If you read the article you'll notice that many of the drives belonged to businesses; the CC#s were probably in customer lists. Now why was the parent modded "+5 insightful" rather than "-1 didn't RTFA"?
I wasn't disputing that; I was responding to the claim that there is a "clause in the Constitution" that protects the right to revolution. There is no such clause. Miranda rights have nothing to do with that. And if you think any American court is going to protect the right to overthrow the US government based on something it says in the Declaration of Independence, please share whatever you're smoking.
Its times like this that its good to know about that one obscure clause in the American constituion: Revolution is legal.
What clause of the Constitution is that? There is no clause in the Constitution that says any such thing. Sure, our founding fathers, especially Jefferson, talked about the "right to revolution," but this was considered a natural right rather than a legal one. Perhaps you're thinking of the Declaration of Independence, which says that it is a "self-evident" truth that "whenever any form of government becomes destructive to these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness." But the Declaration is not the Constitution, and it is in no way binding law. It was a document announcing the colonies' independence from Britain, justifying the colonists' (illegal, and by British law treasonous) activities by appealing to a higher law. But the Declaration is not law and never was. And the Constitution does not recognize or legally protect any such right to revolution. Future revolutionaries, like the USA's founders, will have to appeal to higher laws than the Constitution to justify their activities.
So can you please tell us *exactly how to reproduce these bugs so we can avoid it, or stop yelling fire in a crowded theatee?
Read the posts that this article is talking about; the information is specific and useful. Those who have discovered the bug experience the following: (1) option-clicking a link deletes ~/. If this doesn't happen to you, consider yourself lucky. Me, I'm not going to experiment, because I don't back up my machine often enough. In fact, I'm deleting Safari for now; I don't want to take the chance that I will forget to not touch the option key when using it. (2) the printing bug affects users whose/tmp directory is destroyed, and can be fixed by replacing the directory. To find out if this bug affects you, cd/tmp.... if you can't, then the bug affects you. Anyway the information is pretty specific; I don't see why this is shouting in a theater.
That sounds like a good reason to not allow changes to the OS but not for full encryption, unless I'm missing something. Our university labs do not have encrypted OS's, but in many of them there are non-public areas of the hard drive that are wiped and replaced each night from a disk image.
Mohanraj said the book's pages withstand not only bath water, but also bodily fluids and sex oils. Wine, however, will stain the pages.
So they're not really stain-resistant; I imagine other things will stain the pages while cooking. It looks like these were made with one principle purpose, and it wasn't cooking. (Note that one of the books in the article is an erotica collection).
Well, while we're discussing ways of improving the iPod, here's what I want to see - simple recording software and an input jack. So I can plug my turntables into the iPod wherever I am and record without a laptop, and preferably it won't sound like ass. Or connect a mic and record a meeting or whatever. Is the processor too slow to do that? I know there are other devices with this functionality.
The other thing that would be great is if you could tell the iPod to delete a certain song on the fly; sometimes I listen to a song and wonder why the hell I ripped it to the iPod but the chances that I'll remember to delete it next time I connect the ipod to the computer are slim indeed.
Why do you really care about encrypting the OS? Seems a waste of time and CPU, to decrypt the OS just to use it. The important thing would be to encrypt the important data, which would be in the home directory.
I recall a story in an old 2600 about someone who managed to get caught hacking not traffic lights but those signs on freeways with giant LEDs telling people there is a traffic jam or whatever. Seems this guy changed the text to read "FUCK YOU ALL." Pretty funny, and relatively harmless, imho. But yeah it's not the same as messing with a traffic light, which could be really dangerous.
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What's that in cubits, please?
If you read the article you'll notice that many of the drives belonged to businesses; the CC#s were probably in customer lists. Now why was the parent modded "+5 insightful" rather than "-1 didn't RTFA"?
I wasn't disputing that; I was responding to the claim that there is a "clause in the Constitution" that protects the right to revolution. There is no such clause. Miranda rights have nothing to do with that. And if you think any American court is going to protect the right to overthrow the US government based on something it says in the Declaration of Independence, please share whatever you're smoking.
What clause of the Constitution is that? There is no clause in the Constitution that says any such thing. Sure, our founding fathers, especially Jefferson, talked about the "right to revolution," but this was considered a natural right rather than a legal one. Perhaps you're thinking of the Declaration of Independence, which says that it is a "self-evident" truth that "whenever any form of government becomes destructive to these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness." But the Declaration is not the Constitution, and it is in no way binding law. It was a document announcing the colonies' independence from Britain, justifying the colonists' (illegal, and by British law treasonous) activities by appealing to a higher law. But the Declaration is not law and never was. And the Constitution does not recognize or legally protect any such right to revolution. Future revolutionaries, like the USA's founders, will have to appeal to higher laws than the Constitution to justify their activities.
We should be comparing to Chimera, which is the OS X version of the trimmed-down Mozilla-based browser. My copy is about 21M.
Haven't you guys heard? Graffiti is dead. You're going to have to do your hacking with a keyboard from here on out.
Heh, yeah, nothing like getting sued by Apple to jump-start your company...
I remember reading on slashdot that CS folks were working for peanuts, but I didn't realize things were that bad.
Read the posts that this article is talking about; the information is specific and useful. Those who have discovered the bug experience the following: (1) option-clicking a link deletes ~/. If this doesn't happen to you, consider yourself lucky. Me, I'm not going to experiment, because I don't back up my machine often enough. In fact, I'm deleting Safari for now; I don't want to take the chance that I will forget to not touch the option key when using it. (2) the printing bug affects users whose /tmp directory is destroyed, and can be fixed by replacing the directory. To find out if this bug affects you, cd /tmp .... if you can't, then the bug affects you. Anyway the information is pretty specific; I don't see why this is shouting in a theater.
Informed people want to be free.
This installer is useless until someone ports a talking paperclip to openoffice.
That sounds like a good reason to not allow changes to the OS but not for full encryption, unless I'm missing something. Our university labs do not have encrypted OS's, but in many of them there are non-public areas of the hard drive that are wiped and replaced each night from a disk image.
Even more quietly, IBM fired whoever filed the paperwork for this patent in the first place.
Mohanraj said the book's pages withstand not only bath water, but also bodily fluids and sex oils. Wine, however, will stain the pages.
So they're not really stain-resistant; I imagine other things will stain the pages while cooking. It looks like these were made with one principle purpose, and it wasn't cooking. (Note that one of the books in the article is an erotica collection).
Well, while we're discussing ways of improving the iPod, here's what I want to see - simple recording software and an input jack. So I can plug my turntables into the iPod wherever I am and record without a laptop, and preferably it won't sound like ass. Or connect a mic and record a meeting or whatever. Is the processor too slow to do that? I know there are other devices with this functionality.
The other thing that would be great is if you could tell the iPod to delete a certain song on the fly; sometimes I listen to a song and wonder why the hell I ripped it to the iPod but the chances that I'll remember to delete it next time I connect the ipod to the computer are slim indeed.
I assume you need the jacket to cover the stains in your pants?
Why do you really care about encrypting the OS? Seems a waste of time and CPU, to decrypt the OS just to use it. The important thing would be to encrypt the important data, which would be in the home directory.
In Soviet Russia, government tells scientists what to say.
oh, wait....
damn.
we really are fucked.
I recall a story in an old 2600 about someone who managed to get caught hacking not traffic lights but those signs on freeways with giant LEDs telling people there is a traffic jam or whatever. Seems this guy changed the text to read "FUCK YOU ALL." Pretty funny, and relatively harmless, imho. But yeah it's not the same as messing with a traffic light, which could be really dangerous.
In this case I believe the appropriate finish is:
6) Prophet!
Why not? Scared of getting sued?
;^)
Why is it so hard to believe that the President reads slashdot? He does read, you know. He read, ummm, Nichomachean Ethics once.
Year of the goat? Does that mean the goatse guy is going to do the "switch" commercials for linux in asia?
Those things will wreak havoc on your system, chewing through electrical wires, not to mention they crap everywhere.
Is that when it ate your homework?