I congratulate you of the insight of the minds of Al Qaeda.
But truth is, I believe, that they *are* terrorists, and hence terror is what they want most, at least right now. Some actions also dualled as income, like the 9/11, but mainly they seem to have been terrorists and still are.
And that they got. The americans (no offense) even get afraid of an electronic blinking gadget.
When will the americans realize the terrorists already won?
They managed *perfectly* into spreading alarm and terror into the american society; they instigated at least two wars (maybe four?). Now everyone seems afraid of everything. They even managed to get "terrorist laws" (the name really says what the law is, doesn't it?) into countries that weren't in the threat at all...
If computer games makes you violent, why isn't there more violence at computer gaming cons?
It would be the perfect opportunity, people play counterstrike for 40 hours straight, have their senses depraved from lack of sleep and too much Red Bull and CC and Jolt and whatever, probably gets pissed at the kid who kills them in every single game...
Now I realize why so many Americans wants to keep the silly 1024 prefix units for computer figures. You're so used to all kind of funky units, so it's a small step for you to remember and understand what units are used for what figures, even if they are called the same...
Avoiding buffer overruns should be fairly easy, anyway, shouldn't it? Don't used fixed size buffers, unless you really have a control of what's going in them. And if you do, don't place them on the stack.
Now the *other* security flaws......but I agree with previous speakers. Open your source, let the world check it. If you don't, chances are someone will disassemble it and find the flaws anyway, but wont tell you.
I have a hard disk here, that has a data storage data of 476993802240 bytes.
Using gibi bytes, it's 444.235107 GiB. This is not an even figure, even though it has 1024 as a base.
Hence there is no reason to use (2^10)^n prefixes. You might just as well use the metric prefix, 476.993802 GB.
The only reason to use the (2^10)^n prefix is that file system tools lie and give you the wrong numbers, so you get confused when you buy a 480GB disk and can't fit more than 445GiB on it, claimed by the file system tools to be 480GB. The disk manufacturers are not the ones that bend the truth here.
Since we decided to stick to using 10 as base, I think we should stick to using 10 as base. (I know this seems very hard for some regions who use 12 and 1/8ths and other numbers as base for some calculations (inch-foot and bolt sizes, for instance), but that's just another thing those regions have to overcome and does not help to settle the confusion.)
If we shouldn't stick to 10, I suggest we go for 60 or 16. 60 is a nice number (as discovered early in history) and you could do really quick calculations if you know the full multiplication table - but 16 is an ok number as well, the multiplication table is big enough, and it's very compatible with computers....but lets stick to 10 for now, ok?
That doesn't mean that the hard disk is an even 2^n. Just an even n*512, or depending on your filesystem, n*4096. Where n is very, very large; extremely much larger than 512.
And I can still store four files of 72, 16, 48 and 19 bytes in that sector. The basic storage unit doesn't mean I can't use it partially. Hence, file sizes of even n*512 doesn't make sense either, unless the file system actually stops me from using smaller units.
No, users aren't lazy. But they should not be 1) forced into a process that takes more energy and time than doing it without a computer and 2) not be put to a process that frustrates them.
But the problem has many sides. One is that there is no single "programmer"; and in large corporate system development there is too often someone without clues who "designs" the software that a group of poor, probably hair-ripping software creators have to realize. (Sometimes the person without clues is the end user.)
How long has the apple user interface guidelines been around? Ages? How many user interface designers follow it or at least understand the implications? Way too few, imh.
Most user interfaces today are just too frustrating. They have too many gadgets, they are inconstistent and they are too slow. Anything from major OSes to set top boxes to car GPS systems. It's just a fact.
Sorry, it's not. There is no reason to use the 2^10 or 1024 step for computers, other for nice figures when counting something that needs to be in 2^n sizes (ie, storage limited to a bus width, like RAM) - disk space, file size and bandwidth is not limited to 2^n, so using normal prefixes makes sense. (References, see other posts.)
Did you hear that, file tool makers? Stop counting in 1024^n! It doesn't make sense!
What GPS signal? This is a funny misconception from movies; GPS receivers do not emit a signal.
I assume they use some other sort of uplink, SMS? Anyone knows? Is there a standard for this?
Or are they just calling it GPS but in reality they just use the ol'e standard lobe tracking?
(BTW, does the phone think the kid is lost forevar if the kid goes into some other kids house, a mall or a car, so the GPS receiver can't get a signal? Or do they enhance the phones with SirfIII chips that can withstand some rougher environments?)
That's a good idea. Having a library of ready-made skeletal animations and models would be really good! What a boost in any free project wanting to play with 3d......would that be included?
I few days I was reminded that I have not yet watched Serenity, and was pondering buying it to support the coming back of Firefly as much as possible (as opposed to just download it).
Now I'm not sure anymore. I'm not sure I want to support a greedy company, but I want Firefly back.
RAID6 is not RAID5 with a hot spare, it's extra parity to allow two disks to break down simultaneously.
The system uses a 2d array for parity, so for 5 disks, you get 6 parity blocks for every 9 data blocks, (3+3+3)+(3+3)=5 disks. (Draw it in 2d and you'll see - one parity right and one down.)
Like RAID5, but "two" drives with redundancy, so any two drives in the system can crash without losing data (or the tempo). I thought I heard something about that there was Linux support for it now?
Well, you would get the same problem trademarking the name "fonster" here as trademarking "windows" in English-speaking countries, I guess?
"Windows" is a foreign word (English is not an official language of Sweden, however good we are at English;) ), so it's no problem trademarking, same as any incomprehensible word in for instance Hindi or Japanese.
I find the decision logical, since the name very much rides on the old trademark, and competing in the same business. However I wish for Lindows' success, it was a poor choice of name. Isn't the whole idea of registered trademarks to protect such use?
It would be very much like making a car brand called "Obel", "Lolkswagen" or "BM".
(Hey, who steals the dots over the o in "fonster"?)
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I congratulate you of the insight of the minds of Al Qaeda.
But truth is, I believe, that they *are* terrorists, and hence terror is what they want most, at least right now. Some actions also dualled as income, like the 9/11, but mainly they seem to have been terrorists and still are.
And that they got. The americans (no offense) even get afraid of an electronic blinking gadget.
Joking apart, can we get them to clean up the debris?
When will the americans realize the terrorists already won?
:p
They managed *perfectly* into spreading alarm and terror into the american society; they instigated at least two wars (maybe four?). Now everyone seems afraid of everything. They even managed to get "terrorist laws" (the name really says what the law is, doesn't it?) into countries that weren't in the threat at all...
Full score!
Yes, as a site owner, how would you make sure?
One way to make sure would be to block all US IP# from registering, but that doesn't seem practical (and it's not 100%).
That it's not possible to realize never stopped laws before.
Even if it wasn't a joke, I think the majority of the slashdotters that are affected are the site owners, not the kids or the parents.
... will I be able to know if it's a kid signing up?
I know I get a little worried, how the
As someone stated once,
If computer games makes you violent, why isn't there more violence at computer gaming cons?
It would be the perfect opportunity, people play counterstrike for 40 hours straight, have their senses depraved from lack of sleep and too much Red Bull and CC and Jolt and whatever, probably gets pissed at the kid who kills them in every single game...
Tyco Brae died from holding his wee.
Even grandpa Simpson suffered from exploded kidneys for holding his wee.
All right, so she probably didn't die from holding her wee but the water. But it was still a dangerous competition.
Now I realize why so many Americans wants to keep the silly 1024 prefix units for computer figures. You're so used to all kind of funky units, so it's a small step for you to remember and understand what units are used for what figures, even if they are called the same...
Avoiding buffer overruns should be fairly easy, anyway, shouldn't it? Don't used fixed size buffers, unless you really have a control of what's going in them. And if you do, don't place them on the stack.
...but I agree with previous speakers. Open your source, let the world check it. If you don't, chances are someone will disassemble it and find the flaws anyway, but wont tell you.
Now the *other* security flaws...
When you get a new computer with a preinstalled windows (paid for!), what should you do to get a real install CD?
(Does your license ID work with any install CD, so you can borrow your friend's?)
s/to be 480GB\./to be 445GB, or even worse, 457GB or 468GB.../
I think I should offer a better explanation.
...but lets stick to 10 for now, ok?
I have a hard disk here, that has a data storage data of 476993802240 bytes.
Using gibi bytes, it's 444.235107 GiB. This is not an even figure, even though it has 1024 as a base.
Hence there is no reason to use (2^10)^n prefixes. You might just as well use the metric prefix, 476.993802 GB.
The only reason to use the (2^10)^n prefix is that file system tools lie and give you the wrong numbers, so you get confused when you buy a 480GB disk and can't fit more than 445GiB on it, claimed by the file system tools to be 480GB. The disk manufacturers are not the ones that bend the truth here.
Since we decided to stick to using 10 as base, I think we should stick to using 10 as base. (I know this seems very hard for some regions who use 12 and 1/8ths and other numbers as base for some calculations (inch-foot and bolt sizes, for instance), but that's just another thing those regions have to overcome and does not help to settle the confusion.)
If we shouldn't stick to 10, I suggest we go for 60 or 16. 60 is a nice number (as discovered early in history) and you could do really quick calculations if you know the full multiplication table - but 16 is an ok number as well, the multiplication table is big enough, and it's very compatible with computers.
That doesn't mean that the hard disk is an even 2^n. Just an even n*512, or depending on your filesystem, n*4096. Where n is very, very large; extremely much larger than 512.
And I can still store four files of 72, 16, 48 and 19 bytes in that sector. The basic storage unit doesn't mean I can't use it partially. Hence, file sizes of even n*512 doesn't make sense either, unless the file system actually stops me from using smaller units.
Yes, programs should 'just work'.
No, users aren't lazy. But they should not be 1) forced into a process that takes more energy and time than doing it without a computer and 2) not be put to a process that frustrates them.
But the problem has many sides. One is that there is no single "programmer"; and in large corporate system development there is too often someone without clues who "designs" the software that a group of poor, probably hair-ripping software creators have to realize. (Sometimes the person without clues is the end user.)
How long has the apple user interface guidelines been around? Ages? How many user interface designers follow it or at least understand the implications? Way too few, imh.
Most user interfaces today are just too frustrating. They have too many gadgets, they are inconstistent and they are too slow. Anything from major OSes to set top boxes to car GPS systems. It's just a fact.
The question is, what can we do about it?
Sorry, it's not. There is no reason to use the 2^10 or 1024 step for computers, other for nice figures when counting something that needs to be in 2^n sizes (ie, storage limited to a bus width, like RAM) - disk space, file size and bandwidth is not limited to 2^n, so using normal prefixes makes sense. (References, see other posts.)
Did you hear that, file tool makers? Stop counting in 1024^n! It doesn't make sense!
What GPS signal? This is a funny misconception from movies; GPS receivers do not emit a signal.
I assume they use some other sort of uplink, SMS? Anyone knows? Is there a standard for this?
Or are they just calling it GPS but in reality they just use the ol'e standard lobe tracking?
(BTW, does the phone think the kid is lost forevar if the kid goes into some other kids house, a mall or a car, so the GPS receiver can't get a signal? Or do they enhance the phones with SirfIII chips that can withstand some rougher environments?)
Can anyone explain what's rude with "Bong Hits 4 Jesus"?
I mean, I'm slightly offended by the misspelling of "for", but that can't be it, can it?
That's a good idea. Having a library of ready-made skeletal animations and models would be really good! ...would that be included?
What a boost in any free project wanting to play with 3d...
Well, it should be easy to check.
Does http://www.falun.se/ work (my hometown)?
If that doesn't work, but http://www.borlange.se/ works (the neighbour county), then I'd say that, yes, you're being blocked.
I few days I was reminded that I have not yet watched Serenity, and was pondering buying it to support the coming back of Firefly as much as possible (as opposed to just download it).
Now I'm not sure anymore. I'm not sure I want to support a greedy company, but I want Firefly back.
What should I do?
USA = China.
Just that the US is closing in (and just (re)starting with torture again?), while China is going in the other direction.
>The study found that almost $2 billion a year
>[...] equal 50 full-time employees
Does that mean a full-time employee earns $40M a year? O.o
RAID6 is not RAID5 with a hot spare, it's extra parity to allow two disks to break down simultaneously.
The system uses a 2d array for parity, so for 5 disks, you get 6 parity blocks for every 9 data blocks, (3+3+3)+(3+3)=5 disks. (Draw it in 2d and you'll see - one parity right and one down.)
You add extra hot spares on top of that.
How come noone has mentioned RAID6?
Like RAID5, but "two" drives with redundancy, so any two drives in the system can crash without losing data (or the tempo). I thought I heard something about that there was Linux support for it now?
Well, you would get the same problem trademarking the name "fonster" here as trademarking "windows" in English-speaking countries, I guess?
;) ), so it's no problem trademarking, same as any incomprehensible word in for instance Hindi or Japanese.
"Windows" is a foreign word (English is not an official language of Sweden, however good we are at English
I find the decision logical, since the name very much rides on the old trademark, and competing in the same business. However I wish for Lindows' success, it was a poor choice of name. Isn't the whole idea of registered trademarks to protect such use?
It would be very much like making a car brand called "Obel", "Lolkswagen" or "BM".
(Hey, who steals the dots over the o in "fonster"?)