About 30 minutes ago ftp'ing to one of the many boxes here than arn't assigned a DNS name on the local network.
Honestly, if your admins are too damn lazy to set up local DNS, then that's their (and your) problem. You can't generalize that incompetency into a reason for the rest of the Internet to suffer.
It's nothing personal, but I keep hearing that same dumb excuse every time the subject comes up. Average people don't ever type addresses. New network admins type addresses quite often because global DNS doesn't cover them. Experienced admins almost never type addresses because their internal zone is accurate. Yell at your guys for not doing their job, but don't use that as an excuse to keep the status quo.
Google over IPv6 is crisp and clean, with good intensity and a hint of citrus on the nose
Even more importantly, MP3s over IPv6 have an open, airy feel that is notoriously lacking over IPv4. It's even enough to compensate for the jitter they pick up when going over WiFi.
/stands back to watch audiophiles trample each other to get IPv6.
//plans to market IPv6 "enhancers" to audiophiles, both speeding adoption and lining my pockets with "stupidity tax".
I can appreciate that people who work strictly in data analysis could find R an appropriate tool, but as someone whose work spans multiple areas, from analysis to application design and development, R is too limiting a tool, and using it always feels a little alien and weird.
I "discovered" R last night when I saw this article. After 20 minutes of fiddling around with it, I had it pulling data out of PostgreSQL and doing breakdowns of our customers' billing data. Four lines of R were displaying graphs and doing trend analysis.
For me, the single coolest thing about the above is that when I showed it to my boss, he understood and appreciated it. He'd read the NYT article before I had and was interested in R, but I was able to give him a useful example that he could run with. The guy is a competent programmer but he's too busy running the company to have large amounts of time to devote to low-level programming, but is certainly able (and wanting!) to start mining our database with something like this. You and I might not be the target audience, but it seems to have a lot to offer for smart people who want to explore large datasets without getting into the gritty details behind each step.
But the OLPC wasn't designed to just "be cheap" it was designed to be hardy. Most cheap computers aren't exactly hardy, and not really a comparison to the (idea of) the OLPC.
On that subject, I think I could drive over my Eee PC 701 without scratching it. I know (ahem) that it can survive drops, especially without a spinning-media drive. Its hinges feel about as strong as any I've ever used, and the case is small enough to be extremely rigid. While it's not a high-end laptop, it's certainly a rugged little machine.
Rather than trust an external site with all my security, I use a tool called 1Password for Macintosh (there is a similar tool for windows) that secures my passwords in once place and protects them with a single master password.
Rather than trust an external site with my security, I use OpenID on my home server that secures my single password in one place and never distributes any of my login information to other servers.
Of course the heard mentality of slashdot punishes anyone who tries to think for themselves.
With that I agree. A lot of people think that dumb things like the tobacco lawsuits and HIPAA are a natural and good purpose of government and get bent at people who disagree.
However, many (most?) take cases based on the financial benefits to be gained. Mr. Perrelli is paid by the RIAA to represent them, he doesn't represent them because he hates file sharers or technology. And he's done a pretty good job for his clients, so hopefully he will do a good job for his new client, the DoJ.
When it's in a courtroom, it's OK. When it's in a motel, it's called prostitution and they put the client's face on a billboard. Really, what's the difference? He suspended any pretense of morality and took cases he may or may not have supported for purely financial reasons. I'm not sure why you'd expect him to suddenly grow a set of ethics afterward.
This includes leading the DoJ tobacco litigation team against major cigarette manufacturers,
RIAA frontman? Strike one.
Tobacco lawsuits? Strike two.
as well as acting as an advocate for important privacy regulation including HIPAA.
He's one of the jackasses responsible for that disaster? Strike three.
I don't know anyone in the medical industry who thinks HIPAA is a good idea. At one time, the HIPAA compliance officer for the hospital my wife affiliates with was briefing doctors on new policies. One particularly egregious example was that clinics were to install those "take a number" machines and address patients only by number until they were in a treatment room. This is in a town of about 25,000, where there's about a 50% chance that any two people in a waiting room know each other's names anyway.
Then you suck. I voted for Bob Barr because he most represented my beliefs, even though I know he didn't stand a chance in hell of winning. On the other hand, you told the Big Two that they can keep on with what they're doing and you'll keep voting for one of them.
Now, if you actually supported Obama, then more power to you for voting your conscience. However, it sounds like you just flipped a coin and decided that (D) was less bad than (R).
Replace the word CPU with the word kernel and the statement is essentially correct.
I'm invoking the kernel if I throw MyError I'm invoking the kernel? I don't think that's true for C++, let alone something like Python.
Of course the difference between a CPU and kernel is pretty major, but its possible the article is better written.
It's alright, I suppose, but remember that DDJ is written for programmers, not typical users. You would expect writing targeted to that group to be more technically accurate and detailed.
At the very least, the FTC should make it illegal to advertise any product infected with DRM as a "sale" as opposed to a "rental" or "lease". As it's impossible to own them, that's false advertising.
Yes, that means that everyone from Wal-Mart to the local mom-and-pop would have to change their advertising, in-store displays, and receipt printouts. That's a problem for them to work out with their suppliers, though.
The copyright owners have spent money and now want to make as much money back as they can, why is this ridiculous?
Their desire isn't ridiculous, albeit insanely greedy in practice. The basic idea of you being able to copy something to RAM but not back to disk is just nuts, though. At this moment, I'm unaware of any widely-used DRM scheme that's not cracked. That's because the whole idea is basically impossible, at least without Treacherous Computing.
Bullshit, not a single person working on TPM at Intel thinks it will ever work for DRM.
Funny, as it's the first listed possible application on Wikipedia. How could TPM possibly not be used for DRM? All the ingredients are there. From the same article:
Sealed storage could prevent users from moving sealed files to the new computer. This limitation might exist either through poor software design or deliberate limitations placed by publishers of works. The migration section of the TPM specification requires that it be impossible to move certain kinds of files except to a computer with the identical make and model of security chip.
Since the idea of sudo is to execute something as superuser, it's a simpler logical step to execute a shell as superuser rather than calling "su" with "sudo" just because sudo would give you superuser for the next command and "su" executed as superuser will call a shell with such credentials without asking for any password.
FWIW, I think "sudo su" is lamely redundant, too. Of course, if you were using Zsh, "sudo -<tab>" would have shown you all the options and you would've seen "-s -- run SHELL".;-)
RMS calls this "treacherous computing", and I have to agree with him. This is a good development as it demonstrates quite nicely that DRM (which is probably the #1 use of VPro et al) in simply not possible. Thanks, ITL, for showing this as folly!
IMO those greedy capitalists are incredibly stupid, killing the goose that layed the golden egg.
Umm, what? Capitalists typically want to get, you know, more capital. This is traditionally done by managing your current capital well so that it brings in even more. This fascist trend of socializing failure isn't capitalism by any stretch.
I simply cannot fathom why Apple keeps making these things without a number pad.
Because 99% of potential users have no use whatsoever for one, so it's an expensive albatross just to support the remaining 1%. I'm not saying that numeric keypads aren't useful for some very specific things, but very few people every actually do those things. You're a CPA? Sure, you'll want one! Everyone else? Not likely.
I still miss Byte, see this 10 year old issue for why.
I can't tell if you're being sarcastic, because when I read stuff like:
Exceptions are run-time errors or interrupts that force a CPU to suspend normal program execution. (Java is a special case: The Java virtual machine [VM] checks for some run-time errors in software and can throw an exception without involving the hardware CPU.) For example, if a program tries to open a nonexistent data file, the CPU returns an exception that means "File not found." If the program's error-trapping code is poor or absent, the program gets confused.
... I want to choke the author, who's probably now a tech consultant for "CSI".
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About 30 minutes ago ftp'ing to one of the many boxes here than arn't assigned a DNS name on the local network.
Honestly, if your admins are too damn lazy to set up local DNS, then that's their (and your) problem. You can't generalize that incompetency into a reason for the rest of the Internet to suffer.
It's nothing personal, but I keep hearing that same dumb excuse every time the subject comes up. Average people don't ever type addresses. New network admins type addresses quite often because global DNS doesn't cover them. Experienced admins almost never type addresses because their internal zone is accurate. Yell at your guys for not doing their job, but don't use that as an excuse to keep the status quo.
Google over IPv6 is crisp and clean, with good intensity and a hint of citrus on the nose
Even more importantly, MP3s over IPv6 have an open, airy feel that is notoriously lacking over IPv4. It's even enough to compensate for the jitter they pick up when going over WiFi.
/stands back to watch audiophiles trample each other to get IPv6.
//plans to market IPv6 "enhancers" to audiophiles, both speeding adoption and lining my pockets with "stupidity tax".
I can appreciate that people who work strictly in data analysis could find R an appropriate tool, but as someone whose work spans multiple areas, from analysis to application design and development, R is too limiting a tool, and using it always feels a little alien and weird.
I "discovered" R last night when I saw this article. After 20 minutes of fiddling around with it, I had it pulling data out of PostgreSQL and doing breakdowns of our customers' billing data. Four lines of R were displaying graphs and doing trend analysis.
For me, the single coolest thing about the above is that when I showed it to my boss, he understood and appreciated it. He'd read the NYT article before I had and was interested in R, but I was able to give him a useful example that he could run with. The guy is a competent programmer but he's too busy running the company to have large amounts of time to devote to low-level programming, but is certainly able (and wanting!) to start mining our database with something like this. You and I might not be the target audience, but it seems to have a lot to offer for smart people who want to explore large datasets without getting into the gritty details behind each step.
That "Post Anonymously" button is kind of hard to miss these days.
But the OLPC wasn't designed to just "be cheap" it was designed to be hardy. Most cheap computers aren't exactly hardy, and not really a comparison to the (idea of) the OLPC.
On that subject, I think I could drive over my Eee PC 701 without scratching it. I know (ahem) that it can survive drops, especially without a spinning-media drive. Its hinges feel about as strong as any I've ever used, and the case is small enough to be extremely rigid. While it's not a high-end laptop, it's certainly a rugged little machine.
It just doesn't feel right to be pushed from one server to the next to do authentication, since it leaves the door wide open to phising attacks.
When the authentication server is your home server, you can pretty well guard against fishing.
Also using URL for authentication just looks ugly.
Uglier than an email address? Not inherently, no. You're just used to seeing one and not the other.
Rather than trust an external site with all my security, I use a tool called 1Password for Macintosh (there is a similar tool for windows) that secures my passwords in once place and protects them with a single master password.
Rather than trust an external site with my security, I use OpenID on my home server that secures my single password in one place and never distributes any of my login information to other servers.
Of course the heard mentality of slashdot punishes anyone who tries to think for themselves.
With that I agree. A lot of people think that dumb things like the tobacco lawsuits and HIPAA are a natural and good purpose of government and get bent at people who disagree.
It is very much different than here on Slashdot. You get moderator points only once every 4 years.
Nope, that sounds about right.
However, many (most?) take cases based on the financial benefits to be gained. Mr. Perrelli is paid by the RIAA to represent them, he doesn't represent them because he hates file sharers or technology. And he's done a pretty good job for his clients, so hopefully he will do a good job for his new client, the DoJ.
When it's in a courtroom, it's OK. When it's in a motel, it's called prostitution and they put the client's face on a billboard. Really, what's the difference? He suspended any pretense of morality and took cases he may or may not have supported for purely financial reasons. I'm not sure why you'd expect him to suddenly grow a set of ethics afterward.
This includes leading the DoJ tobacco litigation team against major cigarette manufacturers,
RIAA frontman? Strike one.
Tobacco lawsuits? Strike two.
as well as acting as an advocate for important privacy regulation including HIPAA.
He's one of the jackasses responsible for that disaster? Strike three.
I don't know anyone in the medical industry who thinks HIPAA is a good idea. At one time, the HIPAA compliance officer for the hospital my wife affiliates with was briefing doctors on new policies. One particularly egregious example was that clinics were to install those "take a number" machines and address patients only by number until they were in a treatment room. This is in a town of about 25,000, where there's about a 50% chance that any two people in a waiting room know each other's names anyway.
When I voted for him I knew I was compromising.
Then you suck. I voted for Bob Barr because he most represented my beliefs, even though I know he didn't stand a chance in hell of winning. On the other hand, you told the Big Two that they can keep on with what they're doing and you'll keep voting for one of them.
Now, if you actually supported Obama, then more power to you for voting your conscience. However, it sounds like you just flipped a coin and decided that (D) was less bad than (R).
Replace the word CPU with the word kernel and the statement is essentially correct.
I'm invoking the kernel if I throw MyError I'm invoking the kernel? I don't think that's true for C++, let alone something like Python.
Of course the difference between a CPU and kernel is pretty major, but its possible the article is better written.
It's alright, I suppose, but remember that DDJ is written for programmers, not typical users. You would expect writing targeted to that group to be more technically accurate and detailed.
At the very least, the FTC should make it illegal to advertise any product infected with DRM as a "sale" as opposed to a "rental" or "lease". As it's impossible to own them, that's false advertising.
Yes, that means that everyone from Wal-Mart to the local mom-and-pop would have to change their advertising, in-store displays, and receipt printouts. That's a problem for them to work out with their suppliers, though.
The copyright owners have spent money and now want to make as much money back as they can, why is this ridiculous?
Their desire isn't ridiculous, albeit insanely greedy in practice. The basic idea of you being able to copy something to RAM but not back to disk is just nuts, though. At this moment, I'm unaware of any widely-used DRM scheme that's not cracked. That's because the whole idea is basically impossible, at least without Treacherous Computing.
Using the TPM, true practical disk encryption may finally become reality.
As long as your definition of "practical" includes "unrecoverable", as in what your data will be if your motherboard fails.
Well, may be these capitalist crooks shouldn't be asking for money from society to bail them out, then, either.
See, you misspelled "fascists" again. I'm as pro-capitalism as you can get, but I loathe those cretins.
If they're not going to try to run a magazine, they shouldn't be buying a magazine.
Agreed. I'm not even sure if I understand the point of buying something just to run it into the ground.
Bullshit, not a single person working on TPM at Intel thinks it will ever work for DRM.
Funny, as it's the first listed possible application on Wikipedia. How could TPM possibly not be used for DRM? All the ingredients are there. From the same article:
Isn't that almost the very definition of DRM?
Then why can't I rip my SACDs yet?
Because in an age where 128Kbps MP3s are the norm, no one really cared about SACD or DVD-Audio to bother.
Since the idea of sudo is to execute something as superuser, it's a simpler logical step to execute a shell as superuser rather than calling "su" with "sudo" just because sudo would give you superuser for the next command and "su" executed as superuser will call a shell with such credentials without asking for any password.
FWIW, I think "sudo su" is lamely redundant, too. Of course, if you were using Zsh, "sudo -<tab>" would have shown you all the options and you would've seen "-s -- run SHELL". ;-)
RMS calls this "treacherous computing", and I have to agree with him. This is a good development as it demonstrates quite nicely that DRM (which is probably the #1 use of VPro et al) in simply not possible. Thanks, ITL, for showing this as folly!
IMO those greedy capitalists are incredibly stupid, killing the goose that layed the golden egg.
Umm, what? Capitalists typically want to get, you know, more capital. This is traditionally done by managing your current capital well so that it brings in even more. This fascist trend of socializing failure isn't capitalism by any stretch.
I simply cannot fathom why Apple keeps making these things without a number pad.
Because 99% of potential users have no use whatsoever for one, so it's an expensive albatross just to support the remaining 1%. I'm not saying that numeric keypads aren't useful for some very specific things, but very few people every actually do those things. You're a CPA? Sure, you'll want one! Everyone else? Not likely.
I thought we were talking about Ubuntu.
We were. jeffasselin's command is portable across other Unixes and requires fewer keystrokes. Why would you possibly not want to learn it?
I still miss Byte, see this 10 year old issue for why.
I can't tell if you're being sarcastic, because when I read stuff like:
... I want to choke the author, who's probably now a tech consultant for "CSI".