Since when did crackers do distributed denial of service attacks? OK, I understand slashdot's unwillingness to use the term hackers....but in this case it would be more correct, but not totally ofcourse because hacking and cracking are both legitimate activities as long as you don't break the law.....WHY NOT CALL THESE GUYS TERRORISTS, a MENACE TO SOCIETY or just plain CRIMINALS?
You don't need to crack anything to do a DoS attack!
Yes you pretty much answered my questions about
censorship, but the number of mobile networks is
limited, so there is no guarantee that options
will be available.
The reason it might impact the WWW of today is that there is less incentive to make devices that use it. Let's say you have the choice of a $1500 device for free access and crappy content and a $1 device with OK and very hyped information services which costs money...what will consumers choose? Will the internet be reduced to a geek thing?
Most.com companies are apparently loosing money, why do you think the status quoe will prevail? Or is the trend in mobile services just a preview of what's to come on the net.
I think with the direction mobile services is going the entire WWW will slowly become proprietory with pay per view and cencorship. The entire net will be like those damned Ringtone and Logo services....please tell me that I'm totally wrong.
5. Certain foreign companies don't like women, it is a cultural thing. If the CTO (a woman) gave them instructions, they waited to onfirm with the Project Manager (a man). This was problem for us. It may not be a problem for you.
This might not be a cultural thing. It is allways best to clear it with the project manager to help ensure that the project doesn't get out of control.
They have been doing product placement since before TV existed, but I guess we could write software to replace the Macintosh in X-files with a PC with a Gnome desktop:-) We could use the Apple logos as a marker for rendering the Gnome screenshots realtime.
Unfortunately, It's a bit harder than training a neural net to just recognize a station logo.
I remember when Apple sued Microsoft in 1989; students and programmers alike took to the streets and held demonstrations in support of Microsoft's freedom (to inovate) to provide a GUI for the open PC platform as an alternative to the evil and closed Apple Macintosh. Although I wasn't a student back then, I remember watching students at the University of Oslo on national TV.
This was the reason The League for Programming Freedom (LPF) was started.
The heroes and villains change all the time, it is up to us to keep a clear focus and protect our freedom.
Hi, working with keyboard without the mouse works just fine in KDE, but I have problem getting X running without a working mouse plugged into the computer, X starts up but the keyboard is disabled for some reason when X probes for a mouse.
When I edited out the mouse parameters in the configuration files, X simply refused to start giving me an error message saying that I really needed a mouse to use X.
A company might think they own Engineers, but most people don't like being owned. Not giving credit reduces the job to some sort of salary slavery, where there is absolutely NO reason to have any loyalty to the company at all. If Apple think that they can replace their key development personell with temps, then let them try.
You might start out giving it your best and have a lot of pride in what you do, but then in the end it just becomes harder and harder because you know that only the managers will get credit for your hard work. Working for a paycheck alone is no fun at all!
I find it pretty insulting when people think that making software is something deterministic like making coffe. Writing software takes just as much artistry as writing a book and deserve to be credited.
Most people don't read credits, but that's not important at all. It is just the fact that it is there that counts... that you have been given credit for your effort.
But, I think the foul words are dissapearing faast to be more corporate friendly. Personally I think we should be able to write FUCK if that is the appropriate word to use in the context.
Although the Oxford learners dictionary failes to capture the true meaning of the word, by stating that fuck means 'have sexual intercourse with'. At least intuetively I think that the true meaning of Fuck is more...something?... There really isn't an english substitute for the word, but it is intuitively understandable that when a function call says 'Fuck Me plenty!' that it is a highly scalable implementation, extremely usefull, low overhead and roboust function call which you can call very often. In fact the words stand out in the source, so you will more intuitively find the correct place in the source to look at.
On the other hand 'fucked up' communicates that the function call is more that buggy/defect/incorrect but that you have managed to break a piece of incomprehensible spagetti code with significant amount of complexity. And complete re-engineering effort might be required.
I think that it unfortunate that certain words are considered bad, because all words communicate meaning. It is much better advocate responsible use of language, rather than amputating it.
The foul language debate I think could be paralleled to the banning of GOTO in structured languages, although goto in many instances a really bad word to use wich truly hurt the fealings of people maintaining code, just removing it resulted in less powerfull languages.
After the intitial Anti-goto purity hysteria calmed down, better forms of getting out of deeply nested structures came about. Although GOTO is still unspeakable, we do have the words 'continue' and 'break' which are used in Java and C although they essentially are correctly used goto's in disguise.
Words like Fuck, Screwed and Shit can be used to good effect in computer programming.
Examples:
Fuck me - This is the function you are looking for and you can use this to your hearts content, it will never break.
Use me - Same as above, but read the specification carefully for proper input parameters.
> Which really sucks. My father bought a new car, > and a local kid (10 year old or so) used a > hammer and a nail to do some major damage to the > car. And my father had no "kasko"-insurance.
It's pretty dumb not to fully insure a new car. Living in a society we all have to take responsebility. It shouldn't come as a surprise to your father (being a parent *duh*) that kids are not fully socialized, and that they frequently do things that are not smart or responsible. Your father could also have prevented the incident by locking the car in a garage.
Have you ever played with fire? Most kids have, usually nothing bad happens but you could end up causing Billion $ damages if you accidentally burned down a major forest or a couple of factories. The limitation on economic liability for parents, and the practice that people should take steps to insure and safeguard their own property is _very_ important, and makes perfect sense to me.
I guess that Corel in this instance recognizes this and taking _their_ share of the responsebility by advising that minors should not download the product, and that they should seek guidence by a responsible adult.
I don't think that this in any way prevents minors from participating in free software development at all, they just have to let their parents in on what they are doing.
Not really, I think the liability is limited to about NOK 1000,- ($200-$250 ?).
If you behave badly enough, your parents won't be allowed to care for you anymore. And you will get forster parents; usually idealistic gitar-playing socialists with purpla scarfs, which make you eat vegetables and fish on a regular basis. (Scared straight - Norwegian style).
For computer crimes, they'll probably force you to use Windows for several months. (Although you can probably complain to the human-rights commision in Geneve for this cruel and unusual punnishment).
Slashdot Mirror
They should invent an envelope stuffing machine that actually worked reliably.
Freemarker is great. It is reasonably powerfull and at the same time eliminates stabliity threatning features available in JSP.
Cheers,
The casino appears to be using PHP. Is your system removed, not yet deployed or offline generation?
cheers.
I thought the rumour of an OS came from Caldera, a couple of guys jumped ship because Novell didn't choose Linux.
There's a time to be tolerant and a time to launch man-eating lawyers. I think typo-squatters is not acceptable at all.
Since when did crackers do distributed denial of service attacks? OK, I understand slashdot's unwillingness to use the term hackers....but in this case it would be more correct, but not totally ofcourse because hacking and cracking are both legitimate activities as long as you don't break the law.....WHY NOT CALL THESE GUYS TERRORISTS, a MENACE TO SOCIETY or just plain CRIMINALS?
You don't need to crack anything to do a DoS attack!
Yes you pretty much answered my questions about
.com companies are apparently loosing money, why do you think the status quoe will prevail? Or is the trend in mobile services just a preview of what's to come on the net.
censorship, but the number of mobile networks is
limited, so there is no guarantee that options
will be available.
The reason it might impact the WWW of today is that there is less incentive to make devices that use it. Let's say you have the choice of a $1500 device for free access and crappy content and a $1 device with OK and very hyped information services which costs money...what will consumers choose? Will the internet be reduced to a geek thing?
Most
I think with the direction mobile services is going the entire WWW will slowly become proprietory with pay per view and cencorship. The entire net will be like those damned Ringtone and Logo services....please tell me that I'm totally wrong.
This might not be a cultural thing. It is allways best to clear it with the project manager to help ensure that the project doesn't get out of control.
Not good for quality, but a very honorable thing to do.
TeX is the problem, because you can write a
professional looking researchpaper while totally
drunk!
So, plan 9 failed. Get over it!
How can the assignement of rights to Matell be illegal if all the copyright holders agreed to
sign it over?
>What do you mean, they already did (Java 2 and
> Java 1.2 are synonymous...)
JDk 1.3 is also a Java 2 platform release.
Query: whois
Altavista: 95 550 pages found
They have been doing product placement since before TV existed, but I guess we could write software to replace the Macintosh in X-files with a PC with a Gnome desktop :-) We could use the Apple logos as a marker for rendering the Gnome screenshots realtime.
Unfortunately, It's a bit harder than training a neural net to just recognize a station logo.
I remember when Apple sued Microsoft in 1989; students and programmers alike took to the streets and held demonstrations in support of Microsoft's freedom (to inovate) to provide a GUI for the open PC platform as an alternative to the evil and closed Apple Macintosh. Although I wasn't a student back then, I remember watching students at the University of Oslo on national TV.
This was the reason The League for Programming Freedom (LPF) was started.
The heroes and villains change all the time, it is up to us to keep a clear focus and protect our freedom.
I just forgot to try out the escape button on the About dialogue in JBuilder for Linux. :-)
I don't think the JBuilder source is available, so it's hard to patch it with a close button.
1. Important:
Save the project you are working on first!
2. Select help->About
As you type, you see your letters floating around.
3. Type 'primetime' and you get a message from the developers.
You'll get a message from the development.
Now, does anyone know how to make the close button appear? The dialog is modal, and there isn't a close box anywhere.
Hi, working with keyboard without the mouse works just fine in KDE, but I have problem getting X running without a working mouse plugged into the computer, X starts up but the keyboard is disabled for some reason when X probes for a mouse.
When I edited out the mouse parameters in the configuration files, X simply refused to start giving me an error message saying that I really needed a mouse to use X.
That won't work, try:
the-borg-collective@mail.apple.com
A company might think they own Engineers, but most people don't like being owned. Not giving credit reduces the job to some sort of salary slavery, where there is absolutely NO reason to have any loyalty to the company at all. If Apple think that they can replace their key development personell with temps, then let them try.
... that you have been given credit for your effort.
You might start out giving it your best and have a lot of pride in what you do, but then in the end it just becomes harder and harder because you know that only the managers will get credit for your hard work. Working for a paycheck alone is no fun at all!
I find it pretty insulting when people think that making software is something deterministic like making coffe. Writing software takes just as much artistry as writing a book and deserve to be credited.
Most people don't read credits, but that's not important at all. It is just the fact that it is there that counts
hehehehe... this was a lot of fun though.
:-) But that's just part of the charm, it teaches us to think for ourself.
Well slashdot isn't exactly famous for it's thorough journalism
It was kind of exciting though, the possibility of lawsuit and everything.
Nah, It's in the Linux kernel also :)
/* Fuck me plenty... */
...something?... There really isn't an english substitute for the word, but it is intuitively understandable that when a function call says 'Fuck Me plenty!' that it is a highly scalable implementation, extremely usefull, low overhead and roboust function call which you can call very often. In fact the words stand out in the source, so you will more intuitively find the correct place in the source to look at.
linux/fs/binfmt_aout.c:
But, I think the foul words are dissapearing faast to be more corporate friendly. Personally I think we should be able to write FUCK if that is the appropriate word to use in the context.
Although the Oxford learners dictionary failes to capture the true meaning of the word, by stating that fuck means 'have sexual intercourse with'. At least intuetively I think that the true meaning of Fuck is more
On the other hand 'fucked up' communicates that the function call is more that buggy/defect/incorrect but that you have managed to break a piece of incomprehensible spagetti code with significant amount of complexity. And complete re-engineering effort might be required.
I think that it unfortunate that certain words are considered bad, because all words communicate meaning. It is much better advocate responsible use of language, rather than amputating it.
The foul language debate I think could be paralleled to the banning of GOTO in structured languages, although goto in many instances a really bad word to use wich truly hurt the fealings of people maintaining code, just removing it resulted in less powerfull languages.
After the intitial Anti-goto purity hysteria calmed down, better forms of getting out of deeply nested structures came about. Although GOTO is still unspeakable, we do have the words 'continue' and 'break' which are used in Java and C although they essentially are correctly used goto's in disguise.
Words like Fuck, Screwed and Shit can be used to good effect in computer programming.
Examples:
Fuck me - This is the function you are looking for and you can use this to your hearts content, it will never break.
Use me - Same as above, but read the specification carefully for proper input parameters.
> Which really sucks. My father bought a new car,
> and a local kid (10 year old or so) used a
> hammer and a nail to do some major damage to the
> car. And my father had no "kasko"-insurance.
It's pretty dumb not to fully insure a new car. Living in a society we all have to take responsebility. It shouldn't come as a surprise to your father (being a parent *duh*) that kids are not fully socialized, and that they frequently do things that are not smart or responsible. Your father could also have prevented the incident by locking the car in a garage.
Have you ever played with fire? Most kids have, usually nothing bad happens but you could end up causing Billion $ damages if you accidentally burned down a major forest or a couple of factories. The limitation on economic liability for parents, and the practice that people should take steps to insure and safeguard their own property is _very_ important, and makes perfect sense to me.
I guess that Corel in this instance recognizes this and taking _their_ share of the responsebility by advising that minors should not download the product, and that they should seek guidence by a responsible adult.
I don't think that this in any way prevents minors from participating in free software development at all, they just have to let their parents in on what they are doing.
Not really, I think the liability is limited to about NOK 1000,- ($200-$250 ?).
If you behave badly enough, your parents won't be allowed to care for you anymore. And you will get forster parents; usually idealistic gitar-playing socialists with purpla scarfs, which make you eat vegetables and fish on a regular basis. (Scared straight - Norwegian style).
For computer crimes, they'll probably force you to use Windows for several months. (Although you can probably complain to the human-rights commision in Geneve for this cruel and unusual punnishment).