And here: The results in the Republican Party is that any person who stuck his head up to talk about real issues found his character assassinated. I would assume that some may have suffered real assassination had they not succumbed to the more subtle forms. For any Republican thinking I am being a Troll (Shut up please and listen) I am not.
Aside from those two, I'm not really seeing any more evidence of you being involved in a dark conspiracy, except maybe against moderators.
You've provided no evidence of this, aside from metacommentary that moderators should heed your words. Come on, it's a great medium to provide evidence. Most everyone on slashdot should already know how to post moderately-strong anonymous messages elsewhere, and if you were serious about exposing wrongdoing, you'd have done it---and then linked to it. Cmon, the web is your friend, it likes you better if you link to stuff. Even if it's your own sockpuppet.
Instead, you're just asserting that you know that something bad is happening, and you're vaguely gesturing towards it as a bid for mod points.
As a frequent moderator, I find this hugely insulting. You should at least be entertaining us. When you post to slashdot, at least post links to your own stuff elsewhere, like the RFID-in-tires guy.
Don't just make vague assertions of a conspiracy---link to it! Make me be fascinated enough to dive deeper! The worst thing in the world is a lazy paranoid.
Moderators: please mod the parent down, since it fails both in providing any plausible evidence, and because it's insulting you in that failing. I've already got plenty of karma. It's quite possible I'm going to be collecting hazard pay again, so I would prefer that we structure our arguments in such a way that we can successfully distinguish between facts, opinions, and analyses.
Don't worry. Reasonable voice QoS will remain very expensive on legacy (read "differentially priced") airlines. As soon as IP-to-ground services get low enough latency and jitter for voice performance, you can bet the airlines will figure out that some small percentage of their high-$ passengers value this highly.
One of two things will happen. One possibility is that prioritized transit of packets will end up priced only slightly below the pound-me-in-the-ass rates of airphone. The other is that decent QoS will be priced into first class seats and/or front-of-the-plane frequent flyers.
Steven Wright said something like: "I just had the most expensive meal of my life. It was in a movie theater in an airport." Don't worry, it can get worse.
[Disclosure: I've been online from an airliner with a Palm Modem on my Pilot 1000, a PCMCIA faxmodem from my HP 200LX, and I've probably blocked from memory any Newton dialups. At least back in the dark ages, half the fun was sending out "Dear foo, I am writing to you from an airplane" messages....]
(You're going to have to imagine this coming out of a sneering Harvard mouth.)
Strangely enough, MIT is a land-grant college, which were originally created "to teach agriculture, military tactics, and the mechanic arts as well as classical studies so that members of the working classes could obtain a liberal, practical education."
No really, you can't buy a cellphone. You can only lease one from your provider. At least in the US. Because cell networks must approve the devices that live on their networks, they can veto anything that looks too useful. Like, say, a *good* iPod clone that doesn't give the network provider a 100% tax on music loaded. Or software that gives you decent RSS feeds, or location-dependent services, again, without a tax that's somewhere greater than 100% of the inherent service cost.
This is what I was praying for at the last Apple keynote:
Steve Jobs says "oh, and one more thing. We have a GSM iPod now. [Audience says, ooh, ahh. It is beautiful. There is a brief demo.] It will be on sale in Europe within a month. Unfortunately, we have not been able to reach any agreement with US providers, which is unfortunate, since any provider that is willing to have our device on their networks will both help their customers, and provide an incentive for people to switch to that network. At http://apple.com/cellpod/ we've put a few links if those of you with American cell contracts would like to speak with the potential network providers in the US. Remember, we'd like to sell you as many of these as we can. That means that you will only be helping us if you can provide valid economic arguments to them. Although I'm sure many of you blogging on AirPort connections are shorting out your keyboards with drool over this. [Roar of audience laughter.]"
(MITRE is probably best known as "that contractor who decided that Windows NT should run that battleship that was stranded when Windows NT BSODed on its test run".)
Cite? MITRE didn't exist when the final US battleship was built, nor did MIT Lincoln Labs. I suppose the MIT Radiation Laboratory was contemporaneous in 1944, but I expect their expertise in OS recommendations was limited. I suppose this lack of knowledge of operating systems is excusable as there weren't any operating systems.
Oh, you mean the USS Yorktown? That's a guided missile cruiser, and back in the old days the hull would have been called a destroyer, before the Navy decided to change the nomenclature. Little bit of a difference between a destroyer hull and a battleship, but hey, AC abuse is par for the course.
As much I relish the image of some poor ensign yelling, "Screen's blue, SIR!", nobody seems to think this was an OS-level crash. And most of the google hits I can find on "navy smart ship mitre" point to things like Think Outside The COTS. Scrolling down to Figure 1, there's a list of potential pitfalls of commercial-off-the-shelf software.
Perhaps if the Republican Machine had allowed McCain to run in 2000 (instead of sliming him) you would have seen some more interesting statistics. John's no Wellstone, and not even a Lieberman.
He's not even a Lieberman. Thank god.
Anyway, dramatic license aside, it didn't really matter too much who you voted for last year in most states. The party machines conspired to run insipid candidates for the last two elections, and given the way we elect Presidents, it didn't really matter. I'm guessing the majority of the factions were casting votes against rather than votes for. And the turnout was a forgone conclusion in most states on that basis. Just add some knee-jerk ballot initiatives to get out the votes.
My legal residency is in Massachusetts in a drastically Democratic district. As far as outcome in the Electoral College went, it really didn't matter whether I voted Democratic, Republican, Green, or Cthulhutarian. IA! IA! CTHULHU FTHAGN! IA IA IA!
Hell, invocations of the Old Ones didn't uhhhhhhhh I mean wouldn't matter. Even Paddy wasn't bothering to show up to place a tiny vote that would only show up in some bullshit "is this a popular mandate" bargraph---the stereotypically drunk Irishman (yo) has better things to do on a pointless election night.
American electoral politics have been as carefully powergamed as Diablo 2 or Everquest. Can somebody please nerf *something*, so there's at least some uncertainty in the game?
I'm not sure how a language that manages to be even worse than Perl at list-of-lists, hashes-of-lists, lists-of-hashes is not sucking as much. At least as soon as you mention objects in them. Which would be about now.
Don, that's bullshit, and worse, you know that. Lisp has deeper structure than sexprs. Arbitrary sexprs are not the same as Lisp syntax. The next time you have a macro that accidentally feeds a procedure in the first-arg place instead of a symbol, you can give me some Slashdot karma. Or when you screw up the levels of parens for a cond. Your penance is a RELAX-NG schema for a Lisp-disgustingly-expressed-in-XML system.
While I share your amusement at XML conquering the non-Lisp barbarians (by way of hypocrisy), you should not be overselling Lisp. Instead, you should be explaining how manipulation of XML as a real tree will avoid the soul-scouring horror of cross-site scripting vulnerabilities and SQL injection attacks. There's a lot of money to be made there. Please take it so I don't have to.
I had a fully dynamic web site (no files, ma!) in 1993. Hell, I gratuitously glued/usr/bin/fortune into the io.com 404 page in early 1994, making me the jerk who has prior art on annoying 404s, but hey, nobody's sending those subpoenas to me. Thanks for taking the bullet.
Myself, I like units of Planck time[1], approximately 5.391e-44 seconds, or roughly 1.855e+28 Planck ticks per femptosecond.;-};-}
Since "the estimated age of the Universe (4.3e17 s) is 8.0e60 Planck times"[1] (just under 203 bits), an absolute universal clock that kept Planck time could easily fit in a 256-bit counter, thus putting paid to all of those pesky Y[0-9]* bugs (and especially Y2038!) once and for all!!
-Rob
[1] See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planck_time
"The Planck time is the natural unit of time, denoted by t_sub_P.
It is considered the smallest possible measurement of time....
The Planck time is the time it would take a photon travelling at
the speed of light to cross a distance equal to the Planck length."
Paul Repacholi then points out it would mean we'd have one and only one set of date routines...
At a press conference, Despair's COO, Dr. E.L.Kersten, announced his intentions to sue "anyone and everyone who uses the so-called 'frowny' emoticon, or our trademarked logo, in their written email correspondence. Ever."
[...]
Kersten then intoned gravely, "Let our message to trademark violators be clear. Whether you are a 4th grade nothing using your momma's AOL account, or you are Time Magazine's "Man of the Year", we are going to hunt you down, and when we do, we're really going to give you something to:-(® about."
Of course you deal with filename correctness, because you're smart and have been around long enough to avoid an Apple-style disaster. Unfortunately, ensuring correctness in sh programming is often seen as some kind of fetish. "Gosh, Mister Wizard, what does "$@" mean?". Oh, and I hope the users of your scripts know to put a./ in front of script args, too...
This problem has nothing to do with XML, by the way. It's a language issue, and it's shared by every language that includes an "eval" operation, and it's never found in any other languages.
That's not quite true. You will run into this problem even in a hypothetical Tcl-without-eval. Witness the newbie mistake of
set new_list "{$a $b $c}"
The horror is that this will work in casual testing.
The real problem is in string tokenization. It's true that eval will do tokenization, so yeah, you'll immediately run into it there.
I agree that Ant is way up there in the <comic-book-guy>WORST. CONCRETE SYNTAX. EVAR.</> wars, no argument. But a lot of the alleged power of one line awk scripts comes from ignoring correctness, especially in the face of quoting. Your typical PHP code monkey is going to commit two deadly range/domain errors per source file, but at least XML tools have the hope of getting this right.
I've been avoiding the issue for so long that I forget whether you can write correct scripts that use find if find doesn't have a -print0. Oh well, I wasn't using that Solaris box anyway.
Actually, you *won't* have that problem with an XML file, since XML is closed over Unicode. Assuming you have a valid Unicode string, you can stick it in an XML attribute or an XML PCDATA section, and your output encoder will happily stick in <s and other ampersand-quoting-nonsense as appropriate. Hell, if it's smart enough, it may switch over to CDATA sections if it looks more efficient.
Oh, you're just blatting out XML with printf? You deserve to lose, then.
That's the difference here. You're depending on vipw and pals to carry around this rule that you can't have colons in gecos, but it's not really written down anywhere. I'm pretty sure I've seen systems that have borrowed other passwd fields and shoved stuff like password expiration goo into them; now every utility that operates on/etc/passwd has to know about the sub-field delimiters like;.
Or not. The way most of this stuff works is that most of the time, the scripts work, and if you push it too far, everything breaks and somebody points at the "Worse Is Better" bumper-sticker affixed to the 3B2.
I dunno. I mean, I have great respect at a paradigm that works well on my 68000 boxes. But it's looking a little tired when crap like creating a file named "--help" or "-rf" in your home directory leads to massive lossage. Let alone "--help -rf". When's the last time you wrote a shell script that fully dashed its actual intended arguments to programs? Oh wait, is "--" as end of options actually POSIX? I forget.
Don't get me started on SQL. I'm still ready to kill MythTV for its attitude of "let me automatically upgrade your schema for you! on every program start!".
How about linking to actual content instead of the bozo "stop software patents" page. We all know by now that this is an issue. Stop putting pages that might as well be goddamn 1998-vintage Flash intros in front of your web sites, and stop giving out links to them.
is that it assumes that there are no fields that contain a : character. The moment you get a : in gecos or more radically a group name, grep et al fall apart. If we were dealing with CSV files you could see something like
foo,7,*,"bar,baz"
and awk would just cough and die, because there's no good way to explain the escaping conventions to it.
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Dude, put your name somewhere that shows up with your posts. Maybe in a throw-away email address?
As it happens, I've already read/downloaded the animats promo material, and I'm not quite in your target audience, but I'm not that far off.
I'm sure you know this at some level, but your name is a positive marketing asset for your company. If you're going to set your slashdot username to be the name of the company and get hits that way, just go the extra step and reap the benefits.
Besides, it'll make it easier for us fogies to adjust our Slashdot friends lists.
Ah, that's the true irony to this Supreme Court ruling. What if the area around these folks was taxed at the rate that the new s00per duper real estate moguls would have wanted? They would have been forced to move without the libertarians noticing that their voluntary eviction on burdensome property taxes was an effective seizure.
I suppose the one upside would have been that the locality would have been forced to pay them the value that they were about to be taxed on.
I'm not sure where I'm going with this. I see a need to force land owners to make effective economic use of the land, and not just park on it because they managed to get in at the right time. See your local first ring suburbs; there are plenty of low-value land-holding businesses like self-storage that manage to return *some* kind of money to meet unrealistically low real estate taxes, but it's nowhere near what the value to the community would be of five story condos with an associated urban retail cluster. But the guys holding the self-storage place don't feel particularly pressured by taxes to do anything *useful*.
The value of taxes such as the estate tax and property taxes is that they force people to create real value, not just sit on their accreted wealth until something magic happens. As Americans, and Americans true to our Constitution, how much leverage should we have to force wealth generation rather than asset hording with the hopes of eventual secular profit?
And that creates a new way around California's Proposition 13 (which keeps them from raising property taxes on your house and land until it sells).
Perhaps that might be suggesting to you that there might be something just a teensy bit wrong with Prop 13. If selling a property to yourself would jack up the actual cost of occupying it by say a factor of four, rational economic thought would seem to indicate that our state government is not really interested in creating a free market.
Prop 13 attempts to create a new landed class that has special economic privileges based on a) length of time in California and b) how long you're bonded to some piece of turf. Grow your hair and shout "LOCALS ONLY, DUDE" at the weirdos who might have some good reason to have to live near you. And then beat them up; when's the last time you heard "locals only" and didn't see a cocked fist a few seconds away?
Worse, Prop 13 provides a highly inequitable safety valve for the problem of "teachers can't afford to live in their own school district". You've got a tiny number of service workers who've been here since dirt, and are effectively living in rent-controlled apartments. There may be a bunch of smart, talented people who came from Utah or Oregon or something. They may be better at teaching your kids to actually THINK. But because they didn't show up here 20 years ago, their cost of living in your school district is much higher than the people who had the blind luck to be born here and get a mortgage on a house way back then.
We'd be better off figuring out how to either pay service workers better or to build some kind of desirable housing that rewards physical mobility to places where talent is needed.
A lot of people feel that Apple's real strength is in the software they ship. However, Apple has derived the majority of their revenue from hardware sales. In effect, every Apple-branded machine is a Really Big Dongle to run MacOS.
Once x86 Mach binaries of the OS are out there, how does Apple keep random people from buying OS X at the Apple Store and installing it on their Dell? If the hardware premium of $100-$500 of Apple hardware over no-name beige hardware is really subsidizing OS X development, then even if everyone is paying full price for every copy of OS X (ha), Apple is losing revenue.
One way around this is to sell services related to the software. Hey, I'm a happy mac.net subscriber.
The other way is to lock down the hardware. Uh oh. Didn't we just see a whole flurry of "DRM Inside" articles about Intel?
Although Apple clearly isn't becoming a software company the way NeXT did, the parallels to NeXT history are a little spooky.
NeXT eventually threw in the towel on shipping 68000-based hardware. The transition from "black" NeXT hardware to "beige" PC x86 hardware pissed off a lot of early adopters.
One of the pissed-off users remixed the original audio welcome mail into this. They posted it to usenet with the readme:
This is a sound file with SteveJobs and Khan. I do not see the two as mutually exclusive.
I'm sure the mindless Apple fanboys are now going to find some new magic word besides "Altivec" to justify their purchases. Me, I'm just happy with this mini.
First, you can't verify that another system uses TNC by the network. It can always tell you what you want to listen and not complain. Second, FOSS projects can break the DRM stuff and run on a general porpouse computer (not a TCPA machine) telling the programs that it is TCPA compilant.
This is a little simplified:
The TPM uses public key crypto to sign the PCR information. Each device has its own private key that never leaves the chip. So unless you can pry the lid off your tamper-resistant chip and microprobe the EEPROM contents to get the key, you can't lie about its PCR contents.
If somebody does manage to do this, publishing this key information doesn't help much, because in some network access protocols, you'd have to authenticate with an identity associated with the source device. Oh yeah, and that key will get put on a revocation list.
Believe it or not, not all security measures are designed by idiots. The consumer electronics manufacturers don't have a good batting average, and WEP was a disaster. But when real computer scientists, electrical engineers, and cryptographers are decently funded over many years to design something, don't expect black magic marker to be a countermeasure.
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I am speaking as a witness from the inside so if you moderate this realize I am talking fact and not opinion.
Suuuuure you are. Let's go wander through your posting history:
Here: Mods -- if you disagree, get a life!
And here:
The results in the Republican Party is that any person who stuck his head up to talk about real issues found his character assassinated. I would assume that some may have suffered real assassination had they not succumbed to the more subtle forms. For any Republican thinking I am being a Troll (Shut up please and listen) I am not.
Aside from those two, I'm not really seeing any more evidence of you being involved in a dark conspiracy, except maybe against moderators.
You've provided no evidence of this, aside from metacommentary that moderators should heed your words. Come on, it's a great medium to provide evidence. Most everyone on slashdot should already know how to post moderately-strong anonymous messages elsewhere, and if you were serious about exposing wrongdoing, you'd have done it---and then linked to it. Cmon, the web is your friend, it likes you better if you link to stuff. Even if it's your own sockpuppet.
Instead, you're just asserting that you know that something bad is happening, and you're vaguely gesturing towards it as a bid for mod points.
As a frequent moderator, I find this hugely insulting. You should at least be entertaining us. When you post to slashdot, at least post links to your own stuff elsewhere, like the RFID-in-tires guy.
Don't just make vague assertions of a conspiracy---link to it! Make me be fascinated enough to dive deeper! The worst thing in the world is a lazy paranoid.
Moderators: please mod the parent down, since it fails both in providing any plausible evidence, and because it's insulting you in that failing. I've already got plenty of karma. It's quite possible I'm going to be collecting hazard pay again, so I would prefer that we structure our arguments in such a way that we can successfully distinguish between facts, opinions, and analyses.
Don't worry. Reasonable voice QoS will remain very expensive on legacy (read "differentially priced") airlines. As soon as IP-to-ground services get low enough latency and jitter for voice performance, you can bet the airlines will figure out that some small percentage of their high-$ passengers value this highly.
One of two things will happen. One possibility is that prioritized transit of packets will end up priced only slightly below the pound-me-in-the-ass rates of airphone. The other is that decent QoS will be priced into first class seats and/or front-of-the-plane frequent flyers.
Steven Wright said something like: "I just had the most expensive meal of my life. It was in a movie theater in an airport." Don't worry, it can get worse.
[Disclosure: I've been online from an airliner with a Palm Modem on my Pilot 1000, a PCMCIA faxmodem from my HP 200LX, and I've probably blocked from memory any Newton dialups. At least back in the dark ages, half the fun was sending out "Dear foo, I am writing to you from an airplane" messages....]
Well, MIT doesn't grow corn.
(You're going to have to imagine this coming out of a sneering Harvard mouth.)
Strangely enough, MIT is a land-grant college, which were originally created "to teach agriculture, military tactics, and the mechanic arts as well as classical studies so that members of the working classes could obtain a liberal, practical education."
Yale? What about Yale?
No really, you can't buy a cellphone. You can only lease one from your provider. At least in the US. Because cell networks must approve the devices that live on their networks, they can veto anything that looks too useful. Like, say, a *good* iPod clone that doesn't give the network provider a 100% tax on music loaded. Or software that gives you decent RSS feeds, or location-dependent services, again, without a tax that's somewhere greater than 100% of the inherent service cost.
This is what I was praying for at the last Apple keynote:
Steve Jobs says "oh, and one more thing. We have a GSM iPod now. [Audience says, ooh, ahh. It is beautiful. There is a brief demo.] It will be on sale in Europe within a month. Unfortunately, we have not been able to reach any agreement with US providers, which is unfortunate, since any provider that is willing to have our device on their networks will both help their customers, and provide an incentive for people to switch to that network. At http://apple.com/cellpod/ we've put a few links if those of you with American cell contracts would like to speak with the potential network providers in the US. Remember, we'd like to sell you as many of these as we can. That means that you will only be helping us if you can provide valid economic arguments to them. Although I'm sure many of you blogging on AirPort connections are shorting out your keyboards with drool over this. [Roar of audience laughter.]"
(MITRE is probably best known as "that contractor who decided that Windows NT should run that battleship that was stranded when Windows NT BSODed on its test run".)
Cite? MITRE didn't exist when the final US battleship was built, nor did MIT Lincoln Labs. I suppose the MIT Radiation Laboratory was contemporaneous in 1944, but I expect their expertise in OS recommendations was limited. I suppose this lack of knowledge of operating systems is excusable as there weren't any operating systems.
Oh, you mean the USS Yorktown? That's a guided missile cruiser, and back in the old days the hull would have been called a destroyer, before the Navy decided to change the nomenclature. Little bit of a difference between a destroyer hull and a battleship, but hey, AC abuse is par for the course.
As much I relish the image of some poor ensign yelling, "Screen's blue, SIR!", nobody seems to think this was an OS-level crash. And most of the google hits I can find on "navy smart ship mitre" point to things like Think Outside The COTS . Scrolling down to Figure 1, there's a list of potential pitfalls of commercial-off-the-shelf software.
If this seems familiar, you've been a slashdot reader for a few years: MITRE Corp. Report On Open Source In Government .
This thing is still going on? What the hell? Can't they just get it over with and die?
FINISH HIM!
"IBM Wins."
"Flawless Victory."
"...fatality."
What does the legitimacy or functionality of the technology have to do with what a dictatorial, repressive government can and will do?
Slashdot appears to be messed up. Didn't you mean to post that on this story?
Oh, come on. Nobody was going to get it if I modded your post as funny, so I had to reply instead.
Perhaps if the Republican Machine had allowed McCain to run in 2000 (instead of sliming him) you would have seen some more interesting statistics. John's no Wellstone, and not even a Lieberman.
He's not even a Lieberman. Thank god.
Anyway, dramatic license aside, it didn't really matter too much who you voted for last year in most states. The party machines conspired to run insipid candidates for the last two elections, and given the way we elect Presidents, it didn't really matter. I'm guessing the majority of the factions were casting votes against rather than votes for. And the turnout was a forgone conclusion in most states on that basis. Just add some knee-jerk ballot initiatives to get out the votes.
My legal residency is in Massachusetts in a drastically Democratic district. As far as outcome in the Electoral College went, it really didn't matter whether I voted Democratic, Republican, Green, or Cthulhutarian. IA! IA! CTHULHU FTHAGN! IA IA IA!
Hell, invocations of the Old Ones didn't uhhhhhhhh I mean wouldn't matter. Even Paddy wasn't bothering to show up to place a tiny vote that would only show up in some bullshit "is this a popular mandate" bargraph---the stereotypically drunk Irishman (yo) has better things to do on a pointless election night.
American electoral politics have been as carefully powergamed as Diablo 2 or Everquest. Can somebody please nerf *something*, so there's at least some uncertainty in the game?
I'm not sure how a language that manages to be even worse than Perl at list-of-lists, hashes-of-lists, lists-of-hashes is not sucking as much. At least as soon as you mention objects in them. Which would be about now.
Don, that's bullshit, and worse, you know that. Lisp has deeper structure than sexprs. Arbitrary sexprs are not the same as Lisp syntax. The next time you have a macro that accidentally feeds a procedure in the first-arg place instead of a symbol, you can give me some Slashdot karma. Or when you screw up the levels of parens for a cond. Your penance is a RELAX-NG schema for a Lisp-disgustingly-expressed-in-XML system.
While I share your amusement at XML conquering the non-Lisp barbarians (by way of hypocrisy), you should not be overselling Lisp. Instead, you should be explaining how manipulation of XML as a real tree will avoid the soul-scouring horror of cross-site scripting vulnerabilities and SQL injection attacks. There's a lot of money to be made there. Please take it so I don't have to.
Lucky you.
/usr/bin/fortune into the io.com 404 page in early 1994, making me the jerk who has prior art on annoying 404s, but hey, nobody's sending those subpoenas to me. Thanks for taking the bullet.
I had a fully dynamic web site (no files, ma!) in 1993. Hell, I gratuitously glued
Paul Repacholi then points out it would mean we'd have one and only one set of date routines...
Gotta be careful there too. Despair, INC®, the people who make those nice Demotivators® posters has a trademark on
This problem has nothing to do with XML, by the way. It's a language issue, and it's shared by every language that includes an "eval" operation, and it's never found in any other languages.
That's not quite true. You will run into this problem even in a hypothetical Tcl-without-eval. Witness the newbie mistake ofThe horror is that this will work in casual testing.
The real problem is in string tokenization. It's true that eval will do tokenization, so yeah, you'll immediately run into it there.
I agree that Ant is way up there in the <comic-book-guy>WORST. CONCRETE SYNTAX. EVAR.</> wars, no argument. But a lot of the alleged power of one line awk scripts comes from ignoring correctness, especially in the face of quoting. Your typical PHP code monkey is going to commit two deadly range/domain errors per source file, but at least XML tools have the hope of getting this right.
I've been avoiding the issue for so long that I forget whether you can write correct scripts that use find if find doesn't have a -print0. Oh well, I wasn't using that Solaris box anyway.
Actually, you *won't* have that problem with an XML file, since XML is closed over Unicode. Assuming you have a valid Unicode string, you can stick it in an XML attribute or an XML PCDATA section, and your output encoder will happily stick in <s and other ampersand-quoting-nonsense as appropriate. Hell, if it's smart enough, it may switch over to CDATA sections if it looks more efficient.
/etc/passwd has to know about the sub-field delimiters like ;.
Oh, you're just blatting out XML with printf? You deserve to lose, then.
That's the difference here. You're depending on vipw and pals to carry around this rule that you can't have colons in gecos, but it's not really written down anywhere. I'm pretty sure I've seen systems that have borrowed other passwd fields and shoved stuff like password expiration goo into them; now every utility that operates on
Or not. The way most of this stuff works is that most of the time, the scripts work, and if you push it too far, everything breaks and somebody points at the "Worse Is Better" bumper-sticker affixed to the 3B2.
I dunno. I mean, I have great respect at a paradigm that works well on my 68000 boxes. But it's looking a little tired when crap like creating a file named "--help" or "-rf" in your home directory leads to massive lossage. Let alone "--help -rf". When's the last time you wrote a shell script that fully dashed its actual intended arguments to programs? Oh wait, is "--" as end of options actually POSIX? I forget.
Don't get me started on SQL. I'm still ready to kill MythTV for its attitude of "let me automatically upgrade your schema for you! on every program start!".
Try http://127.0.0.1:19/ this! Try http://127.0.0.1:13/ this!
How about linking to actual content instead of the bozo "stop software patents" page. We all know by now that this is an issue. Stop putting pages that might as well be goddamn 1998-vintage Flash intros in front of your web sites, and stop giving out links to them.
Oh, and LPmud still sucks.
But anyway, the problem withis that it assumes that there are no fields that contain a : character. The moment you get a : in gecos or more radically a group name, grep et al fall apart. If we were dealing with CSV files you could see something likeand awk would just cough and die, because there's no good way to explain the escaping conventions to it.
Dude, put your name somewhere that shows up with your posts. Maybe in a throw-away email address?
As it happens, I've already read/downloaded the animats promo material, and I'm not quite in your target audience, but I'm not that far off.
I'm sure you know this at some level, but your name is a positive marketing asset for your company. If you're going to set your slashdot username to be the name of the company and get hits that way, just go the extra step and reap the benefits.
Besides, it'll make it easier for us fogies to adjust our Slashdot friends lists.
Ah, that's the true irony to this Supreme Court ruling. What if the area around these folks was taxed at the rate that the new s00per duper real estate moguls would have wanted? They would have been forced to move without the libertarians noticing that their voluntary eviction on burdensome property taxes was an effective seizure.
I suppose the one upside would have been that the locality would have been forced to pay them the value that they were about to be taxed on.
I'm not sure where I'm going with this. I see a need to force land owners to make effective economic use of the land, and not just park on it because they managed to get in at the right time. See your local first ring suburbs; there are plenty of low-value land-holding businesses like self-storage that manage to return *some* kind of money to meet unrealistically low real estate taxes, but it's nowhere near what the value to the community would be of five story condos with an associated urban retail cluster. But the guys holding the self-storage place don't feel particularly pressured by taxes to do anything *useful*.
The value of taxes such as the estate tax and property taxes is that they force people to create real value, not just sit on their accreted wealth until something magic happens. As Americans, and Americans true to our Constitution, how much leverage should we have to force wealth generation rather than asset hording with the hopes of eventual secular profit?
And that creates a new way around California's Proposition 13 (which keeps them from raising property taxes on your house and land until it sells).
Perhaps that might be suggesting to you that there might be something just a teensy bit wrong with Prop 13. If selling a property to yourself would jack up the actual cost of occupying it by say a factor of four, rational economic thought would seem to indicate that our state government is not really interested in creating a free market.
Prop 13 attempts to create a new landed class that has special economic privileges based on a) length of time in California and b) how long you're bonded to some piece of turf. Grow your hair and shout "LOCALS ONLY, DUDE" at the weirdos who might have some good reason to have to live near you. And then beat them up; when's the last time you heard "locals only" and didn't see a cocked fist a few seconds away?
Worse, Prop 13 provides a highly inequitable safety valve for the problem of "teachers can't afford to live in their own school district". You've got a tiny number of service workers who've been here since dirt, and are effectively living in rent-controlled apartments. There may be a bunch of smart, talented people who came from Utah or Oregon or something. They may be better at teaching your kids to actually THINK. But because they didn't show up here 20 years ago, their cost of living in your school district is much higher than the people who had the blind luck to be born here and get a mortgage on a house way back then.
We'd be better off figuring out how to either pay service workers better or to build some kind of desirable housing that rewards physical mobility to places where talent is needed.
7) OS X binaries run on i386 Linux, a la WINE or FreeBSD's Linux emulation layer
/usr/X11R6/bin/WindowServer, here we come!
That one will be interesting.
A lot of people feel that Apple's real strength is in the software they ship. However, Apple has derived the majority of their revenue from hardware sales. In effect, every Apple-branded machine is a Really Big Dongle to run MacOS.
Once x86 Mach binaries of the OS are out there, how does Apple keep random people from buying OS X at the Apple Store and installing it on their Dell? If the hardware premium of $100-$500 of Apple hardware over no-name beige hardware is really subsidizing OS X development, then even if everyone is paying full price for every copy of OS X (ha), Apple is losing revenue.
One way around this is to sell services related to the software. Hey, I'm a happy mac.net subscriber.
The other way is to lock down the hardware. Uh oh. Didn't we just see a whole flurry of "DRM Inside" articles about Intel?
Please let this not be true.
NeXT eventually threw in the towel on shipping 68000-based hardware. The transition from "black" NeXT hardware to "beige" PC x86 hardware pissed off a lot of early adopters.
One of the pissed-off users remixed the original audio welcome mail into this. They posted it to usenet with the readme:
I'm sure the mindless Apple fanboys are now going to find some new magic word besides "Altivec" to justify their purchases. Me, I'm just happy with this mini.
First, you can't verify that another system uses TNC by the network. It can always tell you what you want to listen and not complain. Second, FOSS projects can break the DRM stuff and run on a general porpouse computer (not a TCPA machine) telling the programs that it is TCPA compilant.
This is a little simplified:
The TPM uses public key crypto to sign the PCR information. Each device has its own private key that never leaves the chip. So unless you can pry the lid off your tamper-resistant chip and microprobe the EEPROM contents to get the key, you can't lie about its PCR contents.
If somebody does manage to do this, publishing this key information doesn't help much, because in some network access protocols, you'd have to authenticate with an identity associated with the source device. Oh yeah, and that key will get put on a revocation list.
Believe it or not, not all security measures are designed by idiots. The consumer electronics manufacturers don't have a good batting average, and WEP was a disaster. But when real computer scientists, electrical engineers, and cryptographers are decently funded over many years to design something, don't expect black magic marker to be a countermeasure.
two years ago
Braino. Four years ago. Sorry. I've gotta go give a powerpoint presentation now....