question : what do you feel about your server getting DOSed routinely EVERYTIME when the name "AtheOS" shows up in slashdot? do you think this will reduce the number of AtheOS'ers because the site is constantly unaccessable??
Yeah newspapers don't write for people with grade 2 reading level, but neither do they write for people who can read in 100 languages.
the "lowest common denominator" is not 56K... we all know that the majority of people are using 56K, and some people have lower bandwidth. Well... if you really like it, go ahead and design a page which requires a 100M connection to view. Designers can design anything they like, but if their audience doesn't like their work, it's not meaningful at all...
No, they differ in a lot more than just that. The two situations are incomparable. Slavery results in the removal of freedoms from people. Developing proprietary software does not. Users still have the choice of whether or not to actually purchase and/or use the software. Victims of slavery have no choice in their situation.
Nah, the slaves have their choice... either to be slaves or die;-)
But hey, who's going to choose death when M$ (or equivilant) dominates the whole software industry? I mean, what if there is a time when you've gotta use M$ or get busted?
knowingly causes the transmission of a program, information, code, or command, and as a result of such conduct, intentionally affects or impairs without authorization a computer of an elementary school or secondary school or institution of higher education
When i connect port 80 and request a page, and that request affects the server to return a page to me. I know very well that it would do so, and it was of course my intention to view the site, but no one permitted me to view it (assuming i was just someone who ocasionally passed by). So, i could be in jail for 10 years?!
The "logical" language would be too abstract for compilers to compile, if it was "compilable" then the code which compilers could compile would not be directly understandable in our brains (i.e. same reason you would want to comment your code, because you won't be able to "directly understand" programming languages).
So actually what he's suggesting is writing the "logical" language first, then "compiling" (or converting) it to existing programming languages using our brain, then compiling it to machine code with a compiler.
Might be a bit time consuming, but might make the program work better
There are many more misleading stuff out there in the media than global warming... although i do wonder why people are always misdirected to minor things rather than to things which are important.
so you have the right to define "Human rights" for every human in the universe. Now would this right infringe China's (or any other person's) right to define what "Human rights" are???
You should *not* BASH on a country which is in the stage of developing human rights. Instead, if you are so interested in the country's human rights, why not help them directly?? (and just in case you think china is not trying to improve human rights, ask yourself : why on earth would china want so much flames? why on earth would they NOT want to improve?? why on earth would they want another reason for USA to bash them out?)
IMO, what china needs before human rights is education. Would YOU want an iliterrate to vote for the president? Not that i'm saying China is full of uneducated people, but overall the people in USA are relatively more educated and have more experience with these "rights" and so they are more ready to use these "rights" without causing problems. The last thing we want is a social disorder caused by these "rights", just because people are not ready to receive them yet.
There are still remote areas in China where people are struggling to earn just enough to live. What would they choose, the right to live, or the right to choose the president??
Look what happened to other countries when your definition of "human rights" invaded them : social disorder, political wars, riots. Just because they have the "right" to do so. People go maniac just because the guy they supported didn't get elected for president.
People may have misconceptions about China. But hey, perhaps i do too.
For disrespecting the GPL, well, we've yet to see more details. Perhaps it was a few individuals, in which case i think this is not be only china's problem. I bet this has happend in other places too. Or perhaps it's the whole lot of people, i'd really want to know what they would gain by doing that. I'm sure they could never produce software better than the open source community. Perhaps they just didn't understand. Stubborn idiots.
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question : what do you feel about your server getting DOSed routinely EVERYTIME when the name "AtheOS" shows up in slashdot? do you think this will reduce the number of AtheOS'ers because the site is constantly unaccessable??
Yeah newspapers don't write for people with grade 2 reading level, but neither do they write for people who can read in 100 languages.
the "lowest common denominator" is not 56K... we all know that the majority of people are using 56K, and some people have lower bandwidth. Well... if you really like it, go ahead and design a page which requires a 100M connection to view. Designers can design anything they like, but if their audience doesn't like their work, it's not meaningful at all...
No, they differ in a lot more than just that. The two situations are incomparable. Slavery results in the removal of freedoms from people. Developing proprietary software does not. Users still have the choice of whether or not to actually purchase and/or use the software. Victims of slavery have no choice in their situation.
Nah, the slaves have their choice... either to be slaves or die ;-)
But hey, who's going to choose death when M$ (or equivilant) dominates the whole software industry? I mean, what if there is a time when you've gotta use M$ or get busted?
i'd "rm -rf" my machine if Slashdot was not US centric, computer centric and linux centric. WHEN ARE YOU GUYS GOING TO REALISE THERE'S MORE TO THE WORLD THAN JUST THESE????
knowingly causes the transmission of a program, information, code, or command, and as a result of such conduct, intentionally affects or impairs without authorization a computer of an elementary school or secondary school or institution of higher education
When i connect port 80 and request a page, and that request affects the server to return a page to me. I know very well that it would do so, and it was of course my intention to view the site, but no one permitted me to view it (assuming i was just someone who ocasionally passed by). So, i could be in jail for 10 years?!
Avoid .edu at all costs!!!!
does stanford block some IP's or is it simply slashdotted? (using some traceroute utility it seems that packets aren't routed to the destined IP)
>Human rights
Do you really think the DMCA gave you any rights?
>Third world debt
Now if only those big bullies sucked up less $...
>Worker exploitation
Programmers/Hackers/Coders Exploitation
Yeah it's like a virus...I'd flee to outer space any day if i could...
why would C be inferior for solving this task?
posted in wrong place...
The laptop's lore is good for some nifty trivia questions. For example: Who wrote the Model 100's software? Answer: Bill Gates.
M = ascii 77 A = ascii 65 is this ROT12 or what?
and no, *YOU*'ve decrypted the following sentence..
ZLL LBHE AZSE ZRE ORYBAT TO HF> If you decode this, or sold a device that decodes this, you can be charged under U.S. criminal law. That kinda sucks, doesn't it?
V'z tynq v'z ABG yvivat va gur H.F. abj v pna qrpbqr guvf jvgubhg orvat xvpxrq va gur nff... bu jnvg... qvq GUNG thl yvir va gur HF???
I'm glad i'm NOT living in the U.S. now i can decode this without being kicked in the ass... oh wait... did THAT guy live in the US???
using gcc 2.96...?
> Lots of bug fixes, just upgrade damnit!
i always wonder... would the number of bugs created > the number of bugs fixed???
The "logical" language would be too abstract for compilers to compile, if it was "compilable" then the code which compilers could compile would not be directly understandable in our brains (i.e. same reason you would want to comment your code, because you won't be able to "directly understand" programming languages).
So actually what he's suggesting is writing the "logical" language first, then "compiling" (or converting) it to existing programming languages using our brain, then compiling it to machine code with a compiler.
Might be a bit time consuming, but might make the program work better
>Microsoft's new products will now screen out Java as a possible carrier of computer viruses in e-mail
I wonder if outlook express is shipped?? and wat about VBscript?
There are many more misleading stuff out there in the media than global warming... although i do wonder why people are always misdirected to minor things rather than to things which are important.
Not GNU/Linux??????!
so you have the right to define "Human rights" for every human in the universe. Now would this right infringe China's (or any other person's) right to define what "Human rights" are???
You should *not* BASH on a country which is in the stage of developing human rights. Instead, if you are so interested in the country's human rights, why not help them directly?? (and just in case you think china is not trying to improve human rights, ask yourself : why on earth would china want so much flames? why on earth would they NOT want to improve?? why on earth would they want another reason for USA to bash them out?)
IMO, what china needs before human rights is education. Would YOU want an iliterrate to vote for the president? Not that i'm saying China is full of uneducated people, but overall the people in USA are relatively more educated and have more experience with these "rights" and so they are more ready to use these "rights" without causing problems. The last thing we want is a social disorder caused by these "rights", just because people are not ready to receive them yet.
There are still remote areas in China where people are struggling to earn just enough to live. What would they choose, the right to live, or the right to choose the president??
Look what happened to other countries when your definition of "human rights" invaded them : social disorder, political wars, riots. Just because they have the "right" to do so. People go maniac just because the guy they supported didn't get elected for president.
People may have misconceptions about China. But hey, perhaps i do too.
For disrespecting the GPL, well, we've yet to see more details. Perhaps it was a few individuals, in which case i think this is not be only china's problem. I bet this has happend in other places too. Or perhaps it's the whole lot of people, i'd really want to know what they would gain by doing that. I'm sure they could never produce software better than the open source community. Perhaps they just didn't understand. Stubborn idiots.