Yes, as opposed to involuntary (compulsory) ones. When you go to the newsstand and buy a magazine, that's an "involuntary" payment. If you want to read the content, you HAVE to pay for it. Voluntary means if you like it you can pay for it, but you don't have to if you don't want to. Like slashdot.
Actually, a not-so-recent form of copy protection was to introduce errors into the data. This screwed up reading the CD as data and prevented you from making a bit-for-bit copy of it. (The drive saw an error, tried to correct it, but failed; this gave dd a read error which caused it to abort.)
cdparanoia had no problem with it, though. The RIAA will always be three or four steps behind the "pirates".
Oh, so you mean that if an application turns out differently in practice than in theory, we can change definition of the name of the theory to match the product of the application?
Umm, that's exactly what he means. That's how this thing called "language" works.
Well, jrockway's Completely Arbitrary Killing Law has now been invoked, and you're on my list. Time for you to die!
Seriously, Godwin's law is RIDICULOUS. It's arbitrary and childish... if people want to have a discussion about Nazis, then they will. Some dumb "law" coined by a Usenetter with too much time is not a good way to determine what and what not to discuss!
Informed consent is something you have to have from human subjects, not their computers. If you are going to irradiate someone's genitals, you need their informed consent. If you are going to remove viruses from their computer, though, you don't need that. You can do whatever the hell you want to computers. Nobody cares. They might get mad when their porn stash is gone, but they're not going to have any legal feet to stand on. Sorry that your cynicism doesn't match up with reality.
> They can't be used in web pages unless you want them to be Mozilla-only, of course.
Of course, who wouldn't want their web page to be Mozilla-only? I think I am going to rewrite my webpage with these extenstions in mind. Fuck off and die, IE.
Speakeasy also seems to be Covad with their logo slapped on. When you have a problem with the connection, you call speakeasy, but then speakeasy calls Covad to do line tests / service. I don't think Covad actually provides a 'net connection, though, just a line from your house to their office (at which point you can be connected to the Real Internet)... but maybe not... I think SBC must be involved somewhere in there too *sigh*
His comment isn't from a CS perspective, it's from a code monkey perspective. CS people use mathematics to prove their code correct, application programmers write stuff and are happy it works.
We have "silent" MPC computers in one of our computer labs. The silence is a copmromise between noise and melting the processor. Once in a while, we install a gaming image onto these machines... but it's pretty much useless because every single machine crashes solid after about ten minutes of gaming.
I believe that ThinkGeek has a shirt that says, "There are 10 types of people in the world: Those who get jokes where 10 (base 2) is actually 2 (base 10), and those who just got it and feel the need to explain it to everyone."
PLEASE use spell check. Spelling is an important part of English. It is hard to take things seriously when everything is spelled wrong. I'm sure you're not a native speaker, but if you want to be taken seriously by them then USE SPELL CHECK.
You're completely wrong. By your logic, my taxes shouldn't pay for roads because I don't drive. The road system doesn't sound like "well, there's no other way to get this done so we'll have to bite the bullet and have the government handle it"... if the road system were private whoever owned it would be the richest person on Earth.
Basically the government spends money on what it wants to, and it's too bad if you don't like it. I want WiFi, you want roads. You can't always get what you want...
(Try it:./calc_secret_of_the_universe_and_then_self_destru ct.pl >/dev/null. You'll notice that the answer was written but you can't read it:-)
Read only memory is another story all together and is probably where you would want to store this pointer. The operating system can tell the processor to make a page read only, and all writes to it will be denied in hardware. Of course, a crashed OS could tell the processor to make the page writable and then overwrite it with a bad value, causing the error log to be dumped on the output of./calc_secret_of_the_universe_and_then_self_destru ct.pl and thus wiping out the entire human race. That's right. Wipe out the entire human race.
Slashdot Mirror
Sometimes it's hard to tell these days... *sigh*
Yes, as opposed to involuntary (compulsory) ones. When you go to the newsstand and buy a magazine, that's an "involuntary" payment. If you want to read the content, you HAVE to pay for it. Voluntary means if you like it you can pay for it, but you don't have to if you don't want to. Like slashdot.
Actually, a not-so-recent form of copy protection was to introduce errors into the data. This screwed up reading the CD as data and prevented you from making a bit-for-bit copy of it. (The drive saw an error, tried to correct it, but failed; this gave dd a read error which caused it to abort.)
cdparanoia had no problem with it, though. The RIAA will always be three or four steps behind the "pirates".
It's running fine on my Ultra 1. I can even read slashdot with it!
And as I once said, "Republicans are just douches with their heads up their asses."
Oh, you mean quoting some random person doesn't make the statement true? "A witty quotation means nothing."
Oh, so you mean that if an application turns out differently in practice than in theory, we can change definition of the name of the theory to match the product of the application?
Umm, that's exactly what he means. That's how this thing called "language" works.
Well, jrockway's Completely Arbitrary Killing Law has now been invoked, and you're on my list. Time for you to die!
Seriously, Godwin's law is RIDICULOUS. It's arbitrary and childish... if people want to have a discussion about Nazis, then they will. Some dumb "law" coined by a Usenetter with too much time is not a good way to determine what and what not to discuss!
Informed consent is something you have to have from human subjects, not their computers. If you are going to irradiate someone's genitals, you need their informed consent. If you are going to remove viruses from their computer, though, you don't need that. You can do whatever the hell you want to computers. Nobody cares. They might get mad when their porn stash is gone, but they're not going to have any legal feet to stand on. Sorry that your cynicism doesn't match up with reality.
> They can't be used in web pages unless you want them to be Mozilla-only, of course.
Of course, who wouldn't want their web page to be Mozilla-only? I think I am going to rewrite my webpage with these extenstions in mind. Fuck off and die, IE.
Speakeasy also seems to be Covad with their logo slapped on. When you have a problem with the connection, you call speakeasy, but then speakeasy calls Covad to do line tests / service. I don't think Covad actually provides a 'net connection, though, just a line from your house to their office (at which point you can be connected to the Real Internet)... but maybe not... I think SBC must be involved somewhere in there too *sigh*
ISO9960 isn't a charset. You must be thinking of ISO9660, the standard for CD-ROM filesystems.
Uh, but xdvi and dvips should have no trouble.
> Birthday: 659368320
$ date -r 659368320
Fri Nov 23 07:52:00 CST 1990
Damn 14 year-olds on slashdot... epoch times aren't that cool....
> at what point does that person's actions become an invasion of my privacy?
When they follow you into your house and continue listening. When you're in public, you can expect no privacy. Hence "public".
His comment isn't from a CS perspective, it's from a code monkey perspective. CS people use mathematics to prove their code correct, application programmers write stuff and are happy it works.
We have "silent" MPC computers in one of our computer labs. The silence is a copmromise between noise and melting the processor. Once in a while, we install a gaming image onto these machines... but it's pretty much useless because every single machine crashes solid after about ten minutes of gaming.
Silent != good.
> what I think USofAmericans call crisps
Nope, we call them potato chips, too. Some other English-speaking country calls them crisps, though, I think.
I believe that ThinkGeek has a shirt that says, "There are 10 types of people in the world: Those who get jokes where 10 (base 2) is actually 2 (base 10), and those who just got it and feel the need to explain it to everyone."
:)
Which one are you?
excelloration? Now I've seen everything.
PLEASE use spell check. Spelling is an important part of English. It is hard to take things seriously when everything is spelled wrong. I'm sure you're not a native speaker, but if you want to be taken seriously by them then USE SPELL CHECK.
> see journal
You don't have a journal.
You're completely wrong. By your logic, my taxes shouldn't pay for roads because I don't drive. The road system doesn't sound like "well, there's no other way to get this done so we'll have to bite the bullet and have the government handle it"... if the road system were private whoever owned it would be the richest person on Earth.
Basically the government spends money on what it wants to, and it's too bad if you don't like it. I want WiFi, you want roads. You can't always get what you want...
It's Costanza.
What's funny is that filming yourself paying $500 for sex is legal, but not filming it is a crime. What a strange country we live in...
Mod parent down. What a worthless comment.
(I'll probably get modded down for saying this, but I have karma to burn.)
Write only memory? That's /dev/null.
./calc_secret_of_the_universe_and_then_self_destru ct.pl > /dev/null. You'll notice that the answer was written but you can't read it :-)
./calc_secret_of_the_universe_and_then_self_destru ct.pl and thus wiping out the entire human race. That's right. Wipe out the entire human race.
(Try it:
Read only memory is another story all together and is probably where you would want to store this pointer. The operating system can tell the processor to make a page read only, and all writes to it will be denied in hardware. Of course, a crashed OS could tell the processor to make the page writable and then overwrite it with a bad value, causing the error log to be dumped on the output of