a subdirectory named, appropriately enough,.thumbnails.
If you get a popup in bash (whatever that is; bash is text-only terminal so are you talking about some kind of a window made out of text characters) that asks you for root access to deal with some kind of thumbnails, there's something that either nefarious or really unusual happening and I would be giving a lot of thought to how to proceed before entering the root password at that point.
The difference is that there are currently no penalties at all for filing a false dmca takedown. Even a small penalty would provide an incentive to fix that portion of the system; ten dollars per invalid notice adds up when you send out a hundred thousand invalid notices.l
I discovered vimwiki a year or so back and today I really don't know how I ever managed to live without it.
I keep everything from notes on books (ahem) to system administration and programming notes to a to-do list for my electrician that I will print out and give him the next time he's here.
But what would be (legally) wrongful about imprisonment for forgetting your password? They law says you shall hand it over; you don't hand it over; you go to jail.
No wrongful conviction there. The law was clear and you violated it, either wilfully or negligently.
Whether that's a good thing or not is a separate issue.
It was actually because the folks behind the server didn't test it with the graphics enabled. The Stats Can webform could handle something like 60,000 concurrent connections when they tested it. Then after testing, they added the graphics to make it look pretty and didn't do any more testing.
My preferred coding style happens to be Whitesmiths. (Go ahead and laugh, but I'm used to it.)
Since not much new stuff outside of my own is written in Whitesmith's style, I use astyle to reformat the the other guy's code if I'm going to be studying it or adding to it or whatever. I actually have astyle fully integrated into both Geany and vim (the two code editors that I use) so I can reformat code instantly on demand.
I've never paid much attention to comment styles as such, but I'm sure that you can use astyle to reformat that if you want to; it has a million-and-one options available to put out all sorts of cats and make coffee.
So if Linus or anyone else doesn't like a C style, it takes almost no effort to reformat it to the style that you want. Then everyone gets to look at and use what he's comfortable with, and there's no friction at all.
There are tons of free streaming music sites that cost nothing to listen to. I don't see any reason to pay a monthly fee to anyone.
One example that few people seem to be aware of is built into the free VLC multimedia player that many people have installed anyway for other purposes. Look under Playlists - Internet- Icecast Radio Directory and you'll be amazed at what's there. International radio stations by the hundreds.
I personally use the free version of RadioTunes on my Android phone when I'm driving somewhere. They advertise their own subscription service on it ("Sign up today!") but I haven't heard any advertising for anything else there.
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I guess it's better than Festival but it's proprietary technology while Festival is free.
And you can't trust that guy named Al. He's a co-author on almost all of them! :)
When did you last tip the cashier in Walmart? Why is her service worth less than the guy who brought you a sandwich? (She probably did more work ringing up and bagging your purchases than the guy did carrying a sandwich from the kitchen to your table.)
Whopper is defined as "a gross or blatant lie."
Why the google doodad would talk about hamburgers when asked to define a straightforward word in relatively common use is beyond my understanding. Had they provided a correct answer (and not a hamburger advertisement) this would not have been an issue.
Everything old is new again. A lot of DOS programs had a problem when someone tried to multitask them under something like DESQview or DoubleDOS since they were written to be run on a single-tasking computer and they would go into a tight loop when waiting for input from the keyboard (or modem, or whatever):
They used a tight getch() loop or something similar to keep re-reading the keyboard buffer until something showed up. And this would crank the CPU usage to 100%. Not a problem on a single-tasking DOS computer, but when you multitask it, issues obviously arise.
Programs like Tame (and a few others) were invented to control the keyboard polling interval and keep these programs from eating the whole computer when they are running in a multitasking environment.
My understanding of the logic behind attempting to force him to provide the passwords is that he won't be giving the government anything that they don't already know or have.
That being the case, why do the need the passwords at all? If they already "know everything", then they can proceed with their prosecution. If they don't have everything that they need to proceed without the passwords, then they obviously don't know everything.
Self-contradictory, isn't it?
I live in a town of 5000 people and while the local weekly newspaper has shrunk somewhat over the past 20-odd years that I've been here, it's still loaded with advertising, mostly for local businesses. I'd say there's about a 50/50 mix of editorial content vs advertising in that paper. I have no idea how they manage that; they do have a full-time advertising sales guy who runs around town flogging it.
My computer monitor (Benq BW2765) has some sort of blue light filtering thing built in that can be activated via the buttons on the side.
I've never used it. My screen looks fine and dandy just like it is.
It's getting harder and harder to purchase a computer that doesn't come with Windows (unless you get a custom build from the corner computer store) and it's almost impossible to get a laptop.
And if you bite the bullet and pay the Windows tax to get a computer, it's almost impossible to get to a real bios so you can install something else on it. Windows Boot Manager, anyone? (Shudder)
I would love to be able to zip into Staples and buy this week's on-sale laptop off the shelf and know that will work with Linux. But it can't be done.
Back in the dim mists of time I took Typing Class in high school. This was in the 70's, so we learned on huge Underwood manual office typewriters.
The most useful thing I learned in school outside of basic reading and writing was Typing Class. No joke.
I like Firefox since it isn't a mystery box like Chrome. I use a bunch of plugins like adblock, too. I've never really looked into alternative browsers since Firefox just kind of showed up along with an operating system installation some years back and hey, this works well so good enough for me.
Since I run Centos I don't imagine there's any rush to change to anything else in the near future, but what's the best non-intrusive web browser to use that isn't going to try to take over my life or computer?
elinks works for some things but it's not very pretty and doesn't work with numerous modern websites.
Black, white, yellow, green, male, female..... whatever happened to simple merit?
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
"The force will keep the numbers on file until the murder is solved, officers said at a news conference on Wednesday.
Investigators will also consider calling the numbers of people who don't respond voluntarily, but they would be required to obtain another court order to do so."
No need to stream a webcam. There's an actual Paint Drying movie.
Without movie theatres, the film companies are just television studios without a channel.
Who's going to pay $100 million plus to make a movie to show on tv?
From Kosovo, arrested in Malaysia, and now jailed in the USA.
Is every justice system in the world subservient to the American system?
It seems more reasonable to return him to where he committed the crime (Kosovo?) and have him dealt with there, doesn't it?
(which is the exact same number of characters, and thus won't break a binary if it is sensible)
That would break any database that uses checksums to verify the data integrity.
Do PST files do that? I have no idea. I guess one could set up a sacrificial account/file and try it and see if it explodes or not.
Thumbnails are stored in your home directory, in a subdirectory named, appropriately enough, .thumbnails.
If you get a popup in bash (whatever that is; bash is text-only terminal so are you talking about some kind of a window made out of text characters) that asks you for root access to deal with some kind of thumbnails, there's something that either nefarious or really unusual happening and I would be giving a lot of thought to how to proceed before entering the root password at that point.
The difference is that there are currently no penalties at all for filing a false dmca takedown. Even a small penalty would provide an incentive to fix that portion of the system; ten dollars per invalid notice adds up when you send out a hundred thousand invalid notices.l
It's been done.
I discovered vimwiki a year or so back and today I really don't know how I ever managed to live without it.
I keep everything from notes on books (ahem) to system administration and programming notes to a to-do list for my electrician that I will print out and give him the next time he's here.
But what would be (legally) wrongful about imprisonment for forgetting your password? They law says you shall hand it over; you don't hand it over; you go to jail.
No wrongful conviction there. The law was clear and you violated it, either wilfully or negligently.
Whether that's a good thing or not is a separate issue.
It was actually because the folks behind the server didn't test it with the graphics enabled. The Stats Can webform could handle something like 60,000 concurrent connections when they tested it. Then after testing, they added the graphics to make it look pretty and didn't do any more testing.
Put it live, and BLAMMO.
Today is Thursday July 21.
My preferred coding style happens to be Whitesmiths. (Go ahead and laugh, but I'm used to it.)
Since not much new stuff outside of my own is written in Whitesmith's style, I use astyle to reformat the the other guy's code if I'm going to be studying it or adding to it or whatever. I actually have astyle fully integrated into both Geany and vim (the two code editors that I use) so I can reformat code instantly on demand.
I've never paid much attention to comment styles as such, but I'm sure that you can use astyle to reformat that if you want to; it has a million-and-one options available to put out all sorts of cats and make coffee.
So if Linus or anyone else doesn't like a C style, it takes almost no effort to reformat it to the style that you want. Then everyone gets to look at and use what he's comfortable with, and there's no friction at all.
There are tons of free streaming music sites that cost nothing to listen to. I don't see any reason to pay a monthly fee to anyone.
One example that few people seem to be aware of is built into the free VLC multimedia player that many people have installed anyway for other purposes. Look under Playlists - Internet- Icecast Radio Directory and you'll be amazed at what's there. International radio stations by the hundreds.
I personally use the free version of RadioTunes on my Android phone when I'm driving somewhere. They advertise their own subscription service on it ("Sign up today!") but I haven't heard any advertising for anything else there.