I was having a drunken 'favourite movie' arguement with some colleagues over a meal, and while one of the six present had seen Princess Bride and agreed with me, none of them had heard of Koyaanisqatsi. They all looked at me like I was mad.
I've seen a C:> prompt on an ATM, and Windows dialog boxes on a petrol pump, a departure board at a station, an electronic billboard, and a timetable at a bus terminus.
The only thing stopping me going out and buying a G5 right now is the fact that it only has one CD/DVD drive bay. I had a go on one at the week-end, and nearly drooled on the floor.
Because a relatively slow collision with a car fitted with bull bars will kill a child. Normal bumpers have enough give in them to merely break bones at less than, IIRC, 20mph. Anything over 5mph with bull bars can be fatal. (numbers are off the top of my head, it was a while ago when I knew about this stuff).
The Boy Scouts even think it's kinda cool and don't sue or nothin'.
There was a famous case about 15 years ago where a drug smuggler walked right through customs dozens of times without ever being stopped, dressed as a boyscout. You need to search the innocuous-looking ones as well.
Agents were informed directly by the FAA that they absolutely could not bar an American citizen from boarding a plane, even if a passenger refused to produce any identification at all!
Aren't you now worried that, by posting this message, you might be accused of telling terrorists how to bypass airport security? OK, all you said was "ignore it, it's a joke", but still...
With a closed-cell foam, I'd imagine that air pressue becomes relevant. If the cells are full of air, what would exposing it to vacuum do? Likewise, if it's manufactured in a vacuum, would the cells be empty, or would they contain gasses that are a by-product of the manufacturing process? "Make it in the medium that it is to be used" is an obvious answer, but what if it's used to make the walls of a space structure? The outer cells would be exposed to vacuum, the inner cells to atmospheric pressure.
If a Canadian (he) invites another (she) round to use his PC, I presume he can do that. If he lends his PC to her and she uses it to copy music, then that is presumably also legal. If she does effectively the same thing over the internet, why would this be illegal?
you are entirely responsible for what your computer does
Does it say this anywhere in law? If someone borrows my PC and commits a crime with it, am I responsible for their crime?
AIUI, the logs were the poster's internal logs, not the customers'. The third-party monitoring company was querying the servers and sending the emails, and if the first and second parties didn't have a charging agreement that covered this kind of usage, then he's in trouble.
p.s. Why is using perl funny?
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Interesting, thanks for that. I agree that the DoS is a significant problem, but not a security problem.
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Buffer overruns are only a security hole if the buffer is on the stack, where an overrun can overwrite the function's return address. If it's on the heap, overwriting the stack in a controlled way becomes immensely difficult at best, maybe even impossible depending on the architecture.
To write functional code you need to stick to template meta programming.
You can write functional code in templates, but it executes at compile time, which isn't always what you want. Unless you meant lambda functions, which I call 'expression objects'?
He was talking about how his vehicle was safer for his family. I mentioned the Child Killers that he had fitted, and he never spoke to me again after that. However, with that kind of attitude, I don't miss him.
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Why would you use caps for emphasis, when you have the and tags?
'Feminazi' works because the words fit together so well. I suppose the nearest male equivalent word is mysogynist - but misoandrist sounds really silly, so feminazi fills the lexical gap quite well. The two words do have different meanings, but the objectionable feelings that men and women have towards each other are different too. Let's face it, most uses of the words are when the user is just looking for an insulting term that's in the right area, so the exact meanings are moot anyway!
Good point. That's true about any law, or even a constitution. Just you try telling the federal government that they have no constitutional mandate to outlaw cannabis.
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Maybe they're referring to the alleged situation where:
- IBM includes SCO code in Linux
- SCO distributes Linux without realising that their code has been included
- Open Source anarchists claim that SCO have therefore lost their copyright
- No profit for SCO!
I remember saying that that was a bad arguement to get in to.I was having a drunken 'favourite movie' arguement with some colleagues over a meal, and while one of the six present had seen Princess Bride and agreed with me, none of them had heard of Koyaanisqatsi. They all looked at me like I was mad.
I've seen a C:> prompt on an ATM, and Windows dialog boxes on a petrol pump, a departure board at a station, an electronic billboard, and a timetable at a bus terminus.
The only thing stopping me going out and buying a G5 right now is the fact that it only has one CD/DVD drive bay. I had a go on one at the week-end, and nearly drooled on the floor.
Because a relatively slow collision with a car fitted with bull bars will kill a child. Normal bumpers have enough give in them to merely break bones at less than, IIRC, 20mph. Anything over 5mph with bull bars can be fatal. (numbers are off the top of my head, it was a while ago when I knew about this stuff).
Aren't you now worried that, by posting this message, you might be accused of telling terrorists how to bypass airport security? OK, all you said was "ignore it, it's a joke", but still...
With a closed-cell foam, I'd imagine that air pressue becomes relevant. If the cells are full of air, what would exposing it to vacuum do? Likewise, if it's manufactured in a vacuum, would the cells be empty, or would they contain gasses that are a by-product of the manufacturing process? "Make it in the medium that it is to be used" is an obvious answer, but what if it's used to make the walls of a space structure? The outer cells would be exposed to vacuum, the inner cells to atmospheric pressure.
p.s. Why is using perl funny?
Interesting, thanks for that. I agree that the DoS is a significant problem, but not a security problem.
Buffer overruns are only a security hole if the buffer is on the stack, where an overrun can overwrite the function's return address. If it's on the heap, overwriting the stack in a controlled way becomes immensely difficult at best, maybe even impossible depending on the architecture.
Maybe the moderator mistook your question for socratic irony.
He was talking about how his vehicle was safer for his family. I mentioned the Child Killers that he had fitted, and he never spoke to me again after that. However, with that kind of attitude, I don't miss him.
Why would you use caps for emphasis, when you have the and tags?
Does anyone else get three screenfuls of blank space before the first headline on IE 5.0?
'Feminazi' works because the words fit together so well. I suppose the nearest male equivalent word is mysogynist - but misoandrist sounds really silly, so feminazi fills the lexical gap quite well. The two words do have different meanings, but the objectionable feelings that men and women have towards each other are different too. Let's face it, most uses of the words are when the user is just looking for an insulting term that's in the right area, so the exact meanings are moot anyway!
Maybe he's too fat to get to work, so he works from home wearing a dress.