(For those that don't know: a file can have multiple bodies, and a directory can have file bodies too. You can do "notepad C:\WINDOWS:holycrap.txt" to put a stream on the WINDOWS directory.)
Viruses hide in alternate streams. Backup software forgets alternate streams. Web servers and browsers forget alternate streams. FTP servers and clients forget alternate streams.
When next you are running out of disk space, perhaps it is an alternate stream! The file size shown in Windows explorer does not show the alternate streams.
If you really want this load of crap on Linux though... see the user_xattr mount option, which you may set via/etc/fstab or via the tune2fs program.
This is no different from an oil well drilled into some other country's oil. Iceland already claimed the Earth's core. The USA is basically stealing from Iceland. You may think the Earth's core is under the USA, but it's really under Iceland!
You don't show the gun unless you are willing to shoot.
Once you show the gun, the shooting is automatic if they approach you or if they start to pull out a gun.
If you don't get the gun out until you're already in a fight, you just shoot.
It's rather unlikely that you'd need to shoot though. You can expect an "Oh, fuck!" or "Sorry!", maybe a nervous smile, maybe hands up, maybe running from you. Of course, you do have to be ready to fill the bastard with 15 shots to the chest if the unexpected happens.
Google has been transitioning to RAM-based storage. With redundant servers around the world, power outages are no problem. RAM is way faster; a disk can only do about 100 to 400 (commonly 200) seeks per second.
Normally, "trade school" means a place that doesn't teach the math and theory at all. This is no good. You need some of that, for work and for future learning, though not anywhere near as much as is often shoved at the engineering students. You also need some of that simply as a way to prove intelligence; the modern engineering degree acts in place of an intelligence test.
It is thus required to get an engineering degree for the good jobs, even though much of the degree is useless junk. Half of the degree isn't even engineering-related at all; it's crud like "Basketweaving" and "Black Lesbian Power".
Your "more and more watered down" comment is way off the mark. Changing the focus of a degree does not equal watering it down. Changing the focus could in fact make the degree much more difficult to get. As others have noted, today there are "engineers" from theory-heavy schools who are fairly clueless with screwdrivers!
I mean the portions of various races in the population. (a break-down by percentage for example)
Heart disease is more common in black people. People descended from various Jewish groups in Eastern Europe get all sorts of genetic diseases that kill them in early childhood. People with American Indian ancenstory, including Mexicans, are vulnerable to diabetes.
That's just off the top of my head, and not even counting various lifestyle risks.
People die all the time. Perhaps some DIFFERENT people will die, but that's life. Overall though, this isn't going to be a killer.
Suppose the sea is rising. Places become less valuable as they get more and more frequent flooding. If a place gets flooded a few times a year, soon enough it will be abandoned. It doesn't even take that much usually.
If life gets hard in some country, people spend more time working and less time fucking. The population drops. Meanwhile, in some other country, things are going great.
Perhaps some day Canada will be inhabited, and Mexico will not be. We can all move north by 2000 miles. It will happen over many years. Heck, it's happening right now. Life is hard in Mexico and the people are moving north.
Since population shifts happen over time, by both migration and via birth/death rates, it may be that very few people actually have to move. To somebody in the middle of the population shift, it may be that you know a few friends or relatives who moved north by a few hundred miles. It need not be a big deal.
Kansas can ship tropical fruit up to huge cities in Canada's Northern Territories.
1. Racist. This excludes much of East Asia at least, and probably much more. The people would enjoy attacking **FILL IN THE BLANK**.
2. Religeous intolerance. This excludes the entire Middle East. The people would enjoy attacking those filthy **FILL IN THE BLANK** worshipers.
3. Government not controlled by the people. This excludes China for sure. Russia is sliping back into this problem. Most of the Middle East is bad. Most of Africa is bad.
4. Vulnerable to overthrow. If the government is not secure, it could suddendly change. This excludes places with armed groups that have a non-negligable chance of overthrowing the government.
5. Vulnerable to invasion. If you have a small army and a land border with a neighbor who has a big mobile army, you damn well should not be having desirable weapon technology like nuclear weapons. You could get overrun in a matter of hours.
Snide remarks aside, the USA is fine. We don't have perfection of course, but realisticly we're way above the vast majority of the world as far as these things go.
If you record the pixels in random order, you mostly free yourself from having a specific interleave and framerate. This is especially true if the "pixel" is single-color.
Having freed yourself, you can easily produce output in different framerates with/without interleave. Normally, format conversion causes various bad artifacts. With this, you could easily output any framerate (24, 25, 29.97, 30, 48, 50, 59.94, 60, 72) you desire.
Without the trade education, you'll never get that first job.
Beyond that, there isn't much the school can do. Either you're a thinker, or you're not a thinker. This isn't something for a school to teach.
The best you can ask is that high-reputation schools simply discard all the non-thinkers, so that a degree from one of those schools indicates that you are a thinker.
Isn't GSM is the sucky compression used on digital cell phones? No thanks.
Q: "can you hear me now?" A: "no, I don't fear your cow"
Telephone quality is shit already. Make it better, not worse.
Look, you will PAY MONEY for the shit quality. People have to repeat things when the quality is bad. That takes time, making calls longer. People are more likely to get pissed off then they struggle to communicate, and pissing off your customers is not good for the finances.
There are no virtual desktops. How am I supposed to manage a hundred programs running at once?
The scripting language sucks ass. The only control structure, if you can call it that, is "goto". I kid you not. There is no "for", "while", "case", etc. If I'm not mistaken, there isn't even an ability to define functions.
The command shell sucks ass. It's the same as the scripting language, so no surprise. Quoting support is horrible. This wouldn't be too bad if files had names like/home/r00t/project.doc, but no... it is normal to use great big long names with spaces and random punctuation.
I can't manipulate stuff without dedicated single-purpose tools. On a Linux box I can use the "dd" command to copy a disk partition to a file, copy a chunk out of the middle of a file into another file, and so on. Windows lacks a similar tool, and anyway it wouldn't work without something like a/dev/C: device file. If I want to image a DVD on Linux, I just use dd.
Then of course we must devote most of the processing power to a damn virus scanner.
On the plus side, it supports obscure high-end setups better. That'll be nice if I ever add more soundcards, which will happen as soon as I upgrade my head to have more ears.
The kernel ABI is messy and mostly undocumented. It exposes ugly hardware-specific details. You're expected to use the ALSA libraries, which might not be your cup of tea.
With OSS, you could just open/dev/dsp and use ioctl() or write() as needed.
How else would be POSIX subsystem and SFU subsystem run?
Probably fork() is an obscure undocumented NT-native call. You just need to find it, call it, and hope that your C library doesn't go into convulsions.
Pretty much any chronic viral disease is totally incurable. This obviously includes AIDS. All we can do is slow it down a bit, so that the victim can have more time to spread the disease to other people before he dies.
Phone voice quality is crappy enough as it is. Please don't make it even more difficult to understand what the other party is saying. Just send the uncompressed data.
Now, if you were planning to do 24 kHz 16-bit end-to-end, maybe it would be a different matter.
First of all, this "Margaret Mead" surely didn't have an unbiased way to objectively measure these qualities. She sees what she desires to see. (or worse, but let's assume she tried to be honest)
Second of all, the gene pool of these isolated populations may well be different from normal. There is a tribe in Africa (pygmy?) where the people only grow to 3 or 4 feet tall, and a set of Pacific islanders (Samoan?) who are really tall -- we don't claim it to be culture or even diet; social norms need not be any different in this respect.
Women normally have a strong desire to be physically attractive to men. (for men, being powerful and wealthy is more critical, and anyway "attractive" would mean something different) This is genetic.
Being physically attractive means showing off the curvy hips. This too is genetic.
Showing off the curves means that bulging pockets are out. It may even mean a dress. Well, without pockets, what are you going to do? You carry a purse.
If some of your clothes lack pockets, you need a purse. If you often need a purse, you get in the habit of stuffing it with things and bringing it with you. You'll bring it even when you do wear clothes with pockets.
Nobody wants to share a restroom with the male-to-female uh, thing. You know, the result of surgically chopping off a few parts. Fortunately for us men, the thing doesn't want to use the men's restroom. The women aren't too happy though.
Heck, I'd rather not share a restroom with other guys. Some of them might be fruits or nuts.
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/etc/fstab or via the tune2fs program.
(For those that don't know: a file can have multiple bodies, and a directory can have file bodies too. You can do "notepad C:\WINDOWS:holycrap.txt" to put a stream on the WINDOWS directory.)
Viruses hide in alternate streams. Backup software forgets alternate streams. Web servers and browsers forget alternate streams. FTP servers and clients forget alternate streams.
When next you are running out of disk space, perhaps it is an alternate stream! The file size shown in Windows explorer does not show the alternate streams.
If you really want this load of crap on Linux though... see the user_xattr mount option, which you may set via
This is no different from an oil well drilled into some other country's oil. Iceland already claimed the Earth's core. The USA is basically stealing from Iceland. You may think the Earth's core is under the USA, but it's really under Iceland!
How can somebody grab your gun if they are dead?
You don't show the gun unless you are willing to shoot.
Once you show the gun, the shooting is automatic if they approach you or if they start to pull out a gun.
If you don't get the gun out until you're already in a fight, you just shoot.
It's rather unlikely that you'd need to shoot though. You can expect an "Oh, fuck!" or "Sorry!", maybe a nervous smile, maybe hands up, maybe running from you. Of course, you do have to be ready to fill the bastard with 15 shots to the chest if the unexpected happens.
Google has been transitioning to RAM-based storage. With redundant servers around the world, power outages are no problem. RAM is way faster; a disk can only do about 100 to 400 (commonly 200) seeks per second.
Being an elitist ass, or just out of touch?
Normally, "trade school" means a place that doesn't teach the math and theory at all. This is no good. You need some of that, for work and for future learning, though not anywhere near as much as is often shoved at the engineering students. You also need some of that simply as a way to prove intelligence; the modern engineering degree acts in place of an intelligence test.
It is thus required to get an engineering degree for the good jobs, even though much of the degree is useless junk. Half of the degree isn't even engineering-related at all; it's crud like "Basketweaving" and "Black Lesbian Power".
Your "more and more watered down" comment is way off the mark. Changing the focus of a degree does not equal watering it down. Changing the focus could in fact make the degree much more difficult to get. As others have noted, today there are "engineers" from theory-heavy schools who are fairly clueless with screwdrivers!
They don't die like the chemists do. They only go blind, usually blaming it on the laser.
There are old chemists and bold chemists. There are no old bold chemists.
A bit of heavy metal here, a bit there, a perchloric acid spill, a falling piece of glassware, a leaky gas jet...
I mean the portions of various races in the population. (a break-down by percentage for example)
Heart disease is more common in black people. People descended from various Jewish groups in Eastern Europe get all sorts of genetic diseases that kill them in early childhood. People with American Indian ancenstory, including Mexicans, are vulnerable to diabetes.
That's just off the top of my head, and not even counting various lifestyle risks.
People die all the time. Perhaps some DIFFERENT people will die, but that's life. Overall though, this isn't going to be a killer.
Suppose the sea is rising. Places become less valuable as they get more and more frequent flooding. If a place gets flooded a few times a year, soon enough it will be abandoned. It doesn't even take that much usually.
If life gets hard in some country, people spend more time working and less time fucking. The population drops. Meanwhile, in some other country, things are going great.
Perhaps some day Canada will be inhabited, and Mexico will not be. We can all move north by 2000 miles. It will happen over many years. Heck, it's happening right now. Life is hard in Mexico and the people are moving north.
Since population shifts happen over time, by both migration and via birth/death rates, it may be that very few people actually have to move. To somebody in the middle of the population shift, it may be that you know a few friends or relatives who moved north by a few hundred miles. It need not be a big deal.
Kansas can ship tropical fruit up to huge cities in Canada's Northern Territories.
Disqualifying factors:
1. Racist. This excludes much of East Asia at least, and probably much more. The people would enjoy attacking **FILL IN THE BLANK**.
2. Religeous intolerance. This excludes the entire Middle East. The people would enjoy attacking those filthy **FILL IN THE BLANK** worshipers.
3. Government not controlled by the people. This excludes China for sure. Russia is sliping back into this problem. Most of the Middle East is bad. Most of Africa is bad.
4. Vulnerable to overthrow. If the government is not secure, it could suddendly change. This excludes places with armed groups that have a non-negligable chance of overthrowing the government.
5. Vulnerable to invasion. If you have a small army and a land border with a neighbor who has a big mobile army, you damn well should not be having desirable weapon technology like nuclear weapons. You could get overrun in a matter of hours.
Snide remarks aside, the USA is fine. We don't have perfection of course, but realisticly we're way above the vast majority of the world as far as these things go.
If you record the pixels in random order, you mostly free yourself from having a specific interleave and framerate. This is especially true if the "pixel" is single-color.
Having freed yourself, you can easily produce output in different framerates with/without interleave. Normally, format conversion causes various bad artifacts. With this, you could easily output any framerate (24, 25, 29.97, 30, 48, 50, 59.94, 60, 72) you desire.
Without the trade education, you'll never get that first job.
Beyond that, there isn't much the school can do. Either you're a thinker, or you're not a thinker. This isn't something for a school to teach.
The best you can ask is that high-reputation schools simply discard all the non-thinkers, so that a degree from one of those schools indicates that you are a thinker.
Isn't GSM is the sucky compression used on digital cell phones? No thanks.
Q: "can you hear me now?"
A: "no, I don't fear your cow"
Telephone quality is shit already. Make it better, not worse.
Look, you will PAY MONEY for the shit quality. People have to repeat things when the quality is bad. That takes time, making calls longer. People are more likely to get pissed off then they struggle to communicate, and pissing off your customers is not good for the finances.
There are no virtual desktops. How am I supposed to manage a hundred programs running at once?
/home/r00t/project.doc, but no... it is normal to use great big long names with spaces and random punctuation.
/dev/C: device file. If I want to image a DVD on Linux, I just use dd.
The scripting language sucks ass. The only control structure, if you can call it that, is "goto". I kid you not. There is no "for", "while", "case", etc. If I'm not mistaken, there isn't even an ability to define functions.
The command shell sucks ass. It's the same as the scripting language, so no surprise. Quoting support is horrible. This wouldn't be too bad if files had names like
I can't manipulate stuff without dedicated single-purpose tools. On a Linux box I can use the "dd" command to copy a disk partition to a file, copy a chunk out of the middle of a file into another file, and so on. Windows lacks a similar tool, and anyway it wouldn't work without something like a
Then of course we must devote most of the processing power to a damn virus scanner.
How do people get any work done?
On the plus side, it supports obscure high-end setups better. That'll be nice if I ever add more soundcards, which will happen as soon as I upgrade my head to have more ears.
/dev/dsp and use ioctl() or write() as needed.
The kernel ABI is messy and mostly undocumented. It exposes ugly hardware-specific details. You're expected to use the ALSA libraries, which might not be your cup of tea.
With OSS, you could just open
There is ZFS for FUSE, and the next MacOS X will have ZFS native. Compare them.
How else would be POSIX subsystem and SFU subsystem run?
Probably fork() is an obscure undocumented NT-native call. You just need to find it, call it, and hope that your C library doesn't go into convulsions.
Lots of things differ: air temperature, school lunches, racial makeup (obviously "sickle cell disease", but way more than that too), pollution, etc.
You even EAT apples and oranges, don't you? We subsist entirely on freedom fries cooked in trans fats.
Pretty much any chronic viral disease is totally incurable. This obviously includes AIDS. All we can do is slow it down a bit, so that the victim can have more time to spread the disease to other people before he dies.
Now we all know the best numbers to use for a PGP key.
Phone voice quality is crappy enough as it is. Please don't make it even more difficult to understand what the other party is saying. Just send the uncompressed data.
Now, if you were planning to do 24 kHz 16-bit end-to-end, maybe it would be a different matter.
Write a number to /proc/self/seccomp to sandbox an app.
It's even good for fully open software, just in case there might be a buffer overflow.
First of all, this "Margaret Mead" surely didn't have an unbiased way to objectively measure these qualities. She sees what she desires to see. (or worse, but let's assume she tried to be honest)
Second of all, the gene pool of these isolated populations may well be different from normal. There is a tribe in Africa (pygmy?) where the people only grow to 3 or 4 feet tall, and a set of Pacific islanders (Samoan?) who are really tall -- we don't claim it to be culture or even diet; social norms need not be any different in this respect.
Women normally have a strong desire to be physically attractive to men. (for men, being powerful and wealthy is more critical, and anyway "attractive" would mean something different) This is genetic.
Being physically attractive means showing off the curvy hips. This too is genetic.
Showing off the curves means that bulging pockets are out. It may even mean a dress. Well, without pockets, what are you going to do? You carry a purse.
If some of your clothes lack pockets, you need a purse. If you often need a purse, you get in the habit of stuffing it with things and bringing it with you. You'll bring it even when you do wear clothes with pockets.
Good luck changing that one.
Nobody wants to share a restroom with the male-to-female uh, thing. You know, the result of surgically chopping off a few parts. Fortunately for us men, the thing doesn't want to use the men's restroom. The women aren't too happy though.
Heck, I'd rather not share a restroom with other guys. Some of them might be fruits or nuts.