Anyone who does not believe that this is true is naive. It happens, I've seen it.
Within a week after Sep 11, there was an interesting interview the CNN's Wolf Blitzer had with a former CIA director. He said that people are overlooking the possible involvement of Saddam Hussein in the terrorist attacks.
Within 3 hours, the article was deleted. But the link on cnn.com's front page wasn't. It was a broken link. Even today, the article is nowhere to be found on the site.
Read cnn.com regularly. Read between the lines. Learn about what they are not saying and what they delete.
More importantly, will it be illegal for Symantec to modify Norton Anti-Virus to block it?
IF they do eventually make it illegal to block the virus then 'terrorist virus writers' can be guaranteed a hole in every system.
And it is not far-fetched that they would make it illegal to block it. For instance, it is illegal to wear a bullet-proof vest if you are in a situation where the police want to shoot you.
Maybe we could televise the tortures? Sell tickets? Closed-circuit TV in pubs! Hey there is $$$ in this torture thing.
Regardless, you have a terrorist who is not only willing to die but is EXPECTING to die. Any information extracted from him is suspect. The ability for misuse is huge. There is a reason why we are not allowed to utilize torture now. People forget that this reason still exists.
I remember a childhood buddy that left to join the military. When he got back his nose was up in the air and he always insulted the 'people who were just civs'.
I told him that it is those people's rights to BE civilians that he is actually trained to fight for.
All a person REALLY needs in life is McDonalds, Music, Movies, Sports and Religous Dogma.
It is dangerous to give people Education, Information and Freedom. After all, they might be terrorists like the evil Taliban who refuse to give their citizens Education, Information and Freedom.
Hey, did anyone watch the debate a couple of weeks ago on CNN where they discussed giving U.S. federal agents the right to use torture?
Get ready for the future: it is murder - leonard cohen
At least one of the major shipping companies (FedEx, Postal Service, or UPS, I can't recall) has a special 'shock' detector option. It's basically a little vial stuck onto (or inside?) the package that has well known properties, and if it's broken by the time the package arrives, they'll pay for damages.
At Level Control Systems we had many problems with very expensive boxes being delivered trashed. We used the little red 'shock detectors'. Trouble is that they would almost ALWAYS turn red, indicating too much shock. So we stopped using them.
We ended up just designing and packaging the equipment better. Used a powerful shake table to shake the cr*p out of it at different resonant frequencies. It was amazing watching the tight screws loosen and fly off. And DRAM modules too! Once we changed the design so it survived the shake table and when we made better packing we had much fewer problems with shipping.
Almost all PC's and Mac's are not designed to these industrial standards.
It still doesn't help though when they pierce your shipment with a forklift, though. I doubt the LCS boxes would have survived what these boxes went through.
Yes. One other gotcha with cygwin is that the cygwin DLL is licensed under the GPL - not the LGPL. So you can not distribute any closed source software that uses cygwin.
Some libraries compiled for Win98 serial ports will not work with Win2000 serial ports. The API sucks and is overly complex (hey, it is micro$oft!) - also, the API does not deal with 16550 directly. AND-, at 115kbaud, the NT serial driver WILL lose data bytes, even on a dual pentium. So you gotta EXPECT dropped bytes. No one usually notices this because they are usually using PPP which handles the re-send for you.
But it IS easy to write your own anyways on both platforms. No big deal. RTFM
Actually, no, but he DOES already have the answer.
QT 3.0 supplies everything he needs for platform independent sockets, threads as well as the gui. Serial port access is easy enough on both platforms to do yourself.
My only suggestion is to have a spare linux box with a cron job that checks out the latest sources from cvs, compiles, and emails you the error messages. Then he will be notified as soon as he checks in some sources that only compile on the lame VC++ compiler. I do that all the time and it is much easier to fix the portability problems as you go instead of in one big chunk at the end.
Unfortunately, Alan was RIGHT in 'putting that crap in the changelog'. If you don't think so then you do not understand the DMCA. Talk to a lawyer about it. He was right.
...Dan had had a classmate in software, Frank Martucci, who had obtained an illicit debugging tool, and used it to skip over the copyright monitor code when reading books. But he had told too many friends about it, and one of them turned him in to the SPA for a reward (students deep in debt were easily tempted into betrayal). In 2047, Frank was in prison, not for pirate reading, but for possessing a debugger.
How long until it becomes true, instead of being a whacked-out conspiracy theory fantasy?
--jeff
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You wrote:
$/ = undef; $wc{$_}++ for split(/\W+/,); print($_, " = ", $wc{$_}) for sort keys %wc;
and got rid of 45 lines of java code.
AWW, MAN! How am I supposed to make any MONEY with perl if I get paid by the number of LINES OF CODE I write???? I have a LOC quota, you know.
What we need is a digital camera with NO storage system. All it does it upload the image via wireless ethernet to multiple servers in different countries at once.
Then, there is no easy way that one person or group can delete or alter the photos.
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Anyone who does not believe that this is true is naive. It happens, I've seen it.
Within a week after Sep 11, there was an interesting interview the CNN's Wolf Blitzer had with a former CIA director. He said that people are overlooking the possible involvement of Saddam Hussein in the terrorist attacks.
Within 3 hours, the article was deleted. But the link on cnn.com's front page wasn't. It was a broken link. Even today, the article is nowhere to be found on the site.
Read cnn.com regularly. Read between the lines. Learn about what they are not saying and what they delete.
--jeff
here here here here and here
Remember to rename the exe file to 'quake.exe' to squeeze out a better frame rate!
--jeff
Did you GIVE the FBI those pictures of your wife?
Do you trust EVERYONE in the FBI?
Including the FBI members that are reported for misconduct? After all, FBI agents are people too.
Would you not mind if some of them really liked your wife and took action to have her? I guess you must like that sort of thing.
There must always be checks and balances. Without them you don't need to be doing anything wrong to be a victim of corruption.
--jeffHow are you going to dump NSI when you can't even send them authentication in any way?
jeff
More importantly, will it be illegal for Symantec to modify Norton Anti-Virus to block it?
IF they do eventually make it illegal to block the virus then 'terrorist virus writers' can be guaranteed a hole in every system.
And it is not far-fetched that they would make it illegal to block it. For instance, it is illegal to wear a bullet-proof vest if you are in a situation where the police want to shoot you.
--jeff
Horrible. Well, see technically the US does not do the torture. They just train other people to do it for them. They just circumvent the red tape.
--jeff
Right, it couldn't be done in secret.
Maybe we could televise the tortures? Sell tickets? Closed-circuit TV in pubs! Hey there is $$$ in this torture thing.
Regardless, you have a terrorist who is not only willing to die but is EXPECTING to die. Any information extracted from him is suspect. The ability for misuse is huge. There is a reason why we are not allowed to utilize torture now. People forget that this reason still exists.
--jeff
http://www.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0111/07/tl.00.html
CNN Talkback Live
November 7, 2001
Torture: Should It Be an Option When Dealing With Terrorists?
It is offensive to even discuss it.
Have a NICE DAY!
--jeff
Yup, I agree with you.
I remember a childhood buddy that left to join the military. When he got back his nose was up in the air and he always insulted the 'people who were just civs'.
I told him that it is those people's rights to BE civilians that he is actually trained to fight for.
I don't think he understood.
or perhaps I am the one who didn't understand....
--jeff
Umm... I'm NOT the one who sees them as mutually exclusive. Our 'officials' are the ones. who do.
And THAT's the problem.
There is no need for Manufacturing Consent any more now that we have Forced Consent.
--jeff
Is available at here
--jeffAll a person REALLY needs in life is McDonalds, Music, Movies, Sports and Religous Dogma.
It is dangerous to give people Education, Information and Freedom. After all, they might be terrorists like the evil Taliban who refuse to give their citizens Education, Information and Freedom.
Hey, did anyone watch the debate a couple of weeks ago on CNN where they discussed giving U.S. federal agents the right to use torture?
Get ready for the future: it is murder - leonard cohen
VC++ may generate fast object code, but what use is it if it can't compile your advanced c++template code?
You are better off using the free borland C++ compiler.
--jeff
hear hear!!!
At least one of the major shipping companies (FedEx, Postal Service, or UPS, I can't recall) has a special 'shock' detector option. It's basically a little vial stuck onto (or inside?) the package that has well known properties, and if it's broken by the time the package arrives, they'll pay for damages.
At Level Control Systems we had many problems with very expensive boxes being delivered trashed. We used the little red 'shock detectors'. Trouble is that they would almost ALWAYS turn red, indicating too much shock. So we stopped using them.
We ended up just designing and packaging the equipment better. Used a powerful shake table to shake the cr*p out of it at different resonant frequencies. It was amazing watching the tight screws loosen and fly off. And DRAM modules too! Once we changed the design so it survived the shake table and when we made better packing we had much fewer problems with shipping.
Almost all PC's and Mac's are not designed to these industrial standards.
It still doesn't help though when they pierce your shipment with a forklift, though. I doubt the LCS boxes would have survived what these boxes went through.
--jeff
Yes. One other gotcha with cygwin is that the cygwin DLL is licensed under the GPL - not the LGPL. So you can not distribute any closed source software that uses cygwin.
--jeff
Some libraries compiled for Win98 serial ports will not work with Win2000 serial ports. The API sucks and is overly complex (hey, it is micro$oft!) - also, the API does not deal with 16550 directly. AND-, at 115kbaud, the NT serial driver WILL lose data bytes, even on a dual pentium. So you gotta EXPECT dropped bytes. No one usually notices this because they are usually using PPP which handles the re-send for you.
But it IS easy to write your own anyways on both platforms. No big deal. RTFM
--jeff
--jeff
Correct, but there is another gotcha.
::operator new = memory corruption and crashes
The current cygwin g++ compiler is not compiled itself with the appropriate flags to generate thread safe RTTI and exception handling code.
threads + cygwin + g++ +
unless you use -fno-rtti -fno-exceptions
Yes, this sucks.
--jeff
Actually, no, but he DOES already have the answer.
QT 3.0 supplies everything he needs for platform independent sockets, threads as well as the gui. Serial port access is easy enough on both platforms to do yourself.
My only suggestion is to have a spare linux box with a cron job that checks out the latest sources from cvs, compiles, and emails you the error messages. Then he will be notified as soon as he checks in some sources that only compile on the lame VC++ compiler. I do that all the time and it is much easier to fix the portability problems as you go instead of in one big chunk at the end.
--jeff
'Crushing numbers' is the right term, as g4's altivec is only single precision.
But it would be cool.
--jeff
Unfortunately, Alan was RIGHT in 'putting that crap in the changelog'. If you don't think so then you do not understand the DMCA. Talk to a lawyer about it. He was right.
Would you rather he break the law?
--jeff
The Right to Read
How long until it becomes true, instead of being a whacked-out conspiracy theory fantasy?
--jeffYou wrote:
$/ = undef; $wc{$_}++ for split(/\W+/,); print($_, " = ", $wc{$_}) for sort keys %wc;
and got rid of 45 lines of java code.
AWW, MAN! How am I supposed to make any MONEY with perl if I get paid by the number of LINES OF CODE I write???? I have a LOC quota, you know.
(Just kidding)
--jeff
What we need is a digital camera with NO storage system. All it does it upload the image via wireless ethernet to multiple servers in different countries at once.
Then, there is no easy way that one person or group can delete or alter the photos.
--jeff