It was a contest held in Germany, advertised to Germans, and the unencrypted text was written in German. There is nothing ironic about a German person cracking the code.
Except for the fact that it's actually already ironic for a German to be even trying to break a German WWII code, let alone beating an English team. It would make a good illustrative example for dictionaries to use for the word "irony".
As another poster said, you obviously need to brush up on what irony means.
So a German beat an English attempt to crack a German code from WWII and that's not ironic? What are you people, fucking dumb? Just having the Germans cracking an Enigma code is ironic!
From the OED:
Irony. A condition of affairs or events of a character opposite to what was, or might naturally be, expected; a contradictory outcome of events as if in mockery of the promise and fitness of things.
After all, like Apple has admitted themselves, the VAST VAST majority of a user's music library consists to ripped, downloaded or otherwise finangled music that are not downloaded off any online store.
In what way is ripped an issue here? I have thousands of tracks ripped of my CD collection. I paid to listen to those tracks; I didn't "buy" the CD any more than I "buy" a cup when I go to Starbucks (try serving me a blank CD or an empty cup to find out the distinction between media and content).
So. You got a problem with that?
Allow unlimited squirting for files with no copyright tag. Piracy explodes again, the magnitude we haven't seen since Napster.
Look around you. Napster was toytown compared to today's piracy. And, shock horror, it's not hit the industry at all. In fact, it's probably the only thing keeping the record companies alive in the face of their own incompetance and inability to invest in artists instead of plastic dolls.
All that "piracy" is free advertising and, in another shock revelation, people who like an artist will actually fork out money to pay for their performances (otherwise live shows would be pointless - I mean, people pay MORE to see the live shows! How crazy is that?). Those who don't support an artist almost certainly wouldn't have bought a DRMed version anyway so their impact on sales is nearly zero.
Nuclear power is very clean IN THE SHORT TERM. It is filthy in the long term and nothing that has happened in the last 30 years has made a dent in that.
Your customers really shouldn't be having to ask for fixes to zero-day exploits. If they are, then your "QA" step isn't working no matter how long it's taking.
Too many (ie, all) software companies have got to the same point of assuming that software will be broken and that it's "reasonable" to release in that state. In fact, it's not and it is you who's being unreasonable, not the customers.
That would only be true if we lived in a Democracy. Your statement indicates you don't know what kind of government you live under, I recommend you look it up.
Oooh, you're so macho. If only everybody in the universe was as cool and 1337 as you, nobody would need Time Machine.
This is true. Just going to the backup folder and finding the backup that you need and draging it to where you want it to be is a difficult chore for the point and grunt generation.
I have the technical expertise to set up a bunch of hacky scripts like that. I don't want to. Nor do I think they would be an adequate replacement for Time Machine, which is likely to achieve greater coverage (TM can restore whole HDs)
It could be done but no home user needs that or would want to spend the amount of storage it would require on it. Business users would certainly find it useful.
(TM uses kernel FS event notification so it doesn't have to do the moral equivalent of 'find' to figure out what has changed since the last backup)
I don't think notify is a winner UNLESS you are using the system on very large numbers of files. Since file/directory changes are cached, the find method is "fast enough" for any home or small business. In fact, it's very fast. But on a large file server or something where lots and lots of files change often it would fail eventually, I suppose, but then so might the notify method.
and less probability of bugs which will lose data sooner or later.
Well, after using the system for five years, and what with it consisting of about 10 lines of code, I'm pretty sure the bugs are all gone.
What an appallingly poor quality troll. The disks Apple uses are the same as anybody else's, OEMed from Seagate, WD, Hitachi, etc
Case design, on the other hand is terrible and heat issues abound causing all components, not just hard drives, to fail with disturbing frequency. On top of that, it's basically impossible to get a Mac fixed in less than three weeks unless you live in one of the two UK/Ireland cities that have Apple repair facilities. And even then you'll probably have to wait anyway while they source the part from the US.
No end-user is going to put an rsync script in their cron jobs and specify in what mounted partition to store it and then later use rsync to restore the specified files.
I do, and I do it on the Mac. I use linking to keep a month of backups stacked so that only the changes take up space but any particluar day can be restored in its entirity if needed. I got the instructions from ORA's Linux Server Hacks vol. 1. I also use a combination of Find and cp to keep 5 minute snapshots of all changes to important directories. I do that on Linux and OS X, and I've been setting that up for friends with Macs for years. It's no big deal.
I do agree, however, that if you use OS X you need some sort of good backup system because the hardware on Macs is appallingly poor quality.
I can't see any logic in this idea in a free society, although I can see that it is useful in a McDonaldised society for making children feel that behaving like robots is normal.
School uniforms are common over here and in fact combat the McDonaldised society. There is nothing better for the people who want all our kids to grow up slaves to logos and brands than sticking them in amongst a peer group of hundreds where they will be judged on how much Niké shit they can buy. A few years of that and they'll be buying whatever the marketing droids shove at them long after they leave school.
There are negatives to uniforms, but that isn't one of them.
How many stage magician "mind reading" acts are based on how easy it is to work out what someone's drawing based on the way the other end of the pen moves?
Here's a couple of other people musing on the subject. It's hard to prove, of course, but it does seem spooky how every trip abroad to announce a big donation is followed by meetings on the subject of Windows contracts. As I said - no one actually states there's a connection (would you?).
I mean, does it REALLY matter what O/S is on the computer that the reaches these people?
Of course it does. Software is the first breakthrough in resource creation since farming. New and valuable things can be created and then copies made for almost no cost (for the copies). The new economy that this could create would free the poor of their long running reliance on the rich for plant and capital. That is not something Gates and his multi-billionare club want to see, since it this they who reap the reward of that reliance.
You know, it's great that the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is donating all that money to research and aide but if word gets out that they're using that to influence who those countries do business with, I don't think anyone's going to be impressed anymore.
They've been doing it subtly for years. They never make it a condition of the donations but its made clear that gratitude is expected, and that a Christmas card probably won't cut it.
I cannot wait for the day that they go offline completely.
Errr. Surely that day arrived when your TV set came with buttons to select other channels? Just don't watch it. I can't imagine what you would prefer to watch given the quality of the competition, but nobody's forcing you.
I only corrected it because for a while I was trying to work out if "sitting" in this context was in fact a technical academic term (possibly to do with "chairs") that I hadn't recognised.
He is arrogant but sitting other people....not unheard of(and if you know what I am talking about you know that is extreme sarcasm.)
I assume you mean "citing". If you read the book you'll find that his citations are there but wrapped in a huge layer of ego. Finding, for example, the actual credit to John Conway's work takes quite some digging. It's in there, but the main text makes it sound like he made very little contribution, whereas without Conway, the field would be years behind where it is today simply for lack of researchers inspired by his work.
No, it isn't. Certainly they have some results but he's still an arrogant bastard who hasn't brought anything new to the table.
Very true. He is a clever guy, but not as clever as he thinks he is, and the book was just regurgitated from other sources. There was very little new or really much science in it. Basically he enumerates a lot of possible combinations of rules and says "some of these will turn out to be slightly interesting, you mark my words.". Well, some of them did. I'm SO impressed.
Look at a map of the world. Some of those countries are going to end up going to war, you mark my words. See? I'm a visionary too.
As this year's television pilots are automatically blocked because they're blatent rehashes of old ideas. Not to mention the Flintstones being blocked for being a violation of The Honeymooners' IP.
What does your system do if you throw gparted at it? Have you tried creating the requisite reiser/ext3 and swap part for your install yet, or are you counting on the installer to do that for you?
It seems that this was the problem: I HAD created the partitions (in fact I was overwriting a test Gentoo system which was working perfectly on the laptop). I then had selected manual partitioning to try to format those partitions and that's where it started throwing up. I also could not mount the partitions from the console.
However, I had one more go this morning and just tried the automatic partitioning and it seems to have worked.
Wireless is also working now but not automatically, and the laptop can't detect any Samba shares even though I can browse them from Konq by using the smb://user@machine URL format.
Overall it seems okay, but really I think I'm happier with Gentoo and Windowmaker. My mother certainly won't be able to cope with getting the wireless to work after each reboot (it seems to have slight variances in what the problem is which is stopping me using a script, at least at the moment).
I'd also like to see at least a minimal firewall on as standard, of the "-m state --state=NEW -J=DROP" type. I understand the argument as to why it's not on, I just don't agree with it.
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Except for the fact that it's actually already ironic for a German to be even trying to break a German WWII code, let alone beating an English team. It would make a good illustrative example for dictionaries to use for the word "irony".
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So a German beat an English attempt to crack a German code from WWII and that's not ironic? What are you people, fucking dumb? Just having the Germans cracking an Enigma code is ironic!
From the OED:
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It's called "irony". Jesus! It's not that complicated.
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In what way is ripped an issue here? I have thousands of tracks ripped of my CD collection. I paid to listen to those tracks; I didn't "buy" the CD any more than I "buy" a cup when I go to Starbucks (try serving me a blank CD or an empty cup to find out the distinction between media and content).
So. You got a problem with that?
Allow unlimited squirting for files with no copyright tag. Piracy explodes again, the magnitude we haven't seen since Napster.
Look around you. Napster was toytown compared to today's piracy. And, shock horror, it's not hit the industry at all. In fact, it's probably the only thing keeping the record companies alive in the face of their own incompetance and inability to invest in artists instead of plastic dolls.
All that "piracy" is free advertising and, in another shock revelation, people who like an artist will actually fork out money to pay for their performances (otherwise live shows would be pointless - I mean, people pay MORE to see the live shows! How crazy is that?). Those who don't support an artist almost certainly wouldn't have bought a DRMed version anyway so their impact on sales is nearly zero.
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Too many (ie, all) software companies have got to the same point of assuming that software will be broken and that it's "reasonable" to release in that state. In fact, it's not and it is you who's being unreasonable, not the customers.
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We're jammin'. Hope you like jammin' too...
What a strange leap of logic. You need to study Lincoln.
"Plutocracy".
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This is true. Just going to the backup folder and finding the backup that you need and draging it to where you want it to be is a difficult chore for the point and grunt generation.
I have the technical expertise to set up a bunch of hacky scripts like that. I don't want to. Nor do I think they would be an adequate replacement for Time Machine, which is likely to achieve greater coverage (TM can restore whole HDs)
It could be done but no home user needs that or would want to spend the amount of storage it would require on it. Business users would certainly find it useful.
(TM uses kernel FS event notification so it doesn't have to do the moral equivalent of 'find' to figure out what has changed since the last backup)
I don't think notify is a winner UNLESS you are using the system on very large numbers of files. Since file/directory changes are cached, the find method is "fast enough" for any home or small business. In fact, it's very fast. But on a large file server or something where lots and lots of files change often it would fail eventually, I suppose, but then so might the notify method.
and less probability of bugs which will lose data sooner or later.
Well, after using the system for five years, and what with it consisting of about 10 lines of code, I'm pretty sure the bugs are all gone.
What an appallingly poor quality troll. The disks Apple uses are the same as anybody else's, OEMed from Seagate, WD, Hitachi, etc
Case design, on the other hand is terrible and heat issues abound causing all components, not just hard drives, to fail with disturbing frequency. On top of that, it's basically impossible to get a Mac fixed in less than three weeks unless you live in one of the two UK/Ireland cities that have Apple repair facilities. And even then you'll probably have to wait anyway while they source the part from the US.
TWW
I do, and I do it on the Mac. I use linking to keep a month of backups stacked so that only the changes take up space but any particluar day can be restored in its entirity if needed. I got the instructions from ORA's Linux Server Hacks vol. 1. I also use a combination of Find and cp to keep 5 minute snapshots of all changes to important directories. I do that on Linux and OS X, and I've been setting that up for friends with Macs for years. It's no big deal.
I do agree, however, that if you use OS X you need some sort of good backup system because the hardware on Macs is appallingly poor quality.
TWW
School uniforms are common over here and in fact combat the McDonaldised society. There is nothing better for the people who want all our kids to grow up slaves to logos and brands than sticking them in amongst a peer group of hundreds where they will be judged on how much Niké shit they can buy. A few years of that and they'll be buying whatever the marketing droids shove at them long after they leave school.
There are negatives to uniforms, but that isn't one of them.
TWW
How many stage magician "mind reading" acts are based on how easy it is to work out what someone's drawing based on the way the other end of the pen moves?
TWW
Here's a couple of other people musing on the subject. It's hard to prove, of course, but it does seem spooky how every trip abroad to announce a big donation is followed by meetings on the subject of Windows contracts. As I said - no one actually states there's a connection (would you?).
Business Week
The Hindu Newspaper
I mean, does it REALLY matter what O/S is on the computer that the reaches these people?
Of course it does. Software is the first breakthrough in resource creation since farming. New and valuable things can be created and then copies made for almost no cost (for the copies). The new economy that this could create would free the poor of their long running reliance on the rich for plant and capital. That is not something Gates and his multi-billionare club want to see, since it this they who reap the reward of that reliance.
It matters a lot.
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They've been doing it subtly for years. They never make it a condition of the donations but its made clear that gratitude is expected, and that a Christmas card probably won't cut it.
TWW
Errr. Surely that day arrived when your TV set came with buttons to select other channels? Just don't watch it. I can't imagine what you would prefer to watch given the quality of the competition, but nobody's forcing you.
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Yes, because only Apple and Microsoft make mobile phones.
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I only corrected it because for a while I was trying to work out if "sitting" in this context was in fact a technical academic term (possibly to do with "chairs") that I hadn't recognised.
TWW
I assume you mean "citing". If you read the book you'll find that his citations are there but wrapped in a huge layer of ego. Finding, for example, the actual credit to John Conway's work takes quite some digging. It's in there, but the main text makes it sound like he made very little contribution, whereas without Conway, the field would be years behind where it is today simply for lack of researchers inspired by his work.
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Very true. He is a clever guy, but not as clever as he thinks he is, and the book was just regurgitated from other sources. There was very little new or really much science in it. Basically he enumerates a lot of possible combinations of rules and says "some of these will turn out to be slightly interesting, you mark my words.". Well, some of them did. I'm SO impressed.
Look at a map of the world. Some of those countries are going to end up going to war, you mark my words. See? I'm a visionary too.
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So, was Dinosaurs a rip-off of The Flintstones? Cause, like, they BOTH had dinosaurs.
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It seems that this was the problem: I HAD created the partitions (in fact I was overwriting a test Gentoo system which was working perfectly on the laptop). I then had selected manual partitioning to try to format those partitions and that's where it started throwing up. I also could not mount the partitions from the console.
However, I had one more go this morning and just tried the automatic partitioning and it seems to have worked.
Wireless is also working now but not automatically, and the laptop can't detect any Samba shares even though I can browse them from Konq by using the smb://user@machine URL format.
Overall it seems okay, but really I think I'm happier with Gentoo and Windowmaker. My mother certainly won't be able to cope with getting the wireless to work after each reboot (it seems to have slight variances in what the problem is which is stopping me using a script, at least at the moment).
I'd also like to see at least a minimal firewall on as standard, of the "-m state --state=NEW -J=DROP" type. I understand the argument as to why it's not on, I just don't agree with it.
But at least it's running!
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