Total Physical Source Lines of Code (SLOC) = 149,367
Development Effort Estimate, Person-Years = 38.37
Schedule Estimate, Years = 2.14
Estimated Average Number of Developers = 17.92
Total Estimated Cost to Develop = $ 5,183,332
Hmmmm, one man doing the work of 18, and doing 38 years of work in less than a year... He must be a superman! Either that, or those calculations are very very make-believe.
After thinking about it, I'll accept it as the Barrow-Wight scene reworked with the available characters rather than introducing the Barrow Downs and Bombadil (which would have extended the movie even more, while adding little to the story - a colorful side story, yes, but very much a side story).
Actually, this tuns out to be a very pivitol event in the book, but you don't learn that until the very end. The blade that pierces the Nazgul King's leg, that forces him to drop his guard, that get him killed and thus saves all of Gondor (and provides Frodo with the much needed "cover" he requires to cross the dusty volcanic land un-seen), was the blade found in those "side-story" barrows. The blade, after traveling through thousands and thousands of years, after hiding in an inescapable barrow guarded by an undead wight, finally fulfills it's destiny by striking the very enemy is was forged to defeat and thus saving middle earth...
I'm afraid that the above poster may be right, but here is one possibility: You *generated* that id, right? So maybe that means you hold the copyright on that... So they may have violated copyright laws. It may not hold up in court, but who knows, a sympathetic judge may decide that slapping down the spammers who write fake privacy contracts is just the right thing to do.
This is just the typical mating dance between elephants who are both mature, experienced, and tough. They will circle each other for a while, bellowing challenges, doing a bit of fighting to see who (if either) is dominant, who is more willing to fight, who is more determined. Then the mating will commence (i.e. a "compromise bill" will be introducted by Mr. Hollings) and the two large elephants, and their children, will continue to dominate the rest of the herd.
Hee hee, this is a wonderful analogy... I just wonder which side is going to end up doing the boinking...
I would be happy to be a consultant for you and give you tips on how to start up your consultant company, however, I'm waiting for my Ask Slashdot article, "Tips for setting up a Consulting Business that Consults new Consultants", to be posted so that I can learn the best way to get my business up and running so I can help you. Wish me luck!
People want a phone number that they can call and get an answer RIGHT NOW.
In my expierence, this is not quite true. Yes, they want a phone number, but not for someone who is going to fix your problem, but for someone who is going to take the blame for your problem. 99 times out of a 100 when the problem can't be solved by a competent admin, the problem isn't going to be solved RIGHT NOW, even if you had Bill Gates himself sitting down at the debugger. (Yes, yes, I know there are many incompetent admins who CAN solve thier problems by pointing and clicking, but hopefully these aren't the norm).
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I think/.'s saving grace will be that if the money ever DOES run out, the readers will keep it alive. I know there are probably hundreds if not thousands of people here on/. who would be willing to host this site. If it were done in a round-robin style of hosting, every geek in the country could get a week of hosting slashdot to notch his belt. It could easily become a rite of passage for the entire community.
I think they ought to compare the sale of bread to the sale of pre-recorded CDs. I bet they will find a real "disturbing trend".
Actually, I did just that... Sales of bread are DOWN 0.02% per capita while sales of sugar-free caffinated beverages are up almost 7%! What kind of a trend does this show? It shows that when people don't buy pre-recorded CD's they get thinner and more hyper.... Oh no! It means that people are turning back into monkies! Evolution has been revesed by piracy! Nooooo! How could you! Get your hands off me you damn dirty recording executive...
Asperger's Syndrome sufferers (Aspies) were often highly intelligent. Well, I'm highly intelligent, but... Aspies had trouble socializing with people beginning in childhood. Well, I had, but, you know, the people I went to school with were such jerks anyway... Apsies had poor communication skills with people, often sounding like "little professors" with odd, grating voices. Well, um, they had called me "Brainiac" in school. Aspies had some narrow, almost compulsive interests, which may stay the same, or change - one described his hobby of looking at maps for hours and hours and then spending more hours drawing maps of imaginary countries and cities. I gulped, remembering that I used to do the same thing. Aspies had few friends from childhood on and people thought they were rude and too direct. Well... I looked at the screen with tears in my eyes, recognizing myself.
I had Asperger's Syndrome.
Um, I think you do have a syndrome, but it's not Asperger's... it's Gullibility. Don't let the pop psycologists push thier drivel into your head.
Those "symtoms" you describe are identical to *every single* intelligent child I have ever know or met, ever. Every kid my age with imagination was drawing maps for D&D (before it was "evil") for hours on end. Everyone was trying to sound "older" than they were (little professors), becuase they wanted to sound intelligent and mature. Everyone who is intelligent gets picked on by the true "mentally challenged" jerks during school.
You are/were *normal*. The brain dead kids that do nothing but stare at the TV mother-teacher, who's English doesn't stretch past the "I tot I taw a puddy cat" stage, and who is too insecure to reject cruel "friends" becuase they are afraid of being alone, THEY are the ones with the mental disease.
Despite the justifications that your CEO gives you for using dangerous levels of petrochemicals in thier baby-food to "save costs", there is a such thing as business ethics. A company that breaks the law ("Hey, let's just burn down the warehouses of our competition and poison thier employees; We'll be the only game in town!" "Great strategizing Bob, get on that! Top priority!") is NOt helping thier company OR capatalism.
Soon enough, the Internet will have been watered down to contain only that content which is deemed acceptable, world-wide.
Acceptible to EVERYONE at the same time? So your saying the internet will eventually consist of a single bit... I wonder if it will be a "1" or if the "0" faction will try to pass a law against that...
Considering that it is *always* 11-6 somehwere any the world, I wonder how they expect this to change the way porn web-sites work? Maybe they'll be able to stop the rampant porn in Antartica for six months out of the year...
They're first time offenders who confessed. They're high school students who would otherwise be preparing to be drafted to the Israeli army soon, and the government will not want to disrupt that if it isn't necessary. Finally, they are from a town that is notorious for inducing boredom for its teenagers.
No, no, no! They are T E R R O R I S T S! Come on people, if you let terrorists like these kids off the hook, it's only a matter of time before they start bombing things and mailing anthrax, right? Gotta be tough.
Democracy and communism can coexist quite nicely, it's just that most examples of communist governments slipped into a fascist state of mind.
There is a reason why communist governments *always* slip into fascism. It's about property. Property is a form of power. As long as I have my property (including money), I have a certian amount of leverage that I can use to get what I want or what I need. When I have no property, I am dependant on whomever is in control of the "stuff" to dole out to me what I want or what I need. That person, or group of people, now has an unbalanced and unilateral means on power ovr everyone else. Power corrupts, and aboslult power corrups absolutly. When you give a small group of people total power to affect other people, they will become corrupt. If every single one of those people is good, then you can hold the system in place, but all it takes is *one* bad seed, and the entire house of cards collapses. One corrupt person can meet out the better goods and services for "his group" of people in order to overthrow those who share power with him but don't share his goals.
The best part is the farmers who have been sued because plants on their land showed traces of this same DNA, and the agriculture giants alleged the farmers must have planted them.
these farmers sould get together and get a class action suit going to sue the GM patent/IP holders for trespass on thier land...
Well, if you really are looking for work, I can help you out. It doesn't pay much (or anything), and it requires lots of doorbell ringing, running, and paper bags in various states of combustion, but, technically it counts as "comedy", so it'll look nice on your resume.
CCTV is about as much use against a terrorist threat as a man with a pointed stick.
No, since a "terrorist" would LIKE to bring attaention to his cause, he actually has an incentive to get captured on film. A point stick, at least, can put an eye out. A more accurate analogy would be something like:
CCTV is about as much use against a terrorist threat as a bag of free money to the first terrorist to succeed.
Sure they put out this advisory before it became knowledge to the NEWS organizations, but the "bad guy" groups have known about this for quite some time. Case in point, my brother wanted to show me some large home-movie mpegs (much to large to email to me), so he gave me an account on his box to ftp them from. Somehow the password that he gave me wasn't right (he must typed it with the caps lock on), so I couldn't get into his machine. He was already asleep by that time, so I couldn't call him up to change it, so just for kicks, I thought it might be fun to see if there was any way to break in. Sure enough, a few well-formed google searches, and I had pages that not only "discussed" this vulnerability, but had tools and scripts (including compiled Windows 9x GUIs for the lazy script kiddie) for download. They were wonderfully useful, and they *worked*.
So, the root of the situation is: 1) Anyone who did NOT know about this hole had been vulnerable LONG before the posting. 2) When told about the hole, but without a patch, any of those admins could then take whatever steps would be needed to keep thier server secure (even shutting ftp down if it came to that).
What is the best case outcome for the lawsuit that you and the EFF have started
Thats easy: the *best case* outcome would be that a fleet of freedom-loving super-model alien beings, in awe of our free operating systems and just legal system, land on Earth and hold a celebration in honor of Dr. Felten and the EFF thereby bringing peace, wealth, flying cars, and of course, love to all of humanity. Unlikely? Perhaps... But definitly the best outcome all around.:)
I used to live in Osaka for a few years, and they have a similar area in Nipponbashi, and I had no trouble finding my way around and buying what I needed, and I don't speak Japanese very well at all. As long as you can make intelligent gestures and understand, say, japanese numbers for prices, then you'll be fine. Suprising to me, many of the things I bought had a set of English instructions and the buttons were often written in English, so it was pretty easy to use. One interesteding thing to note, most Japanese computers will have nearly double the memory and HD space than you are used to (supposedly becuase the 2-byte characters require more space to do the same thing that "our" 1-byte characters), so it will look very expensive... But if you look close at the specs, some of it is actually VERY reasonable.
Sure, the EFF is cool. General human rights is even cooler. But... let's keep people from dying of things like starvation, disease, and our own political expediency before we worry too much about their rights - or ours.
Don't fall into this trap. A perfect "Brave New World" society complete with decanted babies and forced euthanasia for the elderly would give us a "Utopia" of sorts. Sure we wouldn't be able to think or act how we wish, we would not be able to choose our occupations or our friends, we couldn't raise our practice our own religions, but there would be no suffering, no disease, no starvation, no murders...
Worst case scenario, if we completely give up on helping the poor and wretched, and instead focus on our freedoms, the next generation of us can still come back and help them someday. However, if we give up our freedoms now to help those in need, our children won't find it so easy to win them back...
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Total Physical Source Lines of Code (SLOC) = 149,367
Development Effort Estimate, Person-Years = 38.37
Schedule Estimate, Years = 2.14
Estimated Average Number of Developers = 17.92
Total Estimated Cost to Develop = $ 5,183,332
Hmmmm, one man doing the work of 18, and doing 38 years of work in less than a year... He must be a superman! Either that, or those calculations are very very make-believe.
After thinking about it, I'll accept it as the Barrow-Wight scene reworked with the available characters rather than introducing the Barrow Downs and Bombadil (which would have extended the movie even more, while adding little to the story - a colorful side story, yes, but very much a side story).
Actually, this tuns out to be a very pivitol event in the book, but you don't learn that until the very end. The blade that pierces the Nazgul King's leg, that forces him to drop his guard, that get him killed and thus saves all of Gondor (and provides Frodo with the much needed "cover" he requires to cross the dusty volcanic land un-seen), was the blade found in those "side-story" barrows. The blade, after traveling through thousands and thousands of years, after hiding in an inescapable barrow guarded by an undead wight, finally fulfills it's destiny by striking the very enemy is was forged to defeat and thus saving middle earth...
I'm afraid that the above poster may be right, but here is one possibility: You *generated* that id, right? So maybe that means you hold the copyright on that... So they may have violated copyright laws. It may not hold up in court, but who knows, a sympathetic judge may decide that slapping down the spammers who write fake privacy contracts is just the right thing to do.
This is just the typical mating dance between elephants who are both mature, experienced, and tough. They will circle each other for a while, bellowing challenges, doing a bit of fighting to see who (if either) is dominant, who is more willing to fight, who is more determined. Then the mating will commence (i.e. a "compromise bill" will be introducted by Mr. Hollings) and the two large elephants, and their children, will continue to dominate the rest of the herd.
Hee hee, this is a wonderful analogy... I just wonder which side is going to end up doing the boinking...
I would be happy to be a consultant for you and give you tips on how to start up your consultant company, however, I'm waiting for my Ask Slashdot article, "Tips for setting up a Consulting Business that Consults new Consultants", to be posted so that I can learn the best way to get my business up and running so I can help you. Wish me luck!
:)
People want a phone number that they can call and get an answer RIGHT NOW.
In my expierence, this is not quite true. Yes, they want a phone number, but not for someone who is going to fix your problem, but for someone who is going to take the blame for your problem. 99 times out of a 100 when the problem can't be solved by a competent admin, the problem isn't going to be solved RIGHT NOW, even if you had Bill Gates himself sitting down at the debugger. (Yes, yes, I know there are many incompetent admins who CAN solve thier problems by pointing and clicking, but hopefully these aren't the norm).
I think /.'s saving grace will be that if the money ever DOES run out, the readers will keep it alive. I know there are probably hundreds if not thousands of people here on /. who would be willing to host this site. If it were done in a round-robin style of hosting, every geek in the country could get a week of hosting slashdot to notch his belt. It could easily become a rite of passage for the entire community.
I think they ought to compare the sale of bread to the sale of pre-recorded CDs. I bet they will find a real "disturbing trend".
Actually, I did just that... Sales of bread are DOWN 0.02% per capita while sales of sugar-free caffinated beverages are up almost 7%! What kind of a trend does this show? It shows that when people don't buy pre-recorded CD's they get thinner and more hyper.... Oh no! It means that people are turning back into monkies! Evolution has been revesed by piracy! Nooooo! How could you! Get your hands off me you damn dirty recording executive...
Asperger's Syndrome sufferers (Aspies) were often highly intelligent. Well, I'm highly intelligent, but ... Aspies had trouble socializing with people beginning in childhood. Well, I had, but, you know, the people I went to school with were such jerks anyway ... Apsies had poor communication skills with people, often sounding like "little professors" with odd, grating voices. Well, um, they had called me "Brainiac" in school. Aspies had some narrow, almost compulsive interests, which may stay the same, or change - one described his hobby of looking at maps for hours and hours and then spending more hours drawing maps of imaginary countries and cities. I gulped, remembering that I used to do the same thing. Aspies had few friends from childhood on and people thought they were rude and too direct. Well ... I looked at the screen with tears in my eyes, recognizing myself.
I had Asperger's Syndrome.
Um, I think you do have a syndrome, but it's not Asperger's... it's Gullibility. Don't let the pop psycologists push thier drivel into your head.
Those "symtoms" you describe are identical to *every single* intelligent child I have ever know or met, ever. Every kid my age with imagination was drawing maps for D&D (before it was "evil") for hours on end. Everyone was trying to sound "older" than they were (little professors), becuase they wanted to sound intelligent and mature. Everyone who is intelligent gets picked on by the true "mentally challenged" jerks during school.
You are/were *normal*. The brain dead kids that do nothing but stare at the TV mother-teacher, who's English doesn't stretch past the "I tot I taw a puddy cat" stage, and who is too insecure to reject cruel "friends" becuase they are afraid of being alone, THEY are the ones with the mental disease.
Despite the justifications that your CEO gives you for using dangerous levels of petrochemicals in thier baby-food to "save costs", there is a such thing as business ethics. A company that breaks the law ("Hey, let's just burn down the warehouses of our competition and poison thier employees; We'll be the only game in town!" "Great strategizing Bob, get on that! Top priority!") is NOt helping thier company OR capatalism.
Soon enough, the Internet will have been watered down to contain only that content which is deemed acceptable, world-wide.
Acceptible to EVERYONE at the same time? So your saying the internet will eventually consist of a single bit... I wonder if it will be a "1" or if the "0" faction will try to pass a law against that...
Considering that it is *always* 11-6 somehwere any the world, I wonder how they expect this to change the way porn web-sites work? Maybe they'll be able to stop the rampant porn in Antartica for six months out of the year...
They're first time offenders who confessed. They're high school students who would otherwise be preparing to be drafted to the Israeli army soon, and the government will not want to disrupt that if it isn't necessary. Finally, they are from a town that is notorious for inducing boredom for its teenagers.
No, no, no! They are T E R R O R I S T S! Come on people, if you let terrorists like these kids off the hook, it's only a matter of time before they start bombing things and mailing anthrax, right? Gotta be tough.
Democracy and communism can coexist quite nicely, it's just that most examples of communist governments slipped into a fascist state of mind.
There is a reason why communist governments *always* slip into fascism. It's about property. Property is a form of power. As long as I have my property (including money), I have a certian amount of leverage that I can use to get what I want or what I need. When I have no property, I am dependant on whomever is in control of the "stuff" to dole out to me what I want or what I need. That person, or group of people, now has an unbalanced and unilateral means on power ovr everyone else. Power corrupts, and aboslult power corrups absolutly. When you give a small group of people total power to affect other people, they will become corrupt. If every single one of those people is good, then you can hold the system in place, but all it takes is *one* bad seed, and the entire house of cards collapses. One corrupt person can meet out the better goods and services for "his group" of people in order to overthrow those who share power with him but don't share his goals.
The ironic thing is that in your zeal to disprove his statement, you have in fact proved it.
Cherries *are* purple!
Therefore the bible must be correct.
No becuase A does not lead to B. Science and the bible are in no way mututally exclusive.
everything is proven wrong at some point in time
... in time.
Oh yeah? Well, I'll prove YOU wrong
Science is wrong ... therefore the bible must be correct.
... therefore cherries must be purple.
Cake tastes good
The best part is the farmers who have been sued because plants on their land showed traces of this same DNA, and the agriculture giants alleged the farmers must have planted them.
these farmers sould get together and get a class action suit going to sue the GM patent/IP holders for trespass on thier land...
Yeah, neither am I...I'm still lookin' for work!
Well, if you really are looking for work, I can help you out. It doesn't pay much (or anything), and it requires lots of doorbell ringing, running, and paper bags in various states of combustion, but, technically it counts as "comedy", so it'll look nice on your resume.
:)
CCTV is about as much use against a terrorist threat as a man with a pointed stick.
No, since a "terrorist" would LIKE to bring attaention to his cause, he actually has an incentive to get captured on film. A point stick, at least, can put an eye out. A more accurate analogy would be something like:
CCTV is about as much use against a terrorist threat as a bag of free money to the first terrorist to succeed.
Sure they put out this advisory before it became knowledge to the NEWS organizations, but the "bad guy" groups have known about this for quite some time. Case in point, my brother wanted to show me some large home-movie mpegs (much to large to email to me), so he gave me an account on his box to ftp them from. Somehow the password that he gave me wasn't right (he must typed it with the caps lock on), so I couldn't get into his machine. He was already asleep by that time, so I couldn't call him up to change it, so just for kicks, I thought it might be fun to see if there was any way to break in. Sure enough, a few well-formed google searches, and I had pages that not only "discussed" this vulnerability, but had tools and scripts (including compiled Windows 9x GUIs for the lazy script kiddie) for download. They were wonderfully useful, and they *worked*.
So, the root of the situation is: 1) Anyone who did NOT know about this hole had been vulnerable LONG before the posting. 2) When told about the hole, but without a patch, any of those admins could then take whatever steps would be needed to keep thier server secure (even shutting ftp down if it came to that).
RedHat was right.
(Sorry, I had to do it)
:)
What is the best case outcome for the lawsuit that you and the EFF have started
Thats easy: the *best case* outcome would be that a fleet of freedom-loving super-model alien beings, in awe of our free operating systems and just legal system, land on Earth and hold a celebration in honor of Dr. Felten and the EFF thereby bringing peace, wealth, flying cars, and of course, love to all of humanity. Unlikely? Perhaps... But definitly the best outcome all around.
I used to live in Osaka for a few years, and they have a similar area in Nipponbashi, and I had no trouble finding my way around and buying what I needed, and I don't speak Japanese very well at all. As long as you can make intelligent gestures and understand, say, japanese numbers for prices, then you'll be fine. Suprising to me, many of the things I bought had a set of English instructions and the buttons were often written in English, so it was pretty easy to use. One interesteding thing to note, most Japanese computers will have nearly double the memory and HD space than you are used to (supposedly becuase the 2-byte characters require more space to do the same thing that "our" 1-byte characters), so it will look very expensive... But if you look close at the specs, some of it is actually VERY reasonable.
On the plus side, it should practically pay for itself, right? :)
Sure, the EFF is cool. General human rights is even cooler. But... let's keep people from dying of things like starvation, disease, and our own political expediency before we worry too much about their rights - or ours.
Don't fall into this trap. A perfect "Brave New World" society complete with decanted babies and forced euthanasia for the elderly would give us a "Utopia" of sorts. Sure we wouldn't be able to think or act how we wish, we would not be able to choose our occupations or our friends, we couldn't raise our practice our own religions, but there would be no suffering, no disease, no starvation, no murders...
Worst case scenario, if we completely give up on helping the poor and wretched, and instead focus on our freedoms, the next generation of us can still come back and help them someday. However, if we give up our freedoms now to help those in need, our children won't find it so easy to win them back...