When the state imposes victorian-era, prudish
morality on its citizens by things like outlawing euthanasia, then
unfortunately people will take matters into their own hands: Rampage
Suicide
I checked out their site, and notice that they boast "anti-theft" technology. Supposedly, they can prevent you thugs from stealing webpage source code and images.
So I ran their example, and checked it out. Sure enough, they block right-click, shift-f10, and the right-click key on the keyboard. Next stop, my browser's cache. Whoops! All the files and images are in there. Do'o!!
the shockwave itself, traveling at the speed of sound, took 27 seconds
Neither P, S, nor Body waves travel at the speed of sound. Their speed depends upon the medium; remember that liquid mediums do not transmit waves as fast as solid ones; liquid mediums also do not transmit shear waves.
You can compute the speed of compressional waves with the formula V=sqrt((k+.75mu)/rho), where mu is the rigidity and k is the bulk modulus.
Air is typically 330 m/s at sea level whereas Granite is around 5k-7k m/s.
The only thing that anti-spam laws will do is have unintended consequences, perhaps of restricting legit email. If you want to stop spam, don't buy from them and don't respond to them.
Look, it is not hard to understand. Spammers send out their garbage because someone is responding with cash or a legitimate email address that can be sold to other spammers. If you are posting your email address to a public area (e.g., Usenet), then you might as well get a new email address.
Here's a tip: use a throwaway account (Hotmail/Yahoo) for all your on-line purchases, and use your ISP email address for personal communications. Never, ever post your ISP address anywhere and never use it for on-line purchases. Once your throwaway account starts getting spam, get another one. Never, ever respond to any spam with "remove," "take me off your list," or "you #$(&*#@$!!!!"
If everyone did that, then most spam would dry up and blow away. (And if my 89-yr old Grandmaw can do it, so can you!)
Although rigorous, these practices do not require substantial specialist knowledge, skills, and other resources. EAL4 is the highest level at which it is likely to be economically feasible to retrofit to an existing product line~
An EAL4 evaluation provides an analysis supported by the low-level design of the modules of the TOE, and a subset of the implementation. Testing is supported by an independent search for vulnerabilities. Development controls are supported by a life-cycle model, identification of tools, and automated configuration management.
In other words, it is paper certification with no substance. "Search for vulernabilities"? What method do they use? Pound on the keyboard and see if it breaks? I seriously doubt they are looking at the code and verifying that the developers avoided overflow-vulnerable functions. What are the qualifications/skills of the "independent" verifier? MCSE? Code monkey? Nick the Pig?
Oh and if you use Visual SourceSafe, then you're covered. "Automated configuration management." Hogwash. This no more ensures you have a secure system than Suzi the Secretary checking to make sure you badged in the main door instead of surfing in behind Bob. Sure, you it is tough to have a secure system without some kind of ConfigMan, but it is not necessary and sufficient that having one ensures a secure system.
Oh, are all your tools identified (shades of ISO-9000!)? Golly, gee that's nice. So, we gonna check to see if all the old Lan Man code (which authenticates without credentials) is out of the current build? No? Oh, not a requirement.
What a load of tripe. I wonder how much they paid to have this cert. Probably more than an MCSE, and just as worthless.
Ha! I can say this because *I* used to wear polyester and get -- not minimum wage, bub -- $3.60/hr!
Memories flooding back... - the feel of grey polyester pants saturated with Coconut oil... - Large Marge ordering 5 candies, a large tup "with xtra butter" and a diet coke... - clueless people asking if the movie is any good... - some guy trying to impress me by buying a $5 ticket with a $100 bill... - kid asking if we can rewind the movie because he's a few minutes late... - getting my $144 (pre-tax) weekly check...
P.S.: I was surprised there was no 'In Memory of Richard Harris' dedication anywhere to be seen.
P.P.S.: Stay 'til the end of the credits for another laugh.
I always stay to the end of the credits, but the problem with living in a podunk town in Texas is that the unwashed trogs always jump up and run out as soon as the end music swells (they don't even wait for the credits to start rolling). While I despise most of the John Houston flicks (She's having a baby, Pretty in Pink, etc.) at least he kept the fools in their seats with cut-scenes at the end.
Anyway, we're about 1/4th into the credits and we look around and there's no one left in the theater. The little scrubs come and start picking up the trash and say, "Are you staying for the credits, cause we gotta clean up the floor." I say, "Yeah, we're watching the credits (you $@#$@# stupid, punk minimum wage scrub)."
Then the lens popped off the projector -- so we left.
I've got to get the hell back to civilization. Texas is too damn podunk.
Besides, their MO -- planes as missiles -- will probably not work anymore on commercial jets.
How to make a plane into a missle:
Tommy Terrorist immigrates to the US from Canada, using his counterfeit Canadian passport.
He gets a regular joe-job, works hard and stays out of trouble for 5 years.
He enrolls in flight-school and gets a job as a copilot at a small discount airline (ala Funjet) who is desperate for cheap help.
Upon a signal from his sleeper cell, he takes the handgun that is now standard-issue in all cockpits and shoots the captain in the head (note that since the cockpit doors installed in 2005 cannot be opened once the plane is in flight, there is no way for the air marshal to get into the cabin).
Tommy then flies the fully-fueled plane into the nearest high-rise.
3. People need to stop raising such gullible children,
The key word is "raise." The fact that most parents do not raise their kids, but let TeeVee and Uncle Sam do the job is what sickens me.
These so-called parents should be sterilized and put in work camps to at least pay society back for unleashing little "Johnny" on the world without any sort of morals or training.
Any parent who lets Johnny surf without supervision is just as negligent as the Crak-whores who leave Johnny home alone all day while they are out turning tricks.
Let me ask you something: would you allow your kid to walk through the red-light district at 2 am to go pick you up some smokes from the Liquor store (Southerners: A&P store)? If the answer is no, then why the #@$@% are you letting your kid do the equivalent thing in cyberspace? If the answer is yes, please report to the steralization/work kamp.
not that lines of code has anything to do with how productive a programmer is
Unfortunately, the PHBs of the world measure productivity by "number of lines." The best way around this is to invoke insertrandomcomments.pl on all source code to beef up one's numbers right before implementation.
You are correct; sending email is about as effective as picking lint out of your navel.
As for the statement that they don't read mail thanks to the Anthrax thing, that is false. I sent a snail-mail letter to my SenateSucker about a month ago, and received a reply via same last week.
Since discovering TeX (I'm a mathematician, so I really didn't have any choice), I've given up on all other word-processing packages
As well you should:) If I try to use MS's broken implementation of the equation editor (ironically, the TeX version kicks butt), then my file sizes increase exponentially.
For those of you working at home, try this simple exercise: create a simple word document with no less than 20 equations. We'll wait while you go get more memory, a larger hard drive, and incense to keep the anti-BSOD gods appeased.
Oh, my LaTeX document with 20 equations only takes up 5k; if I distill it to PDF, then it is 125k. What makes anyone think that MS's new xDocs will be as compact? More than likely, they will keep up the bloat, which is why professional authors (at least in the sciences) use (La)TeX.
Heck, it is good enough for Donald 'The Art of Computer Programming' Knuth.
Consumers will save money because competition will drive the price of the technology down
Um... please explain how something that's free can get any cheaper. Reader is free, and the PDF spec API is open - there are some freeware products that create PDF already.
The danger (as always with things Micro$oft) is that they will embrace, extend, and then exterminate. Witness the web, which is now 99% geared towards IE (which has YET to implement W3C standards).
so you're saying that if windows does it it is alright?
The point is that > 99% of the people are used to Windows, so creating a similar installation system will lower the learning curve and make it easier for the average user to install. Shouting "RTFM!" may make you feel better, but is hardly the way to win friends and (positively) influence people.
For a solid discussion of why design consistency (across programs, platforms, and systems) is key, check out Joel On Software's User Interface Design for Programmers. Here's the relevant part of the argument:
I've seen companies where management prides themselves on doing things deliberately differently from Microsoft. "Just because Microsoft does it, doesn't mean it's right," they brag, and then proceed to create a gratuitously different user interface from the one that people are used to. Before you start chanting the mantra that "just because Microsoft does it, doesn't mean it's right," please consider two things:
Even if it's not right, if Microsoft is doing it in a popular program like Word, Excel, Windows, or Internet Explorer, then millions of people are going to think that it's right, or at least, fairly standard, and they are going to assume that your program works the same way. Even if you think (as the Netscape 6.0 engineers clearly do) that Alt+Left is not a good shortcut key for "Back", there are literally millions of people out there who will try to use Alt+Left to go back, and if you refuse to do it on some general religious principle that Bill Gates is the evil smurf arch-nemesis Gargamel, then you are just gratuitously ruining your program so that you can feel smug and self-satisfied, and your users will not thank you for it.
And don't be so sure it's not right. Microsoft spends more money on usability testing than you do, they keep detailed statistics based on millions of tech support phone calls, and there's a darn good chance that they did it that way because more people can figure out how to use it that way.
So, if Grandma can install Windows but not Debian, there's something wrong with Debian, if Debian's goal is to become a distro that the average person will use. If Debian's goal is to be some '7ee7 h4x0r d00d w4r3z O5, then make it hard--hell, make it obfuscated. That'll show those newbie lUsers, right?
CEO's will try and get their employees to stop pirating music and movies
Although sarcasitc, you raise a good point. Very few (if any) CEOs are techno-literate and even fewer know what is going on in the lowest levels of the company.
When Hillary sends Joe CEO a threatening letter, he'll probably ask his CTO/CIO, "What is this P2P thing?" Then it goes downhill from there.
Net-net, the BOFH continues to run his Warez/MP3 server with the terrabyte SAN, maybe chaning the machine name. "Oh that? That's the bandwidth infratructure terrabyte computer, hosting activated security scans. Sure, it uses all that disk space; we gotta stay compliant, you know. Yeah, for auditing. Last time they wanted to see how much space we were using, and how many active users^h^h^h^h^hscans it was running. Cheers!"
I didn't think there were other/.ers who knew about The Bloomberg
Yes, we're out here. I sometimes miss the chicklet keyboard, but the cost of moving that fat yellow cable ($250/pop) made me incredibly happy when Open Bloomberg came out.
Slashdot Mirror
So I ran their example, and checked it out. Sure enough, they block right-click, shift-f10, and the right-click key on the keyboard. Next stop, my browser's cache. Whoops! All the files and images are in there. Do'o!!
You can compute the speed of compressional waves with the formula V=sqrt((k+.75mu)/rho), where mu is the rigidity and k is the bulk modulus.
Air is typically 330 m/s at sea level whereas Granite is around 5k-7k m/s.
Hint -> Convert 00000010 to decimal. Now read the joke again.
Look, it is not hard to understand. Spammers send out their garbage because someone is responding with cash or a legitimate email address that can be sold to other spammers. If you are posting your email address to a public area (e.g., Usenet), then you might as well get a new email address.
Here's a tip: use a throwaway account (Hotmail/Yahoo) for all your on-line purchases, and use your ISP email address for personal communications. Never, ever post your ISP address anywhere and never use it for on-line purchases. Once your throwaway account starts getting spam, get another one. Never, ever respond to any spam with "remove," "take me off your list," or "you #$(&*#@$!!!!"
If everyone did that, then most spam would dry up and blow away. (And if my 89-yr old Grandmaw can do it, so can you!)
Oh and if you use Visual SourceSafe, then you're covered. "Automated configuration management." Hogwash. This no more ensures you have a secure system than Suzi the Secretary checking to make sure you badged in the main door instead of surfing in behind Bob. Sure, you it is tough to have a secure system without some kind of ConfigMan, but it is not necessary and sufficient that having one ensures a secure system.
Oh, are all your tools identified (shades of ISO-9000!)? Golly, gee that's nice. So, we gonna check to see if all the old Lan Man code (which authenticates without credentials) is out of the current build? No? Oh, not a requirement.
What a load of tripe. I wonder how much they paid to have this cert. Probably more than an MCSE, and just as worthless.
Memories flooding back...
- the feel of grey polyester pants saturated with Coconut oil...
- Large Marge ordering 5 candies, a large tup "with xtra butter" and a diet coke...
- clueless people asking if the movie is any good...
- some guy trying to impress me by buying a $5 ticket with a $100 bill...
- kid asking if we can rewind the movie because he's a few minutes late...
- getting my $144 (pre-tax) weekly check...
*ARGH!!!* Must... put... memories... back... in... lockbox...
-click- Whew!
Anyway, we're about 1/4th into the credits and we look around and there's no one left in the theater. The little scrubs come and start picking up the trash and say, "Are you staying for the credits, cause we gotta clean up the floor." I say, "Yeah, we're watching the credits (you $@#$@# stupid, punk minimum wage scrub)."
Then the lens popped off the projector -- so we left.
I've got to get the hell back to civilization. Texas is too damn podunk.
Patent no. 232 422 1231
Method for automatically increasing the worth of a computer program and productivity of the programmer.
Fiji, here I come...
These so-called parents should be sterilized and put in work camps to at least pay society back for unleashing little "Johnny" on the world without any sort of morals or training.
Any parent who lets Johnny surf without supervision is just as negligent as the Crak-whores who leave Johnny home alone all day while they are out turning tricks.
Let me ask you something: would you allow your kid to walk through the red-light district at 2 am to go pick you up some smokes from the Liquor store (Southerners: A&P store)? If the answer is no, then why the #@$@% are you letting your kid do the equivalent thing in cyberspace? If the answer is yes, please report to the steralization/work kamp.
As for the statement that they don't read mail thanks to the Anthrax thing, that is false. I sent a snail-mail letter to my SenateSucker about a month ago, and received a reply via same last week.
For those of you working at home, try this simple exercise: create a simple word document with no less than 20 equations. We'll wait while you go get more memory, a larger hard drive, and incense to keep the anti-BSOD gods appeased.
Oh, my LaTeX document with 20 equations only takes up 5k; if I distill it to PDF, then it is 125k. What makes anyone think that MS's new xDocs will be as compact? More than likely, they will keep up the bloat, which is why professional authors (at least in the sciences) use (La)TeX.
Heck, it is good enough for Donald 'The Art of Computer Programming' Knuth.
Now who's laughing? :)
The danger (as always with things Micro$oft) is that they will embrace, extend, and then exterminate. Witness the web, which is now 99% geared towards IE (which has YET to implement W3C standards).
For a solid discussion of why design consistency (across programs, platforms, and systems) is key, check out Joel On Software's User Interface Design for Programmers. Here's the relevant part of the argument:
So, if Grandma can install Windows but not Debian, there's something wrong with Debian, if Debian's goal is to become a distro that the average person will use. If Debian's goal is to be some '7ee7 h4x0r d00d w4r3z O5, then make it hard--hell, make it obfuscated. That'll show those newbie lUsers, right?You know, the big red or blue screen that says something about public viewing, FBI, punishment, fine, jail...
When Hillary sends Joe CEO a threatening letter, he'll probably ask his CTO/CIO, "What is this P2P thing?" Then it goes downhill from there.
Net-net, the BOFH continues to run his Warez/MP3 server with the terrabyte SAN, maybe chaning the machine name. "Oh that? That's the bandwidth infratructure terrabyte computer, hosting activated security scans. Sure, it uses all that disk space; we gotta stay compliant, you know. Yeah, for auditing. Last time they wanted to see how much space we were using, and how many active users^h^h^h^h^hscans it was running. Cheers!"
If your brick weighs more than one pound (grep for "Drop Off"), then you'll have to take it to the post office, thanks to Ted Kaczynski.
MSFT <EQUITY> BQ <GO>
Do'o!
Nah, I stole it from reg.humor; it was posted by Bear, so go blame him. :)