I'm paid to do it. In a corporation, testers are expected to find at least 2-3 bugs a week. You had a semester.
You're a dick. "You had a semester." Nice attitude. They also had several other classes, undoubtedly demanding classes.
You're paid to do it, and these are students. You're looking at prerelease software, and they're looking at released software. You're looking for any bugs, they're required to find security holes.
Open your eyes and shut your mouth, jackass.
The homework for the course was to find and exploit 10 previously undiscovered security holes in currently deployed Unix software.
And you ignored generationxyu's challenge: if you're such a bug-finding stud, then you find 10 security holes in released open-source software. Since you're such a professional, doing it by January 15th shouldn't be much of a challenge. Posturing with "I'm paid to do it" doesn't prove anything other than what an insensitive asshole you are.
The PTC is exercising THEIR right to free speech. They are finding THEIR voice.
No one suggested they shouldn't, bonehead. The problem here is that one small group is apparently dictating the FCC's control of the public airwaves. They are trying to censor, not because no one here agrees with them, but because they're trying to stop us from seeing shows we want to see because they don't like them.
SUPER MAJORITY's
You mean majorities, genius.
Republican majority,yes MAJORITY
Hmm, well, it's a majority of about 2% -- nothing to be all that proud of. And since a lot of it has been garnered by actively promoting lies ("if don't vote for us, America will get hit again," "John Kerry got his Purple Hearts by shooting himself," "if you vote for the Democrats, they'll ban the bible"), I'd say you have even less to be proud about.
The thing is, those of us who aren't Right-Wing Wackos are a lot smarter than you idiots are. And we're on to your game. As the first Republican president Abe Lincoln said (back when the Republicans were respectable): "You can fool some of the people all of the time, and you can fool all of the people some of the time, but you cannot fool all of the people all of the time." Keep that in mind (presuming you're capable).
Oh, and by the way, Quake Addict: the guys who wrote Quake are flaming liberals who believe in gun control, abortion rights, and the separation of church and state. They wouldn't like you.
I cut and pasted that line directly from the PTC's website; it's apparently their motto. Our children are watching? Why the hell are you letting them? Stop whining to the government and try actually being a parent, you self-obsessed, self-rightous pig-dogs.
Who the hell ever said TV was for children? Why should there be a "family hour?" Why are they watching TV without you, and is it really so bad if they get interested in sex? They will anyway, you self-deluding freaks. Will anything they see on TV really ruin their lives? I grew up watching TV, saw all sorts of sex and violence, and my only problem with it is that I wish I'd spent more of the time reading. (And no, not the bible, you dolt. Grow an imagination.)
And why do you presume to impose your morality on everyone? If you don't like what's on TV, don't watch it.
If "balanced" means "pays a lot of attention to one particular skewed viewpoint from one particular religion" then I guess we're guilty.
Not giving much creedence to a set of beliefs that were invented by some ancient Hebrews five or six thousand years ago isn't bias; it's rationality. Not enjoying the frightened people who demand that everyone conform to their own self-hating concept of "morality" -- priceless.
Since Jesus was actually born in early Spring, Christmas has even less to do with Jesus than you'd think. They (the Catholic church) picked Dec. 25 because it coincides with the Festivus traditions of the ancient Costanzas. Or the pagan traditions of ancient europeans, if you don't like smartasses.
In the Western world, the birthday of Jesus Christ has been celebrated on December 25th since AD 354, replacing an earlier date of January 6th. The Christians had by then appropriated many pagan festivals and traditions of the season, that were practiced in many parts of the Middle East and Europe, as a means of stamping them out.
There were mid-winter festivals in ancient Babylon and Egypt, and Germanic fertility festivals also took place at this time. The birth of the ancient sun-god Attis in Phrygia was celebrated on December 25th, as was the birth of the Persian sun-god, Mithras. The Romans celebrated Saturnalia, a festival dedicated to Saturn, the god of peace and plenty, that ran from the 17th to 24th of December. Public gathering places were decorated with flowers, gifts and candles were exchanged and the population, slaves and masters alike, celebrated the occasion with great enthusiasm.
In Scandinavia, a period of festivities known as Yule contributed another impetus to celebration, as opposed to spirituality. As Winter ended the growing season, the opportunity of enjoying the Summer's bounty encouraged much feasting and merriment.
The Celtic culture of the British Isles revered all green plants, but particularly mistletoe and holly. These were important symbols of fertility and were used for decorating their homes and altars.
New Christmas customs appeared in the Middle Ages. The most prominent contribution was the carol, which by the 14th century had become associated with the religious observance of the birth of Christ.
In Italy, a tradition developed for re-enacting the birth of Christ and the construction of scenes of the nativity. This is said to have been introduced by Saint Francis as part of his efforts to bring spiritual knowledge to the laity.
Saints Days have also contributed to our Christmas celebrations. A prominent figure in today's Christmas is Saint Nicholas who for centuries has been honoured on December 6th. He was one of the forerunners of Santa Claus.
Another popular ritual was the burning of the Yule Log, which is strongly embedded in the pagan worship of vegetation and fire, as well as being associated with magical and spiritual powers.
Celebrating Christmas has been controversial since its inception. Since numerous festivities found their roots in pagan practices, they were greatly frowned upon by conservatives within the Church. The feasting, gift-giving and frequent excesses presented a drastic contrast with the simplicity of the Nativity, and many people throughout the centuries and into the present, condemn such practices as being contrary to the true spirit of Christmas.
The earliest English reference to December 25th as Christmas Day did not come until 1043.
There're too many comments here to scan to know if someone's already suggested this, but:
Tivo can easily fix this by an easy change to their software. When you pick a program to record, you just pick an option that basically says "start recording this show whenever you can." That way, even if a show goes a minute long, you're not going to miss the other show -- except maybe a minute. And I'd rather miss a minute than the whole show.
Now, if a network is consistently 1 minute long with a show, you can simply record by time/date rather than by show name, and start recording a minute later.
But I'd rather have Tivo give us the option to record a show whenever it finishes recording the previous show.
*BSD, 27, of Berkeley, CA died Wednesday, Dec. 1, 2004. Born July 3, 1976, it was the creation of a cluster of pot-smoking hippies who went to Illinois and came home with a reel of tape. Rather than smoke the tape, they uploaded it and hacked on it a little.
*BSD was known for its C shell and early TCP/IP implementation. After being banished from UC Berkeley, it was ported to the x86 platform, where it fell into the hands of heavier pot-smokers who liked to argue. Soon, the project had splintered into 12 different Balkanized projects. Until its death, there was almost constant fighting in and amongst these groups, sometimes degenerating into out-and-out fistfights.
*BSD is survived by its superior, Linux, as well as several commercial unix implementations. It may be missed by some who knew it, although most of them are said to be mere OS dilettante dabblers.
A funeral will be held at 2 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 9, at the Berkeley Chapel on the UC campus, with interment to follow via the burning of the original *BSD tapes and scattering of the ashes over the San Francisco Bay. The Rev. Lou "Buddy" Stubbs will officiate.
The family will receive friends from 7 to 8 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 8, at the funeral home.
Here's a project that would really be good -- it's too bad I'm lame with hardware or I'd start it.
What if you got MythTV working well on an X Box? Then you'd have a Tivo replacement that's about the same price as a Tivo, but (obviously) with all the advantages of open source.
Linux already boots on XBox, so isn't it possible to make MythTV work? Am I the first to think of this?
Shit, we're more than halfway there. The Tali-Bush use 1984-speak (er, NewSpeak) all the time ("we've got to go to war to win the peace"); all that's left is for Rumsfeld to rename his dept. the Ministry of Peace, and I think we're about there.
Your points are well taken and good advice, but do keep in mind that most legislaters don't actually read their letters; their assistants do, and they just keep a tally of the issues and your position(s) on them.
Define surrounding area. Live in Hayward or Dublin and take BART.
Pffft! Pfffffft! That's some good shit you're smoking, man. Pass it around.
Priced housing in Dublin lately? Been mugged in Hayward lately? A 1-bedroom in Dublin is about $2000/month, and that's the starting price. Fremont is a dangerous shithole, just like Hayward. It isn't 1990 anymore. And then there's the communting cost -- both in time (at least an hour from where you're talking) and in money (more than I think you realize).
And I can tell you from experience that living in a moderately safe neighborhood on the peninsula cannot be done for less than $200k/yr.
So who put those chains of mortgages, etc., around their necks?
You're right. If you want to own a house and have a family, you should be prepared to be a slave to corporate America and its rich owners. It's the patriotic thing to do.
Actually, yes, it's even more expensive in this part of California (I am typing in Redwood Shores at the moment) than in Manhattan.
Gas, which is required because we're not on a small island, is ~$2.50/gal (50 cents more than the national average), and the typical house price here tops $800,000. We're not talking about mansions; most of these sub-million-dollar "houses" are condos. A $4,000/month mortgage payment is typical. $100,000+ is not the extreme salary it sounds like. (Knowing the industry and the area, I doubt he made much more than $100,000, muchless $999,999.)
No, no one's forcing us to live here, but this is where the work is.
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Go Tell It on the Mountain (traditional)
Go tell it on the mountain
o'er the hills
and everywhere
Go tell it on the mountain
that *BSD is dead
I wasn't calling the guy names in place of an argument (which is what Ad Hominem means) -- I was telling him he was a jerk for saying what he said.
If you can't tell the difference, perhaps you're the one who doesn't make the intellectual cut, AC.
In a semester. Yeah, that's realistic.
You're a dick. "You had a semester." Nice attitude. They also had several other classes, undoubtedly demanding classes.
You're paid to do it, and these are students. You're looking at prerelease software, and they're looking at released software. You're looking for any bugs, they're required to find security holes.
Open your eyes and shut your mouth, jackass.
The homework for the course was to find and exploit 10 previously undiscovered security holes in currently deployed Unix software.
And you ignored generationxyu's challenge: if you're such a bug-finding stud, then you find 10 security holes in released open-source software. Since you're such a professional, doing it by January 15th shouldn't be much of a challenge. Posturing with "I'm paid to do it" doesn't prove anything other than what an insensitive asshole you are.
Of course we all know *BSD lived in the end and because of it the world was a better place.
Not in this story, because Mike Smith (who is Scrooge in this tale) abandoned *BSD and went to work for Apple instead.
And poor tiny *BSD died.
I'm still working on a clever footer.
,yes MAJORITY
You're still working on being clever, period.
The PTC is exercising THEIR right to free speech. They are finding THEIR voice.
No one suggested they shouldn't, bonehead. The problem here is that one small group is apparently dictating the FCC's control of the public airwaves. They are trying to censor, not because no one here agrees with them, but because they're trying to stop us from seeing shows we want to see because they don't like them.
SUPER MAJORITY's
You mean majorities, genius.
Republican majority
Hmm, well, it's a majority of about 2% -- nothing to be all that proud of. And since a lot of it has been garnered by actively promoting lies ("if don't vote for us, America will get hit again," "John Kerry got his Purple Hearts by shooting himself," "if you vote for the Democrats, they'll ban the bible"), I'd say you have even less to be proud about.
The thing is, those of us who aren't Right-Wing Wackos are a lot smarter than you idiots are. And we're on to your game. As the first Republican president Abe Lincoln said (back when the Republicans were respectable): "You can fool some of the people all of the time, and you can fool all of the people some of the time, but you cannot fool all of the people all of the time." Keep that in mind (presuming you're capable).
Oh, and by the way, Quake Addict: the guys who wrote Quake are flaming liberals who believe in gun control, abortion rights, and the separation of church and state. They wouldn't like you.
Our children are watching
I cut and pasted that line directly from the PTC's website; it's apparently their motto. Our children are watching? Why the hell are you letting them? Stop whining to the government and try actually being a parent, you self-obsessed, self-rightous pig-dogs.
Who the hell ever said TV was for children? Why should there be a "family hour?" Why are they watching TV without you, and is it really so bad if they get interested in sex? They will anyway, you self-deluding freaks. Will anything they see on TV really ruin their lives? I grew up watching TV, saw all sorts of sex and violence, and my only problem with it is that I wish I'd spent more of the time reading. (And no, not the bible, you dolt. Grow an imagination.)
And why do you presume to impose your morality on everyone? If you don't like what's on TV, don't watch it.
If "balanced" means "pays a lot of attention to one particular skewed viewpoint from one particular religion" then I guess we're guilty.
Not giving much creedence to a set of beliefs that were invented by some ancient Hebrews five or six thousand years ago isn't bias; it's rationality. Not enjoying the frightened people who demand that everyone conform to their own self-hating concept of "morality" -- priceless.
Since Jesus was actually born in early Spring, Christmas has even less to do with Jesus than you'd think. They (the Catholic church) picked Dec. 25 because it coincides with the Festivus traditions of the ancient Costanzas. Or the pagan traditions of ancient europeans, if you don't like smartasses.
Quoting http://www.christmas-time.com/cp-hist.html:
In the Western world, the birthday of Jesus Christ has been celebrated on December 25th since AD 354, replacing an earlier date of January 6th. The Christians had by then appropriated many pagan festivals and traditions of the season, that were practiced in many parts of the Middle East and Europe, as a means of stamping them out.
There were mid-winter festivals in ancient Babylon and Egypt, and Germanic fertility festivals also took place at this time. The birth of the ancient sun-god Attis in Phrygia was celebrated on December 25th, as was the birth of the Persian sun-god, Mithras. The Romans celebrated Saturnalia, a festival dedicated to Saturn, the god of peace and plenty, that ran from the 17th to 24th of December. Public gathering places were decorated with flowers, gifts and candles were exchanged and the population, slaves and masters alike, celebrated the occasion with great enthusiasm.
In Scandinavia, a period of festivities known as Yule contributed another impetus to celebration, as opposed to spirituality. As Winter ended the growing season, the opportunity of enjoying the Summer's bounty encouraged much feasting and merriment.
The Celtic culture of the British Isles revered all green plants, but particularly mistletoe and holly. These were important symbols of fertility and were used for decorating their homes and altars.
New Christmas customs appeared in the Middle Ages. The most prominent contribution was the carol, which by the 14th century had become associated with the religious observance of the birth of Christ.
In Italy, a tradition developed for re-enacting the birth of Christ and the construction of scenes of the nativity. This is said to have been introduced by Saint Francis as part of his efforts to bring spiritual knowledge to the laity.
Saints Days have also contributed to our Christmas celebrations. A prominent figure in today's Christmas is Saint Nicholas who for centuries has been honoured on December 6th. He was one of the forerunners of Santa Claus.
Another popular ritual was the burning of the Yule Log, which is strongly embedded in the pagan worship of vegetation and fire, as well as being associated with magical and spiritual powers.
Celebrating Christmas has been controversial since its inception. Since numerous festivities found their roots in pagan practices, they were greatly frowned upon by conservatives within the Church. The feasting, gift-giving and frequent excesses presented a drastic contrast with the simplicity of the Nativity, and many people throughout the centuries and into the present, condemn such practices as being contrary to the true spirit of Christmas.
The earliest English reference to December 25th as Christmas Day did not come until 1043.
Actually, tradition is that he had three: two regular ones and a nubbin.
Score -2: boneheaded. What does "believing in Jesus" have to do with being offended by a nipple?
There're too many comments here to scan to know if someone's already suggested this, but:
Tivo can easily fix this by an easy change to their software. When you pick a program to record, you just pick an option that basically says "start recording this show whenever you can." That way, even if a show goes a minute long, you're not going to miss the other show -- except maybe a minute. And I'd rather miss a minute than the whole show.
Now, if a network is consistently 1 minute long with a show, you can simply record by time/date rather than by show name, and start recording a minute later.
But I'd rather have Tivo give us the option to record a show whenever it finishes recording the previous show.
*BSD Obituary
*BSD, 27, of Berkeley, CA died Wednesday, Dec. 1, 2004. Born July 3, 1976, it was the creation of a cluster of pot-smoking hippies who went to Illinois and came home with a reel of tape. Rather than smoke the tape, they uploaded it and hacked on it a little.
*BSD was known for its C shell and early TCP/IP implementation. After being banished from UC Berkeley, it was ported to the x86 platform, where it fell into the hands of heavier pot-smokers who liked to argue. Soon, the project had splintered into 12 different Balkanized projects. Until its death, there was almost constant fighting in and amongst these groups, sometimes degenerating into out-and-out fistfights.
*BSD is survived by its superior, Linux, as well as several commercial unix implementations. It may be missed by some who knew it, although most of them are said to be mere OS dilettante dabblers.
A funeral will be held at 2 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 9, at the Berkeley Chapel on the UC campus, with interment to follow via the burning of the original *BSD tapes and scattering of the ashes over the San Francisco Bay. The Rev. Lou "Buddy" Stubbs will officiate.
The family will receive friends from 7 to 8 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 8, at the funeral home.
Matthew 5:39
"But I say to you, do not resist an evil person; but whoever slaps you on your right cheek, turn the other to him also."
Matthew 26:52
Then Jesus said to him, "Put your sword back into its place; for all those who take up the sword shall perish by the sword.
Whatever kind of weed this guy is smoking, he really ought to share.
What the hell is he talking about? People will use Slowlaris if it's free? Like that's the only reason we're not using it? Please.
What if you got MythTV working well on an X Box? Then you'd have a Tivo replacement that's about the same price as a Tivo, but (obviously) with all the advantages of open source.
Linux already boots on XBox, so isn't it possible to make MythTV work? Am I the first to think of this?
Shit, we're more than halfway there. The Tali-Bush use 1984-speak (er, NewSpeak) all the time ("we've got to go to war to win the peace"); all that's left is for Rumsfeld to rename his dept. the Ministry of Peace, and I think we're about there.
Well, isn't Replay out of business?
Your points are well taken and good advice, but do keep in mind that most legislaters don't actually read their letters; their assistants do, and they just keep a tally of the issues and your position(s) on them.
Pffft! Pfffffft! That's some good shit you're smoking, man. Pass it around.
Priced housing in Dublin lately? Been mugged in Hayward lately? A 1-bedroom in Dublin is about $2000/month, and that's the starting price. Fremont is a dangerous shithole, just like Hayward. It isn't 1990 anymore. And then there's the communting cost -- both in time (at least an hour from where you're talking) and in money (more than I think you realize).
And I can tell you from experience that living in a moderately safe neighborhood on the peninsula cannot be done for less than $200k/yr.
You're right. If you want to own a house and have a family, you should be prepared to be a slave to corporate America and its rich owners. It's the patriotic thing to do.
Dick.
$95k/yr is not a lot of money in Redwood Shores and the surrounding area. Cost of living is very high.
Actually, yes, it's even more expensive in this part of California (I am typing in Redwood Shores at the moment) than in Manhattan.
Gas, which is required because we're not on a small island, is ~$2.50/gal (50 cents more than the national average), and the typical house price here tops $800,000. We're not talking about mansions; most of these sub-million-dollar "houses" are condos. A $4,000/month mortgage payment is typical. $100,000+ is not the extreme salary it sounds like. (Knowing the industry and the area, I doubt he made much more than $100,000, muchless $999,999.)
No, no one's forcing us to live here, but this is where the work is.
Sounds good, but wouldn't this be just for non-exempt (hourly) employees? I doubt most EA employees are hourly.