You must know something others don't since you managed to get Windows to install 42 times in 24 hours -- that's less than half an hour per install. Care to share?
I wonder how many would go to work if they knew that they had a better chance of dying than winning the lottery.
Actually, lotteries' odds are so bad that people are doing it everyday. In Texas, you nearly have a better chance of being executed than of winning the lottery.
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Win95a still runs fine
Surely you mean "Win95a still runs as well as it ever did", which is not to say it does or ever has run well.
Wouldn't you know it, but the Win95 network at work went down at precisely 4:30pm EST yesterday. It must have been mourning Jackson's break-up decision.
It's like when JWZ said "Linux is only free if your time is worth nothing."
I have always hated that quote for a bunch reasons:
1) It completely ignores the difference between "free"="libre" and "free"="gratis", which is an important one. More importantly, however...
2) It leads the uncritical observer to conclude that only linux suffers from this problem -- it is just as true that a "retail value $99" piece of closed-source software costs $99 only if your time is worth nothing because...
3) Both closed-source and open-source software alike require upkeep by the user; and in fact, since there often aren't as many bugs, open-source software requires less maintenance. Which is made worse by the fact that...
4) When an open-source program needs maintenance in order to work properly, the solution is usually to fix it directly in the source, in which case the problem is solved permanently and the time spent coding has actually generated something of value that remains with the user thereafter (and usually is given back to the community). In contrast, tending software like Windows is like throwing money into a hole in the ground, since the problem is usually never truly solved and will require an equivalent amount of work in the future. And don't forget that closed-source bugfixes are often charged for and encourage endless upgrade cycles.
The ultimate irony would be for someone to write a new outlook virus that distributes a copy of the court order to each computer before propagating itself. Any script kiddies working on it yet?
This is much more sensible than the 3-company option (having IE be its own company). I can't help but wonder where Jackson had pulled that one out of....
The safety is probably mostly had in avoiding the nerve damage done to workers' hands by prolonged exposure the vibrations of normal jack hammers. This one isn't hand held.
As for 5000f/s, remember from classical physics that momentum of the nails is reasonable because of their low mass. I wouldn't worry about projectile concrete so much as partially deflected nails, but presumably they've solved that one if they're seriously bringing this to market.
I said ideal "system", not ideal circumstances. I'm presupposing that abuse of power is inherent in human nature, and that any ideal system must take that value into account. If you want to go ahead and start switching your variables around, then you're not arguing constructively.
If it is fake, then he's stupid for using valid names/addresses:Rodona Garst and Varnjeet Khalsa. I'm going on the assumption that he doesn't want a libel lawsuit, and so it's at least mostly true.
Well, that's one response, but I wouldn't say it's the correct one. Ideally, the system would have a certain amount of vigilanteism in order to keep authorities on their toes (tree of liberty, blood of tyrants, all that jazz), which is why jurors have the constitutional right of jury nullification, among others.
The blurb for this story didn't contain any warning about "the usual hacker/cracker misnaming applies". Does that mean slashdot has grown up and moved on to more important matters, or is CmdrTaco asleep at the wheel?
'Pathogen' wasn't always appropriate either (the same species can be a pathogen in one site, and normal flora in another).
I don't see this being such an issue with computer pathogens, as most code is either inherently malicious/harmful, in which case it's pathogenic, or it's benign, albeit perhaps with bugs. Most people already distinguish between the two, since most people still refuse to consider MSWindows a trojan horse.
This is just plain wrong; viruses are viruses and worms are worms and never the twain shall meet. What we need to do is start using a general word like "pathogens" to describe all communicable software nasties. If people then want to get specific and say what sort of pathogen it is, then that's fine, but to treat "viruses" as a category encompassing worms and trojan horses and the sort is absurd.
Uh, that's because we already discussed it to death in this thread. Sometimes the rejection process is a bit arbitrary, but here it's behaving correctly. And oh yeah, quit yer whining.
The "damages" are probably just the cost of waking the sysadmins up in the night and having them come into work at overtime pay and clean up the thing. If you're paying multiple people overtime while they fix the problem, look into preventing it from the future, and twiddle their thumbs while it all gets retrieved from backup tape (which may be located in another building, requiring you to wake other people up and pay them too), and if you're talking about as many accounts as ibm is tending, then $18,000 isn't such an impossible figure. Of course, I'd go further and demand millions in punative damages on top, not to mention emotional pain and suffering.
If you're not already in marketing as a profession, you're perfectly cut out for it. Linux shouldn't be the best thing but should instead be the best different thing? Is there any content to this so-called "different light"? We should focus on what linux is capable of not what it is currently capable of? All you need now is a press release.
Which is exactly what I wish they wouldn't teach in school. Once you propose using morality instead of science (though it isn't absolutely objective), you then have to choose a moral theory to teach (since most people are too biased or self-righteous or just unable to teach all moral theories concurrently). Teaching morality, especially when it blurs with religion, is precisely what we shouldn't have government engaged in doing. That, and I challenge you to come up with a moral theory that predicts anything at all about super-massive astronomical objects.
If you're just asking for them to teach Kuhn's theories and the rest, then I still think that'd be premature in most high schools. People have to develop a world view first before you can completely decimate it, or else they get turned off to the whole enterprise and all progress stops. That's what college is for.
IIRC, Hawking radiation is kept around as an explanation as to why we're not bombarded with microscopic black holes formed during the big bang, more than as an explanation of how a typical run-of-the-mill black hole should shrink over time. When you think about it, you'd have to win an unreasonable number of coin tosses for the antiparticle to get swallowed enough times for a regular black hole to evaporate completely.
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You must know something others don't since you managed to get Windows to install 42 times in 24 hours -- that's less than half an hour per install. Care to share?
I wonder how many would go to work if they knew that they had a better chance of dying than winning the lottery.
Actually, lotteries' odds are so bad that people are doing it everyday. In Texas, you nearly have a better chance of being executed than of winning the lottery.
Win95a still runs fine
Surely you mean "Win95a still runs as well as it ever did", which is not to say it does or ever has run well.
Wouldn't you know it, but the Win95 network at work went down at precisely 4:30pm EST yesterday. It must have been mourning Jackson's break-up decision.
It's like when JWZ said "Linux is only free if your time is worth nothing."
I have always hated that quote for a bunch reasons:
1) It completely ignores the difference between "free"="libre" and "free"="gratis", which is an important one. More importantly, however...
2) It leads the uncritical observer to conclude that only linux suffers from this problem -- it is just as true that a "retail value $99" piece of closed-source software costs $99 only if your time is worth nothing because...
3) Both closed-source and open-source software alike require upkeep by the user; and in fact, since there often aren't as many bugs, open-source software requires less maintenance. Which is made worse by the fact that...
4) When an open-source program needs maintenance in order to work properly, the solution is usually to fix it directly in the source, in which case the problem is solved permanently and the time spent coding has actually generated something of value that remains with the user thereafter (and usually is given back to the community). In contrast, tending software like Windows is like throwing money into a hole in the ground, since the problem is usually never truly solved and will require an equivalent amount of work in the future. And don't forget that closed-source bugfixes are often charged for and encourage endless upgrade cycles.
I could go on, but hopefully you see the point.
The ultimate irony would be for someone to write a new outlook virus that distributes a copy of the court order to each computer before propagating itself. Any script kiddies working on it yet?
For those who can't do PDF, here's the HTML version. Grab it before it gets slashdotted by the entire world.
This is much more sensible than the 3-company option (having IE be its own company). I can't help but wonder where Jackson had pulled that one out of....
His spelling mistakes clearly distinguish him from the average journalist he's competing with.
The safety is probably mostly had in avoiding the nerve damage done to workers' hands by prolonged exposure the vibrations of normal jack hammers. This one isn't hand held.
As for 5000f/s, remember from classical physics that momentum of the nails is reasonable because of their low mass. I wouldn't worry about projectile concrete so much as partially deflected nails, but presumably they've solved that one if they're seriously bringing this to market.
UK can't just extend their territorial claim and envelope the Principality. Otherwise we could take Northern France like that too[.]
Hey, why not? It almost worked for Germany.
I said ideal "system", not ideal circumstances. I'm presupposing that abuse of power is inherent in human nature, and that any ideal system must take that value into account. If you want to go ahead and start switching your variables around, then you're not arguing constructively.
But her home address doe s exist.
If it is fake, then he's stupid for using valid names/addresses:Rodona Garst and Varnjeet Khalsa. I'm going on the assumption that he doesn't want a libel lawsuit, and so it's at least mostly true.
Well, that's one response, but I wouldn't say it's the correct one. Ideally, the system would have a certain amount of vigilanteism in order to keep authorities on their toes (tree of liberty, blood of tyrants, all that jazz), which is why jurors have the constitutional right of jury nullification, among others.
The blurb for this story didn't contain any warning about "the usual hacker/cracker misnaming applies". Does that mean slashdot has grown up and moved on to more important matters, or is CmdrTaco asleep at the wheel?
Well then someone please call Paramount and find out how they're doing it, so we can all go home early.
'Pathogen' wasn't always appropriate either (the same species can be a pathogen in one site, and normal flora in another).
I don't see this being such an issue with computer pathogens, as most code is either inherently malicious/harmful, in which case it's pathogenic, or it's benign, albeit perhaps with bugs. Most people already distinguish between the two, since most people still refuse to consider MSWindows a trojan horse.
The virus type, known as a worm, targets phones
This is just plain wrong; viruses are viruses and worms are worms and never the twain shall meet. What we need to do is start using a general word like "pathogens" to describe all communicable software nasties. If people then want to get specific and say what sort of pathogen it is, then that's fine, but to treat "viruses" as a category encompassing worms and trojan horses and the sort is absurd.
Wouldn't it be quicker to do it quickly?
Uh, that's because we already discussed it to death in this thread. Sometimes the rejection process is a bit arbitrary, but here it's behaving correctly. And oh yeah, quit yer whining.
The "damages" are probably just the cost of waking the sysadmins up in the night and having them come into work at overtime pay and clean up the thing. If you're paying multiple people overtime while they fix the problem, look into preventing it from the future, and twiddle their thumbs while it all gets retrieved from backup tape (which may be located in another building, requiring you to wake other people up and pay them too), and if you're talking about as many accounts as ibm is tending, then $18,000 isn't such an impossible figure. Of course, I'd go further and demand millions in punative damages on top, not to mention emotional pain and suffering.
If you're not already in marketing as a profession, you're perfectly cut out for it. Linux shouldn't be the best thing but should instead be the best different thing? Is there any content to this so-called "different light"? We should focus on what linux is capable of not what it is currently capable of? All you need now is a press release.
Which is exactly what I wish they wouldn't teach in school. Once you propose using morality instead of science (though it isn't absolutely objective), you then have to choose a moral theory to teach (since most people are too biased or self-righteous or just unable to teach all moral theories concurrently). Teaching morality, especially when it blurs with religion, is precisely what we shouldn't have government engaged in doing. That, and I challenge you to come up with a moral theory that predicts anything at all about super-massive astronomical objects.
If you're just asking for them to teach Kuhn's theories and the rest, then I still think that'd be premature in most high schools. People have to develop a world view first before you can completely decimate it, or else they get turned off to the whole enterprise and all progress stops. That's what college is for.
IIRC, Hawking radiation is kept around as an explanation as to why we're not bombarded with microscopic black holes formed during the big bang, more than as an explanation of how a typical run-of-the-mill black hole should shrink over time. When you think about it, you'd have to win an unreasonable number of coin tosses for the antiparticle to get swallowed enough times for a regular black hole to evaporate completely.