Upside: we can maybe help catch more stolen code.
Downside: Uh... it just came out... and it's making some big, big claims involving fuzzy logic. I think it's gonna need some testing first, eh?
Also, anybody else think it only works on larger sections of code than just say 10 lines?
No, but judgements against minors can affect their parents. If that girls spray painted a building, her parents can have a judgement leveled against them for the cost of the cleanup.
The Osprey's errors were simply well reported. Nearly every new plane design has to go through the same mess - new planes are dangerous. When you get a pilot's license for anything but basic flight, you are type-certified and do training either in a simulator or with a pre-certified pilot who knows the plane. New plane == no experienced people; especially something like the Osprey that was such a major change on typical designs. None of this means that the plane didn't work and didn't have many succesful flights. The problem was you could only really train on it by hack-jobbing your flight.
That's like saying you don't want volunteer fire departments. But the fact is, they're reliable. In fact, Brazil, which has one of the best fire systems in the world, is 100% volunteer. People who volunteer for departments even have to purchase their own gear. I'd trust that.
Having lived in the south for a while, their electric reliability isn't very good compared to (at least) the New England area. Most outages we have here are caused by damages to distribution lines (trees falling down, mostly) that take out either small or large areas depending on how critical they are. Resetting clocks in houses I've lived in up here has been a rare event, and most of the time I've lost power it's either winter or somebody with a motor vehicle missed the road. Once in a great European 2003 style heat-wave everybody finds their A/C units and hooks them up. Still incredibly rare (on the scale of years).
On the other hand, Maine's (and surrounding areas) Ice Storm in '98 has led to a significant high birth rate... just ask schools in the state of Maine about new enrollments - higher than ever and probably higher than for at least the next decade.
...Except the vulnerability was out long before the worm... Bugtraq doesn't like repeat postings as much as/. does. I wouldn't be suprised if the author was 13 or 30... well, maybe 15 or 30...
I'm sorry, but do you have any idea how stupid the second part of your post sounds?
For the crafty: create.reg files and.bat scripts that save and delete registry keys when you use the computer. Registry emulation would be a pretty cool trick though....
I travel around the New England area constantly... until I have a cell phone, answer to "what number can I reach you at?" are only speculative and numbers I give have to be for other people's phones. There's nothing like saying "try here, then here... or maybe I'll end up over here." Some of us have a real use for them... and sometimes using one is more polite than not.
I think that a move of giving users money in a random lottery fashion for using a free service is... well... making Standard Oil look competitor friendly. If anybody wants to make a good case against M$ for continuing monopolistic practices after the judgement, this would be a great corner stone. They're losing money for something that can't really generate a profit for them except by holding people who want to communicate with each other to Windows by means of market share and software control.
I hope you're not the guy on Court Street in Auburn... I think he believes that, but I'm the reason that he's wrong. If you're in an area with any amount of population, you risk being war drived(??). Now, I'm not wreckless, and I doubt most people are... but I am mischievous...
You think that's bad? You should see how nasty it's gotten on Slashdot when it comes to complaining about proper grammar. On that note, before somebody else says it: End why is it that...And why is it that... Don't forget the spelling of "stuf" either...
I don't know what causes concern with such petty things (other than that in this case you did have a high typo rate;), but it seems to be overly prevalent for whatever reason. I think perhaps the best answer is to just pretend it's not there... especially when it comes to a story that answers itself and removes the point of debate (which I believe is what the site is really about... and what's with that self-answering issue anyway? Why post it?).
Opposingly, laws are the things that will restrict us most now that the Interweb(C)(R)tm has become mainstream and everybody wants in. Personally, I'd like to see control swing back to the hands of the technical elite weilding power through their command lines; Congress wouldn't. So legal issues are important. I still maintain this story was one of the stupidest I've seen on Slashdot though...
Now, everybody applaud the self-answering comment;)
I'm first off most impressed by all the funding you've drawn to support an open source project. If I had to draw an ideal for paid software creation, I'd say that comes quite close to it. However, since somebody else is going to have the question of how you did that selected, here are a few ones that I find more pertinenet to the project itself:
Anecdotal stories of ReiserFS having issues with disappearing files have been very concerning. It is my understanding that the point of the journaling is basically to prevent this from happening (more elaborate I know, but I don't care to type lengthy right now). While I've been quite happy with using ReiserFS on some of my machines, even anecdotes of this happening leave me concerned there is too much risk. What's happening here, why, how will it be fixed? Is it something wrong with the filesystem / drivers or user implementation? Or can we deny it all at once and say somebody was doing something stupid? I believe in order for this project to be really successful despite its funding, it needs to get past these rumors.
Yes, this is actually funny in some way... mostly that somebody posted it this way. Anyway, the point to it was that you had to decrypt it in PGP, and that the passphrase was the subject line. If you tried that and got the "no pgp data found" message, it's because you forgot to remove the spaces that/. adds in between long strings. Below is the messsage exactly was decrypted, complete with an error in the link syntax. Have a good one...
Nice to see that Phil is still waving the banner for privacy rights, especially in light of the Patriot bill and other "anti-terrorism" legislation. Check out <a href="http://www.zmag.org/ZNET.htm"ZNet</a> for some great alternative news articles. ***[6/8/2003 11:52:29 AM] END PGP DECRYPTED MESSAGE ***
Nearly every other species in history has been self-limiting in growth - either by means of predators or lack of resources holding natural balance. We make a great exception to that - we expand past our natural constraints. China's policy certainly seems wise to me. 6 billion people in the world seems to be enough, and considering they have 17% of that population in their country, it's a good move for 'em.
Think of all the stresses we have in a country of 265 million people. Everybody takes a certain amount of resources, and limiting the number of people around by preventing birth in the first place seems like the best solution for them. And in case you haven't noticed, as far as China's concerned, you can take "freedom" and shove it. Despite some of the fallout from the policy, I still agree with 'em on this one issue. Nobody has a "right" or "freedom" to dump the toxic waste from their house (or business, or whatever) into a river. It's the rest of the world's business because it has effects against other people.
Have you read the Cisco curriculum for CCNA? I've been looking at their ever-changing crud for 2 years now, and it's like this: there's the right answer, and then there's Cisco's right answer. You don't even want to think about what their current curriculum calls "normal mode" electrical connections. They entirely dropped the word fault from that. Guess how fun that is to explain to anybody...
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Downside: Uh... it just came out... and it's making some big, big claims involving fuzzy logic. I think it's gonna need some testing first, eh?
Also, anybody else think it only works on larger sections of code than just say 10 lines?
No, but judgements against minors can affect their parents. If that girls spray painted a building, her parents can have a judgement leveled against them for the cost of the cleanup.
The Osprey's errors were simply well reported. Nearly every new plane design has to go through the same mess - new planes are dangerous. When you get a pilot's license for anything but basic flight, you are type-certified and do training either in a simulator or with a pre-certified pilot who knows the plane. New plane == no experienced people; especially something like the Osprey that was such a major change on typical designs. None of this means that the plane didn't work and didn't have many succesful flights. The problem was you could only really train on it by hack-jobbing your flight.
That's like saying you don't want volunteer fire departments. But the fact is, they're reliable. In fact, Brazil, which has one of the best fire systems in the world, is 100% volunteer. People who volunteer for departments even have to purchase their own gear. I'd trust that.
Having lived in the south for a while, their electric reliability isn't very good compared to (at least) the New England area. Most outages we have here are caused by damages to distribution lines (trees falling down, mostly) that take out either small or large areas depending on how critical they are. Resetting clocks in houses I've lived in up here has been a rare event, and most of the time I've lost power it's either winter or somebody with a motor vehicle missed the road. Once in a great European 2003 style heat-wave everybody finds their A/C units and hooks them up. Still incredibly rare (on the scale of years).
On the other hand, Maine's (and surrounding areas) Ice Storm in '98 has led to a significant high birth rate... just ask schools in the state of Maine about new enrollments - higher than ever and probably higher than for at least the next decade.
...Except the vulnerability was out long before the worm... Bugtraq doesn't like repeat postings as much as /. does. I wouldn't be suprised if the author was 13 or 30... well, maybe 15 or 30...
So now if I pay shipping on that... would you send it my way? (come on... 18 and learning!)
I'm sorry, but do you have any idea how stupid the second part of your post sounds? For the crafty: create .reg files and .bat scripts that save and delete registry keys when you use the computer. Registry emulation would be a pretty cool trick though....
I travel around the New England area constantly... until I have a cell phone, answer to "what number can I reach you at?" are only speculative and numbers I give have to be for other people's phones. There's nothing like saying "try here, then here... or maybe I'll end up over here." Some of us have a real use for them... and sometimes using one is more polite than not.
I think that a move of giving users money in a random lottery fashion for using a free service is... well... making Standard Oil look competitor friendly. If anybody wants to make a good case against M$ for continuing monopolistic practices after the judgement, this would be a great corner stone. They're losing money for something that can't really generate a profit for them except by holding people who want to communicate with each other to Windows by means of market share and software control.
Writing that rad code sounds like a wicked good time...
I hope you're not the guy on Court Street in Auburn... I think he believes that, but I'm the reason that he's wrong. If you're in an area with any amount of population, you risk being war drived(??). Now, I'm not wreckless, and I doubt most people are... but I am mischievous...
Just so you know, the autocracy is here...
I don't know what causes concern with such petty things (other than that in this case you did have a high typo rate ;), but it seems to be overly prevalent for whatever reason. I think perhaps the best answer is to just pretend it's not there... especially when it comes to a story that answers itself and removes the point of debate (which I believe is what the site is really about... and what's with that self-answering issue anyway? Why post it?).
Opposingly, laws are the things that will restrict us most now that the Interweb(C)(R)tm has become mainstream and everybody wants in. Personally, I'd like to see control swing back to the hands of the technical elite weilding power through their command lines; Congress wouldn't. So legal issues are important. I still maintain this story was one of the stupidest I've seen on Slashdot though...
Now, everybody applaud the self-answering comment ;)
No... a copyright notice is not an alternative, but it is something that needs to be included also. GPL code is still copywrited.
Wow... dude... details man, details...
Anecdotal stories of ReiserFS having issues with disappearing files have been very concerning. It is my understanding that the point of the journaling is basically to prevent this from happening (more elaborate I know, but I don't care to type lengthy right now). While I've been quite happy with using ReiserFS on some of my machines, even anecdotes of this happening leave me concerned there is too much risk. What's happening here, why, how will it be fixed? Is it something wrong with the filesystem / drivers or user implementation? Or can we deny it all at once and say somebody was doing something stupid? I believe in order for this project to be really successful despite its funding, it needs to get past these rumors.
Yes, this is actually funny in some way... mostly that somebody posted it this way. Anyway, the point to it was that you had to decrypt it in PGP, and that the passphrase was the subject line. If you tried that and got the "no pgp data found" message, it's because you forgot to remove the spaces that /. adds in between long strings. Below is the messsage exactly was decrypted, complete with an error in the link syntax. Have a good one...
***[6/8/2003 11:52:29 AM] Cipher: AES256
***[6/8/2003 11:52:29 AM] BEGIN PGP DECRYPTED MESSAGE ***
Nice to see that Phil is still waving the banner for privacy rights, especially in light of the Patriot bill and other "anti-terrorism" legislation. Check out <a href="http://www.zmag.org/ZNET.htm"ZNet</a> for some great alternative news articles.
***[6/8/2003 11:52:29 AM] END PGP DECRYPTED MESSAGE ***
Normally I'd agree... but as far as caffiene goes, Slashdot seems to be the best resouce of experience, neh?
The United States of America. Elections are suspended do to terrorists. Have a nice day.
Think of all the stresses we have in a country of 265 million people. Everybody takes a certain amount of resources, and limiting the number of people around by preventing birth in the first place seems like the best solution for them. And in case you haven't noticed, as far as China's concerned, you can take "freedom" and shove it. Despite some of the fallout from the policy, I still agree with 'em on this one issue. Nobody has a "right" or "freedom" to dump the toxic waste from their house (or business, or whatever) into a river. It's the rest of the world's business because it has effects against other people.
Have you read the Cisco curriculum for CCNA? I've been looking at their ever-changing crud for 2 years now, and it's like this: there's the right answer, and then there's Cisco's right answer. You don't even want to think about what their current curriculum calls "normal mode" electrical connections. They entirely dropped the word fault from that. Guess how fun that is to explain to anybody...
Helicopters with eject seats do exist and work... Just cut the blades loose from the rotor right before loosing the seat.
One word. Freak.