would be if echelon, after having scanned your email and decided that it was non-threatening, could then go through it and check for good grammar, factual accuracy and persuasiveness. If it's not up to snuff, it sends it back to you for revision.
Of course, the ultimate message would be something like, "Dear Mr. Smith, the echelon system has looked over your terrorist manifesto, and has decided that you are correct. Please submit a list of people you would like the system to keep tabs on. Fight the power."
In general, they don't. However, if the video subsystem has lost the page, you can't see what's going on, and if it's no longer accepting input from your keyboard, you won't be able to control the machine that way. That's why the article says you should telnet into the machine if you run into these problems. That way you can get to a prompt, and kill the processes that have gone wrong.
Of course, if things aren't set up to allow you to telnet into the box (or login via a serial connection), then the on/off switch is your only solution...
I, for one, have wealthy extreprenuereal parents. Yes, my education is mostly paid for. College? no problem? A small loan for grad school? maybe. A Little seed capital? maybe.
Oh, the little home comforts. However, its not always win-win. There are certain tradeoffs that are made many times.
You mean there can be drawbacks??? Tell us more!!! Parents of wealthy kids are expected to do certain things, and behave certain ways that others simply aren't. eg: Sports after school every season (mandatory)
OUCH! My god, that's brutal! Oh, except there are poor people who have to do that too, if their parents demand it... 3 hours minimum of homework since 6th grade,
AAH, the nerve! Having to study to get good grades! I'll mention that to the next kid I see who doesn't have rich parents and wants to go to college. I'm sure he'll agree with you, and consider himself lucky he doesn't have those rich-folk expectations... ... My parents and most of my friends' parents certainly required us to get jobs during the summer and during vacations. It has nothing to do with money. They simply have principles.
Except for people without money, it has everything to do with money... And it's not only rich people have principles, y'know. In order to be a productive member of society, you must know the meaning of work. When I wanted something growing up, say a new stereo, I had to earn the money myself.
Whereas non-rich people just magic them up from pixie dust.
Grow up!!! There are few things worse than listening to people who don't realise how lucky they are when they start whining...
A major software manufacturer today filed suit against the geriatric fitness site, www.firmcoots.com, charging that it infringed its trademark. A spokesman for the company, Steve Ballhead, insisted that the suit was a clear case of violation. "It's obvious that these old folk are trying to make a quick buck at our expense. Those letters are ours, and we will vigorously defend them. There are lots of other letters they could have used."
A spokesman for firmcoots said, "We've been adv--ed by -ur lawye- -- -ake n- c---en-. Bu- - w-ll -ay, - h-nk -hey'-e a bun-h -- -u-ke--!".
...is that a lot of people assume that the Cathedral model of development is essentially the same as that of the commercial world, and the Bazaar is that of free software. They forget, or don't notice, that the essay's primary example of Cathedral development is the Emacs core, which is most definitely an example of free software!
It seems that this 'academic' critique makes the same oversight, which makes me a bit less willing to accept its arguments.
Re:Something's missing....No, it's still there.
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You can still get backlinks. Use the link: keyword, with the URL you want backlinks for, and you'll get what you need. It is kind of a pain that you have to go through the extra step, though
Actually, the fact that any $$$ I spend on MS products will help Linus buy his beer is about the most compelling argument I can think of for buying the junk...
I suppose our chances of having Visio ported to Linux have just decreased to about zero. Not that it was something I was particularly waiting for, but it would have been nice. Instead it's going to get integrated into Office 2002 ProfessionalDeveloperNonsense addition. Bleah.
Union, or trade association?
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What's being suggested here sounds more like a professional association (taking political stands and lobbying the govt.) than a union (collective bargaining, ensuring employer compliance with agreements, etc). There are, BTW, already a number of techie associations, although I don't know if any of them are worth a damn. Anyone got any experience with any of them?
2) In both cases the user had to voluntarily *choose* to run the virus with their own permissions. For goodness sake, the email says, "take a look at these zip files" but the attachment is an exe! Only a clod would fall for such as obvious imposture.
Well, no. There are self-extracting zip files which (of course) have a.exe extension but may have a zipfile-looking icon. We've deverbalized computer use to the extent that people don't read any more, they just look at the pictures. That's not microsoft's fault in particular, but it does illustrate the difficulty. "Just train them" is easily said, but not easily accomplished. As an aside, in this case it was possible to not be able to see the file extension - check out the screen shot on msnbc - the attachment is zipped_files... - the extension doesn't show.
They originally farmed the ports of the browser out to different companies; they chose TrollTech for the linux port, so it's not a real surprise that it'll use QT.
I paid for it, since I have to use NT at work, and I haven't regretted it yet. Very stable (I usually have it open for days at a time), it's easier to have multiple sites open at once, you don't have to mouse around (the keyboard controls are much better than anything else I've seen). Oh, and it's small and fast. Seems like a good deal to me.
>am i alone in thinking that one of the prime uses of a palm pilot is computing whilst on the kludgie?
Yes, but they can't help if you're too late in noticing that there's no bog roll (well, maybe you could order some online). Books conveniently have a couple of blank/useless pages you can use. Perhaps this could be used as a measure of quality: emergency page count - typically low in O'Reilly books, higher for the WinNT Resource Kit...
He is an irritating git, but ts_eliot's summary is a nice FUD-buster. One thing that is difficult, though, is getting yer average user to think seriously about security w/out scaring the pants off them (whatever the OS)...
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Sure they do.
cat Makefile.
would be if echelon, after having scanned your email and decided that it was non-threatening, could then go through it and check for good grammar, factual accuracy and persuasiveness. If it's not up to snuff, it sends it back to you for revision.
Of course, the ultimate message would be something like, "Dear Mr. Smith, the echelon system has looked over your terrorist manifesto, and has decided that you are correct. Please submit a list of people you would like the system to keep tabs on. Fight the power."
In general, they don't. However, if the video subsystem has lost the page, you can't see what's going on, and if it's no longer accepting input from your keyboard, you won't be able to control the machine that way. That's why the article says you should telnet into the machine if you run into these problems. That way you can get to a prompt, and kill the processes that have gone wrong.
Of course, if things aren't set up to allow you to telnet into the box (or login via a serial connection), then the on/off switch is your only solution...
Oh, the little home comforts.
However, its not always win-win. There are certain tradeoffs that are made many times.
You mean there can be drawbacks??? Tell us more!!!
Parents of wealthy kids are expected to do certain things, and behave certain ways that others simply aren't. eg: Sports after school every season (mandatory)
OUCH! My god, that's brutal! Oh, except there are poor people who have to do that too, if their parents demand it...
3 hours minimum of homework since 6th grade,
AAH, the nerve! Having to study to get good grades! I'll mention that to the next kid I see who doesn't have rich parents and wants to go to college. I'm sure he'll agree with you, and consider himself lucky he doesn't have those rich-folk expectations...
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My parents and most of my friends' parents certainly required us to get jobs during the summer and during vacations. It has nothing to do with money. They simply have principles.
Except for people without money, it has everything to do with money... And it's not only rich people have principles, y'know.
In order to be a productive member of society, you must know the meaning of work. When I wanted something growing up, say a new stereo, I had to earn the money myself.
Whereas non-rich people just magic them up from pixie dust.
Grow up!!!
There are few things worse than listening to people who don't realise how lucky they are when they start whining...
A major software manufacturer today filed suit against the geriatric fitness site, www.firmcoots.com, charging that it infringed its trademark. A spokesman for the company, Steve Ballhead, insisted that the suit was a clear case of violation. "It's obvious that these old folk are trying to make a quick buck at our expense. Those letters are ours, and we will vigorously defend them. There are lots of other letters they could have used."
A spokesman for firmcoots said, "We've been adv--ed by -ur lawye- -- -ake n- c---en-. Bu- - w-ll -ay, - h-nk -hey'-e a bun-h -- -u-ke--!".
...is that a lot of people assume that the Cathedral model of development is essentially the same as that of the commercial world, and the Bazaar is that of free software. They forget, or don't notice, that the essay's primary example of Cathedral development is the Emacs core, which is most definitely an example of free software!
It seems that this 'academic' critique makes the same oversight, which makes me a bit less willing to accept its arguments.
You can still get backlinks. Use the link: keyword, with the URL you want backlinks for, and you'll get what you need. It is kind of a pain that you have to go through the extra step, though
Actually, the fact that any $$$ I spend on MS products will help Linus buy his beer is about the most compelling argument I can think of for buying the junk...
I suppose our chances of having Visio ported to Linux have just decreased to about zero. Not that it was something I was particularly waiting for, but it would have been nice. Instead it's going to get integrated into Office 2002 ProfessionalDeveloperNonsense addition. Bleah.
What's being suggested here sounds more like a professional association (taking political stands and lobbying the govt.) than a union (collective bargaining, ensuring employer compliance with agreements, etc). There are, BTW, already a number of techie associations, although I don't know if any of them are worth a damn. Anyone got any experience with any of them?
RTFM. Right-click, previous, like every other browser, or ctrl-left arrow.
They originally farmed the ports of the browser out to different companies; they chose TrollTech for the linux port, so it's not a real surprise that it'll use QT.
Yes, but your taskbar can get a bit cluttered if you have 10 sites open! MDI has its uses...
I paid for it, since I have to use NT at work, and I haven't regretted it yet. Very stable (I usually have it open for days at a time), it's easier to have multiple sites open at once, you don't have to mouse around (the keyboard controls are much better than anything else I've seen). Oh, and it's small and fast. Seems like a good deal to me.
>am i alone in thinking that one of the prime uses of a palm pilot is computing whilst on the kludgie?
Yes, but they can't help if you're too late in noticing that there's no bog roll (well, maybe you could order some online). Books conveniently have a couple of blank/useless pages you can use. Perhaps this could be used as a measure of quality: emergency page count - typically low in O'Reilly books, higher for the WinNT Resource Kit...
I seem to remember hearing that Agent worked not bad under wine...
He is an irritating git, but ts_eliot's summary is a nice FUD-buster. One thing that is difficult, though, is getting yer average user to think seriously about security w/out scaring the pants off them (whatever the OS)...
Oh god I think I wet myself...
I'll wait for the CDs cos I only have one phone line and people like to call me from time to time. 'Nuff said.
And get paid to come up with stuff like "it's the difference between a Chevy and a Ferrari". Jeez...