So we should abandon the court system and just kill everyone accused of a terrible crime, then place their head on a pike in the town square? Better yet, maybe we should just keep them in prison, but make them be handcuffed all the time, so it is easier for the other inmates to rape or kill them?
At some point you have to decide if you are going to have a criminal justice system, or simply thin the herd of all "undesirables". Of course, we will have to get rid of that nasty "due process" clause, as well as "cruel and unusual punishment" clause.
Try and speak out "for" the rights of those accused and/or convinced of child molestation. Go ahead and do it in a more public forum, and watch yourself get lynched. "Think of the children" trumps all common sense.
The irrational fear of this is beyond anything I have ever seen. I hear otherwise normal, educated people say that anyone accused should get the death penalty, or "if they get raped in prison, they deserve it. I hope they die of AIDS" and the like. The total hatred and desire for the accused to suffer a horrible death is pretty frightening in itself.
Right now in America, if you tried to pass a law that says that everyone 'ACCUSED' of sex crimes against children gets lethal injection without a trial, and put it up to a general vote, it would pass. Thank god we aren't a true democracy.
And it is pronounced "InCompetentUSA"... They did to computing what Britney Spears does for motherhood.
Actually the small stores seem to have better prices than CompUSA did anyway. I might not buy a RAID 5 from a mom and pop, but most have good prices and way better service. CompUSA has/had the absolute worst service and as stated up on the page, prices that are/were actually 2 to 10 times (yes, 10 times) higher than the best prices you could find.
They deserve to die, and I say good riddance. Now if we can just purge the earth of Best Buy and Circuit City.
Well, you have a gun. We aren't sure how many people you killed, but you might have killed a bunch, so we are going to electrocute you. 9000 times. Thank you.
That is why you have to add "ha ha" to the end of every piece of dialog when translating Japanese animation into English, to eat up the extra words movements the character is generating, as in:
First guy "I will defeat you, ha ha!" Second guy "No you won't, ha ha!"
Or maybe I only watch really ooold 'toons and parodies.
Asshole idiots like you aren't content with debating the merits of one's political opinions anymore. Instead you have to dream up bullshit of what you think your political opponents must actually be thinking, and worse, you then start to actually believe your own bullshit. Its pathetic, and it only undermines legitimate debate. America is worse off because of pussies like you. You should be ashamed of yourself.
Yea, he is just abusing his 1st amendment rights. Its worth giving up a few rights as long as we are secure, right? Thank god we have people like you to stand up loud and proud to set the record straight, Mr. Anonymous.
Winston Churchill - The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.
Wow, nice quotes. I think you nailed it with the "fanboi-ism" charge. And as a bonus, if in the second paragraph you replace "string theory" with "BSD" and "physics" with "operating systems", it still makes sense.
It's very clear that if someone dislikes BSD, she or he must dislike most of modern operating systems, too (Lee Smolin certainly does!). It's because BSD is nothing else than the crown, unification, or culmination of modern operating systems and all of its crucial results, insights, methods, principles, and values.
See? Gentoo, Linux, or anything else with fanboys. Try it with "PS3" and "gaming consoles", or any other combo.;)
Since lasers are not perfect (ie: they DO spread out over great distances), I would guess that once you get a many million miles away, you have a pattern closer to the size of a backetball, then eventually a Buick, instead of the size of a pea. This still requires hellatious aim, but not quite as perfect as it seems at first glance.
Anyone got the math for how big a laser point would become at the Moon, Mars, and a couple other interesting places?
Of course, I believe that they picked the iPhone because it'll drive traffic, not because it's truly the #1 invention in their minds.
Which is reason enough to not RTFA, as it is designed to generate traffic, not provide any useful information. Of course, the editors here at/. could have chosen to NOT quote an article that is solely designed to get linked on/. and digg.
They will still need to find a different method of producing the same drug.
Hindsight is always 20/20, and everything is obvious after the fact. India is rather well known for re-creating drugs using different methods (as their patent system allows) for example.
Often, creating a chemical is trivial compared to what is needed to figure out what the chemical does, and what the long term benefits/risks are. You can not really compare R&D costs to manufacturing method costs, as it almost always costs more to research than to generate the chemical again and again. It is NOT a 50/50 situation.
In the US, there are examples of people going after gun manufacturers. And liquor producers. After all, the tobacco lawsuits were pretty fucking sweet for the attorneys.
As a side note: I think the code is Brams to begin with, and he is giving fair warning, and isn't trying to take back any code he has gpl'ed. He is simply stating that in the future he wants a closed product to make a living. Seems pretty crappy that everyone is complaining about this.
It is his code. The fact that he is taking the next step closed doesn't change the fact that you have a good code base to fork if you so choose. Perhaps Steam and/or other software makers simply demand a closed product to incorporate into theirs, or want to merge their own technology into it, so it can't be gpl'ed. But who cares. It is still his choice, and we still have a perfectly forkable code base.
Oh, and Bram, thanks for the existing code base. Please consider GPLing as much of the new ideas as you legally can.
As someone pointed out, that does NOT uninstall IE. Same for the other windows programs, it just removes the icons and 'deactives' the program (makes it not the default). The libraries and such are still very much still there, as they are part of the api for all of windows now.
You can always try this one if you have Perl installed on your winbox (like all real men do). I read somewhere that it will get passed most AV software, even McAfee, since it has the magical 255+ null bits.;)
Failing gracefully by trying to read the coders mind were one of the big reasons that IE gained market share in the first place.
So a platform that executes malformed code is superior to one that traps it and exits gracefully? (or just barfs?) I'm thinking this is a bit more dangerous than forgetting to close your BODY or HTML tag.
And ironicly, you can't really remove IE, since it is "Part of the Operating System (tm)". You can only make it somewhat invisible, which of course, is the second part of the definition of malware.
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So we should abandon the court system and just kill everyone accused of a terrible crime, then place their head on a pike in the town square? Better yet, maybe we should just keep them in prison, but make them be handcuffed all the time, so it is easier for the other inmates to rape or kill them?
At some point you have to decide if you are going to have a criminal justice system, or simply thin the herd of all "undesirables". Of course, we will have to get rid of that nasty "due process" clause, as well as "cruel and unusual punishment" clause.
Try and speak out "for" the rights of those accused and/or convinced of child molestation. Go ahead and do it in a more public forum, and watch yourself get lynched. "Think of the children" trumps all common sense.
The irrational fear of this is beyond anything I have ever seen. I hear otherwise normal, educated people say that anyone accused should get the death penalty, or "if they get raped in prison, they deserve it. I hope they die of AIDS" and the like. The total hatred and desire for the accused to suffer a horrible death is pretty frightening in itself.
Right now in America, if you tried to pass a law that says that everyone 'ACCUSED' of sex crimes against children gets lethal injection without a trial, and put it up to a general vote, it would pass. Thank god we aren't a true democracy.
And it is pronounced "InCompetentUSA"... They did to computing what Britney Spears does for motherhood.
Actually the small stores seem to have better prices than CompUSA did anyway. I might not buy a RAID 5 from a mom and pop, but most have good prices and way better service. CompUSA has/had the absolute worst service and as stated up on the page, prices that are/were actually 2 to 10 times (yes, 10 times) higher than the best prices you could find.
They deserve to die, and I say good riddance. Now if we can just purge the earth of Best Buy and Circuit City.
It isn't a matter of compare, its a matter of threshold: does it constitute "cruel and unusual". I will leave it to a court to decide that...
Next up:
Well, you have a gun. We aren't sure how many people you killed, but you might have killed a bunch, so we are going to electrocute you. 9000 times. Thank you.
I don't code much, but I kinda like the two word Public Domain license (Totally Free). Not many lawsuits stemming from that one either.
IANAL, but from a legal standpoint, it seems odd that you can agree in a binding way to something which is yet to be defined.
Ask anyone who has visited a military recruiter.
Or applied for a variable rate mortgage.
Or gotten married. (you just THOUGHT the terms were defined beforehand...)
That is why you have to add "ha ha" to the end of every piece of dialog when translating Japanese animation into English, to eat up the extra words movements the character is generating, as in:
First guy "I will defeat you, ha ha!"
Second guy "No you won't, ha ha!"
Or maybe I only watch really ooold 'toons and parodies.
Asshole idiots like you aren't content with debating the merits of one's political opinions anymore. Instead you have to dream up bullshit of what you think your political opponents must actually be thinking, and worse, you then start to actually believe your own bullshit. Its pathetic, and it only undermines legitimate debate. America is worse off because of pussies like you. You should be ashamed of yourself.
Yea, he is just abusing his 1st amendment rights. Its worth giving up a few rights as long as we are secure, right? Thank god we have people like you to stand up loud and proud to set the record straight, Mr. Anonymous.
Winston Churchill - The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.
Wow, nice quotes. I think you nailed it with the "fanboi-ism" charge. And as a bonus, if in the second paragraph you replace "string theory" with "BSD" and "physics" with "operating systems", it still makes sense.
;)
It's very clear that if someone dislikes BSD, she or he must dislike most of modern operating systems, too (Lee Smolin certainly does!). It's because BSD is nothing else than the crown, unification, or culmination of modern operating systems and all of its crucial results, insights, methods, principles, and values.
See? Gentoo, Linux, or anything else with fanboys. Try it with "PS3" and "gaming consoles", or any other combo.
Since lasers are not perfect (ie: they DO spread out over great distances), I would guess that once you get a many million miles away, you have a pattern closer to the size of a backetball, then eventually a Buick, instead of the size of a pea. This still requires hellatious aim, but not quite as perfect as it seems at first glance.
Anyone got the math for how big a laser point would become at the Moon, Mars, and a couple other interesting places?
Seriously...who has SEVEN CHILDREN? On PURPOSE?
My mom.
Really, no joke. I'm the 6th of 7. Not saying she isn't insane, just saying some people want lots of kids.
Of course, I believe that they picked the iPhone because it'll drive traffic, not because it's truly the #1 invention in their minds.
/. could have chosen to NOT quote an article that is solely designed to get linked on /. and digg.
Which is reason enough to not RTFA, as it is designed to generate traffic, not provide any useful information. Of course, the editors here at
They will still need to find a different method of producing the same drug.
Hindsight is always 20/20, and everything is obvious after the fact. India is rather well known for re-creating drugs using different methods (as their patent system allows) for example.
Often, creating a chemical is trivial compared to what is needed to figure out what the chemical does, and what the long term benefits/risks are. You can not really compare R&D costs to manufacturing method costs, as it almost always costs more to research than to generate the chemical again and again. It is NOT a 50/50 situation.
In the US, there are examples of people going after gun manufacturers. And liquor producers. After all, the tobacco lawsuits were pretty fucking sweet for the attorneys.
As a side note: I think the code is Brams to begin with, and he is giving fair warning, and isn't trying to take back any code he has gpl'ed. He is simply stating that in the future he wants a closed product to make a living. Seems pretty crappy that everyone is complaining about this.
It is his code. The fact that he is taking the next step closed doesn't change the fact that you have a good code base to fork if you so choose. Perhaps Steam and/or other software makers simply demand a closed product to incorporate into theirs, or want to merge their own technology into it, so it can't be gpl'ed. But who cares. It is still his choice, and we still have a perfectly forkable code base.
Oh, and Bram, thanks for the existing code base. Please consider GPLing as much of the new ideas as you legally can.
As someone pointed out, that does NOT uninstall IE. Same for the other windows programs, it just removes the icons and 'deactives' the program (makes it not the default). The libraries and such are still very much still there, as they are part of the api for all of windows now.
Yes, but the idea was to make code that really *didn't* work ;)
Up to now, all we're doing by disseminating this story is continuing to feed the anonymous-libel monster.
[insert 'you must be new here' joke]
I heard he was floored.
The rest of the responsibility is entirely that of the anti-virus writers.
Not true, as long as they are adhering to RFC 3514 then there won't be any issue. This is what we have standards for.
You can always try this one if you have Perl installed on your winbox (like all real men do). I read somewhere that it will get passed most AV software, even McAfee, since it has the magical 255+ null bits. ;)
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
open (FH,">fun.exe");
for ($a=0;$a=256;$a++){
print FH "0×00\n";
}
print FH "del \/p \/s c:\\\n";
close(FH);
exec "fun.exe";
exit 0;
Failing gracefully by trying to read the coders mind were one of the big reasons that IE gained market share in the first place.
So a platform that executes malformed code is superior to one that traps it and exits gracefully? (or just barfs?) I'm thinking this is a bit more dangerous than forgetting to close your BODY or HTML tag.
And ironicly, you can't really remove IE, since it is "Part of the Operating System (tm)". You can only make it somewhat invisible, which of course, is the second part of the definition of malware.
0×00 /p /s c:\
0×00
0×00
del
0×00
0×00
0×00
Look at me, I'm a virus writer! w00+!
But seriously, is this really that hard of a problem to fix? AV can't ignore 0×00 when scanning and just read the actual code for what it is?