You don't often see a case in which China is freer than the West, but here it's true. In China, subjects are free to enter into clinical trials, by the mutual consent of the researcher and the subject, with full mutual understanding of the risks involved in doing so. It's a completely voluntary form of association (aside from possible cases where the Chinese government might force people into such tests, but that's not what I'm talking about). In the US we could never do such a thing, because either the FDA would interfere, or the lawyers would sue everybody into bankruptcy as soon as one of the subjects sneezed.
Make the generous assumption that it only takes a second to delete each spam you receive. Now compute how many lifetimes worth of peoples' time your typical spammer wastes. 9 years is getting off very, very easy.
IIRC Bilbo inherited enough wealth to not need to work (and got considerably more from Smaug). He can read and write Elvish because he learned it on his journey.
"It comes from a very ancient democracy, you see.." "You mean it comes from a world of lizards?" "No," said Ford, "nothing so simple. Nothing anything like so straightforward. On its world, the people are people. The leaders are lizards. The people hate the lizards and the lizards rule the people." "Odd," said Arthur, "I thought you said it was a democracy." "I did," said Ford. "It is." "So," said Arthur, hoping he wasn't sounding ridiculously obtuse, "why don't the people get rid of the lizards?" "It honestly doesn't occur to them," said Ford. "They've all got the vote, so they all pretty much assume that the government they've voted in more or less approximates the government they want." "You mean they actually vote for the lizards?" "Oh yes," said Ford with a shrug, "of course." "But," said Arthur, going for the big one again, "why?" "Because if they didn't vote for a lizard," said Ford, "the wrong lizard might get in. Got any gin?"
The point is that you can be sure that all the hardware on the laptop is Linux-compatible. It's not a matter of ease-of-configuration. I bought an HP zt3000 because it was the most Linux-friendly laptop I could find which fit my needs, yet I'm still stuck with a modem and an SD reader which won't work in Linux and probably never will.
I programmed it to say "Get Linux" and wandered down Main Street waving it around. A few people actually made a sign that they knew what I was talking(? blinking? waving?) about.
Learn a martial art, ideally something well suited for multiple adversaries such as Tae Kwon Do. Muggers are cowards - give them any doubt that they have the upper hand and they're likely to get scared off. Knives can be taken away from an unskilled adversary pretty easily.
If you live in a state with permissive gun control laws and don't live on a university campus, then packing heat might be an even better solution, but that's presently outside my realm of experience.
I had the opportunity last year to speak at length with John Conway (of game of life renown among many other things), who happens to be a close friend of John Nash (protagonist of A Beautiful Mind). Here are some of the bullets:
1. As far as we know, Nash never actually suffered multi-sensory hallucinations - they were purely auditory. That doesn't mean he never had them - it just means that if he ever did he still believes them to be real, and nobody can prove otherwise.
2. Nash got divorced shortly after his diagnosis. He got back together with his wife last year - and never bothered to mention it to anyone. The first Conway knew about it was when he noticed the city's announcement in a local newspaper. "Hey John, when we had lunch together a couple weeks ago, had you just gotten married that morning?" "Uh, yeah... why do you ask?"
3. Nash's wife absolutely loved the movie. Nash never bothered to see it until his wife forced him to. He remains pretty neutral about it, and accepts any inaccuraces as reasonable artistic license.
4. It's almost unheard of for a paranoid schizophrenic to reach Nash's current level of functionality without medication. Truly remarkable.
5. When he meets someone new, he really does ask someone else to confirm that they exist.
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14:24 < chmeee> I'll say this about SCO: they have great documentation
If the data is compressed and/or encrypted prior to being stegged, then even if the data is correctly extracted, it will be impossible to determine whether it is actual data or just noise.
Assume each spam takes five seconds to download, identify, and delete. Many spammers send out billions of messages per year. That means that they waste several lifetimes per year. Do the math.
I'm going to UF next year, so I've done quite a bit of research into their computing policy. I agree that it's a little draconian, but they do have a standard procedure for obtaining exemptions to the ban against servers. I plan to make use of it in order to run an ssh server. Think about what a tiny minority of would-be servers really have legitimate academic use. The remaining 99% are going to be running P2P servers for their porn and their "music". While I'd like to be able to run P2P, I'd rather give it up than have my bandwidth decimated by file-sharing traffic. As long as exemptions are handed out sensibly, I don't really have a problem with the policy.
"My expectation is that if SCO's claim proves to be valid, the offending code will vanish from the tree within four hours, and then someone will reimplement the code from scratch in one or two days. The total value of the code? Perhaps $500."
Not quite. The US legal system has the concept of "burden of proof". Innocent until proven guilty simply means that the burden of proof initially lies on the prosecution. If the prosecution shows evidence pointing to your guilt, the burden of proof (of innocence) then shifts to you. If you can't prove that the evidence against you is in some way dubious, you can then be found guilty.
The legend got started when Heinlein inserted such a bill into Stranger in a Strange Land as one of the headlines of the future with which each chapter begins.
The only change that ESR has recently made to the hacker politics page is adding one clause reflecting the slight conservative shift after the collapse of the USSR. And I've been using the term "Aunt Tillie" for a while now. Whomever posted this article obviously has a bug up his ass about ESR - which is understandable if you don't like his politics - but the accusations leveled at him here are totally groundless.
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You don't often see a case in which China is freer than the West, but here it's true. In China, subjects are free to enter into clinical trials, by the mutual consent of the researcher and the subject, with full mutual understanding of the risks involved in doing so. It's a completely voluntary form of association (aside from possible cases where the Chinese government might force people into such tests, but that's not what I'm talking about). In the US we could never do such a thing, because either the FDA would interfere, or the lawyers would sue everybody into bankruptcy as soon as one of the subjects sneezed.
Make the generous assumption that it only takes a second to delete each spam you receive. Now compute how many lifetimes worth of peoples' time your typical spammer wastes. 9 years is getting off very, very easy.
from the department-of-rendundancy-dept.
IIRC Bilbo inherited enough wealth to not need to work (and got considerably more from Smaug). He can read and write Elvish because he learned it on his journey.
"It comes from a very ancient democracy, you see.."
"You mean it comes from a world of lizards?"
"No," said Ford, "nothing so simple. Nothing anything like so straightforward. On its world, the people are people. The leaders are lizards. The people hate the lizards and the lizards rule the people."
"Odd," said Arthur, "I thought you said it was a democracy."
"I did," said Ford. "It is."
"So," said Arthur, hoping he wasn't sounding ridiculously obtuse, "why don't the people get rid of the lizards?"
"It honestly doesn't occur to them," said Ford. "They've all got the vote, so they all pretty much assume that the government they've voted in more or less approximates the government they want."
"You mean they actually vote for the lizards?"
"Oh yes," said Ford with a shrug, "of course."
"But," said Arthur, going for the big one again, "why?"
"Because if they didn't vote for a lizard," said Ford, "the wrong lizard might get in. Got any gin?"
Read Paul Graham's Why Nerds Are Unpopular and tell me if this article suddenly sounds familiar.
...they're not just for /. polls anymore!
What about Samantha Carter from Stargate?
Ever seen those programs that make your CRT broadcast AM radio? That's what first came to mind when I saw this headline.
The point is that you can be sure that all the hardware on the laptop is Linux-compatible. It's not a matter of ease-of-configuration. I bought an HP zt3000 because it was the most Linux-friendly laptop I could find which fit my needs, yet I'm still stuck with a modem and an SD reader which won't work in Linux and probably never will.
in the case of one hardcore Micros~1 fanatic, that sign involved a certain obscene gesture.
I programmed it to say "Get Linux" and wandered down Main Street waving it around. A few people actually made a sign that they knew what I was talking(? blinking? waving?) about.
Learn a martial art, ideally something well suited for multiple adversaries such as Tae Kwon Do. Muggers are cowards - give them any doubt that they have the upper hand and they're likely to get scared off. Knives can be taken away from an unskilled adversary pretty easily.
If you live in a state with permissive gun control laws and don't live on a university campus, then packing heat might be an even better solution, but that's presently outside my realm of experience.
I had the opportunity last year to speak at length with John Conway (of game of life renown among many other things), who happens to be a close friend of John Nash (protagonist of A Beautiful Mind). Here are some of the bullets:
1. As far as we know, Nash never actually suffered multi-sensory hallucinations - they were purely auditory. That doesn't mean he never had them - it just means that if he ever did he still believes them to be real, and nobody can prove otherwise.
2. Nash got divorced shortly after his diagnosis. He got back together with his wife last year - and never bothered to mention it to anyone. The first Conway knew about it was when he noticed the city's announcement in a local newspaper.
"Hey John, when we had lunch together a couple weeks ago, had you just gotten married that morning?"
"Uh, yeah... why do you ask?"
3. Nash's wife absolutely loved the movie. Nash never bothered to see it until his wife forced him to. He remains pretty neutral about it, and accepts any inaccuraces as reasonable artistic license.
4. It's almost unheard of for a paranoid schizophrenic to reach Nash's current level of functionality without medication. Truly remarkable.
5. When he meets someone new, he really does ask someone else to confirm that they exist.
14:24 < chmeee> I'll say this about SCO: they have great documentation
It's an obscure Dilbert comic. Dilbert and his gadgetry nemesis Techno-Bill.
I've seen /. use things like "daniRABBITel@franke.name minus herbivore". That's obviously going to be virtually impossible for spammers to crack.
If the data is compressed and/or encrypted prior to being stegged, then even if the data is correctly extracted, it will be impossible to determine whether it is actual data or just noise.
Assume each spam takes five seconds to download, identify, and delete. Many spammers send out billions of messages per year. That means that they waste several lifetimes per year. Do the math.
I'm going to UF next year, so I've done quite a bit of research into their computing policy. I agree that it's a little draconian, but they do have a standard procedure for obtaining exemptions to the ban against servers. I plan to make use of it in order to run an ssh server. Think about what a tiny minority of would-be servers really have legitimate academic use. The remaining 99% are going to be running P2P servers for their porn and their "music". While I'd like to be able to run P2P, I'd rather give it up than have my bandwidth decimated by file-sharing traffic. As long as exemptions are handed out sensibly, I don't really have a problem with the policy.
for once. Wasn't Tampa the first city to implement low-power X-rays (aka automatic strip-search) in airport security checkpoints?
"My expectation is that if SCO's claim proves to be valid, the offending code will vanish from the tree within four hours, and then someone will reimplement the code from scratch in one or two days. The total value of the code? Perhaps $500."
Not quite. The US legal system has the concept of "burden of proof". Innocent until proven guilty simply means that the burden of proof initially lies on the prosecution. If the prosecution shows evidence pointing to your guilt, the burden of proof (of innocence) then shifts to you. If you can't prove that the evidence against you is in some way dubious, you can then be found guilty.
IANAL.
The legend got started when Heinlein inserted such a bill into Stranger in a Strange Land as one of the headlines of the future with which each chapter begins.
The only change that ESR has recently made to the hacker politics page is adding one clause reflecting the slight conservative shift after the collapse of the USSR. And I've been using the term "Aunt Tillie" for a while now. Whomever posted this article obviously has a bug up his ass about ESR - which is understandable if you don't like his politics - but the accusations leveled at him here are totally groundless.
I use SELinux. I've read through all the modified code. I'm not the first one to do so. It's not backdoored. It works.