Sudo's main benefit IMO is to keep unattended terminals and non-password-based attacks from being no-brainer vectors to root. It's not to make it a pain for you to have to type a password just to run root commands; its to make it so that the user is able to run certain root commands and making extra sure before doing so that it is really that user running them (not a hijacked terminal, etc.)
The other benefit is that it allows you to pick and choose who needs access to what root privileges. Junior data center tech A doesn't need access to fsck(), but maybe needs to be able to mount/dev/sdc. (OK, poor example.)
Sudo isn't IMO the solution for all admins, though; extensive admin work quite necessarily can be done with su to root instead. Sudo allows you to keep the root password on a tight leash -- preferably to those who can be responsible with their sessions as well as with root powers.
Picking apart articles on accepted science based on relatively recent research is not really that damning, or even very difficult. That's the difference between current research and accepted science.
It took global warming a long time to become accepted science. It too was once derided and laughed at as a sham, but became accepted science after a significant corpus of research as well as continued trends gave it greater credence.
As you point out, you can pick apart both pro-GW and anti-GW scientific studies (especially ones that are glossed down a bit so that people who are not in that particularly narrow pigeonhole of scientific study -- e.g. readers of general science mags -- can have some understanding of it; even the fairly accessible summary of Denning's research is a bit dazzling at first) based on specific research cases. This isn't surprising; there's got to be a fair amount of cutting-edge research, both current and relatively recent, that has not yet made it through the elastic wall of accepted science.
A computer is like an employee who does tasks for you -- it's a good idea to keep from overburdening them.
Don't I already pay this hunk of junk enough in electricity and bandwidth to keep it from slacking off? If it isn't willing to constantly pull more weight, for the greater success, what am I keeping it on for?
Look, I don't care about releases and legalistic crap. He taped himself on someone else's equipment and then left it behind. Here's a tip -- if you don't want people to see you, DONT RECORD YOURSELF and especially DONT LEAVE THE TAPE AROUND. If he's upset about this, then he was stupid to do all that, and he has only his own stupidity to blame. It's not like someone opened the door on him in the bathroom or took pictures of him in the locker room. He taped himself.
So yeah, I think if you record yourself and fail to secure the results, that's pretty much giving up control over what happens to them. William Hung signs releases, to other people who record him. When you record yourself, you don't have to sign a release for yourself. Furthermore, the physical tape wasn't his property.
Compare to Mahir Cagri, who was in all fairness ridiculed much, much more than Ghyslain (who as far as I can tell is not widely hated on the Internet), who took the frenzy over his embarassing web page and scored a US tour and lots of women sending him their pictures. Was Mahir "cyber-bullied?"
Cyber-bullying is someone putting your class picture on the Internet and adding pimples and black teeth in Paintbrush (making you look bad), not taking your Star Wars reenactment and adding realistic effects or mixing it into a Kill Bill parody (making you look cool).
Is it me, or are the article and section headlines of the BBC article unrelated to their sections?
In particular the one at the bottom, "Satellites and ships", which don't mention satellites or ships at all in any way.
Aside from that, I don't find anything in the article tying cleaner air to increased warming. In fact outside the headline and picture caption, the word "clean" appears only once.
The ironic thing is that most of the projects in MAKE really require more financial investment to execute than they would if you bought prefab. The things in MAKE that supposedly save you money actually assume that you already have a shitload of spare parts and accessories that are not cheap to accumulate.
Basically, MAKE only appeals to and makes sense for people who have been doing hardware hacks and mods already for a long time, and have spent alot of money on various projects already, and have tons of copious time. This problem for most real people is the reason why there is prefab anything in the first place. MAKE is then a zine for a geek bourgeoise without real (i.e. complex) jobs or lives and who have lots of time and lots of money.
What more do you need? The ability to control them from the ground? That's being worked on for security reasons.
So all this means is that the next set of terrorists trained by a former US-funded resistance fighter will be going to h/cracking schools instead of flight schools.
Yes, and I deliberately refuse to answer such calls. If they want to talk to me, they'd better be willing to tell me who they are. If it turns out to be an error or someone I do want to talk to, they can leave a voicemail. Actually, this is my going philosophy on all calls from a number I don't recognize.
Stop blaming the customers. Blame the vendors. If increase in online use is an important statistic, then increase broadband value.
I expect online use to expand once high-speed data for handhelds is more broadly available and affordable. Once online is truly portable (not "portable" as in $30/mo surcharge and lug a $1000-$2000 blocky 5-pound lap heater around), there ought to be another surge.
Absent, of course, are any details as to how they will accomplish it when they are the party out of power in Congress."
Beware such nonsense as desperate conservative demagoguery. Conservatives, like the annoying smart-assed jocks in high school, are good at saying things that sound derogatory but are really baseless and meaningless.
The question to be put to such wags is this: How would *you* get something accomplished as a party that has zero power in the government? There really isn't much you can do, is there?
4 were killed at Kent State, hundreds were killed in Tiananmen.
Oh, and we're still allowed to talk about Kent State in this country, far better than you can do in China re Tiananmen. Heck, you can't even talk about how the government has taken your home without due compensation so that they can build stadiums for the Olympics. It's not that similar (though not quite the same) issues happen in the U.S., but we get to talk about them.
When the Chinese government does something, everybody yells 'OMG those communist bastards are 3v1l!!!'. But when the US government does something, almost nobody says a word.
I think you are watching the wrong media. Fox News does not count, unless there is a Democrat as president.
Anyway, Ruby Ridge and Waco incidents have generally received strong criticism of the government's actions, as have others, such as the Seattle government's reaction to the WTO protests, but I am having a very hard time coming up with a government (even state or local) incident of the seriousness and magnitude of the Tianamen Square incident.
So I think when you put domestic US incidents and policy on a scale with Chinese domestic incidentsand policy, especially over the course of the latter 20th century and since, they are at least even in terms of damnability, giving you the benefit of the doubt as it were.
Not to mention the fact that the world isn't even ASKING for a Photoshop replacement.
They weren't asking for a PageMaker replacement, either. Now PageMaker is a footnote in the history of graphic designers and layout editors.
The sick, evil beauty of the MS Publisher coup is that people who didn't even know they wanted or needed PageMaker started using Publisher, because it came from a larger marketing vector and sometimes even simply came with their computers or office suites. (Sound familiar?)
That's how MS wins. Quality be damned. Marketing is everything. Most people are dumbasses.
It'd be nice to have some pointers on what makes an impact crater differ from a volcanic crater in satellite imagery.
I found what I thought was a impact crater in northern Mauritania using Google Maps, but was told by Dr. El-Baz at BU that it's volcanic. It looked an awful lot like Kebira. Maybe a list of volcanic features would have helped me weed out false finds.
Anyway, just a tip for fellow armchair crater-hunters.
GOOG's price today is just over double what it was a year ago. As a long investment (by long I mean more than 3 months), that's real fucking good, even for the dotcom boom days.
This is why I hate stock traders. What sucks is that we willingly allow these short-sighted, instant-gratification, panicky, selfish fucktards to determine our economy.
That's IT! THAT's the problem with America! Republican commentators are so self-aggrandizing and provocative that they are distracting the people, lowering productivity and raising blood pressures and redirecting potentially positive effort.
PS: I'm being serious. I think I'm onto something here.
when an "indie film" can mean one that had $15M spent on it?
Clerks' budget was $230K. Yes, _K_....Of course, Clerks 2's budget is $5M. Still, that's a bit short of $15M, and Kevin Smith is hardly indie anymore. Not that he or his hardcore fans (or the movie industry) have noticed...
After all, the people who need to download FF and TB -- namely, Microslaves who trap themselves into using IE and Outlook -- are hardly the most mature people on the Internet.
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Sudo's main benefit IMO is to keep unattended terminals and non-password-based attacks from being no-brainer vectors to root. It's not to make it a pain for you to have to type a password just to run root commands; its to make it so that the user is able to run certain root commands and making extra sure before doing so that it is really that user running them (not a hijacked terminal, etc.)
/dev/sdc. (OK, poor example.)
The other benefit is that it allows you to pick and choose who needs access to what root privileges. Junior data center tech A doesn't need access to fsck(), but maybe needs to be able to mount
Sudo isn't IMO the solution for all admins, though; extensive admin work quite necessarily can be done with su to root instead. Sudo allows you to keep the root password on a tight leash -- preferably to those who can be responsible with their sessions as well as with root powers.
In Soviet Russia, your comeback still sucks.
In Soviet Russia, email reads you.
Picking apart articles on accepted science based on relatively recent research is not really that damning, or even very difficult. That's the difference between current research and accepted science.
It took global warming a long time to become accepted science. It too was once derided and laughed at as a sham, but became accepted science after a significant corpus of research as well as continued trends gave it greater credence.
As you point out, you can pick apart both pro-GW and anti-GW scientific studies (especially ones that are glossed down a bit so that people who are not in that particularly narrow pigeonhole of scientific study -- e.g. readers of general science mags -- can have some understanding of it; even the fairly accessible summary of Denning's research is a bit dazzling at first) based on specific research cases. This isn't surprising; there's got to be a fair amount of cutting-edge research, both current and relatively recent, that has not yet made it through the elastic wall of accepted science.
A computer is like an employee who does tasks for you -- it's a good idea to keep from overburdening them.
Don't I already pay this hunk of junk enough in electricity and bandwidth to keep it from slacking off? If it isn't willing to constantly pull more weight, for the greater success, what am I keeping it on for?
But how are Novell's middle managers going to play with their Gantt charts from Microsoft Project?
Look, I don't care about releases and legalistic crap. He taped himself on someone else's equipment and then left it behind. Here's a tip -- if you don't want people to see you, DONT RECORD YOURSELF and especially DONT LEAVE THE TAPE AROUND. If he's upset about this, then he was stupid to do all that, and he has only his own stupidity to blame. It's not like someone opened the door on him in the bathroom or took pictures of him in the locker room. He taped himself.
So yeah, I think if you record yourself and fail to secure the results, that's pretty much giving up control over what happens to them. William Hung signs releases, to other people who record him. When you record yourself, you don't have to sign a release for yourself. Furthermore, the physical tape wasn't his property.
Compare to Mahir Cagri, who was in all fairness ridiculed much, much more than Ghyslain (who as far as I can tell is not widely hated on the Internet), who took the frenzy over his embarassing web page and scored a US tour and lots of women sending him their pictures. Was Mahir "cyber-bullied?"
Cyber-bullying is someone putting your class picture on the Internet and adding pimples and black teeth in Paintbrush (making you look bad), not taking your Star Wars reenactment and adding realistic effects or mixing it into a Kill Bill parody (making you look cool).
Is it me, or are the article and section headlines of the BBC article unrelated to their sections?
In particular the one at the bottom, "Satellites and ships", which don't mention satellites or ships at all in any way.
Aside from that, I don't find anything in the article tying cleaner air to increased warming. In fact outside the headline and picture caption, the word "clean" appears only once.
The ironic thing is that most of the projects in MAKE really require more financial investment to execute than they would if you bought prefab. The things in MAKE that supposedly save you money actually assume that you already have a shitload of spare parts and accessories that are not cheap to accumulate.
Basically, MAKE only appeals to and makes sense for people who have been doing hardware hacks and mods already for a long time, and have spent alot of money on various projects already, and have tons of copious time. This problem for most real people is the reason why there is prefab anything in the first place. MAKE is then a zine for a geek bourgeoise without real (i.e. complex) jobs or lives and who have lots of time and lots of money.
I've never said this before, but mod parent up.
What more do you need? The ability to control them from the ground? That's being worked on for security reasons.
So all this means is that the next set of terrorists trained by a former US-funded resistance fighter will be going to h/cracking schools instead of flight schools.
Yes, and I deliberately refuse to answer such calls. If they want to talk to me, they'd better be willing to tell me who they are. If it turns out to be an error or someone I do want to talk to, they can leave a voicemail. Actually, this is my going philosophy on all calls from a number I don't recognize.
Maybe its because N shoots itself in the foot by offering only a very small segment of its DS games in online versions.
Not to mention that the DS's WiFi ability only works with newer routers and often fails to connect with success.
Jeez. If you're going to run your business under the assumption that no one wants online games, you'll cripple your online game offerings.
N should take a serious look at user experience on their WFC network. Maybe they'd see what their quick-tally numbers are really saying.
Stop blaming the customers. Blame the vendors. If increase in online use is an important statistic, then increase broadband value.
I expect online use to expand once high-speed data for handhelds is more broadly available and affordable. Once online is truly portable (not "portable" as in $30/mo surcharge and lug a $1000-$2000 blocky 5-pound lap heater around), there ought to be another surge.
Absent, of course, are any details as to how they will accomplish it when they are the party out of power in Congress."
Beware such nonsense as desperate conservative demagoguery. Conservatives, like the annoying smart-assed jocks in high school, are good at saying things that sound derogatory but are really baseless and meaningless.
The question to be put to such wags is this: How would *you* get something accomplished as a party that has zero power in the government? There really isn't much you can do, is there?
4 were killed at Kent State, hundreds were killed in Tiananmen.
Oh, and we're still allowed to talk about Kent State in this country, far better than you can do in China re Tiananmen. Heck, you can't even talk about how the government has taken your home without due compensation so that they can build stadiums for the Olympics. It's not that similar (though not quite the same) issues happen in the U.S., but we get to talk about them.
When the Chinese government does something, everybody yells 'OMG those communist bastards are 3v1l!!!'. But when the US government does something, almost nobody says a word.
I think you are watching the wrong media. Fox News does not count, unless there is a Democrat as president.
Anyway, Ruby Ridge and Waco incidents have generally received strong criticism of the government's actions, as have others, such as the Seattle government's reaction to the WTO protests, but I am having a very hard time coming up with a government (even state or local) incident of the seriousness and magnitude of the Tianamen Square incident.
So I think when you put domestic US incidents and policy on a scale with Chinese domestic incidentsand policy, especially over the course of the latter 20th century and since, they are at least even in terms of damnability, giving you the benefit of the doubt as it were.
Not to mention the fact that the world isn't even ASKING for a Photoshop replacement.
They weren't asking for a PageMaker replacement, either. Now PageMaker is a footnote in the history of graphic designers and layout editors.
The sick, evil beauty of the MS Publisher coup is that people who didn't even know they wanted or needed PageMaker started using Publisher, because it came from a larger marketing vector and sometimes even simply came with their computers or office suites. (Sound familiar?)
That's how MS wins. Quality be damned. Marketing is everything. Most people are dumbasses.
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It'd be nice to have some pointers on what makes an impact crater differ from a volcanic crater in satellite imagery.
I found what I thought was a impact crater in northern Mauritania using Google Maps, but was told by Dr. El-Baz at BU that it's volcanic. It looked an awful lot like Kebira. Maybe a list of volcanic features would have helped me weed out false finds.
Anyway, just a tip for fellow armchair crater-hunters.
GOOG's price today is just over double what it was a year ago. As a long investment (by long I mean more than 3 months), that's real fucking good, even for the dotcom boom days.
This is why I hate stock traders. What sucks is that we willingly allow these short-sighted, instant-gratification, panicky, selfish fucktards to determine our economy.
GPL is for code, CC is for content. I don't see a schism there.
That's IT! THAT's the problem with America! Republican commentators are so self-aggrandizing and provocative that they are distracting the people, lowering productivity and raising blood pressures and redirecting potentially positive effort.
PS: I'm being serious. I think I'm onto something here.
when an "indie film" can mean one that had $15M spent on it?
...Of course, Clerks 2's budget is $5M. Still, that's a bit short of $15M, and Kevin Smith is hardly indie anymore. Not that he or his hardcore fans (or the movie industry) have noticed...
Clerks' budget was $230K. Yes, _K_.
After all, the people who need to download FF and TB -- namely, Microslaves who trap themselves into using IE and Outlook -- are hardly the most mature people on the Internet.