Linksys? as far as i remember they opened up the code for wrt54g because of violation of the gpl'ed netfilter code. No, they had to open it up because they patched the kernel to work with Broadcom network hardware. They eventually complied by releasing the patch as a binary blob, but that was quickly reverse-engineered into a real linux Broadcom driver.
and the funny part is linksys now makes extra money for going open source since currently you need to buy a wrt54gL to get the hackable router (the nonL version is a crippled fully proprietary version ) and the MSRP is about US$10 higher The newest (v5 and up) '54G routers aren't "crippled", they just run VxWorks instead of Linux. This change allowed them to do the same job with half the flash memory. Purely a cost cutting maneuver. The fact that they still sell the '54gl model shows they actually learned something from the ordeal.
Yeah.....y'know.... the fact that the GPL doesn't explicitly define "Derivative Works" doesn't give the NMAP folks carte blanche to define it themselves. Despite what they claim, it'd be a tough row to hoe to get a court to agree that parsing factual information from NMAP's output constitutes a "derivative work". They can claim all sorts of nonsense they like. Doesn't make it correct.
I want to know how long before the 'secure' transmissions are decrypted by some black-hat hackers in North Korea and one time pads become a requirement. Like all modern military encrypted communications systems, keys are rotated on a regular basis, so the answer to the above is pretty much "never".
Too bad it's just a one-shot joke account. All his posts come in at -1 because the +1, Funny mods have no karma value, but the -1, (enough of the joke already) ones do. He needs to occasionally log on and post some "I know I'll get modded down for saying this, but..." type posts to bring his karma up.
Non sequiter. What you quote means that other rights retained by the people cannot be trampled on inadvertently by the rights enumerated. In other words, you can't ues your right to bear arms to take my right to life (except in self defense).
Good try though. No, you're an idiot. If you actually knew anything about the history of the bill of rights, you'd know that the 9th was a concession to Hamilton and others, who believed that a bill of rights was unwise:
"I go further, and affirm that bills of rights, in the sense and in the extent in which they are contended for, are not only unnecessary in the proposed constitution, but would even be dangerous. They would contain various exceptions to powers which are not granted; and on this very account, would afford a colorable pretext to claim more than were granted. For why declare that things shall not be done which there is no power to do?" -Hamilton, Alexander. The Federalist Papers, #84. "On opposition to a Bill of Rights."
The 9th (and 10th, for that matter) was included to address Hamilton's specific issues. But let us read the 9th amendment itself, and deduce its meaning based on what it actually says:
"The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people."
See, I don't know where you get the hare-brained idea that the 9th has something to do with enumerated rights trumping one another. It very fucking clearly says what it means. Allow me to paraphrase:
"The fact that we chose to write down a Top Ten List of rights does not in any way imply that the people do not retain a multitude of other rights"
I'd sure love to see you cite a source for your laughable interpretation of the 9th Amendment. The 9th has been routinely ignored by many, but no sane person has ever claimed it meant other than what it says.
How do you know if it is the real police? Simple, legit bad guys will number 2 or 3 and have shot guns and/or pistols. Real police will number 12 or more and have fully automatic AK-47's and hand grenades. nitpick: Police in the US do not carry AK-47s. M-16's or MP-5's, sure. AK? Not a chance in hell. And typically the closest thing to a "hand grenade" they carry is a "flashbang". "Hand grenade" tends to imply frag or concussion grenades used by the military.
a small detachment of a dozen or so trained marines with modern weapons can mow down several thousand citizens. What makes you think those marines are willing to pull the trigger on their fellow countrymen? They're trained to kill foreigners. And nukes, cruise missiles, and "battleships" (we no longer have any of those in service, but you knew that, right?) are completely useless when you're rooting a few hundred (terrorists/freedom fighters) out of one of your own cities.
No, we only need enough guns to beat the cops. The cops are the only ones inculcated with an adversarial relationship withthe public.
The FBI are the scum of the earth. The only lower scum are Bureau of Prisons correctional personnel. In fact, this is being detrimental to the reputation of earth scum to put these people on the same level.
Nah, ATF, DEA, and Secret Service are there too below the FBI, mostly because they secretly wish they were the FBI and subsequently "try harder".
What should be worrying you is... which private investigators are pretending to be FBI agents and submitting national security letters to get information for use in civil proceedings. Ummm....none? PI's have their own interesting and "unofficial" ways of "checking closets for skeletons" that don't put them in danger of losing their state PI licensing. Plenty of smaller, less interesting, more mundane entities with access to that stuff that wouldn't ring anyone's "OMG the FEDS!" bell. Really, only a big, screaming idiot sends anything out on FBI letterhead like that. There are just so many more things you can pretend to be that are as effective, but don't land you in pound-me-in-the-ass federal prison as reliably and quickly as impersonating a federal agent. The second a [bank/ISP/etc] notices it doesn't look like the last such letter they got from the feds and calls the real FBI for clarification, the idiot PI is done. FBI don't fuck around when someone pretends to be them. They nail them...hard.
Unlikely to be happening much, if at all. Pretending to be the FBI will not only instantly lose you your state PI certification, but also land you in federal prison. There's just not enough money in civil case investigation to make ANY time in federal prison worthwhile.
You know what the biggest problem is with the old "If they can put man on the moon, why can't they [X]" cliche? People who use it don't limit it to reasonable and/or humorous accomplishments, like "make a blister pack that doesn't cut you to ribbons opening it". No, instead we get an incessant parade of morons who can't tell the difference between a collaborative effort towards a single narrow goal, and a huge, distributed task with multiple causes. We get idiots wondering why we can't "fix the slums", "stop drunk driving", or (in this case) "positively verify age over the internet". I say we work together to stamp this out. The next time someone utters the "man on the moon" comparison in a non-humorous context, we all agree to rush them and punch them in the stomach until they shut up.
If they can put a man on the moon, then why can't we stop them from comparing stuff to putting a man on the moon?
"One impressive piece of execution is that when you fire the machine up it plays a WAV file of a Ferrari race car revving its engine. That alone is worth the relatively low $1,899 price of admission. Even when I'm in a meeting, I don't turn the sound off because of the unbridled envy that seems to show up in the eyes of my, granted mostly male, co-attendees. So far no one has complained." Yes, I'm sure they all are inwardly sulking, ashamed of how small their wieners are next to yours. You have a Ferrari laptop, after all. And a mustache. How low they must feel in their envy.
I sometimes wonder how a guy like Rob can possibly be for real.
The Five Things You Arent Allowed to Discuss About Linux
Posted by Rob Enderle on Monday 26 February 2007 at 7:44 pm
One: Is Linux a Myth? Because "Linux" comes in so many different distros, he claims there no such specific thing as Linux. Just like there are so many different versions of Windows, that there's no such specific thing as "Windows"? Five minutes in the penalty box with a beginners book on set theory.
Two: Is Linux Secure? Based on his answer to One above, he proclaims that any technical analysis of security is impossible, but he will concentrate on other vulnerabilities unique to Linux. He then goes off on a tangent about "pretexting", which is a security vulnerability common to all systems, which at the end of the diatribe, he even admits. A few backhanded barbs about "commie spies" are included.
Three: Do Communes Work? First he answers "yes, it looks like it", but then goes off about how the commune isn't a happy fairyland where all the members get along (I don't recall any promise of that). He follows on with a silly tangent about the GPL sneaking into your office and stealing all your intellectual property. Yet another idiot who is offended that GPL isn't Public Domain, so people can't just take stuff released under it, polish it, and sell it proprietary-style.
Four: Is Linux Pro-Developer, or Pro-You? Ill-formed argument-- a continuation of his GPL rant above, really-- claiming you can't make money at Linux because it is not a Ferrari, it's a Ford? Then a weird rant about how the recent reduction in outsourcing is making UNIX and mainframes the hot new thing? This guy's all over the map.
Is Linux is Open? He says Linux isn't open because every time he opens his mouth and says something really, really stupid, everyone calls him an idiot and tells him to shut up.
Once again, proof that there's nothing so irritating as a dumbass who thinks he's smart.
U.S. intelligence agencies being adamant about Iraq having WMD's to get enough support to launch an invasion there
I'd say things are just nicely balancing out. I'd say you're an idiot. Two evils only add to the evil of the world, they do not "balance out". It's shitheads like you who believe in "sides" that cause the problem in the first place. Why don't you go drink a bottle of Drano and "balance out" the crap coming out of your mouth.
You're either a radical Zionist zealot or an LGFer.
Spare us your paranoia. The pictures speak for themselves. One need not be on the side of Zionism to see that Hezbollah plays a pretty good game of propaganda. I particularly like the ubiquity of Green Helmet Guy, the apparent Hezbollah media director.
Face it, all those assholes in that part of the world who are at each others throats are same. It's political shitheads like that on both sides that make life unpleasent for normal folks.
Note that I think ne is ridiculous, I would expect that to be a fractional quantity.
You have to make a slight modification if you want to find out if there are alien visitors in UFOs hanging around (add a couple of extra fractional multipliers).
The Drake Equation is a load of crap anyway. While it can be reasonably argued that the equation itself is good, so many of the terms are such complete unknown quantities that anything you plug in will by necessity be a wild-ass guess, and likewise the subsequent answer. Yeah, I agree that setting ne at '2' is ridiculous. Of course, setting the terms that come after ne at anything at all and claiming they're accurate is even worse. Frank Drake's a pie-eyed dreamer who had a foregone conclusion to reach.
when the fact is three of those flipping planes could have hit one of the towers, and they would not [have]... melted the steel See, the rest of your idiot's rant can be discarded as regurgitation by an uneducated fool, based entirely on the above point.
Steel does not need to be brought to its melting point to be structurally weakened enough to fail.
I'm sorry, it just sounds like a bad idea to me for math or science teachers to be paid more.
It's just asking for personnel issues, and it's creating a teacher economic hierarchy where none currently exists, and none needs to exist.
But It does need to exist. The problem is that the teachers union sees them all as the same thing: teachers. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out that it's a hell of a lot easier to teach 3rd graders to spell than it is to teach 11th graders calculus. What kind of idiot marxist do you have to be to insist that Nancy Twinkletoes with her Ba in Child Development be paid the same as Jane Poindexter with a PhD in Mathematics? They both teach children? So the fuck what! The similarity ends there. It makes as much sense as demanding equal wages for NASCAR drivers and bus drivers because they're both just drivers.
that incapacitates everyone on the plane. Is there a chemical that can safely do this? If so then this could be almost fail safe. There is no such chemical. Gas cannot control dosage for body mass. At optimum, the big barrel-chested guys get groggy, the middle sized folks pass out, and the elderly, small women, and children die. See the Moscow Theater debacle with Fentanyl.
Just as a meta question here, I'm at a loss as to why this was rated "Troll". It was meant to point out a legitimate problem. Because there isn't a "-1, stupid" mod. If step 4 had properly been "???", it might've gotten a "+1, funny". Unfortunately, step 4 was "Terrorist ground unit intercepts signal, gains control of plane", which has been pretty much beaten to death here as highly un-fucking likely.
Because, after all, Nav systems are foolproof. They never try to take you the wrong way down a one-way street, or tell you to 'turn left' where there is no street. Irrelevant. Leaving aside the fact that (with the exception of hilarious International Dateline bugs) aircraft navigation systems are a lot more sophisticated and reliable than the Tom Tom on your dashboard, I was merely pointing out that even a passing familiarity with modern technology should have answered all his inane questions.
Besides, as I am reliably informed by others who have RTFA, the plane will be flown by a live person on the ground.
You can safely assume that the aircraft will be flown to the nearest convenient runway from a list of appropriate ones pre-stored on the aircraft itself!
Yes, after all, it being a fully-automated system is the impression I got out of this part of TFA:
After it has been activated, the aircraft will be capable of remote digital control from the ground, enabling operators to fly it like a sophisticated model plane, manoeuvring it vertically and laterally. Didn't Slashdot used to be mostly nerds, who understand that computers (and things containing computers, like nav systems) have advanced beyond what we had in the 1950's?
Didn't Slashdot used to be mostly literate people, who would actually read the articles before commenting?...nah. Really I was just rying to illuminate the GP posters inability to reason through his own scenario. The fact that his scenario was incorrect to begin is a separate issue.
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Yeah.....y'know.... the fact that the GPL doesn't explicitly define "Derivative Works" doesn't give the NMAP folks carte blanche to define it themselves. Despite what they claim, it'd be a tough row to hoe to get a court to agree that parsing factual information from NMAP's output constitutes a "derivative work". They can claim all sorts of nonsense they like. Doesn't make it correct.
Too bad it's just a one-shot joke account. All his posts come in at -1 because the +1, Funny mods have no karma value, but the -1, (enough of the joke already) ones do. He needs to occasionally log on and post some "I know I'll get modded down for saying this, but..." type posts to bring his karma up.
Good try though. No, you're an idiot. If you actually knew anything about the history of the bill of rights, you'd know that the 9th was a concession to Hamilton and others, who believed that a bill of rights was unwise:
"I go further, and affirm that bills of rights, in the sense and in the extent in which they are contended for, are not only unnecessary in the proposed constitution, but would even be dangerous. They would contain various exceptions to powers which are not granted; and on this very account, would afford a colorable pretext to claim more than were granted. For why declare that things shall not be done which there is no power to do?" -Hamilton, Alexander. The Federalist Papers, #84. "On opposition to a Bill of Rights."
The 9th (and 10th, for that matter) was included to address Hamilton's specific issues. But let us read the 9th amendment itself, and deduce its meaning based on what it actually says:
"The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people."
See, I don't know where you get the hare-brained idea that the 9th has something to do with enumerated rights trumping one another. It very fucking clearly says what it means. Allow me to paraphrase:
"The fact that we chose to write down a Top Ten List of rights does not in any way imply that the people do not retain a multitude of other rights"
I'd sure love to see you cite a source for your laughable interpretation of the 9th Amendment. The 9th has been routinely ignored by many, but no sane person has ever claimed it meant other than what it says.
No, we only need enough guns to beat the cops. The cops are the only ones inculcated with an adversarial relationship withthe public.
Nah, ATF, DEA, and Secret Service are there too below the FBI, mostly because they secretly wish they were the FBI and subsequently "try harder".
Unlikely to be happening much, if at all. Pretending to be the FBI will not only instantly lose you your state PI certification, but also land you in federal prison. There's just not enough money in civil case investigation to make ANY time in federal prison worthwhile.
You know what the biggest problem is with the old "If they can put man on the moon, why can't they [X]" cliche? People who use it don't limit it to reasonable and/or humorous accomplishments, like "make a blister pack that doesn't cut you to ribbons opening it". No, instead we get an incessant parade of morons who can't tell the difference between a collaborative effort towards a single narrow goal, and a huge, distributed task with multiple causes. We get idiots wondering why we can't "fix the slums", "stop drunk driving", or (in this case) "positively verify age over the internet". I say we work together to stamp this out. The next time someone utters the "man on the moon" comparison in a non-humorous context, we all agree to rush them and punch them in the stomach until they shut up.
If they can put a man on the moon, then why can't we stop them from comparing stuff to putting a man on the moon?
I sometimes wonder how a guy like Rob can possibly be for real.
The Five Things You Arent Allowed to Discuss About Linux
Posted by Rob Enderle on Monday 26 February 2007 at 7:44 pm
One: Is Linux a Myth?
Because "Linux" comes in so many different distros, he claims there no such specific thing as Linux. Just like there are so many different versions of Windows, that there's no such specific thing as "Windows"? Five minutes in the penalty box with a beginners book on set theory.
Two: Is Linux Secure? Based on his answer to One above, he proclaims that any technical analysis of security is impossible, but he will concentrate on other vulnerabilities unique to Linux. He then goes off on a tangent about "pretexting", which is a security vulnerability common to all systems, which at the end of the diatribe, he even admits. A few backhanded barbs about "commie spies" are included.
Three: Do Communes Work? First he answers "yes, it looks like it", but then goes off about how the commune isn't a happy fairyland where all the members get along (I don't recall any promise of that). He follows on with a silly tangent about the GPL sneaking into your office and stealing all your intellectual property. Yet another idiot who is offended that GPL isn't Public Domain, so people can't just take stuff released under it, polish it, and sell it proprietary-style.
Four: Is Linux Pro-Developer, or Pro-You? Ill-formed argument-- a continuation of his GPL rant above, really-- claiming you can't make money at Linux because it is not a Ferrari, it's a Ford? Then a weird rant about how the recent reduction in outsourcing is making UNIX and mainframes the hot new thing? This guy's all over the map.
Is Linux is Open? He says Linux isn't open because every time he opens his mouth and says something really, really stupid, everyone calls him an idiot and tells him to shut up.
Once again, proof that there's nothing so irritating as a dumbass who thinks he's smart.
I'd say things are just nicely balancing out.
I'd say you're an idiot. Two evils only add to the evil of the world, they do not "balance out". It's shitheads like you who believe in "sides" that cause the problem in the first place. Why don't you go drink a bottle of Drano and "balance out" the crap coming out of your mouth.
Puhlease.
You're either a radical Zionist zealot or an LGFer.
Spare us your paranoia. The pictures speak for themselves. One need not be on the side of Zionism to see that Hezbollah plays a pretty good game of propaganda. I particularly like the ubiquity of Green Helmet Guy, the apparent Hezbollah media director.
Face it, all those assholes in that part of the world who are at each others throats are same. It's political shitheads like that on both sides that make life unpleasent for normal folks.
http://www.activemind.com/Mysterious/Topics/SETI/
Note that I think ne is ridiculous, I would expect that to be a fractional quantity.
You have to make a slight modification if you want to find out if there are alien visitors in UFOs hanging around (add a couple of extra fractional multipliers).
The Drake Equation is a load of crap anyway. While it can be reasonably argued that the equation itself is good, so many of the terms are such complete unknown quantities that anything you plug in will by necessity be a wild-ass guess, and likewise the subsequent answer. Yeah, I agree that setting ne at '2' is ridiculous. Of course, setting the terms that come after ne at anything at all and claiming they're accurate is even worse. Frank Drake's a pie-eyed dreamer who had a foregone conclusion to reach.
Steel does not need to be brought to its melting point to be structurally weakened enough to fail.
You're an idiot.
It's just asking for personnel issues, and it's creating a teacher economic hierarchy where none currently exists, and none needs to exist.
But It does need to exist. The problem is that the teachers union sees them all as the same thing: teachers. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out that it's a hell of a lot easier to teach 3rd graders to spell than it is to teach 11th graders calculus. What kind of idiot marxist do you have to be to insist that Nancy Twinkletoes with her Ba in Child Development be paid the same as Jane Poindexter with a PhD in Mathematics? They both teach children? So the fuck what! The similarity ends there. It makes as much sense as demanding equal wages for NASCAR drivers and bus drivers because they're both just drivers.
Besides, as I am reliably informed by others who have RTFA, the plane will be flown by a live person on the ground.
Yes, after all, it being a fully-automated system is the impression I got out of this part of TFA: After it has been activated, the aircraft will be capable of remote digital control from the ground, enabling operators to fly it like a sophisticated model plane, manoeuvring it vertically and laterally. Didn't Slashdot used to be mostly nerds, who understand that computers (and things containing computers, like nav systems) have advanced beyond what we had in the 1950's?
Didn't Slashdot used to be mostly literate people, who would actually read the articles before commenting?
And no, we never have read the articles.