Yes, because to compound this, you just KNOW that the media is going to be doing a follow-up at the end of the week's time. If she hasn't cracked it in a week, the media will rave about how secure the system must be, etc etc etc. If she cracks it the next day after that, we won't hear a peep about it.
Not that this whole deal is going to make the slightest bit of difference; if she does crack it, the people behind the system will just say "Well, that's irrelevant, because in the real world, a person wouldn't be able to do X".
How the hell does posting a sign saying "We reserve the right to check bags" make it OK for them to rifle through your belongings?
I rather think that the store's customers reserve the right "to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures".
Now I've never seen this sort of thing at any place I've shopped at (unless the YellowShirts at Best Buy count). But if someone want to dig through my stuff because I walked through their store, they can get bent.
In the USA, salaried employees are still entitled to overtime pay. Even if it said they were not in their contract. Federal wage law overrules corporate contracts.
Only "exempt" employees can work overtime without being paid for it, and there are minimum salary requirements for most professions to have "exempt" status.
For technical work it's along the lines of $27/hour.
Some places have localized water pumps that run on electricity. Thus, no power==no water. Also, places out in the boonies usually have these as well. I once helped a guy over the phone troubleshoot a computer that was rebooting whenever he flushed the toilet. Turned out he lived in a trailor home and his water pump was kicking in and browning out the system.
Mind you, I haven't read the article in the parent post's link so what I've just said may not apply.
I think what enjo is talking about is that by claiming there's no way SCO could implement Linux functions without Linux source code, you add credence to SCO's claims that there's no way Linux could do some of the things that it does without peeking at code SCO owns.
The difference is that the so-called "infringing" code in Linux is for a much more general-purpose function than SCO's implementation of EXT2 or Linux compatibility.
Of course I could be wrong and that's not what he meant at all, but I'm sure I'll get corrected if that's the case.
A bit? You got that right. Let's say that, in the course of the hypothetical Chinese revolution, 50,000,000 people are killed. This is roughly the number of people who died in World War 2. That's a lot of people, well over a hundred times the entire population of the USA.
This brings the population of China down from about 1.5 billion to about... 1.45 billion.
BTW, every "% of humanity" statistic has to consider that most humans are Chinese.
I've been thinking about this a lot lately. As in, "Should I be learning Mandarin Chinese?" China is rapidly becoming a high-tech nation. There are a lot more of them than there are of anyone else. Frankly, I think the only thing that keeps China from being the single largest world influence is the fact is its government, and that can't last forever. Sooner or later (maybe after a bloody revolution) China is going to become THE major world power, and the US is going to take a role like that of Great Britian's (no offense to any Brits reading this) today.
Actually, you can't go and live in the woods. At least, not for very long before you get either arrested for trespassing, or (if you own the woods) arrested for property tax evasion.
Everybody knows it's illegal to distrube copyrighted material? If it's p2p or ftp or http or...
This is exactly right. When the RIAA went after Napster, everyone was all for going after individual users and leaving Napster alone. Well, it's too late for Napster, but now a judge that isn't smoking crack has agreed that Grokster and Morpheus aren't responsible for the copyright violations, and the RIAA is now forced to go after individual users who are breaking the law.
Is it a bad law, one that no longer applies to the world we live in? Maybe. But it's still the law.
Mcleod is available throughout much of the midwest and doesn't completely suck. I've been with them for about two and a half years now and haven't had any major problems with 'em. They offer all the same services as Ameritech/SBC/whatever and cost a little less. And local calls are just that, local no extra charge. I'd never even heard of "local toll calls" before reading this article.
... but the underlying concept is interesting. As I understand it, WinFS would allow you to scatter the contents of the good ole' WINNT directory to the four winds and the OS wouldn't even blink. Is there any open filesystem that operates in a similar manner?
I've been typing since I was about 6... at age 20 or so I began to experience symptoms of a RSI, tingling fingers, burning pain in the wrist, etc etc. So I took some steps. I got an ergonomic keyboard for home, and those gel pads that supposedly help you keep your wrists up. The tingling got worse and worse over the next few weeks. What seemed to hurt the worst was actually resting my wrist on the pad while typing. So I stopped. I began typing by keeping my hands in the air at all times, keeping the backs of my hands level with my forearms, and letting my fingers fall down to the keyboard rather than reaching out toward it. It looked weird, but it was the only way I could type without wincing.
The pain was gone within 2 weeks. The last the of tingling faded away (except in the pinky of my right hand, which seems to be related to mouse use) a month or so later. As long as I keep up this spidery-looking typing style, my hands don't hurt.
Might be worth a try to those of you experiencing pain.
I looked into this myself. Apparently the IE/Windows and IE/Mac teams are completely separated due to some sort of licensing issue with Apple. Code isn't shared between the groups, so IE5 for the Mac is Internet Explorer in name only; it's basically an entirely new browser, written nearly from scratch.
I don't think we can count on complete PNG support ever being added to IE for Windows, since Microsoft recently announced that IE6/sp1 is going to be the last version available separate from Windows itself...
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The lamp lit. And before there were lamps, the fire lit.
And the fire lighting was the first bright idea.
Yes, because to compound this, you just KNOW that the media is going to be doing a follow-up at the end of the week's time. If she hasn't cracked it in a week, the media will rave about how secure the system must be, etc etc etc. If she cracks it the next day after that, we won't hear a peep about it.
Not that this whole deal is going to make the slightest bit of difference; if she does crack it, the people behind the system will just say "Well, that's irrelevant, because in the real world, a person wouldn't be able to do X".
How the hell does posting a sign saying "We reserve the right to check bags" make it OK for them to rifle through your belongings?
I rather think that the store's customers reserve the right "to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures".
Now I've never seen this sort of thing at any place I've shopped at (unless the YellowShirts at Best Buy count). But if someone want to dig through my stuff because I walked through their store, they can get bent.
That's the way it should be.
In the USA, salaried employees are still entitled to overtime pay. Even if it said they were not in their contract. Federal wage law overrules corporate contracts.
Only "exempt" employees can work overtime without being paid for it, and there are minimum salary requirements for most professions to have "exempt" status.
For technical work it's along the lines of $27/hour.
Wrong. Boy Scouts sell popcorn.
Some places have localized water pumps that run on electricity. Thus, no power==no water. Also, places out in the boonies usually have these as well. I once helped a guy over the phone troubleshoot a computer that was rebooting whenever he flushed the toilet. Turned out he lived in a trailor home and his water pump was kicking in and browning out the system.
Mind you, I haven't read the article in the parent post's link so what I've just said may not apply.
I think what enjo is talking about is that by claiming there's no way SCO could implement Linux functions without Linux source code, you add credence to SCO's claims that there's no way Linux could do some of the things that it does without peeking at code SCO owns.
The difference is that the so-called "infringing" code in Linux is for a much more general-purpose function than SCO's implementation of EXT2 or Linux compatibility.
Of course I could be wrong and that's not what he meant at all, but I'm sure I'll get corrected if that's the case.
Yeah, but a drive sent in for warranty work will come back wiped and/or not the same drive.
What the hell does "irregardless" mean?
Whoops, you're absolutely right. I hate it when I lose sight of the forest for the trees.
At any rate, 50,000,000 people is still a lot. And the rest of my post stands.
A bit? You got that right. Let's say that, in the course of the hypothetical Chinese revolution, 50,000,000 people are killed. This is roughly the number of people who died in World War 2. That's a lot of people, well over a hundred times the entire population of the USA.
This brings the population of China down from about 1.5 billion to about... 1.45 billion.
The phrase "drop in the bucket" springs to mind.
BTW, every "% of humanity" statistic has to consider that most humans are Chinese.
I've been thinking about this a lot lately. As in, "Should I be learning Mandarin Chinese?" China is rapidly becoming a high-tech nation. There are a lot more of them than there are of anyone else. Frankly, I think the only thing that keeps China from being the single largest world influence is the fact is its government, and that can't last forever. Sooner or later (maybe after a bloody revolution) China is going to become THE major world power, and the US is going to take a role like that of Great Britian's (no offense to any Brits reading this) today.
I saw the E3 video of HL2, it blew my mind. It certainly is going to give Carmack a run for his money.
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Rockman Bilbo!
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Rockman Bilbo!
Bravest little robot of 'em all!
Actually, you can't go and live in the woods. At least, not for very long before you get either arrested for trespassing, or (if you own the woods) arrested for property tax evasion.
PhysicsGenius is known for these sorts of posts. He posts brilliant, well-written trolls. But they're still trolls. Read his posting history sometime.
Oh, and here I was wondering why it was down just a few hours after its launch. Guess that explains it...
The Mentats are among us...
Everybody knows it's illegal to distrube copyrighted material? If it's p2p or ftp or http or ...
This is exactly right. When the RIAA went after Napster, everyone was all for going after individual users and leaving Napster alone. Well, it's too late for Napster, but now a judge that isn't smoking crack has agreed that Grokster and Morpheus aren't responsible for the copyright violations, and the RIAA is now forced to go after individual users who are breaking the law.
Is it a bad law, one that no longer applies to the world we live in? Maybe. But it's still the law.
This the way it should be enforced.
Mcleod is available throughout much of the midwest and doesn't completely suck. I've been with them for about two and a half years now and haven't had any major problems with 'em. They offer all the same services as Ameritech/SBC/whatever and cost a little less. And local calls are just that, local no extra charge. I'd never even heard of "local toll calls" before reading this article.
... but the underlying concept is interesting. As I understand it, WinFS would allow you to scatter the contents of the good ole' WINNT directory to the four winds and the OS wouldn't even blink. Is there any open filesystem that operates in a similar manner?
Nah, they can just move the extras to the $30/hour "Holding the 'Slow/Stop' sign" position.
I've been typing since I was about 6... at age 20 or so I began to experience symptoms of a RSI, tingling fingers, burning pain in the wrist, etc etc. So I took some steps. I got an ergonomic keyboard for home, and those gel pads that supposedly help you keep your wrists up. The tingling got worse and worse over the next few weeks. What seemed to hurt the worst was actually resting my wrist on the pad while typing. So I stopped. I began typing by keeping my hands in the air at all times, keeping the backs of my hands level with my forearms, and letting my fingers fall down to the keyboard rather than reaching out toward it. It looked weird, but it was the only way I could type without wincing.
The pain was gone within 2 weeks. The last the of tingling faded away (except in the pinky of my right hand, which seems to be related to mouse use) a month or so later. As long as I keep up this spidery-looking typing style, my hands don't hurt.
Might be worth a try to those of you experiencing pain.
I looked into this myself. Apparently the IE/Windows and IE/Mac teams are completely separated due to some sort of licensing issue with Apple. Code isn't shared between the groups, so IE5 for the Mac is Internet Explorer in name only; it's basically an entirely new browser, written nearly from scratch.
I don't think we can count on complete PNG support ever being added to IE for Windows, since Microsoft recently announced that IE6/sp1 is going to be the last version available separate from Windows itself...
Google cache of chewplastic.com.
The original domain is down, and he's got a Paypal link on his page to help him recover his 12 grand.