I can't help but think that failure to posit alternatives is complicity in Saddam's crimes.
That's a terrible attitude. And sorry to bring up the past again, but supplying him weapons was literally complicity in Saddam's crimes.
Here's my suggestion, anyway: should've ended the sanctions, (that would've prevented huge numbers of Iraqi deaths over the last 12 years), and kept up with the inspections.
Of course, asking that question now is pointless now that the war is in full force. I can only sit back and hope the middle east doesn't fall apart in the next few years, hope that Iraq doesn't become another Islamic theocracy, and hope the US doesn't do anything stupid like invade Syria.
But you DON'T want to take out that nutjob that runs North Korea. He said it himself: try to take me out and I'll nuke you. That's as good a reason as any to leave him alone. Just my (100% serious) opinion
Not to mention the bone loss from the phosphoric acid in soda, there to help it stay fizzy. Not only does it leach calcium when you drink it, the effects last quite a while, negating any calcium you may have consumed with the beverage.
Isn't that an urban legend? (ie, Do you have a reputable source for that? Just curious.)
He still has rights. You know, those rights that provide him A) decent treatment, B) thorough examination of the facts and C) a way out if he's actually not guilty.
Letting people watch it and decide for themselves whether or not the news is true is closer to free speech than your angry DoS censorship. How will you ever understand the middle east perspective if all you watch is the inside scoop from your own government's propaganda arm?
If someone knows how to get remote access to my box through some exploit, then escalate themselves to root, this patch won't affect that. You misunderstand. This vulnerability is what would escalate them to root.
That's why they call it a local exploit. 'Local exploit' means the attacker needs at least the ability to execute code as an unpriviliged user. As others here have said, 'local exploits' are step 2 after you've exploited apache, or ftpd, or sshd or whatever.
It's not like EMS at all. EMS sucked because you could only access one 64kB "page" at a time inside one fixed address space. You had to "commit" data to be written back to Extended memory (or in the case of really old hardware EMS cards, to/from the ISA bus (slow!)
PAE is closer to the segment/offset scheme of the 8086..80286. It still sucks, but far far less.
That's a shitty oven you have, AC. Of course, maybe it's an Easybake. Athlon, P4 and Ultrasparc processors all produce about the same amount of heat, in the 50W-100W range (do specifics matter when you've got a tower case with a couple fans?).
Don't worry, you can choose to go without clothing and food in Canada if you want. (??)
Well, if you don't allow people to be very poor, they can have no desire to be very rich.
You're a libertarian, so you probably believe that. Sure. But anyway, what does that have to do with Canada? We have lots of homeless people, and lots of really really rich people too. Does that clear things up?
I can unequivocably say that whatever respect I had for this individual is gone and unlikely ever to return. Well, aren't you touchy.
He insists on using an outdated distribution, gets upset when new software hasn't been backported to it, gets upset at the idea he might actually have to (gasp!) compile it himself The whole point of his rant is that he doesn't want to do things compile things for himself. Most of the rest of the world is like that too.
gets upset when people quite correctly point out that he needs to use a distrubition newer than the one he has clearly decided to stay married to, etc. etc. Are you talking about requiring the GNOME 2 libraries? His main complaint there is that the libraries aren't mature.
It is like complaining that MS Office 2000 won't run under Windows 3.11... and he deserves all of the derision he is getting, here on slashdot and elsewhere. Windows 3.11 came out in 1993 (TEN years ago), and is just 100% completely different than Windows 2000. Jamie's using RedHat 7.2, which is 95% the same as RedHat 8, and came out about a year and a half ago.
But do not expect to be running current, state of the art software on two-year old, obsolete binary distrubitions, and do not expect any sympathy, or respect for your rants, if you insist on doing so. Judging the current state of the art based on a dated distro's inability to cope with current code is neither accurate, nor fair, nor deserving of the sort of attention this particularly uninsightful rant posing as a review has gotten. Video players are state of the art now?
And what's this talk of "coping with code"? That doesn't even make any sense. Are you even a developer at all, or are you just a 'make install' build-from-source kinda macho guy?
Blaming others and looking gift horses in the mouth for his own stubborn incompetence is extraordinarilly disingenuous and contemptable... Come on, he's not incompetent. He could get the gstreamer player to work if he wanted to, and he actually did get all of the players working as intended. But he's pointing out that it's not worth it because he doesn't want the GNOME 2 libs installed. And he rejected all the other players because the UI sucked so hard. He would still be having these problems regardless of the distribution he was running.
He was only involved with Mozilla for about a year. But you're right that he helped get the project moving. He was a Netscape employee for years, and had a hand in Netscape up to version 3.x. He's probably personally responsible for the UNIX version of Netscape 1.x.
He also helped write Lucid Emacs, which became XEmacs. Some XEmacs/Emacs flamewars have started from time to time. XEmacs really is better when you're in X, but I personally use vi.
JWZ is also very intelligent and has some good rants. Maybe he gets a bit whiny at times though.
Thank you for not addressing the fact that the soldiers fucked up because they were high on "high quality methamphetamine", turning them into jumpy 19-year-old boy robots, er, I mean, manly soldier men! It helps me feel better about my country and my place in the world.
Its just like those coffee shops that have one click espresso drinks. Those suck, there is just no love in the drink and you can taste it.
You can hardly compare the two. "Espresso" machines usually use instant coffee, or they have the ground coffee sitting in some nasty moist plastic container all day long.
However, mixing alcoholic drinks is mixing alcholic drinks. All the ingredients are premade anyway (and pop/soft drinks come from a pump anyway!) and alcohol doesn't go bad when it sits out. Any monkey can pour two things together (hence the name of the Bar-Monkey, I guess).
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Linksys has some more fine-tuning to do before it works well enough to be a failure-prone piece of crap like the rest of their products.
If it worked well and I didn't have to whip out my credit card or search for pocket change, I'd be happy.
I'm not sure what you mean by throughput hit. True, maybe 80% of your data is overhead, but it's not like I care about by bandwidth usage at home when I'm not there. Plus I'd generate traffic in short bursts (web surfing, ssh sessions etc)
How quickly we forget IP over DNS... Register some random domain name, and have the A record point to a 24x7 connected box (at home or the office) of your choice running nstxd.
When you get close to one of these APs, start nstx on your laptop.
The gap between the rich and the poor is huge. maybe the average wage is $144/mo, but the average wage among the rich is probably close to the US/Western Europe/Canada etc. It's like that in many third-world nations as well.
Actually, you dedicate an amount of RAM to the video. So if there's 128 MB and you dedicate 8, you get 8 MB of (slow) video RAM, and 120 MB of general-purpose RAM. Also, allocating more RAM (which is an OS-level distinction) will not cause your CPU to use the RAM dedicated for video.
Yeah, but try viewing a complex PDF with that built-in OS X viewer. Sloooooooow. My p3-866 progressively rendered this in about 20 seconds: http://www.calgaryemaps.com/emaps/Transi tMapPDF/bu smap1.pdf
Dual G4 866 with OS X takes about 30 seconds of spinny-rainbow cursor before any of it shows, and then don't even think about scrolling the document, because that's about 5 seconds work right there... hell, even a simple product brochure just drags/scrolls like Netscape on a 486. Either the PDF viewer is broken or "display PDF" is just ass slow.
Plus front loading washers take longer to finish the cycle. And actually, the models we have in my apartment building use more power but less water.
As for "kitchen supplies that will last forever", some of us don't want to become too attached to our posessions. If I lose my cheap dishes to a move or a fire, or if I want to get rid of it all and travel, or if somebody goes nuts at a party, no big deal. That's not to say I'm using plastic cutlery though. I'm conscious of the amount of waste buying replaceable things generates.
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No, I think it's because most computer professionals had a good start in life and lots of money now.
You've obviously never read anything ultra-left wing. The Star doesn't even come close.
That's a terrible attitude. And sorry to bring up the past again, but supplying him weapons was literally complicity in Saddam's crimes.
Here's my suggestion, anyway: should've ended the sanctions, (that would've prevented huge numbers of Iraqi deaths over the last 12 years), and kept up with the inspections.
Of course, asking that question now is pointless now that the war is in full force. I can only sit back and hope the middle east doesn't fall apart in the next few years, hope that Iraq doesn't become another Islamic theocracy, and hope the US doesn't do anything stupid like invade Syria.
But you DON'T want to take out that nutjob that runs North Korea. He said it himself: try to take me out and I'll nuke you.
That's as good a reason as any to leave him alone.
Just my (100% serious) opinion
You'll have to pay $$$ for the movies though. DVDs you own (or rent) are only "licensed" for private viewing.
Isn't that an urban legend? (ie, Do you have a reputable source for that? Just curious.)
He still has rights. You know, those rights that provide him A) decent treatment, B) thorough examination of the facts and C) a way out if he's actually not guilty.
Letting people watch it and decide for themselves whether or not the news is true is closer to free speech than your angry DoS censorship. How will you ever understand the middle east perspective if all you watch is the inside scoop from your own government's propaganda arm?
(Hmm.. IHBT??)
You misunderstand. This vulnerability is what would escalate them to root.
That's why they call it a local exploit.
'Local exploit' means the attacker needs at least the ability to execute code as an unpriviliged user. As others here have said, 'local exploits' are step 2 after you've exploited apache, or ftpd, or sshd or whatever.
I doubt air pressure on a rigid HD case would affect the gases inside.
But your sentiment is right. *Temperature differences* from place to place will cause changes in pressure.
It's not like EMS at all. EMS sucked because you could only access one 64kB "page" at a time inside one fixed address space. You had to "commit" data to be written back to Extended memory (or in the case of really old hardware EMS cards, to/from the ISA bus (slow!)
PAE is closer to the segment/offset scheme of the 8086..80286. It still sucks, but far far less.
That's a shitty oven you have, AC. Of course, maybe it's an Easybake.
Athlon, P4 and Ultrasparc processors all produce about the same amount of heat, in the 50W-100W range (do specifics matter when you've got a tower case with a couple fans?).
Don't worry, you can choose to go without clothing and food in Canada if you want. (??)
Well, if you don't allow people to be very poor, they can have no desire to be very rich.
You're a libertarian, so you probably believe that. Sure. But anyway, what does that have to do with Canada? We have lots of homeless people, and lots of really really rich people too. Does that clear things up?
There's no soil on mars. Soil is biomass.
What you mean is "small bits of rock and mineral"
Well, aren't you touchy.
He insists on using an outdated distribution, gets upset when new software hasn't been backported to it, gets upset at the idea he might actually have to (gasp!) compile it himself
The whole point of his rant is that he doesn't want to do things compile things for himself. Most of the rest of the world is like that too.
gets upset when people quite correctly point out that he needs to use a distrubition newer than the one he has clearly decided to stay married to, etc. etc.
Are you talking about requiring the GNOME 2 libraries? His main complaint there is that the libraries aren't mature.
It is like complaining that MS Office 2000 won't run under Windows 3.11 ... and he deserves all of the derision he is getting, here on slashdot and elsewhere.
Windows 3.11 came out in 1993 (TEN years ago), and is just 100% completely different than Windows 2000. Jamie's using RedHat 7.2, which is 95% the same as RedHat 8, and came out about a year and a half ago.
But do not expect to be running current, state of the art software on two-year old, obsolete binary distrubitions, and do not expect any sympathy, or respect for your rants, if you insist on doing so. Judging the current state of the art based on a dated distro's inability to cope with current code is neither accurate, nor fair, nor deserving of the sort of attention this particularly uninsightful rant posing as a review has gotten.
Video players are state of the art now?
And what's this talk of "coping with code"? That doesn't even make any sense. Are you even a developer at all, or are you just a 'make install' build-from-source kinda macho guy?
Blaming others and looking gift horses in the mouth for his own stubborn incompetence is extraordinarilly disingenuous and contemptable ...
Come on, he's not incompetent. He could get the gstreamer player to work if he wanted to, and he actually did get all of the players working as intended. But he's pointing out that it's not worth it because he doesn't want the GNOME 2 libs installed. And he rejected all the other players because the UI sucked so hard. He would still be having these problems regardless of the distribution he was running.
He was only involved with Mozilla for about a year. But you're right that he helped get the project moving. He was a Netscape employee for years, and had a hand in Netscape up to version 3.x. He's probably personally responsible for the UNIX version of Netscape 1.x.
He also helped write Lucid Emacs, which became XEmacs. Some XEmacs/Emacs flamewars have started from time to time. XEmacs really is better when you're in X, but I personally use vi.
JWZ is also very intelligent and has some good rants. Maybe he gets a bit whiny at times though.
Thank you for not addressing the fact that the soldiers fucked up because they were high on "high quality methamphetamine", turning them into jumpy 19-year-old boy robots, er, I mean, manly soldier men! It helps me feel better about my country and my place in the world.
You can hardly compare the two. "Espresso" machines usually use instant coffee, or they have the ground coffee sitting in some nasty moist plastic container all day long.
However, mixing alcoholic drinks is mixing alcholic drinks. All the ingredients are premade anyway (and pop/soft drinks come from a pump anyway!) and alcohol doesn't go bad when it sits out. Any monkey can pour two things together (hence the name of the Bar-Monkey, I guess).
PS: Haha. I just noticed that www.linksys-sucks.com redirects to www.netgear.com. Sound advice if you're considering buying Linksys.
I'm not sure what you mean by throughput hit. True, maybe 80% of your data is overhead, but it's not like I care about by bandwidth usage at home when I'm not there. Plus I'd generate traffic in short bursts (web surfing, ssh sessions etc)
When you get close to one of these APs, start nstx on your laptop.
An article: http://slashdot.org/articles/00/09/10/2230242.shtm l
Get nstx at: http://nstx.dereference.de/
The gap between the rich and the poor is huge. maybe the average wage is $144/mo, but the average wage among the rich is probably close to the US/Western Europe/Canada etc.
It's like that in many third-world nations as well.
Actually, you dedicate an amount of RAM to the video. So if there's 128 MB and you dedicate 8, you get 8 MB of (slow) video RAM, and 120 MB of general-purpose RAM.
Also, allocating more RAM (which is an OS-level distinction) will not cause your CPU to use the RAM dedicated for video.
Yeah, but try viewing a complex PDF with that built-in OS X viewer. Sloooooooow.i tMapPDF/bu smap1.pdf
My p3-866 progressively rendered this in about 20 seconds:
http://www.calgaryemaps.com/emaps/Trans
Dual G4 866 with OS X takes about 30 seconds of spinny-rainbow cursor before any of it shows, and then don't even think about scrolling the document, because that's about 5 seconds work right there... hell, even a simple product brochure just drags/scrolls like Netscape on a 486.
Either the PDF viewer is broken or "display PDF" is just ass slow.
Plus front loading washers take longer to finish the cycle.
And actually, the models we have in my apartment building use more power but less water.
As for "kitchen supplies that will last forever", some of us don't want to become too attached to our posessions. If I lose my cheap dishes to a move or a fire, or if I want to get rid of it all and travel, or if somebody goes nuts at a party, no big deal.
That's not to say I'm using plastic cutlery though. I'm conscious of the amount of waste buying replaceable things generates.