There are four tiers to the SQL-92 standard, and even commercial RDBMS vendors to not conform to all of them.
Oracle, Informix, DB2, MySQL all have different optimizers and differing concurrency schemes. Oracle does not lock a row for reading when another transaction is writing a row. Informix will perform table scans on certain queries where DB2 will not.
This "growing trend" you are talking about must be coming from inexperienced programmers working on trivial or single-user applications. In REAL-LIFE the security of data and usability of the client are paramount.
The fact that you would even say that MySQL and Oracle do the same thing displays your complete lack of knowledge regarding what modern commercial database products are capable of. Leaving all the programming logic in the hands of applications developers re-invents the wheel, escalating costs while introducing more bugs into the system.
"His real "crime" was to stop being a buffer between his country and the colonial empire and to try to actually do something "unauthorized" like inviting the "Commies."
So in other words, African governments should have put themselves in the yoke of another Imperialist power, like the Soviet Union or China?
Pull your head out of your ass and think for a minute.
When Europeans started colonizing Africa, many Europeans lived in a condition of squalor similar to conditions in African cities today. Ever read Charles Dickens?
Africa has been a poor place for a long time. A burgeoning population combined with a lack of water and arable land are the source of poverty in many regions of Africa.
In other regions, like Kenya and the former colony of Rhodesia more political factors come to play. The theft and abuse perpetrated by dictators who took advantage of the vacuum created during the pullout of colonial government set the stage for decades of warlords and conflict.
That statement is very misleading. Patrice Lumumba was hand-picked by the Belgians and heavily backed by them. He was no more a democratic leader than Lenin or Chaing Kai-Schek.
The fundamental problem with Africa is that the boundaries of "nations" were drawn up in French and English palaces and do not reflect reality in any way. Tribal warfare and a primitive society combined with foreign commercial interests results in a constant state of warfare.
Also, the US has never overthrown Australia. I'd suggest laying off the crack.
You cannot secure IRC
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IRC is a denzien of hackers, pirates and kiddieporn scum.
Maybe you are one of the 500 people who actually chat on IRC, good for you. 90% of the traffic is warez and porn. These people could care less about security and prefer anonyminity for obvious reasons.
LLC's are a form of corporation suited towards professionals like lawyers, accountants and doctors who traditionally function with Limited Partnerships.
Partnerships are unwieldly in practice for a number of reasons.
Stating that a corporation contradicts common law sits on very shaky ground, if any. Pooling together of resources to fit business needs has been practiced for thousands of years. The modern corporation is the direct decendant of the shipping guilds of 1000-2000 years ago and the join-stock companies of 600 years ago.
Your fundamental point, that a corporation is little more than a get out of jail free card is just plain wrong. Corporate officers can and are held responsible for any number of things.
I would seriously recommend that you look at a business law textbook or read up on the history of the corporation from somewhere other than Indymedia or some other left-wing rag.
"What do cypherpunks in the know recommend for the paranoid types. I'm wondering because of the rising amount of protests. I look and most of these people seem clueless when using the net. Paranoia runs rampant (try taping a protest), yet they use stuff like real, which has been known to violate privacy. So my question is, what would slashdot readers recommend for people who have privacy they actually wish to protect? Are there any good laymen level papers on this?"
What in gods green earth does this dribble mean??
Two suggestions for you:
1. Turn your computer off
2. Learn to read and write. Pay particular attention to things like complete sentences and paragraphs.
We were not running an open relay. ORBS probed us for an open relay and their script encountered some sort of problem that caused it to repeatadly probe our server. We blocked their netblock and found ourselves on the RBL.
Whether or not ORBS calls you a spammer is irrelevant. Being on the RBL puts the public under the impression that you are a spammer.
When we attempted to correct the situation, we were treated very rudely.
2. They piss off users when a client/friend/etc happens to be using a server on an RBL.
I also have a problem with the ego-maniacs who run these services who seem to think that they are some sort of 'net police.
My last company was on the ORBS RBL for over a year after we blocked all traffic from their network. One of their discovery scripts screwed up and DOS'd our mail server. Yet we were called spammers for blocking their attack.
No, because I was all busy chillin in the clubs with Taco.
Saw this girl at the club. She had on these really cool black, sparkly pants and a really great ass. I walk up to her and tell her her pants were really cool and she thanks me and she seems really nice and we find out that we're both rolling our asses off. So I tell her that not only are her pants cool but also, that she has a great ass. She laughs, thanks me, and says she appreciates my comment because she works out and a lot on her ass, specifically. So I ask her if I can touch it. She laughs again and says "My ass? OK." So I put my hand on her butt and gave a firm squeeze. I got a handful of the most beautiful, bubbly, firm ass I've ever seen or felt (understand that I'm a butt guy, as stupid as that sounds). "Oh my god," I say and she laughs again. So we get to talking and I find out that she's going to go to the other club we're about to go to. "Maybe I'll see you there," I say and me and my friends go.
I see her at the other club and go to talk to her but it looks like she's with a guy who looks like he's her boyfriend so I just say hi in passing.
So maybe CmdrTaco is right, that drugs are bad. Because that's one of the downsides of rolls...your mack is both on and off...hard to explain.
If I see her again, I'm definitely getting her number...or another handful...or both.
Without the notion of copyright, you have no claim to the words you speak or the words you write.
The victim of a wild-west style world that you seem to want is the public at large. Without copyright, nobody would write books or produce films at all.
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SQL is not SQL
There are four tiers to the SQL-92 standard, and even commercial RDBMS vendors to not conform to all of them.
Oracle, Informix, DB2, MySQL all have different optimizers and differing concurrency schemes. Oracle does not lock a row for reading when another transaction is writing a row. Informix will perform table scans on certain queries where DB2 will not.
This "growing trend" you are talking about must be coming from inexperienced programmers working on trivial or single-user applications. In REAL-LIFE the security of data and usability of the client are paramount.
The fact that you would even say that MySQL and Oracle do the same thing displays your complete lack of knowledge regarding what modern commercial database products are capable of. Leaving all the programming logic in the hands of applications developers re-invents the wheel, escalating costs while introducing more bugs into the system.
If your company refuses to allow PL/SQL procedures, most people would question your technical competence.
What are you using for stored procedures? Java, C?
Databases are not black-boxes, and if they are treated as such, whatever applications come out of it will not be optimal and will never be scalable.
When you rely on closed-source, proprietary vendors for critical applications.
If only the various users had banded together with the vast Free Chip community, this sort of thing would never happen.
Just imagine patent free, fast embedded processors available Free to all members of the community!
Who is going to join me in the new GNU/MAFFTP (Microprocessors Are Free For The People) project?
That is exactly what 90% of computer users do every day. Not everyone is a sysadmin! (Thank god!)
What is a valid usability test?
Yeah, in Central Africa, the only judges are 13 year old soldiers and the judgements are AK-47 rounds in the belly.
"His real "crime" was to stop being a buffer between his country and the colonial empire and to try to actually do something "unauthorized" like inviting the "Commies."
So in other words, African governments should have put themselves in the yoke of another Imperialist power, like the Soviet Union or China?
Interesting.
Wow.
Pull your head out of your ass and think for a minute.
When Europeans started colonizing Africa, many Europeans lived in a condition of squalor similar to conditions in African cities today. Ever read Charles Dickens?
Africa has been a poor place for a long time. A burgeoning population combined with a lack of water and arable land are the source of poverty in many regions of Africa.
In other regions, like Kenya and the former colony of Rhodesia more political factors come to play. The theft and abuse perpetrated by dictators who took advantage of the vacuum created during the pullout of colonial government set the stage for decades of warlords and conflict.
That statement is very misleading. Patrice Lumumba was hand-picked by the Belgians and heavily backed by them. He was no more a democratic leader than Lenin or Chaing Kai-Schek.
The fundamental problem with Africa is that the boundaries of "nations" were drawn up in French and English palaces and do not reflect reality in any way. Tribal warfare and a primitive society combined with foreign commercial interests results in a constant state of warfare.
Also, the US has never overthrown Australia. I'd suggest laying off the crack.
IRC is a denzien of hackers, pirates and kiddieporn scum.
Maybe you are one of the 500 people who actually chat on IRC, good for you. 90% of the traffic is warez and porn. These people could care less about security and prefer anonyminity for obvious reasons.
Sorry to burst the bubble.
LLC's are a form of corporation suited towards professionals like lawyers, accountants and doctors who traditionally function with Limited Partnerships.
Partnerships are unwieldly in practice for a number of reasons.
Stating that a corporation contradicts common law sits on very shaky ground, if any. Pooling together of resources to fit business needs has been practiced for thousands of years. The modern corporation is the direct decendant of the shipping guilds of 1000-2000 years ago and the join-stock companies of 600 years ago.
Your fundamental point, that a corporation is little more than a get out of jail free card is just plain wrong. Corporate officers can and are held responsible for any number of things.
I would seriously recommend that you look at a business law textbook or read up on the history of the corporation from somewhere other than Indymedia or some other left-wing rag.
Are you affiliated with ORBS? You certainly have the accusatory attitude that they had. I didn't "admit" anything, just stated what happened.
Alot of people blocked mail traffic from sites that appeared in the untestable category. That led common users to believe that we were spammers.
"What do cypherpunks in the know recommend for the paranoid types. I'm wondering because of the rising amount of protests. I look and most of these people seem clueless when using the net. Paranoia runs rampant (try taping a protest), yet they use stuff like real, which has been known to violate privacy. So my question is, what would slashdot readers recommend for people who have privacy they actually wish to protect? Are there any good laymen level papers on this?"
What in gods green earth does this dribble mean??
Two suggestions for you:
1. Turn your computer off
2. Learn to read and write. Pay particular attention to things like complete sentences and paragraphs.
Intel=Evil Corp.
therefore
PCI 3.0 = Bad
There is no such thing as an unbiased opinion.
Let me explain again.
We were not running an open relay. ORBS probed us for an open relay and their script encountered some sort of problem that caused it to repeatadly probe our server. We blocked their netblock and found ourselves on the RBL.
Whether or not ORBS calls you a spammer is irrelevant. Being on the RBL puts the public under the impression that you are a spammer.
When we attempted to correct the situation, we were treated very rudely.
Blackhole lists are a massive waste of time.
1. Use of blackholes do NOT stop spam at all.
2. They piss off users when a client/friend/etc happens to be using a server on an RBL.
I also have a problem with the ego-maniacs who run these services who seem to think that they are some sort of 'net police.
My last company was on the ORBS RBL for over a year after we blocked all traffic from their network. One of their discovery scripts screwed up and DOS'd our mail server. Yet we were called spammers for blocking their attack.
Definately.
Wasteland was a 150% better RPG than the Bard's Tale, which was more of an exercise in mapping skills than anything else.
They should have mentioned Starflight (from RA in 1986) instead of shitty rpg's like Wizardry.
Also, Command HQ by Dan Bunten should have made an appearance.
No, because I was all busy chillin in the clubs with Taco.
Saw this girl at the club. She had on these really cool black, sparkly pants and a really great ass. I walk up to her and tell her her pants were really cool and she thanks me and she seems really nice and we find out that we're both rolling our asses off. So I tell her that not only are her pants cool but also, that she has a great ass. She laughs, thanks me, and says she appreciates my comment because she works out and a lot on her ass, specifically. So I ask her if I can touch it. She laughs again and says "My ass? OK." So I put my hand on her butt and gave a firm squeeze. I got a handful of the most beautiful, bubbly, firm ass I've ever seen or felt (understand that I'm a butt guy, as stupid as that sounds). "Oh my god," I say and she laughs again. So we get to talking and I find out that she's going to go to the other club we're about to go to. "Maybe I'll see you there," I say and me and my friends go.
I see her at the other club and go to talk to her but it looks like she's with a guy who looks like he's her boyfriend so I just say hi in passing.
So maybe CmdrTaco is right, that drugs are bad. Because that's one of the downsides of rolls...your mack is both on and off...hard to explain.
If I see her again, I'm definitely getting her number...or another handful...or both.
I am against copyright in all forms.
The GPL is different though. It is copyleft. It means freedom and it's elite.
A bunch a primadonna uber-elite developers/hacks/etc who have the social skills of a six year old, unable to come to any sort of agreement.
Give me a break.
Without the notion of copyright, you have no claim to the words you speak or the words you write.
The victim of a wild-west style world that you seem to want is the public at large. Without copyright, nobody would write books or produce films at all.
As a loyal Slashbot and staunch advocate of open-everything and coolness in general, how am I supposed to think.
On the one hand, there was a positive article about the DirecTV anti-piracy stuff a few months ago on slashdot.
On the other hand, isn't it evil and wrong to restrict TV from anyone? Shouldn't TV be free for all??
What is the Slashbot groupthink on this issue?
Books about the fundamental building blocks of software and computing, hah! They will be outdated in less than 100 years!
Learn about the fundamentals of Electronics!
The Art of Electronics, Horowitz
Basic Electronics, Grob
Mechanisms and Mechanical Devices Sourcebook, Sclater & Chironis
Unless you can build a computer from the transistors up, you have no business in computer science.
hmm
I've used a Blade 100 in this manner too (hell of alot easier to swap a wireless keyboard)
Maybe I haven't rebooted, but I'm pretty sure that I have.
Maybe there is an openboot setting to force it to boot in keyboard mode.
How could you forget Patterson and Hennessy's Computer Organization & Design?
Has a good history of computing and great discussion of hardware, logic and assembly language.
Haven't tried Apple, but Sun USB keyboards work fine on Intel boxes, and I am using a Logitech wireless keyboard on my Blade 1000 right now.