Just to note, the words aren't originally English anyway, they're Greek. "Daemon" (daimonios) just means a spirit being, "devil" (diabolos) literally means "enemy".
The guy was William Tyndale, and his work was a model for later translations, especially the King James version. But he had to do his translation on the run in the Netherlands, and the English government actually banned the import and publication of the thing for years.
Who's to say that the flood stories found in various cultures aren't actually recollections of a real flood? Anti-"bible thumpers" have for years now been claiming the Gilgamesh epic as a source for Genesis with no more evidence than an assertion. Mark it down to laziness. Not that I'm against laziness per se, it's a virtue in my line of bidniss....
There is also the problem about what law actually is, and what it's supposed to do. Time was when every law student had a well-used copy of Blackstone, and everybody was familiar with the principles of common law and the Bible. The rights and wrongs of a situation were pretty much accessible to everyone's common sense.
Since then, there has been a tectonic shift. Law is no longer the expression of foundational, non-arbitrary principles known to all, but the product of increasingly vague legislation and a superstructure of bizarre court decisions. The lawyers have metamorphosed into priests, (or druids, maybe?) guarding the arcana of stare decisis.
As the law becomes more rootless and arbitrary (read: power-based), it necessarily becomes more detailed. It follows no easily-grasped principle, and the particulars need to be spelled out for every situation.
Well, that might have been marginally workable 150 years ago, today it's hopeless. The DR-DOS case is still working its way through the court today--but for why?
A pedantic point here: the fact that govt "graciously" allows a tax exemption does not in any way constitute their "paying" for anything. It's MY money, not theirs. If I see you at the vending machine and I inform you that, for this one time, I won't snag the money right out of your hand as you're trying to put it in the slot, would you allow that I had just "paid" for your Mt.Dew?
This leaves aside the whole point of the probably mythical character of the office-in-home deduction. The rules about it are so tight and intractable that practically nobody can take it.
So true. Humor is a form of release. And it's not as if stronger stuff isn't already out there. If you think that UF is, erm, "impolite", you surely don't want to read the "Monastery."
UF = "mild twitting"; ASR = "hack 'em and stack 'em";
Yeah, I had a couple of scripts that did that. I had said something like:
printf( "%s%02d", $cent, $year )
The variable $cent contained either "19" or "20", depending on the value of $year. Looked fine, but when you get to y2k, that thing prints "19100". Ugh. RTFM time. Now it's like this:
printf( "%d", ( $year + 1900 ) )
Not the first time I have felt as stupid as a brick. But it made me feel a little better yesterday when the support team called me in a panic because they found the reference to "1900" in those scripts, "Oh, no! Hard-coded century! Fear! Fire! Foes! Awake!!"
I should have told them I had had to change it because it infringed the "windowing" patent >:-P
You mean the Brotherhood? As far as I can tell from reading 1984, the Brotherhood may just as easily been a government-created 'sting' organization. O'Brien, the government spook, even claimed to have been a co-author of the forbidden book by the Brotherhood leader Emmanuel Goldstein. Winston Smith never knew if the Brotherhood actually existed, since his first contact with what he thought was a member was in fact with a government mole. He should have looked harder at the signature on O'Brien's certificate!
Excepting the very few liberal-arts types that retrain as geek-coders and spend their literary creativity on symbol names that are never seen outside the source code. A mercy it is, too. Talk about lame names; I have many times used "thing1" and "thing2" as internal symbols; if I need a third one it's always "cat_in_hat", never "thing3".
Yeah, yeah, real creative that, you say. I just don't remember any of the nested structs I used to create that.formed.complete.sentences. But I'm sure somebody around here could provide an example or two of their own.
But nothing like that *ever* could be allowed to show to the "outside world", could it?
"Sysadmins are not stupid. They are simply usually overworked and have to balance the need to provide services to their customer base with the need to minimise the risks to those services. Attacking public servers (whoever owns them) merely serves to irritate sysadmins, and usually nobody else."
I had a coworker that accidentally left a public ftp directory world-writable. The warez kiddies found it in about a week, but I didn't notice until the day after when the network load ramped up. Of course, I moved the warez out of sight and tightened the system up at once. But the fun had just begun. There were a number of systems running poorly written scripts which would connect, and, not finding the files/directories they were sent to pull, would just freeze until they timed out. So I spent a wonderful Saturday writing scripts to kick these off, adding the worst offenders to tcpwrappers, and finally scripting a once-a-minute kick in the seat to inetd so that it would realize that it actually *could* open another socket.
Waste of a good Saturday, that. Oh, well, I don't work there anymore....
You realize, of course, that 40% of all sick days are taken on either Friday or Monday. Obvious long-weekend goldbricking. I know this is true 'cuz I saw it in Dilbert.
About 18 months ago, I developed the 'itch' to connect my w95 desktop with the departmental AIX box. I had never heard of Samba, but soon turned it up in a web search. IIRC, from the time I hit the search engines with no idea what I would find to the time I had Samba compiled and running was less than a day. Within a couple weeks we were using it all over the dept.
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If by "scoring with women", it means getting them to agree with your plan to shoot the wad on a 100G HD instead of on them....
You know something's gang agley when practically all you know of TV shows and movies is from satires of them. The satires are better. ( Still pretty bad, though. )
Though certainly composed in haste--he could have at least mentioned RMS...King "Richard", off on a holy crusade, which is why we don't see him in the story.
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Just to note, the words aren't originally English anyway, they're Greek. "Daemon" (daimonios) just means a spirit being, "devil" (diabolos) literally means "enemy".
Hey! You're right!!!
The guy was William Tyndale, and his work was a model for later translations, especially the King James version. But he had to do his translation on the run in the Netherlands, and the English government actually banned the import and publication of the thing for years.
Who's to say that the flood stories found in various cultures aren't actually recollections of a real flood? Anti-"bible thumpers" have for years now been claiming the Gilgamesh epic as a source for Genesis with no more evidence than an assertion. Mark it down to laziness. Not that I'm against laziness per se, it's a virtue in my line of bidniss....
There is also the problem about what law actually is, and what it's supposed to do. Time was when every law student had a well-used copy of Blackstone, and everybody was familiar with the principles of common law and the Bible. The rights and wrongs of a situation were pretty much accessible to everyone's common sense.
Since then, there has been a tectonic shift. Law is no longer the expression of foundational, non-arbitrary principles known to all, but the product of increasingly vague legislation and a superstructure of bizarre court decisions. The lawyers have metamorphosed into priests, (or druids, maybe?) guarding the arcana of stare decisis.
As the law becomes more rootless and arbitrary (read: power-based), it necessarily becomes more detailed. It follows no easily-grasped principle, and the particulars need to be spelled out for every situation.
Well, that might have been marginally workable 150 years ago, today it's hopeless. The DR-DOS case is still working its way through the court today--but for why?
A pedantic point here: the fact that govt "graciously" allows a tax exemption does not in any way constitute their "paying" for anything. It's MY money, not theirs. If I see you at the vending machine and I inform you that, for this one time, I won't snag the money right out of your hand as you're trying to put it in the slot, would you allow that I had just "paid" for your Mt.Dew?
This leaves aside the whole point of the probably mythical character of the office-in-home deduction. The rules about it are so tight and intractable that practically nobody can take it.
So true. Humor is a form of release. And it's not as if stronger stuff isn't already out there. If you think that UF is, erm, "impolite", you surely don't want to read the "Monastery."
UF = "mild twitting";
ASR = "hack 'em and stack 'em";
They're both funny, imo.
Yeah, I had a couple of scripts that did that. I had said something like:
printf( "%s%02d", $cent, $year )
The variable $cent contained either "19" or "20", depending on the value of $year. Looked fine, but when you get to y2k, that thing prints "19100". Ugh. RTFM time. Now it's like this:
printf( "%d", ( $year + 1900 ) )
Not the first time I have felt as stupid as a brick. But it made me feel a little better yesterday when the support team called me in a panic because they found the reference to "1900" in those scripts, "Oh, no! Hard-coded century! Fear! Fire! Foes! Awake!!"
I should have told them I had had to change it because it infringed the "windowing" patent >:-P
You mean the Brotherhood? As far as I can tell from reading 1984, the Brotherhood may just as easily been a government-created 'sting' organization. O'Brien, the government spook, even claimed to have been a co-author of the forbidden book by the Brotherhood leader Emmanuel Goldstein. Winston Smith never knew if the Brotherhood actually existed, since his first contact with what he thought was a member was in fact with a government mole. He should have looked harder at the signature on O'Brien's certificate!
Just thought I'd point that out.
Excepting the very few liberal-arts types that retrain as geek-coders and spend their literary creativity on symbol names that are never seen outside the source code. A mercy it is, too. Talk about lame names; I have many times used "thing1" and "thing2" as internal symbols; if I need a third one it's always "cat_in_hat", never "thing3".
Yeah, yeah, real creative that, you say. I just don't remember any of the nested structs I used to create that.formed.complete.sentences. But I'm sure somebody around here could provide an example or two of their own.
But nothing like that *ever* could be allowed to show to the "outside world", could it?
My favorite part was:
"Sysadmins are not stupid. They are simply usually overworked and have to balance the need to provide services to their customer base with the need to minimise the risks to those services. Attacking public servers (whoever owns them) merely serves to irritate sysadmins, and usually nobody else."
I had a coworker that accidentally left a public ftp directory world-writable. The warez kiddies found it in about a week, but I didn't notice until the day after when the network load ramped up. Of course, I moved the warez out of sight and tightened the system up at once. But the fun had just begun. There were a number of systems running poorly written scripts which would connect, and, not finding the files/directories they were sent to pull, would just freeze until they timed out. So I spent a wonderful Saturday writing scripts to kick these off, adding the worst offenders to tcpwrappers, and finally scripting a once-a-minute kick in the seat to inetd so that it would realize that it actually *could* open another socket.
Waste of a good Saturday, that. Oh, well, I don't work there anymore....
Ooof...! C|N>K
You realize, of course, that 40% of all sick days are taken on either Friday or Monday. Obvious long-weekend goldbricking. I know this is true 'cuz I saw it in Dilbert.
My first crystal set actually used galena, not germanium. ;-)
About 18 months ago, I developed the 'itch' to connect my w95 desktop with the departmental AIX box. I had never heard of Samba, but soon turned it up in a web search. IIRC, from the time I hit the search engines with no idea what I would find to the time I had Samba compiled and running was less than a day. Within a couple weeks we were using it all over the dept.
If by "scoring with women", it means getting them to agree with your plan to shoot the wad on a 100G HD instead of on them....
You know something's gang agley when practically all you know of TV shows and movies is from satires of them. The satires are better. ( Still pretty bad, though. )
Though certainly composed in haste--he could have at least mentioned RMS...King "Richard", off on a holy crusade, which is why we don't see him in the story.
Nathless, I got a kick out of it.