Cigarettes will fuck me up, no matter what I do. so selling cigarettes is like selling cyonide sweets, not normal sweets that may make you fat if you eat too many.
Some would argue that most CDs and DVDs are trash and will rot your mind. I say people should be able to decide for themselves if they want to watch/listen. Same goes with smoking.
Guns were designed to kill things, so I suppose they shouldn't really sue the manufactures for making guns, they should sue the government for letting them.
I've done this technique. Although I've abandoned ghost and do this now, it has some disadvantages.
Ghost understands the filesystem which has some potential advantages. You can explore a ghost image file to see what's in it. I'm not sure how to do that with a dd image.
The main thing is I don't think ghost even attempts to read unused sectors. Zeroing out and using gzip is better than not doing it, but still slower than simply not reading them. 40 GB drives comes out as 1 GB? That's a lot of wasted time reading and compressing those sectors. Back when I was using ghost I'd backup more frequently, now it just takes too long to do periodically.
One tip, you can use the GPL Eraser program to zero out spaces on windows. It's more thorough than the "big zero file" technique. It will clear cluster tips and can also zero out the swap file (swap clearing is done by windows, but it lets you turn that feature on). Mainly intended as a secure delete, it requires minor configuration to write zeros.
There are some linux tools that are more like ghost, but I haven't played with them. Last I looked NTFS wasn't supported very well. For now I just keep my windows partition small (10 gig or less) and use dd.
Is how tough it is even the problem? What do you mean by "tough"?
The original poster said a degree proves you can learn. How quickly
can you learn? And can you think, or just learn? I have encountered
plenty of people who are "book smart". They get good grades, get their
degree, yet have no idea what they are doing.
They learn the material they are taught. But it could be they required
a LOT of extra time working on it and/or extra time talking to the
professor/TA. In the end your grade depends on whether you got the
correct answer or not. On the job, how long/what resources it took you
to get that answer also matter. A "teacher's pet" with a 4.0 GPA who
takes up a ton of their co-workers time with questions isn't as nearly
as valuable as someone who can achieve the same result independently.
By the same token, someone who is able to remember what the "correct"
solution is to a given problem, but never understood why that was
correct in the first place is also less valuable. They are less able
to determine which of several possible solutions they might know about
is best for a given problem. And if they've never heard of a solution
to that problem, they are less likely to come up with one themselves.
Does making the curriculum tougher help this? Couldn't it possibly
make it worse but further emphasizing amount of effort over depth of
understanding? Should academia even attempt to "correct" this? Is a
degree supposed to represent your ability to accomplish some task or
certify a base set of knowledge?
I used to think Terminal.app was the second worse terminal program I've ever used (right behind that "telnet" program that came with windows).
It seems better now than it used to be. My main complaint was it would crash every two weeks or so (at which points you lose all your windows). I haven't had the one included with 10.3 crash yet, fingers still crossed (been using 10.3 for around 3 weeks).
And you can actually have some control over how the keyboard is mapped now too. That seemed a really lacking feature in earlier verions.
Still, I think I may check out iterm. Last time I was on the hunt for a replacement I couldn't find anything free. Tabs sound nice. If it's got copy-on-select even better.
There is a GPLed program called Eraser that can be used under windows. Eraser can also zero out cluster tips. Designed as a secure delete, you'll need to some minor configuration to write just zeros.
They just have it too easy. Back in my day if we wanted to change our grades we had to:
1) get in enough trouble to get sent the principal's office 2) make sure secretary gets distracted 3) quickly pull out secret drawer and note password without being noticed 4) go home and bust out the acoustic coupler
Nowadays all you need is to do is get out the laptop...
Don't even get my started on precipitation, inclination and the commute.
Personally I think the speed of the G5 and the validity of the benchmarks are both valid questions.
Does either of those questions alone determine whether you should get a G5 based system or not? No, but that doesn't mean the question isn't worth discussing.
I'm curious how fast the G5 is at certain kinds of tasks. Not because it helps me make a purchasing decision, but because I'm a geek and I'm interested in that kind of thing. This being slashdot, I'm sure I'm not the only one. Does superior floating point performance mean "better for photoshop"? Maybe not, but I'm more intersted in FP performance that PS performance.
I thought the original article was worth a read. I thought some of the comments are interesting. I thought this follow up was interesting. People like me are the ones who care. People who just want to know what kind of computer to buy, well yes, they are totally missing the point.
Spamassassin or other linux-side software "tags" spam. As in inserts a header or modifies the subject line or something?
And then people's mail clients are setup to recognize the tag and deal with it? Is there any way to refile spam into a seperate folder server-side (with exchange as the backend server)?
Things like spamassassin sound great but I've never been quite sure how to make them work with exchange since the linux software can't (AFAIK) control where exchange will put the message. I suppose client-side filtering is a reasonably good solution, but it's kind of a pain when you have a bunch of different mail clients that people are using that all do filtering differently. Kinda sucks for the mail client to have to process them if you are on dial-up too.
Oh well, better than nothing I guess. Any way to implement this kind of thing entirely server side and yet still have the "spam" go into a folder where it can be reviewed instead of just being thrown to/dev/null?
I'm not buying the "he didn't do anything wrong" part so completely.
I agree a search engine, in and of itself, isn't wrong. Prosecute the people who abuse the tool, not the tool makers, right?
Well, what happens when it's the same person doing both? When this was first posted on/. there was a CNN article than passingly mentioned "oh yeah, and he had a bunch of pirated stuff himself" or words to that affect.
The actual complaint is here: http://news.findlaw.com/hdocs/docs/riaa/arc ojordan 40303cmp.pdf
Among other claims, it says:
4. Defendant is acutely aware of the infringing activity occuring through his system since he himself is copying and distributing hundreds of sound recordings over his system without the authorization of the copyright owners. The sound recordings being distributed by Defendant himself include Santana, Usher, Smashing Pumpkins, Pink, David Gray and Dave Matthews Band.
Now, I haven't heard his side of the story. Maybe this allegation is totally false, but if it was I would think there would be a huge stink about it here.
I'm not saying the search engine wasn't the main thrust of the RIAA's complaint. I'm not saying $12,000 is a reasonable settlement. I'm just saying there is a whole hell of a lot of "he didn't do anything wrong" talk, when in fact it seems that he might have.
If nothing else, his taste in music borders on criminal.
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hmmm.. in addition to the quote before (from the washington post article) there was also this quote (same article):
[...] the "Cajun Spammer" described how he easily acquires millions of e-mail addresses from publicly available member directories at America Online and other providers.
So, I don't know what to make of this. If he's getting it from the member directories, why pay for it? Because the member directory is incomplete and he wants them all maybe?
By the same token, you're right, the fact that Leonsis didn't deny selling it is very telling. The post usually includes links to transcripts when available and I didn't see one. It would be interesting to see exactly what was said.
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They aren't selling their customer list, at least not to this loser. I know the/. summary says they are, but we all know you can't trust that shit.
Here's a quote: And he accused Scelson of violating the company's "terms of use" agreement by using AOL's membership directory as a source for e-mail addresses. Scelson readily agreed.
Carmack and others kept the bulk e-mail flowing through Internet accounts opened with stolen identities and credit card numbers.
Considering this and the fact that he didn't even show up to defend himself in court, why bother obeying the injuction? They don't arrest people for this stuff anymore?
Obviously Earthlink isn't going to get $16 mil out of this. I take it verizon didn't collect on their $6.9 million judgement either.
It's irrelevant whether it's licensing agreements, copyright, GPL, or whatever. The issue is not these petty distinctions, the issue is free porn. We all must make a united stand against any attempts to interfere with the most important right of all Americans (college students especially), free porn! If this isn't news for nerd, stuff that matters, then I don't know what is.
One day the grad student went to enter the latest set of measurements - and found the file had been replaced
Or so the grad student said. I bet he had so much fun the first time shouting "who's your daddy!" that he just wanted to conduct the whole rat penis measuring part over again.
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What, did that west coast move cost more than expected?
This is the second flamebait ask slashdot in as many days. Just like the "OSS or commercial more expensive?" thing from yesterday, this is way too generic a question.
What do we have for tomorrow's ask slashdot? Better color: red or blue?
I will be surprised if this makes the nightly news anywhere. They want this to be a non-story and will pay plenty to keep it that way. Any story that does arise will be spinning the "protecting America against copyright theft."
Thawte now charges $125 initially and $100 renewal (compared to $349/$249 from verisign). I got no response to an email I sent, but I'd probably use them again anyway.
For those that can't or don't want to run their own mail server and set this kind of stuff up, check out SneakEmail.
It is basically the same thing with a web interface. I've been using it for a while and it's great. Only downside is that because you get hashval looking addresses, it's impossible to remember them (it can be annoying to have to look them up to login to a site).
Come to think of it, I think that was exactly what one of the SPM (Super Pirates of Minneapolis) members did (pop his hard disk write head and shake), which was in one of the first major piracy busts, circa '82, but I could be wrong (it could have been someone else).
Who the hell even had hard drives in 82? With write head popping mechanism at that?
Some of the posts in this thread are ridiculous. He was busted at work in a freaking gateway store. I'm sure even Dylan Klebold wouldn't have had a bunch of weapons in easy reach had he worked at gateway.
And how many agents does it take to stop one guy from destroying evidence? The are going to execute a well planned assault shooting every ethernet cable in the place?(evidence that is presumably at home anyway, since I don't think gateway #4812 was warez central).
My experience (based on 4 times, all in Maryland, but several
different counties. I was charged with speeding each time) is that if
you bother to go to trial, they will be lenient. This isn't all just
based on my results, but also seeing how the judge treated the various
other people also in court those days (which was at least 50 other
traffic cases in total).
Doesn't really matter if you plead guilty or not guilty (I pled guilty
each time). What seems to matter is primarily how your record is
otherwise. It also seemed that those who tried to bullshit the judge
(offering up weak excuses and such) generally didn't fare quite as
well.
Assuming you weren't a habitual offender (typically that meant no
similar violations in the previous year), were polite and apologetic,
most of the judges gave virtually everyone probation before judgement
(*) + court costs ($15 or so). Even those with unclean records usually
at least got a point and/or fine reduction.
And, this may not be the case in all states, but in Maryland the
officer who wrote the ticket must be present to testify against
you. If he/she is not there you are automatically found not guilty
(once I got lucky and that happend for me. Happened to a friend once
too).
* PBJ means if you get through your probationary period (usually a
year for the traffic cases) w/o getting caught again it's equivalent
to not guilty, but if you are caught again (and convicted the second
time) the PBJ gets becomes a guilty.
Actually it's probably your Nvidia drivers. The 23.11 drivers, which are the latest, are INCREDIBLY unstable.
Interesting.. When I first saw this post I was at work. I could swear I had the 23.12 drivers installed at home, but checking the Nvidia site indeed 23.11 was the latest.
Well, I checked when I got home and I do have the 23.12 drivers. I got them through Windows Update about 3 weeks ago.
I'm very suprised that Windows Update, which typically has older drivers, actually has something newer than what's on the Nvidia site. Very strange. Nonetheless, the 23.12 drivers are working out pretty well for me (though 23.11 wasn't that problematic for me, it does seem better).
So if running windows, try windows update, it helped for me (I'm running XP pro with a GF3 TI 200).
1. Members of the armed forces of a Party to the conflict as well as
members of militias or volunteer corps forming part of such armed
forces....
Are you really trying to say that Al Quaida(sp?) does not fit the
above description?
They absolutely do not fit that description, and frankly, I think that's obvious. Article 4 spells
out several categories of people which can be considered POWs. The
first group, which you quote, is basically the "armed forces" group in
the traditional meaning, i.e. a country's army. Al Qaeda is clearly
not a regular army, but it seems obvious to me they are closest to a
militia or volunteer corps as defined in the very next part:
(2) Members of other militias and members of other volunteer corps,
including those of organized resistance movements, belonging to a
Party to the conflict and operating in or outside their own
territory, even if this territory is occupied, provided that such
militias or volunteer corps, including such organized resistance
movements, fulfil the following conditions: (a) that of being
commanded by a person responsible for his subordinates; (b) that
of having a fixed distinctive sign recognizable at a distance; (c)
that of carrying arms openly; (d) that of conducting their
operations in accordance with the laws and customs of war.
I'm sure you've heard Rumsfeld and crew repeatedly claiming Al Qaeda
doesn't fit this because they didn't meet (b), (c) and (d). Clearly b,
c and d boil down to "plays fair" and clearly Al Qaeda doesn't (and I
would say the same of the Taliban, but I'll admit that is a little
murkier).
So when, exactly did these prisoners have their tribunal deciding
that they weren't prisoners of war?
You may have a point here. I have heard the tribunal to determine
status issue raised before, but I don't think I understand it. The
word "tribunal" never appears again in the document and none of the
various claims I've heard dismissing this issue have ever been coupled
with references.
I'll say this much, this issue gets raised infrequently and usually
(as in this case) after other arguments fail to be persuasive. That
makes me really skeptical, but I can't adequately reject it either.
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Some would argue that most CDs and DVDs are trash and will rot your mind. I say people should be able to decide for themselves if they want to watch/listen. Same goes with smoking.
Guns were designed to kill things, so I suppose they shouldn't really sue the manufactures for making guns, they should sue the government for letting them.
Guns were designed to fire projectiles.
I've done this technique. Although I've abandoned ghost and do this now, it has some disadvantages.
Ghost understands the filesystem which has some potential advantages. You can explore a ghost image file to see what's in it. I'm not sure how to do that with a dd image.
The main thing is I don't think ghost even attempts to read unused sectors. Zeroing out and using gzip is better than not doing it, but still slower than simply not reading them. 40 GB drives comes out as 1 GB? That's a lot of wasted time reading and compressing those sectors. Back when I was using ghost I'd backup more frequently, now it just takes too long to do periodically.
One tip, you can use the GPL Eraser program to zero out spaces on windows. It's more thorough than the "big zero file" technique. It will clear cluster tips and can also zero out the swap file (swap clearing is done by windows, but it lets you turn that feature on). Mainly intended as a secure delete, it requires minor configuration to write zeros.
There are some linux tools that are more like ghost, but I haven't played with them. Last I looked NTFS wasn't supported very well. For now I just keep my windows partition small (10 gig or less) and use dd.
The original poster said a degree proves you can learn. How quickly can you learn? And can you think, or just learn? I have encountered plenty of people who are "book smart". They get good grades, get their degree, yet have no idea what they are doing.
They learn the material they are taught. But it could be they required a LOT of extra time working on it and/or extra time talking to the professor/TA. In the end your grade depends on whether you got the correct answer or not. On the job, how long/what resources it took you to get that answer also matter. A "teacher's pet" with a 4.0 GPA who takes up a ton of their co-workers time with questions isn't as nearly as valuable as someone who can achieve the same result independently.
By the same token, someone who is able to remember what the "correct" solution is to a given problem, but never understood why that was correct in the first place is also less valuable. They are less able to determine which of several possible solutions they might know about is best for a given problem. And if they've never heard of a solution to that problem, they are less likely to come up with one themselves.
Does making the curriculum tougher help this? Couldn't it possibly make it worse but further emphasizing amount of effort over depth of understanding? Should academia even attempt to "correct" this? Is a degree supposed to represent your ability to accomplish some task or certify a base set of knowledge?
I used to think Terminal.app was the second worse terminal program I've ever used (right behind that "telnet" program that came with windows).
It seems better now than it used to be. My main complaint was it would crash every two weeks or so (at which points you lose all your windows). I haven't had the one included with 10.3 crash yet, fingers still crossed (been using 10.3 for around 3 weeks).
And you can actually have some control over how the keyboard is mapped now too. That seemed a really lacking feature in earlier verions.
Still, I think I may check out iterm. Last time I was on the hunt for a replacement I couldn't find anything free. Tabs sound nice. If it's got copy-on-select even better.
There is a GPLed program called Eraser that can be used under windows. Eraser can also zero out cluster tips. Designed as a secure delete, you'll need to some minor configuration to write just zeros.
I am the great cornSCOlio. I need I.P. for my bunghole.
Chris is a guy according to
this
They just have it too easy. Back in my day if we wanted to change our grades we had to:
1) get in enough trouble to get sent the principal's office
2) make sure secretary gets distracted
3) quickly pull out secret drawer and note password without being noticed
4) go home and bust out the acoustic coupler
Nowadays all you need is to do is get out the laptop...
Don't even get my started on precipitation, inclination and the commute.
Personally I think the speed of the G5 and the validity of the benchmarks are both valid questions.
Does either of those questions alone determine whether you should get a G5 based system or not? No, but that doesn't mean the question isn't worth discussing.
I'm curious how fast the G5 is at certain kinds of tasks. Not because it helps me make a purchasing decision, but because I'm a geek and I'm interested in that kind of thing. This being slashdot, I'm sure I'm not the only one. Does superior floating point performance mean "better for photoshop"? Maybe not, but I'm more intersted in FP performance that PS performance.
I thought the original article was worth a read. I thought some of the comments are interesting. I thought this follow up was interesting. People like me are the ones who care. People who just want to know what kind of computer to buy, well yes, they are totally missing the point.
OK, so let me see if I have this straight.
/dev/null?
Spamassassin or other linux-side software "tags" spam. As in inserts a header or modifies the subject line or something?
And then people's mail clients are setup to recognize the tag and deal with it? Is there any way to refile spam into a seperate folder server-side (with exchange as the backend server)?
Things like spamassassin sound great but I've never been quite sure how to make them work with exchange since the linux software can't (AFAIK) control where exchange will put the message. I suppose client-side filtering is a reasonably good solution, but it's kind of a pain when you have a bunch of different mail clients that people are using that all do filtering differently. Kinda sucks for the mail client to have to process them if you are on dial-up too.
Oh well, better than nothing I guess. Any way to implement this kind of thing entirely server side and yet still have the "spam" go into a folder where it can be reviewed instead of just being thrown to
I agree a search engine, in and of itself, isn't wrong. Prosecute the people who abuse the tool, not the tool makers, right?
Well, what happens when it's the same person doing both? When this was first posted on
The actual complaint is here:
http://news.findlaw.com/hdocs/docs/riaa/ar
Among other claims, it says:
Now, I haven't heard his side of the story. Maybe this allegation is totally false, but if it was I would think there would be a huge stink about it here.
I'm not saying the search engine wasn't the main thrust of the RIAA's complaint. I'm not saying $12,000 is a reasonable settlement. I'm just saying there is a whole hell of a lot of "he didn't do anything wrong" talk, when in fact it seems that he might have.
If nothing else, his taste in music borders on criminal.
hmmm.. in addition to the quote before (from the washington post article) there was also this quote (same article):
[...] the "Cajun Spammer" described how he easily acquires millions of e-mail addresses from publicly available member directories at America Online and other providers.
So, I don't know what to make of this. If he's getting it from the member directories, why pay for it? Because the member directory is incomplete and he wants them all maybe?
By the same token, you're right, the fact that Leonsis didn't deny selling it is very telling. The post usually includes links to transcripts when available and I didn't see one. It would be interesting to see exactly what was said.
They aren't selling their customer list, at least not to this loser. I know the /. summary says they are, but we all know you can't trust that shit.
Here's a quote:
And he accused Scelson of violating the company's "terms of use" agreement by using AOL's membership directory as a source for e-mail addresses. Scelson readily agreed.
Carmack and others kept the bulk e-mail flowing through Internet accounts opened with stolen identities and credit card numbers.
Considering this and the fact that he didn't even show up to defend himself in court, why bother obeying the injuction? They don't arrest people for this stuff anymore?
Obviously Earthlink isn't going to get $16 mil out of this. I take it verizon didn't collect on their $6.9 million judgement either.
It's irrelevant whether it's licensing agreements, copyright, GPL, or whatever. The issue is not these petty distinctions, the issue is free porn. We all must make a united stand against any attempts to interfere with the most important right of all Americans (college students especially), free porn! If this isn't news for nerd, stuff that matters, then I don't know what is.
Or so the grad student said. I bet he had so much fun the first time shouting "who's your daddy!" that he just wanted to conduct the whole rat penis measuring part over again.
This is the second flamebait ask slashdot in as many days. Just like the "OSS or commercial more expensive?" thing from yesterday, this is way too generic a question.
What do we have for tomorrow's ask slashdot? Better color: red or blue?
CNN article
It is somewhat spun as you suggested, but not a whole lot. It's pretty short without a whole lot of details or commentary.
Thawte now charges $125 initially and $100 renewal (compared to $349/$249 from verisign). I got no response to an email I sent, but I'd probably use them again anyway.
It is basically the same thing with a web interface.
I've been using it for a while and it's great. Only downside is that because you get hashval looking addresses, it's impossible to remember them (it can be annoying to have to look them up to login to a site).
Who the hell even had hard drives in 82? With write head popping mechanism at that?
Some of the posts in this thread are ridiculous. He was busted at work in a freaking gateway store. I'm sure even Dylan Klebold wouldn't have had a bunch of weapons in easy reach had he worked at gateway.
And how many agents does it take to stop one guy from destroying evidence? The are going to execute a well planned assault shooting every ethernet cable in the place?(evidence that is presumably at home anyway, since I don't think gateway #4812 was warez central).
Actually, because it relies on the stupidity of the user to propagate itself, it's a trojan. Minor nit-pick, your point it totally appropriate.
My experience (based on 4 times, all in Maryland, but several different counties. I was charged with speeding each time) is that if you bother to go to trial, they will be lenient. This isn't all just based on my results, but also seeing how the judge treated the various other people also in court those days (which was at least 50 other traffic cases in total).
Doesn't really matter if you plead guilty or not guilty (I pled guilty each time). What seems to matter is primarily how your record is otherwise. It also seemed that those who tried to bullshit the judge (offering up weak excuses and such) generally didn't fare quite as well.
Assuming you weren't a habitual offender (typically that meant no similar violations in the previous year), were polite and apologetic, most of the judges gave virtually everyone probation before judgement (*) + court costs ($15 or so). Even those with unclean records usually at least got a point and/or fine reduction.
And, this may not be the case in all states, but in Maryland the officer who wrote the ticket must be present to testify against you. If he/she is not there you are automatically found not guilty (once I got lucky and that happend for me. Happened to a friend once too).
* PBJ means if you get through your probationary period (usually a year for the traffic cases) w/o getting caught again it's equivalent to not guilty, but if you are caught again (and convicted the second time) the PBJ gets becomes a guilty.
Interesting.. When I first saw this post I was at work. I could swear I had the 23.12 drivers installed at home, but checking the Nvidia site indeed 23.11 was the latest.
Well, I checked when I got home and I do have the 23.12 drivers. I got them through Windows Update about 3 weeks ago.
I'm very suprised that Windows Update, which typically has older drivers, actually has something newer than what's on the Nvidia site. Very strange. Nonetheless, the 23.12 drivers are working out pretty well for me (though 23.11 wasn't that problematic for me, it does seem better).
So if running windows, try windows update, it helped for me (I'm running XP pro with a GF3 TI 200).
Are you really trying to say that Al Quaida(sp?) does not fit the above description?
They absolutely do not fit that description, and frankly, I think that's obvious. Article 4 spells out several categories of people which can be considered POWs. The first group, which you quote, is basically the "armed forces" group in the traditional meaning, i.e. a country's army. Al Qaeda is clearly not a regular army, but it seems obvious to me they are closest to a militia or volunteer corps as defined in the very next part:
I'm sure you've heard Rumsfeld and crew repeatedly claiming Al Qaeda doesn't fit this because they didn't meet (b), (c) and (d). Clearly b, c and d boil down to "plays fair" and clearly Al Qaeda doesn't (and I would say the same of the Taliban, but I'll admit that is a little murkier).
So when, exactly did these prisoners have their tribunal deciding that they weren't prisoners of war?
You may have a point here. I have heard the tribunal to determine status issue raised before, but I don't think I understand it. The word "tribunal" never appears again in the document and none of the various claims I've heard dismissing this issue have ever been coupled with references.
I'll say this much, this issue gets raised infrequently and usually (as in this case) after other arguments fail to be persuasive. That makes me really skeptical, but I can't adequately reject it either.