You are basically giving the person a list of software. This is a stupid idea for a gift. A gift needs time and thought. If you want to give free software as a gift, then why not arrange a time with the recipient to meet with them and install it for them, then show them how to work it.
Better than giving them a flash drive with a bunch of things that they will probably delete before using the drive to store mp3s.
It technically does still have an MBR called the Protective Master Boot Record or Protective MBR. This is part of the GUID Parition Table (GPT) standard. This data resides at Logical Block Address 0. So, your statement that "it doesn't exist is false." However, I believe that you are right, that he did not compromise UEFI. The article was not very clear, but he may be saying that he has been able to infect the PMBR of a GPT disk that boots from BIOS. That would make sense to me.
Also, before you decide to flame me for saying that you are incorrect, please read the spec. I know it is behind a form, but you can also read about it on wikipedia.
Everyone who is saying that young African Americans don't use computers and that's why they don't end up being entrepreneurs is crazy. Some of the best hackers ever were black or latino and grew up in NYC. I think everyone has forgotten the Masters of Deception (MOD): Phiber Optik is latino, Corrupt was African American, and Outlaw was latino.
Just because a person has a Russian last name does not make them an oligarch. According to wikipedia: "Born in the Soviet Union, he attended University in Moscow. He emigrated with his family from Russia to the U.S. in 1978, and received a masters in computer science from Columbia University and an MBA degree from Harvard Business School in 1989. In the West, he is known as Len Blavatnik."
That is hardly the profile of an oligarch. Sounds more like an American who made it big. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_oligarch).
I have to say that if you enter FreeBSD from an ignorant perspective (= didn't read the Handbook) then you will get pretty terse answers on the freebsd-questions mailing list, bordering on condescending. This is because it is expected to RTFM. However, if you do basic community support due dilligence (read the Handbook, and if your answer is not there, search the mailing lists), and then post your question to one of their mailing lists (must be the appropriate list), you will get your question answered quickly and by extremely knowledgeable people. Often you will have your question answered by the committer who either wrote or is currently maintaining the part of the OS that you are asking about. Bugs in the core OS get addressed fairly quickly, and they are good about triage. I can't say the same about *buntus, KDE, Libre, and many other free software projects. In many cases it seems like you are reporting a bug to an empty room when it comes to other software projects, especially *buntu.
I beg to differ about your order of who is second and first. Building linux from scratch is first, and second place must go to Slackware. Gentoo's portage actually thinks about package conflicts and dependencies. Slackware, you have lots of well built tarballs and your wits.
I don't think you understand upstream projects well enough. Even if the community does become so annoyed with Unity that they use something else, upstream projects will never ignore bug reports because they come from Ubuntu users. Take libreoffice or postgresql as two cases in point. Do you actually think that developers in those projects will reject or ignore a bug report based on the distro that you are using? If so, it shows that you are not a developer, and that you don't have a very good grasp on the way that free software is developed.
As the dude said when the intruders picked up his bowling ball and asked what it was: "Obviously, you're not a golfer."
Can you please explain to me how changes in gene expression in a somatic cell line such as blood cells (as in this study) can be inherited? Germ line cells separate from somatic cells during the third week after fertilization. Show me any human on Earth ever that developed from a blood cell + anything else. For that matter show me a gamete that began as a blood cell.
If the DNA was extracted from somatic cells, as the article states (blood), then it cannot show whether there is a heritable effect (passes on to next generation, for you non-biologists). As the article states: "the study did not show whether these changes might be passed on to offspring. Period. You don't need to incorrectly editorialize with the "but if so". There is no need for a non-biologist to make Lamarckian speculation. If the study was on germ line cells in adults that showed methylation, AND it looked at embryonic DNA methylation of that adult's offspring etc etc... maybe then we can start talking Lamarck. Even then, there is no need to throw out heart disease etc, because it is far far from clear what DNA methylation even controls as far as traits.
Wow, you just used the Cultural Differences argument as if it is the only possibility in ethics. The Cultural Differences argument and Cultural Relativity in general is based on flawed logic. And besides that, there are other alternative philosophical theories. One is that the perception of morality is different for different people, but that the truth of morality is set in stone like the other constants that govern physics and chemistry. There are other philosophical arguments as well. But if you are going to use one, at least don't make it sound like its a fact of life or something when it is not.
Do you think that crack dealers smoke their own crack? Do heroin dealers shoot heroin? The answer is the successful ones never do.
Computers are a distraction. If you have a good teacher who can engage you and get you to learn, why distract from that?
To quote The Notorious B.I.G.:
"Number four: know you heard this before
Never get high on your own supply
Number five: never sell no crack where you rest at
I don't care if they want a ounce, tell em bounce"
How about the plaintiff pays all the legal fees until they win? If they win, the defendant pays everything. If they lose, they are stuck with the whole bill for their own case, plus everything for the defendant.
Think outside the box (literally). The tab can just be flipped upside down. Just a cosmetic change, and make the other tabs look like they are being partially covered by the foreground tab as it is now. The wide bottom edge of the tab would become the wide top, and the narrow bottom would be connected visually to the page you are viewing.
Anyway, saying something is non-trivial does not change the argument of it being free software and the user being free to change it as she sees fit.
So what? This is non-news. Chromium is open source. Chrome is a closed source build of Chromium. Google can do anything it wants with Chrome, and I see no problem with that. If you want to have tabs below the location bar, great! Write a patch to Chromium, or quit whining. The point of free software is that the user is free to change the software in any way that she sees fit.
I don't think that sounds like a bad idea. However, how would you get that paid for? At the other end of the spectrum, you can't easily fix IP laws because politicians are incapable of "fixing" laws. All you get is a worse mess than before the politicians got involved.
The only explanation for this is that those drone pilots were surfing porn in another window while their drones were on their way to and on the way back from bombing runs. Everyone knows that if you don't look at porn on your computer, you'll never get viruses or malware.
Surely you jest? Getting amanda to encrypt your backups. Is just a matter of reading some howto files on amanda's website. And, just peeking over at bacula's website, I can see that they have a similar sort of setup. I don't use bacula, but I'm sure it is a matter of following the directions just like with amanda. It is not clear how anyone can consider encrypting backup tapes as a difficult process. For that matter, with TrueCrypt, OpenSSL, GnuPG, FreeBSD's geli, and linux's dm-crypt encryption in general has become easy and accessible. Add to that the hardware acceleration built into most new systems or just pure computational power of modern processors and organizations are remiss for not using encryption at nearly every turn. If you don't, you should lose your job.
What is the technical reason or reasons why you cannot hibernate one OS (suspend it to disk), then restore another previously hibernating OS? Couldn't you have a number of OSs ready to run simply constrained by disk space?
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You are basically giving the person a list of software. This is a stupid idea for a gift. A gift needs time and thought. If you want to give free software as a gift, then why not arrange a time with the recipient to meet with them and install it for them, then show them how to work it.
Better than giving them a flash drive with a bunch of things that they will probably delete before using the drive to store mp3s.
Exactly. People assume if you have a Russian last name and you're rich, that you are an Oligarch. Is Sergei Brin an Oligarch? No.
It technically does still have an MBR called the Protective Master Boot Record or Protective MBR. This is part of the GUID Parition Table (GPT) standard. This data resides at Logical Block Address 0. So, your statement that "it doesn't exist is false." However, I believe that you are right, that he did not compromise UEFI. The article was not very clear, but he may be saying that he has been able to infect the PMBR of a GPT disk that boots from BIOS. That would make sense to me.
Also, before you decide to flame me for saying that you are incorrect, please read the spec. I know it is behind a form, but you can also read about it on wikipedia.
Everyone who is saying that young African Americans don't use computers and that's why they don't end up being entrepreneurs is crazy. Some of the best hackers ever were black or latino and grew up in NYC. I think everyone has forgotten the Masters of Deception (MOD): Phiber Optik is latino, Corrupt was African American, and Outlaw was latino.
They just didn't end up as execs.
Just because a person has a Russian last name does not make them an oligarch. According to wikipedia: "Born in the Soviet Union, he attended University in Moscow. He emigrated with his family from Russia to the U.S. in 1978, and received a masters in computer science from Columbia University and an MBA degree from Harvard Business School in 1989. In the West, he is known as Len Blavatnik."
That is hardly the profile of an oligarch. Sounds more like an American who made it big. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_oligarch).
I have to say that if you enter FreeBSD from an ignorant perspective (= didn't read the Handbook) then you will get pretty terse answers on the freebsd-questions mailing list, bordering on condescending. This is because it is expected to RTFM. However, if you do basic community support due dilligence (read the Handbook, and if your answer is not there, search the mailing lists), and then post your question to one of their mailing lists (must be the appropriate list), you will get your question answered quickly and by extremely knowledgeable people. Often you will have your question answered by the committer who either wrote or is currently maintaining the part of the OS that you are asking about. Bugs in the core OS get addressed fairly quickly, and they are good about triage. I can't say the same about *buntus, KDE, Libre, and many other free software projects. In many cases it seems like you are reporting a bug to an empty room when it comes to other software projects, especially *buntu.
I beg to differ about your order of who is second and first. Building linux from scratch is first, and second place must go to Slackware. Gentoo's portage actually thinks about package conflicts and dependencies. Slackware, you have lots of well built tarballs and your wits.
Handwritten I hope. Or at least you have a printer that you know does not keep any of that plain text around in its memory.
I don't think you understand upstream projects well enough. Even if the community does become so annoyed with Unity that they use something else, upstream projects will never ignore bug reports because they come from Ubuntu users. Take libreoffice or postgresql as two cases in point. Do you actually think that developers in those projects will reject or ignore a bug report based on the distro that you are using? If so, it shows that you are not a developer, and that you don't have a very good grasp on the way that free software is developed.
As the dude said when the intruders picked up his bowling ball and asked what it was: "Obviously, you're not a golfer."
Can you please explain to me how changes in gene expression in a somatic cell line such as blood cells (as in this study) can be inherited? Germ line cells separate from somatic cells during the third week after fertilization. Show me any human on Earth ever that developed from a blood cell + anything else. For that matter show me a gamete that began as a blood cell.
If the DNA was extracted from somatic cells, as the article states (blood), then it cannot show whether there is a heritable effect (passes on to next generation, for you non-biologists). As the article states: "the study did not show whether these changes might be passed on to offspring. Period. You don't need to incorrectly editorialize with the "but if so". There is no need for a non-biologist to make Lamarckian speculation. If the study was on germ line cells in adults that showed methylation, AND it looked at embryonic DNA methylation of that adult's offspring etc etc... maybe then we can start talking Lamarck. Even then, there is no need to throw out heart disease etc, because it is far far from clear what DNA methylation even controls as far as traits.
Wow, you just used the Cultural Differences argument as if it is the only possibility in ethics. The Cultural Differences argument and Cultural Relativity in general is based on flawed logic. And besides that, there are other alternative philosophical theories. One is that the perception of morality is different for different people, but that the truth of morality is set in stone like the other constants that govern physics and chemistry. There are other philosophical arguments as well. But if you are going to use one, at least don't make it sound like its a fact of life or something when it is not.
Do you think that crack dealers smoke their own crack? Do heroin dealers shoot heroin? The answer is the successful ones never do. Computers are a distraction. If you have a good teacher who can engage you and get you to learn, why distract from that? To quote The Notorious B.I.G.: "Number four: know you heard this before Never get high on your own supply Number five: never sell no crack where you rest at I don't care if they want a ounce, tell em bounce"
So, is everyone going to start suing wikipedia next for revealing their date of birth among other information?
That's going to stop someone else from hiding their phone on your desk?
How about the plaintiff pays all the legal fees until they win? If they win, the defendant pays everything. If they lose, they are stuck with the whole bill for their own case, plus everything for the defendant.
Think outside the box (literally). The tab can just be flipped upside down. Just a cosmetic change, and make the other tabs look like they are being partially covered by the foreground tab as it is now. The wide bottom edge of the tab would become the wide top, and the narrow bottom would be connected visually to the page you are viewing.
Anyway, saying something is non-trivial does not change the argument of it being free software and the user being free to change it as she sees fit.
So what? This is non-news. Chromium is open source. Chrome is a closed source build of Chromium. Google can do anything it wants with Chrome, and I see no problem with that. If you want to have tabs below the location bar, great! Write a patch to Chromium, or quit whining. The point of free software is that the user is free to change the software in any way that she sees fit.
I don't think that sounds like a bad idea. However, how would you get that paid for? At the other end of the spectrum, you can't easily fix IP laws because politicians are incapable of "fixing" laws. All you get is a worse mess than before the politicians got involved.
Google's speech to text capabilities are essentially trash.
The only explanation for this is that those drone pilots were surfing porn in another window while their drones were on their way to and on the way back from bombing runs. Everyone knows that if you don't look at porn on your computer, you'll never get viruses or malware.
Surely you jest? Getting amanda to encrypt your backups. Is just a matter of reading some howto files on amanda's website. And, just peeking over at bacula's website, I can see that they have a similar sort of setup. I don't use bacula, but I'm sure it is a matter of following the directions just like with amanda. It is not clear how anyone can consider encrypting backup tapes as a difficult process. For that matter, with TrueCrypt, OpenSSL, GnuPG, FreeBSD's geli, and linux's dm-crypt encryption in general has become easy and accessible. Add to that the hardware acceleration built into most new systems or just pure computational power of modern processors and organizations are remiss for not using encryption at nearly every turn. If you don't, you should lose your job.
What is the technical reason or reasons why you cannot hibernate one OS (suspend it to disk), then restore another previously hibernating OS? Couldn't you have a number of OSs ready to run simply constrained by disk space?