If Amazon gets more successful at this, we may have only a few copies flying around the country as people resell books. This would be great for the postal system but bad for the author.
Some of us like to keep our books, you know. I read a lot and often re-read books.
I have 20-30 feet of shelving in my room. ~50 science fiction books ~12 classic works ~15 computer and language references ~30 non-fiction books ~8 form the local library ~10 text books from current or former classes ~15 assorted other categories and ~25 waiting to be sold second hand (ie: i got board of them)
That's 165 books total (wow! I'm surprised myself!), of which 33 are borrowed or being sold. Therefore, only 5% of them are a potential threat to the publishers.
Am I Evil for selling my books? Would you rather I burned them? I want them to have a good home!
Heinlein's Starship Troopers is still a remarkable book despite Paul Verhoeven's (only tangentially related) film version. To be fair, Starship Troopers made an ok action & tits movie as it was. It just wasn't anything to do with the book. It lacked the political commentary and the plot was bent almost out of shape. (Also I was disapointed by the lack of uber-cool walking human tanks wearing powered armor)
PS: I am a major Heinlein fan. That made me see the movie, but had nothing to do with my enjoying it.
One of the most common security problems is buffer overflows; the way I worked around this was to write a special string library where the strings had meta data; including the maxiumum length a given string could have.
Why do all that work! Use C++ and its string object instead. It hes already been created, tested, banged-on, and punished by expert programmers. it can not overflow, it just goes out and allocates more heap memory for the extra data. Ditto with the vector object to replace arrays.
I never learned C as such, I started with C++. As far as I can tell it is safer and more programmer friendly in every respect. Even assuming you don't use OO, it can still be used as 'a better C'
string instead of char*
vectors instead of arrays
new and delete intead of malloc() and free()
cin and cout instead of printf() and scanf()
pass-by-reference instead of pass-by-pointer
function ans operator overloading
more type safe
and more...
I just can't see using C unless programming on bear metal or in tight space.
How the hell are we going to draw square number -1 in the Periodic Table of Elements?
We don't need to. Anti-matter has a real, positive mass. It is al so irrelevent to the periodic table. Anti-H will react the same as regular H when reacting with other Anti-atoms.
(When it reacts with matter, both are converted to energy, but thats another story!)
I started doing this a year ago! I my town passed a new law that I pay for each bag of trash hauled away. I figure, why pay to throw it away if I can send it back to the basterds who created it?
Lawrence Lessig has said in words the exact sentiments that I have been feeling in my gut for a long time! I think we should have him on slashdot more often.
I'm sure that they could get past even a mid to high level electronic lock And if that didn't work, the would likly build a plane and fscking fly up there. No mechanisim short of a solid neutronium shell can stop determined, MIT trained, hacker/engeneers. These guys are like the inverse of Hudini!
"I can't really see a use for a VPN besides connecting widely distributed corporate offices and internal networks, which is most certainly deserving of business-class rates."
I have my computer at collage. My family has a network of 4 computers at home. (we're a vary wired family!) We wanted to drop a VPN between home and school but UIC's firewall got in the way.
1. It is 40,000 light-years away. 40,000 LIGHT YEARS AWAY. Me thinks even a fraction of 1 light year is, uhhh, too far.
The to distance solution is simple. Time travel! How you ask? As any good trekkie knows, time travel to any arbitrary point in time is possible with a carefully computed warp speed sling shot effect around a black hole.
First build a massive electro-magnetic cannon to shoot a large iron mass with a warp dive strapped to it. (Better build it in space for safety it has to catch probes too)
Before you fire your first probe, it (the probe) will enter the solar system at, say, 80% c.
Use the EM canon to break the mass, changing the kinetic energy into electrical. Store it in a battery.
take the data CD's mounted on the mass back to earth. they contain the info needed to build the warp drive.
R&D time! Get your engineer's and physicists to build said warp drive.
Build your first probe. Include the warp drive and data CD's. Feel free to reuse the incoming mass for the outgoing probe!
launch your first probe toward the black hole at, say, 10% c. Use part of the energy you stored earlier to do this.
400,000 years later, the probe will reach the black hole. It must do 3 things: accelerate to 80% c by stealing some of the black hole's kinetic energy, execute a warp speed temporal slingshot, and make a U-turn. If your clever you can do all 3 in one pass around the black hole.
Now the Probe is way back in time, and headed for earth.
If all is timed just right it will get back just in time for you to catch it before you launch it!
You have now stolen energy from the black hole. You get E = Mass*(0.7*C)^2 each time you do this! Better get ready! The first rack is already inbound!
Actually, I love to NitPick startrek! So do a lot of other nerds/geeks/ect who also like the show. look for the books titled "the Nitpickers Guide to ST:xxx". ST:TOS has one. ST:TNG has 2. I am a proud member of the Nit-Pickers guild. I also love to pick holes in other sci-fi.
Also, a story or tv show (espesialy sci-fi) is allowed to propose an alternate theory of reality as long as it is consistent.
Slashdot Mirror
Especially on their 'Craftsman' line of products. Lifetime warrantys, wheeeeeee...
Only for non-power tools. I tried to get my Craftsman hedge-trimmers replaced. They would not even fix it.
If Amazon gets more successful at this, we may have only a few copies flying around the country as people resell books. This would be great for the postal system but bad for the author.
Some of us like to keep our books, you know. I read a lot and often re-read books.
I have 20-30 feet of shelving in my room.
~50 science fiction books
~12 classic works
~15 computer and language references
~30 non-fiction books
~8 form the local library
~10 text books from current or former classes
~15 assorted other categories
and ~25 waiting to be sold second hand (ie: i got board of them)
That's 165 books total (wow! I'm surprised myself!), of which 33 are borrowed or being sold.
Therefore, only 5% of them are a potential threat to the publishers.
Am I Evil for selling my books?
Would you rather I burned them?
I want them to have a good home!
Heinlein's Starship Troopers is still a remarkable book despite Paul Verhoeven's (only tangentially related) film version.
To be fair, Starship Troopers made an ok action & tits movie as it was. It just wasn't anything to do with the book. It lacked the political commentary and the plot was bent almost out of shape.
(Also I was disapointed by the lack of uber-cool walking human tanks wearing powered armor)
PS: I am a major Heinlein fan. That made me see the movie, but had nothing to do with my enjoying it.
Yes, I have had the damn book set for 3 years and I hve never gotten past the halfway point!
Why do all that work! Use C++ and its string object instead. It hes already been created, tested, banged-on, and punished by expert programmers. it can not overflow, it just goes out and allocates more heap memory for the extra data. Ditto with the vector object to replace arrays.
I never learned C as such, I started with C++.
As far as I can tell it is safer and more programmer friendly in every respect. Even assuming you don't use OO, it can still be used as 'a better C'
I just can't see using C unless programming on bear metal or in tight space.
PS: I hope i'm not staring a flame war!
We don't need to. Anti-matter has a real, positive mass. It is al so irrelevent to the periodic table. Anti-H will react the same as regular H when reacting with other Anti-atoms.
(When it reacts with matter, both are converted to energy, but thats another story!)
I started doing this a year ago! I my town passed a new law that I pay for each bag of trash hauled away. I figure, why pay to throw it away if I can send it back to the basterds who created it?
They don't call it EverCrack for nothing!
But What is the Question?
Lawrence Lessig has said in words the exact sentiments that I have been feeling in my gut for a long time! I think we should have him on slashdot more often.
I'm sure that they could get past even a mid to high level electronic lock
And if that didn't work, the would likly build a plane and fscking fly up there. No mechanisim short of a solid neutronium shell can stop determined, MIT trained, hacker/engeneers. These guys are like the inverse of Hudini!
Gehg! Quick! kill him before he says it again! Puns involving the world's most anonying CG charactor should be a capital offense!
I have my computer at collage. My family has a network of 4 computers at home. (we're a vary wired family!) We wanted to drop a VPN between home and school but UIC's firewall got in the way.
A platform agnostic beleaves that we can never prove whether there is a platform or not.
For all we know, they already did this! We cant't see the kernal code. It is a black box.
There is an exellent history of Enigma and it's cracking in "The Code Book" by Simon Singh.
It's a fun read.
Enigma was cracked because of the way the germans used it, not a flaw with the device.
Jessica Rabbit?
Betty Boop?
....
*insert long list here*
....
Helen of Troy?
We have been idolizing imaginary hot females sense the Dawn Of Mythology!
They just look more real now.
The to distance solution is simple. Time travel! How you ask? As any good trekkie knows, time travel to any arbitrary point in time is possible with a carefully computed warp speed sling shot effect around a black hole.
You have now stolen energy from the black hole. You get E = Mass*(0.7*C)^2 each time you do this! Better get ready! The first rack is already inbound!
Better Yet...
Port TuxRacer the XBox and watch Bill head explode as he realizes that his game system is now an avertising media for Linix!
DOS was based on QDOS, a cheap knock-off if CM/P. CM/P was, in turn, based on unix.
dos beget windows 3.x
win 3.x beget winNT & win95
NT & 95 beget win 2000
win 2000 beget win XP.
meanwhile,
unix beget BSD unix,
BSD begat GNU
GNU begat Linix!
The worst OS and the best OS are related under the skin! (which is which? I change my mind daily)
where might i find said blooper tape?
I just can't handle errors! That's why I use linux instead of windows!
Funny, thats what I thought when I first read your post! So, at the risk of sounding childish,
I KNOW YOU ARE, BUT WHAT AM I?
As our founding fathers said, "give me liberty or give me death"
Actually, I love to NitPick startrek! So do a lot of other nerds/geeks/ect who also like the show. look for the books titled "the Nitpickers Guide to ST:xxx". ST:TOS has one. ST:TNG has 2. I am a proud member of the Nit-Pickers guild. I also love to pick holes in other sci-fi.
Also, a story or tv show (espesialy sci-fi) is allowed to propose an alternate theory of reality as long as it is consistent.
SQUARE meters per SQUARE seconds, which is NOT a speed
It would be the the rate in 2 dimentional time of a change in area.
2d Time! wow what a funky concept! "my meeting is at (5:00 am x 7:00 pm)"