While doing that clean up any bad language in the comments and code.
*cough*
gr1m linux # grep -ri fuck * Documentation/DocBook/kernel-locking.sgml: If you don't see why, please stay the fuck away from my code. arch/mips/pci/pci-ip27.c: * IOC3 is fucked fucked beyond believe... Don't even give the arch/mips/kernel/irixioctl.c: * irixioctl.c: A fucking mess... arch/mips/kernel/irixelf.c:#if 0/* XXX No fucking way dude... */ arch/sparc/kernel/ptrace.c:/* Fuck me gently with a chainsaw... */ arch/sparc/kernel/head.S:/* XXX Fucking Cypress... */ arch/sparc64/kernel/traps.c:/* Why the fuck did they have to change this? */ drivers/ide/pci/cmd640.c: * These chips are basically fucked by design, and getting this driver drivers/net/sunhme.c:/* Only Sun can take such nice parts and fuck up the programming interface include/linux/netfilter_ipv4/ipt_limit. h:/* Ugly, ugly fucker. */ lib/vsprintf.c: * Wirzenius wrote this portably, Torvalds fucked it up:-)
A security vulnerability behind a firewall is still a security vulnerability. Hiding behind a firewall should not be the solution.
Don't get me wrong. I understand the reasons for using a firewall to help prevent attacks against undisclosed or unknown security holes in a system, but that doesn't mean developers shouldn't strive to develop software that doesn't need one.
The fact that XP SP2 is vulnerable to this is NOT the fault of the user, and I'm amazed you'd dare try to pin it on them. Microsoft should have learned this lesson 8 years ago when they fixed the problem in Windows 95. Hell even Linux was vulnerable to the attack iirc, but Linux is still immune to it. Perhaps the user could have taken more precautions to avoid being exposed to it, but the very fact that it exists is not their fault.
Most of us here realize this and consider it a good thing. What... you didn't think that we didn't realize that printer manufacturers recouped costs by selling ink, did you?
You didn't really explain why this would be an inproper tactic. Having an active warning system if you try to install a program known (not neccessarily by you, but to the anti spyware company) to have spyware would be great. Zone Alarm is also a pretty decent piece of software. As far as I'm concerned once the solution is available, it's the users responsibility to use it. Especially if the software is free, then the developer shouldn't be held accountable or care if the user doesn't give a shit enough about their own privacy or computer to do what is required to protect it. "I can't think too hard or my brain hurts" is not an acceptable reason to redesign a working system.
Most states now require you to pay sales tax for out of state purchases. They just don't quite know how to enforce it, but once they do, you will pay. If you try to fight the IRS you will lose, and they will demonstrate to you the depth of your mistake.
Yes, and I agree 100%. However, with the greater context in mind, if IBM would throw some of its resources behind WINE and a POWER port of it then things might improve faster than they are. I think it'd be awesome if WINE finally reached a level of compatibility that allowed almost any windows program to be executed or compiled on other platforms. I doubt it will happen, but one can dream:).
You missed the point. Unfortunately WINE has become known for being able to run windows executables on linux, when its true power lies in providing windows api's on linux that you can compile against. The point being you take your windows source code, compile it in linux, and link it to the wine libraries providing a win32 api in linux. If you do this, you don't need an x86 emulator because you have freshly compiled POWER code linked to WINE's libraries which provide a source compatible win32 API.
Of course the matter is oversimplified, and wine definately doesn't cover the entire win32 api yet. It can still provide an easier path than completely rewriting an app. I hope this clarifies things a bit about how wine can be used to not only port windows code to linux, but to linux on a different architecture as well.
But if Slashdot can't be bothered to do it to their page
Are you sure it is slashdots problem? I was under the impression it was a firefox bug. Isn't one of the supposed advantages of a standards conformant browser that you don't have to design your page around the browser? This is mozilla's problem to fix not slashdots.
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B can also be a problem if you ever give the link to someone with googles search bar in IE. IIRC that will send URL's typed directly into IE to google for indexing.
People like this guy are missing the point. This is not very different from a DCC file send on IRC. There is a reason the RIAA is going after suprnova and not bittorrent itself. They could care less if it's possible to connect to another system on the internet and send data two ways (who'd have thunk it?!). The term p2p has changed somewhat to imply a database and/or search functionality of shared content coupled with the ability to send that content to anyone who requests it. THAT is what the RIAA doesn't want. Unfortunately this 15 line Python program doesn't allow me to type "Radiohead" into an input box and press a search button, then have nearly instant access to hundreds of copies of radiohead songs from people accross the planet. This was never about sending files. It has always been about organized systems used almost exclusively to illegaly find and distribute copyrighted materials.
Um, risk what exactly? Do you think these overclocking happy geeks are gonna stay happy when their brand new chip won't overclock because some lame ass asian company relabeled the chip? It could be said AMD is doing this for the enthusiasts. However, that is probably not true. It just happens to be in the enthusiasts favor. As I understand it changing a 2500+ from 333Mhz fsb to 400Mhz is pretty easy and almost always successful, but what if that shiney new 2500+ I bought as actually a relabeled 2100+, or worse?
Or... wait a sec... you didn't actually think AMD was going after them because they were selling overclocked chips, did you? I mean... you did notice that they were relabeling the chips and not telling anyone they were overclocked.. Ya, surely you did...
Interesting thing to say considering the article is about people who don't understand Einstein's contributions... Light is simply energy, it is the E part of this equation. This equation tells you how much energy a given amount of mass contains if you were to convert all of the mass to energy. On the flipside, you can have m = E/c^2. This tells you how much mass you'd have if you converted all of a given amount of energy (E) to mass. It is accepted that such a thing can be done. This equation is all about how matter and energy relate, and light, being a form of energy, is very relevent.
Instead of fearing what might be the cause, perhaps you should actually FIND the cause? The last time my system went unstable I found a bad stick of RAM, but as it turns out even that was a symptom of another problem. When a second stick went bad I tested the PSU, and found it was putting out dirty power. I replaced the RAM and the PSU and voila, no more instability. Don't just live with an unstable system and wonder who to blame, find the reason it is unstable, fix it, and determine is the reason was bad design or just age. Perhaps nobody is to blame. Hell, it might just be software related.
It has come to my attention that you may have missed the point of what was said in the summary. The point was the thinkgeek laser is no longer cool BECAUSE of the difference. The thinkgeek laser cannot be used to burn holes in paper cups. Armed with this new information, you should be able to deduce that the story submitter realized, in fact even depended on, the difference between the two products.
I think you might be getting confused with the word observer. I don't think anyone said or mean tto imply an intelligent observer. Science tends to put an extremely literal spin on words it uses. The last line of the post you responded to shows my point.... something about the universe could depend on the state, which is as good as an observer looking at it.
In the context of the original post, this "something" could be as simple as the photon hitting an oxygen molecule.
All major projects should have elected core members, and shouldn't be dependent on them.
While I accept and might even agree with your views, these days I am wary of people that say such things because so many of them try to legislate what they think should happen. In the end the creator of a project should be free to hold onto or let go of as much control as he wants. Especially a free non-profit project. While the popularity may be nice, it is still the creators project, and if decides he wants to be able to pull the plug and screw thousands of users on a whim then that is his business. Those users were never forced to use his project. It may suck, but it is the way it "should" be.
but I fail to see how a successful cloning experiment completely disproves the idea that helps countless millions cope with their lives.
i.e. the people the science is supposedly trying to improve the lives of.
Lets get one thing straight. Improving how we live is a side effect of science, not the purpose. Science is also not interested in helping people "cope". If you have to believe in something that cannot be verified to even exist just to justify your life or to cope, then you must accept the possibility that such a thing may be shown to not exist.
I do, however, agree that being able to clone does not disprove the soul. Just because we can kick off the chain reaction does not mean we fully understand it.
Where are these new terms coming from? At least you didn't use the dreaded "blog." However... Xanga? Maybe I should get out of my old as dirt IRC chat room sometime, but do I want to?
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While doing that clean up any bad language in the comments and code.
... Don't even give the /* XXX No fucking way dude... */ /* XXX Fucking Cypress... */ /* Why the fuck did they have to change this? */. h: /* Ugly, ugly fucker. */ :-)
*cough*
gr1m linux # grep -ri fuck *
Documentation/DocBook/kernel-locking.sgml: If you don't see why, please stay the fuck away from my code.
arch/mips/pci/pci-ip27.c: * IOC3 is fucked fucked beyond believe
arch/mips/kernel/irixioctl.c: * irixioctl.c: A fucking mess...
arch/mips/kernel/irixelf.c:#if 0
arch/sparc/kernel/ptrace.c:/* Fuck me gently with a chainsaw... */
arch/sparc/kernel/head.S:
arch/sparc64/kernel/traps.c:
drivers/ide/pci/cmd640.c: * These chips are basically fucked by design, and getting this driver
drivers/net/sunhme.c:/* Only Sun can take such nice parts and fuck up the programming interface
include/linux/netfilter_ipv4/ipt_limit
lib/vsprintf.c: * Wirzenius wrote this portably, Torvalds fucked it up
etc. etc. etc.
Go away language police... they are just words.
And who says that all power gamers only play MMORPG's?
A security vulnerability behind a firewall is still a security vulnerability. Hiding behind a firewall should not be the solution.
Don't get me wrong. I understand the reasons for using a firewall to help prevent attacks against undisclosed or unknown security holes in a system, but that doesn't mean developers shouldn't strive to develop software that doesn't need one.
The fact that XP SP2 is vulnerable to this is NOT the fault of the user, and I'm amazed you'd dare try to pin it on them. Microsoft should have learned this lesson 8 years ago when they fixed the problem in Windows 95. Hell even Linux was vulnerable to the attack iirc, but Linux is still immune to it. Perhaps the user could have taken more precautions to avoid being exposed to it, but the very fact that it exists is not their fault.
Most of us here realize this and consider it a good thing. What... you didn't think that we didn't realize that printer manufacturers recouped costs by selling ink, did you?
I pray for your sake that you were being sarcastic.
You didn't really explain why this would be an inproper tactic. Having an active warning system if you try to install a program known (not neccessarily by you, but to the anti spyware company) to have spyware would be great. Zone Alarm is also a pretty decent piece of software. As far as I'm concerned once the solution is available, it's the users responsibility to use it. Especially if the software is free, then the developer shouldn't be held accountable or care if the user doesn't give a shit enough about their own privacy or computer to do what is required to protect it. "I can't think too hard or my brain hurts" is not an acceptable reason to redesign a working system.
Most states now require you to pay sales tax for out of state purchases. They just don't quite know how to enforce it, but once they do, you will pay. If you try to fight the IRS you will lose, and they will demonstrate to you the depth of your mistake.
Yes, and I agree 100%. However, with the greater context in mind, if IBM would throw some of its resources behind WINE and a POWER port of it then things might improve faster than they are. I think it'd be awesome if WINE finally reached a level of compatibility that allowed almost any windows program to be executed or compiled on other platforms. I doubt it will happen, but one can dream :).
You missed the point. Unfortunately WINE has become known for being able to run windows executables on linux, when its true power lies in providing windows api's on linux that you can compile against. The point being you take your windows source code, compile it in linux, and link it to the wine libraries providing a win32 api in linux. If you do this, you don't need an x86 emulator because you have freshly compiled POWER code linked to WINE's libraries which provide a source compatible win32 API.
Of course the matter is oversimplified, and wine definately doesn't cover the entire win32 api yet. It can still provide an easier path than completely rewriting an app. I hope this clarifies things a bit about how wine can be used to not only port windows code to linux, but to linux on a different architecture as well.
But if Slashdot can't be bothered to do it to their page
Are you sure it is slashdots problem? I was under the impression it was a firefox bug. Isn't one of the supposed advantages of a standards conformant browser that you don't have to design your page around the browser? This is mozilla's problem to fix not slashdots.
That would be trademark law.
B can also be a problem if you ever give the link to someone with googles search bar in IE. IIRC that will send URL's typed directly into IE to google for indexing.
Ya, you are missing the ability to backup your recordings so you can archive your favorite shows "for all time."
People like this guy are missing the point. This is not very different from a DCC file send on IRC. There is a reason the RIAA is going after suprnova and not bittorrent itself. They could care less if it's possible to connect to another system on the internet and send data two ways (who'd have thunk it?!). The term p2p has changed somewhat to imply a database and/or search functionality of shared content coupled with the ability to send that content to anyone who requests it. THAT is what the RIAA doesn't want. Unfortunately this 15 line Python program doesn't allow me to type "Radiohead" into an input box and press a search button, then have nearly instant access to hundreds of copies of radiohead songs from people accross the planet. This was never about sending files. It has always been about organized systems used almost exclusively to illegaly find and distribute copyrighted materials.
Seems rather self evident to me that this isn't about size. It's an indication of simplicity.
Um, risk what exactly? Do you think these overclocking happy geeks are gonna stay happy when their brand new chip won't overclock because some lame ass asian company relabeled the chip? It could be said AMD is doing this for the enthusiasts. However, that is probably not true. It just happens to be in the enthusiasts favor. As I understand it changing a 2500+ from 333Mhz fsb to 400Mhz is pretty easy and almost always successful, but what if that shiney new 2500+ I bought as actually a relabeled 2100+, or worse?
Or... wait a sec... you didn't actually think AMD was going after them because they were selling overclocked chips, did you? I mean... you did notice that they were relabeling the chips and not telling anyone they were overclocked.. Ya, surely you did...
Interesting thing to say considering the article is about people who don't understand Einstein's contributions... Light is simply energy, it is the E part of this equation. This equation tells you how much energy a given amount of mass contains if you were to convert all of the mass to energy. On the flipside, you can have m = E/c^2. This tells you how much mass you'd have if you converted all of a given amount of energy (E) to mass. It is accepted that such a thing can be done. This equation is all about how matter and energy relate, and light, being a form of energy, is very relevent.
Instead of fearing what might be the cause, perhaps you should actually FIND the cause? The last time my system went unstable I found a bad stick of RAM, but as it turns out even that was a symptom of another problem. When a second stick went bad I tested the PSU, and found it was putting out dirty power. I replaced the RAM and the PSU and voila, no more instability. Don't just live with an unstable system and wonder who to blame, find the reason it is unstable, fix it, and determine is the reason was bad design or just age. Perhaps nobody is to blame. Hell, it might just be software related.
It has come to my attention that you may have missed the point of what was said in the summary. The point was the thinkgeek laser is no longer cool BECAUSE of the difference. The thinkgeek laser cannot be used to burn holes in paper cups. Armed with this new information, you should be able to deduce that the story submitter realized, in fact even depended on, the difference between the two products.
I think you might be getting confused with the word observer. I don't think anyone said or mean tto imply an intelligent observer. Science tends to put an extremely literal spin on words it uses. The last line of the post you responded to shows my point. ... something about the universe could depend on the state, which is as good as an observer looking at it.
In the context of the original post, this "something" could be as simple as the photon hitting an oxygen molecule.
I've been using opengl in zsnes for over a year, maybe two... where'd you get the idea that it didn't do it?
All major projects should have elected core members, and shouldn't be dependent on them.
While I accept and might even agree with your views, these days I am wary of people that say such things because so many of them try to legislate what they think should happen. In the end the creator of a project should be free to hold onto or let go of as much control as he wants. Especially a free non-profit project. While the popularity may be nice, it is still the creators project, and if decides he wants to be able to pull the plug and screw thousands of users on a whim then that is his business. Those users were never forced to use his project. It may suck, but it is the way it "should" be.
but I fail to see how a successful cloning experiment completely disproves the idea that helps countless millions cope with their lives.
i.e. the people the science is supposedly trying to improve the lives of.
Lets get one thing straight. Improving how we live is a side effect of science, not the purpose. Science is also not interested in helping people "cope". If you have to believe in something that cannot be verified to even exist just to justify your life or to cope, then you must accept the possibility that such a thing may be shown to not exist.
I do, however, agree that being able to clone does not disprove the soul. Just because we can kick off the chain reaction does not mean we fully understand it.
Where are these new terms coming from? At least you didn't use the dreaded "blog." However... Xanga? Maybe I should get out of my old as dirt IRC chat room sometime, but do I want to?
So when did this happen? I remember back in the good old days when we called them long lines...