The unwashed masses out there see both of these as the same thing...
That is the problem. I always try to explain it this way: There are good doctors, and there are bad doctors. There are good lawyers, and there are bad lawyers. There are good cops, and there are bad cops. (etc.) And there are good hackers, and bad hackers.
A proper asteroid defence system is likely to be at least a decade away, as it is likely to require a number of hefty nukes to persuade an oncoming 300m+ asteroid that it doesn't have right of way.
Actually, I've always thought that if you detect the object far enough out, you don't need nukes to save the earth. All you need is a conventional warhead with enough power to deflect the object. Even a small change (1-2 degrees) over enough distance would cause it to miss the earth.
For example, if I remember my trig correctly, suppose a bullet was headed straight for your heart from 3 miles away (neglect gravity). Things look bad for you. But now suppose at 3 miles away, something deflected the bullet just 1 degree. Now the bullet will miss your heart by about 18". Not a lot, but enough to probably save your life.
But this comes back to the issue of the farther out you see it coming, the less force is required to deflect it.
Actually, I'm running the latest version of kxicq2.
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It seems to me that we would be much better asking each passenger for his or her name, two forms of ID...
It's a common misconception now that the FAA mandates that you show ID when checking in. That's actually a lie spread by the airlines. Why do they do that?
Simple, it saves them money and the government takes the heat (very little). Before the airlines started making you show ID, you easily sell your ticket on a secondary market. With ID's, the secondary market vanished and the airlines' margins went up.
My cousin runs trillion, and it does seem to cause problems with ICQ. He can recieve messages, but everything he sends to me is blank. When he switches to a real ICQ client, everything works fine. Be warned.
It may not be plug and pray, but Cups can be pretty easy to configure. Don't believe me? Want to see screen shots? Take a look at the cups presentation at home.swbell.net/berzerke/printing.html.
It should also be at www.hlug.org, but is currently offline for some reason.
Not all with neck pains are faking. I got hit in 1998 by a woman who ran a stop sign (damage to my car was more than $5,000). I saw it coming and made the mistake of stiffening up. NEVER STIFFEN UP! GO LIMP! (And always wear a seat belt.)
My neck still bothers me to this day and the doctor said it probably would for the rest of my life. I settled the case long ago BTW, and for far, far less than $50,000. Because so many people fake injuries, and it has become common knowledge, juries just reject those claims outright. Insurance companies know this and play hardball and screw everyone over.
In my opinion, the last "good" kernel in the 2.4 series is 2.4.11. I've had problems with 2.4.12, 2.4.13, 2.4.14. Luckily, I was slow in upgrading, so I avoided the bug in 2.4.15 . I'm waiting to see about 2.4.16.
BTW, as an aside, the new VM works better for me. One test I read shows both 2.4 VM's are much better than the 2.2 VM, but was inconclusive about which 2.4 VM is better.
..that's illegal, so there won't be a problem with unauthorized access.
Riiight. Just like making murder illegal has stopped it, or drug dealing, or assault, or car theft, or etc. And what happens (assuming they catch whoever's doing the illegal stuff) to the person who happens to be a foreign intelligence officer, or a person from another country with weak to no extradition laws. (sarcasm)I feel safer already.(/sarcasm)
When will people learn you can't preserve freedom and liberty by destroying it.
The US has Small Claims Court for disputes involving less than $5000. Additionally, there are no lawyers allowed...
Sorry to disapoint you, but lawyers are allowed. I've sued someone (actually companies) 3 times in small claims courts. Two times I've won what I consider wins, and for the other I had to get a lawyer, because the otherside's lawyers outmatched me. (More than one lawyer has told me I should go to law school and I'd be a natural. Too bad I have morals.) If I'd gotten lawyer fees, I would have considered that one a win too. Unfortunately, that was only a draw in my opinion.
Spoken like someone who has never actually tried to call microsoft! You can call, but don't count on much support if it isn't in the KB. I know, I've tried. There is an article floating around comparing microsoft to the psychic friends network. Read it here.
The check idea may actually work. I've wondered for a while that if the terrorists really wanted the US to do something (or not to do something), rather than killing people, why not simply bribe a few congressmen?
Even with the FCRA, they are often wrong and hurt people getting credit who can't afford to sue.
That statement is so very true. I've had problems with Experian (and only Experian, the other 2 credit agencies were not a problem). I talked to a lawyer about sueing them, and while he told me I had a case, under the FCRA, I have to sue in Federal Court. He advised me however, that even if I won, I likely would not get enought damages to pay for court costs. In other words, I would lose either way.
Having listened to the music being put out now by the RIAA members, I think we already have a reduction in quality, and that's before the copying starts!
All of Nimda's exploits were old. You had what? Five months?
You forget several things.
Microsoft does not test their patches. The patch probably will fix the problem, but they are also known for introducing new problems. Patching from Microsoft is rather risky in and of itself.
Security at many firms is a low priority, at least until there is a crisis. At a place I used to work, I actually got repremanded (more than once) for "wasting time installing patches".
Why don't you have a secure firewall to protect your servers?
This is both funny and sad. I spent Wednesday building a new server for a computer store to replace one (NT4 SP6) that got hosed by Nimda and probably Code Red too. (I also pulled the plug on the infected server. This one at least will stop soaking bandwidth.) The owners truly believed that their ISP was filtering the traffic to prevent this sort of thing.
BTW, the new server is Linux, with a firewall, and portwall. They were amazed at how fast their internet connection is now. Of course, part of the speed increase is Nimda and Code Red are no longer soaking up bandwidth.
Performance for me is always fine, UNLESS something is hogging the system resources. For instance, I bzip2ing a large file, compiling a kernel, and hot-swapping partitions around (yes, I've done that, but it's not for the faint of heart), then yes, performance sucks. But then (assuming it didn't crash the OS), performance would suck on W2K do the same things too. Perhaps more.
Perhaps you have a runaway process. The "top" command comes in very handy to find what's hogging resources.
I wonder if the DMCA would apply. My words were copyrighted, and I used encryption to protect that copyright. By breaking it, you are breaking the law to get the "evidence". Hmmm...that might be enough to get the case thrown out.
Oh course, you may beat the rap, but I doubt you'll beat the ride. When will Congress learn you can't protect freedom by extinguishing it!
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Furthermore, if you prove in court that you did not commit the act of which you are accused then the accuser may be subject to paying monetary losses, punitive damages and legal costs.
Great in theory, lousy in practice. If could afford the legal fight, then it might work ("MAY be subject to...legal costs"). However, how many of us have the resources to fight the MPAA or RIAA one-on-one? As a lawyer client of mine told me recently, he sometimes has to ask his clients "How much justice can you afford?" Personally, this one reason I'm a member of EFF.
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If they were working towards OS monoculture, wouldn't they be trying to remove functionality from Mac IE?
If I remember correctly, Bill Gates owns a nice sized piece of Apple. Yes, its not windows, but M$ still gets a piece of the action from Apple, so it is in their financial best interest to develop for Mac.
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The unwashed masses out there see both of these as the same thing...
That is the problem. I always try to explain it this way: There are good doctors, and there are bad doctors. There are good lawyers, and there are bad lawyers. There are good cops, and there are bad cops. (etc.) And there are good hackers, and bad hackers.
For those that have trouble breaking it, here are some hints:
A proper asteroid defence system is likely to be at least a decade away, as it is likely to require a number of hefty nukes to persuade an oncoming 300m+ asteroid that it doesn't have right of way.
Actually, I've always thought that if you detect the object far enough out, you don't need nukes to save the earth. All you need is a conventional warhead with enough power to deflect the object. Even a small change (1-2 degrees) over enough distance would cause it to miss the earth.
For example, if I remember my trig correctly, suppose a bullet was headed straight for your heart from 3 miles away (neglect gravity). Things look bad for you. But now suppose at 3 miles away, something deflected the bullet just 1 degree. Now the bullet will miss your heart by about 18". Not a lot, but enough to probably save your life.
But this comes back to the issue of the farther out you see it coming, the less force is required to deflect it.
Actually, I'm running the latest version of kxicq2.
It seems to me that we would be much better asking each passenger for his or her name, two forms of ID...
It's a common misconception now that the FAA mandates that you show ID when checking in. That's actually a lie spread by the airlines. Why do they do that?
Simple, it saves them money and the government takes the heat (very little). Before the airlines started making you show ID, you easily sell your ticket on a secondary market. With ID's, the secondary market vanished and the airlines' margins went up.
My cousin runs trillion, and it does seem to cause problems with ICQ. He can recieve messages, but everything he sends to me is blank. When he switches to a real ICQ client, everything works fine. Be warned.
It may not be plug and pray, but Cups can be pretty easy to configure. Don't believe me? Want to see screen shots? Take a look at the cups presentation at home.swbell.net/berzerke/printing.html.
It should also be at www.hlug.org, but is currently offline for some reason.
Not all with neck pains are faking. I got hit in 1998 by a woman who ran a stop sign (damage to my car was more than $5,000). I saw it coming and made the mistake of stiffening up. NEVER STIFFEN UP! GO LIMP! (And always wear a seat belt.)
My neck still bothers me to this day and the doctor said it probably would for the rest of my life. I settled the case long ago BTW, and for far, far less than $50,000. Because so many people fake injuries, and it has become common knowledge, juries just reject those claims outright. Insurance companies know this and play hardball and screw everyone over.
Well, see, it shows you how bad the latest batch of kernels are. :^)
I don't use dangling symlinks, so it isn't a problem for me. For most people, 2.4.9 is probably the best choice.
If you're going to convert over the boot volume, make sure ext3 is built into the kernel and not a module.
Actually, you can use it as a module if you use an initramdisk. However, for most people, the suggestion above is the easiest way to do it.
In my opinion, the last "good" kernel in the 2.4 series is 2.4.11. I've had problems with 2.4.12, 2.4.13, 2.4.14. Luckily, I was slow in upgrading, so I avoided the bug in 2.4.15 . I'm waiting to see about 2.4.16.
BTW, as an aside, the new VM works better for me. One test I read shows both 2.4 VM's are much better than the 2.2 VM, but was inconclusive about which 2.4 VM is better.
Riiight. Just like making murder illegal has stopped it, or drug dealing, or assault, or car theft, or etc. And what happens (assuming they catch whoever's doing the illegal stuff) to the person who happens to be a foreign intelligence officer, or a person from another country with weak to no extradition laws. (sarcasm)I feel safer already.(/sarcasm)
When will people learn you can't preserve freedom and liberty by destroying it.
The US has Small Claims Court for disputes involving less than $5000. Additionally, there are no lawyers allowed...
Sorry to disapoint you, but lawyers are allowed. I've sued someone (actually companies) 3 times in small claims courts. Two times I've won what I consider wins, and for the other I had to get a lawyer, because the otherside's lawyers outmatched me. (More than one lawyer has told me I should go to law school and I'd be a natural. Too bad I have morals.) If I'd gotten lawyer fees, I would have considered that one a win too. Unfortunately, that was only a draw in my opinion.
Spoken like someone who has never actually tried to call microsoft! You can call, but don't count on much support if it isn't in the KB. I know, I've tried. There is an article floating around comparing microsoft to the psychic friends network. Read it here.
The check idea may actually work. I've wondered for a while that if the terrorists really wanted the US to do something (or not to do something), rather than killing people, why not simply bribe a few congressmen?
For those like me that didn't know (I never heard of a dangling symlink before this article): What is a dangling symlink?
A symlink may point to an existing file or a file that doesn't exist. A symlink that points to a file that doesn't exist is called dangling symlink.
Now the "why you would want to created a dangling symlink" question is one I can't answer yet.
Here's a site with the patch www.angelfire.com/linux/berzerke.
Even with the FCRA, they are often wrong and hurt people getting credit who can't afford to sue.
That statement is so very true. I've had problems with Experian (and only Experian, the other 2 credit agencies were not a problem). I talked to a lawyer about sueing them, and while he told me I had a case, under the FCRA, I have to sue in Federal Court. He advised me however, that even if I won, I likely would not get enought damages to pay for court costs. In other words, I would lose either way.
Having listened to the music being put out now by the RIAA members, I think we already have a reduction in quality, and that's before the copying starts!
All of Nimda's exploits were old. You had what? Five months?
You forget several things.
Why don't you have a secure firewall to protect your servers?
This is both funny and sad. I spent Wednesday building a new server for a computer store to replace one (NT4 SP6) that got hosed by Nimda and probably Code Red too. (I also pulled the plug on the infected server. This one at least will stop soaking bandwidth.) The owners truly believed that their ISP was filtering the traffic to prevent this sort of thing.
BTW, the new server is Linux, with a firewall, and portwall. They were amazed at how fast their internet connection is now. Of course, part of the speed increase is Nimda and Code Red are no longer soaking up bandwidth.
Performance for me is always fine, UNLESS something is hogging the system resources. For instance, I bzip2ing a large file, compiling a kernel, and hot-swapping partitions around (yes, I've done that, but it's not for the faint of heart), then yes, performance sucks. But then (assuming it didn't crash the OS), performance would suck on W2K do the same things too. Perhaps more.
Perhaps you have a runaway process. The "top" command comes in very handy to find what's hogging resources.
I wonder if the DMCA would apply. My words were copyrighted, and I used encryption to protect that copyright. By breaking it, you are breaking the law to get the "evidence". Hmmm...that might be enough to get the case thrown out.
Oh course, you may beat the rap, but I doubt you'll beat the ride. When will Congress learn you can't protect freedom by extinguishing it!
Furthermore, if you prove in court that you did not commit the act of which you are accused then the accuser may be subject to paying monetary losses, punitive damages and legal costs.
Great in theory, lousy in practice. If could afford the legal fight, then it might work ("MAY be subject to...legal costs"). However, how many of us have the resources to fight the MPAA or RIAA one-on-one? As a lawyer client of mine told me recently, he sometimes has to ask his clients "How much justice can you afford?" Personally, this one reason I'm a member of EFF.
If they were working towards OS monoculture, wouldn't they be trying to remove functionality from Mac IE?
If I remember correctly, Bill Gates owns a nice sized piece of Apple. Yes, its not windows, but M$ still gets a piece of the action from Apple, so it is in their financial best interest to develop for Mac.