Using sarcasm to convey political messages is a path fraught with danger (learned that a long time ago as a topical songwriter). That's especially true at a boring dinner where 90% the people aren't paying close attention.
We have been maintaining Stratus VOS since 1980, but it hasn't stayed static and it's very much larger than it was in 1980.
Which gets me to my real point. If you aren't going to maintain it, keep the binaries. If you are going to maintain it, it won't be in a vacuum; so, you will need to move the software into new environments.
Yeah, he hired a DJ. And he said he thought the DJ paid the licensing fee. I know that musicians hired to do gigs aren't required to pay BMI, the venue owner is. I would assume that's also true with DJs. The restaurant owner is either clueless (but he's been in business for 25 years) or he's lying through his teeth. He also claimed that he didn't have to pay royalties because he had a license to have music from the city. You are not looking at an even remotely reliable source of information here.
I can tell you as a musician that most restaurant and bar owners are at least 10 times as sleazy as the RIAA or BMI or any other rights organizations have ever been. They will exploit all their employees, including musicians and DJs, every chance they get. They deserve absolutely no sympathy.
That's scarey. Some of the devices you are mentioning get used in large networks (Lantronix term servers, for example). And a lot of them are on home Internets.
It will only work if the destination has a broken IP implementation. IFF the implementation is correct, it's supposed to either forward or drop any IP packets with a destination that isn't configured on the interface. It's never supposed to process them locally. Of course on a POS that you can't change the IP address on, one can't be sure it's actually handling the IP protocol correctly. Which would mean that putting more than one of them on a switch is probably a bad idea.
The LAT protocol doesn't use IP, but nobody uses LAT any more.
There used to be audio distribution protocols that ran in the MAC layer on 100Mb Ethernet, but I believe they switched to running under IP when switches and routers learned how to do vLans and QOS.
Appletalk used to avoid IP, but I believe they switched, too.
Protocols the use IP are routeable; so, they are limited in utility.
See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EtherType for a more complete list.
Mucking with the ARP tables won't work, because the IP addresses will be wrong in the packets (unless the IP implementation in the pumps is sorely lacking).
OTOH, using vLans on a cheap managed switch is better than the 16 USB Ethernet adapters the poster suggested.
You can get to mid-town from JFK that fast if you pay the cabbie a flat fee that's about 150% of the usual fair in advance. You might want to keep your eyes closed during the ride:-)
Most places running lotteries forbid employees from playing (of at least from accepting the payout).
In fact, the public service ethics laws in most states would automatically forbid accepting the payout as a conflict of interest... Massachusetts' laws do and so do the Federal ethics laws. Many states base their own laws on the Federal laws; so, given the number of states in that multiple state lottery, there have to be a number of ethics laws that could be used to prosecute just on the basis of accepting the payout.
Wait until the first big snow storm when all the driverless cars stop in the middle of the road because it's too slippery and they aren't programmed for anything else.
Marvin Gaye might disagree about what his kids deserve. It could even be that he left the works to his kids with the express instructions to do exactly this: Remember that the music industry has had a long history of ripping off black artists from Marvin Gaye's generation. There is definitely a lot of residual resentment.
And before you think this is a tragedy: The flip side of that is that the music industry might get more interested in supporting artists who actually are capable of creating original material. Given that it's easier to sell copies of something popular than something new, I won't be holding my breath for anything to change, but that is one possible outcome.
The news played a clip where they cross-faded between the two songs and I couldn't hear where the cross-fade happened. I also couldn't hear any difference at all between the two clips in that isolated context (which is all the matters for copyright infringement). One could certainly argue that the ability to edit songs with a computer makes it easier to demonstrate things like this. I've also heard this done where completely different songs are fit together in very clever ways (sorry, I don't remember where); so, part of this might be that the courts haven't caught up with computers.
But I think the over-riding issue here is that the admitted they copied from it, by calling what they did a tribute. Most of the time when someone does a tribute to another artists work, they cover the songs with different arrangements and pay royalties to the other artist. The "tribute" thing has happened before with ZZ Top and John Lee Hooker (La Grange vs Boogie Chillin', I think). It was much more overt in that case - I believe it never went to court. But that sets an industry precedent for using the term "tribute" in this manner as a face saving maneuver when somebody knows they got caught.
Right on. I have used the Ancestry Y chromosome database and had a hit where ALL the alleles matched. I emailed the guy and we can't figure out how were are related: It's definitely way more than the number of generations Ancestry suggested was likely. So if one allele doesn't match you could be talking a common ancestor many generations back. That's not exactly a close relative.
Ancestry's predictions for how close a match were not very accurate for the Y chromosome database. In fact, they aren't using the Y database any more. They are using something that uses data from all chromosomes and in every case where I could check it from the database, it has been accurate as to how far back the common ancestor was.
By and large goto is OK when used as an exit path from a nested context (as others here have shown in examples). Some languages provide explicit constructs for this (like variants or exit and continue that allow one to specify which nested context is being exited). C doesn't have these; so, one has to make do.
BTW, if you want to know what's bad about gotos, track down some Fortran programs that were written in the 60s and you will see where Dijkstra was coming from:-)
I've had problems every time I upgrade my laptop with the WEP key stored in the key chain getting messed up somehow. Took a huge amount of poking around to figure out what was going on, because the error handling was atrocious (Unix programmers take note). It didn't report anywhere that it couldn't retrieve the WEP key, it just failed to make a connection with no clue as to why. Of course, because there was no problem indication from the software and no official information from Apple on the problem (probably because they had no clue along with everybody else), there were literally hundreds of incorrect theories out there on the Internet as to what might fix it. And, of course, these dominate the Google search making it take days to find somebody who actually know what they were talking about.
In this case, the fix is trivial: Delete the WEP key with the keychain tools and let it ask again.
Depending on who you talk to, nuclear waste must be sequestered from 200,000 to more than a million years before it becomes safe.
It is completely absurd to claim that we have any sort of technology to do that. Remember that Engineering (as opposed to a lab experiment) is based on merging mathematics and physics with practical experience in getting real world results. The basic cycle is build, analyze, then factor the results back into the design process. A real world example is integrated circuits. We started out in the 60s with a couple dozens transistors on a chip and iteratively improved the design until now there are any millions of transistors on a chip. In terms of building long lived structures, some of the oldest lived man made structures on the planet are the pyramids: In round numbers, they are 5000 years old and failed at their intended purpose in prehistoric times (not to mention that the design data for them is long gone). Designing a waste storage facility to last a million years is like starting from scratch in 1960 with a chunk of silicon and immediately trying to design a 12 core, server class, CPU in the first design iteration. We are so inexperienced in the long term nuclear storage space we don't even know what the problems are!
The only way to get rid of the Nuclear waste is to recycle it (not reprocess, really recycle into something safe). AFIK, nobody has a clue how to do it or is even looking into the problem.
There is still a lot of commercial software written in COBOL -- and as you say, almost everyone who knows it is retiring any time now.
Even back before the Y2K crisis at the turn of the century there was a shortage of COBOL programmers. Consultants were getting 2-3x the normal rates for fixing COBOL programs.
The same is also true of Fortran; although, it's close enough to other languages that most good programmers can things done if they have to.
They might actually be right... It is basically a radio transmission.
If you care, encrypt...
On another note. Smart phones are computers that are connected to the Internet; so, wouldn't the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act apply to them (and the use of a stringray to access them)?
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That audio clip is also taken out of context.
Using sarcasm to convey political messages is a path fraught with danger (learned that a long time ago as a topical songwriter). That's especially true at a boring dinner where 90% the people aren't paying close attention.
What if I want to buy a Confederate Battle Flag to desecrate and send to the SC legislature?
We have been maintaining Stratus VOS since 1980, but it hasn't stayed static and it's very much larger than it was in 1980.
Which gets me to my real point. If you aren't going to maintain it, keep the binaries. If you are going to maintain it, it won't be in a vacuum; so, you will need to move the software into new environments.
Yeah, he hired a DJ. And he said he thought the DJ paid the licensing fee. I know that musicians hired to do gigs aren't required to pay BMI, the venue owner is. I would assume that's also true with DJs. The restaurant owner is either clueless (but he's been in business for 25 years) or he's lying through his teeth. He also claimed that he didn't have to pay royalties because he had a license to have music from the city. You are not looking at an even remotely reliable source of information here.
I can tell you as a musician that most restaurant and bar owners are at least 10 times as sleazy as the RIAA or BMI or any other rights organizations have ever been. They will exploit all their employees, including musicians and DJs, every chance they get. They deserve absolutely no sympathy.
That's scarey. Some of the devices you are mentioning get used in large networks (Lantronix term servers, for example). And a lot of them are on home Internets.
It will only work if the destination has a broken IP implementation. IFF the implementation is correct, it's supposed to either forward or drop any IP packets with a destination that isn't configured on the interface. It's never supposed to process them locally. Of course on a POS that you can't change the IP address on, one can't be sure it's actually handling the IP protocol correctly. Which would mean that putting more than one of them on a switch is probably a bad idea.
ICMP uses IP.
You are correct that ARP doesn't use IP.
The LAT protocol doesn't use IP, but nobody uses LAT any more.
There used to be audio distribution protocols that ran in the MAC layer on 100Mb Ethernet, but I believe they switched to running under IP when switches and routers learned how to do vLans and QOS.
Appletalk used to avoid IP, but I believe they switched, too.
Protocols the use IP are routeable; so, they are limited in utility.
See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EtherType for a more complete list.
Mucking with the ARP tables won't work, because the IP addresses will be wrong in the packets (unless the IP implementation in the pumps is sorely lacking).
OTOH, using vLans on a cheap managed switch is better than the 16 USB Ethernet adapters the poster suggested.
This won't work if the pumps have a real IP implementation, because the destination IP address in the packets will be wrong and they will get dropped.
Don't fill up pages and pages of Slashdot arguing about which methodology fad is best...
You can get to mid-town from JFK that fast if you pay the cabbie a flat fee that's about 150% of the usual fair in advance. You might want to keep your eyes closed during the ride :-)
Most places running lotteries forbid employees from playing (of at least from accepting the payout).
In fact, the public service ethics laws in most states would automatically forbid accepting the payout as a conflict of interest... Massachusetts' laws do and so do the Federal ethics laws. Many states base their own laws on the Federal laws; so, given the number of states in that multiple state lottery, there have to be a number of ethics laws that could be used to prosecute just on the basis of accepting the payout.
Wait until the first big snow storm when all the driverless cars stop in the middle of the road because it's too slippery and they aren't programmed for anything else.
why did charge him with escape from custody? I.e., They must have been able to prove that he sent the e-mail.
Marvin Gaye might disagree about what his kids deserve. It could even be that he left the works to his kids with the express instructions to do exactly this: Remember that the music industry has had a long history of ripping off black artists from Marvin Gaye's generation. There is definitely a lot of residual resentment.
And before you think this is a tragedy: The flip side of that is that the music industry might get more interested in supporting artists who actually are capable of creating original material. Given that it's easier to sell copies of something popular than something new, I won't be holding my breath for anything to change, but that is one possible outcome.
The news played a clip where they cross-faded between the two songs and I couldn't hear where the cross-fade happened. I also couldn't hear any difference at all between the two clips in that isolated context (which is all the matters for copyright infringement). One could certainly argue that the ability to edit songs with a computer makes it easier to demonstrate things like this. I've also heard this done where completely different songs are fit together in very clever ways (sorry, I don't remember where); so, part of this might be that the courts haven't caught up with computers.
But I think the over-riding issue here is that the admitted they copied from it, by calling what they did a tribute. Most of the time when someone does a tribute to another artists work, they cover the songs with different arrangements and pay royalties to the other artist. The "tribute" thing has happened before with ZZ Top and John Lee Hooker (La Grange vs Boogie Chillin', I think). It was much more overt in that case - I believe it never went to court. But that sets an industry precedent for using the term "tribute" in this manner as a face saving maneuver when somebody knows they got caught.
Right on. I have used the Ancestry Y chromosome database and had a hit where ALL the alleles matched. I emailed the guy and we can't figure out how were are related: It's definitely way more than the number of generations Ancestry suggested was likely. So if one allele doesn't match you could be talking a common ancestor many generations back. That's not exactly a close relative.
Ancestry's predictions for how close a match were not very accurate for the Y chromosome database. In fact, they aren't using the Y database any more. They are using something that uses data from all chromosomes and in every case where I could check it from the database, it has been accurate as to how far back the common ancestor was.
Does anyone out there really think Leonard Nimoy would be honored by this?
By and large goto is OK when used as an exit path from a nested context (as others here have shown in examples). Some languages provide explicit constructs for this (like variants or exit and continue that allow one to specify which nested context is being exited). C doesn't have these; so, one has to make do.
BTW, if you want to know what's bad about gotos, track down some Fortran programs that were written in the 60s and you will see where Dijkstra was coming from :-)
I've had problems every time I upgrade my laptop with the WEP key stored in the key chain getting messed up somehow. Took a huge amount of poking around to figure out what was going on, because the error handling was atrocious (Unix programmers take note). It didn't report anywhere that it couldn't retrieve the WEP key, it just failed to make a connection with no clue as to why. Of course, because there was no problem indication from the software and no official information from Apple on the problem (probably because they had no clue along with everybody else), there were literally hundreds of incorrect theories out there on the Internet as to what might fix it. And, of course, these dominate the Google search making it take days to find somebody who actually know what they were talking about.
In this case, the fix is trivial: Delete the WEP key with the keychain tools and let it ask again.
Depending on who you talk to, nuclear waste must be sequestered from 200,000 to more than a million years before it becomes safe.
It is completely absurd to claim that we have any sort of technology to do that. Remember that Engineering (as opposed to a lab experiment) is based on merging mathematics and physics with practical experience in getting real world results. The basic cycle is build, analyze, then factor the results back into the design process. A real world example is integrated circuits. We started out in the 60s with a couple dozens transistors on a chip and iteratively improved the design until now there are any millions of transistors on a chip. In terms of building long lived structures, some of the oldest lived man made structures on the planet are the pyramids: In round numbers, they are 5000 years old and failed at their intended purpose in prehistoric times (not to mention that the design data for them is long gone). Designing a waste storage facility to last a million years is like starting from scratch in 1960 with a chunk of silicon and immediately trying to design a 12 core, server class, CPU in the first design iteration. We are so inexperienced in the long term nuclear storage space we don't even know what the problems are!
The only way to get rid of the Nuclear waste is to recycle it (not reprocess, really recycle into something safe). AFIK, nobody has a clue how to do it or is even looking into the problem.
We so short sighted thinking it's all about us or the things we make:
How about the call of a Passeger Pigeon (for example):
There is still a lot of commercial software written in COBOL -- and as you say, almost everyone who knows it is retiring any time now.
Even back before the Y2K crisis at the turn of the century there was a shortage of COBOL programmers. Consultants were getting 2-3x the normal rates for fixing COBOL programs.
The same is also true of Fortran; although, it's close enough to other languages that most good programmers can things done if they have to.
They might actually be right... It is basically a radio transmission.
If you care, encrypt...
On another note. Smart phones are computers that are connected to the Internet; so, wouldn't the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act apply to them (and the use of a stringray to access them)?