You need to pass a test, but the test is usually a joke. As far as the 'buy' the license thing goes, unless you're illegally acquiring one you don't buy it. You pay a small processing fee of a few dollars. It sounds like anti-US embellishment trying to make it sound like the rich-get-to-drive-while-the-poor-can't-afford-to-b uy-a-license or something.
In short, pretty much anyone can get a license. Money is only a barrier when you shouldn't have a license in the first place (e.g., you can't pass the test:)).
I would start with implementing simple, obvious regulations on commercial transport (TRUCKS) before spending money on roads and signs.
Obviously that's not going to happen, because god forbid we cost our domestic manufacturers money to buy lights to put on the sides of trucks or lower rear bumpers so people aren't decapitated when they run into a truck. We'll just keep blaming the mexicans and using highway truck deaths as an excuse to place restrictions on mexican imports, thank you very much.
Of course, if sustained for too long, death can result, but for that you need a momentary force of around 90-100 G's
Bwahaha! 90-100 G's would smash you into oblivion. A momentary force of about 15 vertical G's is enough to snap your spine. It takes about 45 horizontal G's to injure someone.
Once again Pascal is the superior language.. there is no fallthrough in the case statement (removing the possibility of intentional ambiguity or the above situation) and you can use set notation in specifying the different cases, to make up for the lack of ability to specify multiple values to correspond to the same statement.
Example:
case ch of
'A': WriteLN('Choice capital A');
'B'..'Z', 'a'..'z': WriteLN('Another letter');
else WriteLN('default case');
end;
Of course Object Pascal offers the efficiency of C/C++ and the readability of BASIC without the ridiculous inefficiency and kludged constructs of Visual Basic.
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Maybe we nuke ourselves out of existence before we get it working.
The inspiration for working on time travel came from his secret desire to go back in time and warn his father to quit smoking, as his father died when he was 10 years old.
So say he builds his time machine, goes back in time, and saves his father. Now he did that in a "parallel universe" (according to the article), and so now in this universe he doesn't invent time travel because his father is alive.
In conclusion: this man will not invent time travel, because if he does, it must only happen in a parallel universe.
I don't think this is at all funny. Clearly this guy has some serious psychiatric problems and I'm sure this situation has just exacerbated his condition.
What if this guy were retarded? Would this still be a front page story? Would you all still be laughing at it, even though anyone could point out, "Look, guys, he's retarded, it's not like he knows what he's doing."
You better hope your IT director doesn't read slashdot, rjohnson. Maybe you should have made a up a more obscure name. Or maybe rjohnson isn't really your name.
Some people are extremely "careful" with money and would rarely spend money on themselves. If they received cash it would just disappear into a bank account or groceries. They would get no pleasure out of it. For these people, gift certificates to a place that sells "fun" things hold an added value.
Of course, other people have the opposite problem, so it's all the same to them.
Ok, I have tried this myself, specifying exe as video/mpeg in Apache mime-types, and my results agree with yours.
In addition, this is how IE determines MIME types. It does not completely ignore the supplied Content-Type, but it might as well be. Primarily, it is exmanining the first 256 bytes of the file to determine if it is a known type. So unless you can disguise an executable with an mpeg header or something, you're not going to be able to get native code to automatically run without a prompt.
Basically, the first 256 bytes of the file are scanned, and compared with the Content-Type header. If the two results do not agree, the scanned type is used. If the scanned type is ambiguous, and the file is binary, then the user is prompted to save or execute the file. If the file is text, it is displayed.
Now, can someone explain what is wrong with these instructions that would cause executable content to be automatically executed? The text even gives an example of a file extension of.DLL and.BAT, and how those would be handled.
Your first point is not normal behavior. The exe file should have displayed (garbage) in your browser window.
Secondly, the text/html content-type is not executed, it is rendered in the browser. You would need to set the content-type to something automatically run by an external viewer, like video/mpeg.
Then the browser will say, "Ok, this is a video file, better ShellExecute() it", then the Shell API will look at the extension,.EXE, and run the file as a standalone executable.
Anyways, I haven't tried it yet for myself, but that's the impression I'm under as to how it would work. It might be trickier than this, or only work with specific set ups and content-types.
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...for sufficiently large values of $1.
In short, pretty much anyone can get a license. Money is only a barrier when you shouldn't have a license in the first place (e.g., you can't pass the test :)).
Obviously that's not going to happen, because god forbid we cost our domestic manufacturers money to buy lights to put on the sides of trucks or lower rear bumpers so people aren't decapitated when they run into a truck. We'll just keep blaming the mexicans and using highway truck deaths as an excuse to place restrictions on mexican imports, thank you very much.
Bwahaha! 90-100 G's would smash you into oblivion. A momentary force of about 15 vertical G's is enough to snap your spine. It takes about 45 horizontal G's to injure someone.
Shouldn't this be a slashback?
This sounds a lot like Ed Fredkin's Digital Mechanics theories. Which isn't surpising, considering that Wolfram and Fredkin used to work together.
Example:
case ch of
'A': WriteLN('Choice capital A');
'B'..'Z', 'a'..'z': WriteLN('Another letter');
else WriteLN('default case');
end;
Of course Object Pascal offers the efficiency of C/C++ and the readability of BASIC without the ridiculous inefficiency and kludged constructs of Visual Basic.
Maybe we nuke ourselves out of existence before we get it working.
So say he builds his time machine, goes back in time, and saves his father. Now he did that in a "parallel universe" (according to the article), and so now in this universe he doesn't invent time travel because his father is alive.
In conclusion: this man will not invent time travel, because if he does, it must only happen in a parallel universe.
By which you mean 19th.
I thought Slashdot said ATI and NVIDIA were merging? What happened to that? :)
Pay them more than $13.75 an hour. That's what I get. Maybe I'm no Einstein but that's still pretty shitty.
I've been meaning to download some Celine Dion MP3s.
What if this guy were retarded? Would this still be a front page story? Would you all still be laughing at it, even though anyone could point out, "Look, guys, he's retarded, it's not like he knows what he's doing."
Besides, I'd bet Jeremiah Johnson's native language is English.
..think that this guy is a complete assclown?
That is fucking stupid.
You better hope your IT director doesn't read slashdot, rjohnson. Maybe you should have made a up a more obscure name. Or maybe rjohnson isn't really your name.
Of course, other people have the opposite problem, so it's all the same to them.
In addition, this is how IE determines MIME types. It does not completely ignore the supplied Content-Type, but it might as well be. Primarily, it is exmanining the first 256 bytes of the file to determine if it is a known type. So unless you can disguise an executable with an mpeg header or something, you're not going to be able to get native code to automatically run without a prompt.
Basically, the first 256 bytes of the file are scanned, and compared with the Content-Type header. If the two results do not agree, the scanned type is used. If the scanned type is ambiguous, and the file is binary, then the user is prompted to save or execute the file. If the file is text, it is displayed.
Now, can someone explain what is wrong with these instructions that would cause executable content to be automatically executed? The text even gives an example of a file extension of .DLL and .BAT, and how those would be handled.
The way the article was worded, web sites and emails could just automatically start executing native code.
Secondly, the text/html content-type is not executed, it is rendered in the browser. You would need to set the content-type to something automatically run by an external viewer, like video/mpeg.
Then the browser will say, "Ok, this is a video file, better ShellExecute() it", then the Shell API will look at the extension, .EXE, and run the file as a standalone executable.
Anyways, I haven't tried it yet for myself, but that's the impression I'm under as to how it would work. It might be trickier than this, or only work with specific set ups and content-types.
Why were you running your microwave for 20 minutes?
..With the door open?