I'd have to second this one, as much as I'd hate to down my AK/47:)
I have extensive experience behind that baby, and even though it's a rugid weapon and looks cool as hell assembled and disassembled, it doesn't have the accuracy for that type of shot. I've worked mostly with scope on my AK47 at my local range (Ben Avery, in Phoenix, AZ) and have gotten +/- 1/4" at 100 Yards. That is with a sighted-in scope, concrete table to boot. (Wolf Ammunition, 7.62x39) When I go north to the reservation with my wife, I sometimes take it with me to do some/real/ long range shooting, and at that time I realize just how bad the AK47 really is for long-range marksmanship.
Though, much to my dismay, my father-in-law is ex-military vietnam material. (Military marksman in Vietnam) He took the scope off, and handed it to me, put a soda can about 150-200 yards away and hit it with iron-sights. I couldn't believe it.
A hostile force may have declared war on us, but that by no means allows a total disregard to the status quo of keeping military for protection against foreign enemies and having law enforcement (and in this case, federal law enforcement.. FBI) to enforce the law within it's jurisdiction.
I wonder if the National Guard has access to the military equipment? That would make for a nice medium point between law enforcement and US military.
Of course, that's a whole other ball of wax, considering the regulation of the National Guard to Quote the Legal Information Institute:
The President shall prescribe regulations, and issue orders, necessary to organize, discipline, and govern the National Guard
Even though the National Guards are ran by the states, this is the case. Which logically means that they aren't really run by the states, more or less just there to look like they are filling the whole second ammendment requirements.
On August 7, 1794 President Washington issued a proclamation, calling out the militia and ordering the disaffected westerners to return to their homes. Washington's order mobilized an army of approximately 13,000-- as large as the one that had defeated the British-- under the command of General Harry Lee, the then-Governor of Virginia and father of Robert E. Lee. Washington himself, in a show of presidential authority, set out at the head of the troops to suppress the uprising.
Pitting the military against it's own citizens is definately what we are worried about. In this case, especially.
There is a law dedicated specifically to monopolies that was created around the time of the AT&T breakup. I can't site specific instances other than: http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/15/2.htm l http://www.law.cornell.edu/topics/antitrust.htm l http://www.beardbooks.com/history_of_the_sherma n_l aw.html
Just to name a few. America has been wrought with Monopoly threats, so we have alot of laws:)
Dude, your preaching to the choir, here. There is a small percentage of Americans that actually understand the full ramifications of what is going on. Those people do what they can to stop what is happening, but unfortunately the blinders are on a very large majority. Having everyone here on Linux machines isn't going to make out economic problems go away, considering slashdot probably makes up about 1% of the American population. (those that are Americans that is, the ones that aren't: forgive me.)
Back before I could physically run Linux, I got sick of how closed off I was from everything on the underside, and started to experiment with Minix. Linux required 4 megs of ram to run, and that was alot for me, back then! I only had 2 megs, so I installed it, cludged through this wierd Unix syntax thing, learning how everything worked. It definately works, at least it did as of 1995-1996. I even started learning my first bits of 32-bit protected-mode programming with Minix. (well, transferred the knowledge to dos, considering protected-mode programming under Minix just meant to do an actual C program LOL)
Minix is a fine OS for what it does. Teaching that intricate of programming is made much easier by example, and that's definately where Minix comes into play.
Wow.. the librarians are getting into politics? Now/they/ would have some really great record-keeping strategies! I bet you'd never heard them say, "I don't recall". More like, "I don't remember, but give me 2-3 seconds and I'll pull that information up."
The last couple of times I've tried complaining about anything to my elected representative, they sent me letters back saying that was not something they were currently involved in.
Like I keep a roster of what they are currently involved in! I do, however, know what current events are hot in Washington. If they aren't involved in those, then there's a problem. That means that/I/ am not represented.
With todays DMCA, cracking a Cracker Jacks coder/decoder ring without the ring would be against the law. Anything that we can do as a "loophole" (as the Brady's like to put it in alot of cases where your rights are still left) should be jumped on.
It's assembler. And of course saying you know assembler (for example in your resume), doesn't mean anything.
I'd say it would mean everything if you were going for a position at say, motorola or some other company and the position was for and embedded systems coder.
Hey, can you post a link to that story about the buffer overflow in.NET?
What is that? You DON'T know of one? You're post couldn't have been un-educated MS flame.
Maybe that's because as ambiguous (sp?) as the whole.NET technology really is, no one can tell the difference between a.NET application and a normal application.
Besides, even if it is a.NET program, how many are there, honestly? It's like making a new programming language, putting it out there, and when one or two people use it saying how secure it is because thare aren't any (documented) buffer-overflows.
Let's wait until someone actually uses the.NET technology for what it was supposed to be used for, whatever that is. Then, we'll see just what is there and what's not.
Basically, any language that doesn't have some sort of peer review is a poor choice.
Java at first I was weary of, until they did open the API to review and such. It might be slow (on some systems, not mine.. everyone else must be running 300Mhz systems or something) but you code something in it and it works everywhere. I can attest to that.
I'd just like to say one thing that every self-respecting geek will tell you that has seen the light of a CRT before 1995.
Gamers != geeks
Gamers are gamers, and geeks are geeks. If geeks play games, then they are geeks that play games, not gamers who are geeks. Gamers have, and always will be, punkass little kids by nature who think that it's so wicked-cool to pick up the new Final Fantasy XXXII for every console system even if they don't have it... for collector reasons, of course.
I would like to add that I have played quite a few fighting games that have the men wearing tight shorts, and the programmers are obviously fixated on his... ahem.. physique. Now I'm a guy, and I try to just ignore it, maybe even choose another character. But when my wife is playing and she chooses one of those characters it's hard not to notice getting your ass kicked from one end of the screen to the other by a guy who's wearing a pair of shorts that look like they could rip at any moment.
Of course, I guess my choice of a asian wannabe-native-american with tight shorts and a visible cleavage is just as bad. just more appealing.
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I'd have to second this one, as much as I'd hate to down my AK/47 :)
/real/ long range shooting, and at that time I realize just how bad the AK47 really is for long-range marksmanship.
I have extensive experience behind that baby, and even though it's a rugid weapon and looks cool as hell assembled and disassembled, it doesn't have the accuracy for that type of shot. I've worked mostly with scope on my AK47 at my local range (Ben Avery, in Phoenix, AZ) and have gotten +/- 1/4" at 100 Yards. That is with a sighted-in scope, concrete table to boot. (Wolf Ammunition, 7.62x39) When I go north to the reservation with my wife, I sometimes take it with me to do some
Though, much to my dismay, my father-in-law is ex-military vietnam material. (Military marksman in Vietnam) He took the scope off, and handed it to me, put a soda can about 150-200 yards away and hit it with iron-sights. I couldn't believe it.
A hostile force may have declared war on us, but that by no means allows a total disregard to the status quo of keeping military for protection against foreign enemies and having law enforcement (and in this case, federal law enforcement.. FBI) to enforce the law within it's jurisdiction.
I wonder if the National Guard has access to the military equipment? That would make for a nice medium point between law enforcement and US military.
Of course, that's a whole other ball of wax, considering the regulation of the National Guard
to Quote the Legal Information Institute:
The President shall prescribe regulations, and issue orders, necessary to organize, discipline, and govern the National Guard
Even though the National Guards are ran by the states, this is the case. Which logically means that they aren't really run by the states, more or less just there to look like they are filling the whole second ammendment requirements.
From that article:
On August 7, 1794 President Washington issued a proclamation, calling out the militia and ordering the disaffected westerners to return to their homes. Washington's order mobilized an army of approximately 13,000-- as large as the one that had defeated the British-- under the command of General Harry Lee, the then-Governor of Virginia and father of Robert E. Lee. Washington himself, in a show of presidential authority, set out at the head of the troops to suppress the uprising.
Pitting the military against it's own citizens is definately what we are worried about. In this case, especially.
It has already been judged by the surpreme court that the right to bear arms by private citizens is indeed protected by the bill of rights.
:)
Not the constitution
There is a law dedicated specifically to monopolies that was created around the time of the AT&T breakup.m lm la n_l aw.html
:)
I can't site specific instances other than:
http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/15/2.ht
http://www.law.cornell.edu/topics/antitrust.ht
http://www.beardbooks.com/history_of_the_sherm
Just to name a few.
America has been wrought with Monopoly threats, so we have alot of laws
The API portions of the release are openly available to anyone without an NDA.
Wanna tell that to the Samba team?
Dude, your preaching to the choir, here.
There is a small percentage of Americans that actually understand the full ramifications of what is going on. Those people do what they can to stop what is happening, but unfortunately the blinders are on a very large majority. Having everyone here on Linux machines isn't going to make out economic problems go away, considering slashdot probably makes up about 1% of the American population. (those that are Americans that is, the ones that aren't: forgive me.)
Back before I could physically run Linux, I got sick of how closed off I was from everything on the underside, and started to experiment with Minix. Linux required 4 megs of ram to run, and that was alot for me, back then! I only had 2 megs, so I installed it, cludged through this wierd Unix syntax thing, learning how everything worked. It definately works, at least it did as of 1995-1996. I even started learning my first bits of 32-bit protected-mode programming with Minix. (well, transferred the knowledge to dos, considering protected-mode programming under Minix just meant to do an actual C program LOL)
Minix is a fine OS for what it does. Teaching that intricate of programming is made much easier by example, and that's definately where Minix comes into play.
Wow.. the librarians are getting into politics? /they/ would have some really great record-keeping strategies! I bet you'd never heard them say, "I don't recall". More like, "I don't remember, but give me 2-3 seconds and I'll pull that information up."
Now
The last couple of times I've tried complaining about anything to my elected representative, they sent me letters back saying that was not something they were currently involved in.
/I/ am not represented.
Like I keep a roster of what they are currently involved in! I do, however, know what current events are hot in Washington. If they aren't involved in those, then there's a problem. That means that
With todays DMCA, cracking a Cracker Jacks coder/decoder ring without the ring would be against the law. Anything that we can do as a "loophole" (as the Brady's like to put it in alot of cases where your rights are still left) should be jumped on.
So, when the election comes around in the near future, DON'T VOTE FOR ANYBODY CURRENTLY IN THE CONGRESS!!
The last I checked, America didn't vote in congressional members, the president elected them.
Much like how Ashcroft recieved his position.
LOL oh my god now true!
I'm the same way.. get out of it for a while, and you get back in only to be smacked down, picked on, and laughed at by your computer.
If I had mod points, I'd mod you up.
Might not be what everyone wants to hear, but it's definately TRUE.
It's assembler. And of course saying you know assembler (for example in your resume), doesn't mean anything.
I'd say it would mean everything if you were going for a position at say, motorola or some other company and the position was for and embedded systems coder.
Since when was XML considered a programming language?
Except more l33t people wouldn't get past line 1 without reading a book to figure out how to invoke a shell script properly.
(read subject line)
Uhhh, how much closer can a human come to machine language than assembler?
You can't physically plug hex into a file, hoping to make it run.
we don't have punchcards anymore:)
Hey, can you post a link to that story about the buffer overflow in .NET?
.NET technology really is, no one can tell the difference between a .NET application and a normal application.
.NET program, how many are there, honestly? It's like making a new programming language, putting it out there, and when one or two people use it saying how secure it is because thare aren't any (documented) buffer-overflows.
.NET technology for what it was supposed to be used for, whatever that is. Then, we'll see just what is there and what's not.
What is that? You DON'T know of one? You're post couldn't have been un-educated MS flame.
Maybe that's because as ambiguous (sp?) as the whole
Besides, even if it is a
Let's wait until someone actually uses the
Thats because C and C++ always left their stray pointers and memory allocations laying around.
Someone needs to keep the place clean:)
Basically, any language that doesn't have some sort of peer review is a poor choice.
Java at first I was weary of, until they did open the API to review and such. It might be slow (on some systems, not mine.. everyone else must be running 300Mhz systems or something) but you code something in it and it works everywhere. I can attest to that.
As long as we have coders that can't spell right, that will happen lol
:)
Well, at least if your consistant with your mispelling in your classes and not calling anything outside with a mispelled name, everythings good
I'd just like to say one thing that every self-respecting geek will tell you that has seen the light of a CRT before 1995.
Gamers != geeks
Gamers are gamers, and geeks are geeks. If geeks play games, then they are geeks that play games, not gamers who are geeks. Gamers have, and always will be, punkass little kids by nature who think that it's so wicked-cool to pick up the new Final Fantasy XXXII for every console system even if they don't have it... for collector reasons, of course.
I would like to add that I have played quite a few fighting games that have the men wearing tight shorts, and the programmers are obviously fixated on his... ahem.. physique. Now I'm a guy, and I try to just ignore it, maybe even choose another character. But when my wife is playing and she chooses one of those characters it's hard not to notice getting your ass kicked from one end of the screen to the other by a guy who's wearing a pair of shorts that look like they could rip at any moment.
Of course, I guess my choice of a asian wannabe-native-american with tight shorts and a visible cleavage is just as bad. just more appealing.
And why can't more women look like "lady luck" of Metal Gear Solid 2?
Hell, I wouldn't mind looking like Sephiroth of Final Fantasy VII!! LOL