Ah yes, punching the monkey. Who would have thought that an ad which not only advocates animal abuse but whose name would be a good euphemism for self abuse would become so popular.
Spot on. The Constitution does not give us rights, it simply innumerates basic human rights that the government is not allowed to mess with, as well as setting up the basic rules under which the government is allowed to operate. It's primary purpose is not to limit the rights of the people, but rather to limit the power of the government.
This recent drive to define non-citizens as nothing more than cattle with whom we can do anything we please is distressing. How would we feel if we travelled to, say, France, and the government there decided to detain us for no apparent reason and deny us access to the courts or any other means of pleading our case. Would the US Government stand for that sort of behavior? If not, why is it suddenly okay for us to treat non-citizens the same way?
The Constitution is careful to use the word "citizen" when it intends to refer to only citizens, and "person" elsewhere. The idea that the word "person" in the Constitution ever refers only to "citizens" is pure fantasy.
Your quote proves his point. The quote says no state shall abridge the privileges or immunities of a citizen, but then goes on to say that states cannot deprive any person from life, liberty or property without due process. It is very clearly drawing a distinction between the term "citizen" and the term "person".
The whole country has been reduced to partisan bickering. There is no independent thought anymore. You pick a party, and you automatically agree with whatever they believe in. Individual critical thinking does not enter into the process at any point.
I think with the sudo thing he's referring to the fact that most systems have more security vulnerabilities that allow you to take control of a non-privileged user, so it's a lot easier to hack into a non-privileged user than it is to hack into root. If you are able to hack into a non-privileged user that is in the sudoers file, you have root.
Of course, most of those exploits involve gaining control of daemon users, like the httpd user or whatever, and if you have any of those users in your sudoers file you're asking for trouble anyway.
There may also be the assumption that most people will choose stronger passwords for their root user than they do for their normal user account. I'm not so sure that this really holds true in a desktop environment, but it may in a server environment. Of course, there's also the issue that a frequently used password may be easier for someone to shoulder surf. So, while a normal person may only very rarely log in as root, so shoulder surfing opportunities are likewise rare, they probably log into their user account (which on Ubuntu will likely have sudo access) many times.
So, while I think there is a lot of hand waving involved in whether or not Ubuntu's model is really more or less secure, there is at least an argument to be made.
Even as a developer codename, the Ubuntu names border on the ridiculous. Most larger companies try to maintain some semblance of professionalism even with codenames (naming things after cities, rivers, catchy names that start with "z" or "x", etc). Codenames for upcoming releases are often referred to in press releases and the like, so it pays to avoid using overly silly names.
Will it hamper Ubuntu's growth? Who knows. It doesn't seem to be doing a whole lot of harm yet, but then Ubuntu still hasn't really broken through in any major way into the business world yet either.
Ubuntu is in a period of its growth where it is struggling with trying to appeal both to the business users who can really help grow it into a major player and the geek crowd who started the whole thing and pumped it up to where it is today. The silly names are clearly designed to appeal to the latter.
I doubt they present the latest Ubuntu to big companies as "Gutsy Gibbon", or at least I hope they don't. If they did, it would definitely hamper their ability to break into that world.
Eventually, either Ubuntu will grow into a major player in the business Linux world, at which point many of the geeks will abandon it as being too mainstream or evil, and the zealotry will wane, sort of like Red Hat, or it will shrink back into a cult distribution, at which point the zealotry will pick up steam again on places like Slashdot and won't die until the next distro of the month comes along.
I'm not a materials scientist or anything, but I'm confused by your post. How can something be both more brittle and more flexible at the same time? I thought those two were contradictory.
Anyway, from what I understand the biggest unknown with carbon fiber is its longevity. If this stuff degrades faster over time than aluminum, you could end up with a lot more poorly maintained aircraft coming apart in the sky. Probably not a big deal in developed countries where maintenance requirements are very strict, but it could be an issue in the third world where regulations may be more spotty.
A Jedi can slice through a person with a light saber with no perceptible change to the momentum of the saber, so it seems likely that there is not a whole lot of tactile feedback in a "real" light saber either. I think the tactile feedback would probably be little more than it would be if one were slicing a hot knife through butter. So, fencing with a light saber in any context would not "live up to" the experience of real fencing because the weapons involved are too different.
Having said that, they could provide some sort of little vibration plus a sound coming from the Wiimote's speaker to simulate impact. Even in a simple game like Wii Sports, the baseball game provides some feedback (a noise coming from the Wiimote itself) to simulate when the bat makes contact with the ball, and that actually is enough to make it feel at least somewhat real if you're absorbed in the game. It really is amazing how much more "real" it feels when the sound from the strike is actually coming from the implement in your hand rather than from the speaker on your TV.
I think they can make this work. The Wiimote has surprising heft for something of its size, and that plus the speaker and the vibrations make it feel far more realistic than you might expect by looking at it.
I'm not confused, I'm pissed! The Air Force apparently had solar powered iPod shuffles way back in the 1970s while the rest of us had to wait until 2005, and ours aren't even solar powered!
It's a poorly done copy and paste troll. Seriously, the quality of trolls around here has really been declining. The GNAA guys used to change their stock copy and paste troll all the time to reflect the story or even just recent stories in the news. Now they can't even be bothered to change the name of the editor before posting. Trolling is truly a lost art.
The most common way for young data to be corrupted is to be saved on a block that once contained pornographic data. As we all know, deleting data alone is not sufficient, as that will only remove the pointer to the data while leaving the block containing it undisturbed. This allows a young piece of data to easily see the old porn data as it is being written to that block. For this reason, it is imperative that you keep all pornographic data on separate physical drives.
In addition, you should never access young data and pornographic data in the same session, as the young impressionable data may get corrupted by the pornographic data if they exist in RAM at the same time.
Data corruption is a serious problem in computing today, and it is imperative that we take steps to stop our young innocent data from being corrupted.
This could lead to some very disturbing side effects. Think of the following scenario:
Your 13 year old son, massive amounts of hormones pumping through his body, is horny as hell. He goes to the computer for a quick bout of self abuse, and can't see anything! But he's 13, so he's still horny, and about ready to go off all over the place. All he needs is even the slightest stimulation. He looks around frantically for anything at all. Unfortunately, you've already taken the precaution of cutting all of the underwear ads out of the newspaper, and parental controls on the TV limit him to TV-G programming. What is he going to do now?!
Suddenly, he spies the picture of Jesus on top of the monitor. Not exactly what he was looking for, but hey...Jesus has long hair, and if you sort of squint he looks kind of feminine. So, your son says what the hell, and touches himself. He's 13 of course, so that's all it takes. Congratulations, you've just made your son jack off to Jesus. Now you won't even be able to take him to church without getting him going.
I do enjoy the fact that excellent karma means I can post non-anonymously and get modded to -1 without having to worry too much (as long as I don't do it too often, there is a karma cap after all).
However, as for mod points, I haven't gotten any for more than a year. Ironically, I at one point unchecked the "willing to moderate" box in the preferences because I was sick of getting TOO MANY mod points. Ever since I decided to moderate again and checked the "willing to moderate" box again, I haven't received a single mod point. Maybe if you ever uncheck that box you get black-balled forever or something.
Too bad that page is a parody. Bullshit. If that page is a parody, how is it that Google has an almost endless supply of green cheese in their cafeteria? Huh? Explain that one, smart guy!
To this point, private industry has barely managed to get to the edges of space, much less into orbit. Getting all the way to the moon, landing, and sending data back would be a huge step forward for private industry, and it will cost far more than $30 million to get there.
I don't think most people WANT to illegally download things rather than purchasing them. However, I do think everyone has a threshold at which they'll download illegally rather than deal with the pain of buying something legitimately. For most, that pain is provided by unreasonable prices. For others, it's by formats (DRM) that force you to jump through hoops to be able to watch something you legitimately paid for. So they don't have to make it as easy as the free alternatives, because that's impossible. They only need to make it easy enough that most people will decide that their process is better than breaking the law.
Content providers need to make these downloads as cheap and easy as possible, and they will make money. The more painful it is, the more people will turn to free alternatives out of frustration. Most people that are not generally criminals will only break laws if complying with them becomes too onerous.
Right now, the providers seem to be trying to crack down on free providers and make the legitimate versions ever more restrictive. This is counterproductive, and will only push more people away.
Oh come on, they have commercials featuring creepy old Japanese guys going to children's houses and saying "wii want to play" with a weird gleam in their eyes! How much more advertising do you need?
This is simply unacceptable behavior for a Slashdot reader. You never admit that you were wrong, and you certainly never apologize. Next time, reply with something like "The article was Slashdotted, you insensitive clod!"
I don't know why you're saying a description should appear in the article, since you clearly didn't read the article. The second paragraph of the article states:
Compiz is a compositing window manager that includes a number of highly sophisticated visual effects like window shadows, transparency, and desktop zooming. Now, you're right they probably should have put a description in the summary, but then they wouldn't give people (like ickypoo a few posts up) a chance to get a cheap +5, Informative with a Wikipedia link.
Really? The summary and both articles seem to say that the code was BSD licensed, and the GPL was tacked on after the fact without the knowledge or consent of the original copyright holder. Unless the original copyright holder agrees to "either or", I don't see how a third party can arbitrarily add a second incompatible license and say you can use whichever one you want.
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Ah yes, punching the monkey. Who would have thought that an ad which not only advocates animal abuse but whose name would be a good euphemism for self abuse would become so popular.
Spot on. The Constitution does not give us rights, it simply innumerates basic human rights that the government is not allowed to mess with, as well as setting up the basic rules under which the government is allowed to operate. It's primary purpose is not to limit the rights of the people, but rather to limit the power of the government.
This recent drive to define non-citizens as nothing more than cattle with whom we can do anything we please is distressing. How would we feel if we travelled to, say, France, and the government there decided to detain us for no apparent reason and deny us access to the courts or any other means of pleading our case. Would the US Government stand for that sort of behavior? If not, why is it suddenly okay for us to treat non-citizens the same way?
The Constitution is careful to use the word "citizen" when it intends to refer to only citizens, and "person" elsewhere. The idea that the word "person" in the Constitution ever refers only to "citizens" is pure fantasy.
Your quote proves his point. The quote says no state shall abridge the privileges or immunities of a citizen, but then goes on to say that states cannot deprive any person from life, liberty or property without due process. It is very clearly drawing a distinction between the term "citizen" and the term "person".
The whole country has been reduced to partisan bickering. There is no independent thought anymore. You pick a party, and you automatically agree with whatever they believe in. Individual critical thinking does not enter into the process at any point.
Imagine a graph with two lines. Now imagine those two lines converging until they meet.
I think with the sudo thing he's referring to the fact that most systems have more security vulnerabilities that allow you to take control of a non-privileged user, so it's a lot easier to hack into a non-privileged user than it is to hack into root. If you are able to hack into a non-privileged user that is in the sudoers file, you have root.
Of course, most of those exploits involve gaining control of daemon users, like the httpd user or whatever, and if you have any of those users in your sudoers file you're asking for trouble anyway.
There may also be the assumption that most people will choose stronger passwords for their root user than they do for their normal user account. I'm not so sure that this really holds true in a desktop environment, but it may in a server environment. Of course, there's also the issue that a frequently used password may be easier for someone to shoulder surf. So, while a normal person may only very rarely log in as root, so shoulder surfing opportunities are likewise rare, they probably log into their user account (which on Ubuntu will likely have sudo access) many times.
So, while I think there is a lot of hand waving involved in whether or not Ubuntu's model is really more or less secure, there is at least an argument to be made.
Even as a developer codename, the Ubuntu names border on the ridiculous. Most larger companies try to maintain some semblance of professionalism even with codenames (naming things after cities, rivers, catchy names that start with "z" or "x", etc). Codenames for upcoming releases are often referred to in press releases and the like, so it pays to avoid using overly silly names.
Will it hamper Ubuntu's growth? Who knows. It doesn't seem to be doing a whole lot of harm yet, but then Ubuntu still hasn't really broken through in any major way into the business world yet either.
Ubuntu is in a period of its growth where it is struggling with trying to appeal both to the business users who can really help grow it into a major player and the geek crowd who started the whole thing and pumped it up to where it is today. The silly names are clearly designed to appeal to the latter.
I doubt they present the latest Ubuntu to big companies as "Gutsy Gibbon", or at least I hope they don't. If they did, it would definitely hamper their ability to break into that world.
Eventually, either Ubuntu will grow into a major player in the business Linux world, at which point many of the geeks will abandon it as being too mainstream or evil, and the zealotry will wane, sort of like Red Hat, or it will shrink back into a cult distribution, at which point the zealotry will pick up steam again on places like Slashdot and won't die until the next distro of the month comes along.
I'm not a materials scientist or anything, but I'm confused by your post. How can something be both more brittle and more flexible at the same time? I thought those two were contradictory.
Anyway, from what I understand the biggest unknown with carbon fiber is its longevity. If this stuff degrades faster over time than aluminum, you could end up with a lot more poorly maintained aircraft coming apart in the sky. Probably not a big deal in developed countries where maintenance requirements are very strict, but it could be an issue in the third world where regulations may be more spotty.
A Jedi can slice through a person with a light saber with no perceptible change to the momentum of the saber, so it seems likely that there is not a whole lot of tactile feedback in a "real" light saber either. I think the tactile feedback would probably be little more than it would be if one were slicing a hot knife through butter. So, fencing with a light saber in any context would not "live up to" the experience of real fencing because the weapons involved are too different.
Having said that, they could provide some sort of little vibration plus a sound coming from the Wiimote's speaker to simulate impact. Even in a simple game like Wii Sports, the baseball game provides some feedback (a noise coming from the Wiimote itself) to simulate when the bat makes contact with the ball, and that actually is enough to make it feel at least somewhat real if you're absorbed in the game. It really is amazing how much more "real" it feels when the sound from the strike is actually coming from the implement in your hand rather than from the speaker on your TV.
I think they can make this work. The Wiimote has surprising heft for something of its size, and that plus the speaker and the vibrations make it feel far more realistic than you might expect by looking at it.
I'm not confused, I'm pissed! The Air Force apparently had solar powered iPod shuffles way back in the 1970s while the rest of us had to wait until 2005, and ours aren't even solar powered!
It's a poorly done copy and paste troll. Seriously, the quality of trolls around here has really been declining. The GNAA guys used to change their stock copy and paste troll all the time to reflect the story or even just recent stories in the news. Now they can't even be bothered to change the name of the editor before posting. Trolling is truly a lost art.
The most common way for young data to be corrupted is to be saved on a block that once contained pornographic data. As we all know, deleting data alone is not sufficient, as that will only remove the pointer to the data while leaving the block containing it undisturbed. This allows a young piece of data to easily see the old porn data as it is being written to that block. For this reason, it is imperative that you keep all pornographic data on separate physical drives.
In addition, you should never access young data and pornographic data in the same session, as the young impressionable data may get corrupted by the pornographic data if they exist in RAM at the same time.
Data corruption is a serious problem in computing today, and it is imperative that we take steps to stop our young innocent data from being corrupted.
I know I'm going to be crying myself to sleep tonight.
This could lead to some very disturbing side effects. Think of the following scenario:
Your 13 year old son, massive amounts of hormones pumping through his body, is horny as hell. He goes to the computer for a quick bout of self abuse, and can't see anything! But he's 13, so he's still horny, and about ready to go off all over the place. All he needs is even the slightest stimulation. He looks around frantically for anything at all. Unfortunately, you've already taken the precaution of cutting all of the underwear ads out of the newspaper, and parental controls on the TV limit him to TV-G programming. What is he going to do now?!
Suddenly, he spies the picture of Jesus on top of the monitor. Not exactly what he was looking for, but hey...Jesus has long hair, and if you sort of squint he looks kind of feminine. So, your son says what the hell, and touches himself. He's 13 of course, so that's all it takes. Congratulations, you've just made your son jack off to Jesus. Now you won't even be able to take him to church without getting him going.
I do enjoy the fact that excellent karma means I can post non-anonymously and get modded to -1 without having to worry too much (as long as I don't do it too often, there is a karma cap after all).
However, as for mod points, I haven't gotten any for more than a year. Ironically, I at one point unchecked the "willing to moderate" box in the preferences because I was sick of getting TOO MANY mod points. Ever since I decided to moderate again and checked the "willing to moderate" box again, I haven't received a single mod point. Maybe if you ever uncheck that box you get black-balled forever or something.
To this point, private industry has barely managed to get to the edges of space, much less into orbit. Getting all the way to the moon, landing, and sending data back would be a huge step forward for private industry, and it will cost far more than $30 million to get there.
Of course Google wants people to land on the moon, they're desperate to find employees for their lunar campus.
I don't think most people WANT to illegally download things rather than purchasing them. However, I do think everyone has a threshold at which they'll download illegally rather than deal with the pain of buying something legitimately. For most, that pain is provided by unreasonable prices. For others, it's by formats (DRM) that force you to jump through hoops to be able to watch something you legitimately paid for. So they don't have to make it as easy as the free alternatives, because that's impossible. They only need to make it easy enough that most people will decide that their process is better than breaking the law.
Content providers need to make these downloads as cheap and easy as possible, and they will make money. The more painful it is, the more people will turn to free alternatives out of frustration. Most people that are not generally criminals will only break laws if complying with them becomes too onerous.
Right now, the providers seem to be trying to crack down on free providers and make the legitimate versions ever more restrictive. This is counterproductive, and will only push more people away.
Oh come on, they have commercials featuring creepy old Japanese guys going to children's houses and saying "wii want to play" with a weird gleam in their eyes! How much more advertising do you need?
This is simply unacceptable behavior for a Slashdot reader. You never admit that you were wrong, and you certainly never apologize. Next time, reply with something like "The article was Slashdotted, you insensitive clod!"
I'll forgive you this time, though.
Really? The summary and both articles seem to say that the code was BSD licensed, and the GPL was tacked on after the fact without the knowledge or consent of the original copyright holder. Unless the original copyright holder agrees to "either or", I don't see how a third party can arbitrarily add a second incompatible license and say you can use whichever one you want.