Derivative works are not autometically owned by the original work's copyright holder -- in most cases fanfiction is considered to be a parody and therefore is "fair use".
It's well known trick, however it doesn't work unless a compiler can reliably recognize that it compiles a compiler, and can modify it without breaking -- at best compiler can recognize and modify its own source or something very similar, but since a lot of C compilers were made since that time, such backdoors can't survive.
What if I "borrow" the executive's hard drive for a little while, and then use my custom version of Linux that doesn't repect Administrative Privileges to install my alternative file system, and then return the hard drive to its computer?
Only sysadmin can physically access computers that have any important information on them, so see above.
Two dlls (dvwssr.dll and mtd2lv.dll) included with the FrontPage 98 extensions for IIS and shipped as part of the NT Option Pack include an obfuscation string that manipulates the name of requested files. Knowing this string and the obfuscation algorithm allows anyone with web authoring privileges on the target host to download any.asp or.asa source on the system. This includes users with web authoring rights to only one of several virtual hosts on a system, allowing one company to potentially gain access to the source of another company's website if hosted on the same physical machine.
If this is true, this is a vulnerability in the environment with multiple users sharing a hosting service (but not with single user as someone probably thought originally).
Anyone disproven this? Or now only vulnerabilities that don't require a local account on the system count as real?
I seem to remember how our school system adopted summer vacations to accomodate an agricultural society (kids needed time off in the summertime to help with the farm).
Now it's more like summer being a season when kids are least inclined to be indoors -- and long vacation is useful for showing a "milestone" in the education.
Now it seems our school system is just adopting to a new "office" society. Computers skills are needed so computer training in school is emphasized. Laptops facilitate ease of use with their portability.
Schools are now supposed to produce office-dwelling paper-pushers?
Lack of diversity and choice in education isn't the worst problem with education in US -- in Russia public schools were even less diverse than here, but they were better funded, school programs and textbooks were written by competent people, kids were prohibited from being employed until they finished 8-th (later 9-th) year of secondary school, and people actually studied before becoming teachers. Turned out much better than what I see here -- most of kids got decent education (contrary to the popular in US belief, communists didn't replace math, physics, chemistry and biology with their ideology -- the amount of bullshit was above what I consider to be acceptable, but way, way below companies' influence/advertisement and "sport" in public schools, and religious mumbo-jumbo in private ones in US).
I am a teenager and by far the most computer competent student (I'm 14) at my school (not only am I the only person to ever bring in a laptop, but I scare the bejeezus out of the techadmin)
Then your admin sucks.
, and I know 5 different languages, including html and java.
And excluding C, excluding a course in data structures and excluding every other course that a programmer should take before (or, better, instead of) touching java, what makes you useless (if not plain harmful) at any programming job.
While it seem expensive to invest in thin clients or laptops now, it is an investment in your future. Keep in mind that while not many people become programmers, the internet wouldn't exist without them, and you wouldn't be able to make comments on slashdot without them.
So, if 98% of kids will play Quake, 1% will become half-assed programmers, and 1% will learn how to change school's database with their grades, we will get something other than one more generation of ignorant idiots?
I'd love to hear you defend your position to paul allen, steve jobs or bill gates. Gates was quite technically competent as a teenager, and look where he is now. Don't take your future for granted.
Gates was a son of rich lawyer, and his aunt was a friend of IBM executive. That's all his "competence".
you haven't seen the real deal until you go through communist propaganda given out in territory that they control.
I am Russian and I lived there until 1993, so I am in the right position to say that anti-American propaganda of the Communist era pales compared to anti-Communism in US -- both then and now. I have no idea how bad was/is Romania, but I've heard that it had one of the dumbest governments in the world, Communist or otherwise.
Would you have the government act alone to devise a cellular standard? Or perhaps there should be a popular vote? Or perhaps government should stay out of it completely, and we should allow Microsoft to "invent" it?
Goverment should support an independent standards body that oversees the standardization process and ensures that no secret and patent-encumbered standards are acceped.
So standards that incorporate privately-held IP can function to get a big system (as cellular needs) accepted. Maybe they are not appropriate in all situations, but they can be useful.
The mechanism that you described has a name -- corruption.
We are acustomed to the development of software -- things are written in the text editor, compiled, and they are running (or being debugged what doesn't look too different). Both garbage and great things require about the same time to develop, just different people do it.
In physical world only very simple things are fast to develop -- trivial modifications of existing products, combinations of standard parts, possibly with some software-based sophistication added. But to make a new class of devices one has to spend months if not years just to make the first prototype, and the process is extremely costly. Small devices are the hardest to develop -- look at Newton, Palm, WinCE things, Itsy, etc. -- they spent years in development, required shitloads of custom parts for prototypes, and only if the product is successful (what means, it isn't a Newton), the company has a chance to recover its money (what means, it isn't WinCE thing or Itsy) using the benefits of mass-production.
If you don't think it real, try this, it's been done: get some dead manic depressives and put their brains in a blender. The ones who died of suicide will have dramatically lower levels of neurotransmitters in their brains than is normal for the human population, and the ones got themselves killed while manic will have an overabundance of neurotransmitters.
If you don't think that serotonin, norepinephrine or dopamine affect your experience in a real way, why don't you eat a sheet of acid or a few peyote buttons and post a summary back here?
Now, please, re-read what I wrote and compare what I said and what you are arguing against.
With the number of phrases directed to computers that are usually mentioned in Star Trek, ViaVoice should be enough. Heck, I probably should make a ViaVoice interface to my X-10 stuff with startrek-style commands.
It wasn't too long ago when FEMALE ORGASM was widely considered to be unhealthy by psychiatrists. Not much changed since those days -- psychology is still not a science, and everything is based on the opinions of "respected" psychologists that in their turn based their opinions on some rather liberal manipulations with their observation of horribly oppressed and brainwashed patients and opinions of other, respected in their time psychologists, and so on...
Now they claim that they see how "physical" state of brain is related to all "diseases". No shit, Watson -- this is how emotions work -- but most likely only a small fraction of those cases actually are bad enough to be considered pathological, and even among those more often than not no one really knows any treatment that actually will benefit the person in the long run -- psychiatrists seem to be concerned with "balancing" people by fixing the symptoms, what can make more harm than good even if the diagnosis is correct and actually is a pathology.
IMHO most of "psychiatry of normal people" is simply too unsafe to be used at the large scale even with individuals that voluntarily subject themselves to it, so its sweeping application to large categories of people who are KNOWN TO BE A NON-MAINSTREAM PART OF SOCIETY (artists, scientists, engineers) can cause a disaster.
The Nazis were evil from the start. The Communists were evil from the start.
Great example of the consequences of decades of anti-commnist propaganda in US, thrown at simple-minded american people. Dehumanize the enemies, and all crimes of your government will look justified.
You techies in the IT field out there, do you make money off support for Linux or Windows? I'm willing to bet you are supporting yourself or your family working on Windows98 and NT, not Linux or Mac.
You lose -- I am a Unix programmer, so I do all my work with Linux, FreeBSD and Solaris. I don't even have Windows anywhere.
While I may not be a big fan of MS, I have to realize that it is because of them that I have a job in the IT industry on this very day.
This is why you are a problem if not M$, someone smarter, competent, and maybe even with a real degree, would work at your place doing something productive.
Slashdot Mirror
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Derivative works are not autometically owned by the original work's copyright holder -- in most cases fanfiction is considered to be a parody and therefore is "fair use".
and closed on friday at 24 - well below it's IPO price.
Huh? IIRC IPO price was 14, and there was a split after that, so it should get below 7 to be below IPO price.
It's well known trick, however it doesn't work unless a compiler can reliably recognize that it compiles a compiler, and can modify it without breaking -- at best compiler can recognize and modify its own source or something very similar, but since a lot of C compilers were made since that time, such backdoors can't survive.
What if I "borrow" the executive's hard drive for a little while, and then use my custom version of Linux that doesn't repect Administrative Privileges to install my alternative file system, and then return the hard drive to its computer?
Only sysadmin can physically access computers that have any important information on them, so see above.
Heh, well, I have no idea if that's true or not, but if it is, it's due to one simple fact: It helps to be correct.
Actually only to sound important -- most of what you post is neither correct nor relevant.Two dlls (dvwssr.dll and mtd2lv.dll) included with the FrontPage 98 extensions for IIS and shipped as part of the NT Option Pack include an obfuscation string that manipulates the name of requested files. Knowing this string and the obfuscation algorithm allows anyone with web authoring privileges on the target host to download any .asp or .asa source on the system. This includes users with web authoring rights to only one of several virtual hosts on a system, allowing one company to potentially gain access to the source of another company's website if hosted on the same physical machine.
If this is true, this is a vulnerability in the environment with multiple users sharing a hosting service (but not with single user as someone probably thought originally).
Anyone disproven this? Or now only vulnerabilities that don't require a local account on the system count as real?
I seem to remember how our school system adopted summer vacations to accomodate an agricultural society (kids needed time off in the summertime to help with the farm).
Now it's more like summer being a season when kids are least inclined to be indoors -- and long vacation is useful for showing a "milestone" in the education.
Now it seems our school system is just adopting to a new "office" society. Computers skills are needed so computer training in school is emphasized. Laptops facilitate ease of use with their portability.
Schools are now supposed to produce office-dwelling paper-pushers?
Lack of diversity and choice in education isn't the worst problem with education in US -- in Russia public schools were even less diverse than here, but they were better funded, school programs and textbooks were written by competent people, kids were prohibited from being employed until they finished 8-th (later 9-th) year of secondary school, and people actually studied before becoming teachers. Turned out much better than what I see here -- most of kids got decent education (contrary to the popular in US belief, communists didn't replace math, physics, chemistry and biology with their ideology -- the amount of bullshit was above what I consider to be acceptable, but way, way below companies' influence/advertisement and "sport" in public schools, and religious mumbo-jumbo in private ones in US).
I am a teenager and by far the most computer competent student (I'm 14) at my school (not only am I the only person to ever bring in a laptop, but I scare the bejeezus out of the techadmin)
Then your admin sucks.
, and I know 5 different languages, including html and java.
And excluding C, excluding a course in data structures and excluding every other course that a programmer should take before (or, better, instead of) touching java, what makes you useless (if not plain harmful) at any programming job.
While it seem expensive to invest in thin clients or laptops now, it is an investment in your future. Keep in mind that while not many people become programmers, the internet wouldn't exist without them, and you wouldn't be able to make comments on slashdot without them.
So, if 98% of kids will play Quake, 1% will become half-assed programmers, and 1% will learn how to change school's database with their grades, we will get something other than one more generation of ignorant idiots?
I'd love to hear you defend your position to paul allen, steve jobs or bill gates. Gates was quite technically competent as a teenager, and look where he is now. Don't take your future for granted.
Gates was a son of rich lawyer, and his aunt was a friend of IBM executive. That's all his "competence".
Don't blame me -- I don't even touch their software, leave alone run it.
you haven't seen the real deal until you go through communist propaganda given out in territory that they control.
I am Russian and I lived there until 1993, so I am in the right position to say that anti-American propaganda of the Communist era pales compared to anti-Communism in US -- both then and now. I have no idea how bad was/is Romania, but I've heard that it had one of the dumbest governments in the world, Communist or otherwise.
Would you have the government act alone to devise a cellular standard? Or perhaps there should be a popular vote? Or perhaps government should stay out of it completely, and we should allow Microsoft to "invent" it?
Goverment should support an independent standards body that oversees the standardization process and ensures that no secret and patent-encumbered standards are acceped.
It worked just fine for the Internet.
So standards that incorporate privately-held IP can function to get a big system (as cellular needs) accepted. Maybe they are not appropriate in all situations, but they can be useful.
The mechanism that you described has a name -- corruption.
We are acustomed to the development of software -- things are written in the text editor, compiled, and they are running (or being debugged what doesn't look too different). Both garbage and great things require about the same time to develop, just different people do it.
In physical world only very simple things are fast to develop -- trivial modifications of existing products, combinations of standard parts, possibly with some software-based sophistication added. But to make a new class of devices one has to spend months if not years just to make the first prototype, and the process is extremely costly. Small devices are the hardest to develop -- look at Newton, Palm, WinCE things, Itsy, etc. -- they spent years in development, required shitloads of custom parts for prototypes, and only if the product is successful (what means, it isn't a Newton), the company has a chance to recover its money (what means, it isn't WinCE thing or Itsy) using the benefits of mass-production.
If you don't think it real, try this, it's been done: get some dead manic depressives and put their brains in a blender. The ones who died of suicide will have dramatically lower levels of neurotransmitters in their brains than is normal for the human population, and the ones got themselves killed while manic will have an overabundance of neurotransmitters.
If you don't think that serotonin, norepinephrine or dopamine affect your experience in a real way, why don't you eat a sheet of acid or a few peyote buttons and post a summary back here?
Now, please, re-read what I wrote and compare what I said and what you are arguing against.
With the number of phrases directed to computers that are usually mentioned in Star Trek, ViaVoice should be enough. Heck, I probably should make a ViaVoice interface to my X-10 stuff with startrek-style commands.
Yes, I have a sense of humor.
It wasn't too long ago when FEMALE ORGASM was widely considered to be unhealthy by psychiatrists. Not much changed since those days -- psychology is still not a science, and everything is based on the opinions of "respected" psychologists that in their turn based their opinions on some rather liberal manipulations with their observation of horribly oppressed and brainwashed patients and opinions of other, respected in their time psychologists, and so on...
Now they claim that they see how "physical" state of brain is related to all "diseases". No shit, Watson -- this is how emotions work -- but most likely only a small fraction of those cases actually are bad enough to be considered pathological, and even among those more often than not no one really knows any treatment that actually will benefit the person in the long run -- psychiatrists seem to be concerned with "balancing" people by fixing the symptoms, what can make more harm than good even if the diagnosis is correct and actually is a pathology.
IMHO most of "psychiatry of normal people" is simply too unsafe to be used at the large scale even with individuals that voluntarily subject themselves to it, so its sweeping application to large categories of people who are KNOWN TO BE A NON-MAINSTREAM PART OF SOCIETY (artists, scientists, engineers) can cause a disaster.
The Nazis were evil from the start.
The Communists were evil from the start.
Great example of the consequences of decades of anti-commnist propaganda in US, thrown at simple-minded american people. Dehumanize the enemies, and all crimes of your government will look justified.
You techies in the IT field out there, do you make money off support for Linux or Windows? I'm willing to bet you are supporting yourself or your family working on Windows98 and NT, not Linux or Mac.
You lose -- I am a Unix programmer, so I do all my work with Linux, FreeBSD and Solaris. I don't even have Windows anywhere.
You was waiting? At least 30% of posts before yours one look like they are written by microsofties.
Then what "marketing genius" wrote Microsoft statements that were given to the press yestyerday?
The repetition of your name on random pro-M$ out of the ass statements is getting annoying.
While I may not be a big fan of MS, I have to realize that it is because of them that I have a job in the IT industry on this very day.
This is why you are a problem if not M$, someone smarter, competent, and maybe even with a real degree, would work at your place doing something productive.
The normal authority on Internet Protocols is the IEEE, as they publish ?RFCs?
1. IETF. 2. "smart quotes" suck.