You can clone just cells and tissues rather than whole organisms, although I think people are less likely to think of that as "cloning" in the news-worthy controversial sense. The cuts from cow muscle grown in a vat may be a little different from the cuts we know, but perhaps they'd be just as good.
It's not setuid if it runs as root and has the privs of root. In fact, not setting the uid would be the issue (if there's actually any problem with a device's owner having access to his devices's administration).
On a single-user device, the account you use is often root. Telnet typically has to run initially as root in order to listen on port 23. It then normally drops privs to the user who logs in. If the intent of the application wasn't to allow root access, then there's a bug in the telnet daemon. On a single-user device which is likely running in single-user mode, I'm not surprised it's easy to have a shell as root, though. I would expect this system they've been calling wide open to be, well, wide open.
I've found that the most powerful "no porn in the workplace" document is a letter of termination for creating an inappropriately uncomfortable or hostile work environment. Nobody who receives such a letter ever checks porn from the company's computers again, and most of their coworkers don't either.
Anyone who implemented this would probably be smart enough to let you change the avatar during the sign-up process. This is a way to placate the ladies who get all upset that the systems tend to default to male avatars which is slightly more accurate than randomly assigning one or the other. A checkbox before the avatar default is chosen I'd think would be even more accurate, though.
Maybe they'd assume it was a typo of Ving Rhames, in which case you'd get a nice suit, some wire-framed dark sunglasses, and an air of awesomeness onscreen.
So, parallel to one another, but in a plane not parallel to sea level, eh? I've been on roads like that elsewhere, too. Pittsburgh is famous for potholes, though.
If you really want to see crazy hillside streets, visit Eureka Springs, Arkansas sometime. No two streets intersect at 90 degrees. Most of the walking traffic in town involves staircases between different sidewalks, and some shops have entrances off of those staircases. There's a hotel with seven ground floors, and a church one enters through the bell tower.
Yes, drawing on top of the image absolutely sounds like an awesome application. I wonder when they'll allow you to actually draw on the screen with a stylus, or maybe even your finger? They could call it, oh, a "touch screen". Maybe one of the products that uses such technology of the future will be from Microsoft and will be called "Surface" after the interface.;-)
Okay, you're probably right about Microsoft still being around a long time. Your reasoning for why is flawed, though.
How much money is Microsoft actually making off of Windows 2000 installations already sold and no longer supported? If you said zero dollars, congratulations. Eventually new versions of Office won't even install on boxes with older MS Windows versions... like when Office 2007 came out and wouldn't run on Windows 2000 per the published system requirements, for example.
Microsoft has huge cash reserves and is still writing new software. They can get many things wrong in a row without running out of funds. They can write or find and buy another big hit any time before that happens and stay in business. That's why they'll be around.
The "the OS doesn't matter" camp generally means that the OS does matter to the user, but not to the application. If your OS doesn't matter to the application (as in, the app will run anywhere), then the user can pick whichever they like based on on application selection but on stability, speed, look and feel, or whatever else.
1) write a good search engine 2) ??? 3) grow to critical mass where you can guarantee yourself users 4) embrace 5) extend 6) release extensions to the community 7) get users based on 1-5 using the new system 8) advertise the hell out of everything to the users on this system, too 9) profit! 10) repeat steps 4 through 9
Microsoft:
1) write decent BASIC tools 2) ??? 3) get someone else's OS preloaded by IBM and ride their coattails to ubiquity 4) embrace 5) extend 6) close off extensions 7) hook users through lock-in created in steps 3 through 6 8) extinguish open system 9) profit! 10) repeat steps 4 through 9
The '???' steps come a little early in these. Sorry about that.
Now, if only someone would do with Edge or HSDPA on phones what PPP did for the Internet in homes. Cheap, ubiquitous access without huge overages for actually using your connection would be nice. Really high speeds can come later, after I can use ssh from anywhere in the country with the same phone and download more than a DVD's worth of data a month.
It is hard for the employee to apply specific knowledge of something like Windows or PhotoShop to another project.
More importantly it's easy for an OSS programmer to apply what he knows about the Linux kernel from one job to his next job where the Linux kernel is the topic of programing work. It's easy to apply experience programming the GIMP, even exact function names and their implementations, to another job improving the GIMP. It's even easy to take code directly from one of these projects and use it in another project with the same license or a compatible license.
That means that for employers, in exchange for giving up the privacy and competitive advantage of keeping their source sealed on a proprietary project, that they gain a few things by going Open Source at least on certain projects. Not only do they often get a project that's already running instead of starting from scratch (which BSD could offer and still let them close the source, even!). Not only do they also have a chance at getting the public to help them develop their project by keeping it open.
They also get to develop specific skills and knowledge in their hiring pool. If someone's an OSS developer for a company's project in his spare time or as one duty at his current employer, he's already well on his way to being productive with the code for which the project's sponsor company needs developers.
I agree with your sentiment but will pick a nit with your wording. It's not a problem with redundancy. It's a problem with DRM.
The whole point of DRM is that if you like a song or a movie enough, you'll buy it on every format on which it's ever released. It has little to do with pirates, who will just jump into the analog hole or whatever other loophole the DRM will inevitably have.
The whole point is that without the original medium with limited durability, limited compatibility, and often limited expected shelf life, you can't listen to a song or watch a TV show or movie. This makes the media companies more money off of people willing to buy the same song on vinyl, 8-track, cassette, CD, SuperAudio CD, Audio DVD, MP3, and then AAC.
DRM is the antithesis of reliability and accessibility, because reliable and accessible products cost media companies repeat business.
Some have said that "ogle" plays a role in the company's name, too, (part of the reason for the particular misspelling) but the official company history says nothing of the sort. It'd be kind of funny, since it can mean to eye something with greedy interest. That's very apt for a major search engine, but whether that ever crossed the mind of either Larry Page or Sergey Brin I don't know. I would suspect they or someone in contact with them would have noticed it by this point, but that doesn't mean it had any bearing on the initial (re)naming of the search engine and company.
Lots of paper made today still has acid in it, and archival paper is advertised as acid-free.
Many CD-R and DVD-R discs use non-archival quality substrates that might fail within a few years, while others are meant to last a couple of decades. Stamping a disc from a glass master is much more reliable in the long term.
Redundancy is a good way to manage degradation of individual pieces of media. As one copy degrades, make a new copy on new media from your best remaining copy. With digital information, we can actually theoretically have zero loss from one medium to another. Analog can sometimes (but not always) keep more detail initially, but degrades from copy to copy.
Before Gutenberg, Fleming, and Daimler, culture came from song, dance, meals, swords, wive's tales, fairy tales, needlepoint tapestries, disease, famine, pestilence, horses, handwritten scrolls, and campfires. What's your point, exactly? Our culture is not that culture. Sure, we'd have a culture, but not the culture we have currently.
We've seen Baudot, ASCII, EBCDIC, and codepages for things not quite ASCII. Now we have UTF-8 (which thankfully has a special relationship to ASCII) and half a dozen other encodings that are 8, 16, 32, or some variable bit length in multiples of 8 bits from 8 bits to 48 bits depending on the character.
Images can actually be easier to recover than your post suggests, and recovering text can be harder.
Linux does offer equivalent alternatives for those apps -- for novices and low-end hobbyists. It's when you actually need certain professional features that you're SOL.
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You can clone just cells and tissues rather than whole organisms, although I think people are less likely to think of that as "cloning" in the news-worthy controversial sense. The cuts from cow muscle grown in a vat may be a little different from the cuts we know, but perhaps they'd be just as good.
Because the user who wants to do this downloads and installs a telnet daemon. TAIYF.
It's not setuid if it runs as root and has the privs of root. In fact, not setting the uid would be the issue (if there's actually any problem with a device's owner having access to his devices's administration).
On a single-user device, the account you use is often root. Telnet typically has to run initially as root in order to listen on port 23. It then normally drops privs to the user who logs in. If the intent of the application wasn't to allow root access, then there's a bug in the telnet daemon. On a single-user device which is likely running in single-user mode, I'm not surprised it's easy to have a shell as root, though. I would expect this system they've been calling wide open to be, well, wide open.
I've found that the most powerful "no porn in the workplace" document is a letter of termination for creating an inappropriately uncomfortable or hostile work environment. Nobody who receives such a letter ever checks porn from the company's computers again, and most of their coworkers don't either.
Anyone who implemented this would probably be smart enough to let you change the avatar during the sign-up process. This is a way to placate the ladies who get all upset that the systems tend to default to male avatars which is slightly more accurate than randomly assigning one or the other. A checkbox before the avatar default is chosen I'd think would be even more accurate, though.
Maybe they'd assume it was a typo of Ving Rhames, in which case you'd get a nice suit, some wire-framed dark sunglasses, and an air of awesomeness onscreen.
And it's obvious who cares about a sense of humor -- not you. ;-)
So, parallel to one another, but in a plane not parallel to sea level, eh? I've been on roads like that elsewhere, too. Pittsburgh is famous for potholes, though.
If you really want to see crazy hillside streets, visit Eureka Springs, Arkansas sometime. No two streets intersect at 90 degrees. Most of the walking traffic in town involves staircases between different sidewalks, and some shops have entrances off of those staircases. There's a hotel with seven ground floors, and a church one enters through the bell tower.
Yes, drawing on top of the image absolutely sounds like an awesome application. I wonder when they'll allow you to actually draw on the screen with a stylus, or maybe even your finger? They could call it, oh, a "touch screen". Maybe one of the products that uses such technology of the future will be from Microsoft and will be called "Surface" after the interface. ;-)
Oh, come on. The potholes aren't THAT deep!
How much is shipping from you to Illinois? I'd be happy to pay it.
Okay, you're probably right about Microsoft still being around a long time. Your reasoning for why is flawed, though.
How much money is Microsoft actually making off of Windows 2000 installations already sold and no longer supported? If you said zero dollars, congratulations. Eventually new versions of Office won't even install on boxes with older MS Windows versions... like when Office 2007 came out and wouldn't run on Windows 2000 per the published system requirements, for example.
Microsoft has huge cash reserves and is still writing new software. They can get many things wrong in a row without running out of funds. They can write or find and buy another big hit any time before that happens and stay in business. That's why they'll be around.
The "the OS doesn't matter" camp generally means that the OS does matter to the user, but not to the application. If your OS doesn't matter to the application (as in, the app will run anywhere), then the user can pick whichever they like based on on application selection but on stability, speed, look and feel, or whatever else.
Google:
1) write a good search engine
2) ???
3) grow to critical mass where you can guarantee yourself users
4) embrace
5) extend
6) release extensions to the community
7) get users based on 1-5 using the new system
8) advertise the hell out of everything to the users on this system, too
9) profit!
10) repeat steps 4 through 9
Microsoft:
1) write decent BASIC tools
2) ???
3) get someone else's OS preloaded by IBM and ride their coattails to ubiquity
4) embrace
5) extend
6) close off extensions
7) hook users through lock-in created in steps 3 through 6
8) extinguish open system
9) profit!
10) repeat steps 4 through 9
The '???' steps come a little early in these. Sorry about that.
Now, if only someone would do with Edge or HSDPA on phones what PPP did for the Internet in homes. Cheap, ubiquitous access without huge overages for actually using your connection would be nice. Really high speeds can come later, after I can use ssh from anywhere in the country with the same phone and download more than a DVD's worth of data a month.
It's not taking over the whole world if you don't include China. China's part of the world, too. :-/
It is hard for the employee to apply specific knowledge of something like Windows or PhotoShop to another project.
More importantly it's easy for an OSS programmer to apply what he knows about the Linux kernel from one job to his next job where the Linux kernel is the topic of programing work. It's easy to apply experience programming the GIMP, even exact function names and their implementations, to another job improving the GIMP. It's even easy to take code directly from one of these projects and use it in another project with the same license or a compatible license.
That means that for employers, in exchange for giving up the privacy and competitive advantage of keeping their source sealed on a proprietary project, that they gain a few things by going Open Source at least on certain projects. Not only do they often get a project that's already running instead of starting from scratch (which BSD could offer and still let them close the source, even!). Not only do they also have a chance at getting the public to help them develop their project by keeping it open.
They also get to develop specific skills and knowledge in their hiring pool. If someone's an OSS developer for a company's project in his spare time or as one duty at his current employer, he's already well on his way to being productive with the code for which the project's sponsor company needs developers.
I agree with your sentiment but will pick a nit with your wording. It's not a problem with redundancy. It's a problem with DRM.
The whole point of DRM is that if you like a song or a movie enough, you'll buy it on every format on which it's ever released. It has little to do with pirates, who will just jump into the analog hole or whatever other loophole the DRM will inevitably have.
The whole point is that without the original medium with limited durability, limited compatibility, and often limited expected shelf life, you can't listen to a song or watch a TV show or movie. This makes the media companies more money off of people willing to buy the same song on vinyl, 8-track, cassette, CD, SuperAudio CD, Audio DVD, MP3, and then AAC.
DRM is the antithesis of reliability and accessibility, because reliable and accessible products cost media companies repeat business.
Red bananas exist. The yellow, sterile, seedless Cavendish and closely related varieties are not the world's only bananas.
Google is an intentional misspelling of "googol".
Some have said that "ogle" plays a role in the company's name, too, (part of the reason for the particular misspelling) but the official company history says nothing of the sort. It'd be kind of funny, since it can mean to eye something with greedy interest. That's very apt for a major search engine, but whether that ever crossed the mind of either Larry Page or Sergey Brin I don't know. I would suspect they or someone in contact with them would have noticed it by this point, but that doesn't mean it had any bearing on the initial (re)naming of the search engine and company.
Lots of paper made today still has acid in it, and archival paper is advertised as acid-free.
Many CD-R and DVD-R discs use non-archival quality substrates that might fail within a few years, while others are meant to last a couple of decades. Stamping a disc from a glass master is much more reliable in the long term.
Redundancy is a good way to manage degradation of individual pieces of media. As one copy degrades, make a new copy on new media from your best remaining copy. With digital information, we can actually theoretically have zero loss from one medium to another. Analog can sometimes (but not always) keep more detail initially, but degrades from copy to copy.
Before Gutenberg, Fleming, and Daimler, culture came from song, dance, meals, swords, wive's tales, fairy tales, needlepoint tapestries, disease, famine, pestilence, horses, handwritten scrolls, and campfires. What's your point, exactly? Our culture is not that culture. Sure, we'd have a culture, but not the culture we have currently.
How about when ASCII is a distant memory?
We've seen Baudot, ASCII, EBCDIC, and codepages for things not quite ASCII. Now we have UTF-8 (which thankfully has a special relationship to ASCII) and half a dozen other encodings that are 8, 16, 32, or some variable bit length in multiples of 8 bits from 8 bits to 48 bits depending on the character.
Images can actually be easier to recover than your post suggests, and recovering text can be harder.
We may not care about the countless people talking "crap" on Slashdot right now, but in a few hundred years it might be a different story.
Sorry, but I had to fix that for you... for comedic effect.
Linux does offer equivalent alternatives for those apps -- for novices and low-end hobbyists. It's when you actually need certain professional features that you're SOL.