The risk is MEDIUM. A local unprivileged user may be able to gain unauthorized root privileges. [...] There are no reliable symptoms that would show the described issue has been exploited to gain unauthorized elevated privileges to a host.
even 'stranger' are the people who press both the 'going up' and 'going down' buttons, as if it would make the elevator thats going down come any quicker.
It does in some multiple-elevator systems: pushing both buttons calls 2 elevators to the floor, and if the one going in the wrong direction is empty, you can usually make it switch directions. (What else is it going to do, go the wrong way just out of spite?) This was used effectively at my last job on the first floor, since almost nobody ever went to the basement level.
And yet we (in Japan) still get spam that we have to pay for on our cell phones multiple times a day.
The plain truth is that it's an unenforceable law given the number of people on the enforcement vs. violation sides. Even so, keitai spam is not nearly as bad as it was a couple of years ago, whether because the big spammers have been shut down or because the keitai companies' technical efforts have borne fruit.
Good service in any business arena is the exception and not the rule.
I wouldn't be so quick to state a blanket rule; I think a large part of the problem is related to (American/Western?) culture. I live in Japan, and though I rarely have occasion to deal with tech support in particular, I have almost never experienced situations such as you or the article describe, whether at McDonald's, at the local government office, or on the phone--everyone I speak with is polite and helpful. I still have vague memories of US support lines, so I can understand (and laugh morbidly at) stories like this, but if not, I'd be completely baffled.
Close your eyes (so you don't see the needle) and bite your tongue (fight pain with pain). I used to scream like the devil, until my mom taught me that; works for me every time.
But I also suspect that the main reason that we see physical and emotional pain as being different is that we see emotional pain as uniquely human, something that separates us from "the animals".
I can't speak for anyone else, but I always saw it as the difference between a point source (physical pain) and lack thereof (emotional pain). I agree some people may take the human/animal point of view, but I wouldn't go so far as saying that physical and emotional pain are "the same". To put it in/. terms, Windows and Linux are both "produced" by the same hardware, and have the same general purpose--but I don't think anyone would claim they're the same thing!
As far as souls go, I'm reserving judgement for now--ask me again when you've got a human backup system working.;)
I dunno . . . I rarely access Real content, and the few times I have sync hasn't been a problem. <shrug> Another poster suggested mplayer -dumpstream; try that and see if it helps.
Has anyone got a good reason why landmines are a bad thing in [demilitarized zones]?
What happens in 20, 50, 100 years when the issues that caused the DMZ to be created have been resolved and the DMZ is eliminated? Are you just going to say "this area is off limits forever because we didn't foresee the end of hostilities"?
Riiiiiight, so what you're trying to tell me is that if the pre-1995 specs were metric instead of imperial this mistake wouldn't have happened?
Well, given that the reason the specs were changed was that the measurements were changed from Imperial to metric units, I don't think that that's at all an unreasonable claim.
You can ask what the temperature will be today & you will get an answer like "in the 70s." That is far more useful to me than "in the 20s" (Celsius).
Yes, well that's why nobody says "in the 20s"--they say "upper 20s", or "lower 20s", or even "around 23". Or at least that's what they do in Japan, and I find it more than adequate.
Japanese really don't distinguish between "r" and "l". I'm not sure why this is
It's mainly because the Japanese language doesn't have either sound. The closest it has is a consonant that's usually represented in Roman letters by "r", but is actually closer to the sound of the "tt" in "butter". Nor does it help that the English they teach in school is very, very heavily biased toward writing. A friend from work once asked me to proofread a letter she had written to an American friend, and it was nearly indistinguishable from native writing--yet her pronunciation was terrible. As another poster commented, the lack of distinct R and L sounds also makes it difficult to distinguish them when heard; a neurologist friend told me about a study showing that the brain is only capable of learning things like that until around age 30.
Japanese natives' difficulty with English isn't limited to R and L, either. Vowels are a major sticking point; Japanese uses only the five Latin vowels, compared to 20-some(?) vowels and diphthongs in English. (The Japanese can't pronounce "eye" as a native English speaker would, for example; it comes out as two separate sounds, "ah-ee".) In Japanese, syllables are constrained to end with either a vowel or N, turning "my name is" into "mah-ee nay-mu izu". The Japanese have an S sound, but when followed by "ee", it turns into SH--so a Japanese native reciting the alphabet will typically say "eh-ee, bee, shee" and so on. I spent some time with a 6-year-old child once, and even at that age it was remarkably difficult to overcome the "s + ee = shee" problem.
I've also heard a story (though possibly just an urban legend) about a poor Japanese middle-school girl asked by an American-born English teacher to read out loud "the boy is sitting on the table" . . .
Here's a government memo (in Japanese) from December 1996 talking about Shinkansen construction; it mentions, among other things, that the government will pay 35% of construction costs for new Shinkansen lines. It also mentions a 20-year construction plan costing 1.2 trillion yen, so 35% isn't a small chunk.
Ah, interesting... that's certainly a plausible explanation. Thanks for the information. (I wonder if the li has any historical relation to the Japanese ri (~3.9km)...)
Still, a long-distance maglev line would have been really cool, and there's got to be a region where it would make economical sense as well. Maybe we'll see one in Japan first.
That's debatable, seeing as the current (rail) Shinkansen is partially financed by the government as-is. (Nonetheless, as a resident of Japan I'd be delighted to see it become reality.)
In your case, [the AP's] mile-to-kilometer rounding just cost China $9.6M...
Thank you for making my point for me. (No, I don't know for certain that that's what the AP was doing, but I'm unable to come up with any other explanation for using half-miles instead of miles.)
I'm well aware of that. Perhaps you've heard of this thing called "rounding"? (If they're going to use miles, they're not going to say "price per 0.6215 miles" because that will make people go "huh?" even more than kilometers would.)
From the article: "The maglev cost can be as high as $36 million to $48 million per half mile, twice that of wheel-track lines, the China Daily said."
Why in the world are they quoting price per half mile? Or is it really "price per kilometer" and they think the American public is too stupid to understand what a kilometer is?
Kernel 2.4 and up has USB 2.0 and Firewire support for Mass Storage Devices.
Yes, but the 2.4 EHCI (USB 2.0) driver hangs from time to time, and the 2.4 Firewire mass storage driver gets a bit flipped about once every 100 gigabytes of data. (It's rather disturbing to run md5sum on the same file twice and get two different values . ..)
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The risk is MEDIUM. A local unprivileged user may be able to gain unauthorized root privileges. [...] There are no reliable symptoms that would show the described issue has been exploited to gain unauthorized elevated privileges to a host.
. . . and this is "medium"?
even 'stranger' are the people who press both the 'going up' and 'going down' buttons, as if it would make the elevator thats going down come any quicker.
It does in some multiple-elevator systems: pushing both buttons calls 2 elevators to the floor, and if the one going in the wrong direction is empty, you can usually make it switch directions. (What else is it going to do, go the wrong way just out of spite?) This was used effectively at my last job on the first floor, since almost nobody ever went to the basement level.
And yet we (in Japan) still get spam that we have to pay for on our cell phones multiple times a day.
The plain truth is that it's an unenforceable law given the number of people on the enforcement vs. violation sides. Even so, keitai spam is not nearly as bad as it was a couple of years ago, whether because the big spammers have been shut down or because the keitai companies' technical efforts have borne fruit.
Good service in any business arena is the exception and not the rule.
I wouldn't be so quick to state a blanket rule; I think a large part of the problem is related to (American/Western?) culture. I live in Japan, and though I rarely have occasion to deal with tech support in particular, I have almost never experienced situations such as you or the article describe, whether at McDonald's, at the local government office, or on the phone--everyone I speak with is polite and helpful. I still have vague memories of US support lines, so I can understand (and laugh morbidly at) stories like this, but if not, I'd be completely baffled.
(Disclaimer: I am fluent in Japanese.)
Close your eyes (so you don't see the needle) and bite your tongue (fight pain with pain). I used to scream like the devil, until my mom taught me that; works for me every time.
But I also suspect that the main reason that we see physical and emotional pain as being different is that we see emotional pain as uniquely human, something that separates us from "the animals".
I can't speak for anyone else, but I always saw it as the difference between a point source (physical pain) and lack thereof (emotional pain). I agree some people may take the human/animal point of view, but I wouldn't go so far as saying that physical and emotional pain are "the same". To put it in /. terms, Windows and Linux are both "produced" by the same hardware, and have the same general purpose--but I don't think anyone would claim they're the same thing!
As far as souls go, I'm reserving judgement for now--ask me again when you've got a human backup system working. ;)
Gotcha. I guess you can tell how little I use RealPlayer . . .
I dunno . . . I rarely access Real content, and the few times I have sync hasn't been a problem. <shrug> Another poster suggested mplayer -dumpstream; try that and see if it helps.
Maybe there will be an open surce equivalent soon that will let you write the whole godam stream to a file before it even starts playing.
mplayer -ovc copy -oac copy -o foo.avi rtsp://whatever
(And what does "disp" mean? News about English slang is tragically lacking over here in the land of the rising sun . . .)
If your open source project manager requires you to bleed, sweat, and cry, then you might want to consider forking...
... your project manager?
"We tried to kill him with a forklift..."
Has anyone got a good reason why landmines are a bad thing in [demilitarized zones]?
What happens in 20, 50, 100 years when the issues that caused the DMZ to be created have been resolved and the DMZ is eliminated? Are you just going to say "this area is off limits forever because we didn't foresee the end of hostilities"?
I'm going to throw money at SCO and drive up their stock even further.
Please let me know when you do, so I can short it afterwards.
Riiiiiight, so what you're trying to tell me is that if the pre-1995 specs were metric instead of imperial this mistake wouldn't have happened?
Well, given that the reason the specs were changed was that the measurements were changed from Imperial to metric units, I don't think that that's at all an unreasonable claim.
'Hands' are used to measure the height at the withers of a horse.
And now we see why the unit of measurement `hand' has withered away . . .
*rimshot*
You can ask what the temperature will be today & you will get an answer like "in the 70s." That is far more useful to me than "in the 20s" (Celsius).
Yes, well that's why nobody says "in the 20s"--they say "upper 20s", or "lower 20s", or even "around 23". Or at least that's what they do in Japan, and I find it more than adequate.
Japanese really don't distinguish between "r" and "l". I'm not sure why this is
It's mainly because the Japanese language doesn't have either sound. The closest it has is a consonant that's usually represented in Roman letters by "r", but is actually closer to the sound of the "tt" in "butter". Nor does it help that the English they teach in school is very, very heavily biased toward writing. A friend from work once asked me to proofread a letter she had written to an American friend, and it was nearly indistinguishable from native writing--yet her pronunciation was terrible. As another poster commented, the lack of distinct R and L sounds also makes it difficult to distinguish them when heard; a neurologist friend told me about a study showing that the brain is only capable of learning things like that until around age 30.
Japanese natives' difficulty with English isn't limited to R and L, either. Vowels are a major sticking point; Japanese uses only the five Latin vowels, compared to 20-some(?) vowels and diphthongs in English. (The Japanese can't pronounce "eye" as a native English speaker would, for example; it comes out as two separate sounds, "ah-ee".) In Japanese, syllables are constrained to end with either a vowel or N, turning "my name is" into "mah-ee nay-mu izu". The Japanese have an S sound, but when followed by "ee", it turns into SH--so a Japanese native reciting the alphabet will typically say "eh-ee, bee, shee" and so on. I spent some time with a 6-year-old child once, and even at that age it was remarkably difficult to overcome the "s + ee = shee" problem.
I've also heard a story (though possibly just an urban legend) about a poor Japanese middle-school girl asked by an American-born English teacher to read out loud "the boy is sitting on the table" . . .
Here's a government memo (in Japanese) from December 1996 talking about Shinkansen construction; it mentions, among other things, that the government will pay 35% of construction costs for new Shinkansen lines. It also mentions a 20-year construction plan costing 1.2 trillion yen, so 35% isn't a small chunk.
Ah, interesting... that's certainly a plausible explanation. Thanks for the information. (I wonder if the li has any historical relation to the Japanese ri (~3.9km)...)
I'm not, and I'm well aware that it's not an exact match. Looks like I should have put a disclaimer in my post:
Still, a long-distance maglev line would have been really cool, and there's got to be a region where it would make economical sense as well. Maybe we'll see one in Japan first.
That's debatable, seeing as the current (rail) Shinkansen is partially financed by the government as-is. (Nonetheless, as a resident of Japan I'd be delighted to see it become reality.)
In your case, [the AP's] mile-to-kilometer rounding just cost China $9.6M ...
Thank you for making my point for me. (No, I don't know for certain that that's what the AP was doing, but I'm unable to come up with any other explanation for using half-miles instead of miles.)
A half mile is 800m, or 0.8Km.
I'm well aware of that. Perhaps you've heard of this thing called "rounding"? (If they're going to use miles, they're not going to say "price per 0.6215 miles" because that will make people go "huh?" even more than kilometers would.)
From the article: "The maglev cost can be as high as $36 million to $48 million per half mile, twice that of wheel-track lines, the China Daily said."
Why in the world are they quoting price per half mile? Or is it really "price per kilometer" and they think the American public is too stupid to understand what a kilometer is?
So why is it I can't seem to locate any of this supposed 69% of women on the Internet?
Oh, I know--they're using a different Internet! I feel much better now.
Kernel 2.4 and up has USB 2.0 and Firewire support for Mass Storage Devices.
Yes, but the 2.4 EHCI (USB 2.0) driver hangs from time to time, and the 2.4 Firewire mass storage driver gets a bit flipped about once every 100 gigabytes of data. (It's rather disturbing to run md5sum on the same file twice and get two different values . . .)