The OSX/Quark problem affects much more than "graphics enthusiasts" as they put it. Working at a prepress company as I do, it's a very real problem. I don't know why a "graphics enthusiast" would get Quark anyway, when I think of that I think of people like the Digital Blasphemy guy, not assembling postscript documents in Quark.
Yeah, but he is proposing making them from sapphire (alumina). At least you could use the discarded cans to make a really neat shed with clear walls that was nearly indestructible.
Sending e-mail should cost some token amount of money,
It's easy to throw such ideas around, but implementation becomes an issue of rights quickly. I guess you want to force everyone to use their ISP's mail server and pay their ISP the amount. Fine. You have to block outgoing port 25, which fucks over anyone running their own mail server. Spammers will just buy T1s and be their own "ISP", and sell a flat rate email sending fee to other spammers. (They already do that).
What about people like myself that maintain announcement lists for my web sites. That's something like 2000 emails each time I send an update. It's all completely opt-in, and has a real return address, from which I personally handle unsubscribe requests from the people that can't figure out how to use the web site to unsubscribe. It's nothing like spam.
What about all the thousands of other email lists. The owners of the linux kernel mailing list would have to pay thousands a month in your email fees, even if it was only a couple cents an email.
Anyway, everytime someone comes up with these "change the infrastructure" silver bullet solutions to spam, they are always half-baked.
According to this, visibility was 8 miles. He was a VFR rated pilot in VFR conditions. I could understand him saying that a VFR pilot that ran into IFR might have a better chance with this system, but you are right, he is full of shit, if a pilot is getting fixated on a single indicator in VFR conditions, he's got bigger problems.
Which begets the question: is the a legal recourse for punishing those who publish confidential documents, but never did sign a confidentiality agreement in order to get them?
Well, yes. Don't mix up two different things. An NDA is contract law, a civil tort is usually the result of violation. This guy is being charged under criminal law apparently. Criminal law is supposed to punish and discourage crimes against society, civil law's goal is to make the damaged party "whole" again.
It's worked for AP and Reuters for quite a while now.
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I went to a pretty large school. You might be able to figure out which one. Many classes were 100-500 students, and a lot of the ones that weren't were of the attitude "we have a lot of material to cover, so lets go as quickly as possible".
The message was generally that office hours were for discussion with the professor, and class was a time for the professor to show off how smart they were.
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as well as attend class.
Why? Why should you attend class if you don't need to?
Ill show up, and ill do what I want until the class is over.
Why? If college is really about learning, it shouldn't matter if you go to class or not, only that you learned the required material.
Lectures are obselete manifestation of a university system developed hundreds of years ago. They serve no modern purpose except ego-inflation of professors.
Something else. Like I stated before, who here actually USES the client-server capabilities of X?
All the fucking time man. There are a lot of less tech savvy people where I work that use it too, and have been using it since before I even knew how.
OpenSSH automatic X tunnelling means it "just works", and many many people take advantage of it. The only ones not using it are the ones that don't know about the feature.
I haven't ordered from them, but http://www.sciencelab.com/ looks pretty nice for ordering small amounts of selected reagents, and they don't look like they have any trouble selling to the general public.
How do you propose they get the whole image then, without spending half a million dollars or more on it?
The only way I can think of is to transplant the platters in a clean room to a controller that can be told to ignore read errors and also read all the spare sectors on each cylinder.
The thing is, it's usually enough. Only in very high stakes cases will forensics require anything more than a dd image, and a reconstruction of some parts of some deleted files. It's all about cost and benefit. The chances of something critical being in a spared sector are pretty slim, and if they can get what they need from a dd image, why bother?
Yeah, I agree with you. I hang out with an older guy on IRC that owned several pharmacies in his town in PA. He got robots in several years ago. All it does is count pills from hoppers, there is still a lot of human checks involved. All it lets him do is now have so many workers counting pills by hand all day.
Something other people have pointed out, pharmacists are usually pretty tech-savvy. This guy had unix machines in his pharmacies to communicate with the different branches across town 20 years ago.
He's sold out to CVS within the last year and retired now... oh well, score one for big corporations.
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You apparently haven't read the DMCA. If your ISP gets a DMCA complaint, to avoid liability, they must take your site down, until you respond to the complaint.
The anti-circumvention clause isn't the only part people don't like about the DMCA.
Windows doesn't support Serial ATA hot swap, and won't until they next version of windows is out. In other words, get out your wallet.
http://www.microsoft.com/hwdev/tech/storage/seri al ATA_FAQ.asp --- When does Microsoft plan to support true "hot plug" for Serial ATA devices? The Microsoft plan of record is to provide support in the next version of the Windows operating system. ---
Apparently, windows is so broken and lame, it can't even boot off serial ATA: When does Microsoft plan to support true booting from Serial ATA devices? If the Serial ATA working group releases, within an appropriate timeframe, a Serial ATA Host Controller Interface specification that outlines a uniform register set, Microsoft will examine supporting true booting from Serial ATA devices in the next version of the Windows operating system.
Serial ATA is somewhat analogous to switched ethernet, SCSI is analogous to old fashioned hubbed ethernet on coax. SCSI is a shared bus, SATA is a star.
You trolled the St. Charles Herald! Good job. You have graduated from lead Slashdot crapflooder to one of the top Internet trolls ever./me wipes a tear from his eye.
I wouldn't want a ticket showing up form my highway driving.
The question then is, "Why even have laws at all?". The police are charged with enforcing the law. Period. They aren't supposed to be de facto judge and jury though selective enforcement, no matter how many of them try to usurp that power. Law enforcement's goal, in theory, is 100% enforcement of the law.
Of course that raises practical problems, because everyone is a criminal. The laws in most places are written in such a way that anyone can be arrested at any time, because everyone is breaking some law. This is leveraged by governments constantly to supress people they don't like. The problem isn't really about privacy, it's about laws that make everyone arrestable. We need to fix the laws so that only real criminals can be arrested, not prevent enforcement.
Yeah, you're probably right. I mean, every accident I've been in, I knew immediately how I was injured, and the extent of it. I've also never been hit hard on the head during one though, which is probably why.. (I always wear my seatbelt), so I guess there is a sort of "It'll never happen to me" syndrome there, and it's probably best someone harass me for a while.
I just thought it was kinda comedically annoying the way the EMTs acted at the one major accident I have been in. My car wound up on a bank, my ankle was shattered. The passenger side was on the "uphill side". Now, the driver side door was hopelessly mangled, but the passenger side door was fine. Instead of just taking me out of the passenger side door, they spent like 20 minutes with the jaws of life and a crowbar cutting up the driver side door. Had I known they would do all that, I would have pulled myself out the other door before they showed up.
I can't bitch too much, everyone in our town is volunteer, which is commendable, and considering the "old people" population of our town, they really have their work cut out for them (no pun!).
. Another thing is that ALL motor vehicle accidents are considered "significant mechanism of injury"
So that's why an ambulance shows up at every tiny fender bender, and you have to tell the damn EMT 20 times that no one was hurt. I mean, it sounds like a good policy, but I've seen it taken too far.
(Was there a mix up of terms? I don't think there was.... Check again.)
Re: your other point... There are different degrees of everything. I don't feel like I am going to die if I don't smoke tobacco, but I'd say there is a definite chemical addiction there nonetheless. It's still my choice to smoke, no matter how addicted I am.
We need to be careful. Those of us who are strong believers in personal responsibility constantly look at all the people who use the name of "addiction" as a huge cop out, a way to blame anything but themselves for their actions, and we draw hard lines between intense physical addictions and other addictions, as a way to differentiate.
The lines aren't that clear to me. The mind and body are not seperate things. I don't think there is a conflict between this idea, and the idea of strong personal responsibility, even though many see the concepts as mutually exclusive, requiring a hard line between chemical and psychological addiction, in order to determine responsibility.
There is no *actual* physiological componant to the behaviour as there is with heroin.
Well, I better start this one out with a disclaimer. I am a firm believer in personal responsibility. It is the only real foundation of freedom, both within and without.
That said, I challenge the assertion that there is no psychiological addiction in non-drug addictions. Our mind and body are one thing, and to seperate the two concepts is impossible. If I smoke a joint which stimulates anandamide receptors in my brain, and I feel great, is that much different from playing an intense video game that causes my brain/body to release chemicals that stimulate those same receptors?
I argue that it is not. The key to all this is, addiction is addiction, and the only thing that can end it is a strong effort of will. It's not easy to retrain your brain to lower levels of stimulation, whether the higher levels came from a game that gave you some sort of psychological fulfillment, or from a chemical that gave you the same.
Another example... For those who drink or smoke up, or have ever done much drugs of any kind. Anyone can tell you that your mood has a lot to do with the enjoyment of any drug. The drug is merely a facilitator of happiness, not a cause of it. In the same way, these games only facilitate enjoyment or fulfillment for the people that seek what the games provide.
As to your conclusions, I am in total agreement. This has nothing to do with the game, and everything to do with the person. I only challenge the traditional idea that addiction can be so easily classified into neat "physical or phychological" categories.
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What do you call the Peeps that have dried out and become like rubber (or even rock hard) though?
Is there a name for that?
The OSX/Quark problem affects much more than "graphics enthusiasts" as they put it. Working at a prepress company as I do, it's a very real problem. I don't know why a "graphics enthusiast" would get Quark anyway, when I think of that I think of people like the Digital Blasphemy guy, not assembling postscript documents in Quark.
Yeah, but he is proposing making them from sapphire (alumina). At least you could use the discarded cans to make a really neat shed with clear walls that was nearly indestructible.
Sending e-mail should cost some token amount of money,
It's easy to throw such ideas around, but implementation becomes an issue of rights quickly. I guess you want to force everyone to use their ISP's mail server and pay their ISP the amount. Fine. You have to block outgoing port 25, which fucks over anyone running their own mail server. Spammers will just buy T1s and be their own "ISP", and sell a flat rate email sending fee to other spammers. (They already do that).
What about people like myself that maintain announcement lists for my web sites. That's something like 2000 emails each time I send an update. It's all completely opt-in, and has a real return address, from which I personally handle unsubscribe requests from the people that can't figure out how to use the web site to unsubscribe. It's nothing like spam.
What about all the thousands of other email lists. The owners of the linux kernel mailing list would have to pay thousands a month in your email fees, even if it was only a couple cents an email.
Anyway, everytime someone comes up with these "change the infrastructure" silver bullet solutions to spam, they are always half-baked.
http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/RANCHO/CRASH/JFK _JR/upi.html
According to this, visibility was 8 miles. He was a VFR rated pilot in VFR conditions. I could understand him saying that a VFR pilot that ran into IFR might have a better chance with this system, but you are right, he is full of shit, if a pilot is getting fixated on a single indicator in VFR conditions, he's got bigger problems.
Which begets the question: is the a legal recourse for punishing those who publish confidential documents, but never did sign a confidentiality agreement in order to get them?
Well, yes. Don't mix up two different things. An NDA is contract law, a civil tort is usually the result of violation. This guy is being charged under criminal law apparently. Criminal law is supposed to punish and discourage crimes against society, civil law's goal is to make the damaged party "whole" again.
It's worked for AP and Reuters for quite a while now.
I went to a pretty large school. You might be able to figure out which one. Many classes were 100-500 students, and a lot of the ones that weren't were of the attitude "we have a lot of material to cover, so lets go as quickly as possible".
The message was generally that office hours were for discussion with the professor, and class was a time for the professor to show off how smart they were.
as well as attend class.
Why? Why should you attend class if you don't need to?
Ill show up, and ill do what I want until the class is over.
Why? If college is really about learning, it shouldn't matter if you go to class or not, only that you learned the required material.
Lectures are obselete manifestation of a university system developed hundreds of years ago. They serve no modern purpose except ego-inflation of professors.
yEnc - http://www.yenc.org/
Heh.
"The efficient and CRC protected binary encoding for Usenet messages - public domain - now widely accepted"
The "now widely accepted" part is in red. I guess they think if they say it enough it will become true.
Something else. Like I stated before, who here actually USES the client-server capabilities of X?
All the fucking time man. There are a lot of less tech savvy people where I work that use it too, and have been using it since before I even knew how.
OpenSSH automatic X tunnelling means it "just works", and many many people take advantage of it. The only ones not using it are the ones that don't know about the feature.
I haven't ordered from them, but http://www.sciencelab.com/ looks pretty nice for ordering small amounts of selected reagents, and they don't look like they have any trouble selling to the general public.
How do you propose they get the whole image then, without spending half a million dollars or more on it?
The only way I can think of is to transplant the platters in a clean room to a controller that can be told to ignore read errors and also read all the spare sectors on each cylinder.
The thing is, it's usually enough. Only in very high stakes cases will forensics require anything more than a dd image, and a reconstruction of some parts of some deleted files. It's all about cost and benefit. The chances of something critical being in a spared sector are pretty slim, and if they can get what they need from a dd image, why bother?
Yeah, I agree with you. I hang out with an older guy on IRC that owned several pharmacies in his town in PA. He got robots in several years ago. All it does is count pills from hoppers, there is still a lot of human checks involved. All it lets him do is now have so many workers counting pills by hand all day.
Something other people have pointed out, pharmacists are usually pretty tech-savvy. This guy had unix machines in his pharmacies to communicate with the different branches across town 20 years ago.
He's sold out to CVS within the last year and retired now... oh well, score one for big corporations.
You apparently haven't read the DMCA. If your ISP gets a DMCA complaint, to avoid liability, they must take your site down, until you respond to the complaint.
The anti-circumvention clause isn't the only part people don't like about the DMCA.
You ever try to fly 40km up using a propeller?
Hint: Not much air up there for such things.
Windows doesn't support Serial ATA hot swap, and won't until they next version of windows is out. In other words, get out your wallet.
i al ATA_FAQ.asp
http://www.microsoft.com/hwdev/tech/storage/ser
---
When does Microsoft plan to support true "hot plug" for Serial ATA devices?
The Microsoft plan of record is to provide support in the next version of the Windows operating system.
---
Apparently, windows is so broken and lame, it can't even boot off serial ATA:
When does Microsoft plan to support true booting from Serial ATA devices?
If the Serial ATA working group releases, within an appropriate timeframe, a Serial ATA Host Controller Interface specification that outlines a uniform register set, Microsoft will examine supporting true booting from Serial ATA devices in the next version of the Windows operating system.
Serial ATA is somewhat analogous to switched ethernet, SCSI is analogous to old fashioned hubbed ethernet on coax. SCSI is a shared bus, SATA is a star.
Heh
/me wipes a tear from his eye.
You trolled the St. Charles Herald! Good job. You have graduated from lead Slashdot crapflooder to one of the top Internet trolls ever.
I wouldn't want a ticket showing up form my highway driving.
The question then is, "Why even have laws at all?". The police are charged with enforcing the law. Period. They aren't supposed to be de facto judge and jury though selective enforcement, no matter how many of them try to usurp that power. Law enforcement's goal, in theory, is 100% enforcement of the law.
Of course that raises practical problems, because everyone is a criminal. The laws in most places are written in such a way that anyone can be arrested at any time, because everyone is breaking some law. This is leveraged by governments constantly to supress people they don't like. The problem isn't really about privacy, it's about laws that make everyone arrestable. We need to fix the laws so that only real criminals can be arrested, not prevent enforcement.
Yeah, you're probably right. I mean, every accident I've been in, I knew immediately how I was injured, and the extent of it. I've also never been hit hard on the head during one though, which is probably why.. (I always wear my seatbelt), so I guess there is a sort of "It'll never happen to me" syndrome there, and it's probably best someone harass me for a while.
I just thought it was kinda comedically annoying the way the EMTs acted at the one major accident I have been in. My car wound up on a bank, my ankle was shattered. The passenger side was on the "uphill side". Now, the driver side door was hopelessly mangled, but the passenger side door was fine. Instead of just taking me out of the passenger side door, they spent like 20 minutes with the jaws of life and a crowbar cutting up the driver side door. Had I known they would do all that, I would have pulled myself out the other door before they showed up.
I can't bitch too much, everyone in our town is volunteer, which is commendable, and considering the "old people" population of our town, they really have their work cut out for them (no pun!).
. Another thing is that ALL motor vehicle accidents are considered "significant mechanism of injury"
So that's why an ambulance shows up at every tiny fender bender, and you have to tell the damn EMT 20 times that no one was hurt. I mean, it sounds like a good policy, but I've seen it taken too far.
(Was there a mix up of terms? I don't think there was.... Check again.)
Re: your other point...
There are different degrees of everything. I don't feel like I am going to die if I don't smoke tobacco, but I'd say there is a definite chemical addiction there nonetheless. It's still my choice to smoke, no matter how addicted I am.
We need to be careful. Those of us who are strong believers in personal responsibility constantly look at all the people who use the name of "addiction" as a huge cop out, a way to blame anything but themselves for their actions, and we draw hard lines between intense physical addictions and other addictions, as a way to differentiate.
The lines aren't that clear to me. The mind and body are not seperate things. I don't think there is a conflict between this idea, and the idea of strong personal responsibility, even though many see the concepts as mutually exclusive, requiring a hard line between chemical and psychological addiction, in order to determine responsibility.
There is no *actual* physiological componant to the behaviour as there is with heroin.
Well, I better start this one out with a disclaimer. I am a firm believer in personal responsibility. It is the only real foundation of freedom, both within and without.
That said, I challenge the assertion that there is no psychiological addiction in non-drug addictions. Our mind and body are one thing, and to seperate the two concepts is impossible. If I smoke a joint which stimulates anandamide receptors in my brain, and I feel great, is that much different from playing an intense video game that causes my brain/body to release chemicals that stimulate those same receptors?
I argue that it is not. The key to all this is, addiction is addiction, and the only thing that can end it is a strong effort of will. It's not easy to retrain your brain to lower levels of stimulation, whether the higher levels came from a game that gave you some sort of psychological fulfillment, or from a chemical that gave you the same.
Another example... For those who drink or smoke up, or have ever done much drugs of any kind. Anyone can tell you that your mood has a lot to do with the enjoyment of any drug. The drug is merely a facilitator of happiness, not a cause of it. In the same way, these games only facilitate enjoyment or fulfillment for the people that seek what the games provide.
As to your conclusions, I am in total agreement. This has nothing to do with the game, and everything to do with the person. I only challenge the traditional idea that addiction can be so easily classified into neat "physical or phychological" categories.