Is it to show that (just in case we didn't know) the linked article may somehow have the same editorial bias as Slashdot? Or something? It's not like people come to Slashdot thinking about unbiased, objective journalism.
I've seen the rants by folks like Courney Love, etc. Unless she and many other artists are all in some huge conspiracy against the RIAA, I'll take her word over almost anyone else's.
Other posters have touched upon this, but let me state this in another fashion:
Try explaining to your friends how great Linux is to run, when you have to boot into Windows just to use your wireless card.
Then perhaps you'll understand why it's "infamous".
All my Windows-loving friends still laugh at me because I can't yet convert my laptop to 100% Linux. Sure, I could buy new hardware, but that's missing the point.
Actually, considering that most gun deaths (in civilized countries anyway, I'm not sure about the statistics for the US) occur from legal, registered guns, I'm all for it.
You're right. Criminals will always have guns. And the numbers show time and time again that you having one rarely stops you from getting hurt by a criminal. The only thing gun control can possibly do is to reduce the number of carelessly obtained/stored/loaded/whatever guns sitting in your neighbour's garage.
The same gun that his 8 year old son is going to use to knock off a few people for kicks.
Get rid of those weapons, please. There are far too many kids shooting each other with guns that shouldn't have been around in the first place.
That's bizarre. I have an 1800+ on my desktop, with the stock heatsink/fan.
I've never seen it go above 45C, even after hours of playing something like BF1942. It idles somewhere around 33C. My video card is a heatsink-only Radeon 9000, and I've got 3 hard drives in the case - only a regular mid-tower too. No case fans at all, no hard drive fans.
What do you keep your room temperature at? Or could different motherboards have different heating effects? I always figured a setup like mine should run really hot, but it doesn't from what you're describing.
Raw clock cycle rate has surprisingly little to do with processor speed, unless you only ever talk about a single platform. A quantum computer is so different from a modern CPU as to make the comparison nonsensical.
It's a bit like asking "how fast would my car go if I doubled the gas tank size?"
I've met a lot of fellow Canadians who actually refer to our money as "Canadian Dollars". I think it comes from being so damned close to the US, and cross-border/internet shopping in their currency.
Unless they were talking about Canadian Tire money...
I'll probably embarrass myself even more by my answer, but here goes.
You can often get a fair bit of source from a binary, but it all depends on what language the source was originally from, what platform it was written for, etc.
More importantly (as I understand it) is how it was compiled, etc. Source code isn't just translated line by line into machine code. Especially with today's optimizing compilers, there's a lot of automagic going on.
Now, you usually can get the assembler directives out of a binary (ahh, disassemblers are fun), but even this is dicey. I know from playing around with Atari 2600 roms that often you can't know precisely what parts of the code do what, iirc because code and data were often intermixed in irregular ways. Even if you get the full assembly code, have fun reading it if it's more than a few thousand lines.
Having said that, there's a lot of incredible stuff a skilled person can do with disassemblers, but it all comes down to the source->machine code translation. There's a lot of factors that come into play here, and it's not just a simple inversion of some always used process.
There, can I be less specific?:) I'm sure 50 other Slashdotters will expand/correct/make fun of me, but I figure since no one else is answering, I'll take a stab at it.
Yeah, our University uses it to send a message to workstations when print jobs complete. Pretty damn handy when you see how long the print queues for the free dot-matrix printers can get. Not having to run into another room every few minutes is a lifesaver.
Of course, it took them at least 2 months to finally clue in to firewalling off netbios ports to the internet, but once that was solved all was well again. Thankfully, the service is still running so we can "zwrite" in Windows, without installing an IM client:)
I'm confused. I thought the whole point of Certificates is that you use them as a trust basis. So, you'd know in advance who you can trust, and THEN install their software.
Now we have to know and tell our computers in advance who NOT to trust?
Microsoft Windows and that dastardly Messenger service. (enabled by default) that would be the most insidious adware out there.
Much as I hate the Messaging service, calling it adware is like calling your email client adware.
I think we're missing the point when we can just call any application that receives data and presents it to the user adware. Adware is better applied to things *intended* to serve up ads.
Believe it or not, the Messaging service was originally planned to do other things, and in fact, generally is. Just not for 99% of Windows users:)
I dont think it will be long before many software companies start making things like software updates, online registration and having a valid email address mandatory.
Preaching to the converted, I realize, but this is precisely why I'm moving everything I do to OSS applications.
As "free" software becomes more and more nag/spy/ad-ridden, and worse, as software you PAY for gets like this, I'm giving up and ditching it all. I stopped using IM entirely a while back for similar reasons.
Thanks to OfficeXP and WindowsXP, Microsoft has permanently lost me as a customer. Once 2000 is no longer practical, bye bye Windows at home.
The funny part is that I'm finding the new stuff I'm using to generally be better. CDEX, Firebird, you name it, it's better. Now that mIRC is officially nagware (well, much worse than it's ever been, and not upgrading to 6.12 is suicide what with the latest exploit) there's not a hell of a lot tying me to Windows.
I never thought so many zealots could actually be right:) Now if only we could convince Management...
Wow, someone actually doing some thinking. I'm surprised.
I'll just have to assume that you've never before read a SCO story on Slashdot, nor have you read the posts to this story.
Just to keep you up to speed, virtually every single SCO story for the past several months has been "ok SCO, show us some code", SCO not showing any code, and several hundred posts of "SCO hasn't shown any code, wtf is th(is/ese) suit(s) about??".
You're surprised that someone made this point for what has the be the 3,000th time this month?
The Jets? Winnipeg lost their hockey team in the mid 90s!
Yeah, and Phoenix has been sucking ever since.
It's neat, moving from Winnipeg to Calgary. Now I can go watch an NHL team that moved from the US to Canada (the only one IIRC) and snub my nose at idiot "Thrasher" fans.
Yup, 100% Offtopic, and 100% worth the loss of karma just to see *anyone* else on Slashdot who'll post about my beloved Jets!
I saw several highly improbable hardware failures over the past week, particularly on the 22nd.
What is the likelyhood that this is related to recent unusual solar activity, as opposed to being a simple coincidence?
Seeing as the flare/storm would take a couple of days to reach the Earth, I'd say pretty much 100% that it was a simple conincidence.
Besides, what the article talks about is not an Electro-Magnetic Pulse type effect, where all electronic systems are affected. It's mostly orbiting electronics, and large ground-based systems such as power grids that get hit. I imagine because the large scale infrastructure such as kilometres of power lines turn into huge antennas for this stuff. (IANAP, in case you can't tell:)
the next version of MS Office will include E-Mail controls which should limit way that e-mail messages can be forwarded
I hope they include a control that prevents email from being forwarded once the subject line contains more than one Fwd: in it.
I swear, many days I get more "Fwd: Fwd: Fwd: Fwd: Fwd: Fwd: THIS COULD SAVE SOMEONE'S LIFE!" than I do spam. The latest and greatest is the "gang initiation - guy sneaks into a woman's backseat at the gas pump", which I haven't seen making the rounds for a couple of years now.
Eliminate crap like this, and watch worker productivity double.
And yes, my tongue is ever-firmly pressed into my cheek:)
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I'm curious, if artificial diamonds are now available to the public, cheap, and indistibguishable from the real thing...
What's to stop me from buying a bunch, setting them, and selling them to jewellers who deal in used and reaping one hell of a profit?
Unix filesystems don't usually use Microsoft filename extensions :)
/usr/bin/slvg.
It's probably hidden under
I've never understood the point of it myself.
Is it to show that (just in case we didn't know) the linked article may somehow have the same editorial bias as Slashdot? Or something? It's not like people come to Slashdot thinking about unbiased, objective journalism.
Anyone care to elaborate?
I've seen the rants by folks like Courney Love, etc. Unless she and many other artists are all in some huge conspiracy against the RIAA, I'll take her word over almost anyone else's.
I'd volunteer bullets, but those don't grow on plants.
Something makes me think Tomacco would be the "deadliest" nightshade...
This theory is currently derided and discriminated against in favor of older theories
Are you trolling, or just entirely ignorant of human history? The OLDEST, most WIDELY ACCEPTED theory of biological diversity is creationism.
Evolution and natural selection are very new ideas (relatively), and are still not believed by most people on the planet.
As for "how much of our biological model it predicts", well of course it does. It's specious/circular logic:
"Something complex needs intelligence to make it, therefore something intelligent made everything that is complex."
"I don't understand the origins/purpose/design of something, so it MUST have been created by something even more intelligent than myself."
Other posters have touched upon this, but let me state this in another fashion:
Try explaining to your friends how great Linux is to run, when you have to boot into Windows just to use your wireless card.
Then perhaps you'll understand why it's "infamous".
All my Windows-loving friends still laugh at me because I can't yet convert my laptop to 100% Linux. Sure, I could buy new hardware, but that's missing the point.
Actually, considering that most gun deaths (in civilized countries anyway, I'm not sure about the statistics for the US) occur from legal, registered guns, I'm all for it.
You're right. Criminals will always have guns. And the numbers show time and time again that you having one rarely stops you from getting hurt by a criminal. The only thing gun control can possibly do is to reduce the number of carelessly obtained/stored/loaded/whatever guns sitting in your neighbour's garage.
The same gun that his 8 year old son is going to use to knock off a few people for kicks.
Get rid of those weapons, please. There are far too many kids shooting each other with guns that shouldn't have been around in the first place.
And when 500,000 Slashdotters spend the time to read your post, can we kill you 10 or 15 years early?
That's bizarre. I have an 1800+ on my desktop, with the stock heatsink/fan.
I've never seen it go above 45C, even after hours of playing something like BF1942. It idles somewhere around 33C. My video card is a heatsink-only Radeon 9000, and I've got 3 hard drives in the case - only a regular mid-tower too. No case fans at all, no hard drive fans.
What do you keep your room temperature at? Or could different motherboards have different heating effects? I always figured a setup like mine should run really hot, but it doesn't from what you're describing.
Any experts out there wanna field this one?
Raw clock cycle rate has surprisingly little to do with processor speed, unless you only ever talk about a single platform. A quantum computer is so different from a modern CPU as to make the comparison nonsensical.
It's a bit like asking "how fast would my car go if I doubled the gas tank size?"
You mean these?
I've met a lot of fellow Canadians who actually refer to our money as "Canadian Dollars". I think it comes from being so damned close to the US, and cross-border/internet shopping in their currency.
Unless they were talking about Canadian Tire money...
I'll probably embarrass myself even more by my answer, but here goes.
:) I'm sure 50 other Slashdotters will expand/correct/make fun of me, but I figure since no one else is answering, I'll take a stab at it.
You can often get a fair bit of source from a binary, but it all depends on what language the source was originally from, what platform it was written for, etc.
More importantly (as I understand it) is how it was compiled, etc. Source code isn't just translated line by line into machine code. Especially with today's optimizing compilers, there's a lot of automagic going on.
Now, you usually can get the assembler directives out of a binary (ahh, disassemblers are fun), but even this is dicey. I know from playing around with Atari 2600 roms that often you can't know precisely what parts of the code do what, iirc because code and data were often intermixed in irregular ways. Even if you get the full assembly code, have fun reading it if it's more than a few thousand lines.
Having said that, there's a lot of incredible stuff a skilled person can do with disassemblers, but it all comes down to the source->machine code translation. There's a lot of factors that come into play here, and it's not just a simple inversion of some always used process.
There, can I be less specific?
Hippies used the peace sign.
Anarchists use a stylized A in a circle.
Yeesh, doesn't everyone know this?
Any contract whose terms are not legal is null.
Now, this depends on jurisdiction, etc, but for the most part contracts are not just void because of an illegal clause.
That PARTICULAR part cannot be enforced (it being illegal and all), but the rest of the contract is most certainly valid.
Yeah, our University uses it to send a message to workstations when print jobs complete. Pretty damn handy when you see how long the print queues for the free dot-matrix printers can get. Not having to run into another room every few minutes is a lifesaver.
:)
Of course, it took them at least 2 months to finally clue in to firewalling off netbios ports to the internet, but once that was solved all was well again. Thankfully, the service is still running so we can "zwrite" in Windows, without installing an IM client
I'm confused. I thought the whole point of Certificates is that you use them as a trust basis. So, you'd know in advance who you can trust, and THEN install their software.
Now we have to know and tell our computers in advance who NOT to trust?
Man, who comes up with these things?
Microsoft Windows and that dastardly Messenger service. (enabled by default) that would be the most insidious adware out there.
:)
Much as I hate the Messaging service, calling it adware is like calling your email client adware.
I think we're missing the point when we can just call any application that receives data and presents it to the user adware. Adware is better applied to things *intended* to serve up ads.
Believe it or not, the Messaging service was originally planned to do other things, and in fact, generally is. Just not for 99% of Windows users
I dont think it will be long before many software companies start making things like software updates, online registration and having a valid email address mandatory.
:) Now if only we could convince Management...
Preaching to the converted, I realize, but this is precisely why I'm moving everything I do to OSS applications.
As "free" software becomes more and more nag/spy/ad-ridden, and worse, as software you PAY for gets like this, I'm giving up and ditching it all. I stopped using IM entirely a while back for similar reasons.
Thanks to OfficeXP and WindowsXP, Microsoft has permanently lost me as a customer. Once 2000 is no longer practical, bye bye Windows at home.
The funny part is that I'm finding the new stuff I'm using to generally be better. CDEX, Firebird, you name it, it's better. Now that mIRC is officially nagware (well, much worse than it's ever been, and not upgrading to 6.12 is suicide what with the latest exploit) there's not a hell of a lot tying me to Windows.
I never thought so many zealots could actually be right
Wow, someone actually doing some thinking. I'm surprised.
I'll just have to assume that you've never before read a SCO story on Slashdot, nor have you read the posts to this story.
Just to keep you up to speed, virtually every single SCO story for the past several months has been "ok SCO, show us some code", SCO not showing any code, and several hundred posts of "SCO hasn't shown any code, wtf is th(is/ese) suit(s) about??".
You're surprised that someone made this point for what has the be the 3,000th time this month?
New here?
The Jets? Winnipeg lost their hockey team in the mid 90s!
Yeah, and Phoenix has been sucking ever since.
It's neat, moving from Winnipeg to Calgary. Now I can go watch an NHL team that moved from the US to Canada (the only one IIRC) and snub my nose at idiot "Thrasher" fans.
Yup, 100% Offtopic, and 100% worth the loss of karma just to see *anyone* else on Slashdot who'll post about my beloved Jets!
I saw several highly improbable hardware failures over the past week, particularly on the 22nd.
:)
What is the likelyhood that this is related to recent unusual solar activity, as opposed to being a simple coincidence?
Seeing as the flare/storm would take a couple of days to reach the Earth, I'd say pretty much 100% that it was a simple conincidence.
Besides, what the article talks about is not an Electro-Magnetic Pulse type effect, where all electronic systems are affected. It's mostly orbiting electronics, and large ground-based systems such as power grids that get hit. I imagine because the large scale infrastructure such as kilometres of power lines turn into huge antennas for this stuff. (IANAP, in case you can't tell
the next version of MS Office will include E-Mail controls which should limit way that e-mail messages can be forwarded
:)
I hope they include a control that prevents email from being forwarded once the subject line contains more than one Fwd: in it.
I swear, many days I get more "Fwd: Fwd: Fwd: Fwd: Fwd: Fwd: THIS COULD SAVE SOMEONE'S LIFE!" than I do spam. The latest and greatest is the "gang initiation - guy sneaks into a woman's backseat at the gas pump", which I haven't seen making the rounds for a couple of years now.
Eliminate crap like this, and watch worker productivity double.
And yes, my tongue is ever-firmly pressed into my cheek