Uhhh. the AGP bus is meant for VIDEO cards, whereas PCI is more general purpose..
Uhh, no. AGP is another bus on the system. It's basically a high speed memory bus, and while it is optimised for one way, processor -> agp transfers, that by no means limits its use to video cards. I could see where it'd be useful to say, dump a chunk of encrypted data straight into a piece of shared memory for the processor card to sit there and chew on, or maybe dump a raw stream of audio through for the processor card to encode to a format such as real audio, leaving the PCI bus free for the task of actually shipping that stream out to clients.
Just because it's mostly used for video cards now, doesn't mean that video cards are the only thing AGP is good for.
To avoid having runaway nanotechs, you make them highly oxidizable so that exposure to o2 would rust them quickly. Then they can only work in inert gasses.
Sure, it limits a lot of the practical use of nanotechs, but since this is a new technology proceed carefully. Give them 20 years testing and using nanotechs in inert gas before you think about deploying them in environments containing oxygene, that way they have real world tests of how well nanotech's work and how likely they are to run away.
You'll want to be careful when you set this up though, as if you're not careful users can gain root access very easily. For anything you want to allow via sudo, you'll want to make sure it has no buffer overflows or a way to run arbitrary code. I'd recommend checking the source for anything you want to allow, looking for dangerous syscalls such as strcpy() and memcpy() (Basically any syscall that doesn't do bounds checking) and as a further measure, compile them all with Stackguard. For scripts, you don't want to allow anything the user has access to modify, and probably don't want to give them read access either. And make sure all your scripts use dynamic filenames for any temp files, as you don't want to give the user a race condition they could use to gain elevated priviledges.
Although, back to the original question, why not export each home directory individually, and allow only that user's workstation to mount their homedir? Sure, it's a little more to setup, and can make for a rather large exports file, but if you aren't moving people from workstation to workstation, then it should work fine. You may also look into samba, which would provide the authentication you desire, and have the added benefit of working with any win or macos machines you might have about. AFS may also provide such authentication, but that is pure speculation on my part, as I'm not familer with AFS.
Source code isn't just instructions on how to make a bomb tho, it's also the materials to make the bomb. This should put it in a completely different (and possibly unique) category.
If I give you a box with the materials to build a bomb with detailed instructions, I should be liable for the effect of you building and using the bomb. If I simply give you the instructions, and you source and assemble the parts, then that's different.
Ah, but simply having the source does not give you the ability to run the program. You must first acquire a compiler, a linker, and a set of libraries. As another poster pointed out, bombs can be made from common household items. Giving someone who has a compiler and linker and the libraries the source for an illegal or restricted program is no different then giving someone instructions on how to make mustard gas by mixing bleach and ammonia. All you've done is provided the instructions, it's up to them to actually follow the instructions.
The will of WHAT people, Signal? The will of you? The will of Slashdot? In a democracy we say "the will of the majority" but that can become the worst kind of tyranny; if the majority of people don't like me (they don't), does that mean it's right to kill me? I say no (that's the will of me). That's why the law may sometimes not be what anyone in particular _wants_... because, whose country is it anyway?
And unfortunatly one must look no farther then the US (And for a lot of/. readers, their own countries if they live outside the US) to find examples of such tyranny. Right now, for example, I face having to go to jail because my drug of choice happens to be an herb that grows naturally, has no LD50 (The ammount at which 50% of a sample population dies due to the substance) and not seriously harm the user nor cause the user to harm others'. True, no one has (yet) been killed by our government (officially) because they smoked marijuana, but how many otherwise law-abiding citizens have had to face similer situations?
To bring this back somewhat on point, if this ruling had not happened the way it did, there's a good possibility that eventually we'll face a similer situation where otherwise law-abiding citizens would be facing the prospect of going to jail simply because they're curious about encryption, how viruses work, or because they want to learn how to write a program that allows them to watch their DVD's on their computer.
I realize that the RFC's suggest using example.net for hostnames that don't exsist (Similer to the private IP's set aside for non-connected networks) but is there any chance you can change the default hostname back to darkstar.frop.org? It just seems, I dunno, more slackish.:=)
Also, I miss getting the "Welcome to Pine" emails requested by freshly installed slackware boxen.:=)
The thing that annoys me most about Slackware, though, is that it doesn't put the kernel into/boot like all the other modern distros. IMHO,/boot is the only way to go when you have an enormous hard drive. So I have to move the kernel and edit lilo.conf and go back into setup and "recycle" lilo to get my machine bootable.
There's a good reason for this. If you download the kernel source from any of the official sources, the default for a "make zlilo" is to copy/vmlinuz to/vmlinuz.old and install your freshly compiled kernel to/vmlinuz, then run lilo. I always grab the latest kernel from ftp.kernel.org when I first install a box, and just have to do a "make menuconfig && make dep && make clean && make bzlilo && reboot" to install my kernel. That's certainly a lot easier than having to copy the kernel to the location you want and then running lilo by hand. Also, on a properly installed unix box, / shouldn't be more than about 200mb, and/usr,/tmp,/var, and/home should be seperate partitions. I generally install my boxen with 60mb for/, 75mb for/tmp, 100mb for/var, the rest for/usr, and then make/home a link to/usr/home. If I have a drive larger than 4gb, I will usually make/usr 2gb, and use the rest for/home.
And yes, I do this on my workstations too. Makes my system usable when I accidentally fill up one of the partitions (As long as it's not / that fills, as this does not make the system very happy).
I CTRL-Click (add to selection) on 15 arbitrary files, no filename-similarity, and drag them to another directory. This takes 15 clicks and one drag. Now you:
cp file1 file2... fileN/long/path/to/newdir
I can even save myself a lot of typing by typing just the minimum I need to identify the unique file, and using tab completion. Now, what if I want to copy them to two places? I simply hit the up arrow, modify the path, and I'm set.
(Now where's the choir singing "anything you can do...."?)
Sounds like the horny fem bot I found a while ago. It was a basic ircii script that interfaced with some chat software. Unfortuantly, I don't have the source anymore, nor do I have the site I got it from, but I still have the logs from leaving it in various sex channels. They can be found at http://darkstar.frop.org/~skully/irc/am y20/.
Overall, the bot was fairly stupid, but smart enough to fool some of the people who decided to message it.
Not to mention that there isn't a dual-proc solution out the for the Athlon yet- I want one, though 8^)
Not true. I saw a dual processor Athlon board at the Fremont Fry's last november or so. It sold out rather quickly and they haven't got more in yet, but it shows that the AMD SMP stuff is out there, you just need to find it. I think it was FIC that made the board, and the board was ~ $230. We drooled over that for darkstar.frop.org, but at the time we didn't have the cash to get it. Soon, though.
-skullY
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In Seattle, Washington, it is illegal to carry a concealed weapon longer than six feet in length.
I wonder if this was made a law before - or after - the guy who decided to march back and forth downtown with a longsword a couple years back got TV coverage.
Hmm, perhaps they're refering to things like whips, which are usually at least 6' (~2 meters for the non-US readers) long yet can easily be concealed by even a child.....
..it is nowhere near the Pentium III "killer" on the server, until they realease that damn MP motherboards.
I was at the Palo Alto Fry's the other day and they had dual Athlon MB's in stock for something around $400. Would that I had ~$600 to upgrade my system (And add the second processor later).
No, the CPU actually has to support it along with the chipset.. You can't make a dual K6-3 system, becuase the CPU doesn't support SMP.
Sure you can. You just can't find any boards that will do MP for the K6. In actuality, AMD's chips have supported MP since the original K6, albeit not using Intel's SMP specs since Intel wouldn't release their specs. AMD just developed their own MP spec.
I'm not sure, but I think I remember reading somewhere in a DefCon report that, prior to getting booted, she walked around for a while with an "0wn3d" (sp. ? - I'm no good at elite spelling) sign taped to her back by some guy.
Actually, that's been done every year since defcon V (We've made it a tradition). First, it was "Thanks Carolyn for Monitor Port Hacking. -SysFail" (See her happy hacker series for what "Monitor Port Hacking" is), DC VI was a simple sticker we made from duct tape (It really does hold the universe together) but I forget what we wrote, and then this year we had vinyl stickers that sayed "0wn3d" that we stuck to her. Yes, it was the same group of us each year, and every year we take credit for the previous year's and she still doesn't remember us. She really must be smoking crack. Anyway, coincidentally, it was a friend of mine who was interviewing her about "winning" the capture the flag contest (By cheating, no less) when she was kicked out.
It started when, just as the contest was ending, someone challenged her box on the rules. She had a Redhat box up with what she called enhancements. The compiler was broken, libraries were screwed up (You couldn't even run "w"), and what made her box illegal was the fact you couldn't do any remote maintence on the box. No ssh or even telnet. She wasn't kicked out because her box wasn't compliant, she got kicked out because the guy who complained about her box got rather loud, and they started arguing, and both got kicked out. Although they were just looking for a reason to get rid of Carolyn, I'm sure.
If you have been through the video games newsgroups you may have remembered a thread that keeps popping up suggesting that failed consoles are always black (saturn, and it seems psx2) while successful once are grey (psx1 and dreamcast.) This theory is silly but, has come true of late. It will be interesting to see what happens.
I've heard this too, and going back farther, it seems to be true. The SMS was black vs. the NES which was grey, and look which won. Same deal with the Genesis/SNES, and then the Saturn/PSX. Not to say that each of Sega's systems didn't do ok on their own, but certainly each of the grey systems "won." We'll see if this holds true with the DC/PSY. Personally, I'm hoping it doesn't as I want to get a PSY sometime after they release.
Roblimo did a great job with his posting. I only have *one* complaint. Did Unisys explain why they waited TEN YEARS to lower the boom on people using the GIF format, after it had become a widespread standard and so many graphics packages where using it?
Correct me if I'm wrong, but like copyrights, isn't the rule on patents "Enforce them or you lose them?" A large company such as Adobe could potentially stop paying Unisys the licening fees and then argue in court that Unisys didn't seek to protect their investment until it was put into common use. Furthermore, now that gif/lzw is commonplace, (Without Unisys enforcing their patent) the license fees are no longer valid. Anyone with more money then they know how to spend want to pursue this?
All things are true in some sense, false in some sense meaningless in some sense, true and false in some sense, true and meaningless in some sense, false and meaningless in some sense, and true and false and meaningless in some sense. A public service clarification by the Sri Syadasti School of Spiritual Wisdom, Wilmette. The teachines of the Sri Syadasti School of Spiritual Wisdom are true in some sense, false in some sense meaningless in some sense, true and false in some sense, true and meaningless in some sense, false and meaningless in some sense, and true and false and meaningless in some sense. Patamunzo Lingananda School of Higher Spiritual Wisdom, Skokie.
I and most of my friends stopped buying games when the Quest (sierra type games) dissappeared.
Ahh, but the adventure genre is coming back. After a long wait, Monkey Island 3 was released. I immediatly bought it and still install windows every so often so I can play it. Lucasarts also released Grim Fandango recently. And, an interpreter for the old sierra games was released (Check freshmeat) so not only can we still play all those old sierra games but we can write our own. Long live the adventure genre.
-skullY (Wishing the netscape forms had a "vi" mode so I can just hit esc1G)
"In no uncertain terms, he proceeded to tell me that ETrade did not do background checks, would not attempt to dicover if I lied, and implied that if I thought about it, and was willing to lie, I could fill out the form in such a way that it would accept me," Sparger said.
I just don't understand. Do you have some sort of objection to filling out the form again? Did you not know about this? It seems very straight forward to me. If you did not know about this then you have a valid reason to be upset. If you did know about this and chose to write the article anyway then you are a jerk for not speaking the truth.
I know Kyle Sparger and he was upset that he was basically told by E*Trade to lie. This does not seem like a very good business practice on E*Trade's part. And, as other pointed out, why should anyone have to lie about it? If they rejected them initially, but then say that they have the opportunity to take the questionaire again and oh maybe if you exagerated a bit (Read: Lie) you'll get accepted. Well, is it worth the risk to you to get caught lying (Maybe during a state/federal audit of E*Trade?) and face fraud charges just to invest in an IPO? It isn't to me, nor to Kyle either.
I've been using masquerading on a linux machine (And a short time with fbsd, but it has some odd quirks I don't like) and had just resigned myself to not using dcc send beause it never worked using epic. Until a friend pointed out that chat worked both ways so why shouldn't file transfers. So, working with another friend, we tracked down why. Appearantly, if you include extra stuff at the end of the dcc send request, the module ignores it. To fix, we simply commented a few lines in/usr/src/linux/net/ipv4/ip_masq_irc.c. This is all based on Linux 2.0.36.
Line 172, comment out:
if (xtra_args != 0) continue;
Lines 178-182, comment out:
if (data[0] != 0x01) continue; if (data[1]!='\r' && data[1]!='\n') continue;
Then make clean;make modules;make modules_install, quit irc, wait 60 seconds for the connections to timeout, rmmod ip_masq_irc;modprobe ip_masq_irc and you're set. This is a kludge, but it works.
1) Switch to the passive voice. No gender needed. English teacher will fry you for using passive voice. b) Use "they/them/their". Everyone will understand. English teacher will fry you for using technically incorrect grammar. iii) Use "he/him/his". Technically correct and non-gender-specific. English teacher may fry you for being sexist. IV) Use "he/she" alternately. English teacher will think you're making an attempt at option 3 but falling short. If teacher didn't fry you for being sexist when you used option 3, will fry you now. "She" is guaranteed to be gender-specific. five) Buy the advice of the author of a grammar book I studied. "She" is the non-gender-specific pronoun because it also contains the word "he". Will fry if your English teacher disagrees. (I disagree.) IIIIII) Use no pronouns. That's what I did for most of this post, e.g. "teacher" in place of "he". Doesn't always work. Must revert to other option.
111) Use the non-gender specific SHe and Hir as proposed by that famous acid-head. Or should that be Sha to avoid sounding like she? Hell, that's all too PC for me anyway.;=)
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True again. Any code that is available can be taken. It's just that if they are caught then there will be serious legal repercussions that many corporations would not like to fund.
#include IANAL.h&rt;
What kind of reprecussions are we talking about here? Our courts today work on the assumption of damages done (Or, how much a person lost or stands to lose). How do you calculate damages for a GPL'd product? In the mid eighties, a copy of the E911 standard was stolen from a mainframe computer on AT&T's network (A very famous case, I wish I could remember who was involved) and then published in phrack. AT&T claimed they lost millions because of it, but that was easily refuted when the defendant's lawyer found of a copy of the same text for $19.99 (Or somewhere thereabouts). So, given that, how much value do you think a court is going to place on GPL'd software that is distributed at no cost via the internet? At best, you could force the company to release the source code or recall the product, and at worst the gpl would be declared invalid. Just some food for thought.
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Uhh, no. AGP is another bus on the system. It's basically a high speed memory bus, and while it is optimised for one way, processor -> agp transfers, that by no means limits its use to video cards. I could see where it'd be useful to say, dump a chunk of encrypted data straight into a piece of shared memory for the processor card to sit there and chew on, or maybe dump a raw stream of audio through for the processor card to encode to a format such as real audio, leaving the PCI bus free for the task of actually shipping that stream out to clients.
Just because it's mostly used for video cards now, doesn't mean that video cards are the only thing AGP is good for.
Sure, it limits a lot of the practical use of nanotechs, but since this is a new technology proceed carefully. Give them 20 years testing and using nanotechs in inert gas before you think about deploying them in environments containing oxygene, that way they have real world tests of how well nanotech's work and how likely they are to run away.
It seems like a good compromise to me.....
Although, back to the original question, why not export each home directory individually, and allow only that user's workstation to mount their homedir? Sure, it's a little more to setup, and can make for a rather large exports file, but if you aren't moving people from workstation to workstation, then it should work fine. You may also look into samba, which would provide the authentication you desire, and have the added benefit of working with any win or macos machines you might have about. AFS may also provide such authentication, but that is pure speculation on my part, as I'm not familer with AFS.
Ah, but simply having the source does not give you the ability to run the program. You must first acquire a compiler, a linker, and a set of libraries. As another poster pointed out, bombs can be made from common household items. Giving someone who has a compiler and linker and the libraries the source for an illegal or restricted program is no different then giving someone instructions on how to make mustard gas by mixing bleach and ammonia. All you've done is provided the instructions, it's up to them to actually follow the instructions.
And unfortunatly one must look no farther then the US (And for a lot of /. readers, their own countries if they live outside the US) to find examples of such tyranny. Right now, for example, I face having to go to jail because my drug of choice happens to be an herb that grows naturally, has no LD50 (The ammount at which 50% of a sample population dies due to the substance) and not seriously harm the user nor cause the user to harm others'. True, no one has (yet) been killed by our government (officially) because they smoked marijuana, but how many otherwise law-abiding citizens have had to face similer situations?
To bring this back somewhat on point, if this ruling had not happened the way it did, there's a good possibility that eventually we'll face a similer situation where otherwise law-abiding citizens would be facing the prospect of going to jail simply because they're curious about encryption, how viruses work, or because they want to learn how to write a program that allows them to watch their DVD's on their computer.
America, land of the pseudo free.....
Kernel 2.2.8? Are you sure that somehow the kernel didn't travel back in time and lodge itself in place on your slack2.3 cd?
I realize that the RFC's suggest using example.net for hostnames that don't exsist (Similer to the private IP's set aside for non-connected networks) but is there any chance you can change the default hostname back to darkstar.frop.org? It just seems, I dunno, more slackish. :=)
:=)
Also, I miss getting the "Welcome to Pine" emails requested by freshly installed slackware boxen.
There's a good reason for this. If you download the kernel source from any of the official sources, the default for a "make zlilo" is to copy /vmlinuz to /vmlinuz.old and install your freshly compiled kernel to /vmlinuz, then run lilo. I always grab the latest kernel from ftp.kernel.org when I first install a box, and just have to do a "make menuconfig && make dep && make clean && make bzlilo && reboot" to install my kernel. That's certainly a lot easier than having to copy the kernel to the location you want and then running lilo by hand. Also, on a properly installed unix box, / shouldn't be more than about 200mb, and /usr, /tmp, /var, and /home should be seperate partitions. I generally install my boxen with 60mb for /, 75mb for /tmp, 100mb for /var, the rest for /usr, and then make /home a link to /usr/home. If I have a drive larger than 4gb, I will usually make /usr 2gb, and use the rest for /home.
And yes, I do this on my workstations too. Makes my system usable when I accidentally fill up one of the partitions (As long as it's not / that fills, as this does not make the system very happy).
cp file1 file2 ... fileN /long/path/to/newdir
I can even save myself a lot of typing by typing just the minimum I need to identify the unique file, and using tab completion. Now, what if I want to copy them to two places? I simply hit the up arrow, modify the path, and I'm set.
(Now where's the choir singing "anything you can do...."?)
Overall, the bot was fairly stupid, but smart enough to fool some of the people who decided to message it.
Not to mention that there isn't a dual-proc solution out the for the Athlon yet- I want one, though 8^)
Not true. I saw a dual processor Athlon board at the Fremont Fry's last november or so. It sold out rather quickly and they haven't got more in yet, but it shows that the AMD SMP stuff is out there, you just need to find it. I think it was FIC that made the board, and the board was ~ $230. We drooled over that for darkstar.frop.org, but at the time we didn't have the cash to get it. Soon, though.
-skullY
In Seattle, Washington, it is illegal to carry a concealed weapon longer than six feet in length.
I wonder if this was made a law before - or after - the guy who decided to march back and forth downtown with a longsword a couple years back got TV coverage.
Hmm, perhaps they're refering to things like whips, which are usually at least 6' (~2 meters for the non-US readers) long yet can easily be concealed by even a child.....
..it is nowhere near the Pentium III "killer" on the server, until they realease that damn MP motherboards.
I was at the Palo Alto Fry's the other day and they had dual Athlon MB's in stock for something around $400. Would that I had ~$600 to upgrade my system (And add the second processor later).
No, the CPU actually has to support it along with the chipset.. You can't make a dual K6-3 system, becuase the CPU doesn't support SMP.
Sure you can. You just can't find any boards that will do MP for the K6. In actuality, AMD's chips have supported MP since the original K6, albeit not using Intel's SMP specs since Intel wouldn't release their specs. AMD just developed their own MP spec.
Wrong again! HE said 640K! hehehe :)
*Sigh* Not only is satire gone, but a search party was sent out and found only its distant cousins, ignorance and misconception.
I'm not sure, but I think I remember reading somewhere in a DefCon report that, prior to getting booted, she walked around for a while with an "0wn3d" (sp. ? - I'm no good at elite spelling) sign taped to her back by some guy.
Actually, that's been done every year since defcon V (We've made it a tradition). First, it was "Thanks Carolyn for Monitor Port Hacking. -SysFail" (See her happy hacker series for what "Monitor Port Hacking" is), DC VI was a simple sticker we made from duct tape (It really does hold the universe together) but I forget what we wrote, and then this year we had vinyl stickers that sayed "0wn3d" that we stuck to her. Yes, it was the same group of us each year, and every year we take credit for the previous year's and she still doesn't remember us. She really must be smoking crack. Anyway, coincidentally, it was a friend of mine who was interviewing her about "winning" the capture the flag contest (By cheating, no less) when she was kicked out.
It started when, just as the contest was ending, someone challenged her box on the rules. She had a Redhat box up with what she called enhancements. The compiler was broken, libraries were screwed up (You couldn't even run "w"), and what made her box illegal was the fact you couldn't do any remote maintence on the box. No ssh or even telnet. She wasn't kicked out because her box wasn't compliant, she got kicked out because the guy who complained about her box got rather loud, and they started arguing, and both got kicked out. Although they were just looking for a reason to get rid of Carolyn, I'm sure.
If you have been through the video games newsgroups you may have remembered a thread that keeps popping up suggesting that failed consoles are always black (saturn, and it seems psx2) while successful once are grey (psx1 and dreamcast.) This theory is silly but, has come true of late. It will be interesting to see what happens.
I've heard this too, and going back farther, it seems to be true. The SMS was black vs. the NES which was grey, and look which won. Same deal with the Genesis/SNES, and then the Saturn/PSX. Not to say that each of Sega's systems didn't do ok on their own, but certainly each of the grey systems "won." We'll see if this holds true with the DC/PSY. Personally, I'm hoping it doesn't as I want to get a PSY sometime after they release.
Since we already know the Dreamcast can run FreeBSD, it would be interesting to have a Linux
port.
And of course, with the running Linux comment, comes the obligitory "What about a beowolf cluster of Dreamcasts" post.
(You knew someone was going to do it)
Roblimo did a great job with his posting. I only have *one* complaint. Did Unisys explain why they waited TEN YEARS to lower the boom on people using the GIF format, after it had become a widespread standard and so many graphics packages where using it?
Correct me if I'm wrong, but like copyrights, isn't the rule on patents "Enforce them or you lose them?" A large company such as Adobe could potentially stop paying Unisys the licening fees and then argue in court that Unisys didn't seek to protect their investment until it was put into common use. Furthermore, now that gif/lzw is commonplace, (Without Unisys enforcing their patent) the license fees are no longer valid. Anyone with more money then they know how to spend want to pursue this?
True things are good.
False things are bad.
All things are true in some sense, false in some sense meaningless in some sense, true and false in some sense, true and meaningless in some sense, false and meaningless in some sense, and true and false and meaningless in some sense. A public service clarification by the Sri Syadasti School of Spiritual Wisdom, Wilmette. The teachines of the Sri Syadasti School of Spiritual Wisdom are true in some sense, false in some sense meaningless in some sense, true and false in some sense, true and meaningless in some sense, false and meaningless in some sense, and true and false and meaningless in some sense. Patamunzo Lingananda School of Higher Spiritual Wisdom, Skokie.
I and most of my friends stopped buying games when the Quest (sierra type games) dissappeared.
Ahh, but the adventure genre is coming back. After a long wait, Monkey Island 3 was released. I immediatly bought it and still install windows every so often so I can play it. Lucasarts also released Grim Fandango recently. And, an interpreter for the old sierra games was released (Check freshmeat) so not only can we still play all those old sierra games but we can write our own. Long live the adventure genre.
-skullY (Wishing the netscape forms had a "vi" mode so I can just hit esc1G)
"In no uncertain terms, he proceeded to tell me that ETrade did not do background checks, would not attempt to dicover if I lied, and implied that if I thought about it, and was willing to lie, I could fill out the form in such a way that it would accept me," Sparger said.
I just don't understand. Do you have some sort of objection to filling out the form again? Did you not know about this? It seems very straight forward to me. If you did not know about this then you have a valid reason to be upset. If you did know about this and chose to write the article anyway then you are a jerk for not speaking the truth.
I know Kyle Sparger and he was upset that he was basically told by E*Trade to lie. This does not seem like a very good business practice on E*Trade's part. And, as other pointed out, why should anyone have to lie about it? If they rejected them initially, but then say that they have the opportunity to take the questionaire again and oh maybe if you exagerated a bit (Read: Lie) you'll get accepted. Well, is it worth the risk to you to get caught lying (Maybe during a state/federal audit of E*Trade?) and face fraud charges just to invest in an IPO? It isn't to me, nor to Kyle either.
I've been using masquerading on a linux machine (And a short time with fbsd, but it has some odd quirks I don't like) and had just resigned myself to not using dcc send beause it never worked using epic. Until a friend pointed out that chat worked both ways so why shouldn't file transfers. So, working with another friend, we tracked down why. Appearantly, if you include extra stuff at the end of the dcc send request, the module ignores it. To fix, we simply commented a few lines in /usr/src/linux/net/ipv4/ip_masq_irc.c. This is all based on Linux 2.0.36.
Line 172, comment out:
if (xtra_args != 0) continue;
Lines 178-182, comment out:
if (data[0] != 0x01)
continue;
if (data[1]!='\r' && data[1]!='\n')
continue;
Then make clean;make modules;make modules_install, quit irc, wait 60 seconds for the connections to timeout, rmmod ip_masq_irc;modprobe ip_masq_irc and you're set. This is a kludge, but it works.
1) Switch to the passive voice. No gender needed. English teacher will fry you for using passive voice.
;=)
b) Use "they/them/their". Everyone will understand. English teacher will fry you for using technically incorrect grammar.
iii) Use "he/him/his". Technically correct and non-gender-specific. English teacher may fry you for being sexist.
IV) Use "he/she" alternately. English teacher will think you're making an attempt at option 3 but falling short. If teacher didn't fry you for being sexist when you used option 3, will fry you now. "She" is guaranteed to be gender-specific.
five) Buy the advice of the author of a grammar book I studied. "She" is the non-gender-specific pronoun because it also contains the word "he". Will fry if your English teacher disagrees. (I disagree.)
IIIIII) Use no pronouns. That's what I did for most of this post, e.g. "teacher" in place of "he". Doesn't always work. Must revert to other option.
111) Use the non-gender specific SHe and Hir as proposed by that famous acid-head. Or should that be Sha to avoid sounding like she? Hell, that's all too PC for me anyway.
True again. Any code that is available can be taken. It's just that if they are caught then there will be serious legal repercussions that many corporations would not like to fund.
#include IANAL.h&rt;
What kind of reprecussions are we talking about here? Our courts today work on the assumption of damages done (Or, how much a person lost or stands to lose). How do you calculate damages for a GPL'd product? In the mid eighties, a copy of the E911 standard was stolen from a mainframe computer on AT&T's network (A very famous case, I wish I could remember who was involved) and then published in phrack. AT&T claimed they lost millions because of it, but that was easily refuted when the defendant's lawyer found of a copy of the same text for $19.99 (Or somewhere thereabouts). So, given that, how much value do you think a court is going to place on GPL'd software that is distributed at no cost via the internet? At best, you could force the company to release the source code or recall the product, and at worst the gpl would be declared invalid. Just some food for thought.