Now, it would presumably be possible for/. to write some Perl coding to check for dupes - probably by examining the links that two duplicate stories would have in common. The trouble is, unless/until this patent gets killed in court, such coding would fall under this patent.
The Nazis got around 30-35% of the vote (I can't be bothered to look it up, but it was way below 50%), the Communists somewhat less. The rest was shared amongst several non-extremist parties including the components of the previous coalitions.
The geriatric ex-general Paul Hindenburg then asked the Nazis to form a minority government because he saw them as being the lesser evil. They first banned and imprisoned the Communists (with the votes of all other parties except the Social Democrats), subsequently kicked the Social Democrats out as well (again, the other parties played along) which gave them an absolute majority. They then used it . . .
Reading the other replies, I see that the legislation was passed during the Clinton administration.
I am in Germany. Legislation was passed here some time around 1999 which allowed temporary work-permits for non-EU specialists, who had to be paid a minimum of (I think) $5000 a month before tax to qualify. This was not a cheap-labour program. Then the bubble burst, the legislation was allowed to lapse.
Now back to the US. Why was this done using tax-breaks? Why is that legislation still on the books? That legislation benefits companies alone, not citizens. Since the majority of campaign donations come from companies, I suppose that this should hardly be surprising. My impression from across the Atlantic is that the current US Administration is looking after the big guys and letting the middle-classes go to the wall.
As to me: late 40's, in work and currently using my Cobol, Assembler (!) and mainframe OS expertise to stay that way. Very few people have those skills so I look safe for the time being.
Oh, absolutely no doubt about that. That is also the same in any organisation exceeding about 10 individuals - probably less. The organisations I worry about are the ones that promote that sort of thing . ..
I also remember that behaviour at Watergate, and to a far greater extent during the Reagan administration. Both of them were Republican, I can't think of any Democrat administrations behaving like that, but Johnson (I was a kid then) seems a likely candidate.
As to the username (thanks), the idea just came to me:-)
If I understood you correctly, you are half right. Read-access to NTFS has been no problem for years, it is write-access which has been marked as being experimental and downright dangerous for just as long. I believe M$ wrote a 'cease and desist' letter a couple of years back to the person working on fixing this problem. Can't remember the contents or reasoning though.
The Sandinistas came to power in a (popular) revolution, overthrowing the Somoza clan who had been backed for years by the US. Jimmy Carter - to his credit - did not get involved. The 'boss' Somoza was a typical Latin American dictator, ruling through fear while robbing the country blind.
Where I am less than sure is that the Sandinistas actually had held elections by then, or at least elections that would be accepted as 'Free and Fair'. Then again, Florida's election could have done with UN observers:-)
Now to the point: Oo! I know! A country whose government realized a long time ago that they could fool 99% of the population -- and simultaneously marginlize the remainder as leftists -- by releasing just enough and/or falsified data to make people think this is evidence of an open government? You seem to consider 'the government' to be one monolithic block, marching in one direction. Administations are made up of people and these people have different interests and different viewpoints. This report could have seen the light of day in virtually any European country, or in most other real democracies. The US is nothing special there. Claiming that the report was released as a sop to the masses goes just as far in the other direction - it just smells of paranoia.
Why in the hell would a security camera be wireless? To save re-cabling? And this thing doesn't even seem to be encrypted! They probably could not imagine that anyone would care enough to tune in. Even if someone tuned in, so what? I would leave it unencrypted even now.
This is a German website, and not one which repeats dubious information in order to further US interests (you should have seen their take on the recent war)
I do not think the astronauts themselves had any interest in screwing things up and endangering their own lives
If neither of those is what you are suggesting, do you think the GPS satellites were manipulated to 'send them way off target'?
btw, who shot Kennedy? Did the Americans ever really land on the moon? Any more 'interesting theories' I have forgotten?
Having looked at a map, I see your point. Around 90% of the area within 500km of the target area looks relatively safe and is sparsely populated. Judging from that article though, they normally expect to be more accurate.
According to this report in German, the capsule came down almost 500km (300 Miles) outside it's planned target area, and it took two hours to locate it.
The astronauts climbed out of the capsule themselves and waved to the people looking for them when they finally turned up. That could have easily have gone very horribly wrong - imagine them coming down on the side of a steep mountain-face.
What I hate most about the C family of languages, is that the only terminator for a string is a binary zero. It is not possible (at least in the implemention available to me) to ask 'how big is that string, physically'?
The language I use on a day-to-day basis is (shock, horror) Cobol. Given a 50-byte field FIELD-50 and a 100-byte field FIELD-100,
MOVE FIELD-50 TO FIELD-100 copies FIELD-50 to the first 50 bytes of FIELD-100 and fills the rest with spaces.
MOVE FIELD-100 TO FIELD-50 copies the first 50 bytes of FIELD-100 to FIELD-50.
This is part of the language, totally automatic and does not have to be implemented by using totally unintelligent string-copy functions.
The Fortran implementation I use actually goes one better:
FIELD_100 = FIELD_50
FIELD_50 = FIELD_100
work the same as the corresponding examples above, but Fortran has functions which return the physical length of a string, or the length of a string with all trailing spaces removed.
An unrelated gripe with C is that the statement if (a = b) should never ever assign b to a and conditionally execute what comes next if the result is not zero. Given that the language is specified this way, a compiler should at least flag such a line with a message such as 'is this what you really want?'. Building in traps for the unwary is not what a language designer should be doing.
My 'day job' is programming on a mainframe. This is how they go about handling this.
16 'segments' (call them what you will) can be based (pointed to) at any one time, each by one base-register. B0 points to code B1 points to the stack B2-B15 point to data segments. If you want to point B0 to another executable segment, you have to execute CALL, GOTO or RTN (return:-). A code segment does not have to be read-only, but normally is. The only other 'trampolining' permitted is by using the EXecute instruction which allows you to execute one instruction in any segment. Executing (for example) a Jump instruction would be of little use to a cracker because the target address would automatically be in the segment referenced by B0.
Yes, we can have buffer-overflows, but 'all' that happens is that other data is overwritten. This will usually cause the program to abort. It is even possible to organise things so that every routine has it's own discrete data-segments. If a routine then starts accessing data outside of the routine, it gets the equivalent of a Segfault. Obviously parameters/arguments are excepted from this, although there would also be a Segfault if a routine went outside it's caller's data-area. Actually, the hardware allows a caller to restrict a subroutine's access to only the n bytes it actually passed over as an argument. The HLL implementations do not enforce this setting in any of the languages I use.
Segment attributes are from Owner-Read, Owner-Write, Owner-Execute, Other-Read, Other-W and Other-X. Segments also have a Sharing-Level which is: Activity, Program, Application and Exec/System. Exec/System is normally combined with Other-Access: None, Application is normally combined with Read+Execute.
How much damage is caused each year because the 32-bit I386 architecture cannot supply a reasonable security framework at a reasonable overhead? If the AMD 64-bit processors are capable of fixing this mess, then the GLIBC maintainers could start looking at (optionally?) allowing a safer implementation by separating Code and Data. If this incurs memory-overhead, server farms should be migrating to 64-bit processors anyway by the time such a feature became available. They could also always compile the libraries without that feature.
That's BS. By *listening* to these records, no matter how you obtain them, you are a customer of the record industry. Regardless of whether or not you would have bought them, you have had the use out of the item *without* paying. If you want use of something, even if it's in your opinion sub standard, you have to pay by law. Simple as that. (Though I'd say that this is a valid argument against the we lose $n billion/year in piracy.)
YANAL, I assume. If that really became the case, then it would become normal to sue owners of public places where Muzak (or whatever other form of music) were being played. A better way of killing the record industry would be hard to find.
I assume you mean China, not Russia. Or have you been asleep for the last 15 or so years?
Does any open-source software come out of Cuba or Other Socialist States (OSS)? Since scope for profit-making is rather limited there (and most of these states have a very good education system), I would imagine that some of the disincentives applying here would not apply to people living there.
YUP, I saw that as well. There is nothing wrong with the Motherboard / Chipset, it is the processor itself which sometimes misbehaves.
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When the CDU get into power again, it will be in coalition with the FDP.
I said I don't trust the CDU.
As to the FDP's priorities, a couple of years back I had a small company in the S of Germany. I got targeted mail from the FDP pointing out that they were representing me - the small businessman. I have never seen the need for Doctors, Dentists and Lawyers to have their own party.
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Total crap. The EU directive this is based on was passed back in summer 2001 and is binding on all member-states.
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We are looking at fixed sums. The two figures I saw were 20 for an Inkjet printer and 38 for one of those multi-function fax/printer/scanners. 1 is about $1.07 at the moment.
CD Burners have had something like this for a while, as have Cassette players (I think) not sure what the amount is though.
There is a great tendency here for the Government (all parties) to treat the consumer as something to be 'Milked', they will happily create a new tax to pay off some special-interest group such as the GEMA (German RIAA).
Curiously enough, even they are not completely happy with this. They wanted P2P to be nailed as well.
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Additional information: The CDU are in Opposition in Germany, but have the majority in the Upper house. They have indicated that they will see how this law turns out and maybe introduce a packet of updates to it.
I am not sure I trust them to do a good job, and their hands are pretty much tied by the EU directive 2001/29/EG anyway. This original EU directive was passed in June 2001 and should have been adopted as national law by the end of last year.
This means that other EU countries must have passed similar laws over the past few months, can anyone who knows comment on this?
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The upper house (Bundesrat) in Germany is only 'allowed' to intervene under certain circumstances. Since only the FDP - who have around 7% of the vote - are against this, consider the Bundesrat to be a formality.
What this law represents is making a decision already passed at EU level a law valid in Germany, they did not have a lot of room to maneuvre.
On some systems, I can decide what hardware is used. On other systems, I have to live with what is there. Given the choice, I will go for a components where open-source drivers exist but I also need Linux to work when this is not the case.
This is not actually an issue for me with Video cards because I do not install X11 on production servers, it *is* an issue with RAID Controllers, SCSI Controllers and NICs.
I run a system with an Intel EthernetPro 100. There are a large number of different cards with this name and this one only works at all using the Intel driver which was originally (I believe) binary-only. It is now integrated into the kernel source-tree, but I was still having to use it before it got there.
My point is that I would not buy a device if no Open Source driver exists (reduced sales for the manufacturer if just Google follows the same policy) but would be reduced to using something like SCO Unix if Linux had no drivers at all. The server I am thinking of in this case came with the choice between SCO-Unix or NT4+Driver-updates so I installed Linux:-)
The original site is blocking access (sorry guys, we can't handle the load). This mirror of yours has exceeded it's bandwidth. How the hell are we supposed to RTFS?
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Sharon was elected in the aftermath of the trouble caused by his 'walk on the Temple Mount' - no trouble then no PM Sharon.
Whenever things have looked like calming down, the Israelis have invaded an 'autonomous area' or launched an air strike to stir things up again. Sharon and his party have their own agenda and they seem to be happy to sacrifice a few of their own people to further it.
Why did that walk on the Temple Mount upset that Palastinians so much? It was because the man is a terrorist in the full sense of the word and has been since around 1950. His group used to go around dynamiting Palastinian villages in order to drive the survivors out, his role in the refugee-camp massacres in the 80's meant that he was unacceptable even to people like Begin and Shamir.
George W. Bush likes him. I don't know if Bush simply does not know what he represents or if he does not care. Probably the first.
My personal belief is that Israel's long-term future looked best when Rabin was in power and that things have been disintegrating ever since. Peres was never an adequate substitute but it also seemed to me that elements in the Israeli army were also trying to sabotage him in the runup to the election where Netanyahu (sp?) was elected. Shelling UN posts full of refugees was a great idea.
Israel is very strong at the moment and is happily burning it's bridges with it's neighbours. One day the US will turn some pressure on Israel again and withhold financial aid. That is when the current situation will fall apart.
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Are you sure? I also missed the original.
/. to write some Perl coding to check for dupes - probably by examining the links that two duplicate stories would have in common. The trouble is, unless/until this patent gets killed in court, such coding would fall under this patent.
Now, it would presumably be possible for
ouch.
Hitler was not voted in.
The Nazis got around 30-35% of the vote (I can't be bothered to look it up, but it was way below 50%), the Communists somewhat less. The rest was shared amongst several non-extremist parties including the components of the previous coalitions.
The geriatric ex-general Paul Hindenburg then asked the Nazis to form a minority government because he saw them as being the lesser evil. They first banned and imprisoned the Communists (with the votes of all other parties except the Social Democrats), subsequently kicked the Social Democrats out as well (again, the other parties played along) which gave them an absolute majority. They then used it . . .
Reading the other replies, I see that the legislation was passed during the Clinton administration.
I am in Germany. Legislation was passed here some time around 1999 which allowed temporary work-permits for non-EU specialists, who had to be paid a minimum of (I think) $5000 a month before tax to qualify. This was not a cheap-labour program. Then the bubble burst, the legislation was allowed to lapse.
Now back to the US. Why was this done using tax-breaks? Why is that legislation still on the books? That legislation benefits companies alone, not citizens. Since the majority of campaign donations come from companies, I suppose that this should hardly be surprising. My impression from across the Atlantic is that the current US Administration is looking after the big guys and letting the middle-classes go to the wall.
As to me: late 40's, in work and currently using my Cobol, Assembler (!) and mainframe OS expertise to stay that way. Very few people have those skills so I look safe for the time being.
Oh, absolutely no doubt about that. That is also the same in any organisation exceeding about 10 individuals - probably less. The organisations I worry about are the ones that promote that sort of thing . . .
:-)
I also remember that behaviour at Watergate, and to a far greater extent during the Reagan administration. Both of them were Republican, I can't think of any Democrat administrations behaving like that, but Johnson (I was a kid then) seems a likely candidate.
As to the username (thanks), the idea just came to me
If I understood you correctly, you are half right.
Read-access to NTFS has been no problem for years, it is write-access which has been marked as being experimental and downright dangerous for just as long.
I believe M$ wrote a 'cease and desist' letter a couple of years back to the person working on fixing this problem. Can't remember the contents or reasoning though.
Well done GCC. When I use C at all, it is an ANSI C compiler on a mainframe and that obvious little feature is missing.
The Sandinistas came to power in a (popular) revolution, overthrowing the Somoza clan who had been backed for years by the US. Jimmy Carter - to his credit - did not get involved. The 'boss' Somoza was a typical Latin American dictator, ruling through fear while robbing the country blind.
:-)
Where I am less than sure is that the Sandinistas actually had held elections by then, or at least elections that would be accepted as 'Free and Fair'. Then again, Florida's election could have done with UN observers
Now to the point: Oo! I know! A country whose government realized a long time ago that they could fool 99% of the population -- and simultaneously marginlize the remainder as leftists -- by releasing just enough and/or falsified data to make people think this is evidence of an open government?
You seem to consider 'the government' to be one monolithic block, marching in one direction. Administations are made up of people and these people have different interests and different viewpoints. This report could have seen the light of day in virtually any European country, or in most other real democracies. The US is nothing special there. Claiming that the report was released as a sop to the masses goes just as far in the other direction - it just smells of paranoia.
Why in the hell would a security camera be wireless? To save re-cabling?
And this thing doesn't even seem to be encrypted! They probably could not imagine that anyone would care enough to tune in. Even if someone tuned in, so what? I would leave it unencrypted even now.
- This is a German website, and not one which repeats dubious information in order to further US interests (you should have seen their take on the recent war)
- I do not think the astronauts themselves had any interest in screwing things up and endangering their own lives
- If neither of those is what you are suggesting, do you think the GPS satellites were manipulated to 'send them way off target'?
btw, who shot Kennedy? Did the Americans ever really land on the moon?Any more 'interesting theories' I have forgotten?
Having looked at a map, I see your point. Around 90% of the area within 500km of the target area looks relatively safe and is sparsely populated.
Judging from that article though, they normally expect to be more accurate.
According to this report in German, the capsule came down almost 500km (300 Miles) outside it's planned target area, and it took two hours to locate it.
The astronauts climbed out of the capsule themselves and waved to the people looking for them when they finally turned up. That could have easily have gone very horribly wrong - imagine them coming down on the side of a steep mountain-face.
It is not possible (at least in the implemention available to me) to ask 'how big is that string, physically'?
The language I use on a day-to-day basis is (shock, horror) Cobol.
Given a 50-byte field FIELD-50 and a 100-byte field FIELD-100,
- MOVE FIELD-50 TO FIELD-100
- MOVE FIELD-100 TO FIELD-50
This is part of the language, totally automatic and does not have to be implemented by using totally unintelligent string-copy functions.copies FIELD-50 to the first 50 bytes of FIELD-100 and fills the rest with spaces.
copies the first 50 bytes of FIELD-100 to FIELD-50.
The Fortran implementation I use actually goes one better:
- FIELD_100 = FIELD_50
- FIELD_50 = FIELD_100
work the same as the corresponding examples above, but Fortran has functions which return the physical length of a string, or the length of a string with all trailing spaces removed.An unrelated gripe with C is that the statement if (a = b) should never ever assign b to a and conditionally execute what comes next if the result is not zero.
Given that the language is specified this way, a compiler should at least flag such a line with a message such as 'is this what you really want?'. Building in traps for the unwary is not what a language designer should be doing.
My 'day job' is programming on a mainframe. This is how they go about handling this.
:-). A code segment does not have to be read-only, but normally is. The only other 'trampolining' permitted is by using the EXecute instruction which allows you to execute one instruction in any segment. Executing (for example) a Jump instruction would be of little use to a cracker because the target address would automatically be in the segment referenced by B0.
16 'segments' (call them what you will) can be based (pointed to) at any one time, each by one base-register.
B0 points to code
B1 points to the stack
B2-B15 point to data segments.
If you want to point B0 to another executable segment, you have to execute CALL, GOTO or RTN (return
Yes, we can have buffer-overflows, but 'all' that happens is that other data is overwritten. This will usually cause the program to abort. It is even possible to organise things so that every routine has it's own discrete data-segments. If a routine then starts accessing data outside of the routine, it gets the equivalent of a Segfault. Obviously parameters/arguments are excepted from this, although there would also be a Segfault if a routine went outside it's caller's data-area.
Actually, the hardware allows a caller to restrict a subroutine's access to only the n bytes it actually passed over as an argument. The HLL implementations do not enforce this setting in any of the languages I use.
Segment attributes are from Owner-Read, Owner-Write, Owner-Execute, Other-Read, Other-W and Other-X. Segments also have a Sharing-Level which is: Activity, Program, Application and Exec/System. Exec/System is normally combined with Other-Access: None, Application is normally combined with Read+Execute.
How much damage is caused each year because the 32-bit I386 architecture cannot supply a reasonable security framework at a reasonable overhead? If the AMD 64-bit processors are capable of fixing this mess, then the GLIBC maintainers could start looking at (optionally?) allowing a safer implementation by separating Code and Data. If this incurs memory-overhead, server farms should be migrating to 64-bit processors anyway by the time such a feature became available. They could also always compile the libraries without that feature.
so, who wrote ls? or cd? or less?
very bad idea, if serious.
That's BS. By *listening* to these records, no matter how you obtain them, you are a customer of the record industry. Regardless of whether or not you would have bought them, you have had the use out of the item *without* paying. If you want use of something, even if it's in your opinion sub standard, you have to pay by law. Simple as that. (Though I'd say that this is a valid argument against the we lose $n billion/year in piracy.)
YANAL, I assume.
If that really became the case, then it would become normal to sue owners of public places where Muzak (or whatever other form of music) were being played. A better way of killing the record industry would be hard to find.
I assume you mean China, not Russia. Or have you been asleep for the last 15 or so years?
Does any open-source software come out of Cuba or Other Socialist States (OSS)? Since scope for profit-making is rather limited there (and most of these states have a very good education system), I would imagine that some of the disincentives applying here would not apply to people living there.
YUP, I saw that as well. There is nothing wrong with the Motherboard / Chipset, it is the processor itself which sometimes misbehaves.
When the CDU get into power again, it will be in coalition with the FDP.
I said I don't trust the CDU.
As to the FDP's priorities, a couple of years back I had a small company in the S of Germany. I got targeted mail from the FDP pointing out that they were representing me - the small businessman.
I have never seen the need for Doctors, Dentists and Lawyers to have their own party.
Total crap.
The EU directive this is based on was passed back in summer 2001 and is binding on all member-states.
We are looking at fixed sums. The two figures I saw were 20 for an Inkjet printer and 38 for one of those multi-function fax/printer/scanners. 1 is about $1.07 at the moment.
CD Burners have had something like this for a while, as have Cassette players (I think) not sure what the amount is though.
There is a great tendency here for the Government (all parties) to treat the consumer as something to be 'Milked', they will happily create a new tax to pay off some special-interest group such as the GEMA (German RIAA).
Curiously enough, even they are not completely happy with this. They wanted P2P to be nailed as well.
Additional information:
The CDU are in Opposition in Germany, but have the majority in the Upper house. They have indicated that they will see how this law turns out and maybe introduce a packet of updates to it.
I am not sure I trust them to do a good job, and their hands are pretty much tied by the EU directive 2001/29/EG anyway. This original EU directive was passed in June 2001 and should have been adopted as national law by the end of last year.
This means that other EU countries must have passed similar laws over the past few months, can anyone who knows comment on this?
The upper house (Bundesrat) in Germany is only 'allowed' to intervene under certain circumstances. Since only the FDP - who have around 7% of the vote - are against this, consider the Bundesrat to be a formality.
What this law represents is making a decision already passed at EU level a law valid in Germany, they did not have a lot of room to maneuvre.
On some systems, I can decide what hardware is used. On other systems, I have to live with what is there. Given the choice, I will go for a components where open-source drivers exist but I also need Linux to work when this is not the case.
:-)
This is not actually an issue for me with Video cards because I do not install X11 on production servers, it *is* an issue with RAID Controllers, SCSI Controllers and NICs.
I run a system with an Intel EthernetPro 100. There are a large number of different cards with this name and this one only works at all using the Intel driver which was originally (I believe) binary-only. It is now integrated into the kernel source-tree, but I was still having to use it before it got there.
My point is that I would not buy a device if no Open Source driver exists (reduced sales for the manufacturer if just Google follows the same policy) but would be reduced to using something like SCO Unix if Linux had no drivers at all. The server I am thinking of in this case came with the choice between SCO-Unix or NT4+Driver-updates so I installed Linux
The original site is blocking access (sorry guys, we can't handle the load).
This mirror of yours has exceeded it's bandwidth.
How the hell are we supposed to RTFS?
Sharon was elected in the aftermath of the trouble caused by his 'walk on the Temple Mount' - no trouble then no PM Sharon.
Whenever things have looked like calming down, the Israelis have invaded an 'autonomous area' or launched an air strike to stir things up again. Sharon and his party have their own agenda and they seem to be happy to sacrifice a few of their own people to further it.
Why did that walk on the Temple Mount upset that Palastinians so much? It was because the man is a terrorist in the full sense of the word and has been since around 1950. His group used to go around dynamiting Palastinian villages in order to drive the survivors out, his role in the refugee-camp massacres in the 80's meant that he was unacceptable even to people like Begin and Shamir.
George W. Bush likes him. I don't know if Bush simply does not know what he represents or if he does not care. Probably the first.
My personal belief is that Israel's long-term future looked best when Rabin was in power and that things have been disintegrating ever since. Peres was never an adequate substitute but it also seemed to me that elements in the Israeli army were also trying to sabotage him in the runup to the election where Netanyahu (sp?) was elected. Shelling UN posts full of refugees was a great idea.
Israel is very strong at the moment and is happily burning it's bridges with it's neighbours. One day the US will turn some pressure on Israel again and withhold financial aid. That is when the current situation will fall apart.