I don't think USan is any better... The term for our country is United States of America. Going by the grammatical rules of English, the central root word of this name is "States", so if you're not going to go for American, then you'd have to call them even more generically "Statian" or something like that, which would refer to anyone from any state.
Fact of the matter is that despite the fact that "American" can refer to any nationality in the two American continents the lack of a suitable name for the USA is cause for the only available, decent, and appropriate term for a US citizen to be "American".
Now some languages give a better name to the US, which they can create decent nationality terms for. I can only think of Esperanto with the term for the country being "Usono" (being literally the pronounciation of the letters U-S-N in the Esperanto alphabet) which is a decent enough name to change regularly into a real nationality term. (I don't remember the suffix to do that at the moment)
A Brit is solely from Britan, an Irishmen comes from either Northern Ireland, or Southern Ireland, a Scot comes from Scotland, and a Welshman comes from Wales.
A Ukonian comes from the United Kingdom, and indicates only so much information. The UK much like the US is actually made up of smaller seperate "countries".
Sorry if I misspelt any of those nationalities, or countries, I'm working off little sleep, and I know them better in German, as the US doesn't harp on them too often. All I know for sure are Mexican, American, and Canadian... Everyone else is on the other side of the map to us.
Yeah, "NO other platform has this particular security hole"... um... yeah... except that the underlying cause of the hole is the same problem that exists with the OSX URI handling code, and thus, every single MacOS browser was exploitable by this type of "feature" until Apple fixed the real problem.
Is that why the French translation above is 5 words shorter, and approximately 20 characters shorter than the given English translation?
Of course this could just be a fluke, but then so I've heard in language statistics, English on the whole is shorter than most of the languages out there. In fact, in computer internationalization rules, you want to predict a longer than English translation in all cases.
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I personally think Linus should win the money for saying it was a co-production of the Tooth Fairy and Santa Claus.
BAH! %#ers! Of course they cover a good part of Intel, and the GOLF COURSE. Naturally, they cover in Phase I the richest people in the city.
I mean, I live on 34th St, it's been there for 20 year (about the same age as the city itself), and we won't be covered by the Phase I. (For any who care, 34th St is down near the big circle of Phase I implementation, JUST outside of range)/me walks off ranting.
Oh, and btw, if you were to drive the areas covered, I'm certain that it could come out to 103 sq. miles. Rio Rancho _IS_ freaking sprawled all over the place. I mean, the Golf Course comes up as a small little blob.
Not to mention that Rio Rancho and Albuquerque are in different COUNTIES. This means that, very much like Kansas City, is in Missouri and Kansas, and is "one city" it actually is two cities in entirely every legal meaning of the word.
You just can't have a city span across two counties, because then different parts of it would be subject to different county laws.
To a point, stupid Golf Course road. Rio Rancho updated the road up to where it reaches Albuquerque, I think 2 years ago, and just NOW Albuquerque is working to connect it. And don't even get me started with Unser.... *grrr...*
They may have more employees in Oregon, but there's a higher CONCENTRATION of Intel employees in Rio Rancho.
Plus, they half own the town. They help built a High School here, and I don't imagine you'd be saying something like "Hey, Intel, you have more employees here, build us one."
Because RR basicly used extortion tactics to build the High School, half threatening to yank a lot of the special priviledges that Intel enjoys here.
I'm at my friends house where they don't have any cooling during the day, and it gets hotter than an oven in here. Then in the middle of the night it drops down to the point where I'm sitting here SHIVERING....
I can't stand the extremes of New Mexico weather, but then, that's why I've been trying to get out.:)
Las Cruces is actually pretty good for warm summer nights, and warm winter days. In summer it never really cools down enough at night to make it freezing, and in the winter, you'll freeze on your way to work in the morning, but you'll have to take off your sweater at mid-day.
Rio Rancho High School was built in large part through help from Intel. At one point they were not going to do it, but then the city reminded them that it could at any time annex the property that they're on, and then they'd be subject to property tax, and other taxes having to do with water. (They use a lot of it, so I hear)
RRHS being first open during the school year 1998 (I just barely missed going there) it is current the "new high school" if you're in Rio Rancho.
That seems rather ignorant. At least according to Michael Moore, 98% of the time a gun is used during a break-in, it ends up shooting the wrong person
Funny, my statistics say that only happens 42% of the time.
Hey, the reason the US outlawed alchohol initially was because "it was dangerous and promoted crime." Guess what? When they outlawed it, it just made more of a mess than when it was legal.
_THIS_ is the issue at hand. You as a British man can't appreciate the cultural FACT that we are taught that prohibition was a Bad Thing(tm), because it went against every institution that America was built upon.
You as a British man cannot appreciate the matter that any attempt to outlaw guns in the US, will create unrest, and require FORCEFUL removal of these guns from some citizens. In particular there are citizens in Texas, and Montana (at the VERY LEAST) that insist that the only way the Government will remove their right to bear arms, is by PRYING THE GUN FROM THEIR DEAD LIFELESS HAND!
When you're dealing with a culture, where one of the most FUNDAMENTAL institutions is a cititzen's right to bear arms, you can't just turn around and take that back. You can't just say, "Whoops! Guns are bad, everyone give them back." That does NOT work in the USA, and our Prohibition _PROVED_ this point.
yeah, like I said, even the best programmers still produce syntax errors (even stupid ones) years into having done it constantly.
I was more intending on explaining why your code would be ineffective towards combatting the problem raise, than to rag on you for your "poor" coding abilities.
Frankly, I find it impressive that you were able to come up with a solution.;)
When a computer key is pressed it generates an interrupts, which causes the OS to pick up. The OS then reads that value from the hardware, and stores it in RAM (where you don't have access to) where it patiently awaits to be transmitted to your program.
And that's assuming a direct flow through. With your example, and Linux, the data are input into the keyboard, the keyboard transmits them to the keyboard handler, from there it's transmitted to the input handler, from there it's directed to your programs stdin, then it's most likely stored in the C++ library before it finally gets to your program.
So you see? Just you taking care of your end doesn't guarentee that anyone else has.
Of course then your choice of overwrites are poor. You want to use two values that are complements to each other. Like 0x2a, and ~0x2a.
Then cin doesn't know how much data should be put into the string, and a person could easily crash your program my entering more than 30 characters.
Then you're using "cout" instead of "cin". "cout" is for output, "cin" is for input.
And there are a lot more reliable ways of putting thirty of some value into each element of an array than using a raw strings where one would have to count it themselves.
But don't feel bad, even the best programmers will generate syntax errors from now until eternity.
You raise good points. People use what works for them. I'm able to setup Windows, Linux, and MacOSX just the way I want, and then get on to using the machine.
I've spent many a man-hours trying to get things working with Linux, and at the time I was enjoying it. Now, I use my Mac, and I'm happy that it doesn't crash, and things work even easier than in Windows.
I still use Windows for things that I just can't do in either Mac or Linux, but when you think about it, that means "Games". And even then, a fairly limited subset there of.
New Mexico is a gaping black hole that sucks people in and they never leave. I've had two friends move away just to come back here because this is where they found jobs.
Then of course there's all the other crackpots that live here, making Gentoo fit in real nice. Roswell's alien crowd, and the various hippy religious cults.
What like Prohibition? We in the US know all to well how well that went. Suddenly only criminals had alchohol, and the poor schmucks who wish they had it had to get it illegally.
Outlaw guns in the US, or make them illegal, and you're not going to make it any harder for criminals to get guns. They don't have a 5 day waiting period when they buy out of the back of a van. They don't have background checks, and they don't have to register them.
So now the question becomes: If we outlawed guns in the US, then how are we going to get the criminals to turn in their guns?
Oh, and why do my friends have their guns. BECAUSE THEY WANT TO. You have numerous things in your house that are dangerous if used the wrong way. A gun isn't all that much different if handled properly.
So, yeah, let's outlaw guns in the US, and make sure that only Police (oh, and those dirty, dirty criminals) have them.
Honestly, the entire culture of America establishes the need for a right to arms. We've had it our entire history, and will continue to have it so.
My friends with guns don't have them, because they're worried they might get attacked/mugged/robbed. They have them because they find them interesting.
It's not media or anything that is estabilishing the American "need" for firearms. It's the entire culture.
BTW, Michael Moore is full of crap (just my opinion, and 2 cents)
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I don't think USan is any better... The term for our country is United States of America. Going by the grammatical rules of English, the central root word of this name is "States", so if you're not going to go for American, then you'd have to call them even more generically "Statian" or something like that, which would refer to anyone from any state.
Fact of the matter is that despite the fact that "American" can refer to any nationality in the two American continents the lack of a suitable name for the USA is cause for the only available, decent, and appropriate term for a US citizen to be "American".
Now some languages give a better name to the US, which they can create decent nationality terms for. I can only think of Esperanto with the term for the country being "Usono" (being literally the pronounciation of the letters U-S-N in the Esperanto alphabet) which is a decent enough name to change regularly into a real nationality term. (I don't remember the suffix to do that at the moment)
A Brit is solely from Britan, an Irishmen comes from either Northern Ireland, or Southern Ireland, a Scot comes from Scotland, and a Welshman comes from Wales.
A Ukonian comes from the United Kingdom, and indicates only so much information. The UK much like the US is actually made up of smaller seperate "countries".
Sorry if I misspelt any of those nationalities, or countries, I'm working off little sleep, and I know them better in German, as the US doesn't harp on them too often. All I know for sure are Mexican, American, and Canadian... Everyone else is on the other side of the map to us.
Yeah, "NO other platform has this particular security hole"... um... yeah... except that the underlying cause of the hole is the same problem that exists with the OSX URI handling code, and thus, every single MacOS browser was exploitable by this type of "feature" until Apple fixed the real problem.
Is that why the French translation above is 5 words shorter, and approximately 20 characters shorter than the given English translation?
Of course this could just be a fluke, but then so I've heard in language statistics, English on the whole is shorter than most of the languages out there. In fact, in computer internationalization rules, you want to predict a longer than English translation in all cases.
I personally think Linus should win the money for saying it was a co-production of the Tooth Fairy and Santa Claus.
BAH! %#ers! Of course they cover a good part of Intel, and the GOLF COURSE. Naturally, they cover in Phase I the richest people in the city.
/me walks off ranting.
I mean, I live on 34th St, it's been there for 20 year (about the same age as the city itself), and we won't be covered by the Phase I. (For any who care, 34th St is down near the big circle of Phase I implementation, JUST outside of range)
Oh, and btw, if you were to drive the areas covered, I'm certain that it could come out to 103 sq. miles. Rio Rancho _IS_ freaking sprawled all over the place. I mean, the Golf Course comes up as a small little blob.
Not to mention that Rio Rancho and Albuquerque are in different COUNTIES. This means that, very much like Kansas City, is in Missouri and Kansas, and is "one city" it actually is two cities in entirely every legal meaning of the word.
You just can't have a city span across two counties, because then different parts of it would be subject to different county laws.
To a point, stupid Golf Course road. Rio Rancho updated the road up to where it reaches Albuquerque, I think 2 years ago, and just NOW Albuquerque is working to connect it. And don't even get me started with Unser.... *grrr...*
Green Cards are for Resident Aliens.
And _YES_ people have been asked for their passports when the law officer found out that they were from New Mexico.
They may have more employees in Oregon, but there's a higher CONCENTRATION of Intel employees in Rio Rancho.
Plus, they half own the town. They help built a High School here, and I don't imagine you'd be saying something like "Hey, Intel, you have more employees here, build us one."
Because RR basicly used extortion tactics to build the High School, half threatening to yank a lot of the special priviledges that Intel enjoys here.
I *HATE* freezing at night. :(
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I'm at my friends house where they don't have any cooling during the day, and it gets hotter than an oven in here. Then in the middle of the night it drops down to the point where I'm sitting here SHIVERING....
I can't stand the extremes of New Mexico weather, but then, that's why I've been trying to get out.
Las Cruces is actually pretty good for warm summer nights, and warm winter days. In summer it never really cools down enough at night to make it freezing, and in the winter, you'll freeze on your way to work in the morning, but you'll have to take off your sweater at mid-day.
Hehe, exactly.
To point, I can see the Intel buildings from my house... so my parents will definately be in the coverage area.
Actually, our house is about 20 years old, and is in one of the oldest neighborhoods in RR; if not the oldest.
Rio Rancho High School was built in large part through help from Intel. At one point they were not going to do it, but then the city reminded them that it could at any time annex the property that they're on, and then they'd be subject to property tax, and other taxes having to do with water. (They use a lot of it, so I hear)
RRHS being first open during the school year 1998 (I just barely missed going there) it is current the "new high school" if you're in Rio Rancho.
Bah, it only took him 6 days to "emerge world", I'd say he has a beast system in the first place.
That seems rather ignorant. At least according to Michael Moore, 98% of the time a gun is used during a break-in, it ends up shooting the wrong person
Funny, my statistics say that only happens 42% of the time.
Hey, the reason the US outlawed alchohol initially was because "it was dangerous and promoted crime." Guess what? When they outlawed it, it just made more of a mess than when it was legal.
_THIS_ is the issue at hand. You as a British man can't appreciate the cultural FACT that we are taught that prohibition was a Bad Thing(tm), because it went against every institution that America was built upon.
You as a British man cannot appreciate the matter that any attempt to outlaw guns in the US, will create unrest, and require FORCEFUL removal of these guns from some citizens. In particular there are citizens in Texas, and Montana (at the VERY LEAST) that insist that the only way the Government will remove their right to bear arms, is by PRYING THE GUN FROM THEIR DEAD LIFELESS HAND!
When you're dealing with a culture, where one of the most FUNDAMENTAL institutions is a cititzen's right to bear arms, you can't just turn around and take that back. You can't just say, "Whoops! Guns are bad, everyone give them back." That does NOT work in the USA, and our Prohibition _PROVED_ this point.
yeah, like I said, even the best programmers still produce syntax errors (even stupid ones) years into having done it constantly.
;)
I was more intending on explaining why your code would be ineffective towards combatting the problem raise, than to rag on you for your "poor" coding abilities.
Frankly, I find it impressive that you were able to come up with a solution.
It doesn't solve the fundamental problem.
When a computer key is pressed it generates an interrupts, which causes the OS to pick up. The OS then reads that value from the hardware, and stores it in RAM (where you don't have access to) where it patiently awaits to be transmitted to your program.
And that's assuming a direct flow through. With your example, and Linux, the data are input into the keyboard, the keyboard transmits them to the keyboard handler, from there it's transmitted to the input handler, from there it's directed to your programs stdin, then it's most likely stored in the C++ library before it finally gets to your program.
So you see? Just you taking care of your end doesn't guarentee that anyone else has.
Of course then your choice of overwrites are poor. You want to use two values that are complements to each other. Like 0x2a, and ~0x2a.
Then cin doesn't know how much data should be put into the string, and a person could easily crash your program my entering more than 30 characters.
Then you're using "cout" instead of "cin". "cout" is for output, "cin" is for input.
And there are a lot more reliable ways of putting thirty of some value into each element of an array than using a raw strings where one would have to count it themselves.
But don't feel bad, even the best programmers will generate syntax errors from now until eternity.
You raise good points. People use what works for them. I'm able to setup Windows, Linux, and MacOSX just the way I want, and then get on to using the machine.
I've spent many a man-hours trying to get things working with Linux, and at the time I was enjoying it. Now, I use my Mac, and I'm happy that it doesn't crash, and things work even easier than in Windows.
I still use Windows for things that I just can't do in either Mac or Linux, but when you think about it, that means "Games". And even then, a fairly limited subset there of.
I was born and raised here, haven't found a job to get me out of here yet.
I've been to Georgia for two months, and Germany for a month, but outside of that I've never lived anywhere but in Albuquerque or Las Cruces.
I won't trust security to anyone who can't spell "Padlock" correctly. hehe..
if it's your typo, sorry to tease you about it.
Frankfurter Algemeine LIED TO ME.
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They said last century was 14 times
Perhaps the ultimate solution would be to encrypt data as it is entered, before it is saved into RAM,
Not to mention when you look at how the data is entered, it passes through RAM as one of its very first stages.
This would literally require a kernel patch.
New Mexico is a gaping black hole that sucks people in and they never leave. I've had two friends move away just to come back here because this is where they found jobs.
Then of course there's all the other crackpots that live here, making Gentoo fit in real nice. Roswell's alien crowd, and the various hippy religious cults.
You can mod me down, but it's true.
Just remember, Jesus runs Slackware.
What like Prohibition? We in the US know all to well how well that went. Suddenly only criminals had alchohol, and the poor schmucks who wish they had it had to get it illegally.
Outlaw guns in the US, or make them illegal, and you're not going to make it any harder for criminals to get guns. They don't have a 5 day waiting period when they buy out of the back of a van. They don't have background checks, and they don't have to register them.
So now the question becomes: If we outlawed guns in the US, then how are we going to get the criminals to turn in their guns?
Oh, and why do my friends have their guns. BECAUSE THEY WANT TO. You have numerous things in your house that are dangerous if used the wrong way. A gun isn't all that much different if handled properly.
So, yeah, let's outlaw guns in the US, and make sure that only Police (oh, and those dirty, dirty criminals) have them.
Honestly, the entire culture of America establishes the need for a right to arms. We've had it our entire history, and will continue to have it so.
My friends with guns don't have them, because they're worried they might get attacked/mugged/robbed. They have them because they find them interesting.
It's not media or anything that is estabilishing the American "need" for firearms. It's the entire culture.
BTW, Michael Moore is full of crap (just my opinion, and 2 cents)