Maybe the various galactic civilizations are "teaming" with each other to make sure the amazingly primitive life on an utterly insignificant little blue-green planet orbiting a small unregarded yellow sun in the unfashionable end of the Western Spiral arm doesn't detect them.
Are you saying that sex is crap, but it took you more than two hours to figure that out? Or that sex is good, but you thought it was crap after the first two hours?
In-release security updates don't change ABIs/APIs, except in exceptional circumstances. So you don't need to recompile anything against a security update. It just works.
Quite frankly, I've never experienced the situation you describe, with the one exception being VMware breaking when you update a kernel. That more to do with the demented way VMware handles interfacing with the kernel, though, than the kernel itself. If VMware open sourced their kernel driver, and put it in the kernel itself, rather than being a binary blob that needed glue code to connect all the bits together, then it would just work. But since VMware changes their API every version, and the kernel driver is a binary blob, it breaks crap. But they're a closed source company. So obviously open source/Linux isn't the problem.
"It's not obscured. You can read it just fine, officer.
It's not my fault your camera sucks rocks.... What do you need a camera on me for, anyway? Are you stalking me? Or are you after pictures of my 9 year old daughter? You're a pedophile, aren't you?
PEDOPHILE! PEDOPHILE!!!"
While turning things around like this might be fun for a few minutes, if a dirty cop is in a bad mood, you'll probably get written up on the worst of trumped up charges they can think of.
The only time I have ever had Windows install all the appropriate drivers automatically was when I installed Windows 7 on a Pentium III. No current hardware that I've ever used has all the drivers built in to Windows.
It's certainly not as hard as some Linux diehards make it seem, but neither is Linux anything like what you claim. Speaking of which, what was the last version of Linux you tried installing? Linux From Scratch on a 2.0 kernel?
It's not surprising; it's intentional. Most of IE6 is implemented in various DLLs that are in \windows\system32\, with very little in the actual iexplore.exe file. That's the IE/Windows integration that the anti-trust trial was (partly) about. Side by side versions would result in conflicting DLLs being installed in system32, which would break things, similar to what happens if you replace some files on an XP SP2 machine with SP3 versions.
Home Depot may be using IE6, but the point of sale terminals at Rona (Canadian big box home improvement store, very similar to Home Depot) are still running Windows 2000. To upgrade from IE6, they'd have to upgrade their entire OS.
He never made a bomb threat. He said he was going to test security. They are not the same thing.
To flip your question on its head:
How come the police think that because someone has committed a minor crime, but did it with a computer that it suddenly becomes a much more serious crime? In Canada, we have a section of the Criminal Code that makes "using a computer in the commission of another crime" an offence in itself. This is, of course, retarded, because it makes threatening to kill someone by email from half the world away more serious than threatening to kill them in person from 6 inches in front of them. The first is a hollow threat, with virtually zero chance of follow through. The second is quite possible to end in somebody being dead.
1) registering 2 separate accounts; ------------- 3) Argue with myself?
That reminds me of an old school rap song...probably from sometime in the early to mid eighties. Probably before your time, judging by your User ID, but you never know:
A split personality, it goes and comes, like two people trapped inside of one. One's a nice person, the other is not. One drinks cold water and the other drinks hot.
I agree with your first point. But your second is wrong. I'm most definitely not the same person as Americano.
The only reason I knew about his posts two years ago for this story is because I went back and re-read the original story and some comments to give myself a refresher on the context of the case. Undoubtedly I thought he was just as stupid when I first read them two years ago, but I promptly forgot them for the troll garbage they are.
Incensed? Hardly. Otherwise I wouldn't be suggesting people laugh at you, would I? Memorable? Not at all. I went back to re-read the original article and some comments when this one came up, because it would refresh my memory as to the context of the case. Your "he must be guilty because the police say so" comments caught my attention, not two years ago, but yesterday. (As an off-topic aside, your "technically" is incorrect. I can laugh at you like a group of people, even though you're only one. I could laugh at you like 27 hot air balloons with 3 poo-flinging monkeys in each one, if I wanted. The fact that you're only one person is irrelevant.)
Now, I haven't seen or read all of Mr. Sonne's postings regarding this, but I don't remember reading, or hearing of him ever claiming that he was actually going to make a bomb. (I realize you didn't make the claim that he did in this posting, but you did in one further down. Specifically: "oh my god, you bought a number of chemicals that could be used to make bombs, and then told people you were doing so") "Testing security" is not the same as "making and detonating a bomb." Heck, it's not even the same as "making a bomb."
If he'd actually said he was going to be making a bomb, the police and prosecution would have been shouting from the hilltops that that was the case. The fact that they haven't been tells me that that statement was never made by him, regardless of your claim to the contrary. Similarly, the fact that the prosecution made out that his model rocketry hobby was an "elaborate ruse" to cover up his intent to make a bomb tells me that they had nothing at all indicating that he planned to build a bomb. I'm sure taking the time to read all the filings involved would confirm my suspicions.
Another thing that I've read is that he stated that the fences could be pulled down in spots. Maybe this is what he meant by "testing security." Nothing to do with bombing them, but the police latched onto the bomb theory because of his rocketry hobby.
I have plenty of other computers, including a 16GB quad core desktop. It's just that when I tried this online Wolfenstein, I happened to be using the six year old laptop. And it ran fine. I'm sure on the quad core, I could run Wolfenstein, Crysis, 3 or 4 virtual machines, and 274 Firefox tabs all at the same time, and it would still work pretty well.
I stand by my comment that the computers that people have that won't run this are crap.
What I want to know is, where is/. user "Americano" now?
He was all over the original story of the arrest, stating that Sonne must have done something wrong, because the police don't arrest people for no reason.
Choice quotes include:
Think of the black eye to Canada (and especially their law enforcement), if this were shown to be trumped up charges over a guy with a cell phone, a can of gas in his garage, and a couple walkie talkies? They'd be laughed at as a bunch of Keystone Kops for years over this.
and
Your scenario, where it's just a bunch of crooked cops looking to railroad some guy for a crime he didn't commit, while no doubt appealing to the "IANAL, but I play one on Slashdot!" crowd, simply doesn't pass the test of logic. It would require dozens, perhaps hundreds, of law enforcement and judiciary personnel to be corrupt to the point of downright evil in order for that to happen. Is it *possible*? Sure, just about anything is. But it's not *likely* that that many people would wake up and, in the midst of Canada being in an international press spotlight, decide to ruin someone's life just for the fun of it.
I guess he's not here, because he doesn't want to be laughed at like a bunch of Keystone Kops......
What kind of crap computers do you people have? My 6 year old mobile 1.6GHz Core 2 Duo runs it just fine. I suppose a crap browser with a crappy, slow Javascript interpreter might make it chug, but that's not the game's fault. That's your crap computer....
Or it's the kind of thing that a full service developer does to make sure that a techno-n00b client doesn't lose their domain because they forget to renew it after a year.
But, if that's the case, they should make it clear that maintenance on the domain will be done as needed and billed to the client, and if the client wishes to take on responsibility for this, the domain can be transferred to the client for a nominal fee, with all responsibility and consequences for maintenance or lack thereof falling squarely on the client.
Ok, genius: What crop should we plant in the back 100 acres (that's got poorer drainage than the rest of the farm due to low lying clay soil) this spring based on the current 5-day forecast?
I grew up on a farm, and I can count on the fingers of one hand the number of times we had a vet come out in 15 years. The vast majority of the time they don't call them. Every neighbouring farm was the same as ours, too.
Most hire mechanics if they need an engine rebuilt, but even at that, a lot will buy the parts and do it themselves. We replaced the cylinder head on a combine at the farm when I was a kid, and nobody looked at us weird for not hiring a mechanic to do it, because they frequently did the same thing.
No, to small engine mechanics? Really? So when the ignition module goes out on the backup generator for the produce refrigeration, you'd call a mechanic, rather than fixing it yourself some evening? No wonder you don't work on a farm anymore. You couldn't afford to keep going the way you'd have to outsource work.
Welders is "no", too? That's most definitely a yes. Every single farm around had either an electric arc welder, or a mig, or acetylene. Most had more than one type. Maybe that's because the area is heavy clay, which tends to be hard on equipment and breaks a lot of stuff, but I don't know of a single farmer within 10 miles of where I grew up that didn't know how to weld.
It doesn't need to make it infertile. It just needs to make it 10-15% harder to grow agricultural crops, which don't do well in alkaline soil, or with high calcium content. Corn, for example, prefers a slightly acidic pH of between 5 and 6, depending on soil type: http://www.ces.ncsu.edu/plymouth/cropsci/docs/how_soil_pH_affects_yields.html
The amount of concrete involved here for a single tower, over a few years, could raise the pH of the soil up over 8. Yes, it's somewhat localized, but it's certainly still relevant, especially when you can have 4 or 5 of these things in a single field, all contributing to the problem.
Really? What did you search for? I got over 5 million hits on Google with "concrete leach", the first of which was a Wikipedia article which describes the problem quite nicely.
For a start, a ski lift pylon is miniscule compared to the base of one of these. We're talking about an amount of concrete roughly the size of a medium sized house. How localized the damage is depends on how many turbines are installed. I could easily see a single turbine foundation damaging an acre or more of soil to varying degrees.
Secondly, a meadow around a ski lift pylon will grow whatever is capable of growing there. Grass is remarkably forgiving regarding pollution and soil contamination with various metallic compounds. So are a lot of flowers. Something will take root there, because "something" is going to be able to grow in those conditions.
In this case, though, we're talking about wanting to plant one of a handful of very specific crops, and not have anything else grow there. Corn, soybeans, wheat, barley....all those don't do as well in high calcium soil as grass and other weeds.
It's easy to get something green to grow around concrete. It's not so easy to get something with agricultural crop value to grow there.
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Maybe the various galactic civilizations are "teaming" with each other to make sure the amazingly primitive life on an utterly insignificant little blue-green planet orbiting a small unregarded yellow sun in the unfashionable end of the Western Spiral arm doesn't detect them.
Are you saying that sex is crap, but it took you more than two hours to figure that out? Or that sex is good, but you thought it was crap after the first two hours?
In-release security updates don't change ABIs/APIs, except in exceptional circumstances. So you don't need to recompile anything against a security update. It just works.
Quite frankly, I've never experienced the situation you describe, with the one exception being VMware breaking when you update a kernel. That more to do with the demented way VMware handles interfacing with the kernel, though, than the kernel itself.
If VMware open sourced their kernel driver, and put it in the kernel itself, rather than being a binary blob that needed glue code to connect all the bits together, then it would just work. But since VMware changes their API every version, and the kernel driver is a binary blob, it breaks crap. But they're a closed source company. So obviously open source/Linux isn't the problem.
On that note, think I could pull off one of those big, massive Flavor Flav clock necklaces from the 80s?
If you're going to go outrageous, go outrageous.....
http://i.imgur.com/0rST3.jpg
Hard to knee yourself in the face when your head's up your ass.....
"It's not obscured. You can read it just fine, officer.
It's not my fault your camera sucks rocks....
What do you need a camera on me for, anyway? Are you stalking me?
Or are you after pictures of my 9 year old daughter? You're a pedophile, aren't you?
PEDOPHILE! PEDOPHILE!!!"
While turning things around like this might be fun for a few minutes, if a dirty cop is in a bad mood, you'll probably get written up on the worst of trumped up charges they can think of.
Read the first half of the sentence you go on such a rant about:
"Whenever there is a link issue because I upgraded a library..."
The same users who won't recompile against the new library WOULD NEVER UPGRADE TO THE NEW LIBRARY IN THE FIRST PLACE!!!
The only time I have ever had Windows install all the appropriate drivers automatically was when I installed Windows 7 on a Pentium III.
No current hardware that I've ever used has all the drivers built in to Windows.
It's certainly not as hard as some Linux diehards make it seem, but neither is Linux anything like what you claim. Speaking of which, what was the last version of Linux you tried installing? Linux From Scratch on a 2.0 kernel?
It's not surprising; it's intentional. Most of IE6 is implemented in various DLLs that are in \windows\system32\, with very little in the actual iexplore.exe file. That's the IE/Windows integration that the anti-trust trial was (partly) about.
Side by side versions would result in conflicting DLLs being installed in system32, which would break things, similar to what happens if you replace some files on an XP SP2 machine with SP3 versions.
Home Depot may be using IE6, but the point of sale terminals at Rona (Canadian big box home improvement store, very similar to Home Depot) are still running Windows 2000.
To upgrade from IE6, they'd have to upgrade their entire OS.
Batchelor? Is that a single guy who didn't go away, so got replaced with a very small shell script?
He never made a bomb threat. He said he was going to test security. They are not the same thing.
To flip your question on its head:
How come the police think that because someone has committed a minor crime, but did it with a computer that it suddenly becomes a much more serious crime?
In Canada, we have a section of the Criminal Code that makes "using a computer in the commission of another crime" an offence in itself. This is, of course, retarded, because it makes threatening to kill someone by email from half the world away more serious than threatening to kill them in person from 6 inches in front of them.
The first is a hollow threat, with virtually zero chance of follow through. The second is quite possible to end in somebody being dead.
Which should be the more serious crime?
Do you really think I'd go to the trouble of:
1) registering 2 separate accounts;
-------------
3) Argue with myself?
That reminds me of an old school rap song...probably from sometime in the early to mid eighties. Probably before your time, judging by your User ID, but you never know:
A split personality, it goes and comes,
like two people trapped inside of one.
One's a nice person, the other is not.
One drinks cold water and the other drinks hot.
I agree with your first point. But your second is wrong. I'm most definitely not the same person as Americano.
The only reason I knew about his posts two years ago for this story is because I went back and re-read the original story and some comments to give myself a refresher on the context of the case. Undoubtedly I thought he was just as stupid when I first read them two years ago, but I promptly forgot them for the troll garbage they are.
Incensed? Hardly. Otherwise I wouldn't be suggesting people laugh at you, would I? Memorable? Not at all. I went back to re-read the original article and some comments when this one came up, because it would refresh my memory as to the context of the case. Your "he must be guilty because the police say so" comments caught my attention, not two years ago, but yesterday. (As an off-topic aside, your "technically" is incorrect. I can laugh at you like a group of people, even though you're only one. I could laugh at you like 27 hot air balloons with 3 poo-flinging monkeys in each one, if I wanted. The fact that you're only one person is irrelevant.)
Now, I haven't seen or read all of Mr. Sonne's postings regarding this, but I don't remember reading, or hearing of him ever claiming that he was actually going to make a bomb. (I realize you didn't make the claim that he did in this posting, but you did in one further down. Specifically: "oh my god, you bought a number of chemicals that could be used to make bombs, and then told people you were doing so")
"Testing security" is not the same as "making and detonating a bomb." Heck, it's not even the same as "making a bomb."
If he'd actually said he was going to be making a bomb, the police and prosecution would have been shouting from the hilltops that that was the case. The fact that they haven't been tells me that that statement was never made by him, regardless of your claim to the contrary. Similarly, the fact that the prosecution made out that his model rocketry hobby was an "elaborate ruse" to cover up his intent to make a bomb tells me that they had nothing at all indicating that he planned to build a bomb. I'm sure taking the time to read all the filings involved would confirm my suspicions.
Another thing that I've read is that he stated that the fences could be pulled down in spots. Maybe this is what he meant by "testing security." Nothing to do with bombing them, but the police latched onto the bomb theory because of his rocketry hobby.
I have plenty of other computers, including a 16GB quad core desktop. It's just that when I tried this online Wolfenstein, I happened to be using the six year old laptop. And it ran fine. I'm sure on the quad core, I could run Wolfenstein, Crysis, 3 or 4 virtual machines, and 274 Firefox tabs all at the same time, and it would still work pretty well.
I stand by my comment that the computers that people have that won't run this are crap.
What I want to know is, where is /. user "Americano" now?
He was all over the original story of the arrest, stating that Sonne must have done something wrong, because the police don't arrest people for no reason.
Choice quotes include:
Think of the black eye to Canada (and especially their law enforcement), if this were shown to be trumped up charges over a guy with a cell phone, a can of gas in his garage, and a couple walkie talkies? They'd be laughed at as a bunch of Keystone Kops for years over this.
and
Your scenario, where it's just a bunch of crooked cops looking to railroad some guy for a crime he didn't commit, while no doubt appealing to the "IANAL, but I play one on Slashdot!" crowd, simply doesn't pass the test of logic. It would require dozens, perhaps hundreds, of law enforcement and judiciary personnel to be corrupt to the point of downright evil in order for that to happen. Is it *possible*? Sure, just about anything is. But it's not *likely* that that many people would wake up and, in the midst of Canada being in an international press spotlight, decide to ruin someone's life just for the fun of it.
I guess he's not here, because he doesn't want to be laughed at like a bunch of Keystone Kops......
What kind of crap computers do you people have? My 6 year old mobile 1.6GHz Core 2 Duo runs it just fine. I suppose a crap browser with a crappy, slow Javascript interpreter might make it chug, but that's not the game's fault. That's your crap computer....
Mobile Core 2 Duo, 1.6GHz, Intel 945 Express graphics, 1GB RAM, and Win7, and it's sooth as silk, even with enemies.
I guess your computer just sucks.... :)
Or it's the kind of thing that a full service developer does to make sure that a techno-n00b client doesn't lose their domain because they forget to renew it after a year.
But, if that's the case, they should make it clear that maintenance on the domain will be done as needed and billed to the client, and if the client wishes to take on responsibility for this, the domain can be transferred to the client for a nominal fee, with all responsibility and consequences for maintenance or lack thereof falling squarely on the client.
Most farmers are too busy working to do any of that shit
WTF? "That shit" is the work that farmers are so busy doing.
Ok, genius: What crop should we plant in the back 100 acres (that's got poorer drainage than the rest of the farm due to low lying clay soil) this spring based on the current 5-day forecast?
I grew up on a farm, and I can count on the fingers of one hand the number of times we had a vet come out in 15 years. The vast majority of the time they don't call them. Every neighbouring farm was the same as ours, too.
Most hire mechanics if they need an engine rebuilt, but even at that, a lot will buy the parts and do it themselves. We replaced the cylinder head on a combine at the farm when I was a kid, and nobody looked at us weird for not hiring a mechanic to do it, because they frequently did the same thing.
No, to small engine mechanics? Really? So when the ignition module goes out on the backup generator for the produce refrigeration, you'd call a mechanic, rather than fixing it yourself some evening? No wonder you don't work on a farm anymore. You couldn't afford to keep going the way you'd have to outsource work.
Welders is "no", too? That's most definitely a yes. Every single farm around had either an electric arc welder, or a mig, or acetylene. Most had more than one type. Maybe that's because the area is heavy clay, which tends to be hard on equipment and breaks a lot of stuff, but I don't know of a single farmer within 10 miles of where I grew up that didn't know how to weld.
It doesn't need to make it infertile. It just needs to make it 10-15% harder to grow agricultural crops, which don't do well in alkaline soil, or with high calcium content. Corn, for example, prefers a slightly acidic pH of between 5 and 6, depending on soil type:
http://www.ces.ncsu.edu/plymouth/cropsci/docs/how_soil_pH_affects_yields.html
The amount of concrete involved here for a single tower, over a few years, could raise the pH of the soil up over 8. Yes, it's somewhat localized, but it's certainly still relevant, especially when you can have 4 or 5 of these things in a single field, all contributing to the problem.
Really? What did you search for? I got over 5 million hits on Google with "concrete leach", the first of which was a Wikipedia article which describes the problem quite nicely.
http://www.google.ca/search?q=concrete%20leach&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a&source=hp&channel=np
For a start, a ski lift pylon is miniscule compared to the base of one of these. We're talking about an amount of concrete roughly the size of a medium sized house. How localized the damage is depends on how many turbines are installed. I could easily see a single turbine foundation damaging an acre or more of soil to varying degrees.
Secondly, a meadow around a ski lift pylon will grow whatever is capable of growing there. Grass is remarkably forgiving regarding pollution and soil contamination with various metallic compounds. So are a lot of flowers. Something will take root there, because "something" is going to be able to grow in those conditions.
In this case, though, we're talking about wanting to plant one of a handful of very specific crops, and not have anything else grow there. Corn, soybeans, wheat, barley....all those don't do as well in high calcium soil as grass and other weeds.
It's easy to get something green to grow around concrete. It's not so easy to get something with agricultural crop value to grow there.