Or maybe it's because at least some americans realize that tools don't hurt people, people hurt people.
For the hobbiest that wants to get higher power lasers, and the business that needs them, you are just creating unnecessary headaches due to the irresponsible actions of a very few people.
You show me a place on earth that will be the same 200,000 years from now, with no earthquakes, floods, glaciers, vandals, or any other unforseen event... and I'll accept "Accelerated weathering" as a valid answer.
It was just a joke, because the organizers named it "big C", and idiots that they seem to be, they don't realize that is a programming language, and thus a confusing name for a programming contest.
You still don't get it, there's no way to predict anything will be anything 200,000 years from now.
200,000 years ago, the crude stone axe was a huge invention. Humans, if you can call them that, were just emerging, branching into Homo Neanderthal and Homo Sapiens.
So tell me again how you can predict what anything will be doing 200,000 years from now?
I don't think it was so much the dot bomb, but that people had already downloaded all the MP3s they wanted, or at least had a disk big enough to do so in the forseeable future.
20-100GB is enough for most people's MP3 collection, and I think that is really what drove that boom in hard disk size increases we saw from 1996-2001.
MP3 really was the killer app driving hard disk sales during that period. During the couple years before that, they were driven by people wanting to run Windows 95, maybe with an online service, and realizing their hard disk was really too small for windows and/or the other shareware crap they wanted to download.
Really the software is what is driving the hardware, when it comes to something like memory and hard disk capacities. Stuff like CPU speed is something you can never get enough of, but hard disk and memory are the kind of thing that, if you have enough, you have enough.
Bah, its simple. They just need to encase the waste in nickle, bury it 100 feet underground, or maybe just dump it in an old missle silo. Then keep records in the computer so they don't loose track of it.
The people soley responsible for it is the government. If they have to, they could pass an amenment to the charter of the DOE to take care of it. The heirarchy of government would probly ensure accountability. Its rediculus to think that no one has thought of this before.
Of course, all these plans have a kernal of validity to them, but most of them are just BS that the CEO of these companies can talk about at some speach to investors.
Thank $diety that those people usually don't get much political power.;)
Adobe has traditionally understood the value of releasing full file specifications under a non-restrictive license, as they have done with PDF and PS.
They have no motivation to make this standard proprietary, if they did that, digital camera makers wouldn't use it! All signs point to them making this one completely open.
Or maybe the virus has an unforseen effect. Like enabling a service. Your virus scanner sure as hell won't disable the service, since it has no idea whether you wanted it on or not.
That's just one example. Removal tools and virus scanners are limited in what they can do. The virus with administrator access could have done *anything* to your system.
The only way around this is a checksum database of every system file on your system, that you keep on media outside the system, and update whenever authorized changes happen. Then you could finally start to make comparisions that are meaningful as to how much your system has been affected by the compromise. Without such a database, there's no way to know anything about your system. This may sound like some hard task, but it really isn't. Tripwire makes it pretty easy.
It's a far cry from having thousands of potential undocumented changes to your system, to the slim (none, basically) risk of compromised read-only install media.
You are right, it's a calculated risk, it's just that you can't calculate anything when there are thousands of unknowns.
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It could work, imagine a system where it blocked out the outside when it was on, but on power failure went clear.
Sorta like one of those automatic welding hoods, that goes dark when it sees the arc.
Or maybe it's because at least some americans realize that tools don't hurt people, people hurt people.
For the hobbiest that wants to get higher power lasers, and the business that needs them, you are just creating unnecessary headaches due to the irresponsible actions of a very few people.
Who is "we" and why are you trying to "fix" this?!?!
Upskirt sites all over the net will be censored!
So this "game" is to exercise those skills gained from years of hidden goatse.cx link posting, and to trick people into going to their ad-filled site.
:)
At least if people have an outlet, maybe they won't post so many hidden goatse links.
Why depressing? Are you also depressed that the NBA is full of black people?
Heh, I typed "it's" at first, but then I realized it would look out of place to not also make that very common mistake. :)
You show me a place on earth that will be the same 200,000 years from now, with no earthquakes, floods, glaciers, vandals, or any other unforseen event... and I'll accept "Accelerated weathering" as a valid answer.
It was just a joke, because the organizers named it "big C", and idiots that they seem to be, they don't realize that is a programming language, and thus a confusing name for a programming contest.
Sigh.
You still don't get it, there's no way to predict anything will be anything 200,000 years from now.
200,000 years ago, the crude stone axe was a huge invention. Humans, if you can call them that, were just emerging, branching into Homo Neanderthal and Homo Sapiens.
So tell me again how you can predict what anything will be doing 200,000 years from now?
I don't think it was so much the dot bomb, but that people had already downloaded all the MP3s they wanted, or at least had a disk big enough to do so in the forseeable future.
20-100GB is enough for most people's MP3 collection, and I think that is really what drove that boom in hard disk size increases we saw from 1996-2001.
MP3 really was the killer app driving hard disk sales during that period. During the couple years before that, they were driven by people wanting to run Windows 95, maybe with an online service, and realizing their hard disk was really too small for windows and/or the other shareware crap they wanted to download.
Really the software is what is driving the hardware, when it comes to something like memory and hard disk capacities. Stuff like CPU speed is something you can never get enough of, but hard disk and memory are the kind of thing that, if you have enough, you have enough.
Who writes games in C anymore?
You'd think they could have picked a better language.
God, isn't it obvious?
Do you see any way to experimentally back up their claims of 200,000 years longevity? "Accelerated weathering" isn't a valid answer.
The burdon of proof is on the person making the extreme claim, not on the person who doubts it.
Bah, its simple. They just need to encase the waste in nickle, bury it 100 feet underground, or maybe just dump it in an old missle silo. Then keep records in the computer so they don't loose track of it.
;)
The people soley responsible for it is the government. If they have to, they could pass an amenment to the charter of the DOE to take care of it. The heirarchy of government would probly ensure accountability. Its rediculus to think that no one has thought of this before.
Of course, all these plans have a kernal of validity to them, but most of them are just BS that the CEO of these companies can talk about at some speach to investors.
Thank $diety that those people usually don't get much political power.
We don't know that it will be proprietary.
Adobe has traditionally understood the value of releasing full file specifications under a non-restrictive license, as they have done with PDF and PS.
They have no motivation to make this standard proprietary, if they did that, digital camera makers wouldn't use it! All signs point to them making this one completely open.
What's wrong with TIFF?
It's lossless, high end cameras already support it, and it's the gold standard for lossless transfer of bitmap data already.
So why make something new when TIFF does the job?
Or maybe the virus has an unforseen effect. Like enabling a service. Your virus scanner sure as hell won't disable the service, since it has no idea whether you wanted it on or not.
That's just one example. Removal tools and virus scanners are limited in what they can do. The virus with administrator access could have done *anything* to your system.
The only way around this is a checksum database of every system file on your system, that you keep on media outside the system, and update whenever authorized changes happen. Then you could finally start to make comparisions that are meaningful as to how much your system has been affected by the compromise. Without such a database, there's no way to know anything about your system. This may sound like some hard task, but it really isn't. Tripwire makes it pretty easy.
It's a far cry from having thousands of potential undocumented changes to your system, to the slim (none, basically) risk of compromised read-only install media.
You are right, it's a calculated risk, it's just that you can't calculate anything when there are thousands of unknowns.
I'm not saying the idea is good, only that his example wasn't the best way to illustrate things.
The "related" search isn't what you should be looking at.
Try this.
The latest 2.0 kernel was released 2004-02-08, the latest 2.2 kernel was 2004-02-25.
You really shouldn't be so arrogant about things you probably spent all of 5 seconds considering.
I was making fun of the arrogance in the original post.
And to your method, how can you know for sure which backup image was a completely clean one?
Without a tripwire sort of baseline to a clean install with all the same patches, it's really hard to verify integrity.
The only way to be sure is to reinstall from trusted, read-only media.
This isn't some LAN Party box, these are machines with access to millions of people's private data. It's not enough to be "pretty sure".
I feel sorry for the company you work for, it sounds like they need to hire someone that knows what they are doing.
If a security problem was found in the 2.0/2.2 kernel, it would be patched. That's how it's different.
What makes you think I am a social conservative?
I'm a Libertarian. I support gay marriage.
Think about it, you could in theory use any library with the exact same interface, not only the GPL one.
It seems to me to be a weak case to say that distributing something that dynamically links something GPL becomes an aggregate work.
Yes, because everyone knows it's the government's job to protect people from themselves.
Do me a favor, don't vote.