Suppose those files came on an "enhanced CD" that you bought, using cash, from a local store (which is actually fairly common). In this scenario, you've not entered in any contract or any other sort of binding agreement above and beyond the normal customer-vendor trade. Even if the store's policy states otherwise, unless they have some sort of explicit consent for additional conditions, no such conditions exist.
but I am also unlikely to ever use sqlite no matter what OS I go to. It makes little sense, because it does not save you immense resources to begin with (in most situations) and it does not provide scalability.
I have to disagree with you there. I can think of 1,001 reasons why it'd be nice to have a lightweight, fast (!) SQL database available on the local machine. It seems like almost every nontrivial application implements its own ad-hoc database: email programs store status flags, MP3 players store metadata, browsers store cookies, text editors store history, etc. It makes sense to refactor that code into one reusable, highly optimized storage backend. Berkeley DB meets those requirements, but I'd have to say that SQLite is infinitely easier (for me) to code against.
Again, SQLite isn't meant to replace your enterprise terrabyte cluster. It's meant as a quick, easy-to-use way to store machine-local information.
Of course, the speed with which Vim starts is terrific, as well, and since I do a lot of coding by remote, being able to comfortably run my editor in a GNU Screen over a terminal that may not do a create job sending control characters is really quite handy.
You mean that you used Emacs for more than a month and didn't discover Tramp? I edit remote files all day long, but do it from Emacs running on my local machine. Also makes applying the same macros to similar files on several different remote machines trivially easy.
That DRM is in place to block the illegal/immoral 1% of users.
...ignoring, of course, the 99% of users that don't think it's immoral to share with their friends. Social mores are pretty much a democratic system, regardless of how hard the RIAA and their filthy ilk hold their breath and throw tantrums.
I use Emacs without X inside Gnome-Terminal, almost the same X functionality is provided by the Gnome-Terminal menu and without the hideous looking window.
I'm looking at Emacs 21.3.1 in X mode, and I can't figure out what ugly window you're talking about. It looks pretty much exactly the same as a session inside a terminal window except that the scrollbar is graphical instead of ANSI.
Basically, they needed to aggregate data from about 56 million rows in table, and required a self-join as well. I got the consulting contract because this was taking at least six days to complete.
At that point:
cursor.execute('select * from stupidtable') for row in cursor.fetchall(): dosomething(row)
56 million rows is small enough that I wouldn't have waited for MySQL to chew through it.
I was annoyed that (a) he was counseling young people when his own view of copyright law is basically fictional, (b) he's counseling them on issues that even experienced copyright lawyers don't know the answer to, because the law is unsettled, and (c) he's going around spreading false ideas that will just get people into more trouble.
On the other hand, I don't think there's a better time to remind people of what their rights are (e.g. using their property as they see fit). If the law is unsettled, then it means that society hasn't come together as a whole to make a decision. When better to lobby for our side of the debate?
If he were to write something here, then someone get sued and use it as a defense because it was not understood completely, he would be open to a malpractice suit.
That's BS. There are certain situations where it is blatantly clear that no attorney-client relationship exists, and an interview on a global forum is obviously one of them. My wife is a doctor and has no professional fear of answering general questions ("you need to tell your own doctor about this, but here's what he'll probably say..."). I can't get sued if I tell someone who's not a paying customer that they should buy a Mac instead of another PC. What makes lawyerdom so distinctly different from every other occupation in this respect? Furthermore, if he thought he couldn't give real answers, why did he agree to the interview in the first place?
Would it have to be a hyper-conservative parent? Let us be honest not everyone is the same.
You're right, of course. However, I've known plenty of people who think that my kids shouldn't read the things they won't let their kids read, and that's where I draw the line.
My parents were conservative Christians, but I read plenty of the books on the "most challenged list" without them ever saying a word about it. Ergo, I don't believe that "conservative" is the same as "pro censorship" by any stretch. Just so you understand where I'm coming from.
Honestly, I have no problem with parents restricting what their kids read (just as my open-minded parents wouldn't have let me bring Madonna's "Sex" home) - that's what parenthood is all about. I just don't want anyone else making that decision for me and my kids.
No kidding! That scene where Led Zeppelin was fishing out the window with the girl tied up on the bed...
A more honest and less inflammatory term would be controversial books.
I reluctantly have to agree. Without any context, their listed reasons such as "being unsuited to age group" are meaningless. For instance, what age group was "The Catcher in the Rye" being presented to that it was challenged? It might be completely appropriate for a high school English class, but I wouldn't want my first grader to read it. I can also imagine a whole host of reasons why "The Anarchist Cookbook" shouldn't be available to kids (foremost being that trying any of the experiments would probably kill them), but that's not the same as saying that it should be outright banned.
No, this list is interesting but lacks the information necessary to justify itself. I can easily imagine hyper-conservative parents not wanting their teenagers to read "Lord of the Flies", but I can just as easily imagine the most liberal parents not wanting their early elementary kids to see it.
I interviewed for a telecommuting position in a city about two hours away. The Big Project was to re-implement Pointcast or some other stupid push technology, but this time users would actually like it. Yeah.
So during the interview, they revealed that they were expecting to support about 1,000,000 clients with updates every minute. "Oh?", says I, "how much data are you pushing to each user every minute?" They answered with, "we're very efficient! Only about 1KB." "And how much bandwidth do you have?", I pressed. "We just added a third T1," they replied with obvious pride.
Apparently my riddle was to figure out how to push 137Mbps through a 4.5Mbps pipe.
And they were betting their company's future on my ability to answer it.
The "exam" ended when they discovered that I wasn't planning to move to their city to take the 100% telecommuting position, even though I'd made that perfectly clear on my resume, cover letter, and application. They apparently also sucked at measuring distances.
On a wide-screen TV, though, the DVD player can stretch the image side-to-side to fill the entire width of the display.
I bought a Sona Wega TV (normal-def) a few years ago. It has a special "widescreen mode" where it compresses the travel range of the electron beam to only 3/4 the height of the screen, effectively packing the full number of pixels into a 16:9 rectangle. Basically, you get a 33% better vertical resolution and 33% more brightness from the painted region, making anamorphic DVDs look absolutely amazing. If they weren't such a scummy company, I'd solidly recommend their CRT TVs to anyone.
Chopping off URLs.... oh my, these h4x0rz are scary as shit!
Either that or he was using Konqueror, which has an "up" button right next to the back and forward buttons. Maybe they should rename it to Krax0ror to convey it's 1337 hacking abilities.
For those complaining about Blockbuster, if you have a Family Video store near you, check them out. New movies are $2.59 for a day, but anything old is $1 for 5 days.
Of course, the late charge is $200.00, and is collected by your "cousin" Vincent.
The late fees. The bad selection. The late fees. Changing the rental system to somehow appease a lawsuit they lost and at the same time still trick people into paying more late fees.....
You forgot the enormous advantage Blockbuster's brick-and-mortar stores have over Netflix: there's no charge when you don't use them. I rent a movie maybe 2, 3 times a year. As Netflix doesn't have a $15/year plan, they can't compete for my business on price.
Since everyone seems to be mis-interpreting... Nope, its not the "helo" I key on, it is a reverse DNS lookup of the sender's IP address. For a few (granted few, but some of the biggies like yahoo.com) the sender's IP address can be checked to make sure its from where you expect. yahoo.com comes from ???.yahoo.com If it does not, then it is spam.
To the contrary, it looks like we're interpreting you quite well.
Your system is broken - full stop. There are many, many reasons for an email to come from a server with a different PTR, such as, oh, a mailserver that hosts more than one domain. My mailserver has been named kanga.honeypot.net for almost a decade, but my primary email address is kirk@strauser.com. This is a very common and compliant setup, but your system would reject all mail from me for no real reason whatsoever.
I can't claim to have invented it, but I've been advocating it to everyone who will listen. We're rejecting over 90% of incoming mail with greylisting (as measured by the number of entries in the greylist database that never returned for the second attempt). An unexpected side effect is that SpamAssassin now rejects less mail than before because all of the "low hanging fruit" has already been filtered out, and because it has less data to feed into its Bayesian training. Despite that, it's been several months since I've received a spam message at work.
Once spammers get wind of it, they will probably change their methods (increaing spam traffic), but it seems highly effective for spammers of the "own a computer and spam as much as possible before getting noticed" ilk.
I'm not sure. The biggest change is that their zombies now have to maintain state and support more of the RFCs. That is, they have to be smart enough to recognize a "try again later" response, and they have to track which one of their potential recipients needs to be retried later. That requires a lot more complexity, and it also takes a lot more resources that the zombie victim may come to notice.
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Suppose those files came on an "enhanced CD" that you bought, using cash, from a local store (which is actually fairly common). In this scenario, you've not entered in any contract or any other sort of binding agreement above and beyond the normal customer-vendor trade. Even if the store's policy states otherwise, unless they have some sort of explicit consent for additional conditions, no such conditions exist.
I have to disagree with you there. I can think of 1,001 reasons why it'd be nice to have a lightweight, fast (!) SQL database available on the local machine. It seems like almost every nontrivial application implements its own ad-hoc database: email programs store status flags, MP3 players store metadata, browsers store cookies, text editors store history, etc. It makes sense to refactor that code into one reusable, highly optimized storage backend. Berkeley DB meets those requirements, but I'd have to say that SQLite is infinitely easier (for me) to code against.
Again, SQLite isn't meant to replace your enterprise terrabyte cluster. It's meant as a quick, easy-to-use way to store machine-local information.
You mean that you used Emacs for more than a month and didn't discover Tramp? I edit remote files all day long, but do it from Emacs running on my local machine. Also makes applying the same macros to similar files on several different remote machines trivially easy.
...ignoring, of course, the 99% of users that don't think it's immoral to share with their friends. Social mores are pretty much a democratic system, regardless of how hard the RIAA and their filthy ilk hold their breath and throw tantrums.
You're wrong, both legally and morally. You can own an MP3 just as you can own a book.
That depends highly on how those terms were presented to you, and by what manner you indicated acceptance.
I'm looking at Emacs 21.3.1 in X mode, and I can't figure out what ugly window you're talking about. It looks pretty much exactly the same as a session inside a terminal window except that the scrollbar is graphical instead of ANSI.
At that point:
56 million rows is small enough that I wouldn't have waited for MySQL to chew through it.
You're young enough to never have used Napster, FTP, or Usenet, but old enough to slag on others for not knowing what they're talking about?
Click on the title of the message. That's what eventually worked for me.
On the other hand, I don't think there's a better time to remind people of what their rights are (e.g. using their property as they see fit). If the law is unsettled, then it means that society hasn't come together as a whole to make a decision. When better to lobby for our side of the debate?
That's BS. There are certain situations where it is blatantly clear that no attorney-client relationship exists, and an interview on a global forum is obviously one of them. My wife is a doctor and has no professional fear of answering general questions ("you need to tell your own doctor about this, but here's what he'll probably say..."). I can't get sued if I tell someone who's not a paying customer that they should buy a Mac instead of another PC. What makes lawyerdom so distinctly different from every other occupation in this respect? Furthermore, if he thought he couldn't give real answers, why did he agree to the interview in the first place?
Google says you're wrong.
You're right, of course. However, I've known plenty of people who think that my kids shouldn't read the things they won't let their kids read, and that's where I draw the line.
My parents were conservative Christians, but I read plenty of the books on the "most challenged list" without them ever saying a word about it. Ergo, I don't believe that "conservative" is the same as "pro censorship" by any stretch. Just so you understand where I'm coming from.
Honestly, I have no problem with parents restricting what their kids read (just as my open-minded parents wouldn't have let me bring Madonna's "Sex" home) - that's what parenthood is all about. I just don't want anyone else making that decision for me and my kids.
No kidding! That scene where Led Zeppelin was fishing out the window with the girl tied up on the bed...
I reluctantly have to agree. Without any context, their listed reasons such as "being unsuited to age group" are meaningless. For instance, what age group was "The Catcher in the Rye" being presented to that it was challenged? It might be completely appropriate for a high school English class, but I wouldn't want my first grader to read it. I can also imagine a whole host of reasons why "The Anarchist Cookbook" shouldn't be available to kids (foremost being that trying any of the experiments would probably kill them), but that's not the same as saying that it should be outright banned.
No, this list is interesting but lacks the information necessary to justify itself. I can easily imagine hyper-conservative parents not wanting their teenagers to read "Lord of the Flies", but I can just as easily imagine the most liberal parents not wanting their early elementary kids to see it.
That's actually:
(1000000 KB/minute) * (1024 bytes/KB) * (8 bits/byte) / (60 seconds/minute) / (1536000 bits/second/T1) = 88.9 T1.
Don't forget to include the units!
That, of course, being the whole point. I wish I had the points to mod you "+1: Unintentionally ironic".
So during the interview, they revealed that they were expecting to support about 1,000,000 clients with updates every minute. "Oh?", says I, "how much data are you pushing to each user every minute?" They answered with, "we're very efficient! Only about 1KB." "And how much bandwidth do you have?", I pressed. "We just added a third T1," they replied with obvious pride.
Apparently my riddle was to figure out how to push 137Mbps through a 4.5Mbps pipe.
And they were betting their company's future on my ability to answer it.
The "exam" ended when they discovered that I wasn't planning to move to their city to take the 100% telecommuting position, even though I'd made that perfectly clear on my resume, cover letter, and application. They apparently also sucked at measuring distances.
I bought a Sona Wega TV (normal-def) a few years ago. It has a special "widescreen mode" where it compresses the travel range of the electron beam to only 3/4 the height of the screen, effectively packing the full number of pixels into a 16:9 rectangle. Basically, you get a 33% better vertical resolution and 33% more brightness from the painted region, making anamorphic DVDs look absolutely amazing. If they weren't such a scummy company, I'd solidly recommend their CRT TVs to anyone.
Either that or he was using Konqueror, which has an "up" button right next to the back and forward buttons. Maybe they should rename it to Krax0ror to convey it's 1337 hacking abilities.
People truly believe that crap. Never underestimate the depths of stupidity to which an audiophile will descend.
If you don't know what a DS is, other websites may be more appropriate than Slashdot.
Of course, the late charge is $200.00, and is collected by your "cousin" Vincent.
You forgot the enormous advantage Blockbuster's brick-and-mortar stores have over Netflix: there's no charge when you don't use them. I rent a movie maybe 2, 3 times a year. As Netflix doesn't have a $15/year plan, they can't compete for my business on price.
To the contrary, it looks like we're interpreting you quite well.
Your system is broken - full stop. There are many, many reasons for an email to come from a server with a different PTR, such as, oh, a mailserver that hosts more than one domain. My mailserver has been named kanga.honeypot.net for almost a decade, but my primary email address is kirk@strauser.com. This is a very common and compliant setup, but your system would reject all mail from me for no real reason whatsoever.
I can't claim to have invented it, but I've been advocating it to everyone who will listen. We're rejecting over 90% of incoming mail with greylisting (as measured by the number of entries in the greylist database that never returned for the second attempt). An unexpected side effect is that SpamAssassin now rejects less mail than before because all of the "low hanging fruit" has already been filtered out, and because it has less data to feed into its Bayesian training. Despite that, it's been several months since I've received a spam message at work.
I'm not sure. The biggest change is that their zombies now have to maintain state and support more of the RFCs. That is, they have to be smart enough to recognize a "try again later" response, and they have to track which one of their potential recipients needs to be retried later. That requires a lot more complexity, and it also takes a lot more resources that the zombie victim may come to notice.