Arguments over race and intelligence went out ages ago, along with phrenology.
Really? So all races are perfectly equal in every respect and we can just forget about ever checking on it again? I wish we could declare other fields of inquiry "finished" - it'd sure save on the research dollars.
"Mexicans are dumber than whites" is a racist statement
Would "Mexicans are less intelligent than whites" be racist? What if it were demonstrated to be true?
I'm not saying that it is true, or even that I think it might be true. It's just that I'm a little uncomfortable ruling out a whole family of statements because they may be unpleasant, even if correct.
After the radical and rabid years of the forceful rigging of every media by the Moral Watchdogs [...], "Focus on the Family" et al., stomping everything that doesn't match their party rhetoric into the dirt, savaging the freedom of speech for decades, getting not just individuals fired but whole companies shut down, one, single, solitary Rightie Radio host steps down when he was obviously a few weeks from retirement anyway, and oh-how-you-all-yell now at the injustice.
The funny part was that I'd initially overlooked your words "of the Right". Given that you were talking about Imus, a liberal, I thought you were referring to the left. Your words still fit perfectly.
If you don't agree to the EULA, don't abide by it.
Alternatively: ignore it. I gave a store some cash in exchange for a copy of a piece of software. Full stop. End of story. It's not widely accepted that any contract between me, the vendor, or the author exists other than standard copyright laws. Scary-sound EULAs and licensing be damned, I bought a copy of the software and I'll run it where and when I see fit, even if the author would prefer I didn't.
It's kind of like taking an aspirin for the pain being caused by a brain tumor. You'll eventually die anyway, but it's not because of the aspirin, it's because of the brain tumor.
Ignoring all the evidence that you have a brain tumor and insisting on treating it as a minor headache is suicidal.
Reverse splits don't cause delisting, but they sure have a strong correlation with the kind of behavior that causes delisting in the first place.
What about OpenSSL? It's the base for SSH and dozens of web servers and clients. I would bet it's the second most used encryption product after the crypto that ships with Windows.
Well, true - and I'd venture that it's probably handled more bits than any other single crypto product. However, it's more of an infrastructure component and not something that end users are ever likely to touch. In that vein, I probably should have included TrueCrypt, although I haven't personally used it.
I trust exactly one encryption product: GnuPG. It's had it's pucker moments, such as the El Gamal signing key problem (IIRC - and I'm too lazy to look it up right now), but those problems get fixed and we move on. Given the choice of whether to trust a little hardware gimmick or a piece of Free Software that millions of people use, even if they don't realize it, I'll stick with the code. If/when problems arise, I believe that it's developers will look out for my interests and not their bottom line.
Having said that, I do respect this company's acknowledgment of the issue. If I had to trust something like this, I'd seriously consider their products because of it. Still, one smallish company isn't going to have the resources of the Open Source community when it comes to development and testing.
I have a few dozen gigs of MP3s on my FreeBSD server. I'd like to run a program that compiles a set of HTML files linking to those MP3s, probably in an iPod-esque setup; click the top-level "Artists" link, choose an artist, and get a list of their MP3s. The goal of this, of course, being to have easy access to my music collection even when lounging around in the living room. If my Wii can play Youtube videos perfectly well (and it can), I'm sure it can manage to play an MP3 from another host on the same LAN.
Does such an application already exist, or is it hacking time?
I was kind of nervous at first that outgoing requests would be sent to Nintendo, who would fetch the page and return a pre-digested version, ala WebTV. I was pleasantly surprised to see from my own server logs, though, that my Wii was directly connecting to remote hosts without going through any proxy. That makes me feel infinitely more comfortable about using it to access my webmail, online banking, etc.
Just throwing that out there for anyone else who had the same concerns.
Seriously, who is crazy enough to post a real opinion on a public forum without being anonymous.
Man up, Nancy. Despite the popularity of claiming otherwise, we don't live in a police state.
If you're too afraid to say something even mildly anti-government, then the problem is with your paranoia. Even if you were right, though, giving into your fear by self-censoring would only help your would-be oppressors.
Either you're overly scared, or I'm not scared enough. It doesn't matter. Either way, it's our moral duty to express ourselves.
You mean the Attempted Anti-Copying System, surely? Acronyms only have the meanings we assign to them. If DRM can become "Digital Restrictions Management", then we can fix this one, too.
Did anyone check if the USB keys had a distribution license that would permit the songs to be hosted on web sites?
You're sitting next to a judge. You've been sworn in. The defense lawyer asks: "what other possible motive could you have to hand out these USB keys than to see their contents redistributed? The keys and the paycheck of a person to copy songs onto it are expensive, so it's completely impossible that you distributed them with the sole hope that each finder would buy a copy of the CD. What was your real reason for doing it?"
The iMac, and to an even greater extent the Mac Mini, are sacrifice machines. Both are sealed boxes, in many ways just a step up from dumb terminals. Neither has the capability or the connectivity to make them truly useful to many people.
My wife has a 5-year-old LCD iMac. I just bought a 2-year-old used eMac. After boosting their RAM, both are perfectly nice little desktop machines. What is this connectivity and capability that we're supposedly missing?
That doesn't sound like too much of a threat to machines. A threat to DRM, maybe.
Of those two possibilities, which do you think MS actually gives a rat's butt about? They don't care if you lose control of your machine. They for darn sure care if they do. That's what makes this a "ha-ha!" moment.
I live far north and to the western edge of a time zone. I just wish that extra daylight didn't come at the expense of driving to work in the dark at 8:00 AM.
For the second question? My little econobox can hit about 123mph.
My 3.8 liter V6 turns 1300 RPMs at 65 MPH, but I have no idea how fast it could actually go. Why are you driving the hell out of your little Hyundai when I'm just efficiently cruising along, and then criticizing my choice of vehicles?
can someone give a quick summary as to why this is hilarious and people are currently LOL
Have you ever laughed at a hopped-up Dodge Neon with a whale tail and three rows of headlights? Well, imagine that the owner had found managed to buy a Ferrari, rip its engine out, and install it in the Dodge. It would be an interesting hack, but why not just drive the Ferrari in the first place?
Powered USB will encourage manufacturers to design peripherals which consume more power, which will negatively impact the earth.
Those peripherals are plugged directly into mains power today. Do you really think that USB powered devices would draw more than the ones sucking from cheap, inefficient wall warts?
Guess you are STILL a Computer Scientist student. If you are doing something that has no impact on security (this is image processing dammit) the value of your software is in what it does, not in how it resists to every possible abuse.
I was going to try to be calm and rational about this, but screw it.
It's that kind of piss-poor attitude by jackass codemonkeys that causes these stupid, avoidable problems. If you aspire to be a programmer, quit now. You are not suited for it, and the best you can hope for is working in the field for a few years before your coworkers stab you to death in the parking lot (and no one will see a thing).
You can either approach every single line of code you write by asking how it will be attacked, or you can write an OS that can be compromised by a damn mouse pointer. There is no in between. All the hoping and wishing and "gee whiz golly, no one would want to hack my code!" Pollyanna naivete in the world won't change it.
Slashdot Mirror
Really? So all races are perfectly equal in every respect and we can just forget about ever checking on it again? I wish we could declare other fields of inquiry "finished" - it'd sure save on the research dollars.
Would "Mexicans are less intelligent than whites" be racist? What if it were demonstrated to be true?
I'm not saying that it is true, or even that I think it might be true. It's just that I'm a little uncomfortable ruling out a whole family of statements because they may be unpleasant, even if correct.
The funny part was that I'd initially overlooked your words "of the Right". Given that you were talking about Imus, a liberal, I thought you were referring to the left. Your words still fit perfectly.
Alternatively: ignore it. I gave a store some cash in exchange for a copy of a piece of software. Full stop. End of story. It's not widely accepted that any contract between me, the vendor, or the author exists other than standard copyright laws. Scary-sound EULAs and licensing be damned, I bought a copy of the software and I'll run it where and when I see fit, even if the author would prefer I didn't.
Ignoring all the evidence that you have a brain tumor and insisting on treating it as a minor headache is suicidal.
Reverse splits don't cause delisting, but they sure have a strong correlation with the kind of behavior that causes delisting in the first place.
You used the syllable "nig". You are a racist. We are coming for you.
Ask David Howard if you think I'm exaggerating.
Well, true - and I'd venture that it's probably handled more bits than any other single crypto product. However, it's more of an infrastructure component and not something that end users are ever likely to touch. In that vein, I probably should have included TrueCrypt, although I haven't personally used it.
Beautiful, beautiful, beautiful. Many thanks!
I trust exactly one encryption product: GnuPG. It's had it's pucker moments, such as the El Gamal signing key problem (IIRC - and I'm too lazy to look it up right now), but those problems get fixed and we move on. Given the choice of whether to trust a little hardware gimmick or a piece of Free Software that millions of people use, even if they don't realize it, I'll stick with the code. If/when problems arise, I believe that it's developers will look out for my interests and not their bottom line.
Having said that, I do respect this company's acknowledgment of the issue. If I had to trust something like this, I'd seriously consider their products because of it. Still, one smallish company isn't going to have the resources of the Open Source community when it comes to development and testing.
I have a few dozen gigs of MP3s on my FreeBSD server. I'd like to run a program that compiles a set of HTML files linking to those MP3s, probably in an iPod-esque setup; click the top-level "Artists" link, choose an artist, and get a list of their MP3s. The goal of this, of course, being to have easy access to my music collection even when lounging around in the living room. If my Wii can play Youtube videos perfectly well (and it can), I'm sure it can manage to play an MP3 from another host on the same LAN.
Does such an application already exist, or is it hacking time?
I was kind of nervous at first that outgoing requests would be sent to Nintendo, who would fetch the page and return a pre-digested version, ala WebTV. I was pleasantly surprised to see from my own server logs, though, that my Wii was directly connecting to remote hosts without going through any proxy. That makes me feel infinitely more comfortable about using it to access my webmail, online banking, etc.
Just throwing that out there for anyone else who had the same concerns.
Man up, Nancy. Despite the popularity of claiming otherwise, we don't live in a police state.
If you're too afraid to say something even mildly anti-government, then the problem is with your paranoia. Even if you were right, though, giving into your fear by self-censoring would only help your would-be oppressors.
Either you're overly scared, or I'm not scared enough. It doesn't matter. Either way, it's our moral duty to express ourselves.
You mean the Attempted Anti-Copying System, surely? Acronyms only have the meanings we assign to them. If DRM can become "Digital Restrictions Management", then we can fix this one, too.
You're sitting next to a judge. You've been sworn in. The defense lawyer asks: "what other possible motive could you have to hand out these USB keys than to see their contents redistributed? The keys and the paycheck of a person to copy songs onto it are expensive, so it's completely impossible that you distributed them with the sole hope that each finder would buy a copy of the CD. What was your real reason for doing it?"
Your answer, please.
My wife has a 5-year-old LCD iMac. I just bought a 2-year-old used eMac. After boosting their RAM, both are perfectly nice little desktop machines. What is this connectivity and capability that we're supposedly missing?
Of those two possibilities, which do you think MS actually gives a rat's butt about? They don't care if you lose control of your machine. They for darn sure care if they do. That's what makes this a "ha-ha!" moment.
I live far north and to the western edge of a time zone. I just wish that extra daylight didn't come at the expense of driving to work in the dark at 8:00 AM.
My 3.8 liter V6 turns 1300 RPMs at 65 MPH, but I have no idea how fast it could actually go. Why are you driving the hell out of your little Hyundai when I'm just efficiently cruising along, and then criticizing my choice of vehicles?
Well, that's not what I'd meant, but I suppose that still works for certain values of "Dodge" and "Ferrari".
Have you ever laughed at a hopped-up Dodge Neon with a whale tail and three rows of headlights? Well, imagine that the owner had found managed to buy a Ferrari, rip its engine out, and install it in the Dodge. It would be an interesting hack, but why not just drive the Ferrari in the first place?
I worked with peers to develop a simulation of a self-balancing telephony network.
It's amazing how many ways there are to make homework sound good on a resume.
Those peripherals are plugged directly into mains power today. Do you really think that USB powered devices would draw more than the ones sucking from cheap, inefficient wall warts?
That's kind of you to say, but no, I'm nose-to-the-grindstone in the workforce.
I was going to try to be calm and rational about this, but screw it.
It's that kind of piss-poor attitude by jackass codemonkeys that causes these stupid, avoidable problems. If you aspire to be a programmer, quit now. You are not suited for it, and the best you can hope for is working in the field for a few years before your coworkers stab you to death in the parking lot (and no one will see a thing).
You can either approach every single line of code you write by asking how it will be attacked, or you can write an OS that can be compromised by a damn mouse pointer. There is no in between. All the hoping and wishing and "gee whiz golly, no one would want to hack my code!" Pollyanna naivete in the world won't change it.
Seriously. Quit before you break something.
What makes you think they didn't?