It worked for Linus Torvalds. After all, the majority of the basic utilities (beyond the kernel) are the GNU tools - ls, cp, gcc, and so on. Why did you think Richard Stallman is so determined to have it called GNU/Linux?
Still, enough is done by the DNA that it's a fairly major step to have reverse-engineered the existing source that well. (feeble attempt to stay on-topic...)
I highly doubt there's any policy in effect. What may be happening is that the people who get randomly hit with moderator points have formed a bias against bothering to read anonymous posts. Said bias is not random, necessarily; it may be informed by the fact that a dreadfully large number of anonymous posters post flames, trolls, first posts, and other, if you'll pardon my language, shit.
That, and maybe moderators are being careless and reading at 1 like they normally do when they have no moderator points, thus missing the anon posts. I read at 0, myself, but that's me.
If this was satire, I'm afraid you forgot that there's lots of people who hold this exact opinion in all seriousness. As Usenet discovered long ago, you can't parody the real loonies.
If you actually meant it... well, there's not much I can say to a blithering bigot like that.
This is kind of an interesting idea... but the thing is that for the majority of us registered users with the standard posting level of +1, if we really can't resist the urge to make an offhand remark that's probably not going to interest others, we can always post as an AC.
Indeed, with the possible exception of Australia, the United States is the only industrialized nation in which a significant portion of the population considers creationism to be any more credible than a flat earth.
Given that the problem was that a CGI wasn't checking the password, the fix would be as simple as just adding in the code that checks the password, then testing to make sure it works.
If you have ever locked your keys in your car, or left the headlights on while you went shopping, or nuked something in the microwave and then forgot about it, this could happen to you. I don't mean to downplay the severity of this, it's a serious bug with significantly negative consequences, but the only prerequisite to making this sort of bug is to suffer from a temporary case of sheer absent-mindedness.
Perhaps a better analogy, come to think of it, is the flawed mirror of the Hubble telescope. As I remember, that was also caused by a very simple but (as it turned out) very costly blunder.
Indeed. There is no such animal as an unbiased anything if humans are anywhere involved. Every human has opinions, and everything a human writes is colored by his or her opinions.
As the Vorlons say, "Understanding is a three-edged sword - your side, my side, and the truth in between." The ideal way to understand an issue is to collect as many viewpoints as you're able to process, and sift them. Ideally, include viewpoints whose spin is opposite your own. And since you don't have time to read everything, evaluate your sources - the more honest a source is about its spin, and the more facts opposing its position that source is willing to include, the more useful is that source.
That wouldn't necessarily protect the computers of the other people who might be involved in what the Congresscritters are hiding. Suppose Monica had kept a diary on her PC...
At any rate, it's not in the job description for the cops doing the raid to know about computers - that's for the eggheads in the lab. (And hopefully the prosecutors, or someone advising them, who are pressing the case.) I don't care whether my cops think the CD-ROM drive is a cupholder, so long as they know one end of their sidearms from the other.
At any rate, it's not in the job description for the cops doing the raid to know about computers - that's for the eggheads in the lab. (And hopefully the prosecutors, or someone advising them, who are pressing the case.) I don't care whether my cops think the CD-ROM drive is a cupholder, so long as they know one end of his sidearm from the other.
If you've never seen a computer before, clicking on the "Start" button is complicated:
How does one click? There are over a hundred things in front of the user that go click when you push them, and only one of them is the correct one - the left-hand button of that soap-bar-looking thing.
How does the user know that that little picture of a window with Start written next to it is a "button"? Could the raw newbie not be excused for searching the keyboard and case for a physical button labeled "Start"?
And on the other hand, if you've never seen a car before, how would you know that the rightmost squarish thing underneath the driver's seat is what you push to make the car go, or that you first have to stick your key in the slot on the side of that round thing in front of you and turn it?
The problem is that people who've never seen a car before aren't expecting to be able to drive without learning a bit about it first, whereas we've got people who've never seen a computer before but nevertheless expect to go roaring away on the Internet.
What response is there to "I don't want to have to learn a bunch of stuff, I just want it to work" but "When we come up with a computer that can read your mind, we'll let you know"?
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Or people not knowing that those two black squarish things on the floor are supposed to be stepped on, and the right one makes the car go if you step on it and the left one makes it stop.
Cars only seem intuitive because we get taught how to drive them. Computer stores ought to be encouraged to offer a how-to-use-a-computer course whenever they sell a computer. And those salescritters who advertise products that claim "You don't have to learn a bunch of stuff to get on the Internet" should be drug out into the street and shot.:-)
I think all the original poster was saying, re the persecution thing, is that atheists may have a valid claim to be more persecuted than Christians in the United States. It's just that, in the US, on a national scale, there's not very much persecution at all, compared to other times or other present-day places. And atheists probably face less persecution now than just about any other time in US history.
But there's still some, even now, who aren't exactly tolerant of atheism.
"No, I don't know that Atheists should be considered as citizens, nor should they be considered as patriots. This is one nation under God." -- George Bush
My issue with this whole argument is that we just know way too little about cognitive psychology to clearly identify any putative cognitive differences (the way people's brains are wired) between men and women. Some have been claimed, but to my mind there isn't nearly enough evidence for any of them.
By the way, I personally do not pirate. Heck, I even pay for shareware. The correct response to overpriced proprietary software is what the GNU project does - write a version as or almost as good, and distribute it freely.
For example, if you ever are tempted to pirate a photo or image editing suite, go download The GIMP instead.
You are, of course, making one crucial and potentially invalid assumption... that all of the people who pirate the software would have bought it if they couldn't pirate it. In fact, a large proportion of them would just do without, and so the copies they steal don't cut into the software company's sales. Keep that in mind the next time you hear a supposed estimate of the costs of piracy.
Yes, but there were a lot fewer planes in the air too.:-)
On the other hand, other posters in this thread and elsewhere have pointed out that essentially no commercial airliners are relying on GPS.
So, if you must worry about flying on a commercial airliner, worry about some bozo with a haywire GPS blundering in front of your plane, not about your plane's own navigation. (And even that probably should be regarded as paranoia...)
It's the inevitable consequences of moving the GUI subsystem into the kernel. That might make sense for a desktop OS, where a loss of stability might conceivably be tolerated for the sake of video performance. It makes absolutely no sense for a server OS. For a server, having to wait a few more seconds total per day to click on your GUI admin tools is a small price to pay for having the system stay up for a long period.
If you ask me, if they insisted on moving GUI into the kernel, they should've only put it into the NT Workstation product (if that!) and left NT Server in the slow-but-stable configuration.
If the extra songs on a CD are just filler, then your argument is valid. But the artists that really care about the order of the songs on the CD aren't likely to be putting filler around their serious work.
In this case, the CD is more comparable to a series of paintings - each one beautiful in its own right, but the whole forming more than the mere sum of its parts.
On the other hand, if you don't happen to like that sum of parts, I do agree that it should still be your choice. It could be that you like the artists' sense of individual works better than you like their taste in arrangement. For those of us who want it, we can always glance at the recommended playlist that the artists provide.
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Still, enough is done by the DNA that it's a fairly major step to have reverse-engineered the existing source that well. (feeble attempt to stay on-topic...)
That, and maybe moderators are being careless and reading at 1 like they normally do when they have no moderator points, thus missing the anon posts. I read at 0, myself, but that's me.
If you actually meant it... well, there's not much I can say to a blithering bigot like that.
Apparently, at least two other moderators agree with you. Gotta love moderator flamewars.
This is kind of an interesting idea... but the thing is that for the majority of us registered users with the standard posting level of +1, if we really can't resist the urge to make an offhand remark that's probably not going to interest others, we can always post as an AC.
Indeed, with the possible exception of Australia, the United States is the only industrialized nation in which a significant portion of the population considers creationism to be any more credible than a flat earth.
Given that the problem was that a CGI wasn't checking the password, the fix would be as simple as just adding in the code that checks the password, then testing to make sure it works.
If you have ever locked your keys in your car, or left the headlights on while you went shopping, or nuked something in the microwave and then forgot about it, this could happen to you. I don't mean to downplay the severity of this, it's a serious bug with significantly negative consequences, but the only prerequisite to making this sort of bug is to suffer from a temporary case of sheer absent-mindedness.
Perhaps a better analogy, come to think of it, is the flawed mirror of the Hubble telescope. As I remember, that was also caused by a very simple but (as it turned out) very costly blunder.
And I suppose you've never locked your keys in your car before?
A latter-day William Randolph Hearst, then?
Hear that? That's the sound of dozens of male Slashdotters going "Whoa, where can I find a girl like that?"
As the Vorlons say, "Understanding is a three-edged sword - your side, my side, and the truth in between." The ideal way to understand an issue is to collect as many viewpoints as you're able to process, and sift them. Ideally, include viewpoints whose spin is opposite your own. And since you don't have time to read everything, evaluate your sources - the more honest a source is about its spin, and the more facts opposing its position that source is willing to include, the more useful is that source.
That wouldn't necessarily protect the computers of the other people who might be involved in what the Congresscritters are hiding. Suppose Monica had kept a diary on her PC...
At any rate, it's not in the job description for the cops doing the raid to know about computers - that's for the eggheads in the lab. (And hopefully the prosecutors, or someone advising them, who are pressing the case.) I don't care whether my cops think the CD-ROM drive is a cupholder, so long as they know one end of their sidearms from the other.
At any rate, it's not in the job description for the cops doing the raid to know about computers - that's for the eggheads in the lab. (And hopefully the prosecutors, or someone advising them, who are pressing the case.) I don't care whether my cops think the CD-ROM drive is a cupholder, so long as they know one end of his sidearm from the other.
- How does one click? There are over a hundred things in front of the user that go click when you push them, and only one of them is the correct one - the left-hand button of that soap-bar-looking thing.
- How does the user know that that little picture of a window with Start written next to it is a "button"? Could the raw newbie not be excused for searching the keyboard and case for a physical button labeled "Start"?
And on the other hand, if you've never seen a car before, how would you know that the rightmost squarish thing underneath the driver's seat is what you push to make the car go, or that you first have to stick your key in the slot on the side of that round thing in front of you and turn it?The problem is that people who've never seen a car before aren't expecting to be able to drive without learning a bit about it first, whereas we've got people who've never seen a computer before but nevertheless expect to go roaring away on the Internet.
What response is there to "I don't want to have to learn a bunch of stuff, I just want it to work" but "When we come up with a computer that can read your mind, we'll let you know"?
Cars only seem intuitive because we get taught how to drive them. Computer stores ought to be encouraged to offer a how-to-use-a-computer course whenever they sell a computer. And those salescritters who advertise products that claim "You don't have to learn a bunch of stuff to get on the Internet" should be drug out into the street and shot. :-)
But there's still some, even now, who aren't exactly tolerant of atheism.
My issue with this whole argument is that we just know way too little about cognitive psychology to clearly identify any putative cognitive differences (the way people's brains are wired) between men and women. Some have been claimed, but to my mind there isn't nearly enough evidence for any of them.
By the way, I personally do not pirate. Heck, I even pay for shareware. The correct response to overpriced proprietary software is what the GNU project does - write a version as or almost as good, and distribute it freely.
For example, if you ever are tempted to pirate a photo or image editing suite, go download The GIMP instead.
You are, of course, making one crucial and potentially invalid assumption... that all of the people who pirate the software would have bought it if they couldn't pirate it. In fact, a large proportion of them would just do without, and so the copies they steal don't cut into the software company's sales. Keep that in mind the next time you hear a supposed estimate of the costs of piracy.
On the other hand, other posters in this thread and elsewhere have pointed out that essentially no commercial airliners are relying on GPS.
So, if you must worry about flying on a commercial airliner, worry about some bozo with a haywire GPS blundering in front of your plane, not about your plane's own navigation. (And even that probably should be regarded as paranoia...)
If you ask me, if they insisted on moving GUI into the kernel, they should've only put it into the NT Workstation product (if that!) and left NT Server in the slow-but-stable configuration.
To further amplify, it's pronounced "ce la vie", but it's spelled "c'est la vie".
In this case, the CD is more comparable to a series of paintings - each one beautiful in its own right, but the whole forming more than the mere sum of its parts.
On the other hand, if you don't happen to like that sum of parts, I do agree that it should still be your choice. It could be that you like the artists' sense of individual works better than you like their taste in arrangement. For those of us who want it, we can always glance at the recommended playlist that the artists provide.